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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.

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Matt Rodier @matthewrodier.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The article states that the breach affected 2.8 million living people and there are 1.3 million people currently serving. So, unless I’m misunderstanding this, it seems the hackers obtained records on most of, if not the entire, U.S. military.

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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.

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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

should be day 2 stories if Maine/national media pick up on fact Collins' lobbyist husband, Tom Daffron, worked closely - for years - with Scott Reed, a key player in the corruption scandal @andrewperez.bsky.social & @martinpengelly.bsky.social wrote about that in June zeteo.com/p/susan-coll...

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Susan Collins’s Husband Worked for the Lobbyist Running Her Super PAC

The Maine senator's husband apparently consulted last year for the lobbyist leading Pine Tree Results PAC, documents show.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

New: hackers say they have personal data on all FBI employees and spouses. I got a sample of 5,000 alleged employees, including name, physical address, phone number, and in some cases spouses. Could be a massive national security and counterintelligence risk www.404media.co/we-hacked-th...

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‘We Hacked the FBI:’ Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI Employees

A sample of 5,000 alleged agents seen by 404 Media includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on FBI employees' spouses.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This seems like a pretty big deal: donors made illegal contributions to Susan Collins and then were awarded lucrative contracts after her office intervened with the Navy. An FBI investigation was dropped under Trump. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...

To skirt campaign finance laws and conceal the source of the funds, Navatek planned to funnel the donation through a shell company. The CEO wanted assurance that Collins would know where
the money came from. Reed confirmed that she would, the executive said - and that Navatek would get its government contracts.
After the Corner Bakery meeting, Navatek's CEO, Martin Kao, sent an initial $150,000 to the Collins super PAC using the shell company. Two months later, he told Navatek executives that Collins committed to getting the company $32 million in naval contracts, according to an internal company email reviewed by ProPublica.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19/09/2026

It’s people - not AI systems - who are choosing to murder civilians with small drones at ever escalating rates around the world, as I recently wrote about with Yale’s Nathaniel Raymond for @foreignpolicy.com:

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Civilians Need Better Protections in the Drone Age

Hunting noncombatants from the sky is growing disturbingly common.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Trump administration's lawless killing spree at sea continues with a lethal strike on four more supposed "narco-terrorists" in the Caribbean. Very real killing in a make-believe war. Outside of war the general term for premeditated killing is murder.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19/09/2026

Innocent civilians are being murdered with dirt-cheap and essentially impossible to ban tiny flying robots at shocking numbers globally (read our piece below). We have REAL, CURRENT cyberpunk horrors to deal with right now, and we don’t need to waste our time on hypothetical AI basilisks.

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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This week on WarTalk: @geraldcbrown.bsky.social joins the show to talk the PLA’s 2027 goals, purges, nuclear deterrence, and military doctrine vs reality! open.spotify.com/episode/79qA...

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WarTalk: PLA, 2027, Nukes, and the Pivot to Asia Pirouette

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Matt Rodier @matthewrodier.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Are there any drone experts on here (specifically up on UA theater of operations) that I could have a brief private conversation with? Was thinking @faineg.com but they seem super busy as of late so any recs would be greatly appreciated. Questions I have are not for a story.

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It didn't matter if CBP officer Luis Uribe's victims were sex workers, a prosecutor told jurors this week. It's possible for a sex worker to be raped, he told them. "Sex workers," he said, "can be credible." The jury agreed. From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/0...

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Customs officer guilty of using gun, badge to sexually assault women in Chicago suburbs

Jurors concluded that U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officer Luis Uribe sexually assaulted four sex workers in 2022, convicting him of a series of crimes that could put him in prison for the rest ...

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

spoke to Lina Khan today about the AI madness and what the hell we should be doing to hold these companies accountable (in a way that takes their power seriously but doesn't buy into every narrative) full pod coming in the AM!

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Josh Kaplan @josh-kaplan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

NEW: Don Trump Jr’s luxurious wedding was secretly bankrolled by a Russian oligarch close to Putin. A saga involving private islands, the Olympics, and a Russian government-backed biker gang: www.propublica.org/article/dona...

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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch

The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

SCOOP @telliotter.bsky.social and I identified the authors of the bogus noncitizen voting Census report and how they used bad data to make faulty conclusions They include a former DOGE guy (of course) and two people from AFPI, a Trump-aligned think tank www.wired.com/story/a-us-c...

