Reposted by GardenthorFeminist Proper Gander @dappergander.bsky.social · 2hjesus fucking christ, they botched the execution and chaos reigns bsky.app/profile/chri... 0103
Reposted by GardenthorNatalie Korach @nataliekorach.bsky.social · 3hMS NOW has relentlessly scrutinized Trump’s new ads, but now it’s preparing to air them nationally on Thursday Execs stressed the independence of ad sales and editorial in a Tuesday meeting, but some staff worry viewers will “hate this” www.status.news/p/ms-now-tru...status.newsMS NOW’s Trump Ad DilemmaTrump tried to ban MS NOW from the White House. Now, his administration is planning to spend taxpayer dollars to reach its viewers, and inside the network, Status has learned, some are "pissed." 275914
Reposted by GardenthorDavid Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 1hAbolish 👋 Capital 👋 Punishment 👋 NOW 👋 inhumane, arbitrary, and never a power government should have. 14711
Reposted by GardenthorMediagazer @mediagazer.com · 1hSource: the White House plans to prevent CNN from providing its scheduled TV pool coverage of President Trump on Thursday, despite a federal judge's ruling (Dominick Mastrangelo/The Hill) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink 026
Reposted by GardenthorD. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 3h📌NEWS: Pete Hegseth said that the Pentagon is eliminating 1 in 5 generals and admirals. 📌NOTE: Authoritarian regimes eliminate military leaders who they believe aren't loyal to the regime. 📌UPSHOT: This is a very concerning development in the GOP's ongoing attack on America and her Democracy. 41631247
Reposted by GardenthorRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3h25th Amendment? We can’t even get network news to air it or even mention it. It’s a massive national media coverup to hide the fact the we have an addled president. 37468522112
Reposted by GardenthorChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 7hPretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should. 42179771789
Reposted by GardenthorStaci D. Kramer @sdkstl.bsky.social · 3hMore at @lawdorknews.bsky.sociallawdork.comThe big problems with Wednesday’s SCOTUS order allowing a Tennessee executionSCOTUS cleared the way for Tennessee to kill Christa Pike over the dissent of the Democratic appointees. The order from the court’s Republican appointees is alarming on several fronts. 031
Reposted by GardenthorAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7hI for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president 678182004271
Reposted by Gardenthorinthefade @ihavethatonvinyl.com · 3hhow does the one of the safest suburbs in america require that much overtime? you can not blame this all on protests. too many fucking cops. you can eliminate half the force and it wouldn't make a difference 1234
Reposted by GardenthorAndrew Perez @andrewperez.bsky.social · 3hTrump's White House hates Americans so much they put their "paid for by the U.S. government" disclaimers right over images of Trump in the corrupt and illegal political ads they made with taxpayer money 18621
Reposted by GardenthorMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 3hHere‘s your reminder that Speaker Mike Johnson sent the House home early so they wouldn’t have to vote on Pete Hegseth’s impeachment before the midterms. Republicans were terrified that they’d have to face voters and explain why they were covering for a racist, sexist, war-losing piece of crap. 8351127
Reposted by GardenthorTea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 16hAfter yesterday’s Senate hearing, it’s crystal clear that Jack Smith should be the next Attorney General. 27671111391
Reposted by GardenthorMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 3h"The class is ideally a prerequisite to committing sexual assault. This empowers students to take responsibility and get ahead of their punishments on their schedules rather than at inopportune times, should they, say, rape a peer just before finals." buff.ly/5na4oMYbuff.lyAnnouncing Cornell University’s Newest Writing Course: Rape Essays 101“Can a rapist’s prose effectively elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect wh... 27217
Reposted by GardenthorJack @jtenroon.bsky.social · 3hAnd Josh Shapiro’s health department issued emergency outbreak rules that he immediately walked them back after too many antivax freaks yelled at them for it.share.inquirer.comGov. Josh Shapiro’s administration will rescind Pa. disease-tracking proposal that reignited pandemic-era outrageThe decision was made after the state received more than 10,000 comments opposing the changes, the Pennsylvania Department of Health said Friday. 162
Reposted by GardenthorHoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 6hNEW: Meta found a way to turn massive data centers into “pilot models” and cash in on a 1980s tax credit. The result? Meta avoided nearly $4 billion in taxes last year alone. Gift link. 👇 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...nytimes.comHow Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (Gift Article)Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky. 15924661617
