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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 15h

The walk-off music is 👨‍🍳💋

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 1d

"Many of you who covered me ... were salivating at the thought that Eric would go to jail for 33 years. So don't start asking me about what I think about [Letitia James]: I want to know, what did y'all think about when my life was destroyed in this city. And I wish I had a mic so I can drop it."

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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 15h

Billionaire-to-supervillain pipeline

Since the pandemic, he has mostly lived on the Big Island of Hawaii, where he has bought up numerous parcels of land. He said that he wasn't sure how many days he spends each year in San Francisco, but that he is never in one place for more than a day or two.

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 1d

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 2d

adding alt text bc we all know that interview was rough to watch, but my god the background on it

(via www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...)

A few days before the taping, Colbert's producers held a prep call with the candidates and their aides. The sample questions covered basic political topics, such as the meaning of democratic socialism. Right before the candidates went onstage, the producers appeared in the greenroom and said that they wanted to go over a few more questions. Earlier that day, a group of prominent Jewish figures, including Elisha Wiesel, the son of Elie Wiesel, had sent a letter to Colbert demanding that he grill Mamdani on his views of Israel. According to people who were in the room, one of the producers suggested a "thumbs-up or thumbs-down" segment:
"Thumbs-up or thumbs-down: Hamas. Thumbs-up or thumbs-down: a Palestinian state."
Mamdani's face dropped. "I just couldn't believe what was happening," he told me. "That a genocide could be distilled into a late-night game." His aides were incensed. "You have the first Muslim candidate for mayor in the history of New York," Zara Rahim, a senior adviser to Mamdani, told one of the producers. "You don't want to ask him a question about that?" (CBS did not respond to a request for comment.) In the end, the game didn't happen, but Colbert did ask Mamdani whether he believed that Israel had the right to exist. "Yes, like all nations, I believe it has a right to exist," he said. "And a responsibility also to uphold international law."

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Meghan Hoyer @meghanhoyer.bsky.social · 2d

Parlays have become incredibly popular, with many betting apps encouraging these high-stakes multi-leg bets. But as legs are added, the chance of winning drops faster than the growth of the potential payout - which means sportsbooks have the advantage. Explore the math and and try your own bets:

Americans can’t stop betting parlays. Sportbooks are cashing in.

As betting booms, parlays are accounting for an increasing share of the money wagered on sports, according to a Washington Post analysis of state data.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 3d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 4d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Ben Conarck @conarck.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: A few weeks ago, @muckrock.com
shared the Brady list for Baltimore County. Scanning it, I noticed the police chief was on there. I then spent weeks trying to figure out why. But no one — not the state's attorney, nor the police department — is explaining it. www.thebanner.com/community/cr...

Baltimore County’s police chief is on a list of cops with credibility concerns

Robert McCullough, the Baltimore County Police Department chief, appears on a list of law enforcement officers whose potential credibility concerns require disclosure to defense attorneys if they’re c...

www.thebanner.com

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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 4d

Why does Stephen Miller talk like he's one of the villains on Adventure Time?

Every time he does an interview, I am half expecting him to announce that he has finally captured Princess Bubblegum and plans to force her to be his new wife.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 5d

Alaska vowed to resolve the murders of Indigenous people.

But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no.

By @kylehopkinsak.bsky.social, w/ @adn.com

Alaska Vowed to Resolve Murders of Indigenous People. Now It Refuses to Provide Their Names.

When the nonprofit Data for Indigenous Justice filed public records requests with the Alaska Department of Public Safety concerning cases it had investigated, the state rejected them.

www.propublica.org

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 8d

Judge: Response, DOJ? Hegseth memo doesn't seem to identify events.

DOJ: President's determination last weekend reflected in Truth Social posts indicate that DHS had made request. He talks about his decision, explains that conditions have deteriorated into "lawless mayhem."

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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 10d

I mean, the GOP _is_ lying as well--undocumented immigrants can't receive Medicaid--but no one should struggle to afford healthcare just because they don't have the right passport!

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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 10d

I'm not sure accusations of healthcare are the same as accusations of pet-eating... The "healthcare for illegal aliens" line seems like it's more about attacking public goods that just happen to benefit outgroups.

It's like the cities that shut down public pools instead of desegregating them.

Art Weber @artweber.bsky.social · 10d

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Daja E. Henry @dajaehenry.com · 10d

Today, a receiver took over Hinds County's Raymond Detention Center. People detained there shared stories of being held in cells covered with mold and feces and sleeping on floors. At least 6 died there this year, including a murder & drug overdose. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/10/01/m...

