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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Because if you have the up-against-the-wall fantasy, well, pull up a chair next to this guy. Doesn't matter who you're executing. That's which side you're on. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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Tennessee Prison Chief Was Hired Despite a Trail of Troubled Executions (Gift Article)
The failed execution of Christa Pike has prompted new scrutiny of Frank Strada, the state’s top prison official, and his past role overseeing executions in Arizona.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
WSJ tracks how many local cops are getting rich arresting a single migrant. www.wsj.com/us-news/immi...
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Exclusive | How Local Police Get Paid Big Money for Just a Few Immigration Arrests
The Department of Homeland Security gives local agencies as much as $2 million for each arrest in a nationwide task force.
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Susie Bright @susiebright.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hell or High Water — Frats Gotta Go open.substack.com/pub/susiebri...
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Hell or High Water — Frats Gotta Go
The high times education of the rape university - me and you and everyone we know
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith out there doing more to support girls’ sports more than any transphobe has ever done.
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Jon Bailiff @jonbailiff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What’s the over/under on the Schmidt apology? What’s the Polly market on the Schmidt apology? Is Schmidt betting on himself?
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Susie Bright @susiebright.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Un freaking believable. midterms ad of the season
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joe @shariauncle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
increasingly feels like my Perfectly Fine liberal arts education was an artifact grabbed fleeing a burning temple
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Jon Bailiff @jonbailiff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If it isn’t evident already, it’s no longer necessary to listen to or to repeat what this regime puts forward. Lies and propaganda are their only output. If the regime states it, it must be ignored. The continuous drumbeat of all media must be the end of this regime. There is no other “news” now.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Today is the first day FAA was rolling out AI (thought I thought it was just DCA).
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
How the Smithsonian Became the Latest Front in Trump’s Culture War talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-the...
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How the Smithsonian Became the Latest Front in Trump’s Culture War
This article was originally published by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates...
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Diamond Life @diamondlifeca.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Queenie (Helen Mirren) Taking Off Sunglasses
ALT: Queenie (Helen Mirren) Taking Off Sunglasses
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Susie Bright @susiebright.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“Now I am the cunt.” There; fixed it.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I dunno, this guy has been writing fiction for the New York Times for years
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Susie Bright @susiebright.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
So, what did you burn? What did you hide? What did you commit to memory? Re-reading F-451 is a TRIP. susiebright.ink/p/fahrenheit...
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Fahrenheit 451, Almost a Century Later
What did you burn? What did you commit to memory?
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I thought this might spark some more interest: the provost of the most pro-AI Ivy alleged to have used AI to write his “don’t worry too much about AI” op ed for WaPo, academic work, & even his response to the student paper breaking the story. I teach here. This makes it much harder.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ICE Involved in Two Violent Incidents Over the Weekend talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
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ICE Involved in Two Violent Incidents Over the Weekend
Trump’s Mass Deportation Op Grinds On We start today with two incidents...
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Jon Bailiff @jonbailiff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
дурень
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
BREAKING: The nation's major television networks are declining to participate in White House pool duties moving forward in response to the Trump admin's decision to bar CNN, MS NOW and POLITICO from the White House, Fox News D.C. bureau chief Bryan Boughton wrote in an email to TV pool subscribers.
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Jon Bailiff @jonbailiff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Is this the beginning of fuck-around-and-find-out cyber attacks from our Iranian brethren? Will never know… because OUR government will lie like a rug.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Tom Massie posted a calendar labeling the days of work Mike Johnson canceled because of him.
Tom Massie tweet:

Here’s a calendar to show the days 
@SpeakerJohnson
 has cancelled in Congress. September 17 was canceled to avoid a vote on my Hegseth impeachment. The last two weeks in September were canceled to avoid a vote on releasing more Epstein files. He’s closing Congress to stop me.

Below there is a congressional calendar from July to December. 

