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@pokinpotentialppl.bsky.social
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#AltFam, Embryologist, friend to all dogs. Gets Blamed a lot 😉 Just want to leave life better than I found it.

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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 12h
We've already been hard at work dissecting this "best since the Industrial Revolution" website and... surprise surprise... it's not 508 compliant. It doesn't use plain language, it's not using the official USWDS usa-banner. It's giant font and opaque trackers are offensive.
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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 14h
A letter from us. We want the best for USWDS, and we're ready to help. fedscoop.com/websites-jeo...
fedscoop.com
Websites ‘in jeopardy’ amid U.S. Web Design System takeover, coalition tells GSA
The letter comes after administration officials changed leadership for the system, implemented new AI tooling, and shut out members of an open-source community.
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LSW @ltrip.altgov.info · 12h
Your government websites are being taken over. Your access to things like Social Security, Medicare, IRS etc and your privacy are both at risk. Read the open letter from the government employees trying to protect you.
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404 Media @404media.co · 13h
UPDATE: On Monday, Krebs on Security reported authorities in the Netherlands had arrested a 23-year-old on suspicion of aiding ShinyHunters. The representative told 404 Media “the Dutch police are incompetent. That individual has no association with us. Frankly, we are laughing.”
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FBI Hackers Say They Won’t Publish Massive Trove of FBI Employee Data
ShinyHunters, the group that stole data on “all FBI employees” including addresses and details on their spouses, told 404 Media on Monday “Since the very beginning we had made our decision that we wou...
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ProTip (AKA alt_localgov) @protip.altgov.info · 13h
This is why you resist the fascists immediately, tirelessly, with all your might, until they’re all defeated, and never yield an inch.
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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 22h
Putin has placed a $20 million bounty on Magyar. That is how much this guy has been devastating the Russians in the occupied territories.
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AltStateGov @altstategov.altgov.info · 14h
THE PAYMENT ERROR RATE DOES NOT MEASURE, IDENTIFY, INDICATE, ETC FRAUD OCCURING WITH SNAP
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 2h
“The next day, FBI staff received an email reminding them that October is cybersecurity awareness month.” open.substack.com/pub/spytalk/...
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Kash Patel Has Gotta Go
The ShinyHunters cybertheft of FBI personnel files should be the last straw
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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 13h
Footage from the crash site of the Russian Tu-95MS strategic bomber in Amur Oblast, showing the burning wreckage of the aircraft after the crash.
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viper13.bsky.social @viper13.bsky.social · 7h
Drip, drip, drip Why has it taken so long to transfer the F-16s? I know the US sucks, but it's time for the world to confront putin and end the needless killing in Ukraine.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 9h
FBI Director Kash Patel this week has faced the worst data breach in FBI history, a deputy who quit because Patel was doing too many unconstitutional things, and partied with a suspected double agent. And it's only Tuesday. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-disgra...
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The Disgrace and Danger of Kash Patel, Part II
A quick check-in on the FBI director's latest raft of scandals (including, of course, the bestiality).
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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 4h
There's more coming. Ol KP may be one of the worst ranking Feds of all time.
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Paul Graf @paulginva.bsky.social · 8h
The rial has collapsed by around 68% since the resumption of the Hormuz blockade on July 14, to now about 2.5 million rials per US dollar. Iran's oil exports via the Strait of Hormuz have also collapsed. The question to my mind is how much pain is the govern⁴ment willing to inflict on its people,
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 6h
The IRGC has published a 26-page "Letter to the American people." img9.irna.ir/d/r2/2026/09...
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 6h
Bureau of the Assembly of States Parties to Rome Statute of the ICC decided that 25th session of the Assembly, scheduled to take place at UN HQ in NYC, will be relocated to The Hague. ..in light of concerns related to elected officials of the Court subject to US sanctions & visa restrictions
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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 6h
They are ancient time capsules: Because of their unique, oxygen-free chemistry, bogs preserve history. They hold onto everything from ancient Iron Age tools and treasures to thousands of years of ecological data, perfectly preserved in time. 3/
Image of sphagnum moss that acidifies its environment.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 13h
it is just monumentally depressing that at the time we need honest supreme court coverage the most, the place that used to be the best resource for it has been turned - like most other media outlets - into a sycophantic shitshow dedicated to glazing the worst people in america
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 10h
Vladimir Putin has signed a decree increasing the size of the Russian armed forces by 15,500 personnel. Although it's not a huge increase, it's the fourth one in only a year, and represents a form of "creeping mobilisation" according to Russian commentators. ⬇️
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Pokin @pokinpotentialppl.bsky.social · 7h
Don’t fuck with Estonia.
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AltFDA @altfda.altgov.info · 13h
Read below!
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 12h
omg. Schmitt is such a scumbag! And an incompetent one too.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
BREAKING on MS NOW: Former Missouri AG Andrew Bailey, who joined the FBI as 'co-deputy director' work alongside then-Deputy Director Dan Bongino, is stepping aside. Bailey was overseeing election-related matters at the FBI.
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Paul Graf @paulginva.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
They paid out an extra $12K per patient on average. This is not new. The insurance companies devised three sets of codes, CPT codes (Current Procedural Terminology) for procedures, ICD codes (International Classification of Diseases) for diagnoses, and HCPCS codes for supplies and services, long
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The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association says insurers paid out nearly $1 billion more than usual from Al-assisted hospital documentation in 2024-2025. Hospitals use Al to scan records and find secondary diagnoses that human reviewers missed. More diagnoses means higher reimbursements.

