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Mary Reilly

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Artist, poet, friend to dogs, enemy of despots.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 5h
It has been 118 years since the Supreme Court ruled the federal government owes tribes water, but Native American communities in northern Arizona are still fighting for their rights to the Colorado River. (Published June)
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Native American Tribes Came Together to Secure Their Rights to Colorado River Water. Four States Are Stalling the Deal.
Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming are resisting the deal because it would allow the Navajo and Hopi to lease water to cities downstream, likely the growing towns around Phoenix.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 6h
Judge Sara Hill, N.D. Oklahoma, issued this decision on Thursday —>
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 6h
🚨BREAKING: Tarrant County voters filed an emergency lawsuit Friday accusing Republican county officials of intentionally making it harder for Black and Hispanic residents to vote by eliminating dozens of Election Day polling places. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Tarrant County voters sue to block GOP polling site cuts targeting minority voters
The lawsuit comes a month after the GOP-controlled Tarrant County Commissioners Court approved the cuts in a 3-2 vote despite intense opposition from residents and the court’s two Democratic commissio...
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Andrew Levesque @andrewlevesque.bsky.social · 5h
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... A federal court in Texas on Friday issued a ruling temporarily blocking the Trump administration from building a border wall and other infrastructure across the state’s Big Bend region….
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Federal court temporarily blocks Trump administration’s border wall in Texas’ Big Bend region
The court’s decision comes just weeks after the administration erected the first border wall panels in the Big Bend sector in the middle of September.
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 10h
Yep.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
"I'm supposed to be tough. What happens if I faint?"- here's fun footage of Curtis Sliwa & Mayor Mamdani getting their flu shots together, including Mamdani offering to hold Sliwa's hand 😆 (Sliwa takes him up on it!) (Flu season is approaching and NYers can find free flu shots at nyc.gov/healthmap)
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 11h
OK. Just a reminder that they didn't get into bed with all these military drone/camera tracking/data silo companies for no reason at all. This is connecting the most basic of dots. Also Musk is back with the administration. Trump talks about drones a LOT.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Been banging the drum on this one since he showed up trying to get his DOGE kids access to all those separate silos of data on American citizens and feeding it into AI! No one paid attention. This is it right here. It's always been about "making lists" for ICE and now they got the cash too.
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DOGE says it needs to know the government's most sensitive data, but can't say why
DOGE staffers have skirted privacy laws, training and security protocols to gain virtually unfettered access to financial and personal information stored in siloed government databases.
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Finch in Al-boo!-querque 👻 @finchinabq.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Albuquerque Bernalillo County library lends cake pans, ukeleles, birdwatching kits, and even has a seed library for seeds you can plant in your own garden! abqlibrary.org
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Evelyn Olansky 🏳️‍⚧️ (limited edition) @credible-source.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
*me finding out what resources come for free with my library cards*
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Pulp Fiction: Vincent Vega and the Briefcase
ALT: Pulp Fiction: Vincent Vega and the Briefcase
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 11h
Because, to them we’re the little people, the small folk, the peasants.
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Jeremy Kun @jeremykun.com · 29/09/2026
3rd circuit rules AI training on copyrighted material is NOT fair use. Wow! chatgptiseatingtheworld.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
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BREAKING News: Third Circuit affirms summary judgment rejection of fair use defense by ROSS Intelligence in AI training
Opinion under seal for now.
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 14h
“Trapped”, the word is trapped.
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damnusernametaken.bsky.social @damnusernametaken.bsky.social · 18h
Reality- “we screwed you over, insulted you and threatened you, now can we please have your reserves cause we done fucked up”
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 18h
My campaign has held more than 600(*!) events in 110 cities across Michigan. From Escanaba to Eaton Rapids, I see the same thing. Too many places left behind, a rigged economy, and corrupt politicians. New ad:
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 18h
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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Niall Harbison @niallharbison.bsky.social · 18h
Bella positively has a pep in her step. The weight is falling off her now. More than anything Bella now has her dignity back ❤️
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alexjungle.bsky.social @alexjungle.bsky.social · 17h
Dog refuses to leave his unwell owner's side. Loyalty
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16h
Today's jobs report is a reminder that tax cuts for corporations and the rich don’t create jobs or grow the economy. What's required is investment in working people — and better wages. When workers have money to spend, the economy grows and businesses create more jobs. Remember this.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18h
The Golden Age rolls on … bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A federal judge has ruled that Roger Rogoff, the judicially appointed U.S. attorney in Seattle, has been illegally fired by the Trump admin and must be provisionally reinstated by the Justice Department.
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Trump illegally fired Seattle’s U.S. attorney, judge rules
The ruling is the latest in a string of decisions finding that the administration bent federal law to keep loyalists in key prosecutorial posts.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is not a thing judges have to write in free countries.
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I Love Animals @animals.pics · 01/10/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Imagine four of the most frighteningly irresponsible people in America deciding how AI will be put to use in the most frighteningly irresponsible way. Well, no need to imagine it — because it's happening now. Some thoughts... robertreich.substack.com/p/autowar
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 01/10/2026
The Trump administration has moved to cripple Title IX protections against sexual assault and harassment on the same day New York prosecutors reopened the investigation into heinous allegations of a fraternity gang rape at Cornell University. trib.al/QewniBV
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Trump Weakens Title IX Rules Amid Cornell Gang Rape Investigation
The Education Department has just weakened protections for sexual assault victims in schools.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A professor at the University of Waterloo #Canada has developed a filter to filter out microplastics from drinking water
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michaeledward @michaeledward.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
futurism.com/future-socie...
