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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 34m
Rep. Greg Murphy describes people who have lived in America for decades and have families here and are brutally deported by ICE as "collateral damage," and says "thank God we're getting rid of the garbage that's in our country:"
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 28m
surprise surprise he’s a climate change denier and doesn’t seem to understand basic reality futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com
You Know That Anthropic Employee Who Quit Citing Risks to Humankind? These Strongly Appear to Be His Bizarre Old Tweets
Old tweets that appear to belong to former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon have resurfaced, and they contain questionable assertions.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1h
Shouldn't the Democrats have something like an Elon Donations Tracker posted on all of their websites and social media? Make this SALIENT? Might it make sense to point out repeatedly that he is a white supremacist and ask the public why he would be backing the GOP?
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 58m
If we accept Masto’s premise, either Trump was so terrifying and authoritarian all of our institutions were forced to bend to his will, in which case he needs to go. Or he wasn’t that terrifying and authoritarian in which case we need to focus on affordability and hold institutions accountable.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1h
Whenever we tell you, hey this is going to happen, a whole ass disinformation campaign kicks in to tell people they’re stupid or uncharitable and then the thing happens and it’s just crickets.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1h
“Our focus should be solving problems that we’re seeing happening,” she said, pointing to cost-of-living issues around health care, housing and energy. “That’s where our focus should be — not weaponizing the federal government.”
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1h
We constantly demand the people with the least amount of social capital show up bravely every day but the people we laud with prestige and pay are never expected to be principled, we always must understand their plight.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1h
“A lot of the companies did things because Trump had a gun on their head.” Clockwork.
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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 1h
Flávio Bolsonaro’s advance in Brazil’s election is an unnerving jolt for climate campaigners
theguardian.com
Flávio Bolsonaro’s advance in Brazil’s election is an unnerving jolt for climate campaigners
Inquest under way into why President Lula’s success in curbing deforestation in the Amazon did not lead to success at polls
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1h
🚨BREAKING: ICE collected tens of millions of voter records, explored undercover investigations against voter registration groups and considered feeding election data into a system used to locate people for deportation as part of an effort to find voter fraud. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
ICE amassed millions of voter records in sweeping fraud hunt, documents reveal
It's one of the clearest pictures yet of how deeply Trump's immigration enforcement apparatus has become involved in elections.
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The Fort Pointer @fortpointer.bsky.social · 1h
On cue today, just as Councilors Mejia and Worrell join the vocal chorus calling out Flynn and Murphy for their abuse of late files, weekly disruptions and smears of Durkan, Councilor Murphy plays victim again. Flynn and Murphy have near-exclusive access to Herald, MDN, WBZ NightSide, etc.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1h
Criminalizing the hustle man instead of the hustle, example number 109,811,310 www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
newyorker.com
The Man Who Broke the Music Business
How an employee at a CD-manufacturing plant became the Patient Zero of Internet piracy.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1h
ironically enough a NC man was also once at the center of the Napster case that, in many ways, set us on the course for today’s techno infrastructure Also, it’s wild to punish one man and it’s this guy and not, like, Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg.
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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 5h
It appears that the US government pressured the Canadian and Lithuanian governments (as well as the EEAS) to pull their support and representives from the @disinfo.eu conference in Vilnius. This decision happened at the absolute last minute.
The EU disinfo lab 2026 sponsors. Three names have been tapped over CU you can see the Canada sign has been tapped over.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 1h
An update on sponsors pulling out of #Disinfo2026 at the last minute. Michael Shellenberger has followed up his earlier email to panelists participating in the event with another email, that include the following statements:
Since then the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs wrote to me: "Upon becoming aware of the above-mentioned discussion topics, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania withdrew from any participation in the conference. The Ministry has also formally dissociated itself from the conference content and requested that the organisers remove all references to the Ministry from conference materials, communications, and promotional activities."