July 1-2 are labeled Rules retreat.
September 17 is labeled Hegseth Holiday.
September 22 to October 2 are labeled Epstein Recess.
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Jon Bailiff @jonbailiff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Maybe not the antichrist but certainly the anti-Theodore Roosevelt
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The fact that Jeff Bezos ruined the Washington Post for nothing is just peak 2026
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/09/2026
I think it would be nice if journalists could more clearly inform the public that there will be no useful AI regulation coming because Congress is too corrupt to function We're still waiting for even basic internet privacy laws 30 years down the road
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The Leftist Split Over AI Doom
The left wants AI regulation. They just can't agree on what it should look like or how concerned they should be.
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Susie Bright @susiebright.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ted Nugent *is* available!
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Jon Bailiff @jonbailiff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Sexual predation is being promoted in this country at our top levels of government, if you haven’t noticed. Economic trickle down is a lie. But moral trickle down is real. #TrumpIsAConvictedRapist
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Kathy Mortensen 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇺🇸 💙 @kathyswords.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A very worthy read. Someone who knows the system. Someone who can point out the flaws of surveillance and the need for checks and balances! #Blues #Proudblue
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Dominic Gwinn @dominicgwinn.com · 05/08/2026
Tabernack...
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Luke Knox @lukeknox.me · 04/08/2026
in the Québécois version of King of the Hill (“Henri pis sa gang”), Boomhauer is named Papineau and sounds like this
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Aaron Littman @aaronlittman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Profoundly disappointed in our Chancellor, as a member of the UCLA law faculty and a Jew, for so quickly forgetting the lesson Justice Jackson and others taught us at Nuremberg: the rule of law demands that everyone be provided a robust defense.
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Jon Bailiff @jonbailiff.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Patriot Act stands tall amogst the many acts against democracy our government has perpetuated. #AbolishDSH jonbailiff.substack.com/p/fridays-su...
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Friday’s Subconscious Editorial Cartoon
The Success of 9/11
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thousands of immigrants did the hard, dirty work of clearing rubble and toxic dust and debris from Ground Zero. Many were undocumented laborers sent to work every day with no special PPE, and got cancer as a result. Now some of those same people are living in fear of ICE. www.npr.org/2026/09/11/n...
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They cleaned up ground zero. Now many are hiding from ICE
After 9/11, thousands of rescue and cleanup crews went to work at ground zero. They were exposed to toxic debris and experienced psychological trauma. Today, many say they live in fear of deportation.
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Susie Bright @susiebright.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The San Lorenzo River, if anyone’s asking.
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Jon Bailiff @jonbailiff.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Doktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Tarrant County's voter rolls have grown by more than 70,000 since the 2022 midterms. But people might vote for James Talarico, so Republicans eliminated a third of the polling places. Great Texas Polling Place Ratf*ck Of 2026 Now Underway. Thanks A Ton, John Roberts www.wonkette.com/p/great-texa...
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Great Texas Polling Place Ratf*ck Of 2026 Now Underway. Thanks A Ton, John Roberts.
Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act coulda stopped this. That’s why it had to go.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 02/09/2026
A settlement supposedly designed to protect young people will require Meta to do even more surveillance—estimating users’ ages, hunting for secondary accounts, and enforcing sweeping restrictions. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Meta's $17 Billion Settlement is a Bad Deal for Teens and All Social
Meta’s settlement with 52 state attorneys general is a bad deal for all internet users, and especially for teens. In this post, we go through the Settlement’s provisions in detail.
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Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The Krewe of Dolly will parade in honor of Dolly Parton Sept 25 — 9 25 — and city will declare it Dolly Parton Day www.nola.com/gambit/music...
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New Orleans parade krewe moves Dolly Parton celebration of life to later this month
The Krewe of Dolly is pushing back its celebration of life for country music icon and philanthropist Dolly Parton, citing French Quarter scheduling conflicts. It was originally slated for Southern Dec...
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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I checked, it’s still Lake Ontario.
Kayak on a lake
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Susie Bright @susiebright.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I thought I’d tasted every delicious thing under the sun . . . until Violette taught me her “sauce secrète maison.” I promise, you’ve never had anything like it, and after your first batch, you won’t be able to have a meal without a spoonful! susiebright.ink/publish/post...
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
We started singing, Bye Bye Ms. Ontarian Pie
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Haha, a more fitting logo for Google.
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Jon Bailiff @jonbailiff.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Milo has become the Sigfried and Roy of fascism
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Jon Bailiff @jonbailiff.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The glue. The most common thread. The most uniting factor. The one thing they all agree on. The thing that is so true that it is The One True Thing! It’s their misogyny.
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Jon Bailiff @jonbailiff.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I think we can start looking at South Africa as a model for what it’s gonna take to recover from this disastrous attack on our democratic institutions. Thousands of lives Tens of years Billions of dollars
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Jon Bailiff @jonbailiff.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
If capitalism has any plans for the future, it has plans to steal from the future.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
6AM WaPo: Trump and his flunkies are negotiating with a suspected money launderer to steal Venezuela's oil. 1:15PM Axios: US is about to make the most MASSIVE DEAL EVER to steal Venezuela's oil (which I'll pretend will fix the problem of emptying the SPR).
A Venezuelan oilman faced a Swiss arrest warrant. The U.S. had other plans for him.
The Trump administration intervened in a Swiss criminal investigation of Alejandro Betancourt, who is helping the U.S. as an intermediary in Caracas.

