Reposted by Melanie SchmitzAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026TIME: You said you might annihilate Iran TRUMP: Yeah, I would do that. It's possible. TIME: How can the president of peace be calling for annihilation of an entire people? TRUMP: Bc by annihilating Iran, we've created peace in the world. With Iran, I don't think you could ever have peace.time.comRead TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview TranscriptThe U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections. 278947279
Reposted by Melanie SchmitzHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026“In a decision released Wednesday, the Arizona Court of Appeals concluded Gabriel Paul Horcasitas must be resentenced in the 2021 shooting death of Christopher Pelkey because the AI video wasn't reliable.”wral.comSentence tossed in Arizona case where deceased victim was depicted speaking in AI-generated videoPHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona man’s 10-year manslaughter sentence has been tossed in a case where a video generated by artificial intelligence portrayed the deceased victim addressing a judge before the p... 48122
Reposted by Melanie SchmitzBen D’Avanzo @bendavanzo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This KFF headline really gets directly to what's happening todaykffhealthnews.orgUS Poised To Boot Legal Immigrants From Medicaid, Including Refugees and Sex-Trafficking Victims - KFF Health NewsThe Congressional Budget Office estimated 100,000 more immigrants will be uninsured by 2034 because of Medicaid eligibility changes under President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act that take effect ... 27444
Reposted by Melanie SchmitzThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 30/09/2026In February, the Kansas state legislature passed a law that required all driver’s licenses to reflect sex at birth. Roughly 1,700 intersex and transgender Kansans received a letter saying to get new licenses, including Dakota West. Now, she’s suing. wapo.st/3VaB9yX 417740
Melanie Schmitz @melslien.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"During the final threesome," she said, "I remember being totally disgusted at the situation, and I felt very tired and intoxicated ... it was the most intoxicated I've ever been in my life. I felt like I was unable to make any decision because of how intoxicated I was." abcnews.com/US/cornell-s...abcnews.comCornell student said encounter at fraternity house 'felt like coercion' in 2024 statement to policeABC News obtained the woman's 2024 statement to campus police. 010
Melanie Schmitz @melslien.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Wells' mother, Christine Wonsley: "...Both medical examiners, as well as his death certificates, states that the cause and manner of his death is undetermined ... How can a jury come to the conclusion of drowning, despite knowing that there was trauma to his body?" abcnews.com/US/nolan-wel...abcnews.comNolan Wells' parents make plea for justice after no charges filed in his deathNolan Wells' family held a press conference Tuesday and said they will not give up after a grand jury found that no criminal charges are warranted in his death. 000
Reposted by Melanie SchmitzKaren Tumulty @ktumulty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026WAPO EXCLUSIVE -- Sources: Architect McCrery "withdrew from the project last October after warning repeatedly that Trump was insisting on a preliminary design that did not provide adequate emergency exit routes or fire-containment measures." @Blaskey_S @jocwapo www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...washingtonpost.com‘I am the code’: Trump clashed with ballroom architect over safety issuesJames McCrery II resigned in October after warning that the president was insisting on designs that violated fire and safety codes. 105432
Reposted by Melanie SchmitzThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 23/09/2026Breaking news: The ICE officer who shot a Venezuelan man in Austin is a recruit who was issued a body camera but was not using it during the incident, according to two former DHS officials briefed on the matter. washingtonpost.comICE officer in Texas shooting was recruit not using a body cameraThe officer joined ICE last year during the agency’s hiring spree. DHS is facing mounting scrutiny over how the new recruits were vetted and trained. 145930
Melanie Schmitz @melslien.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"Apparently, agents are being commanded to violate state laws to access private voter information and fabricate law enforcement records [...]," Schumer said, adding that DHS agents allegedly were "hunting for, or worse, manufacturing evidence of voter fraud claims." abcnews.com/Politics/dhs...abcnews.comDHS agents allegedly directed to 'misrepresent' themselves to access state voter rolls, whistleblower claimsA whistleblower claims DHS has directed agents to "misrepresent" themselves and "violate state laws" in a voter probe, Democratic lawmakers say. 000