Andrius Katinas of the Radio and Television
Commission of Lithuania wrote to me that he has withdrawn as a speaker "in light of the differences of opinion that have arisen with the organisers of the
'Disinfo 2026' conference regarding the assessment of the role of the United States."
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 17h
"But if the center is now fragmented, it is also due to the corrosive effects of Macron’s style of governance, which he sold in both 2017 and 2022 as conciliatory, but which in practice has proved to be hyper-polarizing. The degree of that polarization is ... on display today." Gift link.
worldpoliticsreview.com
France’s Student Protests Raise the Heat on Macron
The demonstrations make for a volatile political cocktail amid other popular grievances, just as the campaign for next year’s presidential election kicks into gear.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 3h
FUCK YES. This is the energy, morality, and courage that I expect from leaders. Unbelievably brave.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12h
They’re going to keep making it impossible to ignore how half measures to address state violence simply aren’t up to the task.
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 12h
Susan Collins had five chances to vote to stop Donald Trump's war in Iran, but she refused. Maybe because she’s profiting off it? 🤔
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 14h
That’s my mayor 🫡 gaycitynews.com/nyc-9-millio...
gaycitynews.com
NYC to allocate $9 million to non-profits for youth gender-affirming care as private hospitals retreat
The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is planning to steer nearly $9 million to non-profit health providers to deliver gender-affirming
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Pascal Sabino @handle.invalid · 13h
The Montana Supreme Court today struck down a $3,700 fee and other restrictions that make it harder to use popular initiatives & referendums to enact reforms. Meanwhile, advocates are hoping to shut those attacks down by creating a fundamental right to direct democracy in Montana:
boltsmag.org
To Protect Direct Democracy, Two States Mull a New Approach: Name It As a Right - Bolts
After years of attacks on voters’ power to take matters into their own hands, democracy advocates are going on the offensive in Montana and Missouri. They’ve placed constitutional amendments on... Rea...
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 12h
FBI agents were circling Susan Collins and her operation. Then Donald Trump came back and dismantled the unit investigating. And now Susan Collins conveniently votes with him 96% of the time.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 14h
*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY.
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Ken Vogel @kenvogel.bsky.social · 15h
SCOOP: While Trump was crisscrossing the USA last week trying to help the GOP stave off a midterm washout, two of his top political advisers were in Republika Srpska advising its pro-Russian government on election issues. James Blair & Chris LaCivita were paid hundreds of thousands of dollars each.
nytimes.com
Amid Midterm Crunch, Trump Advisers Took Time to Help Russia-Aligned Government (Gift Article)
James Blair and Chris LaCivita, who are leading the president’s congressional campaign operation, traveled to Republika Srpska to provide election advice.
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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 15h
We are at the peak of ICE's ability to organize support for its activities before Democrats start taking more power & disrupting their efforts. And even when we do places like Florida will double down on state support to help facilitate whatever Congress tries to prevent.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 13h
“It’s not just that debtors cannot afford the new plans they are being forced to choose from, it’s that the entire loan apparatus that would allow them to make this painful choice has broken down and is, at the moment, beyond repair.”
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 17h
"The defendants union may be the first effort of its kind in the modern history of political protest in the US..." Follow, boost, and support the folks at @nspm7union.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Trump 2.0 is targeting US protesters with ‘antifa’ charges. Activists started a union to fight back
NSPM-7 Defendants Union plans to offer legal clinics, media training and more to people facing prosecution for protest
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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 14h
The GOP: Never not looking into children's underpants
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 14h
“You are infringing on the time and brainpower of people by pushing "your" content that little/no of your brainpower went into” is such a banger
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Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 15h
Maybe Powell Jobs isn't the liberal treasure people have treated her like.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15h
Christa Pike is “conscious, speaking, and continues to receive critical medical care” nearly a week after her botched execution, her attorneys said
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Christa Pike ‘conscious, speaking’ nearly a week after botched execution
Christa Pike is “conscious, speaking, and continues to receive critical medical care” nearly a week after her botched execution, her attorneys said on Tuesday.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 15h
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Tips came in just minutes after Cornell alerted students to an alleged sex assault at a frat house
Newly reviewed records obtained by NBC News detail witness accounts, fraternity messages and anonymous tips collected in a campus investigation that is now facing renewed scrutiny.
