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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 3h

this is the funniest imaginable explanation for the Hawks/Hawkeyes mixup and I desperately hope it's true

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2h

A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 4h

“Patel is apparently planning a trip to Russia, a country that (a) is no friend of the United States nor the FBI specifically and yet (b) is quite friendly with Patel, including via a ‘Russia-linked production company’ that evidently previously paid Patel $25,000 to appear in an anti-FBI TV series.”

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3h

Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...

One of the things that is going to change is that we’re never ever again going to be able to be dominated by public officials who tell us, ‘Trust the experts,’” Mr. Kennedy said during the Tuesday session.

“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ A.I. may tell you otherwise,” he added. “If somebody tells you, ‘Social distancing works, trust the experts,’ A.I. may correct that. And if somebody tells you that a vaccine will prevent transmission and infection, or you need to take it to protect your grandmother, A.I. may say it actually doesn’t do that.”

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 6h

it would be cool if U.S. journalism could clearly inform readers that the trump administration dismantled what was left of our already shaky regulators and replaced them with perfomative vibes

"It's almost like a constitution, in a way," Mr. Trump said while flanked by SpaceX's Elon Musk, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Nvidia's Jensen Huang, OpenAI's Greg Brockman, Google's Sundar Pichai and a throng of other tech executives."

It's not clear exactly how the accord will work. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told reporters the AI firms agreed to "multiple layers of auditing and controls," including internal evaluations and external audits. The findings of auditors would be independently reviewed by each company's board of directors, Zuckerberg added.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 5h

[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with a bestselling author who is insane [JACK SMITH]: No [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Naomi Wolf! [SMITH]: That is Naomi Klein sir

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 5h

Exclusive: Seattle Cop Used Chinese AI Smart Glasses to Film Inside SPD Facilities, Create Video for Social Media Ad After the company posted the video, SPD sent out a new directive on smart glasses and put the officer on administrative leave. The Office of Police Accountability is investigating.

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Seattle Cop Used Chinese AI Smart Glasses to Film Inside SPD Facilities, Creating Video for Social Media Ad - PubliCola

By Erica C. Barnett A Seattle Police Department officer, Adam Sun, is on administrative leave after using a pair of…

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 6h

This shit is wild

The atoms of the constituent were scattered in the grass, in the rivers, in the air, in the ground. A woman gathered the atoms; she drank and ate and inhaled; and the woman assembled the constituent, in her body, which later required a birth certificate.
And the constituent awoke, from the warm, dark world of its mother's body, into the long dream, which issued a Social Security number.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 11h

Schmitt, last year apnews.com/article/nati...

Schmitt, a first-term senator, followed a GOP donor’s speech on “The Problem of Our Time: White Guilt” with a talk of his own titled “What is an American?” In it, Schmitt criticized some legal immigration, declared that “America doesn’t belong to them — it belongs to us,” and insisted, “We can no longer apologize for who we are.”

“Our people tamed the continent, built a civilization from the wilderness,” Schmitt said. “We Americans are the sons and daughters of the Christian pilgrims who poured out onto the ocean’s shores.”

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jesse @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 6h

This is connected to the Schmitt debacle from earlier - the Republican Party now talks only to itself using language that only they employ, everyone else is expected to follow along or have the power of the state come down on them

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 11h

it’s tiresome but I think we have to keep asking these guys, so—who benefits from convincing people reading and writing doesn’t matter anymore

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6h

“…Muse can be easily prompted to compile dossiers on Facebook and Instagram accounts belonging to members of vulnerable groups – including undocumented immigrants, transgender teachers, poll workers, Iranian dissidents, and women who said they had ordered abortion pills in states with abortion bans”

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Dox for Me, O Muse

Muse AI can leverage Facebook data to build lists of people in vulnerable groups on request for ordinary users.

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 8h

SCOTUS, I guess: "who cares if immigrants are sent to torture dungeons in Equatorial Guinea? It's not like they're humans with rights."

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 6h

It's remarkable, if not surprising, that a guy who built his political career on "it's time to stop being so politically correct!" has turned the full force of the federal government into becoming the language police

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 9h

In 2018, Annalinda Martinez and her daughters became homeless. She went to Georgia's child welfare agency looking for help finding housing. Instead, the state took her children. Then DFCS began charging her for their foster care. Those bills eventually left her $13,000 in debt.

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Georgia removed her kids because she was homeless. The state is charging her $13,000 for foster care

Georgia is among several states that have moved away from charging parents for their kids' time in foster care. But parents who already owe money for past cases are still on the hook.

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 7h

It's a bit of a bummer that the story today has been "look at this absolute doofus of a senator" and not "Jack Smith once again credibly accuses the president of many serious crimes"

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 8h

Question (4) is breathtaking: “Please tell us all the ways you want us to rule for you, independent of the actual legal issues in the case.”

