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Important thread. When a military acquires its own funding sources, it becomes unaccountable. See, for instance, Pakistan.

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Mylo Minderbinder @duffomatic.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The only reporting of Phase 2 I’ve seen was buried in a Stars and Stripes story: “Troops will . . begin transitioning to the next phase. Though few details were shared, the next step includes transitioning into neighborhoods such as Anacostia and Trinidad.” www.stripes.com/theaters/us/... 10/

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‘A significant impact’: National Guard wraps up first year of deployment to DC

More than 9,700 troops have deployed to the city for the past year as part of an effort to reduce crime in the nation’s capital.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent

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Greg @spkr4thedead51.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If we're going to call it Super-human intelligence, I think it should be abbreviated SHI Because then we can talk about Super-human intelligence technologies

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Faye McNeill @vfmcneill.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The timing of this reporting with Nobel announcement week is chilling

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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

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Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School

Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Irish musicians, Beoga, who play alongside Ed Sheeran, have withdrawn from Sheeran’s tour. This is the statement they published on Instagram:

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Yikes, if this is accurate, its basically the owner class using their power to shut down dissent. The Patriots Robert Kraft told Sheerhan his concert would be cancelled if Mackelmore stayed on the your, and that other stadium owners would follow suit.

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Physics Today @physicstoday.aip.org · 14/09/2026

80 years after the US first detonated a nuclear weapon in the Marshall Islands, parts of the archipelago remain contaminated. Historian M. X. Mitchell speaks with Benetick Kabua Maddison, executive director of @meinonprofit.bsky.social, about the legacy of US operations in the islands. #histSTM

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The 80-year nuclear legacy in the Marshall Islands

An interview with a prominent member of the Marshallese diaspora delves into the ongoing impact of aboveground US nuclear weapons testing in the Pacific archipelago.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 11/09/2026

it’s wild that the heritage foundation wrote in text that the assault on trans woman particularly in sports is their first step in their efforts to completely abolish all Title IX protections and liberals still don’t believe it’s about more than trans women in sports

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

JUST IN: D.C. Circuit says IRS decision to share taxpayer info with DHS tens of thousands of violates the law — and that the administration's rebuttal to that claim is "weak sauce." www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.

A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

What gets me is how Trump and MAGA world are acting like 162,000 jobs is a blockbuster number. During Biden's term, he averaged a monthly job growth of 321,000. Since Trump took office, there's only been 663,000 jobs created for a monthly average of 34,900. data.bls.gov/timeseries/C...

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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I am having a particularly frustrating week, so here’s one of the best things I’ve ever done. The eruption of Sarychev Peak in the Aleutian Islands, seen by the crew of the space station. www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

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Trevor Owens @tjowens.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Great to see physical scientists sharing their photos with us to document history as it happens. If you know a physical scientist encourage them to join in.

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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Astronauts, as federal employees and many ex-military, know they aren't supposed to appear partisan on duty and in uniform.

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Before Europeans arrived, these were some of the names for The Great Lakes: Superior: gichi-gami (great sea) Erie: erielhonan (long tail) Michigan: michigami (long body of water) Ontario: Ontarí'io\kanadario (great lake\beautiful water) Huron: karegnondi (fresh water sea)

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dolly Parton is the rare celebrity where every new revelation makes you admire her more, not less

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026

This is all because JK Rowling is using her vast wealth and influence to engage in lawfare and censor anything that criticizes her. I won't stand for it. bsky.app/profile/esqu...

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Both the Economist and others suggest this study demonstrates that AI can help students. So I contacted the lead researcher to figure out how many. Answer: Out of ~26,000 kids, a total of 20. And five months after starting to use AI, only four continued to spend 65 minutes on homework. Four.

Graph of student exam scores correlated to homework completion time for to groups, students using AI and those that did not. There is a slight spike for studens using AI who also maintained extensive homework completion time. As described in post, the number of students falling into this bucket was 20 out of 26,000.

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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

In many ways Carter Barron is emblematic of broader federal issues in D.C.: Things are built but not frequently maintained, and occasional repair blitzes (like those happening right now) don't address the underlying problems with consistent funding, staffing, and upkeep.

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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

If you want to understand the impact of Trump’s aggressive approach to crime in D.C. you need only spend a day in Superior Court, where judges are handling a huge influx of arrests by federal agents — many for seemingly minor offenses. By my colleague Jenny Gathright: www.notus.org/metro/dc-cou...

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Inside a D.C. Courtroom Pushed to Its Limit Under Trump

On a Monday in August, the 113 cases reviewed in courtroom C-10 represented a transformed criminal justice system.

