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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5m
Here is the standalone complaint in the new provider attack: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... It was filed in the Lake Charles Division of the Western District of Louisiana, so it has a 100% chance of being assigned to a Trump appointee:
Judge Assignment:
Civil Cases:
Chief Judge Terry A. Doughty 10%
Judge James D. Cain 80%
Judge David C. Joseph 10%
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Kelcie Moseley-Morris @kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 1h
NEW: Amid ongoing lawsuits seeking to revoke nationwide access to abortion drug mifepristone, AGs in Louisiana, Arkansas and Alabama have filed a lawsuit with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to strike down shield laws in states with abortion access.
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Republican AGs sue abortion ‘shield law’ states in U.S. Supreme Court • Stateline
BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill and the attorneys general in Arkansas and Alabama filed a lawsuit Tuesday in the U.S. Supreme Court, suing California, Massachusetts and New Y...
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 13m
This is really three developments. It's (1) a notice filed in the ongoing mifepristone litigation at the Fifth Circuit — storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... — about (2) a new attack on abortion providers and (3) a new states v. states lawsuit filed directly at the Supreme Court.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 17m
This is another big story today. I was waiting on @kelciemmorris.bsky.social's report, excellent as always, as I knew she was on it. —>
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 10m
My 10-year-old is obsessed with @theonion.com.
picture of a child, face obscured, on a sofa, reading an issue of The Onion on paper, with a visible headline reading "OpenAI Touts Water Removal Facilities"
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AV🕯️ Ctrl+Alt+Del @yappydagger.bsky.social · 10m
Curious if those who feel compelled to say Alejandro González Iñárritu is overrated because they hated The Revenant also hated Amores Perros? 🤔🤷🏽‍♀️
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Dirk Lester 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 ✌🏾 @dirk2112.bsky.social · 1h
Over-priced Oscar Bate Fatigue 😏
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 1h
Donald Trump and six tech executives voluntarily signed the document, which included a misspelling, committing to safely developing AI
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‘President of the Unites States’: White House’s AI accord includes spelling error
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1h
They’re calling this guy a terrorist btw bsky.app/profile/cwar...
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 5h
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 1h
I can only vote for the man once, Laura.
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alex benzer @alexbenzer.com · 1h
the bsky team is working on various ideas for creating smaller social spaces in the app. which use case is most interesting to you? 1. posting into "topics" that organize public posts 2. posting into "communities" or "groups" that can be public or private 3. posting directly to your followers only
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Global Project Against Hate and Extremism @globalextremism.bsky.social · 1h
Places of worship are facing a growing number of far-right threats and attacks. GPAHE documents shootings, stabbings and mass-casualty plots targeting synagogues, mosques and Sikh gurdwaras across the U.S., Canada, UK and Poland, underscoring the growing threat of violence against faith communities.
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In 2026, Places of Worship Are Increasingly Being Targeted by Far-Right Extremists Worldwide
In 2026, places of worship around the world have increasingly become targets of far-right extremist threats and violence. GPAHE documents plots and attacks targeting synagogues, mosques, Sikh gurdwara...
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 1h
My read on this is Luckey is going to put Newt's brain into one of Musk's robots.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1h
I genuinely couldn't stifle a laugh at this list. Newt Gingrich is 83!
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 1h
The little-known North Carolina artist, who died in 1987, receives a major retrospective that immerses us in her lush, enigmatic visions. on.wsj.com/3TBplVL
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‘The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans’ Review: Creative Abundance at the Whitney
The little-known North Carolina artist, who died in 1987, receives a major retrospective that immerses us in her lush, enigmatic visions.
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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 2h
My grand unified theory of this moment, after a few months of intense and variously high-stakes engagement with various corporate and public systems, is that pretty much nothing works. We just have each other.
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Katherine Stewart @katherinestewart.bsky.social · 2h
Checks four out of six www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Hegseth invited Christian nationalist Doug Wilson to preach at Pentagon
The self-described “paleo-Confederate” has argued that wives should submit to their husbands, women should be denied the vote and Christian enslavers were on “firm scriptural ground.”
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 2h
The music artist behind JMSN’s song “Love Me,” which was included in a commercial funded by the federal government and highlighted Trump’s agenda, sent a formal cease-and-desist letter to the White House on Monday. The best part is the FOIA request... substack.com/profile/2357...
