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Baron von Awesome @ryanilbasso.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Tennessee was supposed to execute this woman by lethal injection last evening. She survived. And it's the second botched execute in that state this year. But to me this is the more interesting story about this woman. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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Tennessee says child rapists deserve to die. Now it prepares to execute one of their victims

At 18, Christa Pike was sentenced to death for murder. What if the jury knew she had suffered years of sexual abuse as a child?

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

How do Cornell students tolerat this, and how do parents send their kids there? Ban frats everywhere www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/n...

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A bipartisan initiative to block Trump and Todd Blanche from embezzling $810 million from the Treasury under the pretext of a litigation settlement was blocked when Sen Ron Johnson (R-WI) objected, denying unanimous consent. wapo.st/3Vmagbk

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Democrats fail to stop Trump from canceling $810M in funds approved by Congress

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) blocked the effort, meaning the Trump administration will succeed in eliminating the funding it deemed “wasteful.”

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

By my math, the order was filed 11 minutes after the Trump administration's reply brief came in.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Link: www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the third-country removals case; clears way for Trump admin. to continue removing non-citizens without a full chance to litigate the conditions in those countries (while also taking up the full merits appeal).

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Kristy Rawson @kristyrawson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How is it that every SCOTUS decision lately comes with the caveat "for now." My best guess is that the right wing 6 see the constitution as having a TBD expiration date.

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Kristy Rawson @kristyrawson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sian Beilock has a Choking problem.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…

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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 28/09/2026

We are publishing the name of the alleged shooter because we believe transparency in Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s killing is of vital public interest as investigators, lawmakers and the public seek to understand what happened and how ICE operates more broadly in this state. Read more here:

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ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified

The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

ICE is torturing this man. This is an emergency.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026

Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...

Summary
Companies
• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In two weeks, Russell Brand goes on trial in the UK on rape and sexual assault charges in cases involving six women. Tomorrow in DC, he's appearing at a MAHA gathering to 'moderate' a discussion with Dr Oz about medicare and medicaid. What the hell?

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/09/2026

If I’m reading this right, Anthropic has no choice but to IPO now because it doesn’t have the money to cover its computing / infrastructure obligations next year

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Orangutan Land Trust @orangutanlandtrust.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For months, millions of people have been living under a stifling blanket of toxic haze, fueled by a punishing drought brought on by the El Niño weather pattern. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/w...

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‘All We Could See Was Red’: The Wildfires Choking Indonesia (Gift Article)

For months, millions of people have been living under a stifling blanket of toxic haze, fueled by a punishing drought brought on by the El Niño weather pattern.

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Jill "Bury a Friend" Pantozzi @jillpantozzi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Google: Still good for something!

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Most state attorneys general released Meta from Cambridge Analytica-related claims as part of the child safety settlement. New Mexico wasn't part of that deal, and a jury there just found 26 of 29 past claims about Cambridge Analytica, hate speech and misinformation willfully deceptive.

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Eight Years On, Cambridge Analytica Scandal Catches Up With Meta in Santa Fe

A jury found that Meta—then Facebook—misled the public in statements about Cambridge Analytica and its policies on hate speech, violence and misinformation.

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Grandma @grandmasweb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ICE now detains more immigrants than ever, much if it through 287(g) agreements that deputize local police forces act on ICE’s behalf. ICE stalks the country, using these partnerships to arrest even those who have resolved their legal issues by probation. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/u...

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How a Memphis Gambling Raid Became a Sweeping Immigration Operation (Gift Article)

More than 120 people were arrested at a Memphis cantina, in one of the biggest immigration operations in Tennessee this year.

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Casey @skycog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Viktor Orbán Darling of the #MAGA "Trump’s political operation has plenty of cash to spend—almost $416 million as of August 31—and compared him to the strongman whom Hungarians toppled earlier this year: “Using taxpayer dollars, it feels like Viktor Orbán.” www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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The Problem With Trump’s New Taxpayer-Funded Ads

They clearly violate the intent of the law. But that doesn’t mean they’ll be easy to stop.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

We’re living through a period where the federal government, along with many state and local governments, has been pushing to normalize white supremacy while codifying it in policy. This effort has been aided by the world’s richest people and the most prestigious institutions in the country.

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Parenting: like constantly headbutting a tree for the benefit of your children. 🌳🐘

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Can you tell texas republicans are not used to competitive races bsky.app/profile/head...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Even as profits soar, corporate tax payments are down 25% this year thanks to Trump and Republicans’ big, ugly bill. One of the main beneficiaries? Big Tech — which is using the tax breaks to help fuel its AI boom as it spends a fortune on the midterm elections. Remember this...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026

Nicholas Polson is the Robert Law, Jr. Professor of Econometrics and Statistics at Chicago. "The online platform where Polson posted his papers said it removed 257 of his works over the past month after his surge in releases." I have THOUGHTS given the racist shit I know UC folks said about me

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Using AI, a professor wrote 200 papers this year. Researchers are alarmed.

An online platform removed 257 papers written or co-written by the University of Chicago’s Nicholas Polson after other academics raised questions.

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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Look i'm glad this is out but the time to resign is when you're ordered to do something unethical!

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Notably, you will not have these settings if your account is already set to private.

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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Beyond that, if SCOTUS is going to tear down the wall between a political administration and the voter rolls, what’s to stop that admin from abusing the data to target groups, and even individuals, to stay in power.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It’s been a year since ICE drove a car through a crowd at Broadview, leading to the federal indictment of myself and five others. Today, those of us who could returned. The state can try all it wants, but it can’t silence us or our community’s fight for justice.

From left to right

Brian Straw, a white suburban dad with a dark brown beard, glasses, orange hat, and teal quarter zip

Me, a short blonde woman in a black sweatshirt reading, “IT’S MY BODY, IT’S MY CHOICE” in two curves on my chest

Michael Rabbit, a white older man with rosy cheeks in a black hoodie

Andre Martin, a tall curly-haired man with glasses, a grey hoodie, and blue fanny pack

Yes, we feel weird taking a picture at the concentration camp.

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