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WIRED @wired.com · 23m
The National Design Studio has been something of a successor agency to DOGE. A WIRED investigation finds some of its members are on loan from a nonprofit run by SpaceXAI’s general counsel.
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A Mysterious Nonprofit Run by SpaceXAI’s Top Lawyer Is Paying the Salaries of Government Workers
The National Design Studio has been something of a successor agency to DOGE. A WIRED investigation finds some of its members are on loan from a nonprofit run by SpaceXAI’s general counsel.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 24m
If only there had been an agreement in place already that was carefully negotiated over the course of two years….
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2h
It’s notable how many anti-trans activists who claim their actions are motivated by a desire to “protect women,” are currently attacking Jane Doe and defending the men who she says assaulted her. It’s almost like “protecting women” never had anything to do with it.
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 5h
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 8h
This money is absolutely meaningless to Elon Musk, but it has the potential to completely rewrite your future. He's spent over $36 million in about 4 weeks, and he's adding millions a day. All to corrupt our government to push his agenda. Let your friends know what's up.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 6h
IDK about you guys, but I use Wikipedia multiple times a day, every day, and I value them highly. Even if you're tight, it's worth it to give at least the minimum. =================== I support Wikipedia, where information is still human-created, fact-checked, and 100% free. donate.wikimedia.org
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Make your donation now - Wikimedia Foundation
Donate to the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and other crucial free knowledge projects. Each year, the generosity of the 2% of readers who donate allows us to expand the reac...
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 6h
How do I know Hegseth’s order to deny access to bases to members of Congress is about a cover up, not about safety? Because I asked for a military briefing at the embassy as a substitute and was told the policy prohibited military leaders in the region from even talking to me.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 23h
🚨 In case you hadn’t noticed… …mainstream media is rapidly getting replaced by alternative and grassroots news efforts. That’s a combination of citizen frustration with mainstream media - an increased ability to DIY in digital media. So where is it all going? And how do we ensure standards?
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 6h
there's a lot going on right now, but the ability to buy elections in order to stay out of prison is on the ballot whether you realize it or not
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Ben Shultz @benmshultz.net · 05/10/2026
Michael Shellenberger appears to be preparing another piece falsely claiming that a conference of researchers studying disinformation is tantamount to a shadowy cabal of censorship. Spoiler alert: conferences, in fact, are the definition of free speech. My response to his questions is below.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 1h
It would be great to get clarity on why so many state level supporters pulled out of #Disinfo2026. There's a stink of US meddling about it. I guess US FIMI is the acceptable version of FIMI. bsky.app/profile/robi...
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 1h
Hearing that Shellenberger has emailed a lot of people attending #Disinfo2026 demanding answers to questions based on his own twisted reading of their work.
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Andrew Weissmann @weissmann.substack.com · 1h
Promising to pay voters if they vote for a Republican? A federal crime, but no one pays attention -- not DOJ, not Congress. Will voters, or will enough of them normalize such behavior?
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Reuters @reuters.com · 58m
BREAKING: Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai win the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry 'for the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis' reut.rs/4hvx8Oe
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Kagan and Soai win 2026 Nobel chemistry prize
Scientists Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric ​organic synthesis," the award-giving body said on ...
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WIRED @wired.com · 52m
Atoco’s new machines use specialized materials that can harvest water from some of the driest air on Earth without using electricity.
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A Startup Has a Plan to Make Water From Air Using Data Centers’ Waste Heat
Atoco’s new machines use specialized materials that can harvest water from some of the driest air on Earth without using electricity.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 52m
Starting from Monday, 5th October 2026, the Russian Federation has started a new phase of the war in the Black Sea and is hunting for vessels owned by Turkish owners: all 3 vessels that came under attack and 2 that sank are Turkish-owned and operated (at the same time,
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 44m
Blockers by Michael Lewis review – the quiet heroes who tried to stop Doge
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Blockers by Michael Lewis review – the quiet heroes who tried to stop Doge
The author of Moneyball brings his exceptional narrative skills to bear on Musk’s anti-government crusade
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 8h
The Federal government is currently staffed like the graveyard shift at a 24 hour grocery store.
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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 13h
Brilliant video from Kansas Governor Laura Kelly talking about her "constituent" Zach Lahn, the Republican running for governor of IOWA who actually lives in Kansas. One of the most brutal political owns I've ever seen. Kudos to all involved.
