Reposted by SeanMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026there's an off-the-books slack channel started by centers for medicare and medicaid for tech companies to exchange ideas on making money off of AI tools that access all of your medical records. insane story i missed from last week.kffhealthnews.orgAI, Tech Leaders Are Lobbying Trump Health Officials in a Government-Run Chat Room - KFF Health NewsA Slack workspace managed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has served as an extraordinary war room for AI industry insiders and Trump administration officials to launch a rapid campaign... 191213567
Reposted by SeanAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13/10/2026WOW. Kristi Noem and Elon Musk, among others, "chose to turn the power of the federal government against a singular employee with an impeccable record of public service. ... The attacks against Ms. Comans were based entirely on false information" and many officials "knew [they] were untrue." 13455722282
Reposted by SeanSam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026This story makes it sound like the major problem is that the Trump Admin did this w/in 60 days of an election. Yes, that's a real abuse. But the major problem is they're basically threatening to denaturalize an opposition legislator, based on racist insinuations. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...nytimes.comFederal Agents Search Home of Rep. Ilhan Omar (Gift Article)The search takes place within the 60-day window of the midterm elections, when the Justice Department has historically avoided such investigative steps related to political candidates. 573000855
Reposted by SeanMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The first Russian diesel cargo heading for the US left St Petersburg on September 22, two weeks *before* Trump announced the deal with Putin, Windward reports. The Greek-flagged tanker Minerva Zen carrying 275,000 barrels of diesel/gasoil is due at the US East Coast around 11–12 October. 28728961614
Reposted by SeanAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026It’s really remarkable to me that 10 years into this people feel compelled to “clarify” Trump’s homicidal and often genocidal fantasies. It is deranged for the president to daydream about American cities in states he hates getting blown up. Full stop. 25590042075
Reposted by SeanAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026for the second time today, Peter Navarro is using the White House as a backdrop to promote his book 66664134
Reposted by SeanPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"The U.S. prison population is declining at an accelerating rate, and prison admission rates are predicted to fall an additional 50% within the next two decades, according to new research from University at Albany professor Shawn Bushway." "the decline is driven mainly by generational change."phys.orgNew research shows steep and continuing decline in prison population in the USThe U.S. prison population is declining at an accelerating rate, and prison admission rates are predicted to fall an additional 50% within the next two decades, according to new research from Universi... 13306100
Reposted by SeanJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... 11646931166
Reposted by Sean404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned404media.coHow Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance ProgramHow the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program. 6213671083
Reposted by SeanSpokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026Send Stephen Miller to The Hague. 21275922511
Reposted by SeanTyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions. 182014975
Reposted by SeanBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026the whole point of exercising "equitable powers" on the shadow docket is to quickly address imminent, irreparable harm it is infuriating and disgusting for the GOP justices to deploy that to block the harm of, what, insufficiently slow ethnic cleansing? ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/ketan...ballsandstrikes.orgKetanji Brown Jackson Is Getting Tired of the Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket AbusesThe conservative supermajority keeps refusing to take the real-world harms of its work seriously. 523374
Reposted by SeanAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence: 2635210095726
Reposted by SeanMark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026NEWS: My new investigation uncovers the horrific ChatGPT history of the Tumbler Ridge school shooter. OpenAI’s chatbot fueled the shooter's violent fantasies and plans up to the day of the massacre. Chats about guns, timing of attacks, becoming infamous, and more. www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...motherjones.comChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation revealsOpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre. 411470805
Reposted by SeanMelissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 24/09/2026‼️ Yikes! Cybersecurity researcher: "I found that Flock didn't require their clients to use multi-factor authentication. This led me to find Flock law enforcement accounts for sale by a Russian vendor on a dark web marketplace." 28430
