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NPR @npr.org · 11h
Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried. n.pr/4zauALa
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Over 1,000 children are buried at juvenile detention centers nationwide
Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 18h
imagine if the mainstream media covered Republicans' number one donor — the biggest political donor in US history! — and his controversial views with as much scrutiny as they covered Hasan Piker's
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Saying he'd be cool with Iran nuking my home city is pretty bad but not quite as bad as when Hillary said some trump supporters were deplorable so I can see why the media turned the latter into a major scandal and not the former
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The richest 0.1% of Americans have more than doubled their immense wealth since 2019 — per WSJ.
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David BASTARDspan @davidbix.com · 02/10/2026
Bryce Remsburg in an Instagram Story: "Ace of the ring. Ace of the locker room. Mox waited until he knew the camera was not on us and came up behind me and put his hands on my shoulders and said 'This is intense, but we're gonna get through it together.' Proud to play for this team."
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Ace of the ring. Ace of the locker room.
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Mox waited until he knew the camera was not on us and came up behind me and put his hands on my shoulders and said "this is intense, but we're gonna get through it together"
Proud to play for this team.
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David BASTARDspan @davidbix.com · 02/10/2026
If you want to read the awful, probably WWE-planted Salon article without giving them clicks, the Wayback Machine version is the best cached copy that retains all of the images and formatting, including the mobile version. web.archive.org/web/20261002...
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AEW wrestler Pac's death exposes pro wrestling's labor problem
Pro wrestling turns the precarity of American gig workers into a glorious spectacle
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Handlebar-Orion X.🟦ᴺᵉʳᵈʸ ᵖʳᵒᵍʳᵉˢˢᶦᵛᵉ ᵠᵘᵃᵈʳᵒᵒⁿ ʲᵉʷ @handlebarorionx.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#Dragongate had a beautiful send off and a 10 bell salute to one of the very best gaijin to have ever wrestled in Dragongate. PAC. Dragon Kid couldn't hold back the tears remembering his old rival and former Junction Three stable mate #wrestlesky #AEW #dragongatenetwork #ThankYouPAC #RIPPAC
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 02/10/2026
One thing it's useful to remember is that right-wing donors have created a series of local-news-like content sites to poison the information well. And now we have a GOP Senate candidate attacking his opponent by citing claims made by one of these explicitly partisan sites.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
BREAKING: Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Jeff Merkley are introducing the Ban Flock Act. This bill would effectively put an end to AI surveillance cameras that track Americans. /1
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David BASTARDspan @davidbix.com · 01/10/2026
That was an absolutely beautiful tribute show and I hope we never have to have another one like it. #AEWDynamite
Jon Moxley and Bryan Danielson hugging with PAC's image looking on from the video stage in the background.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing
Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.
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Sir Tonk @sirtonk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wow they did it. He came back for Pac. What a night. #AEWDynamite
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Sir Tonk @sirtonk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
this dynamite has been incredible so far. everything perfect, everyone present. we are so fortunate to be able to pay respect in such a way. #AEWDynamite
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POST Wrestling @postwrestling.com · 29/09/2026
Will Ospreay and Ricochet to have a tribute match for Pac www.postwrestling.com?p=141669
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Sir Tonk @sirtonk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@murderxbryan.bsky.social listing to the Korn episode and your father being a prog guy with Pulse as his favorite album is insane. Floyd is already seen as prog light, but Floyd after Waters is a whole other level of light rock banal songs.
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Sir Tonk @sirtonk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
good lord these dude's are such petulant children.
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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Emi Sakura's post about PAC is breaking my heart
The first time I spoke with him was in Ireland in 2018. When you're living in an English-speaking country, Japanese suddenly reaches your ears in a startling way. Our conversations always started with his "Otsukaresamade-su." Backstage, I wouldn't sense his presence at all, but then those words would arrive right by my ear like the wind. And so I'd search for him. There's no English phrase that translates it just right—its meaning encompasses hello, long time no see, glad to see you, good work, goodbye, good night, see you later, and all sorts of other things rolled into one. I think it's the kind of greeting that comes from the way he's confronted pro wrestling in Japan. It's time. As always, I grab my bag and climb into the car. I can't believe the show goes on. Today and from here on out, forever, I know I'll keep straining to listen. Thank you, PAC.
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.
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The Shadow Over Innschwartz ✨🦑✨ @benschwartz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You can always tell when a Republican gets a new billionaire sponsor who has a single, very, very specific issue they would like the American people to hear about.
The image is a tweet from Sen. Tommy Tuberville that reads:  "Democrats are the party of Radical Islam, illegal aliens, and furry pilots. Lord help us."
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 25/09/2026
Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
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Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
In a report titled 'We Had Whistles, They Had Guns,' the NGO documents widespread human rights violations committed by ICE in the United States.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
HUGE: Autozone workers just won the first ever union at the company. Despite Autozone spending an estimated $210,696 and using every tactic in the book to stop just 11 workers from forming a union, the small shop in New York chose to unionize today. These workers will now join the @uaw.org.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
raise their goddam taxes holy shit
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
From 16,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle. "The state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen."
