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88 Highbury Corner

@88highburycorner.bsky.social
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NYER, BKLYN born & bred, former expat Londoner, currently a country bumpkin, reformed fashionista, feminist, wife & mother, dog lover, sometime writer, failed cook, political junkie -- I just want us all to have nice things.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Again, you (& I) live in a country where there are concentration camps & people are being disappeared. We can argue about what exactly to call this particular form of partially autocratic political regime, but it’s not a full democracy.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 28/09/2026
Last month, we refurbished 10 tennis courts in Crotona Park — the only public tennis courts in the Bronx with lights for night play. We stopped by recently to see how things were going. Thank you to NYJTL, USTA and Yonex for helping us deliver high-quality public spaces that New Yorkers deserve.
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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
No lies detected from Jennifer Siebel! #ResistTrump
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 15/08/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Family members share with MeidasTouch that women aboard the USS Boxer have been “begging” for extra pads and tampons as basic feminine hygiene supplies run out at sea.
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"They Were Begging Us to Send Them Extra Pads and Tampons." Family Member Describes Feminine Hygiene Shortage Aboard the USS Boxer
A family member with loved ones serving aboard the USS Boxer reached out to us directly to describe a supply crisis unfolding on the amphibious assault ship,
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
our entire global financial system is currently leveraged to the hilt on the premise that it was good and right for a small cadre of US companies to steal all of the intellectual work ever produced by humanity and sell its back to us without credit or remuneration to the authors (plagiarism)
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Multiple sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln have tried to jump overboard after 8+ months of extended deployment with no end date. Families say their loved ones are burnt out, exhausted, and terrified. No fresh meat or fruit. Rotten food. The Navy keeps them at sea while mental health collapses.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 02/08/2026
The guy in charge of negotiating peace with Iran couldn’t even paint the reflecting pool without fucking it up.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/08/2026
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
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Sarah Good @sassy0210.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Fauci was caring for patients with AIDS when others wouldn't even touch them. He fought harmful information with facts. He warned about the risk of a pandemic for years. We are in the upside down. A scientist is on trial, but a pedophile, rapist, felon isn’t. I stand with Fauci.
Split image: Left shows Dr. Anthony Fauci in a suit, holding papers. Right depicts distressed hospital staff attending to a patient. Text at bottom reflects on Faucis AIDS work and current criticism, affirming the authors support.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
dems holding shadow hearings to get this info out is good politics
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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The overwhelming right wing sentiment is that COVID was an engineered bioweapon that was also harmless. Trump overreacted to it by shutting down the country, then engineered a drive to create a vaccine that was the real bioweapon that killed millions, and it's Joe Biden's fault.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
News: The U.S. economy grew at a disappointing 1.5% in the 2nd quarter of 2026. Congratulations to @sarahbca.bsky.social for her “Bookmark this” comment last December when Howard Lutnick said 2Q of 2026 would be “amazing.” @atrupar.com
Lutnick: "Look for the second quarter of 2026 to be amazing."
SarahBCalif: "Bookmark this."
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 27/07/2026
140 soldiers wounded just last week seems like kind of a big deal.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
“TVA, where I’m from in Tennessee, was built by socialism. Oak Ridge was built by it — Government workers… if that’s not ‘SoCiALisM’ what is it? You tell me.” @corbintrent.bsky.social stumps smug @scottjenningsky simply by asking him to define the thing he wants us all to be afraid of
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 22/07/2026
Holy shit! Sen. Peters had enough of Hegseth’s bullshit. Imagine asking taxpayers for billions more during an “utter and complete failure” of a war. When Hegseth couldn’t defend it, he acted like criticizing the strategy was insulting the troops. Peters called him out.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/07/2026
yes
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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The esteemed Ayanna Pressley holds nothing back when addressing Russell Vought. His legacy will be one of hurt & harm. The people deserve better.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/07/2026
Ossoff: "Here's what's going to happen tonight: the world's most famous sore loser will deliver a prime-time presidential sour grapes address to pursue his 6-year-old grievances about the 2020 election, while his war in the Middle East spirals out of control & the cost of living continues to rise.."
