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@aheise.bsky.social
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Recently retired community college instructor - I taught micro to future healthcare people especially nurses. Also curious about astronomy, geology, museums, art, funny things.

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David DeWitt @daviddewitt.bsky.social · 57m
President Donald Trump is tapping $20 million in Homeland Security funding to pay for TV ads that heavily feature him ahead of the midterm elections, Democrats said Tuesday as the promos critics call propaganda come under bipartisan attack ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/09/29/r...
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Trump TV ads paid for with $20M in Homeland Security funds, Dems find • Ohio Capital Journal
President Donald Trump is tapping $20 million in Homeland Security funding to pay for TV ads that heavily feature him ahead of the midterm elections, Democrats said Tuesday as the promos critics call…
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 7h
Mike Rogers has the audacity to lie to you about his plan like he didn't vote 4 times to stop you from getting cheaper medication from Canada, take $1M from Big Pharma, and vote 19 times to keep prescription drug prices higher. GTFOH.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 4h
✖️211,000 Michigan households will suffer from SNAP cuts. Nearly 121,000 Michiganders have already lost their SNAP benefits. ✖️Energy bills across Michigan will go up by a total of $8.7 billion by 2034.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 4h
Tomorrow, on October 1, the biggest transfer of wealth from the working class to the wealthy hits a critical milestone. Many of the provisions from the Big Ugly Bill will go into effect, harming hundreds of thousands of Michiganders in order to create tax cuts for the richest people in America.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2h
I hope everyone reads this, thinks about it and then shares it. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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A few hundred noncitizen votes are a national scandal. But when states reject hundreds of thousands of ballots from eligible voters, it’s business as usual
One state rejected ballots because some voters failed to include their mother’s maiden name on the back of the return envelope.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 3h
We have been laying off staff. Berkeley is hiring 72 tenure-line faculty this year. UCLA is hiring 8. The chancellor has announced two new vice-chancellor direct reports for himself. We are told there is no money. Class sizes have been doubled.
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UCLA will hire more Student Affairs staff to enforce Time, Place and Manner policies - Daily Bruin
UCLA will add full-time positions to its Student Affairs Mitigation Program to support the university’s response to protests and other demonstrations, UCLA Student Affairs said. The new positions incl...
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Melissa "Snack Lady" @melondc.bsky.social · 3h
Hopefully one of her coworkers or boss will give her something. I know she is working hard, gets the kids out the door by 8, gets to work by 9, comes home at 4 or meets the kids at afterschool activities. She is working HARD.
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 3h
"After I saw that the company was hacked, I’m not going to click on any links (on the Bolivar County circuit clerk’s website), and there’s lots of links and lots of links that don’t go to where they’re supposed to," Andy Hawkins said. www.mississippifreepress.org/bolivar-coun...
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Bolivar County Circuit Clerk Website Designer Hacked By Foreign Gambling Company
Voter Andy Hawkins discovered Bolivar County circuit clerk’s website designer has been hacked by a foreign gambling company.
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K. W. Knight @kwknight.bsky.social · 3h
Should we try to get paxlovid? I don't even know what the guidance is now.
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PharmerGeoff @pharmergeoff.bsky.social · 7h
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 8h
The mortality reviews that ICE published late last week show that medical neglect is widespread in Trump's concentration camps — something immigrants, advocates and attorneys have said for years, and which ICE routinely denies. New from me in @prospect.org.
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Disturbing Pictures of Neglect in ICE Mortality Reviews - The American Prospect
The federal government released dozens of mortality reviews of immigrants who died in detention in recent years. They show a uniform pattern of medical neglect.
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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 7h
Available now: STREAMS: An Illustrated Guide yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... 🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #scientificillustration #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #streams #rivers #freshwater
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Adam Brooks @adamrbroooks.bsky.social · 7h
SCOTUS looked at the harm of people being dumped in foreign lands, and the harm of the government not being able to disappear people… and sided with the government.
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gjabberbox.bsky.social @gjabberbox.bsky.social · 9h
Exclusive: “John Fetterman has been working with GOP fundraising consultants—and paying a hefty commission,” Michael Scherer and Matt Viser report. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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John Fetterman’s Right-Wing Fundraising Deals
After losing his Democratic fundraisers, the Pennsylvania senator found a new firm with MAGA-world ties.
