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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 21h
Scoop: At a secret meeting this summer, an aide to Stephen Miller laid out Trump administration's plan to make it easier for states to round up and institutionalize mentally ill homeless people — by pushing a drastic policy change that would weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans.
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How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights
After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.
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Jason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I do think it's important to give grace to people who realize they made the wrong choice. I don't want to. but other nicer people def should do that. I dont give a shit.
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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I hinted that there would be more images from the Juice flyby, so here is the timelapse of the full event! It's always amazing to get these views of our fragile Blue Marble from the spacecraft we send out to explore the solar system! 🔭🧪 #planetsci
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Kate Mulgrew @thekatemulgrew.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Honored to be invited as the keynote speaker at the @astrosociety.org Awards Gala! This historic astronomical nonprofit, founded in 1889, is an impressive 137 years old, and their annual awards honor the best and brightest in astronomy education and innovation.
A photo of Janeway holding her coffee mug that says "got my coffee ready for this announcement..."The Astro Society Awards Gala Celebration
Save the Date: Friday November 6, 2026 6pm to 11pm
Chabot Space and Science Center, Oakland CA 
Kate Mulgrew, Keynote Speaker
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Abortion, Every Day spoke to a woman whose state refused to let her cross state lines for an abortion. Don’t tell me Republicans will never criminalize travel—they already do. Pieces like this make me so proud to work with @kylietcheung.bsky.social
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She Wanted An Abortion. The State Wouldn’t Let Her Leave
Travel bans are already here—we just don’t talk about them
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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Dennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
American everything policy:
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WIRED @wired.com · 22/09/2026
Apple may pay out up to $95 for each eligible iPhone purchased by someone who felt misled about Siri’s release. You have until December 21 to submit a claim. www.wired.com/story/how-to...
wired.com
How to Claim Your Cut of Apple’s $250 Million Siri Settlement
Apple may pay out up to $95 for each eligible iPhone purchased by someone who felt misled about Siri’s release. You have until December 21 to submit a claim.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
When Elon Musk's groups spent $20M+ on Wisconsin's 2025 Supreme Court race, his involvement backfired and his candidate lost by 10 points. Now his super PAC has quietly spent $14M+ on key midterm races, including the Texas Senate race. Would be a shame if people found out.
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Elon Musk is flying under the radar in the Texas Senate race. Republicans want to keep it that way.
One Republican involved in the Texas Senate contest called Musk’s in-your-face campaigning in Wisconsin last year “a mis
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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Minnesota House DFL @mnhousedfl.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Nasra Ahmed, a 23-year-old US citizen, was arrested and detained by ICE. She was held for TWO DAYS. ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion. This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.
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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
CONTRACT WON: 800+ Navy shipbuilders in San Diego ratified a contract with nearly 20% wage hikes over three years. A year ago, their union density was 21%. They organized it to 67% before negotiating. More members. More leverage. Bigger contract. That is how worker power works.
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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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S.E. Danesti @seedanesti.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Interviewer: "Where do you see yourself in 5 years?" Me:
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This brilliant. *This* is how people dump money directly into Trump's bank accounts. Could be a MAGA superfan getting duped, someone wanting to curry favor, buy a pardon, launder money! All options are available. Play the crypto game, baby!
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/09/2026
Marc Andreessen and the team at his fund a16z hired — as a *partner*! — a man who has no background in finance, in tech, in startups at all, simply because that man had strangled one of my unarmed neighbors to death on the subway. To send a signal about what they support.
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Good morning. Jurors are resuming deliberations today in the case against U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer Luis Uribe. Stay tuned.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 15/09/2026
Genuinely an insane paragraph from Sam Alito. “Voter fraud is real and scary and we have to stop it, so the fact that implementing Trump’s mail ballot rule will disenfranchise millions is legally irrelevant.” Brain melted. A right-wing podcaster in a robe. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
___, (slip op., at 9) (internal quotation marks omitted).
As for the equities, the Government has a strong interest
in enforcing the rule, and implementing it will also “en-
hance the visibility of Federal Ballot Mail” in order to better
detect election fraud. 91 Fed. Reg. 54972. On the other side
of the balance, the plaintiff States invoke the practical ef-
fects of implementing the rule close to the midterm elec-
tions. I take that problem very seriously, but it is not
enough to convince me to deny the application.
First, as the District Court acknowledged, the States dis-
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Jess Pendley @jesspendley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Future me watching temporary -productivity-burst me commit to meetings and calls.
A small machine, the front resembles a smiling face, and its back reflected in the mirror behind it resembles a horrified face.
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JacenRKohler @jacenrkohler.net · 10/09/2026
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The Other End @theotherend.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This seems relevant as ever, more so even.
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John Hawkinson @johnhawkinson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
DOJ: Each state can come up with its own design. IT: Each municipality? Plaintiffs: …alltogether 10,000 jurisdictions. IT: We want me to go on the 2-day estimate? DOJ: Yes, we would prefer that.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 03/09/2026
Texas says allowing USPS to reject ballots in states that choose to comply would give the court “real world evidence” of how the rule operates. Judge Talwani fires back: “We’re not talking about an intellectual puzzle game. We’re talking about people’s right to vote.” Find more live updates here:
demdock.com
Mail voting live updates: Judge weighs fate of Trump’s anti-voting executive order
This morning's hearing may be the most consequential moment yet in the months-long legal fight over Trump's attempt to restrict mail voting before the midterms.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 02/09/2026
TEXAS REPUBLICANS DID IT —63 DAYS BEFORE ELECTION DAY Tarrant County, they voted 3–2 to close 92 Election Day polling locations, cutting the number from 316 to 224. More than 100 people showed up to speak out before the vote. Republicans did it anyway. Closing nearly 30% of the polling places.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
These deluded fools honestly believe they can survive without the human civilizations and natural systems whose value they spent their lives robbing. They genuinely believe they are the source of value rather than a spiritual abscess.
