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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 11h
The Trump regime has suppressed government data about impact of the big ugly bill, hiding it from voters prior to the election. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
politico.com
Administration delays release of IRS data showing impact of GOP tax cuts
The tax agency was supposed to release detailed data on this year's filing season in July. Months later, it's still unpublished.
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Dr. Tom Frieden @drtomfrieden.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
CDC just closed offices in Angola and South Sudan. Zimbabwe is next; a dozen more may follow. CDC staff overseas support countries to find outbreaks early and stop them before they reach us. Decisions have consequences. Lives will be lost, including American lives. bit.ly/4B5n6uG
beckershospitalreview.com
CDC closes 2 offices in Africa as Trump ties health aid to deals: Politico
CDC closes offices Africa as State Department ties foreign health aid to country-specific agreements under the Trump administration.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 22h
Cutting the diesel tax doesn't make the cost disappear. Who's gonna pay for road repairs? newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/10/2026
Trump pushes gutter racism in Ohio: "Look at what's happening in the once great state of MN. What a mess. Somalia ... all they do is kill each other in the streets. They cheat on everything. You have to vote for Michele Tafoya ... I thought I won MN 3 times." The crowd chants "De-port! De-port!"
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The NIH proposal to conceal reviewer scores from program officers, investigators, and advisory councils is ill-conceived, introduces disproportionate weight to small percentile differences, diminishes the role of scientific peer review, and should be withdrawn in its entirety. a 🧵
joshuasweitz.substack.com
What is NIH Leadership Trying to Hide from Researchers & the Public?
A NIH proposal to conceal reviewer rankings of investigator-initiated research grants is ripe for misuse & demands a collective response (by October 13).
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It's already illegal. Congress banned it near-unanimously in 2022. That law allows the ban to be lifted only if Russia withdraws from Ukraine. He's simply breaking the law that's already on the books.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
this is honestly one of the worst and most irresponsible things he has ever posted, and that's really saying something
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 08/10/2026
The Trump administration wants to lift sanctions on a Russian company to benefit mostly Middle Eastern investors (who also happen to be Trump family business partners) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/w...
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
One of the first things Fidel Castro did upon taking power was televising live executions by firing squad.
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Doug Lucas @douglaslucas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Since '02, Organization for Security & Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) monitors have observed U.S. #vote without interfering. Lacking enforcement power, they just watch & write reports. That scares Trumpers, so now U.S. joins only Russia & Belarus by excluding OSCE. He won't let them monitor midterms
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Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over 2 decades
The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.
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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Veteran conservative lawyer quits Trump’s interior department and warns of ‘assault on the rule of law’
John Murdock had been working for the agency for 18 years and his resignation comes during an exodus of longtime federal workers and scientists
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oh look, US National Science Foundation-supported science won the Nobel Prize in physics.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/10/2026
An American president is encouraging an enemy to destroy American cities. This is treason, though he will claim we are not at war.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The term “remigration” is associated with the extreme right and only came into widespread usage in 2023-4. Even Germany’s AfD avoided using the term in 2024 for fear of scaring away voters. Today the US government is celebrating the “victories” it’s racked up in the “ethnic cleansing” column.
Department of Homelan... • Follow •.• X
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Net negative migration for the first time in HALF a CENTURY.
Americans are amassing victories NEVER seen before thanks to President Trump.
We will continue to grow our efforts to fulfill the mandate given to this administration.
REMIGRATION REPORT
94%)
3.3+
MILLION REMOVALS
INCLUDING DEPORTATIONS AND VOLUNTARY REMOVALS
ASYLUM DENIAL AT 94%
250,000
VISAS REVOKED
REVOKED
TRAVEL BANNED
FROM 39 COUNTRIES
2,600+
287(G)
AGREEMENTS
NATURALIZATIONS
DOWN
75%
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/09/2026
They're moving on from trans youth towards advocating banning care for trans adults, just like we said they would.
