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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
"They're coming for you, but the...millionaires...are standing in their way"?
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Lefty Cheat Sheet @electioncheatsheet.org · 14/10/2026
Ballots will be dropping in your mailboxes this week! We’ve completed incorporating and hand-checking the endorsements of all but a handful of our endorsing organizations, and we’ve improved our site for you.
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❤️🫀 momo (heartily good bad) 🫀❤️ @momo.thingsabout.xyz · 15/10/2026
i’ve been working on a 1,000 page manual on how to do this and she just tweeted it out
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Two points I want to make about this: 1. Democrats should immediately threaten to deport Elon Musk and Melania Trump for *actual* immigration fraud once they retake power. Don't @ me about how we're not like them. Do politics. Make the threat. Force Republicans to react and defend their decision.
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Tigers Claw 🐅🐾 虎の爪 @tigersclaw1.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
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CatWoman @catwomanresists.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼🎯👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I thought I remembered Rob Saka SUPPORTING the exact kind of prefab restrooms that he called a waste of money today (now that Mayor Wilson is proposing them) just last year. And lo, I found his amendment—he added $1 million for graffiti-resistant, prefabricated restrooms in West Seattle (p.14)!
seattle.legistar.com
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Tigers Claw 🐅🐾 虎の爪 @tigersclaw1.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Renée good Alex Pretti
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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Yep. Defending Main Street PAC—a GOP SuperPAC focused on boosting non-MAGA Republicans—spent $20-25K on digital ads against Troy Jackson in Portland ... OREGON. Receipts: adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/A...
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
"In 2021, co-founder Anna Salamon, by then CFAR’s president, acknowledged that at least three employees had effectively been compelled to undergo “debugging,” the community’s term for intervention in a person’s own psychology." Totally normal.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026
Your favorite Anthropic so-called "whistleblower" said that the rationalists have "specialized minds" that allow them to see that the end is about to be brought on to us by a magical machine god. Parroting the cult leader (of the rationalists, the R in TESCREAL) who says the same about himself.
His autobiography even opens with a parable: as a small child he threw his favorite squirtgun off a third-floor balcony rather than accept that his mother could lend out what was his, and felt complete when he heard it hit the pavement. He goes on to describes himself as a specialist in the technological transformation of the human species, one of the few people alive with the standing to steer it. He identifies with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the one person who sees the danger clearly and has to act while everyone else gets on with ordinary life.
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ruffalo: We got to get this dumb-ass, fool-ass, tired-ass, lame-ass, duck-ass out of office. We got to make him a lame duck. We have to stop his policies now. Another two years of this, and who knows what he’ll be doing? He’s calling to throw Democrats out of the country…
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
This Lukoil pending deal has a tie-in to the billionaire Syrian-born Qatari brothers that I wrote about earlier this year-- who have teamed up with Ivanka and Jared on a real estate project in Albania. Yes, it's an intricate web. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...
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Syrian Billionaires Needed a Favor in Washington. They Invoked the Trump Name. (Gift Article)
The attempt by the Khayyats to influence foreign policy while discussions are underway about potential Trump family deals is an increasingly common feature of the president’s second term.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
Witkoff and Kushner discussed the deal last month during a meeting at the Kremlin with Putin. Here is a shorter overview of our investigation. With my NYT Washington Bureau colleague Anton Troianovski www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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Trump, Putin, Ukraine and an Oil Deal: 5 Takeaways (Gift Article)
A proposal to bolster relations with the Kremlin through the purchase of Russian energy assets is striking even for an administration that regularly mixes personal business interests with foreign poli...
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
Here's a little chart that our graphics team did to help you keep track of the various players.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 03/10/2026
Yep. Apparently she has a record of claiming local businesses support her when they never actually endorsed her.
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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 03/10/2026
Sound Transit has removed the photo of City Council candidate Julie Kang from the new Pinehurst station. Still unclear how Kang got herself on there.
Photo of side glass wall of Pinehurst Station
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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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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
SPD Overpaid Officers By $13 Million. Now the City Wants It Back. Officers got retroactive paychecks that were as much as $32,000 too high. If the city wants to recover the money, they have to cut a deal with the police union. publicola.com/2026/10/01/s...
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SPD Overpaid Officers By $13 Million. Now the City Wants It Back. - PubliCola
. By Erica C. Barnett The Seattle Police Department overpaid police officers, management, and civilian staff a total of more…
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Be loud.
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
👇🏼👇🏼
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Dan Miller @dan--miller.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Not even The Onion could make this up: Before deciding whether to intervene in Venezuela, Trump reportedly spent hours consulting an AI chatbot about how Venezuelans would react to his plan to invade the country and overthrow Maduro.
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Read the full essay below
blog.cryptographyengineering.com
Is sandboxing sufficient to contain rogue agents?
