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ozkaterji.bsky.social
Russia has bombed a school basically every single day this week, so for those people who say "if this was happening in Ukraine, it would be on the front pages every day", how many times have you seen that on the front page of even one of your national newspapers this week?

Zero.
October 1, 2026 at 8:14 PM
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cwarzel.bsky.social
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.
October 1, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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corncobanalysis.bsky.social
funny how the unity ticket coverage got way less engagement than infighting
therreport.bsky.social therreport.bsky.social @therreport.bsky.social · 1d
In their first official joint appearance, Sen. Elissa Slotkin and Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed will appear at a town hall together and take questions Saturday in Macomb County, that Trump won in the last three elections www.politico.com/newsletters/...
Dems boost their odds in Nevada
www.politico.com
September 30, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
This will be one of the most important immigration cases in a generation. The Trump admin claims that a 1996 law mandates the detention of millions of people without any right to a bond hearing; every person who entered illegally, no matter how long in the past.

If they win, it's a nightmare.
kelseyreichmann.bsky.social Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 22h
NEWS: Supreme Court takes up 3 new appeals, including mandatory ICE detention in Rhoney v. Barbosa @courthousenews.bsky.social
October 1, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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unavaleable.bsky.social
THERE IS NO NONPARTISAN SOLUTION TO A PARTISAN ATTACK ON DEMOCRACY
jamellebouie.net jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d
i think cox should spend less time weeping about polarization and more time working to convince his co-partisans not to abandon pluralism and liberal democracy
pbsnews.org PBS News @pbsnews.org · 1d
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox has emerged as a prominent voice calling on Americans to step back from the political hostility gripping the country. The Republican governor is expanding on that message in a new book. https://to.pbs.org/3VmTJnx
October 1, 2026 at 12:05 PM
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ryanlcooper.com
one of like 500 things about the American legal system where it is incomprehensible that it is even possible. we're constantly coming up with new forms of gerrymandering bsky.app/profile/klei...
kleinman.bsky.social James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 23h
Down to the forum shopping with the judges most likely to oppose it!
October 1, 2026 at 12:28 PM
splashsplashsplash.bsky.social
the conservative supreme court majority do not simply disregard human rights and due process. they have abject ontempt for human rights and due process
stevevladeck.bsky.social Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 2d
By my math, the order was filed 11 minutes after the Trump administration's reply brief came in.
October 1, 2026 at 12:51 PM
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mtsw.bsky.social
(nodding)

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jarekfa.bsky.social JarekFA @jarekfa.bsky.social · 1d
Even Fucking Hunter embraces the negative frame that he benefited from special treatment. He was targeted for special treatment! He was prosecuted under a technicality that no one has even been prosecuted under as if he was Al Capone and we had to resort to tax evasion to find a crime to convict.
September 30, 2026 at 3:07 PM
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mtsw.bsky.social
leave aside the GOP, it also did not stop the political news media from covering the Hunter story as if it were a corrupt scandal rather than Biden bending over backwards to let a Republican fuck his son over.
daveweigel.bsky.social Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 1d
I think a lot about Biden/Garland keeping David Weiss on as US Attorney, because they didn't want to meddle with the Hunter probe. And then Garland elevating Weiss to special counsel so he could convict Hunter. And this having ZERO IMPACT on the GOP certainty that Biden was rigging the DOJ
swin24.bsky.social Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 1d
almost as if they are operating on the assumption that everybody else does what they (openly, on live tv, with signing ceremonies) do
September 30, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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thefred.bsky.social
The strategy next time should be to indict everyone for everything, everywhere. The ex-president, if alive, should get a hundred indictments, spread across as many districts as possible, with as many state charges separately brought as possible. Cabinet members and aides should get dozens.
September 30, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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sifill.bsky.social
A great deal happened today. But nothing more important than this. SCOTUS allows Trump Administration to continue sending detained migrants to third countries with which the migrants have no prior connection.

Just appalling.
September 30, 2026 at 1:51 AM
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greene.haus
To quote a @chrislhayes.bsky.social jape at the Roberts Court:

"They go fast when they want to go fast and slow when they want to go to slow and the decision is *always* an ideological one."
Steve Vladeck, a professor a Georgetown Law, writes up breaking developments from the Supreme Court. The last post in the three-post thread is the kicker, for our purpose here. "#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the third-country removals case; clears way for Trump admin. to continue removing non-citizens without a full chance to litigate the conditions in those countries (while also taking up the full merits appeal). "Link: [URL of a supremecourt.gov PDF] "By my math, the order was filed 11 minutes after the Trump administration's reply brief came in."
September 29, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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September 29, 2026 at 4:07 PM
splashsplashsplash.bsky.social
Yeah there aren't really words for this
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
Trump asks an African reporter, "how is ebola going?"
September 28, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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unavaleable.bsky.social
Every French presidential poll

LADY HITLER - 35%
JEAN D'AUSTÉRITÉ - 18%
CHUD COMMUNISTE - 17%
September 28, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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faineg.com
Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below.

Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.
Ann Pierce @itsannpierce 20h I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology. I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again. This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein… People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc. Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!) Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun! I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great! Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky. Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone. And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity. I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?
September 27, 2026 at 3:59 PM
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shoe.bsky.social
September 27, 2026 at 2:31 PM
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jdcmedlock.bsky.social
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%.
September 27, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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samd.bsky.social
Germany needs to just fucking ban these Nazis already and throw them all in prison
September 27, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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rincewind.run
you know what? I agree with him

my moral and ethical story about how we live together in this moment is we throw all of these assholes out of office and then we put them in jail
itsjoelokay.bsky.social Weird Alger Hiss 🎉 𓅳 @itsjoelokay.bsky.social · 6d
uh, let me be clear, *most unclear and wishy-washy drivel conceivable*
C-SPAN @cspan Former President Obama says Democrats made a mistake by making goals materialistic and instrumental: "What people are starved for at the moment is the ability to tell a moral and ethical story about how we live together in this moment."
September 26, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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qadishtujessica.inanna.app
Read this again when someone tells you that the democrats are gearing up to go transphobic or don’t fight for us.
Do they settle because it costs a lot of money to litigate? Because they're at risk of losing federal funding? What are the ways that the Justice Department is able to coerce these hospitals? Rep. Grace Meng: I mean, all of the above, right? I'm the top Democrat on the Appropriations subcommittee that oversees all the DOJ funding. And we have seen this as we've been negotiating our budgets with them. They tried to include over 50 anti-GBTQ riders, what we call poison pills, into the budget. And we, as House Democrats, were able to take them all out. But they wanted to insert 52 pieces of wording and legislation that would have restricted medically necessary health care for transgender people, basically allowing taxpayer-funded discrimination against same-sex couples, blocking any non-discriminatory and DEl-type efforts. But they are persistent, so they try it through the budget process, and they can't do that. Obviously, they're trying to cheat by coercing these hospitals:
September 25, 2026 at 8:21 AM
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boxelderdust.bsky.social
These people simply do not have the facilities required to interpret basic directions or the contents of their own speech

A hypothetical right-wing crank who was so capable but held the exact same position might answer “woke” or “demonic” or “transgender” but they just are not
September 25, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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esghound.com
Allison Gill Keeps trying to get this stuff removed from the web (original thread archives excluded from archive.org) but Mueller She Wrote is run by a psycho grifter. Stop engaging with her

web.archive.org/web/20251019...
September 24, 2026 at 9:42 PM
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cameroncorduroy.bsky.social
elite level reaction image i'm afraid
September 24, 2026 at 4:17 PM