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No one can fill this void left by the theft of basic research funding.

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 5h

It’s astounding this isn’t the only thing people are talking about. It shows how much power mainstream news, who are blacking out the climate element of this El Niño, still holds. #ClimateCrisis

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 10h

"All their accounts differed, frequently contradicted each other and generally ran counter to the statements given by the woman to the Cornell police in 2024." What happens when they are lying. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/n...

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Chi Phi Members Accused in Cornell Sex Assault Lawsuit Give Varying Accounts of Night

Their accounts, detailed in hundreds of pages of investigative files obtained by The New York Times, were disjointed and sometimes contradictory. All the men denied any wrongdoing.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 6h

Unbelievable. Except totally believable. We utterly fail at elite accountability in 🇺🇸, & elite universities have been at the forefront of that since Iran-Contra, repeatedly offering sinecures to the authoritarians. It's why all the things keep happening time & again: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 8h

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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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 11h

If you are part of an academic society or a professor of any kind, public statements that you do not condone Drexel cutting off the academy of natural sciences from the public of Philadelphia is very important right now. We need your voices. Urgently.

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Skype a Scientist @skypeascientist.bsky.social · 8h

We at Skype a Scientist are deeply troubled by the closure of the Academy of Natural Sciences. We urge you to contact Drexel University Leadership and Academy interim leader Trish Wellenbach to urge them to reopen the museum. President Merlo president@Drexel.edu Trish Wellenbach tw958@drexel.edu

a block of text with a statement that reads We at Skype a Scientist are deeply alarmed by the decision of Drexel University leadership and the Academy of Natural Sciences Board to close the Academy’s public museum.

Skype a Scientist is based in Philadelphia with deep roots in our city. Making science accessible, in particular for Philly’s children, is a top priority for our organization. We operate in community centers, at street festivals, and at the intersection of science and art. For the last 10 years, we have worked to engage a broader coalition of Philly residents to care for our local biodiversity.

Our program does not exist in a vacuum. The work that we do, alongside environmental education centers, our museums, classroom teachers, and more, create an ecosystem of connections with science. The loss of any part of this fragile ecosystem is detrimental. The Academy of Natural Sciences grounds biodiversity education in Philadelphia. With grand fossil halls, historical connections, and engaging exhibits, it is a place where many Philadelphians develop a love of science. Loss of access to this space cannot be tolerated.

We are living through an erosion of public education, particularly in the life sciences. Philadelphia cannot afford to lose our flagship biodiversity museum.

We call on the leaders of Drexel University and the Academy board to reverse their decision to close the Academy’s public museum. The children of Philadelphia and future generations of Philly-made scientists are counting on you.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 9h

this smells like the story here is going to involve AI in the form of an internal data pool or something

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Micah @rincewind.run · 9h

my dude you flew a stop the steal flag outside your house

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 9h

Judge Sara Hill, N.D. Oklahoma, issued this decision on Thursday —>

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11h

this reveals SO MUCH about legacy media

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 10h

Trump's lawlessness is more pressing, but let's not forget: the GWBush admin was also overflowing with incompetent, corrupt Republicans who were pathologically hostile to the rule of law. None of this was necessary or helpful, but it made them feel manly and it was good money for gov't contractors.

“A detainee who is shackled, transported to a former C.I.A. black site, and intentionally kept ignorant of both his right to remain silent and the inadmissibility of his prior coerced confessions, cannot be said to be making an ‘essentially free and unconstrained choice,’” he wrote.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 12h

remember the real rocket docket is when Republicans have to jam another corrupt justice on to SCOTUS in three weeks.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12h

Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12h

Beyond the horrifying reality that a hospital is trying to "clear the pentobarbital from [Christa Pike's] system" currently, the litigation over Tennessee's actions this week will shine a very clear light on the many, many reasons why governments should not be trusted with killing their citizens.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 14h

A perfect pretext for impeachment does not exis—

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 14h

The term “remigration” is associated with the extreme right and only came into widespread usage in 2023-4. Even Germany’s AfD avoided using the term in 2024 for fear of scaring away voters. Today the US government is celebrating the “victories” it’s racked up in the “ethnic cleansing” column.

