It looks like the EU is seriously preparing for an attack by Russia. A lot of senior defense officials came out of briefings spooked. Since then, various governments including the Swiss! have issued defiant statements.

This is a really important story. You know how over reliance on AI makes you lazy and stupid? This shows how that’s happening within the military — a military, it cannot be pointed out often enough, that’s growing ever more reliant on AI. The children of Shajarah Tayyebah Elementary paid the price

Jason Leopold@jasonleopold.bsky.social · 2d ago

HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Thanks to @crootof.bsky.social for this generous review.

Rebecca Crootof@crootof.bsky.social · 2d ago

I reviewed @markpmckenna.bsky.social and @hartzog.bsky.social's excellent piece in @jotwell.bsky.social:

This is the Republican Party. Corrupt as hell, constantly starting wars, blowing up the deficit, giving tax cuts for billionaires, bailing out corporations, cutting health care, making everything more expensive, while serving up culture war drivel to distract you from all that.

More Lanham Act action in the Third Circuit: The Penn State case will be argued today. ca03portal.powerappsportals.us/Oral-Argumen...

It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead. www.anthropic.com/research/ali...

An alignment assessment of recent cybersecurity incidents

We present an alignment assessment of four incidents in which Claude models gained unauthorized access to real third-party systems.

anthropic.com

Unprecedented corruption

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 2w ago

The absolute scale of graft in this administration, especially in homeland security. A Lewandoski ally was pulling in 19K a week as a contractor with FEMA. A conservative watchdog group got millions to attack Dems in what was supposed to be anti-terrorism funding.

Hoods off.

Threats against federal judges have surged since 2021. Here’s why this matters for democracy and individual rights: bit.ly/460Z0mQ

Threats Against Federal Judges Endanger Democracy and Individual Rights

A new Brennan Center report examines the surge in threats faced by judges and how improving judicial security is essential for protecting the public.

brennancenter.org

NEW: Nate Hochman was fired from the DeSantis campaign in 2023 after promoting a video with the Sonnenrad, a Nazi symbol embraced by white supremacists. He now works in Rubio's State Department, as deputy director of policy planning and chief speechwriter. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/u...

For Fired DeSantis Campaign Staff Member, a Second Chance at State Dept. (Gift Article)

The hiring of Nate Hochman, who lost his job amid an uproar over a video containing a Nazi symbol, underscores the administration’s willingness to overlook past transgressions.

nytimes.com

The U.S. described updating world maps to show the *correct* size of Africa (and everything else) as a “radical ideological project”

Howard French@hofrench.bsky.social · 2w ago

You'd almost think they have a problem with Black people. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

JD Vance, who made up stories about Haitians eating dogs, completely lacks self-awareness.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

JD Vance: "When you have people who say 'my ethnic group deserves something, and yours doesn't,' or 'that ethnic group is good and this other ethnic group is bad,' that is how you erode the very foundations of commonality."

It is not

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2w ago

OpenAI president Greg Brockman says the company’s latest AI model, Astra, is “artificial general intelligence,” or a system that is “generally smarter than humans.”

This is obscene. No one in the GOP will say a word about it.

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 2w ago

New footage of bulldozers plowing through Arizona’s Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument to construct a border wall.

Ahead of the midterms, Trump isn’t even being subtle about his brazen politicization of federal disaster relief aid, explicitly tying approvals to campaign endorsements and election results. It’s one of the underappreciated scandals of his second term. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Trump approves disaster relief funds for 7 red states, after denying aid to blue states

Ahead of the midterm elections, the president isn’t even being subtle about his scandalous politicization of disaster aid.

ms.now

It is, in fact l, despicable to demonize immigrants. Oh, wait.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

JD Vance: "If you look at his politics, it is all about saying, 'This group of people is good, this ethnicity is bad, and I'm gonna fight to give from the bad group of people to the good group of people.' I think that's a despicable way to think about your fellow Americans."

Due to the measles outbreak, our Public Health Department is advising newborns receive an accelerated immunization schedule. Public Health | Johnson County share.google/TyGs3Od9Li2l...

Welcome to Johnson County, IA

Johnson County, Iowa has a variety of resources available for county residents, from information about upcoming elections to places to report county road issues that need to be fixed.

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Ally Whelan@amwhelan.bsky.social · 3w ago

Also, one of the deaths was an infant. The exact age was not given, but they likely were too young to have even received their first dose yet. This is why herd immunity matters, to protest the most vulnerable who cannot get the vaccine or who are too young to have been vaccinated

The US has carried out at least 227 extrajudicial killings.

Stars and Stripes@starsandstripes.bsky.social · 3w ago

ICYMI: A U.S. military strike Tuesday on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean killed four people, according to U.S. Central Command, bringing the death toll in the Trump administration's campaign to stop alleged traffickers in Latin America to at least 227. From Stars and Stripes' Matthew Adams:

Almost 30,000 pounds of raw, frozen beef imported from Argentina has been recalled after being sold in Florida and Texas. Good luck, everyone.

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

The world’s oceans hit 21.10 degrees Celsius last Saturday, breaking a record set in 2024. And it's only going to get worse.

Earth’s oceans just hit their hottest temperature ever recorded

The world’s oceans hit 21.10 degrees Celsius last Saturday, breaking a record set in 2024

scientificamerican.com

It's not just you; nobody can log into anything. And it's gonna get worse! Via @willoremus.com:

Logging in Was Never Supposed to Be This Complicated

Please not another two-factor authentication code.

theatlantic.com

"The world’s oceans were hotter than ever previously recorded on Saturday, according to the latest data." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

World’s oceans hit hottest temperature on record in August

Average sea surface temperature outside polar regions was 21.1C on Saturday, latest data finds

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tl;dw: the job of the dem majority over the next two years, should it materialize, is to make life hell for the white house, not find points of cooperation

What Democrats can learn from Mitch McConnell

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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Republican led Indiana has left Gary- a majority Black city- without power for nearly TWO WEEKS.

Meanwhile in Indiana…@robertlandrumjr.bsky.social · 4w ago

Why, Governor Braun?! Why is NW Indiana STILL without power?!

Mark Carney: "This fall we will begin intense discussions with the European Union, the world's second-largest economy, to build a much stronger and deeper economic and security partnership"

NEW: Trump is betting SCOTUS will let him interfere with the midterms after USPS published a rule to implement his anti-mail voting executive order. While lower courts have blocked the effort, SCOTUS will have final say on how Americans cast mail ballots this fall. Here's what to expect👇

Explainer: The battle over Trump's bid to restrict mail voting hits a pivotal point. Where things stand and what comes next

"By issuing this final rule, the Trump administration has flouted the court’s injunction."

democracydocket.com

This is so ridiculously dumb.

Mike@mike-umbkm.bsky.social · 4w ago

Brennan: "Nearly all of Florida is below the 95% immunization rate for herd immunity for measles. So, is your message to Florida parents to get your kids vaccinated?" Byron Donalds: "No. My message is the reason we have seen a measles outbreak is because of rampant illegal immigration."

At the CDC, Trump has gutted programs on Alzheimer’s, epilepsy, sickle cell disease, smoking, overdoses, maternal mortality, rape prevention... apnews.com/article/cdc-...

The CDC has zombie programs. Congress funds them, but few people are left to do the work

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has several programs funded by Congress that lack staff to operate them.

apnews.com