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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2h
Last year not a single refugee fleeing religious persecution was admitted to the US.
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 6h
People need to understand the people leading the AI industry, transhumanist/longtermist/EA movements, and tech broadly, as died-in-the-wool pseudoscientists, denialists (climate change, the holocaust), and crank purveyors of conspiritualist woo of the highest order. The height of Rationalism.
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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 11h
Justice Blackmun (30 years ago): "Rather than continue to coddle the Court's delusion that the desired level of fairness has been achieved and the need for regulation eviscerated, I feel morally and intellectually obligated simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed."
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22h
abolish the death penalty
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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 22h
The death penalty is not even in the abstract "the state kills you for your crimes" it is even in its most idealized form "the state tortures you to death" Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 23h
Is there a defense fund? A defense committee? Anything else we can do to support this brave and beautiful human being?
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yeowoman.bsky.social @yeowoman.bsky.social · 22h
A system's purpose is what it does.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 22h
It's hard to fathom that, let alone be OK with the fact that, the six people who allowed tonight to happen will start hearing cases next week, the outcome of which will affect us all.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026
“I am not afraid to die. I’m only nervous about the process.” Just an unbelievable failure of governing and the legal system and basic decency.
Before learning Monday that Lee would not be intervening in her case, Pike wrote in a letter to NBC News, shared by her spiritual adviser:
"Whether my clemency is granted or not, l am at peace."
"I am not afraid to die," wrote Pike, who has been on death row for more than three decades. "I'm only nervous about the process."
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Don’t love that the secretary of war announced the creation of a department of autonomous warfare in the same speech he referred to my people as a slur that I’ve not heard since 2012 on broadcast television but you know. whatever. who gives a shit man
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jamie loftus @jamieloftus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
as always, the answer here is to listen to survivors and then to push for actual, meaningful change. but when that doesn't happen, the focus shifts to pressuring survivors to relive their trauma and share it in public forums, be confronted by it in public forums, and THEN have nothing happen
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october "pre-order The Struggle Is Always Worth It now!" krausch @octoberk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
wtf man. so much wrong here, including sticking underpaid and overstressed Amazon drivers with more shit. i hope the Deflock groups get wind of this too!
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jamie loftus @jamieloftus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
feeling this hard -- i am so glad that there is an actual conversation that's taking place around cornell, and that survivors coming forward isn't being dismissed as 'woke 1' or whatever the fuck. and it's also hard to ignore that we've been here before, in the recent past, and nothing changed.
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Reading, and writing, are holy. I love reading novels because they tell me something. They say: "this is what someone believed enough to dedicate months or years of their life to say." This is just as true for the trashiest pulp as it is for the highest literature.
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Todd Walker @toddwalker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
By all means, read them. Just be sure to use archive.ph to jump the paywall.
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 30/09/2026
These men want you ignorant and powerless so that you can’t stop them from eliminating most of us when they really get things going.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
Friends, while they're trying to talk about fictional machine gods, don't lose sight into what they're all actually powering in real life. You can browse the the entities on the website and use the API, and learn more about it on the DAIR project site: dair-institute.org/projects/sur....
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Surveillance Watch
This interactive map reveals the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations.
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 29/09/2026
