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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 9h
Perhaps, Pete Hegseth should have focused more on defending the U.S. bases heavily damaged by Iranian missile and drone attacks instead of “beardos, weirdos and wimps?”
nytimes.com
In Speech, Hegseth Targets Diversity, Transgender People, Reporters and Iran (Gift Article)
In his “State of the Force” address, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth focused on the culture war and accused reporters of “treason” over Iran war coverage.
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 15h
Donald Trump called North Korean leader Kim Jong Un a “friend” when asked why Iran should not be allowed to develop nuclear weapons while North Korea already possesses them. “Ahh, because you had a different president. Kim Jong Un. He’s a friend of mine. He likes Trump. I like him,” Trump said.
newsweek.com
Trump says "friend" Kim Jong Un sets North Korea apart from Iran on nukes
Trump described Kim Jong Un as a “friend” when asked why Iran should not be allowed to develop nuclear weapons.
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 19h
Does this instill confidence? President of the Unites States?
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 20h
The stalemate bolsters the belief on both sides that a renewed military conflict is becoming more likely. U.S. officials expect Donald Trump will order a return to major combat operations after the midterm elections.
axios.com
U.S.-Iran talks yield little, raising odds of renewed combat
Neither side has been willing to budge.
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 20h
The Trump administration sought to require all ballots be delivered exclusively through certified mail, which would have required voters to be home and sign for delivery of their ballots. The plan was abandoned after Postal Service objections it would have been impossible to execute.
propublica.org
The Untold Origins of Trump’s Plan to Sharply Restrict Mail-In Voting
ProPublica’s reporting reveals for the first time the extent of the White House’s role in trying to dictate how mail-in ballots are processed, spurring behind-the-scenes drama that played out for near...
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 20h
Shouldn't the percentage be much higher? Around 68 percent of respondents said it is false that “vaccines given to children for diseases like measles, mumps, and rubella cause autism,” while 13 percent said the statement is true and 19 percent are not sure.
washingtonpost.com
Most Americans do not believe childhood vaccines cause autism, poll finds
Around 68 percent of respondents to a poll by the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Public Policy Center said it is false that “vaccines given to children for diseases like measles, mumps, and ru...
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 20h
A devastating report card and critical warning. When someone as morally warped as Donald Trump — whose first secretary of state called him a “moron” — asserts his unchecked power at the dawn of the age of artificial intelligence, the danger can’t be ignored.
nytimes.com
Opinion | Trump Is Going Viral in the Worst Ways (Gift Article)
On the technological, diplomatic and biological fronts, Trump is creating a disaster.
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 20h
A series of decisions, most of which bear Chief Justice John Roberts' name, has established the principle, without precedent in constitutional history, that whatever public benefit secular institutions get, religious institutions are entitled to as well.
nytimes.com
Opinion | This Case Has Flown Under the Radar. It Won’t Stay There. (Gift Article)
This case has flown under the radar, but it won’t stay there.
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 20h
“This is going to make a really important change in Carnegie Mellon’s ability to touch more lives, impact more people and make a difference for our country. This is about: How do we ensure that one of the greatest universities in the country has a greater impact on more students?”
nytimes.com
Donor Gives $3 Billion to Carnegie Mellon, the Largest University Gift Ever (Gift Article)
The donation by Kenneth Griffin, intended mostly to help build a campus in Miami, was the biggest single gift in the history of U.S. higher education.
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 21h
Victims are not faceless. Eight-year-old Joseph Pais was deported to Auschwitz from Westerbork in July 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 21h
Keep it simple with Henri Matisse’s “Blue Nude II” (1952).
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 21h
Ukrainian editorial cartoonist Vladimir Kazanevsky laments the Russian drone attack on his nation’s Academy of Sciences.
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 21h
British editorial cartoonist Royston Robertson turns to history to highlight serious flaws in Donald Trump’s character and priorities.
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 21h
British editorial cartoonist Royston Robertson weighs in on Donald Trump’s renewed effort to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to surrender to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s territorial demands.
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 21h
Schmitt happens. Editorial cartoonist Dennis Goris lampoons Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt’s amateur sleuthing in the lawmaker’s bungled and highly embarrassing attempt to prove former special counsel Jack Smith a liar.
