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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 1h

There's another reason that the Bass campaign definitely wants to discredit this "outlier" poll. Crosstabs are out and "fixing streets, sidewalks, streetlights and other city infrastructure" is listed first across the board as the top priority for LA voters. Even above homelessness and crime!

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 1h

It was not a cry for help.

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 2h

I thought this was going to be a mediocre shot of a whale surfacing until I saw the caption – so even more disappointing.

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Wonkette @wonkettemedia.bsky.social · 5h

ICE Totally Telling The Truth This Time About Another Guy They Shot In The Back, You Guys www.wonkette.com/p/ice-totall... By Brooke Binkowski @brooklynmarie.bsky.social

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ICE Totally Telling The Truth This Time About Another Guy They Shot In The Back, You Guys

Loathsome bully cowards.

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DaemonSky @dsky.bsky.social · 13h

This is such an important piece of info people just do know. Base Medicare is incredible. Medicare Advantage is a scam to shift costs out of the program *we all pay for*. Do not let your loved ones choose MA!

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 2h

Increasingly convinced that the real goal of this AI/Tech/Longtermism Cult is to trap the C'tan Shard of the Void Dragon on Mars so that they can worship the Omnissiah in this, our bad Warhammer 40K fanfiction-ass present.

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 2h

Maybe more personality-disordered? He's so narcissistic that he wants to be recognized as a god who has created new life. Maybe some of the actual value of AI is a lot of us asking, 'What makes us human?' "What is a good, flourishing life?” www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

This is not A.I. populism, as Sun describes it, so much as anti-A.I. humanism; its champions worry about what would be left if human pursuits became pointless. I was struck by how many A.I. skeptics converged on the same formulation: what is this activity for? When I called Lila Byock, a mother of two and the founder of Schools Beyond Screens, a coalition fighting the influence of big tech in schools, she said, “I think that we just need to ask ourselves, like, what is school for? What is education for? One of the really basic problems with using A.I. in education is that it is designed to make tasks easier and to reduce friction, and friction is how learning happens.”

Jenny Trinitapoli, a sociologist at the University of Chicago and one of the architects of a policy restricting A.I. and devices in the Social Sciences Core classes there, echoed Byock almost exactly. She explained that she and her colleagues regarded the A.I. rules as an opportunity to “make a positive statement about, What are we doing in these small seminar courses? What are they for? And they’re not just for graduation, right? They’re for the habits of mind that our students are going to have for the rest of their lives.” Or, as Barnes, the Catholic commentator, put it: “What, really, do I want? What really makes me happy? What is a good, flourishing life?”

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Erik Schlenker-Goodrich @riogranderift.bsky.social · 2h

Listen, @adamjentleson.bsky.social, you willfully ignorant fool. The idea that a bill that radically transforms the entire domain of energy & environmental protection should not be assessed on a single reductionist metric that hides massive fossil fuel entrenchment should not be in dispute.

Jentleson: "It’s instructive to see groups ostensibly dedicated to fighting climate change say they don’t think a bill should be judged by whether it reduces carbon emissions" quote posting an excerpt of from a leaked transcript of a call as follows: "Yeah. So we we made. We made the point that this bill should not be judged just
based on a net emissions analysis, and that that sweeps aside ecological and
community values. So there was an ask about what that. look like? So that would be a
good thing for folks to ponder as they're engaging in offices. Like, we'd like to
see… and what we… and then, so as an example, we said we'd love an assessment to…
we'd love an assessment to see what this means for public lands. You know, how many
data centers would this open the doors to? How much additional fossil fuel
development would this open the door to? How would this impact habitat quality on
public land? So focusing on that public land side of the equation and the
infrastructure that would be built on public lands. But that's that's just one
domain, you know. You could see it also with imperiled species or environmental
justice. I don't know what those analyses look like at that level. But I think
that's something that we could push."

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 5h

The mom of the kid who died by suicide and donated his heart was offering to help pay for this transplant recipient's meds! Our society is sick.

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 4h

Meanwhile, deep in the bowels of the liberal propaganda machine (a state university), academic departments get yearly budget cuts and staffing reductions but somehow there's always extra money for edtech scammers and real estate acquisition.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 4h

The most useful thing that a Democratic majority can do to the American people is explain how the Appropriation Pipes work because then we would understand how the last two years deserves an impeachment trial to remove the President.

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This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 13h

260 years ago, on the 2nd of October 1766, ‘Cheese Riots’ broke out at the Nottingham Goose Fair after Lincolnshire merchants had bought large quantities of cheese with the intent to sell it back home. The residents of Nottinghamshire did not want food to leave their county. #otd #history 🗃️

A satirical cartoon depicting a fat 'forestaller' being dragged along by a rope round his neck by a chain of countrymen, to the cheers of a crowd. On of them shouts: “How much now you rogue in grain?” Illustration by Isaac Cruikshank

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Marc Reeve @cmraman.geek.org · 12h

62 years ago, the Free Speech Movement began at UC Berkeley, as students surrounded a campus police car containing CORE representative Jack Weinberg who had been arrested for breaking campus rules against political advocacy. On the same day, the first Shinkansen trains went into service in Japan.

