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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s happening again. LLMs reporting someone’s in progress research as if it’s own discovery.
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Tziva @tziva.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Two years from now when motherfuckers are like "sure, Newsom is terrible but the alternative is a Republican," remember all of us from all political inclinations who shouted at the top of our lungs about what a duplicitous, opportunistic shitbag he is so we can avoid being in that scenario.
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4estrunr @4estrunr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I feel like I have to work around LLMs to get expert information. To me, LLMs are impeding my search for information I can trust.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Lotta talk about press freedom. So let's dig into economics research on how press restrictions shape society, democracy, and yes, our economy. (Spoiler: Trump's not the first to play this game. Restricting the press can help politicians, but always hurts voters.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptg9...
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The Economic Cost of Trump's War on The Press
YouTube video by Platypus Economics with Justin Wolfers
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Carolina Forward @carolinaforward.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
[NEW] Vote Against All Three Three constitutional amendments are headed to North Carolina ballots this November, and they could have lasting consequences for our state’s finances, local communities, and voting laws. Learn more: carolinaforward.org/news/vote-ag...
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole."
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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is a real good thread and illustrates one of many reasons I am sad Talarico threw trans children under the bus - he almost certainly didn't need to. Texans don't want to ban trans girls from playing sports, they want clean water to drink.
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4estrunr @4estrunr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
LLMs doing something unexpected does not mean that developers don't know how they work.
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The national average at $4.472/gal and is expected to rise into the day as further increases get passed along. diesel also continues to climb at $6.441/gal and could rise to nearly $6.50/gal by EOD.-GasBuddy on X
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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Okay so @defector.com has had an odd glitch since the site redesign a couple of weeks back where the wrong photo and headline are often put together on the main page and I was going to ask them about fixing it but this just happened and as far as I'm concerned they have to leave it as is.
Screenshot for a Defector podcast episode with the headline "Consider the Emotional Lives of Scallops" only the accompanying photo is a white gormless stubbled red-headed UK singer of recent notoriety giving a flat smile to the camera while wearing a washed out peach top as beige as he is against a flat background. So, actually, probably a scallop anyway.
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4estrunr @4estrunr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Everyone should read this. www.military.com/republican-l...
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Republican Rep. Thomas Massie Forces House Vote This Week to Impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Over Iran War
Rep. Thomas Massie claims Hegseth is operating in contravention of three specific provisions of the War Powers Resolution of 1973.
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4estrunr @4estrunr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
True facts, and don't expect the next miles to be faster.
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4estrunr @4estrunr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
💯!
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4estrunr @4estrunr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
FDA: Federal Diarrhea Administration
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Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Starting at the beginning of FY 2026, ICE stopped collecting data on miscarriages among pregnant people in the agency's custody. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The Guardian filed a Freedom of Information Act request and then filed suit in collaboration with the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press to obtain data on the number of pregnant people in ICE detention. Eventually, ICE shared records tracking the number of pregnant, postpartum and nursing women who were in detention from October 2024 through mid-January 2026, but only provided data on miscarriages up to 3 October 2025. In internal documents provided to the Guardian, the agency said it did not have miscarriage data for subsequent months because of a change in its medical accounting system.

In response to follow up questions about its tracking practices after 3 October 2025, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees ICE, first said that the agency was tracking miscarriages in monthly reports. But later, the spokesperson confirmed what was in its internal documents – it does not have data on miscarriages from October 2025 through June 2026.

DHS has never before acknowledged that it had lost count of miscarriages – not even when US senators asked the agency for the data.ICE detained a record number of pregnant people but could not share data on miscarriages after 3 October 2025
Two bar graphs. The one on the left shows that there were still dozens of pregnant people in detention throughout FY 2026, but all of the sudden the data on miscarriages disappeared.
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4estrunr @4estrunr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I'm sure Senator Kennedy will find a way to dismiss this and continue supporting these chuds.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Yikes, if this is accurate, its basically the owner class using their power to shut down dissent. The Patriots Robert Kraft told Sheerhan his concert would be cancelled if Mackelmore stayed on the your, and that other stadium owners would follow suit.
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Then what’s the point of a government?
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Federal Court Rules There Is No Constitutional Right to Safe Drinking Water
Years after a water crisis rocked Jackson, Mississippi, the court finds that residents have no right “to truthful information from officials.”
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4estrunr @4estrunr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I'd love a candidate that doesn't scapegoat tran folks. Politicians who scapegoat for cheap political points are unfit to govern.
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4estrunr @4estrunr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I had a roller derby team mate who is transgender, there were no issues with safety or fairness. All athletes bring different body types, strengths, and weaknesses to their sports. You play to your strengths and you work on your weaknesses. Talarico is ignorant. www.texastribune.org/2026/09/09/j...
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James Talarico reverses stance on trans student-athletes
Talarico’s comments on Fox News came in contrast to positions he took in the Texas House opposing GOP restrictions on trans student-athletes.
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4estrunr @4estrunr.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The Trump administration is populated with monsters.
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4estrunr @4estrunr.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The engine of enshittification is Trump and his ego.
