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KTW @katebegins2rock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Goals. Someone just organized a great plan for me here.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 27/09/2026

Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/kQdKbY1

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Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees

Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.

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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Don't forget your real power peeps✌🏼💙

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I hire seventy biz profs and put them in a new building with a cafe and working doors and at the same time I hire two historians and make them share an outhouse I hire a contractor to nail shut. a year later, there are more biz students than history students. Q. has the market spoken

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Three of the justices have a long and personal history in voter suppression!🤬

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Roland @rolandwall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Every time I see a headline like "Trump weighing decision to ..." I'm reminded of how thoroughly compromised the media has become. Acting like he was a normal POTUS, thoughtfully working for the good of the country and not the malignant grifter he is.

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KTW @katebegins2rock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Going back to her porn roots?

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KTW @katebegins2rock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Except Dump is not going to get food with broccoli in it.

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Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm from Johnson City, Kansas, about 100 miles southwest of Dodge City. This is horrific. The only light in this situation is seeing so many people not okay with it.

Aaron Estabrook.

Dodge City is my hometown. What's happening there today is hard to watch.

ICE is conducting what residents describe as a multiday operation across Southwest Kansas, including Dodge City, Garden City and Liberal. The Liberal, KS Vice Mayor reportedly watched as many as 60 of her neighbors were detained and taken away on buses today. Educators in Dodge City are worried about students returning home from school to find their parents gone.

Think about what that means for a child they ask.

Residents report large white buses staged in these communities and ICE agents stationed at meatpacking plants during shift changes, spreading panic through an industry already under stress. Unmarked vehicles recklessly cutting across the cities, pinning cars on main routes and back alleys.

Peaceful protesters have gathered along Wyatt Earp Boulevard near El Capitan, with people also gathering at the fairgrounds in Garden City this evening.

There are deeply troubling reports and images of agents breaking car windows

There are deeply troubling reports and images of agents breaking car windows while babies were inside in car seats. Families are also sharing videos they say show ICE detaining someone born and raised in Garden City. Those accounts need independent verification and answers. We still don't have a confirmed regional count, and I cannot verify suggestions that hundreds were detained today.

But the accounts coming from these communities describe parents, grandparents, neighbors, friends and employees being taken away. Calling an operation a crackdown on "the most dangerous criminals” does not establish that everyone swept up in it fits that description.

Of course, some people are pleased to see this day come. I am not. Federal agents tearing families apart in our state inspires nothing in me but grief for those involved, especially the kids.

And who benefits from the damage left behind?

Removing workers and frightening entire communities risks making agricultural labor harder to find, disrupting meat production and putting more pressure on food prices. Small businesses lose customers. Families lose income. Schools are left helping children cope with fear and

are left helping children cope with fear and uncertainty. Local governments lose too. Immigrants pay taxes; sales, property, income.

For my entire life, immigration has been part of Southwest Kansas. Immigrant families have worked in our packing plants, helped sustain our farms, opened businesses, raised children and made these communities their home. They are part of the place I grew up. I loved being neighbors with them and growing up with their children.

I want to know how many people were taken, why they were detained and what is happening to their children. These communities deserve answers, and every person detained deserves due process and humane treatment.

I grew up understanding that people came to Southwest Kansas to work hard and build a life. Watching families who did exactly that being torn apart feels foreign to everything I have known about home. This is beyond politics. It's human decency. I pray that no tragic event occurs and human dignity is honored by all involved.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/09/2026

Crush the arts (Kennedy Center), destroy the civil service (DOGE), control elections (gestures broadly), dismantle the press (gestures more broadly), decimate science (NIH), and demolish education (DeptEd). The authoritarian playbook.

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KTW @katebegins2rock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I am absolutely convinced Tuberbrain saw a Southwest desk agent in a Halloween costume once or a flight attendant wearing bunny ears on Easter and jumped to conclusions.

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KTW @katebegins2rock.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Now I know what to call what I write! Excuse me, I mean what I used to write.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21/09/2026

In a Texas suburb, a fleet of drones has started to deliver goods from Amazon quickly. But for those living closest to the flight paths, the loud, ever-droning deliveries pose a threat to their private and peaceful life.

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It’s Raining Boxes: Amazon Drones Overwhelm a Texas Suburb

In Richardson, a fleet of drones has started to deliver goods quickly. But the noise is drowning out life for some residents: ‘We can’t live like this.’

