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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h
remarkable piece of journalism. really worth reading.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1h
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Christa Pike's lawyer says she has not regained consciousness since her failed Tennessee execution
Little has been released about Pike's condition since Wednesday night's execution attempt. She has since remained hospitalized under guard as doctors try to get the massive dose of the barbiturate pen...
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Unite Against Book Bans @uabookbans.bsky.social · 3h
Banned Books Week starts today! This year’s theme is: #LetBooksBe What do you think books should be? Share your answer in the comments: ✨ Let Books Be Free 🎉 Let Books Be Fun 🌎 Let Books Be Diverse 💡 Let Books Be Thought-Provoking ❤️ Let Books Be Themselves
Drawn image of a woman reading, surrounded by books, birds, flowers, clouds, vines, stars. Text reades: Protect the Freedom to Read - Let Books Be - Banned Books Week, Oct. 4-10, 2026. American Library Association. ala.org/bbooks
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Margo Gontar @margogontar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
So, Russia bombed another bridge in Kyiv today that connects left and right banks . It’s the 5th attack on bridges in Kyiv in these 4 days . People left stranded , can’t get to work or get back home . Nothing military about it . only Russia trying to terrorise us into submission .
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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 02/10/2026
Elon Musk's xAI on Friday persuaded a US federal appeals court to halt Minnesota's first-in-the-nation ban on AI-generated fake nude images as the technology and social media company pursues a lawsuit alleging that the law is unconstitutional.
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US appeals court blocks Minnesota's AI 'nudification' law for now in XAI lawsuit
Elon Musk's xAI on Friday ​persuaded a US ‌federal appeals court to halt Minnesota's first-in-the-nation ​ban on AI-generated ​fake nude images as ⁠the technology and ​social media company pursues ​a lawsuit alleging that the law is unconstitutional.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/10/2026
The administration has found yet another way to fuck with solar power.
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The USDA just made it way harder for farmers to get grants for solar
Even farmers who were already promised funds from the REAP program may never get them under the Trump admin’s new restrictions. Some are suing.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Omg…did you read the ProPublica reporting on private schools?
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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MS NOW @ms.now · 02/10/2026
Dave Grohl and Foo Fighters will take the stage LIVE at the “Power To The People” concert TOMORROW starting at 1PM ET! Only one chance to see it LIVE! ms.now/powertothepe...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Bill Pulte, Trump's director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, moved this week to slash the inspector general's office that scrutinizes his actions — prompting calls from Dems for his resignation. It's the second time Trump officials have moved to limit scrutiny of the agency run by Pulte.
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Housing Official, Who Targeted Trump Foes, Cuts Watchdog Office
Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, moved to slash his agency’s inspector general’s office. Democrats called for his resignation.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 03/10/2026
Click on the link to support women and girls in Gaza with $15 for a Dignity Kit. Men especially - let’s step up ❤️✊🏽 act.link/gi-UozuBQ
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Each election year, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) takes extra steps to ensure ballots sent through the mail arrive at election offices on time. This year, it’s delaying those efforts. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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USPS pushes back measures that ensure mail ballots arrive on time
“The shorter timeframe is noteworthy and I don’t know why they’re doing this,” Steve Hutkins, who writes for Save the Post Office, told Democracy Docket.
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Ed Bott @edbott.com · 02/10/2026
All forms of torture are acceptable to John Yoo. He literally wrote the book on how to make torture legal in the Bush administration (derogatory).
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Matt Szafranski @mszafranski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Awkward.
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit
David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 02/10/2026
This is a better epilogue to my January story about the private equity firm profiting off of ICE's cruelest flights than I could have ever possibly hoped for. CHICAGO: You went to the mat and protected (at a minimum!) thousands of immigrants from torture. Take a bow. prospect.org/2026/10/02/i...
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The City That Brought Down an ICE Airline - The American Prospect
In Chicago, progressive alderpeople held up a contract until a private equity firm was forced to dispatch Omni Air International, protecting thousands of immigrants from deportation.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/10/2026
Bill Pulte said he was cracking down on fraud. Now he's firing the investigators.
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Bill Pulte said he was cracking down on fraud. Now he's firing the investigators.
After inspectors turned the lens back on him, Pulte moved to slash their budget.
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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We filed, not one, but two Hatch Act violation complaints against Trump's taxpayer-fueled propaganda ads. Then we filed complaints with the FCC and FTC demanding these ads are pulled down. We will not stand by as the Trump admin repeatedly misuses our money & violates the law.
