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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 19h

Susan Collins is the Chair of Appropriations and she’s not willing to use that power to help the people in the state of Maine. I’m 100% dug in on getting shit done.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob." —FDR, 1936 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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How A.I. Super PACs Are Trying to Influence the Midterms

See how groups aligned with Anthropic and OpenAI have funneled major money into the fight for control of Congress.

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Timothy Babulski, PhD @tokenintellect.bsky.social · 17h

McMahon, like most conservatives, believes that parents own their children and that queer people are disposable. So she doesn't have to think about our feelings or welfare—only the parents' "greater comfort." She wants to normalize kids-as-property and the intrafamial abuse ownership legitimates.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Of course, the vile Trump regime sides with bigoted parents over vulnerable kids.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 21h

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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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 20h

They can, & should, also defund the Supreme Court itself, until such point as the Wizard in Robes decide to start following the laws & Constitution again: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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Larry Hochman @larryhochman.bsky.social · 19h

Know what’s worse than a sexual assault conviction hanging over your head for the rest of your life? Being gang raped by seven men and having that hang over your head for the rest of your life.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 20h

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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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

there are so many real and urgent threats to this country and its democracy and this pathetic “democratic” congressman is railing against socialism on bari weiss’s conservative rag

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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 21h

It's our turn to be concerned about Susan Collins.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 22h

This is a human rights abuse worthy of prosecution under intentional law. Minimally, they should be impeached and removed for this alone.

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Timothy Babulski, PhD @tokenintellect.bsky.social · 22h

@debtcollective.bsky.social it's not just Schmitt today. All the student loan villians are having a moment. For those who don't know, Bailey was the MO AG after Schmitt who fought to end the SAVE plan and, in the process, immiserated millions.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The “protect women” crowd hasn’t said a word about the Cornell rapists… It’s like they almost don’t actually care about women and abuse trans folks just to prop up their misogyny.

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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 23h

“These filings reveal shocking disdain for writers and their work through repeated, intentional decisions to steal books rather than pay for them with full knowledge that their products will destroy the careers of authors. +

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Timothy Babulski, PhD @tokenintellect.bsky.social · 23h

It's not just the 1% rate cut. It's the payment explosion. My payments will be seven times more expensive than they were under SAVE. SEVEN. That's a full month of groceries, plus a doctor's visit, plus prestriptions more expensive. It's more than a car payment. And I could've waited? Fucking hell.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 23h

renaissance painting when the renaissance is really fucking stupid

senator schmitt and his two idiot staffers after making a generational fuck up

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Balaeniceps tex 𓅣🌏🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️☭ @socialistpuffin.bsky.social · 23h

Once again, if you've never experienced homelessness, I don't give a fuck what your opinion is. It's likely bullshit.

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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 23h

When Schmitt was Missouri's AG he brought a lawsuit to stop student debt cancellation. The basic facts that lawsuit was based on were false. Getting the facts wrong is Schmitt's special skill, but when SCOTUS is politically motivated to do something the facts & law don't matter.

A screenshot of the headline from this article: https://newrepublic.com/article/172337/case-against-student-debt-relief

The headline reads "The Lie at the Heart of the States' Case Against Student Debt Relief: A new investigation has found that the numbers submitted by the plaintiffs simply don't add up." by Tori Otten May 2, 2023 in the New Republic

A screenshot of a headline from this article: https://prospect.org/2023/05/03/2023-05-03-fake-plaintiff-fake-harm-fake-case/

The headline reads: "Fake Plaintiff, Fake Harm, Fake Case: The Supreme Court is poised to unwind a fair number of legal principles to make sure student debtors don't get a break" by David Dayen for The American Prospect May 3, 2023

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Timothy Babulski, PhD @tokenintellect.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Apple is so desperate to get people to use AI, they've removed the opt-out switch and are trying to convince you you really need AI summaries and suggestions. They've embedded across MacOS 27 and in their apps but it _can_ be disabled feature by feature 👇

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John Ewing @avimentor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

TFW you spend too much time updating the SW on all your Apple devices, then checking each device to ensure that Apple Intelligence has not been re-enabled. AI, autocorrect, grammar, voice recognition ... so broken. If Steve Jobs isn't turning over in his grave, he's shifting uncomfortably.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 29/09/2026

Corporate death penalty for these criminal companies.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is where having a Secretary of Education who cares and is knowledgeable about education would be an advantage

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is not something you say if you actually like education or children

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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree @pingree.house.gov · 29/09/2026

Last Friday, the White House announced it was “canceling” ~$1 billion in funding already approved by Congress. The President CANNOT claw back funding just because he wants to. That is not how the Constitution works. Even some Republicans are calling bullshit. We need more of them to grow a spine.

