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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
there's an off-the-books slack channel started by centers for medicare and medicaid for tech companies to exchange ideas on making money off of AI tools that access all of your medical records. insane story i missed from last week.
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AI, Tech Leaders Are Lobbying Trump Health Officials in a Government-Run Chat Room - KFF Health News
A Slack workspace managed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has served as an extraordinary war room for AI industry insiders and Trump administration officials to launch a rapid campaign...
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jentrification ♎ @jentrification.com · 12/10/2026
this is community 🪴
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
We are soon going to have to come to grips with the fact that this shit is asbestos for the mind
news.berkeley.edu
Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NEW: As Colorado’s Tina Peters reportedly meets with President Trump to discuss an election “plan,” her attorney says the plan involves seizing ballots nationwide and discusses strategy for a potential civil war
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Antonio E. Porreca 🐳 @aeporreca.org · 07/10/2026
The Association for Human Mathematics (AHM) statement on OpenAI’s October 6 release of mathematical documents just dropped! www.ahmath.org/statements
AHM Statement on OpenAI’s October 6 Release of Mathematical Documents

Yesterday, on October 6th, 2026, OpenAI – which is currently defending lawsuits against accusations of illegal plagiarism, copyright infringement, and trademark dilution – released a repository of manuscripts purporting to contain solutions to a number of high-profile problems in mathematics.

Mathematicians did not ask for this work to be done. The Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, from whom OpenAI has claimed to derive its legitimacy, opened their initial advisory statement by saying that frontier AI corporations should not test advanced mathematical problems on internal models. In ignoring the central premise of the Advisory Group’s position, OpenAI has indicated total disregard for the norms of scientific research — norms that guarantee that mathematics remains trustworthy, ethically researched, and in the public interest.

Mathematicians have a particular vision of progress that is informed by history and field-specific considerations. We reject OpenAI's assertion that this release advances our subject, and we urge mathematicians and the public to view the value of this publication model with due skepticism. 

Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power. We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of science that centers human understanding.

Association for Human Mathematics
Communications Working Group
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:
science.org
‘Complete devastation’: How NSF gutted its social sciences research
Agency body that funds sociology, linguistics, and archaeology studies in U.S. gave 90% fewer new grants this year
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Slate @slate.com · 06/10/2026
How much of Kash Patel’s wedding are you personally going to pay for? More than you think. slate.trib.al/U44UIGC
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How Much of Kash Patel’s Wedding Are You Personally Going to Pay For? More Than You Think.
Another MAGA marriage for the books.
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WIRED @wired.com · 04/10/2026
Mathematics has been one of humanity’s most creative endeavors, akin to painting and poetry. Now, mathematicians are trying to save it from the brute force of AI.
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Solving Math’s Greatest Problems Was an Art Form. Then Came AI
Mathematics has been one of humanity’s most creative endeavors, akin to painting and poetry. Now, mathematicians are trying to save it from the brute force of AI.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/09/2026
Former special counsel Robert Mueller was asked if Russia is still interfering in our elections. He responded “They’re doing it as we sit here” during his 2019 congressional testimony.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
See this chart? Workers’ share of the nation’s income is at the lowest it’s been since records began in 1947. Corporate profits’ share, on the other hand, is the highest it’s been since 1950. This is why we must build back worker power.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13/08/2026
Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food. Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card. (Published Dec. 2025)
propublica.org
After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
A new study shows that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and over $1 trillion every year. The new research out of Yale shows that reductions in administrative overhead, lower pharmaceutical prices, less fraudulent billing, and fewer emergency care trips would lead to huge savings. /1
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Yale Study: Medicare for All Would Save Over 114,000 Lives and $1 Trillion a Year | Common Dreams
"Do not tell me we cannot afford Medicare for All," the senator said. "What we cannot afford is a broken healthcare system based on greed."
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 10/08/2026
If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This is rape culture.
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Sherman Smith, Kansas Reflector editor in chief @journalist-sherman.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Minutes before becoming the newest Kansas Supreme Court justice, Christopher Jayaram issued an opinion from his district bench that invalidates abortion restrictions | #ksleg via @anna-writes.bsky.social kansasreflector.com/2026/08/04/k...
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Kansas judge says decision to strike abortion restrictions not ‘even a close call’ • Kansas Reflector
A Kansas judge took a sledgehammer to a slate of abortion restrictions dating back to 1997, ruling the state came up short in arguing the Kansas Legislature should be able to impose waiting periods, m...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
BREAKING: The top U.S. general in Europe has privately warned the Pentagon that he needs more naval forces to keep shielding Israel from Iranian ballistic missiles. Destroyer deployments and maintenance are stretched thin after months of war, officials say.
washingtonpost.com
U.S. general warns Pentagon he lacks sufficient forces to protect Israel
A shortage of Navy destroyers, used to defend against Iranian ballistic missile attacks, will force the head of U.S. European Command to prioritize the U.S. homeland instead, officials said.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 30/07/2026
"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."
theguardian.com
Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington
I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities
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NPR @npr.org · 18/07/2026
The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts. n.pr/4f9OdMn
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ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have with Palantir
The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts.
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Kansas Reflector @kansasreflector.com · 18/07/2026
New Kansas law limits efforts to document ICE activity. Video shows how officers utilize the law. | #ksleg via @bayaburgess.bsky.social kansasreflector.com/2026/07/17/n...
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New Kansas law limits efforts to document ICE activity. Video shows how officers utilize the law. • Kansas Reflector
A new Kansas law criminalizes “approaching” law enforcement officers or first responders within 25 feet under certain circumstances. The law changes how people document ICE activity.
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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This is how to speak to every single one of those sycophants.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
For years Hungary's state TV fed the country propaganda every night. This week the channel went dark and signed off apologizing for years of lies. What made it happen? Voters threw the liars out. That's what one election can do. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-does...
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
All 3 men inside of the van with Lorenzo Salgado Araujo “‘reiterated that there were never any ICE agents in front of the van…They came in and started shooting from the sides.’” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
washingtonpost.com
Migrants who saw man killed by ICE in Houston say he did not ram officers
Three men who were in the vehicle alongside Lorenzo Salgado Araujo are contesting the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the fatal shooting.
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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... Honestly, if you still think the Broligarchs have any other motivation besides “passively” genociding (via deprivation, neglect or worse) the rest of us & consuming all that’s left until the planet burns… …then PLEASE PLEASE read this article. 1/
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The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
NEW from @gregsargent.bsky.social: it sure sounds like @ICEgov is trying to stop the witnesses to the shooting of Lorenzo Araujo from speaking out. All three of the people in the van have been kept in detention and now ICE is pressuring them all to agree to be deported. /reposted with correct name
But it appears three other people were in the van with the now-deceased man, and they presumably could recount their version of what happened: the victim’s brother and two employees of the dead man’s construction business. They were detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement during the encounter, and we haven’t heard from them publicly about what happened. Now, in another potentially dark turn in the saga, those three men are under pressure from immigration officials to agree to self-deport, Juan Proano, a representative for the families and CEO of the League of United Latin American Citizens, claimed in an interview with The New Republic.

