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bleak future ahead for brazil. something must be done with the growing global fascistic movement if we want any future worth anything

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fran #DemForce @newpage-fd.bsky.social · 16h

partially unsealed court filing alleges Department of Homeland Security built up dossiers on ICE observers—including their photos, license plate numbers, and other information—and stored them in the Investigative Case Management database, which was built by Palantir www.wired.com/story/ice-ha...

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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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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 21h

Let's stop using anodyne labels like "the immigration debate" or "controversy over migrants" and start referring to things accurately. "Expelling children who, by law, are entitled to remain in the country" or "imprisoning toddlers in concentration camps" or "pogrom"

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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 6h

this is pretty cool. Now that the CFPB has been functionally dismantled by Russell Vought, a bunch of the attorneys formed a consumer protection law firm www.law360.com/colorado/art...

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Home Equity Fintech Is 1st Target Of Ex-CFPB Attys' Law Firm - Law360

Home equity fintech firm Unlock has used deceptive marketing and confusing contract terms to hide that its "investment" agreements are actually illegal high-cost loans, according to a new proposed cla...

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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 14h

In the five months since he started posting his cleanup projects, he’s amassed more than 230,000 followers on both platforms and leveraged that audience to fundraise for more trash bags, grabbers and gloves.

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‘Trash Talk’ TikTok Star Doesn’t Want to Clean Up NYC Forever. He Wants You To.

David Clarke has spent the last five months picking up litter and rebuilding tree planters in Upper Manhattan, operating from his soil- and plant-filled apartment.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 17h

I've been going through publicly available information relative to the possible Y. pestis (pneumonic plague) incident in Russia. Reports are conflicting—we do not have a clear picture of what's happening. And even under the best of circumstances the Russian government isn't exactly transparent 🧵

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 13h

IF or WHEN the dems have the majority in both Houses We the People have to be up in their shit, on their asses, screaming at them like they owe us money Remember, Trump was a one term POTUS...and now we're back in the shit. Because nothing changed, nothing really got DONE. Accountability.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 14h

These students were bragging that they were going to do worse than the Cornell rapists and possibly murder the classmate they were planning to do it to Jail. She has a right to GO TO FUCKING HIGH SCHOOL WITHOUT BEIMG TARGETED FOR RAPE AND OTHER VIOLENCE.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 14h

"Your cell contains a sleeping pod, a tube of infinite Chicken Wingz, and a relaxing BubbleStation game console that, incidentally, helps us create more apps as you play. For every algorithm you complete on your BubbleStation, you’ll receive two delicious Wingz." buff.ly/IPg2YSB

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Our Open-Plan Office Failed, So We’re Moving to a Towering Panopticon

“The panopticon is absolutely not a fad. It is an idea whose time in the tech world has come.” Feb 21, 2022 9/17/23 9/24/24

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 14h

wint @dril
Hello Sam this is your lawer speaking.
I am advising you today to please keep posting this shit

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 14h

If in the next three years we don’t substantially reform the Court and throw Alito’s entire jurisprudence in the trash (and I mean all of it)… we will have allowed this rightwing politician to have made the US substantially more fascist, against the popular will.

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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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Fossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · 14h

Drawing is tomorrow afternoon and there are only 8 entries so far. Odds are real good!

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 14h

Is it a bad sign that the PDF copy of the U.S. Constitution that has been available at house.gov now 404s? uscode.house.gov/static/const...

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Under Maintenance

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Today, Oct 4, is the feast of St. Francis of Assisi: the day when you can bring your pets to church for a blessing.

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Anna E. Cook @annaecook.com · 15h

Anyone following the recent AI doom headlines should read this. Duncan maps the small, tightly connected group behind much of AI “safety”, and whose judgment we're being asked to trust. This group has a documented record of cult-like groups and a tolerance for eugenicist ideas at the top.

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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 15h

To be scrupulously fair to Alito, he doesn't really believe women are people, so I guess it isn't surprising that he doesn't think they have concrete reliance interests.

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Danny Robb @inverting-vision.bsky.social · 16h

As photography emerged, Egypt and the pyramids were a popular subject. Cool side effect - we get to see the Great Sphinx of Giza as it was being excavated. 🗃️🧵 For centuries it had been just a head sticking above the sand. Left: 1822 illustration Right: photo by Maxime du Camp, 1849

Black and white illustration from 1922. The neck and head of the sphinx rises out of the foreground sand on the left of the image. two people stand in the shadow near the neck, and three others stand farther away in the shadow. one is pointing up at the sphinx. The pyramids are seen beyond a rise in the background, on the right. The title above the image reads "Pyramides de memphis" and the caption below reads "vue due sphinx et de la grande pyramide. prise du sud-est."