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Data Centers Are a $6 Trillion Time Bomb, Analysts Warn
Justifying the amount of capital spent on data centers would require AI to bring in $6 trillion in revenue by 2031.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Do yourself a favor and read this for your local elections before you fill our your ballot. It's really useful now and will be really useful after the election.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Judge Tim Kelly sets hearing for Oct 8 over the Trump White House media ban of MSNOW and CNN
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: Georgia’s Republican-controlled election board invited the Department of Justice (DOJ) Thursday to declare the state’s voting system unlawful before the upcoming midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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GOP-controlled Georgia election board asks DOJ to declare state’s voting machines illegal
The request represents a major assault on the state's voting system by unelected state officials.
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In announcing her decision, U.S. District Judge April Perry quoted both Spider-Man and the 7th Circuit. 7th Circuit: "The greater the power that defies the law, the less tolerant the court can be of defiance." Spider-Man: "With great power comes great responsibility."
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration illegally changed a form used by overseas voters to register and request mail ballots just weeks before the midterms, Democrats argue in a new lawsuit filed Thursday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump admin quietly changed overseas voter form at 11th hour to disenfranchise Democrats, lawsuit says
The change is part of a Republican plan to make it more difficult to vote or outright disenfranchise a bloc of voters viewed as more inclined to vote Democratic, the DNC lawsuit argues.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/10/2026
OMG you have GOT to be kidding me
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Follow @jonseidel.bsky.social for live coverage of Broadview 6 hearing that just started.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is a big f’ing deal. Story at the newsletter right now, and full explainer coming soon (so make sure you’re subscribed to AED) Three anti-abortion states are asking the Supreme Court to allow them to extradite abortion providers from pro-choice states.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/10/2026
🚨 BREAKING: The family of Renee Good and her partner, Rebecca Good, have filed two federal lawsuits over Good’s January killing by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis. 1/
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is just despicable by MS NOW, which has accepted stolen taxpayers dollars for 38 illegal ads. Give me a break with this bullshit statement too. So your hosts are on air all day saying this is illegal while you are taking the money and running the ads? Just gross.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We are paying CNN and MS NOW to run ads for Donald Trump right before the midterms. You and I are paying for them. And CNN and MS NOW are taking the cash while their hosts and guests say the scheme is illegal. That is the current state of corporate media in America.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
BREAKING: Davey Hearn reflecting pool prosecution dismissed WITH PREJUDICE That means the case cannot be brought again  Huge victory for Davey, for us at @democracydefendersfund.org & our legal team colleagues Washington Litigation Group and Steptoe--& for rule of law More to follow!
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
To name some of the worst... ✖️Medicaid and SNAP have been cut to deliver $4.5 trillion in tax cuts primarily for billionaires and corporations. ✖️Michigan is set to lose $2-3 billion annually in federal Medicaid and SNAP funding.
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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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Lilith’s Karmic Revenge @happyluddite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Medicare costs money too, even if you’re employed. If you’re not employed you still get it but there are out of pocket costs. My 70yogf on Medicare/medicaid had to pay 3k for melanoma treatments. And she’s a single, “retired,” fitness instructor. Thank Bush for that bit of restructuring 😡
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Chuck Grassley also did not share the texts with Democratic senators before the hearing, breaking protocol.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DOJ now 0-26 after judge rejects demand for Georgia voter rolls
The judge said the Civil Rights Act does not authorize DOJ's demands for the Peach State’s unredacted voter roll.
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AMPTsuper @amptsuper.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.npr.org/2026/09/30/n... 9/30/2026 by Hansi Lo Wang @hansilowang.bsky.social
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Trump officials changed forms for overseas voters amid a GOP push to restrict voting
The Pentagon made last-minute changes to forms that many overseas U.S. citizens use for absentee voting, removing a category of citizens that Republicans have been pushing to block from voting.
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𝗽𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗱 @photoframd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Walmart is now using AI to dynamically change prices throughout the store! Walmart can institute surge pricing based on customer demand adjusting the price multiple times in the same day On a hot day, let's raise the price of ice cream. How is this fair??? #GuardrailsForAI
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Um…
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Mary Reilly @rantingbanshee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
EOs are not law.
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Kelcie Moseley-Morris @kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: Amid ongoing lawsuits seeking to revoke nationwide access to abortion drug mifepristone, AGs in Louisiana, Arkansas and Alabama have filed a lawsuit with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to strike down shield laws in states with abortion access.
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Republican AGs sue abortion ‘shield law’ states in U.S. Supreme Court • Stateline
BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill and the attorneys general in Arkansas and Alabama filed a lawsuit Tuesday in the U.S. Supreme Court, suing California, Massachusetts and New Y...
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 30/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: In a win for Georgia voters, a federal judge dismissed the DOJ's lawsuit seeking access to the state's unredacted voter registration list. The department is now 0-26 in its sweeping legal hunt for states' private voter data.
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