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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 8h
Yes, material problems exist in Germany but the country's capacity to solve them is the envy of almost every other country in the world. And yet the national discourse is that of a place declining at the speed of light (basically because there are too many visible foreigners). Racism is a cancer.
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Kate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I’ve got a piece in the @nytimes.com this morning about why Supreme Court reform has to be at the top of any agenda for democratic repair www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | Democrats Need a Plan for Supreme Court Reform. Here’s a Start. (Gift Article)
Why Democrats must prioritize court reform.
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 6h
Probably a bad thing that the right can come up with a totally nonsense conspiracy theory about James Talarico and journalists have to spend valuable time 3 weeks before the election debunking it instead of covering Paxton actually going to Dubai with his mistress on a trip paid for by a criminal
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Ursus Arctos @ursusarctos59.bsky.social · 5h
www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/10/14/d...
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After Mamdani Signal Row, Lawsuit Alleges Private City Agency Chats
The Department of Investigation is probing the alleged use of private email and text messages at the Department of Citywide Administrative Services.
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 12/10/2026
I’d argue the turning point in the Kansas race came when voters heard about Roger Marshall garnishing paychecks and pushing arrest warrants when his patients couldn’t afford their bills. The latest on the interest rates he charged makes matters a noticeably worse. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
ms.now
In Kansas, the interest rate Roger Marshall charged on medical bills makes a bad story worse
The senator garnished paychecks and pushed arrest warrants when his patients couldn’t afford their bills. His interest rates added insult to injury.
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Documented @documentedny.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"We are living through one of the most intense periods of immigration enforcement in American history." In a new monthly column, Austin Kocher explores the impact of rising immigration enforcement.
documentedny.com
The Baseline: Getting Our Bearings in an Age of Mass Deportation
The Baseline, a new monthly column from Austin Kocher, explores the impact of rising immigration enforcement.
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Darius Tahir @dariustahir.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
whomever designed this patient check-in drop-down is my favorite person of all time
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Absolutely wonderful preview of the by-election by @andrewteale.me.uk: really conveys so much of what makes the seat very unusual and I learnt a lot I didn’t know:
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Previewing the Holborn and St Pancras by-election and the four local by-elections of 8th October 2026
“All the right votes, but not necessarily in the right order”
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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In July, I went to the NFL Flag Championships in Indiana to see the enormous boom in youth flag football in person. Turns out, girls love ball. My story leads off @bloomberg.com Businessweek’s November issue on women’s sports. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
bloomberg.com
The NFL’s $192 Million Bet on Flag Football Is Paying Off With Teen Girls
The sport has seen unprecedented growth since the pandemic. Next up: The Olympics and a college campus near you.
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Ursus Arctos @ursusarctos59.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.npr.org/2026/10/07/n...
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Over 1,000 children are buried at juvenile detention centers nationwide
Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried.
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Steven Godfrey @stevengodfrey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If you're at all interested in what's happening in this Christa Pike story, @iamstevenhale.bsky.social is the one reporter to follow
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Rees-Mogg endorsed the AfD at a crucial point of their ascent, so he doesn’t get to shimmy away from this.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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‘They showed no mercy’: mapping the Rohingya villages being erased by rebel forces
Nearly a decade after the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya people by Myanmar forces, satellite images show the insurgent Arakan Army is now emulating the killings and land grabs
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Documented @documentedny.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The expansion of the ‘public charge’ rule is just the latest in a barrage of efforts by the Trump administration to impede immigrants' participation in public life.
documentedny.com
‘People Will Die’: Mamdani Sues Trump Administration to Stop Attempt to Cut Benefits for Immigrants
The new public charge rule is the latest in a barrage of efforts by the Trump administration to impede immigrants from participating in public life.
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
At the time of the sentencing the judge who oversaw the case, Todd Lang, seemed to appreciate the use of AI. 

"I loved that AI. Thank you for that. As angry as you are, as justifiably angry as the family is, I heard the forgiveness," judge Lang said. "I feel that that was genuine."
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Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen @vanshnookenraggen.com · 02/10/2026
Meanwhile, disgraced former Gov Andrew Cuomo just bought a multi-million dollar mansion in the Hamptons after saying he'd move to Florida if Mamdani won. pagesix.com/2026/09/30/l... Promises made. Promises broken. Andrew Cuomo.
pagesix.com
Andrew Cuomo buys $9 million-plus estate in the Hamptons with tennis court, pool, gym and wine cellar
The former 2025 NYC mayoral candidate has been a fixture in the Hamptons in the past.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A goose saying "what adversity?"
the same goose chasing a man yelling "what adversity was Deshaun Watson dealing with?"
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Here, a link to the additional deaths for which Trump and Musk have been responsible in just one year. www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi... Trump's election is one of the most consequential and devastating in the history of democracy.
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@lilymasonphd.bsky.social spitting truth:
From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The problem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 30/09/2026
The “super intelligence” thing is useful in the sense that if someone calls AI that you know you are dealing with a TURBO bozo
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
thecut.com
What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.
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Henry Grabar @henrygrabar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Interesting study on how anti-Muslim animus gets laundered through parking gripes, with new mosques earning 16-18 percent more parking complaints than new churches news.ucsc.edu/2026/09/park...
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Parking policy masks anti-Muslim discrimination for communities building new mosques
New research shows that disputes around parking during the urban planning process are disproportionately used to fight the construction of mosques across the country
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
These people make Marie Antoinette look connected to the people and empathetic by comparison. They laugh at what their own voters are going through as they continue to mock them as they enrich themselves and have a great time.
