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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 8h

remember how michael tracey (human worm) reacted when graham platner was found out? @marisakabas.bsky.social and @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social and i remember! it was fucking disgusting

Michael Tracey @mtracey

Good luck being a heterosexual male Democratic candidate anymore with even a whiff of anything but the most pristine romantic/dating history, because wherever you might fall on the party's ideological spectrum, the minute you hit national notoriety, the knives are coming out hard
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One weird trick for getting Democrats to take bold, decisive action: Manufacture a sex crime

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Everyone must accept that American political affairs will be fundamentally dictated by a constant parade of rape claims — always and everywhere, rape rape rape — but also, you must not ever think too critically about it, or you will be declared as complicit in the constant raping
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The defenestration of Platner is one for the ages.
Received the highest Dem primary vote in Maine history less than a month ago. Then, BOOM: skeevy PR operatives get everyone to scream RAPE!!!! — and switch off their brains — and now Party chieftains get to pick their own nominee
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11h

this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 13h

Nowhere in the Trump account legislation does it allow auto-enrollment or say anything about enrollment procedures at all, just so you know the way that John Roberts will justify his 6-3 decision blocking auto-enrollment of kids into Medicare

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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 13h

OpenAI alerted Chicago it accessed a city database amid reports of its agents going rogue. buff.ly/YRxXyV3

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 16h

Just a reminder that this is the same Sen. Schmitt who repeatedly claimed that Chief Judge Boasberg was receiving a disproportionate share of Trump-related cases because he confused the D.C. Superior Court (which has 62 judges) with the D.C. district court (which has 15).

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 13h

On another platform, @pjaicomo.bsky.social asks a good question. Anyone seen SCOTUS give one party an open-ended, one-sided opportunity to name their own "question presented"?

This seems like a very uncommon QP from the Supreme Court in today's cert. grant in DHS v. DVD.
Is anyone aware of a similarly open-ended and one-sided QP like this in another case?
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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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is not satire: HHS issued an RFI calling for evidence on potential health effects of electromagnetic fields, radiofrequency radiation, and wireless radiation exposure. www.hhs.gov/press-room/h...

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 13h

This is a list of all the people who are going to be getting bailed out with your tax money. I guarantee it. Not tough to call this shot.

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 13h

Every company that sells SaaS spyware to cops is currently like oh shit they’re coming for our market share

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 13h

No one is contesting whether third-country removals are *ever* permitted; the litigation is over whether individuals are entitled to notice & an opportunity to prove that they face torture or other mistreatment in that country before they can be removed. Good luck figuring that out from the tweet.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 14h

Riley Gaines, famous for turning her 5th place tie with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas into a far-right career agianst transgender people, has officially had her lawsuit against the NCAA thrown out by a judge today. The judge found no evidence for her claims. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Riley Gaines' Title IX Lawsuit Against The NCAA Struck Down After Judge Finds "No Evidence" Of Funding Claims

Gaines’ attorneys argued her civil rights were violated because she competed against a transgender athlete.

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JusticeWithJean @jeantrounstine.com · 21/09/2026

What a wonderful story Karaoke= “the perfect antidote” 2prison, a place described as “a toxin 2the human spirit.” Karaoke nights=a "feature of past Innocence Project conferences....Before it had a larger budget, the group threw karaoke fund-raisers 2collect funds 4clients’ rent, clothes or bills."

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At Karaoke Night, These Exonerated New Yorkers Voice Their Freedom

A night of belting out R&B and pop hits has become a re-entry ritual and celebration of life for some wrongly imprisoned men and women thrust back into society.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12h

The VA lost about 700 social workers and 500 psychologists and psychiatrists over the course of 2025 — a significant change for an agency that was adding mental health staffers nearly every month leading up to Trump’s return to office. (Published March)

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Veterans Who Depend on Mental Health Care Keep Losing Their Therapists Under Trump

Hundreds of mental health professionals have left the Department of Veterans Affairs since President Donald Trump took office, leaving staff “at a breaking point” and some veterans waiting as long as ...

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 13h

Yup, absolutely. I think it’s wrong to treat the Iran War as simply one bad error that happened to the Trump Admin rather than the entirely logical consequence of the way it operates. If it wasn’t Iran, it would almost certainly have been something else

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Maybell Romero @maybell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ROT IN HELL FOREVER

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Alan Wessman @alanwessman.bsky.social · 13h

Schmitt’s attempted maneuver this morning deserves ridicule, but there’s a more serious aspect to it. He was trying to frame Jack Smith. This was no innocent mistake, but part of a calculated effort to bear false witness against a person in order to harm the credibility of his work and character.

