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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 6h
Illinoisans have lost access to food assistance because the President wanted to make himself and his friends at Mar-a-Lago even richer. He made families choose between putting food on the table and paying their bills by driving up costs and cutting SNAP.
cbsnews.com
Millions of Americans are losing SNAP benefits: "It feels as though people are being punished"
More than 5 million Americans have lost food-stamp benefits since 2025. "I have to prove that I'm sick," one SNAP recipient said.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h
Trump and Ronny Jackson have a chuckle about the botched execution in Tennessee: "The medication didn't exactly work. He [Jackson] would answer it better than anybody. How does that happen? It shouldn't be very difficult."
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11h
Three billionaires gave more than 90% of the money raised by Representative Tom Tiffany, the Republican nominee for governor of Wisconsin, according to state campaign finance reports filed on Wednesday night.
nyti.ms
3 Billionaires Have Largely Funded Republican Nominee for Wisconsin Governor
Under its current rules, Wisconsin has not had a race in which a small number of donors have made up such a large share of a campaign’s funding.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 12h
The most ordinary man imaginable came to my home state to tell me to ‘get out of America’ while he & Absent Ashley enjoyed the comfort of buildings my ancestors helped build. Imagine standing on the shoulders of the ppl who built this country & then telling their descendants they don’t belong here/2
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 12h
I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 13h
Dark thread. Since we watched Musk literally push a "protect the Boers" button in real time with Grok, we now know people or companies could theoretically pay their way into putting a thumb on the scale for Grok/Claude/ChatGPT. This is why the AI stans want you to believe it's thinking
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h
John Yoo on Christa Pike, who survived a botched execution: "Why not use the firing squad? So I think what's gonna have to happen is Tennessee is gonna have to go back and try again."
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DIE ZEIT @zeit.de · 11h
Zwei Giftspritzen wurden der zum Tode verurteilten Amerikanerin Christa Pike verabreicht. Doch sie überlebte und wird nach Angaben ihres Anwalts im Krankenhaus behandelt.
zeit.de
Christa Pike: Zum Tode verurteilte Pike erhält »lebensrettende Maßnahmen«
Zwei Giftspritzen wurden der zum Tode verurteilten Amerikanerin Christa Pike verabreicht. Doch sie überlebte und wird nach Angaben ihres Anwalts im Krankenhaus behandelt.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 11h
Tennessee woman Christa Pike has been hospitalized after surviving two lethal injection doses administered by state officials on Wednesday evening, marking the second botched execution in the state this year.
truthout.org
Christa Pike Hospitalized After 2 Failed Lethal Injection Attempts by Tennessee Official
This represents the second failed attempt at an execution via lethal injection in Tennessee this year alone.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11h
The Guardian view on Grenfell prosecutions: at last, survivors have a date | Editorial
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The Guardian view on Grenfell prosecutions: at last, survivors have a date | Editorial
Editorial: Prosecutors will decide who to charge within eight months. But ministers should also re-examine the law
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 14h
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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NPR @npr.org · 11h
The fridge-size satellite with AI chips on board is part of Project Suncatcher, the company's moonshot effort to put AI data centers in space and harness solar energy. n.pr/4xPBl41
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Google launches Project Suncatcher, a step towards AI data centers in space
The fridge-size satellite with AI chips on board is part of Project Suncatcher, the company's moonshot effort to put AI data centers in space and harness solar energy.
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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.com · 11h
Minnesota GOP state Senate candidate Austin Peterson endorses government officials signing NDAs for data centers. "There's a reason why there's NDAs out there." (h/t Aaron Rupar)
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 18h
An Akron, Ohio officer was able to continue using the Flock system while on leave for fatally shooting a 15-year-old boy, and again while suspended following a sexual assault allegation. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
yahoo.com
Summit County sheriff to investigate Davon Fields' use of Flock
After a Beacon Journal reporter noted that Davon Fields was accessing Akron's Flock network while on leave, the city initiated a criminal probe.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h
New in PN: Scenes from a personality cult "The ads are unambiguously illegal — & that’s the point. Again & again, this regime has broken the law not just to accomplish some immediate goal, but as a dominance display to say to everyone: Donald Trump does whatever he wants, & nobody can stop him."
publicnotice.co
Scenes from a personality cult
Trump’s taxpayer-funded agitprop is clearly illegal — and that’s the point.
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 18h
www.newsweek.com/nurse-helped... I hope there is a gofundme for this hero nurse who no longer has a job. Anyone know?
newsweek.com
Nurse Helped Injured Mexican Escape ICE Custody at Hospital: Feds
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nashville Banner reporter Steven Hale, describing how prison officials kept drawing the curtain to hide how badly they were botching this: “A lot of this execution — or attempted execution, whatever it was — happened when we could not see what was going on.”
