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I used to be a ninja, but now I'm just a concerned Texan.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 10h
Here’s the moment @labourlewis.bsky.social read out the letter at a fringe event at Labour conference hosted by @the-citizens.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/the-...
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 10h
It’s pretty nuts. Tom Watson’s very first intervention in his new job at spytech firm Palantir is to write a letter to his former colleague @labourlewis.bsky.social detailing all the times the firm has monitored his anti-Palantir activities
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 10h
NEW: ‘It’s an implicit threat’. Lord Tom Watson of Palantir writes to one of its biggest critics -Labour MP @labourlewis.bsky.social - to tell him the surveillance firm is watching him. www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewi...
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They’re saying: we’re watching you’: MP Clive Lewis reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir
In a letter to his former Labour colleague, the peer, who joined Peter Thiel’s AI company this month, writes: ‘You have made the case against the company more or less continuously’. By Carole Cadwalla...
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 13h
The fact that centrists don’t believe in anything _does_ make them very programmable. You just have to figure out the interface for it, before they go back to their default of taking instructions from the right.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 13h
As soon as Obama said Zohran was okay, they suddenly agreed.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 12h
One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here.
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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 18h
She was doxxed by a Chi Phi alum who implored his followers to “help a Chi Phi.” Just in case anyone thought that organization was remotely redeemable.
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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 18h
The Cornell victim has been doxxed on X. So worried for her. I hate this planet.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 12h
This is now a sycophancy test. Joking about it I’ll accept, barely, but anyone who even remotely indulges this is a coward
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16h
Earlier today, @zeteo.com revealed that Israel has kidnapped an American teenager and has kept him in detention for three months, with no charges. And then hours later, only one Republican voted to even somewhat hold Israel accountable for acts like this.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 16h
Fox News agreed to host a debate between Senate candidates Ken Paxton (R) and James Talarico (D) of Texas following the Democrat’s challenge to face his opponent on what he characterized as friendly turf.
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Fox News agrees to host Texas Senate debate; no word from Paxton yet
The last Senate race in Texas not to have a debate was in 2000.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 15h
I mean she did her job. Gutted what remaining public trust there was in an institution of journalism and turn it into a propaganda network for global fascism
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 15h
If rapists actually faced consequences for their actions we wouldn’t have nearly as many rapists. In reality many rapists actually benefit from their actions
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 15h
Seeing people post about how unfair the “mob justice” against the Cornell rapists is doesn’t really move me when there is no justice for survivors. The system doesn’t work; it enacts further punishment on the victims. Society is even crueler. So spare me the “mob justice” rhetoric about the accused
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 15h
A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 21h
NEW: We launched this tracker in May, when ICE's detentions had been rejected about 10,000 times by federal courts. It's doubled in less than five months. See and sort the latest numbers, plus read the rulings. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 20h
NEW: It's hard these days for members of Congress to transcend the news cycle with viral moments in committee hearings. Sen. Schmitt today raised the bar with an allegation against Jack Smith that imploded in real time. w/ Chris Marquette www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Republicans wanted Jack Smith to give them a smoking gun. They got a gaffe instead.
The former special counsel’s appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee was marked by personal insults rather than new revelations.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20h
The White House is laser-focused on the issues that matter most to Americans.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 19h
NEW: Today, Florida Governor DeSantis and other state officials voted to designate two leading Muslim civil rights nonprofits as “domestic terrorist organizations.” The state's actions are baseless and unconstitutional.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 17h
I started writing a newsletter post about the third-country removals case and had to stop—I was too mad. Maybe tomorrow.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 19h
Later in the thread. Two problems: (1) many of these folks are *not* undocumented—they’re just removable; and (2) in any event, whether they received the process that is due before being deported to somewhere they might be tortured is, in fact, much of what’s *actually being litigated.*
“To be clear, this is a big win for President Trump and gives him an important tool to ensure that illegal aliens are promptly removed after receiving all process due.”
