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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 20h
Powerful 7.7 and 6.6 magnitude earthquakes and multiple aftershocks rock Panama, USGS says.
bit.ly
Two powerful earthquakes and multiple aftershocks rock Panama
A powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake has struck Panama, collapsing buildings and prompting evacuations.
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 22h
The story about the blowback against Hegseth's plan to broadcast a firing squad execution only mentions in passing in the last paragraph that the condemned is in a wheelchair. I don't think any execution should be broadcast, but does even MAGA want to watch a guy strapped into a wheelchair get shot?
politico.com
Hegseth faces bipartisan backlash over public execution for Fort Hood shooter
Both Republican and Democratic critics said the plan was beneath the United States.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 23h
Six months ago:
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DOJ To Bring Back Firing Squad As Means Of Entertainment
WASHINGTON—In an effort to provide some joy to the nation and boost overall well-being, Justice Department officials announced plans Monday to bring back firing squads as a means of entertainment. “Fo...
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 23h
ya i mean i do genuinely think that one of hegseth's goals is to drive people appalled by barbarity out of the military, because the long term plan is to make the military shoot at us, and the same guys who object to this won't do that either.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 23h
The left is collectivist; the right is all about rugged individualism
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Matt Blair @mjmbca.bsky.social · 22h
I would like to see the Venn diagram of people who have “flirted with the idea” that AI models could be conscious, and people who have called actual human beings “NPCs,” for example.
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Pepper Qi @pepperqi.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Check the form on the Valais Blacknose Sheep of the Swiss Alps. You know you want to. Afterall, they're comin to get choo. #animals #sentience #philsky #philsci #science
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
“One source told the outlet that officers were “told to go after anybody, they can pick up anybody.” newrepublic.com/post/216405/...
newrepublic.com
“Go After Anybody”: ICE Gets Terrifying Marching Orders in California
ICE has launched a new crackdown just weeks before the midterms.
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Roob @reubenhub.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Look who cares all about using new and more accurate terms for things all of the sudden
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NorCal Lynne @norcal-lynne.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Grasshopper on Gourd Vine. Shibata Zeshin, 1882. Metropolitan Museum of Art. #SciArt #InsectThursday 🌱🌿
Lacquer on paper, a brown grasshopper hanging from the vine of a gourd plant with a white flower and a couple green gourds ripening.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It feels like one of the tenets of the MAGA movement is you always have to act like you're the dumbest motherfucker alive. JD Vance has a degree in political science and philosophy from Ohio State. He has a law degree from Yale. He absolutely knows what socialism is, but he has to do this act.
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
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Erik Schlenker-Goodrich @riogranderift.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“At least 26 senators, more than a quarter of the chamber, hold data center-linked investments … Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat from Rhode Island whose data center investments total between $2.1 million and $8.6 million, takes the number one spot.” 👀
forbes.com
The 5 Senators—Including Maine's Susan Collins—With The Biggest Investments In Data Centers
Forbes examined financial disclosures for every sitting Senator. We found 26 Senators with at least $7 million in investments tied directly to the data center buildout, including Sheldon Whitehouse an...
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
An old-fashioned expression because it's been barred by international law for several decades now.
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🌬️Doctrix Snow • NYC/FMTY @mistresssnowphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
annie only uploaded the first hour of her deposition bc a judge has blocked her from sharing the following 7 hours. you’ll hear if you listen that the clip cuts out the *moment* they start discussing her sexual abuse allegations.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 04/10/2026
Just a girl and her* airplane 🥰 * actually it is emphatically the Canadian Aviation Museum’s airplane but they do let me fly it a lot
Me standing on the wing of a yellow De Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk, on a sunny afternoon. I’m wearing a flight suit and aviators and trying to look cool, which may or may not be effective, but the lighting is really good at least
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Jonathan Rigsby @ridetrips.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is a friend of mine. After two of us in the group chat read plot summaries of Digger, we convinced him to go see it without knowing anything about it. He has the theater to himself. I'll report back with his impressions.
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Joe Patrice @joepatrice.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
The Constitution makes ONE simple demand of officeholders. Like instructing Adam & Eve to lay off the fruit, the Framers said, "you may want a fancy European title but the nation's integrity demands you refuse." Alito just ignored the Constitution's command.
abovethelaw.com
Sam Alito Got Knighted… Just Like The Founding Fathers EXPLICITLY MADE UNCONSTITUTIONAL
It turns out Sam Alito hates the Constitution as much as you thought he did.
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
republicans: we are nazis media: do democrats have a Hasan Piker Bin Laden problem?
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Charish Reid @charishreidauthor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The way Trump keeps "endorsing" Ken Paxton:
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oh no @ili.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
tumblr hutsonwoolyums Jul 27
Can I say something
The word Ottawa looks like a caterpillar
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
McDonald's is now reportedly pressuring franchisees to use AI to price food. Its CEO raked in $20.6M last year, over 1,000x the median McDonald's worker pay of $19,020. And they remain one of the largest employers of Medicaid and SNAP recipients. I'm not lovin' it.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Everything looking great in TrumpAmerica.