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Andy Beshear is ambitious of higher office, & has a great record for it. One thing that's missing is a serious Fight credential. Given the ruthless GOP supermajority in the KY legislature, there hasn't been much opportunity for it. But this would be an opportunity for him to acquire some Fight cred
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Thomas Massie: “It’s ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and the White House, and we’re yelling ‘election fraud’? We won all the damn elections.”
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
A Reminder that he has Cheated in Every Election….
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AimeePrefersDemocracyFella @aimee-abq.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
the 25th amendment should have been used on this lunatic the first time around .
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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
FFS! These MoFo’s really DO need Jesus They took Lorenzo’s ID to buy time. They knew he’d be received John Doe DOA & complicate everything When they realized his citizen son was in the truck, ICE knew they were busted These 🍑’s stalled & blocked the son all to get their story straight
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
A lawsuit alleges that ICE beat a man, causing his existing disabilities to worsen and get new ones. Once he was in ICE detention, the lawsuit says, he was mocked by detention staff and didn't regularly get his medication. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Lawsuit accuses ICE and private prison contractors of abuse a disabled detainee
Ulises Peña López says guards taunted him — telling him he'd never walk again — while withholding the medication he needed.
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CorrinaLeeB 🇨🇦 @corrina.sheshed.rocks · 10/07/2026
This should horrify all of us! Women in ICE detention underwent invasive medical procedures without informed consent. Senator Jon Ossoff’s bipartisan investigation called the findings “nightmarish & disgraceful” Everyone deserves dignity, bodily autonomy & human rights! #SheShed #ViVaHerAlliance
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SarahBCalif @sarahbca.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
When emergency responders and medical professionals arrive at a home w/geriatric person unconscious, in full cardiac arrest, resuscitation efforts like continuous CPR will break several ribs. If they get heart started: lights & sirens to hospital. If they drive leisurely patient is likely terminal.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Alarming story that confirms my own reporting along similar lines: Dan Moraff, the political strategist who plucked Graham Platner out of obscurity to run for senate and barely vetted him, was barred from Rep. Summer Lee’s 2022 campaign after three complaints of sexual misconduct.
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Platner’s Daniel Moraff Barred from Summer Lee’s Campaign Over Sexual Misconduct Complaints
Congresswoman Summer Lee barred Platner's strategist Daniel Moraff from her campaign after receiving sexual harassment complaints against him.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation. This is a national crisis. Trump thinks the public will stop paying attention. So I went to the Senate floor to call his bluff. I told the ENTIRE STORY of his 500 days of corruption. 1/ Here it is - in one🧵
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Slaughter will lead to a constitutional crisis in 2027, because the President will try to fire the entire federal government, one way or another. The Democrats should be fully prepared here.
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House Democrats @housedemocrats.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Donald Trump has wasted BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars. The war with Iran. His luxury ballroom. The reflecting pool. The UFC fight. But not a single dollar for healthcare or to lower the cost of living.
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Mina @minerva1.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
When a court continually overturns decades and centuries of precedent, how is that different than a coup?
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Kim Sherrell @web.kim · 25/06/2026
EXPAND THE COURT.
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Ossoff's Office @ossoff.senate.gov · 25/06/2026
Sen. Ossoff tried to ban Senators from trading stocks and crypto. Republicans blocked him.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/06/2026
NEW: This is the story of how one of the most influential climate papers in history came to exist thanks to one of the companies most responsible for causing the climate crisis — and one with a financial stake in the technologies described in the paper. w/ @drilledmedia.bsky.social
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Beyond Denial: How Oil Execs Shaped a Landmark Climate Study
BP sponsored an elite Princeton research center to address the climate problem without getting off fossil fuels. Its key work, a paper known as “Wedges,” guided climate discourse for a generation.