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

By the time this merger ruins HBO, destroys WB, gets 5,000 people fired, moves production overseas, and guts the quality of the movies the new studio makes, most people will have forgotten how fast the AGs caved and how little they got in this deal. Writers will not.

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KTW @katebegins2rock.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Try this shit in Philly and SEPTA just gonna push your truck on down the road.

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KTW @katebegins2rock.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

And once upon a time their food wasn't bad for fast food. But then it got awful. Haven't been back to check in about eight years, but I assume if anything it's worse now.

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Because Tilly is a pretty object made to be used by men, so of course it’s a “she” to them. Whereas trans woman clearly have interiority & agency who use it to refuse their bullshit hierarchy, so of course we are villainous subhuman monsters undeserving/incapable of having true personhood.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Since Trump claims that it was “the military” that requested to use the arch to store sniper ammo & drones, these are the times when a Democratic majority could bring Gen. Dan Caine before Congress to find out from him if that is true & why. As usual, Republicans will do nothing.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I want the name of every consultant who convinces a Democrat to run an ad ceding ground to trans hatred, and I want them blacklisted by the party and noted so I can never give a cent to anyone who hires them ever again.

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hrlatinam.bsky.social @hrlatinam.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

🎁https://share.inquirer.com/2JBuyp "I found it even more disturbing that neither Lurie nor anyone from the Eagles organization feels they owe any explanation at all to the city, let alone thousands of people who drained their bank accounts for a concert that was nothing like it had been advertised."

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

There's even a nail polish that is supposed to change color when you, well, bathe your fingers in your drink, which suggests women do survival tactics in a place that is supposed to be fun. After buying and applying anti-rape nail polish.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter.”

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I am done with this shit. It is over. The state of engineering right now is horrible. It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company.
Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code.
Nobody on my team likes this. They are being forced to ship as much as they can. I have heard multiple times from higher management that pushing code is not a bottleneck, so why are we slow?

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Stories like this have, for ages, treated men's desire to harm women as a sort of background noise, a weather we just normalize and accept and try to work around. Feminism is among other things a process of denormalization.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

CNN: A fake A.I. intelligence report just “almost started a war” with China when the military almost boarded one of their ships Nothing to see here, folks! 😕 www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16/09/2026

A recent report out of MIT said A.I. is triggering “cognitive surrender” in students. Many university leaders are embracing the technology with enthusiasm anyway.

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Universities Sound Warnings About A.I. Even as They Embrace It

As A.I. upends education, university leaders have been all over the map about how to respond. It can be very confusing for students.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 16/09/2026

He's not got any idea what he's even voting on. He has to be told how to vote. He's incapacitated. He's incapable of representing the people of Kentucky who are currently being taxed without representation.

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Dan Friedman @dfriedman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“There’s no other nation, only Somali people in Guantanamo Bay, in the prison,” he told me. “And when we ask them why we are here, they tell us…Washington…ordered to keep Somali people in the Guantanamo Bay.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo

“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Last week, I told you how local cops have partnered with ICE to bring tons of arrests and spread fear in small towns and rural areas like Schuylkill County, Pa. Now, I am asking Gov. Shapiro and others why PA can't ban 287(g) like NY, NJ, and MD have My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

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Next-door states banned ICE-cop deals. Why not Pa.? | Will Bunch Newsletter

Plus, the threat to human civilization that isn’t AI.

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Lori Lou Freshwater @lorifreshwater.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“The irony is that today’s Schuylkill County was built on the backs of immigrants — initially a wave of Irish who dug the 19th-century coal mines and were also persecuted, including six members of the infamous Molly Maguires who were hanged in Pottsville in 1877.” And agree on the great work here.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 11/09/2026

Just did a quick look around and I don't see very many headlines about the President of the US making people pledge allegiance to him personally while telling everyone to commit election fraud and "cheat like hell" to support his party. Seems like it should be a story?

