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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 14h
44 days between these headlines
Banner Press August 24 2026: Brenham Police Department secures grant to expand license plate reader tech
KBXT3 October 6 2026: Brenham police confirm internal investigation into officer following alleged Flock camera misuse
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12h
If you're willing to sell out trans kids for theoretical votes I have to assume you'd sell out anyone for theoretical votes, so, yes, I do think supporting sports bans means you get not a fucking thing from me.
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 12h
Having trouble deciding which books to buy from Amazon during Prime Days? Try this: None, then go support an independent bookstore instead. 😌
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026
Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 06/10/2026
every other fucking president has to choose their words very carefully to avoid misunderstandings, i am not giving our big wet special birthday boy a pass for being unable to articulate a thought
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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 05/10/2026
This Banned Books Week and beyond, we at Libro are committed to fighting for the freedom to read. We work closely with organizers, fight legal challenges, raise awareness, and activate our community. How can you join us? ⬇️
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Alito is a second-rate mind doing first-rate misogyny.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Unless Congress reclaims its power, this will just become the new normal. A good first step would be to impeach Vought. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
GOOD NEWS! A new cancer treatment has demonstrated unprecedented results in a large trial for cancer patients whose disease has become resistant to chemotherapy AND immunotherapy. Tumors shrank in OVER a third of participants, with 15 patients experiencing COMPLETE eradication of their tumors.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
As someone in a STEM discipline, I really abhor the kind of messaging that Mark describes. The messengers aren’t people who actually care about STEM. It’s really a shorthand for “do something practical, focus on your relation to the labor market”.
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Allan T Adams @allantadams.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The #ADoorableThursday portal that leads to the station buffet tea rooms in Barter Books, Alnwick, the incredible secondhand bookshop in the former railway station. #ArchitecturalIllustration #pen #drawing #Artshare
Rows of bookshelves leading the eye to a doorway with an arched fanlight with letters proclaiming the room beyond the door to be a station buffet. It is in fact the tearoom of a secondhand bookshop that was once a railway station.
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 24/09/2026
The story of the bosses' revolt comes down to their experience, in 2020, of helplessly watching the labor-income line go up — and resolving, right then and there, to make sure that never happened again.
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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Excellent post on the vile Russell Vought. "Russell Vought is the kind of man who would deprive every child in America of a drug that saved his own daughter’s life because it advances his own."
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It really is striking how many authoritarian states have ended up in this exact same place, where the leader seizes control of scientific inquiry. Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union, Aryan Physics in the Third Reich, Great Leap Forward (also related to Lysenko) in China.
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@bdscientist @bdscientist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
🌈 agriculture 🌈
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@bdscientist @bdscientist.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What was the common phrase for DC and other places after 9/11? A “target-rich environment?” I guess he’s just planning some enrichment. 🙄
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Amelia Sandrine Reisinger 🏳️‍⚧️ @ameliasandrine.com · 17/09/2026
Gonna start referring to Democrats who take anti-trans stances as “Biological Republicans”
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The thing about trying not to pick a side is that the nazis *instantly recognize* which side you picked. They immediately identify you as an ally. They know exactly what side you're on. It doesn't fool the victims, it doesn't fool the Nazis, the only people it could possibly fool is centrists.
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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Franco Matticchio, Provviste per l'inverno (Winter Provisions), illustration for Internazionale, 2019
A drawing of a squirrel bringing stacks of books to his nest in a tree
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"in week one the ballroom is coming down and the kennedy center is reopening" - free statement to any dem who wants to win in 2028
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Something weirdly not noted in a lot of the coverage of the extortionate threats to murder the Kennedy Center unless it’s reimagined as a shrine to Trump: There was no dire fiscal crisis until Trump’s goombahs started mucking with it. Its finances were fine. projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...
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John F Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts - Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublica
Since 2013, the IRS has released data culled from millions of nonprofit tax filings. Use this database to find organizations and see details like their executive compensation, revenue and expenses, as...
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Note the “people who believe” they were harmed. That is not scientific research devoted to actually efficacy and safety. For every dollar wasted we’re limiting actual innovations that will cure cancer and other diseases
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Kate Avery @kateaveryart.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A very small sampling of the random things I’ve found while ‘beach-combing’ along the Connecticut River this summer. I’m mostly rock-hunting but I’ve found some spiffy early glass and ceramic sherds. I even keep all the modern glass in a big jar. Makes the beach safer and I like all the color!
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 13/09/2026
My two favorite photos of Trump's trip to Ireland, where he seems not to have gotten his ass kissed like he expected.
