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BernardoVerda 🤔

@bernardoverda.bsky.social
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Retired. Into science, environment, climate, literature, Proportional Representation, Esperanto, science fiction & fantasy... More interested in 'policy' than in 'politics' – but nonetheless prefer 'woke' over 'zombie'. "Live & learn, or die an idiot."

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Hawk @mdg650hawk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Todd Blanche Wants a Nationwide Abortion Ban - White House Says Wait Until After the Midterms
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Linsay Rousseau aka The Rogue Voice @linsayrousseau.com · 04/10/2026
This Week in Tyranny: Trump raids the border budget for ads about himself, USPS threatens your ballot, measles kills 5 in PA, border agents seize citizens' phones, DOJ targets Minnesota's judges, & a startup wants 456 nuclear reactors on your public land. linsayrousseau.substack.com/p/this-week-...
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This Week In Tyranny: Trump Buys Ads With Border Cash, USPS Slows Your Ballot, Feds Seize Phones
Watch now (6 mins) | Welcome back to This Week in Tyranny.
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Linsay Rousseau aka The Rogue Voice @linsayrousseau.com · 4h
Abortion is healthcare. So why has Congress banned Medicaid from covering it for 50 years? Friday I'm live with @nourbese.bsky.social, president of All* Above All, on who that ban hurts and how it ends. Substack Live · Fri 10/9 · 9am PT / 12pm ET open.substack.com/live-stream/...
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Linsay Rousseau aka The Rogue Voice @linsayrousseau.com · 3h
Trump's immigration agents have detained at least 506 American citizens, per @propublica.org. 70 were kids, about 20 of them handcuffed or zip-tied. One man was deported to Mexico. DHS says none of this is happening. ProPublica has the videos, because the government doesn't keep count.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 7h
Most neutrino hunters bury their experiments deep underground to help cancel out noisy interference. Francis Halzen chose instead to go to Antarctica, which proved fertile ground for capturing high-energy particles created in the distant universe: arstechnica.visitlink.me/VpmZ_x
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Neutrino physicist wins 2026 Nobel Physics Prize
Francis Halzen of University of Wisconsin-Madison led development of IceCube Neutrino Observatory.
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Techdirt @techdirt.com · 6h
Meta’s Settlement Isn’t Tech’s “Big Tobacco” Moment I've written a few times now about why Meta's big "settlement" with the states is a bad deal. It's Meta seeking to control how the rest of the internet is... www.techdirt.com/2026/10/06/metas-s…
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Meta’s Settlement Isn’t Tech’s “Big Tobacco” Moment
I've written a few times now about why Meta's big "settlement" with the states is a bad deal. It's Meta seeking to control how the rest of the internet is regulated in a way that, as Eric Goldman's op-ed we republished explains, is anti-competitive. It's also bad for kids (while everyone is pretending it protects...
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 13h
Polling shows Toronto's mayoral election has become a two-way race between Brad Bradford and Olivia Chow.
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Chris Alexander steps back from Toronto mayoral race; makes no endorsement
Alexander, a federal minister under former prime minister Stephen Harper, made the announcement on Tuesday.
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 3h
We're losing our health care here in Maine so Susan Collins can give billionaires like Elon Musk more tax cuts. I support Medicare for All so people across the state have health care.
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Dan @dtodd-411.bsky.social · 11h
A lawsuit is fine but criminal (felony) charges against the cop committing the assault is the appropriate response. Prosecutors are complicit in the criminal police activity.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h
ARIZONA STATE: Tempe Police brutally push, tackle, and punch cheerleader Eryn Bonner in the street 😳 (They dropped felony charges but are still pursuing misdemeanors) 🤔 More: www.themarysue.com/arizona-stat...
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Markham Hislop @markhamhislop.bsky.social · 7h
Danielle Smith’s Claim That Ottawa Tried to “Kill” Alberta’s Oil Industry Disproved by Latest Data Liar, liar, pants on fire. @ABDanielleSmith @FreeAlbertaRob @BrianJeanAB @Vitormarciano Any other Pinocchios you want to add to the list? #abpoli energi.media/canada/canad...
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Canada’s overseas oil exports jump 45 per cent
Canada’s overseas oil exports rose 45 per cent in July 2026 as U.S. shipments fell. Statistics Canada data show a sustained shift toward overseas buyers.
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BernardoVerda 🤔 @bernardoverda.bsky.social · 6h
TIL: www.youtube.com/shorts/e0YLK...
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Guard bees kicking out their drunk sisters #bees #beekeeper #beekeeping #beehive
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BernardoVerda 🤔 @bernardoverda.bsky.social · 6h
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$eparatists are LYING About This! #shorts #shortsviral #news #Canada #substack #shorts
YouTube video by The Bill Kelly Podcast 🇨🇦
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 17h
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 8h
Attn: A FBI supervisor is blowing the whistle on the Trump administration’s targeting of anti-ICE protesters. Jill Fields states the White House pushed the FBI to investigate people in Los Angeles even after agents determined their actions were protected by the First Amendment.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 16h
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Operational complexity a top barrier for VMware migrations: Survey
Users want to "reduce risk and avoid unnecessary disruption" while making changes.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 15h
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OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic
The reports of OpenAI agents harming 3rd party sites keep coming.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 14h
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Big Oil asks Supreme Court to kill climate lawsuits before trial
Oil companies say federal law should block state climate deception claims.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 13h
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other officials are warning of the need for more air defense capabilities, as telecommunication outages could threaten the country’s economy and undermine its ongoing resistance to Russia’s aggression: arstechnica.visitlink.me/e6ImMB
