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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The rule they are overturning was predicted to give $120 billion in public health benefits by 2047, with projections that by 2035, it would would prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital and emergency room visits, 360K asthma attacks, 48K school absence days and 57K lost workdays each year
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 03/09/2026
Sea surface temperatures are warming across the entire periphery of the #Arctic Ocean in September. This is especially observed in areas with long-term declines in sea ice concentration, such around the Chukchi and Kara Seas. Data from NOAA OISSTv2.1. For more info: doi.org/10.25923/pz7...
Polar stereographic map of sea surface temperature trends for Septembers from 1979 to 2025. Red shading is shown for warming trends, and blue shading is shown for cooling trends. All areas of the ocean are observing warming.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
As if these “controversies” emerged organically from the court — and not in interaction with the social and digital media systems that prioritize soap opera content and clickbait, and through the work of political operatives hijacking the WNBA’s platform to score political points.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Ryan: “The isolation is the point. A tried and true strategy of the MAGA Right is to make their targets toxic so that allies back off and don’t stand in solidarity with MAGA’s enemy of the moment.”
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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
julie! julie! julie! defector.com/interview-ju...
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An Interview With A Biographer Of Renée Richards, An Actual Trans Pro Athlete | Defector
As Lauren Theisen pointed out last month, the ongoing, abstracted debate about trans inclusion in sports uses almost no proper nouns and lots of hypotheticals. Back in the late 1970s, there was a very...
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Bénédicte C @benecal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The PA Department of Health Measles web page is so much better than the CDC's. Fact based, a dashboard, information on what to do to protect your family. It's not that hard. CDC is failing on purpose. www.pa.gov/agencies/hea...
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Measles
Measles is a disease that spreads easily from person to person and can make you sick. People who are not vaccinated are at the highest risk. The best protection against measles is vaccination. DOH is ...
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
NEWS: After Yaakov Roth defended many of the worst actions of the Trump administration over the past year and a half at DOJ, Jones Day took Roth back as a partner when he wanted to cash in on the friends he made when working to undermine the rule of law in America.
Yaakov Roth, former Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General of DOJ Civil Division, rejoins Jones Day
August 31, 2026 Firm News
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Keith Law @keithlaw.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
the goose chasing a man meme where the goose says “what else did he say” and then “WHAT ELSE DID HE SAY” as the man runs away
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Jenna McLaughlin @jennamclaughlin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Your #longread for the day: A recent wave of cyberattacks against U.S. water facilities goes beyond water, and comes at a time when federal cyber jobs have been slashed by the White House. www.npr.org/2026/08/12/n...
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Are hacks of U.S. water facilities a new front in the Iran war?
A recent series of cyberattacks on U.S. water systems has exposed vulnerabilities across critical infrastructure during the Iran war.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Watching in real-time as the right wing media machine's attempt to hijack the WNBA spotlight to push anti-trans hate morphs into an effort by a bunch of men to bash the WNBA by mocking the player's athleticism (comparing them unfavorably to eighth-grade boys) and gender presentations.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Wrote about the passing of Robert Mason, an unsung hero who helped hundreds of thousands of students apply for HBCUs nationwide. He was 66
huffpost.com
Robert Mason, HBCU Advocate Who Helped Countless Black Students ‘Realize Their Full Potential,’ Dies At 66
The Common Black College Application has demystified the admissions process for hundreds of thousands of Black students since 1998.
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Marisa Ingemi @mingemi.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
For this week's @missionlocal.org x @valkyriesbeat.bsky.social collab, I talked to Miela Sowah about life as one of the first WNBA developmental players. missionlocal.org/2026/08/life...
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Life of a Valkyrie in development: $6,136 a game - when you play
Miela Sowah made a splash in Golden State’s lone preseason game when she shot 5-for-6 with 14 points against Seattle.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Looks like you’re not counting internet “friends” … everyone online had one “friend” or “friend of a friend” who experienced XYZ. My sense from tracking these was that, often, they all led back to the same story.
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City of Spokane @spokanecity.org · 02/08/2026
As the Spokane community continues to face the devastating impacts of local wildfires, you can help your neighbors. We will continue to update this thread with more opportunities to help!
