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Brendan Buhler

@thebuhler.bsky.social
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pretty 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.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Justice Kavanaugh, please explain to me — and Christa Pike— how this is an “interim” decision? Justice Barrett, please explain to us how this is merely a “preliminary” ruling?
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Brendan Buhler @thebuhler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Abort the court.
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.
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The Deportation Project Map
Between 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De...
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
it's evidently too much to ask the rw justices to consider the irreparable harm to individuals treated to such inhumanity. they are complicit in this criminality. shame on all six of them. and shame on us for having a system that allows this illegality.
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Brendan Buhler @thebuhler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Weevils are seriously underrated for how cool they look.
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Gray @grays.art · 28/09/2026
Blue-green citrus root weevil (Pachnaeus litus) on Caesarweed bloom (Urena lobata) CREW pen flint strand lake trails Bonita Springs, Florida 9-24-26 #macroMonday #ColorADay #PinkMon #eck #macro #nature #pink #art #macroPhotography #native #beetles #bugsky
Macro of a weevil perched on a light pink wildflower. Viewed from a three-quarter perspective facing downward and toward its left, the insect showcases a smooth, pale pastel mint-green body with a distinct, elongated snout resting directly against a petal. Its pale legs firmly grasp the blossom. To its stage-right extends a long, prominent pink staminal column tipped with a cluster of bright crimson stigmas. To its stage-right, a cluster of tightly closed green and bronze-tipped buds arches upward on a slender green stem. The background is completely dark, and smoothly out of focus.
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Anna Maltese @annamaltese.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Where’s Maureen Dowd at? I just wanna talk.
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James Grebey @jgrebes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It feels so good whenever you see headlines that are clever, fun, and effective because they're written for humans instead of keyword-heavy, personality-free headlines that are SEO'd within an inch of their lives because they're written for the algo. www.avclub.com/beware-boiun...
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You can't even see the stupid giant snake in the stupid giant snake movie Beware Boiúna
Despite its stupid-fun premise of a big ol' snake running amok in the Amazon, Beware Boiúna is so dark and ugly that even that doesn't work.
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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026
There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026
Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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Brendan Buhler @thebuhler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Why was there an ad (during the Niners game no less) that is just this senile grandpa ranting from his midterm convention and why was it paid for by the U.S. Government?
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
the things people kept in their desks at a major american newspaper... ON their desks... the things that were consumed, in and out of job interviews ... MY GOD WE LIVED
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 25/09/2026
A new map published Wednesday by a cybersecurity researcher reveals Flock’s nationwide reach is even bigger than previously known. Now, Flock is trying to get that map wiped from the internet. buff.ly/IlMa7hN
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/09/2026
Two thing can be true. The WH kicking out media it doesn’t like is absolutely a First Amendment violation. And There is little journalism of value to be found in the highly controlled, substance-free halls of power—wall-to-wall navel-gazing about one’s access probably being of the least value.
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
this is basic product liability. if a company was selling Rat Poison Ice Cream they would be made to stop pretty quickly
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
we have control mechanisms for this. it's called The Law. these guys should be held personally liable for these harms. the suicides, the thefts, the intrusions into computer systems. they should be sued and prosecuted as appropriate. problem immediately solved
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 24/09/2026
you hate to hand it to the guys with billboards on the side of the freeway, but they are our only meaningful means of "regulation" against the emerging tech depredations of Elon Musk and his ilk
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/09/2026
A judge in Iowa dismissed President Trump’s lawsuit against The Des Moines Register, which published a poll of Iowans before the 2024 election that showed him trailing Kamala Harris, then the vice president.
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Iowa Judge Dismisses Trump’s Lawsuit Against The Des Moines Register
The suit challenged a poll that showed Trump trailing Kamala Harris in the final weeks of the 2024 campaign. A judge warned that similar legal challenges could have a chilling effect on news reporting.
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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
From my new essay about the new social contract AI/AGI is actually meant to force us to sign: catvalente.substack.com/p/grand-thef...
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Article 25 (3)(e) of the statute establishing the International Criminal Court criminalizes incitement to genocide. If someone can walk into the United Nations and say this, they’re daring the court to act.
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
No major TV network will be showing Trump cutting the ribbon on his new White House helipad today. C-SPAN also just said it's out.