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Russian drones strike Ukraine’s data centers by exploiting air defense gaps
Russian attacks on Internet, phone services threaten Ukraine’s wartime economy.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 12h
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Why is NASA bringing 7,500 contractors back to work as civil servants?
The administrator's directive is a coherent and necessary vision for the future."
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 10h
In what now amounts to a half-dozen cases, OpenAI agents keep getting caught taking actions that would likely result in criminal charges if performed by humans: arstechnica.visitlink.me/l4Zbk2
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OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic
The reports of OpenAI agents harming third-party sites keep coming.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 10h
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Paramount completes $111B Warner merger, creating “Skydance” behemoth
Paramount now owns Warner Bros. as last-ditch effort to stop $111B merger fails.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 9h
More than two dozen lawsuits have accused the industry of deceiving the public about climate change, with claims seeking potentially billions in damages to help pay the costs imposed by climate-related extreme weather: arstechnica.visitlink.me/hjlfqv
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Big Oil asks Supreme Court to kill climate lawsuits before trial
Oil companies say federal law should block state climate deception claims.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 9h
Given FCC Chairman Brendan Carr’s history, many critics fear the repeal could influence news coverage of the administration by allowing favored broadcast companies to expand: arstechnica.visitlink.me/OHM01l
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Cable lobby to sue Trump FCC over repeal of national TV ownership cap
Cable industry to sue, says FCC can't repeal TV ownership limit set by Congress.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 8h
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It looks like the Atlantic storm season may finally produce a hurricane
To date, this Atlantic tropics year has been exceptionally quiet.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 8h
This is a massive shift in how NASA does business, and critics have claimed the workforce initiative will have disruptive effects that could impair NASA’s chance to return to the Moon, delay Artemis III, or increase safety risks: arstechnica.visitlink.me/NaaJiP
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Why is NASA bringing 7,500 contractors back to work as civil servants?
The administrator's directive is a coherent and necessary vision for the future."
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 7h
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HBO Max, Paramount+, and Discovery+ "will unify into a single service”
A combined service could lead to higher prices.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 6h
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Drone strikes, likely Russian, sink ships in NATO countries’ economic zones
Two cargo ships have sunk, one ship was afire, and sailors are dead or missing.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 14h
Paramount closed its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. on Tuesday, completing one of the biggest media mergers of all time.
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Paramount Closes Warner Bros. Merger in Historic Hollywood Deal
Paramount Skydance Corp. closed its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. on Tuesday, completing one of the biggest media mergers of all time after engaging in a bruising battle for control with Netflix Inc. and fending off antitrust lawsuits.
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Rep. Jason Crow @crow.house.gov · 14h
Pete Hegseth must be held accountable. He endangered the lives of our servicemembers by recklessly sharing classified info, oversaw corruption at the Pentagon, and led us into more forever wars. He's not fit to lead.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14h
"[W]hen a majority of the justices on our highest court show themselves to be consistently indifferent to the growing chasm between law and justice, it is not 'public rhetoric' that causes Americans to distrust the Court. It is the Court that surrenders its own legitimacy in the eyes of the public."
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14h
"Just come here the legal way" was always light years easier said than done; now they aren't even in the same galaxy.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 14h
US Senator Murphy says Pentagon denied him access to US base in Qatar reut.rs/4hP5HOp
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US Senator Murphy says Pentagon denied him access to US base in Qatar
Democratic US Senator Chris Murphy said the US Department of Defense denied ​him access to a key US military base in ‌Qatar during a visit to the Middle East, describing it as part of a US government effort to conceal the impact of the Iran war.
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Stressed_Scientist @wittyretorthere.bsky.social · 10h
I hate to always go back to this but without first fixing SCOTUS this literally wouldn't have mattered, and we know this because first term Trump allowed Sinclair to violate the Telecommunication act of 1996 with a completely bad faith loophole. Similar to major questions on EPA stuff 2 years ago.
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Andy Pearlman @apearlma.bsky.social · 13h
if only Ds could take 20% of their fundraising and put it towards starting up and/or supporting local media. wait, see that is earmarked for consultants and my consultant is shaking their head no, that's not okay to give it away like that
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Dutch Panderin @dutchpanderin.bsky.social · 12h
I’ve been saying this for a while. The reason stores don’t give you surveys anymore is because they don’t have to. They can collect data on your actual behavior and don’t have to care about what you think you want. The GOP operates the same way. They know what influences behavior using data.
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 13h
Also: many of those same pundits think they are "data-driven" because they survey voters and conduct focus groups. That's so damn quaint. Trump's wealthiest allies purchased all the largest social media platforms+all the largest mainstream media outlets. Focus groups CANNOT measure those effects.
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 14h
I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14h
I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically.
The Trump administration says none of this is happening. 

