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Heather @alainnfocail.bsky.social · 2h

Important:

Bradish, Basallo, and Alonso holding kittens.

Pete Alonso looking down at a kitten giving it a kissy face

Pete Alonso holding a kitten looking at the camera

Pete Alonso and Samuel Basallo holding kittens. Sammy is having the best time.

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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 5h

This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...

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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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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4h

FT has independently corroborated Kimberly Guilfoyle’s statement that the US was behind the collapse of the Romanian government of PM Bolojan over its refusal to buy US gas at above market prices: "We can do that to any country we want. We can do that here too." www.ft.com/content/7af7...

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Donald Trump’s ambassador to Greece causes stir in Romania

Kimberly Guilfoyle told embassy dinner in Athens ‘we can do that to any country’, in reference to Romanian government’s fall

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NPR @npr.org · 6h

Khalil was the face of the pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University when immigration agents arrested him and sent him to detention in Louisiana. His new memoir is No Land to Stand On. n.pr/46QIOFc

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Mahmoud Khalil on his detention by ICE: 'It is a stain on the U.S. consciousness'

Khalil was the face of the pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University when immigration agents arrested him and sent him to detention in Louisiana. His new memoir is No Land to Stand On.

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Sheera Frenkel @sheeraf.bsky.social · 11h

NEW- OpenAI ignored warnings from its own employees and independent security researchers who said they needed better safety measures at the company. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/t...

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OpenAI Ignored Employees Who Warned It Wasn’t Doing Enough About Security

Employees and security researchers said they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but OpenAI did not listen.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 8h

Meta's "Muse" launched with a nasty zero day flaw that gave hackers the ability to spy on Mac users, openly gives root access to people pretending to be Muse agents, and invited strangers over to another guy's house without telling him

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Meta's Latest AI Product Is A Terrifying And Hilarious Mess

Authoritarian-friendly mass surveillance has never been more adorable

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 10h

I wrote about just how bad the surge in gas prices is promising to be for Republicans in November. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“One such wave hit the northern tip of South America in late August and has begun moving up towards the west coast of the US. That wave could reach California shores within days, and when it does, ocean scientists say it may raise sea levels by up to a foot for months as El Niño.” Oh.

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Concern mounts over slow-moving, planetary-scale ‘Kelvin’ wave heading for California

The ocean phenomenon could raise sea levels by up to a foot as El Niño keeps warm water trapped along the coast

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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

it’s utterly incomprehensible to me that anyone can see this and still claim Israel hasn’t been committing genocide

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KellyElizabeth @kellyelizabeth13.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ALL THE WORST PARTS OF THE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL WERE PUT OFF UNTIL AFTER THE MIDTERMS. Oh. And you thought the religious persecution of women went away? It was deferred until after the Midterms as well. VOTE EVERY REPUBLICAN OUT OF EVERY OFFICE - State, Local AND National!

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Dissent Magazine @dissentmag.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In the same way that Walter Rodney famously showed how Europe underdeveloped Africa in an economic sense, Ruth First’s “The Barrel of a Gun” presented the case for how Europe politically underdeveloped the continent.

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How Europe Politically Underdeveloped Africa - Dissent Magazine

In a renewed period of coups across the African continent, Ruth First’s analysis in The Barrel of a Gun remains as timely as ever.

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 29/09/2026

The warning to investors came in a long-awaited listing prospectus circulated in recent days with a small group of partners. The AI start-up in the same document recorded an $8bn operating loss on $4.6bn in revenue last year. ft.trib.al/yy0WPfN

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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Worth taking a moment to watch ⬇️🗃️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Swms...

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Fran Lebowitz on the Process of Great Writing | Collection in Focus

YouTube video by The Morgan Library & Museum

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

Let the history books show that STUDENT reporters brought national attention to unchecked abuse. I hope that their cups and opportunities forever overfloweth.This is courage.

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District attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University 'gang rape'

Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the case of alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity.

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DBdant @dbdant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This tidbit was in the article. 🎈💥 ? "Goldman Sachs warned Friday that AI hyperscalers, including Meta, need to generate roughly $300 billion a year in AI services revenue just to break even on their capital spending—and $1 trillion annually to earn meaningful profits—spooking investors."