Reposted by SeanTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Tens of thousands of voter registrations have gone unprocessed in Texas. Affecting large areas deeply. If you’re in Texas, check your registration is up to date and accurate ASAP. www.texastribune.org/2026/09/22/t...texastribune.orgDPS voter registration applications weren’t sent to countiesCounties will start receiving a surge of applications less than two weeks before the Oct. 5 registration deadline, adding work at one of the busiest points in the election calendar. 4119471415
Reposted by SeanJessica Marie Johnson @jessicamariejohnson.com · 23/09/2026Spent some time writing about the Sally Hemings DNA news and the again-ness of it all www.kitchentablehistory.blog/p/daddy-againkitchentablehistory.blogDaddy, AgainSally Hemings, DNA, and the What ifs of White Paternity 065
Reposted by SeanAri Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026By destroying Voting Rights Act and gutting 14th & 15th amendments the Roberts Court is recycling legal arguments once used by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction Please read my deep dive w/ @pemalevy.bsky.social in @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 231755732
Reposted by SeanKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I know we're all* numb to this by now, but it really needs to be said that any one of the batshit insane tyrant tweets from our special little boy would've led to swift efforts to remove any other previous president. 34467481531
Reposted by SeanProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵 412114666111
Reposted by SeanMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 21/09/2026🚨BREAKING: A federal appeals court on Monday ordered Missouri to reinstate a gerrymandered map that eliminates a Democratic district in Kansas City, even though the state has already distributed ballots. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...democracydocket.comMissouri again ordered to use gerrymandered map for midterms — Supreme Court likely to decideThe circuit court ruling injects even more confusion into a year-long battle over which map the state will use for the general election. 48254282564
Reposted by SeanCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026EPA allowed pesticide giant Bayer to pick from a menu of regulation options for the controversial and destructive weedkiller dicamba. Dicamba is drift prone and kills vegetation and crops for miles around fields where it is sprayed, and is linked to liver cancer and Non-Hodgkin lymphomatheguardian.comUS environment agency let Bayer pick regulations for destructive weedkiller, documents showEnvironmental Protection Agency asked firm to choose rules it wanted for dicamba, then put the choices in a proposed federal rule 20368221
Reposted by SeanMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/09/2026🚨NEW: Todd Blanche has filed an appeal of Judge Emmet Sullivan’s order requiring him to turn over unredacted handwritten FBI notes and take other steps in Katie Phang’s Epstein files lawsuit by September 24. Phang says Blanche is continuing his “Herculean efforts” to avoid turning over the files.meidasnews.comTodd Blanche Fights Judge’s Order for Unredacted FBI Notes as Deadline LoomsAttorney General Todd Blanche is appealing a federal judge’s latest order in journalist and attorney Katie Phang’s lawsuit over the Justice Department’s 75574943071
Reposted by SeanChris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 16/09/2026As a professional punter, I’m in absolute awe at the masterclass put on by this Congress. Just punt after punt after punt, it’s like rewatching the 0-16 Lions. 581813282
Reposted by Sean☠°。Die Siebenschläfern *.゚☠ @sababausa.bsky.social · 15/09/2026How many Americans you think know a current GOP Congressman had his 2018 election thrown out over a ballot re-marking conspiracy over which he apologized & admitted wrongdoing, and his own son testified against him, and the whole election result was thrown out en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Ha... 22110
Reposted by SeanElizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Hey there, menopausal women on HRT, anyone with a uterus, and anyone trans! Guess what? As many of us have been saying for years now, we're now all in the same boat. (Cis people, this is your reminder that we rise or fall together. Our trans sibs need us.) jessica.substack.com/p/breaking-e...jessica.substack.comBREAKING: EPA Will Test Drinking Water for Abortion Pills & ContraceptionThe federal agency just caved to years of anti-abortion pressure 66139
Reposted by SeanRyan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The rule they are overturning was predicted to give $120 billion in public health benefits by 2047, with projections that by 2035, it would would prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital and emergency room visits, 360K asthma attacks, 48K school absence days and 57K lost workdays each year 10632601548
Reposted by SeanProPublica @propublica.org · 10/09/2026Sept. 21, 2020: Pittsburgh Pirates prospect Oneil Cruz is involved in a car crash in the Dominican Republic that kills three people. This is how Cruz avoided prosecution — with the help of a local fixer who would go on to become a Red Sox legend’s business partner. THREAD: 6384164
Reposted by SeanMatt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Title 18 US Code 597: "Whoever makes or offers to make an expenditure to any person, either to vote or withhold his vote, or to vote for or against any candidate...if the violation was willful, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both." 50745269
Reposted by SeanNew York Yankees @ny-yankees.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Tonight's outing marked Cam Schlittler's @MLB-leading and franchise-record 20th start of the season allowing 1 run-or-fewer ⛽️ 0153