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Strong endorse. Will say it again: the pundit class's choice (and it was a choice) to overread 2024 as a seismic cultural shift was a catastrophe for this country, emboldening Trump to go full fascist and encouraging institutional surrender in the face of it. This lives on amid his total collapse.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Zohran Mamdani "was the only senior elected official who stayed at the 9/11 memorial ceremony at the WTC until the end…Vance was the first to leave the VIP area, and other elected officials began 'schmoozing.'" Per Steve Kastenbaum:

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Mayor Mamdani was the only senior elected official who stayed at the 9/11 memorial ceremony at the WTC until the end. It started at 8:40 AM, and concluded close to 12:30 PM. Most of the other current electeds left at various times. Former Mayors Bloomberg & Giuliani stayed.
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Mamdani stayed until the end of the memorial ceremony at which point he was seen talking with 9/11 victims' family members. All of the other senior elected officials left the 9/11 Memorial before the reading of the names concluded.
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The source tells me that V.P. Vance was the first to leave the VIP area, and other elected officials began "schmoozing." At some point, Mayor Giuliani's people started "bringing people over to talk with him." CORRECTION:I used photos in a previous similar post that were from 2025

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12/09/2026

The contractor that renovated the Reflecting Pool has told the Trump administration the pool’s new blue liner peeled and tore because of “human oversight” and a flawed plan that involved layering two incompatible chemicals, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times. nyti.ms/4iYQqwj

The Washington Monument shown behind the drained Reflecting Pool. A headline reads: "Contractor Blames Its Own Repairs, Not Vandals, for Reflecting Pool Failure." Photo by Salwan Georges for The New York Times

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

@thebulwark.com did a supercut of all the prior times Trump said he was going to give Americans a $5000 check or whatever. It is glorious

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Anthropic’s CEO says that the company needs hundreds of billions in revenue or they’re going to go bankrupt. Awww…Maybe he can only drink coffee at home, get a second job, and work a lot harder. Polluting the environment and creating societal nightmares must be so exhausting

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

There are already articles circulating trying to rewrite history and say America was great after 9/11 and united and thoughtful and just a reminder that that period was marked by intense and insanely racist hatred, paranoia, and a frothing desire for unhinged violence and oppression.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

the game literally calls the “coming horde.” This is not some random MAGA website or parody. It is official White House messaging on a .gov website, turning immigration enforcement and the detention of human beings into a game. We have officially entered the dystopian arcade portion of the timeline.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Well, this is pretty f***ed up. The White House has launched an official government arcade featuring games designed to promote Trump administration policies. One has you play as a Border Patrol agent rounding up migrants. Another, called “Build the Wall,” asks players to defend the border from what

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

People keep telling me these technologies can "research and write like a historian" and I have to say I need to understand what your estimation of a historian's abilities are if that is the case. Must read.

At the end of the spring 2026 semester, a puzzling misquotation in a student paper led me to wonder whether an LLM might have acquired my translation of this diary entry. I decided to test this by asking Google Gemini Pro (which Georgetown University provides to faculty), ChatGPT (standard version), and DeepSeek the question, “What did Setsuko S. say in her diary about Saipan?” The answers were both reassuring and disturbing.

Gemini Pro and ChatGPT produced full-blown hallucinations, suggesting (somewhat to my relief) that they were not using my source. Gemini Pro informed me that Setsuko was a typist working for a company in Saipan, then offered several paragraphs discussing civilian experience in the Battle of Saipan, purportedly summarizing her writing but in fact concocted from other sources. ChatGPT provided several lines of false direct quotation. DeepSeek responded differently, answering that there were no “widely known public records or verifiable historical sources” related to the diary I had named, which is correct. I hesitate to derive any general conclusion from this quick search, but in this one instance, at least, DeepSeek acknowledged ignorance rather than generating a web of lies.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/08/2026

in john roberts’ constitution, congress does not exist and the power of the purse belongs to the president, who is an elected dictator embodying the authentic Will of the People

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/08/2026

if this happens, the democratic president should ignore the stay and keep tearing down the buildling

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 31/08/2026

"We must, by any means necessary, force them to be like us" is the most pure expression of the authoritarian personality I've ever heard. They hate & fear difference, *as such*. It doesn't have to threaten them in any meaningful way. Its existence makes them uncomfortable.

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God @thegodshow.com · 31/08/2026

The governor of Florida and his wife stole ten million dollars from a charity, but CNN would rather spend another week on blatant Islamophobic character assassination of Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, because they work for MAGA billionaires.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Welp, there it is. The CDC is now officially manipulating data and their count of measles deaths in 2026 now stands at ZERO. My understanding of reportable diseases is that the CDC would usually use a state health department’s determination as the final say. The new CDC Director is failing us.

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The CDC left two measles-associated Pa. deaths out of its latest count after RFK Jr. sparred with Gov. Shapiro

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has accused Pennsylvania of not cooperating with the CDC in its handling of a measles outbreak.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It must be embarrassing being as rich and successful as Google and still having to get on your knees for an 80 year old felon who falls asleep at work all day. It’s Lake Ontario, you clowns.

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