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Amee Vanderpool (@shero)
The music artist behind JMSN’s song “Love Me,” which was included in a commercial funded by the federal government and highlighted Donald Trump’s agenda, sent a formal cease-and-desist letter to the W...
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 2h
If you want to learn more about the current state of the news industry and the folks who are trying to find ways to stop the proliferation of news deserts, check out Making Contact on Pacifica Radio next week, where I'll be hosting these conversations. ;]
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 2h
He's signed the bill. This really is a fantastic moment for the news industry in California, and also provides a great blueprint for other states to implement similar programs. What's cool about this bill is that these rebates are open to any newsroom in California, including sole proprietorships
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 2h
In a rare Newsom W, today he signs AB 2222, the Community NEWS Act, which would establish some of the best tax incentives/rebates for newsrooms in the country. It would send $40M/year back into California newsrooms to keep journalists employed. Check out the presser happening live right now:
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Governor Newsom Signs Legislation & Speaks with Media
YouTube video by California Governor Gavin Newsom
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 3h
ok I’ve seen enough: incompetence, followed immediately by maliciousness
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 5h
Artificial intelligence giant xAI is offering buyouts to residents of Southaven, Mississippi, if they agree not to join a class-action lawsuit brought against the company for alleged “nuisance-level harms.” buff.ly/VKQtPHI
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xAI Looks to Buy Out Southaven Residents Who Agree Not to Sue It, Letter Shows
Artificial intelligence giant xAI is offering buyouts to residents of Southaven, Mississippi, if they agree not to join a lawsuit against the company.
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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 5h
new: @jamieludwig.bsky.social put together everything you could possibly want to know about alprs (and some stuff you probably wish you didn’t know) into a wonderful guide. check it out:
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Automated license plate readers, explained - Chicago Reader
Whether in or outside law enforcement, the spread of automated license plate reader (ALPR) technology raises alarms around privacy, data security, and public safety. It also begs the question of how t...
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 5h
Since briefing was completed in July, the 11th Circuit pushed back oral argument in the case about Judge Cannon's suppression of Jack Smith's Vol 2 five times. Today, for the first time, it moved argument forward. Currently set for week of 11/2/26, instead of week of 1/18/27.
This appeal has been removed from tentative calendar 6 and will be scheduled for oral argument on Monday, November 2, 2026 at 2:00 p.m. in Atlanta, Georgia. A calendar will be issued separately. [25-14507, 26-10674]
Removed from Tentative Calendar
Calendar issued as to cases to be orally argued on 11/02/2026 in Atlanta, Georgia.
Counsel are directed to electronically acknowledge receipt of this calendar by docketing the Calendar Receipt Acknowledged event in ECF (a document upload is not required). [25-14507, 26-10674]
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Assigned to tentative calendar number 6 in Birmingham during the week of
JANUARY 18, 2027(Please note change of date.). [25-14507, 26-10674] [Entered:
09/21/2026 10:05 AM]
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Assigned to tentative calendar number 6 in Birmingham during the week of January 11, 2027. [25-14507, 26-10674] [Entered: 09/14/2026 12:51 PM]
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The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 4h
Casey Bloys is keeping his job, while Paramount's head of streaming, Cindy Holland, is out. www.avclub.com/hbo-paramoun...
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The merged Warner Bros./Paramount streamer will keep HBO's CEO
The merged Warner Bros./Paramount streamer will keep HBO's CEO
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The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 4h
Tommy Lee Jones and Betty Gilpin join the action in #TheLowdown season 2. www.avclub.com/the-lowdown-...
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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 4h
Today is a great day to support your indie bookshop with an audiobook purchase 🙃
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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 4h
The Rules by Afro (Afro Basaldella), 1969 botfrens.com/collections/212/conten…
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Gift, Mario Graziani, Archivio Afro, 1998

© 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SIAE, Rome
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 6h
‘Today, there is no conceivable equivalent. Who is tonight’s guest on the 𝘖𝘯𝘦 𝘚𝘩𝘰𝘸, plugging their novel about the birth of Christianity?’ Ian Penman on Anthony Burgess. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Ian Penman · AB Fab: Anthony Burgess heads south
For a certain kind of northern man, Burgess has always been – for once the term is apt – something of an icon. A bit...
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Comics in the Golden Age @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 6h
Cover by Lee Elias.
Chamber of Chills #24 (1954). The cover image shows a funeral being interrupted as a grotesque, decomposing hand rises from a nearby grave.
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Andrew Wimer @andrewwimer.bsky.social · 6h
@ij.org is going to be one of the first to try it and with this case: ij.org/case/george-...
