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This is such a scoop. For many reasons, including: Trump had made a couple of comments about Omar in the first term, but neither she nor Somali Americans were a Trump obsession at that time. (But Somalis _were_ a Miller obsession.) www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Trump officials scrutinized Omar in 2019. They didn’t find citizenship issues.

The earlier review of Omar’s immigration records looked at many of the same issues being investigated now.

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Dr. Karen Carr @quatrus.bsky.social · 4h

They took her passport!!!!

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Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 4h

Elon Musk is single-handedly funding the Ken Paxton campaign:

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Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @congressmanraja.bsky.social · 13h

My family and I were worshipping at our Hindu temple in Aurora on Sunday when a white supremacist attempted a mass shooting targeting Indian Americans. I'm grateful to those who prevented a tragedy, but we must all come together to confront the hatred that put so many innocent lives at risk.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 5h

The way JD Vance says this, he is acting as if Abdul El-Sayed is an immigrant who should "show a little gratitude to the country that gave him everything." Once again, it should be pointed out that El-Sayed was born and raised in Michigan.

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 9h

NEW: Ex-Congressman Matt Gaetz sued in federal court in Florida for his alleged role in a sex trafficking scheme involving young women, drugs, and traveling across state lines to obtain commercial sex acts from these young women.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 9h

Employers worldwide are pulling back on AI as they navigate a flood of errors and low-quality work that sap employee time, raise privacy and security risks, and drive up costs

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Companies rushed in on AI. Now some are pulling back

Rapid AI adoption left workers cleaning up a flood of errors and low-quality work

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Dr. Karen Carr @quatrus.bsky.social · 5h

Right, yes, but their attempt to make a big deal of it contrasts sharply with their dismissal of criticisms of Zacharia's claims.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 10h

What if you see ICE at the polls? (Don't worry! Read on for the plan!) @indivisible.org roped me in to design and illustrate a new zine! Check it out in this 🧵 - and visit linktr.ee/wewillvote to sign up for the Election Protection Program and find all the resources you need!

Page 1: text reads "WHAT IF YOU SEE ICE AT THE POLLS? (Don't worry! Read on for the plan!)"

Image shows pen and ink drawings of an ICE agent peeking around one side of the word ICE and a determined looking person holding up a cell phone as if to record peering around the other side.

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Dr. Karen Carr @quatrus.bsky.social · 6h

This is rich, considering the work they've done to complain that Abdul El-Sayed isn't a doctor because he only finished med school and didn't do a residency.

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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · 8h

Wow! A whole fifth-eighth century century hilltop settlement 20km south of Dijon with big stone buildings and even a hypocaust heating system.

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 7h

BREAKING: The FBI made a video trashing Democrats & hyping Kash Patel, then posted it during early voting Spending your tax dollars to campaign or to hype the director is illegal -- This video did BOTH We want watchdogs to find out who signed off Our @democracydefendersfund.org letter👇 -TN

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 7h

Your occasional reminder that polls don't mean shit, you have to show up and vote, preferably early and in person if you can

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Dr. Karen Carr @quatrus.bsky.social · 7h

Sometimes I agree with this, and then sometimes I think of Marius and Sulla, Pompey and Caesar, etc. When both sides escalate, there's a bad place that can go to.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 8h

Nine FBI agents who were fired for their work on the Trump classified documents case are suing the bureau and director Kash Patel for what they say was unlawful retribution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 13h

This is a crime. I'd be nice if that meant anything anymore.

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 9h

Hah hah it's funny because we are murderers

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Dr. Karen Carr @quatrus.bsky.social · 9h

Thanks for bringing them to my attention! This sounds like a great program. However, there's little evidence that swimming has recently spread to any wider population than in the past. On the contrary, many public pools have closed, and less than a quarter of today's poor children learn to swim.

theatlantic.com

The Decline of America’s Public Pools

As summers get hotter, public pools help people stay cool. Why are they so neglected?

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Dr. Karen Carr @quatrus.bsky.social · 9h

This is partly because for many years they did have, effectively, slave labor in the form of intelligent, ambitious women barred from better-paying work. These women were forced into teaching or nursing, and so schools got high quality teachers at relatively low wages.

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 11h

all of us just watched these university admins wield enormous power against palestinian student orgs, including unaffiliated ones, so these excuses land flatter than ever

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Dr. Karen Carr @quatrus.bsky.social · 10h

Even on a practical level, it's hard to imagine any company with the bandwidth to support that size audience wanting to violate their own TOS by showing it, or volunteer to take the risk that the system would crash and make them look bad. Especially given that the election will be over by then.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 11h

They started on illegal immigrants, expanded it to legal immigrants, now are going after naturalized citizens. If you are not one of those groups, you are just somewhere further down the chain, but they will get to eliminating your rights eventually too.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12h

AI is conscious AND it is my girlfriend AND it is my slave. A perfect scenario for me, a normal person. Not gonna think too deeply about this. Now do all other living human people deserve the level of investment devoted to my Tamogotchi slave girlfriend? Not so fast.