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
in another country there would be—in the us, there's a section of the media *every day* reporting on trump's authoritarianism & corruption, *every day* calling him a fascist & urging action yet that's almost unthinkable in the uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united...
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The radicalisation of the American liberal
How US liberalism found the will to fight Trump—and what we can learn from it
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4estrunr @4estrunr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Voting is your voice - speak up 🎆🎇
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Half of the worst shit we will ever hear about online comes from the fact that we don’t think racism is an indicator of abuse And most of the worst people you know prey on kids of color AROUND THE WORLD why the hell do you think they love islands so much And I’m an island girl
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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Criselda Vasquez, American, The New American Gothic, 2017, oil on canvas, 72 x 48 in, private collection The artist's father, portrayed in the painting, was kidnapped by ICE on 31 March 2026
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4estrunr @4estrunr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
If transparency and accountability are missing, this kind of thing will happen. No amount of PR is going to fix the actual problem of data centers taking advantage of under-resourced communities.
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Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This fact also completely defangs any argument about “job creators.” Job creation means nothing when the jobs being created don’t lead to any reasonable standard of living.
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Julia Raifman, ScD @juliaraifman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
In a new pre-print, researchers identified a policy they estimate could save 114K lives + $1 Trillion per year: Medicare for All 📉 Saves administrative costs (+ time) 🩺 Improves access to care 💊 Reduces cost of meds 🌾 + Keeps rural & children’s hospitals open www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
Graph depicting cost savings with Medicare for All, with full description in linked paper
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4estrunr @4estrunr.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Sweeps without providing housing options are cruel. Also, temporary homeless shelters can be useful, but they are not housing.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The report highlights the stark and indefensible contrast between funding for policing and funding for public libraries in cities across the US. www.librariesforthepeople.org/snapshots - you can check our website to see if your library system is one of the 15 ones featured.
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City Snapshots — For The People
Did you know that Las Cruces, New Mexico spends 870 times more on policing than libraries? Our new publication, Budgets Are Values, gives an overview of how 15 public library systems are funded, gover...
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4estrunr @4estrunr.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Every day commander bone spurs shows us how unfit he is for the job.
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4estrunr @4estrunr.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Awakening the Ancestors warms my Crone Core heart. 🖤
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
#earlyvote update 9/4: North Carolina begins mail balloting today and the Supreme Court is taking no action (so far) to allow Trump to meddle with how USPS delivers mail ballots
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4estrunr @4estrunr.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Trade requires good faith and cooperation. This is not a strength of the Trump Administration. Overall, this is a good explanation of tariffs for a layperson like me.
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4estrunr @4estrunr.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is incredibly helpful.
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 03/09/2026
Ecological destruction now recognized as sins against creation and the Creator? Fuck yeah, hook that shit to my badly lapsed veins!
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4estrunr @4estrunr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I've been thinking about this too. The only way this makes sense to me is the oil industry bought Trump and wrote legislation passed by Republicans to benefit the oil industry above everything else. A war in the middle east raises prices and the oil industry profits.
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green496.bsky.social @green496.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I think data center opposition is perfectly rational; there are plenty of documented cases where it materially worsens living conditions for people nearby (noise, light, air pollution) while the community gets almost nothing of value out of the center itself (they require minimal staff to run).
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4estrunr @4estrunr.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Lol, our neighborhood every day. 🤣
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Skulls and Sheets @skullsandsheets.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Our Mari of Autumn (Subtle)
A mari with a crown of leaves and stars in a cloak of patterns autumn leaves drop dpwn drom her cloak
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The devastation of NSA Bahrain is a national security warning www.militarytimes.com/opinion/2026...
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The devastation of NSA Bahrain is a national security warning
Opinion: If NSA Bahrain is not reconstituted to pre-attack capabilities, it will fundamentally change how the U.S. Navy operates, the author of this op-ed writes.
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4estrunr @4estrunr.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This woman is a treasure. If you are in NC she deserves your vote.
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4estrunr @4estrunr.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I'm not a statistician, but this was well-written and easy to follow. www.umass.edu/news/article...
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New UMass Amherst Poll Finds Over Two-thirds of Americans Disapprove of President Trump’s Handling of Iran War, as 4-in-5 Say the War Has Increased Food and Gas Prices | UMass Amherst
The new poll finds Trump’s overall approval down to 32%, as Republican approval of the president has fallen 14 points since April and 1 in 6 Trump voters say they would not vote for him again.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
We are projected to spend $268 BILLION on deportations — costing the average American taxpayer about $2,358 (according to @epi.org). But somehow we “can’t afford” to make sure hungry children can eat or ensure everyone, no matter their income, can access healthcare. Priorities.
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4estrunr @4estrunr.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
In Stephan's voice from SNL- This thread has everything: crows, cat, trees, a song sung to the tune of Danny Boy, yogurt....
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4estrunr @4estrunr.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
No justice for the Epstein survivors and now this....
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Enough. Billboard with @visionzerovancouver.ca from last Fall.
an outdoor billboard There will never be a bell loud enough, a helmet strong enough, or clothing bright enough to make up for poor infrastructure. Picture of child biking in a painted bike lane
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