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🌱Behavioral ecologist, chemistry witch🧙🧪 and 📚 former educator. #Arkansas. CPTSD/neuro🌶. 🏳️‍🌈/NB. #Exvangelical and #ChurchAbuseSurvivors. My mother has a Cluster B personality disorder. Brown Ajah. 👁

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 3h
The DOJ indicted “Bitcoin Jesus” Roger Ver in one of the largest-ever crypto tax fraud cases. Those familiar with the case said the evidence was “rock solid” and that prosecutors were confident of a conviction. Then Donald Trump won a second term. (Published January)
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How “Bitcoin Jesus” Avoided Prison, Thanks to One of the “Friends of Trump”
Billionaire fugitive Roger Ver was facing federal criminal charges until he sought the services of a select club of President Donald Trump’s former personal attorneys who have easy access to top Justi...
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 2h
AI agents accessed nonpublic Australian gov files, probed US gov sites, tried to bypass UN barriers, exploited RubyDoc servers and twice escaped OpenAI testing controls. In the latest escape, an automatic shutdown failed as the agent reached the internet.
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OpenAI's Agents Went Rogue and Broke Into Government Systems Across Three Continents
OpenAI agents have repeatedly bypassed safeguards during testing—escaping restricted environments and using aggressive or unauthorized methods to retrieve data. Australia is conducting a forensic inve...
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 2h
Brent futures gain over $1 to $103.73 following Trump’s denial of Iran sanctions relief
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 8h
strongly agreed. fines and criminal penalties should not merely communicate a finger wag but actually change the strategic situation of a would-be white collar criminal
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 3h
On October 17, we’re taking to the streets again to stop the fascists’ election sabotage. Find (or organize) your No Kings event: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
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Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 2h
this is specifically what Twitter was re-engineered to do, btw. it exists almost solely to threaten anyone at the flashpoint of a nascent social movement.
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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 2h
Still, this is a very strong bipartisan vote (with Rand Paul joining), including all Democrats (even Schumer), except for Fetterman who is a lost cause.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 5h
I believe that Dr. Ellora Derenoncourt is the first Black woman economist EVER to be named a MacArthur Genius. My heart is bursting. I am OVERJOYED.
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 17h
This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 4h
Speaker Mike Johnson is warning of a “nightmare scenario” if Republicans lose the House: Democrats could investigate Trump, his family, his Cabinet, GOP donors and powerful business figures.
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MAGA Speaker Johnson Calls Trump Family Investigations a ‘Nightmare’ Ahead of Midterms
With control of Congress at stake in November, Johnson warned that Democratic committees would investigate Trump, his family, cabinet officials and major donors—and claimed that accountability would t...
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 16h
“The administration is able to essentially hide a multiplied ICE force not only in unmarked cars, and not only behind masks, but also within local law enforcement through the 287(g) program. I call it the invisibilizing of immigration enforcement.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Gone in 90 seconds: an ‘invisibilized’ ICE is arresting more people than ever
After public backlash, the Trump administration changed its tactics from ‘siege’ to ‘soft feet’. Now, ICE is everywhere
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 2h
Scoop: Comcast executives are weighing RETAINING their 12 local owned-and-operated stations, wary of a fight with Donald Trump's FCC if they attempt to spin them off with NBCUniversal. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/comcast-nb...
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Comcast’s Carr Calculation
While the company announced plans to spin off NBCUniversal, Status has learned executives are weighing whether to hang on to their local television stations rather than risk a fight with Trump’s FCC.
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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 6h
BREAKING: Trump is a creditor to hundreds of cities, hospitals, schools, utilities and other public institutions across the country, with his municipal bond portfolio hitting $1 billion, per CNBC
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 6h
WSJ Exclusive: The Trump admin used federal funds from the Department of Homeland Security to finance those controversial pro-Trump ads that started airing on TV. The taxpayer money used to fund the ads came from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
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Exclusive | Homeland Security Money Financed Pro-Trump Television Ads
White House calls the spots public-service ads, but critics argue using taxpayer money for campaign-like messaging may violate federal law.
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404 Media @404media.co · 4h
So Trump's new AI chatbot? Creepy. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social saw this on Bluesky and gave the prompt "play minecraft" a test. This is what happened:
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 3h
People forget, Katie Britt is a former Chief of Staff. She would be in charge of putting these talking points together in her early career. This was a massive fumble. (I jokingly was looking for a young man in a suit with a box of his belongings today).
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3h
Here is my full Law Dork report on today: www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-thi...
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Arkansas Times @arktimes.bsky.social · 8h
More than three-quarters of member cities in a Mississippi River coalition have been approached to host data centers.
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Mississippi River mayors, including three in Arkansas, propose AI data center guardrails - Arkansas Times
More than three-quarters of member cities in a Mississippi River coalition have been approached to host data centers.
