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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I give up. I’m moving into a cave.

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🇨🇦 sophialarkrose.bsky.social @sophialarkrose.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think of this old comic book ad a lot nowadays.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What's a good way to visualize how the AI boom/bubble is propping up the economy? Ah, thanks.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."

Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As shocking as this case is I know @czedwards.bsky.social is shaking their head at the same thing I am - this is some PISS POOR MONEY LAUNDERING. Check 1001 of a brand new account? Jesus we used to be a proper country.

A check made out for
$150,000 to Susan Collins’s
PAC, check number 1001

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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Walter Cronkite: After liberating execution camps… Germans (who cried) they didn’t know…were as as guilty as Nazis…because they applauded when Hitler shut down (media) and said, ‘We don’t need to know. We trust our government...’ It’s our duty to know.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 22/09/2026

THIS IS THE KIND OF SHIT I WANT MY GOVERNMENT TO DO Hold large corporations accountable. Distribute the proceeds to the workers. Rinse, repeat.

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Putting fake signs on empty stores. Lol

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/09/2026

I told ya she did it.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

He ought to be asked about this when he’s presented as a Democratic strategist.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Okay, this is an incredibly, incredibly cool discovery. The brain stem is a different organ?

The researchers' breakthrough came from studying the earliest moments of embryonic
development, during a stage called gastrulation when the body first takes shape. Jokhai and Dundes discovered that the hindbrain follows a separate developmental path, running in parallel to - rather than branching off from — the pathway that creates the forebrain and midbrain.

The researchers learned this from examining developing mouse embryos. They identified two different brain progenitor cells.
One, which expresses a gene called Otx2, is destined to become the forebrain and midbrain. The other, which expresses a gene called Gbx2, is committed to forming the hindbrain. They showed that these two cell populations never overlap; they are mutually exclusive from the earliest stages of development.

The team then examined the DNA packaging, or chromatin, in these cells. Chromatin is a way cells determine which genes can be easily accessed and which are bundled away out of reach. What they found was striking: The anterior neural ectoderm (future forebrain and midbrain) and posterior neural ectoderm (future hindbrain) have fundamentally different chromatin configurations.
These differences essentially locked each progenitor cell into its respective fate, like travelers on parallel tracks that never cross.

Finally, the researchers looked back over 550 million years of evolutionary time. They found the same two-origin brain pattern in chickens; zebrafish; and,
remarkably, in acorn worms, tiny creatures living on the ocean floor that share a distant common ancestor with humans. Jellyfish, which diverged from humans about 600 to 700 million years ago, have two nervous systems at different ends of their body.
"Our research suggests that evolution took two existing neural systems and pushed them together spatially," Loh said. "Having the brain as one organ would probably be more efficient, but we rely on this primordial way to make the brain as two separate pieces."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

the Republican agenda since Reagan is working

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

ICYMI — Trump’s Department of Education clearly backed up Republican candidate Bo French’s blatantly racist tweet about the UT-Austin student body not being white enough, which even other Republicans condemned. When they show you who they are, believe them.

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Jenn @jennburrill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Dept of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) program to shrink the federal work force, by paying people not to work, increased administrative leave costs by 435%, costing taxpayers $9.5 billion “This was the most expensive way imaginable to make government worse" - Senator Patty @murray.senate.gov

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Federal Employees Were Paid $9.5 Billion Not to Work in 2025 Under DOGE Effort (Gift Article)

As part of the Department of Government Efficiency’s program to shrink the federal work force, paid administrative leave costs rose by 435 percent.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

NEW CAT JUST DROPPED!!!!!

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

You'd think the fact that the son of the President of the "party of family values" 2nd marriage is to the daughter of Epstein's banker and it was funded by a Rusisan oligarch involved in the mass kidnap of Ukrainian kids during a KGB agent's illegal war Would be bigger news..

