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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Pentagon never disclosed that eight US Marines were injured when an Iranian cruise missile hit their vessel in the Strait of Hormuz on September 14, NBC reports. Injuries were eventually added to the casualty record with no announcement ten days later.

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"To say that we're gob smacked is an understatement" Cultural Landscape Foundation blisters Team Trump for shutting down public comment on Trump Monumental Arch Group says Trump Admin has deemed 1000's of public concerns about Arch to be "meaningless, unimportant & of no value whatsoever"

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N Sims @copyrightlibn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I do continue to be surprised at how naive researchers can be about this, even when they are incredibly aggressive (sometimes to the point of real nonsense thinking) about humans scooping them.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

US Ambassador Guilfoyle privately met with Romanian Social Democrat leaders. Bolojan’s government resisted a US LNG deal she promoted involving Nova Power & Gas and investigated its nuclear project. Weeks later, the Social Democrats joined far-right AUR to topple his government.

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US ambassador to Greece dined with politicians who joined the far right to topple Romania's government

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

People are citing the Pope--- and even though Christianity is no longer my main spiritual practice, I don't see a way out of the West's fascination with power, technology and mass death through only secular means. We are dealing with men who believe they are gods.

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026

ICE is now lying in wait outside convenience stores, or at busy intersections. Agents are arresting people at international airports. Local police and sheriffs, deputized by the federal government, are detaining immigrants during traffic stops. ICE is now detaining more immigrants than ever before.

A chart that shows a timeline of ICE immigration enforcement against different significant events (Los Angeles raids, Minneapolis and Chicago raids), with a line in late March 2026 that says "New enforcement strategy begins" before a peak of over 1,500 daily arrests in July 2026.

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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Michael Tesler correlates Trump vote share with search for testosterone boosters. No, you will not be the least bit surprised. goodauthority.substack.com/p/republican...

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Republicans’ fascination with testosterone in three charts

Why depictions of testosterone as a measure of manhood resonate with Republicans.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"What does it mean that someone who believes a fourth grader should be forced to give birth to her rapist’s child is now leading the anti-abortion mainstream?" This is quite a read:

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Jason Terry @jttnncdcmd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

as someone who does humanitarian work, i've been thinking a lot about how we overcomplicate it. when, basically, the premise is just that if you're alive now, you deserve to live freely until natural causes take you. we claim neutrality, but that simple perspective is in fact political.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Correct

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“.. Very good one sentence summary of the economy.” - Kyra Scanlon

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the average person has no idea what their government does on a daily basis. they just dont know. and for decades the right has used this as a launching point to propagandize the idea that the government simply cannot work. yes, being mayor is different from being president. but people need this.

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Me fail English @ralphtheewiggum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is the person who the New York Times has made its education expert

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

(1/3)Add congenital measles to the list of things that the Trump regime has led to. Per NBC News: At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"I immediately thought of Viktor Orban as soon as I saw this last ad because they were the same type of thing he did before finally losing his last election earlier this year. He spent 235 million euros of Hungarian taxpayer money on propaganda campaign material." open.substack.com/pub/heatherd...

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Donald Trump’s latest impeachable offense

Just before noon today, the President of the United States was standing just inches away from the trophy at the Medinah Country Club outside Chicago, wearing an extra-large suit that bulged along his ...

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Ruo Shui @ruoshuiresearch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A map of the United States titled "287g Agreements (Updated 9/1/26)" created with Datawrapper. The map uses colored circular markers across various states to indicate the status and model of local law enforcement agreements under section 287(g).

A legend in the upper left corner details two main categories:
Status of Agreement (Color-Coded):
Brown: Applied, never active
Blue: Existing as of 2024
Red: New Under Trump 2.0
Yellow: Reinstated
Green: Terminated by LEA

Agreement Models (Numbered 1–5):
1: Warrant Service Officer (WSO)
2: Jail Enforcement Model (JEM)
3: JEM & WSO
4: Task Force Model (TFM)
5: TFM & other(s)

The map is heavily densely populated with red circles throughout the Southeastern, Midwestern, and Eastern regions of the United States, alongside scattered markers across the West, Texas, Alaska, and Hawaii.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You know you come from a privileged position when you support shit like public executions, because insane beliefs like this convey an irrational logic that you won't end up on the business end of the guillotine. Because as we know, wanton state violence is famously non-stochastic.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

1. Jay Feely, a former NFL kicker and a GOP candidate for Congress in Arizona, has made “protecting women’s sports” a centerpiece of his election campaign. So I reviewed years of Feely’s podcast appearances to see what he actually thinks about female athletes. 🧵

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A thing you gotta remember is that Trump is v much a Do Something™️ sort of politician in that he mistakes acting for actions sake as a display of decisveness when its actually an indicator of panic & impulsiveness. We saw it during covid & we're seeing it again in the lead up to the election.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In a normal administration counterintelligence agents at the FBI would be investigating this photo. In this administration, the FBI director is in the photo.

Michael Weiss: Why, that’s Ali Abdelaziz is on the far left. Manages a lot of Russian, Belarusian and Chechen MMA fighters including Khamzat Chimaev, who is close to Kadyrov. Abdelaziz was an FBI informant until the Bureau dropped him because they suspected he was a double agent. Looks like Ka$h (far right) has forgiven and forgotten. These MAGA weddings are Mos Eisley cantinas for counterintelligence.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I was told we control the Strait.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I work at the newspaper and just wrote The Great Awokening is over, I’m both 79 and 12 years old and make 260,000 dollars a year from a man who sent Katy Perry into space on a rocket ship. As you can see, everyone else is the problem.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We should expect a lot more of this 'i was wrong about trump' bullsh*t especially after the midterms. Sarah is completely correct: don't fall for it.