But treatment levels haven't gone up.

BCBSA's SVP of data science said Al is "identifying more billable conditions, not sicker patients." Insurers now deploy their own Al to deny those same claims. Patients pay for both through higher premiums.

My Take

This might be the most American healthcare story I've ever read. Hospitals bought Al to find more things to bill for. Insurers bought Al to deny those bills. The technology cost money on each end and the tab went straight to patients through higher premiums. A billion dollars moved and no one got any healthier. The only thing that changed was the size of the invoices.

Two sides of a trillion-dollar industry found a new tool to fight over the same pool of money and the person in the hospital bed pays for all of it.

Premiums go up, denials go up, and the Al vendors collect from everyone. If you want to know who Al works for, stop reading the press releases and look at where the money goes. In healthcare it went straight into the billing department.

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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The year before Election 2024, I was helping run UCLA’s DEI Office in LA—and siccing my AuDHD savant 🧠 on analyzing not just Project 2025’s substance, but its impact on my nation. I predicted (not really a prediction) all these horrors. Most accused me of trying to scare ppl into voting for Harris.
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
1/ Russian warbloggers are angry at pictures of large numbers of Russian POWs captured near Lyman, which they see as a humiliation. They demand – almost certainly futilely – that the Russian government should be more honest about what is happening at the front. ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/ukra...
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Paul Graf @paulginva.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It was never going to work the way they envisioned. Too many false assumptions and a complete disregard for what Trump really wanted to do. And here we are.

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In the early days of Trump's second term, his economic advisers laid out a simple theory: Show the bond market that Washington was serious about closing its gaping deficits and long-term interest rates would fall on their own. Trump could leave the Fed alone.

It hasn't worked out that way.

