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Blue Boomer; Senior Editor; Once a Museum Specialist (Paleobiology), Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural History; Books, Science, Ever hopeful.

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South Carolina Democratic Party @scdemocrats.bsky.social · 8h
This National Voter Education Week, take a few minutes to learn what’s on your ballot, what each office does, and who is running to represent you. Election Day shouldn’t be the first time you see your ballot. Do your homework now and show up ready to vote blue all the way down.
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thecatzpajamas.bsky.social @thecatzpajamas.bsky.social · 13h
www.news5cleveland.com/news/politic...
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Woman accusing Sherrod Brown of forcing transgender surgeries isn’t from Ohio, didn’t have procedure as minor
In an attack ad against U.S. Senate candidate Sherrod Brown, a woman accuses the Democrat of pushing transgender surgeries on minors "like her." She didn't have surgery until she was an adult.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 16h
Over a dozen states have important voter registration deadlines today. Check your registration and make a plan to vote at IWillVote.com. Then ask friends and neighbors to do the same.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12h
This is a really good piece by @natashakorecki.bsky.social at NBC News: "Many Latinos were better versed in the details of Salgado Araujo’s shooting death than in the names and backgrounds of those running for some of the highest-profile offices in their state..." www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
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How the shooting death of a Houston father is igniting Latino politics in Texas
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot and killed on his way to work by ICE agents, who said he used his vehicle as a weapon. An outraged community is demanding justice — and change.
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BMovieManiacs @bmoviemaniacs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#BMovieManiacs Event: INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS!!! Hey, Maniacs! Once again, thanks to STIRR, we go outside the box as we begin #OctoberWeen month!! This is the first time we've watched this 50s sci-fi classic together!! Don't miss it, see you at 8 Pac/11 East tonight!!
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It feels very good to be back in the Granite State. Thanks to @stefanyshaheen.com for showing me a few great spots in downtown Manchester this morning — and a big thanks to everyone who came up to say hello, as well!
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The Daily Beans Podcast @dailybeanspod.com · 02/10/2026
Cornell 7, GA voting machines, Renée Good lawsuits, immigration bond hearings, & White House press fight. With @johnfugelsang.bsky.social #DailyBeansPod ☕️ #MSWMedia ⁠ Hosts: @muellershewrote.verification.social & @dgcomedy.bsky.social the-daily-beans.simplecast.com/episodes/100...
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Sandy Roberts @kaleidoscopesci.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Meet the chambered nautilus! It was swimming in the oceans before dinosaurs existed, over 500 million years ago. Learn more about this endangered animal's surprisingly good memory with @scifri.bsky.social Think Big activity for Cephalopod Week! #EduSky 🧪 www.sciencefriday.com/educational-...
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Can a living fossil learn new tricks? Meet the nautilus!
Explore how a blue-light experiment revealed this cephalopod’s memory.
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Freedom2B @freedom2b.cryptoanarchy.network · 02/10/2026
Image of commercial passenger airplanes at an airport. A green street sign reflect light in the background; and airport lights are in the foreground.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026
Black text that reads:

Earlier today, an off-duty NYPD detective was stabbed several times in the Bronx during what preliminary information indicates was an attempted robbery. 

I visited the detective and his family at Jacobi Hospital with Police Commissioner Tisch. 