Trump sitting with Irish President Catherine Connolly looking beaten down and haggard. She is smiling winsomelyTrump leaving his meeting with Irish President Catherine Connolly, looking even more beaten down. He's wearing the face he wore after meeting privately with Putin in Helsinki. Putin smiled broadly after that meeting. Connolly is smiling too.
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@bdscientist @bdscientist.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Thank you for including the model and her name. So fascinating to see.
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
On 9/11, the people of Gander stepped up. They showed the very best of Canada.
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The plagiarism machine I created will likely kill us all, there’s a 40% chance, no, higher, like 75%,or more! But NO I will not “unplug it,” that’s an insane suggestion. The scientific solution is to *give me more money.*
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God @thegodshow.com · 11/09/2026
We don’t talk about Russ Vought enough and he’s the most powerful villain in Washington, D.C.
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 10/09/2026
Remember when Amazon raised over $50 million for independent bookstores? Oh, no wait, that was us. 😎 Thank you for choosing bookstores over billionaires. 💜
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This blog was so good I'm using a gift link on it defector.com/the-state-of...
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The State Of The U.S. Open Is The State Of Us | Defector
It’s being shouted from all corners: The U.S. Open has become an overcrowded, overpriced circus awash in influencers, aspirational influencers, corporate stooges, drunken buffoons, brand activations, ...
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Re-posting this: in honor of tomorrow's solemn anniversary: Richard Clarke, a senior NatSec official, opening his testimony to the 9/11 Commission with something I hadn't seen before, or since, in Congressional testimony: an apology. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxq1...
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Richard Clarke - 9/11 Commission Testimony
YouTube video by AmericanRhetoric.com
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Beth Young @optimalfocus.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Longwood Garden's Waterlily Court has been welcoming photographers to its obsidian pools since 1957, and many years later, those same flower-laden black pools still teach the same lesson I keep holding onto: and that is that you don't need epic geography or weather to make an image that matters 🪷
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Routine reminder that Bhattacharya is an economics researcher who has never practiced medicine and whose best known publication is overtly fraudulent. He has never done infectious disease research and has never treated a single virus or infection in his entire career. He’s likely never seen measles.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
They're deliberately allowing an iconic and historic DC landmark to fall into disrepair so they can justify tearing it down
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This 11th paragraph ought to be the first or second. And every article about Covid should include a summary of Trump’s idiotic and calamitous mistakes, and his death toll. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/h...
Many scientists see the federal government's investigative effort as an attempt to punish political enemies and deflect blame from the first Trump administration for the catastrophic effects of the pandemic.
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@bdscientist @bdscientist.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Have never seen that before. Gives me shivers!
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@bdscientist @bdscientist.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
So charming. <3
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Oops
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Tommy Tomlinson @tommytomlinson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
So here's a quote from @pablo.show that applies to not only his Clippers investigation but the best of what journalism can be: www.nytimes.com/athletic/756...
"I think that we have the ability to do something that the rest of our culture is yearning for, which is make people who are too rich to care about anything resembling the public interest worry that maybe they need to tell us the truth."
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
absolute fuckers "Trump officials at NIH disclosed the existence of DoD’s efforts only after being pressed for information by House Appropriations Committee Democrats." democrats-appropriations.house.gov/news/press-r...
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Defense Officials Attempt to Raid NIH Funds to Cover Department of Defense Activities
House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) has learned that officials at the Department of Defense (DoD) are working to divert billions of dollars from the National Institute...
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A Tower Grows In Brooklyn @theforestpark.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is a really big deal and should be celebrated.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"But in Springfield, the heightened level of fear is so widespread, & the state-imposed terror vs a vulnerable minority so constant, that it is impossible to see this as anything but [Trump's] proof of concept for the president’s militarized vision of what America should be" - @swin24.bsky.social
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Inside Trump’s Nightmare for Haitians in Springfield: ‘We’re Following Our Orders’
The most urgent moral test in all of Trump’s America today is happening in a small Ohio city – and we as a country are failing it miserably.
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Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
At @lawgunsmoney.bsky.social, I have a review of Ben Wickey's magnificent, heartbreaking More Weight, a graphic nonfiction work about the Salem witch trials, and how history is processed (and commercialized) in the present. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/09/more...
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More Weight: A Salem Story by Ben Wickey - Lawyers, Guns & Money
In the mid-90s, my family went on a road trip in New England. My mother, eager to reinforce her children’s only-nominal Americanness, started us off in Boston and plotted a course full of historical p...
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 01/09/2026
he did though.
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@bdscientist @bdscientist.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Congratulations L! Looking forward to reading. : )
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