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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is insane.
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NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV's Al encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah's team then privately lobbied the pope's advisers "to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously." Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing.
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 20h
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17h
The Plot to Enslave America
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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 17h
Trump’s Justice Department is deciding if Nixon was mistreated.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In two years we've gone from a standard where the President's budget proposal was a set of suggestions Congress would ignore to where Congressional appropriations are now a set of suggestions the President ignores.
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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 23h
The Protect College Sports Act got 77 votes in the Senate. It doesn't do what its backers say it does, but it DOES achieve a lot of other things. One of them is perpetuate the diversion of $$ from black football players to a largely white class of ADs, coaches, and agents slate.com/culture/2026...
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Ted Cruz Is Getting His Way With a New Law. Democrats Are Letting Him. No One Wants to Admit What It Does.
Donald Trump is eager to sign the bill. Democrats shouldn't let it get there.
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 22h
MAGA is in many ways a product of the belief that McCarthy and Nixon got raw deals; that they could have persisted, but for the insufficient will of Republicans who failed to close ranks. That’s why the right-wing establishment is Trump-or-bust. Problem is, voters still have a say...
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Republican Disarray And The Second Failure Of McCarthyism
The missing ingredient, for now, is consequences.
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 01/10/2026
Unleashing the overwhelming resources and data-mining capabilities of interagency task forces has been part of a larger pattern of breaking norms and pushing executive power to its limit, even as the administration strips away the executive’s regulatory and public welfare roles. buff.ly/dIt6Nlv
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Time on Task - The American Prospect
The Trump administration has abused the interagency task force process to intervene in law enforcement across the country.
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Emine Yücel @emineirmakyucel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My latest: Following Wednesday's failed bid by Senate Dems to block Trump's pocket rescission, Trump WH, once again, trampled over Congress’ power of the purse. Several experts point out their use of the “pocket rescissions” loophole is more an admission of guilt than a clever trick.
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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
i wonder if the attacks on ms. rachel are less about electoral politics and more about simply cranking the cultural divide further apart. not-watching ms. rachel as maga praxis and a warning shot about the market to other potential children's entertainers without her huge preexisting audience.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Governor Pervert sides with the Perverts. He is the future of the party.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Well guys we couldn't make anyone hate beefcake dummy Hasan, let's see if we can make people hate the insanely popular lady in the pink shirt and jumper that teaches kids to read
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
Look who's traveling today with everything that matters to her! #TravelWithNatalie (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty)
pic of a BEAMING Ms Harp heading to Marine One
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
OMB's focus on NIH and NSF, which has confused a lot of folks, pretty much boils down to stopping money going to universities.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 01/10/2026
“The White House defunded cancer research so they could spend your tax dollars rehabilitating Nixon” writes itself.
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 01/10/2026
California governor vetoes bill banning use of ‘pervert glasses’ to secretly record people
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California governor vetoes bill banning use of ‘pervert glasses’ to secretly record people
The California state bill would have penalized people who secretly recorded people in public with wearables equipped with cameras and microphones.
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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Me: I don't get it. I thought I was doing a lot better than I was a few years ago. I'm like 10 times more on top of things than I used to be. How does everything feel terrible now? 

The Tiny Me in OSHA-approved Hi-Vis Gear Who lives in my brain and pulls all the levers: Boss, it's the fascism. You're completely gunked up with cortisol due to the fact that your entire daily life is now underscored with a haunting awareness of the rapid erosion of your rights, dignity, and any and all social safety nets, and you're also bearing witness to the most vulnerable people immediately being persecuted. This creates a natural stress response that basically means you're going to continue having memory and organizational problems, as well as emotional imbalances.

Me: BUT I HAVE A BULLET JOURNAL AND I MEDITATE NOW.

Tiny OSHA Me: BOSS, THE FASCISM.
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."
Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.
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WIRED @wired.com · 01/10/2026
Bruce Blakeman, the Republican nominee for New York governor, has received millions of dollars in donations from the family and businesses of James Dolan, the owner of Madison Square Garden.
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Madison Square Garden’s James Dolan Is Spending Big on New York’s Governor Race
James Dolan has put surveillance at the center of his sports and entertainment empire. Now he’s getting involved in GOP politics by backing a candidate who supports Flock, ICE, and AI data centers.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Executing prisoners is not a legitimate power of government, despite its long and barbaric history, and we should put an end to it. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
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Tennessee Death Row Inmate Christa Pike Still Alive After Attempts to Execute Her, Lawyers Say (Gift Article)
Christa Pike was convicted of murdering a classmate in 1995. It was not clear what went wrong in the execution or what her current medical condition was.
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Cox has also banned fluoridation of water and packed his state supreme court so Republicans can gerrymander at will. Thoughts and feelings ass motherfucker.
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 01/10/2026
THEY'RE DEPORTING AN ISRAELI HASID FOR BEING ANTI-ZIONIST
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 01/10/2026
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) gave the green light to Russ Vought's latest effort to seize Congress' power of the purse, saying that all government spending should be reduced.
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Republican Senator Greenlights Russ Vought’s Latest Impoundment
A Republican Gives a Thumbs Up to White House Effort to Seize...
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Superintendent: SO YOU'RE TELLING ME THERE'S
A MEMO THAT MAKES CLEAR IT IS LAWFUL FOR YOU TO JUST KILL PEOPLE IF YOU THINK THERE ARE DRUGS ON THE SAME BOAT?