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 02/10/2026
Will is 100% right. Has happened to multiple clients of mine. One judge (not my case) has said that this isn't really release and ordered the person *actually* released. But it's forcing us habeas attorneys to win our cases twice (or more)
On September 9, 2026, Respondents permitted Pablo F. to exit the building where 
he was detained, but he was immediately swarmed by four ICE officers and handcuffed as 
soon as he stepped outside. (Doc. No. 25-3 at 4:48:45–4:49:26.)3
 The officers drove him
to the back of the Whipple building and returned him to a holding cell. (Doc. No. 21 ¶¶ 8–
9; Doc. No. 25 ¶ 5.) During this encounter, officers dislocated Pablo F.’s shoulder. (Doc. 
No. 21 ¶ 7.)4
 Pablo F. now bringsthis Motion seeking to enforce the Court’s Order granting 
the Petition.Again, Respondents make no attempt whatsoever to support their assertion that 
Pablo F. was released. Absent any such argument, the Court cannot agree that a reasonable 
person would have felt free to leave when exiting the detention facility and immediately 
being stopped by ICE officers. Likewise, absent some argument, the Court necessarily 
concludes that Pablo F. was subject to restraints not shared by the public generally when 
he took one step outside of the detention facility and was immediately stopped by ICE 
officers who forcibly returned him to a detention cell. Because Respondents do not make 
any legal argument that Pablo F. was ever meaningfully released from custody, the Court 
grants the motion and orders Pablo F.’s release.6
6 To be clear, Pablo F. is not arguing, and the Court is not concluding, that an order of 
release in a habeas matter renders unlawful any future arrests. Rather, the Court reaches 
the narrow conclusion that because Respondents advance no legal argument in this case to 
support their assertion that Pablo F. was released from custody, and because the 
uncontested facts show that ICE officers immediately swarmed Pablo F. as soon as he 
stepped out of the building, Pablo F. was not released from custody.
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Joe Cirincione @joecirin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Meet the mega-donor Pete Hegseth just named as the leader of his new automated war initiative, along with mega-donor Elon Musk and Newt Gingruch. Donald Trump Jr. invests in his company. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Exclusive: Major Republican fundraiser winning contracts from Trump administration, emails reveal
Palmer Luckey has donated $5.9m to Republicans and bundled more, while reaping billions in Pentagon contracts
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Suzzi @suzzisulli.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Historians will never believe that the once powerful American military was run by a failed Fox News host and he hired 3 rich, white men who had never served to be in charge of “the future of warfare”. What a fucking joke! #Blues
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.
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phil @philjamesson.com · 30/09/2026
as always when this is posted, i have to fondly remember the time someone stole this tweet word for word, including using my name as the punchline, then claimed it was just independent discovery
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
oh my fucking god, you have to watch this. eric schmitt just made himself the main character.
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Phen, PhD in Smut @phenbird.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Even Terry Pratchett enjoyed a cosmic giantess from time to time. A comforting thought. #sizesky
An expert from Pyramids by Terry Pratchett
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ぴーもち @sketches-pi--mochi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
wipart✍️ Thank you so much for your support! It means a lot to me. #birdart #birdsketch #animalart #art #drawing
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 28/09/2026
All it took was getting kicked out of the White House press room and suddenly CNN remembers that "lie" is a word.
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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oh you thought I murdered and ate 36 people? Well guess what? It was only four. Got your ass.
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Deb @sailebed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Update: abcnews.com/US/district-...
abcnews.com
District attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University 'gang rape'
Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the case of alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
This whole article is so bleak. Maybe try accepting your kid for who they are?
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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ireland's artist basic income returned €1.39 for every €1 spent. They made it permanent. South Korea just announced plans to follow. Now Scotland too.
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 26/09/2026
Meta's platforms have repeatedly been caught running ads for deepfake "nudify" apps that let you virtually undress real people without their consent, but they won't run an a trailer for an upcoming documentary that reflects poorly on Elon Musk. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
hollywoodreporter.com
The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This extraordinary image was created by reprocessing & merging 16 frames from Voyager 1's flyby of Jupiter in 1979. Just right of center, you can see the Great Red Spot, a huge storm system. ➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap20062... Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/A. Tranchandon 🔭🧪⚛️ #histsci #planetsci
Voyager 1 view of Jupiter. Banded clouds wrap the planet in beige, cream & pale brown. Just right of center sits the Great Red Spot, an oval storm flushed orange-red. Lower left, the bright disk of Europa is visible. Upper right, a round dark patch marks Io’s shadow on the cloud tops.
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C. Larsen @larsenproject.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Tiny dream
Washy watercolor shore with lone figure
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
theintercept.com
DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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Juju Bee! @fireflyfox5.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Last Sunday {Red-Wing Blackbird singing from the reeds} #scape #eastcoastkin
A color photo of a lake and marsh landscape. Deep fog has muted the colors. Photo by me
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
you guys broke watergate
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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.me · 24/09/2026
The idea that everything should be a computer is one of the worst ideas people have ever had arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...
arstechnica.com
Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges
So absurd and embarrassing ..."
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Roel Maalderink @roelmaalderink.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hoe vinden Meta-medewerkers hun eigen Meta-bril? (Samen met @bitsoffreedom.eurosky.social)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
MS NOW reports that their White House reproter was denied access to the White House this morning despite a court order demanding she have access
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Acacia Center for Justice @acaciajustice.org · 23/09/2026
A 1yo in AZ, w/o an attorney, was told by an immigration judge to file an asylum application days after a federal contract for legal rep expired. A ONE YEAR OLD. So don't ever let yourself feel stupid when things like this are happening. Tell Congress to take action➡️ tinyurl.com/protect-kids
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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
villain? baby that’s the hero!
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