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Balthazaar Paine @balthazaarpaine.bsky.social · 8h
Either there's a factory churning out Nazi failsons or Andrew Giuliani, David Ellison and Eric Trump are all related.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 7h
In the authoritarian mind, society is deeply and intrinsically hierarchical. Either they're above you, or you're above them. Either they have the liberty, or you have the liberty. You can't both have it.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 11h
Troy Jackson: Eight years ago today, Maine women begged Susan Collins not to confirm Brett Kavanaugh. She did it anyway. He helped overturn Roe v. Wade. And today, she says she has no regrets. Would you trust her to pick the next Supreme Court justice?
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 7h
Link to the full article with a rundown of this latest "rigged election" strategy on our UW website: www.cip.uw.edu/2026/10/07/f...
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Federal fraud charges resonate with debunked non-citizen voting narratives
A flurry of recent charges and press conferences amplifying alleged non-citizen voting make a small phenomena seem bigger.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 7h
The charges, press releases & online amplification create the illusion that non-citizen voter fraud is widespread. This is a strategic, manufactured, false narrative. Statistics show non-citizen voting is extremely rare, & in the few cases that exist often results from confusion, not willful fraud.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 7h
Online influencers, political elites, and news networks have amplified these press releases and the charges within them, often framing them as “proof” of voter fraud to their audiences.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 7h
These press releases appear to be strategically deployed, functioning as “pseudo-events” that generate attention and provide content for a partisan media ecosystem primed to amplify “news” that supports the non-citizen voting narrative.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 7h
In recent months, the DOJ and DHS have issued an increasingly number of press releases featuring arrests and charges (but not convictions) of non-citizens for alleged voter fraud, bolstering a false narrative that non-citizen voting in U.S. elections is widespread and impacting election results.
Figure 1: Timeline of DHS and DOJ press releases since July 5, 2026 detailing charges of alleged non-citizen voting. The black line shows the total number of X posts per day related to the charges and/or press releases, while the drop lines indicate the timing of the press releases themselves. The graph shows a sharp increase in September of both press releases and discussion of those press releases.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 7h
The latest “rigged election” strategy from the Trump administration involves producing a series of strategically timed arrests of non-citizens for alleged voter fraud & promoting those events to feed the false narrative that non-citizen voter fraud is widespread. uwcip.substack.com/p/federal-fr...
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Federal Fraud Charges Resonate With Debunked Non-Citizen Voting Narratives
A flurry of recent charges and press conferences amplifying alleged non-citizen voting make a small phenomena seem bigger
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Law360 @law360.bsky.social · 12h
A former FBI agent has come forward with a claim that when U.S. Circuit Judge Emil Bove was at the U.S. Department of Justice, he directed the Los Angeles field office to illegally investigate protesters. www.law360.com/artic...
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 29/09/2026
New: We obtained witness videos and surveillance footage showing ICE parking their cars, arresting an observer, and transferring detainees in parking lots across 4 of Chicago's police districts. Local officials have tried banning ICE from city property. But incidents in the lots keep stacking up:
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In plain sight: a year of ICE using Chicago police parking lots for its operations
Videos and witness testimony show immigration agents continue using Chicago police station parking lots despite a ban on their access to city property. Records obtained from the Civilian Office of Pol...
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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 8h
The aim of the Republican Party is to delegitimize and dismantle the United States government in order to resegregate, restore patriarchy, privatize and plunder the states they control.
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 8h
If we have some kind of financial crisis, we’re going to be in deep shit www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h
🔥 @katiephang.bsky.social (With Deniro behind her): “I’m suing A.G. Todd Blanche — Trump’s cosplaying personal lawyer — for the unredacted Epstein files… as an independent journo 🗣️ I don’t have a corporate oligarch telling me what to say… Trump has been violating federal law every day.”
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 8h
Another corruption story, and the volume makes it hard to absorb one before the next arrives. The real work is understanding why the guardrails failed. The good news: democracies have faced corrupt regimes before, and we know how to hold power accountable.
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Unprecedented Corruption—and How We End It
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 20h
This is nuts. @murray.senate.gov: “Tying funding for transit projects to marriage rates and how many babies a woman has is the sort of bizarre and dystopian idea you’d expect in a TV show, not actual policy put forth by the U.S. government — yet here we are."
