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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 1h
I don’t know how many times they can go back to “ we didn’t get the email in time” when federal agencies violate orders. They do it all the time in immigration cases. Still waiting for a judge to call them out on their BS.
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taemakar @taemakar.bsky.social · 7h
So much this!!
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h
Wrong Portland. @nbcnews.com #MEsen www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
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taemakar @taemakar.bsky.social · 9h
In Nigeria, yes?
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 12h
With all due respect, this is precisely what is wrong with the federal courts today. They should not be doing "everything humanly possible to give the government the benefit of the doubt."
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Rep. LaMonica McIver @replamonica.bsky.social · 12h
Trump uses DHS and DOJ as weapons to go after the people standing up to him. Raiding @ilhanmn.bsky.social home weeks before Election Day is the kind of overreach that should scare every single American. I stand with Ilhan. We will never be intimidated into silence.
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David C Bell @moviehooligan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
If you’re wondering what the vibe is going into the midterms the New England fall fair I went to today had a crochet guillotine for sale.
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Shannon E French @sefrench.bsky.social · 15h
The public definitely isn’t in the room. From what I can tell, neither are any women.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14h
If you are shocked this am that Trump’s government executed a search warrant against a Democratic Member of Congress and ignored a judge’s order then you haven’t been paying attention. Stop saying this isn’t how it works in the US. It is exactly how it works under Trump.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 14h
THIS IS AN ABSOLUTE FUCKING FIVE ALARM FIRE. The President is weaponizing DOJ to go after an opposition leader. It's a massive completely unjustified abuse of power by his secret police to shut down dissent and we won't stand for it. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...
nytimes.com
Federal Agents Search Home of Rep. Ilhan Omar
The search takes places within the 60-day window of the midterm elections, when the Justice Department has historically avoided such investigative steps related to political candidates.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"The government is legally forbidden by a court order from converting the Roxbury site to a detention facility... But an NPR investigation has found signs that the facility is being used. The state's Office of the Attorney General is looking into similar reports..." www.npr.org/2026/10/08/n...
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ICE has quietly used this warehouse as a detention facility all summer, neighbors say
Throughout the summer, rumors have been bubbling in North New Jersey that ICE has quietly been using a warehouse as a detention center. NPR investigated.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I just saw someone say, “The difference between me and the people who want to argue with me is, I had to take words out of my essays to meet the word count.” I’ve never felt more seen…
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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
When the Auschwitz Memorial has to fact check the new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia for being a nut.
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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
No, bombing Yandex has not impacted automated Russian trolling operations in the U.S.
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Dread Pirate Sex Badger @badgercult.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Once again proving that we can no longer be considered a reliable ally to any other power or bloc, and they will plan accordingly. It's lonely out there without any friends.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The world the tech bros are building. A Virginia data center ran backup diesel generators full blast for 24 hours, creating a giant cloud of toxic smoke that choked its human neighbors. The government claimed there was nothing they could do. www.gadgetreview.com/virginia-dat...
gadgetreview.com
Virginia Data Center Ran Diesel Generators for 24 Hours. Residents Fled Their Homes
Virginia data center diesel generators ran nearly 24 hours during a Code Red alert, leaving neighbors with no regulatory recourse under current state permits.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It's already illegal. Congress banned it near-unanimously in 2022. That law allows the ban to be lifted only if Russia withdraws from Ukraine. He's simply breaking the law that's already on the books.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
In other professors’ syllabi, the bot flagged the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, essays by the Mexican American MacArthur genius grant recipient Sandra Cisneros, and materials related to a class about the Holocaust (that professor was told to drop material regarding Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people).

