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Judi Brown

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New York Amsterdam News @nyamnews.bsky.social · 1h ago

10 years ago today, the National Museum of African American History and Culture opened on the National Mall. Obama rang the Freedom Bell with 99-year-old Ruth Bonner, whose father was born into slavery. See more: https://bit.ly/4dX2ydY #NMAAHC #BlackHistory10Years

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h ago

Netanyahu after the UNGA emptied out ahead of his speech: "If there any other moral cowards who have not left the hall, please do so now."

Judi Brown @judiwgs.bsky.social · 2h ago

wapo.st/4xKcu1B

Trump ad airing with government funding despite law against ‘propaganda’

A TV ad boosting President Trump and saying that it was paid for by the U.S. government is airing in two major markets despite a federal law against using tax funds for "propaganda."

wapo.st

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2h ago

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."

Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.

Ryan Goodman@rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 3h ago

From 16,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle. "The state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h ago

BALDWIN: Do you believe mifepristone is safe and effective? OVERTON: It has been approved by the FDA BALDWIN: So you can't answer the question

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h ago

MURRAY: The Trump admin falsely labeled birth control as abortion. Do you agree that an IUD is an abortifacient? OVERTON: If confirmed, I'll be fully briefed M: That's not an answer. The prospect of an FDA commissioner who doesn't know that birth control isn't an abortion is deeply alarming O: 😊

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h ago

BLUNT ROCHESTER: Trump says vaccines the size of soda bottles are poured into a child's body. Is that true? OVERTON: ... BR: What would you say? OVERTON: The products licensed by the FDA are safe and effective BR: And they're not the size of a soda bottle either

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4h ago

Republicans are laser focused on making life more affordable for you.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h ago

ALSOBROOKS: Do you have any reason to believe birth control contaminates drinking water? OVERTON: It's important for all agencies to answer Qs the American people might have A: Do you have any reason to believe women are contaminating our drinking water? O: The American people want transparency

Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 4h ago

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h ago

OMG -- under questioning from Hassan, Trump's FDA nominee Heidi Overton refuses to acknowledge that Trump can ever be wrong about anything even after she's confronted with a specific example of something Trump is clearly wrong about

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 9h ago

A leaked internal document from Belgium’s foreign ministry warned a year ago that the US under Trump is “no longer the ally it has been in the past” and called for a reassessment of ties with Washington, the FT reports.

Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 10h ago

U.S. combat operations against Iran have reinforced the Pentagon’s appreciation for its network of bases in Europe, the American envoy to NATO said.

DOD has growing awareness that assets in Europe offer US ‘a lot,’ ambassador says

U.S. combat operations against Iran have reinforced the Pentagon’s appreciation for its network of bases in Europe, the American envoy to NATO said.

stripes.com

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h ago

New in PN: Commander in Cheat "Trump makes it difficult for adults to teach impressionable youngsters to take seriously the time-honored maxim we all learned as kids: *Winners never cheat & cheaters never win*. For he not only cheats: He so relishes getting away w/ it that he often brags about it."

Commander in Cheat

Trump is proof that cheaters often win.

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Michael C. Dorf @dorfonlaw.bsky.social · 9h ago

The Greenland deal does not substantially alter the status quo. That's good but saying too loudly that Trump backed down jeopardizes the agreement. Trump's fragile ego and his limited exposure to negative information thus present a variation on what Robert Putnam called a two-level game. Details 👇

Playing the Two-Level Game With Trump: Greenland Edition

To the relief of Greenlanders, Danes, and everyone who counts on NATO's continued existence, on Tuesday President Trump, Danish Prime Minist...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9h ago

SCHWAB: “.. While we have seen this level of yields before and some say we are just back in the ‘old normal,’ I think what sometimes gets lost in the discourse is the speed with which rates have moved higher ... we haven't seen this kind of 5-year increase in the 10y yield since the '80s.”

ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™@trahias.bsky.social · 13h ago

Lorenzo Cruz (Guatemalan Artist, born 1973) "Parrots and Flowers", 2022. Oil on Canvas, 104 × 79 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™@trahias.bsky.social · 13h ago

Raoul Dufy (French, 1877–1953) "Paris et la Tour Eiffel", 1936. Oil on Canvas, 75 × 52 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Nathaniel Dorsey @natedorsey60l.bsky.social · 10h ago

"In every human"

Nathaniel Dorsey@natedorsey60l.bsky.social · 10h ago

African American Quotes, "I every human Breast, God has implanted a Principle, which we call Love of Freedom: it is impatient of Opression, and pants for Deliverance." - Phyllis Wheatley

Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 12h ago

There is one solitary (and very literal) ray of sunshine amidst this gloom: the steady rise of #solar, #wind and #batteries. Clean energy trinity has broken out and expanded across the planet – the great uniting project of our time. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The climate fight has one great ally. You just can’t look at it directly | Bill McKibben

There is hope in solar power. As the UN meets, we are urging leaders to pursue a clear goal: clean energy for all by 2030

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 12h ago

Just how much power will #AI need? Aggregate power consumption of data centres has kept rising fast — by 17% in 2025 alone, says the IEA, which projects that the figure will double from that level by 2030. www.ft.com/content/3ace...

Just how much power will AI need?

Rise of agentic AI could supercharge the electricity demands of data centres

ft.com

Katherine Stewart @katherinestewart.bsky.social · 13h ago

“ An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last”

Brian Stelter@brianstelter.bsky.social · 13h ago

CNN's homepage right now: www.cnn.com/2026/09/24/p...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h ago

CNN pulled a clip of Michele Tafoya recently saying "I've never said I was embarrassed to be from Minnesota" and then displays an unearthed and deleted tweet of her saying "I am embarrassed to be from Minnesota" 🥴

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 20h ago

Tens of thousands of voter registrations have gone unprocessed in Texas. Affecting large areas deeply. If you’re in Texas, check your registration is up to date and accurate ASAP. www.texastribune.org/2026/09/22/t...

DPS voter registration applications weren’t sent to counties

Counties will start receiving a surge of applications less than two weeks before the Oct. 5 registration deadline, adding work at one of the busiest points in the election calendar.

texastribune.org

Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 9h ago

But he didn't restore Confederate names to military bases. He found individuals who happen to have the same last names as these Confederate generals. Distinctions matter. Even the neo-Confederate crowd saw right through this move. #CivilWarMemory

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 19h ago

Hannity's list of "TRUMP'S TOP ACCOMPLISHMENTS" includes restoring Confederate names to military bases and releasing dietary guidelines

Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 9h ago

Reuters: “Long-dated US borrowing costs climbed to their highest level in more ‌than 20 years on Thursday as the months-long selloff in bond markets gathered pace.”

US 30-year bond yield rises to highest since 2004 as selloff deepens

Long-dated US borrowing costs climbed to their highest level in more ‌than 20 years on Thursday as the months-long selloff in bond markets gathered pace.

reuters.com

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 9h ago

Peskov commented on the US invitation for Putin to attend the G20 summit in Miami: "Yes,we saw this statement,we appreciate the invitation.It will certainly be considered,at the appropriate time we’ll discuss with Americans through the relevant channels the possibility of taking up this invitation"

Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 9h ago

Also overnight: bsky.app/profile/zoet...

Zoe Tillman@zoetillman.bsky.social · 17h ago

NEW: Democratic Party leadership and national campaign organizations filed a lawsuit accusing the Trump administration of unlawfully threatening to send armed federal agents to polling places in the November midterms buff.ly/bAsOgfy Complaint: buff.ly/mFNuyKJ

JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 9h ago

🧊🛩️ LIBERIA 🌍⛓️ 👉 A Talon Air G5 (tail: N50JE) on a long-range ICE mission out of Arizona departs Ghana, trafficking humans in chains to a second stop in Monrovia 🇱🇷

JJ in DC@jjindc.bsky.social · 23h ago

🧊🛩️ AFRICA 🌍⛓️ 👉 As noted by @gillianbrockell.com in TAP, we can confirm this Talon Air G5 (tail: N50JE) departed Arizona on Wednesday afternoon, trafficking chained humans via Puerto Rico to multiple stops in Africa. First up: Ghana 🇬🇭 The Peruvian man in Gillian's article remains in Massachusetts.

Hume's Ghost @humesghost.bsky.social · 20h ago

We basically have a federal government office of white supremacy and we're collectively shrugging as a nation. What is wrong with us?

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · yesterday

White-nationalist "Remigration" envisions mass removals of nonwhite immigrants in service of ethnic cleansing. The Office of Remigration's activities have now been exposed by a good WaPo investigation. Its deportations are unfolding under indefensible conditions. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2157...