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NEW: The Trump administration keeps denying and downplaying that immigration agents have been detaining Americans. It’s wrong. We’ve found more than 500 U.S. citizens have been held against their will, including handcuffed or held at gunpoint.

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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 than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 35m

First Lady Natalie Harp sits next to her man in Marine One as they return to the White House last night, then reenters the building after another day of traveling together #TravelWithNatalie (Tasos Katopodis/Getty)

pic of Harp walking back to the White House

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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 16h

ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...

Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 3h

The “fastest growing Ebola outbreak in history” has spread to Kenya. This is devastating. Thousands have lost their lives at a time when the regime has just made massive cuts to USAID in Africa. It’s important we keep talking about Ebola and ensure those fighting it have the support they need:

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Kenya confirms first Ebola case imported from Congo after patient dies in Nairobi

Kenya’s Health Ministry has confirmed the country’s first imported Ebola case from Congo. Health Minister Aden Duale said on Tuesday the patient, a Kenyan citizen, arrived in the country Saturday from...

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 17h

A politician who actually makes people's lives better not just in big ways, but in small ones too. This is a wonderful idea from Mayor Mamdani.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12h

Leonora Carrington starrywisdomsect.tumblr.com/post/8296819...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 17h

We're on the verge of democratizing only the worst part of celebrity: the pervasive hovering cameras that are always there to preserve and distribute your failures.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 17h

We're repeatedly told that the killer app for pervert glasses - Meta's AI-enabled camera glasses and their imitators - is that they will remind you of someone's name and spare you the social awkwardness of not recognizing them.

Medieval peasants working the fields in front of a walled city. Their overseer rides a horse; his head has been replaced with a robotic camera. From all sides, gory, anatomical eyeballs intrude upon the scene, each one with a different colored iris.

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 11h

And the book is off to my editor. Time for a mini-celebration. Just me and Aces.

Aces standing on the kitchen counter next to a bottle of Writers Tears whiskey

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 9h

The breast cancer center appealed thousands of Blue Cross reimbursements for being too low. At trial, the insurer revealed that it had never considered any of the appeals — and that they were pointless: “An appeal is not available to review an underpayment.” (Published April 2025)

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“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over Doctors

Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2h

Well, this is cute. I looked up an #AirCanada flight in Firefox and then pasted the URL into a Chromium window where I was logged into my #Aeroplan Elite account. Air Canada added $300 to the flight price when I tried to load it from a logged-in browser. Hell of a customer loyalty perk!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Trump calls Natalie on stage, checks out her legs, calls her "perfect," then floats creating a reality show w/ her -- & other lowlights from his rally tonight in Nebraska (Including Trump saying of Iran, "Let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is very small price to pay")

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 20h

I think the problem is that for whatever reason, society/the media/whoever have correctly determined we need a way to reintegrate millions of people into society and from that incorrectly determined the way to do so is for the people who were wronged to apologize to the people who wronged them.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 16h

It's been such a long few years, I'd forgotten this particular rape accusation against Hegseth. The woman told police she may have been drugged. Hegseth, who was married to one woman and had just had a baby with another, said it was consensual but paid her $50k to settle. He was confirmed anyway.

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 3h

*I'm inclined to believe that lots of people do really like lies, as long as the lies are perceived as a flex and they're visibly harming somebody else. #MAGA

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Michael Baudis @mbaudis.bsky.social · 5h

Sam Altman took Jane Wickline’ s “AI is the devil and I its maker” for the real Dario Amodei and thought “Hold my protein sludge…”. Crossposted with @openvibe.social

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Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com · 5h

FT: insurers brace for multimillion-dollar claims caused by rogue AI agents, amid concern that execs like Sam Altman and Dario Amodei could be held liable. They're not "rogue agents". They're defective products created and supervised by negligent humans--and the insurance companies know it.

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Rock Mondo ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ @rockmondo.bsky.social · 4h

Picasso looked through the pile and laid aside several he said were fake. "But I was there when you painted that one!" The painter replied "You think I can't do a fake Picasso as well as anybody else?" In "F for Fake" Robert Anton Wilson's favorite Orson Welles film.

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 4h

*A much more sinister problem is that *I MYSELF* start prompting "Bruce Sterling novels" in "the style of Bruce Sterling" and put my own Bruce Sterling logo on them *What are you supposed to do? Sue me?

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 4h

*I don't think that's much of a threat *Even fake Bruce Sterling books that were more coherent and entertaining than actual Bruce Sterling books wouldn't be that big a deal *What seems more plausible now is AI-powered culture-war that harasses and represses authors across the board

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 4h

"I'm a screenwriter, gosh what if an AI pirates my precious screenplay" *What if somebody despises all libtard Hollywood creatives, and uses AI VC-money to acquire the entire industry, and just fires everybody

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 15h

Pinball machines used to be outlawed because they looked too much like gambling.

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William’s Incredible Dream @william1956.bsky.social · 10h

A message that is uniquely profound. It is depressingly sad that people did not discover this revelation sooner.