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Rufo gets to position himself as "respectable." Polite sit-down interview w/ Ezra Klein. Celebrated by Substack as one of platform's "best" writers. Senior fellow at Manhattan Institute. His "Indian Question" podcast is pretty explicitly white nationalist talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
incredible spin from Hassett on mortgage rates being well above 7%: "When the economy is growing really high, then longer-term interest rates can sometimes go up not because of inflation, but because like all these businesses have a high demand for capital because they're building factories."
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
CNN and CBS News are now under the control of the Ellison family. We need independent, pro-democracy media to grow. If you agree, please subscribe to Democracy Docket now. demdock.com/4w6emld
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DenseBreast-info.org @densebreastinfo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
DenseBreast-info.org is a comprehensive, medically sourced educational resource. Our mission: to educate on the importance of appropriate additional testing after a mammogram. 🔗 DenseBreast-info.org/europe #DenseBreasts #FindItEarly #WorldDenseBreastDay
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 01/10/2026
Pierre Damas Bel was an honor student & part of his college's ROTC program. He was also a TPS recipient. After Trump's attacks on TPS, he was forced to wear an ankle monitor that isolated and humiliated him. Pierre died in an apparent suicide. He was 20.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 30/09/2026
Black text that reads:

229 new affordable homes are coming to the Bronx.

We just broke ground on Sol on Park:
• 80 homes for current NYCHA residents
• 69 homes for formerly homeless seniors
• 79 homes for low- and middle-income seniors
• 8,000 sq. ft. of community space, including a health and wellness center 

This is what’s possible when we invest in NYCHA and use the power of government to build a City where New Yorkers come first.
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NPR @npr.org · 29/09/2026
Khalil was the face of the pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University when immigration agents arrested him and sent him to detention in Louisiana. His new memoir is No Land to Stand On. n.pr/46QIOFc
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Mahmoud Khalil on his detention by ICE: 'It is a stain on the U.S. consciousness'
Khalil was the face of the pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University when immigration agents arrested him and sent him to detention in Louisiana. His new memoir is No Land to Stand On.
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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There is criminal exposure everywhere you look in this administration, from the obvious of ICE murdering civilians in the streets, to more discrete stuff like insider trading or agencies funneling tax money into pro-Trump ads. This is what wanton corruption looks like, and the hammer must fall.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/09/2026
Meta's "Muse" launched with a nasty zero day flaw that gave hackers the ability to spy on Mac users, openly gives root access to people pretending to be Muse agents, and invited strangers over to another guy's house without telling him
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Meta's Latest AI Product Is A Terrifying And Hilarious Mess
Authoritarian-friendly mass surveillance has never been more adorable
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 29/09/2026
The Supreme Court again backed the Trump administration’s removal of migrants to countries where they have no ties, allowing DHS to continue the deportations without advance notice. www.washingtonsun.com/courts/suprem…
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Supreme Court Allows Trump to Continue Third-Country Deportation Push
The justices agreed to hear arguments over the speedy deportation policy in December.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
These people are utterly shameless
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Reuters @reuters.com · 29/09/2026
Michigan nurse charged with helping immigrant flee ICE custody reut.rs/4iQ01Wp
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Michigan nurse charged with helping immigrant flee ICE custody
A Michigan nurse was charged with helping a Mexican national escape from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody at the hospital ​where she worked, court documents unsealed on Tuesday showed.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The Board of Peace Is an Abject Failure, and Palestinians Are Paying the Price" It promised to bring ‘everlasting peace’: Gaza was to be rebuilt; military operations halted; ‘full aid’ given... It has failed on every count. From Zeteo UK:
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The Board of Peace Is an Abject Failure, and Palestinians Are Paying the Price
It promised to bring ‘everlasting peace’: Gaza was to be rebuilt; military operations halted; ‘full aid’ given; and an International Stabilisation Force set up. It has failed on every count.
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Dave Levinthal @davelevinthal.com · 29/09/2026
NEW: During her time in public service, WH press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s private family investments included stock in: 🇺🇸 Trump’s social media company 🪖 Defense contractors 🛢️ Oil companies 🤖 Tech giants 🔌 Tesla In @washingtonsun.bsky.social: www.washingtonsun.com/money/karoli...
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Karoline Leavitt Discloses Family Investments in Trump Media and Tesla
An ethics document shows the former press secretary’s family holdings contain Trump’s social media company, defense contractors, oil companies and tech giants.
