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Marisa

@marisamiller.bsky.social
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Writer. Educator. SFF. She/her

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 15h
1. How has MAGA Inc. raised an unprecedented amount of money? Let’s review:
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3h
This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
being in animation, its not from AI. the streaming bubble bursting cuz everyone hopped on the grain cuz it undermined unions, less regulations and more mergers are what lead to the loss. AI is just what people think but it started way before that
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 1h
“Local newspapers are dying, and I don’t think we’re prepared for a world without them…” tulsaflyer.org/2026/09/29/c...
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Battle in McCurtain County at the center of new Peacock documentary
McCurtain County Sheriff’s officials wanted a family-run newspaper dead — literally. A new Peacock documentary explores the years-long battle and what it means for press freedoms.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 1h
Sigh... it bears repeating: imagine if a Democrat had pulled that shit today in a congressional hearing. Every major newspaper editorial board in the country would be calling for their resignation, and Jake Tapper, through tears, would spend a chunk of his show asking what our country has become.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 3h
Let this sink in. Cornell University refused to refund Jane Doe's tuition the semester she was raped. Without this money, she could not transfer to another school. Essentially, she was forced to stay on campus where she saw those seven rapists frequently. Eventually she dropped out of college.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 16h
1. Democrats win control of the House and Senate. 2. Investigations and prosecutions begin. 3. Impeachment and removal proceedings. 4. Take back the billions of taxpayer money corruptly taken by the Trump family and their accomplices. 5. Rinse and repeat.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 12h
Donald Trump incited a violent insurrection to reject the peaceful transfer of power & deny the people's will. He never should have been able to run again. GOP senators condemning Jack Smith for conducting a fact-based investigation as politics & worse are engaged in treachery of the worst order.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2h
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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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2h
A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 8h
“Senior editor Cereese Qusba spent months reporting on the case before breaking the news of the lawsuit on September 18.”
thecut.com
How Student Journalists Broke the ‘Cornell Seven’ Case
“Our coverage was absolutely completely raw from the lawsuit and nothing was concealed. At a minimum, that’s what we can do as the student newspaper.”
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1h
Yet another reason to run on oversight and accountability. Those are promises they can actually keep.
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Chris Polley @the-mirage-fades.bsky.social · 2h
Trying to imagine someone writing an anti-plagiarism think piece 10 years ago that is promptly found out to be plagiarized (and the author claiming a lack of awareness of the publication’s anti-plagiarism policy)
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 3h
the Hawks/Hawkeyes thing is really funny, but the fact that the brains of a sitting U.S. Senator *and his entire staff* are so thoroughly cooked that they thought this nonsense meant anything at all is going to make me go doomer if I think about it too much
Katie Britt enduring the stupidest fucking piece of posterboard ever displayed in the US Senate
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 2h
also not getting enough attention: these texts are between one of the lawyers on Jack Smith's team and a US Marshall tasked with keeping people fueled by Republican conspiracy theories from murdering Jack Smith in public because he tried to prosecute the president for crimes that he did
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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 8h
It is shockingly common for child welfare agencies to remove children from parents because they can't afford housing. Billing them for the foster care really is just beyond the pale. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
thenation.com
“Nobody Blames the Landlord. They Just Take Away the Kids.”
All too often, when parents can’t afford safe housing, the solution child welfare services offer is putting their children in foster care.
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 8h
A WALL IS ALSO A ROAD comes out next week, 10/6! Join me on book tour, starting in San Francisco with a banger of an event at @greenapplebooks.bsky.social with @olivasthewriter.bsky.social. Next: Chicago, NYC, Boston, Burlington VT, and Ottawa! See you soon! #booksky #scifi #books
Annalee Newitz
A Wall Is Also a Road
San Francisco Book Launch
Green Apple Books on the Park
October 6, 7 PM
In conversation with M.M. OlivasBook Tour

October 6 – San Francisco Book Launch
Green apple books, with M.M. Olivas

October 7&8 – Chicago
7th: Barnes & Noble @ West Diversey Parkway
with Michi Trota