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The London residence of Venezuelan businessman Alejandro Betancourt. (Toby Melville/Reuters)
By Samuel Oakford, Samantha Schmidt, Anthony Faiola and Karen DeYoung
Senior U.S. officials intervened in an international criminal investigation into a Venezuelan businessman who was enlisted by the Trump administration to help assert control over Venezuela’s government and oil industries, according to two people familiar with the matter.


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The officials lobbied to resolve the case in Switzerland in a way that would avoid criminal charges and end travel restrictions against the Britain-based businessman, Alejandro Betancourt, and they have not acted on a Swiss arrest warrant against him, according to the two people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter.

Instead, the United States has allowed Betancourt to enter the country repeatedly for meetings with the Trump administration, other people familiar with his travel said.Scoop: U.S. close to striking "massive" deal for Venezuelan oil fields

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Photo illustration of President Trump with stars from the Venezuelan flag hovering over his head. The bottom half of the image is of oil lines converging into the background towards Trump's portrait. 
Photo illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios. Photo: Taylor Hill/FilmMagic

The Trump administration is in talks with Venezuela's interim government about taking an ownership stake in the South American country's enormous oil resources, two U.S. officials tell Axios.

Why it matters: The historic deal would more than double U.S. oil reserves by drawing from a country that has the world's largest proven reserves.

"Calling this deal huge would be an understatement," one of the officials said. "It is massive."
Adding pressure to get the deal signed: the wars in Iran and Ukraine, which have disrupted global oil supplies and raised prices.
The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve is now at a 40-year low.
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
1/ Republicans don't win elections. They cheat in elections to win. 1.2M Texas voters just got quietly suspended from the rolls ahead of the Talarico-Paxton race. Many don't know yet. Not a glitch. This is the playbook. 6% of all Texas voters, likely Dems #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/08/2026
"I was not shocked that he helped somebody. My shock is that he was murdered. And no one has given us the complete truth or anyone has been held accountable. And it's been 7 months! ... there was more effort in vilifying him than pursuing justice" -- Alex Pretti's parents
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Hyperlexic @hyperlexic.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
On the list of “Dolly did it better than anyone” add “After The Gold Rush” youtu.be/o2XcBL6kWn8?...
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Harris, Parton, Ronstadt on Late Show, March 24, 1999 (full, stereo)
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Here’s how Stars and Stripes covered the firings of Korte and two others www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...
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Pentagon fires Stars and Stripes editor, publisher and reporter
The Pentagon on Friday moved to fire the editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes as well as its retiring publisher and a civilian reporter who covers the Middle East.
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