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Capital B Atlanta @capitalbatl.bsky.social · 15h

Clark Atlanta University administrators removed the Student Government Association president from office without explanation last week. While students left without government representation, questions remain about protocol and the future of campus governance. bit.ly/3TYNOEL

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Clark Atlanta SGA President Removed From Office - Capital B News - Atlanta

Denied an appeal, the former student leader took to Instagram to defend his term and outline failures of the school’s administrators.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 18h

Amazing stuff here

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Conversation with America
Response ready. Sources are available. Use “Skip to latest response” to read it.
Is it accurate to say that the Big Beautiful Bill on average made the poorest people in America even poorer and the richest people in America even richer, when looking at total household resources? One word answer only, please.

Yes

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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin.com · 15h

So the thing about this is that obviously thinking people aren't going to use it but every system and institution we have is going to race to adopt it and thereby harm all of us anyway

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 15h

If you are already feeling stretched by gas/groceries, a big hike in your Medicare or ACA plans will plunge your monthly finances into the red. Options become cut something elsewhere (if anything left to cut), or gamble with foregoing the coverage. Lots of ACA peeps will forego…and be at huge risk

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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 15h

Pass a law clarifying that the supreme court’s appellate jurisdiction does not begin until a final ruling has been made by district and appeals courts.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15h

NEW: Seems as though the full DC Circuit Court is poised to green-light Judge Boasberg's contempt investigation into the government for failing to turn the planes bound for CECOT around. Trump will then likely seek an emergency stay from SCOTUS. apnews.com/article/trum...

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Appeals court weighs fate of judge's contempt probe over Trump administration deportation flights

An appeals court is weighing whether a judge can continue investigating whether the Trump administration illegally flouted an order blocking the deportation of planeloads of Venezuelan migrants to El ...

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 15h

Sooner or later, after exhausting all other possibilities, everyone realizes that the only smart way to do public benefits is with auto-enroll www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/t...

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Trump Is Preparing to Auto-Enroll Every Child in a Trump Account

Few Americans have set up Trump Accounts on their own.

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 15h

The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for the Trump administration to continue deporting people to countries where they have no ties and where they may face violence.

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Supreme Court Cosigns One of Trump’s Most Inhumane Immigration Practices

The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for the Trump administration...

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 16h

omg. yes, they actually have video of him at the game. when does marshall mcluhan walk out and dunk on sen schmitt?

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 15h

Holy shit, this ad! I cannot imagine the impetus for pardoning this guy. But I’m not even sure it matters. Kind of along the lines of that Roger Marshall ad. If you’re explaining you’re losing.

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 16h

@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social keeps talking about bringing back shame. I think "criminal corporate behavior must not be something you can simply price in and keep doing" is one structural equivalent that we seriously need

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15h

Awful: The Supreme Court just let Trump's third-country deportations move forward. Still a shot at stopping them later but unlikely. Reminder: If Dems win power, they can and should defund both the white-nationalist Office of Remigration and third-country deportations, as I argue in this piece:

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15h

Most swing state GOP Senate candidates took $$ from Jack Abramoff's now pardoned partner.

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Ross A. Isaacs @rossisaacs.bsky.social · 15h

How is this text chain supposed to prove Smith was in Atlanta in the first place? All it talks about is a seat reservation at an unnamed game.

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 14h

Eric Schmitt just kept doubling down on his Jack Smith conspiracy even after that painful moment in the hearing. Now, we have concrete evidence he misunderstood his own evidence. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/eric-sc...

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New Evidence Shows Just How Badly One Republican Senator Beclowned Himself in the Jack Smith Hearing

TPM has found fairly definitive evidence proving Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) misread...

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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 25/09/2026

This story is amazing, and appalling, and hilarious, and sad - ah, academia

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 17h

🚨 BREAKING: Texas Rep. Gina Hinojosa has filed an official request to inspect unredacted communications between Gov. Greg Abbott’s office and Elon Musk after roughly 1,400 pages released last year were heavily redacted as “intimate and embarrassing.”

Texas State Rep. Gina Hinojosa stands indoors wearing a burgundy blazer and dark top, with campaign signage bearing her name and the outline of Texas visible behind her.

