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Sherel F.

@sherel.bsky.social
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trishzenveg.bsky.social @trishzenveg.bsky.social · 2h
Iowans need to aggressively use this info on ALL types of platforms in order to bust the con.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The torture and trafficking of immigrant kids continues apace, with plans to remove the 2,500 unaccompanied kids presently held captive. We need a relentless drumbeat: What are they doing to the children? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children
Exclusive: key White House loyalist orchestrating multi-agency effort condemned by critics as cruel and racist
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Q: If Johnson called the House back, they would have to immediately vote on Whiskey Pete Hegseth impeachment and not long after vote on Epstein, right? www.axios.com/newsletters/...
Tomorrow's Trump-Johnson AI summit with top tech CEOs suddenly looks a lot more consequential than it did just 72 hours ago.

🤖 Why it matters: Speaker Mike Johnson's preferred solution on AI — to let the companies take the lead on hashing out their own guardrails — is colliding with evidence that they're struggling to control their own creations.

🔥 In the last three days alone:

Axios scooped that AI companies are probing tens of thousands of incidents from frontier AI, including "bypassing guardrails, creating message boards, escaping sandboxes, website hijacking, self-prompting or seeking to bypass monitors."
The state of Florida asked a court for a temporary injunction against OpenAI and ChatGPT, saying the company can't self-regulate.
AI pioneers warned that AI could self-improve so quickly that the "intelligence explosion" would leave governments and institutions without much time to respond.
⛔️ Zoom in: Johnson has rebuffed calls to bring the House back into session, arguing lawmakers don't have anything ready to pass, while warning against the dangers of overregulation.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
fucking really
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Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students
The Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati…
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh. Separately, I discover Andrew DeFilippis--the prosecutor who left in a very suspicious hurry during the Durham case while witnesses were making allegations of abuse--got made partner at S&W for his participation in the Adani bribery bribe bribe bribe.
A Sullivan & Cromwell page for Andrew DeFilippis.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Background. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump administration faces fresh scrutiny after DoJ drops bribery case against Indian billionaire
Warren and Blumenthal raise concerns about case against Gautam Adani, who promised to invest $10bn in US
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If the US had such good intelligence on the RAF Fairford suspects, then why did it take a 999 call to arrest the guys? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Rubio says foreign actor was ‘clearly’ behind suspected RAF Fairford plot
US secretary of state, who offered no evidence for claims, also says many people ‘disturbed’ that five suspects released on bail
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tho I actually like this post better. IMO, one smart response to these ads is to taunt GOP MoCs that Trump is still sitting on mountains of $$ and instead using taxpayer dollars to remind voters what a corrupt asshole he is.
The inept White House political propagandists are using our money on government-sponsored campaign TV ads for the sinking GOP. The latest commercial tries to rally the dwindling MAGA base by reminding them that Trump once posed as a fighter against warmongers and a corrupt political establishment, but the recycled ad just sharply reminds everyone that the lying Trump is the war-maker-in-chief and presides over the most corrupt presidential administration in U.S. history. You can’t use our tax dollars to fool us.
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NEW: The Trump admin is airing *another* taxpayer-funded political ad, & this time, it's from his 2024 campaign.

Trump says in the ad: "We will demolish the deep state, expel the warmongers from our government... We will rout the fake news media..."

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jamie Raskin calls out the shitty ads as a crime (this was cited by CNN and other stories). This is the kind of Xitter post that I beg of @raskin.house.gov or other MoCs to cross-post over here -- not least bc more people over here are likely to magnify it.
Rep. Jamie Raskin

@RepRaskin
This may be felony criminal theft and conversion of government property for political campaign purposes. 18 U.S.C. § 1641. It is a Hatch Act violation for any government employees who worked on it or used government resources to make it. It is blatantly unethical under numerous federal ethics provisions proscribing the use of government resources for political campaigns.
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Yashar Ali 🐘
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The White House is currently airing this video as an ad during commercial breaks on Fox News. 

It looks and sounds like a political spot and includes a disclaimer stating that it is paid for by the U.S. government.