Black and white photograph from 1849. The Sphinx is in the foreground, with its chest bared out of the sand. the rest of it is still submerged. in the background to the left of the head, two pyramids stand on the horizon.

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👻 Saavik ‘Spooky Season’ Ford 🎃 @saavikford.bsky.social · 15h

Let me stipulate that Meta should not be doing this, it’s bigoted & bullshit. But. WHY DID EVERY BUSINESS SWITCH TO HAVING ONLY AN FB/IG ACCT INSTEAD OF A WEBSITE?!? You can use an acct to POINT to a website but SO MANY businesses just abandoned having 1 & Meta can EASILY hold them hostage!!!

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I think this needs to be on people’s radar more, if only because in their psychology Texas is not a place where voters compete to see who is in control, it’s a core GOP possession and losing that possession will be seen as a direct and existential attack.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 16h

If House Democrats don’t use every tool at their disposal to name names, kick ass, and stop further destruction, there will be hell to pay with the base. trib.al/R0rSJ30

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The Long and Extremely Urgent To-Do List if Democrats Take the House

If House Democrats don’t use every tool at their disposal to name names, kick ass, and stop further destruction, there will be hell to pay with the base.

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Pips’ Left Paw @pips-left-paw.bsky.social · 16h

The flax crop grown last winter/spring was retted in batches over the summer and is now through the first processing stage… mostly so I don’t have a haystack filling up the porch. #handspinning #spinning #fiber #slowfiber #flaxtolinen #fiberflax #flax 🧶

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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 20h

A reminder that after my suspension I'm no longer able to tag folks who are featured in #ScholarSunday threads, so Ima really need everyone who supports & values this work to help spread the word & get all this public scholarship out there far & wide. Thanks! @kevinmkruse.bsky.social 🗃️

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22h

It’s really fucked up we told generations of kids they had to take out personal loans in order to improve their lives as we cut funding to schools and when that turned out to be bullshit the general consensus has been “fuck those kids”

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 16h

I do think this should put some of the hand-wringing over the uniquely sinful American electorate, uniquely feckless institutions, etc in perspective. The truth is that there is a large trans-national constituency of people who actively want this. They aren’t deceived. They want this.

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👻 Saavik ‘Spooky Season’ Ford 🎃 @saavikford.bsky.social · 15h

Did I take @bmckastro.bsky.social out for his birthday tonight? Yes. Did we go to a fancy restaurant and split a bottle of wine? Yes. Did we talk about work? Umm… (Istg we USUALLY do BETTER at work-life balance! I blame the wine!) Anyway Happy Birthday 🎂🎁🎈🎉 for the 25th time since we met!

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Olivia Just Wants Tech To Be Fun Again @kingdomfantasy6.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is what I'm talking about when I bring up that genAI bots are making it impossible for an open web to actually exist. It becomes expensive, a pain, and domain providers like cloudflare are profiting off both the people making bots and the people who don't have the tech skills to fight them off

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

No matter how bleak things may seem, just remember that in the 1960s the US Coast Guard received reems of earnest letters begging them to save those poor castaways on Gilligan's Island.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Um, so this is why it is important that USPS does not install cameras on its trucks because it creates a governmental tracking system without statutory authorization.

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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I LOVE THIS TOWN

Return of the Cmonster... @cmonm... • 2h I feel like American news sources haven't prepared the country whatsoever for the impending economic disaster coming from the energy crisis and I don't know how goofy Americans are going to get when it hits 1/2
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One of my economic gauges of my local community is .. what adult toys are for sale. During covid everyone bought quads side by sides, dirt bikes, boats, classic cars, etc. There were few if any decent buys on to marketplace everyone wanted top $. You would never see em on the curb for sale. Now I do
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This was very strange to read, as I had to adjust mid-post to what was meant by "adult toys"
Good point though

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Amazon Piss Jugs @amazonpissjugs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Let's goooooo

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“Back then it felt as if there were two options: treatment at any cost or death. I cannot remember a moment when the third option — acceptance — even crossed our minds.”

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Can’t defenestrate when snow attenuates!

