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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
nmesis (an oddly named anti-ship missile battery) arrives on a japanese island within range of taiwan-ish www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
US May Put Missile System on Japan Island Near Taiwan in Drills
The US military is planning to deploy an advanced anti-ship missile system to a Japanese island close to Taiwan for the first time during a major training exercise later this month, a move that may dr...
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CNN @cnn.com · 03/10/2026
A CNN investigation has found that while Jared Kushner acted as a key Middle East peace negotiator, his private equity firm held the largest stake in an Israeli company backing businesses tied to Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, including its largest arms manufacturer. cnn.it/4AIwBQs
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
GO WILDATS
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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Arizona Court of Appeals reverses sentencing of defendant where the state presented an AI video of the deceased addressing the court, and lawyers everywhere breathe a sigh of relief Here is the opinion - coa1.azcourts.gov/Portals/1/Op... apnews.com/article/ariz...
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Sentence tossed in Arizona case where deceased victim was depicted speaking in AI-generated video
An Arizona man’s 10-year manslaughter sentence has been tossed in a case where a video generated by artificial intelligence portrayed the deceased victim addressing a judge before the punishment was i...
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Brad Duplessis @bradduplessis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Army is establishing a new command. FASCOM = Futures and Autonomous Systems Command.
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Mad Auntie Kristy @auntiekristy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Semi regular reminder that Jesus didn't tell women what to wear he told men to gouge their eyeballs out.
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Trump presidency is going so disastrously that his biggest fans are left bragging that he sat in a car for a few hours
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michaeledward @michaeledward.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You are here #Crossroads
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Democrats have filed a lawsuit over the Trump admin's recent use of an emergency measure to make changes to the federal voter-registration form used by U.S. service members abroad and citizens residing outside the country — arguing that it's an attempt to disenfranchise eligible American voters.
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Democrats sue over Pentagon’s changes to voter forms for Americans overseas
Advocates for U.S. citizens overseas say the changes may spark confusion among eligible voters abroad and local election offices.
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 02/10/2026
I was pretty cynical about Man City’s financial doping and didn’t like the idea of stripping titles etc, but seeing their utterly shameless response and desperate threats makes me want the book thrown at them.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Last year not a single refugee fleeing religious persecution was admitted to the US.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 02/10/2026
Let me just explain the arithmetic thing real quick; I'm seeing a lot of people not understanding what it's supposed to show (or was supposed to show in 2023). First, let's agree that an LLM is a Stochastic Parrot, a description which I find poetic, useful, informative, and basically correct.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oh retractionwatch.com/2026/10/02/p...
David Ho, a climate scientist at the University of Hawaii, responded to our request for comment on the paper by saying he was not interested in reading it. “I’m sorry, but I’d rather keep my brain cells,” he said.
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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 02/10/2026
This corruption must be investigated.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump below freezing
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
great that he's maintaining the advantage of tactical surprise over the Iranians
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Are they really saying Flock can’t sell their cameras to the cartels too?
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Renee Good's family filed two lawsuits today. The first, against, USG, is a standard wrongful death. The second is a Klan Act lawsuit against Jonathan Ross, AND STEPHEN MILLER and Greg Bovino. It names Nick Shirley and Christopher Rufo as non-party co-conspirators for their racist propaganda.
44. At all relevant times, Defendants Ross, Miller, Noem, Lyons, Homan,
Bovino, and the John Doe Federal Agents acted under color of federal law and within the
scope of a joint enterprise with the private actors described below. Defendant
Lewandowski acted in part under color of federal law and in part, as alleged below, as a
