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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is not a "creative way to work around Congress," NYT, this is part of a constitutional crisis. Congress decides how money is to be spent, not our demented king.
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“We dodged a bullet today,” said Billy Miller, a river guide who was one of the named plaintiffs in the suit. “It means that we can continue to introduce people to the wildness. Their plan was going to ruin the experience of anybody going out there.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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Judge Blocks Border Wall Construction in Big Bend in Texas (Gift Article)
The ruling dealt a setback to the Trump administration’s plans for hundreds of miles of barriers that have drawn local opposition.
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Edward Perez @eddieperez.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Screenshot from linked article in The Guardian: “…sexual assault, like Trumpist authoritarianism, is ideologically incoherent.
It is perpetrated by men against women in every race and class category, in every region and industry, in every school, and among people of every strain of politics. Its only rule, and its only value, is domination.

If you understand all this - that domination is the rule of much of men's interaction with women, that the law is mutable and does not protect you, and that beyond the effort to hurt and humiliate, there is no agenda and no rules
- you will understand much of the Trump regime, and just about everything there is to know about rape.”
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And on it went, with Hegseth spinning one bad idea after another, and managing to insult any number of Americans in the process. A bad idea hamster www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Pete Hegseth, Idea Guy
His State of the Force address was a partisan disgrace—with a few good ideas buried in it.
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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's weird how the federal government is constantly being hacked after DOGE gutted the government's cybersecurity agencies.
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Joe Allen @joeallenjoe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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The Dark Power of Fraternities
A yearlong investigation of Greek houses reveals their endemic, lurid, and sometimes tragic problems—and a sophisticated system for shifting the blame.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 01/10/2026
Chess legend Kasparov says he is an assassination target after US uncovers alleged Russian plot
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Chess legend Kasparov says he is an assassination target after US uncovers alleged Russian plot
The Russian chess player Garry Kasparov spoke out after the US charged five alleged Russian intelligence agents accused of plotting to murder a 'prominent Russian dissident' living in the United States.
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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Fantastic piece by Jim Stewartson that explains just how stupid super intelligence is. If you don't like data centers now, you'll REALLY not like them after understanding how useless they really are. www.mind-war.com/p/super-inte...
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“Super Intelligence”: Last Gasp of the Punchcard
How the Trump regime and the AI industry are driving us into a $10 trillion ditch.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026
Fellas, we have to talk to our sons while they’re still young. This foundation👇🏽 is the way…
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Christopher Reader @xopherx.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Freedom of religion requires freedom from religion.
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I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
When I think about the harm Elon Musk has and will continue to do to collective humanity in pursuit of white supremacy it's....
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Colorado GOP nominee for governor, Victor Marx, laughs as he recounts a violent fight with his wife: "I remember grabbing her, slamming her into our front door. She bent over and started crying."
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HudsonRiverCroc @hudsonrivercroc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Deborah Hollingsworth @hollingswordy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NC Republican Senate candidate youtu.be/Ok9FcK9UpNA?...
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Michael Whatley knew.
YouTube video by Roy Cooper
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Ukraine Advocate 🇺🇦 @eugenemcparland.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026
President #Zelenskyy Babi Yar. The 85th anniversary of the tragedy. One of the largest sites of mass murder perpetrated by the Nazis in Europe. A place of great suffering and of our remembrance of all the victims of the Holocaust. On 29–30 September 1941 alone, nearly 34,000 Jews were shot.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Don't be fooled: the Trump administration, which just rescinded Title IX protection for LGBTQ students, is coming for gay marriage. The lawyers who helped Trump try to seize power in 2020 knew each other from anti-gay activism. John Eastman ran the virulently anti-gay NOM. This is their goal. 1/
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Not content with the $2 billion he made last year and the $400 million in his super PAC, Trump is using your money to run pro-MAGA ads before the midterms. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...
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Trump’s 2024 ‘Final Battle’ Ad Returns, Funded by Public Money (Gift Article)
The ad, which ethics experts said could violate federal law, shows Mr. Trump vowing to “expel the warmongers” from the government and fight the “deep state,” even as he wages a war with Iran.