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Andy Zahn @andyzahn.bsky.social · 13h

So why are you supporting Bill 2554, which would give away over 100,000 acres of our public lands, and result in the clearcutting of ancient rainforest? Why are you also supporting legislation in Colorado which would devastate public lands with clearcut logging?

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 18h

The Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs has joined a growing chorus of First Nations voices in denouncing the 'Pacific Link' pipeline-Grand Chief Stewart Phillip is promising a legal fight and possible 'boots on the ground.'

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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 13h

Please people go tell PM Mark Carney what you think of him designating a new pipeline a project of national interest and paying for it (90%) with taxpayer dollars:

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Season of Scaryanne Denton 🧡🎃 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy New Year, ya water nerds! From my watershed to yours, may we preserve & protect in-stream flows. My flow this morning? Whites Creek → Steamboat Creek → Truckee River → Pyramid Lake

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Erik Schlenker-Goodrich @riogranderift.bsky.social · 21h

Lifting up this specific post & the thread below it b/c it relates to how the permitting deal dramatically weakens Endangered Species Act protections for imperiled wildlife, from grizzly bears and wolverine vulnerable to climate change, to wolves which help restore ecological structure & function.

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David Pomerantz @davidpomerantz.bsky.social · 13h

He signed this!

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Kirk Murphy @kirkmurphy.bsky.social · 13h

Orbital mechanics have entered the equation.

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Jim Goldgeier @jimgoldgeier.bsky.social · 18h

The best way to get a handle on the raft of illegal activities coming from this White House is to convince officials they will be held accountable when the administration is no longer in power. 2029 isn’t that far away for folks breaking the law now.

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Jill Wine-Banks @jillwine-banks.bsky.social · 16h

Yesterday Jack Smith was the target. Today the #wsj reports it’s me and my #Watergate colleagues from 50 years ago. Hope I behave as admirably as Smith if I’m subpoenaed.

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Brendan Pierpont @brendan.bsky.social · 14h

This also says just as much about hyperscalers' panic-building data centers as quickly as possible as it does nuclear's long lead time and risk profile as an asset.

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Brendan Pierpont @brendan.bsky.social · 14h

Nuclear bros spent years talking about how nuclear is the fastest way to scale carbon-free electricity, and yet with massive demand driven by the richest companies in the world, there is little commercial activity. This is a great piece for understanding why: carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

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Beyond the Hype: Assessing Hyperscaler Nuclear Commitments Against U.S. Energy Realities

The coming decade will require technology companies to decide how nuclear fits into their energy strategies—and grapple with the obligations that follow.

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 14h

1) The kids are All Right 2) Just a lovely moment of research and teaching synergy

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 14h

Student came to office hours today to tell me they'd been reading up on the Paramount-WB merger and that had led them down a rabbit hole about corporate power and they'd found the article I contributed to on corporate oligarchy and could we please talk about this because they were really freaked out

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Erik Schlenker-Goodrich @riogranderift.bsky.social · 14h

One thing I'm now pondering: whether/how this exclusion from NEPA would apply to the Desert Southwest Pipeline project. Credible intel suggests this major natural gas pipeline may be intended, in some capacity, to fuel the highly contentious Project Jupiter AI data center project in New Mexico.

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Oracle sends 'force majeure' notice to Project Jupiter developers to protect itself from liability

Oracle sent a notice of "force majeure" to a developer, seeking to release itself from liability if the data center is not online by 2028.

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 14h

Brett McGurk is going to whatever Circle of Hell they sent Henry Kissinger to

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 19h

“Under no circumstance do I support separation of this province from Canada,” he said. “So, we just decided we’re not going to do this.” Separatist event in Banff organized by UCP CA president gets cancelled by owners of venue. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.rmoutlook.com/canmore/canm...

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Canmore resort pulls venue for Alberta referendum event with separatist ties

Referendum town hall, Q&A cancelled by Stone Creek Resorts CEO, who says he will not support an event linked to Alberta separation

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Greg Mitchell @gregmitch.bsky.social · 18h

As promised, PBS has just re-posted, streaming for all, my Emmy-nominated film "The First Attack Ads: Hollywood vs. Upton Sinclair" in time for the midterms--and the 2026 efforts to destroy lefty candidates. 26 minutes: www.pbs.org/video/the-fi... www.pbs.org/video/the-fi...

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The First Attack Ads: Hollywood vs. Upton Sinclair

The California campaign that gave birth to the political attack ad.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17h

Last year not a single refugee fleeing religious persecution was admitted to the US.