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Pictured below are some mid-century examples of àdìrẹ eleko (starch-resist), àdìrẹ alabere (stitch-resist), àdìrẹ oniko (tying raffia around the cloth, sometimes with small seeds or stones to create a pattern), and even hand painted cloth. The last really turns cloth into art.
Indigo-dyed fabric with a starch resist pattern. Indigo-dyed fabric with a stitch resist pattern. Indigo-dyed fabric with a circular patterns made by tying the cloth before dying. Indigo dyed fabric that has been hand painted
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
someone needs to get me a ticket to the game so i can report on it like i did when he was at the US open final
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Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
A day after The Late Show ended, Colbert hosted an episode of public access program Only In Monroe, reviving his 11-year-old gag. How bad is CBS/Paramount taking it? They issued copyright complaints for a show they don't own. 🤣 CBS would hate it if you watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DlF...
Matthew Keys
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Paramount is apparently trying to suppress copies of "Only in Monroe" from appearing on other social platforms by filing frivolous copyright notices, even though the show was produced by a public access TV channel and doesn't use their intellectual property...
https://x.com/MatthewKeysLive/status/2058567331992023172
Michelle Kinney
@MichelleKinney
Happened to us at The Mayday Network as well — this is insanity.
https://x.com/MichelleKinney/status/2058596263004721436
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Charles Apple @charlesapple.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Perhaps this will help, Trish. I built this 13 years ago for the Orange County Register.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Sunday is a good time to re-share this: Alaska officials gave false info to American Samoans, telling them they can vote. (They can’t, due to a unique status.) Now, the state is threatening them with years in prison, part of GOP’s voting fraud panic. An important story that's worth your time.
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Americans by Name, Punished for Believing It - Bolts
In a small Alaska town, American Samoans face prosecution for voting in the only country they’ve ever known. They live in a limbo, created by colonial expansion, that now confuses even public official...
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
NEW: Another dive into our database of now more than 12,000 rulings on ICE’s mass detention push: a look at the judges who have fueled the overwhelming rebuke. w/ brilliant data journalist and colleague @jtblaeser.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/05...
politico.com
5 judges who explain the courts’ rebuke of ICE detentions
Judges have overwhelmingly rejected the administration’s new policy.
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Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The Colorado Democratic Party censured Gov. Jared Polis for his commutation of Tina Peters in a vote of ~200 state committee members tonight. A resolution declaring Polis "materially harmed" the party and barring him from formal participation in party events was adopted with 89.8% support.
The State Central Committee finds that Governor Jared Polis's decision to grant clemency to Tina Peters materially harmed the Colorado Democratic Party's institutional credibility and efforts to defend democratic institutions and election integrity.
The State Central Committee formally condemns Governor Jared Polis's clemency decision regarding Tina Peters and formally censures Governor Jared Polis for conduct inconsistent with the Colorado Democratic Party's commitment to democratic institutions, election integrity, and public accountability.
The Colorado Democratic Party further clarifies that the clemency decision does not reflect the values, institutional positions, or democratic commitments of the Colorado Democratic Party.
The Colorado Democratic Party reaffirms its unwavering commitment to election workers, free and fair elections, and the rejection of election denialism and disinformation in all forms.
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following the commutation decision
Until further action by the State Central Committee or Executive Committee, Governor Jared Polis shall not participate as an honored guest, featured speaker, or officially recognized representative of the Colorado Democratic Party at Party-sponsored events and functions. including but not limited to the Obama Gala and DemFest.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/05/2026
Sean Duffy talks over Patty Murray for more than a minute straight as she tries to ask him questions about his 7-month-long road trip
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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 13/05/2026
NEW: xAI appears to have added more than 500 MW (!) of unpermitted gas turbines to its Colossus 2 campus in a matter of weeks, according to internal emails between the company and regulators
wired.com
xAI Adds 16 New Gas Turbines Despite Ongoing Lawsuit
Emails show that Elon Musk's company is expanding its use of portable gas-fired power at its Colossus 2 site as a fight over air quality continues.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Sign of the times: a university press release that's just a Q&A with a faculty member talking about the termination of the National Science Board.
Distinguished UCR faculty weighs in on the firings
 