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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Now is the moment for us to reach down and pick up the power we have as citizens and rebuke these abuses so decisively that no president will try anything like this again for centuries.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 01/10/2026
Breaking: "Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee is pausing all executions this year after Christa Pike survived two deadly doses of pentobarbital." Calls for a 3rd party review of Pike's botched execution. Tennessee had planned to kill another person on Dec. 3.
tennessean.com
Court stays Christa Pike execution in Tennessee: Updates
Christa Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. A court stayed her lethal injection that was scheduled for Sept. 30.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/10/2026
Christa Pike, a Tennessee woman who was set to be executed on Wednesday, was still alive that night after two syringes of lethal drugs had been administered, according to her lawyers. Here's what to know.
nyti.ms
What to Know About the Execution Attempt of Christa Pike
Ms. Pike, 50, survived two doses of lethal injection in Tennessee. She was sentenced to death for the 1995 murder of a classmate.
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lilli 🤠 @lillianbf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Cornell students have released their demands. More may be added in accordance with JD’s wishes, but for now this is the push.
Cornell student demands from @sdc.now

sdc.now and 5 others
& Public Enemy • Fight The Power
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STUDENTS DEMAND:
1. Cornell to expel or revoke the degrees of all perpetrators complicit in the gang rape of Jane Doe.
2. Rewrite Policy 6.4 to require independent hearings and minimum sanctions for Sexual Assault.
3. An external investigation of Cornell's administration and the return to an Independent Judicial System.
4. Mandatory Sexual Assault
Prevention Trainings for students and Trauma-Informed Training for CUPD.
5. Cornell's full compliance with the
NYS "Enough is Enough" Law.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/09/2026
Here's footage of Jack Smith at the Iowa vs. Maryland game on February 3rd, 2024 btw
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If Russia attacks Sweden, the Swedish Air Force will strike targets deep inside enemy territory rather than limit itself to defense - Colonel Carl Bergqvist, Commandant of the Swedish Air Warfare Centre "An attack must come at a high cost," Bergqvist said.
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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We need a LOT more Republicans like this guy (Mac Garrett) to speak out against the "dictatorship of Donald Trump," and against Trump's "devoted supporter[s]" like Rob Wittman. bluevirginia.us/2026/09/new-...
Mac Garrett (former Essex County Commonwealth's Attorney and past president of the Essex County Republican Committee): "I do not like living under the dictatorship of Donald Trump. Rob Wittman is a devoted supporter of Donald Trump. I will not vote for Rob Wittman."
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Roger Marshall couldn’t get out of his own Kansas town hall fast enough.😂
youtube.com
Republican senator abruptly leaves contentious town hall
YouTube video by CNN
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NPR @npr.org · 01/10/2026
Switzerland's glaciers are disappearing at a record pace. More than 5% of their ice has vanished this year alone — threatening water supplies, ecosystems and communities across Europe. n.pr/4z7IApd
n.pr
Swiss glaciers suffer another year of record ice loss
Switzerland's glaciers are disappearing at a record pace. More than 5% of their ice has vanished this year alone — threatening water supplies, ecosystems and communities across Europe.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
These American Jewish advocacy organizations are actually more threatened by Mamdani releasing a comprehensive anti-antisemitism plan than they would be by him being openly antisemitic, because it forces them to admit that one can be an anti-Zionist without being antisemitic.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Nope nope nope
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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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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 02/05/2026
The president of Cornell backed his car into a student and a recent grad after a campus debate on Israel-Palestine. Then he lied about what happened in an email claiming he'd been the victim of harassment. Then, magnificently, Cornell's student newspaper found a video of the incident
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Third Summers Brother @hugetinymistake.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A terrific column rightfully pointing much of the blame of the terrible state of pedestrian safety in the city of Harrisburg at PennDOT and Harrisburg state legislators more concerned with their suburban commutes than our very livelihoods. theburgnews.com/burg-blog/pe...
theburgnews.com
Pennies for Pedestrians: Will Harrisburg ever get safer roads? - TheBurg
This past August, the Harrisburg Rotary asked me to speak at their monthly meeting, a nicely attended luncheon at the Hilton Harrisburg. I spoke mostly about TheBurg: how we started 18 years ago, our ...
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 30/09/2026
Warren on data centers: Republicans are with the big tech guys and those boys want to be able to come in and build whatever they want to build, and they don't want to pay for the consequences.
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Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...
thecut.com
What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A judge has ordered the release of Douglas Stewart Carter, a 71-year-old Black man who has spent decades on death row for a 1985 killing he did not commit. He spent 41 years in prison.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
FBI Director Kash Patel this week has faced the worst data breach in FBI history, a deputy who quit because Patel was doing too many unconstitutional things, and partied with a suspected double agent. And it's only Tuesday. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-disgra...
doomsdayscenario.co
The Disgrace and Danger of Kash Patel, Part II
A quick check-in on the FBI director's latest raft of scandals (including, of course, the bestiality).
