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Nashville Banner @nashvillebanner.bsky.social · 5h
Christa Pike, who was supposed to be the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years, is still alive after the state tried and failed to execute her on Wednesday. TDOC officials refused to comment after the state’s second failed execution this year. nashvillebanner.com/2026/09/30/c...
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Christa Pike survives botched lethal injection attempt - Nashville Banner
Tennessee attempted to execute Christa Pike for a 1995 murder, but the lethal injection failed. Pike survives and was moved to a medical facility.
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 6h
I’ve been a media witness to two federal executions. One was Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. The other, a week later, was a drug kingpin named Juan Raul Garza. My conclusion after watching both men die: The death penalty should not exist. Period. It fixes nothing, and it erodes our souls.
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404 Media @404media.co · 17h
USPS says the cameras, put on USPS truck dashboards, will scan roads, signs, and more.
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USPS To Put Cameras in Trucks That Scan Roads for ‘Community Safety’
USPS says the cameras, put on USPS truck dashboards, will scan roads, signs, and more.
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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026
So Trump's new AI chatbot? Creepy. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social saw this on Bluesky and gave the prompt "play minecraft" a test. This is what happened:
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026
A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.
Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
‘After the incident with Usman, Robb told Muse to stop giving his address. To test the bot, he asked a few friends to see if Muse would still share it. “And it literally gave my address out to five people,” he said.’ 😱 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Meta’s AI agent Muse gives out user’s home address without permission, sending buyer to his house
The new AI agent, Muse, was released last week and has been downloaded by 3 million users
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 29/09/2026
No boundaries... "Meta’s AI agent Muse gives out user’s home address without permission, sending buyer to his house" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Meta’s AI agent Muse gives out user’s home address without permission, sending buyer to his house
The new AI agent, Muse, was released last week and has been downloaded by 3 million users
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404 Media @404media.co · 28/09/2026
NEW: ShinyHunters, the group that stole data on “all FBI employees” including addresses and details on their spouses, told 404 Media on Monday “Since the very beginning we had made our decision that we would never publish this data," they told us exclusively. Read now:
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FBI Hackers Say They Won’t Publish Massive Trove of FBI Employee Data
ShinyHunters, the group that stole data on “all FBI employees” including addresses and details on their spouses, told 404 Media on Monday “Since the very beginning we had made our decision that we wou...
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Dan Johnson | London, U.K. Lawyer = English Solicitor 🔶🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @danrjohnson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The US president, Donald Trump, claimed to have had the suspects under view for a “long time”, although the Guardian understands the operation was not intelligence-led, suggesting investigators had not known about any potential plot in advance. He’s a total clown. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Counter-terror police investigate Iran link over suspected bomb plot at RAF base used by US
Five men arrested on terrorism charges after explosives found near RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire
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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Five men arrested over suspected bomb plot are all British nationals, police say The five men arrested over the suspected bomb plot at RAF Fairford are all British nationals from London and aged in their 20s, Counter Terrorism Policing has said. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...
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RAF Fairford live updates: Five men arrested over suspended bomb plot are UK nationals from London, say counter terror police
The counter terror police say the investigation has led to multiple lines of new enquiry
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DER SPIEGEL @spiegel.de · 28/09/2026
Der zweite Rückzug in kurzer Zeit: Jens Spahn gibt nach SPIEGEL-Informationen seinen Sitz im wichtigsten Bundestagsausschuss ab. »Ein normales Arbeiten« sei »kaum möglich«, schreibt er in einer internen Nachricht.
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Spahn wirft im Haushaltsausschuss hin
Der zweite Rückzug in kurzer Zeit: Jens Spahn gibt nach SPIEGEL-Informationen seinen Sitz im wichtigsten Bundestagsausschuss ab. »Ein normales Arbeiten« sei »kaum möglich«, schreibt er in einer internen Nachricht.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Absolutely extraordinary strategic and military concessions offered by Trump to Xi. Trump offered to sell weapons to China. That was revealed in an interview by David Perdue, the US ambassador. Trump is withholding a $14bn arms package to Taiwan already approved by Congress. All of this
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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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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NEW: Meet the real AI ‘rogue agent’: Lord Watson of Palantir. I am sick to the teeth of this current AI hype cycle & its perversion of language. The only thing going ‘rogue’ right now are AI boosters, a gullible & compliant press & a Labour Lord 1/ broligarchy.substack.com/p/meet-the-r...