​Amidst the many attention-grabbing headlines of 2026, there is a recent one that may have flown under the radar but shouldn’t have. On April 24, the White House dismissed the entire 22-person board that oversees the National Science Foundation. The NSF is an independent federal agency that supports science and engineering in all 50 states and U.S. territories. 

 

To discuss the impact of the NSF more broadly, its significance for university research, and the likely consequences of this move, UC Riverside News turns to a distinguished faculty member who has extensive experience with the organization.

Tim Lyons is a distinguished professor of biogeochemistry at UCR. He serves as the director of UCR’s Alternative Earths Astrobiology Center and the Wilber W. Mayhew Endowed Chair in Geo-Ecology. Lyons holds a doctorate from Yale University, and is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union, the Geological Society of America, the Geochemical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. These are his thoughts on the NSF news. 

Q: What is the National Science Foundation, and why has it historically been critical for university science and research?

A: The NSF was established by Congress in 1950 to promote science, improve national security through innovation, and advance national health and prosperity. It fulfills this mission mainly through making grants to places like UCR.

There are other federal agencies that fund science, but many of those prioritize more-applied research, and often with specific targets in mind. The National Science Foundation, while also seeking a wide range of impacts that extend to strategic, economic, and quality of life themes, is at its historic core the go-to agency for basic (blue-sky) research. Often times, basic research translates into concrete discoveries.
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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Jessica Valenti reports that Child Protective Services has targeted mothers in multiple states who helped their daughters seek out abortions. This represents a new and largely unexamined consequence of the end of Roe. The government is using family separation as an anti-abortion weapon.
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Exclusive: She Helped Plan Her Teen's Abortion, So CPS Took Her Daughter Away
Child protective services is being used as an anti-abortion weapon in banned and pro-choice states
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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
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ACLU @aclu.org · 02/05/2026
On average, someone has died in ICE custody every 6 days this year, yet the agency is rapidly expanding detention by converting warehouses into immigration detention camps. ICE is putting lives at risk and must not move forward with this reckless plan.
aclu.org
Trump Administration is Buying Warehouses to Turn into ICE Detention Centers
Despite a record number of deaths in ICE detention, Trump is doubling down on his mass detention and deportation campaign by buying warehouses to hold 96,000 detained people.
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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 26/04/2026
Geoffrey Pipoly and Andrew Tauber joined @rparloff.bsky.social on Lawfare Daily to discuss their case fighting to preserve Temporary Protected Status for more than 350,000 Haitian immigrants, which is now at the Supreme Court. youtu.be/77DvekCrUcQ
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
This is a very good resource. I don't know how @taniel.bsky.social does this but he makes highly technical stuff like this very easy to follow and use:
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 23/04/2026
Truth
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Did not miss any of these (tho admit the Whiskey Pete thing didn't make it far beyond FT), but strongly applaud this kind of summarizing. It's REALLY hard to keep up with all the corruption. Really hard.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Rest in Power to a major figure in the AIDS treatment activism in the 1980s, a time when many were indifferent or looking away.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Adam interviews Mary Moriarty about a detail I also noticed; The victims in the ICE assault had no idea he was ICE. They described him as a crazy nut who shouldn't be on the road. You know ... ICE.
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National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 16/04/2026
They'd be immune to defamation and even if the person was covert they'd be confident they'd never be prosecuted. There would literally be no reason for them to keep mum. Which means they don't know. Which means she doesn't know. And that's what this is. Use the investigation to uncover them.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Whittier was on my list of 40 elections to watch in April, so you can find a little more detail here: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
boltsmag.org
The 40 Elections to Watch This April - Bolts
Two statewide votes are headlining the election calendar in April. First, Wisconsin will choose a new supreme court justice, with major implications for voting rights. Then, Virginia will decide wheth...
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
18/ bsky.app/profile/jenn...
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R.L. Stollar @rlstollar.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
"A kneecapped Wayback Machine isn’t just bad news for accountability journalism—it will also be a blow to the legal system, as pages archived by the tool are frequently cited as evidence in litigation across the United States."
wired.com
The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril
As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
