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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

In Brazil, President Lula sues Zuckerberg, producing evidence that Meta was suppressing pro-Lula accounts in the run up to the last election round. paydayreport.com/lula-files-l...

paydayreport.com

Lula Files Legal Complaint Against Meta Alleging Election Theft

The legal complaint against Meta for election interference is an unprecedented move

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Superhero Knitter Krysten Ritter @knitindustrie.bsky.social · 20h

Enemies of democracy make themselves unanswerable to criticism. But acting in this way makes one worse.

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Superhero Knitter Krysten Ritter @knitindustrie.bsky.social · 20h

Do not lose sight of the staggering incompetence of the anti-democratic forces. It is a constant reminder of two things: 1. To eschew democratic rule is to eschew the checks on power that ensures its baseline competence. 2. There are only so many people willing to perform such sycophancy.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

the year is 2026. it’s unclear if the white house press secretary knows how to read.

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Superhero Knitter Krysten Ritter @knitindustrie.bsky.social · 21h

I did exactly one day as a substitute teacher while I was in grad school. There are better ways to make $100/day.

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Superhero Knitter Krysten Ritter @knitindustrie.bsky.social · 22h

It is, as Chris Fleming once said so eloquently, “the lie of a child.”

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Superhero Knitter Krysten Ritter @knitindustrie.bsky.social · 22h

Imagine lying on the political stage about the easily-verifiable claim of being an attorney.

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+972 Magazine @972mag.com · 16/10/2026

Award-winning American photojournalist Heidi Levine describes being violently attacked by a mob of Israeli settlers while covering the olive harvest in Turmus Ayya near Ramallah this morning. By Oren Ziv @mekomit.bsky.social

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

(Reuters) - The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and a Western official briefed on the matter. @reuters.com 🇺🇦 www.reuters.com/world/europe...

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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 15/10/2026

Stop what you are doing because you need to read this. Billions of dollars in oil trades were perfectly timed to Trump’s decision to back off attacking Iranian power plants. Trump announced the reversal just 15 minutes after those trades were placed.

bloomberg.com

CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades

Chairman’s adviser intervened to take over examination of lucrative bets that were made around Trump reversal on Iran power plant attack.

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Superhero Knitter Krysten Ritter @knitindustrie.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

The future sucks so bad. I hate it. Turn it off. Unplug it and plug it back in.

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Hamiltwan @hamiltwan.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

He's pushing the boundaries of "functioning" in functioning alcoholic.

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Superhero Knitter Krysten Ritter @knitindustrie.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

That huge silent GOP majority in 2026 California.

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Superhero Knitter Krysten Ritter @knitindustrie.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Jacobin adhere to basic standards of conceptual coherence challenge: impossible.

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 12/10/2026

It was just two months ago that Ross Barkan was caught in a major plagiarism scandal, and had work dropped by NY Mag and Gothamist. He said: “I am going to self-reflect on my conduct and hopefully be a better person.”

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The degree to which Republicans have just started resorting to outright bribery is really alarming and it's going to get even worse unless people end up in jail.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

this is for people who read us and see our value this month amid our elections coverage, and want to become a subscriber or donor!

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

You could impeach Trump every day for a year, have a different charge each time, and have a slam dunk case that would have removed any other President.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/10/2026

Ossoff: "In my view, based upon the evidence I've seen thus far, the president's misconduct, abuse of power, and corruption, already exceed any prior standard for impeachment."

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I’m struck anew by how bad TV commercials are now. Most of these aren’t even a product or service. Just a guy flipping a perfect pancake and then a screen lighting up until it turns into a sunny day.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 13/10/2026

The Detroit Free Press allowed readers to submit their verdict on who won the debate between Dr. Abdul El Sayed and Mike Rogers— but the only two people who said Rogers won decided to include anti Arab slurs in their letters in addition to abject lies. So the DFP refused to publish them.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"The fate of the Amazon rainforest, the world’s largest, hangs in the balance. Its stepped-up destruction will likely dramatically accelerate global warming." newrepublic.com/article/2162...

newrepublic.com

The Return of the Brazilian Far Right Is a Climate Catastrophe

Lula’s loss will be a disaster for the Amazon rainforest, and could accelerate global warming dramatically.

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Superhero Knitter Krysten Ritter @knitindustrie.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It will always be funny that these people pretend to know agriculture things as part of their grift, and get them wrong all the time.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Republicans are openly cheating across the country in this election cycle because they believe if they win, they won't face any consequences for the cheating and also know from experience that if they lose they also won't face any consequences for the cheating.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The administration's goal, openly stated, is to consolidate police power in the country and create a huge, well-funded, extremely aggrieved, pro-MAGA, anti-immigrant, anti-protestor police force the likes of which we have never seen in this country.

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 12/10/2026

The funny thing about LLMs in security contexts is it is as if we tried to make computers vulnerable to social engineering too. And all of the cybersecurity controls for them are also made of social engineering, and are thus easily exploitable.

