Remember the dude in Rochester whose home was visited by ICE agents with a "warning notice" after he emailed Todd Lyons that he would "never know peace" & called him "a monstrous human being"? Judge said that speech was protected, and ICE needs to leave him alone. @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social wins!

Memorandum & Opinion – #25 in STREEVER v. MULLIN (D.D.C., 1:26-cv-02356) – CourtListener.com

MEMORANDUM OPINION granting in part and denying in part 9 Plaintiff's Motion for Preliminary Injunction, and denying the remainder of 17 Defendants' Combined Motion to Dismiss or Transfer not previous...

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part of the project has involved a series of cyanotypes on wood and paper; this was quite hard to do, but I'm delighted by the results. the paper ones are for sale: recordsofenemysurveillance.com/physical

Multiple people have urged me to follow this guy, and after a quick review of his feed, I agree. Go follow Patrick, everyone. He’s your resident expert for this stuff.

Patrick De Haan@gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 8h ago

ALERT: #GreatLakes and #Rockies regions are likely to see another price hike this week, even with price jumps that happened already yesterday and today due to huge jumps in wholesale gasoline and diesel prices. Gasoline could jump 25-75c with diesel rising 55-85c/gal

This guy is an energy pricing expert. Currently chief energy advisor at Gulf, long time contributor to various NPR shows. Incredibly distressing.

tell me about it

“A cloud region losing customer data because of an airstrike—I don’t think that’s ever happened before.” www.wsj.com/world/middle...

AWS Says It Can’t Restore Some Data From Mideast Facilities Struck by Iran

Amazon’s announcement is the first indication that some data stored exclusively in Bahrain and the U.A.E could be gone forever.

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Apparently it is of no concern to any Republicans that Trump and Bessent are taking in billions of dollars from plundered Venezuelan oil and nobody knows where the money is, where is has been going, if anyone is getting proceeds, with no accounting of any of it made available.

Hirono to Patel: "I'm still pretty mystified as to why beastiality was taken off the list. You have been so drunk that briefings have been rescheduled so you could sleep it off."

Might be the first AI post to check all the boxes of “does a professional who is much closer to the topic than you are, who became an expert in the field more than 10 years ago, and who finds various relevant interpersonal peculiarities as weird as you do, seem worried?” scottaaronson.blog?p=10062

The Age of Wonders and Terrors

Twenty years ago, when the idea of AI taking over the world in our lifetimes still struck most of us as the unconstrained fantasy of those who knew too much science fiction and too little science, …

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The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on ICE to release exiled Nicaraguan journalist Luis Galeano

CPJ calls on ICE to release exiled Nicaraguan journalist Luis Galeano - Committee to Protect Journalists

Mexico City, September 15, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on U.S. immigration authorities to release Nicaraguan journalist Luis Galeano, director of the radio and internet program Caf...

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"Klein: We didn’t write the book because we think these people are fascinating. We wrote this book because we want people to fight them and beat them." Such a good interview with @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social about END TIMES FASCISM. #booksky www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/m...

Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor Say the End of the World Is Now on the Table (Gift Article)

In a new book, the writers argue that a powerful coalition of “end times fascists” is just fine with the earth’s demise.

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Jesus Christ they killed this kid

Spomer Hockey@spomerhky.bsky.social · 2h ago

We have allegations that: 1) athletes were denied water 2) heat exposure polices were not followed 3) training staff didn’t follow emergency heat procedures when Mayich collapsed 4) guest “trainer” wasn’t vetted or under contract Powers and ASU failed Mayich. ktar.com/arizona-news...

So speaking of, this. Let them know! Especially if you’re in the LGBTQ+, reproductive justice, civil liberties, or feminist organizing spaces bsky.app/profile/tekl...

tekla 💜✨@tekla.bsky.social · last wk.

If you know of any work for a deeply experienced, knowledgeable, quick-thinking comms professional who does everything from earned media to video production to community outreach and storytelling, do let me know!

I was at a seminar recently that Jay Bhattacharya gave. He was asked about trust and about Pew's finding that federal scientists are more widely trusted that politicians. He said that didn't matter: that his goal was to get to 100% public trust. Turns out one angle is to set goals impossibly high!

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 58m ago

When I was trying to conceptualize "the trust trap" my examples were RFK and HHS, Bezos at the Post, and Bari Weiss at CBS. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-trust-...

