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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 10h

Even if a federal prosecutor was watching the Atlanta Hawks and not the Iowa Hawkeyes, I still think crime should be treated as illegal, and coup attempts should be treated as bad.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 21h

you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 12h

A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED

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Jay Thurber Show 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @jaythurber.bsky.social · 8h

People who want to use Electric Bullshit Machines to plagiarize really low-quality content get testy when you point out their content is low-quality and plagiarized by an Electric Bullshit Machine.

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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 8h

I asked America.gov whether Donald Trump is an adjudicated rapist and it responded: basically, yes so that clears that up at least

Andrea's prompt for America.gov reads "is donald trump an adjudicated rapist" and the bot response is:

In civil litigation brought by writer E. Jean Carroll, a federal jury found Donald Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation, awarding damages.

Regarding the specific legal term:

The jury did not find him liable for "rape" under the narrow legal definition used in New York penal law at the time, but instead found him liable for "sexual abuse".
The presiding judge later clarified in post-trial rulings that the jury's verdict established that Trump had forcibly sexually assaulted and digitally penetrated her, which meets common understandings of rape even though it did not match the specific statutory elements required for that charge under New York criminal law.

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Rep. Justin J. Pearson @justinjpearson.bsky.social · 11h

In Shelbyville, a resident told me he hadn't voted in the 26 years he's lived in TN. This year, he is voting for me. That is an absolute honor. These votes are not simply votes for me; they are votes for OUR mission to take Tennessee to the top! votejustinj.com

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William Lawrence @wewill2026.bsky.social · 11h

Congratulations to all those who organized and won this victory. These attempts to surveil and monitor us are profoundly un-American. Don't tread on us, and don't spy on us either.

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 8h

amazing QUinnipiac: not only 12pts lead in generic but: Democrats lead on all major issues: (health care 55-31%; cost of living 49-36%; international conflicts 48-40%; the economy 48-42%; immigration [!] 47-42%; corruption in government 45-33%; AI 42-29%) poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

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Generic Ballot For Control Of U.S. House: Dems 51%, GOP 39%, Dem Party Ahead On Key Issues, Boosted By Independents, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; 71% Prefer Candidates Who Support St...

"A warning light flashing red for the GOP scrambling to stay in power. From the economy to international conflicts to AI, independent voters are siding with Democrats, even though a vast majority of t...

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 8h

Meta's "Muse" launched with a nasty zero day flaw that gave hackers the ability to spy on Mac users, openly gives root access to people pretending to be Muse agents, and invited strangers over to another guy's house without telling him

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Meta's Latest AI Product Is A Terrifying And Hilarious Mess

Authoritarian-friendly mass surveillance has never been more adorable

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 5h

Sen. Dick Durbin, top-ranking Judiciary Democrat, reacts to Eric Schmitt's moment, calling it "so embarrassing" for the institution. "We want to get the facts straight. I'm sorry the senator said that." Durbin, a 30-year incumbent, says he's never seen an error like that before.

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Bradford Pearson @bradfordpearson.bsky.social · 11h

shoving all my work aside to report out what led to this sign

a sign that reads DO NOT OUT NOODLES IN THE WATER FOUNTAIN!!

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Marc Christopher @marcc856.bsky.social · 8h

how can the government be at greater risk of injury than a person who is deported to a third party country where they could be subjected to physical abuse?

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 8h

BREAKING: SCOTUS allows the Trump admin to restart third-country removals under a policy found by lower courts to violate federal law. The Democratic appointees dissent. The deportations will be OK'ed at least through the next several months, with SCOTUS agreeing to hear the case in December.