Reposted by Melanie SchmitzJim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 13/09/2026WaPo reports Kennedy Center may close by Tuesday and faces bankruptcy if Trump's name is not added to the center. "Trump is unlikely to provide “fundamental oversight” of that project or lead a financial rescue without “appropriate recognition” of his role." GIFT LINK: wapo.st/4cLnDHPwapo.sthttps://wapo.st/4cLnDHP 160433165
Reposted by Melanie SchmitzBrandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Get in, folks: a new Russian disinfo campaign is targeting the midterms, specifically Democrats, in what seems to be the first attempt by the Kremlin-backed op to meddle in this year’s U.S. elections. They're faking celebrity videos attacking Dems and are...very stupid. www.ms.now/news/russia-...ms.nowA Russian disinformation campaign is doctoring celebrity videos to meddle in the midtermsThe Kremlin-backed operation, known as Matryoshka, has Hollywood actors telling voters to disavow the Democratic Party and vote Republican. 8824601552
Melanie Schmitz @melslien.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Update: a crew showed up to replace the pole and promptly punched a hole through my wood fence with their equipment 100
Melanie Schmitz @melslien.bsky.social · 09/09/2026What I'm trying to say is: I'm five seconds away from launching a conference call with every one of these orgs and agencies to get them to talk to each other HELP ME, OBI-WAN 000
Melanie Schmitz @melslien.bsky.social · 09/09/2026It's been almost a week since the storm and people can't exit their back doors or get trash picked up because there's such a huge lack of communication among govt and service providers and utilities that literally nothing is getting fixed. 100
Melanie Schmitz @melslien.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Pepco says it's not theirs and won't do anything. DC 311 says they can't figure out who the pole belongs to. Cable & ent. subagency says they can't do anything until the tree is moved. City says it can't move tree due to wires. Fire dept says they can't do anything about the pole due to the tree. 100
Melanie Schmitz @melslien.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I've spent the last 5 days since Mega Storm getting bounced DC gov, subagencies and utility companies, who all say there's nothing they can do about the giant tree that fell on the giant utility pole behind my house, knocking it over my patio, which is now covered in loose wires... 100
Melanie Schmitz @melslien.bsky.social · 04/09/2026The judge has set a date of Sept. 29 to determine next steps after declaring a mistrial. Defense request for emergency stay, requiring jury to continue deliberations/potentially consider removing a holdout juror, was denied by a MA Supreme Judicial Court. abcnews.com/GMA/News/liv...abcnews.comLindsay Clancy trial: Judge declares mistrial after emergency request deniedThe trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mom who killed her three young children in January 2023, has reached its final stage. 000
Melanie Schmitz @melslien.bsky.social · 04/09/2026WCVB is reporting the holdout appears to one of the three men on the jury, according to Reddington's comments in open court earlier. 000
Melanie Schmitz @melslien.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Reddington will ask the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to effectively force Sullivan to allow the jury to continue deliberating. Reminder that the jury split appears to be 11-1, with a single holdout that seems to favor conviction, based on Reddington's comments. abcnews.com/GMA/News/liv...abcnews.comLindsay Clancy trial: Defense attorney asks for emergency stay to prevent mistrialThe trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mom who killed her three young children in January 2023, has reached its final stage. 000
Melanie Schmitz @melslien.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Reddington (defense attorney) has requested time to file an emergency stay to prevent a mistrial and compel jury to continue deliberations; Sullivan (judge) has granted him one hour. 000
Melanie Schmitz @melslien.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Judge in Clancy case has just declared a mistrial More tk 000
Melanie Schmitz @melslien.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Court has now recessed for the day; jury to return at 9 am tomorrow. Deliberations have passed the 36-hour mark + 6th day overall. 000