And, as @scifantasy.bsky.social pointed out, I said "Games Workshop" two posts up when I meant WOTC. Sorry, got an upcoming tournament on my mind, keep making that mistake.

I'm going to stop one more time to mention that I haven't discussed substance with anyone at KUSK. I also haven't read the whole motion to dismiss yet. So, boy, I hope I'm not wincing heavily about this bit later on.

So Games Workshop needs to respond to this (IMO) by both attacking the claim that anything they did infringed on the wereshark, and making it as clear as possible that they are not (in the process) claiming ownership of the wereshark. Because that would be bad.

But you also want to be careful in how you approach things. Especially if you are WOTC, or Games Workshop, or Sony, or CD Projekt, or any other large company that frequently sees its every move inexpertly dissected by inexpert influencers hunting clicks. There are things you want to avoid.

You don't, for example, want to only argue that the arguments about access are nuts. Because if the judge (for example) decides that the access argument is unlikely but not improbable, just like that you're into mid-6 figures of discovery and a long food fight.

This actually turns out to be a more difficult question than you'd expect. Why? Well, it's a copyright complaint. Responding to copyright complaints is challenging. In part, that's because you really, really, don't want to leave arguments on the table.

But, a quick summary: Mr. Chan has filed a very batshit complaint against Wizards of the Coast. The complaint alleges that Wizards of the Coast stole - in direct contravention, as we shall see, of the laws of causality - his Wereshark creation. Nuts, right? If you are WOTC, what do you do?

Suffice it to say that entire species of bats have excreted across spans of geological time without producing the cumulative total of batshit contained in this one complaint. But you don't have to take my word for it: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Complaint – #1 in Chan v. Dungeons and Dragons Wizards of the Coast, LLC (S.D.N.Y., 1:26-cv-04680) – CourtListener.com

COMPLAINT against Dungeons and Dragons Wizards of the Coast, LLC. (Filing Fee $ $405.00, Receipt Number 49467)Document filed by Lap-Sun Chan..(pc) (Entered: 06/04/2026)

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OK - here's a link to the docket. I'm not going to run through the complaint. I would. I probably should, because it's so nuts. But also it's not OCRed, it's been a day, and I don't got the time or energy for that. www.courtlistener.com/docket/73442...

Chan v. Dungeons and Dragons Wizards of the Coast, LLC, 1:26-cv-04680 - CourtListener.com

Docket for Chan v. Dungeons and Dragons Wizards of the Coast, LLC, 1:26-cv-04680 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information.

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OK, a day later than planned, here we GOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! What time is it, kiddies? That's right, it's Litigation Disaster Tourism time! And whoah nellie! there's a lot here. Ground rules: 1: I'm going to do this until I'm too tired or bored to continue. No telling how long that will be.

The Questionable Authority@questauthority.bsky.social · 3d ago

OK - Coming attractions time. I found this wonderful paragraph in a federal court filing (specifically, in a motion to dismiss). It's one of the most amazing string cites (kinda) I've seen. The full case is amazing; I'll do a litigation disaster tourism thread tomorrow.

The heat dome across the eastern US this week is record shattering. With perhaps the exception of the Spring heat dome in the West, the record breaking extent is the biggest swath I’ve seen all season. Follow along for some interesting comparisons… 1/

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a kick-ass thing about being in an indie feminist media collective is that we've gotten some feedback on this (kick-ass) shirt asking for variations and we're working on serving our audience with options! like we're not fast as fuck boiii or whatever but we remain in conversation with our people

The Flytrap@theflytrapmedia.com · 2d ago

Posting while mods are asleep because I'm not supposed to promote this until tomorrow but I can't contain myself because LOOK AT OUR FUCK THE ALGORITHM AND FUCK AI SHIRT DESIGNED BY @meowwwls.bsky.social!!!

If your health, disability, job, or distance makes a polling place hard to reach, your vote still counts. Mail ballots give people a way in and anyone trying to block that access is choosing who gets heard. Register early and protect your voice. #GetReadyToVote social.demcast.com/s/L6Pw6gqv

CONFIRMED - 4421 University Ave San Diego CA 92105 - ICE took two US citizens and one undocumented person from City Heights El super 11:30 AM several vehicles pointed their guns at community members a MORE INFO: https://www.stopice.net?alert=1789502008673

Kraft was in the Epstein files btw.

Jonathan C@jonathancornick.bsky.social · 11h ago

Can't let down your friends..... people.com/sports/ed-sh...