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abdullah @ashihipar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
you can see re: the ruling on the NYC pied-a-terre tax vs the upcoming Medicaid changes - who is not expected to prove things to the government/who the government is expected to do the leg work for vs. who is expected to prove and document everything to the government
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/09/2026
Well at least everyone agrees about one thing. "Using taxpayer dollars to run ominous campaign ads of the President has been done before and is completely legal…in banana republics."
motherjones.com
Trump’s taxpayer-funded ads are receiving bipartisan criticism
On Sunday, the president aired an ad saying he would “demolish the deep state” and “cast out the communists, Marxists, and fascists.”
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Stella @lecieldeparis.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026
33.771 Menschen
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UNITED24 @u24.gov.ua · 29/09/2026
Today marks the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Babyn Yar—one of last century’s most painful tragedies. In 1941, the Nazi regime began mass executions of civilians in Kyiv, murdering over 100,000 Jews, Ukrainians, and Roma. Never forget this heinous crime so that new ones don’t happen🕯️🧵
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🇯🇵🇰🇷🇨🇳🇹🇼🇺🇦 Soldiers from Japan, South Korea, China and Taiwan as part of the Asian Corps of Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/09/2026
How was a Nevada Republican with a 30-year mortgage on a $565,000 home able to loan his Congressional campaign $1.6 million? We don't know, because he has repeatedly failed to submit required financial disclosures that would illuminate his personal financial position.
motherjones.com
The mysterious millions powering a Nevada Republican’s bid for Congress
David Flippo, who has reported funneling nearly $2.5 million to his campaigns, has repeatedly failed to file financial disclosure forms since 2023.
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WESA @wesa.fm · 29/09/2026
Gov. Shapiro’s administration sought to “modernize” the state’s public health regulations in the midst of a recent measles outbreak. But the GOP bristled at the proposed rules, arguing that they represented a potential return to the kind of mandates and controls that followed the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Pa. Health Department reverses course on new disease-tracking guidance, for now
Pennsylvania’s Department of Health has rescinded a 502-page proposal that could’ve given the agency more control over how it tracks and investigates the spread of diseases — and that spelled out the ...
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 29/09/2026
Mark Zuckerberg donates €150,000 to Waterford GAA clubs after buying castle in the area
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Mark Zuckerberg donates €150,000 to Waterford GAA clubs after buying castle in the area
Meta founder and his wife Priscilla Chan bought Strancally Castle in August
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We all complain about the media’s failures but organizations like @propublica.org and @texastribune.org are doing the work and deserve our financial support
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 28/09/2026
NEW: Weeks before the midterms, Georgia's election board voted to seek assistance from Trump's DOJ and DHS — and demanded voting machine data be handed to the feds. It comes as Trump pushes to control how states run elections, including which machines they use.
demdock.com
Georgia election board asks for Trump admin to help go after state’s voting machines
“I think this is federal overreach," the board's lone Democrat warned.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 28/09/2026
Breaking News: After a woman filed a lawsuit against Cornell University, a New York prosecutor said that he will reopen the decision not to pursue charges against seven fraternity members who were accused of sexual assault in 2024. nyti.ms/4hu9dgW
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 28/09/2026
NEW: In a win for voters, a federal judge ruled FEMA cannot withhold grants aimed at preventing terrorist attacks from states refusing to adopt Trump's anti-voting measures. States would have previously been forced to run their full voter records through a DHS immigration database to receive funds.
democracydocket.com
Judge strikes down Trump’s bid to cut states’ anti-terror funds unless they impose new voting restrictions
The judge ruled that FEMA had no “authority to extract unfunded reforms from states in exchange for grants.”
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Outrage erupted this weekend after a lawsuit was filed by a young woman against Cornell University & several defendants alleging she was gang raped at a fraternity. I explain the law, provide the facts, & discuss why it’s important the local DA now reopens the case: youtu.be/ZzKWgFvqEEo?...
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DISTURBING Cornell ASSAULT Investigation REOPENED After BOMBSHELL New LAWSUIT!!
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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Abe Silberstein @abesilbe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When I was a liberal Zionist, I would have considered this an outrage and a scandal. Today, I can't but welcome news that Israel itself is clarifying that it is not a state of all the world's Jews.
haaretz.com
Israel freezes aliyah for two Jews over activism protecting Palestinians
In both cases, the protective-presence activists, who did not know each other, had their passports photographed by a soldier or settler. These are the first known cases in which Israeli authorities ap...
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Christopher Golden @cgolden.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
*Trigger Warning*As hideous as the Cornell 7 case is, it's even more horrifying that the man who orchestrated it was the supposed friend of the victim, and he texted an *invitation* to this 7-hour gang rape to a group text and not a single member of that chat did anything to intervene.
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