Quick caveats: this is a post on AI safety, written by a cryptography professor. If that troubles you, you should read something else. I try hard not to work on AI (except when the topic occasional…
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Software engineers see AI agents as tools. We have decades of experience restricting tools with least privilege and access controls. AI researchers have a dual hubris, they’re creating a smarter-than-human god that can defeat any sandbox, but believe they can teach it to obey. So far, not great. 🥴
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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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Seattle Department of Transportation @transportation.seattle.gov · 01/10/2026
Halloween is coming. You don’t have to go to a “trunk-or-treat” event in Seattle! You can close your neighborhood street to through-traffic – for free! Trick-or-Streets permits are free and easy to get. Join here: seattle.gov/transportation/trick-or-streets
The ancient two-panel Drake meme. On the top, he's looking away in disgust and holding his hand up. The text next to it says "Truck-or-treat". On the bottom, he looks pleased and is pointing toward text that says "Close your street".
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Futurewise @futurewise.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Happy day 1 of #WeekWithoutDriving! Many of us at Futurewise are grateful to be able to have car-light lives! Seattleite & Director of Local Advocacy Jazmine walks, bikes, and takes every kind of public transit. Join us: Participate in #WeekWithoutDriving (10/1-10/8) & share your experience!
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I love that we wear personal protective equipment to ride a bus and walk along a street. That’s why our website is www.got99problems.org
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We'll hear this phrase, "charter responsibility," repeatedly in the upcoming budget debate as councilmembers justify cutting from the small budgets that pay for things (like food and housing) that keep people healthy and safe in favor of more money for police and their own pet projects.
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Council Learns What "One-Time Funding" Means; Podcaster's Advocacy for Anti-Trans Campaign Didn't Violate Election Law - PubliCola
1. City council members who funded an unsustainable budget last year by using one-time dollars to fund tens of millions in…
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I pulled the same quote (and made this point) in my own coverage yesterday. The first charter priorities are "protecting and enhancing the health, safety, environment, and general welfare of the people." Sounds like providing food to people who don't have it might be a charter responsibility!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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Rachael @r343l.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This story is pretty wild. I've been much more concerned about "private" cameras being used by police and behold. The police quietly has gotten cameras on private property (in theory facing "public" spaces) to feed into their real time system without informing city council or the public.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tomorrow, on October 1, the biggest transfer of wealth from the working class to the wealthy hits a critical milestone. Many of the provisions from the Big Ugly Bill will go into effect, harming hundreds of thousands of Michiganders in order to create tax cuts for the richest people in America.
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They Might Be Giants @tmbg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thursday night we are at First Avenue! Today we are in the NYTimes newsletter for Minneapolis! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/b...
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The Local: They Might Be Giants on playing 4 nights
Also, Lynx heartbreak and close encounters with Josh Hartnett.
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Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Capital punishment is barbaric when it works. There aren’t even words for it when it gets botched. Tennessee Woman Still Alive After Attempts to Execute Her, Lawyers Say (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
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Tennessee Death Row Inmate Christa Pike Still Alive After Attempts to Execute Her, Lawyers Say (Gift Article)
Christa Pike, who was convicted of murdering a classmate in 1995, was set to be executed by lethal injection. Officials had gone ahead with the execution after a temporary court-ordered pause.
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 01/10/2026
sorry, it's me, minutes-at-home georg
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In practice, AI literacy doesn’t start with building the tool for your personal use. It starts with understanding yourself as a collection of tasks who should subcontract those out to a machine. Almost no regular person’s life currently exists as such.
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Ryan Randall @www.ryanpatrickrandall.com · 28/09/2026
Some of the biggest adopters I know or work with are ADHD (as am I)—but my immediate reaction to these tools has instead always been "why would I want to be gaslit at scales beyond my ability to verify what's actually happening?" The tools feel to me like maintenance debt, never accessibility aids.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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onesillyfag @onesillyfag.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Tigers Claw 🐅🐾 虎の爪 @tigersclaw1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yes, I’m pretty sure most of us already knew this Mafia Don-Old tRump is a criminal selling pardons to criminals
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Seattle Bike Blog @seattlebikeblog.com · 26/09/2026
Indycar would be better if the drivers had to complete a full grocery shop and carry it all to the finish line.
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Beth Humphreys 🌺 @producrgrl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
🤬🤬🤬 Vote EARLY! #nokings
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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
These trains are so set up for seat assignments, can we please just make that happen?
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"The continued self-abasement of Republican senators is an ongoing testament to Donald Trump’s power over the Republican Party, even as his approval rating with the American public tanks." - @delaneyrules.bsky.social in a @huffpost.com email sharing this banger piece exposing Husted.
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Jon Husted Casts Deciding Vote Against Resolution To End Iran War
Sen. Jon Husted (R-Ohio) said the war should end, but refused to vote to end it.
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