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 19h
No one is contesting whether third-country removals are *ever* permitted; the litigation is over whether individuals are entitled to notice & an opportunity to prove that they face torture or other mistreatment in that country before they can be removed. Good luck figuring that out from the tweet.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 19h
There is a cottage industry on that other site of people in official government legal jobs affirmatively misstating or misrepresenting what rulings are about and then expressing surprise that anyone could possibly disagree. Just the latest example—from the Solicitor General of Iowa:
“Can President Trump use lawful authority granted by Congress to deport illegal aliens to third countries? The Supreme Court has stayed an order saying no twice, now stayed a permanent injunction for a third time. Oddly, 6-3 despite a similar posture to the Missouri First map”
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 16h
Here is my full Law Dork report: www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-thi...
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SCOTUS allows third-country removals to resume, as lower courts close in on Trump’s lawlessness
A split-screen of the Supreme Court allowing Trump to expand his authoritarian efforts as appeals courts are increasingly supporting district courts’ accountability efforts.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 23h
BREAKING: Eleventh Circuit denies Trump and lawyers’ request to stay the sanctions order in Trump v. IRS pending Trump and lawyers’ appeal of the sanctions order. Notably, the panel is unanimous and included a Trump appointee (Newsom). Background: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-irs-...
Before JORDAN, ROSENBAUM, and NEWSOM, Circuit Judges.
BY THE COURT:
The appellants, some of whom were the plaintiffs below, move for an order staying aspects of the district court's post-judg-ment sanctions order pending appeal. After review of the record and the parties' briefing, we deny the motion.!
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KXAN News @kxan.com · 17h
KXAN Investigator Grace Reader sat down with Austin City Council Member Mike Siegel, one of the first city officials on the scene of the ICE shooting that happened on Sept. 20. www.kxan.com/inside-austins-agenda/…  
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19h
this is the thanks you get for cozying up to fascists
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
there are so many real and urgent threats to this country and its democracy and this pathetic “democratic” congressman is railing against socialism on bari weiss’s conservative rag
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 19h
Nowhere in the Trump account legislation does it allow auto-enrollment or say anything about enrollment procedures at all, just so you know the way that John Roberts will justify his 6-3 decision blocking auto-enrollment of kids into Medicare
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 20h
Sooner or later, after exhausting all other possibilities, everyone realizes that the only smart way to do public benefits is with auto-enroll www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/t...
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Trump Is Preparing to Auto-Enroll Every Child in a Trump Account
Few Americans have set up Trump Accounts on their own.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 20h
“In some ways, Axon is actually worse than Flock,” EFF's @maassive.bsky.social told @indyweek.bsky.social. “Flock never had mobile license plate cameras, and Axon does. They install them on patrol cars, and that means patrol cars become like roving data vacuums.”
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Apex Town Council Committee to Make Recommendation on Flock
Under pressure from residents, the town council is reconsidering the Apex Police Department’s contract with Flock.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 21h
Lol. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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MAGA Media Is Trying to Spin Senator's Brutal Gaffe Into a Win
MAGA media is covering Eric Schmitt's gaffe during a hearing with Jack Smith as a win, claiming he caught the former special counsel in a lie.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21h
1 - You have got to be fucking kidding me. 2 - I’ll take it. A win’s a win.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 22h
we're at the "new executive order commanding my people to love me" stage of the story
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22h
you have to understand that all ICE does is lie literally 100% of the time
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 22h
Iran released a 26 page missive to the American people about Trump's war against Iran. I am mostly reflecting on their expectations for American's reading comprehension and stamina img9.irna.ir/d/r2/2026/09...
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 22h
The Senate spent its final days before the election eliminating labor rights for a subset of workers who are disproportionately young Black men. For the win! Here's a rundown of the Protect College Sports Act, which mostly restores the NCAA cartel to limit athlete compensation:
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Union Busting Comes to Campus - The American Prospect
The Senate-passed Protect College Sports Act is really an anti-labor bill meant to restore the NCAA cartel at the expense of the athletes.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 22h
The case won't be argued until December, and a ruling might not be issued until June 2027. Flights can resume until judgment. Damn.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 22h
‘A Massive Power Grab’: White House Proposal Threatens Funding That Helps Disabled Americans Vote talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-massi...