Reposted by SeanDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026“Age assurance is a privacy nightmare. Enshrining it as the industry standard means the end of meaningful online anonymity, and it ‘forces’ Meta to collect more data about all of us — including adults” that can be used “for whatever else they decide it’s useful for. That’s bad.” 4265116
Reposted by SeanPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026“A 1-year-old baby appeared in immigration court without legal representation in Arizona and received an instruction: File an asylum application before the next hearing or face deportation.”notus.orgJudge to Baby: File an Asylum ApplicationThe 1-year-old is one of the migrant children who advocates say appeared in immigration court without legal representation. 20530061582
Reposted by SeanRichard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 21/08/2026“Ladies and gentlemen, the Court as currently constituted ruled that President Trump could knock down half the White House and pour your money down a hole. Is that a fair application of the law? Or do we need to reconsider how the Court does business?” 22447115
Reposted by SeanBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Can't say gay and bisexual people were killed in the Holocaust in the core curriculum *at an American university* www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/u... 571839673
Reposted by SeanAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/08/2026“These men and women signed up to serve their country. The least their country owes them is hot water, a working toilet and a real meal. Hegseth cannot even manage that, and he has the nerve to look their families in the eye and call them liars.”theguardian.comUSS Abraham Lincoln sailors tried to jump overboard amid extended deployment – reportsAircraft carrier’s crew in ninth month at sea and has spent record 250 days consecutively without making land 13832811170
Reposted by SeanAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Remember, it's virtually impossible to sue federal agents, so it will be basically impossible to hold ICE officers who shock people without justification accountable. We should not be giving new weapons like this to a law enforcement agency that enjoys near-total impunity. 51771310
Sean @spadks.bsky.social · 10/08/2026I was assured during the Obama presidency that no one wanted the Government telling us what to eat. Though, the Christian overlords did not specify back then that bricklayers were involved so I guess this checks out. 160
Reposted by SeanJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Trump Administration Has Repeatedly Confessed in Court to Withholding Money From Blue States talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...talkingpointsmemo.comTrump Administration Has Repeatedly Confessed in Court to Withholding Money From Blue StatesLate last year, Department of Justice (DOJ) officials agreed to make a... 12367138
Reposted by SeanTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 31/07/2026BIG DEAL on voting rights this morning: Governor Spanberger just restored the voting rights of some 60,000+ Virginians. Her move reverses Youngkin's abrupt decision in 2023 to end automatic voting rights restoration, which brought Virginia back to a system of default lifetime disenfranchisement.boltsmag.orgVirginia Governor Restores Voting Rights for Thousands With Past Felony Convictions - BoltsThis is the only state that, absent action by the governor, bans people convicted of any felony from voting for life. Virginians have an opportunity to end that system for good in November. 283362924
Reposted by SeanDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 29/07/2026This is morally monstrous behavior. These are ordinary, innocent people that Trump is condemning to suffering & death out of political vindictiveness. Every decent human being, regardless of political party, should condemn it. Where is the fucking *anger*? From the press? From civic leaders? Pols?eenews.netFEMA said yes to Democratic disaster requests. Trump killed them anyway.President Donald Trump cast aside bipartisan precedent when he rejected eligible disaster requests from four blue states. 542458921
Reposted by SeanAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Phang: Judge Sullivan found, in both fact and law, that the acting attorney general conceded he violated the law—a law that is intended to bring sunlight and transparency to one of the worst crimes, indeed multiple crimes committed by multiple perpetrators, in American history. 161106463653
Reposted by Seantony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 24/07/2026NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...nytimes.comTrump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for HimFederal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election. 28861152932
Reposted by SeanKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 24/07/2026CAN'T MAKE IT UP: ICE deported a man to Mexico in violation of a court order in Nov., acknowledged the error and returned him to the U.S. Then they deported him to El Salvador, in violation of court-ordered torture protection. He's currently imprisoned. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 25673173619
Reposted by SeanCharlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Because the Trump admin reduced the number to reflect those deaths "not counting" since those service members were killed after Trump's "ceasefire" in April. Yes, this is real. 23655151