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

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 6h
One way tech oligarchs retain power is through dual-class shares, allowing them to cash in on public stock markets without giving up power over their companies. @ryanlcooper.com thinks this needs to end: Dual-class shares should be banned, or taxed in proportion to founder control over the company.
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Here’s a Way to Stop Silicon Valley Megalomania - The American Prospect
‘Dual class’ shares are a fraud on the public market.
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 6h
I also think about Elon saying Biden's DOJ wouldn't prosecute Sam Bankman-Fried because he was a Dem donor... followed by Biden's DOJ nailing SBF, who now posts about how awesome Trump is so he can get a pardon.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h
Rep. Rich McCormick blames OBAMA for high gas prices in the year of our lord 2026
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6h
Pete Hegseth removing tenure protections shows precisely why they are needed. He wants to silence dissent by being able to fire anyone who questions his vision of the military. www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...
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Hegseth halts tenure appointments for civilian faculty at military academies
Military academies will no longer appoint civilian faculty to tenured positions as Hegseth says it can contribute to “academic stagnation.”
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 6h
Fantastic idea sir!
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 5h
I'm also waiting to see if the men are actually in Somalia.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 6h
Received a phone call this morning letting me know they started moving people from Guantanamo Bay to Somalia late last week. Working on getting in contact with them now.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5h
On the same day Trump announces that top tech firms have signed an accord to "self-police" their own AI development, we learned that OpenAI employees and security researchers were reportedly ignored when they brought safety concerns to the company's top executives. See the problem here?
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OpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely Testing A.I. Models
Employees and security researchers said that they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but that OpenAI did not listen.
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 5h
“Every time Tim O’Hare cuts our polling locations, or every time Bo French says something awful on Twitter, I get more volunteers.” New from @tylerfromtexas.bsky.social: The people of Tarrant County are frustrated, but Democrats need to turn that frustration into votes.
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Inside Downballot Dems' Effort to Flip Texas' Key County Battleground
Amid voter suppression and rampant ideological warfare, Tarrant County Democratic candidates try to capitalize on this surge of local anger.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 5h
Also their position is that it is not just ok but *constitutionally required* that the president have the authority to rig DoJ if he wants. bsky.app/profile/dave...
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 4h
Okay, this is a pretty good one. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/n...
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A Hasidic Jew Protested Against an Israeli Flag. He May Be Deported. (Gift Article)
Yehonatan Ovadia, who opposed the mounting of the flag in a small New York town, belongs to a Hasidic branch that is anti-Zionist. He is now in ICE custody.
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 4h
Attorney General Ken Paxton said the Trump-led GOP convention in Dallas “dropped our numbers,” according to a recent audio recording published by The New York Times.
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Ken Paxton privately said Trump’s convention hurt his Senate bid
The attorney general said the Trump-led GOP gathering in Dallas “dropped our numbers,” according to a recent audio recording published by The New York Times.
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 4h
Yes, the push to adopt the IHRA's definition of anti-semitism has obviously backfired. It defines "drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis" as anti-semitism. Therefore, calling Gaza "genocide" is anti-semitism. holocaustremembrance.com/resources/wo...
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 4h
By no means am I defending anti-semitic losers who talk about "ZOG," but the overall ADL project - getting special no-boycott rules for Israel that no other country has an America - has clearly backfired. It's an incredibly useful story for bigots!
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 3h
Update on this: ICE took down these reviews, which they initially posted. The site where they were now just says "not found." But @prospect.org downloaded the files when they were first available, and you can read them at our story.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 3h
This isn't surprising news. It's from Martin Peers email newsletter at The Information. What's notable how much this is showing up in the tech press.
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KXAN News @kxan.com · 3h
A federal judge has struck down the Trump administration’s attempt to tie counterterrorism grants to changes in state and local election procedures. www.kxan.com/border-report/judge-bl…
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Chris Messina @chrismessina.me · 3h
For an inside look into the mind of the Trump Administration: 1. Go to america.gov 2. type “hello” 3. type “play Minecraft” 4. watch the agent’s reality implode 5. ??? 6. PROFIT!
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 3h
In Congress, I'm fighting so every worker in America gets water breaks, a decent wage, and paid time off. Because working shouldn't be a death sentence.
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 3h
Before I got to Congress, I organized to win water breaks for Austin construction workers. Then Abbott signed a law wiping them out. Now thousands of Texas workers are getting sick in extreme heat.
houstonchronicle.com
Texas workers face life-or-death heat risks as workplace protections lag
Texas has no statewide heat safety standard for workers, even as OSHA data and researchers suggest workplace heat illnesses are sharply undercounted.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 13h
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 · 13h
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 · 13h
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 · 16h
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 · 16h
As soon as Obama said Zohran was okay, they suddenly agreed.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 15h
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 · 21h
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 · 21h
The Cornell victim has been doxxed on X. So worried for her. I hate this planet.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 15h
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 · 19h
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 · 19h
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 · 18h
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 · 18h
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 · 18h
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 · 18h
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 · 29/09/2026
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 · 23h
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 · 23h
The White House is laser-focused on the issues that matter most to Americans.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 22h
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 · 20h
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 · 22h
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 · 22h
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 · 22h
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 · 19h
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 · 29/09/2026
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 · 20h
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 · 23h
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 · 22h
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 · 23h
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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