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‘A Massive Power Grab’: White House Proposal Threatens Funding That Helps Disabled Americans Vote
This story was originally published by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates...
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 23h
Trump is sitting down with AI billionaires today, including Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, and Huang, worth a combined $1.7 trillion. None of them are worried about losing their jobs, freedoms, or lives because of AI. Millions of Americans are.
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Exclusive: Full list of attendees at White House AI lunch
Expect a flashy gathering of the world's most powerful officials and executives.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 23h
these look more and more like late Brezhnev, late Chernenko photos
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 23h
We're at commanding the clouds to be happy stage.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23h
Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy. Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media. That’s why Trump is attacking education, science, museums, the media, and the arts – to prevent us from learning. It's Fascism 101.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 23h
Sort of an interesting question potential liabilities/financial risks to your investment over an extinction event. www.reuters.com/business/fin...
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EXCLUSIVE: Anthropic warns AI may pose 'existential risks to humanity' in IPO filing
Anthropic plans to caution potential investors in its ​IPO that advanced AI could pose "catastrophic or existential risks to humanity," an extraordinary warning by a company seeking to profit from the...
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HasanTheHun (automated mirror) @hasanabirepeater.bsky.social · 23h
when he's right he's right
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 23h
Joke about non-consensual contact right out of the gate at the MAHA Summit's "Reform in CMS" panel from moderator Russell Brand, the comedian who has pleaded not guilty to multiple charges of rape and sexual assault for which he will stand trial in London next month. Dr. Oz slaps his knee. MAHA!
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 23h
OK now I like the Trump ads because every dollar spent on ads during a 3:30 showing of the Kelly Clarkson Show is a dollar not spent by Customs and Border Protection abducting people www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Exclusive | Homeland Security Money Financed Pro-Trump Television Ads
White House calls the spots public-service ads, but critics argue using taxpayer money for campaign-like messaging may violate federal law.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
wow they really got him
Senate Republicans account: UNEARTHED AUDIO: Abdul El-Sayed fought to protect illegals over Michiganders during COVID:

"Undocumented people are among the most vulnerable in our society, particularly during this pandemic... this pandemic has hit undocumented Americans hard."
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There's still so much more to watch www.ms.now/news/maha-su...
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At MAHA Summit, RFK Jr.’s base asks if its champion is selling out
The second annual conference features Trump officials, tech titans, corporate sponsors and fading celebrities — but very little MAHA.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Per Reuters, Anthropic has $252 billion in non-cancelable compute obligations across Microsoft, Google and Amazon, and $161.2 billion in Broadcom TPU lease obligations that are "largely non-cancelable". Truly insane. $413 billion in non-cancelable contracts. www.reuters.com/business/ant...
The company said it plans to spend at least $111.1 billion with Alphabet's (GOOGL.O), opens new tab Google, $110 billion ​with Amazon (AMZN.O), opens new tab and $31.4 billion with Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab under long-term infrastructure service obligations over the next seven to 10 years "regardless of ⁠usage."
Anthropic is separately carrying about $161.2 billion of Broadcom (AVGO.O), opens new tab-related equipment lease obligations that are largely non-cancelable, according to the prospectus. Anthropic filed for an ​IPO confidentially with the Securities and Exchange Commission in June but its paperwork has not been publicly disclosed.
Anthropic did not immediately respond to a request ​for comment about the filing.
The company said it committed to pay Google between April 2026 and July 2033 and Amazon between May 2026 and April 2036.
"If our actual spend falls short, we must pay Google the difference," the company said, adding that similar terms apply to its Amazon agreement.
It added its commitment with Microsoft of $31.4 billion ​between November 2026 and May 2033 "is non-cancelable except in the event of Microsoft's uncured material breach."
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