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Greenb3ar @greenb3ar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Heritage Foundation has already moved on to straight-up attacking Title IX now www.usatoday.com/story/sports...
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The authors of Project 2025 are coming for Title IX | Opinion
The Heritage Foundation, author of Project 2025, published a report suggesting ways to undercut Title IX. Take them seriously, Nancy Armour writes.
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Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
so many words for “pinky swear.”
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There is a cottage industry on that other site of people in official government legal jobs affirmatively misstating or misrepresenting what rulings are about and then expressing surprise that anyone could possibly disagree. Just the latest example—from the Solicitor General of Iowa:
“Can President Trump use lawful authority granted by Congress to deport illegal aliens to third countries? The Supreme Court has stayed an order saying no twice, now stayed a permanent injunction for a third time. Oddly, 6-3 despite a similar posture to the Missouri First map”
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wired just did a story noting that an influencer named Kurt Schlichter is a “civilian government advisor” (?) to Hegseth. This dude has been around forever in internet time and writes the worst novels that are basically Turner Diaries fanfic www.wired.com/story/a-pent...
wired.com
A Pentagon Influencer Called Liberal Women a ‘Pestilence’ Who Will End Western Civilization
Kurt Schlichter was part of a task force rooting out so-called woke ideologies at the military’s war colleges. He has called to bar childless adults from voting.
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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.huffpost.com/entry/suprem...
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Supreme Court Lets Trump Continue Third-Country Deportations For Now
The decision allows the administration to continue removing immigrants to countries they’re not from and have never been to.
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Right out of the authoritarian playbook: make the membrane between the White House and the military leadership as thin as possible. We see you.
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RoseyRoseamund - VOTE, OR FUCK OFF! @roseyroseamund.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is my go to guy when I want to hear about the trucking industry. He's a liberal trucker from Colorado. Texas, for the love of God, STOP voting Republican. youtu.be/nQivGhxukTM?...
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Holy Sh*t! Texas Just Declared A State Of Disaster!
YouTube video by The Enemy From Within
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
FREE LIVE STREAM: Join me at 6:30ET for an urgent update on how Trump and his DOJ are now attacking free and fair elections and what we are doing to fight back. www.youtube.com/live/269vb3e...
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ALERT: Trump's DOJ Is Now Taunting Judges to Rule Against Them
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
On another platform, @pjaicomo.bsky.social asks a good question. Anyone seen SCOTUS give one party an open-ended, one-sided opportunity to name their own "question presented"?
This seems like a very uncommon QP from the Supreme Court in today's cert. grant in DHS v. DVD.
Is anyone aware of a similarly open-ended and one-sided QP like this in another case?
CERTIORARI GRANTED
DEPT. OF HOMELAND SEC., ET AL. V. D.V.D., ET AL.
The application for stay presented to Justice Jackson and
by her referred to the Court is granted. The February 25, 2026
order and judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, case No. 1:25-cv-10676, are stayed.
The application is also treated as a petition for a writ of
certiorari, and the petition is granted. The parties are
directed to brief and argue the following questions: (1) Whether
the district court had jurisdiction over Respondents' claims.
(2) Whether the district court had authority to enter classwide
declaratory relief and APA vacatur under 8 U. S. C. §1252(f) (1).
(3) Whether the Government's Guidance on third-country removals is unlawful under 8 U. S. C. §1231(b), the Due Process Clause, or FARRA/CAT and its implementing regulations.
*(4) Such other
questions that the Government determines are appropriate for the
proper disposition of the case.* The Clerk is directed to
establish a briefing schedule that will allow the case to be
argued in the December 2026 argument session. The stay shall
terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court.
Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan, and Justice Jackson would
deny the application
for stay.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good luck telling your own voters that their hatred of data centers is a Chinese psyop.
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
UNREAL!!! Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students. The goal of Trump regime to erase the LGBTQ community from existence thehill.com/homenews/edu...
thehill.com
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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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 28/09/2026
This story of lack of grit and realpolitik in fights about our future is from the climate world. It describes the past. Let’s make sure science research does not look back in 5 years having made the same mistake. Scientists should learn about political economy from clean power.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
About 6 outlets are telling this story. None have opted for the headline, "Some guy you've never heard of has quit government without ever becoming someone you did hear of." The Reality TV producers introduced an ENTIRELY frivolous character and now he's gone.
