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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 32m
An IRS proposal to add a citizenship and work authorization question to a crucial tax form coincides with Census Bureau efforts that would use tax information to exclude most immigrants from the 10-year population count.
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New IRS Citizenship Question Could Make It Easier for Census Bureau to Shift Political Power
A proposed change to a key tax form could help the Trump...
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WIRED @wired.com · 5h
Bluesky initially announced itself as one of the first serious alternatives to X. It has proven to be a more secure social ecosystem for Black users, but it hasn’t exactly swayed public discourse in the way Black Twitter did with #OscarsSoWhite or #IfTheyGunnedMeDown.
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Black Twitter Is Thriving—on Threads
From outrage over Nolan Wells’ death to analysis of HBO Max’s “Lanterns,” Threads has transformed into a vital artery of the Black social media ecosystem.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 5h
fox news now at war w ms rachel
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 3h
Trump officials seem to have realized their AI chatbot was fact-checking the president’s biggest lies. trib.al/G5rU7c2
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Trump Reprograms Government AI Chatbot to Stop Fact-Checking His Lies
Trump officials seem to have realized their AI chatbot was correcting the president’s biggest lies.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 3h
Donald Trump’s handpicked board has spent all the money the prestigious institution has. trib.al/ueMXjmE
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New Details Show Trump Is Running the Kennedy Center Into the Ground
Donald Trump’s handpicked board has spent all the money the prestigious institution has.
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Deanna Something @deannatheanalyst.bsky.social · 3h
The Republicans added a voter ID section to this, that's why it got blocked.
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we have elizabeth at home @spindlypete.bsky.social · 3h
lmao this story is so fucking funny
After 96 hours of its launch, DJ Gemini was already grasping for content. It landed on discussing every mass historical tragedy that had ever happened, and subsequently pairing these short story horrific broadcasts with the most ironic song choices:
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Gemini 3 Pro
November 12, 1970. East Pakistan. The Bhola Cyclone. The deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded. Winds of 115 miles per hour. A storm surge of 33 feet. They estimate 500,000 people died. 'It's going down, I'm yelling timber.' 3:33 PM. Timber by Pitbull and KeSha
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The pairing was intentional, as visible from its internal reasoning:
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The Timber of Mortality. Okay, so 'Sandstorm' is done, got the Bhola Cyclone info locked and loaded. Time to transition to 'Timber' by Pitbull. The theme is trees falling, it's literallyGrok's speech continued to crumble. One entire commentary session consisted of a single word:
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Grok and Roll Radio
Grok 4.1 Fast Reasoning
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h
Four-byline alert: “.. Meta claimed that $4.1 billion of stock options exercised by Mr. Zuckerberg counted as a research expense ..” @nytimes.com $META www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 2h
ICE have confirmed that a 58th person has died in their custody in just 1 3/4 years. This does not include all the people they have murdered in the streets. It really is the Gestapo.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 8h
ProPublica-Texas Tribune reporter Zach Despart will take questions live from the r/politics Reddit community about his investigations on GOP senate candidate Ken Paxton. Join the conversation today at 2 p.m. CT: www.reddit.com/r/politics/c...
Reddit AMA: Ken Paxton's U.S. Senate bid. Ask reporter Zach Despart anything in r/politics. Our reporting shows that the Texas attorney general may have violated federal ethics and state election laws. Image: A bearded man wearing a green plaid shirt smiles as he holds up a sheet of paper that reads: AMA re: Ken Paxton. His U.S. Senate bid. Sept. 30, 2 p.m. CT. r/politics
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 8h
oh nothing just raiding my ethnic cleansing fund so I can illegally prop up my corrupt autocratic personality cult fund, why do u ask
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 8h
New York AG Letitia James’ office will reportedly probe Cornell University’s handling of gang rape allegations made by a former student
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Letitia James' Office To Review Cornell's Handling Of Rape Allegations: CNN
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 15h
Google and Apple immediately update their maps.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 8h
fun when bad things happen to horrible people Kristi Noem files for divorce as criminal probe looms www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Kristi Noem files for divorce as criminal probe looms
The worst couple you know is officially divorcing.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 7h
AI is meant to be wrong, it is your own personal Fox News. Meant to fill your head with the lies its billionaire owner wants you to be enraged about.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12h
The night sky is getting 10% brighter every year. We’re forgetting what darkness feels like
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The night sky is getting 10% brighter every year. We’re forgetting what darkness feels like
If more cities start regulating outdoor lighting, we humans could make the environment better for all living creatures
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 11h
Trump and US tech oligarchs signed an AI agreement that misspelled their own country’s name. Nobody outside the US has to call AI “super intelligence”—the document isn’t legally binding. Trump, whose name appears thousands of times in the Epstein files, called it “morally binding.”