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I'm finally digging into the cross tabs underlying the @searchlightinst.bsky.social memo telling Dems not to talk about climate change. It surprised me, but may not surprise you, that the memo lies about what US swing voters actually said in the polling. Let's have a look, shall we? 🧵

SEARCHLIGHT INSTITUTE
About
Policy
Research
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Research
The First Rule About Solving Climate Change While battleground voters overwhelmingly agree climate change is a problem, addressing it is not
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Greg @spkr4thedead51.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

So the US military is going to provide gender affirming healthcare to their employees?

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

New: the highly controversial AI music generator Suno was hacked. The hacker sent us Suno source code; it shows the company scraped YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius. In all, Suno scraped *decades* worth of music from the internet. Obviously didn't pay artists www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

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Greg @spkr4thedead51.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition

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Greg @spkr4thedead51.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

people keep calling these tire marks, but they don't line up with where the pictures showed the SUVs driving. I think they're probably just the natural deposit lines that develop as water drains on a sloped surface and has periods where the level is paused, like shells get dropped at high tide marks

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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

American Chemical Society statement on the OMB rule can be read here: www.acs.org/policy/washi...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Neymar scoring the penalty and immediately taunting the goalie

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Greg @spkr4thedead51.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I mean, if you weren't convinced of Trump's corruption before, the fact that he deals directly with the head of FIFA should tell you everything you need to know

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Greg @spkr4thedead51.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

As a Carolina Hurricanes fan, because Erling Haaland came to one of our Stanley Cup finals games I feel obligated to pull for Norway. Which is good, because he's a freak and I love it.

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I would kill or die for Larry

A small operation in Oregon that hunts truffles with a trained dog has added an unpaid trainee. A cat named Larry accompanies the handler and the truffle dog into the woods every outing, works a patch of ground a little apart from them, and digs with tremendous confidence in places where there is nothing.
The handler says Larry has never found a truffle and shows no sign of understanding the assignment. He does not use scent the way the dog does and he does not respond when the dog makes a find.
He simply digs his own holes nearby and then inspects them. "He thinks he's on the team," the handler said. "He is emphatically not on the team."
TRUFFLE DOG FINDS THE TRUFFLES -
'TRAINEE' CAT DIGS RANDOM HOLES AND FINDS DIRT

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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/07/2026

DC is, flatly, owed statehood after what they have been through under this man to make sure this shit never happens again

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Greg @spkr4thedead51.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

At 7pm, Weather Underground reported that the Washington DC temperature was 101 with a heat index of 135. At 8pm it is only down to 98/112

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Benjamin Alvarez @benjalvarez1.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Fourth of July D.C. flyover schedule

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

For folks of a certain age: scroll through a mosaic of 100,000 Winamp skins. skins.webamp.org

A mosaic featuring an array of skins (themes) for the ancient mp3 player WinAmp.

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Zack Ford @zackford.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

They need to stay the hell out of our neighborhood park. Repairing the fountains was nice, but a basic responsibility of the Park service. This is just more occupation bullshit.

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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Interesting: At a D.C. Council hearing on transportation planning for the new Commanders stadium, @cmcharlesallen.bsky.social says that @mayorbowser.dc.gov's office did not allow Brian Hanlon, the government's point person on the stadium development, to attend. Allen calls it "deeply disappointing."

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John Hatch @johnhatch.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I don't think people understand the degree to which outlets like The Atlantic and The New York Times set back trans rights with second-rate reporting that doesn't stand up now, let alone in the future. They have failed at the most basic journalistic duties.

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

"Springer Nature’s internal policing software removed the paper and posted the retraction notice unilaterally, without human supervision."

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

There's no sugar-coating Slaughter. It's an enormously important ruling (far more important than the other three decisions #SCOTUS handed down today). It's a huge win for Trump/the executive. And it's going to have massive ramifications for the functioning of the government long after Trump is gone.

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Greg @spkr4thedead51.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I'm annoyed at news articles about Trump's refusal to sign a bill that don't mention that an unsigned bill automatically becomes a law after 10 days if Congress is in session. If you, as a journalist, aren't highlighting how silly and empty his actions are, you're failing your responsibilities.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 24/06/2026

Someday, someone is going to write a book about the Era of Fencing in DC, beginning with the fencing of Lafayette park in the aftermath of June 1, 2020. And I tell you what, that book is gonna be way more interesting than it has any right to be.

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Greg @spkr4thedead51.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

just realized some of the tabs of interesting things to read from my RSS feed have been open for almost a full year thankfully they're still interesting, they were just longer reads that I'd been putting off

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