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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 10h

The first move for Skydance after the merger announcement: fire the studio executives who brought in One Battle After Another and Sinners.

hollywoodreporter.com

Michael De Luca, Pamela Abdy Out at Warner Bros.

The news comes as Paramount Skydance is readying to finalize its deal for the legacy studio.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 31m

A Hasidic Jew, with the sidecurls, hat, and everything, is being deported. For the alleged crime of antisemitism. For peacefully protesting Israel. Where he is a citizen; and to which he is being deported.

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Ulysses S. Longtorso, MN @uslongtorso.bsky.social · 7h

Really looking forward to kids standing at the bus stop in pitch darkness in the freezing cold.

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Ulysses S. Longtorso, MN @uslongtorso.bsky.social · 7h

Except definitely not that one with “You’d Get Juicy” visible on the cover.

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Ulysses S. Longtorso, MN @uslongtorso.bsky.social · 7h

That’s a uselessly small selection of records to choose from. I probably have all of them.

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 02/10/2026

Will is 100% right. Has happened to multiple clients of mine. One judge (not my case) has said that this isn't really release and ordered the person *actually* released. But it's forcing us habeas attorneys to win our cases twice (or more)

On September 9, 2026, Respondents permitted Pablo F. to exit the building where
he was detained, but he was immediately swarmed by four ICE officers and handcuffed as
soon as he stepped outside. (Doc. No. 25-3 at 4:48:45–4:49:26.)3
The officers drove him
to the back of the Whipple building and returned him to a holding cell. (Doc. No. 21 ¶¶ 8–
9; Doc. No. 25 ¶ 5.) During this encounter, officers dislocated Pablo F.’s shoulder. (Doc.
No. 21 ¶ 7.)4
Pablo F. now bringsthis Motion seeking to enforce the Court’s Order granting
the Petition.

Again, Respondents make no attempt whatsoever to support their assertion that
Pablo F. was released. Absent any such argument, the Court cannot agree that a reasonable
person would have felt free to leave when exiting the detention facility and immediately
being stopped by ICE officers. Likewise, absent some argument, the Court necessarily
concludes that Pablo F. was subject to restraints not shared by the public generally when
he took one step outside of the detention facility and was immediately stopped by ICE
officers who forcibly returned him to a detention cell. Because Respondents do not make
any legal argument that Pablo F. was ever meaningfully released from custody, the Court
grants the motion and orders Pablo F.’s release.6
6 To be clear, Pablo F. is not arguing, and the Court is not concluding, that an order of
release in a habeas matter renders unlawful any future arrests. Rather, the Court reaches
the narrow conclusion that because Respondents advance no legal argument in this case to
support their assertion that Pablo F. was released from custody, and because the
uncontested facts show that ICE officers immediately swarmed Pablo F. as soon as he
stepped out of the building, Pablo F. was not released from custody.

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Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 19h

Of recent interest here in Minnesota is that ICE is releasing detainees to satisfy Habeas requests, and then immediately detaining again. This really ought to be national news.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The BEST thing that true believers in AI could do is stop evangelizing to people, like me, who think it sucks. Do the hard, years-long work of detaching your beloved technology from the worst people in the world right now: shameless fascists driven by greed and domination. They’re YOUR partners.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21h

Cruel and unusual.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 21h

AI is just like the internet, or social media—it’s a technology which could be used for maximal benefit, but instead has been captured by a handful of oligarchs. I think it’s always important to distinguish between new technologies and the ownership & governance structures they’re embedded within.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 21h

If USA Today is indeed unilaterally putting source interviews in some sort of database, in their entirety, allowing them to be cherry-picked by other reporters—and *AI*(!!)—that is journalistically indefensible and no one should ever talk to them again. Is this true? Is it Gannett wide?

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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 21h

Since 👇 post 9 days ago, Elon has spent almost $11 million more, over a million bucks a day. In the Senate races alone, he's spent: $8.7m in Texas $4.5m in Ohio $4m in Michigan

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 22h

A lot of people in the comments are mentioning that USA Today is owned by Gannett. One of my big concerns is that *every* Gannett-owned newsroom might have access to my interview now. I will never interview with any of them again.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm not linking the piece because I'd like for as few people to read it as possible. I'm writing about it here because: - I want to be clear about what happened to anyone who saw that article and felt betrayed to see me associated with it. - These are bad decisions that deserve public shame.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social

wired.com

ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

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Giles for You @gilesforyou.bsky.social · 23h

#EYEFilmMuseum What is going on?

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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Renee Nicole Good was a mother, a daughter, a wife, a neighbor, and a Minnesotan. Nine months ago, an ICE agent shot her, then allegedly refused a physician's offer of medical aid. Her family deserves accountability and justice. It's long past time.

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one dozen bats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I would give almost anything to have been in the room to watch the guy whose job it was to convince a Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas graduate that his boss has successfully matched God and created a soul.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)

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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

remarkable thing to admit

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The literal argument here is that you're not assimilated if white people are racist against you because of who you are or how you look. bsky.app/profile/jame...