The soundtrack: as images of Trump flash across the screen,

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Lorenzo Salgado, jr. @oznezol.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One step closer to justice for my dad, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17h
renaissance painting when the renaissance is really fucking stupid
senator schmitt and his two idiot staffers after making a generational fuck up
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15h
Most swing state GOP Senate candidates took $$ from Jack Abramoff's now pardoned partner.
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Nate Chinen @natechinen.bsky.social · 19h
Congratulations to Immanuel Wilkins, 2026 MacArthur Fellow! A huge honor, richly deserved. www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...
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Immanuel Wilkins
Blending traditional jazz motifs with modern textures in works that reflect on the ongoing reverberations of historical events.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 17h
The MacArthur Foundation named 20 recipients for its $800,000 “genius grants.” They included climate scientist Marika Holland and Kate Spradley, an anthropologist whose work focuses on migrants who have died at the border.
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MacArthur Foundation names 20 recipients for the ‘genius grants’
Saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins and climate scientist Marika Holland are among the new fellows who will each receive $800,000.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 18h
Congratulations to my friend @hollyjeanbuck.bsky.social for being a 2026 MacArthur Fellow. I always knew she was a genius and this confirms it. 🥳
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Holly Jean Buck
Investigating the social, ethical, and political dimensions of climate and energy policies and emerging technologies.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"The U.S. and Russian teams also removed a provision requiring that humans review military targets developed by AI before a strike..." www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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U.S., Russia stripped human oversight from global AI weapons pact
The two nations weakened a range of safeguards in a landmark U.N. effort to try to regulate the use of lethal autonomous weaponry. The global negotiations earlier this month marked the furthest progre...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
12-16 miles per day, interfaith pilgrimage www.lasacredresistance.org/adelanto-to-...
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EU Paul @casualwoke.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Dear BBC Now, say after me, TERRORIST! It’s not difficult, eh? @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social These Nazi thugs need to be behind bars and affiliated political parties proscribed. ‘Anti-migrant activist charged after dinghy slashed in Channel’ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Anti-migrant activist Daniel Thomas charged after dinghy slashed in Channel
Activist Daniel Thomas is charged in connection with an incident in the English Channel on Tuesday.
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 24/09/2026
A pro-Trump ad that said it was paid for by the U.S. government aired on Fox News in major TV markets. Ethics experts said it could violate federal law. on.wsj.com/4hm6XYW
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A pro-Trump ad that said it was paid for by the U.S. government aired on Fox News in major TV markets. Ethics experts said it could violate federal law.
The unusual ad, which said it was paid for by the U.S. government, aired on Fox News in major TV markets.
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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
When Benjamin Netanyahu berates New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani during his UN address for calling him a war criminal, it will only increase Mamdani's popularity. The overwhelming majority of the democratic free world wants to see Netanyahu face trial in The Hague.
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anticop anarcho-pessimist hellfire preacher @anticiv.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I just assumed anyone in any position supporting the state is. 🤷
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Sue Bongiovi @bongo001.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trump and his faithful DOJ are defying a court order to reinstate journalists from MS NOW, Politico. This DOJ and their petty leader Donald Trump should be held in contempt & sanctioned. There is no proof these networks published national secrets. It just Trump feeling diminished via their reporting
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
2 things, in ascending order of importance: 1) Polls are Possibility but they don't vote; don't stop working. 2) El-Sayed has Massive support in a mid-west rust-belt state while vocally supporting transgender kids & adults/directly Dismissing claims that trans people are "dangerous." Learn from that
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voteinthemidterms.bsky.social @voteinthemidterms.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
TEXANS for TALARICO
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 21/09/2026
ICE just signed $7.3 billion in contracts to build detention space on land it owns, after its warehouse plan stalled. A $1.2 billion contract for a California site ICE left in 2014 went to a company tied to a developer facing more than a dozen lawsuits.
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ICE signs contracts worth up to $7.3B to expand detention in 5 states
With its warehouse plan stalled, ICE is building on land it already owns, and one of the companies it hired is tied to a developer who worked on its earlier property deals.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Rough day for Susan Collins in the local Maine press, where ProPublica's bombshell story is the lead story.
Screengrab from WNTWScreengrab from Maine PublicScreengrab from Portland Press HeraldScreengrab from Bangor Daily News
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
DAVE MATTHEWS: “I said it last night, but I’ll say it again - man, I’m so tired of this fuckin’ President.”
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 22/09/2026
Exclusive: The ICE officer who shot a Venezuelan man in Austin was hired last year and was not wearing his body camera, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports.
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The ICE Officer in Austin Wasn’t Wearing a Body Cam
The officer who shot a Venezuelan man was hired last year from another federal law-enforcement agency.
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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
One would *think* that an attorney as seasoned as Cleta Mitchell would not have been so stupid as to have sent an email to a non-client which would be this embarrassing and damaging when made public. Maybe she should've listened to Stringer Bell.
is you taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy?
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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If you believe that gas and diesel prices are high in late September 2026 because of Biden and Zelenskyy, then you might be a Trump supporter. And a moron. Which is pretty much the same thing.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 20/09/2026
"It seems like a simple, obvious choice—to the people who advocate for the auto industry, the ones who study it, and the ones who work in it. Only Trump seems to see things differently."
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Here’s How You Know Trump’s Canada Tariffs Are Bombing
They’re costly, voters hate them, and they threaten supply chains vital to the U.S. auto industry.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 21/09/2026
"At the end of the day, this may be the hardest thing for people like us to accept: The free world now views America as a threat. The free world is right to. And no one, or two, or three elections will change that."
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Canada Is Making America Its B*tch
The story of how a crafty middle power pantsed a moronic superpower.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 21/09/2026
Money can't buy everything, but can it buy Republicans the midterms? @lauren-egan.bsky.social's latest looks at the financial gap between Democrats and Republicans and why it's causing panic on the left.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 21/09/2026
Watch the full episode of Bulwark on Sunday with @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4xZhFf0
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Robert Kagan’s Chilling Warning About Trump’s Next Two Years | Bulwark on Sunday
Bill Kristol talks with Robert Kagan about how Trump’s Iran war is accelerating America’s retreat from the world, leaving allies to fend for themselves while China and Russia gain room to maneuver.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 21/09/2026
Robert Kagan reacts to the agreement Trump made with Denmark on Greenland: “This agreement is more likely to be setting the predicate for further encroachment by the United States than it is the end of American encroachment. And it's foolish to think that this is over.”
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 21/09/2026
"Trump appears to be both furious and confused about why the Fed is doing this. He’s furious because he wants lower rates to juice the economy ahead of the midterms. And he’s confused because, well, he’s a moron."
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Here’s Who Trump Should Blame for the Rate Hike He’s Raging About
He promised lower prices and lower interest rates. His policies delivered renewed inflation and a rate hike.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
In the Redacted Reading Room, there are hundreds of candles, each to represent the life of a victim, a survivor. I was joined by Epstein survivors, Dani Bensky and Liz Stein, in Dallas & they shared their thoughts on their own experiences & what these candles mean to them. youtu.be/mfFgLfcUp2g?...
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Epstein Survivors REACT As Trump’s SECRETS UNRAVEL!!
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Allegations against Lauren Boebert include sexual relations with Congressional employees, hush money payments, and thousands of dollars in misused official and campaign funds. Here's the redacted complaint: media.coloradotimesrecorder.com/wp-content/u...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/09/2026
Epstein survivor Liz Stein becomes emotional while viewing the candlelit tribute honoring survivors: “I come to the realization that I’m a part of this… This is me. This is what happened to me.” “I really genuinely felt like they took my light away.”
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I love that Marcy is re-releasing the podcasts we made in 2024, trying to warn America that we were on the brink of fascism and how we got there. What's amazing is how much more relevant Putin's attack on the election is now, given Trump and Kushner's desperation to pay off their quid pro quo.
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How Russia grabbed Trump and his cronies by the nuts in 2016
YouTube video by emptywheel
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Mark Carney: “I would now like to inform you that the teleprompter has ceased to function. Unlike a certain world leader, I do not view this as a conspiracy.”
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
So this week we've learned: 1) The AI goons CONFESSED they were committing the biggest theft in history. 2) The data centers really are sucking up all the energy during an energy shock. 3) AI almost caused a World War.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I genuinely wonder whether Mike Rogers placed this stupid story. He used to fearmonger about Justin Amash (who is Arab but not Muslim) getting intelligence as well.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If you start with how terrible Regime Change is on Epstein, then it's pretty easy to argue the whole thing is propaganda. Maggie has never been able to read documents, Swan is better. But this is pure propaganda AND ALSO misunderstands the ongoing cover-up.
The release of the so-called Epstein files would help Trump in one perverse way; he had long claimed that everyone was corrupt—including and especially his critics—and that he was the only one who was honest about just how dirty the world around him was. Now here was the proof.
Trump would make that point as often as he could. “There are a lot of questions about it,” he said, “but nothing on me.”
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
First eyewitness accounts from this afternoon’s ICE shooting in Austin is here, from freelance reporter Emiliano Tahui Gómez.
Emiliano Tahui Gómez
@emilianotahui
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Here in North Austin, where ICE agents appear to have shot an individual in his car. I spoke to two of the only witnesses.