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A US Census Report on Noncitizen Voting Used Bad Data to Reach Faulty Conclusions

Trump has touted a recent Census report. WIRED found grave flaws in its analysis and the process behind it, and confirmed the identity of several of its authors—among them a one-time DOGE affiliate.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

applying "Make ___ Great Again" to Germany really does kinda give the game away

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Matt Rodier @matthewrodier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If any other President did this it would dominate headlines and tv news for so long that no matter how much it offended you you’d probably get sick of hearing about it at some point.

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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Sue Purchase is the godmother of harm reduction efforts in Minnesota. I've reached out to her for insight into the opioid etc. epidemic for like 15 years because she's on the ground every day. Please read the latest via my colleague Jessica Bary.

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This is ADL's solitary statement after Nazis won state elections in Germany for the first time since the Holocaust:

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Ed Sheeran’s fans came for a concert, not performative, biased and hateful anti-Israel “activism” from his opener, Macklemore.

Imagine being a Jewish or Israeli fan who came with family or friends to enjoy the show, only to be confronted with this hostility from the stage. Or feeling so unwelcome by the opening act that you leave early.

This isn’t new for Macklemore. He has a record of demonizing Israel and Israelis, falsely accusing Israel of genocide and engaging in antisemitic rhetoric and behavior.

This is completely unacceptable.

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Matt Rodier @matthewrodier.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

My Mom just showed me a bunch of stuff from my Grandpas’s service in the U.S. Army in Algeria and Italy during WWII. First image is a picture of three of his friends taken in Monte Cassini, Italy. 1/

Three of my Grandpa’s friends sitting in uniform while serving in the U.S. Army in Italy in WWII.

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Matt Rodier @matthewrodier.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I keep seeing ridiculous things posted about the Trump admin for engagement and then when the lie is pointed out people respond with “yeah but he’s terrible so I can imagine it being true.” This is literally, almost to the word, how Joe Rogan reacts to disinformation on the internet.

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Matt Rodier @matthewrodier.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Started listening to The Team House, @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social’s podcast, recently. Definitely not the prototypical former tier one guy podcast. A lot more journalistic (which makes sense) and frankly a lot more intelligent than some of the others I’ve listened to.

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Matt Rodier @matthewrodier.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Down and Out in Paris and London, George Orwell.

A passage from Down and Out in Paris and London, by George Orwell, that expresses his belief that the wealthy want the poor to toil endlessly, so as not to risk upsetting a class structure that benefits them and affords them a life of luxury.

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Matt Rodier @matthewrodier.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The introduction of “PDS” is interesting. Bad sign for a democracy that the people currently running our govt see any criticism as derangement, accuse reporters of being traitors, lie about casualties of war. Lotta flashing red warning signs, from a history of authoritarianism perspective.

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Matt Rodier @matthewrodier.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The thesis of this article seems to be if the constant surveillance and control don’t bother you it’s lovely, and that’s not a trade off I’m willing to make. In China you’re one social media post critical of the govt away from not being able to buy anything or travel, right until you get arrested.

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Matt Rodier @matthewrodier.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Hard to find a more illustrative example of his priorities.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The situation in Haiti is terrifying. On Sunday, 150 gunmen swept down on a town to kill, rape, loot, and burn. 22 people were executed in a churchyard. 52 were taken hostage. Stephen Miller mockingly says Haiti is safe and ICE just sent its second deportation flight this month; with kids on board.

They arrived in silence, under cover of darkness, heavily armed as they surrounded the town and moved through Kenscoff’s rugged terrain and towering forests in the mountains above the Haitian capital. Numbering around 150, the gunmen swept through several locations as they made their way toward the center of the town, opening fire on resident who tried to flee. At least 13 people were shot and killed as the gunmen ran through downtown, according to an account by the United Nations human rights office. As more than 50 others sought refuge in L’Arche de la Nouvelle Alliance, a Protestant church that had been sheltering people already displaced by the violence, the gunmen pursued them. When they arrive, they forced residents from the church and executed 22 of them in its courtyard. A dozen others were killed behind the sanctuary. The attackers didn’t just stop there. Before withdrawing from downtown, an area encompassing City Hall and a Haiti National Police substation, they abducted at least 52 people, including a mother and her five children, as well as another mother and her infant. Children and elderly who could not run were killed inside their homes. Others were burned alive after gunmen set at least a dozen houses on fire, witnesses told the National Human Rights Defense Network. The attackers also shot horses and other livestock inside the rural enclave.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

She is in fact very very generous to them by suggesting the majority maybe didn’t see what the administration is up to - when they obviously see it and ruled, yet once again, with malice aforethought to aid and abet the trashing of our electoral system and the very idea of democratic legitimacy.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Justice Jackson: This "violates well-established precedents concerning this Court's equitable discretion and needlessly injects chaos and uncertainty into the upcoming midterm elections. It also lets another shoe drop in the Kafkaesque nightmare that our precedents have been steadily creating."