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Joe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Bonta will take the immediate heat, but it sure seems like Gavin Newsom is the reason Bonta --and thus the state of California-- folded here.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The deal handing Warner Bros. Discovery to Ellison is BAD for film, independent journalism & our democracy This battle may be over but our fight is not @democracydefendersaction.org & partners in the #BlockTheMerger Coalition will be watching the Ellisons, & you'll be hearing from us👇 -TN
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It would be more than a little ironic if Trump's CNN/MS NOW/Politico tantrum (and the resulting lack of coverage the entire WHCA is going to provide) is what finally educates the press about the extent to which Trump needs *them* even more than they need him.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
By the time this merger ruins HBO, destroys WB, gets 5,000 people fired, moves production overseas, and guts the quality of the movies the new studio makes, most people will have forgotten how fast the AGs caved and how little they got in this deal. Writers will not.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ICE abducted a WBB player while she was traveling with her Kentucky State team in early August at Louisville airport. She has been imprisoned for 1.5 months and denied care for a serious ACL injury. It is the responsibility of universities and the NCAA to protect their players. They have failed.
Aminata Seck, 26, a student-athlete at Kentucky State University, was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport while traveling with her school's basketball team Aug. 7, said Sadiqa Reynolds, a lawyer helping coordinate Seck's case.

Seck's team was headed to New York for a tournament, and she was taken into custody after going through airport security, said Reynolds, former president and CEO of the Louisville Urban League.
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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Remember when "Google it" had positive connotations?
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Zaki Hasan @zakiscorner.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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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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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
touche. "Defendants do not dispute that the reason ChatGPT and Copilot are 'good at news' is because they trained on stolen news content." /6
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Blood boiling. Not a good look for OpenAI or Greg Brockman here: "ah nice" in response to "a hack to get around nytimes paywall" in his efforts "to scrape" The Times website. After many points on his bragging about OpenAI's substitution for news. /4
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Straight from OpenAI's Brockman and Microsoft's Nadella - 'doom loop' for the entire web [as they vacuum up and substitute the work of journalism and threaten their economic foundations]. /2
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Brendan Buhler @thebuhler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I'm a day late to this, but it seems not great that we've violated the long-standing norm against deploying side-based weapons.
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I am going to become the Joker
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Their version of these topics are not logical or science-based or something that can be negotiated. They think chemicals and pesticides are a government conspiracy, that GMO is altering our DNA, and that clean food would end the need for all medicine. These are not shared goals!!
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The Trump administration and Musk being in effect pro-AI child porn seems like a good thing for Democrats to point out.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
My man looks like he owns a Hooters-branded Discover Card
Secretaryof Homelandsecurity Markwayne Mullin
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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The Trump admin used polygraph tests on 50 members of the Joint Staff in hopes of finding leakers. Instead the use of the tests leaked:
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Pentagon Subjects Roughly 50 Members of the Joint Staff to Polygraph Tests in Expanded Leak Hunt (Gift Article)
The aggressive effort comes in the wake of news reports about the military’s diminished stocks of crucial munitions as the U.S. fights Iran.
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
[shooting a gun to keep rent down voice] sometimes the state needs to burns a collaborating firm to the ground to keep illiberalism down
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/08/2026
you see, no one has standing when it comes time to sue the president because he is a very special birthday boy
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
only in America could there be a bullshit health craze centered around eating burgers, fries, and a milkshake
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“Moreno’s wife and daughter, along with his two brothers and their wives, were also convicted…”
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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 29/08/2026
what a time to be alive (derogatory)
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Headline leaves out the fact that one of the things that is now allowed is a history of beastiality.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Here’s the opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... “The empty invocation of national security is not a blank check to punish and retaliate against government critics.”
The undisputed record shows that the challenged actions constituted unlawful retaliation in violation of the First Amendment, and that Anthropic was denied the pre-deprivation process required under the Fifth Amendment. The record further shows no material dispute that
Secretary Hegseth's decision to designate Anthropic a supply chain risk violated the governing statutory scheme, 10 U.S.C. § 3252, and was arbitrary and capricious. Though the Department
of War is undisputedly free to select the Al vendor of its choice, the evidence demonstrates that the broad measures imposed on Anthropic were illegal and baseless. Summary judgment is granted in Anthropic's favor on all claims, except for the ultra vires separation of powers claim and certain claims concerning Agency Defendants who undisputedly did not take any relevant
action or who took only interim measures, on which judgment is entered in Defendants' favor. The empty invocation of national security is not a blank check to punish and retaliate against government critics.
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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
For far too long, business and tourism have plagued this country.
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Brendan Buhler @thebuhler.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Someone doesn't want to be blamed for the death of children. Tough.
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