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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's a bit of a bummer that the story today has been "look at this absolute doofus of a senator" and not "Jack Smith once again credibly accuses the president of many serious crimes"
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
BREAKING: DOJ asks SCOTUS to erase trans people from the law in case over trans care in prison. Solicitor General John Sauer made the alarming, all-encompassing argument — previously covered at Law Dork — to the Supreme Court on Monday morning. Today, at Law Dork:
lawdork.com
Breaking: DOJ asks SCOTUS to erase trans people from the law in case over trans care in prison
Solicitor General John Sauer made the alarming, all-encompassing argument — previously covered at Law Dork — to the Supreme Court on Monday morning.
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
they are going to come for your contraception, it is literally only a matter of time. I just replaced my IUD and if you think any of the long-term methods of contraception would be a good fit for you and/or your partner, now is the time to do it
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
They also made him sleep on the floor of a holding cell. With the bullet in his back. And no pain medication. They also failed to provide medical care after they shot him. People need to go to prison for this.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 20/09/2026
Giving an external committee power to veto research funding because it doesn’t align to a political agenda will not only harm science, it is a threat to democracy.
nytimes.com
White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants (Gift Article)
Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.
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Lauren Underwood @laurenunderwood.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump has now refunded $128 billion dollars from his tariffs to corporations. Tariffs he created, made Americans pay for, and then returned right back to his donors. We paid, and his friends cashed in.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice (DOJ) told a federal judge Friday it’s appealing a scorching court order against President Donald Trump’s attempt to sue himself to create an almost $2 billion fund for his political allies. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
Attorney General Blanche said Trump’s ‘weaponization fund’ was dead. Now DOJ is appealing
The DOJ said Friday it's appealing a judge's finding that Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against his own administration was "improper."
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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Texas is delaying its typical September 1 release of maternal mortality data until December 1, conveniently timed to be after the midterm election. Recent reports have shown a sharp rise in ectopic pregnancy deaths after the abortion ban went into effect. www.austinchronicle.com/news/texas-p...
austinchronicle.com
Texas’ Pregnancy Death Report Set to Release After Midterms • The Austin Chronicle
Texas’ Pregnancy Death Report Set to Release After Midterms
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 10/09/2026
This directly will raise your future electricity bill. Like directly raises it.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 09/09/2026
NEW: Bloomberg's editorial board said the Trump White House is "courting a banking crisis." They describe how Trump's regulators are “reducing supervision and encouraging the kind of leverage that can make failures, contagion and bailouts more likely."
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
BREAKING: Trump Cheers German Neo-Nazi Party Wins
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 06/09/2026
Transferring vast sums of money to a so-called "department of war" to do infectious-disease related work doesn't exactly assuage anyone's fears about bioweapons now does it?
The senior NIH official said the new arrangement would untangle civilian public-health initiatives from defence priorities. “We’re trying to get research that’s more Department of War-related back to Department of War,” the official said. “When the public hears that NIAID funds biodefence, they think we’re developing bioweapons, and we’re trying to get out of that business.”
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Is Pete Hegseth's mission to destroy the morale of the US military, deplete munitions without replacing them, and render it incapable of dealing with aggression from obvious adversaries like Russia and China? Increasingly, it looks that way.
nytimes.com
Opinion | Pete Hegseth Is a Wrecking Ball
We are already paying a high price for the defense secretary’s purges and whims.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/09/2026
China's net greenhouse gas emissions *fell* this past quarter. Why? Because rapidly expanding electric vehicle use is putting a serious dent in oil demand. We could do that too. But we're not. We have the slowest EV update in the developed world, thanks to Trump.
carbonbrief.org
Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions fall in Q2 2026 due to plummeting oil use - Carbon Brief
China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the second quarter of 2026, as oil consumption plummeted amid the strait of Hormuz crisis.
