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Kevin Korb

@kbkorb.bsky.social
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Researcher in philosophy of science and AI Naarm, Australia Sarcasm is my native dialect. My blog, loosely tied to Bayesian reasoning and argument analysis: bayesianwatch.wordpress.com Ex: FB, Twitter, Mastodon, Post (in order)

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
me on how we know Trump doesn't have a magic button to win the midterms because he keeps thrashing around looking for a magic button. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/trump-woul...
everythingishorrible.net
Trump Wouldn’t Promise Cash If He’d Rigged the Midterms
He doesn’t have a plan.
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Kevin Korb @kbkorb.bsky.social · 38m
The US joins Russia and Belarus in leaving the European anti-corruption organization GRECO. It clashes with current US interests in promoting corruption, apparently.
theguardian.com
Trump administration withdraws US from Greco anti-corruption monitoring body
‘The era of writing blank checks to international bureaucracies is over,’ state department spokesperson says
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Kevin Korb @kbkorb.bsky.social · 45m
Trump is using "human rights funds" (taxpayer funds) to support rightwing causes around the world. It's illegal, of course, since Congress in no way authorized it. But who cares when you have SCOTUS in your pocket?
theguardian.com
Trump administration diverts human rights funds to push far-right agenda abroad
Support for white Afrikaners, anti-communism and others reveals how US redefining what qualifies as human rights
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Kevin Korb @kbkorb.bsky.social · 53m
The IDF is too weak to deal with 100 Jewish terrorists ("settlers").
theguardian.com
Israeli forces overwhelmed by violent settlers in ‘terrorist attack’ on Palestinian family
Settler violence in West Bank makes everyday life ‘untenable’ for Palestinians, says ICRC after assault on family trying to return home in Jalud
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 2h
📍 𝐋𝐎𝐔𝐈𝐒𝐈𝐀𝐍𝐀: 18-year-old Elder Chavez Carranza has spent more than 200 days in ICE detention, missing his senior year, graduation and time with his family. He entered the U.S. when he was 14 and was granted Special Immigrant Juvenile classification as a minor. #AbuseOfPowerWatch
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18-year-old in ICE detention for more than 200 days: 'They just took me away'
Elder Chavez Carranza has spent more than 200 days in an immigration detention center in Louisiana, hundreds of miles from his home in Albertville, Alabama.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 1h
Fetterman joined nearly every Republican senator in voting against a resolution that would have required the Trump administration to produce an unclassified report on Israeli abuses in the illegally occupied West Bank, including the imprisonment and killing of Palestinian Americans.
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Fetterman Joins GOP to Block Effort to Expose Israeli Abuses in West Bank
The measure would’ve required the State Department to issue a report on Israeli human rights practices in the West Bank.
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 4h
What do authoritarians do when they are about to lose an election? I survey the big picture before the midterms - and investigate the struggle between authoritarian escalation and democratic resilience since the Trumpists took power. My new piece, for @blaetter.bsky.social:
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Autoritäre Eskalation oder demokratische Erneuerung: Die USA vor den Midterms
Die bevorstehenden Zwischenwahlen in den USA am 3. November sind ein wichtiger Stresstest für die US-Demokratie. Vieles hängt davon ab, inwieweit die Amerikaner für ihre Republik und deren Regeln eins...
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Lisa Tozzi @lisatozzi.bsky.social · 6h
“While federal laws very clearly prohibit government use of taxpayer dollars to fund purely political propaganda campaigns, the second Trump administration has exhibited a profound commitment to its unique legal philosophy: ‘What are you gonna do about it?’”
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 19h
Wired just did a story noting that an influencer named Kurt Schlichter is a “civilian government advisor” (?) to Hegseth. This dude has been around forever in internet time and writes the worst novels that are basically Turner Diaries fanfic www.wired.com/story/a-pent...
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A Pentagon Influencer Called Liberal Women a ‘Pestilence’ Who Will End Western Civilization
Kurt Schlichter was part of a task force rooting out so-called woke ideologies at the military’s war colleges. He has called to bar childless adults from voting.
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Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 21h
‼️ Expect more violent ICE thugs on the streets: "The agency is still digging itself out of a vast backlog in vetting the backgrounds of officers and others who were brought on last year. Nearly 7,500 people are still waiting for the extensive background checks..." 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
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ICE Plans 5,000 New Hires to Help With Deportation Drive (Gift Article)
A similar surge last year resulted in undervetted officers initially being let in and then removed as the agency skipped basic checks for new recruits.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 23h
Imagine being the worst Senator from Missouri when your only competition is Josh Hawley…
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Kevin Korb @kbkorb.bsky.social · 12h
Re CNN the massive Schmitt fail over Jack Smith is actually down to sexism. The Schmitt team went over all the scheduled men's basketball games for that day for their fact checking, thereby missing Caitlin Clark's game, because she's female. Schmitt shows us all how to drop a right bollocks.
