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Purge Palantir @purgepalantir.bsky.social · 15h
"Sources told Bloomberg that the 'kill chain' that led to the attack included input from the Maven AI system operated by Palantir. Maven did not flag that the site was now a school, the report claimed, nor did any personnel tasked with reviewing the AI target data."
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Kate Aronoff @katearonoff.bsky.social · 18h
I wrote about why dismantling fuel efficiency standards may not actually be good for a US auto industry that is rapidly losing ground against more fuel efficient cars newrepublic.com/article/2159...
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Trump Isn’t Helping Out the Auto Industry. He’s Helping to Tank It.
The Trump administration is touting its recent rollback of Biden-era fuel efficiency standards as a win for American car manufacturers. It couldn’t have things more backward.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 16h
shoutout to Senator Jack Reed (@reed.senate.gov) who was briefed on this a week ago but hasn't bothered to tell us plebes!
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thefutureisoffline.bsky.social @thefutureisoffline.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Israel has decimated Lebanon’s land — and is also slaughtering the people who protect it. truthout.org/articles/leb...
truthout.org
Lebanon’s Environmental Defenders Say Israel Is Deliberately Targeting Them
Israel has decimated Lebanon’s land — and is also slaughtering the people who protect it.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
According to leaks, Anthropic reported a $42B net loss in 2025. This was revealed as Anthropic is preparing a massive IPO and even bigger investments in AI infrastructure. How worried should we be about the AI bubble bursting?
youtube.com
Brace Yourself for the AI Bubble
Are we watching an AI revolution, or a slow-motion economic disaster?
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 30/09/2026
Tonight, 47 Senators supported my resolution to get accountability for the 9 Americans killed on the West Bank & for Palestinians who face injustices daily. That's more support than we've ever had in this fight. Republicans blocked us, but we won't stop until we get justice.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 30/09/2026
"Everyone knows Frodo’s the hero of Lord Of The Rings, but he’s not in this case, which—I mean, evil is a form of innovation, right?” — Peter Thiel
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Creatively Tapped-Out Peter Thiel Launches Startup Called ‘Frodo, But Evil’
BUENOS AIRES—After exhausting a significant amount of his intellectual energy in a series of company launches, a creatively tapped-out Peter Thiel announced Tuesday a new startup called “Frodo, But Ev...
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is among the most under-covered stories in America — Israel is now holding *THREE* young Americans in prison, and no mainstream media is touching it
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
US to release 40 million barrels of crude from Strategic Petroleum Reserve - www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/liv…
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US to release 40 million barrels of crude from Strategic Petroleum Reserve
<article data-history-node-id="448522" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/us-release-40-million-barrels-crude-strategic-petroleum-reserve-energy" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/us-release-40-million-barrels-crude-strategic-petroleum-reserve-energy" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">US to release 40 million barrels of crude from Strategic Petroleum Reserve</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The US energy department&nbsp;said on Tuesday it is offering to loan energy companies 40&nbsp;million barrels&nbsp;of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, in an effort to control soaring fuel prices ahead of the US midterm elections.</p> <p>The&nbsp;US&nbsp;agreed&nbsp;in March&nbsp;to loan 172 million barrels of oil from the SPR as part of a wider deal with about 30 countries in the International Energy Agency to release 400 million barrels.</p> <p>In June, the Trump administration offered to loan the last 40 million barrels from that IEA agreement, but revealed later that month that companies&nbsp;only agreed to borrow about 500,000&nbsp;barrels.</p> <p><em>Reporting by Reuters</em></p> </div> </div> </article>
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
BREAKING: Israel snatched an American teen from his West Bank home in the middle of the night — just days before his birthday and during his critical national exams. He's now been held for 3 months, with no charges. Netanyahu just came to the US for the *eighth* time since Trump took office.
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First Draft: Israel Has Kidnapped Another American Teenager
Abdalkareem Issa Ahmed Safi has Texas roots but languishes in a notorious jail, one more victim of Benjamin Netanyahu’s cruel impunity. Donald Trump, meanwhile, is losing some of his most ardent fans.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 28/09/2026
⭕️ Troy Jackson defies consultants, denounces Gaza genocide Troy Jackson, the Dem. candidate running against Sen. Susan Collins, has been instructed by his campaign consultants to moderate his language around Israel’s genocide in Gaza & to call for an end merely to “offensive weapons,” according...
⭕️ Troy Jackson defies consultants, denounces Gaza genocide 

Troy Jackson, the Democratic candidate running against Sen. Susan Collins, has been instructed by his campaign consultants to moderate his language around Israel’s genocide in Gaza and to call for an end merely to “offensive weapons,” according to new reporting from Drop Site, which builds on an investigation by New York magazine. 