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JB Pritzker @jbpritzker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Don’t let anyone say Trump’s corruption doesn’t hurt you directly. He’s lining his pockets with foreign cash and government contracts, but according to him, there isn’t enough money for tariff relief or to keep your food safe. The grifters running our country hurt you daily. bit.ly/4x0cl9R
bit.ly
Nearly 9 in 10 Americans report widespread government corruption after Trump's return
It's the first time the U.S. ranks No. 1 for perceived corruption.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/09/2026
We're just hurtling toward immense destruction & suffering & the entire US political class has agreed it's better not to talk about it. "Insanity" barely covers it.
nytimes.com
U.N. Says World Will Miss Its 1.5-Degree Climate Target
Carbon removal combined with emissions reduction is the only remaining pathway to avert catastrophic levels of warming, a new report warns.
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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Alleged 185. That number is also high
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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Not a good idea to put people excited about Armageddon in charge of a nuclear armed nation
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
You’re not alarmed enough 🚨
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 02/09/2026
⚠️ DHS just launched a new webpage that seeks to pull together data from across the federal government and create lists of “eligible voters” in all 50 states. Voting experts say the federal government lacks the authority to create such lists — which could be used to challenge your right to vote.
democracydocket.com
DHS posts ‘Citizenship Lists Portal’ to advance Trump’s anti-voting order
It’s the latest sign that the federal government is hurtling forward with Trump’s anti-voting executive order.
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
They have already gone too far. The only hope they have to avoid prosecution is to maintain power. They will continue to tighten their grip with threats of force and intimidation (and perhaps actual force). The only way to stop this is to stick together, vote and protest, and laugh at them.
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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This is quite literally an extinction level event for graduate education in several fields in the United States.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
👇🎯 By extension, it is a crisis for undergraduate education at R1 public universities. Where do you think all the TAs & lab assistants come from, especially in the social sciences and STEM?
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 22/08/2026
"Why does an agency that claims it has nothing to hide want a weapon that leaves no evidence?" That's the question ICE's new multi-million-dollar shock-glove purchase can't really answer. Read the latest Huddled Masses from @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social:
lnk.thebulwark.com
ICE Wants a Weapon That Leaves No Mark
The dark, twisted logic of the agency’s new electric-shock gloves.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Scoop: For nearly a year, NSF has struggled to make new grants. Now we know that it will not catch up. In fact, NSF will award just 6,100 new grants—a 30% y/o/y decline, itself down from a previous avg. of 11,000+. In fact, the last time NSF awarded so few grants was in the early '80s.
nature.com
Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades
The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
mRNA
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Today in "this administration totally supports The Troops", service members are getting notified that their children will no longer be provided with transportation from day care to elementary school. When your work day starts at 6:15 AM, that's a problem.
US Army Fort Campbell memorandum saying they're cutting transportation for service members' children from daycare to school.
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Meghin Moore @meghin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
WOW This is not good at all.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/08/2026
It would be nice to have a Secretary of State
Kushner: If Iran is willing to finish the deal that they've been discussing with us to give up their ability to create nuclear weapons then obviously he is willing to make a deal but right now they are not showing any interest in doing something that makes sense for us.
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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
You could argue, correctly I think, that the current willingness to tear down the post war order is rooted in the fact the folks who could tell you why it was built are almost all gone.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 15/08/2026
These gloves don't cause neuromuscular incapacitation the way that a taser does. In fact, they only work when applied directly to bare skin. These aren't made for apprehending anyone. These have one and only one use: causing extreme pain to already-restrained captives. In plain language: torture.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
“Six current and former Forest Service officials said the response was greater than what is typical for a fire of that scale that did not pose a significant threat to life or property.”
In total, about nine aircraft, including helicopters, air tankers and tactical planes, responded to the blaze on July 12, according to a Post analysis of flight paths, part of an effort that lasted a few hours and cost nearly $115,000 in federal money. The Post analysis found these assets traveled from across the West to Idaho's Alturas Lake, pear where the Cabin Creek Fire was burning.
At least some
of the aircraft were diverted from efforts to contain fires elsewhere in the state, according to two agency officials and the Post analysis of the flight paths.
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