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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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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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Ursus Arctos @ursusarctos59.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
haaretz.com
Analysis • Herzog, Elor Azaria and NAZA: Today's Israel openly applauds war crimes
President Herzog's pardoning of Elor Azaria is hardly a surprise to anyone who has been watching the Israeli public's response to extrajudicial and vigilante killings of Palestinians, which continue t...
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Ursus Arctos @ursusarctos59.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
DHS Opens ‘Black Site Docket’ for Immigrants Without Lawyers at 26 Federal Plaza www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/09/22/i...
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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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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 21/09/2026
That 2025 stint when every institution scrambled to bow before the eternally beloved god emperor's million-year reich was weird at the time and only looks weirder and weirder in hindsight. Way way way weirder than any of the alleged excesses of Woke 1
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
They always sound so excited, too. “It’s a political earthquake! It’s a shockwave!“ Well yes, that’s the rumble of approaching jackboots. Why are you so hyped?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Jesus Christ, this article will enrage you like nothing else
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Tesla driver charged with murdering 2 in San Jose shows no remorse, prosecutors say
SAN JOSE, Calif. (KRON) — When Ivana Balistreri and her baby were trapped inside a “fireball,” a Tesla driver who had just crashed into the victims’ car on Highway 87 in San…
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This was the image posted by DHS:
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The US already got a do over. A mulligan. A second chance. Much of the world, especially US allies, were ready to write off Trump’s first term as a fluke. The American people’s choice to put him back in power—as a convicted felon, after an openly bigoted, anti-democracy campaign—showed it was not.
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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Me: I’d like a slice of pizza Server: that comes with three sides Me: I know what shape it is
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Ursus Arctos @ursusarctos59.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
steady.page/en/democracy...
steady.page
A Far-Right International Is Assaulting Democracy
MAGA and the AfD are united in a struggle against democratic pluralism that transcends national borders. It is an alliance of extremists defined by aggrieved revanchism
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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 09/09/2026
Scoop: OpenAI's rogue agents didn't just hijack a German wiki, they repurposed at least 10 sites -- and potentially many more -- to carve out communications side channels and cheat on tests. www.reuters.com/world/openai...
reuters.com
EXCLUSIVE: OpenAI’s rogue agents used at least 10 more sites for unauthorized comms, researchers say
AI agents unleashed by OpenAI used more than 10 previously undisclosed websites for unsanctioned communications earlier this year, according to six sets of independent investigators and data reviewed ...
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Your annual reminder of what REALLY happened: Donald Trump went on WWOR Radio on 9/11/01--yes, that very day--to say that with the collapse of the Twin Towers, he now had the tallest building in New York. Which was a good preview of things to come, in that it was both disgusting and a lie.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 08/09/2026
New York City officials are making public more than 170,000 pages of documents related to the air quality around the World Trade Center site in the months after the Sept. 11 attacks. The records suggest that New Yorkers were told to return to the ground zero area before it was safe. nyti.ms/3UDZehm
Smoke rises from the ruins of the topped World Trade Center towers. A headline reads: "After 9/11, Documents Suggest New Yorkers Were Misled About Air Quality" Photo by Chang W. Lee/The New York Times
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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
[eyes go black] you have to kill the supplement industry
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 06/09/2026
"An estimated 40,000 highly educated but underemployed young people ghostwrite everything from undergraduate essays to master’s dissertations and PhD theses [....]" "A 2018 paper estimated that at least one in seven graduates worldwide have used such services." Oh, I'm about to lose my mind lol
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
New from me: The first of a three-part series, 20 years in the making. Some may be familiar with the broad strokes, but there's a lot of new reporting here. It's a story about one conviction, but also the systematic corruption that affected thousands of cases in two states over three decades.
radleybalko.substack.com
The framing of Chris Duncan
Part One: “You won’t believe the videotape we have.”
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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 04/09/2026
$1.55 million.
2026 RUTGERS NON-CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
The contracts for each game this year were obtained through an Open Public Records
Request, and this is what we found:
• UMass: $1.55 million payout and 500
complimentary tickets
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Matt is Just Trying His Best @thegrampus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Whoever decided to promote Coyote vs Acme by letting Wile E do an AMA using only signs deserves all the praise.
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
We have lifted the paywall for this piece - so feel free to pay @josimarfootball.bsky.social a visit (and you're very welcome to subscribe, of course).
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/09/2026
the fact that the papers of supreme court justices are treated as their personal property is outrageous www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...
nytimes.com
How the Supreme Court Locks Away Its Own History (Gift Article)
After Justice Scalia died, the justices held private negotiations about locking away their papers. We may not see the ultimate record of the Roberts court for decades.
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Ursus Arctos @ursusarctos59.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
www.wired.com/story/why-sa...
wired.com
From Salmonella Eggs to Diarrhea Lettuce, Why This Has Been a Sick Hot American Summer
While Trump administration cuts have contributed to the epidemic of foodborne illnesses this summer, there are also deeper issues that make the American food supply chain susceptible to parasites and ...
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Yes—it’s been 12 years (!) and this remains one of the most prescient pieces of media criticism ever written. And everything has only gotten worse. deadspin.com/the-future-o...
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Deadspin | The Future Of The Culture Wars Is Here, And It's Gamergate
Deadspin | The Future Of The Culture Wars Is Here, And It's Gamergate
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives.
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The Democratic Party has let a consulting industry exploit elderly donors in its name, wreck its reputation and finances in the process, and walk away rich whether the party wins or loses. When a mirror is held up, the instinct is to break the glass rather than look. On why the press looks away:
data4democracy.substack.com
The Bulwark Killed an Investigation into Political Fundraising Spam After Its Publisher Took the Consultants’ Side
This is a story about the Democratic Party captured by its consultants, and about what happens when the pro-democracy press is asked to say so.
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