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fancynancysays @fancynancysays.bsky.social · 9h
Trump Such a low life wapo.st/46XeZTk
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Trump’s upscale golf plan could destroy a D.C. haven for cyclists, runners
The president wants to eliminate the public road that loops around the Hains Point peninsula, allowing the golf course to stretch to the water’s edge.
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 10h
Fmr. Special Counsel Jack Smith testifies to the Senate: "President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation."
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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 7h
This Day in Labor History: September 30, 1919. A shootout occurred between armed guards protecting a union meeting of sharecroppers in Elaine, Arkansas and whites seeking to intimidate them. The next day, the governor ordered the military to crack down. Let's talk about the Elaine Massacre!
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 13h
Jesus Christ Cornell
What use was it to bring the writer and activist Chanel Miller to campus in the spring just for fraternity brothers to scroll, bored, on their phones as she movingly shared her experience as Emily Doe, the victim of Brock Turner? As I wrote at the time, I was floored and dismayed as I sat in the audience with one of my brilliant undergraduates; we heard Miller’s shattering account of being sexually assaulted by Turner behind a dumpster at Stanford University after a fraternity party. Her talk was riveting, and there was so much to learn from it. And yet many of the male students who hailed predominantly from fraternities — 15 percent of each chapter was required to be in attendance — were so tuned out that Miller commented ruefully: “You know, this has been my hardest gig, because they didn’t turn down the house lights. I’m not sure how you professors do it, because it’s so hard looking out at this sea of mildly disgruntled faces. I mean, I’m sure you’re all very moved, but …,” Miller smiled. The implication being, it didn’t seem like it, from her angle.
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Michigan Advance @michiganadvance.com · 9h
Michigan secretary of state hopefuls discuss election security, office priorities michiganadvance.com/2026/09/30/m... From @bensolis1.bsky.social
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Michigan secretary of state hopefuls discuss election security, office priorities • Michigan Advance
The five Michigan Secretary of State nominees from across the political spectrum appeared together for a virtual forum Tuesday hosted by the League of Women Voters, parsing questions on election secur...
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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 20h
She was doxxed by a Chi Phi alum who implored his followers to “help a Chi Phi.” Just in case anyone thought that organization was remotely redeemable.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 9h
In this Ohio diner, Hawkeye still means Alan Alda. But they do know this: Senator Eric Schmitt’s staffers looked about as nervous as Radar O’Reilly after yesterday‘s basketball gaffe.
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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer @princejvstin.com · 8h
Number 1 in Mammals in terms of a plurality of species is of course rodents. Number 2 is bats. Number 3 are moles and shrews. Number 4 is Primates.
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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you didn't already know, here's how to preorder the book ahead of its October 13 release:
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New York Times bestselling author and esteemed TV critic Alan Sepinwall delivers the definitive biography of Rod Serling, creator of The Twilight Zone. Serli...
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 8h
Seems like some version of this runs every day
Like many of her neighbors, Ms. Vuittonet had been worried about the streams of new immigrants coming across the Rio Grande during the Biden administration and had trusted that Mr. Trump would stop them. Although some Trump supporters held signs calling for "mass deportations now" during the 2024 campaign, Ms. Vuittonet never thought such deportations would include people she knew who had lived in the United States for decades.
"I knew that he was going to start deporting people, but that he was going to go after bad criminals, like true hardcore criminals, rapists, killers," Ms. Vuittonet said, sitting in the small coffee shop she runs from the back of an antique store.
She thought of her six children, who range from ages 6 to 12. "Of course I want the streets safe."
But when her brother was taken to an immigration detention center earlier this year, just days after a scheduled check-in with an immigration official, she said it felt like a punch to the gut.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 9h
New Philly voice article on the fight to reopen the Academy of Natural Sciences! www.phillyvoice.com/academy-natu...
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Academy of Natural Sciences is closed, but the fight for the museum continues
A grassroots group is urging Drexel's board to disaffiliate from the institution and calling for a public process to decide its future.
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Barbara Lazio, MD, FAANS, FCNS @noodlesurg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Andrew Knighton @aknighton.bsky.social · 9h
This is a great book, a gripping murder mystery set in an alternate Britain that feels like a twisted mirror vision of where we are right now.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 21h
I'm profoundly against this depraved record and want to do the exact opposite: pass Medicare for All.