I’ve been noting that one of the main use cases that everyday users had already been putting LLMs and agents to use is the compilation of dossiers for peer-on-peer surveillance and automated gang-stalking (swarm-stalking) of other citizens, so of course Meta is copying that as a feature.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I wonder why more people aren't using Malaise to describe the current mood in the U.S.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/09/2026
SCOTUS’s shadow docket strikes again. Third-country removals are back on, using a policy that two federal courts have now ruled is unlawful.
CORDER LIST: 609 U.S.)
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2026
26-426
(26A406)
CERTIORARI GRANTED
DEPT. OF HOMELAND SEC., ET AL. V. D.V.D., ET AL.
The application for stay presented to Justice Jackson and
by her referred to the Court is granted. The February 25, 2026 order and judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, case No. 1:25-cv-10676, are stayed.
The application is also treated as a petition for a writ of certiorari, and the petition is granted. The parties are directed to brief and argue the following questions: (1) Whether the district court had jurisdiction over Respondents' claims.
(2) Whether the
district court had
authority to enter classwide
declaratory
relief
and APA vacatur under 8 U. S. C. §1252 (f) (1).
(3) Whether the Government's Guidance on third-country removals
is unlawful under 8 U. S. C. §1231(b), the Due Process Clause, or
FARRA/CAT and its
implementing regulations. (4) Such other
questions that the Government determines are appropriate for the
proper disposition of the case. The Clerk is directed to
establish a briefing schedule that will allow the case to be
argued in the December 2026 argument session. The stay shall
terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court.
Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan, and Justice Jackson would
deny the application for stay.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
“What if we released malware represented in the form of a cute avatar” is an actual business plan now.
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Dots are OpenAI's new personal agents and soon you'll be able to control several of them - Engadget
Sure, seems safe.
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How the fuck are any of us functional. We’re 1% of the population, give or take, and we have Great Depression employment numbers
But Democrats in Republican-leaning districts are under pressure to respond. One Democratic strategist estimated that fully half of the GOP’s messaging this year has been around transgender issues — about the same time they’ve given the economy, data centers, immigration and crime put together.
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 29/09/2026
Democrats seem headed for big wins, but one avenue for self-sabotage would be adopting R's framing on trans rights. @billiejsweeney.bsky.social spoke with insiders incl Lanae Erikson of Third Way and Rep. Sarah McBride for this substanial piece of new reporting. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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Democrats Lose by Punching Down on Trans Issues, Strategists Say - Assigned Media
Insiders, including at centrist think tank Third Way, are cautioning Democratic candidates against echoing Republican talking points on trans rights.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thread.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Mr. McKinsey was a transgender man and accused his wife, Candice Jang, and his in-laws of abusing him because of his identity, according to his filing for a restraining order in December 2025. He said his mother-in-law called him and one of his sons a “pervert.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
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Couple Accused of Killing Their Son-in-Law in Bay Area Park (Gift Article)
Jonathan McKinsey, an engineer who worked in the games department for The New York Times, was fatally shot Saturday in a San Francisco suburb. The police have accused his parents-in-law, both 76.
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Abstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Like seriously, this is such a clear example of what many people (such as Drs. Emily Bender and Alex Hanna and Timnit Gebru) have been saying about how we don't need to wait for new committees or regulations. Extortion is already illegal
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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026
There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If children had any political power, instead of being treated like property, we wouldn't be in such a mess. Exhibit A: Attacks on Critical Race Theory started in schools as "parents' rights" and book bans-- within 7 years, this morphed into an anti-DEI purge of adults in workplaces and academia.
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For all that it's been barely reported in the UK press, it's still hard to understate the importance of the stance @labourunionsuk.bsky.social has taken on trans and non-binary rights this week. Every single trade union affiliated to the party of government has stood up and said we will not comply.
Joint statement from National TULO

