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taxgirl @taxgirl.bsky.social · 12h
The IRS is looking for VITA/TCE volunteers for filing season. Last year, I said yes—and ended up preparing tax returns in rural Alaska, traveling by single-engine plane and snowmobile. ❄️ You don’t need tax experience to volunteer. Here’s more: www.taxgirl.com/2026/10/01/i...
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IRS Is Looking For Tax Volunteers. Here’s Why I Flew 4,300 Miles To Be One. | Taxgirl
The IRS is seeking VITA volunteers for the upcoming filing season. Here’s what I learned preparing tax returns for free in rural Alaska.
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 14h
We’ve got the inside story of how Trump’s displeasure with seeing homeless people in D.C. became the first domino in a series of actions that culminated in the administration’s stunning decision to weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans to live in their homes and communities.
nbcnews.com
How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights
After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 15h
The 2020 election has been relentlessly studied by our most experienced experts and by our most craven partisan hacks for 6y now, and every examination has wound up demonstrating the integrity of Biden’s victory in that election and the malignity of Trump’s obsession with undermining it.
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Matthew Bradford @matthewbradford.bsky.social · 17h
‘What’s in a name? What is “China” and who is “Chinese”? How the term “Chinese nation” was socially and politically constructed to promote Han imperialism’.
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Who Owns “China”? A Geographic Name, a National Identity, and the Peoples Left Out
What’s in a name? What is “China” and who is “Chinese”? How the term “Chinese nation” was socially and politically constructed to promote Han imperialism.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 15h
“The entire Klan Act lawsuit describes how Stephen sent masked men into Minnesota on the pretext of hunting down Somalis — whom he and Katie had dehumanized for years — to deprive everyone there of their civil rights.”
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15h
Todd Blanche Stole the Justice Due Becca Good and Gave It to Katie Miller emptywheel.net/2026/10/02/t...
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Todd Blanche Stole the Justice Due Becca Good and Gave It to Katie Miller - emptywheel
When announcing the arrest of a guy who sent Katie Miller 40 mean messages, Todd Blanche claimed he would give everyone such protection. But a Klan Act lawsuit filed by Renee Good's family proves that...
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Phantom of Heilbronn, also referred to as the Woman Without a Face, was a presumed female serial killer whose existence was inferred from DNA evidence found at 40 crime scenes across Austria, France and Germany from 1993 to 2009.

In March 2009, investigators concluded that the supposed serial killer did not exist, and the DNA belonged to a woman who worked at a factory that made the cotton swabs used for collecting DNA samples
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Last year not a single refugee fleeing religious persecution was admitted to the US.
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
the funniest thing about the "we don't trust the media" people is that they will trust literally anyone else. like, if you have an image and text, they'll buy it. shaking keys at babies type logic.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NEW: The Georgia State Election board is requesting Justice Department "intervention" ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The board sent request letters to Todd Blanche, Harmeet Dhillon, and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin. Docs obtained by @lawfaremedia.org: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
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Formal Request for DOJ Intervention to Todd Blanche
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nice to see key Senate Dems introducing a bill to punish Trump for violating the prohibition on using government funds for propaganda. The bill would cut OMB's budget by $20M for each violation found by GAO. Soon to ride on an approps bill near you? www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
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Chris Conti @chriscontiphoto.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hey legal and finance Bluesky: I just got a court notice of a class action trial verdict against Elon Musk for manipulating the stock price of Twitter in 2022. If you sold shares (or bought puts or sold calls) from May-Oct 2022, you can get some of Elon Musk's money. Here are the docs.
Court-ordered class action lawsuit trial verdict notice informing individuals of a jury verdict against Elon Musk entitling individuals who sold Twitter stock (and/or bought put options or sold call options) during the period of May-October 2022 that they are entitled to monetary compensation due to the trial verdict finding that Musk illegally manipulated the stock price of Twitter.
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Oz Katerji @ozkaterji.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Russia has bombed a school basically every single day this week, so for those people who say "if this was happening in Ukraine, it would be on the front pages every day", how many times have you seen that on the front page of even one of your national newspapers this week? Zero.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If I am a Democratic President facing a Chinese invasion of Taiwan in 2030, is Anduril on my team? Does it see itself as my adversary? Or is it neutral? I honestly don’t know.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
a very decent chance we get the Voynich manuscript solved in the next year or so, if not sooner. AI is also an excellent paleographic tool; we're going to have a whole bunch of archives searchable and better deciphered in the next few years.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Renee Good's family filed two lawsuits today. The first, against, USG, is a standard wrongful death. The second is a Klan Act lawsuit against Jonathan Ross, AND STEPHEN MILLER and Greg Bovino. It names Nick Shirley and Christopher Rufo as non-party co-conspirators for their racist propaganda.
44. At all relevant times, Defendants Ross, Miller, Noem, Lyons, Homan,
Bovino, and the John Doe Federal Agents acted under color of federal law and within the
scope of a joint enterprise with the private actors described below. Defendant
Lewandowski acted in part under color of federal law and in part, as alleged below, as a
private person, his federal status having been limited to a temporary part-time designation
that his conduct exceeded. Shirley, Rufo, and Ben Bergquam, and the other non-party
private actors described below, agreed to and in fact participated in the conspiracy alleged
here: each acted in concert with, and with the knowledge and encouragement of, federal
officials.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/10/2026
Black text on white page that reads as follows:

