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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 21h
President Donald Trump dropped his final challenge to the $5.6 million payout to writer E. Jean Carroll, ending the case she won against him in 2023. The president also withdrew his bid to make Carroll return the money.
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Trump quietly caves on $5.6M payout as E. Jean Carroll case ends: 'A first'
President Donald Trump dropped his final challenge to the $5.6 million payout to writer E. Jean Carroll, ending the case she won against him in 2023.Trump agreed to dismiss his appeal "with prejudice," meaning he can never bring it again, according to a Sept. 25 order from the U.S. Court of Appeals ...
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 29/09/2026
Every accusation is a confession.
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 25/09/2026
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Delaware Corporations-Can-Vote Ruling Looks Likely to Win Appeal
The ACLU looked to have a steep hill to climb Wednesday as it urged Delaware’s top legal tribunal to invalidate a town charter authorizing some corporations, LLCs, and other artificial entities to vot...
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 25/09/2026
(strong) Opinion: All of y'all should make it a priority to watch "The President's Analyst". We're almost 60 years from the release, and it's prescient and funny, and especially connected with the AI bubble. Watch it. And don't forget, this was released in 1967.
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"House Republicans will continue to hold Hunter Biden’s feet to the fire until we have his testimony...no one – not even the president’s son – is above the law.” - Tom Emmer, 1.17.24 "Don Jr is a private citizen and businessman so this unwarranted attack will go nowhere," Tom Emmer, 9.23.26
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 21/09/2026
Coming to Calvert City, KY.
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‘Tidal wave’ of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry, campaigners warn
Big manufacturers planning to produce more of the forever chemicals to meet demand from datacentres
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Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 21/09/2026
Before you say yes to a data center, listen to this advice from coal country kentuckylantern.com/2026/09/21/b...
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Before you say yes to a data center, listen to this advice from coal country • Kentucky Lantern
The mayor of Russell learned in June that a Barcelona company wanted to build a two-gigawatt data center on the old AK Steel site in his town. He learned it from a consultant's email.
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Why does it matter what happens to the Kennedy Center? Because the guy running it into the ground is the same guy running the war with Iran.
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 17/09/2026
And yes, there's a site with an AI "doomsday clock". The owner and operators are completely opaque.
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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time.  I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker. 
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A minor detail is missing from the headline.
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
www.them.us/style/fashio...
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Kai Schreiber Makes History as First Trans Girl to Win Breakthrough Model of the Year
​Schreiber became the first trans girl to win the Breakthrough Model of the Year statue at The Daily Front Row’s Fashion Media Awards.
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 16/09/2026
I want to talk a little bit about a tangent to recent discourse here. The discourse is generally of the form of "I could never vote for anyone unsupporting of [a particular issue], no matter what else they support. I'm not going to cite examples. They're _everywhere_ now in the runup to the midterms
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 11/09/2026
"That's what America is all about. It's to go down to Disney World in Florida. Take your families and go shopping, after you've done your duty in the way we've structured it." GWB after 9/11. Disgusting.
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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is quietly big news for @esa. General chat around #EPSC2026 is a strong desire to reduce dependence on perfidious NASA, driving Europe to new capabilities and partners (see expanding partnership with JAXA for BepiColombo and beyond)
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 09/09/2026
When my father was in his last 6 months, he suffered from a host of ailments, including dementia caused by cerebral atrophy. He would often conflate events widely separated in time, or place himself at events which he had only seen in the news or on TV. He was insistent his false memories were real.
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Sarah @shhhhh-hush.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
accurate. timely. relevant. we could all use more @mcsweeneys.net in our lives.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I wish it was more of a scandal that our government is staffed by neo-Nazis.
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 05/09/2026
"Things are the way they are because they got that way" - Gerald Weinberg
defensenews.com
Space industry lacks workers needed to rebuild satellites lost in war, report says
The U.S. does not have enough engineers, technicians and assemblers to rebuild military space assets destroyed in a war with China or Russia, per RAND.
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 02/09/2026
You are here.
