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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEWS: My new investigation uncovers the horrific ChatGPT history of the Tumbler Ridge school shooter. OpenAI’s chatbot fueled the shooter's violent fantasies and plans up to the day of the massacre. Chats about guns, timing of attacks, becoming infamous, and more. www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
motherjones.com
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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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ProPublica: In 2024, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping pay-to-play investigation examining interactions between Sen. Susan Collins and a top donor, records and emails show. After Trump returned to office, the investigation died.
propublica.org
The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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WildPartyInviteDecliner @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Francis Fukuyama keeps the winning streak alive.
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is what living next door to a 30 megawatt data center sounds like.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/08/2026
tl;dw: the job of the dem majority over the next two years, should it materialize, is to make life hell for the white house, not find points of cooperation
youtube.com
What Democrats can learn from Mitch McConnell
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/08/2026
Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.
aiddata.org
Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned
Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Weird he can’t bring this kind of energy towards his colleague who is accused of beating up his daughter.
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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
We can verify the daily physical status of a specific Seattle raccoon but apparently we're completely unable to determine whether a United States Senator is alive or dead.
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Steve @noslracs.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Transportation Secretary approved by Klobuchar ( www.senate.gov/legislative/... ) Is moving $1.73b in Federal funding out of "DEI bike lanes" for more car infra. Thank you Amy for your part in protecting us from the evils of safe bicycle infrastructure. newrepublic.com/post/212853/...
newrepublic.com
Trump Secretary Says Bike Lanes Are DEI
Apparently the Trump administration is just calling anything it doesn’t like “DEI.”
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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Samuel Alito's dad was born in Calabria, Italy in 1914, which was a completely failed state shithole at the time. You either spent your life farming dirt or got killed at 16 working for an Ndrangheta underboss. Now his son spends all day panicking about uncivilized Haitians.
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I assimilated all the way to Congress and this idiot still tells me to go back where I came from.
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Amy Sundberg @amysundberg.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
SPD’s overtime spending has more than doubled in four years due to SPOG contract. notesfromtheemeraldcity.com/spds-overtim...
notesfromtheemeraldcity.com
SPD’s overtime spending has more than doubled in four years due to SPOG contract - Notes from the Emerald City
Local News: I wrote a piece last week about new data out of King County’s DCHS showing that permanent supportive housing in the area is reducing jail bookings…and I attended the opening of DESC’s newe...
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Just watch Thierry Henry once Lalas is done
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Mike Spangenberg @mikespangenberg.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I do not understand why the NYT allows its paid journalists to do original reporting, but then withhold that reporting from the paper's audience to publish it instead for personal profit. Someone's going to have to explain this to me.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10/06/2026
The planned gas-fired capacity **JUST FOR DATA CENTRE ON-SITE USE** in the US is the same as *all* planned gas capacity in India, Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia, Japan, Korea and China *combined*.
A chart showing planned gas capacity by countr y
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Fascists in Belfast set fire to buildings with people inside them. People of colour left work early to stay indoors. This is being actively encouraged by the world’s richest man whose openly pro-white nationalist platform X is still used by the UK government www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
theguardian.com
‘There’s wee girls inside’: panic as masked men storm house in Belfast
Protests across the city turned violent on Tuesday night – with some police officers acting as if it wasn’t safe to intervene
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rprobbins.bsky.social @rprobbins.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
This is a brilliant idea to force corporations to either raise pay rates for their employees or lower their payouts to CEOs 💯💯💯🎯
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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
"Working class" in 2026 means a blue haired barista with they/them pronouns, a Asian immigrant nail technician, and an undocumented hotel cleaner. And we are going to keep having the same fights until we let the midcentury illustrator mirage of the white guy in plaid with the lunch pail go.
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Xi is five foot eleven. And Trump wears elevator shoes.
Photo of Donald Trump and Xi Jinping standing next to each other, shaking hands.  Trump is a bit taller than Xi, maybe an inch.
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
the fact that democrats don’t have political control over their own police forces is something they can never actually admit, but is one of the most important political facts in the country
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.
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Ballard FC @goballardfc.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
At least you can take the light rail back to Bellevue now 😉 #BallardFC | #UpTheBridges
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 29/05/2026
This is bad. Bad for researchers. Bad for science. Bad for universities. Bad for professional associations. For example: 1. Every award would be vetted by political appointees, who could overrule peer reviewers and deny the award if it doesn't advance the president's priorities. 1/🧵
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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 27/05/2026
If AI is going to replace wage labor we should tax it the same way we tax wage labor: 15.3% FICA plus federal income tax plus all the state and local payroll and income taxes.
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 27/05/2026
Last year, a court struck down background checks for private firearms sales. So the legislature passed a new law to reestablish them, run by the state police. And the Virginia State Police just...aren't doing it. They're simply pretending the law hasn't been passed.
cardinalnews.org
Background checks for private firearm sales not happening, one month after bill’s emergency enactment
The governor’s office and Virginia State Police have said they’re working to implement the bill, but neither will provide a timeline for when the background checks will resume, or details as to why…
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Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 19/05/2026
This is the last nail in the coffin for small publishers. "Instead of returning a simple list of links, Google Search will drop users into AI-powered interactive experiences at times. Google is also introducing tools that can dispatch “information agents” to gather information on a user’s behalf..."
techcrunch.com
Google Search as you know it is over | TechCrunch
Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce t...