Reposted by GardenthorBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 3hThis is exactly the shit I was talking about Apparently, as @chrisgeidner.bsky.social just put it, "harm is a feeling that Republican officials are not allowed to suffer," yet "an execution carried out while a case challenging that execution is still pending" is not www.lawdork.com/p/the-big-pr...lawdork.comThe big problems with Wednesday’s SCOTUS order allowing a Tennessee executionSCOTUS cleared the way for Tennessee to kill Christa Pike over the dissent of the Democratic appointees. The order from the court’s Republican appointees is alarming on several fronts. 223272
Reposted by GardenthornomadRuss @russlinton.com · 13hEmbarrassment is not a justification for redaction. In fact, one reason FOIAs exist is to potentially "embarrass" out of control public servants. 0134
Reposted by GardenthorMeidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 15hGovernor Abbott office refused to turn over 1400 pages of correspondence without it being heavily redacted, claiming it contained intimate and embarrassing information. we will get to see how much Musk and Governor Abbott were able to sell out Texans. 651932707
Reposted by Gardenthorsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 3hAre there any old heads still working in news who can remember the firestorm a racist utterance in the WH like this would’ve kicked up. 28867129
Reposted by GardenthorPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 4hThis would be the equivalent of sports coverage devoting itself to reporting on gambling markets instead of the game. Because real reporting on real stories is hard. 1744884
Reposted by GardenthorRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3hI never ever thought I would see such a dangerous unhinged psychopath running the US military. We’ve had some bad ones, but never like this. 3453964999
Reposted by GardenthorAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 3hThis was obvious. Otherwise Schmitt wouldn’t have had Crabbe and Goyle take down the poster so fast. 1071342307
Reposted by GardenthorOlivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 3hThis 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him. 1163897922
Reposted by GardenthorZak Williams @zakwilliamswzw.bsky.social · 3hWhy has this blatant racism been normalized by the DC press corps? 121
Reposted by GardenthorGerard @groverxv.bsky.social · 5hShe’s gonna get absolutely covered in Schmitt 011
Reposted by GardenthorGFarquart @gfarquart.bsky.social · 6hExplore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/w...nytimes.comTrump Brought Venezuelan Gold to the U.S., but Refiners Won’t Touch It (Gift Article)The administration is brokering deals in a notoriously corrupt industry, including one with a company that the United States deems a security threat. 022
Reposted by GardenthorDavid Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 6h"This interviewee has already said that he found the work to be fun, because staying up late with your buddies, working toward a common goal, is fun. Now he agrees calmly, indeed casually, that yes, he has been taking part in a genocide." @mashagessen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/o...nytimes.comOpinion | There Is a Word So Powerful It Need Be Spoken Only Once (Gift Article)The film that makes a powerful statement without ever raising its voice. 021
Reposted by GardenthorZack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 9hAs data breaches go, this is pretty sizable, significant, and also bafflingly bad in terms of time it took to discover and that the stolen data was unencrypted. News of this breach comes weeks after a huge theft of FBI agents' personal data. Bypass for ad-blockers: web.archive.org/web/20260930...techcrunch.comHackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach | TechCrunchThe Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach. 24577251
Reposted by GardenthorZak Williams @zakwilliamswzw.bsky.social · 5hThis is unbelievable and frankly unprecedented. Trump may have caused this slide, but the GOP all up and down the ballot have embraced these policies and allowed them to happen. If anything they are trumpeting the disastrous policies that have utterly collapsed the economy. 063
Reposted by GardenthorC.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · 6hFrom this WashPost article on the long term effects of the flu: “When there’s potential for viruses to cause neuronal damage, then ‘we have to prevent getting infected as much as possible,’ [neurobiologist] Hosseini said.”washingtonpost.comColumn | ‘Long flu’ can linger for months. Here’s how to reduce your risk.Persistent symptoms can harm the lungs and other organs, including the brain. 03412