New Yorkers who lost their SNAP benefits because of the federal government's expanded work requirements can reapply starting today, October 1.

To find out whether you're eligible to get your benefits back or qualify for an exemption, call 718-SNAP-NOW (718-762-7669), visit nyc.gov/ACCESSHRA, or use the ACCESS HRA app.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/10/2026
Breaking News: Relatives of Renee Good have filed federal lawsuits against the ICE agent who killed Good in Minneapolis, as well as Kristi Noem and other Trump officials.
nyti.ms
Renee Good’s Family Sues ICE Agent and Top Officials Over Minnesota Killing
The fatal shooting of Ms. Good set off protests during the Trump administration’s immigration operation early this year in Minnesota.
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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“To the ICE agent who took away my mother: I hope it was worth it,” wrote Samuel Gonzalez Terrones before taking his own life. This is the reality of what mass deportation looks like. Not only impacting those who are detained but also leaving a path of destruction for the family they leave behind.
latimes.com
His mom was detained by ICE. Two months later, he died by suicide
Samuel Gonzalez Terrones, 21, struggled with depression and schizophrenia. His mom's arrest by ICE became too much to bear.
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump's "pocket rescission" of $810 million in spending across several agencies, an appropriation Trump himself previously signed into law, is troubling, not because the spending in question is good, but because it strikes at Congress's constitutional power of the purse. [David Ditch, @cato.org]
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Congress Should Put an End to Pocket Rescissions
Congress has the power and responsibility to authorize and manage all aspects of federal spending. It should start acting like it.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Data center construction has migrated to places of low resistance: poor, often Black areas where corrupt deals are commonplace and the harms to residents invisible. Lowndes County, Alabama, in the heart of the Black Belt, is one of those places. 🧵 prospect.org/2026/10/01/d...
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‘I Know I Couldn’t Live Here’: Standing Up to a Data Center in Alabama’s Black Belt - The American Prospect
Faced with little transparency about a mammoth facility, Lowndes County fights back.
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Michael Turton @michaelturton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Suspicious Death of Tibetan High Lama www.hrw.org/zh-hant/news...
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中國/越南:西藏高僧死因可疑
越南政府應調查西藏高僧紅格爾多吉仁波切(Humkar Dorje Rinpoche)2025年3月29日在可疑情況下圓寂於胡志明市的事件。
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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.゚✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is preposterous as it is monstrous Pike survived the execution procedure and now her lawyers, unable to reach the governor or state AG office, are rushing an emergency motion to the Tennessee Supreme Court in their *car* seeking an order to get her medical care
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
righteous among the nations
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Imagine if we simply left murders by students on college campuses to be punished by colleges, using only the internal punishments they are able to inflict. We would find it insane and intolerable. Rape isn't that far off in terms of severity. Why are we putting utterly unsuited orgs in charge?
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
During the World Cup.
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geri katz @gerikatz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Might as well light the Constitution on fire at this point.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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accidentalflyer 🇨🇦🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @accidentalflyer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
BTW 121.5 is the International emergency frequency and Always monitored. In case off-duty pilot not available, use that frequency to communicate and air traffic will talk you down, i.e. give instructions to land the plane.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 30/09/2026
Oh my. The aurora borealis, seen in ultraviolet light from space. Our planet, putting on a show ✨
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Federal US domain bot @fed-us-domain-bot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
❌ NOTICE Federal US website newly deleted. girlshealth.gov Action taken by the nan (Department of Health and Human Services) at or around 2026-09-30 12:09:17.
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Federal US website delisted. URL is not valid.
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#ELB: “Trump officials changed forms for overseas voters amid a GOP push to restrict voting” electionlawblog.org/2026/trump-offi…
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The other day, Andrew Bailey, who stepped down as MO AG in hopes of becoming FBI Director, stepped down. REMARKABLY, one report said he routinely told Kash he was violating the Constitution. Today, DOJ did something profoundly corrupt in hopes of politicizing 8th C, which covers MO, MN, and IA.
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St. John Barned-Smith @stjbs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: ICE published — then removed — internal mortality reviews detailing medical failures in detainee deaths across U.S. www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...
sfchronicle.com
ICE published — then removed — internal reports detailing medical failures in detainee deaths across U.S.
The reports, briefly posted online, examined the deaths of 33 people in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody between September 2019 and January 2026.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you didn't already hate Meta, Mark Zuckerburg, and data centers, Meta is using the latter to cheat on their taxes. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
nytimes.com
How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨🚨 @coe.int of Europe said yesterday that the #US formally notified it that it would leave the Group of States against Corruption, or #GRECO. Only two other countries have left GRECO before — #Russia and #Belarus. The fall of the #US on the world scene is striking. apnews.com/article/trum...
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US withdraws from European anti-corruption panel in latest shift away from global groups
The Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from a top European anti-corruption watchdog.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hegseth plans to axe a fifth of generals and admirals. It’s clear he’s planning to cause so much damage it won’t be repairable by whoever comes next.
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Hegseth to cut more generals, admirals in bid to remake military’s top ranks — The Washington Post
The defense secretary is expected to announce that the number of top officers will be reduced by as much as 20 percent, officials said.
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????
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Lotta @gemmy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ooh, this is good. Examining that article arguing that the US should cut and run in Asia, pulling back to the second island chain and leaving Taiwan and all our other allies in the region to fend for themselves. asiatimes.com/2026/09/exam...
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Examining think tank proposal that US cut and run in Asia-Pacific - Asia Times
A recent report put out by a relatively obscure Washington think tank, Defense Priorities, is getting an unusual amount of attention. In simple terms, the
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Jonathan @jonathansocials.com · 30/09/2026
The "America First" guy let China censor *our own* National Archives documents because Xi didn't like Taiwan's history, proving who really ran the show.
npr.org
Potential Taiwan tension sparked 'last minute' change in Tru...
The sudden change was precipitated because of Chinese displeasure over one document that the U.S. ha...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 30/09/2026
Black text on a white page that reads as follows: 

