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Husband, dad, data scientist, runner, geospatial aficionado, bird enthusiast, and avid reader. He/Him

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Why independent media is so needed, in one post👇🏽 Framing matters
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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Please remember that for every VE Schwab and Stephen King, there are a lot of banned Black, queer, and POC writers you've never heard of, to whom it is maybe not a badge of honor but a denial of their voice. Being banned is not a marketing opportunity, unless one is already rich.
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Purple Teacher @peaceandteachin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Until we get rid of the “boys will be boys” culture and start teaching are children to respect women things will never change. Society needs to hold these men accountable to the harshest extent of the law. #ProudBlue#Voices4Victory #OneV1 apple.news/AoITCBSObRzq...
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Cornell students say alleged rape case reopened old wounds — USA TODAY
Cornell students described anger, grief and frustration with the university's response to sexual assault during an emotional campus forum.
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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A federal district court just held that police use of Flock cameras without a warrant violates the Fourth Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
constitutionally collect this information about one car-and its driver-by
following that vehicle on public roadways over a month. But this leaves the
question of why is it the government's business where everyone goes all the
time? The government cannot go snooping through our personal lives and
business without an adequate basis to do so. That is what the Supreme Court
has said since its decision in Katz through its decision in Chatrie this year,
nearly sixty years later. It is not too much to draw the line at indiscriminate
mass surveillance.
No doubt, ALPR technology comes with remarkable benefits that the
Court cannot ignore. But the Fourth Amendment requires courts to draw a line when the cost is too great. Alaniz's search in just the ALPR system
provided him with more than 50 individual records of Kyle's whereabouts
across the country for an entire month. The Court finds that because the
ALPR systems Alaniz used to search Kyle's historical location information
intruded on her reasonable expectation of privacy in the whole of her physical
movements, it was a search under the Fourth Amendment. Based on the
information in the record, the only reason Alaniz conducted that search was
because he saw her license plate was from California. That search was not
supported by probable cause, and it was done without a warrant in violation
of Kyle's Fourth Amendment rights. That search also has a nexus to the
remainder of the traffic stop because Alaniz began following Kyle's car while
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Paul Barringer for Congress @paulbarringer.com · 02/10/2026
Earlier today @electdemocrats.bsky.social announced they were adding our race to their list of districts in play. That’s incredible news and just confirms what we’ve known for a while, that this district is winnable but we’re gonna need your help to do it. #paulbarringerfornc13 #ncpol
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Imagine an American president lying about 9/11. Actually, you don’t have to.
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Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A 5% billionaire tax raises $4 trillion. That can pay for: ✅ Free public college + higher teacher wages ✅ Free childcare & paying stay-at-home parents ✅ A fund to build schools & factories across the country Let’s invest in America.
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Lenworth @lenworth.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The most frustrating part about this is how the equivalent male violence effectively gets a pass. Saw a post about how in the last month 3 men killed over 15 of their family members, and in each case the news barely made headlines let alone had any staying power
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T(errifying) C(ryptid) Parker (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Just a thought, but perhaps you should ask us before reaching and putting forth conclusions *about* us? There are a lot of us in these comments, telling you why you're wrong about everything from diagnostic criteria to support plans to spectrums of severity. Please, just listen
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
This is an absolutely terrible answer & this man absolutely should not be the next Speaker of the House
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 08/08/2026
“The new gas-burning plant, if built to specifications, would be permitted to release more planet-warming gases than any other power plant in the country.”
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New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.
The tech giant is investing in the natural-gas-burning power plant as part of a huge data center in Texas, even as it pledges to honor climate commitments.
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Y.O.L.O.0311 @yolo0311.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed was born in Detroit, a natural-born citizen. Who holds a double doctorate, is a Rhodes scholar, taught epidemioloigy at Columbia, and became Detroit's health director at just 30. He should sue Sen. Tuberville (R-AL) into poverty for libel, over this atrociously bigoted Tweet.