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Watching people who propped up this corrupt disaster of an administration for their own enrichment start to slowly back away with their hands up will be good for short term dunks, but thats not good enough. It should be a reputational nuke from which these people never recover.
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“There are a lot of things I got wrong... was crazier than I thought. It was more dangerous than I thought.”

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We could also just let them freely sell their water rights, which effectively isn't allowed. Same result: growing cheap alfalfa stops making sense when someone will pay several times more for the water. Let them have their windfall if that's what it takes. It's literally cheaper to buy them off.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Did Anthropic's Claude discover something new in biotech? Well, just like with those recent alleged math proofs, it looks like it was given the answers in advance from real humans doing actual research. (gift: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/s...)

Dr. Mestre and his colleagues have yet to publish their findings. But for the past three years, they have regularly used Anthropic’s A.I. models as they have written code, drafted manuscripts and performed other tasks.

In doing so, Dr. Mestre said he and colleagues shared key findings about the enzymes with Anthropic.

Anthropic said that Claude’s key contribution was identifying an array of RNA molecules and a protein associated with reverse transcriptase in a system. But Dr. Mestre said that he and his colleagues had made that discovery over a year ago.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Megan McArdle's WaPo column celebrating the end of the woke left's ability to "cancel" right-wing voices over their social media posts, while making no mention of @karenattiah.bsky.social's legally enforced reinstatement to the WaPo after being fired for her social media posts, is chef's kiss.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Some writers go ballistic at the mere mention of AI because they take the training of AI models on their work to be a form of intellectual property theft. Like settler colonists, the AI boys want to treat it as a fiat accompli; "here's a pittance—let's move forward." But what if IP theft is ongoing?

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 30/08/2026

And the answer is exactly the same: hold the people responsible accountable and reconstruct the institutions that they broke. Both make "pulling this shit again" *visibly* more costly and difficult to accomplish. 👉 Neither is possible without eliminating the filibuster and unpacking the Court.

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

⚓️ There are morale crushers, and then there’s not being paid 😬

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Hoover didn’t cause the Great Depression. He was president when it hit and didn’t know how to fight it. Bush didn’t cause the financial crisis. He was president when it hit, did some things to fight it. Trump directly caused economic problems with tariffs, corruption, and war. And it’ll get worse.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

if centrists didn't want to be put in a situation where the democrats have to reform the electoral system and judiciary within the first two years of the next president's term, perhaps they should have done it when it wasn't an emergency. if we do not do it, we will die under worse than Jim Crow.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

What's galling about Darline citing her hard-working parents as exemplary is that Medicaid expansion and ACA have extended health care to millions in the *working* poor. South Carolina hasn't expanded Medicaid. It's refrained from helping its working poor. 4/ newrepublic.com/article/2148...

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Trump so stupid he forgets to do what he started doing last year and just cook or hide the numbers

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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

“It just came out today,” @angieforfl.bsky.social said of the news report. “She stole $10 million for medically needy kids in order to defeat two citizen-led ballot initiatives that you all placed on the ballot that would have allowed you all to have healthier lives.”

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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Joint statement from the leaders of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway and Canada.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

US debt was $13.5 trillion when Obama announced the Simpson-Bowles Commission. But those recommendations “were never enacted. .. .. debt is now $40 trillion and counting. And this time there’s not even a whiff of bipartisanship.” @johnauthers.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 21/08/2026

Another attack on a social institution because of its perceived political views. It's the independent groups in society that keep us free. They are not perfect, but government people being able to crush them makes everything worse.

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Yo 👋 I’m not new here

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This is not just bad optics. DOJ officials, including the attorney general, are classified as “further restricted” federal employees. That means they are prohibited from taking an active role in partisan political campaigns, even on their own personal time.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Fascinating mind* to look at a memorial and decide it's actually a hate rally against you *wellll

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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

So don't get distracted by the neonazis eg Cofnas. It's the politely ✌️concerned academics✌️ and a barrage of apologetic emails that organise this assault.

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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

What should always have been understood as a story about racist harassment was successfully reframed as one about “scientific integrity”, in no small part because the aggrieved white academics driving the campaign largely escaped scrutiny themselves. It remained relentlessly focused on Arday.

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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

There is a story here, one about white male grievance in academia, and about how ✌️concerned academics✌️, masquerading as integrity sleuths, organise to target Black academics & escalate suspicion through complacent, if not complicit, media.

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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

They could have easily added "auto" to "published a book". But that would have made him look like a hack. And not a ✌️concernend academic✌️just asking questions.

He was commended by Cambridge as a "highly respected scholar of race, inequality and education".

But around this time, plagiarism concerns first surfaced.

David Harris, a British academic who published a 2024 critique of critical race theory, is said to have contacted Arday and Cambridge with claims.

Arday reportedly lodged a harassment complaint against Harris with police.

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Morning Bluesky Now THIS is a thread 👇👇👇

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Zoli Aswad Osaze @zaswadosaze.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

cecerogers CeCe Rogers 2x Grammy Nominated Singer, Producer, Songwriter.

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Intrusive Thot @apricity.blacksky.app · 18/08/2026

Where are the fathers?

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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I don't have to put up with being told that the President and his party are justified in eradicating you and everyone like you by my Trump-loving parents, and neither do you. Imagine converting to Judaism and being told "Hitler was right." Celeste can **** *** and ****.

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