this is just terrible

BLUESKY WAS RIGHT ALL ALONG

Six days before the election, more than two dozen Trump strategists logged onto a private video call. The mood was grim. The talk turned to cyanide. “Do you want the white pill first, or the black pill first?" @shanegoldmacher.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/11/04/u...

Inside Team Trump’s Historic Collapse in the 2026 Midterm Elections

How an unpopular president and an unpopular war provided an opening for Democrats to make sweeping gains in the midterms.

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christ www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

New US Data Centers Projected to Emit More Carbon Than All of Mexico

The boom is set to produce enough greenhouse gases to cancel out 15 years of declines in power-sector emissions, according to a Sierra Club analysis.

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NEW: Sources tell WIRED a defense contractor logged their personal Claude account into the Pentagon's sensitive unclassified network for ~two months, during which it appears to have sent credentials and a network map to a high-risk website, @telliotter.bsky.social reports:

A Defense Contractor Gave Their Personal AI Agent Access to a Secure Pentagon System

Sources tell WIRED that an Accenture employee’s personal Claude agent ran on a DOD network for two months before it was identified and the vulnerability could be patched.

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NEW: A leak of DHS internal records has exposed details on more than 41,000 employees and contractors, including phone numbers, office addresses, and groups tied to undercover operations, wiretap programs, Palantir software, and Grok.

Massive Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers—Including Undercover ICE Agents

The leaked records include the locations of ICE and CBP facilities, workers' cellphone numbers, and the members of groups tied to wiretap programs, Palantir software, and xAI’s Grok chatbot.

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"Updating is the only safe choice" As PHP releases the details of its critical vulnerabilities, governments around the world are taking their websites offline for updates. Security researchers warn things could be real bad if systems aren't patched immediately Story with @lhn.bsky.social

‘This Is Not A Drill’: Critical PHP Vulnerabilities Are Setting the Internet on Fire

The PHP Foundation has revealed two serious vulnerabilities that could impact millions of websites. Security experts warn that failure to quickly patch the flaws could have dire consequences.

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Pittsburg weighs 45-day moratorium on new data centers www.mercurynews.com/2026/10/20/p...

Pittsburg weighs 45-day moratorium on new data centers

Councilmember’s plan would cover future phases and new proposals, not the project approved in 2024

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seems that NYTimes is rolling out AI summaries for search results?

A Savannah police officer let her ICE agent husband "run hundreds of license plate searches" on Flock using her log in.

Cop Fired for Letting Her ICE Agent Husband Use Her Flock Login

Georgia law appears to let Savannah police share their plate data with ICE, but the city never agreed to do that.

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spotted at local No Kings today

didn't expect our little school paper to get a shout-out from the judges lol. student journalists doing public records requests get noticed!

Freedom of the Press Foundation@freedom.press · 3w ago

We're happy to announce the winners of our Penlight Prize for paywall-free public records reporting! First: Austin Fast, @usatoday.com Second: @lajourno.bsky.social, @capitalandmain.bsky.social Third: @brittanyhailer.bsky.social, Ilica Mahajan, @michellebillman.bsky.social, @themarshallproject.org

Gavin Newsom backs measure to kill the billionaire tax and ban future wealth taxes Gov. Gavin Newsom isn't just fighting the billionaire tax. He's backing Prop. 42, which would ban future wealth taxes in California, too.

Gavin Newsom backs measure to kill the billionaire tax and ban future wealth taxes

Gov. Gavin Newsom isn't just fighting the billionaire tax. He's backing Prop. 42, which would ban future wealth taxes in California, too.

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honored to take first in Reporting & Writing: News Story at NSPA Clips & Clicks. accountability/investigative work isn't always easy, but it's the work that helps out the most. huge thanks to everyone who helped me get there, and onto the next! studentpress.org/nspa/spring-...

Here's a gift link to my 9/11 essay in the NYT. Civil libertarians long warned that before giving government new powers, we should consider how an administration with authoritarian ambition might abuse them. We were told that America was too exceptional to elect such a person. Well here we are.

Opinion | Civil Libertarians Knew This Would Happen. We Should Have Listened. (Gift Article)

The civil libertarians’ warnings have come true.

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Despite what some adults seem to think, teenagers are fully human.

my official response to the friends who ask me constantly when i'm finally going to cave and download Instagram the open web is great and i wouldn't have it any other way :) (inspired by a certain mastodon post: mastodon.online/@tomstafford...)

NEW: There's a camera on a pole right outside my high school. It looks unremarkable but records every car that passes, logging the plate, make, model, color, and exact location. We spent months trying to find out how many more were in our county; the answer was 675 scotscoop.com/smile-youre-...

Smile, you’re on Flock

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Flock Safety, a private surveillance technology company, has installed automated license plate readers (ALPRs) across the country, which are used by police departments, school districts, and private communities.

There's no escaping the cameras, whether you like it or not. Carlmont High School's surveillance cameras can recognize faces. Most students had no idea. There's no written policy, nor notification to families. And an expansion is coming with no public process. article for @scotscoop.bsky.social

Carlmont’s security cameras can recognize faces, but most students have no idea

A camera is mounted in a white dome above a hallway, the kind of thing a student walks beneath hundreds of times without ever looking up. It is one of approximately 20 to 30 security cameras positione...

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Carlmont's visual arts department is growing, and the school's new course catalog just reflected that. But most students and parents probably didn't even notice. article for @scotscoop.bsky.social

Proposition 28 funding expands visual arts programs, but changes go unannounced

Carlmont High School’s 2026-27 course catalog, published this month, added visual arts to the list of programs that can justify a seven-period student schedule, whereas previously, the 2025-26 catalog...

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With $682,000 raised toward its $1.48 million annual goal, the Carlmont Academic Foundation (CAF) faces a critical push on #GivingTuesday to fund eight staff positions, smaller class sizes, and counseling and support services. article for @scotscoop.bsky.social

Carlmont Academic Foundation races towards million-dollar goal

Eight staff members at Carlmont High School owe their jobs to community donations, not state funding. With the Carlmont Academic Foundation (CAF) having raised $682,000 of its $1.48 million annual goa...

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The demand for student mental health support continues to grow, even with Carlmont's counseling department, licensed therapists, and wellness center. article for @scotscoop.bsky.social

Addressing student mental health amid growing demand

Nine counselors serve approximately 280 students each at Carlmont High School, and still, the demand for mental health support only continues to grow. As students face constant academic pressure and m...

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