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I would rather have pronghorn antelope and bighorn sheep and elk and purple sage and four wing saltbrush than data centers and so far no one in tech has presented a compelling vision for how to have all of those things, they just seize more resources for the plagiarism engine.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 03/08/2026
I don't really have an objection to the CEO saying Bluesky is open to all; it's kind of his job to do that. But as others have pointed out, the design of the site means it's harder for trolls/bots/chuds *and also* influencers/hypebeasts to get traction. The "bubble" here is actually normal humans.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I love Talarico and hope he wins. But he’s already raised $70M On the flipside, control of critical state legislatures will come down to seats where candidates raise 0.1% of that. I’ve researched the highest leverage swing district candidates you should donate to secure.actblue.com/donate/donat...
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Donate to the candidates on the front lines of the fight against MAGA gerrymandering
These are anti-MAGA state candidates in *extremely* close races
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
So many sneering elitist journalists with snarky posts over the past months that the Reflecting Pool story was trivial. It was so trivial that the DC US Attny presented false evidence to a grand jury to indict an innocent man to please the President while they both lied about it.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The richest 34 Americans now control $2.6 trillion in wealth, equivalent to 12% of U.S. national income. This is the worst wealth concentration in U.S. history.
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
MAKE THE SEQUEL YOU MONSTERS
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/07/2026
HUGE WIN IN KATIE PHANG’S EPSTEIN FILES LAWSUIT: Judge Emmet Sullivan is making the DOJ prove its case. Todd Blanche must now submit the unredacted Epstein Files documents for in-camera review along with evidence supporting the government’s redactions.
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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Buying food to eat at home has gotten 33% more expensive in U.S. cities since the beginning of 2019, according to government figures. In the 7 1/2 years before that, prices rose 6.4%. www.msn.com/en-ca/money/...?
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 22/07/2026
BREAKING: The House voted 216-214 to pass a budget reconciliation bill that includes $10 billion worth of election-related grants for coaxing states into adopting anti-voting measures like those in the SAVE America Act. The vote takes Trump closer to enacting his anti-democratic pet proposal.
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House passes SAVE America Act anti-voting measures in budget reconciliation, stock trading bills
"This bill is a Trojan horse," one Democratic Representative said.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 22/07/2026
I am absolutely begging Democratic politicians to make media reform a centerpiece of their policy platforms
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Local U.S. TV News Will Soon Be Entirely Right Wing Propaganda
Thanks to the destruction of media consolidation limits, Republicans will soon enjoy propaganda and market domination over what's left of local U.S. news.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Disney is laying off hundreds of people at its wildly successful Pixar Studios. But Disney also plans to spend $8 billion this year to buy back its own stock. Corporations don’t care about workers, they just focus on making executives richer.
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Pixar Bears Brunt of Disney Studio Layoffs as Company Axes Several Hundred Staffers
Pixar Animation Studios, despite riding high on the success of summer blockbuster "Toy Story 5," was hit particularly hard in a wave of corporatewide layoffs at Disney.
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Senator Ben Ray Luján @lujan.senate.gov · 20/07/2026
9 more days to make it clear to Donald Trump: keep your hands off Chaco and our public lands! Make your voice heard; link in the comments.
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 20/07/2026
Our public lands are under attack.​ The Trump admin just shrunk Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments by over 90%. It is one of the largest rollbacks of public land protections in U.S. history. ​ Demand that your members of Congress defend our national monuments now ⬇️
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Tell Congress: Defend our national monuments
Tell Congress to reject the Trump administrations dramatically cuts to the Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears national monuments.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Trump in the Star Wars medal scene.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/07/2026
Trump photo bombing the world cup trophy celebration is one of the most narcissistic things ever. They even tried to usher him off like an old confused grandpa.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I cannot overstate how much I hate when people are dicks about babies crying in public (especially airplanes). Do you think the parent is having a good time right now?? Do you think they are not aware of the situation??? Are you going to negotiate with a literal infant????
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
No one wants to see Donald Trump. Focus on the Spain team, please. Get out of there, you weird, demented rapist.