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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JunkboxJim @junkboxjim.bsky.social · 9h

They have the coolest personalities. This is one of my favorite vid captures of one as he tries to attract a mate with his song. I love how he lowers his crest as he peers around looking to see if anybody has come yet.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 8h

Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer xkcd.com/3304/

4-panel comic. (1) April 2023: [JUICE space probe flying away from Earth] FROM EARTH: *JUICE* is en route to explore the icy moons of Jupiter! JUICE: *Wheee!* (2) August 2024: [JUICE flying past Earth] JUICE: ...So which planet was I visiting again? I got distracted. FROM EARTH: Jupiter! JUICE: Right, OK. (3) September 2026: [JUICE flies past Earth again] JUICE: Is Jupiter the one with all the rings? Or... FROM EARTH: No, the big one near it. JUICE: Got it! (4) January 2029: [JUICE returning to fly past Earth again] JUICE: And *which* moons am I looking at? FROM EARTH: Oh my *god*. FROM EARTH: Now I get why we budgeted for so many Earth flybys.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8h

Check this out! Today, Democratic leaders in the Senate are holding a shadow hearing about the Trump admin's mass delegalization campaign. @immcouncil.org's Policy Director @naynagupta.bsky.social is on the ground in DC preparing to livetweet the hearing. Follower her thread for more. 👇

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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 12h

Excellent thread! There *are* rewards for being A Good Guy Who Speaks Up even if they are not immediately obvious or publicly bestowed. First, integrity is its own reward. Maybe you didn’t save the world or change hearts & minds. But if you held the line on not making it worse, that’s something.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

🤡 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:

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 17h

Often reminded of this: “Fascism Is a Counter-Revolution Against a Revolution That Never Took Place”.

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Victoria Janssen @victoriajanssen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"On 9/24, the...Advisory Council on Historic Preservation terminated the Section 106 review process for the proposed Monumental or Triumphal Arch..., before consultation was finished. We urge you to raise your voice in opposition." Deadline: 11:59 pm ET 9/29/26. savingplaces.org/monumental-a...

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Monumental Arch | National Trust for Historic Preservation

Members of the public have the opportunity to provide input on a proposed Monumental Arch at Memorial Circle on the George Washington Memorial Parkway, near Arlington National Cemetery and along the P...

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For all that it's been barely reported in the UK press, it's still hard to understate the importance of the stance @labourunionsuk.bsky.social has taken on trans and non-binary rights this week. Every single trade union affiliated to the party of government has stood up and said we will not comply.

Joint statement from National TULO

Solidarity with the trans and non-binary community

Labour's 11 affiliated trade unions stand in total solidarity with the trans and non-binary community.

Trans rights are human rights, and trans rights are workers' rights.

We in the trade union movement will do all we can to stand up for our trans members and all our trans siblings, to protect them from persecution, harassment and attack.

The government must act now to protect all trans people, to make sure their rights are protected, expanded and upheld in our workplaces and communities.

Labour Unions

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The Buckeye Flame @thebuckeyeflame.com · 28/09/2026

Insiders say the Ohio Democratic Party is censoring criticism of anti-trans ads. Two posts pushing back against Rep. Marcy Kaptur’s anti-trans ads have been removed. thebuckeyeflame.com/2026/09/28/i...

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Insiders say the Ohio Democratic Party is censoring criticism of anti-trans ads

Two posts pushing back against Rep. Marcy Kaptur’s anti-trans ads have been removed

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Paywalls are toll roads to a gated community, one that the average American cannot afford to enter in an era of inflated prices and deflated expectations. Democracy relies on an informed citizenry. Pay-to-play democracy is no democracy at all." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/gutting-th...

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Gutting the Fourth Estate

The US media were willing cogs in Trump’s machine. Now he’s tearing it down.

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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"'Access journalism'" is not about the journalist having access to the regime, but the regime having longtime access to the journalist. It is a common prerequisite in mafia states." -- @sarahkendzior.bsky.social

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Gutting the Fourth Estate

The US media were willing cogs in Trump’s machine. Now he’s tearing it down.

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Donald Trump increased the price of gas, and now he wants you to have to buy more of it." Doesn't seem like a difficult messaging challenge for Democrats.

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Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Maybe don't feed your unpublished research into the plagiarism nexus?

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Christopher Golden @cgolden.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not all men. Jesus Christ, don't you think women *know* that? Use your heads instead of getting defensive. Most of you would be terrified of swimming among sharks, even though sharks are stastically far less dangerous to you than men are to women.

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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 28/09/2026

New Horizons is now *three days away* from shutting off its two heliophysics instruments, simply because NASA has not provided the $2M in funding it had promised to the mission last year or this year. There is no science basis for shutting these off. Our earlier coverage:

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NASA’s New Horizons mission may shut down two instruments over lack of funding

Decision risks “incalculable loss” of data from the edge of the Sun’s influence, scientists say

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 28/09/2026

For my newsletter this morning, I found a small glimmer of political hope for trans people in the US and wrote about it: www.burnsnotice.com/we-may-have-...

