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Following hacks by rogue AI agents, the government must evaluate systemic failures with an eye toward establishing meaningful regulation. Here are questions that Congress should be asking AI companies: bit.ly/4xLckHb

The cutest thing you'll see today Repost of @PerceptiveBliss: Original post

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In case you missed it, librarians won on one of America's biggest stages. A documentary about librarians standing up against book bans and defending the freedom to read was honored at the Emmys. via @everylibrary.bsky.social action.everylibrary.org/emmys

ysph.yale.edu/news-article... Single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1.04 trillion or 20% less than the system it would replace, according to new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.

🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.

The Mitch McConnell shit is really weird, and I say this as the person the NYT assigned to write three separate obits of Uzbekistan's president as the state covered up his death: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/ghost-senate

UNESCO says 2.4 million Afghan girls denied access to further education https://aje.news/je1l0y

Drop some TRAINS www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P96...

Look if you think it’s fine for Trump to corruptly get a red card revoked (or “suspended”) bc FIFA is already corrupt, maybe you understand the MAGA mindset better than you think. “All politicians are corrupt so it’s ok for Trump to be corrupt” is a very common maga rationalization

Caturday kyloandthekittenz Kylo, Stitch, Loki and Bo Stitch🫗🐈‍⬛

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

"I'm feeling a little low T" -- Obama to Colbert after Colbert teases him about not being featured in a Batman comic

Would someone please ask Putin to make DJT stop?

If you see this post a photo from the device you’re using without explanation

Iran has elections, but to its great shame, it has an unaccountable council of ayatollahs that overrules the elected representatives. Here’s why we’re nullifying the Voting Rights Act. by John Roberts

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Democrats are going to fund and support this war. Like every enabling and collaborative stunt they pull, this is yet another opportunity to recognize they aren’t an opposition party but a captured group that serves the interests of the same wealth and oligarchical classes as the Republicans.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Thesis: ICE is un-American and the Minneapolis protestors are real Americans. Antithesis: Ackshually ICE is operating in a long American tradition of racist terror. Synthesis: Minneapolis is now the epicenter of a clash between two distinct but historically grounded American political traditions.

This is very bad news for Greenland

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Ok it’s official, the #xpncountdown includes worst covers as well as best. Case in point: William Shatner’s Common People at 74

The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the chemical industry. This is why you always follow the money. www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2025/09/17/a...

Wow

What you have to ask them is this: we are pointing out that military personnel have a duty to not follow illegal orders. Trump was never mentioned. No specific orders were mentioned. Why do you assume it's about Trump? And does that in turn mean that you are aware of his orders being illegal?

“America, for all its flaws and misdeeds, stands for an idea so much better than the worst parts of its legacy”

📽️ VIDEO: Donald Trump is using the same tactics authoritarians have used to attack democracies for centuries. Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat joins the podcast to expose Trump's playbook and share one of her most important maxims of resistance. Watch below👇

Timeline cleanser 🐈

Ezra Klein, watch this.

First Term: Mar-a-Lago is Southern Whitehouse. Second Term: Whitehouse is Northern Mar-a-Lago.

Ukraine needs to name its military bases after Vladimir Putin and his generals. by Pete Hegseth

It’s more important than ever to understand your right to due process. Here’s what you should know. youtu.be/metN4EiDtmQ

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Autocrats follow a predictable playbook. Learn how we can disrupt their rise before revolution or civil war become the only solutions... hartmannreport.com/p/fourteen-s...

I asked ICE where the “413% increase in assaults” justification for its officers using masks came from. They didn’t answer. So I dug into it, and what I found … did not boost their argument. Gift link: wapo.st/4l7a1ch

Please meet Hannah, the 80-something year old patriot who closed out the Langhorne, PA No Kings rally at Congressman Fitzpatrick's office on Saturday. May we all have the spirit and determination of Hannah. open.substack.com/pub/thehuman...

Gassing people stuck in a traffic jam that they caused

If you read one thing this weekend: And above all, keep faith in the long game. While narcissistic dynamics rely on urgency and alarm, deep change comes from staying calm, clear and connected. Here’s What We Need To Do To Stop Trump. www.huffpost.com/entry/psycho...

I think she invented a new art form

End times fascism is really the best description of the madness engulfing our country, and the world

okay now that you all have gotten a taste of America's rational and predictable new trade policy, everyone who wants to build your new factories here just form an orderly line

Alienate our allies Crash the market Devalue the dollar Spike prices Dismantle the federal government Cause immigrants to live in fear Make others not want to come here If you made a blueprint for how to hurt 🇺🇸, it would look a lot like this Putin is enjoying the show

Quite uplifting

Jim McGuinn, thank you for playing Robyn Hitchcock's Balloon Man on WXPN! He still does great patter between songs, esp. on his Wednesday night Bandcamp shows. @wxpnfm.bsky.social @robynhitchcock.bsky.social @jmcgnn.bsky.social

best thing i have read in a long time