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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Elon Musk spent $278 MILLION buying the 2024 election. That is FOUR TIMES what he paid in federal income taxes between 2013 and 2018. The richest 1% are set to pocket $1 TRILLION in tax breaks this decade. While Musk's SpaceX launches rockets, working families get stuck with the bill.
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Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg @danua.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Before my mom died, our big goal was simple: bump out the horizon until the miracle came. May it come soon enough for others.
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Noah Becker @noahbecker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"We want our children to think about others, to share, to tell the truth, to chase their passions. We want that in spite of the evidence it’s not how the world works. The new Golden Rule: Do unto others as would most increase shareholder value."
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Bo Wulf @bowulf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I wrote about our last day at The Academy of Natural Sciences. Save The Academy. allphly.com/eagles/wulf-...
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Wulf: Save The Academy Of Natural Sciences, Save Our Soul
The Academy of Natural Sciences opened its doors to the public for what they say was the last time at 10 a.m. on Sunday morning. We parked on the other side
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 27/09/2026
SCOTUS blocked Trump administration efforts to restrict mail voting for the midterms. But top election officials say they're still concerned about Trump-mandated election interference — and they’re preparing for everything from ICE at the polls to ballot seizures: demdock.com/4ycQDkn
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Kurt Weldon @kurtweldon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Wisdom is where you find it.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026
This is another great, approachable explainer on “the rationalist wackos who have managed to take over much of the AI industry, and who now have tons of money and political power.” www.iankduncan.com/personal/202...
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Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse - Ian Duncan
How a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking ...
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
At Stephen Miller’s direction, the U.S. “is effectively paying out huge sums of taxpayer money to some really nasty governments in exchange for their acceptance of third-country deportees who, for various reasons, cannot be returned to their countries of origin. It’s really sleazy, ghoulish stuff.”
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Stephen Miller Is Paying Monstrous Dictators to Admit Expelled Immigrants
A Democratic Congress needs to urgently investigate this abuse of taxpayer dollars that were actually meant for refugees
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Facebook is how: - the kids’s school - soccer team - Girl Scouts - local municipality ….. distribute info. Meta owns us
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/09/2026
The prosecutor at the center of the Broadview Six case just walked away from the DOJ with a scathing accusation against her own boss.
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Broadview Six Prosecutor Blasts DOJ Boss in Scathing Exit Letter
Sheri Mecklenburg says DOJ leadership scapegoated her for the troubled prosecution, then threatened to fire her if she tried to defend herself.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25/09/2026
The decision marks a significant loss for voters — particularly naturalized citizens, who have been disproportionately falsely flagged as ineligible voters. Find more details here:
democracydocket.com
Supreme Court revives DHS use of flawed immigration database for voter purges
The decision lets the administration move forward with a key provision of President Trump’s first anti-voting executive order.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25/09/2026
🚨The Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to use a deeply flawed database of Americans’ personal information to initiate registration purges. Have questions? Marc Elias has answers. Here’s what this decision means for YOUR vote ⬇️
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BREAKING: Supreme Court Revives Trump's Voter Purge Scheme
In a dangerous decision for voters, the Supreme Court authorized the Trump administration to overhaul a federal immigration database into a vast, centralized and deeply flawed database of Americans’…
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AG Andrea Joy Campbell @massago.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta have all admitted their AI agents have entered the open web and executed dangerous and unlawful actions. While the federal government steps back, state AGs are stepping up to take on Big Tech. I'm joining a coalition to demand Congress take immediate action regulating AI.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
We had to wait for the....NEW YORK POST to write about this. Y'all know there is so much more where this came from but journalists don't want to dig and people are terrified to speak to any journalist seeing the type of reporting they've been doing
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“His time is up. He had his chance and he blew it with his own crippling incompetence. For the next two years the world can watch him wither away, still causing chaos, still failing, but everyone will be looking to what comes next.”
chadbourn.substack.com
Last Days Of Trump
The decline and fall is now underway
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neptune45.bsky.social @neptune45.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
www.huffpost.com/entry/luttig... we should all take heed to what Judge Michael Luttig is saying, what does a cornered Grizzly do?