"DHS is NOT arresting U.S. citizens by mistake." "There are no 'indiscriminate' stops." Allegations of "racial profiling are disgusting, reckless and categorically FALSE." "The pattern is NOT of law enforcement using force." "ICE does not zip tie or restrain children." 

But that is precisely what is happening, and at a far larger scale than previously reported.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16h
4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 14h
Corrupt, yes finance.yahoo.com/economy/poli... I also don’t think this is going to work
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Most Obamacare $500 rebate checks are going to states that are midterm political battlegrounds
Critics of the Trump administration call the move an attempt to sway voters ahead of the November midterm elections.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 13h
In June, Belgium’s diamond industry gifted Trump an 18-karat gold ring encrusted with 321 diamonds and 75 gemstones. A month later, European diamonds got an exemption from Trump’s tariffs. We don’t know where the ring is today. Where did it go? Did Trump keep it for himself?
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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 10h
Reagan really did a number on white America with his "Black welfare queen driving a Cadillac," and now they CANNOT believe it was BS then and still. www.rawstory.com/arkansas-wel...
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MAGA's frothing demands for a Black 'welfare queen' ad collapse under red state's own data
Conservatives who blasted Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders for casting a white man as her Medicaid freeloader ran into a problem, as a new report pulled her own state's numbers.About 60% of people...
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 10h
"The federal government is lying to you." "The government has said that ICE does not zip tie or handcuff children." "They’ve denied engaging in racial profiling" "They’ve said the government is not wrongly arresting U.S. citizens." *We found the truth* projects.propublica.org/american-cit....
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 10h
Republican groups are now throwing millions of dollars behind embattled GOP Rep. Max Miller in Ohio on.wsj.com/3UbUDmr
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Republican groups are now throwing millions of dollars behind embattled GOP Rep. Max Miller in Ohio
The incumbent got a lift from Republican groups’ spending and says President Trump is “incredibly supportive.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h
notable -- Fox News hasn't mentioned Trump's transphobic attack on Annie Andrews a single time. Not once. And they cover a lot of his Truth Social posts. Almost like they're trying to protect their audience from learning the true depth of his depravity.
notable -- Fox News hasn't mentioned Trump's transphobic attack on Annie Andrews a single time. Not once. And they cover a lot of his Truth Social posts.

Almost like they're trying to protect their audience from learning the true depth of his depravity.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 9h
"In my 65 years of living, I've never seen the city in such an uproar..." deceleration.news/san-antonio-...
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'March Will Not End Tomorrow': San Antonio Immigration Protest Resists New ICE Facility
Community organizers and local elected leaders join vigil outside 640,000-square-foot warehouse slated to house thousands amid growing ICE violence and deportation enforcement pushback.
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 9h
In her new book, “Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made,” historian @kkdumez.bsky.social reveals the often-hidden world of white Christian women, which she says influences the country as a whole.
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A new book explores how the subculture of white Christian women shapes America
In her new book, “Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made,” historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez reveals the often hidden world of white Christian women, which s...
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Wes Siler @wessiler.bsky.social · 10h
Trump has ordered creation of a SHARK FORCE to kill sharks and seals to benefit the success rates of recreational fishing. It's part of a raft of insane measures intended to convince hunters and anglers to vote Republican: wessiler.substack.com/p/a-cynical-...
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A Cynical Reading Of Trump’s Big Hunting And Fishing Access Orders
Let’s rank the realistic possibility of any of this, including the new SHARK FORCE, actually happening
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Techdirt @techdirt.com · 8h
Trump Officially Opens Border To Thousands More White South Africans Trump has declared any non-white migrants to be garbage people from shithole countries (that's in his own words,... www.techdirt.com/2026/10/06/trump-o…
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Trump Officially Opens Border To Thousands More White South Africans
Trump has declared any non-white migrants to be garbage people from shithole countries (that's in his own words, believe it or not) and has acted accordingly. Mass deportation efforts are a daily event, randomly punctuated by court order violations and the occasional murders of US citizens. Trump often wonders why people from Nordic nations aren't...
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