October 9 – New York
New York City Comic-Con

October 14 – Boston
Brookline Booksmith
with Cecilia Tan

October 15 – Burlington, VT
Phoenix Books with Andrew Liptak

October 16-18 – Ottawa
Can*Con
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Marisa @marisamiller.bsky.social · 8h
This **** is so insane and morally corrupt. Plus just stupid. And evil. Don't forget the evil. Unnecessarily forcing 1000s of children into blighted childhoods because their parents are very poor. [Don't think for a second foster care is acceptable in these cases]
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10h
Incredible. The 11th Circuit, in a 3-0 opinion (two Obama appointees and one Trump 1.0 appointee), agrees that Trump and his lawyers have failed to rebut the judge's finding that the entire IRS settlement was collusive, highlighting that no other explanation for their conduct was even offered.
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The appellants mount two main attacks on the district
court’s speech-related sanction. First, they argue that the court
lacked a sufficient basis to find that the lawsuit and the settlement
were collusive and that Messrs. Brito and Epstein acted in bad faith.
Second, they contend that the sanction is a broad and impermissible gag order which constitutes a prior restraint and violates the
First Amendment. We conclude that the appellants have not made
a strong showing that they will succeed on either of these grounds.The appellants did not submit or offer any evidence to explain their litigation conduct or demonstrate that the lawsuit and the settlement were not collusive. Given the record before us, the
appellants have not made a strong showing that the district court
committed clear error in its collusion and bad faith findings
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This would provide real relief and opportunities for struggling students but would also be a massive investment in the local economies. We've done this before and we can do it again.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 9h
Today in "absolutely not"
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h
And once again, real harms imposed on real people must be set aside until after real damage is done in order to privilege the unproven right of Trump to impose those harms
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Micah @rincewind.run · 9h
"irreparable harm" is donald trump getting his feelings hurt over being told no and not people being deported to countries they have no ties to with no resources and no support system
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
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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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h
"Fuck that." "I'm Sherrod Brown and I approve of this message."
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Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 14h
Harper Collins tried to claim both my stolen books. Harper Collins published neither.
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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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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 13h
And Sen Amy Klobuchar just did a major fact check on Sen. Schmitt's accusations against Jack Smith.
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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 13h
the heart of the AI industry is taking without asking, taking what you want, taking because you don't care, ignoring what others think and say and just doing it because it's good for you
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
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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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 14h
Jack Smith: Donald Trump preyed on party loyalty and fear. One of the reasons he [failed] is bc Republicans stood up. I personally find it hard to understand how our investigation could be viewed as partisan when our strongest witnesses were Republicans. [Names Rusty Bowers and Mike Pence.]
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JL Kaufmann @jlkaufmann.bsky.social · 16h
Oh look, the AI bros overhyped some bullshit we all told them was bullshit and they implemented it anyway and it turned out to be bullshit.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
Klobuchar has Schmitt dead to rights: "The game in fact was in Maryland. For a senator to have false information & imply, based on confusion about name of a team, that you were in another city & somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia & call you a 'dirtbag' deserves an apology"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
holy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
extremely weird shit during the Jack Smith hearing -- Sen. Eric Schmitt's team briefly displays a poster board that Schmitt claims contains evidence Smith committed perjury, but then Schmitt's team takes it down before anybody can read it and refuses to show Smith what it says
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a new antibiotic, known as manikomycin, that may be a bulwark in the fight against drug-resistant superbugs. By attacking the ribosome in a never-before-seen way, manikomycin can evade the existing mechanisms pathogens have developed to resist antibiotics.
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Che' J. Holloway @chejholloway.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
And they’re all inspired by Curtis Yarvin, who jokes about turning seniors into biofuel and promotes ‘virtual concentration camps.’ But sure, he’s just kidding. english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-...
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Curtis Yarvin’s brave new world: ‘We need a corporate dictatorship to replace a dying democracy’
Recently, the provocateur has gone from being a marginal figure of the so-called ‘Dark Enlightenment’ to placing himself at the center of the American ideological war, cast as a kind of oracle to the ...
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 14h
new: A third-party surveillance company is telling cops that it wants to add facial recognition to Flock footage and ALPR reads to help them "close the gap" in what Flock offers. Company offers racial analysis, gender analysis, behavior analysis www.404media.co/surveillance...
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Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras
A surveillance company wants to "close the gap" that Flock won't do, by pitching facial recognition on its cameras.
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Daniel Kimmage @dkimmage.bsky.social · 15h
Congress should investigate the purge that shut down my former office at the State Department, which fought information manipulation by Russia, China, and terrorist organizations. thehill.com/opinion/nati...
thehill.com
We need accountability for federal employee purges made on false pretenses
I was grilling chicken on a sweltering summer night in the Washington, D.C. suburbs, when I peeked at my phone and saw that a senior official in the administration had just accused me of lying to C…
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tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 29/09/2026
kinda funny that all these massive industry-shaping companies in the greater Thieliverse are drifting in the direction of "democratic decision-making of any sort is simply too much of a risk in the age of AI", probably just a coincidence
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 14h
Norway has solution to this actually, stay at home parents can get their share of the public daycare subsidy as cash, that way parents are not pushed one way or the other. the problem of course is virtually no one on the center or right actually gives a shit about parents
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 13h
yes, this is a perfect example. Vance wants to subsidize Conservative-Approved Family Forms by snatching money away from single parents. they just cannot help themselves bsky.app/profile/thom...
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 13h
yes! the US social benefit system, such as it is, is viciously anti-parent and anti-family!! particularly if you are median income or lower bsky.app/profile/padr...
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 29/09/2026
“the person who is CEO at the time a company goes public will, until their death, have sole power over company decisions, regardless of how much investment they have taken from the public” was just never how any of this was intended to work and it is a catastrophe for corporate governance
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 29/09/2026
this simply should not be legal
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 13h
Our new “Privacy’s Defenders” podcast talks to the activists, lawyers and technologists who have fought for a better, more secure and private digital future – a future that’s still attainable. Episode 1, “Cowboys, Cypherpunks and Visionaries,” is our origin story.
eff.org
Privacy’s Defenders Podcast: Cowboys, Cypherpunks and Visionaries
People are increasingly concerned about the ways in which mass surveillance is tracking our every move: from Flock license plate readers to face recognition to creepy ads that – based on what we see a...
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Micah @rincewind.run · 13h
the right spends an inordinate amount of time whining about the birth rate and while making our system more parent-friendly won’t actually change that - it turns out wealthy countries just have less kids - they could absolutely put real money behind their preferred lifestyle but they won’t
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 16h
One family, after the capture of a loved one, found out about it from activists and took steps to move other loved ones to non-287(g) jurisdictions. Another family still had no idea about why their loved one was captured until I told them about this and took steps to protect others that day.
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