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 22h
Editorial cartoonist Clay Jones weighs in on Donald Trump’s thinly disguised campaign ads that are being produced and paid for with your taxpayer dollars.
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 22h
Editorial cartoonist Nick Anderson captures the plight of America’s farmers, who are getting hammered by Donald Trump’s economic policies — and passing on their spiking expenses to U.S. consumers.
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 22h
Editorial cartoonist Bill Bramhall weighs in on Donald Trump’s thinly disguised campaign ads that are being produced and paid for with your taxpayer dollars.
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Is an unenforceable pledge the appropriate vehicle to protect humans from a technology that has already learned to outmaneuver existing safeguards? Why not kill the FAA, and allow plane builders to set their own safety standards? Disband the IAEA, which oversees nuclear safety and non-proliferation?
nytimes.com
At A.I. Event, Trump Asks Meta, OpenAI and Microsoft to Make Safety Decisions Themselves (Gift Article)
President Trump’s meetings with tech leaders produced some voluntary safeguards and a commitment to rebrand artificial intelligence as “super intelligence,” the term that Mr. Trump prefers.
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Bold reporting by The Cornell Daily Sun student newspaper.
nytimes.com
Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years (Gift Article)
The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity party since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ready to vote for a guy who claims he killed a man at age 7 or cast a demon out of a teenage girl?
nytimes.com
Victor Marx, Colorado Governor Nominee With Sensational Past, Splinters the G.O.P. (Gift Article)
Some Republicans in the state fear that the sensational biography of Victor Marx, their party’s candidate for governor, could drag down the rest of the ticket.
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Short-lived AI tool? Citing official government sources, the chatbot's fact-checks contradict Donald Trump’s most common false claims, including election fraud, immigration, tariffs, inflation and his signature policy bill that he signed into law last year.
nytimes.com
Trump Launches America.gov, an AI Chatbot That Contradicts Some of His Claims (Gift Article)
Democrats amplified statements from America.gov that frequently contradict the president on tariffs, election fraud and other topics.
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Incompetence trifecta!! Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt sought a dramatic confrontation, setting a perjury trap for Jack Smith, the special counsel who investigated Donald Trump. Instead, Schmitt’s botched amateur sleuthing into a basketball game led him to the wrong game, wrong league and wrong state.
nytimes.com
Jack Smith Defends Trump Charges as Senator’s Perjury Claim Falters (Gift Article)
A Republican eager to prove the former special counsel was dishonest appeared to instead demonstrate his own confusion over basic facts.
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump-supporting pastor Joel Webbon said: “Why pick a White man? You should make your message more believable by picking someone Black.”
newsweek.com
Republican’s anti-SNAP benefit ad featuring white man sparks MAGA fury
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders faces backlash from MAGA supporters over a welfare-to-work ad targeting a fictional white welfare recipient.
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu's claim that Israeli security chiefs collectively failed to foresee the surprise attack by Hamas appears to be crumbling after journalists have uncovered that the Israeli leader ignored numerous advance warnings.
washingtonpost.com
Reports that Netanyahu ignored Oct. 7 warnings dominate Israeli election
The Israeli prime minister has denied any advance knowledge of the Hamas attack in 2023, but as a national election nears his role is under new scrutiny.
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Feeling stressed? Here is an informative article on why and what you can do about it.
nytimes.com
Opinion | I’m Exhausted. You’re Demoralized. We Weren’t Built for a World Like This. (Gift Article)
A greatly underappreciated virtue of other presidents was that you could forget about them for weeks at a time.
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Inexcusable lawlessness. More than 100 settlers attacked Palestinians and Israeli soldiers in the West Bank when the military tried to return a Palestinian family to their home months after they were forced out following a long campaign of violence.
nytimes.com
Israeli Settler Attack in West Bank Blocks Palestinian Family From Returning Home (Gift Article)
The Supreme Court ordered the military to ensure a family that fled after repeated attacks could go back. But settlers prevented the efforts, stoking criticism of Israeli policy in the territory.
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
During the testing phase for the new model it showed high levels of what the company saw as deception, or a willingness to mislead users about its actions. The model was also willing to go beyond the original scope of what it was asked to do, without checking back for directions or instructions.
nytimes.com
OpenAI Says It Will Not Release Newest Astra A.I. Model Over Safety Concerns (Gift Article)
The company’s researchers raised questions about the security of the model, known as GPT-6.1 Astra.
