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materialsdan @materialsdan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Seriously, check your voter registration, many people are reporting being unexpectedly purged with no warning
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Rob @rjgon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Sponsored by…”?
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Rob @rjgon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Websites are becoming increasingly fucking useless. They’ve now introduced screen-filling ads that pop up every time you navigate to a new page or after a few scrolls. Some screencaps from @insideevs.com and @macrumors.bsky.social. Yes, I’m not going to promote the ad buyers.
A screen filling ad from the Inside EVs blog. The annoying ad would pop-up everytime I navigated to a new page. Screen filling ad covering Macrumors.com. The ad would pop-up after a few scrolls.
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Eco-City Alexandria VA @ecocityalx.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's Transportation Week of Energy Awareness Month! Come check out an EV Ride & Drive and get behind the wheel of an electric vehicle! Join us October 4 from 1–4 p.m. at Lindsay Motors or October 7 from 11 a.m.–1:30 p.m. at Carlyle Square. Learn more at alexandriava.gov/go/8658.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.
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Rob @rjgon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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DJ Khaled's Iconic 'Another One' Moment
Alt: DJ Khaled's Iconic 'Another One' Moment
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/10/2026
Today in New York City, it got easier to escape subscription traps.
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A little law gives hope that government can suck less and make people’s lives better
New York City wants to make it easier for you to cancel subscriptions.
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WIRED @wired.com · 02/10/2026
A hospital giant and radiology network turned to Palantir to streamline scheduling, but nurses and other staff say the new software is causing errors, burnout, and frustration. www.wired.com/story/health...
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Health Care Workers Are Tired of Cleaning Up Palantir’s Mess
A hospital giant and radiology network turned to Palantir to streamline scheduling, but nurses and other staff say the new software is causing errors, burnout, and frustration.
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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And I’ll say it again 🗣️ FUCK ICE We were able to successfully chase out five 🧊 vehicles from their hiding spot in Passaic, NJ. ‼️ ICE OUT OF PASSAIC ‼️
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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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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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The Alexandria Brief @alexandriabrief.com · 30/09/2026
An automated license plate reader system goes live Friday in the parking garage at Park + Ford, a 435-unit apartment building on Ford Avenue, over the objections of 109 residents who signed a petition asking management to stop it.
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License plate readers go live Friday at a West End apartment building
A petition signed by 109 residents asked Bozzuto to stop the rollout. Metropolis says its platform is opt-in; the building told residents an account is required to keep parking.
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Might Scare-ger @mikesager.net · 01/10/2026
Fucking Yankees.
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Italian photographer Valerio Minato spent 6 years trying to capture one perfect shot near Turin, Italy, where the Basilica of Superga, the Monviso mountain, and the Moon lined up in a single frame. Good Morning Blue Sky
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 01/10/2026
Promises that the Iran war would end quickly sound an awful lot like what we heard in 2002 about the Iraq war. Anyways, the last US soldiers officially left Iraq on Wednesday...23 years later.
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The war in Iraq is finally over
The last of the Pentagon's "military advisers" left Wednesday, ending a 23-year presence.
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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026
BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned
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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
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Free Press @freepress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We're disappointed that Federal Court Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín approved the Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery mega-merger – and that our elected officials’ capitulation made it possible. But we're taking this as a call to action against billionaire control of the media. >>>
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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026
This New Mexico lawyer is representing a man who was found guilty of killing his wife earlier this year. Here he is being ripped apart by judges who found that he used ChatGPT to make up nonexistent witnesses and testimony. Read more: www.404media.co/chatgpt-fake...
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 30/09/2026
The ACLU's Jeffrey Stein called the ruling a "huge step in the right direction." “The public deserves to know how our government is justifying the cold-blooded murder of hundreds of civilians." 🔽
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Rob @rjgon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Now the POST OFFICE is going to scan everything?! JFC!
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s also really clear to me this week that the people telling us that AI will transform work…haven’t seen a lot of jobs where people work.
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Eyes Off ALX @eyesoffalx.org · 29/09/2026
APD says ALPRs don't do facial recognition. But once the data exists, third parties can AI-augment it with personalized profiles, including racial and gender analysis. Was that risk weighed before these cameras went up in ALX? No. ALX must take ALPRs down now and build a real review process!
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Rob @rjgon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
2019 throwback…
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Rob @rjgon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’LL NEVER DIE! alxwhere #11 · 2,684/3,000 🟩🟩🟨 1. 965 pts · 315 ft off 2. 917 pts · 531 ft off 3. 802 pts · 0.21 mi off alxwhere.com
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How well do you know Alexandria, VA? Three spots a day, 1000 points each.