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Tom Ellison @123tomellison.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The must see visual from Propublica's brutal takedown of carbon capture magical thinking: projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-c... @amywestervelt.bsky.social @propublica.org @drilledmedia.bsky.social
On the left, a line graph showing a flat trajectory of actual carbon capture and storage contrasted with optimistic projections of it taking off into the future. On the right, a line graph showing actual solar electricity production skyrocketing ahead of all projections.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Protest ICE? You're a terrorist. Get killed by ICE like Renee Nicole Good? You're a terrorist. Commit a violent insurrection for Trump? You get pardoned and taxpayer money.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
It shouldn’t be controversial to say that the creation of a “trillionaire” represents a giant and complete failure of public policy and government.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Nailed it here. 👇
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yolanda7712.bsky.social @yolanda7712.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Hunter Biden is on 🔥
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Trump is starting to lose something very important to him — and I’m not just talking about his mind. Watch.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Staggering levels of corruption. They’re using every possible lever of power to enrich themselves and their friends and families. And the “party of fiscal responsibility” simply doesn’t care.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The amount of corruption in this administration is astounding.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/06/2026
BESSENT: I believe the president's remarks were taken out of context HASSAN: No. He said, 'I don't think about Americans' financial situation. I don't think about anybody.' That's a direct quote BESSENT: Groceries are going down HASSAN: When was the last time you were in a grocery store?
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/06/2026
Today, I signed an Executive Order temporarily repealing bedtimes in the City of New York so that kids of all ages can watch our team in the NBA Finals. As Mayor, you’re forced to make many difficult decisions. This was not one of them. Go Knicks.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I’ve been thinking a lot about the shifting baseline concept as applied to everyday life. People in their 20’s now have no memory of highly functional systems, products (from blenders to sweaters) that were so well made you could hand them down across generations, or even helpful customer service.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/05/2026
This is seriously fucked. Like for starters they’re using commercial web analytics that are in no way in line with federal privacy disclosure requirements…
Every webpage you load is making phone calls.
Not to people, but to servers around the internet, dozens per second, all invisible to you.
When I opened TrumpRx, I right-clicked the page, opened the browser's built-in inspector, and started reading the list. Mixed in with the routine traffic was a name I recognized:
PostHog. PostHog is a Silicon Valley analytics company whose entire business model is recording what visitors do on a website and reporting it back to whoever owns the site.
Mouse movements, clicks, scrolls, keystrokes. I had not typed anything. I had not clicked anything. I had just opened the page, and it was already on the phone with PostHog telling them about me.The recordings are not anonymized. IP addresses are not stripped. And the way it is configured, the data looks to your browser like it is going back to TrumpRx, but it is actually being forwarded behind the scenes to PostHog.
That is a technique used to slip past ad blockers by disguising where the data is really going, and it is not something I expected to find on a federal health website. So I went and looked at the other sites the studio had built. Real Food, the federal food policy site. Trump Accounts, the children's savings program. The studio's own homepage, ndstudio. gov. All of them had the same vendor, the same setup, IP addresses not stripped, the same forwarding trick. And onnot stripped, the same forwarding trick. And on ndstudio. gov alone, running alongside PostHog, was something someone had built entirely by hand. Five hundred and forty lines of custom JavaScript with a name embedded directly in the code: AutoMonitor. What it appears to do is rewire the part of the browser that handles how a page talks to the outside world, so that every conversation the page has with any server gets copied and forwarded to a private backend with no public presence. The studio has the structural ability to keep a copy of every recording as it passes through their infrastructure. I cannot prove they are keeping one. The pipe is built that way on purpose, and that is the part that matters.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
science and space travel are best done by people in love with the science not people in love with profit
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
NYT: ".. "Trump’s pendulum swings on Iran have often seemed driven by mood and moment rather than any discernible strategy. .. Trump has further clouded matters with recent statements that seem poorly thought out, if not disconnected from reality altogether." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/u...
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Bombs, Bargains and Bluster: Trump’s Iran Approach Sows Confusion
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
I really think there’s something to this. Being openly, brazenly corrupt has probably worked in Trump’s favor with some media & voters because they assume something truly scandalous has to be exposed, not broadcast.
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