A picture of a man falling upside down into snow. The caption “In Kamchatka, Russia, it snowed so much that dudes are jumping out of buildings without injuring themselves.” There’s a quote post saying that this is going to be a huge inconvenience for russian security services

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Best part of this muddled article by one of Bloomberg's money guys is that two of the charts make a compelling case that knee-jerk opposition to AI is wholly justified because technological progress doesn't increase productivity, it just enables greater income extraction by capital. Oops!

Productivity Growth Has Been Stuck Below Its Postwar Pace for 50 Years

Workers’ Slice Shrinks, Profits’ Slice Grows

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Mika McKinnon @mikamckinnon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That’s a wrap for #MinCup26! This year was brought to you by a glorious team of volunteers contributing their favourite mineral facts, drafting blurbs on the side of playgrounds, and debating exactly which photo is both representative and beautiful.

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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Susan Collins, Mainers still have questions for you. We’ll keep asking, even though you refuse to answer.

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“It’s this kind of scenario… that several physicians told me ranks among their most troubling cases. Each told me a version of the same haunting story: A patient with a treatable cancer delays standard care for an unproven alternative, only to return once the disease has metastasized.”

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Dying Patients Are Inundated by Misinformation. My Dad Was One of Them.

Cancer patients are being persuaded to spend tens of thousands on unproven treatments by alternative-medicine clinics.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 04/10/2026

There are new and specific numbers in this story, so it’s worth reading. I continue to resent the lack of credit to Nick Schwellenbach at @pogo.org, Dan Friedman at @motherjones.com, and me, who have previously reported every other aspect of this story, including that the sale prices were very high.

Kristi Noem's Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She
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The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We need to rephrase the whole discussion in terms of hazardous products, instead of "minds". And then we need to make sure that there's liability. A model hacks someone? Put a C-suite guy in jail. A model produces sexual harassment material? Put a C-suite guy in jail. Watch how fast things get safe

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

In times like these, it’s vital to know who will stand up for democracy and justice and who will cower and capitulate. Students, faculty, alumni and staff are on the right side of history. The Yale president and trustees are collaborators and their names will live in infamy.

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Geologist & astronaut Dr. Kathryn Sullivan: the "most vertical human" in history. + From space: 1st American woman to walk in space, 11 Oct 1984 + To the deepest point of Earth's seabed: 1st woman to dive to the Challenger Deep (🔽 35,853 ft), 7 June 2020 She was born #OTD in 1951. #WomenInSTEM

A candid photograph of pioneering American astronaut and oceanographer Dr. Kathryn D. Sullivan (born 1951) celebrating her historic June 2020 return from the Challenger Deep—the deepest known point in Earth’s oceans. This moment solidified her legacy as the first person to both walk in space and reach the ocean floor. The outdoor shot frames Sullivan off-center against a deep blue, slightly undulating ocean that stretches out to a hazy, light-clouded horizon line under bright sunlight. Sullivan stands leaning slightly out from a white oceanic vessel hatch or submersible entry point. She smiles broadly with triumphant energy, looking off-camera to the left. Her left arm is fully extended outward, flashing an enthusiastic thumbs-up sign. On the far left edge of the frame, another crew member's hand wearing a black textured glove mirrors her thumbs-up gesture. She wears a cobalt blue utility flight suit featuring a golden rectangular patch over her right chest. Her light brown hair is short and windblown, and she wears rectangular tortoiseshell sunglasses. Thick, bright yellow heavy-duty rigging straps slice vertically through the left foreground, framing her body, while a curved metallic silver handrail sits to her left. The overall mood is joyful, victorious, and adventurous.

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Having seen the Joyce Carol Oates very bad, not good tweet about romance and AI, I can't help thinking about the way that romance has been treated as a punching bag for so long and always by people who are completely unwilling to engage with the genre and know little about it.

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Petti Crocker @aquarianairhead.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Just saw this license plate on Reddit and it made my day.

A California custom license plate that says "OH4FKSK" (oh for fuck's sake)

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 04/10/2026

So, some really messed up news .... I am now having to cancel my trip to the US because of the dumbest reasons ever. So the story is I applied for a visa waiver and got rejected for unknown reasons (they don't tell you). I've had a visa waiver for the last 10 years no problems.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

sure they're just illegally cutting lawfully appropriated funding to vital science research and stuff but at least we are getting weird television ads where an insanely racist old man says something about globalists for that money instead

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