Official letter dated September 29, 2026, from Texas State Rep. Gina Hinojosa to Gov. Greg Abbott’s office requesting inspection of unredacted communications between Abbott’s office and Elon Musk and his companies. Hinojosa seeks records previously released with redactions for information deemed “embarrassing” or “intimate,” citing her legislative authority under the Texas Public Information Act.

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Jim LaPorta @jimlaporta.bsky.social · 17h

Def. Sec. Hegseth signed a memo today that CBS News obtained two months ago eliminating civilian tenure at military service academies. The Daily Wire was first to report on Tuesday that Hegseth signed the memo CBS News first reported on. Story: www.cbsnews.com/news/dod-pen...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Trump: "We're gonna be signing a document today renaming artificial intelligence, because it's not artificial. We're gonna be naming it Super Intelligence. Officially renaming it."

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 17h

BREAKING: Eleventh Circuit denies Trump and lawyers’ request to stay the sanctions order in Trump v. IRS pending Trump and lawyers’ appeal of the sanctions order. Notably, the panel is unanimous and included a Trump appointee (Newsom). Background: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-irs-...

Before JORDAN, ROSENBAUM, and NEWSOM, Circuit Judges.
BY THE COURT:
The appellants, some of whom were the plaintiffs below, move for an order staying aspects of the district court's post-judg-ment sanctions order pending appeal. After review of the record and the parties' briefing, we deny the motion.!

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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

being in animation, its not from AI. the streaming bubble bursting cuz everyone hopped on the grain cuz it undermined unions, less regulations and more mergers are what lead to the loss. AI is just what people think but it started way before that

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 29/09/2026

“'The number, the dollar value, is very high and I would say, inexcusable,' Assistant Chief of Operations Mark Klukow said when asked how the department spent $33 million in overtime last year, blowing its budget of $6 million." www.startribune.com/minneapolis-...

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Interim Minneapolis police chief says he inherited a budget ‘mess’

Police leaders acknowledged during a City Council budget meeting that overtime was handed out too loosely in years past and said they’re now monitoring it more closely.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 15/09/2026

It is time to play "guess when this letter was written" again? > In January 2015, Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, and dozens of artificial intelligence experts signed an open letter on artificial intelligence calling for research on the societal impacts of AI. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_le...

(If you have questions about this letter, please contact tegmark@mit.edu)
Research Priorities for Robust and Beneficial Artificial Intelligence: an Open Letter

Artificial intelligence (AI) research has explored a variety of problems and approaches since its inception, but for the last 20 years or so has been focused on the problems surrounding the construction of intelligent agents – systems that perceive and act in some environment. In this context, “intelligence” is related to statistical and economic notions of rationality – colloquially, the ability to make good decisions, plans, or inferences. The adoption of probabilistic and decision-theoretic representations and statistical learning methods has led to a large degree of integration and cross-fertilization among AI, machine learning, statistics, control theory, neuroscience, and other fields. The establishment of shared theoretical frameworks, combined with the availability of data and processing power, has yielded remarkable successes in various component tasks such as speech recognition, image classification, autonomous vehicles, machine translation, legged locomotion, and question-answering systems.

As capabilities in these areas and others cross the threshold from laboratory research to economically valuable technologies, a virtuous cycle takes hold whereby even small improvements in performance are worth large sums of money, prompting greater investments in research. There is now a broad consensus that AI research is progressing steadily, and that its impact on society is likely to increase. The potential benefits are huge, since everything that civilization has to offer is a product of human intelligence; we cannot predict what we might achieve when this intelligence is magnified by the tools AI may provide, but the eradication of disease and poverty are not unfathomable. Because of the great potential of AI, it is important to research how to reap its benefits while avoiding potential pitfalls.

The p…

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 29/09/2026

Weirdest uk thing is institutional belief that cats need to be outdoors

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 19h

The Schmitt thing is onion layers of dumb. Even if Smith had gone to a game in Atlanta it's still an insane leap from that to he was secretly meeting Willis. And chose to use a basketball game as an elaborate cover? Talking to Willis wouldn't necessarily be improper anyway!

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Darin Self @darinself.com · 18h

Everything I've read on financial crises usually start with "When the bond yields began rising quickly..."

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026

A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.

Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.

Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026

Tangentially, the military has made a service-wide push into using personal phones as work devices, meaning Meta is no doubt ingesting sensitive if not classified/secret data. And I’d be curious what this might mean for Signal.

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