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Conservative Legal Icon Issues Warning To Whole World About ‘Trapped Animal’ Trump
“The walls are closing in on him, and he is desperate at this point,” said J. Michael Luttig.
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OSINTRadar @osintradar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🇵🇱Radosław Sikorski: “Only Putin knows how close we are to a direct armed conflict between Russia and NATO. We must be ready to deter further aggression, as seen in Georgia and Ukraine.”
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 22/09/2026
Minnesota Truth Council Chair Pete Cahill explains the role of the Council and how they will listen to the evidence presented today & integrate it into our work. He's a former judge appointed by Pawlenty. Stories inspire & motivate. Data and analysis necessary to drive good policy.
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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This will also be a durable realignment. People tend to remember when you start kidnapping their friends and family off the street. They tend to hold it against you.
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 22/09/2026
🔴 Russian strikes continue to target American companies operating across Ukraine. Major facilities belonging to Bunge, Coca-Cola, Mondelēz, and Boeing have all suffered deliberate attacks.
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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Troy Jackson, "seized on the disclosure of the F.B.I. investigation to accuse Ms. Collins of corruption and to cast Mr. Trump as her political wingman. 'Susan Collins delivered millions in taxpayer dollars for a corrupt donor bankrolling her campaign, and then Donald Trump helped her cover it up'"
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Senator Chris Larson @senchrislarson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Friends, we need to talk. Measles - a completely preventable disease - has now been found in 6 WI counties with almost 170 individual cases. If you haven’t yet, I urge you to vaccinate your children, vaccinate yourself, and help protect your community.
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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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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 22/09/2026
www.sltrib.com/news/politic...
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A Utah postal worker allegedly threw away ballots. DOJ says it justifies a crackdown on mail voting
At a Washington news conference, Justice Department officials used an indictment against a Utah postal worker who allegedly threw ballots away to justify attempts to crack down on mail voting.
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I wrote about this here:
chadbourn.substack.com
Forecast: Extreme
The Climate Crisis will make El Niño hit hard
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We are now in the part of the IP forever war cycle where poor accessibility and bad terms drive everyone back into the arms of IP pirates. Like the decade-long period right before video-on-demand really took off in the first place, when piracy was way easier than legitimately purchasing stuff.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Any journalist who is "from a political party" is not actually a journalist
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Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Genuinely I think they're only doing it now because Trump is visibly fucked
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
An @DoorDash driver. They are hunting brown people. #AbolishICE
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Russell Vought cannot be given the power to decide what science is funded. He knows nothing about science; in fact, he seems to hate it and everyone who does it. And he has all of the worst characteristics of humanity. The Republican Congress is a fucking disease.
arstechnica.com
Russel Vought will reportedly be given veto power over all NIH grants
Pending move comes over the objections of the NIH director.
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 21/09/2026
If only there was a federal agency that could stop monopolizing media mergers.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Sad excuse for journalism: Big profile of DOGE lord doesn’t say a word about all the damage he did. And it was not an “ill fated cost-cutting effort.” It was a malignant, catastrophic attack on the government and its workers by arrogant and ignorant assholes. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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He spent 11 months inside DOGE. Now he wants to set the record straight.
In his first major interview about his tell-all memoir, Tyler Hassen describes the culture clash surrounding DOGE’s mission and the backlash that followed.
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Adrian (TheGoonVO) @thegoonvo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
there has been no better resource for me during all of this than SUFS. Every morning they show us a way forward. I cannot tell you how much I personally cherish that predictability. give where/when/what you can remember time is almost as valuable as money. if you have time, share it. It helps.
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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 18/09/2026
The Warrior Ethos™️
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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Nonprofits focused on climate change, reproductive rights, Palestinian and campus speech, immigration, racial equity, LGBTQ rights and the defense of democracy are threatened. The most extreme case is the attack on the Southern Poverty Law Center. www.importantcontext.news/maga-attacks...
importantcontext.news
MAGA Attacks Nonprofits. It Took Lessons From Authoritarians.
“The Trump administration is really the first to all-out attack nonprofits.”
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