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OnTheCouch

@10000talkers.bsky.social
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Psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, TV enthusiast, music fan, mom of River and Julia, resident of the CLE

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 15h
Each election year, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) takes extra steps to ensure ballots sent through the mail arrive at election offices on time. This year, it’s delaying those efforts. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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USPS pushes back measures that ensure mail ballots arrive on time
“The shorter timeframe is noteworthy and I don’t know why they’re doing this,” Steve Hutkins, who writes for Save the Post Office, told Democracy Docket.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 2h
In this Washington State diner, Hawk still means Sheriff Truman's deputy. But they do know this: If Jack Smith had attended an Atlanta-Golden State NBA game in February 2024, it would have proved that he was in town to cover up the Fani Willis/Nathan Wade romance, thus absolving Donald Trump.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 2h
I was a lifelong liberal Democrat. Then I heard Pete Hegseth say: “The ideological clowns are out. The patriotic cowboys are in, with testosterone testing on top."
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 17h
A 17 month old infant nearly died of E coli sepsis after her mum fed her raw goat milk. The milk had been purchased from a farm recommended to her by a Facebook group run by her chiropractor. There's so much to unpack in this story. I'm glaf the kid is alive www.propublica.org/article/cali...
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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404 Media @404media.co · 17h
Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.
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Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional
Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 17h
The aging president expressed sympathy for the seven men who have been accused of drugging and gang-raping a classmate at Cornell University.
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Trump Expresses Sympathy for Accused Cornell Seven Rapists
The president says he feels “badly” for the seven men accused of drugging and raping their Ivy League classmate.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 17h
This thread is insane:
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17h
Jared Kushner is complaining about fake news that's allegedly been written about him. Rest assured, this piece is 100% factual.
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How Jared Kushner used his position to hop in bed with autocrats
And sell out America.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 17h
The Justice Department's demands for sensitive voter information are “part of a broader...fishing expedition" for evidence of noncitizen voting, which prior investigations have shown are "vanishingly rare," @wendyweiser.bsky.social told @inewsource.org. #[bit.ly/4i0Vhw4
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San Diego voter records accessed by federal prosecutors
San Diego County disclosed the existence of grand jury subpoenas in response to inewsource questions about federal requests for voter information.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"They're struggling to find a remedy." The remedy is in the Constitution. It's called impeachment.
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 30/09/2026
After Trump used taxpayer money to air one of his literal campaign ads, FCC Chair Brendan Carr shrugged off the scandal, saying the propaganda was just a “normal PSA.” It’s ridiculous to the point of being insulting. It’s as if these guys think Americans are idiots. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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FCC’s Carr brushes off concerns about Trump’s taxpayer-paid election ads
To see literal campaign propaganda as “normal PSAs” is obviously preposterous — except to Trump’s FCC chair.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We don’t spend enough time talking about just how WEIRD all these people are. This is just an incredibly weird and insecure thing to say. Imagine any other SecDef ever being this weird and insecure?!
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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 30/09/2026
I feel dumb even just having to say this but the reason passports are mailed out in plain regular envelopes is that so that people do not attempt to steal easily recognizable passports in the mail. bsky.app/profile/carn...
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Not “mind-boggling.” Trump has made our once-beloved country an unwelcoming place and an unsafe place for foreign visitors.
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The Lever @levernews.com · 01/10/2026
SCOOP: The SEC just quietly rewrote its own rules so ONE Trump appointee can make decisions for the entire agency, no public comment required. This is right as the SEC preps rules on crypto and AI mega-IPOs like Anthropic’s. www.levernews.com/sec-quorum-r...
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Trump SEC Quorum Rule Lets One Commissioner Act Alone
A quiet rule change could signal “the end of independent financial regulators” just as the SEC prepares to deregulate crypto, mega-IPOs, and corporate governance.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
Ossoff: "You played earlier the tape of Mike Collins, a sitting member of Congress and the Republican candidate for senate in Georgia, supporting the deployment of federal troops to polling places in Georgia this fall. Folks, this is a 5 alarm fire."
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"By looking the other way for decades, the banks allowed Epstein to have ready and reliable access to cash necessary to recruit, harbor and transport young women and underage girls for the purpose of human trafficking and sexual abuse,” Wyden writes.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
WSJ Exclusive: The Trump admin used federal funds from the Department of Homeland Security to finance those controversial pro-Trump ads that started airing on TV. The taxpayer money used to fund the ads came from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
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Exclusive | Homeland Security Money Financed Pro-Trump Television Ads
White House calls the spots public-service ads, but critics argue using taxpayer money for campaign-like messaging may violate federal law.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Senile Satan is completely passed out again in the Oval Office. I don’t care. The part that bothers me is that he keeps waking up.
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 29/09/2026
Ah. Yes, that's MUCH better. 🙄
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hard to imagine what that would be like
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
MacFarlane: The Second Harvest Food Bank of North Central Ohio has got the same issue. Last year, they paid $50,000 for diesel to transport their food. Now, they’re paying $150,000 for the diesel to transport their food.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NEW: Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten says his office is reopening the investigation into the 2024 gang rape of a student at a Cornell University fraternity abcnews.com/US/district-...
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District attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University 'gang rape'
Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the case of alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
i wonder how many people realize this is a real problem or just assume the party in power just always uses government money for campaign ads
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens — the latest snafu in the department’s attempts to uncover illegal voters across the country. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DHS noncitizen voter claims unravel in Nevada as state confirms flagged voters are citizens
Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens.
