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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 1h

Well-sourced, eye-opening (but in hindsight, unsurprising) piece from Adam. The main use of AI by publishers appears to be publicity/marketing. I would like to explain why this is a bad use from the perspective of someone who gets pitched dozens of books a week for coverage.

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 7h

The party of law and order is planning more crimes.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 6h

He’s so damn good at this. Jon Ossoff came out swinging against Mike Collins in the Georgia Senate debate. “It’s not just that you’ve hired half the Third Reich to staff your congressional office … It’s that you’re robbing your constituents to subsidize your donors.” 🔥

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 6h

The US is joining these countries in public executions: Iran, Afghanistan, Somalia, North Korea, and Saudi Arabia.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

El-Sayed begs Trump to campaign in Michigan 😆

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 20h

ICE prevented a woman I know from seeing her kidnapped uncle in a hospital in New Jersey for EIGHT DAYS last month. The uncle cannot read or write, and they forbade hospital staff from even telling her what was wrong with him. ICE are death squads.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21h

they’re spending hundreds of millions to kill a tax that would take them back to where they were a month ago 🤡

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 23h

This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Troy Jackson: "The gentleman's name was Johan Sebastian Guerrero. He had a 3 year old daughter. The only mistake he made that morning was going to work. Because Sen. Collins is not willing to stand up to Donald Trump, he was murdered in the streets of Biddeford for doing nothing wrong."

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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 07/10/2026

The cavalry began showing up for Ken Paxton on Aug. 20, when Elon Musk's America PAC started spending. Since then, GOP groups have shelled out more than $200 million to rescue Paxton. In that time, the polls have climbed from D+2 to D+4. Via @fiftyplusone.news fiftyplusone.news/polls/senate...

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

NEW EPISODE: ICE never wanted you to see these: internal government documents that show Homeland Security Investigations has been probing nonpartisan groups that help register citizens to vote They even went so far as to outline a plan to use undercover agents. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJoZ...

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ICE Voter Plot EXPOSED in Smoking Gun Documents

YouTube video by Democracy Docket

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Aleianjack @aleianjack.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

How The 1980s Televangegrifts Prepared The Way For Donald Trump open.substack.com/pub/wonkette...

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How The 1980s Televangegrifts Prepared The Way For Donald Trump

We’d call them Baptist Johns, but they were mostly Pentecostals.

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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I maintain that "low-info voters" (aka the common clay of the new West) liked that he was saying outrageous stuff. But they assumed that 1) Mr. Good At Business was just doing so to make "elites" gasp & drop their monocles; 2) there were guardrails against him doing anything *really* bad. Whoopsie!

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I've reached out to the campaign of Greene-Placentia's opponent, Republican incumbent Abe Hamadeh, for comment on her rape allegations. Will update if he responds.

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SFDB @sfdb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Congress’s watchdog arm has found that the Trump administration illegally withheld federal funds last year from federal government programs at the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Health and Human Services." Rogue and lawless administration.

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Congress’ Watchdog Finds Trump Illegally Withheld More Than $1 Billion in Federal Funds

The White House impounded funds from the EPA and HHS last year, the Government Accountability Office reports.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 07/10/2026

This is sexual violence as a form of terrorism. It is political violence and it is chilling and horrific, and AOC was absolutely right to be terrified that the goons (now pardoned) laying siege to the capital would rape her if they found her. Small changes won't fix this. FLIP THE TABLE NOW

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Very worthwhile to follow @zacheverson.com if you're trying to stay up to speed on the Trumps' crypto machinations.

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

NEW: The Democratic Party’s national organization filed a lawsuit accusing the Trump administration of unlawfully using government money to pay for TV ads lauding the president in recent weeks buff.ly/QlgT0n6 Complaint: buff.ly/VQSSN8y

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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

His 47% moment.

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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Surely he’ll be back up but there’s no way to spin this isnt bad to be absent from the airwaves even if it’s just for a couple days this close to the election Cooper really might win by double digits and that could have disastrous effects downballot

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I’m sure I’m not the only one that saw the video of this man putting himself between French national police and student protestors circulating yesterday.

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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Add Karen Smith to my list of badasses whose mouthy approach I respect. Actions usually speak louder than words. This is a hero, Y'all. Well done, Ma'am. You're gonna kick ass in your new position. ✊📖

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Troy Jackson: Eight years ago today, Maine women begged Susan Collins not to confirm Brett Kavanaugh. She did it anyway. He helped overturn Roe v. Wade. And today, she says she has no regrets. Would you trust her to pick the next Supreme Court justice?

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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Congresswoman Analilia Mejia @repanalilia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This should alarm every American. Trump is shutting out independent election observers while preparing to send his own DOJ monitors to polling places. That's a page out of Putin's playbook. Our elections belong to the people — not Donald Trump.

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Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over 2 decades

The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026

They’re going to keep making it impossible to ignore how half measures to address state violence simply aren’t up to the task.