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Trump seeks to cancel nearly $1B in congressionally approved funds

With just five days left in the fiscal year, President Donald Trump moved to cancel nearly $1 billion in congressionally approved spending.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

This is so smart. The people do not yearn for automation! “It is a failure when you ask people to adapt to computers. Computers should adapt to people. Asking people to make themselves more legible to software—to turn themselves into a database—is a doomed idea.” www.theverge.com/podcast/9170...

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BEWARE SOFTWARE BRAIN

Software brain is changing the world, but most people still aren’t buying.

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Timothy Babulski, PhD @tokenintellect.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Republican RAP income-based plan is a complete scam. They don't account for the poverty line, meaning they're good with complete immiseration. I do okay for a #HigherEd adjunct—so RAP has me on the hook for 6% of my income. But the idiots used AGI so it's more like 12% of my take-home pay.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Russ Vought needs to be criminally prosecuted and likely jailed when all is said and done

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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We should let people dream of something besides labor

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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am tired of having to pretend that the value of studying my discipline solely rests on the "marketable skills" we teach. Sometimes things are just worth knowing and doing because they make your life bigger and richer.

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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thinking of the Cornell gang rape case and how every system seems built to allow men to abuse women without concern. You can face more punishment for holding a “Stop Genocide” sign than being a rapist because the future of a rapist is the foundation to the structure of this fucked up system.

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Timothy Babulski, PhD @tokenintellect.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"More expensive" doesn't even begin to cover just how disastrous RAP is. My payments will go up 7x despite my income going down. Telling ED to _not_ use the 2025 returns should save me more than $100 a month but in reality does…nothing. Still the same exorbitant payment. They want us immiserated. 🤬

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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of student debtors are being kicked off an affordable repayment plan and put into more expensive plans tomorrow. Many are trying to find payment plans that work for them. Here's the repayment calculator today.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just a remember of what rape can entail after the fact: permanent psychological damage. Permanent physical damage and disability. Hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical care, relocation fees, lost work, lost educational opportunity. A marred reputation. Broken trust, lost relationships.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One of the Cornell students accused of gang rape, Scott Kretzschmar, denies it and says through his attorney that they are going to “confront” the survivor through the court system. I can already tell you that means victim-blaming, DARVO, and smears. She is going to need a lot more of our support.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

if you show me an AI video you are my enemy

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

No matter how bad you think AI is, it’s worse. This technology is not fit for purpose, and the nature of LLMs means it likely never will be.

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Arienne Childrey @ari4ohio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Pay attention Dems. Gov Beshear won twice, in a deep red state, and never threw trans people under the bus. He led with compassion rather than the fear and cowardice we've seen from some of our Ohio candidates and party leadership.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026

make no mistake: anyone telling you AI is “just like the dot com bubble” or “just like Amazon web services or uber” is beyond misinformed, verging into the realms of actually wanting to know less about the world. It means they have never actually looked at any of the numbers. Or they can’t count.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026

The level of financial misalignment is as bad as I’ve been warning, and you’re going to see headline after headline of stuff I’ve said in the newsletter for years. I say this with both pride and sadness because being right is going to be many layers of horrible.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026

AI has lost the Mandate of Heaven I’m afraid. WSJ saying it’s a “when” the ai bubble bursts. SNL dabbing on their biggest names for being weird. FT says 50% of chips sold in 2026 and 2027 have nowhere to go. Hundreds of billions short on revenue for even 10% ROIC. A disaster.

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Timothy Babulski, PhD @tokenintellect.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Paulo Friere called the dehumanization of the Oppressor necrophilic, nourished by a love of death, transforming people into things. I remember a bunch of my bougie classmates saying that was hyperbolic. I hope they can see now, at the eleventh hour, just how wrong they were.

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VoteHub @votehub.com · 28/09/2026

NEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports. “That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.”

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026

The GFC, much like the AI bubble, was nothing to do with reality, but ever-twisting levels of speculation. Too much of our financial system is powered by number games dressed up as investment.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026

I’m increasingly of the belief that we’ve never truly left the Great Financial Crisis. Everything we’re dealing with today started there, and every excess and problem stems from the US government’s failure to contain or eradicate its causes.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Once again, I gotta say: you cannot treat anything you’re feeding into an AI as anonymous. There are enormous ethics implications for, e.g. referees who are clearly uploading others’ unpublished papers without consent, let alone health care professionals or law enforcement

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