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MeterMaid

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 7h
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Clay Bennett @claybennett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
9/26/2026- SCOTUS www.timesfreepress.com/news/2026/se...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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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.
engadget.com
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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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 10h
like even if he got the facts right it was all just bull shit and they were all obviously ready to try and manufacture a news cycle stealing nontroversy using this catnip for chuds with an assist from mainstream media. its just all become so freaking tiring, we have actual issues in this country
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 10h
as far as i can tell, the conspiracy theory is that he went to a basketball game so he was having secret meetings with fani willis? it’s all so stupid, we don’t have time for this bull shit jfc
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 10h
theyre just all so fucking stupid and lazy
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
🤡 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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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h
> @variety.com variety.com/2026/digital...
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 13h
If this goes ahead it is Trump overtly taking Russia's side in the war against Ukraine and Europe, aligning the United States with China, Iran, and North Korea. Like the Putin G20 visit, it cannot be allowed to happen. We must fight.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 10h
Amazing stuff here
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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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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 12h
Today in me being insufferable: A number of the zines and band posters inside that record shop, uh, belonged to me. The HF production design team borrowed* them from myself and other Chicago music scene/record store folks. The More You Know etc [*no I didn't get paid lol, I did it For the Culture]
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.
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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 29/09/2026
In 2027 Seattle's minimum wage will be $22.14 per hour. That's more than THREE TIMES the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour—a rate that hasn't been raised since 2009. And yet somehow we're not the jobless wasteland orthodox economics would predict. Weird.
seattletimes.com
Seattle announces 2027 minimum wage
The minimum wage in Seattle will increase 3.9% next year.
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 28/09/2026
This morning — following two investigations into Toronto mayoral candidate Brad Bradford's use of an app that rewards supporters for posting AI-generated comments and sharing contacts — Bradford called our reporting "inaccurate." We're now releasing the recording that proves our reporting.
nationalobserver.com
Bradford calls CNO reporting of AI app rewards ‘inaccurate.’ Here’s the recording proving our reporting.
Canada’s National Observer has decided to publish the segment of the Zoom call that corroborates its reporting.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 28/09/2026
This is a photo of our home planet taken only a few hours ago! So what? We have photos of Earth taken from space every day. Ah, but *this* photo was taken by a spacecraft ON ITS WAY TO JUPITER.
From the source: "Mostly black space, most of Earth visible at the top right of the image. Part of a spacecraft visible on the left."
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Zoli Aswad Osaze @zaswadosaze.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
qasimrashid Qasim Rashid Writer Human Rights Lawyer • Author • Dad Jokes • Sirius Host • Creator of Let’s Address This
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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We must further reduce Moscow’s capacity to fund its war, including through its shadow fleet. EU naval Operation IRINI has boarded six suspected vessels in recent months, making it the lead actor in boarding operations. National boarding operations should continue in parallel.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New, from me: Once memory-holed, DOGE is now the subject of revisionism. To better understand why DOGE failed, I talked to people in the civic tech movement that DOGE displaced, who continue to offer the alternative model for how to modernize govt. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-vs-ci...
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DOGE vs. Civic Tech
As DOGE revisionism picks up, a contrast with the civic tech movement it displaced illuminates its failure
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
narrator: she did not get on with her day, she wrote the same column about it for the rest of her life
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lotta talk right now about the President using public money to push political propaganda. It didn't start with these TV ads. Let me remind you of the political nonsense he forced the Census Bureau to publish: newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/how-to-fak...
newsletter.platypuseconomics.com
Who Put the Census Bureau in the Propaganda Business?
A once-trusted agency has dressed up partisan election claims as official statistics—and hidden the evidence needed to test them.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know, if you *really* cared about the wellbeing of women in college, instead of carping about the statistically insignificant number of trans athletes in sports minding their own business, you’d be railing against these Cornell fraternity cretins who drugged and gang-raped a passed-out women:
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ukrainians are trapped and starving in Russian-occupied Oleshky. Russia is blocking aid and evacuation while keeping civilians there as human shields. Ukraine is conducting a daring aid operation, flying food and medicine across the Dnipro by drone.
yacnews.com
Oleshky's last surviving residents eat weeds as Russia starves them, targets humanitarian supplies
No food convoy has reached the occupied city since 26 May. Ukrainian drone crews dropped four tonnes of food over one night, bodies are kept in the hospital basement and Russia is stalling the evacuat...