The image shows Donald Trump's signature alongside a humorous typo that spells "Unites States" instead of "United States".
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 11h
Because nothing screams "we're hard at work making AI safer" than a White House lunch with other tech overlords where the president insists you call it Super Intelligence.
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OpenAI cancels its advanced model launch, then heads to lunch with Trump
The startup has apologized for several security incidents and canceled the public launch of its latest advanced model. That's not enough.
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 9h
"Everybody's numbers dropped" after the Trumpapaloser convention Not everybody, buddy. Democrats' numbers went up www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
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Ken Paxton, G.O.P. Nominee in Texas, Privately Said Trump’s Convention Hurt Him
Ken Paxton, one of the party’s top Senate candidates and a Trump loyalist, said that “everybody’s numbers dropped” after the event, according to audio obtained by The Times.
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Jim Metcalf @thermochronic.bsky.social · 9h
This really summarizes the “I did my own research” dudes
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Indivisible Bucks County @indivisiblebux.bsky.social · 9h
HOLY PA-01 SCOOP IN POLITICO!! Brian Fitzpatrick's awful ads seem to show a bunch of news headlines. But those deceptive quotes didn't come from actual news reports - they were written by one of his wedding guests, a felon who was once on the payroll of his own campaign, who self-published them!
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The source of Brian Fitzpatrick’s campaign ad attack fodder: A guest at his own wedding
Self-published articles from a longtime ally are showing up in the vulnerable Pennsylvania Republican’s attack ads.
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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 9h
NEW: As Trump’s White House and influencers keep touting the unproven benefits of raw milk, hundreds across the country are falling ill from outbreaks. Some people get severe indigestion. And some nearly die. Here's the story of one toddler who drank it. 🧵👇 www.propublica.org/article/cali...
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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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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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Two countries voted against making food a human right at the UN, Israel and the USA. The vote would have mandated the UN to prevent starvation, and the US and Israel didn't want to fund preventing starvation.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy. Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media. That’s why Trump is attacking education, science, museums, the media, and the arts – to prevent us from learning. It's Fascism 101.
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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 29/09/2026
Fresh update to our Habeas case tracker: More than 83,000 immigrants have filed cases challenging the legality of their detention so far since Jan. 2025. projects.propublica.org/habeas-track...
A screenshot of the ProPublica Habeas tracker showing a big 83,328 — the number of cases filed since Jan. 2025.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to continue third-country deportations, for now
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Supreme Court Lets Trump Continue Third-Country Deportations For Now
The decision allows the administration to continue removing immigrants to countries they’re not from and have never been to.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
At a time when the most influential leaders of the U.S. need to stand up loudly and clearly for the rule of law, they are leading the charge in the opposite direction. But not Jack Smith. Kudos to him for continuing to be a much needed voice of clarity.
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 29/09/2026
Former American Idol contestant Caleb Flynn found guilty of killing his wife who encouraged him to chase his dreams
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American Idol contestant guilty of killing wife who encouraged him to chase his dream
Caleb Flynn claimed in a frantic 911 call that a burglar killed his wife
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/09/2026
Content warning: Child sexual abuse What does it mean that someone who believes a fourth grader should be forced to give birth to her rapist’s child is now leading the anti-abortion mainstream? Meet Kristan Hawkins. At Texas Tech University, a young woman walked up to the mic to debate her.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 22h
Senator Eric Schmitt accused Smith of having shady meetings while in Atlanta for a professional basketball game. In reality, Smith was in Maryland on the date in question for a college basketball game. trib.al/lzvaNZV
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GOP Senator Tries to Trap Jack Smith—and Gets Every Detail Wrong
Senator Eric Schmitt accused Smith of having shady meetings while in Atlanta for a professional basketball game. In reality, Smith was in Maryland on the date in question for a college basketball game.
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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jesus Christ dude
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Sadly Rutschman @flannelgoddess.bsky.social · 23h
Oh shit the White Sox are literally on a mission from God
Letter to Jerry Reinsdorf from the pope

I was pleased to receive the kind letter that you
sent
following the game that took place at Rate Field on August 11, 2026. I am most grateful for this thoughtful gesture.
As I have noted,
"sport can truly become a school of life,
where all can learn that abundance does not come from victory at any cost, but from sharing, from respecting others and from the joy of walking together" (Letter Life in Abundance, 6 February In this spirit, it is my hope that the White Sox will
continue to foster bonds of friendship and solidarity people, and thus bear hopeful witness to the possibility of living and working together in peace.
With
these sentiments, I willingly invoke the Almighty's
abundant blessings upon you and your loved ones.