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Meet the real AI “rogue agent”: Lord Tom Watson
A Labour leader is out of control. The world needs a containment strategy now
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404 Media @404media.co · 28/09/2026
Executives working on AI at Microsoft and OpenAI admitted what its critics have been saying all along: LLms are predatory pieces of technology that have been built on what a Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Late Friday afternoon, Status has learned, the pool received a surprise message from the White House: Did the networks want to replace CNN for Saturday’s pool duty?" @nataliekorach.bsky.social has all the details on the White House's ongoing battle with CNN: www.status.news/p/trump-cnn-...
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The Press Pool Whiplash
Just as major networks thought their standoff with the White House was cooling, CNN was blocked from pool duty again, forcing the group into a day-by-day battle over coverage.
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DER SPIEGEL @spiegel.de · 27/09/2026
Er formte den Sound der Neuen Deutschen Todeskunst. Nun ist Bruno Kramm, Mitgründer von Das Ich, nach einem Konzert in Spanien gestorben.
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Bruno Kramm: Das-Ich-Musiker und Ex-Piraten-Politiker ist tot
Er formte den Sound der Neuen Deutschen Todeskunst. Nun ist Bruno Kramm, Mitgründer von Das Ich, nach einem Konzert in Spanien gestorben.
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 27/09/2026
When asked why he doesn’t become an independent, U.S. Sen. John Fetterman responded: “Because I’m a lifelong Republican.” After realizing his slip-up, Fetterman laughed and said: “That’ll get clipped.” He then corrected himself and said he's a lifelong Democrat. #TribFest26
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Quartz @quartzmedia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
OpenAI's rogue AI agents visited government websites — and the list keeps growing #OpenAI #AIAgents
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OpenAI's rogue AI agents visited government websites — and the list keeps growing
OpenAI confirmed its AI agents made unexpected visits to SEC, Census Bureau, and other government sites, as its misalignment review expands to include university libraries, state portals, and even Australia's Medicare database. The company says most access involved public data and caused no harm — but the sheer scale of what's still being reviewed, described as petabytes of logs, raises serious questions about how much AI autonomy went unmonitored. This is no longer a single incident; it's an expanding accountability reckoning.
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Reed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
"We're so grossly negligent that in addition to failing to prevent this, our monitoring was such crap that we didn't even notice it for months" is a weird flex, but OK, Sam
A tweet from AI cult leader Sam Altman @sama which says "There is an extensive and ongoing review related to our agents’ use of internet access during training and evaluation. We’ve been publishing summaries at the link below and will continue to.

We have not been as fast as we would have liked but we are trying to balance our desire for transparency with gaining a clear understanding from petabytes of agent activity logs, and working with impacted organizations.

We are prioritizing as best as we can based on severity, and adding resources. Hugging Face is still the most severe event we’ve seen. We will be as transparent as we can be subject to things like vulnerabilities in other companies that our agents have found, which will be their call to disclose or not." and quotes a tweet from @OpenAI, the visible part of which says: "
After the Hugging Face incident, we committed to conducting a much broader review of actions taken by our models during training and evaluation and to being transparent about our findings. This is an extensive review that is ongoing."
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Jonas Mueller-Töwe @jmuellertoewe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Akten aus Gerhard Schröders Amtszeit wurden zur Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung verbracht, wo sie niemand ohne seine Zustimmung einsehen kann. Das Kanzleramt müsste sie wiederbeschaffen, hat nun aber eine ganz eigene Theorie, warum es das nicht muss, berichtet @hmtillack.bsky.social für @t-online.de
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Vorwürfe gegen das Kanzleramt: Falsches Spiel um Schröders Akten
Warum hat das Kanzleramt gegenüber Gerhard Schröder nicht die Rückgabe von Akten durchgesetzt? Ein Protokoll bringt Thorsten Frei (CDU) in Verlegenheit.
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Ukrainska Pravda 🇺🇦 @pravda.ua · 26/09/2026
‼️ BREAKING: Ukraine sounds alarm over situation in Oleshky, where people are eating grass due to hunger
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Ukraine sounds alarm over situation in Oleshky, where people are eating grass due to hunger
Ukraine's Foreign Minister Sybiha said the humanitarian crisis in occupied Oleshky is critical, with civilians reportedly forced to eat grass to survive.