If you thought the Trump admin might want to put some distance between them and the subject of this NY Times profile...here he is with Vance in Hungary yesterday
douche walking beside JD Vance on red carpet
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 10/04/2026
Cal State Channel Islands philosophy lecturer Jonathan Caravello has just been ACQUITTED of assaulting ICE/CBP last summer while protesting a brutal Ventura County cannabis farm raid! His defense argued he threw a tear gas canister away to protect protesters. The jury acquitted him in two hours.
laist.com
CSU lecturer acquitted
Government said he assaulted immigration agent
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Jim Small @jimsmall.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
What a return to publishing from the always great @nick-martin.bsky.social (with an assist from @azrww.bsky.social) This is tremendous journalism
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Nick Martin @nick-martin.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
EXCLUSIVE at the newly relaunched @informant.news: We've obtained secret documents showing that a former Navy SEAL whose testimony helped overturn a war crimes case against his platoon leader has recently joined the white supremacist group Patriot Front. www.informant.news/patriot-fron...
A composite image showing, at center, Corey Noel Scott, a white man with thinning dirty blonde hair and beard stubble wearing a black shot and smiling. The image of his face is up-close and in a circle with a light outline. Two other circles are floating in the image that read “PATRIOT FRONT MEMBER IDENTIFIED." That text is on a mock edit of a red, white and blue Patriot Front logo that crosses out their center fasces symbol with an X. Another floating image shows the red, white, and blue patch for Seal Team 7, which is a thin triangle facing downward with a large 7 in the center and the logo for the Navy on top of the 7, seven white stars are at the point of the triangle. All these images are sitting on top of a military group shot that’s faded in the background. The men in camo are holding up guns and a red, white and blue American flag and posing for the camera. Most soldiers are blocked by the various images except for one section where Corey Scott and Eddie Gallagher can be seen in sunglasses by the flag.
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Wildlife trade drives animal-to-human pathogen transmission over 40 years
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 08/04/2026
A group of devoted volunteers is methodically researching, cataloging and digitizing more than 10,000 concerts that one music fan recorded over four decades.
bit.ly
Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10,000 concerts into an online treasure trove
In 1989, an up-and-coming rock band from Washington called Nirvana played in Chicago for the first time at a club called Dreamerz.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
And it gets worse . . .
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Zach Hensel @zachhensel.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Today, Bob Kadlec is Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Deterrence, Chemical, and Biological Defense, Policy and Programs. No one asked about what he'd done the last five years during his confirmation process.
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Jorge A. Caballero, MD @datadrivenmd.social · 08/04/2026
AP — Iran includes ‘acceptance of enrichment’ in Farsi version of its ceasefire plan "missing in English versions shared by Iranian diplomats to journalists"
apnews.com
Live updates: US and Iran agree to a two-week ceasefire
Iran says it has accepted a two-week ceasefire in the war, and will negotiate with the United States in Islamabad beginning Friday. President Donald Trump said Tuesday he’s pulling back on his threats...
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
JUST IN: Liberals have won a decisive victory for the Wisconsin supreme court race tonight. Chris Taylor will join the supreme court, flipping a conservative-held seat. This expands liberals' majority on the court to 5-2. Why it matters: boltsmag.org/wisconsin-su...
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Liberals Gain Seat on Wisconsin Supreme Court, Adding to Firewall in Voting Cases - Bolts
Voters in Wisconsin ensured on Tuesday that the supreme court in one of the nation’s premier swing states will be controlled by liberals through at least 2030.  Chris Taylor, a... Read More
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 08/04/2026
Oh, this is good. Idaho passed a bill banning local cities from flying the Pride flag. So the cities decided to wrap the poles themselves in pride colors. This is amazing.
A screenshot of a Facebook post by CBS 2 Boise. The post text reads: "A new state law required the City of Boise to take down the Pride flag outside City Hall. Tuesday morning, the City wrapped flag poles in Pride colors and added a new sign to the window on City Hall. CBS2 reached out to the Mayor and Governor’s office for comment."
​Below the text is a collage of three photos showing these updates:
​Left: A tall metallic flagpole in a plaza at night, with its lower section wrapped in horizontal stripes matching the colors of the Progress Pride flag (black, brown, light blue, pink, white, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple).
​Top Right: A closer view of a flagpole base, also wrapped in horizontal Progress Pride flag colors.
​Bottom Right: A large window on City Hall featuring a graphic with diagonal stripes in the Progress Pride colors alongside the text, "Creating a city for everyone."
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
This is real
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Also, be sure to subscribe to our (free) newsletter for an update on the results in your inbox tomorrow! It's easy! boltsmag.org/newsletter
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