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Uppity Black Woman @uppityblackwoman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Newsweek reports all four active U.S. district judges in Middle Tennessee have recused themselves from a lawsuit brought by Republican Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn against former special counsel Jack Smith over the collection of her phone records. This www.alternet.org/amp/jack-smi...

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Every federal judge in Nashville just walked away from Jack Smith case

“All District Judges of the Middle District of Tennessee have recused in this matter.”

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Democratic Women’s Caucus @demwomencaucus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Estrogen patches are a vital part of daily healthcare for millions of women navigating menopause. However, right now, it’s nearly impossible to find, and the FDA is doing nothing. We sent a letter to HHS and the FDA demanding answers. Read more here: www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

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US House Democratic Women's Caucus press health secretary on estrogen patch shortages

The Democratic Women's Caucus ‌in the US House of Representatives has asked Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to address a shortage of estrogen patches to ensure a stable supply of the widely use...

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

the IRS is so badly funded that the most recent time we actually measured tax evasion was 2016 btw this should be a yearly report! but instead the sum of all federal knowledge regarding the tax gap is like five spreadsheets where half the numbers are derived from decades-old figures

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/10/2026

ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” The Trump administration's ultimate goal? “To make sure no one ever sends their kids to the US again.”

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“You kidnapped my son”

ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 07/10/2026

Election deniers want the Trump administration to use false claims that voting machines are compromised as justification to seize voting machines. They believe that the commerce secretary already has authority to do that — a view that legal experts say is way off base: demdock.com/4BaDLxl

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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 07/10/2026

At a press conference outside 26 Federal Plaza, immigrant advocates and family members of those detained gathered to raise awareness about the arrests. They urged immigrant New Yorkers who have received a “call-in letter” from DHS to get legal help before their appointment.

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'But I'm Not From Ghana': ICE Targets Longtime New Yorkers for Third-Country Deportation

Immigrants with protected status who've lived in the city for decades are finding themselves swept up, shackled and threatened with expulsion.

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Litsa Dremousis @litsadremousis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

All of us who are #disabled who warned that these motherfuckers would proceed w/ eugenics. But, hey, Biden was old and Harris was a Black Asian woman, so, y'know. Trade offs!

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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/10/2026

damnatio memoriae is the right thing to do with trump for many reasons and at the top of the list is the fact that it will make him so, so angry

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 06/10/2026

Kilmar Ábrego Garcia on Tuesday will be back in federal court, where the federal government will continue its attempt to deport him in an 18-month saga that began when he was mistakenly sent to El Salvador last year. to.pbs.org/4i3KAJg

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Kilmar Ábrego Garcia is set to be back in court as he battles deportation to Liberia

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La Zarigueya @lazarigueya.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And guess who will pay millions upon minutes to settle all the wrongful detention suits that comes out of these once ICE loses in court…! 🫵 (did you guess???)

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Which Witch R U 🏳️‍🌈 @which-witch-ru.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Far leftists will NEVER convince anyone they give a shit about what they call “genocide” when they voted (and not voting is the same as voting for the oppressor) to have their own neighbors lynched and disappeared off the streets…and over half the population lose their own bodily autonomy…

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

this is all a joke to them because far-right conservatives think that rape is good, and that high status men should be entitled to rape any women around them who are not also already attached to other high-status men. this is their actual ideology

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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 06/10/2026

Just so we’re clear: —Nearly every prominent normie Dem has endorsed him, is campaigning with him and/or has spent millions to help him win, which means they want him to lose. —The “Genocide Joe/Holocaust Harris” crowd, who pushed him to the nomination, are now saying he’s Atrocity Abdul. Got it.

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Derrick ♎ 🟧 🟦#BLM 🏳️‍🌈 @spawn03.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I've sworn off of legacy media. They aren't to be trusted IMO. They have continued to sanewash the insanity coming out of this administration.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/10/2026

If Joe Biden got one word out of place, Jake Tapper would write a book about it. If you’re tired of the double standard- try independent media. It’s free. It’s award-winning. It has swearing. substack.com/@muellershew...

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Headlines for October 6, 2026

The Daily Beans podcast headlines sourced and cited

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 21/09/2026

I have an AI booster in family circle who has explained to me that AI could lift the “drudgery” of writing… and then proceeds to list the fun parts of writing. Which leaves me to like format the book and do intense copy editing on some shit I didn’t even write?

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/09/2026

I have said that the main use for AI is going to be widescale fraud and I'm delighted to see that people are posting about all the fraud they plan to do on main.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/09/2026

This is why I am walking miles for the Young Center this month against my husband. Because babies should never, ever have to face this kind of thing.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/09/2026

I mean, super embarrassing that it was a Hawkeyes game in Maryland and not a Hawks game in Atlanta, but what on earth was that supposed to show even if he'd been right about his snide implications? It's so annoying that we are so divorced from logic and factual inquiry.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/10/2026

I do not think we should have a death penalty. I don't think it is any kind of deterrent. I think it's barbaric. I think it makes us all worse people. All of us. And we just don't have to do this to ourselves. We could abolish it, and we should.

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