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Dean Preston @deanpreston.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The guy promising to clean up City Hall is getting millions from the worst billionaires in the planet to run his anti-democracy package. “Mayor Lurie's three charter measures have raised a mind-boggling $11 million so far” Only thing missing is a Trump cameo promising to help Lurie drain the swamp
missionlocal.org
Mayor Lurie’s charter measures raise stunning $11M, more than all others combined
Fundraising for the ballot measures is staggering: Over $19 million is going toward the 10 measures on the ballot.
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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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Shambling Corpse of Randy Herman @randyhermanlaw.com · 25/09/2026
Somehow I feel that if Judge Rao (just for example) was grabbed by government agents, shackled, tossed on a plane, and released into a notorious torture prison in a country where she had never been, she would feel that there is something the courts can do about it
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Shambling Corpse of Randy Herman @randyhermanlaw.com · 25/09/2026
Now 2/3 circuit court judges seem poised to rule that is correct under US law. Truly shocking.
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Shambling Corpse of Randy Herman @randyhermanlaw.com · 25/09/2026
This action can be based entirely on the government's unreviewable determination that you are a member of a foreign gang. Even if it turns out they were entirely wrong, you have no right to contest the determination and no remedy whatsoever.
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Shambling Corpse of Randy Herman @randyhermanlaw.com · 25/09/2026
I know it was said several times, but it's worth stepping back and really considering what the government is arguing for here. They say they can take any person, arrest them on the street and fly them to a foreign torture prison with no notice.
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Shambling Corpse of Randy Herman @randyhermanlaw.com · 25/09/2026
Randolph: these people were deprived of due process that they were entitled to. Judge Boasberg was trying to vindicate those rights. Does your entire case depend on lack of jurisdiction?
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Shambling Corpse of Randy Herman @randyhermanlaw.com · 25/09/2026
Randolph: is your argument that the people involved here have no rights that can be vindicated? Davis: (stammers) Randolph: because that's wrong
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Shambling Corpse of Randy Herman @randyhermanlaw.com · 25/09/2026
More background on the case here:
aclu.org
J.G.G. v. TRUMP | American Civil Liberties Union
Emergency lawsuit filed in federal court to halt removals under the Alien Enemies Act.
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Shambling Corpse of Randy Herman @randyhermanlaw.com · 25/09/2026
Good morning all, at 9:30 ET I will be live-posting the DC Circuit oral arguments in JGG v. Trump. The question is whether Venezuelans sent to CECOT under the Alien Enemies Act are entitled to a hearing.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 24/09/2026
arstechnica.com
New York asks court to shut down Polymarket's "illegal gambling operation"
New York sues Polymarket as Trump admin tries to override state gambling laws.
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Rosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
US: In the latest sign that artificial intelligence is fueling higher health care costs, a group of insurers released a report Thursday claiming that hospitals’ use of A.I. was responsible for nearly $1 billion in additional expenses over two years. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/b...
nytimes.com
Battle of Hospital A.I. vs. Insurer A.I. Is Pushing Medical Costs Higher
The use of artificial intelligence by hospitals and health insurers is escalating their longstanding feud over paying for medical care.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/09/2026
AI has not made us better, more productive, more successful or grown the economy outside of GPU sales and data center construction. It has also made the price of every single device of every kind more expensive, depressed the housing market, and increased literally everybody’s cost of debt.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/09/2026
Big tech has, through the sheer force of its greed and desperation for the debt fueling the AI buildout, meaningfully inflated the price of US government debt at a time when multiple crises have ballooned it to $40 trillion, with net interest payments the second largest part of its budget.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/09/2026
Remember that Anthropic’s big plan is to go public and then raise money using debt. Doesn’t matter if this dog of a company floats, it’s going to be getting debt at distressed rates from day 1. There is also no way the debt markets give it $50 billion a year.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/09/2026
To be clear, based on current treasury rates, a neocloud like CoreWeave could soon be borrowing at 11% to 14%. Further expansion is essential to the AI industry’s growth story, and also becoming economically impossible at a pace accelerated by its desperation for debt.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 24/09/2026
Contact info for the Equality Caucus chair, Mark Takano. Melt the phone lines. DC (202) 225-2305 Local office (951) 222-0203
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's difficult to convey to people who haven't been paying attention that every single thing they are reading about the immigrant concentration camps has been happening in U.S. jails and prisons since their origin. People were being waterboarded at Auburn prison in the 1850s.
usprisonculture.com
Prison Culture » Torture & Corporal Punishment in Early 20th Century American Penitentiaries…
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 09/09/2026
“These facilities are spreading across the country like a cancer…AI data centers are very, very good at greenwashing.”
motherjones.com
Data centers now facing backlash over contaminated wastewater
Locals are raising alarms over rare bacteria, forever chemicals, and other environmental concerns.
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Rep. James Walkinshaw @repwalkinshaw.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Elon Musk’s DOGE project promised billions in savings while firing federal workers & cutting contracts. GAO has learned DHS vastly overstated its projected savings. Less than 1% has materialized. @benniethompson.bsky.social & I are demanding Elon Musk testify under oath before Congress.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
NEW: Justice Kavanaugh, on his own as circuit justice, denied the Missouri secretary of state’s application seeking to allow the state to use maps adopted by Republicans aimed at benefiting state Republicans in this election. The RNC had also backed the SoS’s request.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A huge, unexpected twist in Missouri as a federal judge intervenes to overrule the Missouri Supreme Court despite Kavanaugh's decision to not take up the matter. Suddenly a lot of uncertainty, again.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
For now, the district court injunction, as the SCOTUS stay denial was an appeal from the state court case and this is a totally different case in federal court. Where is this all going to go? 🤷‍♂️
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Welp.
SCOTUS Wire ®
@scotus_wire
X.com
A federal judge has restored Missouri's 2025 congressional map for the November election, just minutes after Justice Kavanaugh separately denied the state's bid to revive it.