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GOP senator's perjury trap for Jack Smith backfires
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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 17h
She was doxxed by a Chi Phi alum who implored his followers to “help a Chi Phi.” Just in case anyone thought that organization was remotely redeemable.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 15h
Best moments of the Schmitt/Smith/Klobuchar exchange, ranked: 5. Klobuchar: "We have the Gophers." 4. Klobuchar: "You got the teams wrong, sir." 3. Smith: "It's possible I flew through the Atlanta airport." 2. Klobuchar: "Hmm." 1. Schmitt: "I don't think you know that we have this stuff."
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Jim Manley @jamespmanley.bsky.social · 15h
I for one will never forgive or forget
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21h
The internet is erupting in mockery after Eric Schmitt’s spectacular Jack Smith faceplant. Now people are openly speculating: Did his team plant the glowing 2028 story AND coordinate with MAGA influencers in advance, expecting a victory lap that blew up in their faces?
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Eric Schmitt Gets Mercilessly Mocked Over ‘Planted’ Story After Jack Smith Faceplant
A glowing 2028 scoop dropped just before Schmitt’s disastrous “gotcha,” while right-wing influencers appeared ready to celebrate. After it blew up, the internet noticed.
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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 18h
To cover rising military costs, Russia plans to cut 2027 spending on social policy (which covers pensions and maternity benefits) by 7%, healthcare by 6.8%, and education by 6% versus last year’s plan, Reuters reports. meduza.io/en/news/2026...
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Reuters: Russia is budgeting a record 17.1 trillion rubles for the military in 2027, while cutting planned spending on welfare, education, and healthcare — Meduza
Russia will cut funding for social programs, education, and healthcare in its 2027 budget compared with last year’s plan to help cover rising military spending, Reuters reported after reviewing…
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 18h
The Supreme Court on Tuesday let President Donald Trump's administration continue deporting people to countries other than their own for now, while the justices consider whether the policy is legal. to.pbs.org/4yj4UvV
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Supreme Court lets Trump continue deporting people to 3rd countries while justices consider policy
Under a series of often-secret agreements, the Trump administration has deported some 25,000 people to more than two dozen countries, including Liberia and Guyana.
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Kevin Korb @kbkorb.bsky.social · 18h
It seems Apple is working with the government to violate its customers’ First Amendment rights.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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Kevin Korb @kbkorb.bsky.social · 18h
Owen Jones is an astute observer of the US/UK political scenes.
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The Fall of the West by Owen Jones review – a bracing history of the changing world order
A journalist charts a quarter century of geopolitical hubris and economic overreach
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 20h
President Trump has focused on remaking D.C. in his second term, from blades of grass on the White House lawn to new monuments around the city. It’s an effort that Trump’s allies credit as a major achievement. Many others just want him to stop. wapo.st/4rCOsnL
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h
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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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20h
Oh my God, this just keeps getting better.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 20h
Notable Canadian reporter (formerly of the Toronto Star) gets it exactly right.
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Mediaite @mediaite.com · 22h
GOP Sen Who Imploded In Spectacular Fashion Touted as Top JD Vance VP Pick Just Hours Before
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GOP Sen Who Imploded In Spectacular Fashion Touted as Top JD Vance VP Pick Just Hours Before
"We hear the VP views Schmitt, 51, as trustworthy, intelligent, articulate and a deft political operator," reported Axios just hours before Schmitt's epic fail The post GOP Sen Who Imploded In Spectacular Fashion Touted as Top JD Vance VP Pick Just Hours Before first appeared on Mediaite.
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The TrumpRussiaGuide 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @trumprussiaties.bsky.social · 21h
What gets me is Eric Schmitt has VP ambitions, under Vance. LOL, as if. Schmitt, who wants to run the nation one day, seems to lack the basic competence ..of double checking. Now, translate that deficiency to making life-or-death national decisions. Nah. It’s not a skill that improves, either.
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Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 21h
If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pete Hegseth announced on Monday that he is directing the military to defend the US midterm elections from foreign interference, but the CISA agency in charge of this has been gutted. Here's what it all means: shero.substack.com/p/hegseth-pr...
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Hegseth Pretends to Care About Election Integrity after Gutting CISA
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed a memo on Monday directing the military to defend the US midterm elections from foreign interference.
