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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I know the list is endless but I genuinely think trashing the legitimate congressionally chartered org for celebrating the 250th to instead hijack our national assets and taxpayer funds for his personality cult grifter crap should, in and of itself, be fully sufficient to merit removal from office.
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I worked at Smithsonian, specifically raising money for 250th. What I want people to know is we secured millions of private philanthropy to host a month long Folklife Festival on the mall, "The Festival of Festivals". Was going to feature well known festivals, think Burning Man, Farm Aid, Grand Ole Oprey etc. as well as smaller local and regional festivals from across the U.S. and territories. Goal was to feature truly the best and most beautiful creative expression in music, dance, arts and craft traditions, food, community etc. Can't name names but plan was to have headliners every night for free concerts.... Think the types of names who might be affiliated with the aforementioned large festivals. Stars were willing to perform because was under banner of Smithsonian. It had to all be scrapped bc the administration would not release permits to host on the mall. The money went elsewhere, but our nation was robbed of what would have been a once in a generation cultural moment.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/06/2026
UnitedHealth is the nation’s largest health insurance conglomerate. ProPublica obtained what is effectively the company’s internal playbook for limiting and cutting therapy costs. Here’s what we found. (Published Nov. 2024)
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How UnitedHealth’s Playbook for Limiting Mental Health Coverage Puts Countless Americans’ Treatment at Risk
United used an algorithm system to identify patients who it determined were getting too much therapy and then limited coverage. It was deemed illegal in three states, but similar practices persist due...
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 19/06/2026
Remember, Gillibrand's son worked his internship at A16Z — the same firm that hired a man as a partner solely on the basis that he strangled one of Senator Gillibrand's constituents to death.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/06/2026
NEW: Records obtained by ProPublica detail at least a dozen SpaceX investors with addresses in mainland China, Hong Kong or Russia who acquired stakes in SpaceX years ago through a middleman firm in the U.S. called Tomales Bay Capital.
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Before SpaceX IPO, Investors in China Secretly Acquired Stakes
One previously unreported SpaceX investor has ties to Chinese military contractors. The information was revealed only after ProPublica went to court to obtain it.
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Paul @pawlbologna.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I've worked in Democratic digital comms for a long time and pay attention to campaign metrics across platforms. Increasingly I'm seeing Dems who crosspost on X, Bluesky, and Threads get better engagement on Bluesky even with far fewer followers. Here's @jamestalarico.bsky.social's clip last night:
Social media analytics for different platforms and screenshots of James Talarico speaking on stage in his clip across platforms.