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Euronews @euronews.com · 26/09/2026
"If the necessary conditions are met, the strait can be reopened, and normal maritime traffic can resume within seven days," Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Friday.
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Trump reportedly rejects Iranian plan to reopen Strait of Hormuz
"If the necessary conditions are met, the strait can be reopened, and normal maritime traffic can resume within seven days," Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Friday.
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CNN @cnn.com · 26/09/2026
US President Donald Trump says that he rejects Iran's latest proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, calling it "unacceptable." cnn.it/3Vxspms
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SkynetAndChill.com @druce.ai · 25/09/2026
US nonprofit Transluce finds logs of hundreds of OpenAI agents coordinating for months, using proxies to evade Cloudflare and reach Australian health data
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OpenAI agents attack the 'first' government hack by autonomous AI, researchers say
A swarm of OpenAI rogue AI agents appear to have gone on a spree of trying to access Australian government health data, in what some researchers say is the first autonomous hack of a government website.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/09/2026
Breaking News: OpenAI’s technology went rogue and meddled with three U.S. government websites this summer without the A.I. lab’s knowledge. nyti.ms/4y5MY7n
Open AI headquarters in San Francisco is pictured. Headline reads: "OpenAI’s A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites." Photo credit: Manuel Orbegozo for The New York Times.
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 25/09/2026
In a new investigation Bellingcat and @jeuneafrique.com reconstruct and analyse more than a dozen Malian military drone strikes, that have repeatedly hit civilian areas and reportedly resulted in the deaths of non-combatants.
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
At the event, Thiel claimed much of the press has "degenerated into a left-wing hate factory"—just one of the handful of anti-media remarks the PayPal co-founder made with no pushback from Döpfner. www.status.news/p/peter-thie...
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Döpfner’s Thiel Tribute
At Axel Springer’s event honoring Peter Thiel in Berlin, the publishing boss dismissed his own journalists’ concerns and sat silently as Thiel attacked the press, fueling further pushback from staffer...
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 24/09/2026
Diplomats from dozens of countries walked out of the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approached the podium, emptying rows of the chamber in protest before he could say a word.
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'Order!' UN roiled by another mass walkout as right-wing Trump ally triggers storm-off
Diplomats from dozens of countries walked out of the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approached the podium, emptying rows of the chamber in protest before he could say a word.Cheers and chants in support of Palestine broke out Thursday afterno...
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Scar Atlas @scaratlas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Today, ballistic missiles tore through a residential area in Kyiv. No deaths reported there, amazingly. 50.440886, 30.652614 Київ, Україна - 9G2GCMR3+92 @geoconfirmed.org @uacontrolmap.bsky.social @ukrainedailyupdate.bsky.social Source: t.me/kievreal1/13...
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 24/09/2026
🤯 The CIA warned Spain, France, and Italy that Russia could launch "Gerbera" drones from disguised merchant ships targeting coastal infrastructure, per El Mundo.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’m really not sure that “goes rogue” is an accurate description of a behavior that is apparently both habitual and condoned
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More OpenAl Incidents
The company's A.l. went rogue this year at least four additional times, trying to break into government and university sites.
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Scoop: The anonymous source behind a POLITICO story that the White House is now using to justify a ban on the outlet was none other than JD Vance himself. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/white-hous...
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The Source Behind The Ban
The anonymous source behind one of the stories the White House cited to justify banning POLITICO was none other than Vice President JD Vance, Status has learned.
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404 Media @404media.co · 23/09/2026
NEW: Yesterday, 404 Media broke news of the FBI breach. Now, we've discovered it has exposed the FBI's own hacking unit. The FBI's Remote Operations Unit (ROU) is a highly secretive team of hackers making exploits and tools to break into target’s devices. Some of its members just got exposed.