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 14h

Lipson is a big-time law firm partner. I would be very interested to see how many big recruitment deals from his firm (or others) get sent to Jane Roberts. @joshtpm.bsky.social has been on all the SCOTUS corruption stuff, maybe TPM will dig

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Mr. Lipson, a former law partner of the chief justice, introduced him to the island and made a project of settling him in. Mr. Lipson located the Roberts home, negotiated the deal, assigned him the lobster-dinner shtick, and integrated the Roberts family…” Oh! Another justice with a rich patron??

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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 15h

Public health service announcement 👇👇👇 from this unpaid mom, because no one making between $250 and $400k as medical health officer in BC gives a rat's ass about preventing infections.

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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 20h

Heads up, BC! Flu A test positivity 11.7% COVID test positivity 7.7% Vaccine booking site finally opened today. It looks like the first available appt anywhere is Oct 13 (FFS). But I saw several appointments available still. And, mask up! #bced #bcpoli reporting.bccdc.ca/respiratory_...

graph showing flu a test positivity at 11.7% as of Sep 26, up 1.4% from last week.

Graph showing COVID (SARS-CoV-2) test positivity at 7.7% as of Sep 26, up 1.6% from week before.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 20h

Everyone involved with this, except a dozen or so already very wealthy people, will lose.

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Constantine @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 14h

My dream of the MLB Teton Tits with their double-headed mascot, Bobbie the Breasts, has now died

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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 16h

The statement of the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide on the botched execution of Christa Pike is worth reading in full.

CCDPW Statement on the botched execution of
Christa Pike
October 1, 2026
Christa has endured punishment greater than any other person in the history of the American death penalty. The governor must commute Christa's sentence now.
-Randy Spivey, one of Christa Pike's lawyers
Last night, the State of Tennessee recklessly and callously sought to execute Christa Pike, notwithstanding the warnings of medical experts that Tennessee's lethal injection protocol would cause her to experience agonizing pain and psychological terror. Today, Christa remains in the hospital after the State tried and failed to execute her over the course of two hours. We do not know whether she will recover and what her recovery will look like. We are heartbroken for Christa's family, friends, and her legal team for having to endure the consequences of the state's barbarity.
After she was strapped to the gurney, the execution team inserted at least seven different needles in her left arm over the course of an hour. According to Christa's lawyer Randy Spivey, one of the needles appeared to be bent as they removed it from her arm. Medical experts had anticipated these problems based on Christa's small veins and a condition called thrombocytosis. When the executioners finally inserted an IV and injected the poison, something went terribly wrong. Although they injected her with double the usual dose of pentobarbital, Christa did not die.
While some media outlets reported that she was "snoring," her attorney and others stated that she whimpered, heaved, choked, breathed deep and raspy breaths, and moved frequently. At one point she stated that she felt her arm was burning up.
Christa's lawyers demanded that the prison halt the execution, they begged the courts and the governor to intervene, and they were met with stony silence while Christa suffered. Two and a half hours after the execution process began, the prison finally called an ambulance to take Christa to the hospital, where she is receiving t…

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RANGE Media @rangemedia.co · 15h

The messages in which officers Daniel Valencia and Matthew Stewart strategized their reports were part of a longer string of texts that started one hour and 14 minutes after they’d killed Joshua Musselman from more than 100 feet away as he was fleeing into his apartment.

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‘I’m hoping we hit him at least once each lol’: SPD texts from 2024 killing show lack of probable cause

In messages, SPD officers hoped they inflicted maximum damage when they shot Joshua Musselman, mocked the police chief’s response to the killing.

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 19h

this doesn’t actually make any sense

The Kennedy Center has held used Steinway piano sales in the past, so AlterNet reached out to Jenny at Steinway in Washington D.C. to ask if the sale was happening again this year. She explained that it would not, as the Kennedy Center had closed.
She said the shop owner intends to retire and close, so they're selling all their pianos at a heavy discount. With the Kennedy Center closed, the shop is also moving all the Steinways to offer for sale. AlterNet asked why the Kennedy Center would need to sell everything, and she made it clear that it was because it was "closed." She
referred all other questions to the Kennedy Center.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 14h

The point is to discipline the Court—we need to think bigger about power. We can pass laws removing clerks, kicking SCOTUS out of its building, requiring them to ride circuit, controlling their docket and stripping jurisdiction. See Sean Casten’s bill which strips all but original jurisdiction.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 15h

Whether the Supreme Court succeeds in declaring Supreme Court regulation unconstitutional is purely a POLITICAL not a legal question, and I know we are all in the mindset of the Court has the final say but no they do not

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 15h

”As the threat from one pending Supreme Court case became urgent, Congress enacted a measure stripping the court of appellate jurisdiction over the challenge before it. That worked. Disciplined by Congress, the court declined to interfere with its abolition or Reconstruction Acts.“

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Opinion | Who Will Stand Up to the Supreme Court Justices?

Congress must once again defend democracy from a hostile court.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 15h

Whoa whoa. Why must we rely on the Court to have a veto over Court expansion? The situation of the last 50-75 years where we have a Supreme Guardian Council that offers whatever interpretation it wants to overturn any statute Congress passes is neither consistent with US history nor sustainable.

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