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Mike Rogers voted against children’s health coverage over and over - Detroit Metro Times
Mike Rogers repeatedly voted against efforts to expand health insurance for children of working families.
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Thierry St-Laurent Dion @tstld.bsky.social · 19h
Study of a Crow Ballpoint pen on paper #art #birds #nature #sciart
Study of a crow.  Made with a ballpoint pen and watercolor on paper.
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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 19h
CORNELL KEPT HER GODDAMN TUITION.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19h
this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“When food prices go up because farm workers go missing, that’s the ICE Tax. When construction grinds to a halt because no one is left to build homes, that’s the ICE Tax. When our elders can’t get the care they deserve because their caretakers and nurses are gone, that’s the ICE Tax.” #EndtheICETax
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CHC Chair: ‘ICE Is Not Just Busting The Budget, It’s Wrecking Our Economy’
Congressional Hispanic Caucus members joined America’s Voice to call for an end to the ICE Tax that’s making the lives of all working families more expensive.
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Great art on Bluesky @art.feediverse.org · 21h
Hanging the Laundry out to Dry, 1875 #berthemorisot #morisot
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 21h
30 September 1894 | A German Jewish woman, Margarete Schmul, was born in Rogoźno (Rogasen). She lived in Berlin. In 1942, she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber. --- Women at Auschwitz Read: lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobiety_en Listen: youtu.be/ijTxtbNlJO8
Black-and-white portrait of a woman with a calm expression, wearing a light blouse.
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States Newsroom @statesnewsroom.com · 21h
Austin man shot by ICE agent charged with assault, resisting arrest
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Austin man shot by ICE agent charged with assault, resisting arrest
Federal prosecutors have charged the Austin man an ICE agent shot earlier this month with a single count of resisting and assaulting a federal officer, according to court documents.Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, a Venezuelan national, was shot by an ICE officer in Austin on Sept. 20. He was taken to Dell Seton Medical Center, where he was released and taken into ICE custody three hours later with the bullet remaining in his back. He had been held at a detention center in Pearsall.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As someone else noted (sorry, can’t find it now) it really feels like there was a coordinated campaign to boost Schmitt today, with the Axios piece floating him as Vance’s VP setting up his big gotcha attempt at the hearing. They just ignored the fuckup and moved to stage three congratulating him.
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Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 29/09/2026
If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.
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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I bet he used ChatGPT to research this
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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I repeat:
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David Mack @davidmack.pro · 23h
Utterly contemptible—and just what we’ve come to expect from the Fascist Six on the corrupt, illegitimate SCOTUS.
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Wisconsin Examiner @wisconsinexaminer.com · 23h
Congressional watchdog says Trump administration can’t defy lawmakers to revoke $810M wisconsinexaminer.com/2026/09/29/r...
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Congressional watchdog says Trump administration can’t defy lawmakers to revoke $810M • Wisconsin Examiner
The Trump administration must spend $810 million that it planned to cancel, according to the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office.
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BEACON @beaconbio.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
RFI: First US HPAI (H5N1) outbreak in captive mink – regulatory gaps delay response, Utah, USA Read more at: beaconbio.org/en/report/?reportid=7…
US CDC H5 Bird Flu
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
People are commenting Save The Academy on all of Drexel's instagram posts and I think that's pretty cool. If you're looking for something to do tonight 👀
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out.
Can the president use taxpayer funds to air his old campaign ads on TV?

No. Federal appropriations law has long barred using taxpayer funds for political advertising.
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Theo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 29/09/2026
Every AI CEO sounds like this.
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B. Justice @zefirotorna.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Arrests are in order. And stop believing these systems went rogue. This behavior is what you get with poorly designed and implemented software systems. OpenAI Ignored Employees Who Warned It Wasn’t Doing Enough About Security www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/t...
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OpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely Testing A.I. Models (Gift Article)
Employees and security researchers said they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but OpenAI did not listen.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Texas, do you have a plan to vote? Just six days remain to update your registration or register to vote in this election. Make a plan to vote & share this graphic with two friends to help us build the movement we need to take back Texas.
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Ira Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Theft of intellectual property. Anthropic claimed its AI system didn't input user queries as its knowledge. But given how often these AI agents are breaking into a variety of online data, I think we can easily conclude that they stole intellectual property to claim they had discovered something.
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