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Mark Zuckerberg Loses $9 Billion In A Day As Goldman Sachs Pours Cold Water On Meta Stock Rally

Zuckerberg’s $9 billion loss was the biggest single-day drop among any billionaire Friday.

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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DTwyman @dtwyman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This episode of firing line featuring @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu is really worth watching. Particularly for its conclusion dealing with the importance of architecture.

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Anne Applebaum | Full Episode 9.25.26 | Firing Line with Margaret Hoover | PBS

YouTube video by Firing Line with Margaret Hoover | PBS

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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Which medieval creature are you? Pause to find out.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026

Trump fucked up the *American* renewable transition but he might have had the largest positive effect on the global transition of any president ever

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Had bookmarked this and just now listened. Fantastic episode. The enslavement of Native Americans was based on *where* they were. They were on land that settler Americans wanted. It was qualitatively distinct from the enslavement of African Americans and those differences need to be understood.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Man Who Saved The World. May his memory be a blessing.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Send this to every university President in the country.

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Carolyn E Holmes @carolyneholmes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

One easy* trick to ensure your citations are not hallucinated! write the damn thing yourself. *writing isn't easy. I know. but come on. It's not rocket science.** **May not apply for people writing in aerospace engineering, orbital mechanics, or certain chemistry, physics or engineering fields

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

King Harald Hardrada died 960 years ago today at the Battle of Stamford Bridge. His dream of conquering England would never be realised, and even more tragically he wouldn't survive to witness the founding of Buckinghamshire Archives in 1938.

A 1870 painting of the Battle of Stamford Bridge by Peter Nicolai Arbo. The main man himself is in the centre of the image painting in a blue tunic, clutching an arrow buried into his throat. The Norwegians are in various states of dress, halfway into their byrnies, meanwhile some absolutely furious Englishmen are on horseback, attacking the retreating vikings.

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Pieter T. L. Beck @ptrbck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My article arguing that Nathan Cofnas's race realism is rightly labelled as pseudoscience is now also published at @skeptic.org.uk. Honoured to have it up there.

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The Assembly @theassemblync.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

After the Flood Came the Lies Social media conspiracies hampered relief efforts after Helene. Two years later, officials say they’re better prepared to address it.

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After the Flood Came the Lies

Social media conspiracies hampered relief efforts after Helene. Two years later, officials say they’re better prepared to address it.

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Marshall Shepherd @drshepherd2013.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

For 3rd time this year, a Hurricane Watch is up for Hawaii. That's unprecedented per Michael Lowry. Hurricane Nolo approaching and will likely strengthen to a major hurricane. Up to 3 FEET of rain possible on the Big Island. Here is the latest information. www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...

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Hurricane Nolo Is Approaching Hawaii — Is 3 Feet Of Rain Possible?

Hurricane Nolo has formed and for a third time this year, Hawaii is under a Hurricane Watch. The storm could produce up to 3 feet of rainfall on parts of the islands.

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Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Now, there will be a great marriage! And, you know, that will throw the girls into the path of OTHER RICH MEN!"

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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What happened after OpenAI banned the first account was astonishing: ChatGPT advised the shooter about how to evade its own safeguards on violence. “Don’t use real-world locations,” ChatGPT said, later adding: “You can still be twisted. Just be clever about it.” www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...

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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Saudis appear to be nearing a breaking point and may feel compelled to launch a more forceful response. Iran is leveraging the Houthis to pressure the region, but at some stage Western governments will need to address the situation.

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Historian here UT Austin has eliminated courses on slavery, civil rights, the Holocaust and women from its core curriculum. We know the kind of people who have censored history in the past. www.statesman.com/news/educati...

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UT cuts all women and gender classes from core curriculum, drops race classes

The provost’s office also eliminated dozens of courses on race from counting toward the core curriculum.