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
terrible. 20 years ago, the internet was full of hobbyist blogs and forums. over time, these have been replaced by paywalled substacks and private discord channels, each a walled garden. google's decision to prioritize AI just makes it less likely people will create free, public info
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I've been thinking about this famous quote from John Adams a bit lately. It suggests a different arc of history picture than the main two others in popular circulation: the cyclical one of weak men making hard times, etc. & the (impossibly resilient) narrative of endless, irresistible Progress.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
They think you're stupid.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
The Just War Tradition of Christianity, or as it's commonly known to its advocates and practitioners, Jihad.
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 09/04/2026
something that was hammered into my head as a journalism student is "prognostication is not truth," or "you cannot report something that hasn't happened yet as a fact." and yet i see this rule violated daily
Tampa Bay Times giant photo of trump and huge hed

TRUMP PULLS BACK ON THREATS FOR 2 WEEKS
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Lex Vaughn @lex.vaughn.theneedling.com · 25/03/2026
Under-appreciated report even by its own publication that hasn't posted it here: "9 of the 12 members of Axon’s ethics board resigned in 2022 after the company announced plans to develop armed drones for its clients. Of those that didn’t resign, one was former Seattle police chief Cameron Best."
thestranger.com
Seattle's CCTV Vendor Has Received $126 Million in ICE and CBP Contracts
Mayor Katie Wilson announced an expansion of Seattle’s CCTV surveillance network Thursday, telling a closed press conference of Seattle journalists she had little choice but to hire US Departmen...
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
If we could have just started building "Corridor D" a decade-ish ago instead of ruling it out for being too expensive...
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
The shortest distance between where we are now and entrenched fascism is a terror attack. That is why we are at war with Iran. That is why Trump shrugs at the possibility of deaths on U.S. soil. And that is why Patel fired the FBI's Iranian counter-intel personnel before the first bomb fell.
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The Needling @theneedling.com · 03/03/2026
Scientists Discover World's Dumbest Person in West Seattle Blog Comments: tinyurl.com/bdza5w5h
Scientists in white lab coats looking at computer as one of them points at the screen
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grimm 🎃 @mugrimm.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I'll save everyone the click, it's just this chart:
The Gen X lead poisoning chart.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/12/2025
this shit is just beyond parody, man
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
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A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas 
Detained for 70 days

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by 
@micarosenberg
 et al for ProPublica:
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Marlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
pretty stunning chart
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 10/02/2026
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
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Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin @voicesbyzane.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
I really want people to think about this. After all the insane lawsuits, all the threats, all the bullshit weve seen from this admin and the targets who kneeled in fear, an average Joe called the president a Pedophile protector to his face and didn't get touched. That's the Power of a union.
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Steve Cavendish @scavendish.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Metry and her husband of 4 years go to DHS to get their I-130 in motion. "Good news" a DHS employee told them, the form to start her naturalization was approved. DHS employee asks the husband to follow him through a secure door. When it locks behind him, ICE detains his wife to deport her.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
This is an immensely significant document that continues to get virtually no attention in US media—but lots abroad. In Jul 2015, Epstein arranged a meeting between a known highest-level Russian intel operative, Sergey Belyakov and Peter Thiel,
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 06/02/2026
"Merrick Garland had these files for four f**king years!" From the new 'We're Not Kidding', Jennifer Welch (@ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social) and @mehdirhasan.bsky.social slam the Democrats for not releasing the Epstein files during Joe Biden's presidency. Watch here: zeteo.com/p/jennifer-w...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
My suggestion is that the NY Times profile politicians who are not just thinking about kids detained by ICE, but actually doing something about it, rather than enabling it.
GOP Senator who can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained and cannot stop voting for Trump policies
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
our government used a Blackhawk helicopter in a major American city, detained children and zip-tied U.S. citizens all to target... squatters and the alleged Tren de Aragua presence? "It was a brutal lie against the American public." www.propublica.org/article/chic...
propublica.org
The Real Story Behind the Midnight Immigration Raid on a Chicago Apartment Building
The Trump administration has claimed the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. But new documents make no mention of the gang and reveal federal agents had information about “ille...
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Kathleen Clark @kathleenclark.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I just read the declaration that Kira Kelley asked J. Blackwell to consider. This immigrant describes being -unlawfully arrested -taken from one overcrowded & filthy prison to another over 19 days -held incommunicado & ICE never telling him a court ordered his release He describes an American gulag
CASE 0:26-cv-00749-NEB-DLM Doc. 67 Filed 02/03/26 Page 7 of 8
33. At the time of my release, I had been detained by ICE for about 19 days. In those days, ICE never told me why they detained me. They didn't tell me that a judge had ordered my release just five days into my detention. I only knew about the release order through my attorney.
34. My father was deported to Guatemala by ICE after he was detained with me. So was my
cousin. They were deported on January 23rd.
35. Right now, I am happy that I have been released. I am grateful I have my family and an attorney. Other people are not so lucky. I am trying to adjust to my life now but am still dealing with the emotional trauma of being detained. When I think of my time in detention, I think of so many ways I could have died there: the way my car was stopped in the middle of the road, the diseases I could have caught at the Whipple, the driver who was falling asleep at the wheel driving us from El Paso to New Mexico, and exposure to COVID multiple times.
I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.
Date: February 2, 2026
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https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.230969/gov.uscourts.mnd.230969.67.0_1.pdf
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Seattle Department of Transportation @transportation.seattle.gov · 04/02/2026
Our crew-built work is one big way that we’re delivering the Seattle Transportation Levy. By using in-house construction crews, we complete improvements that you’ve requested with lower costs and faster timelines. Here are 9 recently completed projects from our inspector’s camera roll:
SDOT crews work to smooth concrete in Ballard along NW 46th St
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