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Ashy Achilles

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/10/2026
Regulators have linked Mark McAfee’s raw dairy farm to more than a dozen recalls and outbreaks that left hundreds of people ill. “I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital,” McAfee said. “But here’s the thing: I’m a pioneer.” (Published June)
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He Profits Off Raw Milk That’s Making People Sick. The Government Isn’t Stopping Him.
With Raw Farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, Mark McAfee has capitalized on a once-fringe product that’s been thrust into the mainstream in recent years and backed by Health Secretary Rob...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/10/2026
who knows if jackson can win this thing but i am glad that he is making clear that susan collins's whole scam is to do everything she can to make life worse for mainers and then take credit for mitigating it in the slightest way possible
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
Troy Jackson after Collins takes credit for rural healthcare cuts in big beautiful bill not being as bad as they could've been even though she voted to advance the bill: "Sen. Collins is like an arsonist who helped set the fire, and then she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out"
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the tech industry is about to invent books
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We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
BARTENDER: another round JIMMY OLSEN: no we’re done thanks BARTENDER: *removes glasses from bar* LOIS LANE: omg it’s superbar
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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
For lethal injections, Tennessee — along with SC, MO, GA and TX — relies on pentobarbital, a caustic barbiturate also used to treat seizures, sedate humans before surgery and euthanize animals. It has drawn repeated scrutiny for use on death row.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/10/2026
After four of their children died, the parents told officers they hadn’t taken them to the doctor because of their religion, which considers the use of modern medicine a sinful lapse of faith in God. Under Idaho law, authorities couldn’t step in.
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Four Kids in One Faith-Healing Family Died. Authorities Could Do Nothing.
An exemption in Idaho law shields faith-healing parents from criminal prosecution for conduct that otherwise would be charged as neglect. It also keeps police and social workers from stepping in to pr...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/10/2026
“I kept begging for a divorce, and he’d threaten to kill my children.” “I was in a very abusive, sick relationship.” These women were imprisoned for crimes that stemmed from their abuse. A new law offered them a second chance. (Published Feb. w/ @nytimes.com)
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They Were Convicted of Killing Their Abusers. A New Law Offered a Second Chance at Freedom.
An Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of women who killed their abusers. Why are nearly all of them still in prison?
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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
crylaughing at the thought of Mike Tomlin getting home after a long day of listening to Aaron Rodgers and just straight up dissociating for five hours in Minecraft 
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“If you say ‘BidShift’ really fast it sounds like Bullshit.” You’re welcome. indyweek.com/news/health/...
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The Gig Is Up: UNC Health Does an About-Face on BidShift
UNC Health dropped the software Bidshift after a plan to make nurses bid against each other for extra shifts caused a social media firestorm.
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Jeanne @toomany2choose.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Happy Wednesday, everyone!! I have an appt later in Carson...
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
For four years as tech bros continually tell me that eventually AI music will get better, I have repeated that it’s not about passing a quality threshold—music is a culturally defined activity, not an amalgamation of frequencies
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s been said a million times but saying Suno solved music is like saying you’ve solved soccer by installing a conveyor belt that delivers the ball directly to the net and expecting people to buy tickets
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
For years, tech bros convinced themselves that consumers wanted to do everything in virtual reality. When that turned out to be incorrect, they pivoted to convincing themselves that what all of us crave is a personal assistant that can't do anything physical and mainly can just use the internet
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Great Uncle Bob @greatunclebob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Over 2,300 pounds of breakfast sausage have been recalled due to potential contamination with plastic shards. people.com/2-300-lbs-br...
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Over 2,300 Lbs. of Breakfast Sausage Recalled at USDA’s Highest Risk Level Due to Potential Plastic Contamination
Fontanini Foods recalled 2,320 pounds of pork breakfast sausage over potential plastic contamination, the USDA’s FSIS said in a Sept. 25 announcement.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
when it's time to point out Drake's flaws
Kendrick Lamar grinning at the Super Bowl halftime performance
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
People don’t understand how fragile our water infrastructure is. I’ve had contaminated water in the last six years. I’ve had my water co. hijacked for digital ransom. We are in perpetual near drought conditions... in NC, not AZ. AI boosters use pedantry about water use as an accountability shield.
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Do not use AI to generate little bespoke stories for your children every night
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Great Uncle Bob @greatunclebob.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They participated in a gang rape and the schools punishment was to write an essay?!? people.com/cornell-stud...
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Cornell Student Alleges Frat Members Gang-Raped Her, Only 2 Were Expelled While Others Had to Write Essays: Lawsuit
The alleged rapes occurred in October 2024.
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Everyone who works there should throw their computer in a hot tub and go home.