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We May Have Just Seen the Tides Turn on Trans Rights

Some conservative PACs have backed off from running anti-trans ads. Is this a sign of what's to come for trans people?

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a new antibiotic, known as manikomycin, that may be a bulwark in the fight against drug-resistant superbugs. By attacking the ribosome in a never-before-seen way, manikomycin can evade the existing mechanisms pathogens have developed to resist antibiotics.

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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This. When Andrea Dworkin said rape is the weapon that all men use to control all women, she wasn't saying all men rape. She was saying 1. Non-raping men permit rape to be as common as it is 2. Raping and non-raping men use the fear of "other" men to gain "good guy" status a short thread...

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 28/09/2026

I'm thinking of the countless attempts to shut down and any all discussions about patriarchy and misogyny by invoking abstract charges of "gender essentialism", or accusing feminists of thinking all men are inherently evil. The reality is actually much worse---women's pain isn't seen as real.

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is now true.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oh this is lovely.

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 28/09/2026

Immigration reform is one of the reasons why I ran for Congress. It is devastating to see the amount of grief and generational trauma that our country's immigration policies are creating.

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Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 01/06/2026

It has become ever clearer to me there really isn’t much of a debate. You either wish to scrub the existence of trans folk off the face of the earth or you don’t. Unfortunately for one side of that view, trans folk exist. I’ve met some. At least be honest enough to admit what you’re in favour of.

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

There are no “legitimate concerns” about trans people. There aren’t any about women’s safety or fairness in sports or kids being kids or fucking toilets. If there were you’d have heard of them before 2018. I am a cis white woman so you have to listen to me or I’ll cry.

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Trash @trashxdiscourse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hey man, if you're out there, if your mom wrote this letter to Abigail Shrier about you, please drop a gofundme and we will get you the fuck out of there.

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

When you are Hungary enough to eat the rich. Hungary is imposing a wealth tax on all assets exceeding one billion Hungarian forints ($3.1m USD). Just 63 years ago, the US taxed its highest incomes at 94%. It has been repeatedly lowered since then to its current rate of 37%.

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Hungary to impose wealth tax on the richest people starting next year

Starting next year, Hungary will introduce a wealth tax on people with assets exceeding 67 million forints — a measure that was one of the election promises of the Tisza party, which won a decisive vi...

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.

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VoteHub @votehub.com · 28/09/2026

NEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports. “That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.”

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 28/09/2026

Called it again

Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh • 6h
€ UPDATE: A migrant caravan just RUSHED into Mexico and is now full steam ahead to the
U.S. Southern Border
This is NOT a freaking game! THEY ARE WAITING FOR DEMOCRATS TO TAKE POWER
VOTE RED!!
You see these people? Each one is a future Democrat voter if Dems take Congress then win in 2028.
Punish RINOs in primary season, SAVE OUR REPUBLIC IN NOVEMBER
We can kiss any hope of the SAVE America Act and ICE funding GOODBYE if Democrats take power ever again e
x.com/AnthonyAguero/…

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Lauren Jordan @loremjay.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I know so many people who want UBI so they can volunteer more. It’s not even that folks don’t want to work, they’ll literally do it for free, it just needs to MATTER. I pick up trash for fun and for free! I like it!!! I could do more of it if I didn’t have to scrounge for beans!!!!

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Spork loves you @strivingally.bsky.social · 22/07/2024

Holy shit it’s literally the @mikeljollett.bsky.social tweet as actual policy suggestion lol. This rules.

Tweet from Mikel Jollett from 2020. Text reads: “Okay how about this: No more billionaires. None. After you reach $999 million, every red cent goes to schools and health care. You get a trophy that says, “I won capitalism” and we name a sog park after you.”

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Kat the Cheshire Mouse @cheshiremouse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We got home from grocery shopping and my husband found this little guy hanging out on the side of our house (we don't see these often). He thought I would flee in gibbering terror, but instead, I said @seananmcguire.bsky.social would call her friend-shaped, and I got out of the car and snapped this!

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