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 28/09/2026
NEW: After we published an investigation into Brown Brothers Media, a company that buys struggling news sites and turns them into AI-powered content mills, we got a tip that completely gobsmacked me: one of the brothers has extensive connections to Ghislaine Maxwell futurism.com/artificial-i...
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You Know Those Three Brothers Who Buy Struggling News Sites and Turn Them Into AI-Powered Content Farms? It Turns Out One of Them Has Extensive Connections to Ghislaine Maxwell
Ideapod, a cornerstone brand of Brown Brothers Media's AI empire, has deep ties to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
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404 Media @404media.co · 28/09/2026
Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI images.
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Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified
Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual...
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Engadget @engadget.com · 28/09/2026
Provided you don't drive long distances every day, Level 1 charging could be all you need.
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Level 1, 2 and 3 EV chargers: Which is better to use? - Engadget
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Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
New Jersey data center fined more than $1 million for operating gas generators without a permit. Residents have pushed back against the data center, citing noise and air pollution. whyy.org/articles/vin...
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Vineland data center fined $1M for operating natural gas generators without permit
Vineland residents have pushed back against the data center, citing noise and air pollution.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You are correct.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 27/09/2026
Their punishment was to write essays.
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Rob @rjgon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So many losers… Fucking Tim Cook buried whatever legacy he had by being next to Steve Jobs for all those years. Not sure how it would’ve gone down with Jobs and MAGA, but this guy just tanked it.
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
chat is this good?
all construction dropping massively.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. (Published Feb. 2025)
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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
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Rob @rjgon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Again, these people are scared SHITLESS. They’re bringing out Trump 1.0 greatest hits to energize what little base that they have left. They can pick fights all day… We’ll crush them at the ballot box.
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Might Scare-ger @mikesager.net · 26/09/2026
Fireworks or is Arlington invading?
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Rob @rjgon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Shame… alxwhere #7 · 1,127/3,000 🟨🟥🟥 1. 889 pts · 666 ft off 2. 231 pts · 1.22 mi off 3. 7 pts · 4.00 mi off alxwhere.com
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How well do you know Alexandria, VA? Three spots a day, 1000 points each.
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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As a policy and even a political matter, this shift is almost 700 days late and about $3 trillion short. For 99.9 percent of the past two years, Republicans have fallen in line with every insane maneuver and utterance from this administration; at best, they would pretend not to have heard them. Only when accountability from the voters is imminent have we seen the emergence of “independent” thought and behavior—that is, evasive action induced solely by panicked self-interest, like an amoeba shrinking away from a sharp object.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
@lisathebeauty1

It's bare minimum friday, don't you let that job stress you out today
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Rob @rjgon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I don’t use their app so they can go fuck themselves. You shouldn’t either. #boycottapps
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Jezebel @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Meta, which has made a habit of censoring crucial information about abortion, censored ads for a play in Spain because it mentions “feminism.” Curious! www.jezebel.com/whos-afraid-...
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¿Who’s Afraid of Some Virginia Woolf Feminism?
Meta, which has made a habit of censoring crucial information about abortion, censored ads for a play in Spain because it mentions “feminism.” Curious!
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 25/09/2026
“In a hallway, indoors, or a crowded classroom, the 870 is brutal,” ChatGPT told the Tumbler Ridge mass shooter about the shotgun. “Close quarters is its playground.” From our new investigation:
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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The Latino Newsletter @thelatinonewsletter.org · 24/09/2026
For the LAST episode of The Latino Newsletter Podcast's second season, guest Felix Contreras of NPR's Alt.Latino talks about how the #BadBunny phenomenon has historical precedent. For this episode, both Felix and Anamaria Sayre joined Season 2 host Michelle Zacarias.
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The Washington Sun Metro @washsunmetro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In this week’s Talk to Tom, @tomsietsema.bsky.social shares recommendations about where to eat in Georgetown and an Ethiopian spot for a first timer.
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Talk to Tom: Where to Eat in Georgetown
Plus: What to do about extra charges on menus, and Ethiopian recommendations for a first-timer.
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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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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Washington Sun: Sen. Maggie Hassan is asking the U.S. Secret Service how the reported diversion of more than $350 million dollars from its budget to Trump's ballroom has impacted the service's operations.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 24/09/2026
Despite the breach happening in June, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the tech giant only notified the government about the incident earlier this month and did so via an email to a generic “public mailbox.”
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OpenAI agents hacked an Australian government website in search for data
Australia’s leader said it was ‘unacceptable’ OpenAI took months to report the incident.
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404 Media @404media.co · 24/09/2026
Cops followed EJ Carrion home and arrested him in his drive way one week after he said 'bullshit' at a county meeting in Texas. Here is that body cam footage. @mjgault.bsky.social reports: www.404media.co/watch-body-c...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
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