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The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
elivalley.bsky.social Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 7h
Boasting to the world of his mass terrorist atrocity:
Netanyahu showing off a pager during his speech at the UN
September 24, 2026 at 6:38 PM
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Heidi Overton has spent years attacking abortion access, and she helped engineer the Trump admin’s reckless rollback of the childhood vaccine schedule, a decision that puts countless kids at risk. She is unfit to head the FDA.

Call your Senators 🔥📞🔥

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Oppose Anti-Vax Heidi Overton for FDA Commissioner ⭑ 5 Calls
Trump has nominated Dr. Heidi Overton, an anti-vax, anti-abortion extremist, to lead the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the agency …
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September 24, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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Hannah Einbinder was just arrested protesting Benjamin Netanyahu's safe passage into New York and the genocide of Palestinians.

Elliot Page, Susan Sarandon, and Chelsea Manning are among those currently blocking the road
Chelsea Manning among others at the protest against genocide and Netanyahu's visit
September 24, 2026 at 6:07 PM
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"Some skills can be safely given away" is haunting me.

I miss everything I used to be able to do that I can't any more. There might be stuff I don't miss doing, but I miss everything I can't do.
mford.bsky.social Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 9h
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?”

Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading. What do you think when you hear that? The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter? That’s my question for you. Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does. But there must be some set of skills that matter. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those. There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address. And I —— I don’t really believe that to be true. It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you. One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it. But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded —— Yeah. I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books. You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans. Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off. Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off. Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers. Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker. What do you mean by systems thinker? They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things. So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.
September 24, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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As the genocide in Gaza continues, the Trump administration is preparing a $2.8 billion weapons sale to Israel, paid for largely with U.S. tax dollars. Contact your members of congress today and ask them to block the weapons sales to Israel here: www.votervoice.net/PCUSA/Campai...

#PCUSA #Advocacy
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September 24, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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Rep. Casar and Senator Sanders are right.

We need to hit the brakes on advanced AI development and ban the development of superintelligent AI.
repcasar.bsky.social Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 1d
You may have heard about my AI bill with @sanders.senate.gov.

We're introducing the legislation today, and I wanted to highlight one of the most important aspects:

A ban on “recursive self-improvement.”

What does that mean? 👇🏽
September 24, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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You don’t say: the Imperial Boomerang? Who could have guessed.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperia...
September 24, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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This month's @motherjones.com cover is astounding. Reposted with alt text:
Cover of the September-October issue of Mother Jones Magazine: a white background with the words "50 years of fearless journalism" in black print, centered above the name/logo of the magazine in large Bright Red. Below that in black, the words "the southern strategy — jim crow was dead and buried. Then came the Roberts court." And then, framing those words, there are two sets of robes: to the left, the simple black robes of the Judicial Branch of the United States Government, as a Supreme Court Justice might wear; to the right, the white robes and hood of the KKK. A white person's hand with cuff of business suit and shirt visible, reaches into the scene from the right, poised to grab the Klan robes.
September 23, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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marcelias.bsky.social
Wait…If you fight Trump’s frivolous lawsuits you will win???

Did anyone tell this to ABC and CBS News?
axios.com Axios @axios.com · 1d
A district judge tossed an election interference lawsuit by President Trump against the Des Moines Register, parent company USA Today Co. (formerly Gannett) and pollster Ann Selzer — rejecting claims that its inaccurate pre-election poll amounted to consumer fraud.
Judge tosses Trump's lawsuit against Des Moines Register
The dismissal is an early test of Trump's broader push to use litigation against news organizations over coverage he disputes.
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September 23, 2026 at 11:53 PM
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Everything is a slap in the face now, but This is grotesque
chadstanton.blacksky.app I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d
“The Department of Health and Human Services informed congressional appropriators earlier this year that it was moving about $12 million from its Office of Minority Health to help cover the ballooning cost of security for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.”

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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September 23, 2026 at 11:56 PM
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look, you can't just punish trump when dems are in power. that might make republicans do something crazy, like stage a coup, illegally shred the federal bureaucracy, or even vstart abducting people off the street and extraditing them to torture sites all over the world
September 23, 2026 at 9:26 PM
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DHS keeps tweeting at me instead of answering a simple question:

