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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 1h

We should apply this ligic to every “creative act” enabled by AI.

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 5h

This is what government software can be again if we get the yahoo cowboy dudebros out

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

It’s really remarkable to me that 10 years into this people feel compelled to “clarify” Trump’s homicidal and often genocidal fantasies. It is deranged for the president to daydream about American cities in states he hates getting blown up. Full stop.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6h

WHOA. This is big news. Mr. Soliman is a 31-year-old gay man from Egypt who came here at 3 with a green card. He lost his green card after a conviction, but an immigration judge found that he would be persecuted in Egypt and barred sending him there. He's locked in a hotel in Equatorial Guinea now.

A federal judge has ordered the Department of Homeland Security to return Ahmed Soliman to the United States, five months after he was expelled to Equatorial Guinea, a country where he has no ties, in a decision that could have far-reaching implications for thousands of others subjected to the Trump administration’s third-country removal scheme.

Arizona District Court Judge John C. Hinderaker, a Trump appointee, ruled that DHS violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment and “must facilitate Plaintiff’s release from custody in Equatorial Guinea and return to the United States and must ensure his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to Equatorial Guinea.”

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 23h

Getting an education in America shouldn’t mean a lifetime of debt. In the Senate, I’ll fight for tuition-free public college & trade school programs, canceling student debt & higher teacher wages. Volunteer for our people-powered campaign: AngieNixon.com/volunteer #AngieForFlorida

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

imagine if the mainstream media covered Republicans' number one donor — the biggest political donor in US history! — and his controversial views with as much scrutiny as they covered Hasan Piker's

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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Climate folks… please give this a follow! A new climate comms initiative with Katherine Hayhoe, Bernadette Woods Placky, and Dana Fisher

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A naked, gold-covered Trump statue has been unveiled inside the European Parliament in Strasbourg. It’s called “Orange Plague,” also known as “King of Injustice,” and shows him sitting on another man’s shoulders holding an enormous golf club. Covered in reportedly 23-karat gold, of course.

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Ivan the K ™ @ivanthek.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Every bagholder had it coming.

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Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

one of my most dearly held beliefs is that theoretical math is a humanities field. the fact that it happens to be a deeply beautiful, deeply human pursuit that is *also* axiomatically defined is why AI can murder it and never look back

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Justice Alito devotes an entire chapter of his new book to the emergency docket—and to responding to people like me (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”). As I explain over at “One First,” it … didn’t go well: www.stevevladeck.com/p/256-so-une...

In the pre-publication galleys to his new book, So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country, Justice Alito spelled my last name inconsistently. This is, I suspect, the pettiest possible point on which to open in discussing a Supreme Court justice’s new memoir, and I would never have mentioned it except for the fact that inconsistency turns out to be the organizing feature of the chapter in which I (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”) repeatedly appear.

The central inconsistency of Chapter 8, which is devoted to the emergency docket, is structural: Rather than tackle the subject holistically (as one might expect in a book), Alito mashed together the speech he gave five years ago at Notre Dame Law School with a “postscript.” The former was deeply flawed even at the time (among lots of other things, Alito repeatedly insisted that there was “nothing new” about the Court’s behavior on emergency applications during the first Trump administration and COVID); and the latter tries to move the goalposts away from the specific phenomena to which critics like me have actually objected.

The result is to leave readers with a disjointed, inaccurate, and misleading sense of what the debate is even about—to say nothing of how the Court’s own behavior since September 2021 (including Alito’s) has only further undermined the already-flawed claims Alito made back then. Somewhere between the galleys of Alito’s book and the final product (which hits bookstores today), someone apparently figured out that my last name should be spelled the same way (and correctly!) throughout. The other, more significant inconsistencies were, apparently, harder to fix.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A tree that took 250 years to grow getting cut down by Donald's jackbooted thugs in minutes is the type of on-the-nose symbolism that would have a writer panned by critics as a hack.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Obviously these are horrific crimes by monstrous, murderous fascists, so we should ignore them and do and say nothing about them, out of self-interest.

Ed Miliband's 'personal agenda' hurting the UK says Tom Tugendhat in blast at 'virtue-signalling' Israel sanctions, handshake with top Iranian and green fixation

'The British people need you to stand up for the interests of freedom and peace around the world, and that does mean things like sanctioning Ben-Gvir and Smotrich. Those two cabinet ministers have been barbaric, frankly, in the way that they've called for violence in not just the West Bank, but also in Gaza.
'But it also means making sure that when the Israelis are going through an electoral process, you don't interrupt, you don't put your hand on the scales, and help those who are encouraging those settlements.
'But it also means remembering that when you're making a statement, when you're making noise, when you're actually trying to change things, your fundamental job is what's good for Britain.
'Now, yes, of course, that means respecting human rights, and the abuse of the Palestinian communities very far from the West Bank has been horrific. There's no question about that. We need to do it in a way that actually gets a result, because otherwise, all you're doing is virtue signalling at the cost of Britain.'

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Trump demands that American reporters refer to the Black Plague that has broken out in Putin’s Russia as "Super Plague".