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 02/09/2026
Chevron press release: "Chevron expands position in Venezuela" Chevron donated $2 Million to █████'s inaugural committee Chevron donated $5 Million to Trump's Freedom 250
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 01/09/2026
rest in peace to Wendell Berry
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 01/09/2026
My partner and I watched the 1983 film "The Pirates of Penzance" this evening (for the uncountable time). Starring Kevin Kline, Linda Ronstandt, Angela Lansbury, et al. And also the amazing Tony Azito, lost to HIV/AIDS in 1995. Highly recommended, whether you're an "effeminate theatre kid" or not.
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Elizabeth Joh @elizabethjoh.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Flock: "Comparing state-by-state, the share of residents who are Black was the only demographic variable in the analysis with a statistically significant relationship to camera density." cybernews.com/privacy/stud...
cybernews.com
Flock camera density linked to black population share
Our study finds that US states with higher Black population shares tend to have higher Flock camera density. Discover how demographics influence surveillance.
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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It's not until he says the magic words, that he fears losing control, that it fully clicks. It's not that he believes philanthropy is bad, it's that the risk of someone receiving his money who he doesn't approve of is a bigger problem than the risk that his money helps no one. That speaks volumes.
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Billionaire CEO says charity is a ‘negative’ for the world: ‘I’m not going to do that’
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has a net worth of several billion dollars, but don’t expect him to donate to charity or do any kind of philanthropy anytime soon. During a recent interview, Armstrong exp...
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 30/08/2026
The Trump administration, according to the diocese, believes the “power of eminent domain overrides the right to free exercise of religion” enshrined by the First Amendment.
independent.co.uk
Why Trump is picking a fight with a 29-foot-tall Jesus standing in New Mexico
Does eminent domain prevail against the First Amendment and religious freedom? A diocese in southern New Mexico says ‘nothing could be less Catholic’ than the president’s border wall, Alex Woodward re...
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MST3Katie @mst3katie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Well this is horrifying. Learn more here: www.uclahealth.org/news/article...
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Measles Infection Can Cause Immune Amnesia
I keep hearing about the complications that can happen when you have the measles and how they can land you in the hospital. I just saw on the news that getting the measles can mess up your immune syst...
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Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 27/08/2026
A Kentucky law meant to increase housing is now being wielded by a data center developer From @liamniemeyer.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2026/08/27/a...
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A Kentucky law meant to increase housing is now being wielded by a data center developer • Kentucky Lantern
A law meant to increase housing is now being used by a data center developer in Simpson County to stop community resistance to the plan.
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 27/08/2026
I paid off a revolving credit debt and two things happened. 1. My credit rating dropped. 2. The (former) debt holder demanded that I "confirm my income". I have zero debt with them. Fsck off. Credit scores exist to quantify your ability to be taken advantage of.
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 26/08/2026
In a testament to the power that Dolly and commercials had on young minds, Any time my wife and I are together and hear the word "Dahlias", there is this exchange: "Dahlias!" in an East TN accent "But you can't buy 'em" "I can't buy em!?" "You can only get them in boxes of Breeze"
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
SCOOP: Republican House candidate Ralph Alvarado is pivoting his message, editing his website to remove Trump mentions and delete a photo of them together. From “America First Fighter” to “Independent Leadership.” Trump won KY06 by 15 pts. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202... BEFORE/AFTER
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Oh come the fuck on. COME THE FUCK ON! Is this what we're doing now? Just killing off all the best people?
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
And when I say we are in a quiet constitutional crisis, this is what I mean: Congress directs National Science Foundation to send funds for research ins social, behaviorism and economic sciences; the Agency refuses to release at all, and then recommends eliminating the division.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 19/08/2026
Democratic Socialism: Myth Vs. Fact theonion.com/democratic-socialism-m…
MYTH: The government will take away your money and give it to the poor.

FACT: You are the poor.
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David Combest @decombest.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 17/08/2026
No more ‘hypothetical situations’: States move to fortify elections against Trump kentuckylantern.com/2026/08/17/r...
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No more 'hypothetical situations': States move to fortify elections against Trump • Kentucky Lantern
State Democratic officials are preparing for chaos at the polls this November, as President Donald Trump casts doubt on election security and pushes for more federal involvement in local voting. At st...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Jeebus this entire piece is a phenomenal piece of writing.