Yet at a candidate event on Saturday, he was directly pressed on the question and did not back off his previous stance, saying he believes Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza and that he won’t send further aid to the state of Israel.

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At a town hall tonight, Troy Jackson says he believes Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza and that he won’t send further aid to the state of Israel.
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The Desert Veteran @jkz12769.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So a developer who wants a data center center to be built near Hazelton, PA is offering $10,000 to the citizens. The citizens are pushing back saying it's a bribe & they don't want the noise. www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
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Data center developer offers $10,000 checks to 4,500 households if the 1,300-acre facility is approved — locals push back over noise and 'bribe' concerns
Report says that many residents are rejecting the offer due to fears of noise, falling property values, and mistrust.
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Annie @annielrice.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The police don't keep us safe.
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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I've seen people claim this is just deportation w/out due process, but it's NOT. Deportation ends in return to your home country or a safe 3rd country to live your life/pursue asylum/etc. We're sending people to indefinite prison terms in other nations or places where they're targeted for killing.
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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is not deporting people. Literally. Legally. There is a deportation process and this isn't it. This is rendition. This is disappearing people.
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 21/09/2026
US has deported more than 25,000 people under secretive agreements with 35 countries to take migrants with no ties to those nations, according to an investigation published Monday u.afp.com/Sj9Z
Airport staff and officials attend to a plane carrying migrants deported from the US at the Roberts International Airport in Harbel, some 56 km outside of Liberia's capital of Monrovia, on August 20, 2026
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"But now Billy was dead, and the state of Connecticut said he owed $232,733 for room and board during his earlier prison stay. Selling the house where DeSenti now lived alone would help satisfy that debt." ctmirror.org/2026/09/27/t...
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They served their time in prison. Then the bills arrived.
Hundreds of CT residents have had money seized through a law that allows the state to charge a fee for every day a person spends in prison.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27/09/2026
A Crusoe (fossil fuel company powering data centres) claimed no protesters at NY climate wk live near a data centre - but as @mollytaft.com points out, why is that relevant when climate impacts *everyone* *everywhere*? We *all* live near data centres, in that regard www.wired.com/story/data-c...
A day before the panel, at a different briefing, I watched BloombergNEF analysts talk about the group’s projections of a massive new influx of demand for fossil fuel power over the coming years, driven primarily by data centers. Data centers, according to BNEF’s analysis, will likely comprise more than 5 percent of global electricity demand by 2035, tripling their needs now. The majority of that demand will be met by new and existing natural gas plants, and could raise the power sector’s emissions by 6 percent in less than 10 years.
That doesn’t even account for gas power plants being built off the grid to service data centers. A separate BNEF analysis of 99 proposed on-site gas power plants found that they could increase US power sector emissions by 20 to 33 percent if they’re all built, posing a major climate threat. Declines in emissions from coal plant retirements will be more than offset by new gas emissions, and more coal plants are staying online thanks to the new demand.
Even if data centers pull off the PR turnaround of the century and ease concerns about water use and energy bills, the fossil fuel buildout still looms as one of the biggest consequences of their buildout. Extinction Rebellion may, at the end of the day, be right: all those added emissions mean that even those of us who aren’t living near data centers will end up feeling their impacts.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I just saw a film about the AI-enabled apocalypse. Only it's not science fiction. It's not even in the future. It's in the present. The film is called NAZA. See it. @theguardian.com @us.theguardian.com youtu.be/98xLCdc7t7E
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Apocalypse is here
YouTube video by Naomi Klein