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Tom Schaller @schaller67.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Check me, but I believe in those last two years of his second term the GOP also refused to confirm all but one of Obama’s appointees to the appellate courts, too. So not just SC. Then Trump came in and marveled at why Obama “left” him so many vacancies.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I do love the republicans having to be the ones saying 'no that's not real. no, it's more complicated than that.' with the data center and AI shit for once, not gonna lie. this must be what it feels like to be on the other side of the table when they're spreading shit about vaccines or whatever.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The big lesson from Brazil's election results is that we operate under the illusion that once people experience actual authoritarianism, they'll be repulsed by it. In reality, Brazilian democracy is just 38 years old and many of the people who lived through dictatorship remember the era fondly.

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Andy Smith @doitinprivate.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My man looks like he alphabetized the Epstein Files

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

So you make him and the gop kill it. Pass good stuff that people want and make it explicit that the only thing standing between us and paradise is the gop

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NPR @npr.org · 05/10/2026

Trump said Clayton will lead the White House's new "Super Intelligence Force," which will coordinate government engagement with artificial intelligence. n.pr/4rKs63I

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Trump names national intelligence chief Jay Clayton as new AI czar

Trump said Clayton will lead the White House's new "Super Intelligence Force," which will coordinate government engagement with artificial intelligence.

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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Trump is getting ready to lift sanctions on Russia so his family and oligarchs can make billions by purchasing Lukoil's profitable overseas assets for less than they are worth. This sale would be a bribe from Putin. That is all Trump wants.

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Kevin @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

this is not me saying the Catholic Church is progressive or anything but if Catholic clergy were still allowed to run for office there'd be a priest running in a D+12 seat whose comments about ICE singe your damn eyebrows off

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's shocking this is not shocking: "The UK’s largest private-sector employer is offering up to three days of paid leave which can be taken flexibly for activities such as attending court hearings, arranging emergency accommodation, changing locks, securing childcare or separating finances."

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Tesco is first supermarket to offer paid ‘safe leave’ for victims of domestic abuse

Exclusive: Britain’s largest private-sector employer has also trained managers to spot signs of domestic abuse

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/10/2026

NEW: I have obtained descriptions of NINE FBI training videos showing agents were instructed to flag Trump's name in the Epstein files for supervisory review. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

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EXCLUSIVE: MSW Media has Obtained Descriptions of NINE Epstein Files Redaction Training Videos in FOIA Lawsuit

Sources confirm that two videos instructed agents to flag documents including Trump’s name for supervisory review.

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Billionaires ain’t broke, but they’re broken.

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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#BikeTO ❤️📢✊🏾 @stephrouth.bsky.social People utilizing bikes to equitably move across the city should have these (hard to remove) stickers on hand to place on drivers vehicles that fall into the ‘bad driver’ category. h/t @kayehm.bsky.social Cc: @cycletoronto.bsky.social @thewaroncars.bsky.social

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Thanks to everyone - of all ages - who showed up on a Saturday to knock on doors and make sure our excellent Democratic candidates win up and down the ballot this November.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Just a reminder that these Haitian immigrants in Springfield -- who came here legally, did everything they were asked to do and more -- became a target of federal crackdowns because the white nationalist vice president shamelessly spread racist lies about them.

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J.D. Vance Defends False Claims Against Haitians: 'If I Have to Create Stories… That's What I'm Going to Do'

J.D. Vance defended his debunked claims that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.

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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026

A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

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A Reckoning in Springfield

A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The case is laid out with such care and detail I almost feel like people are missing what a straigthtforward case of "a US Senator took bribes from the defense-industrial complex under the knowing protection of a morally compromised president and FBI" this is www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqyi...

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We Uncovered Bribery Allegations Against Susan Collins

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LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · 04/10/2026

Republicans' 2025 Big Ugly Bill gave data centers tens of billions of dollars in tax breaks, fueling the data center boom that has raised our costs and polluted our air and water. Now they're pretending that never happened. But we won't forget.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

One more: the one organization Rufo has helped to run, has turned into a gold-plated cancel culture mill, where unqualified hacks get high-paying gigs, qualified faculty are pushed out, and academic standards have declined to ensure more men are on campus. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...

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The NYT Recruiting Brochure for New College

A failing Ron DeSantis higher ed experiment gets a boost

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Not on X, so I write about Rufo less though I am sure he is still destroying lives. On here, he usually pops up when a media actor presents him as a good faith defender or meritocracy or some such. Rufo's great gift has been to state publicly he will lie to co-opt these people and succeed.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

When Trump took over, Rufo personally led the campaign to get a hundred trans intelligence fired. Was this about merit? No. Rufo has been very clear. We protect our people, we denigrate and punish the others. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-era-of...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

He systematically targeted Black scholars, offering bounties for evidence of plagiarism. He's make the accusation, regardless of the evidence. In one esp bad case, I wrote a rebuttal and Rufo personally went after every faculty member who (rightly) disagreed. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/open-seaso...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Rufo pioneered the tactic of calling any discussions of race Critical Race Theory, and used it to get people fired. He pioneered the strategy of labeling teachers as "groomers" if they talked about gender identity donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-qanoni...

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 04/10/2026

Confirmed ICE seen skulking around South Minneapolis. Eyes out, whistles up

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

They broke into a warehouse and stole all the man in the high castle props and costumes

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MLC @chicyph80.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Chat, is it good that the President and the Senate Majority Leader is having to visit South Carolina with like 4 weeks before the midterms? Gonna say it again, South Carolina is VERY quickly moving up my Senate order. I would guess their internals are awful there.

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