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For more than 50 years, the Endangered Species Act has been one of our most valuable environmental tools. The Trump administration has rolled back the last of its protections. In 2023, we released an entire package explaining why this is a disastrous idea.

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Can the Endangered Species Act protect species from today's political attacks and climate shocks?

Fifty years after it was first signed, the act faces new threats.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 10/10/2026

I signed this! If you love D&D and workers' rights, please consider signing yourself!

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/10/2026

We released a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,600 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who declined to identify former clients. Explore the database:

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Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,600 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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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

BREAKING: Continuing to go after Fed Governor Lisa Cook and the independence of the Federal Reserve following last term’s Supreme Court case, President Trump establishes a Trump-appointed “committee of inquiry” to look into Fed Governor Lisa Cook, with a hearing set for Nov. 5.

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Establishment of a Committee of Inquiry to Investigate Allegations of False Statements by Lisa DeNell Cook

MEMORANDUM FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL THE COUNSEL TO THE PRESIDENT THE ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR ECONOMIC POLICY THE DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This by Courtney Maum is where I am too. I am grateful to her for the words...

For me, the subject of AI detection is an ouroboros. I’ll speak only for myself, here is my opinion. I didn’t ask for artificial intelligence. It’s not something I need, it is not something I desire. And yet, it barged its way into my life and stole all of my books. All of them. Stole them. Trained off of them. Did not compensate me for this theft. So now, AI can write a book like me, because it stole my own work and learned my breed of humor and satire. So if someone runs an AI text detector on my creative output, it will probably “test positive” why? Because AI is a contaminant that has embedded itself into my work by stealing it and using my own work to perpetuate itself. It will test for itself and find AI there because it AI is a virus that has contaminated the DNA of my current and future writing—a form of intellectual rape. A kind of colonization. A raging plague that some gatekeepers are opening the door for.

If you ask me what I’m currently working on, the answer is nothing book-length. I’m not going to publish a new book in this current landscape. That’s a stance of privilege, I recognize that. And I can’t hold this stance forever, I can hold it as long as I have savings from my last book.

This current literary climate isn’t acceptable. It is not acceptable to have a thing thrust upon us that takes absolutely everything, and then be forced to prove that we are not the thieves.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $8 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of American households is worth just $4.27 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 08/10/2026

🚨BREAKING: In a loss for Wisconsin voters, a state court ruled to leave voters without an option to cast an in-person provisional ballot on Election Day if they are concerned their mail-in ballot may not arrive by the deadline.

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🚨 League of Women Voters of Wisconsin et al v. Wisconsin Elections Commission et al

Learn more here.

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BardRaelyn @bardraelyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“We call this one the lament configuration; it will flay your tongue.” “I thought that one would be called the hellraiser.” “No, the hellraiser gave everyone who tried it a splitting migraine. We retired that flavor because the janitor got tired of cleaning brains out of the taste-testing rooms.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026

It’s really remarkable to me that 10 years into this people feel compelled to “clarify” Trump’s homicidal and often genocidal fantasies. It is deranged for the president to daydream about American cities in states he hates getting blown up. Full stop.

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BardRaelyn @bardraelyn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ooh, like an apple pie-filling doughnut! I’m a huge fan of apple fritters and apple cider doughnuts myself (with cinnamon sugar, NOT glazed). Apple Long John looks to me a bit too gooey for eating without a plate, a fork, and a scoop of vanilla ice cream on the side, but I bet it was lovely!

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BardRaelyn @bardraelyn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I got an invalid token notice on my phone this morning, but logging out, quitting and relaunching the app, and logging back in fixed it.

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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

4/ They warn that today's autocrats rarely need a bloody crackdown. Legal harassment, surveillance and money pressure grind movements down slowly, because exhaustion ends a campaign just as well as defeat does, with far less outrage than a massacre would. bsky.app/profile/digi...

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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

3/ Researchers Breza Race Maksimovic and Jamila Raqib say movements too often stop at protest and skip the organizing and refusal to cooperate that build real leverage. Going viral is not a strategy. www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/doe...

