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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 4h
I've been meaning to do a post, but all these pressers violate DOJ's pre-election rules, which Todd Blanche swore were sacrosanct when he represented someone charged over a year before an election.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 12h
Something unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war.
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NPR @npr.org · 3h
A former senior CIA official pleaded guilty Tuesday to a charge that he abused his position to enrich himself by acquiring Florida real estate and hundreds of gold bars worth over $40 million. n.pr/476nwmZ
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Former CIA official accused of stealing $40M in gold bars pleads guilty
A former senior CIA official pleaded guilty Tuesday to a charge that he abused his position to enrich himself by acquiring Florida real estate and hundreds of gold bars worth over $40 million.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 3h
A Reuters investigation debunked Tesla’s flawed US research that its ‘Full Self-Driving’ system is up to 10 times safer than a human driver. Now it’s submitting the same research to European regulators deciding whether to approve FSD reut.rs/4AT9ItC
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Tesla is browbeating the EU to approve its ‘Full Self-Driving’ tech. The pressure is working.
Elon Musk’s EV company is running a social-media campaign blaming European traffic deaths on red tape. Its safety claims don’t hold up, experts say, but regulators are starting to buckle.
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 3h
“Let us eat one last cookie, and then we will stop.”
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 16h
Might I point you at kickbezosintheballs.org
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 16h
Always read @espiers.bsky.social but especially this: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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My Rape, the Cornell Case—and Why We Need Better Approaches to Teaching How Consent Works
I tried to process the experience of being raped by disassociating. We have to show our kids a better way.
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WildEarth Guardians @wildearthguardians.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Trump administration is proposing to completely abolish the Roadless Rule, opening nearly 45 million acres of public lands to damaging road construction, logging, and other industrial extraction. Comments on the DEIS will only be accepted until TOMORROW October 6 ➡️ loom.ly/Qz2hjqw
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h
🔥 @katiephang.bsky.social (With Deniro behind her): “I’m suing A.G. Todd Blanche — Trump’s cosplaying personal lawyer — for the unredacted Epstein files… as an independent journo 🗣️ I don’t have a corporate oligarch telling me what to say… Trump has been violating federal law every day.”
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Reuters @reuters.com · 16h
US appeals court weighs block on Kennedy's vaccine panel appointments reut.rs/4hHndE2
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US appeals court weighs block on Kennedy's vaccine panel appointments
A lawyer for the Trump administration told a federal appeals court on Tuesday that ​a judge had improperly hamstrung an influential vaccine advisory panel by blocking Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s ‌handpicked appointees from serving on it.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16h
The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Paramount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood merger
The merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 17h
"The federal government is lying to you." "The government has said that ICE does not zip tie or handcuff children." "They’ve denied engaging in racial profiling" "They’ve said the government is not wrongly arresting U.S. citizens." *We found the truth* projects.propublica.org/american-cit....
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 16h
🚨BREAKING: A Florida lawyer who previously pleaded guilty to illegally accessing election websites monitored the primary election in Maricopa County, Arizona for the Department of Justice (DOJ), according to records viewed by Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DOJ lawyer convicted of hacking election sites monitored voting in Maricopa County, Arizona
The involvement of the two lawyers in a state where President Donald Trump challenged the 2020 election results adds to concerns that the administration’s monitoring program for the fall — which it ha...
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 16h
Mike Johnson just thinking about his future as a lobbyist for PornHub.
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WIRED @wired.com · 16h
From their dorky parties to their weird walks, the movie holds OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other stakeholders with contempt, while demonstrating their recklessness.
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‘Artificial’ Roasts AI’s Creators—and Sends a Dark Warning About Its Dangers
From their dorky parties to their weird walks, the movie holds OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other stakeholders with contempt, while demonstrating their recklessness.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The world does not consent (but Sam Altman does not believe consent is required). But the world would consent to many bad things happening to Sam Altman and OpenAI.
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 17h
Trump and his sons quietly moved 20 billion crypto tokens into an account that lets them cash out. Corruption, plain and simple.
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Is the Trump Family Preparing to Cash Out on Its Own Crypto?
President Donald Trump and his three sons have taken a step that would permit them to sell World Liberty Financial’s digital tokens.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 16h
Trump's call for a massive terrorist attack on Los Angeles and San Diego raises eyebrows in some liberal circles.
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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 18h
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With Talarico now the slight favorite in the race, national Republicans have flooded Texas' airwaves with commercials to save Paxton's flagging campaign. That makes sense. Any Texan who has turned on the TV in the past few weeks already knows that Talarico is "for they/them" and seen the ad where a Latino boy gets hit with a Transgenderification Beam and turns into a beautiful woman. But much of the nation was confused about why they, non-Texans, were seeing this stuff while trying to watch the Philadelphia Eagles-Los Angeles Rams game on Sunday.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h
The NY Fed examines how tariffs affected inflation and finds that, without them, goods prices would have declined as of last February. libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2026/10/how-...
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 21h
Aside from the Harp weirdness of it all, it's hilarious that he still treats signing things like it's an amazing feat of strength.
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 21h
Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
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Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · 21h
In December 2025, Australia enacted a first-of-its-kind law to restrict kids' access to social media. Similar shares of parents and non-parents support these restrictions. However, parents of children ages 10 and under show more support for restrictions than parents of young teens.
Chart showing older Australians are especially supportive of restricting children’s social media access
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h
RUHLE: Why are we blaming Kristi Noem and Pete Hegseth, who you voted to confirm? All of this is happening at the president's direction TILLIS: Maybe some people aren't accustomed to hiring. Have you hired anybody before?