Reposted by GardenthorClara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 6hTrump has insisted on so many flyovers of DC that they are regularly interrupting normal air traffic and also crowding the ones DC used to have for service member funerals. And insane price tags for all of this: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comFrom birthday celebrations to murderous dictators, Trump brings out the jetsThe President's military flyovers are torturing DC-area residents. 512968
Reposted by GardenthorSam Brunson @smbrnsn.bsky.social · 9hThis is going to absolutely ruin the housing market--anybody with a decent mortgage rate absolutely can't afford to sell, and anybody not sitting on six figures of cash can't afford to buy. 5458
Reposted by GardenthorEmily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 10hThe Pennsylvania Department of Health just confirmed a 5th measles-related death. This really suggests that the outbreak is a lot bigger than the official numbers. The average case fatality rate for measles is about 1 to 3 deaths per 1,000 reported cases in developed countries. 36024
Reposted by GardenthorTechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 9hHackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breachtechcrunch.comHackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breachThe Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach. 93419
Reposted by GardenthorRobinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 9hUnder the new bipartisan permitting bill, AI data centers and crypto miners would have to report their energy use to the federal government for the first time. This is already required for other large energy users. Has been long sought for data centers by Elizabeth Warren and others. 55912
Reposted by GardenthorCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12hFour-byline alert: “.. Meta claimed that $4.1 billion of stock options exercised by Mr. Zuckerberg counted as a research expense ..” @nytimes.com $META www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t... 12422411021
Reposted by GardenthorNorm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 9hAG Todd Blanche won't say DOJ can't declare an election fraudulent on the president's say-so Here's what I will say: this election will be free & fair, & @democracydefendersaction.org & our partners will make sure of it More on @cnnipr.bsky.social at 3:40pm ET👇 -TNdemocracydefendersaction.orgFree & Fair Elections | Democracy Defenders ActionDemocracy depends on free and fair elections. Across the country, efforts to undermine voting rights, silence voters, reject lawful results, and spread election disinformation threaten public trust an... 16725243
Reposted by GardenthorMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 9h👇🎯 Fund. The. Damn. Public. Universities. Like. We. Used. To. In re: bsky.app/profile/mcop... 014532
Reposted by GardenthorHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 9hSee it’s cool because now every delivery driver can also be part of your neighborhood watch and cops will be able to jack in to live feeds from driver glasses. /sbloomberg.comAmazon Drivers’ Smart Glasses Are Going to Be an Image ProblemComing soon up a garden path near you: an Amazon.com Inc. driver wearing smart glasses, almost constantly taking pictures and sending them back to the company to be analyzed by humans and fed into an ... 21379162
Reposted by GardenthorHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 9hSome people are saying. bsky.app/profile/hype... 412922
Reposted by GardenthorHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 9h“I asked Chatterjee whether images from the smart glasses could be obtained with a warrant; he said he wasn’t sure. A spokesperson later followed up to confirm that yes, they could.” 🤷🏿♂️ 311326
Reposted by GardenthorCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10hwhen your country's new accord on “super intelligence” misspells the country's name 1672702525
Reposted by Gardenthor🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 9hHis job depends on being the one person Trump could trust to turn the military into a machine that will kill civilians with the ethics of a warlord for a moment of Trump’s choosing. So being a homocidal maniac is what he’s got to lean into. 25814
Reposted by GardenthorJohn Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 9h“The office that you sit in is obviously off campus and that’s for a reason,” she said. “Our main obligation is accountability. Whether that looks like something that many people do not want to hear, or something that many people do want to hear, it’s our obligation to report on it.”nytimes.comStudents at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years (Gift Article)The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity house since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case. 152
Reposted by GardenthorFinancial Times @financialtimes.com · 9hOne pilot of a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv stabbed the other and attempted to crash the aircraft in a brawl that sent the jet plunging 20,000 feet. ft.trib.al/bztH6CS 43013