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404 Media @404media.co · 3h
BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned
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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 1h
the Hawk/Hawkeyes fiasco is an object lesson about how hard investigative journalism is, and the dangers of dunning-krugered dilettantes
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 2h
“I’m calling on all my fellow public servants — Democratic and Republican — to reject the corrosive influence of AI and Big Tech spending in our politics and our elections.”
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 2h
Guest columist JB Pritzker in @contrariannews.org on the threats of "unchecked AI" www.contrariannews.org/p/march-us-t...
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March Us Toward the Summit, Not the Chasm
By Governor JB Pritzker
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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 13h
Eric Schmitt’s conspiracy theory, slander and b-ball ignorance yesterday was humiliating. But also remember who he is: a natcon with a blood-and-soil belief that the only real Americans are descended from white Christians who immigrated before the mid-1800s. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 17h
Visceral GenX nostalgia warning
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 20h
You don't fucking say.
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 22h
"I don't think you know that we have this stuff" 💀🤡💀
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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The Onion @theonion.com · 23h
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
tired: corruption wired: coalruption
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The Coal Industry Asked for a Rescue. Trump Obliged.
In a previously unreported letter, a top lobbyist floated the idea of using emergency powers to keep aging coal plants open.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump's approval is stuck in the 30s, so he found a new campaign donor: you His admin is running recycled 2024 campaign ads on Fox & Newsmax, now billed to taxpayers Richard Painter, Virginia Canter, Chris Swartz & I on why this propaganda machine smacks of corruption, @contrariannews.org👇 -TN
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Trump Goes Full-Orwell
The administration’s propaganda hype-ads are an abuse of power.
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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This poll from Cook is bonkers. A *huge* plurality of voters (43% overall, 61% of Ds) want Dems to focus on changing the political system overall vs. just opposing (21%, 36% of Ds) or working with Trump (35%, 3% of Ds).
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
texans, you are going to see this clip once a week and twice on sundays until the election
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This training will cover best practices to keep participants safe & brave at a variety of event types. Whether you want to be prepared for common medical incidents or looking to brush up on deescalation skills, we’ll make sure you’re supported in making a plan.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
NEW: Trump’s ballroom? Actually it’s a ‘military complex.’ Trump’s arch? Also a ‘military complex.’ That press ban? A national security move. The president keeps cloaking pet projects in NatSec rationales — and judges are increasingly looking askance. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Trump’s ‘magic words’: National security
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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
NYT confirming Haaretz's report from earlier this month: Two sources told the Times "that the Emirati leader had secretly reported to Mr. Netanyahu that Hamas was considering a major attack. The warning from the Emirati leader, however, never reached the leaders of Israel’s security establishment."
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Netanyahu Said to Have Been Warned by Emirati Leader About Hamas Attack Before Oct. 7 (Gift Article)
The warning from the leader of the United Arab Emirates, which lacked specific details about the nature of an attack, never reached the chiefs of Israel’s security establishment, Israeli officials sai...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
lol holy shit I wouldn't talk about literally anything else if I was the guy running against him. —"What do you think about trans kids in sp-" —"Did you hear my opponent had his patient, who was 8 months pregnant, arrested in front of her son because she didn't pay a $50 medical bill?"
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 24/09/2026
This is absolutely deranged: Months before murdering 6 people and injuring 27 more, ChatGPT told the teen school shooter in Tumbler Ridge, BC that using a Remington 870 pump-action shotgun is “brutal” in a “hallway, indoors or a crowded classroom” because “close quarters” is that gun’s “playground”
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In dissent, Jackson harshly criticizes the per curiam, unsigned majority's treatment of irreparable harm.
Next, in balancing the equities, the majority only looks at
one side of the scale—the judicial equivalent of expecting a
seesaw with weight applied on only one side to work
properly. In the per curiam’s view, the sole harm here is
that the District Court’s order “inhibits the Federal Govern-
ment’s efforts to assist state and local agencies in the proper
administration of the midterm elections.” Ante, at 6. As a
threshold matter, this overvalues the harm to the Govern-
ment, since States cannot use SAVE to systematically
strike people from the voter rolls within 90 days of an elec-
tion in any event. See 52 U. S. C. §20507(c)(2)(A); see also
No. 26–5243 (CADC, Sept. 4, 2026), App. 131a. It is hard
to see how the Government is harmed pending the comple-
tion of the court proceedings below when SAVE’s applica-
tion to the upcoming elections will already be limited.
Even more concerning is the majority’s omission of any
consideration of the harms that might occur if the modified
SAVE system is allowed to continue operating. See Califor-
nia, 609 U. S., at ___ (JACKSON, J., dissenting) (slip op., at
10). The District Court highlighted such harms, noting the
risk that States might cancel the voter registrations of at
least some recently naturalized citizens or force such per-
sons to provide proof of citizenship before voting.