Principal Skinner: yes

superintendent: May I see it?

Principal: no
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 01/10/2026
turns out it's pretty easy to trick America's vast population of ignorant rubes, you just buy up all the media companies and stuff them full of propaganda. Trump's problem is that he then immediately stabbed them in the back, repeatedly
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 20/05/2025
this is worth digging into. very nuanced analysis but my general takeaway is that Trump has a near mystical attraction for low-info, low-propensity voters catalist.us/whathappened...
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WHAT HAPPENED IN 2024 | Catalist
AN ANALYSIS OF THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION Introduction Catalist’s What Happened reports offer a comprehensive voter-file based view of the electorate after every major presidential and midterm ele...
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is horrific. Horrific for its barbarism, but also utterly unsurprising that a political party that can't win wars, can't control gas prices, can't bring down grocery prices and can't stop basic preventable diseases also can't kill prisoners correctly.
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Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike still alive after failed state execution attempt, lawyers say | CNN
Tennessee officials were unable to put Christa Gail Pike to death Wednesday for a 1995 murder after administering two doses of a lethal drug. A death penalty expert said it was an unprecedented failur...
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Nope nope nope
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The common thread in Pete Hegseth's rant to the troops, JD Vance suggesting Talarico is a pedophile, Brendan Carr calling the Trump ads aired with tax dollars "normal force PSAs," and Eric Schmitt fabricating a Jack Smith conspiracy is the whole GOP is incentivized to be performatively evil.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In the same speech he announced that these three guys would set strategic direction for future warfare capabilities
elon muskpalmer luckeynewt gingrich with a lot of face tune
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When you intended to do a racism but you accidentally did a sundowning instead
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Every single member of this administration sees themselves, first and foremost, as a Content Creator™ It's like they staffed an administration with homeschooled aliens who learned about humanity through mainlining TikTok accounts. Just unbelievable levels of sweaty dorkiness.
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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It should alarm us that the civilian head of the military gathers together troops to give them a political speech in which he calls the free press treasonous. He should be removed from office for doing so.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Autowarcom, the Autozone of American Command.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 30/09/2026
This is obviously disgusting in so many ways. Gonna highlight one: Servicemember beard exemptions are all on religious or medical grounds. They're either Sikhs (mostly South Asian) or have a skin condition related to shaving curly hair (mostly African American). "No beardos" is racist as hell.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
this Pete Hegseth speech is indistinguishable from parody. words fail to describe the absurdity. here he's talking about governors coming to the Pentagon to grovel to him and Trump so they can be rewarded with a new military base
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Might signal a pivot point in terms of the Silicon Valley capture of DOD spending away from vendors like Lockheed Martin. And that part of SV has been very pro-Trump and outspoken in their ideological goals. Will be hard for future Dem Presidents to dislodge them open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
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Procurement, Capacity and Soverignity
When your contractors are also your enemy
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 30/09/2026
Very unclear what this is, because the U.S. military…already has a robust chaplaincy corps? This has been true literally since the U.S. military was created 251 years ago — technically, before the U.S. even declared independence?
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“cowboys” here really reminds me of a brilliant post I saw on Twitter that I’ve never stopped thinking about, which is how the manosphere brand of toxic patriarchy isn’t about MEN, it’s about BOYS. everything is a 12-year-old’s fantasy. Pete is playing G.I. Joe on a trillion-dollar budget
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 30/09/2026
"pete hegseth's idea of a smart guy" is such a brutal own
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Hegseth: "Project Meridian will be co-led by three of our nation's best minds: Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and Newt Gingrich"
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you actually read some of the madness in here you can sense a theme. AI firms want you to believe their product thinks for themselves because they don't want you to realize you're being fed horseshit. It's like hiring someone from Daily Wire to be your "research assistant"
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is the thing about AI that I love so much. Think of all the morons you know (many on this site!) using and swearing by this tech that can change the output depending on who is controlling the AI. And those dumbasses still believe it should be used for anything regarding data!
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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 30/09/2026
I feel dumb even just having to say this but the reason passports are mailed out in plain regular envelopes is that so that people do not attempt to steal easily recognizable passports in the mail. bsky.app/profile/carn...
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Setting aside the fact that Trump has now singlehandedly mired the United States in a separate quagmire in Iran, it was Joe Biden that struck this withdrawal agreement with Iraq in 2024 and Trump was forced to meet the September 30 deadline. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/w...
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Chris Messina @chrismessina.me · 30/09/2026
For an inside look into the mind of the Trump Administration: 1. Go to america.gov 2. type “hello” 3. type “play Minecraft” 4. watch the agent’s reality implode 5. ??? 6. PROFIT!
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