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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 4h
Seems bad that the security services are being used to persecute opposition leaders
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 5h
I realize it often feels like nothing matters anymore, but a comedian going on SNL and calling women whores— calling the ordinary women he sees at the gym *whores* — because of their clothes matters to me. It’s really gross, and I’m glad Levy said something.
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Rohan Patel @gunnerohan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The cynical reality, imo: Sham FC lose the Premier League appeal and they take it to the high court where procedural technicalities + government backchannel interference clears them. 🤷🏽‍♂️
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The right wing crash out over asian students celebrating at a UT football game reveals that all along the true goal of reactionary colorblindness was never “meritocracy” but resegregation. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
Color-blind meritocracy was, for many years, a successful rhetorical strategy for undermining antidiscrimination law and excluding Black people from selective schools and prominent positions. That’s why so many former segregationists seemed to suddenly embrace the concept in the 1970s. For them, resegregation—not color-blindness—was always the goal. As long as the success of some immigrants could be used to paint Black students as undeserving, color-blind meritocracy was good. But now many on the right see a new problem: too many Asian Americans in elite spaces. Their success, therefore, must be portrayed as a sinister theft of real (white) Americans’ birthright.

The declining “social trust” that the administration warned against is, of course, not the fault of these students. The problem is bigots like Bo French who cannot accept into their community people who do not share their race and religion, and those who monetize or otherwise profit from that bigotry by spreading it through social media. Like the proverbial child who kills their parents and asks for mercy as an orphan, they are responsible for the problem they are decrying.
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The Sisko @patbits.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
JOURNALISTICALLY HELPFUL
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It's World Homeless Day, and I'll just say: Homelessness isn't some great unsolvable mystery. People are homeless because they don't have homes. This suffering persists not for lack of solutions, but because enormous wealth and power are invested in maintaining the very structures that produce it.
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Prashant 🌊 @prasshant.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Mikel Arteta: "Noni deserved the chance he got and he grabbed it with both hands. In training he has been the best player in the last 10 days. Every time he had the ball he looked a threat."
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
An amazingly stark example of how the US economy has broken: Zaslav clears nearly a *billion* dollars amid a CEO tenure where he made basically anything he touched worse, harmed multiple prestigious brands, led huge layoffs—but delivered a corrupt merger for shareholders. variety.com/2026/tv/news...
variety.com
David Zaslav Gets $606 Million Payout From Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger
David Zaslav will receive $606 million as he leaves Warner Bros. Discovery, after the company's merger with David Ellison's Paramount was completed.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle."
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 09/10/2026
American "free speech defenders" pressure other people not to exercise their right to free speech www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request
Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website
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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
What kind of society do we become when the state invites us to gather around a screen and watch it kill someone? 🇺🇸
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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I don’t care how many people that idiot killed, an execution should NOT be made public. PERIOD. EVER. If you don’t understand my words, I cannot help you.
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Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
People worrying about what repercussions of Man City being punished could bring for the league should also consider what damage Man City cheating has already wrought: This cheating has corrupted the league for a minimum of a decade and further success built on top of that.
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Adam Whittaker Spookily @snaves.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The only obituary for Cristiano Ronaldo's career should be this
"In the documents dated from September 2009 and seen by Der Spiegel, though, Ronaldo was quoted as saying “she said no and stop several times” during sex. He is also said to have apologised afterwards."
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 07/10/2026
reading this, recalling how quickly the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman slipped out of the news
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
A new era of government censorship has begun. It started with the silencing of scientific speech, when the admin blocked release of research on bird flu. But MAGA has also cracked down on other wrongthink—on race, geography (!), and of course Trump himself www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
washingtonpost.com
Opinion | A new era of government censorship has dawned
Donald Trump fancies himself a champion of free speech. Oh, really?
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Chevron donated $150,000 to the Bay Area Council, which led a campaign against electrification rules requiring homeowners to replace gas water heaters with electric heat pumps. The Council hired a software company to send thousands of opposition emails, some without the consent of the signers.
desmog.com
Chevron Gave $150K to Bay Area Group Accused of Using AI to Fight Heat Pump Rule
The group claimed victory after regulators recommended delaying landmark rules that would eventually phase out gas water heaters in 2.8 million homes.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The most psychotic possible framing of this archive.is/202609271858...