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Poor bastard’s starving
Cookie Monster: For every goal today, me going to eat a cookie
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
yeah we’re gonna have to ban prediction markets
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People are making wildfire bets on prediction markets. Experts say it could lead to disaster | CNN
As the catastrophic Los Angeles wildfires raged last year, people placed bets on how how many acres the fires would consume, which locations they would reach and when they would be contained.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 18/07/2026
Nearly two dozen red wolf pups were born in the wild this spring in eastern North Carolina, giving a remarkable boost to one of the most endangered species on the planet.
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Red wolf litters bring hope of ‘incredible comeback’ for endangered animal
The births are a boon to efforts to revive the species, which was once nearly hunted to extinction.
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I am trapped inside my house and I am mad, so I angry-typed for a few hours. Here's what I got
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Another summer day, stolen
What are we still waiting to learn?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/07/2026
Ossoff: "Here's what's going to happen tonight: the world's most famous sore loser will deliver a prime-time presidential sour grapes address to pursue his 6-year-old grievances about the 2020 election, while his war in the Middle East spirals out of control & the cost of living continues to rise.."
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 15/07/2026
These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The rush to use LLMs in healthcare is chilling, but combining facial recognition tech, with its legacy of racism and false positives, with a language model trained on junk data from the web, and pretending it can diagnose mental health issues is just another batshit case of tech bro overreach.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
counterpoint: the dead should make it harder for me to speak ill of them
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Fabrizio Romano (MIRROR) @fabrizioromano.yopro20.com · 12/07/2026
Erling and Jude. 🫂
Image uploaded from tweet
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Norway's goal kick hit the spider cam wire which knocked it down and led to England's goal
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
SCUM
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Paul Barringer for Congress @paulbarringer.com · 08/07/2026
One of the most common concerns I heard while out in the district during the town hall tour was about data centers and AI. We need national standards regarding data centers so that we protect our water, air, and general quality of life #paulbarringerforcongress #paulbarringerfornc13 #ncpol
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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The embarrassment of celebrating Trump’s corruption and cheating at the World Cup. Jeffries telling the world the Democratic Party also supports corruption at the world stage. Pathetic.
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Adam Lichtenstein @adamlichtenstein.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
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Douglas Reyes-CeroÑ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
From the Telemundo broadcast just now by the commentary team during a slow-mo replay of the goal and a shot of Haaland with his hair down: "This is a perfect goal. The ball didn't touch anything." In exaggerated, gravely, dramatic voice: "TERMINATOR"
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Hey @chicagotribune.com Editorial Board: Why did you describe me as a “bomb-throwing influencer”? This is wrong, inflammatory, and racist. Change it. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/05/e...
So far, the Democratic Socialists of America's success has been confined in large part to deep-blue city districts. Meanwhile, in suburban areas and in statewide contests establishment Democrats generally are winning against progressive challengers. Chicago saw its own version of this dynamic in March in the hotly contested and crowded race to succeed retiring Rep. Jan Schakowsky in the 9th Congressional District. The bomb-throwing influencer Kat Abughazaleh, 27, won the portions of that district in Chicago's North Side lakefront neighborhoods, but suburban votes gave savvy
Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss the win.
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Chris Vannini @chrisvannini.com · 04/07/2026
Thierry Henry: "The story is, was, and always will be Cabo Verde. When you believe that you can, that's what can happen."
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 02/07/2026
THIS IS WHAT IS CALLED FOR UNDER FASCISM — BRAVERY Before the attacks & the hot takes start, a few facts: Major Jason Watson is a graduate of the US Air Force Academy, a career logistics officer, a NATO officer, and a decorated veteran who volunteered for a 365-day tour in Afghanistan… 🧵
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 29/06/2026
BREAKING: More than 100 Venezuelans who were deported from the U.S. hours before the earthquakes are missing after their hotel collapsed.
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More than 100 Venezuelans who were deported from the US hours before the earthquakes are missing
Survivors say more than 100 people just deported from the United States were being held in a hotel when earthquakes struck Venezuela, setting off a scramble to find survivors and bodies buried in the rubble.
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