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Superhero Knitter Krysten Ritter @knitindustrie.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

“I’m mandating that you use this expensive and resource-intensive tool in order to do your job worse” is, for some reason, a constant refrain of management now.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

New working paper w/ @hannafolsz.bsky.social In 2025, Trump targeted US law firms for their political opposition Some firms resisted by suing Trump. Others folded by agreeing to support the administration w/ pro bono work Resisting firms took a short term financial hit but improved reputations

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Three things can be true at the same time: (some) disabled users find smart glasses to be very useful. These glasses ARE unfortunately being misused and becoming part of the exploitation of women's bodies in public spaces, for eg. Tech companies are relying on using disability as a diversion.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Additionally, it's an attempt to usurp the power to judge the qualifications of members of the House, which the Constitution vests solely in the House itself. And there's no reason to assume she will be the last member of Congress he goes after like this. It's a direct attack on the legislature.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It matters that she's a member of Congress. This is an extreme escalation. He is attacking a member of the one body with the constitutional power to hold him accountable and check his crimes. And he's doing so trying to gin up a fake basis to strip her of her eligibility to be in Congress.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I just don't care about any ~law enforcement~ story coming out of this administration because the idea of this man enforcing laws is preposterous on its face. We're talking about an arsonist doing fire code inspections. You're a sucker if you engage with any of it in good faith

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Superhero Knitter Krysten Ritter @knitindustrie.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I wonder if Reuters is aware that the Senate does not have districts. “Editor” is a real job, and cannot be replaced with an LLM.

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A hot dog hollers @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

Elon Musk: “Zelensky has gone too far”

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109033017184338141

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Stef "inclusion is a human right" Christensen @wikisteff.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Looks like online activity around AfD was... causally linked to Russian data centers, via @angrystaffer.bsky.social

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/10/2026

question for brooks: what if they are, literally, nazis?

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Yesterday we made the fascinating discovery that the bulk of the MAGA troll army operates out of a Russian intelligence service mill located inside the Yandex supercomputer center in Vladimir. The Ukrainians bombed it, and suddenly the troll army simply went silent.

open.substack.com

The Death of MAGA’s Troll Army

Inside A Dying Russian Data Center

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Superhero Knitter Krysten Ritter @knitindustrie.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I (pessimistically) wonder if this is due, in part, to people’s fear of what may happen on election day.

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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Things got more insane just about as soon as I posted this last night. DHS is now arguing that we cannot even put the names of ICE officers in our lawsuit against those officers. Their position is that, if a defendant works for DHS, they cannot be named in a lawsuit. Never seen anything like it.

All this time, while Defendants have refused to identify Does 4 and 5 or respond to Leo’s discovery requests, the six-month statute of limitations on his FTCA claims has nearly expired. So, on October 6, Leo sought Defendants’ consent to file an amended complaint that (1) adds his FTCA claims against the United States and (2) adds the names of Does 1, 2, and 3. These minimal changes are shown in a redline attached to this filing.
Defendants, however, refused to consent to Leo’s amendments because there is not a protective order in place. One of Defendants’ positions with respect to the protective order is that the “full legal names” of all government employees “should be confidential.” (ECF 109, at 2). That position, apparently, means that Defendants even oppose Leo identifying specific officers in his lawsuit against those very officers based on their misconduct in carrying out their public duties. Because Defendants will not consent to Leo’s amendments, Leo has filed this motion for leave.

Justice also requires granting Leo leave to name the Doe officers as defendants. Despite DHS’s remarkable position that all government employees’ names are confidential, parties routinely sue government employees by name. In fact, Rule 10(a) “requires a complaint to ‘include the names of all the parties.’” Doe v. Frank, 951 F.2d 320, 322 (11th Cir. 1992) (per curiam) (quoting Fed. R. Civ. P. 10(a)). “Lawsuits are public events.” Id. Rule 10(a) “protects the public’s legitimate interest in knowing all of the facts involved, including the identity of the parties.” Id. Only in an “exceptional case” can a party’s name be withheld from the public. Id. And that bar is even higher for public employees since their employment “diminishes their privacy interests” given “the corresponding public interest in knowing how public employees are performing their jobs.” Stern v. FBI, 737 F.2d 84, 92 (D.C. Cir. 1984);

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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 10/10/2026

They have been dealing secretly with Putin for weeks over this. Impeach. Impeach. Impeach.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

*The most craven, weak-willed, unprincipled person you’ve ever met* We’re going to restore the Western tradition of honor and virtue

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 09/10/2026

just to emphasize what's happening here: BMW (a company that used slave labor under the Nazis) refused to provide an official vehicle to the ultra right-wing AfD party, which is now asking Elon Musk to provide a Tesla instead Tesla literally becoming the Nazi car brand

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

We rightly worry most about the core electoral machinery and that's holding up pretty well, but any election under Trump is still something less than free and fair. Even if it's not enough to flip the outcome, state resources and power are unambiguously being abused to favor the incumbent party.

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