Department of Homelan... • Follow •.• X
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Net negative migration for the first time in HALF a CENTURY.
Americans are amassing victories NEVER seen before thanks to President Trump.
We will continue to grow our efforts to fulfill the mandate given to this administration.
REMIGRATION REPORT
94%)
3.3+
MILLION REMOVALS
INCLUDING DEPORTATIONS AND VOLUNTARY REMOVALS
ASYLUM DENIAL AT 94%
250,000
VISAS REVOKED
REVOKED
TRAVEL BANNED
FROM 39 COUNTRIES
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287(G)
AGREEMENTS
NATURALIZATIONS
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h

There are a lot of Trump officials who need to be impeached, but Russell Vought -- the quarterback of all the Project 2025 fuckery and a central player in the administration's overreach -- really needs to be at the top of the list.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 16h

wonderful reminder of the funniest dynamic of the mayoral race, where sliwa clearly liked mamdani and was delighted to see him humiliate cuomo also, more politicians should do this! get your flu shots!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h

So does the GOP force all of its candidates to prove they’ve physically and/or sexually assaulted a woman before they can run as a Republican? Sorta like a gang initiation?

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Micah @rincewind.run · 15h

remember when every company was like "we're gonna make a leaderboard for uses the most AI" until someone looked at their budget

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 17h

This is an important element of the 2026 elections, and I'm glad to see @stephenwolf.bsky.social and @the-downballot.com looking at it systemically.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 18h

that twitter still has a lot of normal people on it is the main problem! it would be a lot better if it was exclusively fascists and the blast radius of their propaganda was smaller! truth social isn't warping brains that weren't already warped

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 18h

It's hard to tell which is weirder: the fact that these guys seriously suggest that models like Claude have consciousness/sentience or that they actually invest time and money (weird!) trying to convince the Pope as well as theologians and legal scholars of this belief.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18h

There's a new wave of Democratic ads across the country that are somehow brutally partisan and incredibly effective and it's going to take some time for me to get used to this?

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 19h

It's good news that NY Governor Kathy Hochul has appointed Leticia James special prosecutor in this case, and here remember that Hochul became governor because Governor Andrew Cuomo was forced to resign in disgrace because of his serial sexual harassment...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19h

"The adversity that he's been through." Yes, yes, this poor man had to deal with *dozens* of suits for sexual assault. And here he is, surviving and thriving on the other side of all those settlements. What a brave hero.

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 19h

The chart explains AI hype more than any chart that's ever been charted.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 20h

was discussing this at dinner last night: one of the many problems with trying to make policy 'that the American public wants' is that the American public change their minds all the time and are frequently very very stupid.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20h

Similarly, people keep asking me if immigration will get much better if Democrats retake Congress and the answer is "probably not." ICE is largely insulated from Congressional pushback (the 2026 budget reconciliation bill funded them through 2029) and hearings and subpoenas can only do so much.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 20h

One thing it's useful to remember is that right-wing donors have created a series of local-news-like content sites to poison the information well. And now we have a GOP Senate candidate attacking his opponent by citing claims made by one of these explicitly partisan sites.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 21h

There's a pretty direct line between "When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything" and this kind of MNF banter. The rot is everywhere in our society but it's a lot worse in some places than others. (screenshot from sports.yahoo.com/articles/al-...)

Then, Michaels cited the familiar football phrase that "winning is the best deodorant," before Herbstreit predicted that Browns fans would eventually embrace Watson after previously booing him in the preseason.

"You want the fans to get behind you, and that goes for pretty much any market," Herbstreit said. "This is an extreme case because of what you laid out with Deshaun Watson, but if you convert on third downs, you hit passes, you lead this team to victories, those boos turn into cheers."

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 22h

This is a guy that the media has promoted a dozen times in the last few years. He was on Bill Maher's show two weeks ago as a reasonable conservative.

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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 22h

As usual, seeing a lot of misleading headlines about this news. LA, AR, & AL are asking the Supreme Court *for permission* to sue NY, MA, and CA over their shield laws. Just like when someone appeals a lower court ruling to the Supreme Court, the Court has to agree to take the case. They might not.