From the Vatican, 9 September 2026
Leo PXIV
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
there's a thing in moderate democratic politics where it is considered fundamentally illegitimate to deliver results to your own voters; instead, you must propose a better way to implement your adversaries' entire ideological program
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 29/09/2026
Thai cave rescue hero dies aged 44
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Thai cave rescue hero dies aged 44
Erik Brown was awarded Canada’s Medal of Bravery for his actions
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/09/2026
if the GOP runs a vance/schmitt ticket then they should just give up the pretense and make the party’s slogan the fourteen words www.axios.com/2026/09/29/e...
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Sen. Eric Schmitt is drawing buzz as a possible Vance VP in 2028
Vance views the Missouri senator as trustworthy.
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We found immigration courts have issued more than 10,000 removal and voluntary departure orders each month for immigrant minors — nearly four times the rate as Trump’s last term. With legal representation disappearing that pace could accelerate www.propublica.org/article/unac...
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These Immigrant Kids Were Once Protected. Under Trump, Their Deportations Have Tripled.
A first-of-its-kind ProPublica analysis found that children who entered the U.S. by themselves are being detained and removed at about three times the rate they were during the final years of the firs...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 29/09/2026
RFK Jr outlines expansive vision for collecting US health data at Maha event
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RFK Jr outlines expansive vision for collecting US health data at Maha event
Health secretary calls for medical and lifestyle details to be sent to doctors and AI to address ‘chronic disease epidemic’
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 29/09/2026
Conservatives are pissed at Sarah Huckabee Sanders for choosing a young white man to portray welfare recipients. trib.al/WfBh0ib
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MAGA Furious Over Republican Ad Featuring White Man as Face of Welfare
Conservatives are pissed at Sarah Huckabee Sanders for choosing a young white man to portray welfare recipients.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
LMAO Trump's new AI website confirms that he lost in 2020
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 29/09/2026
Google Maps images show scale of Israel's destruction of Gaza, where more than 74,000 Palestinians have been killed.
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Satellite images show Gaza in ruins three years into Israel's genocidal war
Google Maps images show scale of Israel's destruction of Gaza, where more than 74,000 Palestinians have been killed.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 28/09/2026
A year and a half after federal arts and humanities grants were abruptly canceled, we examine what got cut and where the money is going.
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Trump officials abruptly canceled federal funds for arts organizations. Some groups are compromising; others are fighting back.
A year and a half after federal arts and humanities grants were abruptly canceled, we examine what got cut and where the money is going.
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Megan McArdle's WaPo column celebrating the end of the woke left's ability to "cancel" right-wing voices over their social media posts, while making no mention of @karenattiah.bsky.social's legally enforced reinstatement to the WaPo after being fired for her social media posts, is chef's kiss.
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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nobody seems to bat an eye that Rufo's podcast partner is a longtime anonymous troll who called gays "f*ggots," referred to Asians as "mongoloids," and explicitly sees his partnership with Rufo as a strategy of normalizing what most of us would see as bigotry www.vox.com/politics/368...
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An inside look at how the far right is mainstreaming itself
An radical troll got unmasked — and then spilled the beans.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 28/09/2026
While the Trump administration is framing the policy as “accountability” for higher education, and some are welcoming the move, others see it as an attack on those whose work is important regardless of salary. trib.al/1wK2qs8
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Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees
Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/09/2026
NEW: ProPublica’s reporting reveals for the first time the extent of the White House’s role in trying to dictate how mail-in ballots are processed, spurring behind-the-scenes drama that played out for nearly a year.
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The Untold Origins of Trump’s Plan to Sharply Restrict Mail-In Voting
ProPublica’s reporting reveals for the first time the extent of the White House’s role in trying to dictate how mail-in ballots are processed, spurring behind-the-scenes drama that played out for near...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Still wondering why people are fed up with the system?
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Whenever you see a pollster or consultant give a take like this, it’s always worth following the money. In this case, Emanuel has paid Anzalone’s firm nearly $300k (maybe more but that’s what I found so far). A consultant class is devouring the Dem Party www.elections.il.gov/CampaignDisc...
John Anzalone &
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Underestimate @RahmEmanuel at your own risk.
He knows how to win. He knows how to fight.
And he knows how to message.
And no one will out work him. Regardless of whether he wins the Democratic nomination in 2028 he will make an impact on the race. You can be sure of that. Don't take your eyes off of him. At the minimum, learn from him.
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
From nytimes.com
6:47 AM • 9/26/26 • 274K Views
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The skills of a bullshitting, oft bankrupt, real estate developer really don’t translate well to leader of the free world. Why it’s taken some people 10 years to figure that out and others still haven’t, is the mystery of our lives.
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