Melanie Schmitz @melslien.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Judge was tense while giving instruction on burden of proof/reasonable doubt, Reddington appeared angry, prosecutors and Clancy exhausted. It seems there's a single holdout here that they're struggling to convince. Anyway, read Mason Leib's great piece on mistrials: abcnews.com/GMA/News/lin...abcnews.comThe Lindsay Clancy jury says they're still deadlocked. What happens if there's a mistrial?With the Lindsay Clancy jury unable to reach a verdict so far, here is what could happen in the event of a hung jury leading to a mistrial. 110
Melanie Schmitz @melslien.bsky.social · 03/09/2026This is chaotic; Reddington has asked the judge to remove 1 juror who he says is not heeding the judges instruction on benefit of doubt/prosecutor burden, and now the jury has been sent back for a third time in 6 days. Deliberations continue.... abcnews.com/GMA/News/liv...abcnews.comLindsay Clancy trial: Judge tells jurors to keep deliberating after tense sidebarThe trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mom who killed her three young children in January 2023, has reached its final stages. 120
Melanie Schmitz @melslien.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Jury has been sent home for the day; They'll return at 9 a.m. for a sixth day of deliberations. 000
Melanie Schmitz @melslien.bsky.social · 02/09/2026This is the fifth day of deliberations and nearly 30 hours in. abcnews.com/GMA/News/liv...abcnews.comLindsay Clancy trial: Jury says it is deadlocked for 2nd time, unable to reach verdictThe trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mom who killed her three young children in January 2023, has reached its final stages. 100
Melanie Schmitz @melslien.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The jury has been deliberating for about 18 hours total across four days so far: abcnews.com/GMA/News/liv...abcnews.comLindsay Clancy trial: Jury unable to reach verdict, judge asks jurors to resume deliberationsThe trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mom who killed her three young children in January 2023, has reached its final stages. 000
Melanie Schmitz @melslien.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Additionally, read our past standalone coverage of the trial here: abcnews.com/search?searc...abcnews.comABC News – Breaking News, Latest News and VideosSearch 000
Melanie Schmitz @melslien.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Our team has been covering the Lindsay Clancy trial for the past several weeks (s/o to Peter Charalambous' detailed reporting, Mason Leib's tireless digital writeups, and Katie Kindelan for flagging it all from the start). You can follow along here: abcnews.com/GMA/News/liv...abcnews.comLindsay Clancy trial: Prosecution calls final witnessesThe trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mom who killed her three young children in January 2023, has reached its final stages. 100
Melanie Schmitz @melslien.bsky.social · 19/08/2026"Drawing on a network of cameras that logs the movements of drivers in more than 6,000 communities, the tool can pick out potential witnesses by how often their cars pass through a neighborhood, or surface a driver's 'associates' from the cameras they pass together." www.wired.com/story/flock-...wired.comFlock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its CodeFlock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plate... 001
Reposted by Melanie SchmitzNicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 12/08/2026“I need people to know that this is still our reality. Going to the movies, they’re there. Grocery store, they’re there. All parts of day-to-day life now feature armed supervision.” 3171102
Reposted by Melanie SchmitzAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 02/08/2026per this source: the blue ash ICE office said that for some of these Haitian clients, who got ankle monitors on today, the feds were placing them on a 75-mile restriction, but….. the court they’d need to go to is more than 75 miles from Springfield, Ohio. 8536160
Reposted by Melanie SchmitzJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 07/08/2026That's a big kick in the guts. Payrolls is much weaker, and the U.S. lost -23k jobs in March, well below expectations of +80k. Huge downward revisions, too: May now +63k (instead of +129k), June now +20k (down from +53k). Very bad news. Revise down your views substantially. 50092192890
Melanie Schmitz @melslien.bsky.social · 07/08/2026"The shooting happened at The Debsirin School in the Bang Kruai district of Nonthaburi province. Police have identified the suspect as a student." abcnews.com/Internationa...abcnews.comAt least 6 people killed, more than a dozen injured in Thailand school shootingAt least six people have been killed and more than a dozen others injured in a school shooting that took place at a high school in the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand. 000