private person, his federal status having been limited to a temporary part-time designation
that his conduct exceeded. Shirley, Rufo, and Ben Bergquam, and the other non-party
private actors described below, agreed to and in fact participated in the conspiracy alleged
here: each acted in concert with, and with the knowledge and encouragement of, federal
officials.
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Dan Friedman @dfriedman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's not ideal when your top peace negotiator has a huge interest in Israel’s largest arms manufacturer. edition.cnn.com/2026/10/01/u...
edition.cnn.com
Jared Kushner’s company has large stake in firm with Israeli military links | CNN
At the same time Jared Kushner has negotiated in the war in Gaza, his company has held the largest stake in a firm backing businesses involved in Israel’s military campaigns.
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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This invitation is so weird!
Screenshot from the website https://gettrumpmemes.com/gala-dinner. It has a very unrealistic painting of Donald Trump. It also advertises an evening with "3 legends and Trump" and a private meeting with "a legend to be announced"
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Kevin @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
from AdImpact, a nice chart of how Republicans' reliance on super PACs to fund their TV ad campaigns is heavily blunting the impact of their massive spending advantage, because FCC rules actually *require* stations to price-gouge the shit out of super PACs
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And once again seeing signs and hearing people that say they disagree with you and you should be ashamed is not a breach of "civility." Civility encompasses disagreement in a free society, what these people demand is enforced niceness & adoration
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Alan Wessman @alanwessman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Regardless of the merits of data centers, this is not an appropriate use of public lands, because it monopolizes the land for a single private entity rather than keeping the land as multi-use, defeating the whole idea of public lands. Let Valar purchase its own land if it needs space.
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Jon Husted said “our work ethic is broken,” but that’s not what I see. Ohioans are working harder than ever before just to put gas in the tank and food on the table, all while billionaires and CEOs get tax breaks from Washington. The system is rigged, and I’m in this fight to fix it.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This whole thing has been an interesting window into the gop post Trump — when you don’t have a gifted conman to organize the machine, you will see these cracks. The clip economy and digital spin room couldn’t pivot fast enough to account for Schmitt’s failure to deliver content.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing
Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.
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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Implementing a bunch of AI systems good for consultancy that charges money to implement AI systems.
ft.com
Accenture shares surge 22% as consultancy confounds AI fears
Group says revenues could accelerate in the coming year despite worries over demand for its services
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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
On the Hegseth thing, I just stop every so often to sit in the disgust of a government official just casually tossing around slurs in a prepared speech
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Shout out to the heroes in Maine who do NOT sit quietly when the man who is taking away their rights walks into a brewery. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
nytimes.com
John Roberts Retreated to His Island. Supreme Court Critics Found Him.
After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings
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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Emine Yücel @emineirmakyucel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My latest: Following Wednesday's failed bid by Senate Dems to block Trump's pocket rescission, Trump WH, once again, trampled over Congress’ power of the purse. Several experts point out their use of the “pocket rescissions” loophole is more an admission of guilt than a clever trick.
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 01/10/2026
Apropos of John Roberts feeling sad that he might be faced with the consequences of his actions, it's important to remember that he is a vain creature with an incredible preoccupation on his own legacy who really wants to be respected above all else. A shift may come www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
For a long time, the chief justice’s life here was a story of potluck dinners and easy friendships, according to a summer of interviews with more than two dozen residents. Neighbors reveled in his position but kept exchanges with him about it brief or light. At a long-ago annual summer party, he used to participate in touch football, then call dinner to order by proclaiming: “Oyez, oyez, oyez, the lobsters are ready.”