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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 8h
BREAKING: New York City must scrap its rollout of a tax on high-end second homes and start over, a judge ruled, per NYT
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 7h
Lisa Murkowski (R) even encouraged her to run for governor, according to two sources familiar with the conversations. Murkowski endorsed Dan Sullivan in the Senate race but she has not taken an active role in campaigning for him. #AKSen wapo.st/4yo82H9
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$10 for a gallon of gas has red Alaska thinking about a Democratic senator
Mary Peltola hopes to unseat Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan in a race all about prices, federal aid and Donald Trump.
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Arkansas Advocate @arkansasadvocate.com · 7h
GOP senator bungles accusation against former special counsel Jack Smith in heated hearing arkansasadvocate.com/2026/09/29/r...
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GOP senator bungles accusation against former special counsel Jack Smith in heated hearing | Arkansas Advocate
Former special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday defended before a U.S. Senate panel his past investigations of President Donald Trump’s possession of classified documents and alleged role in attempts to ...
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Arkansas Advocate @arkansasadvocate.com · 7h
Appeals court poised to allow contempt probe of DHS deportation flights to El Salvador arkansasadvocate.com/2026/09/29/r...
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Appeals court poised to allow contempt probe of DHS deportation flights to El Salvador | Arkansas Advocate
Most judges on a federal appeals court seemed inclined during oral arguments Tuesday to allow a federal judge to continue investigating Trump officials for possible criminal contempt-of-court charges ...
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Arkansas Advocate @arkansasadvocate.com · 7h
US Supreme Court allows Trump to resume deportations outside immigrants’ home countries arkansasadvocate.com/2026/09/29/r...
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US Supreme Court allows Trump to resume deportations outside immigrants’ home countries | Arkansas Advocate
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday granted, for now, the Trump administration’s request to continue rapid third-country deportation of immigrants to countries not their own.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 7h
Awful: The Supreme Court just let Trump's third-country deportations move forward. Still a shot at stopping them later but unlikely. Reminder: If Dems win power, they can and should defund both the white-nationalist Office of Remigration and third-country deportations, as I argue in this piece:
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 9h
Impressive to see the material in the New Mexico case against Meta, then Facebook. The jury found that Facebook "misled the public in statements about the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal and its policies on hate speech, violence and misinformation" 👍 reporting @justinhendrix.bsky.social
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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 9h
BREAKING: Supreme Court grants Trump administration request to revive third-country deportations and takes case onto merits docket for December oral argument
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9h
BNP PARIBAS: “.. The Fed is likely hiking rates whether oil goes up, down, or sideways. .. .. pricing behavior in non-shelter core services has change versus that prior to the pandemic, and that inflation in this category has become more entrenched and momentum-driven.”
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9h
FT photo editors .. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/c869...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9h
“.. Oura’s postponement in line with other issuers delaying IPOs is pointing to a weaker market than we had foreseen as recently as a few weeks ago. The structural pressures from such rapidly rising yields cannot be overstated.” @barrons.com www.barrons.com/articles/our...
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Editing the Blue-Gray Lady @nytdiff.bsky.social · 11h
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Man Shot by ICE Agent in Austin Is Charged With Assault
The charge reveals the existence of body camera footage of the shooting, though that video has not been released.
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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 10h
11th Cir. rejects Trump administration's attempt to block an order holding that Trump's IRS lawsuit and purported settlement were in bad faith, resulting in sanctions for Trump's lawyers and an ethics referral for AG Blanche. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Before JORDAN, ROSENBAUM, and NEWSOM, Circuit Judges. BY THE COURT: The appellants, some of whom were the plaintiffs below, move for an order staying aspects of the district court’s post-judgment sanctions order pending appeal.  After review of the record and the parties’ briefing, we deny the motion.1
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WIRED @wired.com · 28/09/2026
“We all know that a body that cannot scrutinise, take a position, or evaluate is not an advisory body at all,” the departing members wrote in their resignation letter. “It is decoration and accountability theatre.” Read the full story: www.wired.com/story/indepe...
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Meta-Led Anti-Terrorism Group Faces Mass Resignation of Expert Advisers
Meta and other tech giants are pushing through structural changes at the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism that outside researchers allege will weaken oversight of an already embattled consor...
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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 10h
I say all this to say that you should expect Meta to take every opportunity to steal as much data as they can. As soon as I saw that Muse was from Meta, it was a hard no for me. And here we are. With them proving me right yet again.
