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ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton.
she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back.
news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back.
news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
October 7, 2026 at 9:09 PM
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton.
she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back.
news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back.
news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
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“.. defense companies backed by the president's sons, including Anduril, have now raked in more than $6 billion dollars in active or promised government contracts since those investments were made, according to the government's official contract reporting.
abcnews.com/Politics/tru...
abcnews.com/Politics/tru...
October 7, 2026 at 2:20 PM
“.. defense companies backed by the president's sons, including Anduril, have now raked in more than $6 billion dollars in active or promised government contracts since those investments were made, according to the government's official contract reporting.
abcnews.com/Politics/tru...
abcnews.com/Politics/tru...
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Nobel prize in chemistry awarded for work on mirror-image molecules
Nobel prize in chemistry awarded for work on mirror-image molecules
Henri B Kagan and Kensō Soai awarded prize for discovery of nonlinear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis
The Nobel prize in chemistry 2026 has been awarded to two scientists for discoveries that showed how chemical reactions can produce one of two mirror image forms of a molecule.
Henri B Kagan at Paris-Sud University in France and Kensō Soai at Tokyo University of Science in Japan have been awarded the prize “for the discovery of nonlinear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2026 at 10:19 AM
Nobel prize in chemistry awarded for work on mirror-image molecules
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The U.S. Senate voted to confirm
Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court
8 years ago on October 6, 2018.
@bagleycartoons.bsky.social
Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court
8 years ago on October 6, 2018.
@bagleycartoons.bsky.social
October 6, 2026 at 4:24 PM
The U.S. Senate voted to confirm
Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court
8 years ago on October 6, 2018.
@bagleycartoons.bsky.social
Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court
8 years ago on October 6, 2018.
@bagleycartoons.bsky.social
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4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck.
After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home.
Then they threw his ID out of the truck.
After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home.
Then they threw his ID out of the truck.
October 6, 2026 at 11:36 AM
4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck.
After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home.
Then they threw his ID out of the truck.
After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home.
Then they threw his ID out of the truck.
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The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens.
We are.
500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term.
Our tally is almost certainly an undercount.
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We are.
500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term.
Our tally is almost certainly an undercount.
THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
October 6, 2026 at 11:30 AM
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens.
We are.
500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term.
Our tally is almost certainly an undercount.
THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
We are.
500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term.
Our tally is almost certainly an undercount.
THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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Resistors report arrests and injuries, including being pushed into barbed wire. CBP confirmed that all four cottonwoods marked for removal there are now gone. Centuries of life destroyed for two parallel walls cutting through the borderlands. We’re heartbroken and we’re angry!
October 6, 2026 at 3:58 AM
Resistors report arrests and injuries, including being pushed into barbed wire. CBP confirmed that all four cottonwoods marked for removal there are now gone. Centuries of life destroyed for two parallel walls cutting through the borderlands. We’re heartbroken and we’re angry!
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I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff.
Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years.
Be warned. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm-bomb
Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years.
Be warned. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm-bomb
September 28, 2026 at 11:16 PM
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff.
Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years.
Be warned. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm-bomb
Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years.
Be warned. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm-bomb
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Simon Andriesz, former Wall Street banker and whistleblower who exposed previously undisclosed business ties between Howard Lutnick and Jeffrey Epstein, was found dead. According to initial financial and news media reports, he died by suicide.
OK, that's what they said about Epstein too.
OK, that's what they said about Epstein too.
October 5, 2026 at 10:59 PM
Simon Andriesz, former Wall Street banker and whistleblower who exposed previously undisclosed business ties between Howard Lutnick and Jeffrey Epstein, was found dead. According to initial financial and news media reports, he died by suicide.
OK, that's what they said about Epstein too.
OK, that's what they said about Epstein too.
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Federal agents swarmed a protest encampment today, arresting a dozen people and allowing contractors to remove a live protester from, then cut down, an ancient, giant cottonwood "Grandmother Tree" to make way for border wall construction. Protesters had been at the site near Lochiel, AZ for 71 days.
October 5, 2026 at 11:39 PM
Federal agents swarmed a protest encampment today, arresting a dozen people and allowing contractors to remove a live protester from, then cut down, an ancient, giant cottonwood "Grandmother Tree" to make way for border wall construction. Protesters had been at the site near Lochiel, AZ for 71 days.
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Frank Luntz, In the memo, titled "The Environment: A Cleaner, Safer, Healthier America," Luntz warned that the scientific consensus was closing in against climate skepticism, advising politicians to manufacture doubt to delay policy action"
Memo exposes Bush's new green strategy
The US Republican party is changing tactics on the environment, avoiding "frightening" phrases such as global warming, after a confidential party memo warned that it is the domestic issue on which Geo...
www.theguardian.com
October 5, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Frank Luntz, In the memo, titled "The Environment: A Cleaner, Safer, Healthier America," Luntz warned that the scientific consensus was closing in against climate skepticism, advising politicians to manufacture doubt to delay policy action"
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Lab worker ‘possibly’ dies of plague in Siberia, prompting quarantine measures
Lab worker ‘possibly’ dies of plague in Siberia, prompting quarantine measures
Precautions in place in several hospitals in eastern Russia amid uncertainty over death of Darya Shipilova
Several hospitals in Siberia have been placed under quarantine after the death of a woman who worked at an anti-plague institute.