The White House theory rested on fiscal restraint that never arrived and overlooked how much of Trump's own agenda would feed the price pressures now pushing rates higher. Tariffs raised the cost of imported goods. The war with Iran sent oil and diesel prices soaring.
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 28/09/2026
❗️EU officials are discussing the idea of adding Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency to the bloc’s terrorist list, according to RFE/RL Europe Editor Rikard Jozwiak. No decision has been announced. #EU
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
GOP in Congress have gone supine, & that's how a democracy slides toward Orbán's Hungary Americans aren't having it, & neither are the courts @democracydefendersaction.org & partners have hundreds of cases going & the wins keep coming Why I expect a historic spanking Nov 3 w/ @ms.now👇 -TN
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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Also reminder the best help for food pantries, or people struggling or any 'need' is cold hard cash. Always. Always always always. Food pantries can make that money stretch MUCH BETTER THAN YOU CAN, and it'll go to their most urgent needs. I mean, the other stuff is great too but cash is king
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
1/ Russia faces a long, difficult fight even if it succeeds in taking the Donbas 'fortress belt' cities, warns a Russian warblogger, citing frontline soldiers' views. The fight for the fortress belt only marks a phase in the battle, not the culmination of the war. ⬇️
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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There is an intensification of warfare against civilians across the board, both in the occupied territories and inside Ukraine. It’s always been a feature of Russias warfare, civilians are just another target, another pressure point. They don’t care about war crimes or other rules, maternity
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This Cornell gang r*ape case has me wanting to burn down everything. An ESSAY?! For drugging and r*aping a woman for SEVEN HOURS and advertising it on the fraternity group chat? And no one stopped it, called security, did a damn thing? ARE YOU FCKING KIDDING ME?
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Weedy detail about Sheri Mecklenburg's request to intervene in Broadview 6 case. She says she only wants to intervene in 226 (sanctions) and 227 (special counsel). She does not mention 225 (discovery). storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
MOTION OF SHERI H. MECKLENBURG
FOR LEAVE TO INTERVENE
Intervenor-Movant Sheri H. Mecklenburg, individually and by her
counsel, Sergio E. Acosta and Joel D. Bertocchi of Akerman LLP, hereby moves
for leave to intervene in this case, and specifically in proceedings the Court is
conducting with respect to the following motions brought by Former
Defendants: ECF Doc. # 226, in which they seek an evidentiary hearing on
sanctions claims and discovery in advance of such a hearing; and ECF Doc. #
227, in which they ask the Court to appoint a “special counsel” to investigate
and prosecute “responsible persons” for criminal contempt. The United States has responded to these motions (ECF Doc. # 247), and Former Defendants have
now filed their reply (ECF Doc. # 255). Intervention by Ms. Mecklenburg. In this case, as to the two motions
identified above (which raise the only issues on which she seeks to intervene),
Ms. Mecklenburg will, if either or both are granted, qualify for both
intervention as of right and permissive intervention. As to the former, Ms.
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Kane Korso @godevils2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This was a one off. I can't move my troops around like this without paying a price. We are working on other plans to get in and out. The inhabitants need to decide quickly and to hoard those provisions for as long as possible..
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 27/09/2026
Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic announces resignation
lemonde.fr
Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic announces resignation
First elected president in 2017 and re-elected in May 2022, Vucic cut his five-year term short to campaign for prime minister, although the law did not require him to resign. 'I want to compete as an ordinary man, as one of the people,' said Vucic.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The cases dropped included white collar crime, drugs and terrorism, 23,000 of them, all during the first six months of Trump’s second term. Instead the DOJ focused on immigration cases.
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Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration
Under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the DOJ abandoned a record number of cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — in just the first six months of Presi...
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Kane Korso @godevils2.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Not his personal plane asshole.. It's called Air Force 1. It belongs to the US Air Force that ports the fat traitor around. You're right on one thing: The massive misinfo/disinfo comes from the White House and that is a national security issue of the first order.
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 27/09/2026
Ukrainian forces destroyed a Russian BM-21 Grad MLRS loaded with ammunition after intelligence narrowed down its likely location and an FPV drone found the target. The strike triggered secondary detonations and a fire. #Ukraine
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Action Together New Jersey @atnj.org · 28/09/2026
Thank you MetLife Stadium!
MetLife Stadium contributed 1000 pounds of freshly prepared food from a cancelled AC/DC concert to Table to Table.
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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
www.reddit.com/r/MurderedBy...
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 27/09/2026
Ukrainian forces struck the area of the former Luhansk Border Guard detachment in occupied Luhansk overnight, with more than five explosions reported at the site. A separate strike near the city may also have hit an ammunition depot, according to local reports. #Ukraine
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When Mom lets you try on your Halloween costume and you’re going as the drapes.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Is this what he tells himself so he can sleep at night?
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 27/09/2026
USS Theodore Roosevelt has left San Diego on 9/27 and is heading to the Arabian Sea (Middle East) to relieve USS George Washington in the U.S. 5th Fleet area, supporting ongoing CENTCOM operations. Deployment expected to last over 7 months.
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Pokin @pokinpotentialppl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On 3 separate occasions Aella quizzes people on the appropriateness of 13-year-olds having sex. Just.. this is not legally advisable stuff for her to be saying online, repeatedly, given the kind of parties she throws. One look at her Twitter history would be enough to green-light an investigation.
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Pokin @pokinpotentialppl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Uhhhhh …. 🤯🤬
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twist @pvdork.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Seen on hike through woods. The other side was worse. Disgusting timeline in the world right now. Fvck magaT. Fvck all enablers. Fvck tRump.
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