Proano—who regularly confers with the family members of the victim and the three detainees and organized a press conference on their behalf earlier this week—said the family members were able to reach the three detainees, who then related this situation.

“They’re being pressured to sign self-deportation orders,” Proano told me. “They’re currently in detention. These men hold the key to what actually happened.” Under self-deportation, detained migrants agree to leave the country voluntarily within a prescribed time period.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Kevin McCarthy on Platner Allegations: That one thing I know about Republicans is when we had a very bad candidate, we didn't vote for that person. We walked away.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Something deeply troubling & shocking is happening at Exeter University*, where a mass cull of staff is planned, even though it's in surplus. No good justifications given. @jamesgdyke.info provides the details: www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-... *Disclosure: I have a Visiting Fellowship here. +🧵
technosphere.earth
The bonfire of the humanities
150 academic posts at the University of Exeter are to be cut, most in the humanities but also in social sciences, engineering and environmental sciences
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Kansas Reflector @kansasreflector.com · 29/06/2026
U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas promises to refuse Trump administration appointment | via @kansascarpenter.bsky.social #ksleg
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U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas promises to refuse Trump administration appointment • Kansas Reflector
U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas attempts to tamp down a controversy by pledging to remain in the Senate at least two years if reelected to a second term.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/06/2026
KARL: Rs are gonna make you the poster child for the D Party MAMDANI: Let them. We don't have to ask ourselves what life looks like if a socialist wins. I won last year & over the course of the last 6 months what we've delivered for working people are the very things we were told were impossible.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
In a new court filing, SPLC provided evidence that the prosecution into the org came directly out of a letter that extremist groups sent to Stephen Miller complaining that they had been included in SPLC's Hate Map. emptywheel.net/2026/06/23/h...
A table comparing claims made in a letter to Stephen Miller to the claims made in the document predicating FBI's investigation into SPLC.