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This description of Pierce's Bend, OR newspaper appeared in "The People's Voice" of Helena, Mt in 1940. The motto of Pierce's paper was "Every Pure Aryan American at His Post to Save the Country from the Enemy Within Our Gates."
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motto is printed: "Every Pure Aryan American at His Post to Save the Country from the Enemy Within Our Gates."
The paper attacks American democ-racy, CIO and other labor unions, and complains that it has been called pro-nazi for denying nazi atrocities in Poland whereas in its praise of Hitler it merely tries "to follow the Golden
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"And then, there is Germany under the rulership of Adolf Hitler, discredited by propaganda, but verified by disinterested parties who return home from visiting the country-each tells how Germany is getting along without money and usury."
The native fascist paper advertises that its office also sells books by such American blackshirts and friends of nazis as Elizabeth Dilling and Newton Jenkins. In New York and other eastern points it is being distributed by such pro-nazis as the self-styled "Lieu-tenant-General Count V. Cherep-Spir-idovich." Syd D. Pierce laments the persecution from which he and his wife allegedly suffer in the town of Bend for their views and activities.
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"While Mrs. Pierce has been partially paralyzed for some years, it is the belief that the perscution we have undergone since we came to this city has aggrevated (sic) her health until it is well nigh unbearable."
Nevertheless, not everyone in the northwest seems to be the foe of the super-Aryan and pro-nazi Pie…
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
absolutely demented. like a scene from a horror movie
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A Walla Walla, WA newspaper editor in 1951 advocated rooting out the Marxists and Communists, claiming that the Democratic president had been too attentive to the rights of minorities and insufficiently respectful of the rights of White Christians. That editor was Syd Pierce, an antisemitic fascist.
given our country over into the hands of MINORITIES, without regard to the rights of the majority White Christian Constitutional Americans. Mr. Truman has con-doned, rather than condemned, racketeering and corruption in high places. He has NEVER made any real attempt to ROOT OUT
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 26/09/2026
These 7 men at Cornell drugged & raped a woman for hours, then called their friends to come rape her. 2 men got expelled. 5 had to write letter of apology. 0 faced any consequences. Men throughout the societal ladder are complicit. Women are not safe around men.
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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The Lever @levernews.com · 25/09/2026
This federal AI safety rule would have forced the world’s most powerful AI companies to tell the government what they were building — and when it started behaving dangerously. Read the scoop in The Lever: www.levernews.com/ai-regulatio...
levernews.com
AI Regulation Was Coming. Then Trump Killed It.
After a flood of tech industry cash, President Donald Trump killed a requirement that AI giants disclose their riskiest experiments to national security officials. Now lawmakers are scrambling to…
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The Lever @levernews.com · 25/09/2026
After Big Tech fought a federal AI safety rule - and funneled millions into Trump's political operations - Trump killed the rule. Now, after a string of alarming AI incidents, some of those same companies who fought against the rule are calling for regulation.
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 25/09/2026
🚨EXCLUSIVE: AI safety rules were about to be enacted - then $25 million from OpenAI's president was deposited in Trump's super PAC and the rule disappeared. @levernews.com unearths documents exposing how AI oligarchs got Trump to kill rules they now claim to support. A must-read - pass it on👇
levernews.com
AI Regulation Was Coming. Then Trump Killed It.
After a flood of tech industry cash, President Donald Trump killed a requirement that AI giants disclose their riskiest experiments to national security officials. Now lawmakers are scrambling to catc...
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Sheriffs & DAs have huge powers over criminal justice, e.g.: often deciding how much local assistance ICE gets. So I worked all year on whittling down the thousands (!) of these races happening in 2026 to find the ones that matter most. NEW TODAY: Learn about the 25 most pivotal November races.
boltsmag.org
The 25 Sheriff and Prosecutor Races Set to Shape Criminal Justice and ICE Collaboration - Bolts
Voters face stark choices for offices with vast powers on policing and punishment. Bolts walks you through key contests to watch across a dozen states.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"The president barred US reporters, while welcoming Chinese reporters who answer to the communist dictatorship in Beijing. This would be the same president who's running government-paid TV advertising vowing to stop the United States from becoming communist..." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
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In Trump’s White House, China’s Dictator Is Welcome. American Media, Less So.