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Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“When fires burn vegetation and roots that help hold soil in place, hillsides can become more vulnerable to erosion. Some burned soils can also repel water, allowing rainfall to run off more quickly rather than soaking into the ground, which can lead to flash floods and mudslides.”

cpr.org

Sediment is shrinking reservoir storage in the West. Wildfires could make it worse

Reservoirs across the West are slowly losing space to store water as dirt, sand and other sediment pile up behind dams, according to new research.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

BREAKING: A POLITICO reporter was denied access to the White House Thursday and his press credentials confiscated after a judge ordered the Trump admin to immediately restore access for news organizations that Trump banned.

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POLITICO barred from White House after court ruling restoring access

The Secret Service confiscated a POLITICO reporter's press pass Thursday morning despite a federal judge’s decision hours earlier that a media ban appeared to violate the constitutional due process ri...

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My old boss has asked me to give his new book a social media bump, because he has wisely chosen never to set up his own account! So I’m happy to announce that ‘Britain’s Slave Traders: A Hidden History’ is available today in all good bookshops! www.penguin.co.uk/books/460026...

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Ken Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I hope they get the best psychiatric care available. I hope the men who put them in this untenable situation get locked away in prison, in solitary, to only see the sun twice a year.

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Rombert Stapel @rjstapel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yesterday, we celebrated the successful launch of the brand new HisGIS.nl website (also in English!). In HisGIS, we unlock the cadastre of 1832, by georeferencing 17K maps and digitising 3M parcels and their owners. @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social @knawhuc.bsky.social iisg.amsterdam/en/blog/hisg...

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HisGIS

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026

Zelenskyy: "For first time in Russia’s history, we now hear that its oil industry is running on fumes. Our target is Russia’s ability to finance this war, to drag it out, to make it more brutal & destructive. Russia’s finances & Russia’s production are what must be stopped if Putin is to be stopped”

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 23/09/2026

This is a great piece that shows, in microcosm, how the right-wing is capturing the humanities in higher education and how private corporations like the College Board are going along with it.

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

James Talarico: ICE shot Wilber Perez in the back while he was making food deliveries, leaving him on a prison cell floor with a bullet lodged in his back. How does paralyzing a DoorDash driver make anyone safe?

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Pema Levy @pemalevy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In destroying the Voting Rights Act and gutting the 14th and 15th amendments, the Roberts court is recycling legal arguments once advanced by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction. From me and @ariberman.bsky.social

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Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.

The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Pezeshkian: "I come from an Iran, where in truth they bombed a school. You see these children? these children perished under bombs. With weapons used by the United States and Israel. They were innocent. Had committed no crimes."

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/09/2026

Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts Court. Our September + October cover story: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Joel Pinckney @jpinckney.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I wrote this to try and bear witness; I hope you'll read it. If you do, I hope you'll later find some quiet to think about this man, pray for him if you'd like, and then find out what you can do to help those impacted by this violence and terror in your community.

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His car is still sitting there

An ICE kidnapping in Austin

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Jane Voter @janevoter2018.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The No Kings coalition wants everyone who is able to vote early. They will be preparing people to do so on October 17th, but early voting has already started in some states. If you are physically able & your state has early voting, please consider doing it for any of the good reasons listed below.

WHY VOTING EARLY MATTERS:
1. AVOID LONG LINES, AVOID LINES CAST YOUR BALLOT AND BE DONE.
2. RESOLVE REGISTRATION ISSUES. GIVES TIME TO CLEAR UP ANY ISSUES WITH YOUR STATUS.
3. HELP GOTV EFFORTS. ENABLES GET OUT THE VOTE TO FOCUS RESOURCES WHERE NEEDED MOST.
4. BANK YOUR VOTE. SECURE IT FROM LAST-MINUTE ILLNESSES, BAD WEATHER, OR OTHER SHENANIGANS.
5. REDUCE CAMPAIGNS MAIL. HELP CAMPAIGNS REMOVE YOU FROM TARGET LISTS, REDUCING UNWANTED OUTREACH.
7. PROTECT THE VOTE!! VOLUNTEER ON ELECTION DAY, HAVING ALRE3ADY SECURED YOUR OWN VOTE.
6. BUILD MOMENTUM. STRONG EARLY VOTE CREATES MOMENTUM THT IS “TOO BIG TO RIG” VOTE.ORG

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