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Dr. Karen Carr @quatrus.bsky.social · 11h

And to women: Emma Goldman, for example, had her citizenship revoked so she could be deported.

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 16h

Today I found out that Umberto Eco crafted a version of this meme in the 1980s…

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alibi of photocopies ! Photocopies are indis-
pensable instruments. They allow you to keep with you a text you have already read in the library, and to take home a text you have not read yet. But a set of photocopies can become an alibi. A student makes hundreds of pages of photocopies and takes them home, and the manual labor he exercises in doing so gives him the impression that he possesses the work. Owning the photocopies exempts the student from actually reading them. This sort of vertigo of accumulation, a neocapitalism of information, happens to many. Defend yourself from this trap: as soon as you have the photocopy, read it and annotate it immediately. If you are not in a great hurry, do not photocopy something new before you own (that is, before you have read and annotated) the previous set of photocopies. There are many things that I do not know because I photocopied a text and then relaxed as if I had read it.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Again, these are the easy ones. violating both state and federal law, video of him doing it and bragging about it. I want to see so many of these felony charges I get bored of them.

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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Fundamentally, teaching humans is activity that requires high amounts of human labor per student and that is a real problem for people who are annoyed at the concept of paying for human labor.

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Asher @skydome.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

G20 levels of police presence to remove a fucking bike lane. Absolute cowards. (Photo: @chanface.bsky.social)

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 15/10/2026

Stick up for trans people and immigrants every time, all the time.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/10/2026

Voting early takes your name off the call, text, canvass, and email lists. #VoteEarly

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Katie Spoon @kspoon.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

As a PhD student designing my first survey, I added what I thought was a throwaway question at the end. To my surprise, thousands of academics answered it! The paper is out today: doi.org/10.1093/pnas...

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

the US has done this sort of thing before to Black leftists. state department seized passports from W.E.B. Du Bois and Paul Robeson.

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a birb @rhiolit.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

worth also noting that both the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti happened in her district, and on top of the obviously racist targeting of her personally this is also an attempt to deny the people of Minneapolis their democratically elected representative

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Grass Toucher Georg @avengingfem.me · 14/10/2026

saw Prof Claudia Goldin give a public lecture on why the fertility rate is dropping; the tl;dr according to her is that it's difficult for a woman to tell in advance if a man will help enough with childrearing to avoid fucking over her career. men need more credible commitment to being good dads.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

read that sentence. it is a description of political persecution. anyone giving this the time of day as a serious legal case is a fool.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/10/2026

"In February 2024, Blanche & his partner Emil Bove — now Judge Bove — insisted that 'a fair trial cannot be conducted this year.' And yet, 22 days before the midterms, with early voting already underway in MN, Blanche’s DOJ searched a candidate’s home over paperwork a dead man filed 3 decades ago."

publicnotice.co

Republicans learn to love DOJ weaponization

Just kidding, they always love it when they’re holding the weapon.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The wealthiest in our country should pay their fair share into Social Security. Scrap the cap!

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Dr. Karen Carr @quatrus.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Feds *seized her phone*?!?!?!?

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Here’s a message for the naysayers that are complaining about what is — and isn’t — happening in my case against AG Todd Blanche: I AM NOT SURRENDERING. I know the value of my work and I know what it means to be fighting for truth and accountability. I know what this case means for the survivors.

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Dr. Karen Carr @quatrus.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Debt has always been a way to control the underclass, much more than it is about making money, as Graeber pointed out.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.

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Dr. Karen Carr @quatrus.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Good for you! We have received our voter's pamphlets but not yet our ballots.

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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

She doesn’t have an ‘immigration status.’ She’s a citizen. Appalling though predictable framing.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

terrible move. history tells us the correct play is to abandon the city and defeat your adversaries at sea

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Dr. Karen Carr @quatrus.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Right, so your 'serious' is on a different scale from the apocalypse many Y2K believers were predicting, and any problems caused by AI are likely to be on your scale of 'serious' and not on the apocalyptic level being predicted now.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/10/2026

what if, hear me out, this is Russia’s fault and not Ukraine’s

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Dr. Karen Carr @quatrus.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

All this woo woo around AI reminds me a lot of the woo woo around Y2K, and a lot of people made a lot of money on that, too, but it turned out to be NBD. (yes that was partly because some programmers worked hard to prevent it, but not everyone worked so hard, and yet nobody had serious problems.)

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