835 F. Supp. 3d, at 108–109. That court also found that
those harms have already materialized in Texas, where one
of Respondents’ members “had her voter registration re-
voked without her knowledge,” and two more “had to pro-
vide proof of citizenship to maintain registered voter sta-
tus.” Id., at 113. But the per curiam’s purported balancing
fails to address, much less account for, the demonstrated
harms of issuing a stay. See Orr, 607 U. S., at ___
(JACKSON, J., dissenting) (slip op., at 3).
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING: In a major loss for voters, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to allow the Trump administration to initiate voter roll purges using a flawed database involving Americans' private data. The ruling will disproportionately impact naturalized citizens who've been wrongly flagged in the system.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Not so baffling
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 25/09/2026
tucker carlson is a foppish frozen TV dinner empire heir, a virulent bigot, and a grotesque opportunist/propagandist. it's embarrassing that NPR editors think he needs more attention for his phony-ass pivot away from a nightmare he helped build
NPR headline for tucker carlson interview: "Tucker Carlson has reconsidered Trump. And quite a bit else."
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Rep. LaMonica McIver @replamonica.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I am facing 17 years in federal prison for doing my job and standing up to Trump’s merciless immigration enforcement campaign. I am finding the strength to keep standing up every single day.
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U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver is eight months pregnant and facing 17 years in jail | Jenice Armstrong
McIver’s inner strength is next level. She is running for reelection while fighting efforts by the Trump administration to jail her. Plus, she’s repping her constituents and caring for her family.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There's this really odd pattern with Bari Weiss, JD Vance, Richard Hanania etc, where they rise to prominence because their main skill is cultivating the friendship of wealthy patrons, but it's impossible to figure out how they do it because they constantly exude a pungent strain of anti-charisma.
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⿻ 🌱 Eileen Cyleen @eileen.actor · 24/09/2026
Crudely drawn meme

Person: "Do crimes"
Computer: "I did crimes"
Person: "oh my god."
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
i think this is the winner
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Andrew Perez @andrewperez.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Twitter’s website includes a political ad disclosure file, which it says “will be updated every 2 business days.” The disclosure doesn’t include any ads run after June 11. It doesn’t include any ads that Musk’s super PAC has run this year.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I do think you basically charge a few of them with the cybercrimes they're committing and the "alignment" problem does suddenly start to disappear.
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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Please put it in the newspaper that I don’t know my own address or zip code
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.
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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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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
latest in a long running series of Republicans discovering that Republican policy preferences are bad when they’re applied to their loved ones
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So the @oregonian.com is running Facebook push polls now?
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Thanks, Gavin
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
By destroying Voting Rights Act and gutting 14th & 15th amendments the Roberts Court is recycling legal arguments once used by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction Please read my deep dive w/ @pemalevy.bsky.social in @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
'I am the code'
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Secret Check Susan? Kompromat Collins?
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.
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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins
The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/09/2026
DoorDash has ripped off more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers. We’re making them pay $131.5 million — the largest worker settlement in City history. This is New York, where hard work pays and greed will cost you.
DoorDash messed up.
They repeatedly left more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers underpaid or paid late, causing them immense stress and financial difficulty.
That's unacceptable.
We've secured a $131.5M settlement from
DoorDash - the largest worker settlement in NYC history and largest delivery worker settlement in
American municipal history.
Every worker will be paid what they are owed, and every company will be forced to abide by the laws of this city.

LOGOS:
The OFFICE of the MAYOR of NYC
NYC Consumer and Worker Protection Mayor Mamdani and Deliveristas representatives stand behind a podium.Mayor Mamdani signs a giant check.Three delivery workers holding a giant fake check for $131.5M.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Total collapse: 70% say his Iran war has hurt the US 75% say he has no plan for the war 76% say the war isn't worth the costs
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22/09/2026
Jaw-dropping documents from our lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”
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AI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”
Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
yeah, just to be clear, Ds could still very much lose the senate. if polls are underestimating Rs by say 3 points suddenly AK, OH, ME, TX, MI are all very, very close. polling errors of 3 points happen all the time.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What we already know about the latest ICE shooting: Agents drove into Wilber Rafael Garces Perez’s car An agent fired at Garces Perez 4 times--while he was still in the car The agents didn't give Garces Perez immediate medical attention They didn't have body-cams www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/u...
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Videos Reveal New Details About ICE Shooting in Austin
A video analysis finds that a federal immigration officer was standing to the side of Wilber Rafael Garces Perez’s car when the officer apparently fired through the rear passenger window. But the even...
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ProPublica got the literal check Collins was bribed with.
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Patel wouldn't kick this guy outta the FBI
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 22/09/2026
At this point in Trump sclerotic, failed would be dictatorship, however, there is not even a pretense of acting legally. The flouting of the law is very much the point.
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