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Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
An investigation by @NYTimes.com has found that President Trump has aligned the USA “with an industry that is still plagued by the very criminality that he said he was fighting by arresting Mr. Maduro. Planes carried gold out of Venezuela before companies had even visited the mines.”
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Trump Brought Venezuelan Gold to the U.S., but Refiners Won’t Touch It (Gift Article)
The administration is brokering deals in a notoriously corrupt industry, including one with a company that the United States deems a security threat.
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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 28/09/2026
New Horizons is now *three days away* from shutting off its two heliophysics instruments, simply because NASA has not provided the $2M in funding it had promised to the mission last year or this year. There is no science basis for shutting these off. Our earlier coverage:
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NASA’s New Horizons mission may shut down two instruments over lack of funding
Decision risks “incalculable loss” of data from the edge of the Sun’s influence, scientists say
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If the nation wasn’t led by madmen, this would be a huge story. As it is, Trump’s offer to sell weapons to our most powerful adversary is just another sign of America’s national suicide.
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Trump Offered to Sell Arms to China, U.S. Ambassador Says
President Trump made the offer to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said David Perdue, the ambassador to China. The White House later said the U.S. had no plans for such a sale.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
When Jesus healed the sick, he didn’t ask for a deductible. When he fed the hungry, he didn’t price gouge for a profit. When the Hebrew prophets saw corruption, they spoke truth to power. When I take on this corrupt system, I’m doing it on biblical grounds.
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Chris Schweizer @ NYCC (H27) @schweizercomics.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I know it's dangerous to pedestal politicians, but our governor has time &again refused to take the bait on throwing any vulnerable group under the bus, and I'm mighty grateful for both the steadfast decency that he has shown to date, and the kind, invitational correctives he offers his errant peers
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
@apnews.com stacks the deck for Susan Collins in a piece on blowback for her role in Roe's demise, giving a 'woman on the street' quote to lobbyist Mary Ann Lynch, a Collins crony/campaign surrogate who's had TWO pieces flaking for Collins in @pressherald.com THIS MONTH ALONE! #bias #MEpolitics
AP: “I think I’ve tried to not have my allegiance to party make me blind to what may be a better path from time to time,” said Mary Ann Lynch, a Democrat supporting Collins. “Neither party, in my view, has a monopoly on the truth and how best to do things. So I think it’s really important to have people who will reach across the aisle.”
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Pathetic collapse of journalistic solidarity. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/business…
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TV Networks to Resume Trump Coverage, Even as White House Excludes CNN (Gift Article)
The White House TV pool went dark this past week amid a standoff between CNN and the president. Network leaders, however, believe an indefinite suspension may be untenable.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We @democracydefendersfund.org helped stop ballot seizure efforts in CA & helped save mail-in voting in the USPS case Now we’re taking on possible deployment of ICE at polling places I explain in my weekly column @ContrarianNews.org 👇 -TN
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It Was the Best of Fridays, It Was the Worst of Fridays (Well, Kinda)
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The people who underreacted to the racist smear campaigns and "MASS DEPORTATION NOW" signs and calling live human beings "poison to the blood of the country" are the least moral people among us second only to the people who actively voted for our oppression or worse.
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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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JM 📎🟦🪬🥯🥡🥠🦀 @jmdc88.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Adolfo Kaminsky was 18 when he was recruited into the French Resistance's forgery operation. Born in Buenos Aires to a Russian Jewish family, he'd already spent years learning the chemistry of dyes & inks. Those skills became a weapon against Nazi persecution. #EternalLight 1/10
Close-up black and white portrait of a man wearing dark-rimmed glasses. He has dark, tousled hair and is looking directly at the camera with a slight smile. The lighting creates shadows that emphasize his facial features.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please don't overreact to the SCOTUS SAVE database decision today Page 6 of the decision makes clear that we are in the 90 day statutory window when mass changes cannot be made to voter lists! Yeah it's a shit decision for the reasons the 3 dissenters say but we can deal with it. More to come...