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Here's Laura Rutledge explaining that the secret service will not interfere with the radio communications at this game immediately followed by the broadcast audio going to hell
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Most riveting thing I've seen all week
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I just got an ad for "trump" paid for by the "united states government" get this man the fuck out of my face
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Great Uncle Bob @greatunclebob.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The FDA has announced a recall of clams due to possible contamination with hepatitis A. www.cidrap.umn.edu/hepatitis/cd...
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CDC confirms 37-case multistate hepatitis A outbreak linked to frozen clams
Cases have been identified in 4 states, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, and Pennsylvania.
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Dan Devine @yourmandevine.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I turned 44 today, and the gift I gave myself was to finally have that appointment about trying some medication that might help me handle my day-to-day stuff a little better. Things are pretty tough, and sometimes our brains make it tougher. But I'm still here and so are you, and that ain't nothing.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Now this I like!
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It is breathtaking. Like many things these days it is hard, but necessary, to figure what is a continuity and what is a rupture. EdTech has always been a private sector parasite feeding off the public sector. The rupture is AI EdTech is experimenting on the rich instead of the poor.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It is not easy to shock me with the mendacity of EdTech entrepreneurs. But I had to take breaks from these testimonials to what is actually happening inside Alpha Schools.
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FOURTH REPORT: Former Alpha School students speak out
“A science experiment that’s been framed as a school” - “pretty much a concentration camp” - “cool the first few months and then it just becomes shit”
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
0% chance of happening but a pretty good way of pointing out a big flaw with a bill that puts a salary cap on exactly one type of employee
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.
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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins
The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Women like all sorts of bodies. The demographic most consistently thrilled by a ripped, lean, six pack body is OTHER STRAIGHT MEN.
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Joel D. Anderson @joelanderson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What I think about this is: For black parents, there’s no one clear correct answer. My parents chose the other route and while it worked out academically, I was mostly unhappy with my educational experience and missed going to school with my friends in our neighborhood.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/b...
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At DraftKings, AI Targets the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose (Gift Article)
Data science helps determine who receives betting incentives, but the company has resisted using similar technology to protect gamblers at risk of addiction.
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I did indeed
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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I know I say all the time that people who talk like this aren't so much stupid as they think YOU'RE stupid but Kirk thinking anybody will buy him saying "I don't know anything about Ted Cruz's political views" is an UNPRECEDENTED stress test of this theory
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"She *lived* for her job. "For 40 years. "And now it’s gone." -- Dave Barry, writing about how his wife, longtime Miami Herald sportswriter Michelle Kaufman, just got laid off by "two corporate guys she did not know, who did not know her." davebarry.substack.com/p/michelle
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Michelle
A tribute.
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
Barack Obama made ONE CALL and singlehandedly stopped the NBA Players’ playoff strike that was planned in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. Overlooking his work to defang multiple movements is insane.
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Shut Up
Alt: Shut Up
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
See whole thread. I agree with this conclusion. Have tried to make it myself, but was far too clumsy.
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
BOTTOM RIGHT WITH A BAAAAAANG
Kirk Herb Street’s Instagram repost where the bottom right is erica Kirk
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
When are we gonna stop covering this farce?
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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 19/09/2026
Didn't realize that he straight up said he doesn't know what TED CRUZ is for or against, which is kind of incredible. That's claiming 2nd percentile American politics knowledge.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Finding out ol Kirk follows DHS was fun. I'm not political but I follow the account that makes sizzle reels of brown people getting beat up by ICE and posts white nationalist memes.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
desperately want to break the hold that slim, tapered, low rise pants have on my generational cohort
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
www.instagram.com/reel/DdcDHRM...
Kirk Herb St., From, MS today video saying that he’s kind of an independent guy right down the middle of the fairway Jack Donaghy from 30 rock saying “that’s republican, we count those”
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Restaurants be like, “oooh just you? Hmmmm. *tap tap tap tap* we could give you some food on a napkin and you can eat it leaning against that wall there if you keep your feet out of the walkway???”
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
KIRO 7 News Seattle is a terrible name for a new orca calf!
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is eugenics
Emily Hilliard, a spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Human Services, confirmed on Wednesday that the department had not yet made a decision about whether to provide the shots through that program.
Vaccines for Children provides free shots to children who are uninsured, underinsured or eligible for Medicaid, as well as to American Indian and Alaska Native children.
Pediatric doses are available for children who have insurance, or whose parents can afford to pay for vaccines out of pocket.
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Hank Shteamer @darkforcesswing.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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‘Spiritual Jazz’ Has Turned Cozy. John Coltrane Demanded More.
The term has lately become synonymous with sonic serenity (and chic merch). But the saxophone great challenged listeners with radical honesty.
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