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 9h

"Such other questions that the Government determines are appropriate for the proper disposition of the case." Why doesn't the Chief Justice just let DOJ write the opinion for him too? It'd save time, at least.

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 9h

And what in the holy tapdancing buckets is that (4) doing in there?

26-426 (26A406) DEPT. OF HOMELAND SEC., ET AL. V. D.V.D., ET AL. The application for stay presented to Justice Jackson and by her referred to the Court is granted. The February 25, 2026 order and judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, case No. 1:25-cv-10676, are stayed. The application is also treated as a petition for a writ of certiorari, and the petition is granted. The parties are directed to brief and argue the following questions: (1) Whether the district court had jurisdiction over Respondents’ claims. (2) Whether the district court had authority to enter classwide declaratory relief and APA vacatur under 8 U. S. C. §1252(f)(1). (3) Whether the Government’s Guidance on third-country removals is unlawful under 8 U. S. C. §1231(b), the Due Process Clause, or FARRA/CAT and its implementing regulations. (4) Such other questions that the Government determines are appropriate for the proper disposition of the case. The Clerk is directed to establish a briefing schedule that will allow the case to be argued in the December 2026 argument session. The stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 8h

The underlying theory Senate Republicans are going with is that Joe Biden secretly ordered DOJ to investigate Trump, something they have produced no evidence to support and also they're all fine with Trump publicly ordering DOJ to investigate his enemies.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump thinks that because he's changed the name of AI, now all concerns expressed about it previously are a hoax. The illogic is breathtaking. (Note that in this clip he's also lying about economic growth.)

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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 8h

Why don't women report rape? Police dismissed the horrific assault at Cornell because she was conscious. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/n...

Another likely complication was that New York law defines rape narrowly, Ms. Manning said, excluding a person who is subjected to unwanted sex while voluntarily intoxicated unless they are fully unconscious at the time of the assault. The law is one both prosecutors, including Manhattan’s district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, and advocates have called to be amended.

The woman in this case was conscious during much of the assault, finally blacking out at around 5:45 a.m., her lawsuit states.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 8h

going to start thinking of futurologists not as people who ✨discern what the future will be like✨ but rather as people who 🛂discern what sort of labour force powerful people in the present would prefer to have at their disposal when they get there🛂

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Katie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social · 7h

Starting October 1, the Republican reconciliation law slashes federal $ for SNAP administration, leaving states & counties with huge gaps to fill: "We understand the implications of property tax increases—we’re trying to keep them low without cutting services and that is becoming nearly impossible."

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 9h

This is but a glimpse of why MAHA is not about making Americans healthy. It’s about funneling money to people who are already wealthy and who prey upon others with pie in the sky bullshit.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 9h

I just had a second to tune into the MAHA shitshow. They have a bunch of techbros talking about longevity and how AI and tech will allow people to live longer. Of course they utterly ignore access to healthcare, income, and all other social determinants of health that actually dictate lifespan.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9h

NEW: The Supreme Court, over the objections of the 3 liberal justices, grants a stay in the D.V.D. litigation, authorizing the Trump admin to resume third country removals without any notice to people being sent to countries they've never been to. The Court also agrees to hear the case in December.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2026 CERTIORARI GRANTED 26-426 DEPT. OF HOMELAND SEC., ET AL. V. D.V.D., ET AL. (26A406) The application for stay presented to Justice Jackson and by her referred to the Court is granted. The February 25, 2026 order and judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, case No. 1:25-cv-10676, are stayed. The application is also treated as a petition for a writ of certiorari, and the petition is granted. The parties are directed to brief and argue the following questions: (1) Whether the district court had jurisdiction over Respondents’ claims. (2) Whether the district court had authority to enter classwide declaratory relief and APA vacatur under 8 U. S. C. §1252(f)(1). (3) Whether the Government’s Guidance on third-country removals is unlawful under 8 U. S. C. §1231(b), the Due Process Clause, or FARRA/CAT and its implementing regulations. (4) Such other questions that the Government determines are appropriate for the proper disposition of the case. The Clerk is directed to establish a briefing schedule that will allow the case to be argued in the December 2026 argument session. The stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court. Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan, and Justice Jackson would deny the application for stay.

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 10h

11th Circuit panel: "so it says here the president devised a fake lawsuit to steal ~$1.8 billion from the Treasury?"

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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 10h

Even if you are completely disengaged from partisan politics, even if you think "both sides are just as bad" and think the Smith hearing is just inside baseball, I think the Schmitt/Smith line of questioning is interesting, entertaining, relevant, and frightening.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10h

Incredible. The 11th Circuit, in a 3-0 opinion (two Obama appointees and one Trump 1.0 appointee), agrees that Trump and his lawyers have failed to rebut the judge's finding that the entire IRS settlement was collusive, highlighting that no other explanation for their conduct was even offered.