Underneath is a screenshot of the first page of the opinion. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI
EASTERN DIVISION
CONGRESSMAN ROBERT "BOB"
ONDER et al.,
Plaintiffs,

V

STATE OF MISSOURI and DENNY HOSKINS,
Defendants.

Memorandum and Order
On August 4, 2026, Missouri concluded its primary elections using the congressional districts laid out in House Bill 1 ("HB 1). Missouri voters and candidates for federal office in Missouri request that the Court issue a temporary restraining order enjoining the use of any congressional district map other than HB 1, see generally doc. 2. All parties, including Intervenors People Not Politicians and Richard von Glahn, had notice and submitted briefing.
Docs. 2, 12, 19-20, 29-30. Having considered the Verified Complaint, the affidavit attached to it, the parties' and intervenors' briefs, and applicable law, the Court grants Plaintiffs motion for a temporary restraining order.
I. Facts and Background
The Court treats the following uncontroverted facts, drawn from Plaintiffs verified complaint, docs. 1, 4, as true for the sake of resolving this motion for a TRO. See Fed. R. Civ. P.
65(b)(1)(A). Only a very narrow set of facts bear on the resolution of Plaintiffs' request for a TRO. On September 12, 2025, the Missouri General Assembly passed HB 1, replacing the prior congressional district map enacted in 2022. Doc. 1 11 15-16; doc. 12-4 at 11 (The Court cites to
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Femi and the Foundation @femiandfoundation.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
too many to name but special shoutouts to @songbyrddc.bsky.social and The Pocket / 7DrumCity
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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 03/09/2026
some fun news: i'm going to be writing a weekly column on everyone's favorite topic: DATA CENTERS i'll be taking over the @wired.com sunday newsletter from now until the midterms to yap about all things DCs it's going to be tons of fun (in MY opinion)!
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Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Yes, kids. This is how it was.
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Jeff Gerstmann @jeffgerstmann.com · 29/08/2026
Frankie Pulitzer done did it again
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ACLU @aclu.org · 28/08/2026
BREAKING: A federal court granted our emergency request to block USPS from implementing President Trump's order to restrict mail-in voting for the November election.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Wow, Judge Lin’s ruling against the Trump admin in the Anthropic case is blistering. Here’s the final judgment: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
ANTHROPIC PBC,
Plaintiff,
Case No. 26-cv-01996-RFL
ORDER OF FINAL RELIEF
V.
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF WAR, et al.,
Defendants.
For the reasons set forth in the accompanying Opinion (Dkt. No. 250), it is hereby ORDERED that Anthropic's motion for summary judgment is GRANTED IN PART and DENIED IN PART and Defendants' motion for summary judgment is GRANTED IN PART and DENIED IN PART as follows:
2.
As to the First Amendment claim (Count II), Anthropic's motion is GRANTED and Defendants' motion is DENIED with respect to all Defendants except the NonParticipating Defendants.'
As to the Due Process Clause claim (Count IV), Anthropic's motion is GRANTED and Defendants' motion is DENIED with respect to all Defendants except the Non-
Participating Defendants.
As to the APA challenge to the Hegseth Directive and the Supply Chain
Designation (Count I), Anthropic's motion is GRANTED and Defendants' motion is DENIED with respect Secretary Hegseth and DoW.4. As to the APA challenge pursuant to Section 558 (Count V), Anthropic's motion is
GRANTED and Defendants' motion is DENIED with respect to DoW, Treasury, FHFA, State, GSA, OPM, NRC, DHS, and Energy, and their respective agency heads. Anthropic's motion is DENIED and Defendants' motion is GRANTED with respect to HHS, Commerce, VA, SEC, NASA, and their respective agency heads, and the Non-Participating Defendants.
As to the ultra vires challenge (Count III), Defendants' motion is GRANTED and Anthropic's motion is DENIED with respect to all Defendants.
As to all claims, Defendants' motion is GRANTED and Anthropic's motion is
DENIED with respect to the Non-Participating Defendants.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
NEW EPISODE: In a major win for free and fair elections, a federal judge blocked the U.S. Postal Service from enforcing key parts of Donald Trump’s anti-mail voting order. In this episode, I break down this critical ruling and how it will impact the midterm elections. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V7T...
youtube.com
BREAKING: A Federal Judge Just Blocked Trump’s Anti-Mail Voting Order
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I am straight down a Minnesota State Fair crop art rabbit hole
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Jennifer Nelson’s entry to this year’s Minnesota State Fair crop art
A localized version of Guernica with a loon at the center and a person holding an ICE OUT sign 