It shows that much of the FBI memo was quoted directly from the Miller letter.
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NPR @npr.org · 23/06/2026
Investors are selling off AI-related stocks as doubts are starting to surface over whether the massive spending on AI is worth the investment or whether "it's one big bubble." n.pr/4wc0WE9
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Is AI 'one big bubble?' Behind the tech selloff
Investors are selling off AI-related stocks as doubts are starting to surface over whether the massive spending on AI is worth the investment or whether "it's one big bubble."
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Stanford grads walk out of their commencement when Google CEO Sundar Pichai takes the stage
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Elon Musk’s DOGE cut the federal government’s screwworm monitoring program, which cost $15 million. Now, the Trump administration is preparing to spend $1 billion to combat the screwworm outbreak. Never forget how destructive and downright stupid DOGE was.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Education Dept. plans to move special ed and civil rights out of the agency, into DOJ. Which probably means... www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
washingtonpost.com
Education Dept. plans to move special ed and civil rights out of the agency
The moves, three people briefed on the plan say, are part of an effort to close the department by moving its functions to other parts of the government.
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maia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay · 16/06/2026
Here are all 113 alleged members we were able to successfully extract. This data can also be verified via versions of the site captured by the Wayback Machine, even if it doesn't properly render the website.
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
NEW: A trove of internal records from Dialog, the secret society cofounded by Peter Thiel, was left exposed online. WIRED obtained a second cache of records that reveal who's really attending, how they're screened, and what personal details they were promised would stay private.
wired.com
Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society
More than 200 of the world's elites registered for a retreat whose agenda runs from panels on cult-building and sex to prepping for World War III. An associated app offers matchmaking.
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Shimanti | Human Consequences @humanconsequences.com · 13/06/2026
When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 13/06/2026
The death of a woman from Haiti seeking asylum in the U.S. who died from hypothermia days after her release from federal custody was ruled a homicide by a Pennsylvania county medical examiner's office.
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A woman's hypothermia death in Pittsburgh after her release from ICE custody is ruled a homicide
The death of a woman from Haiti seeking asylum in the U.S. who died from hypothermia days after her release from federal custody was ruled a homicide by a Pennsylvania county medical examiner's office.
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Bombshell: White House holds secret, emergency situation room meetings with DOJ officials to protect Trump from Epstein files. White House races to save UFC fight, compares it to tee-ball on south lawn. Trump praises “Allah” again and is set to restart war. Subscribe to support my work:
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Major News: White House Held Secret Meetings to Protect Trump from Epstein Files, Trump Races to Save UFC Fight, Iran War to Restart
Good morning, everyone.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Trump, RFK Jr., and Bhattacharya despise public health professionals and the work that they do. They are now able to fire government scientists for any old reason they choose. All because these weak, pathetic men were called out for their bullshit misinformation about COVID19.
scientificamerican.com
White House reclassifies federal epidemiologists and other scientists from civil servants to ‘at-will’ hires
The long-anticipated “Schedule F” order strips job protections meant to safeguard federal employees from political interference
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/06/2026
sam alito in callais: it is just a coincidence that partisan gerrymandering looks like racial gerrymandering. it doesn’t mean anything tennessee republicans post-callais: yee haw boys we are gettin’ the negras outta government
nytimes.com
Opinion | A Shocking Betrayal of Black Americans
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 05/06/2026
NYT headline when the economy added 266,000 jobs under Biden vs. NYT headline when BLS says the economy added 172,000 jobs under Trump.
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Indie Aut. Stuart Miller📖✍️🤓 Believe in yourself & your potential @stuartmiller1.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Posted 5 days ago "russ_and_stacie_sullivan: Good morning, friends! Last night at WaterFire in Providence, 🔥a bunch of friends from different groups got together for a Signs of Fascism awareness event Signs of #Fascism is an event that highlights historical warning signs of #authoritarianism..."
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/06/2026
If my math is right, the crime rate for pardoned insurrectionists is roughly three times higher than that of immigrants.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
It’s estimated that 762,000 people have already died due to the closure of USAID, and ultimately 14 million people will die altogether This will always be Elon Musk’s true legacy
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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
OH MY GOD NO MATTER HOW BAD YOU THOUGHT THE TRANSCRIPT MIGHT BE, IT'S WORSE bsky.app/profile/jons...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
This story is WILD. Juan Orlando Hernandez, the Honduran ex-president pardoned by Trump for narcotrafficking, seemingly caught on tape in dozens of conversations (if true), discussing plans with GOP and other figures to attack left-wing governments, and saying Israel paid for his pardon from Trump.
english.elpais.com
‘Hondurasgate,’ the alleged US and Israeli interference plot to destabilize Mexico and other progressive governments
A leaked audio recording points to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, Javier Milei, and Donald Trump as attempting to create a platform to spread fake news about the administrations of ...
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strea3m.bsky.social @strea3m.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Shining💡on more dirty deeds by this regime - another ugly attack on our public lands. "Call your senators. Call your representative. Not next week or later. Now. " "These forests belong to you. Fight for them like your life depends on it." 202-224-3121 democracy.io/#!/
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BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service
The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.
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Dale Ryder @kryton3298.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
AI Governance and Safety Canada's Executive Director Wyatt Tessari L'Allié tells Canadian MPs that we're already starting to see AI loss of control incidents, and that experts warn AI poses a risk of human extinction. He recommends Canada spearhead talks to prevent the threat.
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 26/03/2026
NEW: While millions of Americans struggle to make ends meet, the hollowed-out Labor Department is entangled in scandal and legal chaos. It's past time for Congress to step up and conduct real oversight.
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Trump’s gutted and scandal-plagued Labor Department needs congressional oversight - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
While millions of Americans struggle to find jobs, Trump's already diminished Labor Department is embroiled in scandal and legal issues.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Flashback, June 2025: “Conservatives on SCOTUS give DOGE the go-ahead.” www.lawdork.com/p/conservati...
In a pair of orders on the shadow docket, the court's conservatives — over the objection of
the liberal justices — allowed DOGE to access individualized, sensitive Social Security data for all Americans even as they prevented Americans from being able to access information about
DOGE.
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