Darya Shipilova, an employee at an institute in the eastern city of Irkutsk, died on the night of 2 October at a regional hospital in the nearby town of Shelekhov two days after falling ill. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 5, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Lab worker ‘possibly’ dies of plague in Siberia, prompting quarantine measures
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The infamous hate group is trying to rebrand itself as the 'Knights Party' in an attempt to grow its base https://aje.news/r47w3p
October 5, 2026 at 2:30 AM
The infamous hate group is trying to rebrand itself as the 'Knights Party' in an attempt to grow its base https://aje.news/r47w3p
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Hard to think of anything less abstract and more materially consequential than being pregnant
Samuel Alito: We won't overturn Obergefell because it's engendered reliance interests.
Jan Crawford: Well, many people had organized their lives around Roe v. Wade.
Alito: No, they didn't. Women merely had an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in."
Jan Crawford: Well, many people had organized their lives around Roe v. Wade.
Alito: No, they didn't. Women merely had an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in."
The Alito Court: A rare interview with the influential Supreme Court justice
Justice Samuel Alito discussed his opinion in the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the leaked draft and its aftermath, same-sex marriage rights and why he's not retiring yet.
www.cbsnews.com
October 5, 2026 at 2:56 AM
Hard to think of anything less abstract and more materially consequential than being pregnant
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I see some folks asking: what motivates RFK Jr to tell such horrific, dangerous, repulsive lies about the HPV vaccine?
Well, he has made $856,559 from suing the HPV vaccine maker (his vaccine adviser, Dr Kulldorff, also got rich the same way)
Always follow the 🤑!
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Well, he has made $856,559 from suing the HPV vaccine maker (his vaccine adviser, Dr Kulldorff, also got rich the same way)
Always follow the 🤑!
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
October 3, 2026 at 11:48 PM
I see some folks asking: what motivates RFK Jr to tell such horrific, dangerous, repulsive lies about the HPV vaccine?
Well, he has made $856,559 from suing the HPV vaccine maker (his vaccine adviser, Dr Kulldorff, also got rich the same way)
Always follow the 🤑!
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Well, he has made $856,559 from suing the HPV vaccine maker (his vaccine adviser, Dr Kulldorff, also got rich the same way)
Always follow the 🤑!
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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“I am the house.”
- Sept 8
“I can’t control the bond market.”
- Oct 3
@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
- Sept 8
“I can’t control the bond market.”
- Oct 3
@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
October 3, 2026 at 7:24 PM
“I am the house.”
- Sept 8
“I can’t control the bond market.”
- Oct 3
@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
- Sept 8
“I can’t control the bond market.”
- Oct 3
@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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This is absolutely horrible. (Read this letter).
And apparently very little has changed for university administrators.
And apparently very little has changed for university administrators.
October 3, 2026 at 6:20 PM
This is absolutely horrible. (Read this letter).
And apparently very little has changed for university administrators.
And apparently very little has changed for university administrators.
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Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
October 2, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
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This is huge: a judge ruled a Flock search was 'indiscriminate mass surveillance' and unconstitutional. Says the search by a cop, who did it because a passing car had a plate from a different state, violated the driver's rights. Meaning, Flock should require a warrant www.404media.co/federal-judg...
Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional
Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.
www.404media.co
October 2, 2026 at 8:52 PM
This is huge: a judge ruled a Flock search was 'indiscriminate mass surveillance' and unconstitutional. Says the search by a cop, who did it because a passing car had a plate from a different state, violated the driver's rights. Meaning, Flock should require a warrant www.404media.co/federal-judg...
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Michael Tracey published what he said was the ID of the "Jane Doe" in the Cornell case. Then he took it down, claiming he just wanted to make a point and didn't want to see harm to the person he named.
What he hasn't admitted is that he mistook info on a sketchy site for official NY court records.
What he hasn't admitted is that he mistook info on a sketchy site for official NY court records.
![An archived copy of Michael Tracey's original Substack post includes a screenshot from "eCourt Records" and the commentary: "It's [name redacted]. Don't blame me -- the New York Court System just posted it. Seemingly inadvertently. Oh well."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6arqeda2f5piwu7zien3b2hq/bafkreiftgxhhfprcae33jlwnll3ycf3r4cwwqxkx4tryc7b2kvdsuzaeca)
October 2, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Michael Tracey published what he said was the ID of the "Jane Doe" in the Cornell case. Then he took it down, claiming he just wanted to make a point and didn't want to see harm to the person he named.
What he hasn't admitted is that he mistook info on a sketchy site for official NY court records.
What he hasn't admitted is that he mistook info on a sketchy site for official NY court records.
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CATO: “.. At the end of August, around one-third of publicly held marketable debt—more than $10 trillion—was scheduled to mature within the next 12 months. Over half matures within three years.”
@cato.org
www.cato.org/blog/persist...
@cato.org
www.cato.org/blog/persist...
October 2, 2026 at 11:22 AM
CATO: “.. At the end of August, around one-third of publicly held marketable debt—more than $10 trillion—was scheduled to mature within the next 12 months. Over half matures within three years.”
@cato.org
www.cato.org/blog/persist...
@cato.org
www.cato.org/blog/persist...