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188
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Sep 30, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Ben Smith

    Heavy Is the Bear That Wears the Crown: Backpack Wins Fat Bear Week (opens the original)

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    Bear 89, better known as Backpack, has won Fat Bear Week. Ward Clark covered the memes last week, and now the bear who used to ride on his mother's back gets his own victory post. Backpack got 103,344 votes. Bear 910 got 98,253. That settled the 2026 Fat Bear Week contest Tuesday at Alaska's Katmai National Park and Preserve, although it was close enough that 910's fans probably had a few things to say about it. A little over 5,000 votes made the difference. I wouldn't have wanted to be the pers

  2. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Ben Smith

    Seattle’s DEI Program Gets a Rude Awakening As Court Revives White Worker’s Harassment Claims (opens the original)

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    Seattle’s idea of fighting racism included a workshop where trainers allegedly told employees that racism was in white people’s DNA. Now the city will have to defend itself in court against a white former employee whose harassment claims a federal judge had thrown out. On September 28, the 9th Circuit revived Joshua Diemert’s hostile work environment claims under federal and Washington law. The former Human Services Department employee alleges that Seattle’s Race and Social Justice Initiative he

  3. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Ben Smith

    Promises Kept: ICE Plans 5,000 New Hires to Keep Trump’s Deportation Drive Rolling (opens the original)

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    ICE is planning to hire 5,000 more employees by the end of the year. Most will be deportation officers. Trump ran on mass deportations and won. This is what keeping that promise looks like. Four people familiar with the hiring plans told The New York Times about the push. ICE had about 29,000 employees in July, according to federal data cited by the paper, roughly 8,000 more than when Trump took office. Meeting the new hiring goal would add another 17 percent to the workforce. Some agents have b

  4. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Ben Smith

    FBI Hack Gets Worse: ShinyHunters Claims Medical Records of 60,000 Current and Former Personnel (opens the original)

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    ShinyHunters’ alleged breach of the FBI looked bad when we first reported it last week. It has gotten worse. Last week, ShinyHunters claimed it stole between two and three terabytes of FBI data, including names, home addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, and information on employees’ spouses. The group backed it up by giving reporters a sample of roughly 5,000 FBI employee records, some of which matched Justice Department personnel. At the time, the FBI had not confirmed that ShinyHunters ac

  5. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Ben Smith

    The Left Spent Years Blaming Men — Young Democratic Women Got the Message (opens the original)

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    Young women are more likely than anyone else to say women face serious discrimination in America. The partisan breakdown inside that number is where things get ugly. The Survey Center on American Life, part of the American Enterprise Institute, published new data last week, showing more than two-thirds of young women believe women face "a lot" of discrimination. Democratic women were much more likely than Republican women to see considerable prejudice against women, but researchers didn't stop t

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