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Jessica Lussenhop @jlussenhop.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Pike did not fall into sedation quickly. Instead, witnesses said, she sang with her spiritual adviser. Then she said her arm felt like it was about to burst open. 'Does this happen like that?' she asked." by @keribla.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/chri...
propublica.org
Why Tennessee’s Botched Death Row Execution Could Happen Anywhere
The complications behind Tennessee’s failed execution of Christa Pike aren’t uncommon — and show how easily another botched execution could occur, even as others are planned soon in Texas and Florida.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The OPT rule is out, and it's a mess. DHS is aware that this rule will be challenged in court, but didn't even bother to do a defensible analysis of the costs. For example, their estimate of costs that this rule will impose on the public over 10 years is a range between $241 million to $29 billion.
Due to high uncertainty in regulated parties’ behavioral responses, DHS uses ranges to estimate costs and transfers. These ranges reflect different scenarios for how many OPT fees the educational institutions would fund. If all OPT fees are paid by schools, the main impact would be the transfer of payments from the fees. If some OPT fees are not paid by schools due to reduced participation, there would be opportunity costs from the lost OPT participation. DHS estimates the annualized costs of the proposed rule would range from $32 million to $8.2 billion, with a primary estimate of $4.1 billion discounted at 3 percent. Discounted at 7 percent, the estimated annualized costs of the proposed rule would range from $34 million to $8.2 billion, with a primary estimate of $4.1 billion. DHS estimates the 10-year total costs of the proposed rule would be $275 million to $69.9 billion, with a primary estimate of $35.1 billion discounted at 3 percent (see Table 10). Discounted at 7 percent, the estimated total costs of the proposed rule would be $241 million to $57.7 billion, with a primary estimate of $29.0 billion.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 06/10/2026
An NYPD officer driving an unmarked car ran a red light and hit a cyclist on Monday afternoon in Boerum Hill, sending her to the hospital, witnesses said. buff.ly/Vx6L3IS
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SEE IT! Reckless Cop Strikes Cyclist After Running Red Light In An Unmarked Car - Streetsblog New York City
Video obtained by Streetsblog shows the traumatic moment of impact.
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Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Never has a FIFA president affected the field of play as much as Infantino. In just one World Cup his organization has appeared to bend the rules for Cristiano Ronaldo, Folarin Balogun and as we found the DR Congo (where his close friend was appointed FA president) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/w...
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FIFA Found Congo Player Ineligible, Let Him Play in World Cup (Gift Article)
Officials determined that a goalkeeper from the Democratic Republic of Congo did not have the correct paperwork, documents show. But no action was taken, renewing questions about FIFA’s governance.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 06/10/2026
In June, Belgium’s diamond industry gifted Trump an 18-karat gold ring encrusted with 321 diamonds and 75 gemstones. A month later, European diamonds got an exemption from Trump’s tariffs. We don’t know where the ring is today. Where did it go? Did Trump keep it for himself?
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is nuts. @murray.senate.gov: “Tying funding for transit projects to marriage rates and how many babies a woman has is the sort of bizarre and dystopian idea you’d expect in a TV show, not actual policy put forth by the U.S. government — yet here we are."
politico.com
Trump administration unveils plan to tie high birth and marriage rates to transit funding
The federal government is seeking to revamp a national program that supports rail and bus rapid transit.
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"The £100,000 tax trap is a perverse cap on ambition and a penalty for hard work". Go tell that to nurses and teachers and firefighters and the poor fuckers who deliver hot curries to your flat at two a.m.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Seeing people post about how unfair the “mob justice” against the Cornell rapists is doesn’t really move me when there is no justice for survivors. The system doesn’t work; it enacts further punishment on the victims. Society is even crueler. So spare me the “mob justice” rhetoric about the accused
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geebs @lgbbgl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Poch out on the field in Chilean players faces, god, what a scuzzbag
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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A year after the federal BOP unilaterally cancelled the prison workers’ union contract and said it would no longer recognize the union, a federal judge just issued a preliminary injunction telling them they have to - for now:
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WBEZ @wbez.org · 29/09/2026
New York investment firm Stonepeak Partners’ gets to acquire Chicago parking meters after Council leaders brokered a compromise to sweeten the sour deal for the city.