Court Appointee Takes Over Hinds County Jail

After a decade-long court battle, receiver Wendell M. France takes the reins.

www.themarshallproject.org

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 10d

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 10d

“It is draconian to take away SNAP benefits from a single mother without clear and convincing evidence that intentional trafficking was occurring during a time when food scarcity is so prevalent,” Franklin County Judge Thomas Wingate said in his 2023 decision.
www.lpm.org/news/2025-09...

Kentucky has kicked people off of food benefits using data that doesn’t tell the full story

With food insecurity rising, Kentucky continues to aggressively investigate individuals on fraud allegations, with some legal experts claiming they rely too much on faulty evidence.

www.lpm.org

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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 11d

New Immigration Enforcement Dashboard makes Deportation Data Project data accessible through interactive visualizations, bridging the gap between complex datasets and public understanding.

austinkocher.substack.com/p/new-immigr...

New Immigration Enforcement Dashboard Makes Deportation Data Project Data Accessible to More People

New Immigration Enforcement Dashboard makes ICE arrest data accessible through interactive visualizations, bridging the gap between complex datasets and public understanding.

austinkocher.substack.com

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 12d

An ICE officer who was initially relieved of his duties after being captured on video pushing a woman to the ground outside an immigration court in New York City has been returned to duty, two U.S. officials familiar with the matter told CBS News.

www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-off...

ICE officer seen on video pushing woman to ground has returned to duty

An ICE officer who was initially relieved of his duties after being captured on video pushing a woman to the ground has been returned to duty, two U.S. officials familiar with the matter told CBS News...

www.cbsnews.com

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jenbmiller.bsky.social @jenbmiller.bsky.social · 14d

Smart move by two young upstate NY reporters: they filed a FOIA for body cameras worn by the sheriff’s deputies at an ICE raid. These are almost always civil raids so there’s no ongoing criminal investigation that would require that footage to stay confidential. Replicable by any media outlet.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14d

“They’re, they’re animals anyway. That’s what I would tell my kids all the time,” said the ICE agent, according to body cam footage. spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-...

Man detained in Cato ICE raid wrongfully deported, separated from his family

Body camera footage released from the raid shows agents referring to immigrants as 'animals.'

spectrumlocalnews.com

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Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 14d

NEW: Six people detained in California’s newest + largest ICE facility speak out, saying they are confined in filthy cells, struggling to access basic medications, going hungry due to insufficient food, drinking dirty water, and faced with “military-like” staff.

“This place is built to break us”

‘Hell on earth’: immigrants held in new California detention facility beg for help

Six people at a remote Ice facility in California City describe medical problems and filthy conditions, which operator CoreCivic denies

www.theguardian.com

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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 14d

Does any other song more reliably get people in their early 30s dancing like fools (myself included) like "Mr. Brightside"?

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James Queally @jqwritesstuff.bsky.social · 15d

Federal prosecutors in L.A. have indicted three women for allegedly 'doxing' an ICE agent. My latest: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Feds indict three women for alleged 'doxing' of ICE agent in Los Angeles

Three women are accused of following a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent to their home in Los Angeles County and broadcasting the address on Instagram, according to a federal indictment u...

www.latimes.com

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 16d

I've been telling people for years that there is a difference between *reducing cost* and *moving cost around* - and LLMs are only doing the latter.

Maybe now that there is a study, they will listen...oh, who am I kidding.

AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity

Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 17d

Florida sheriff's department used ICE to round up sex workers under pretense of fighting human trafficking and child exploitation.

Instead, they arrested 111 sex workers, none of whom was underage and none of which led to a human trafficking arrest.

Grady Judd: ‘Operation Fool Around and Find Out Again’ human trafficking investigation nets 246 arrests

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd says nearly 250 suspects face serious charges after a weeklong multi-agency undercover investigation targeting human trafficking and illegal immigration.

www.fox13news.com

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Autonomy News @autonomynews.co · 17d

EXCLUSIVE: Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin will halt abortions in October in response to the GOP budget "defunding" provision

It's the first known PP affiliate to drop abortion services in the wake of the law:

Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin to Halt Abortion Services

Sources say the affiliate isn't scheduling abortion appointments after September 30 in an apparent attempt to avoid Medicaid "defunding."

www.autonomynews.co

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