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Trump administration unveils plan to tie high birth and marriage rates to transit funding
The federal government is seeking to revamp a national program that supports rail and bus rapid transit.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10h
who knows if jackson can win this thing but i am glad that he is making clear that susan collins's whole scam is to do everything she can to make life worse for mainers and then take credit for mitigating it in the slightest way possible
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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 9h
… Oh come ON www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...
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Ex-C.I.A. Officer Who Stashed Gold Bars Admits to Far Larger $145 Million Scam
A plea hearing revealed a far larger pattern of fraud against the government, while keeping some key secrets still hidden.
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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 9h
… OK now can I… dammit! www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...
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Justice Dept. Turns to Partisans and Conspiracists to Fill Depleted Ranks
The civil rights unit has recruited people whose questionable work histories and dearth of education and experience might have disqualified them in the past, former officials said.
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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 9h
Listen NYT, I’m just trying to finish the Bee, don’t distract me with any headlines- www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...
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Amid Midterm Crunch, Trump Advisers Took Time to Help Russia-Aligned Government
James Blair and Chris LaCivita, who are leading the president’s congressional campaign operation, traveled to Republika Srpska to provide election advice.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h
MEMPHIS: “PUNCHES THROWN… CHAOS…” Wild scenes as the city council DELAYS a vote on a data centers moratorium🤔— leading to chants of “BOUGHT AND SOLD!” and “SELL OUTS!” More: www.actionnews5.com/2026/10/06/d...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h
(Politico) - ABC programs are already tempering their election coverage ahead of the midterms to avoid angering President Donald Trump, a lawyer for the broadcast company told a federal judge on Tuesday .. @politico.com $DIS www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 18h
We're training 100,000 Americans to defeat Trump's next coup attempt before, during, and after the midterms. Join us:
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Hands Off Our Vote in 2026! · Indivisible
**Hands Off Our Vote** is Indivisible’s national program to ensure all eligible voters get to cast their ballot, every ballot is counted, and the results are honored. **By signing up you’ll become a part of the biggest election protection program in Indivisible’s history. And even if the elections are secure where you live, you can help protect at-risk voters in targeted areas during rapid-response moments and be a trusted messenger against the flood of disinformation.** We know that Trump and his Big Lie cronies are plotting to do everything they can to undermine our elections in 2026. Whether it’s trying to end mail-in voting, targeting registration programs, blocking vote-counting, even trying to ban states from encouraging people to vote – it’s going to be no-holds-barred from them this year as they try desperately to block the free and fair elections. But we’re going to be ready for whatever dirty tricks they try. **And we’re going to do it with community power and preparation, not panic.** You'll get updates on threats to our voting rights and learn how to counter them, and be ready to mobilize in defense of the vote, both in your area and nationally. We have tremendous power to protect our elections in 2026. **Sign up here to get started and join the Hands Off Our Vote movement.** **If you're in Alaska, Georgia, Iowa, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, or Texas, sign up [here](https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/916480) as well.**
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 9h
So, uh, Susan Collins clearly is not OK and has some obvious mental impairments.... I am not a Dr of living people but I *am* a Dr of dead ones and in that expert capacity I suggest she is a ghoul corpse, slithering towards hell for her past votes.
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Luke Russert @lukerussert.bsky.social · 9h
As a new parent it sucks to worry about my daughter contracting measles.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12h
More than 500 U.S. citizens have been detained by ICE, according to ProPublica. 70% of ICE detainees have no criminal conviction. Trump’s promise to go after the “worst of the worst” was always a lie. It was always a pretext to terrorize Black and brown communities. Remember this.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more th
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 10h
Weird how the biggest state in the union seems to have locked down voting while much smaller states are in an eternal struggle.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 10h
Every time I see how the GOP is trying to make voting a trial, I appreciate California notifies you via text and email when your ballot is on the way, has convenient drop boxes, and follows up to confirm they received the ballot with lightning speed.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 12h
*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY.
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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 21h
It's really clear that "social permission for bigotry" is the real animating spirit behind MAGA, and "anti-woke" politics in general. It's a hate movement for losers who can't handle living in a society.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 22h
Trump's Ohio rally crowd chanted: "Deport! Deport!" But don't overlook this: New NYT poll finds Trump underwater *on immigration* even in Ohio, which he carried by double digits. MAGA sadists are yelling in a shrinking bubble. Check out our exchange on this: newrepublic.com/article/2162...
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