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Trump is dead serious. See this chart from March: www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Chart showing that prior presidents including Trump’s first term grant disaster requests from blue and red states roughly equally before Trump 2 started rejecting most requests from blue states

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The dumbest asshole in the country and the President need to be two different people moving forward

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Anonymous @opdeatheaters.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

US personnel searched the London flat of a US Embassy employee over suspected child rape material, detained him and flew him out of Britain the same day. An MP says the suspect should face trial in England if the offences occurred there, warning of a possible cover-up. #OpDeathEaters

https://www.yacnews.com/u-s-removed-an-embassy-child-rape-suspect-from-britain-mp-warns-of-cover-up/

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 14/09/2026

The woman took the witness stand Monday and explained how her boss in China had sent her to a lunch meeting with a mission and a message. Her mission: Secure a photo of U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer Luis Uribe.

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CBP officer was offered free sex acts to stop gunpoint rapes, sex worker testifies

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is the guy CNN platforms as if he’s a real reporter

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 11/09/2026

ok sorry but the "rent me $19" sign

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Caitlin McGlade @caitmcglade.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I, the only data reporter at the Charlotte Observer, am among the McClatchy layoffs in the bloodbath today. The HR person asked me not to talk about it! AMA. Anyway, here’s a link to one of my most important stories this year. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...

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A Black teen found hanged near Charlotte church was a suicide, police say. Questions remain

In May, 16-year-old Juliana Nzita was found dead in a Charlotte churchyard. CMPD called it a suicide. Her family isn’t so sure.

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 10/09/2026

If only there were a law that said: "Whoever makes or offers to make an expenditure to any person, either to vote or withhold his vote, or to vote for or against any candidate Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned" We could call it 18 U.S. Code § 597 - Expenditures to influence voting

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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This remarkable view was captured by NASA’s Curiosity rover from Gale Crater on Mars. Unlike Earth, where sunsets often glow with shades of red, orange, and gold, a Martian sunset can produce a striking blue glow around the setting Sun.

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If a news organization does not cover this as a clear case of: “president Trump tells story of 9/11 that glorifies himself but has no basis in fact” they are not worth listening to. Yes, I’m talking about you, @nytimes.com

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 08/09/2026

This story is incredible. Haaretz is reporting not only that UAE President warned Netanyahu a week and a half before Oct 7 that a major Hamas attack was coming, but that he did so at the instance of SINWAR. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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Netanyahu got an explicit warning before Oct. 7. He didn't brief security chiefs

In September '23, UAE President bin Zayed called Netanyahu to deliver a harsh warning. Netanyahu did nothing. An extensive investigation, conducted for a new book, reveals the PM's failures surroundin...

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Steve Okino @steveokino.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Everything he touches, dies. #ETTD 🙀

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 05/09/2026

if it can't tell a person is obstructing the automatic door, I sure as hell wouldn't trust my life to its driving

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I can think of 77 million or so who are even stupider

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Honestly, the audacity of saying this while trying to purge the country of Haitians based on a lie he knowingly told is demonic.

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

In 1989, a pelican named Katta-kun began going to a kindergarten in Japan where it played and interacted with the children as if it were one of them. Original post

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

One easy way to tell they're not actually "the most transparent administration in history" is that this is the first time in five decades that the president and vice president didn't have their taxes audited and released to the public.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Is our children learning?

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It doesn’t get any cuter than this, folks. 😍

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

GOOD NEWS: The headmaster of a school in Nepal received a phone call from a friend upstream about the deadly flooding on the way. He took quick action and saved 1,643 schoolchildren from certain death. The school was completely destroyed by the floodwaters.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Interesting timing www.yacnews.com/elon-musks-x... www.yacnews.com/first-amendm...

https://www.yacnews.com/elon-musks-xai-trained-grok-on-real-child-rape-media-according-to-new-class-action-lawsuit/

https://www.yacnews.com/first-amendment-protects-possession-of-ai-generated-child-rape-media-us-appeals-court-rules/

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Big Oil profits have skyrocketed since Trump launched his Iran War — leading to a $93B windfall for the eight biggest oil companies in Q2 2026 alone. Meanwhile, Trump himself has raked in up to $15.5M from his fossil fuel investments since January. Don't forget what this was really all about.

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

So your standard issue Trump operation, basically

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