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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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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 23h

Palantir shifting from hiring only "Ivy or Ivy-equivalent" degrees to hiring only out of high school is an admission that "training" and "talent" were never factors at all. They were looking for packaging & prestige, and now they're looking for ignorance & impressionability.

Tech companies launching their own programs to train grads because they ‘can’t rely’ on Ivy Leagues
By Lydia Moynihan
Published Oct. 1, 2026, 6:00 a.m. ET

As the university system increasingly becomes a wildly expensive bastion of anti-Western sentiment, key figures in Silicon Valley are betting on alternatives to higher education. They argue that even the Ivy League is no longer producing the best candidates — nor are they even accepting some of the most qualified students.

“It used to be the case that you could rely on somebody who went to an Ivy or Ivy-equivalent to be top notch,” said Jordan Hirsch, who runs Palantir’s semester-long intensive Meritocracy Fellowship, which accepts high school graduates.“But that’s not the case anymore… we suspected that there was a lot of talent being missed.”

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

OPERATION: ALBATROSS is off to a roaring start.

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

look, if the pentagon wants IT security then they have to do what the rest of us do: hire trans furries who go to renfest don't ask me why, idk, i just know that data is insecure until sanctified by the holy aura of someone who checks at least one of those boxes. it's part of god's plan.

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

If you're wondering if the US Travel Association blames Trump and Republicans, the answer is "no." As of a month ago, they were still praising him and noting they were "ready to work with the president and his administration to build on today’s momentum." Ok! www.ustravel.org/press/travel...

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Will is obviously smart and has made many excellent arguments in his time, but if Republican appointees appoint conservatives to amicus roles like this all the time and Democratic appointees do the same to show they're getting ~balanced arguments~, when do liberals get appointed?

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

throw an axe at Tehran they'll never see it coming

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As expected, the Supreme Court, among the new cases it took today, will be considering the Trump administration’s mandatory immigration detention policy (Rhoney v. Barbosa). This instantly becomes one of the most important cases of the term.

(ORDER LIST: 609 U.S.)
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2026
25-5343
25-1131
25-1349
26-104
ORDER IN PENDING CASE
BEAIRD, KENDRICK J. V. UNITED STATES
The motion of the Solicitor General for divided
argument is granted.
CERTIORARI GRANTED
MISSIONARIES OF ST. JOHN, INC. V. FREDERIC, JOEL, ET UX.
The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted limited to
Question 1 presented by the petition.
MARSCHNER, ROXANE M. V. MARSCHNER, RICHARD A.
RHONEY, ACTING DIR. V. BARBOSA DA CUNHA, RICARDO A.
The petitions for writs of certiorari are granted.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Good thread from @jonseidel.bsky.social about the Broadview 6 hearing ... which has echoes of this week's DC Circuit arguments over the AEA contempt proceedings and the 11th Circuit's refusal to stay the district court Trump v IRS sanctions order. (Discussed in here: www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-thi...)

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Right, it's not that I disagree that some of the people sentenced to execution are monsters -- many of them are! -- it's that I disagree that we all should be monsters too.

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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ms Brown is entirely right here Every word of this 👇🏻❤️👇🏻

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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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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Please, for the love of God, can the media stop calling random cranks who write fan fiction about their personal heroes in the past "historians."

Geoff Shepard, a former Nixon aide turned Watergate historian and revisionist, recently gave a two-hour presentation at Justice Department headquarters that laid out his theory that the deep state took Nixon down. The title of his 78-page slide deck: “Watergate As Lawfare.”

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Mabs A'Mabbin @mabsamabbin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“This is dumb, dumb, dumb beyond belief,” one former Trump campaign official told CNN in response to the ads the White House is now airing. “These guys are all gonna get subpoenaed. It’s gonna be bad." You had better believe it. 🔥

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Dirtbag Left Milk Hotel @stambrah.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

POTUS: Donnie new ballroom. Practical Donnie entertainment room TIME: I'd like to talk about the rampant corruption and criminality. POTUS: Good ballroom good Donnie give beautiful Donnie deserve pedophile TIME: We have a limited amount of time. POTUS: jealousy interviewer

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