Putting aside the ideological slant of the new rules, the bot, like many large language models, seems to “hallucinate,” or make mistakes. The AAUP lawsuit lists texts banned for their “sex-based ecofeminist framework” and “gendered ecofeminist frameworks.” These phrases might sound persuasively like academese, but the academics behind the lawsuit had never heard of them; these concepts “do not exist,” the complaint says. Matthew Pehl, a history professor at Tech, told me that he knew several people who’d received reports from the system that were “plainly written by an AI that had hallucinated content or confused content from one class to another.”
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taemakar @taemakar.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I’m not hugely in favor of this one-time billionaire tax but to ban future taxes is insane and why establishment Dems all need to be voted out!
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
October 10, 2026
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October 10, 2026 (Saturday)
So now, after more than a decade of pretending that he is not associated with Russia and that he would honor the U.S.
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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Been thinking about how I pitched around a book about how Big Tech is contributing to rising violent misogyny and sexism, and there were no takers because publishing houses didn’t “get” the common thread.
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Dread Pirate Sex Badger @badgercult.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Uh oh
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This should be the lead story with a screaming headline on every news website: “Trump sides with Putin in Ukraine war.” “After a long, friendly chat during which Putin offered Trump a political lifeline, Trump called for Ukraine to surrender.”
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The DOJ beclowns itself again.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Despite ongoing lawsuit seeking to stop Trump overhaul of DC's East Potomac Park, the National Park Service has notified the court that it's going to take down nearly 530 trees at the site Team Trump is pursuing plan to redevelop the golf course on site
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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026
I knew I liked him.
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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Sure, sure. At this point, why not?
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taemakar @taemakar.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
WTAF?!?
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is a disaster. The ethics committee in Denmark that approved the Guinea-Bissau study which will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine “had never considered medical studies before but it changed the rules in order to vote on this one”. Four members of the committee have resigned in protest.
theguardian.com
Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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taemakar @taemakar.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
He’s definitely started his 2028 run for President. When it comes time to rebuild our government, maybe we can find a way to drastically reduce the political campaign timeline!
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"Anthropic told police the false tip was generated as the company tested interactions between its AI model and 'randomly selected websites,' according to Gripp." share.inquirer.com/uT8FjH?utm_s...
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Anthropic’s artificial intelligence gave a false homicide tip to Philly police, triggering a meeting with the company
The incident happened on July 18 but was not discovered by the Silicon Valley company until September, authorities say.
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Dread Pirate Sex Badger @badgercult.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
FUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
How’s Trump’s white male supremacy working out for you?
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Will angry women save us?
November is a great time to choose women and reject the macho-ization of America
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Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
This was one of Patel’s dumbest ideas. The goal of a UFC fight is to force your opponent into submission, usually through ground-fighting. If an FBI agent is engaged in hand-to-hand combat, the primary goal is to momentarily incapacitate your adversary, gain distance, and draw one’s weapon.
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Neil Degrassi Highson @funkpower.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If I was one of America's enemies I don't think I could ask for a greater gift than America executing someone live on TV. You can't buy anti-American propaganda that good.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Speaking of the humanities, this just out. I taught at Stanford 2017-19, and my students told me there was an atmosphere there of "why would you major in anything but computer science?" There are many good answers to that; see above.
stanforddaily.com
Stanford sees decline in humanities majors
Nationwide humanities majors have decreased since 1991, according to a new report.
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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The Trump admin announced that winter oil and gas exploration in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve will be exempt from environmental reviews. That includes seismic surveys, building temporary roads, and drilling exploration wells. Our public lands keep paying the price…
public-inspection.federalregister.gov
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
All these years later.... I'm STILL a member of The Resistance.
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taemakar @taemakar.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Such a horrible plan. And so fucking embarrassing. I’ve never considered the US to be the greatest country in the history of the world but even I thought we were better than this. I’m so ashamed of what we have become under this administration.
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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Tonight. The Washington Monument, in the heart of the nation’s capital. Students converging here after a nationwide walkout from classes against sexual violence, sparked by the Cornell rape case.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Remember when we said that it would get really bad as the President realizes that accountability is nigh?
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...
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ACLU @aclu.org · 08/10/2026
BREAKING: We're suing the Department of Defense for withholding information about the Pentagon launching a study of the “effectiveness” of women in ground combat roles. Secretary Hegseth can't hide this from the public — we have a right to know what he plans to do with the study.
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taemakar @taemakar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The idiocy and the lies are honestly breathtaking. Sadly, there are people out there that actually believe this shit.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 08/10/2026
The CDC just re-opened a previously shelved study that would withhold the hepatitis B vaccine from children in Guinea-Bissau, despite decades of evidence showing it is safe and effective. This is a violation of human rights, using “science” to harm some of the most vulnerable people in the world.
Breaking-news graphic featuring a photo of RFK Jr with headline that reads "RFK JR. TO GIVE 1.6M IN CDC FUNDS TO EXPERIMENT ON AFRICAN BABIES IN UNETHICAL TRIAL"
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The rhetoric of tech in a nutshell: I value convenience, efficiency, ease first and also have no capacity to recognize humanity, my own or others, but feel qualified to run the world. Someone send an army of divorce lawyers; after all this guy already wants to disconnect.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
ICE appears to be using the parking lot of the Roxbury warehouse for processing and brief detention, and at least once appears to have taken people inside. But also, read this inside look from a federal contractor about how everyone knew the warehouse plan was insane but Miller demanded inhumanity.
NPR spoke to an official at a government contractor whose company was approached to convert several of the warehouses into ICE facilities. He spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation from the government.

"No one that we spoke to at DHS was for this idea whatsoever. The deputy director told us point-blank that they had pushed back very hard on it. Everybody knew warehouses are horrible places to put people," he says.

At a meeting with a deputy director at DHS, he says, his company proposed an alternative: FEMA-style camps in Texas that would be more humane.

He says that idea was swiftly shot down. While White House adviser Stephen Miller was not at the meeting, they were told that this was not what Miller wanted.

The contractor says his understanding from that meeting was that "Miller did not want the facilities that were comfortable. He did not want facilities that were humane. We were told point-blank that that was not what the administration wanted."

"Steve Miller certainly seemed to make that point to everyone that he wanted it to be cruel. This was what Miller had stated to the DHS at that time, to the DHS director and deputy director. What surprised me was just how adamant the people were that it was going to happen. Damn the consequences. I would say in 25 years of working with the U.S. government, I've never been in that position before."
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
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