How does shooting a DoorDash driver in the back in Austin make anyone safer?
September 24, 2026 at 12:05 AM
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partialobserver.bsky.social
Yeah this seems bad, but what’s really going to bake your noodle is wondering who told the Chinese this was happening? And who initiated the shipment with the idea that this would be possible?
September 24, 2026 at 12:21 AM
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to people who are concerned that this suggests that 'Kavanaugh is not smart,' as opposed to 'Kavanaugh is evil,' I want you to rest assured that these things are not in opposition

he is both evil and a dumbass
jaywillis.net Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 1d
There have been lots of malevolent Supreme Court justices, but there's not really a precedent for a Supreme Court justice who is as *dumb* as Brett Kavanaugh. A complete rube. Shows his ass every time he tries to write down more than two sentences of original thought.
Brett Kavanaugh’s Imaginary Immigration Stops Opinion Gets More Embarrassing Every Day
The fact that ICE officers do not allow wrongfully detained people to “promptly go free” is a surprise to only one man in America.
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September 23, 2026 at 10:44 PM
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happy first (full) day of fall, bluesky
ina garten in a witch hat saying “If you can't summon the flames directly from hell, store-bought is fine.”
September 23, 2026 at 9:53 PM
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Hey-oh! If you are in SLC this Friday night and you like queers who write books, come out to this reading with me, @seananmcguire.bsky.social and @naomikritzer.bsky.social !! I am personally very excited to be adjacent to these two legends. Get your tickets now! legendariumbooks.com/events/63760...
Council of Queer Friends! Author Panel Sept. 25 @ 8 PM, Urban Arts Gallery, 116 S. Rio Grande Street, SLC Seanan McGuire Annalee Newitz Naomi Kritzer Get your tickets now!!
September 23, 2026 at 9:19 PM
drlightningtx.bsky.social
STFG these technodudebros don't know about power switches.
wiswell.bsky.social John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 1d
then quit building it, man
apnews.com The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d
BREAKING: Heads of major AI firms warn the UN that without intervention, "AI could be a risk to humanity as a whole".
September 24, 2026 at 12:51 AM
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wiswell.bsky.social
then quit building it, man
September 23, 2026 at 10:07 PM
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When Trump's super PAC has to defend 10point red seats, the survival math has officially flipped. Crossing him is safer than sinking with him. Sharp read by @paulwaldman.bsky.social

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atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
New in PN: The trickle of Republicans opposing Trump will become a flood

"Republicans — even some who not long ago donned red MAGA hats — have decided their survival calculation has been flipped upside-down, and now the riskiest move isn’t to break from Trump; it's to stick with him unequivocally."
The trickle of Republicans opposing Trump will become a flood
The risk of bucking him is now outweighed by the risk of NOT opposing him.
www.publicnotice.co
September 24, 2026 at 12:44 AM
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September 23, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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#StayReadyCrew

If you live near an Aldi this might be a good chance for you to get ahead of the price increases & possible shortages coming this Fall/Winter.

The price decrease is temporary...so far. It will run from 9/23-11/3.

www.usatoday.com/story/grocer...
Aldi is cutting prices on a third of its products. Here's when
The grocery chain said the price cuts are expected to save customers $86 million.
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September 23, 2026 at 5:10 PM
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hammancheez.bsky.social
They’re calling it a syndicate in broad daylight

I guess billionaire cabal was too on the nose
semafor.com Semafor @semafor.com · 1d
Musk’s name is one of a number of wealthy individuals that Paramount CEO David Ellison has considered tapping for the syndicate, people familiar with the matter said.

Read more from Rohan Goswami: www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
Exclusive: Paramount weighs tapping Musk for equity investment
A cash injection from SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk could reduce investor Larry Ellison’s financial burden and bolster the deal’s investor base.
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September 23, 2026 at 6:52 PM
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We can’t allow this man to get within striking distance of a viable presidential candidacy.
motherjones.com Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d
Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have prohibited future governors from handing over abortion providers, helpers, and patients to red states for criminal prosecution. The bill also barred extraditions involving transgender care.
Newsom vetoes bill that would ban extraditions for abortion and gender-affirming care
California’s pro-repro rights governor rejects a key protection that 18 blue states have enshrined into law.
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September 23, 2026 at 6:46 PM
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Look, I don't know if that's true, but air travel is one of the safest forms of travel, so THANK YOU FURRIES, FURRIES WIN AGAIN
factpostnews.bsky.social FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 1d
Tommy Tuberville: Many airline pilots, flight attendants, and air traffic controllers are part of the furry community. It's terrifying.
September 23, 2026 at 6:44 PM
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kbwagers.com
Hi Colorado peeps!

Did you know there are multiple terrible ballot measures on the docket for November, but especially two anti-trans measures that need you to VOTE NO on.

No on 134 - bullshit anti-trans sports ban
No on 135 - bullshit anti-trans medical ban
September 23, 2026 at 7:01 PM