There's a lot of data in the analytics and it shows that Bluesky has the highest engagement rate with the least amount of followers at 19.62%
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/05/2026
NESTERAK: President Trump has granted clemency to numerous individuals who have stolen hundreds of millions in Medicaid funds. Can we expect any of these folks to be shown the same mercy? McDONALD: I'll take a different question
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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
this other angle, is also something that should be well known
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Thinking again about how Mackenzie Scott has given away $19 billion of her $38b and still seen her net worth increase, these are some weird little pissbabies
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/04/2026
Ossoff: "You were talking earlier about Jared Kushner. The guy leading our diplomacy in the Middle East is bringing in billions from Middle Eastern princes and sheiks and going around the region asking for billions more while he conducts nuclear diplomacy on behalf of the country. It's obscene."
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
The man who introduced obligatory vaccinations to the US Army was George Washington.
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Forbes is gamifying news about the horrific mass shooting in Shreveport, LA this weekend, encouraging readers to bet on the likelihood of gun regulation with fake money via its "ForbesPredict" feature. Eight children were murdered in the shooting. futurism.com/future-socie...
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In Article About Horrific Shooting That Killed Eight Children, Forbes Lets Readers Place Bets About Gun Control
In a story about a mass shooting that left eight children dead, Forbes is encouraging readers to bet on the news with fake money.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 20/04/2026
Artificial intelligence chatbots will tell you where to find alternatives to chemotherapy if you ask them, a new study finds.
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Chatbots often offer 'problematic' cancer advice, study finds
Popular artificial intelligence programs told users where to find alternative, potentially dangerous treatments for cancer and other health scenarios.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Trump is reported close to a "deal" with himself under which US taxpayers would pay him $10 billion. I served in multiple communist and authoritarian dictatorships, but I never witnessed corruption on this scale or this blatant.
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Trump, IRS In Talks To Settle U.S. President's $10 Billion Lawsuit
Trump's adult sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, and the Trump Organization are also plaintiffs.
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
I truly hate when little Right Wing Hitler youth open their mouths and give opinions in their over sized fake glasses, that they think will make them seem smart ,on things they know nothing about. But listen to a real farmer rip her apart.
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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
July 21 1935: The Führer orders a new reception hall and ballroom to "entertain foreign diplomats" at the Chancellery. Underneath the dance floor is an air raid shelter. A 2nd deeper bunker is built next to this in 1944, where he would spend his last days as the Reich collapsed.
Leonard Gall (left) architect of the new ballroom, stands with Hitler and Albert Speer at the other major construction project in 1936, the Haus der Deutschen Kunst in MünchenThe new ballroom and reception hall attached to the Old Reich Chancellery, with the floor removed to reveal the Vorbunker. Illustration by Christoph Neubauer www.atelier-neubauer.de
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
It's kind of hilarious that Donald Trump's defense against blasphemy was "I'm too senile to tell the difference between a depiction of a doctor and an image of Jesus Christ."
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
A new report from the University of California shows that the state's decision to raise the minimum wage for fast food workers to $20/hr didn’t hurt jobs, or raise prices much. Data from over 2,000 restaurants shows that the $20/hr minimum wage didn’t reduce employment. /1
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Despite Apocalyptic Warnings, California Fast Food Wage Hike Didn’t Kill Jobs
UC Berkeley study finds employment held steady — and only pennies were added to menu prices.
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 11/04/2026
Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school. Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon! 🌕 💛
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.
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Aysha U. Farah @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
I’ve said this before but I truly think that reading shit you’re not ready for is how you learn to sit with discomfort. By forbidding the next generation from pushing their boundaries, you’re doing them an immense disservice
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/04/2026
The gene therapy Zolgensma helped children born with a fatal disease grow up to run and play. But the cost was stunning: $2M per dose. While taxpayers and charities funded the drug’s early development, execs, venture-capital backers and a pharma giant have reaped the profits. (Pub. Feb. 2025)
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What a $2 Million Per Dose Gene Therapy Reveals About Drug Pricing
Taxpayers and charities helped develop Zolgensma. Then it debuted at a record price, ushering in a new class of wildly expensive drugs. Its story upends the widely held conception that high prices ref...
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Caelan Conrad @caelan.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I do not take booktok seriously and I never will. What the fuck you mean the epilogue and prologue “aren’t part of the book/story”???????
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I literally never read a prologue on principle alone. If it's that important, it should be in the book.Doyle789
I agree completely. The epilogues and prologues aren't part of the story. If they were important they would be part of the story.
People write forwards for books, that's just another person writing about what they thought about the book or author... I assume that's what author is doing in the prologue and epiloguesErin
I agree. I feel like it's stuff that wasn't good enough to be in the book
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epilogues and prolouges to me are equivalent to dvd bonus features and are therefore skippable unless you're really into it
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/04/2026
Though Schwartz pleaded guilty to a $39M tax fraud scheme, prosecutors weren’t able to trace how funds moved through his 200+ accounts. Trump’s pardon then wiped away Schwartz’s sentence — and likely any IRS effort to claw back the stolen taxes. By @jeremykohler.bsky.social
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A Nursing Home Owner Got a Trump Pardon. The Families of His Patients Got Nothing.
At least three families won multimillion-dollar wrongful death suits against former Skyline Healthcare owner Joseph Schwartz. They haven’t collected a cent.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 01/04/2026
Lots of tech dudes think the "idea" is the important part of creating, not the creative journey you take through work to give that idea actual meaning. Ideas are the easiest, cheapest and least fulfilling part of it. Giving ideas life through work, and sharing that work with others, is the stuff.
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 01/04/2026
Look, we're just going to make this case about who gets impeached. If you vote against birthright citizenship, you get impeached. It's that simple. Democratic senators should be saying this loudly.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/04/2026
With Tax Day coming up, here's our reminder that TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free. (Published 2019)
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Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free
Using lobbying, the revolving door and “dark pattern” customer tricks, Intuit fended off the government’s attempts to make tax filing free and easy, and created its multi-billion-dollar franchise.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Dozens of people showing up at members’ town halls in 2009 was enough for The Media to declare the Tea Party Movement™️ as a key force in American politics — for years — as the Obama administration was getting going. Consider that when you see how those same papers cover today’s protests.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Good afternoon. This is your daily reminder that Trump just lifted sanctions on Iran to give them $14 BILLION to hep fund their war against us. In other words, your daily reminder that this is probably the dumbest war of all time.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The voting laws that people like me support—universal vote by mail, same day registration, and automatic registration—increase turnout but have no partisan effect either way. The SAVE Act is designed specifically to have partisan effects (mostly bc they’ll implement it differently in blue states)
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If we don't pass SAVE America, Democrats win in November
If we pass SAVE America, we have a chance
Failure is not an option
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I've said it before and l'll say it again:
If republicans in the senate fail to pass the SAVE
America Act, Democrats will take control.
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David Atkins @davidoatkins.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
How do you fix a situation where a corrupt president can have his allies make bogus lawsuits against our own government, and then direct his corrupted "Justice Department" to settle and shell out taxpayer money to his corrupt friends? We need to start thinking about writing laws around this *now*.
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 25/03/2026
Pete Hegseth said that the U.S. bombed a drug lab in Ecuador. In fact, it was a) just a farm that b) was actually doused with fuel and burned by Ecuadorean soldiers. All that's left is a bunch of burned chicken corpses, confused hogs, and a baffled farmer. All to make Trump look like a big man.
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The U.S. Said It Helped Bomb a Drug Camp. It Was a Dairy Farm.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Re: my last reposts “Do not put money in the pocket of a woman who has sworn publicly to use it to disenfranchise vulnerable populations” is the smallest ask imaginable. It’s not oxygen, it’s not food. It’s television. You can do without. There are thousands of other shows for you to watch.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
The mask is completely off. You can’t meet these people in the middle. We’re not working toward the same goals. They hate America. They hate democracy. They hate freedom. And they hate you.
The Daily Caller on Threads:

OPINION: We should do more than just require ID to vote. The Save Act is the least we should do. It’s rookie numbers. We should do far more. Way fewer people should be allowed to vote. Americans must meet two of three criteria to vote:

1. Be a net contributor to tax revenue
2. Own property
3. Be married with children…


There’s also a graphic that says “in a fairer world 150 million Americans wouldn’t be allowed to vote.”
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 24/03/2026
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
As time has gone on I've realized there is a still quite small but now non-trivial chance that the entire Iran War is simply an insider trading operation, creating repeated black swan moments and relying on markets continued willingness to gyrate wildly in the face of absurd and predictably ...
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Don Zeko @donzeko.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
At this point I don't wonder how much insider trading is going on. I wonder how much policy is being made with the purpose of insider trading on it.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 18/03/2026
HUGE: Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche — Trump's former personal lawyer who was also responsible for Ghislaine Maxwell's transfer to a cushy club fed — has intervened to block the DEA from providing details of a mysterious Epstein investigation to my Finance Committee team.
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Ken Vogel @kenvogel.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
There’s quite a discordance between the Trump administration’s crackdown on social services fraud in Minnesota & the president’s clemency grants to white collar fraudsters who have connections to Trump world or $ to hire lobbyists/lawyers. @amanpourcopbs.bsky.social youtu.be/C_zaran4xKQ
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Convicted Fraudsters and Wealthy Donors: A Look Into Trump’s Pardons | Amanpour and Company
YouTube video by Amanpour and Company
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 13/03/2026
The meatpacking workers, many of whom are immigrants, have described low wages, being forced to pay for personal protective gear out of pocket, and say they face discrimination over their immigration status.
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4,000 Meatpackers in Colorado Authorize Strike at JBS, World’s Largest Meat Producer
In Colorado, nearly 4,000 meatpacking workers are set to begin a strike on Monday to protest unfair and dangerous labor conditions at JBS USA, the world’s largest meat producer. This would mark the fi...
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 05/03/2026
Republicans are using kids as a smokescreen for what Big Tech lobbyists want: a national surveillance program to harvest our data with zero protections for people and their privacy. We must fight this dangerous expansion of surveillance technology.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Cosmically, there is something very darkly funny about spending an entire decade of American politics obsessed with repudiating the mistakes of the Iraq War, and then immediately doing it again at the first opportunity, but with even less justification, planning, strategy, or foresight.
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Uncle_Wolf @demiurg.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
And it seems like the US has switched Presidents without informing anyone...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
The response when progressive policies that help millions of people are proposed... "How will you pay for it?" The response when the richest 1% ask for tax cuts, or banks ask for bailouts, or defense contractors ask for more contracts... "How much do you need?" It doesn't have to be this way.
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 08/03/2026
Parents, pls tell your autistic kids they are autistic: "You may think that an autistic child won’t notice they are different than their non-autistic peers; I have not met one autistic person (me included) who hasn’t noticed their difference early in life." thinkingautismguide.com/2017/02/pare...
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Parents: Don't Hide Your Children's Autism Diagnosis From Them — THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
since I didn’t know about my autism diagnosis, I just assumed there was something wrong with me and that I deserved what I got.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/03/2026
Our database paints a detailed financial picture for President Donald Trump and hundreds of his political appointees, some of whom have ties to the industries they regulate. The disclosures include their recent employers, assets and debts.
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Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees - ProPublica
Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their de...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
US taxpayers will now have to pay $700 million a month in interest for every month Trump refuses to refund tariffs under the Supreme Court ruling. So much winning.
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The_Lady_Red @theladyred.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
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tweet by  Mike Levin, @MikeLevin

It appears that a Polymarket account called "Magamyman" made $515,000 in a single day betting on last night's U.S. strike on Iran, with the first trade placed 71 minutes before the news broke publicly.

When this person bought in, the market had this at a 17% probability. They turned roughly $87,000 into over half a million dollars overnight.

Reminder that Donald Trump Jr. sits on Polymarket's advisory board and his firm invested double-digit millions into the platform last year.

 The DOJ and CFTC both had active investigations into Polymarket that were dropped after Trump took office.

Prediction markets cannot be a vehicle for profiting off advance knowledge of military action. We need answers, transparency, and oversight.

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US strikes Iran by February 28, 2026? 
Won 861,154.2 Yes at 27.4¢
$431,146.10 $195,198.47 (82.73%)

US strikes Iran by March 31, 2026?
Won 376,566.2 Yes at 56.1¢
$376,566.18 $165,177.74 (78.14%)
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
It’s called a functioning spinal column. Thank you @scoutingamerica.bsky.social.
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