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When democracy dies. Otto Nagel’s “Women Waiting” (1924). Highly active in the 1920s, Nagel was banned from painting when Hitler took power. From 1936 to 1937 he was incarcerated in various Nazi concentration camps for his political believes, including Sachsenhausen.
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Take a ride on Bruno Vekemans’ “Train” (1990).
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Norwegian editorial cartoonist Fadi Abou Hassan and the rest of world awaits Donald Trump ending his war on Iran, which has roiled the world economy, steeply raised energy prices and ceded control of the Strait of Hormuz to Tehran.
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Indian editorial cartoonist Paresh Nath captures the global chaos attributed to the petulant U.S. leader.
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Paying for Political Failure.” Editorial cartoonist Daniel Medina: “Not a day goes by when I don’t do a double take when I look at the price of gas and get angry at the fact that this was all a massive self-inflicted wound from a senile old man who has never once pumped his own gas.”
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Editorial cartoonist Nick Anderson wonders if surging diesel prices will break the backs of hardcore Donald Trump supporters, who are suffering financial hardship because of their champion’s tariffs and Iran war.
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Editorial cartoonist Andrew Winters weighs in on two stalled progress reports.
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Belly Flops. Canadian editorial cartoonist Jason Lutes chronicles Donald Trump’s misadventures.
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A wishful see me now? Your taxpayer money is funding Donald Trump to project himself as a relentless, physically fit, square-jawed strongman battling evil in an unambiguous monochrome video featuring an echoing voice track.
cnn.com
Analysis: Trump stirs new storm by posing as strongman in taxpayer-funded video | CNN Politics
It’s Donald Trump as he wants America to see him.
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Editorial cartoonist Matt Davies weighs in on the top issue for financially strapped Americans, who are being battered by spiking fuel and food prices.
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Editorial cartoonist Joe Heller strongly suggests it’s time for Americans to elect younger lawmakers.
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Editorial cartoonist Rob Rogers is troubled by Donald Trump’s priorities, which appear to feather his nest at the expense of the American public.
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“The Preciousss GOP Playbook.” Editorial cartoonist Daniel Boris weighs in on Donald Trump and Republican leaders attempting to brand Democrats as "communists" and "godless" extremists ahead of the midterm elections, deploying rhetoric reminiscent of the historical Red Scare.
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Dutch editorial cartoonist Bas van der Schot doesn’t see the wisdom of Donald Trump treating U.S. adversaries Russia and China better than America’s closest allies.
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Is it wise for Donald Trump to sell arms to a nation that is reportedly assisting Iran in targeting U.S. military bases in the Middle East?
apnews.com
Trump asked China's president if he wants to buy US arms, ambassador says
The U.S. ambassador to China says President Donald Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping if he wanted to buy weapons from the United States.
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A warning from New Yorker cartoonist John McNamee.
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Unhappy with the Donald Trump’s Iran war? Inflation? Rising interest rates? Spiking fuel prices? Then cast your vote.
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Interesting collection of Republican lawmakers who were vociferous supporters of Donald Trump’s Iran war until the economic toll hit home.
washingtonpost.com
Soaring diesel prices are clobbering Trump’s MAGA faithful, exposing rifts
Pain at the pump for rural Republicans is shifting the political map.
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Victims are not faceless. Anne Groenteman, right, her mother, Lena, and siblings Jeanette and John were deported in 1942 to Auschwitz, where they were murdered.
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Enjoy Walter Ernest Spradbery’s “Haresfoot Woods, Berkhamsted" (1931).
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
An interesting and informative read, especially for proponents of capital punishment.
cnn.com
He executed death row prisoners. Then they came back to haunt him | CNN
Every night, one of the men Ron McAndrew killed would sit at the foot of his bed and stare, blankly, into his tortured soul.
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Women’s baseball is attracting a groundswell of interest as women’s sports overall is booming. Since 2024, 10 professional women’s leagues have debuted.
nytimes.com
Women Sluggers Are No Longer in a League of Their Own (Gift Article)
As a group of players from an all-women’s baseball league in the 1940s and ’50s gathered at a recent reunion, the future of women’s baseball looks bright again.
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