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Among the ICE abductions reported yesterday was a ~7:20 a.m. incident in Chicago's West Englewood neighborhood. Per video shared online, ICE agents surrounded a car with a child in it, smashed the window and took the man in the driver's seat, as the woman next to him cried and prayed.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Texas police has arrested a city council candidate in Austin who participated in a protest against ICE: www.kvue.com/article/news...
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 26/09/2026
The last time food got in was in May.
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Oleshky: Eating garden weeds to survive in Russian-occupied city cut off from food and water
The BBC has spoken to residents in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town of Oleshky who say they are being "constantly shelled".
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Then, if you’re able, try to get your body moving. You’re going to need your senses and movement is good for your brain. If you have kids in your care, protect their developing brains and their image. That’s all I can say about that.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.
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David Lindsey Pittman @dphrygian.com · 25/09/2026
It would be just terrible if this caused a Streisand effect 🤭 www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
hollywoodreporter.com
The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
The Alex Gibney doc has received denials from YouTube, Meta, TikTok and X on running the trailer. Its U.S. distributor is appealing.
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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
it is significant to understand Sam Altman as having grown up in St. Louis, in Clayton, in the Veiled Prophet class milieu at John Burroughs
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thefutureisoffline.bsky.social @thefutureisoffline.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
From 10 months ago...
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Ziggy West @ziggywest.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Please do what you can. The belt can’t tighten much further. truthout.org/articles/wer...
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We’re Already Living Through Journalism’s Dystopian Future
AI is devouring our industry and undermining access to factual information. We all have a duty to fight back.
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The Lever @levernews.com · 25/09/2026
After Big Tech fought a federal AI safety rule - and funneled millions into Trump's political operations - Trump killed the rule. Now, after a string of alarming AI incidents, some of those same companies who fought against the rule are calling for regulation.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care.” H/t @ameshaa.bsky.social
nbcnews.com
America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Interviewing the inventor of napalm about his hats
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
JUST IN: A federal judge has issued a permanent injunction upbraiding ICE for mass arrests that have strained detention facilities and forced detainees all over the country into "overcrowded, squalid, and degrading rooms for excessive periods of time" www.nysd.uscourts.gov/sites/defaul...
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
About to board a flight from Chicago to New York, and TSA is at our gate checking IDs. I have never seen this before.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 24/09/2026
⚡️🎥 Delegations walk out of the UN General Assembly as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, wanted by the International Criminal Court over war crimes in Gaza, takes the podium:
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
On AI-based prior authorization for fee-for-service Medicare, piloted in 6 states: "...not only are seniors in Washington waiting two to four times longer than prior to the introduction of the WISeR model to obtain covered procedures..."
ahsituationreport.substack.com
Fraud Prevention or Administrative Burden? Prior Authorization Comes for Medicare
Instead of reducing wasteful care, Medicare’s new WISeR model introduces administrative barriers and delays critical care for patients who need it most.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 24/09/2026
Our Flock reporting just got five cops arrested. The Indianapolis officers were just criminally charged for spying on women. @aaronschaffer.com, @douglasmac.bsky.social and I found suspicious searches and got their agency to investigate. How many bad cops are still getting away? wapo.st/4xDOH3d
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 24/09/2026
📌Tue in Gaza under the Board of Peace-led “ceasefire”: ➤ 12:40 am — Israeli vehicles opened fire south of Khan Younis. ➤ 12:45 am — Israeli vehicles opened fire east of Gaza City. ➤ 12:50 am — Israeli forces demolished buildings west of Beit Lahia. ➤ 12:50 am — Israeli drones fired explosive...
➤ 12:50 a.m. — Israeli forces demolished buildings west of Beit Lahia.