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City Council signs off on $2.5B parking meter sale — after making it a little better
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1.76 Acres @onepointsevensixacr.es · 29/09/2026
Some of the punishments I am seeing proposed are absurd. One, on a serious outlet, engaged with an idea to “make it hard for City to make the CL”. That’s what you get for cheating at historic levels and then refusing to cooperate with an investigation, having it be “dfficult to make the CL”? JFC.
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geebs @lgbbgl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The yellow card for Suaalii was insane. Not offside no need for a yellow could have been a penalty if was actually offside. What am I missing?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yeah, it doesn’t seem like the NYT has given any coverage to the frat gang rape scandal at Cornell. Not as important as Oberlin’s banh mi or Harvard’s eating clubs I guess
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They are playing in our faces
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geebs @lgbbgl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Elliot Anderson cost how much?
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 26/09/2026
Okay beyond the "that's how insurance works" thing here, how exactly is the fraud supposedly happening if they're not using benefits
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Always The Arsenal @alwaysthearsenal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Case in point: Haaland’s 2022 signing. After the charges, strangely low transfer fee & incredibly opaque arrangements on wages and agents fees etc. Norway has a lot of transparency re: income, but Haaland’s reps (including Dad Alfie) ‘coincidentally’ moved to Switzerland when the deal was happening.
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The North Bank: An Arsenal Podcast @northbankpod.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
One assumes this is why their confidence still remains... www.nytimes.com/athletic/488...
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Manchester City’s Premier League charges discussed by UK government and its embassy in Abu Dhabi
The UK government has admitted its embassy in Abu Dhabi and the Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) in London have discussed the charges levelled at Manchester City by the Premier Lea...
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geebs @lgbbgl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is exactly what i thought. Very strange
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Oracle officers and directors are forbidden from pledging company shares as collateral for personal loans, with one exception, Larry Ellison… The total stock pledged now represents about 36% of Ellison’s total holdings of 1.16 billion shares.”
bloomberg.com
Ellison Pledges $9.2 Billion More in Oracle Shares as Collateral
Larry Ellison, a key figure behind Paramount Skydance Corp.’s deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., has pledged 67 million more shares of Oracle Corp. as collateral for personal loans than he had a...
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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I remember when X sued advertisers over this kind of thing. I recall a Trump Admin settlement over allegations of anticompetitive conduct for refusing ads www.ftc.gov/news-events/...
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FTC Takes Action to Restore Competition in the Digital Advertising Ecosystem
The Federal Trade Commission, along with a coalition of states, took decisive action today to stop collusion between the nation’s largest advertising agencies that distorted America’s modern public
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 26/09/2026
Amazingly, no one was responsible
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 25/09/2026
I guess that the best argument, for me, against AI is that everyone advocating it seems to be a psychopath.
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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
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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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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
lol holy shit I wouldn't talk about literally anything else if I was the guy running against him. —"What do you think about trans kids in sp-" —"Did you hear my opponent had his patient, who was 8 months pregnant, arrested in front of her son because she didn't pay a $50 medical bill?"
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Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Man United figuring out potential losses from apparent City cheating scandal while its current CEO is a former high ranking City executive at the time of the apparent cheating is all a bit awks 😬
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Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Similarly questions have to be asked of UEFA. The independent FFP panel found City guilty before a laissez faire approach to the CAS hearing allowed City to get away with the worst of the charges and then UEFA refused to appeal when it became clear that witnesses may have perjured themselves.
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Tenebrad @bradislove.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'm sorry, but I will not accept "but you don't know what you're putting in your body" style vaccine skepticism from somebody who I know smokes cigarettes, uses Zyns, and has an arsenal of 5 Hour Energy bottles in her desk
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