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Rianamator 🦇🎃👻 @riana.bsky.social · 19h

thanks to a friend I once had who was the child of Dutch immigrants, I taught myself to enjoy salty licorice, which is probably pretty low on the list of associations people make between the words "Dutch" and "pervert"

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

“Justice systems across the world are struggling to address harms from deepfakes that are increasingly used for financial scams, in elections, and to spread nonconsensual sexual imagery.”

Courts don’t know what to do about AI crimes

AI-generated images and videos are stumping prosecutors in Latin America, even as courts embrace AI to tackle case backlogs.

restofworld.org

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.bsky.social · 1d

FWIW I've written to the Irish Minister for Justice - an enthusiastic supporter of Europe's hideous "chat control" phone-scanning proposal - asking him to imagine when that technology is used against him.

If you're German, please, PLEASE write to your justice/interior minister today.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

First take out of arguments: Despite efforts by Sotomayor to put off a decision, it appeared the Supreme Court will subject Colorado’s conversion therapy ban to strict scrutiny under the First Amendment, with a majority likely to strike it down outright.

More to come at Law Dork:

Law Dork | Chris Geidner | Substack

The Supreme Court, law, politics, and more. Click to read Law Dork, by Chris Geidner, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

www.lawdork.com

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Adam A. Marshall @a-marshall-plan.bsky.social · 1d

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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 1d

Now: Debt Collective Raises Hand to Purchase Chunk of Federal Government Student Debt Portfolio

The Debt Collective has purchased billions in household debt over the past decade

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, after a new POLITICO report that the Trump administration is “exploring options to sell off parts of the federal government’s $1.6 trillion student loan portfolio to the private market,” the Debt Collective is announcing its willingness to purchase the entire portfolio for its true market value. The Debt Collective will then subsequently cancel the debt.

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Devin 🌞 Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 1d

it's Shadow Ticket pub day — up now on @literaryhub.bsky.social I wrote about Pynchon in the culture. thanks for check'n it out

lithub.com/thomas-pynch... @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social

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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 1d

Cops misled journalists about using a powerful surveillance tool to track a woman across state lines because she had an abortion, then tried to cover it up when we found out the truth. Huge story from @jasonkoebler.bsky.social and @josephcox.bsky.social this morning: www.404media.co/police-said-...

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

www.404media.co

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Evelyn Douek @evelyndouek.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about an under-appreciated aspect of AAUP v. Rubio. It is the first case of the Trump Era to explicitly identify and reject the primary and most pernicious form of speech suppression employed by this Administration: Chill.

balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/aaup...

Balkinization: AAUP v. Rubio and the Big Chill

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

balkin.blogspot.com

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1d

New on MSNBC: Trump's new acting U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan has recruited prosecutors from outside her office to take James Comey to trial, after being unable to find any federal prosecutors in her own office willing to pursue the charges, according to two people familiar with the selections.

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Rianamator 🦇🎃👻 @riana.bsky.social · 1d

Coverage of the unsealed XiaoFeng Wang search warrants:

www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

www.ipm.org/news/2025-10...

www.indystar.com/story/news/c...

Unsealed documents reveal details behind FBI raid of fired Indiana University professor

A shroud of secrecy has surrounded the motive behind the FBI raid and firing of a Chinese professor at Indiana University earlier this year.

www.indystar.com

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 1d

The EFF obtained these docs and shared them with us. Their writeup is here:

www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation.

New documents and court records obtained by EFF show that Texas deputies queried Flock Safety's surveillance data in an abortion investigation, contradicting the narrative promoted by the company and ...

www.eff.org

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 1d

On top of all of this, and separately: Since we published this story, the Sheriff I talked to and who has been the main figure in this has been arrested for allegedly sexually harassing his employees and for aggravated perjury for allegedly lying to a grand jury about it

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: In May, a Texas police department said they used the powerful Flock surveillance network against a woman who had an abortion "for her safety"

Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime

www.404media.co/police-said-...

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

www.404media.co

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 1d

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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Autonomy News @autonomynews.co · 1d

A new Supreme Court term stacked with cases from Christian nationalist law firm Alliance Defending Freedom, an arrest warrant issued for a "shield" law abortion provider, new data on post-Dobbs pregnancy criminalization from @pregnancyjust.bsky.social, and more in this week's news roundup:

Another Generic Abortion Pill, New Supreme Court Term, and More: October 6 News Roundup

Plus, what you missed on Autonomy News last week.

www.autonomynews.co

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 7d

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 2d

"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."

America is now one big bet on AI

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

www.ft.com

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Rianamator 🦇🎃👻 @riana.bsky.social · 1d

how I am getting around while commercial air travel is affected by the shutdown

A framed painting against a pink wall, by Henry Singleton, depicting Ariel (the spirit from The Tempest) riding a bat through the night sky. The painting is about 205 years old. Seen at the William Blake exhibit at the National Gallery, Budapest. https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/singleton-ariel-on-a-bats-back-n01027

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 1d

From the people who brought you a fake case in 303 Creative and still got the justices to bulldoze protections for queer people………

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sorry but how does this person have standing to challenge Colorado's ban on LGBTQ conversion therapy when she has explicitly disclaimed any desire to change a patient's sexual orientation or gender identity? How is this a real case? slate.com/news-and-pol...

The Supreme Court’s First Blockbuster Case This Term Looks Pretty Fake

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Chiles v. Salazar, a case that seeks to undo a major triumph of the LGBTQ+ movement.

slate.com

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

Look I get that it's not sexy that the Florida facility was closed via an environmental lawsuit but Al Capone got taken down by tax evasion. Not everything is sexy!

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 1d

this one’s been on ice radar for a long time. but they are tracking all similar sites and apps, as well widely alerting local police to their use by residents, claiming they promote violence.

hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 1d

Identifying public officials isn't "doxing." People have the right to know who is working for their government. Nor, for that matter, is it "radical left-wing terrorism." So it's frustrating to see platforms caving to these bad faith characterizations. www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/06/1...

Another effort to track ICE raids was just taken offline

People over Papers was removed by Padlet, the platform it was built on, yesterday.

www.technologyreview.com

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Plenary Popehat Power @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

DOJ argues about ICE officers being doxxed.

Ellis responds at length, discussing doxxing and threats faced by judges and acknowledging how horrible it is, but says "that doesn't mean that you then get to do this job and be anonymous. ... Under the rule of law, it is important to be transparent."

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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 1d

Today, MSNBC (newly independent from NBC News) and CBS News (now led by Bari Weiss) shared their new journalistic principles. A close reading shows some striking differences. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/msnb...

Bari Weiss’s CBS News and MSNBC both just laid out their new journalistic principles — and they’re fascinatingly different

CBS: "America," "American," "all of the tools of the digital era," and speed. MSNBC: Press freedom, the First Amendment, and ethics.

www.niemanlab.org

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