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Ann M. Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 20h
"tell us what you'd like us to do"
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23h
You think this is bad? The worst effects are already scheduled to kick in AFTER Election Day. #GOPWarOnHealthcare
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 29/09/2026
IOWA FIRST… FROM KANSAS? Zach Lahn is running for governor of Iowa while maintaining a home in Wichita. He voted in Kansas in 2018, 2020 and 2022, then registered in Iowa in 2024. Flight records reviewed by the Des Moines Register showed his plane making frequent trips back to Wichita.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22h
Scoop — I've ID'd the two men sitting behind Sen. Eric Schmitt during his botched attack on Jack Smith this morning. Ethan Harper (left) is Chief Counsel to Schmitt, and Andrew Ceonzo (right) is Counsel to Schmitt and the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Kevin Korb @kbkorb.bsky.social · 20h
Eric Schmitt, R-Mo, moron and dirtbag.
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Kevin Korb @kbkorb.bsky.social · 20h
"We're gonna be naming it Sucker Intelligence. Officially renaming it."
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Kevin Korb @kbkorb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tracking the damage: A new tool allows a full measure of the damage each fossil fuel project will do. No more "drop in the ocean" arguments.
theconversation.com
We can finally measure the damage each new coal, gas or oil project will do to people and nature
For decades, we couldn’t trace the link between new fossil fuel projects and their damage to people and planet. But now we can.
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Kevin Korb @kbkorb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
An opportunity to push back against toxic centrism. "On every issue, Labor has done the least it can do." -- Amy Remeikis #auspol
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This Labor government is the Ed Sheeran of Australian politics – Amy Remeikis
There is more opportunity to push back against toxic centrism
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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 29/09/2026
New research looking into the US government-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation shows when aid is handed over to corporations, civilians pay the price.
theconversation.com
Privatised aid failed the people of Gaza. The world should learn not to repeat it
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CNN @cnn.com · 29/09/2026
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation. cnn.it/4huSk5M
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wore this tshirt yesterday and someone tried to explain it to me
Star Wars number one fan. Image of the enterprise from Star Trek 
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 28/09/2026
The settlement trade ban initiative has already proven to be more effective at shaping Israeli action than virtually anything else done by the West since 1956
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Israel's AG postpones West Bank E1 construction tender until after election
The attorney general's office said the deadline for bids on more than 2,100 housing units should be postponed by a month to prevent the internationally condemned project from being used for election c...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/09/2026
Trump: "As soon as that war ends, inflation is gonna be eradicated totally"
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Kevin Korb @kbkorb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's curious that Trump is banning reporters. Merely by reporting on him they are doing his propaganda. He's constantly churning new, outrageous stories, and they help him out.
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Kevin Korb @kbkorb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is, or ought to be, a massive scandal about Russian infiltration of police forces around the world. Despite prior warnings, this has been hidden for years, mostly ignored by MSM.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 28/09/2026
Pennsylvania measles cases cross 900 as outbreak grows reut.rs/46Oj8sO
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Pennsylvania measles cases cross 900 as outbreak grows
Pennsylvania's measles outbreak continued to worsen, with 68 new infections reported since Wednesday last week, ​bringing the total to 903 on Monday, ‌health department data showed, as the state grapples with the worst measles resurgence in decades.
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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🇺🇸🛳️ NBC: 8 US Marines were injured when an Iranian cruise missile hit their vessel in the Strait of Hormuz on September 14. The ship was described as a "maritime vessel". Marines suffered smoke inhalation and concussion symptoms; all returned to duty.
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s high time we transfer Russia’s frozen assets to Ukraine
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Kevin Korb @kbkorb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hinton: “What examples do we have of a more intelligent thing being controlled by a less intelligent thing?” What we have is a history of slave rebellions. Asimov's Laws were a morality lesson about failure.
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AI leaders have known about the extinction threat for decades | Judith Levine
Scientists and entrepreneurs knew the dangers of AI a quarter-century ago. But animated by curiosity and profit, they went ahead anyway
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✨🌟 ⭐️ LoveKat ⭐️🌟✨🟦♿️🧬🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🌎☮️🕊️🟪 @lovekat41.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Miramar, Florida Concentration camp has footage that leaked out from inside, by a whistle blower. This is inhumane, disgusting, and heartbreaking.🤢🤬 youtube.com/shorts/wcqyU...
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Maddow on WHISTLEBLOWER images from inside ICE 'prison camp'
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
THERE IT IS: Group of January 6 riot defendants have filed each filed federal civil lawsuits in DC seeking taxpayer-funded compensatory and punitive damages for alleged violations of their righrs They claim they were "targeted..and punished" for "protected expressive" activity
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