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Psaki Bombs of Sanity @mampdx.bsky.social · 4h

"They could, like most decent people, consider the allegations and assume that, even if there is not a crime here, what is described should never happen to anyone. Shutting up is free. But the past decade of Trumpism has largely been built on stirring up male anger at women’s growing equality."

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Fuse Washington @fusewashington.org · 2h

As we expected: the wealthy few like Microsoft's Brad Smith and the big corporations who Amy Walen has been doing the bidding of are now dumping money behind her. They want to defeat progressive Jessica Forsythe so they can keep rigging the system to lower our wages & cut their taxes.

We've seen money from the business lobby ride to Walen's support before and it didn't go well. Last year, in a special election for the Senate seat in the 48th, business groups spent nearly $350K in support of Walen's challenge to Sen. Vandana Slatter, D-Bellevue, who had been appointed to the seat over Walen after Patty Kuderer was elected Insurance Commissioner. Slatter won by nearly 18 percentage points.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4h

Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵

A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.

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Tech 4 Housing @tech4housing.org · 4h

Will the news outlets that ran headlines about KCRHA losing $13M (most of which has since been found) be publishing about Seattle Police Department’s unauthorized $13M expenditure?

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Scott Forbes @scottforbes.net · 2h

When the dot-com bubble popped, there were companies that had found legit revenue streams and survived, companies that hadn’t and went bankrupt, and then frauds like Enron, who’d been cooking their books the whole time but only got caught after the pop. In the AI bubble, every player is Enron.

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Amazon seeks to offload $8 billion of Nvidia chips to investors, FT reports

Amazon is seeking to offload about $8 billion of advanced Nvidia chips to investors through a new ‌vehicle to strengthen its balance sheet, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing people famil...

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 7h

Also, every major media outlet in the country was platforming Larry Summers nonstop to ignore all the data & lie about stagflation. It was a deeply unserious time in American economic policy discourse. We should never do that again.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 7h

When job growth was 5-10x this per month under Joe Biden, we were having a nonstop National Conversation™️ about the imminent recession & being told that only the unemployed cared about jobs, but everyone cared about inflation.

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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 11h

Listen: I don’t want to minimize the danger of high e-bike speeds. But if the problem here is that stores sell e-bikes that can drive faster than legal limits, then where’s the story about how literally *every car dealership has been doing the same thing for decades*?!?

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Hidden cameras show some stores unlocking speed limits on e-bikes, selling e-scooters that go up to 120 km/h | CBC News

A new hidden camera investigation by Marketplace shows how some stores are selling e-scooters and e-bikes with top speeds much higher than provincial speed limits and with recommended rider ages young...

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Scott Alspach @salspach.bsky.social · 5h

@sound-transit.bsky.social, could someone explain why you put a big photo of District 5 City Council Candidate Julie Kang at the newly opened Pinehurst Station? This is an outrageous use of public resources. This photo needs to be taken down, or at least covered up, until after the election.

A picture of District 5 City Council candidates standing in front of a picture of large picture of herself at Pinehurst Station

Picture showing the large picture of Julie Kang that is prominently displayed at Pinehurst station. In the picture Julie is smiling and celebrating with two other people.

Close up of the picture of Julie Kang at Pinehurst Station that labels the people "Tom, Katherine & Julie | Haller Lake Community Club"

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 3h

"I have a harem of dozens of women who are my employees to fuck and have my children as I please" is one of the ultimate goals of the billionaire class and one of the main reasons they are so keen to fuck the labor market (so desirable women are desperate enough to sign up for this)

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 7h

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861

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Scott Forbes @scottforbes.net · 17h

State law says that for union employees, “any dispute relating to the occurrence or amount of the overpayment shall be resolved using the grievance procedures contained in the [CBA].” In principle SPOG can’t dispute the overpayments in good faith, but good faith and SPOG parted ways a long time ago.

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RCW 49.48.210:

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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Chicago police are defunding Chicago

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 23h

Once again, all of this falls apart and is exposed as obvious bigotry when you actually look at what is being concretely proposed rather than accepting the framing of anti trans haters.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 30/09/2026

A pretty grim sign for legal journalism when the best-known source for Supreme Court news and information turns itself into a free platform for Fortune 500 companies to talk about what a good job the Supreme Court is doing

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The Conservative Takeover of SCOTUSblog Is Just What the Supreme Court Needed

SCOTUSblog used to cover the Supreme Court. Now, it cheers for it.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026

Man, imagine you're minding your own business, getting kind of drunk with your friends at a picturesque brewery in Maine, when suddenly John Roberts walks by and you get to start heckling him. Must have felt incredible. That's the dream. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...

The chief justice used to preside over a Supreme Court whose members were afforded more privacy and freedom than many other public officials. Once, years ago, Mr. Lipson and the chief justice found themselves up the peninsula from Port Clyde without a car, Mr. Lipson recalled in an interview. So he stuck out his thumb by the side of the road and a pickup truck pulled over. He and the nation’s top jurist hopped in the back and hitchhiked back to town.