Melanie Schmitz @melslien.bsky.social · 05/08/2026"We organized to have a stronger voice in our working conditions.... The best way to ensure a fair, safe and productive workplace is through collective bargaining. When we support one another, we improve our environment and our news coverage." www.thewrap.com/media-platfo...thewrap.comABC News Digital Employees Unionize With WGA EastABC News Digital employees voted to unionize with the Writers Guild of America East, with the company recognizing the new bargaining unit of about 50 staffers 062
Reposted by Melanie SchmitzThe Denver Post @denverpost.com · 05/08/2026Meatpacking workers at the Cargill plant in Fort Morgan rejected a tentative agreement reached last week with the company, extending the three-month labor dispute that has threatened to cripple the local economy.denverpost.comCargill meatpacking workers in Fort Morgan reject tentative deal, continuing monthslong lockout 031
Melanie Schmitz @melslien.bsky.social · 05/08/2026"ABC News Digital’s roughly 50-member bargaining team voted unanimously to set WGA East as its collective bargaining rep. The unit includes digital reporters, editors and video and social media producers who contribute to ... ABC’s online entities." deadline.com/2026/08/abc-...deadline.comABC News Digital Staffers Unionize Under WGA East Amid FCC Threats To NetworkStaffers at ABC News' digital outlets have unionized under the Writers Guild of America East. 021
Reposted by Melanie SchmitzWriters Guild of America East @wgaeast.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Read more via @variety.com: variety.com/2026/tv/news...variety.comABC News Digital Workers Unionize With WGA East in Unanimous VoteEmployees at ABC News' digital division voted unanimously to form a union with the Writers Guild of America East. 0136
Reposted by Melanie SchmitzWriters Guild of America East @wgaeast.bsky.social · 05/08/2026We're thrilled to welcome our new bargaining unit at ABC News after employees of ABCNews.com and ABC News’ social media platforms voted unanimously to unionize with the WGAE! 318544
Reposted by Melanie SchmitzVittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 21/07/2026SCOOP: A little over a month ago, the Pentagon was bragging that half its workforce was using AI. Now the army is saying they’re burning through tokens and need to limit use. For @wired.com www.wired.com/story/the-ar...wired.comThe Army Is Burning Through Its AI TokensMembers of the Army received an email informing them that they were rapidly depleting their AI tokens, and needed to limit use. 21502178
Reposted by Melanie SchmitzScott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 08/07/2026ALERT: Gov. Andy Beshear (D-KY) asks Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to provide a health update to him and to all Kentuckians 838164784231
Reposted by Melanie SchmitzVittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 26/06/2026NEW from me: the US is about to deport a retired pastor, Edward Nalwamba, back to Uganda. Not only is Uganda in the midst of an Ebola outbreak, but Nalwamba says he was the target of the country's security forces before coming to the US. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/the-us...wired.comThe US Is About to Deport an Immigrant to the Center of the Ebola CrisisEdward Nalwamba is a 78-year-old retired pastor whose health has rapidly declined while in detention, his attorney says. 710569
Reposted by Melanie SchmitzMatt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 25/06/2026🧵NEW: For more than a decade, police in South West England have been quietly experimenting with algorithms to score thousands of people. Most of them didn't know anything about it. Over two years, me and Mark Wilding investigated the messy setup, multiple parts have now been scrappedwired.comBritish Police Built a Sprawling Crime-Prediction Machine. Some Results Couldn’t Be TrustedAs UK police embrace the AI revolution, a WIRED investigation reveals the messy inside story of one region’s experiment with predictive analytics. 816187
Melanie Schmitz @melslien.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Via AP: "Confirmed cases in the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo have reached 1,003, including 254 deaths, officials said in a statement late Sunday." abcnews.com/Internationa...abcnews.comConfirmed Ebola cases in Congo outbreak top 1,000 with 254 deaths, authorities sayAuthorities say confirmed cases of the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo have reached 1,003, including 254 deaths 000