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Nature @nature.com · 21h
Data show that flu season in the Northern Hemisphere might be off to an early start — prompting a rethink about when people should get their annual vaccines go.nature.com/4y2bE08
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Flu season could kick off ‘incredibly’ early — what scientists are watching
Cases in the Northern Hemisphere are cropping up weeks early, and they are dominated by a virus with a concerning mutation.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23h
New from me: Trump, his Cabinet, white nationalist Joe Gebbia and Big Balls came together for a special event: to unveil America.gov. What the site offers - a chatbot - and what it promises are two very different things, with lots of hard work ahead. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/americagov...
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America.gov: Branding in Search of a Product
It got a wave of positive headlines, but for people who know tech, a shrug of the shoulders
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h
RUHLE: Why do you think the president is taking this position? TILLIS: Uhhh. I think he got bad advice RUHLE: Why do you talk about advice? He's the president! You said he's got great political instincts, and millions of Americans are suffering
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 20h
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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 20h
this is one of those headlines that is obviously true but my brain can't really process it.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20h
“.. days after co-founder Palmer Luckey was named to a Pentagon future weapons task force.” @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2026/10/06/a...
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 20h
Tillis is a coward who, even as his political career draws to an end, cannot bring himself to say Trump is bad. He still says the worst problem with Trump is advice he gets from *other people*
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Reuters @reuters.com · 20h
Micron enters $600 million settlement of Netlist patent dispute reut.rs/3UblJtZ
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Micron enters $600 million settlement of Netlist patent dispute
Computer-memory company Netlist announced on Tuesday that Micron would pay $600 ​million to settle a patent dispute over ‌Micron's memory chips.
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Al Swearengen @al-swearengen.bsky.social · 20h
It’s the “Good czar, bad boyars” thing that Russians use to excuse Putin. It’s not the tyrant’s fault, it’s the fault of the advice the tyrant gets. It’s so stupid. Also, so is Tillis, and everyone pretending like he’s anything but a gutless coward when it matters.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21h
We live in a police state now
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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 20h
Neat interactive model of state legislative results. Dems realistically could gain majorities in AZ, MI, MN, NH, PA, and WI, while a few more upsets are possible if the wave becomes a tsunami. Dems would be well-positioned to flip GA, NC, and TX too if they had fair maps instead of GOP gerrymanders
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 20h
Tennessee is planning new youth prisons, bucking a nationwide trend, ProPublica reports:
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Across the Country, Youth Prisons Are Closing. This State Is Building More.
Tennessee officials say they need more high-security facilities for kids who commit crimes. Experts say this approach flies in the face of crime data and research that shows youth prisons are not rehabilitative.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Oh, this is egregious.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“The backlash against A.I. is a backlash against unchecked inequality”
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Reuters @reuters.com · 05/10/2026
Tate brothers used 'lover boy' model to exploit women, Britain says reut.rs/4dlSBGO
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Tate brothers used 'lover boy' model to exploit women, Britain says
Social media influencers Andrew and ​Tristan Tate used a "lover boy" model to lure women with the promise of romantic ‌relationships before coercing them to create online pornography, British law enforcement said in court documents made public on Monday in the US.
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 05/10/2026
Terry Johnson, a North Carolina sheriff who is vying for a seventh term, was investigated for profiling Latinos long before Trump. His opponent, a pastor running as an independent, says he hopes to rebuild trust with immigrants.
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A North Carolina Sheriff and ICE Ally Faces Accusations of Racism—and a Challenger This Fall - Bolts
Sheriff Terry Johnson, who is battling for a seventh term in Alamance County, was investigated for profiling Latinos long before Trump. His opponent says he’d rebuild trust with local immigrants.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Global Project Against Hate and Extremism @globalextremism.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Christian nationalism is advancing a vision in which women are expected to submit to male authority and accept growing restrictions on their rights. 7 women who have confronted the movement reveal how that ideology is taking hold in churches, politics, & public life, and why they are fighting back.
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What is a Woman’s Place?
Christian nationalism is advancing a vision of society in which women are expected to submit to male authority, have more children, and accept growing restrictions on their rights. Seven women who hav...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🔥 @anandwrites.bsky.social on Bill Maher: “Cities are unfairly labeled. A large % of (LGBTQ youth) homeless who end up in cities were failed in other parts of 🇺🇸 . Many families choose a verse in a Book over their child… cities are holding a lot of people you failed to love & take care of.”
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I don't mean to make waves or anything, but as a journalist, I am definitely opposed to the president talking about arresting journalists.
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Stand Up America @standupamerica.com · 05/10/2026
Samuel Alito just said he decides every year if he will retire. If he goes next summer, the Senate elected this November will confirm his replacement. Vote to flip the Senate and block Trump from appointing another enabler to the Court.
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...
Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 05/10/2026
“Even if I got hit by a truck tonight. HHS will never go back to what it was before.”
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RFK is gloating that his changes to HHS are permanent
“Even if I got hit by a truck tonight, HHS will never go back to what it was.”
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
At a marathon runtime of four hours, Alex Gibney's new documentary 'Musk' strains to cover the sweep of the oligarch's business empire and its capture of U.S. government. But the interviews with first wife Justine Wilson and latest ex Ashley St. Clair about his vindictive nature hit hardest.
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Elon Musk’s Exes Are the Most Damning Part of a Massive New Documentary
Interviews with Justine Wilson and Ashley St. Clair in the nearly four-hour-long “Musk” paint the world’s richest man as capricious and cruel even toward those closest to him.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointee in New York, rebukes ICE for arresting two people erroneously — including a U.S. citizen — and later claiming "mistaken identity." "ICE agents falsified official records," he says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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