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George Retes Federal Officer Accountability - Institute for Justice
George Retes, a U.S. citizen and Iraq War veteran, was detained for three days after encountering an ICE roadblock on his way to work.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 6h
This is very interesting. Two thoughts: 1. This will be challenged. I wouldn't be surprised if challenges succeed. 2. You should be able to make officials who violate your constitutional rights pay for it, and if nothing else, this bill highlights how difficult it is-particularly w/r/t the feds.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Governor just signed my bill to allow people to sue ICE, Border Patrol, and other federal agents for violating people’s constitutional rights. Starting immediately, people can sue federal agents retroactive to abuse occurring in March 2025.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 6h
"Twenty-four hours. Three states. Three people dead. Countless lives changed in seconds. The men in Maine and Florida were not even ICE’s intended targets for arrest – they became ‘collaterals’, as agency officials call them.” #AbuseofPowerWatch
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BornInDaEB 🟦🟧 @bornindaeb.bsky.social · 6h
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (Gift Article)
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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Chris Fredda 🩷💜💙 @seeyouinnj.bsky.social · 5h
A lot of AI maximalists fundamentally miss why people do things. It’s not merely about accomplishing tasks but having meaningful experiences, which is undermined when a computer is generating and consuming the experience and then just informing or consulting us.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 7h
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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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026
Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 6h
as time goes on, I'm less focused on problematizing LLMs and more interested in affirming the positive value of humanity, human expression, and human connection technology is a substrate for our values, rather than an intrinsically good or bad thing, but that means not using it for certain stuff
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 6h
I'm also waiting to see if the men are actually in Somalia.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 6h
Received a phone call this morning letting me know they started moving people from Guantanamo Bay to Somalia late last week. Working on getting in contact with them now.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 6h
The Yudkowsky who got his money from Thiel, Musk and the likes? The one who arranged for the PR blitz for so-called Anthropic "whistleblower"?? WHAT THE FUCK DOES IT TAKE TO EXPOSE THESE PEOPLE
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 6h
Loll Yudkowsky, Soares and such AREN'T SHILLS? The Yudkowsky who founded the eugenicist, rationalist cult? The one who predected singularity to be 2025? The one in the sex parties that women have to attend to "network? The rape orgies with dubious consent mechanisms that Soares coorganizes?
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Well, That Was Spooky @thediscoveryofzero.com · 29/09/2026
This interview with @timnitgebru.blacksky.app does a good job puncturing some of this BS. I think the private sector often profits off of just this sort of move: hiding ‘expertise’ behind proprietary doors and then making public claims that can’t be scrutinized is par for the course in business.
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There Is No ‘Existential Threat’ From AI Says Timnit Gebru
Podcast Episode · Uncanny Valley | WIRED · September 29 · 32m
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Katherine Stewart @katherinestewart.bsky.social · 6h
"The religious right that raised up Paxton has cared little about his transgressions so long as they could prop him up to wield power. The alliance has been a perfect marriage of hypocrisy and cynicism in the name of traditional values." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Ken Paxton’s Christian identity politics obscure a history of scandal | Sidney Blumenthal
The Texas Senate candidate rose to power as a culture warrior. His record is a marriage of hypocrisy and cynicism
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 7h
there's just a parade of these stories helping the President pretend he's erecting useful guardrails for AI none of them think it's important to mention Trump has taken a brutal hatchet to U.S. corporate oversight and consumer protection regulators
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Trump's AI "constitution" crowns day of accelerating ambition
The terms were simple: Press ahead, project optimism and police yourselves.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 7h
I'm absolutely fascinated by "journalism" that can't seem to tell readers an obvious truth. Like the fact this is absolutely meaningless bullshit designed to pre-empt real oversight
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Trump releases AI accord with tech executives
President Donald Trump released a document on Tuesday that his administration cast as an accord ​on artificial intelligence and which he said earlier was signed by ‌him and tech executives that he met...
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 6h
All of this happened yesterday: Jack Smith testified Trump still wants his name on the Kennedy Ctr CNN, MSNOW & Politico asked a court to keep forcing Trump to give them WH access A DC appeals court decides if the Trump admin can be investigated for contempt joycevance.substack.com/p/flooding-t...
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Flooding the Zone
Jack Smith kicked off his testimony on the Hill today like this: “I stand by my decisions as special counsel, including my decision to bring charges against President Trump.” He told senators that his...
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