➤ 12:50 a.m. — Israeli drones fired explosive munitions near the “Yellow Line” east of Al-Tuffah.

➤ 1:00 a.m. — Israeli warplane struck a home in Al-Tuffah.

➤ 6:20 a.m. — Israeli helicopters opened fire east of Khan Younis.

➤ 6:55 a.m. — Israeli helicopters opened fire east of Deir al-Balah.

➤ 8:35 a.m. — Israeli vehicles fired artillery east of Khan Younis.

➤ 8:40 a.m. — Israeli vehicles opened fire south of Khan Younis.

➤ 10:55 a.m. — Ghada Mohammad Abu Jazar, 35, was wounded by Israeli gunfire in the Maan area of Khan Younis.

➤ 1:40 p.m. — An Israeli quadcopter opened heavy fire around Abu Hmeid Roundabout and several streets in central Khan Younis.

➤ 2:10 p.m. — Israeli artillery shelled Al-Shuja’iyya, east of Gaza City.

➤ 5:15 p.m. — Israeli drone strike near Masqat School in western Al-Tuffah.

➤ 5:15 p.m. — Israeli drone strike near Al-Aqqad Mosque, west of Khan Younis.

➤ 5:20 p.m. — Two Palestinians were killed and several wounded in an Israeli drone strike on civilians inside a café in Al-Zarqa, Al-Tuffah.
➤ 5:29 p.m. — Israeli drone struck a vehicle next to Fares Beyk Restaurant in Al-Mawasi.

➤ 6:00 p.m. — Israeli vehicles opened fire toward northeastern Nuseirat.

➤ 6:15 p.m. — Arafat Sarour Saudi, 51, was wounded by Israeli quadcopter gunfire in Gaza City’s Al-Daraj neighborhood.

➤ 10:10 p.m. — Israeli vehicles and quadcopters opened fire north of Al-Bureij camp.

➤ 10:31 p.m. — One Palestinian was killed and several wounded in a drone strike near Tamraz Petrol Station on Al-Nafaq Street, Gaza City.

➤ 10:36 p.m. — Israeli forces demolished buildings northeast of Khan Younis.

➤ 10:50 p.m. — Israeli vehicles opened fire northeast of Khan Younis.

➤ 10:54 p.m. — Israeli vehicles opened fire in northwestern Gaza.

➤ 11:05 p.m. — A Palestinian was critically wounded by Israeli gunfire north of Khan Younis.

➤ 11:40 p.m. — Israeli vehicles opened fire east of Beit Lahia.

➤ 11:55 p.m. — Israeli artillery shelled areas east of Khan Younis.

The Palestinian side documented 26 Israeli ceasefire violations and 3 Palestinians killed and several wounded in a report shared with mediators and obtained by Drop Site. More below ⬇️
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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Palestinian Civil Defense says more than 630 bodies and human remains have been recovered since November 2025, while over 8,000 people remain missing under the rubble.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I've been fundraising for 40 years from the grassroots level to the larger institutional funder level. I don't remember things being as difficult as they've been over the past 18 months in particular. I had to fundraise through the 2008-09 crash and it wasn't this bad.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23/09/2026
Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23/09/2026
look, you can't just punish trump when dems are in power. that might make republicans do something crazy, like stage a coup, illegally shred the federal bureaucracy, or even vstart abducting people off the street and extraditing them to torture sites all over the world
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The DOJ attorney who's defending Trump's media ban in court is a big fan of Adolf Hitler.
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mosababutoha @mosababutoha.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What you’re seeing here is just one aspect of the life children in Gaza have been enduring every single day. This is from an air strike today (9/23/2026) Two children running from an Israeli airstrike. Behind them lies the slain body of a victim.
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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 23/09/2026
Julie Kantor, a frequent volunteer court observer, said in the days since the private courtrooms opened, she has found people wandering through the hallways unsure of where to go. “Because of mass confusion, they are missing their hearings."
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DHS Opens ‘Black Site Docket’ for Immigrants Without Lawyers at 26 Federal Plaza
A reporter from The City Reporter was threatened with arrest while attempting to observe comings and goings from the new courtrooms, which have left advocates mystified and fearing the worst.
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Equality Network @lgbtiscotland.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Every year we mark Bi Visibility day on the 23rd of September, to celebrate the wonderful diversity of the bi+ community, and challenge the stigma and erasure that bi+ people can face both within, and outwith, the LGBTQI+ community.
Graphic with a pink to blue gradient background. In the centre there is a picture of a button badge, it has a black background and says "BISEXUAL PRIDE!" on top of two overlapping pink and blue triangles. Below it says "Happy Bi Visibility day!". The Equality Network and Scottish Trans logos are at the bottom.
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This U.S. family was surrounded by Border Patrol agents after accidentally hitting a patrol car. Once free and proven innocent in court, they had the front door of their home blown off its hinges in retaliation. Border Patrol doesn't just target immigrants, it torments American citizens too.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
1. I need a favor. I’m working on a new project and, to test it, I need photos of political mail. If you have any political mail lying around your house, please take a photo of the front and back and send the photos to mail@popular.info.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 22/09/2026
your regular reminder that all is not well for those of us living in red states that women are still bleeding out in parking lots and dying because they can’t access abortion care we deserve not to die
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