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Cannot be emphasised enough that Trump II will plausibly cause the kind of death count we associate with the worst dictatorships of the last century. Unspeakably bad that he came to be president of the world's most powerful nation.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Mike Rogers wants to put a data center in your backyard because he's getting rich off of them.

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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 01/10/2026

Yeah, I even did a quick blog post about it. charlesgaba.substack.com/p/one-more-t...

charlesgaba.substack.com

One More Thing about that Kansas Senate campaign ad...

Fun with compound interest.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 01/10/2026

Solid chance Openai goes belly up and takes softbank and oracle with it. Couldn't happen to more deserving companies.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

They’re all completely insane. Vote every single one of them out. Republican Rep. Moore on Watergate: "Richard Nixon was absolutely couped out of office and was framed. All of this was fake."

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I wrote this whole thread this before I had time to read yesterday's NYT story. And everything I'm talking about here is what actually happened to Jane Doe. She has been consistent in her story, but a game of telephone between people invested in not believing her led them to claim otherwise.

nytimes.com

Statement Written by Police in Cornell Assault Case Omitted Her Claim She Was Raped

Documents obtained by The New York Times show that the campus police at Cornell University sent a condensed statement to a prosecutor, who then declined to bring charges.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 01/10/2026

The legal academy must be burned to the ground

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Jody Avirgan @jodyavirgan.com · 01/10/2026

I think in general we don’t have our heads around how chatbot-driven the entire second Trump administration has been. My working assumption is that every single decision started by consulting AI.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 01/10/2026

Graham Linehan is calling the people who murdered a trans man in cold blood, heroes.

Screenshot of an X post by Graham Linehan (@Glinner) commenting, "It looks like these two are heroes who may have saved some kids".
Linehan quotes a post by Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) that reads: "Damn. According to a witness of the shooting homicide of the trans New York Times executive in Dublin, Calif., the elderly Chinese grandparents calmly walked away after the exec was dropped to the ground".
Below the text are two police mugshot photos side by side: on the left is an elderly Asian woman with short, wavy gray hair wearing a white shirt, and on the right is an elderly Asian man with short dark hair, slight facial stubble, and a white shirt.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Time interview with Trump is a master class in subjecting yourself to a stream of lies, lunacy, and insults with no correcting him, no calling out his crazy shit, nothing to show for it, nothing accomplished. It’s enabling, not journalism. They should die of shame. time.com/article/2026...

time.com

Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript

The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So, we are putting the equivalent of Flock cameras on Postal Trucks to create “valuable data”? Valuable to whom? Will it be sold?

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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Bizarre framing to not note in the hed / dek that the bill includes voter ID requirements

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 30/09/2026

To recap: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to strike down abortion protections in blue states

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 01/10/2026

Every time you think we have reached bottom, we find there's another level ... Meta classified $4.1 billion in Mark Zuckerberg’s 2013 stock option exercises as a * research expense* to secure $355 million in tax savings, which the IRS is now trying to claw back according to The New York Times.

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Ulysses S. Longtorso, MN @uslongtorso.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea”

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's weird how the federal government is constantly being hacked after DOGE gutted the government's cybersecurity agencies.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The 6 SCOTUS justices can burn in hell

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 01/10/2026

Anyway, Tennessee — extending its legendary run in 2026 after stripping Black lawmakers of cmte. assignments, gerrymandering a Black-majority district from existence, and siccing ICE and the Nat'l Guard on Memphis — just spent two hours trying to "hurt the people [it] needs to be hurting. Wretched.

tennesseelookout.com

Death row inmate Pike's execution halted after nearly two hours • Tennessee Lookout

A three-judge panel of the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily blocked the execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee on Wednesday.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026

The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The lone woman on Tennessee's death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.
At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said
"executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring," her lawyers said in a federal court filing.
They said Pike "has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat," and that curtains to the death chamber "have gone down twice."

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 01/10/2026

I'm sorry but what the fuck. How does SCOTUS do a preliminary ruling on killing someone? She'll be dead and the case moot.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That's where I've been for a while. We can't even reach questions about the death penalty itself because we fail essential predicates such as "fair and consistent criminal justice system" and "reliable death penalty verdicts that leave no reasonable doubt" and, as shown tonight, "humane execution."

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Lauren Wolfe @laurenwolfe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Supreme Court just let third-country deportations resume. UN experts warn of torture and disappearance. A look back at a 1940 deportation to France shows how "temporary" can become a pipeline, and where the comparison to Nazi Germany stops. New on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/what-nazi-...

chills.substack.com

What Nazi Germany’s First Deportations Can, and Can’t, Tell Us About Third-Country Removals

As the Supreme Court lets the Trump administration resume sending migrants to countries they have no ties to, a 1940 deportation to France shows how “someone else’s problem” can turn deadly.

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

i don't think the state has any business torturing anyone to death

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