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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Woke up to this news and I’m beyond disgusted. It’s a US *constitutional right* now to create and own ‘CSAM,’ as long as it was made with AI?? AI gen images are built from real images, of real children. This directly re-exploits every single CSAM survivor. (More in 🧵) #abolition #trafficking
A federal judge has ruled that the First Amendment protects an individual's right to privately possess child sexual abuse content created using Al if it does not depict a real person and remains in the home.
On Tuesday, Judge John Z. Lee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th District ruled that the First Amendment protects an individual's right to privately possess images or videos of child sexual abuse created using artificial intelligence if the material does not depict a real person and remains in the home. In his ruling, Judge Lee urged the Supreme Court to reconsider the issue of virtual abuse material of children in the age of Al, suggesting that technological advances complicate existing legal precedent.
The case Lee ruled on came about in 2024 when the Department of Justice brought charges against Steven Anderegg, alleging that he used Al to create thousands of explicit images of children. He was accused of breaking federal obscenity laws by producing, distributing and possessing obscene visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Anderegg sought to have the possession and production charges dismissed under the First Amendment. Last year, a judge in the Western District of Wisconsin agreed to dismiss the possession charge, prompting the federal prosecutors to appeal.
Lee, in his ruling upholding the lower court's decision, cited the precedent set by Supreme Court rulings from 1969 and 2002. One held that individuals have a right to possess obscenity in the privacy of their home. The other found that "virtual" child sexual abuse material, not depicting a real person is not child pornography.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The FIFA Peace Prize winner, everyone.
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Cengiz Yar @cengizyar.com · 27/08/2026
In one example @propublica.org found at Pinellas County Jail, federal and state officials kept a Mexican woman in custody for almost a month by repeatedly rebooking her just before her 72-hour time limit ran out. chrisalcantara.com visualizes her story. www.propublica.org/article/immi...
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Dropout @dropout.tv · 27/08/2026
Warning: tell Brennan he's playing a perv, he'll instantly go full Tim Curry mode
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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug comic: - 🇺🇸 The MAGAs are dreaming of a Trumpian Christmas! - Brought to you by the honored Inner Hive, including long-time member Baby M. and new member Roberto San Antonio. get on it at bit.ly/theInnerHive 👊 READ IT RIGHT HERE👇
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
And don't forget to look for the lunar eclispe tonight! badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/watch-the-...
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Watch the (nearly total) lunar eclipse Thursday night!
Also: An eclipse from Mars… of Earth. Kinda.
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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
“This is just brutal. The Ukrainians are just bleeding here. I think that it’s a real catastrophe that the United States with a fraction of the military assets that we’ve put into Iran could have helped the Ukrainians defeat the Russians in this latest war.”—Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
1. The billionaires fighting a billionaire tax in California have created an AI-slop ad that shows the tax’s supporters assaulting kids and stealing their stuff.
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
1/ Amazon quietly built a machine that treats books, workers, & libraries the exact same way. It extracts value, discards the original, manages the story so nobody notices the pattern. Here’s the thread connecting 3 stories nobody has put together yet. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 22/08/2026
“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” Frank Herbert, Dune
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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This week’s comic is now up on @dailykos.com www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
dailykos.com
Tom the Dancing Bug: The MAGAs travel back in time to when America was great
A cartoon by Ruben Bolling.
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Sen, but Spooky @dresdencodak.com · 01/06/2026
Happy Pride Month! My name's Alita Diaz, aka "Sen," and I'm what scientists call a Lesbian! You can read my very queer cyberpunk adventure comic for free on the internet or get it in book form in my store! dresdencodak.com
Photo of known homosexual Alita Diaz (Sen) surrounded by illustrations from her hit series Dark Science
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reesewaters.bsky.social @reesewaters.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The Curious Case of Natalie Harp #natalieharp #trump #karolineleavitt
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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/08/2026
Addendum because I forgot to include this yesterday: Q. So Reacher is called Reacher because he can reach things on high shelves, yes? A. Literally, yes! An old woman asked Lee Child (who is 6'4") to reach something in a supermarket and that is how he came up with the name. I am not kidding.
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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This is one of my favorite comics we've made.
Person 1: Is that a pet bee?
Person 2: He's a spelling bee. Show him what you can do boy.
Bee: o-b-e-s-e
Person 1: Wow, he really can spell!
Bee: b-a-l-d-I-n-g
Person I: ...is he talking about me?
Person 2: I find his ability to spell makes up for his incredibly offensive personality.
Bee: b-i-t-c-h
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Bored JarJar Fartin @soccerdaddy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This is kinda a weird post in a few different ways so... I'm gonna go do something else
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Inner City Press @innercitypress.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Judge Garnett: Tell me what you did. Mangione: I'll stay seated. After years of negotiating severe pain in my back and seeing others too I learned UnitedHealth would hold its conference- Judge Garnett: I'm having trouble hearing you
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Dracula Enthusiast @kmfao.latinsky.app · 13/08/2026
It is kinda fun to loudly announce "ugh, someone's got pervert goggles on in here!" when you're in a shop and see which man scuttles out the fastest 😇
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Highway Rob @undulynoted.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I don't know if this invokes the rule, but I can't take the risk that it doesn't. (The whole thread is worth a read.) youtu.be/Brq-exSvB7Q?...
youtu.be
Tom Holland's "Umbrella" | Lip Sync Battle
YouTube video by Comedy Central Asia
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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The Other End @theotherend.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.
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