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Does Nonviolent Action Still Work? | Journal of Democracy

Mass movements topple dictators but struggle to secure democracy afterward. The theory of nonviolent struggle is not broken; it is out of date. Regimes have adapted their repression—movements must now...

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BardRaelyn @bardraelyn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Well, you’ll need to take that up with Ellen Schmidt, of the Associated Press, since that’s who the photo is credited to. Could be congenital, not amputation.

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BardRaelyn @bardraelyn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Canes aren’t only for walking. They’re better shaped than a crutch to assist with sitting/standing, and the style in the photo is useful for bringing things within reach on a high shelf. The user knows why he needs one. Our feelings on it don’t matter.

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BardRaelyn @bardraelyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The crutch is held steady by his armpit, and the cane isn’t touching the floor. It appears the user switched it to his left hand to hold, to avoid it maybe falling while he writes with his right hand. Having a crutch as an amputee doesn’t preclude using a cane in the other hand for more stability.

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BardRaelyn @bardraelyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You could always head out to the nearest pet supply store and buy yourself a little metal collar tag at one of those automated-engraving kiosks for adding your pet’s name and other details.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 06/10/2026

The big tech companies want you to believe that their default software offerings are the only option, but spoiler alert, there’s a wide array of fantastic software out there. www.eff.org/pages/i-wan...

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How to Opt Out of Software Made by Big Tech

Big tech companies make the devices we use and the operating systems that come on them. They also make the bulk of the default software that comes packed into those operating systems. But spend even

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 05/10/2026

NEW: Nearly 150,000 California mail ballots were thrown out in June's primary — most for arriving too late. Midterm voting starts TODAY. Don't let your ballot be next. Mail it by Oct. 27 or use a drop-off location. Here's what you need to know:

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California early voting starts today. Here’s what you need to know

Californians are voting amid an unusually turbulent fight over how ballots are cast, delivered, counted and protected.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Our war with Iran was *never* about them having a nuclear weapon. That has always been a lie. And how do we know this? North Korea has *lots* of nuclear weapons. And instead of bombing them, Trump is always singing the praises of its leader and how much he likes Trump. We are being conned.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Early voting is already underway in some states. From now until Nov 3, I urge you all to... 1) Help get out the vote 2) Protect our electoral machinery from interference 3) Not succumb to complacency, defeatism, or cynicism We are the only ones who can end this nightmare.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 05/10/2026

The SPEAKER implies. The LISTENER infers. The DUDE abides.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

No lies detected

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 04/10/2026

"A.i." maintains its reputation as trash.

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BardRaelyn @bardraelyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

He got "cracking down" and "doubling down" confused.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

With this monopolized media empire comes not just size but unprecedented power. The power to throw workers under the bus. The power to price-gouge because consumers have few alternatives. The power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 03/10/2026

📮 New USPS cost cuts could delay your mail ballot. In most states, late means it doesn't count. 61% of planned zip codes will be affected for midterms. Search for your zip code here: demdock.com/4rMi8Ps

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Congrats, Don, John, Mike, and John, you broke it.

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BardRaelyn @bardraelyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It’s already ineffective as proof, since AI can fake process videos now. All the artists I know who record process videos are not only still being accused of making AI art but also being accused of faking their process videos—even when their work and the process videos predate AI.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 02/10/2026

The rush to accuse, without anything approaching due diligence, artists of using "AI," should be treated with contempt. An artist gets their work *ripped off* to train a plagiarism machine, which then shits out inferior versions of that work, so then you accuse the artist of using "AI"? Fuck you.

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BardRaelyn @bardraelyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If they keep failing in court like they have been, he might leave them pardon-less out of spite.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today's jobs report is a reminder that tax cuts for corporations and the rich don’t create jobs or grow the economy. What's required is investment in working people — and better wages. When workers have money to spend, the economy grows and businesses create more jobs. Remember this.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 02/10/2026

NEW: A new USPS policy will eliminate evening mail pickups from select post offices across the country — a change that will eventually slow pick-up and delivery times for around 70% of zip codes in the U.S. We mapped those zip codes to help you figure out whether your mail ballot could be affected👇

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The Postal Service is slowing delivery. Will your mail ballot be affected?