But in recent years, as the Supreme Court has reshaped American life and handed more power to President Trump, a very personal form of anger has been rising here at the chief justice, transforming his getaways.

His summer retreats, long a well-known fact, are now a source of debate. Neighbors have taken to the water to protest him. Calling themselves “kayak-tivists,” they form flotillas facing his island home, holding waterproof signs conveying their disappointment. A local newspaper columnist recommended that people in town give him the finger.But the protesters did encounter another member of his household. After an August 2025 protest, Ms. Shaw Glaser and other demonstrators were standing near the Port Clyde dock when a young woman approached them with a serious look on her face. She asked them: What did they hope to accomplish? Had they considered how their actions affected the chief justice’s wife and children?

Only then did she identify herself. She said she was Josephine Roberts, the chief’s daughter, then 25, according to Ms. Shaw Glaser, who wrote about it in her journal. Another protester also wrote about the scene in a message to a friend afterward.

Her father wasn’t even home, Ms. Roberts told them. He respected that she had her own left-leaning political views, she said, according to the protesters’ written accounts. And he was a wonderful father, she added.Longtime neighbors and friends said the chief justice drew back. With rising violent threats against public officials, including a 2022 attempt on Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s life, security has been tightened. The chief justice took walks and briefly dropped in on a concert this summer, but his detail stayed close around him. On Sundays after church, he used to hang out on the dock. Now, with the protesters, he stayed away all day.

The shift has been “hard to watch,” said Tamara Cody, the owner of Port Clyde Kayaks and a longtime friend of the chief justice’s.

The chief justice and his wife did attend cigar club gatherings, friends said, but some former members said in interviews that they sent their own regrets, in part because they were not interested in socializing with the Robertses.
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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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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wading into the "relative versus absolute" El Niño intensity debate: I genuinely think both are important--and I think we lose important information if we focus solely on one vs another. And both, as of late Sep, have now reached or exceeded record levels! [Thread]
Plot by Daniel Swain showing temporal evolution of ONI vs RONI index during 2026, representing two different ways to visualize El Nino intensity. The ONI has been at record levels since May, and the RONI has been at near-record levels since June. Data directly from NOAA.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Two absolute lunatics
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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What happened to “no weirdos?” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
theguardian.com
Pete Hegseth appoints Elon Musk to US taskforce on future of warfare
A year after his explosive tenure at Doge, the SpaceX CEO is back in the Trump administration’s good graces
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In the original action at the Supreme Court, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Alabama — lacking all sense of irony or knowledge of history — accuse New York, Massachusetts, and California of "one of the most serious interstate aggressions in our Nation’s history" because of their abortion shield laws.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
BREAKING: SCOTUS’s Republican appointees will allow Tennessee to kill Christa Pike tonight, vacating a stay of execution entered by the Sixth Circuit this morning. The three Democratic appointees dissent.
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 26A428
KENNETH NELSEN, WARDEN v. CHRISTA GAIL PIKE
ON APPLICATION TO VACATE STAY
[September 30, 2026]
The application to vacate stay of execution of sentence of death presented to JUSTICE KAVANAUGH and by him referred to the Court is granted. The September 30, 2026 order of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Cir-cuit, case No. 26-5864, granting a stay of execution is vacated.
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and
JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting.
The State of Tennessee is set to execute Christa Pike for the 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer. Earlier today, the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued a stay of Pike's execution solely to "adequately address and resolve" the issues presented in Pike's pending application for relief. Order in In re Pike, No. 26-5864, ECF Doc. 10-2, p. 2. Tennessee now asks this Court to vacate that stay and permit it to proceed with Pike's execution today. Stunningly, the Court acquiesces. Because its decision clears the way for the State to execute Pike before her still-pending legal challenges to her conviction can be properly considered, I respectfully dissent.
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Carolyn Fiddler @cfidd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Bruh, you literally JUST SAID "no fatties" and "no weirdos"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Look who's in the Oval Office today! #MeetingsWithNatalie (Kent Nishimura/AFP via Getty)
pic of a beaming Ms Harp
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CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So Hegseth is off the wagon, right?
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Uncle Jimmy @unclejimmy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tommy Tuberville, come on down!
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Jennifer Van Goethem @jennvg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
He's trying to do George C. Scott from Patton but is mostly doing George C. Scott from Strangelove.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
LMAO
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A big part of listening to music is connecting with the artist. You feel like there's a shared experience. AI music doesn't have that
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Marty Olliff @martyolliff.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
1/2 Civil War Source question: I've been asked to reassess my library's holding of the old UPA (now ProQuest) microfiche collection of Civil War Unit Histories. We have AL, FL, and GA fiche. You can see the index here: pq-static-content.proquest.com/collateral/m...
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