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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 15h

New: Through a series of complex agreements with cities, the White House built a massive license plate camera database accessible to the feds. The program aggregates data across license plate companies (Flock, Axon, more) & is searchable by many agencies: www.404media.co/how-cities-a...

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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program

How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 17h

Not a great sign when your 12-person private fundraiser includes someone who hates you enough to leak damaging audio

The audio of Mr. Paxton was shared with The Times by an attendee who recorded him speaking at a private fund-raiser in Washington attended by roughly a dozen people. The person, who opposes Mr. Paxton’s campaign and provided the recording to The Times, was granted anonymity because Mr. Paxton’s remarks were private.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15h

Fantastic idea sir!

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Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A supermajority of digital media workers at Theorist Media have signed cards to unionize with WGAW and IATSE Local 700. UNI is calling on LunarX CEO Clemens to do right by their workers and let them form a union by agreeing to card-check recognition. @teamtheorist @Clemens_Semel #TheoristsUnite

Graphic urging Theorist/LunarX to recognize a union for digital workers.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

for the folks flagging gawker in response to this, yeah, i liked gawker but gawker was too upmarket and media-insider savvy for the kind of thing that would be ideal. i want a left wing version of the ny post, national enquirer, uk sun. mass market mass appeal, written for normal people.

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 28/09/2026

NEW: After we published an investigation into Brown Brothers Media, a company that buys struggling news sites and turns them into AI-powered content mills, we got a tip that completely gobsmacked me: one of the brothers has extensive connections to Ghislaine Maxwell futurism.com/artificial-i...

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You Know Those Three Brothers Who Buy Struggling News Sites and Turn Them Into AI-Powered Content Farms? It Turns Out One of Them Has Extensive Connections to Ghislaine Maxwell

Ideapod, a cornerstone brand of Brown Brothers Media's AI empire, has deep ties to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Memorial in Oxford to the 31 volunteers from Oxfordshire who fought for the Republic in the Spanish Civil War, 6 of whom were killed:. In stone, the clenched fist crushing a scorpion, symbolising the poison of fascism and the 3-point star of th International Brigades 📷 BulgeUwU (Wiki)

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Ben Schwartz @benschwartz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You can always tell when a Republican gets a new billionaire sponsor who has a single, very, very specific issue they would like the American people to hear about.

The image is a tweet from Sen. Tommy Tuberville that reads: "Democrats are the party of Radical Islam, illegal aliens, and furry pilots. Lord help us."

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el camino acid @sexdracula.rocks · 26/09/2026

Actually happened to me: interviewed for dev role at a tiny analytics company years ago. They asked a few normal Qs and then put one of those 3D puzzles in front of me & asked me to put it together while they watched. To this day I don’t have a fucking clue what they thought they learned from that

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:

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Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people

Exclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’

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Ed @ed3d.net · 26/09/2026

I kind of want to ask the people who insist that complex and information-carrying AI video footage generation is just going to be perfect over time: have you ever actually shot video and made decisions about how to shoot and what

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If you’re a random person and you have to deal with death threats and harassment from internet stalkers, it’s my understanding that the FBI basically ignores you in most circumstances. But the Millers are so powerful they can demote the head of the FBI’s DC field office for investigating too slow.

The orders from the bureau's DC chief Darren Cox stemmed from frustration shared by the Miller family that the field office was moving slowly in probing allegedly harassing phone messages left with prominent conservative podcaster, Katie Miller, added the people, who spoke anonymously to avoid retaliation.
Several of the individuals said Director Kash Patel was also displeased with the office's progress on the case.

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is great reporting, and also I think the problem was that he turned his hat around

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

damn near the worst thing i ever read jesus fucking christ

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the guy prophesied to defeat Cybersmith in anime sword battle on a desolate Scottish moor

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There are too many people in congress who would be happier doing this, and that's part of why our politics is so stupid bsky.app/profile/avit...

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bijan @bijan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

new saddest 6 word story just dropped

She looked as if she could have been an Instagram baddie in another life.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/09/2026

Two thing can be true. The WH kicking out media it doesn’t like is absolutely a First Amendment violation. And There is little journalism of value to be found in the highly controlled, substance-free halls of power—wall-to-wall navel-gazing about one’s access probably being of the least value.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

He did it, this is the final boss level of white people going can I say it?

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Sean O’Kane @okane.fyi · 24/09/2026

star wars propublica: Galactic Republic investigators were circling Jar Jar Binks -- until Senator Palpatine got involved

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

honestly most be dope to be so rich you don’t even need to know where you are

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

used to hang out at this bar whose other regulars were mostly straight middle aged men and my god their drama. most of em were banned for pissing on the floor or stealing fistfuls of cash from the register. for some reason no one acted like it was a referendum on straightness maleness or ‘the left’

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026

Last night I planted an olive tree at Gracie Mansion with Palestinian families from Gaza. May peace be our future.

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 24/09/2026

Hey what if you applied the same journalistic practice to literally anything that matters.

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.

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Bryan Murphy @bryanmurphy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I've decided that the funniest thing would be Hannah Einbinder being a huge fan and Susan Sarandon, politely, wondering who she is. "Have you seen Hacks with Jean Smart?" "No, sorry. Is that a movie?"

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ten years of relentlessly hateful, comically elitist anti-democratic politics across the white people world, helpfully summarised. The wrong people are talking, the wrong people are deciding and it’s harming the careers of important people who actually matter. Smithers! Release the hounds

The incident fits a broader pattern in the discourse around 'free speech' and 'cancel culture': whatever comes from the top down is freedom; whatever comes from the bottom up is bullying and censorship. When Macklemore is dropped at the behest of the billionaire stadium owner Robert Kraft, it's an exercise of the freedom of businesses to 'demonstrate their values' by deciding whom to platform. But when Ed Sheeran's fans decide not to buy tickets to his performances, or even demand refunds, it's bullying, mob behaviour. Since most people are not billionaires and do not own stadiums, they can exercise meaningful power only collectively. The collective exercise of power must therefore be demonised.

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

- Honestly my dear grandchildren, you’ll never believe how low rates were in the 2010s. - at least you built a load of infrastructure when borrowing costs were so low grandad? Right? Right?

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Trump saying “I am the code,” the same way Johnny Drama says “I am the game” after being dismissed by an agent for being too old.

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

26 years ago

onion headline from 2000: Black Guy Photoshopped In, showing side-by-sides of a cover of a course guide with a Black student added to the second cover

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 23/09/2026

Pittsburgh, here's a protest for you!!!

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Catbus @catbus.phd · 23/09/2026

nathan fielder: you're a real PNG file, right?

Elizabeth Holmes on a gray checked background looking totally full of shit:
why would I decieve you?

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merritt @merrittk.com · 22/09/2026

me when i get the $36.52 from my involvement in the class action lawsuit against the company that exposed all of my private data to the entire world

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.

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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

SCOOP: the ICE officer who shot Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez in Austin wasn't wearing his body cam. The officer is a new recruit hired by the agency last year 🔽 www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

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The ICE Officer in Austin Wasn’t Wearing a Body Cam

The officer who shot a Venezuelan man was hired last year from another federal law-enforcement agency.

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

anyone else wanna scream while peeling their skin off their face or just me? nah?

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There’s both no money to pay anyone in entertainment and enough money to pay Seth Rogan to be Launchpad McQuack

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 22/09/2026

Casino to kick out 1000 players because they have "never won at blackjack"

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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is so funny to read when many non-white and some white authors have talked to me about exactly how racist and regressive the publishing industry is

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