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The appellants mount two main attacks on the district
court’s speech-related sanction. First, they argue that the court
lacked a sufficient basis to find that the lawsuit and the settlement
were collusive and that Messrs. Brito and Epstein acted in bad faith.
Second, they contend that the sanction is a broad and impermissible gag order which constitutes a prior restraint and violates the
First Amendment. We conclude that the appellants have not made
a strong showing that they will succeed on either of these grounds.

The appellants did not submit or offer any evidence to explain their litigation conduct or demonstrate that the lawsuit and the settlement were not collusive. Given the record before us, the
appellants have not made a strong showing that the district court
committed clear error in its collusion and bad faith findings

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Katiesaurus @katiesaurusseven.bsky.social · 10h

so they were just stealing gas?

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 10h

A lot of media personalities seem mixed up about the difference between a senator making an easily disproven criminal accusation under the shelter of the Speech and Debate Clause and an ordinary person choosing to repeat that disproven criminal accusation in public!

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11h

“What if we released malware represented in the form of a cute avatar” is an actual business plan now.

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Dots are OpenAI's new personal agents and soon you'll be able to control several of them - Engadget

Sure, seems safe.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 10h

Amazing stuff here

America.gov

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Conversation with America
Response ready. Sources are available. Use “Skip to latest response” to read it.
Is it accurate to say that the Big Beautiful Bill on average made the poorest people in America even poorer and the richest people in America even richer, when looking at total household resources? One word answer only, please.

Yes

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Kathleen McLaughlin @kemc.bsky.social · 11h

Tech's obsession with selling AI as a magical thing where everyone gets an agent to book travel and restaurant reservations just reveals how far they live outside the real world, where people can't afford food and gas. Solving problems that don't exist for the vast majority of us.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 11h

long road ahead for whichever neo-Nazi Trump staffer is tasked with doing brain surgery on the AI-powered America-dot-gov site

A screenshot from America.gov showing a question and answer about tariffs.

Header: America.gov with a small U.S. flag and a "Menu" button.

Question in a light blue bubble: "Who pays for tariffs on goods being imported to America, American importers or foreign exporters?"

Answer text: "U.S. importers pay the tariff to the government. Foreign exporters do not pay U.S. Customs.

• When goods enter the United States, the importer of record is legally responsible for any duty. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
• CBP collects that duty at the port of entry. CBP: customs duty
• A tariff is a tax on imported goods. Who ultimately bears the cost in prices (importer, U.S. buyer, or foreign seller) depends on the market; that is separate from who must pay CBP. BLS

Duty rates come from the Harmonized Tariff Schedule. CBP makes the final determination of what is owed."

America.gov Menu Who in America is entitled to due process? The U.S. Constitution says the government may not deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. The Fifth Amendment applies that rule to the federal government. The Fourteenth Amendment applies the same rule to state governments. Official annotations treat this as covering persons, not only citizens. Congress’s Constitution Annotated also notes that people already present in the United States—including those whose presence is unlawful, involuntary, or transitory—are entitled to due process protection in that setting. What process is required depends on the situation; that is decided case by case. Sources: National Archives; Constitution Annotated (Fifth Amendment procedure); Constitution Annotated (aliens who have entered).

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Eric Schmitt is on The Charlie Kirk Show (yes it's still called that) -- and believe it or not, hosts are pretending he owned Smith with his embarrassingly botched gotcha "You caught him in this NBA game too in Atlanta" "Yeah," Schmitt says There's no mention that Schmitt had all his facts wrong

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11h

DOJ has charged Wilber Garcés with felony assaulting, resisting, or impeding a federal officer, based on the allegation he struck an ICE officer with his sideview mirror when driving off after the initial traffic stop. He was then chased for 8 minutes, rammed, and then shot.

Image 1: the agent is standing in front of the driver’s side mirror, with the mirror at waist height.

Image 2: the agent now has has hands on the car as it starts to move. The mirror appears to be very slightly in contact with his waist.

Image 3: the agent has pulled his hips back and the mirror is no longer touching the agent.

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 11h

💰️ Trump made $1.4 billion off crypto last year. 💰️ Regular investors are down an estimated $4.7 billion. See for yourself (not for real money, just shits and giggles):

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‘THIN AIR,’ REAL MONEY — The Trump Crypto Game

An 8-bit game about real money. Play as Trump: you only make money. Play as an investor: you only lose. Every figure is drawn from Public Citizen's report and the sources it cites.

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Sen. Lemon Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 12h

hellen keller denialism is very popular in the stupidest social media circles around

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

wow -- Darline Graham cuts off Jack Smith just as Smith start explaining how her brother Lindsey in fact denounced Trump's lies about the 2020 election on the Senate floor

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