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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 10h
I can understand why the features of a supposed AI assistant are compelling. I kinda wanna try it too. But I know too much about how these things work. Do not give a cloud-based agent access to your shit. Especially one from the big tech companies.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h
A good reminder from Ed that not everyone will be able to afford a personal agent — even as the Internet is re-wired around them. @edmundlee.bsky.social #Muse
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 10h
VICTORY: a unanimous 11th Circuit just REFUSED to stay sanctions on Trump & Co. over his $1.8B slush fund He sued his own govt & his own DOJ agreed to the payout. The court wasn't buying it! @democracydefendersaction.org & partners are proud to rep the 35 frm fed judges who blew the whistle 👇 -TN
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 12h
Deploying Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to the polls is illegal. And it’s deeply unpopular among voters. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Nearly half of Americans don’t want ICE at polls, survey shows
Nearly 40% of Americans surveyed also don't want national Guardsmen at polling places. Public dissent comes as three major lawsuits were filed to block federal interference at polling places this mont...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12h
“.. Share of consumers expecting higher interest rates over the next year climbed to 68.4% in August, an increase of over five percentage points.” - Schwab #ConferenceBoard
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 11h
Per Reuters, Anthropic has $252 billion in non-cancelable compute obligations across Microsoft, Google and Amazon, and $161.2 billion in Broadcom TPU lease obligations that are "largely non-cancelable". Truly insane. $413 billion in non-cancelable contracts. www.reuters.com/business/ant...
The company said it plans to spend at least $111.1 billion with Alphabet's (GOOGL.O), opens new tab Google, $110 billion ​with Amazon (AMZN.O), opens new tab and $31.4 billion with Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab under long-term infrastructure service obligations over the next seven to 10 years "regardless of ⁠usage."
Anthropic is separately carrying about $161.2 billion of Broadcom (AVGO.O), opens new tab-related equipment lease obligations that are largely non-cancelable, according to the prospectus. Anthropic filed for an ​IPO confidentially with the Securities and Exchange Commission in June but its paperwork has not been publicly disclosed.
Anthropic did not immediately respond to a request ​for comment about the filing.
The company said it committed to pay Google between April 2026 and July 2033 and Amazon between May 2026 and April 2036.
"If our actual spend falls short, we must pay Google the difference," the company said, adding that similar terms apply to its Amazon agreement.
It added its commitment with Microsoft of $31.4 billion ​between November 2026 and May 2033 "is non-cancelable except in the event of Microsoft's uncured material breach."
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h
Ten-year yield, via Ekwueme:
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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 11h
BREAKING: The US 30-year Treasury yield has risen to 5.612%, the highest since June 2002.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h
“.. the third round this year under recently appointed CEO Josh D’Amaro ..” @variety.com $DIS variety.com/2026/film/ne...
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 11h
Ken Paxton keeps dodging James Talarico's requests to debate him, so Talarico last week offered to debate him on Fox News and went viral over it: "I'll go into the lion's den." Now neither Paxton nor Fox News are responding to Talarico's request. www.huffpost.com/entry/james-...
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James Talarico Challenged Ken Paxton To A Debate On Fox News. Neither Will Respond.
The Texas Democratic Senate nominee hasn’t gotten “any update” from the conservative news network about hosting a debate before November.
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Arkansas Times @arktimes.bsky.social · 11h
Tracy Long died Sunday after a drunk driver barreled into the Maumelle Waffle House where she was working.
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Local baker cooks up a sweet idea to cover funeral expenses for Waffle House employee - Arkansas Times
Tracy Long died Sunday after a drunk driver barreled into the Maumelle Waffle House where she was working.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h
Hi, yield. 👀 (via junkbondinvestor.com)
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h
> @variety.com variety.com/2026/digital...
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VoteHub @votehub.com · 10h
13% of Susan Collins supporters say they want Democrats to control the Senate, per NYT/PPH/Siena, underscoring her longstanding crossover support. Collins also has a history of outrunning polls: by 14 pts in 2020, 10 in 2014 and 8 in 2008. VoteHub currently rates Maine Tilt D.
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The Shumater @theshumater.bsky.social · 13h
LEOPARDS FEASTING: Gov. Sanders latest disingenuous Mean Girl ad, featuring feeble Karen humor, isn't racist enough for some of the put-upon white men in her base. #Arkansas #arpx #arnews buff.ly/6rdGB9g
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The Hill @thehill.com · 13h
BREAKING: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is set to announce a 20 percent cut to slots slated for admirals and generals at the Pentagon as part of his push to overhaul the outlook of the department, a Pentagon official confirmed to The Hill.
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Hegseth to cut 20 percent of admirals, generals in major Pentagon overhaul 
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is set to announce a 20 percent cut to slots slated for admirals and generals at the Pentagon as part of his push to overhaul the outlook of the department, a Pentago…
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
extremely weird shit during the Jack Smith hearing -- Sen. Eric Schmitt's team briefly displays a poster board that Schmitt claims contains evidence Smith committed perjury, but then Schmitt's team takes it down before anybody can read it and refuses to show Smith what it says
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