Now, Mr. Lipson said, he is cautious about introducing his friend to strangers. This year, on an outing to nearby Monhegan Island, people recognized the chief justice as he walked by a brewery and started to chant: You should be ashamed.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)

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Scott Forbes @scottforbes.net · 01/10/2026

This whole 🧵, but especially the parts comparing Obama and Mamdani

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

he last thing they want is a militant, organized, mobilized base pushing Dem politicians to take the stands that are wildly and widely popular in America, from Medicare for All to an end to ICE - the Mamdani agenda, in other words.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

The right's political leadership is terrified of its own grassroots, and rightly so, because those people are *maniacs*, and they're the reason the GOP has been pushed into its most extreme positions. The right's grassroots, meanwhile, are afraid of *the left's grassroots*. T

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

Liberals are often contemptuous of grassroots movements (cf "basket of deplorables," "Green Lantern" scolding), but the right is *terrified* of them.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

Which is to say, Big P politics matter, but to *make* them matter, we need a lot of small p politics. That means that democracy isn't something you do every couple of years with a ballot paper (though that's an important aspect of the process). Democracy is continuous.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

The reduction of politics to voting is part of the 50 year neoliberal project whose foremost goal is to make you think of yourself as an atomized individual and not as a member of a polity.

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Shout out to everyone whose response was "Who?"

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

AP NORC: Trump approval at 31 points. A majority of Americans, 51%, *strongly disapprove*. AFAIK, strong disapproval crushing overall approval by 20 points is unprecedented. There is no political downside to opposing authoritarianism.

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

FWIW, not only can consensual sex turn into a rape, I'd argue that a large number of rapes follow that pattern. The rapist lures the victim with the promise of a pleasurable, consensual experience. Once he's got her naked and trapped in a room, he turns it into a rape.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

fox news viewers like

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Scott Forbes @scottforbes.net · 01/10/2026

I’m adding this to my vocabulary on the shelf next to “mansplaining”: Himpathy (him′pə-thē) noun Reflexive hand-wringing over the loss of a male perpetrator’s bright future instead of a female rape victim’s welfare.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The reality is that there is no non-violent way to non-consensually end a healthy human being's life. The effort spent to fool death penalty advocates into thinking they are participating in something clean and surgical makes an already barbaric spectacle disgustingly hypocritical as well.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's hard to fathom that, let alone be OK with the fact that, the six people who allowed tonight to happen will start hearing cases next week, the outcome of which will affect us all.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I believe the death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment in all circumstances but the absurd joke of "lethal injection" is even more cruel and unusual than the others. A violent fiction to fool bystanders into thinking that they are witnessing a humane execution. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...

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Tennessee Death Row Inmate Christa Pike Still Alive After Attempts to Execute Her, Lawyers Say (Gift Article)

Christa Pike, who was convicted of murdering a classmate in 1995, was set to be executed by lethal injection. Officials had gone ahead with the execution after a temporary court-ordered pause.

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 30/09/2026

I feel dumb even just having to say this but the reason passports are mailed out in plain regular envelopes is that so that people do not attempt to steal easily recognizable passports in the mail. bsky.app/profile/carn...

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

I read a couple hundred death penalty cases for a case once and I think you’d all be shocked at how often this happens. The death penalty is one of the cruelest things in our system, an obvious violation of the 8th amendment cruel and unusual punishment clause, but we just love to kill.

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Todd Woody @toddwoody.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Breaking: California Governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation Wednesday allowing residents to install small plug-in solar systems to counter soaring electricity costs, a move expected to jump-start the market for the technology. Free link. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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California Joins Growing Plug-In Solar Boom as Power Costs Surge

The state is the 10th to allow so-called balcony solar as officials grapple with soaring electricity bills.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Remember how much of the reporting around Musk was first that his politics were idiosyncratic and nebulous (shortly before he became the #1 Republican donor in 2024) and then that he was "disillusioned with politics" and withdrawing from it (shortly before he became the #1 donor in 2026). Why?

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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Skipped the Nazis, huh.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Also bears never try to lead an online mob of other bears to identify and torment bear victims

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 01/10/2026

if you are a republican vp and you’re pulling the fire alarm about fucking idaho before the first day of october, you are in very, very bad shape

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The Needling @theneedling.com · 30/09/2026

Ballard Congratulates Golf Course on Its New Light Rail Station: tinyurl.com/yncw9jep

Map of new Pinehurst light rail station opening Sept. 30 next to I-5 and 160-acre Jackson Park Golf Course.

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Tremendous Kielbasa @rsaltasaurus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is incomplete reprint designed to provoke. The bill had voter ID attached to it in order to get it killed, making it so Republicans could run this exact headline.

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RevDaniel @revdaniel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Cornell 7 we’re all talking about? That story was broken in the work of Cereese Qusba, who is a reporter at The Ithaca Voice and a news editor at The Cornell Daily Sun, two independent newspapers. She is still herself, a student at Cornell University.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It seems to me like the policy case for making coaches sit out a year before switching schools is *much* stronger than the case for making transfer players do the same? A coach leaving for more money is far more disruptive! But as a society we valorize the old rich white guys and detest the players

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is one of the most maddening thigns about this court: Not just the substantive rulings, but how they think about “irreperable harm.” If the Most Special Boy has to wait a month to do a thing he REALLY wants to, that’s irreperable harm. Actual large-scale human suffering? Meh.

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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'll say it again: It doesn't matter what Democrats say now, or intend now. They will impeach Trump, because he won't give them any choice. So I hope they're preparing themselves for it.

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