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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2h

“Senior military leaders should have stepped in to prevent Trump from turning addresses at Fort Bragg and Norfolk into political rallies; the silence of the Army and Navy secretaries, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and some top generals and admirals is appalling…”

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here

The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.

www.theatlantic.com

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · Sep 21

God it would be so relatively trivial to buy up and nationalize greyhound to bootstrap a national electric bus service as both a stop gap to national high speed rail and as a last mile passenger thing

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · Sep 20

chicago’s only greyhound bus station could be closed in a month.

feeling frustrated and dismayed, photographer greg fairbank spent a recent sunday afternoon at the station. he spoke to travelers about what the closure would mean to them.

some of their responses are collected in this photo essay:

Goodbye, Greyhound? - Chicago Reader

Chicago’s only intercity bus terminal could soon shut its doors for good. What would that mean for its passengers?

chicagoreader.com

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 7h

I also wrote about how the age of scammers is overwhelming and how a random Jason Statham movie did more to address it than Congress. letsdothepanicagain.beehiiv.com/p/they-re-ma...

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 4h

Jack Ciattarelli tonight at the debate: “I’d certainly give the president an A.”

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 13h

Virginia State Senate Dems just brought down fire and fury regarding the “Compact,” notifying the President and Rector that UVA would lose ALL STATE APPROPRIATIONS if it signs and cedes the University to “federal political control.” Notably, their letter directly restates points made here by @siva.

Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 15h

The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.

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Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

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Jared Cram @jscram3254.bsky.social · 4h

I see what you did there.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4h

John Fetterman, ladies and gentlemen

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 4h

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 6h

Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war.Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers.

Models of parking lots, antennas, + pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

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Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12h

EXCLUSIVE: Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears in a 2022 interview warned supporters of reproductive rights that "one day it’s going to be your turn."

"Murder is murder. And one day it's going to be your turn."

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 10h

🧵 Trump is criminally invading states under false pretenses. His supporters are trying to instigate violence by dressing as antifa and committing crimes.

In this clip from Portland, Joey Gibson of "Patriot Prayer" and his fiancée, Lindsey Nichols, tried to cause trouble before being forced away.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 10h

Jamal Khashoggi was my friend and colleague who was killed and dismembered in 2018.

Do you know how many times I’ve written against Saudi Arabia’ coverup over the last seven years?

The sportswashing? The paying of influencers to visit Saudi Arabia?

Saudi’s censorship of Hasan Minaj?

Brian.. @nywiz.bsky.social · 10h

What Russia did
What China did

Do you know how many professional golfers are being paid by the Saudi?

Do you know how many F1 racist there are in Saudi Arabia?

Do you know how many world football Giants played in Saudi Arabia?

Why are we singling out comedians?

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Richard Power @wyrdsofpower.bsky.social · 12h

I’ve seen the pictures of Trump with Epstein’s girls. Here’s what’s in them - @michaelwolffnyc.bsky.social

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 11h

just talked to Gov. Pritzker who dared President Trump to “come and get me” after POTUS threatened him with arrest. But Pritzker said he thinks Trump will chicken out.

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Jared Cram @jscram3254.bsky.social · 11h

Right wingers have taken so much from us.

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 11h

Daughter reacts to her mother being taken by ICE:

"She looks ready to cry, and that saddens me because she just wanted to go to the store. She was gonna make some albondigas, which is basically a meatball stew."

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Jared Cram @jscram3254.bsky.social · 13h

It’s horrifying that there’s a big chunk of people who see this as a positive way to raise children.

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 13h

Jack Ciattarelli, boasting about his upbringing:

“My parents also told us in that house, us four children, that we didn’t have any rights. No rights. We had responsibilities.”

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Jared Cram @jscram3254.bsky.social · 13h

Not that I believe it was intentional, is it possible this frustrates Trump enough to do something so over the top that the general public actually sees the fascism problem?

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Jared Cram @jscram3254.bsky.social · 13h

So that’s 19.75% that knows the .25% that has deluded themselves into thinking they have a relationship with software code?

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Strings and Sealing Wax (and other fancy stuff) @strings.bsky.social · 14h

We’ve already seen what huge productivity increases look like when we don’t bully the wealthy into sharing those gains, and it isn’t “stuff is free”, it’s “worst wealth inequality in world history”

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h

ANDREESSEN: Even if AI ends up destroying all the jobs, “the result would be hyper-deflation of prices, which is the thing that people miss. .. Things that today cost a lot of money will all of a sudden be cheap or free.”

@fortune.com
fortune.com/2025/10/08/b...

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Anonymous @spartazc.bsky.social · 14h

I'm going to explain something that hopefully lands on intelligent ears. Creating division between Trump's Christians and other denominations is essential to breaking the cult and poisoning the idea of "christofascism".

That's not your queue to declare "I'm not Christian" or "I'm atheist."

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KI Insights @ki-insights.bsky.social · 1d

📩 🧵Our weekly report is out! Subscribe to get full weekly reports on #Ukraine straight in your inbox: insights.kyivindependent.com/newsletters

Rising concern over Eurosceptic & pro-Russian forces: new “Sila Natsii” party emerges, calling NABU/SAPO “colonial” & hinting at anti-Western themes.

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Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social · 1d

Very odd SCOOP:

Just weeks before the 2024 primary election between Cori Bush and Wesley Bell, Bell used over $35,000 in campaign funds to buy his friend's Dodge Durango, which the friend had failed to sell two years earlier.

He then hired the friend, who now drives the car.

Wesley Bell Used $35,000 in Campaign Cash to Buy His Friend’s Dodge Durango

The congressman from St. Louis put some of AIPAC's money to an unusual use. He now faces a rematch with Cori Bush.

www.dropsitenews.com

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 15h

I'd love to do a newsletter exchange with folks. What I mean by this is that two writers team up and run a piece from the other newsletter on their own NL. This serves both as an endorsement and a way to expose new writers to different audiences.

If you're interested in this, reply here or DM.

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Jared Cram @jscram3254.bsky.social · 15h

Do you think a project like this collapsing would be the kind of event that triggers a bubble burst? Obviously not on its own, but being the first domino?

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 15h

The craziest thing I’m chasing down: I don’t believe that stargate abilene has even close to enough power, nor is it possible for them to build it before the year 2027. They have a 200mw substation and an unfinished 350mw gas turbine plant.

They need 1GW+ and it’s still in the design phase!

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