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Christopher W. Jones @cwjones.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

An exemplary policy at UChicago: - Technology ban in class. - Total AI ban. Students may not use it, instructors may not assign it. Exceptions to the latter for narrow purposes must be approved at the administrator level. - Instructors may not use AI for grading. chicagomaroon.com/53262/news/s...

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Sosc Core to Institute AI Ban, Technology-Free Classrooms This Fall

All social science Core classes will transition to an “analog” approach for the upcoming academic year, restricting in-classroom technology use and banning AI-assisted writing and grading for students...

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Matt Rodier @matthewrodier.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This is a great piece. It led me to consider what Jan 6th would have looked like if a segment of the crowd had bet on the election with money they sorely needed.

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Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The death estimate is very uncertain but the lower bound is over 8 million and the upper bound is over 19 million. All while US spending has increased overall. Just a monstrous policy choice by monstrous people.

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Yesterday was the nine year anniversary of "Unite the Right," a deadly riot in Charlottesville, VA, that killed multiple people, including antiracist activist Heather Heyer. Today, there are powerful people that want you to believe that what we saw with our own eyes is a lie. Don't let them.

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Matt Rodier @matthewrodier.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This is generally seen as the market’s assessment of your nation’s ability to stay solvent and meet its obligations going forward. Not a good sign that the risk of us defaulting is seen as at a 25 year high.

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Jørgen Heszlein @heszlein.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Matt Rodier @matthewrodier.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I recently subscribed to @wired.com and you should too, bc they’ve done some of the best work on the current perils of American democracy.

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Matt Rodier @matthewrodier.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

When you move to Chicago people will talk your ear off about the long winters but never mention that sometimes your phone will send you a loud alert that there is a small but non-zero chance a storm might rip the roof off the apt building you live in in the next 15 minutes.

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Matt Rodier @matthewrodier.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

It’s frustrating to watch. There are a bunch of foreign diplomats living in Kyiv now. They also don’t appreciate missiles coming out of the sky, and I’m certain they would stop them if they could, but diplomats don’t do that. Interceptors do.

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Matt Rodier @matthewrodier.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

They’ve been preparing for this war, and under various types of sanctions, for decades. The midterms will arrive long before Iran loses its will to fight, and the closer we get to them the better their negotiating position is, and they know that.

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Matt Rodier @matthewrodier.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Watching a Sean Penn FDNY EMT movie on Netflix. It’s pretty good but you can’t put Mike Tyson in a movie playing anyone other than Mike Tyson. He’s far too famous for that. Whenever he is onscreen my brain inevitably says “hey look that’s Mike Tyson.” Impossible to have any other reaction.

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anniempeterson.bsky.social @anniempeterson.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

A note on Royce White, the former NBA player who says he's entering the WNBA draft, a judge ruled he abused his wife and teenage son in an April court order and determined he could not have contact with either of them for 50 years. Great way to "protect women's sports" transphobes.

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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 05/08/2026

They stole ALL the Flock cameras in Winona.

WINONA MINNESOTA
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Winona Police Department
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On 8/1/26, the Winona Police Department discovered that all eight of our city's Flock cameras were missing. That evening, an officer noted that there'd been no recent activity on the cameras. Officers subsequently checked the various locations where the Flock cameras were placed and found that the poles were cut down near the base. Officers located the poles nearby in the weeds, but the cameras had been removed. As of 8/4/26, the cameras have not been located.
The stolen cameras were stationed in the following areas:
Two near Hwy 61/Bundy Blvd
Two near Hwy 61/Hwy 14
Two near Hwy 14/Knopp Valley Dr
Two near Hwy 43/Homer Rd
The timeframe of the thefts appears to be between July 29th and August 1st.
The cost to replace each camera and pole is approximately $3,000.
The investigation remains active and ongoing.
Anyone with information related to the thefts can contact the Winona Police Department at 507-457-6302 or by calling Winona Area Crimestoppers at 507-457-6530. You can also submit a tip online through https://winonaare acrimestoppers.com.

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Matt Rodier @matthewrodier.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I don’t think it’s a good sign that a significant part of our country is celebrating the latest mass shooting because someone shot back.

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