Flailing regimes dehumanize minorities to distract from their failures. When the economy collapses or a war goes badly, they find a tiny group of people, make them the enemy within, and rally the country against them. This is how it’s gone in Iran. Hungary. Russia. I wrote PDBs about it. This will not stop with trans people. It never has.

But that caricature works only if people like me don’t exist—and I exist. I speak now because somewhere, a trans kid is watching. I want that kid to know that they are not alone. I was a trans kid too, and I’ll be damned if I let another generation grow up the way I did—told that they don’t belong, that they don’t deserve a job, a bathroom, a future. If I could brief presidents and serve in the White House—twice—so can they.

I had planned to spend the rest of my career serving my country at the CIA. This White House took my calling, but it will not take my pride, or tell me that I don’t belong, or that I must disappear. I once wrote under a pseudonym so I could keep serving. I write now in my own name for the same reason.

Julia.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I also want to add that every single time ICE has physically hurt me, they have grabbed me by my chest. Most of my femme friends have said the same. I will not be surprised if / when we find out about twisted sexual assaults conducted by ICE agents with these gloves.
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 15/08/2026
This headline sure captures the Zeitgeist: "Country music singer who said █████, MAGA are not Christian claims his life is at risk"
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 12/08/2026
"Government Efficiency" indeed.
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Fiasco in the Factory: Taxpayers Funded a $533 Million Artillery Plant That Made Nothing
General Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking. Robot arms smashed into things. Hunks of metal crashed to the floor. There was even a...
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 10/08/2026
“This is not going to get better because of all the disease that’s already in the pipeline. These guys are being treated like disposable widgets, not human beings. … We’re watching them die right before our eyes.”
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Appalachia's black lung rates highest in nearly 50 years as miners' protections stall • Kentucky Lantern
A new report found that working veteran underground coal miners in central Appalachia are suffering from black lung at the highest rates in nearly 50 years.
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Tim Karr @timkarr.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The job of covering the data-center debacle—& the public uprising against them—has fallen largely to local, independent news outlets. Here, the Kentucky Lantern, a member of the non-profit States Newsroom network, exposes the many harms of letting outside business interests dictate local builds...
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The data center fight in Kentucky is about democracy • Kentucky Lantern
When the trickle of interest in data centers became a flood, and when the proposals swelled from small data centers to massive hyperscale complexes, concerned Kentuckians began speaking out.
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Raffi_RC @raffic.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
a mom sent me the sign she made for a No Kings rally. made me smile! every child deserves love. in the circle of life we all belong. 💖🙏🏻
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 07/08/2026
". . . to bring the nuclear industry back to Paducah. In 2025, their efforts began to bear fruit. That August, General Matter, a firm backed by Peter Thiel, announced that it would invest $1.5 billion to develop a private uranium-enrichment facility at the site of the Paducah plant."
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The Whistleblowers Who Exposed Decades of Nuclear Lies
In Paducah, Kentucky, workers at a revered uranium-enrichment plant were exposed to dangerous levels of radiation. Management assured them nothing was wrong. Then four friends risked everything to rev...
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 07/08/2026
My partner had minor surgery today and is recovering in bed with a large bandage. Our two cats are absolutely clued in that she's wounded, and healing. They're cool with abandoning all the normal schedules to make sure she's OK. Such smart souls.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/08/2026
Trump's support for coal is showing results.
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Black lung rates in Appalachia are high as the 1970s, with thousands of miners sick
Rates are now the highest they've been in nearly 50 years among veteran coal miners. Mining experts blame toxic silica dust, now more common in mines.
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Steve Conklin @nondim.com · 01/08/2026
Darrell Cuttell, . . . said SpaceXAI owes his company more than $136 million. Cuttell’s company is one of several with liens filed against SpaceXAI for failing to pay for services rendered.
actionnews5.com
Contractor who built Colossus and Colossus II says Elon Musk owes him colossal amount of money
A mechanical contractor who helped build Elon Musk’s Memphis-area data centers at breakneck speed says SpaceXAI is dragging its feet on paying his company for work performed since 2024.
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