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Medium Dave @azzageddi.myatproto.social · 4h

Of course, the ads still say things like "We will cast out the communists, Marxists, and fascists. We will throw off the sick political class that hates our country." Basically "we will exterminate everyone who doesn't agree with us" kitchen-table stuff. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Trump says he will stop using US taxpayer funds for ads

The ads, which tout Trump and his policies, could have violated US laws barring public government funds being spent on political advertising.

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 17h

"Testosterone Jesus" custom-made for the White Christian Nationalists. Hallucinations for their inferiority complexes.

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 20h

A livestream of the events is currently available here: www.instagram.com/tierralibre_... You can donate to a legal fund to support the land defenders here: givebutter.com/free-the-jag... All borders are open wounds cutting through the land and the hearts of all people. Abolish borders.

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Support the Jaguars Arrested for Blocking Border Wall Construction!

Tucson Anti-Repression Crew

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Kathryn Cramer 📚🎨 @kathryncramer.bsky.social · 12h

I really hate it that they killed the tree.

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 14h

Obi-Wan Kenobi saying this is not the machine you rage against

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 14h

To the person noting there is not enough money in the world to license every piece of intellectual property stolen for "AI" training: you're sooooo close to the point, friend, keep going, you'll get there if you try

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Kathryn Cramer 📚🎨 @kathryncramer.bsky.social · 12h

"we are holding a lot of your people whom you failed to love and take care of"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

First Lady Natalie Harp is on stage at the Trump rally! Trump calls her "this perfect person"

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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 13h

It's Clive Barker's birthday! Here's something I wrote this summer about his early stories (and those of the great Joel Lane): reactormag.com/poetry-from-...

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Poetry From the Plague Pit: The Early Stories of Clive Barker and Joel Lane - Reactor

At the height of Thatcherism and the AIDS crisis, two queer British horror writers began carving out their unique visions...

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 14h

what fresh hell (NoMa)

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Thom Tillis now claims he didn't vote to convict Trump after January 6 because "you've never seen a president dealt with that way" and then blames "both parties" (no other president incited a coup attempt!)

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FLR @mdksun.bsky.social · 14h

May I present, Alice Fucking Roosevelt. Presidential daughter and surly Edwardian teen. Quite a handful, according to her dad. Love the Riot Grrl pose.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 14h

Don’t know who to credit this to, but it cheers me up!

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Count Melancholia @lillyh.bsky.social · 18h

"A luminary of the publishing world and a leading light in SF fandom, Malcolm Edwards has worked with many of the greats. He joined us to discuss JG Ballard and the state of science fiction" www.theguardian.com/books/live/2...

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Webchat: Malcolm Edwards, JG Ballard's editor – as it happened

A luminary of the publishing world and a leading light in SF fandom, Malcolm Edwards has worked with many of the greats. He joined us to discuss JG Ballard and the state of science fiction

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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 15h

UPDATE: After deciding this weekend to block Politico from riding on Air Force One, White House staffers called numerous outlets to ask one to fill the primary print slot for the out-of-town pool rotation. Each of those outlets declined to step in. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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White House blocks Politico from Air Force One trip, cannot secure replacement

President Donald Trump will travel without a primary print pool reporter for the first time in recent memory.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 17h

BREAKING: The Trump White House has blocked Politico from accessing Air Force One on Monday to carry out its pool responsibilities.

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White House blocks Politico from Air Force One

The news outlet was supposed to travel with the president to Nebraska on Monday.

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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 16h

“Accidental”

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TerynceRecherche @terynce.com · 15h

Why? The gov refuses to pay for it, industries lobbying against it, and the country is big, with major cities far apart, making flying attractive. That said, too much lobbying in the US government and reliable public transit is a public good.

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Why doesn’t high speed rail work in America? | CNN Business

American railroads were once the envy of the world and the engine of its industrial age. But that hasn’t been the case for more than half a century.

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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 16h

It's not ideal when the same people in charge of dealing with the emergence of AI psychosis develop AI psychosis

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 15h

gawd i wish we would stop listening to and giving respectability to charlatans and dipshits

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18h

In Austin, a 9-year-old watched ICE detain and drive away with his mother, leaving community members to scramble to find him care. Senate Republicans just blocked a bill that would bar ICE from making arrests at school bus stops. Their cruelty is endless.

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'It Has to Stop': Community Members Condemn ICE Arrests at Bus Stops After GOP Blocks Bill to Protect Kids | Common Dreams

Republicans in the US Senate blocked a bill to protect school bus stops from ICE arrests, leading to outrage in Pennsylv

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 20h

Since July 27, brave people have been occupying an ancient cottonwood tree to block the construction of Trump's border wall, which is destroying the region's ecology. This morning, Border Patrol raided the camp, arresting a number of people and killing the tree. Background: crimethinc.com/lochiel

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The Border is an Open Wound

A report from the tree occupation in Lochiel, Arizona that is halting the construction of the border wall.

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