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404 Media @404media.co · 29/09/2026
UPDATE: On Monday, Krebs on Security reported authorities in the Netherlands had arrested a 23-year-old on suspicion of aiding ShinyHunters. The representative told 404 Media “the Dutch police are incompetent. That individual has no association with us. Frankly, we are laughing.”
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FBI Hackers Say They Won’t Publish Massive Trove of FBI Employee Data
ShinyHunters, the group that stole data on “all FBI employees” including addresses and details on their spouses, told 404 Media on Monday “Since the very beginning we had made our decision that we wou...
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/09/2026
Men—we need to talk: •Timothy Hudson raped & killed his stepsister—he got pretrial release •7 men at Cornell drugged, trafficked, & raped a woman—they faced no consequences •An American man annihilates his entire family—every 5 days Women are not safe around men www.qasimrashid.com/p/women-are-...
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Women Are Not Safe Around Men
This is a fact. The data is unambiguous and the solutions exist. The only thing missing is the will to act.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Of course, the vile Trump regime sides with bigoted parents over vulnerable kids.
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Andrew Schreck @andrewschreck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i don't think cis guys realize how much power they can shift in a conversation just by casually telling their friends
"that's fucked up, man" when someone says something
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mortgage rates print 7.50% @cnbc.com
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God @thegodshow.com · 29/09/2026
Is he serious
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026
Katie Phang breaks down one of the most disturbing pieces of evidence in the new Cornell sex assault lawsuit: an alleged fraternity Snapchat message referring to the plaintiff as “free p***y upstairs.” Phang zeroes in on another detail: someone apparently photographed the Snapchat from another phone
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 27/09/2026
NEW: A Texas woman died after being denied an abortion and her family sued the state and her doctors for violating her right to life. They say the ban should be struck down. It's one of several cases challenging abortion laws under state constitutional rights to life and liberty @autonomynews.co
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New Lawsuits Argue That Pregnant People Also Have a Right to Life
Lawyers are fighting abortion bans in state court by establishing that pregnant people have a right to life and liberty—or at least self-defense.
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 26/09/2026
The White House is using taxpayer money to run pro-Trump propaganda ads just weeks before the midterm elections. @swin24.bsky.social and @andrewperez.bsky.social report how the ads violate federal laws and why this ad campaign even exists. Read more: zeteo.com/p/trump-love...
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American Rivers @americanrivers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The USDA announced it's seeking to roll back the #RoadlessRule, the single largest rollback of protections for rivers in U.S. history – putting clean water at serious risk. 🚨🔊 Speak up this #PublicLandsDay: act.americanrivers.org/page/101689/…
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ACT NOW -- Oppose rollbacks to the Roadless Rule
Join us in urging the USDA to keep the the Roadless Rule as is, and ensure protection for the sources of drinking water flowing off of our National Forests for over 24 million Americans.
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Antonia Hylton @ahylton26.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Our exclusive interview on The Assignment with a legal observer in Maine who was able to unmask 2 ICE agents.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Because of the Texas state government's error, Texas "counties are now dealing with nearly a year of backlogged voter registration tasks to process. They could include new registrations or simply updates to voters’ existing records, like a change in address..." www.votebeat.org/texas/2026/0...
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Tens of thousands of Texas voter registration applications likely ensnared in state error
Democrats are calling for investigations into why voter registration applications submitted via a DPS portal weren’t forwarded to counties.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 26/09/2026
Our new investigation uncovers the horrifying ChatGPT history of the Tumbler Ridge mass shooter, with OpenAI’s chatbot fueling the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the day of the school massacre.
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Paying expensive healthcare premiums but never using the insurance is a odd way to commit fraud.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
GOP support grows for subpoenaing Donald Trump Jr. over the wedding party controversy: Five Senate Republicans (and counting) are taking the burgeoning scandal seriously, which is five more than usual.
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GOP support grows for subpoenaing Donald Trump Jr. over wedding party controversy
Five Senate Republicans (and counting) are taking the burgeoning scandal seriously, which is five more than usual.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Susan Collins is always horrified by the predictable results of her own vote, which means Mainers who genuinely care about Susan Collins should elect Troy Jackson as he won’t vote for things that wind up upsetting Susan Collins, unlike Susan Collins
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/09/2026
Trump: "I'm rejecting their deal. They want to make a deal where they open the strait immediately ... we're winning tremendously. We have total control of the Hormuz Strait ... that deal would not be acceptable. They want to immediately open the Hormuz Strait."
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