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From 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle
It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026
Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI theonion.com/dog-cant-believe-guy-s…
Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.
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Sir Tonk @sirtonk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
they hated him for speaking the truth
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Scoop: The anonymous source behind a POLITICO story that the White House is now using to justify a ban on the outlet was none other than JD Vance himself. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/white-hous...
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The Source Behind The Ban
The anonymous source behind one of the stories the White House cited to justify banning POLITICO was none other than Vice President JD Vance, Status has learned.
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Forbes @forbes.com · 22/09/2026
The senator’s office has “vigorously” denied any wrongdoing, while Collins’ opponent Troy Jackson called the report “corruption of the highest order.”
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Susan Collins Bribery Report Throws Wrench Into Razor-Thin Senate Battle
The senator’s office has “vigorously” denied any wrongdoing, while Collins’ opponent Troy Jackson called the report “corruption of the highest order.”
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.
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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins
The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026
my takeaway from this is that she is thinking of these things in the right terms. she is asking whether she truly wants to do it since, if the answer is yes, it is absolutely the case that there is no better time than now.
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Voices of Wrestling @voicesofwrestling.com · 22/09/2026
Gentlemen's Wrestling Podcast #140: Why Can't Wrestling Media Get Janel Grant Coverage Right?
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Gentlemen's Wrestling Podcast #140: Why Can't Wrestling Media Get Janel Grant Coverage Right?
On the latest episode of the Gentlemen’s Wrestling Podcast, host Jesse Collings speaks briefly about the coverage of a recent Janel Grant interview by Fightful and F4WOnline, why the headlines they used were inappropriate, how their irresponsible practices help soften the perception of Vince McMahon’s actions towards Janel Grant and the frustration of wrestling media’s inability to cover the Janel Grant case correctly despite having four years to get it right. The POST Wrestling interview with Janel Grant can be found here: https://www.postwrestling.com/2026/09/22/in-her-own-words-an-exclusive-interview-with-janel-grant/
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/09/2026
DoorDash has ripped off more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers. We’re making them pay $131.5 million — the largest worker settlement in City history. This is New York, where hard work pays and greed will cost you.
DoorDash messed up.
They repeatedly left more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers underpaid or paid late, causing them immense stress and financial difficulty.
That's unacceptable.
We've secured a $131.5M settlement from
DoorDash - the largest worker settlement in NYC history and largest delivery worker settlement in
American municipal history.
Every worker will be paid what they are owed, and every company will be forced to abide by the laws of this city.

LOGOS:
The OFFICE of the MAYOR of NYC
NYC Consumer and Worker Protection Mayor Mamdani and Deliveristas representatives stand behind a podium.Mayor Mamdani signs a giant check.Three delivery workers holding a giant fake check for $131.5M.
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POST Wrestling @postwrestling.com · 22/09/2026
In Her Own Words: An Exclusive interview with Janel Grant www.postwrestling.com?p=141282
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The ship at the start is too big, showing it all is a waste of the audience’s time
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 21/09/2026
ICE shot a DoorDash delivery guy.
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Attorney: Austin man shot by ICE agent was making DoorDash delivery
A Venezuelan man shot by an ICE agent in Austin was making a DoorDash delivery, his attorney said. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was later released from the hospital into ICE custody.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 20/09/2026
Everyday. Everyday one of these planes turns around, and we rarely ever figure out why. ICE doesn’t think it owes taxpayers or even the people onboard an explanation.
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Sir Tonk @sirtonk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
finally watching dynamite from the 9th with the tribute to Rebel and this is easily the most emotional thing I've seen since their tribute to Brodie Lee. The level of respect is so impressive. #AEWDynamite
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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Ruben Rabasa in ITYSL: He Admit It!
ALT: Ruben Rabasa in ITYSL: He Admit It!
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 17/09/2026
Seems like a good evening to watch security camera footage from an imaginary city that is rendered all in ASCII characters. asciicity.live
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ASCII CITY LIVE
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
There’s a bizarre contrarianism in the Democratic Party, where, if an idea catches on with the base it’s treated as presumptively unreasonable forever. Not even an effort to *appear* to be supportive. Politicians used to pander!
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15/09/2026
NEW: As ice caps melt and new shipping lanes open in the north, the U.S. Arctic Research Commission has arguably never been more important. Its new leader is a MAGA influencer with close ties to Russia.
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How a MAGA Influencer With Ties to Russia Became Trump’s Arctic Adviser
As head of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission, Thomas Dans has backed a takeover of Greenland and other items on President Donald Trump’s list. But it’s not always clear where the administration’s ag...
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
They’re trying to hide the shocking truth: he’s stop motion now
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Sir Tonk @sirtonk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
hey @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social here's how you handle these kinds of questions
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Every Direct I pray that Nintendo will announce Urban Champion 99. Imagine 99 guys punching each other into manholes at once
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 08/09/2026
I was on a family trip when the annual FBI crime data came out so allow me belatedly to talk about how politicians (and FBI directors) misuse these numbers for their own ends. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...
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