Solidarity with the trans and non-binary community

Labour's 11 affiliated trade unions stand in total solidarity with the trans and non-binary community.

Trans rights are human rights, and trans rights are workers' rights.

We in the trade union movement will do all we can to stand up for our trans members and all our trans siblings, to protect them from persecution, harassment and attack.

The government must act now to protect all trans people, to make sure their rights are protected, expanded and upheld in our workplaces and communities.

Labour Unions
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VoteHub @votehub.com · 28/09/2026
NEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports. “That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.”
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/09/2026
Had Paul Kedrosky back on the show to talk about how AI is distorting the bond markets to the point that it’s changing the price on US Treasuries, how AI data center economics don’t make sense, and the troubling things he’s hearing out of Anthropic. youtu.be/7boszzOAeJw?... Linktr.ee/betteroffline
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The Hidden Recession Beneath The AI Bubble w/ Paul Kedrosky | Better Offline
YouTube video by Better Offline
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 27/09/2026
I find it infuriating that nations who for decades have profited off the exploitation of immigrant labour, who have indeed engineered the conditions for that exploitation through making the countries of origin nigh unliveable, now dare to turn around and call migrants a drain. Absolutely maddening.
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yeowoman.bsky.social @yeowoman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The fun thing about the AI sentience debates is it isn't
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
To me this is the crux of the public disconnect re: "The Law" - the second important point is that people believe that courts of law are courts of justice... and this really fucks people up. "This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice" - Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 25/09/2026
@poisonivy.bsky.social is incredibly brave to be speaking out. theasterisk.substack.com/p/the-effect...
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The Effective Altruism Kids Aren’t Alright
On sexual violence, Slutcon, and what happens when children take on adult responsibilities.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
We had to wait for the....NEW YORK POST to write about this. Y'all know there is so much more where this came from but journalists don't want to dig and people are terrified to speak to any journalist seeing the type of reporting they've been doing
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We’re at the “shipping container courts” stage of ICE’s mass expansion of the enforcement system.
Each detention unit would sit on asphalt or concrete behind an office's existing security fence, with a counter for processing people and a separate holding area fitted with a toilet and sink for detainees according to the draft work statement.
The agency also wants a 300-square-foot unit for interviewing people in custody and a 60-square-foot "Virtual Immigration Court Unit" for hearings run by the Executive Office for Immigration Review, the Justice Department agency that operates the immigration courts.
Both must also be designed for their purpose before delivery.
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fatalist.bsky.social @fatalist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Signal's podcast was the direct precursor to the Globe article and his cohost is using the 3 hour video log of the zoom meeting as a "reward" in a subscription drive. This kind of recontextualizes the entire mess even though it doesn't change any of the facts in the article.
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 25/09/2026
Valerie Veatch's documentary Ghost in the Machine, and Matteo Pasquinelli's book The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence are both very good correctives on this.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/09/2026
Really puts the NYT story claiming ICE officials heroically pulled third-country nationals off deportation planes to comply with the court order in perspective. ICE deported people to Haiti, Cuba, Ecuador yesterday. And put Somalis who'd been held at Gitmo on a plane to East Africa. What heroism!
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 25/09/2026
it’s true what will the AI agent think of your professionalism if you bring an iced coffee to your 57th zoom interview
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Miles W. Griffis @mileswgriffis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Greenfield Recorder did a follow up, and unlike the Globe actually provided decent info on Long COVID/COVID instead of mocking disabled people for clicks. recorder.com/2026/09/24/g...
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Greenfield takes stock of viral attention: Businesses, officials weigh in after coverage of lesbian bar Last Ditch takes national spotlight - Greenfield Recorder
Local leaders and business owners defend Greenfield's Last Ditch bar amid a viral dispute over Saturday night masking policies.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026
An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.
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The media has the AI threat all wrong
Generative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios.
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eartha mae @endoeartha.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
As a neuroscientist, I can say no its not thinking and yes jail the CEOs 😌
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 25/09/2026
this is 100% true AND this story has esp pissed me off w/ the gutting of "mainstream" LGBTQ media + journos. there is a version of this story we could giggle at without Ted Cruz seeing but the LGBTQ newsrooms left are either all owned by same company or self-funded and struggling so instead, this
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Perfection.
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Ed Sheeran's Gillette Stadium concerts canceled due to nor'easter, tour promoter says
Ed Sheeran's​ Gillette Stadium concerts in Foxboro, Massachusetts, have been canceled as Boston braces for a nor'easter.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
Give her office a call and her campaign an email bsky.app/profile/chan...
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Republicans won in 2024 arguing Democrats were too obsessed with trans people to focus on the economy. As billionaires like Elon Musk flood the airwaves with anti-trans ads amid Trump's own floundering economy, Democrats have a chance to flip the tables. My latest for @thenation.com
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Transphobia Isn’t Winning Votes. But It Is Making Our Lives Much Worse.
Trans people must now live out another election cycle knowing our friends, family, coworkers, and neighbors are being flooded with agitprop designed to dehumanize us.
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