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Supreme Court Allows Expansive Voter Screening Tool Ahead of Midterms (Gift Article)
Critics of the Trump administration system to monitor the citizenship status of voters had raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Republicans are the cause of your problems not the solution” is a winning message every election but they’re bringing literal receipts now
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Hen Mazzig @henmazzig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
People aren't planning protests on October 7th because of Israel's response to the massacre. They're doing it because they support what Hamas did.
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Eric Deggans @edeggans.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If you missed: My essay looking at terms of the settlement Paramount finagled to allow its mega merger with Warner Bros Discovery, in which I conclude every major institution that was supposed to protect the public failed us. READ: loom.ly/f2GO8no
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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
An important read about class and academic jobs www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/b...
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The Working Class Face a ‘Class Ceiling’ in Elite Occupations (Gift Article)
Being female or a person of color has long been seen as a disadvantage in hiring and promotion. A new study of college professors shows that class may loom as large.
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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If more Senators had grown up on Medicaid and food stamps like me, they wouldn’t keep cutting our health care and raising our costs. Check out my new ad:
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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.
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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What gets you booted from Substack? Andrew Tate still seems to have a newsletter there while charged with: 10 counts of rape, 3 of trafficking for sexual exploitation, 3 of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, & making/distributing indecent images of a child. possessing extreme pornography.
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David Moore @davidrussellmoore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
David Plouffe, a Coinbase adviser, is on MS NOW the same day that the Fairshake super PAC it bankrolls announces it will spend $30M vs. Sherrod Brown in #OHSen. Last year, Sen. Tim Scott publicly thanked crypto industry "for getting rid of Sherrod Brown." Brown had called for consumer protections.
Screenshot of David Plouffe on MS NOW (09-21-26)
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John Robinson @jrobin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A Trump-appointed judge approves the swap of land between a Trump-appointed billionaire and Trump-led government. Yep, it sounds on the up-and-up. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/c...
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Judge Allows Transfer of Land in Wildlife Refuge to SpaceX, for Now (Gift Article)
The ruling clears a path for a land swap deal that would expand Elon Musk’s Starbase launch site in South Texas.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
NEW: In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump was reelected and eviscerated the FBI and DOJ teams handling public corruption probes.
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Wtf www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminism
Meta tells theatre that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or feminism
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Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
the national media cut off Trump's mic, Mamdani gives Trump his mic
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This will be a catastrophe for both filmed entertainment and news, and it's a great shame that the California AG caved. Trump and his people will celebrate this news today. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/b...
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Paramount to Resolve Antitrust Lawsuit, Clearing the Way for Warner Bros. Acquisition (Gift Article)
The deal would remove the last significant hurdle the media mogul David Ellison faced to create a news and entertainment empire, home to movie studios, HBO, CBS and CNN.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
By the time this merger ruins HBO, destroys WB, gets 5,000 people fired, moves production overseas, and guts the quality of the movies the new studio makes, most people will have forgotten how fast the AGs caved and how little they got in this deal. Writers will not.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The worst part of Bonta caving on the Paramount merger is that it's a big flashing signal to every other company that there is no antitrust enforcement in America and you can bully your way into getting whatever you want. It's a monumentally bad decision.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I was deputy M.E. at the WSJ when Murdoch took over, with a similar “editorial independence board.” Within 4 months, our top editor was gone, replaced by a loyal Murdoch deputy. That board raised a quivering objection, but the deed was done. If the Ellisons own CNN, they’ll do whatever they want.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Christ, these people are monsters. Just monsters. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Jesus Christ, this article will enrage you like nothing else
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Tesla driver charged with murdering 2 in San Jose shows no remorse, prosecutors say
SAN JOSE, Calif. (KRON) — When Ivana Balistreri and her baby were trapped inside a “fireball,” a Tesla driver who had just crashed into the victims’ car on Highway 87 in San…
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