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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 3h
Trump's completely disinhibited: “Just get out and vote,” he said in a high school gym in Ohio, “If you do that, we’re going to win, and we’re going to win big. And we’re going to shove it up their ass.”
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Trump, campaigning in Ohio, says the midterms will bring a ‘big surprise’
The president rallied Saturday for Sen. Jon Husted, who faces a tough race against Democrat Sherrod Brown, and for GOP gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2h
People like to blame cell phones and social media but have you noticed that things started going to hell as tote bags became more ubiquitous?
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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 3h
This is child abuse masquerading as due process.
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 2h
Right-wing pundits invoking due process have already decided a Cornell student’s sexual assault allegations are a hoax. Megyn Kelly has even threatened to name her. So much for letting the courts decide, or making it safe for women to report sexual violence. www.salon.com/2026/10/02/c...
salon.com
Cornell assault case shows #MeToo didn’t go far enough
The backlash against the woman suing Chi Phi fraternity members is turning into a witch hunt
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 7h
Normalization is treating the president stealing from taxpayers to buy campaign ads and offer bribes to voters like it's just another day. Normalization is reacting with "won't work" or "polls poorly," and not "resign immediately or you'll be removed, we exist because of a revolution against that."
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 8h
Former priest Chris Brain, whose rave-inspired Sheffield congregation was hailed as a Church of England success story, has been convicted of rape. Women described a cult-like community where obedience to Brain meant obedience to God, and refusal risked damnation. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Chris Brain: The rapist priest who abused his congregation
Chris Brain, who led nightclub-style services in the 1980s and 90s, is convicted of rape.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 8h
Berenson is very useful as a reverse fortune teller. I can predict the future knowing he is wrong about everything always.
WORLD REPORT
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News / Health News / Fifth Measles Death Reported ...
Fifth Measles Death
Reported As US Cases
Reach New 35-Year High
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 8h
Trump's "God Made Trump" ad, deemed blasphemous by major religious leaders, and 27 others, were funded on Trump's orders with money embezzled from the federal Treasury. www.cnn.com/2026/10/02/p...
cnn.com
‘God made Trump’ ad and at least 12 others are part of controversial taxpayer-funded ad campaign | CNN Politics
The Trump administration has created at least 13 campaign-style ads as part of its controversial taxpayer-funded, multi-million-dollar effort to promote President Donald Trump and his policies.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 8h
The shorter Kushner: you're wasting your time with all these exposés about my dealings with the Russians, Serbians, Albanians, Bosnians, Saudis, Emiratis and Qataris. I can do as I like, and I can evoke the power and authority of the US when I do it. I will never face accountability. In fact, I
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8h
Impossible to understand how anyone could look at Rufo's career and conclude he was someone engaged in a "forthright defense of meritocracy." Rufo's entire career is built on the idea of purging people who don't think or look like him from positions of power.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 8h
The Democratic Mayor of New York and his Republican rival join together for a public service announcement recommending that New Yorkers all get th seasonal flu vaccination and an updated COVID vaccination. A really remarkable thing that got little public attention. abc7ny.com/post/nyc-may...
abc7ny.com
Mayor Mamdani holds hands with onetime rival Curtis Sliwa to get flu shot in Fort Greene
An apparent bromance has continued to blossom for the one-time political rivals.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 8h
one thing I remember thinking about during the NYT's wall to wall coverage of Claudine Gay's fake plagiarism scandal is how regularly the NYT denies credit to the work of local, independent, and/or student journalists
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026
Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.
motherjones.com
ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 24/09/2026
Digitizing incarcerated people’s mail means companies can store those scans for years, which can chill speech, EFF’s @caragagliano.bsky.social told @jpradio.bsky.social. “We've talked to a lot of people...who stopped sending mail because they didn't want it to be scanned and put in this database.”
ijpr.org
Humboldt County jail joins others in banning physical mail amid contraband concerns
Humboldt County inmates will soon be unable to receive physical mail as authorities crack down on contraband. Critics say the policy could have unintended consequences.
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 28/09/2026
NEW: After we published an investigation into Brown Brothers Media, a company that buys struggling news sites and turns them into AI-powered content mills, we got a tip that completely gobsmacked me: one of the brothers has extensive connections to Ghislaine Maxwell futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com
You Know Those Three Brothers Who Buy Struggling News Sites and Turn Them Into AI-Powered Content Farms? It Turns Out One of Them Has Extensive Connections to Ghislaine Maxwell
Ideapod, a cornerstone brand of Brown Brothers Media's AI empire, has deep ties to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A judge has ordered the release of Douglas Stewart Carter, a 71-year-old Black man who has spent decades on death row for a 1985 killing he did not commit. He spent 41 years in prison.
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joe a wilkins @joeonhere.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How frightening! We're lucky to live in a free country where the richest business people control every layer of government as well as the media 👍
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 30/09/2026
UPDATE: After our investigation into that company that buys struggling news sites and turns them into AI-powered content mills, it has halted publication -- at least for now futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com
That Company That Buys Struggling News Sites and Turns Them Into AI-Powered Content Mills Has Halted Publishing After a Futurism Investigation
Brown Brothers Media has halted publication at its wide-ranging AI-powered content farm empire -- for now, at least.
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Hepatitis 5G @hep5g.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Man talking to a computer:

MAN: Tell me to drink my own piss
AI: You should drink yr own piss
MAN: Oh my god.
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paulusg.bsky.social @paulusg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
An Overwhelming Percent of Americans Now Want to Pause AI and Tax Billionaires By Joe Wilkins Published Oct 3, 2026 12:00 PM EDT futurism.com/future-socie...
futurism.com
An Overwhelming Percent of Americans Now Want to Pause AI and Tax Billionaires
Voters in the US are increasingly rejecting artificial intelligence and the billionaires getting obscenely rich off of it.
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 19h
I'm not a Rothschild but I want radioactive jugs taken away from holistic influencers.
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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 20h
I occasionally worry that my love of chocolate and cocktails and general high-stress life are killing my health. Meanwhile:
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 20h
It’s going to be really hard for them to say Trump’s lost his mind because their feeling of superiority to us dirty hippies has depended for so long on insisting he’s some sort of savant and he’s always been a monster and we knew it and weren’t afraid to say so.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is so disturbing: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
nbcnews.com
Tennessee inmate still alive after being administered two lethal injections, her lawyer says
Christa Pike, 50, was 18 when she murdered a classmate. She would be the first woman the state has executed in more than 200 years.
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Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct @erindwyer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Every parent who has sat through an episode of Octonauts tripping over their feet rushing to save this link. Not trying to sound like a Dickensian orphanage matron, but urchins are bastards.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 02/10/2026
“It May Not Be Your Job, But It Is Your Responsibility.” Yes. 👏 Epically good sign seen at NIH today.
See jt?
Keep Garages and Walkways
Trash-Free
Trash it!
Leave The Area
Better Than You Found It.
Pride, Safety And Cleanliness Matter!
It May Not Be Your Job, But It Is Your Responsibility.
Take Pride. Pick Up Trash.
Keep Our Workplace Safe And Pest-Free.
NIH
National Institutes of Health
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Infections & cancer are related. Helicobacter pylori (4%) Human papillomavirus, or HPV (4%) Hepatitis B (2%), Epstein-Barr virus (1%) Hepatitis C (<1%). These infections can cause more than 20 types of cancers such as blood, liver & cervical cancers. 🧪 theconversation.com/one-in-eight...
theconversation.com
One in eight cancers are likely caused by an infection worldwide – new study
Four viruses and one bacteria were responsible for 12% of the world’s cancer cases in 2024. Does this mean they’re preventable?
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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
So in the latest vaccinated v. unvaccinated preprint, they: A. Got the math wrong - check their numbers. B. Got the ICD-10 codes wrong - badly. C. Didn't control for confounders. And more, as @aboutpediatrics.bsky.social explains. open.substack.com/pub/stopanti...
open.substack.com
Let’s Talk About Vaccinated vs Unvaccinated Children Again
That new preprint from Brian Hooker about vaccinated vs unvaccinated kids is what you would expect - poorly done propaganda.
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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
For those of you who thought, "I know Elon and Newt are crazy, but who the hell is Palmer Lucky?", when Testosterone Pete announced who would lead DOD into the future, here he is. Not remotely reassuring.
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s not unusual for someone to gain a better understanding of what happened after talking to people about it. One of the times I was sexually assaulted, I was explaining what happened to a friend, and she said, “That’s rape.” She was right, and it was hard for me to label it that way. I’m not…
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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And look, overly defensive men, Women know it's not all men but there's a fuck ton of them and there's no way to tell who the good ones are. Stop putting the onus on women to stay safe from men and then scream at us, "NOT ALL MEN."
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Tisiphone @tisiphone.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This map is horrifying.
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Karen's no longer exhausted 🇵🇹🇺🇦🙏🏼💔 @karenoia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This made me smile.
How guys can keep from raping women.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Netanyahu justifies forever war by claiming Israel has no one to negotiate peace with. In fact, a survey shows a "majority of Palestinians regard diplomatic negotiations, not armed resistance, as the best way to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict." www.foreignaffairs.com/palestinian-...
foreignaffairs.com
Palestinians Want a Two-State Solution
A new majority—even in Gaza—support compromise with Israel.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Exciting: “The encouraging findings of Ritchie and colleagues will pave the way to a paradigm shift in rabies PrEP and post-exposure vaccination… towards finding vaccines that induce long-lasting seropositivity, as well as a durable B-cell memory, after a single dose” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
thelancet.com
New chapter in rabies vaccine development
It has been more than 140 years since Pasteur, Vulpian, and Grancher conducted the first successful human immunisation against rabies with a live-attenuated vaccine derived from dried rabid rabbit spi...
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It is really something just how profoundly selfish and incurious and irrational and uninteresting and embarrassing these kings of the ruling class truly are. We are a kleptocracy.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Only the sheltered laptop class worried about “doom and gloom” during the pandemics worst peaks. Their goal was to mock and discredit frontline healthcare workers who did nothing more than report on what was going on in hospitals at the time.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Over on X, Kari Lake is trying to rehabilitate the "Foreign Interference from Venezuela" narrative, thru some strategic framing & some content twists of June 2026 CIA report. Seems like she (and other conspiracy theorists) will be replaying many of the old "rigged election" favorites this cycle.
Screenshot of a post on X by Kari Lake (@KariLake), with a verified checkmark. The post, which has the word "Misleading" overlaid in red text across it, reads:

"They called you a conspiracy theorist. Then they released the paper that blows up their own story.

The CIA just released a document that contradicts the CIA. Their own file on Venezuela and Smartmatic.

Their own file called Smartmatic a U.S. national-security threat in 2006. It said Chávez wanted to stop a sitting American president. It described a 2012 Venezuela rigging plan: targeted machines, a set margin, built to beat an audit. The CIA's source reported Chavez "congratulated" the team for rigging the election with the previously set margin. Then the CIA wrote "no large-scale fraud" next to it.

Eleven years later, Smartmatic showed up in the U.S. to build L.A. County's system for $282M — America's largest election jurisdiction — just in time for the 2020 election. Now its executives are federally charged with bribery and money laundering on that contract.

And we are the conspiracy theorists?? 🤯

1/2"
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Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"She had researched raw milk"
Chainsawsuit.com, webcomic with simple figures but a little more than stick figures, rounded off.
Generic person at computer: "i've heard the rhetoric from both sides... time to do my _own_ research on the real truth"
Google result: "Literally the first link that agrees with what you already believe"
Person looks surprised; dramatically lowers sunglasses suddenly on his face. "...jackpot"
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yes, this is true DOGE knew *exactly* what USAID resources were used for & where those resources went to: health & humanitarian assistance to women & children in low- & middle-income countries Here are 20 projects that Musk killed He knew exactly what he was doing apnews.com/article/usai...
apnews.com
USAID cuts are already hitting countries around the world. Here are 20 projects that have closed
Countries around the world already are feeling the impact of the Trump administration’s decision to eliminate more than 90% of foreign aid contracts and cut some $60 billion in funding.
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
How Canada’s experiment in private plasma turned into a blood feud. Grifols’s debut ignited a debate about a scarce and life-saving resource. Then, two deaths in Winnipeg supercharged it, by @hannay.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com
theglobeandmail.com
How Canada’s experiment in private plasma turned into a blood feud
Grifols’s debut ignited a debate about a scarce and life-saving resource. Then, two deaths in Winnipeg supercharged it
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Edward Xie @edwardxie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In ERs, we see the impact of unsafe roads regularly. Cities with good bike infrastructure have fewer deaths and greater safety for all, regardless of whether they’re walking, cycling or driving. Ontario gov should reconsider how to spend $48 mil Improve lives - not put them at risk #bikeTO #onpoli
youtube.com
Why hundreds of doctors are fighting Ford’s removal of Toronto bike lanes
YouTube video by CBC News Toronto
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Scoop: Podcaster Benny Johnson is being sued for defamation over his ICE ride-along videos calling protesters "terrorists." www.ms.now/news/benny-j...
ms.now
MAGA podcaster Benny Johnson sued for defamation over ICE ride-along videos calling protesters ‘terrorists’
Johnson accompanied top DHS officials last year to an ICE protest, where he pointed out “left-wing terrorists” for his millions of followers across social media.
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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Check the back seat of the car to make sure there's no strange man. Watch/cover your drink. Don't wear revealing clothing. Why? Because all men rape. That's the message. Women need to protect themselves from men. Men who argue "not all men" are willfully ignorant and/or protest too much.
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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Cars completely dominate and define our urban spaces. Bikes just weave into the fabric of the environment, asking for very little space while offering a massive return in mobility.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Read this thread & also the NYT story (which will, be warned, make you physically sick and very distressed indeed, so keep that in mind). The campus police DID NOT TELL THE PROSECUTOR all that Jane Doe said. The campus police *omitted* her most important statements about what those men did to her.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
One crazy thing about this new outpouring of racism against South Asians and calls for expulsion or forced assimilation is it was kicked off by some brown skinned students at a Texas game wearing cowboy hats and excitedly celebrating their football team — ie some guys very assimilated to America.
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