Democracy Docket mapped the affected zip codes.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 02/10/2026

Children's brain tumor research, PTSD research in veterans, pesticide/agriculture research, and cancer research doesn't need to be funded according to the Trump administration.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 02/10/2026

NEW: A new survey reveals Americans across the political spectrum support early in-person voting options, more poll workers and making Election Day a federal holiday — all reforms that increase voting access. Even more? Nine in 10 respondents oppose the restrictive measures being pushed by the GOP.

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Americans overwhelmingly support pro-voting policies, national survey finds

While just over a third of respondents said they’re more concerned about ineligible people voting, more respondents (56%) said eligible voters not voting is a bigger problem. The latter concern, as a ...

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BardRaelyn @bardraelyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Even violence from an older cat can definitely mellow. My 13yo void was NOT a fan of his baby tortie sister when I first adopted her—evidenced by much growling and many slaps to the head—but she’s now 2 and they play together and groom each other. They don’t cuddle but will sit touching each other.

A smaller female tortie in shrimp pose has her shoulder leaned against her loaf-posed void-cat older brother.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

True not just in publishing/writing. Look at how this new Meta Muse basically jumps into the user's shit, mixes it around, gets it everywhere. Shares their address. Lies to their contacts. Sells their stuff at a low price. Do not let the vampire in. Hang garlic. Sharpen stakes.

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BardRaelyn @bardraelyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the cancellations started to fall like dominoes 48 hours before. The last two canceled the morning of the date and 1 hour before the time. I ate spinach dip for lunch and dinner for a week to avoid wasting food that would not freeze well. Now I just don’t host.

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BardRaelyn @bardraelyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I used to invite people for dinner parties and game nights. Inevitably most of them would cancel. I gave up after the time I sent invites weeks in advance, so people could plan ahead / clear schedules, had 10+ confirmations, prepped a ton of food in advance, and then…

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BardRaelyn @bardraelyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Also, I hope all y’all feel better soon! 💜

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BardRaelyn @bardraelyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Nice and happy: My two fur-kiddos are finally getting snuggly! Ember (left) is 2 and Daemon (right, 13) was initially NOT thrilled to have a kitten in the house.

A female tortie cat is reclining in C-pose next to a male void cat loaf. Their shoulders are pressed together in a very chill, relaxed way, and both look mildly surprised at this development. The tortie might also be a wee bit smug.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. In 2025, he made 1,794x more. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers? I will continue my boycott of Starbucks.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"The Supreme Court’s decision Friday to revive the Trump administration’s expanded SAVE database for the midterms also suggests the justices may be eager to weaken one of federal law’s most important safeguards against last-minute voter purges." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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In SAVE ruling, Supreme Court signals path to weaken key protection against last-minute purges

A crucial voter protection could hinge on whether the Supreme Court wants to narrow the definition of “systematic” as applied to purges. And there’s reason to fear that it does.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25/09/2026

🚨The Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to use a deeply flawed database of Americans’ personal information to initiate registration purges. Have questions? Marc Elias has answers. Here’s what this decision means for YOUR vote ⬇️

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BREAKING: Supreme Court Revives Trump's Voter Purge Scheme

In a dangerous decision for voters, the Supreme Court authorized the Trump administration to overhaul a federal immigration database into a vast, centralized and deeply flawed database of Americans’…

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

An important note here:

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The system combines citizenship information with Americans’ Social Security data, and eligible voters (including naturalized citizens) have already been wrongly flagged as noncitizens. With the midterms just weeks away, the consequences of this are huge.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is a big deal and it will affect eligible voters! The Supreme Court ruled 6–3 to allow the Trump administration to resume using its expanded SAVE database to check voter rolls, reversing lower-court orders that had blocked it over privacy and accuracy concerns.

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