The showdown over President Trump’s partial media ban played out as he welcomed President Xi Jinping, whose government is ranked among the most repressive in the world.
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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Interviewing the inventor of napalm about his hats
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trump was welcoming the Chinese press into the Oval Office—the “friendliest press corp,” Trump said about reporters whose press freedoms rank 178th in the world, just above North Korea—while continuing to deny American news outlets access all morning. www.americaamerica.news/p/this-cant-...
americaamerica.news
This Can’t Go On for Two More Years
Swooning over China’s repressive communist dictator and belligerently acting out at the United Nations. Yes, it’s a psychiatric emergency.
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Traded them for F-35 parts.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The US Senate finds that the fossil fuel industry received $190 billion in tax breaks and subsidies from the Trump regime in exchange for campaign donations. The deregulation and subsidies have increased both energy costs for Americans and the damage from climate change and air and water pollution.
theguardian.com
Fossil-fuel firms in line for billions in benefits after answering Trump’s donation call
Senators’ report says taxpayers face higher bills after ‘bargain’ between president and major polluters
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Anonymous @opdeatheaters.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Meta glasses are being used for covert harassment and group stalking. Women and girls are being secretly filmed in streets, schools, restaurants and on dates, then uploaded for millions of strangers. Police inquiries now span worldwide. #OpDeathEaters
yacnews.com
Meta glasses used to film women and girls without consent from Seoul to Barcelona as police cases mount worldwide
Police and prosecutors across France, Spain, South Korea, Japan and the U.S. have opened cases against men accused of secretly filming women and girls with Meta glasses. The only warning victims have ...
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Once again, and despite court orders & the federal law, Todd Blanche is trying to delay production in the Epstein Files; specifically, he doesn’t want to have to review & produce the foreign-language documents. My latest filing exposes Blanche for his legal hackery. youtu.be/72FTfVLdUS8?...
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AG Blanche SCRAMBLES To DELAY Court ORDERS In MY Epstein Lawsuit!!
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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Naida46 @naida46.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
💙💛 Sybiha: Residents Of Oleshky Are Being Starved By Russia The world must not become accustomed to Russia’s war against Ukraine, as getting used to horrific headlines does not make them any less tragic uatv.ua/en/sybiha-re...
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Sybiha: Residents Of Oleshky Are Being Starved By Russia - Freedom
The world must not become accustomed to Russia’s war against Ukraine, as ...
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
federal immigration agents beat up a US citizen in Evanston on Sunday morning and left him lying in the street or as Kavanaugh would put it, he experienced as "brief investigative stop" ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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Brett Kavanaugh’s Imaginary Immigration Stops Opinion Gets More Embarrassing Every Day
The fact that ICE officers do not allow wrongfully detained people to “promptly go free” is a surprise to only one man in America.
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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I've launched a GoFundMe to help me get my cats to a safer home in Scotland, and you can pay-what-you-want using the GFM system and get 15 of my books as eBooks as a Thank You every Friday as an update! www.gofundme.com/f/help-autho... That's almost 700,000 words of fiction, pay what you want!
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Donate to Help Author Tobias Buckell and His Cats Move to Scotland, organized by Tobias Buckell
Hi, I'm author Tobias S. Buckell, and these are my two cats, P… Tobias Buckell needs your support for Help Author Tobias Buckell and His Cats Move to Scotland
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
David Whamond, Toronto Star
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Vance: He’s not banning media outlets

Trump: I am banning media outlets
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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 22/09/2026
The Irish Presidency of the EU has proposed member states to allow AI companies unfettered access to the data of EU citizens. According to leaked docs, the proposal would effectively exempt AI companies from any of the GDPR rules and deny EU citizens data protection rights noyb.eu/en/ai-eu-mem...
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AI: EU Member States plan “digital expropriation” of Europeans in the interest of AI companies
In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of AI companies to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental rights of Europeans.
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