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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 26/09/2026
How do you know this doc has Elon rattled? Because all of the other oligarchs are trying to protect his ego. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: In a huge win for Missouri voters, the Supreme Court again rejected Republicans' bid to reinstate their congressional gerrymander for the midterms. The ruling ensures voting in the state will not be disrupted this fall.
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In a win for voters, Supreme Court blocks Missouri’s gerrymandered map for midterms
The Supreme Court’s ruling, which is a victory for pro-voting groups, comes after Missouri has already sent ballots for the upcoming election to overseas and absentee voters.
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𝗽𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗱 @photoframd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
MAGA loves to screaming about the threat of "Communism". And, yet, everyone showed up for real Communist Dictator China’s Xi Jinping. It's that funny... #TrumpsCorruptCongress www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-hos...
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Fox News Hosts Who Slam Communism Race to Dictator’s Dinner
The hosts blew off their Fox News shows for some Xi time.
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Jonathan Larsen @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
As gross as performative masculinity is, the upside of Paxton trying to make Talarico seem effeminate or whatever… …is how much worse Paxton now looks running from him.
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Brian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trump’s Net worth is $7 billion in 2026, 3 times higher than it was in 2024 He is robbing us blind and #TrumpsCorruptCongress doesn’t say a damn word about it. We need to elect as many Democrats as we can to do oversight on this administration. No more rubber stamp Republicans!!🗳️🗳️
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Middlerage @middlerage.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Does he just sleep standing up now?
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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Experts say they're worried about a new rule proposed--one that, if implemented, would give political appointees the final say on federal grantmaking. Scientists say this will likely place further restrictions on research funding and increase executive control." www.npr.org/2026/09/24/n...
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These 6 charts show how NIH research funding has been reshaped under Trump
Stories of science funding being cut, labs shutting down and scientists losing jobs have flooded the media under Trump's administration. These six graphics show how those changes have affected U.S. biomedical research.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/09/2026
The DOJ dropped 23,000 criminal cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in the first six months of Trump’s second term. (Published March)
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Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration
Under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the DOJ abandoned a record number of cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — in just the first six months of Presi...
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Publius Maximus @publiusmaximus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Joe Biden actually made it illegal for companies to make you jump through these hoops. Trump reversed the policy.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026
Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI theonion.com/dog-cant-believe-guy-s…
Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI
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David DeWitt @daviddewitt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A vast and growing network of artificial intelligence-driven Flock cameras could violate constitutional privacy rights, U.S. senators on a Judiciary Committee subcommittee said during a Wednesday hearing. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/09/24/r...
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Flock surveillance cameras raise constitutional questions, bipartisan US senators say • Ohio Capital Journal
A vast and growing network of artificial intelligence-driven Flock cameras could violate constitutional privacy rights, U.S. senators on a Judiciary Committee subcommittee said during a Wednesday…
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
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
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
As a rising group of online content creators embrace anti-Muslim hate, they've established influence within more mainstream right-wing media and the Trump administration.
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Right-wing content creators are peddling anti-Muslim hate
A rising group of right-wing content creators — who often describe themselves as independent or investigative journalists and have established influence among right-wing media and the Trump administra...
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is an excellent article about what has been happening with federal funding for scientific research.
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These 6 charts show how NIH research funding has been reshaped under Trump
Stories of science funding being cut, labs shutting down and scientists losing jobs have flooded the media under Trump's administration. These six graphics show how those changes have affected U.S. biomedical research.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 24/09/2026
The call was coming from inside the couch
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Call me crazy but, seven months in, that we're still not reporting, "HOLY SHIT why won't Trump appoint real experts to negotiate with Iran instead of his family and his crypto business partner" is part of why we're here.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 21/08/2026
Trump's pick to lead the FDA, Heidi Overton, says the FDA, CDC, and NIH need to be "reformed" to fund more "conservative-based" research instead of peer-reviewed and evidence-backed medical science. #Trump #Overton #Science #StandUpForScience #FDA
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US Political Politics News 💙🌈🦋The Fighting Liberal @us-political-news.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Warren demands Trump officials explain removing a ban on interference in census data Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren asked Trump officials to explain why the Census Bureau's parent agency cut a ban on political interference from its scientific integrity policy, as NPR first reported. www.np
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NYT: Judge Kelly “granted a 14-day restraining order and told the White House to ‘immediately return, reinstate, and restore’ the press credentials held by employees of the three outlets.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/b...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I was told by a guy on Truth Social who wears orange makeup that leaking to the press was treason and people should be prosecuted for it.
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NPR @npr.org · 24/09/2026
Education staff are being scattered across several other federal agencies. Despite the Trump administration's claims, employees say it's adding bureaucracy and making it harder to serve students. n.pr/3TS9SAR
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The Education Dept. hasn't been dismantled. It's become more inefficient, staff say
Education staff are being scattered across several other federal agencies. Despite the Trump administration's claims, employees say it's adding bureaucracy and making it harder to serve students.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/09/2026
Many of the babies’ autopsy reports were clear: Vitamin K deficiency was the immediate cause of death, or contributed to it. The reports also included details about parents refusing the vitamin K shot, a long-standard injection, for their newborns. (Published May)
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What I Can’t Forget About the Babies Who Died After Not Receiving a Vitamin K Shot
Babies have died after not receiving the vitamin K shot at birth. Their autopsy records underscore how preventable their deaths could have been.
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