“My piece was inspired by Picasso's Guernica, a work that was his response to the Nazi's bombing of the Basque town. I thought there was a fitting parallel between these incidents about the high price paid by ordinary people when aggressive regimes try out new tactics of war, as well as a fitting juxtaposition of the darkness of living such an experience and the light we shone through it in our own resistance and care for one another. The patterns near Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s mouths are actually their last words in Morse code: ‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’” 

Jennifer Nelson
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
The buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala) has mastered a very particular kind of camouflage. When they close their wings up, they resemble a broken twig. Native to large parts of Europe, there's regional pattern variation that reflects the local tree species. This one best resembles birch twigs?
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 25/08/2026
Loved this one too
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Today I've learned that Dolly Parton gave Black high schools band uniforms and wrote Eminem a nice letter when he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Marshall (Eminem), Congratulations on your induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Your performance was amazing and everybody said so. Even though I don't know a lot about rap music, I've come to know that you are the very best at it. Aside from that I hope what I have to say will not seem weird or strange to you but I have always felt some unexplained connection to you like I know you somehow. I had hoped to
meet you at the show but you know how nuts those things are, personally I hate 'em and I missed my chance but maybe someday we'll meet. In the meantime, keep doing what you're doing because you do it so well and no matter how complex your world may be just know you are very special and touch people in
ways you don't even know.
With love & respect,
Dolly Parton
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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton was an uncredited producer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. When she learned the only female producer was making less than her male counterparts, Dolly cut her a check for the difference, on the spot.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton has died at 80
people.com
Dolly Parton, Country Music Legend, Dies at 80, Just 4 Days After Saying, ‘I Still Have so Many Things I Want to Achieve’
Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80. The country music legend was known for songs including “Jolene,” “I Will Always Love You” and “9 to 5.” She also starred in movies like ‘Steel Magnolias’ and ‘T...
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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com
imaginationlibrary.com
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 12/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: Election conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell lost Minnesota’s GOP primary for governor. Lindell helped mainstream false claims that voting machines stole the 2020 election and built a media platform around election lies.
democracydocket.com
Election conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell loses Minnesota GOP governor primary
Now that he’s out of the running to be Minnesota’s next governor, Lindell is free to return to his pillow empire and to using his tremendous media platform to spread lies about U.S. elections.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Looking for a recap of what's happened so far, before the final (big) results that are still to come? Head over to our guide, now updated with many results. boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 04/08/2026
Analysts estimate that 70%+ of Microsoft, Google and Amazon's present and future AI revenues are from Anthropic and OpenAI's compute spend and model sales. Outside of two unsustainable AI labs, demand barely exists, and they've massively overbuilt capacity. www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-deman...
wheresyoured.at
The AI Demand Bubble
If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 5,000 to 18,000 words, in...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: Missouri voters have rejected a ballot measure to limit their own ability to pass amendments to the state constitution — a proposal that fueled extraordinarily high voter turnout in Tuesday’s election. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
Missouri voters reject ballot measure limiting their power to amend state constitution
Notably, the proposed amendment would not have affected constitutional amendments that the legislature put on the ballot. State lawmakers only wanted to make it harder to pass a voter-led measure, not...
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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 05/08/2026
@wewill2026.bsky.social has won his primary election for Congress in Michigan. He is the only candidate in his race fighting AI billionaires who are bulldozing our communities, standing up to big money and fighting for people who actually live in Michigan.
Working Families Party victory! William Lawrence advances. U.S. House, Michigan's 7th district
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Decision Desk HQ @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Decision Desk HQ projects Fred Wellman wins the MO US House 2 Democratic Primary #DecisionMade: 11:21 PM EDT
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ACLU @aclu.org · 30/07/2026
Camp East Montana is known as a "graveyard for living people" where at least three people have died. Our recent litigation shows its horrors — medical neglect, beatings, minimal sunlight, filthy conditions, inedible food, and more. If ICE won't do anything about it, we'll keep seeing them in court.
apnews.com
ICE extends no-bid contract for major detention center in Texas, rejecting calls for closure
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to keep one of its largest detention facilities open for at least another year.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Here is a full list of every state that DOJ had sued and lost for access to their voter file: Arizona California Connecticut Kentucky Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 30/07/2026
Toby Doeden, an ultraconservative businessman who ran for South Dakota governor on a promise to eliminate all property taxes, lost in yesterday’s primary runoff to Acting Governor Larry Rhoden. It was the state's first-ever primary runoff election.
southdakotasearchlight.com
South Dakota governor wins Republican nomination to seek his own term after succeeding Noem • South Dakota Searchlight
Results in South Dakota's July 28, 2026, runoff for the Republican Party nomination for governor between Gov. Larry Rhoden and Toby Doeden.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 29/07/2026
infuriating
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