Nedevia Bolaños and her husband, Carlos, own a business just off the intersection where the shooting happened. Shortly before 1 pm they says they heard what sounded like two gunshots. Carlos ran out first. A blue Toyota sedan and a black Escalade were stopped under the highway.Combined tweets, cutting tags and other such
 
He said he saw an olive-skinned man, seemingly in his 30s, leaning backwards against his seat. A masked agent was standing outside the car. The agent refused to answer questions. Within a few minutes as many as 10 other ICE agents arrived.

Carlos asked the victim if he was ok. "Yes," the man said in Spanish, but he looked exhausted. Carlos asked why they had shot him. "Because I didn't stop."Combined tweets, cutting tags and other such. 

Bolaños ran up next. She said she continously asked the ICE agents about why they'd shot him and if they were going to render aid. They didn't answer her. It was an APD officer who later arrived and cut open the young mans shirt, revealing a deep hole between his shoulder blades. The ambulance arrived about 10 minutes after and carried him off. "I've never seen all this. Thank God I'm a citizen," Bolaños said in Spanish. "Or I'd be living like this. In a dream of terror."
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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A Senegalese college basketball player, Amina Seck, is currently in ICE detention. Seck was travelling with her team to a tournament in New York when she was detained by ICE at Louisville Airport. She has been moved four times since her detention. #wnba eu.courier-journal.com/story/news/l...
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KSU women's basketball player detained by ICE at Louisville airport | Exclusive
Aminata Seck, 26, was detained while traveling as part of Kentucky State University's women's basketball team.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026
"In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and SpaceX to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental right to data protection" noyb.eu/en/ai-eu-mem...
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AI: EU Member States plan “digital expropriation” of Europeans in the interest of AI companies
In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of AI companies to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental rights of Europeans.
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