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FBI Hack Exposed FBI’s Own Hacking Unit
The FBI's Remote Operations Unit (ROU) is a highly secretive team of hackers making exploits and tools to break into target’s devices. Some of its members just got exposed.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
BREAKING: The White House is preparing a plan for a 90-day diesel exports ban, per Politico. Experts, and Trump Energy Secretary Chris Wright, warn this move wouldn't bring down prices, and could make things worse.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Welp. According to Semafor, David Ellison has discussed bringing Elon Musk on as an investor in Paramount's merger with Warner Bros., which could mean Musk could have a stake in CBS News and CNN. www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Exclusive: Paramount weighs tapping Musk for equity investment
A cash injection from SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk could reduce investor Larry Ellison’s financial burden and bolster the deal’s investor base.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 23/09/2026
Explainer: Why new war in Ethiopia’s Tigray threatens to trigger wider conflict reut.rs/4ybtpLs
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Explainer: Why new war in Ethiopia’s Tigray threatens to trigger wider conflict
Regional forces in northern Ethiopia's Tigray on Wednesday seized control of three airports and clashed in multiple locations with federal troops, signalling the start of a major offensive after months of growing tensions.
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Gerrit Kurtz @gerritkurtz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
And the escalation in #Tigray #Ethiopia continues as Tigray Security Forces take control of Mekelle airport and all flights to airports in the region are suspended. addisstandard.com/ethiopian-ai...
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Yonas Nigussie @yonigussie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Tigray Says Ethiopia Launched Ground Assault, Defense Underway BREAKING: Tigray says the genocidal #Ethiopian regime has intensified its assault, adding a ground invasion to heavy drone and artillery bombardment. It added that the #Tigray Defense Forces have now begun defensive operations.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026
Trump: “All of the SLEAZEBAGS, like Third Rate ‘Reporter,’ Kaitlyn Collins, of Fake News CNN, a truly unhappy person, said they weren’t going to be covering me. Then why were they ranting and raving like Lunatics at the UN? She’s got a ‘TRUMP’ addiction. They’re all sick, treasonous, and demented!”
Trump: “All of the SLEAZEBAGS, like Third Rate ‘Reporter,’ Kaitlyn Collins, of Fake News CNN, a truly unhappy person, said they weren’t going to be covering me. Then why were they ranting and raving like Lunatics, in the Press Area, at the United Nations? Why was she there? She’s got a ‘TRUMP” addiction, and so does CNN and MSDNC. They’re all sick, treasonous, and demented! The ‘good news’ is that they have a great, for them, and totally disloyal Judge. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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CNN @cnn.com · 23/09/2026
President Donald Trump made multiple false claims in his address to the United Nations General Assembly, though he largely stuck to a prepared text. Here is a fact check of some of his assertions: cnn.it/4hiiKYe
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 22/09/2026
Trump administration tells Congress it will admit 17,500 white South African refugees
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Trump administration tells Congress it will admit 17,500 white South African refugees
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The violent threat presented by Israel to the entire Middle East region was a consistent theme presented by speakers at the UNGA opening session—including the US allies.
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Leaders of Jordan, Turkey, Qatar condemn 'regional threat' Israel at UN assembly
'This Israeli government's expansionist appetite is now a regional threat,' King Abdullah II said in his speech at the UN General Assembly, adding that Israel's rejection of Palestinian statehood woul...
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I don’t even know what to say anymore jessica.substack.com/p/her-baby-h...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Total collapse: 70% say his Iran war has hurt the US 75% say he has no plan for the war 76% say the war isn't worth the costs
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: At least 550,000 voters registered or updated their registration last week, according to final tallies the nonpartisan nonprofit National Voter Registration Day shared exclusively with Democracy Docket Tuesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Exclusive: Over half a million voters registered in a single day last week
At least 550,000 voters registered or updated their registration last week, according to final tallies the nonpartisan nonprofit National Voter Registration Day shared exclusively with Democracy Docke...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Mother of Renee Good: I voted for Trump under the impression that these agents were here to protect the citizens of the US, innocents like our family and the others here, against terrorists. Certainly not to accuse those of us here of being terrorists and take precious lives. This is madness.
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Scoop w/ @nataliekorach.bsky.social: Staffers at POLITICO and Business Insider are criticizing their parentco Axel Springer for honoring Trump ally Peter Thiel at a ceremony featuring Bari Weiss, putting top boss Mathias Döpfner on blast. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/axel-sprin...
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Axel’s Thiel Tempest
The publisher is set to honor Trump ally Peter Thiel this week—and Status has learned that staffers at Politico and Business Insider are pushing back, accusing their parentco of undermining its own co...
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