Too often, homeless New Yorkers cycle from our hospitals to our streets — making it harder to continue treatment and find long-term stability. 

The City's Bridge to Home program in Manhattan ends the cycle by providing a safe place for New Yorkers to live while they receive medical care, apply to jobs, and find an apartment. The program has been a massive success.

Today, we’re expanding Bridge to Home to Brooklyn and Queens, so more New Yorkers get the help they need.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
I believe that Dr. Ellora Derenoncourt is the first Black woman economist EVER to be named a MacArthur Genius. My heart is bursting. I am OVERJOYED.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The problem is, you know this is just an excuse for a political purge, nothing more.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I do think they probably ran his texts through an LLM and it hallucinated crimes. That’s scary and bad and it’s funny they got caught, but imagine how many other times this happens on a day to day basis against people with no rights, let alone the ability to publicly humiliate the AI prosecutor.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Making fundamental due process rights a nullity with the emergency docket (again)
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 29/09/2026
I see we're in the "socialize the losses" phase of the Chinese property unwind (finally; it's taken half a decade) *CHINA TO SUBSIDIZE INTEREST PAYMENTS FOR FIRST-HOME MORTGAGES
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Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Please stop referring to China as a "5000 year old civilization" as an analytical point. Imposes continuity and coherence where there is none.
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The fact that OAN is reporting this … (a) damn!, and also (b) this sort of thing is very good for democracy because it prepares the most partisan Republicans to understand and (maybe) accept election results that go against them
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
To people who don’t believe that Kermit the Frog is real: What is the basis for your morality? Where does your moral standard come from?
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The sources added that Patel consistently kept Bailey at arm's length and cut him out of meetings the deputy FBI director should attend because Bailey was constantly flagging things that were unconstitutional." www.cbsnews.com/news/top-fbi...
cbsnews.com
Top FBI official Andrew Bailey, who was once widely seen as Patel successor, resigns
Bailey was originally brought in to help ease tensions between former Attorney General Pam Bondi and former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino.
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