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 15h
"Tickets were free and sold out" Congratulations?
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 18h
The DOJ is recruiting criminal prosecutors to monitor polls ahead of the midterms. www.washingtonsun.com/policy/doj-re…
washingtonsun.com
DOJ Is Recruiting Prosecutors to Monitor Polls
The departure from long-standing practice “carries the real risk that election interference and voter intimidation will follow,” a former department official said.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Digger geniunely interesting movie. Kind of movie that sort of breaks that good/bad framework: I wouldn't call it good, but it is interesting. it sort of makes me miss having a monoculture because it would be interesting to hear everyone's takes on it.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 16h
🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice tapped criminal prosecutors and an FBI official to watch voters in Arizona’s primary elections earlier this year in a major break from past norms, according to records reviewed by Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
DOJ dispatched criminal prosecutors, FBI agent to monitor Arizona’s primary, documents reveal
The deployments mark a major break from past departmental norms.
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Matt Stahl @mattstahl97.bsky.social · 23h
NEW: The early weeks of the college football season have gotten dangerously hot, and the heat is lasting longer. Shortened games, a band member dead, hundreds of medical calls. With the season moving up, it's a huge problem. And there's not an easy fix www.al.com/sec/2026/10/...
al.com
College football has a heat problem. There’s no easy solution
The early weeks of college football season are hotter than ever. Can anything be done to help players and fans?
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 17h
I and others have made the observation that if you are not a current or former DC resident it's difficult to fathom the emotional toll the physical destruction of our city has been going through. And the ever present thought that even worse is to come.
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 18h
Religious liberty will always be framed as religious people’s right to freely oppress and exclude others
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 16h
The service members were left to seek their own medical treatment. trib.al/cLKQe1P
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Soldiers Wounded in Iran Say DOD Made Them Get Their Own Treatment
The service members were left to fend for themselves.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 16h
So hard with Trump to distinguish the bluffs from the tells.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointee in New York, rebukes ICE for arresting two people erroneously — including a U.S. citizen — and later claiming "mistaken identity." "ICE agents falsified official records," he says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules.
Line chart titled "Revenue per audit," subtitled "In-person audits, 2010-2014." It plots average revenue and average cost per audit by taxpayer income percentile, poorer to richer, from the 0–5th percentile to the top 0.1%. Source: Boning et al. 2023, "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution."

Across the bottom half of the income distribution, revenue and cost track closely, both around $3,000–$6,000 per audit. Above the median, revenue pulls ahead of cost: about $10,000 vs. $5,000 near the 90th percentile, and about $17,000 vs. $8,000 at the 95th–99th. At the top, revenue jumps to about $31,000 for the 99–99.9th percentile and about $90,000 for the top 0.1%.
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 20h
Trump and his sons quietly moved 20 billion crypto tokens into an account that lets them cash out. Corruption, plain and simple.
washingtonsun.com
Is the Trump Family Preparing to Cash Out on Its Own Crypto?
President Donald Trump and his three sons have taken a step that would permit them to sell World Liberty Financial’s digital tokens.
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bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 19h
it may not be his origin story but “nobody liked my art” is such a common denominator among world-historic assholes
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 19h
BREAKING: Former Deputy AG Sally Yates will lead a review of Cornell's handling of sexual assault and harassment reports, the university said.
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Cornell brings in ex-Justice official Sally Yates to review school’s handling of sex assault claims
Cornell University trustees have announced that former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates will review how the university handles sexual misconduct complaints.
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Scout Tafoya @honorszombie.bsky.social · 19h
difficult decisions like what font to use when firing everyone.
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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 19h
Leaving aside _everything else_, this man is literally the worst salesman in history.
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