He is thankfully in stable condition, and I am hoping for his quick and complete recovery. I am confident that the NYPD will identify and apprehend the suspects and that the people responsible will be held to account.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/10/2026
The name of the investigation into the fraudulent elector scheme was "Arctic Frost." Arctic Frost is a type of orange. Senator Blackburn accuses Smith of mocking Trump's orange complexion. lol
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
"It could chill rights of contractors to make political contributions" -- unearthed footage shows Susan Collins in 2012 fighting to protect contractors from having to disclose political contributions (we recently learned she was under investigation for a pay-to-play scheme involving a contractor)
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/10/2026
BREAKING: A while back, I sued DOGE (FOIA) to get Musk's communications. DOJ argued that Musk wasn't a govt employee anymore, BUT Hegseth just hired him again to work on a Pentagon warfare initiative called Project Meridian. So we noticed Judge Boasberg. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A $250,000 donation to a pro-Ken Paxton super PAC came from a businessman whose dad got pardoned by Trump — and who used a fake name and rented mailbox on the donation record.
politico.com
Who was behind a $250K mystery donation to super PAC backing Ken Paxton?
The Texas Senate hopeful has ties to the donor’s family going back decades.
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NPR @npr.org · 02/10/2026
Americans owe $220 billion in medical debt, according to a federal survey. (via @wbur.org) n.pr/4ASBqXF
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Letters announcing medical-debt relief arrive as a welcome surprise
Americans owe $220 billion in medical debt, according to a federal survey.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Why can't he just shake hands like a normal person?
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Video Of Trump Getting Handsy With Handsome Male Golfer Has The Internet Weirded All The Way Out
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration Monday filed its response to the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) lawsuit seeking records about any plans to seize or inspect ballots, voting machines or other election materials during the 2026 midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump DOJ responds to DNC lawsuit, offers no records on ballot seizure plans
The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) 13-page answer did not deny whether the Trump administration has considered such plans, identify whether responsive records exist or offer a timeline for producing th...
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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“While the administration is unlawfully eroding protections for trans students under the guise of protecting women and girls, they are systematically weakening the very laws that keep students safe and schools accountable,” she said. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
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Trump Officials Revise How Title IX Sex Discrimination Rules Are Enforced (Gift Article)
The change follows a court ruling barring Title IX from protecting L.G.B.T.Q. people and has angered advocates for sexual assault survivors.
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Conservative legal groups are weaponizing public records laws to harass and silence university scientists whose research might be used to target fossil fuel companies in court: www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
politico.com
Inside the anti-climate campaign against researchers
A POLITICO investigation reveals more than 100 open records requests demanding documents from climate scientists nationwide.
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Trash Panda @thumpstick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I mean, considering who will be using the ballroom, who cares if it burns down around them? Have fun, fuckers.
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Andrew Levesque @andrewlevesque.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.rawstory.com/dhs-nfl/ Bunch of unimaginative, copyright-stealing comic book characters. DHS will relent at the other side of a massive lawsuit that it will lose….
rawstory.com
Trump's DHS thumbs its nose at NFL over controversial video featuring Hall of Fame player
The Department of Homeland Security is flatly refusing to pull down a social media video built around former Philadelphia Eagles safety Brian Dawkins after the NFL formally asked the agency to remove ...
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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The corruption coming out of the White House is bananas. It's time we ban members of Congress and the president from trading stocks.
A CNBC headline reads, "Trump discloses more than 1,100 July trades, including up to $25 million each in sales of Microsoft, Amazon"
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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 29/09/2026
@tobymorton.bsky.social has created The Cornell 7 website. More is coming.
thecornell7.org
Home | The Cornell 7
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Andrew Levesque @andrewlevesque.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.rawstory.com/gop-gerryman... Utah state Rep. Trevor Lee resigned from the Legislature Monday, hours after prosecutors charged him with multiple felonies tied to an alleged scheme to fraudulently secure a home loan….
rawstory.com
Republican who backed illegal gerrymander scheme resigns over felony fraud charges: report
Utah state Rep. Trevor Lee resigned from the Legislature Monday, hours after prosecutors charged him with multiple felonies tied to an alleged scheme to fraudulently secure a home loan.The Utah Attorn...
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
"Mr. Olsen was central in persuading the F.B.I. to search an election office in Fulton County, Ga., in late January and haul away boxes of ballots as part of an effort to investigate the 2020 race."
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
IMPORTANT: There are 15 states that require in-person registration 28–30 days before an election, meaning this maybe your last week to register. Check your registration at Vote.gov.
vote.gov
Register to vote in your state | Vote.gov
Find the information you need to make registration and voting easy. Official voter registration website of the United States government.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Not the flex you think it is, buddy
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Andrew Levesque @andrewlevesque.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.epi.org/blog/new-tru... A better solution is to fully fund the Child Care and Development Fund instead of redirecting resources away from working families….
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New Trump child care plan would strip resources from low-income working families: A better solution is to fully fund the Child Care and Development Fund instead of redirecting resources away from work...
The Trump administration is proposing a new plan to divert child care funds away from working families, which will lead to a loss of child care subsidies for some, increased child care costs for every...
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
it is really sad how many Western work cultures normalize the diminishment of ambitious and hardworking women (esp. Black, Asian and Hispanic women) and then constantly tell those women the diminishing treatment is what they deserve no matter how much experience, education, and skills they have
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Colorado Springs Anti-Fascists @cosantifascists.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Data Republican is mad that we unmasked some of the most heinous people in the world.
“The goal of GDL Exposed is to push back against the neo-Nazi organization Goyim Defense League by unmasking their activists who travel around the country harassing people,” a representative of the site told Raw Story. “The GDL is led by Jon Minadeo, whose primary source of income is video chatting with children and rebroadcasting those recordings to thousands of angry neo-Nazis, without the knowledge or consent of the children or their parents.

“These videos have included support for mass shooters such as the Antioch High School shooter in Nashville, who was found to have shared a GDL flyer. Data Republican is right. We do hope to ruin these people’s lives. They are predators who would kill every non-white and Jewish person on earth if they could.”
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Russian FPV drones continue to strike civilian cars in their sick terror campaign. Today they struck one in the village of Shestakove, Kharkiv region. ​The 67-year-old driver died at the scene, and his 65-year-old wife was injured‼️
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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 27/09/2026
It sounds like Tesla lawyers tried to intimidate or buy off witnesses in the big class action case about anti-Black racism at the Fremont factory. electrek.co/2026/09/23/t...
electrek.co
Tesla’s 'hardcore lawyers' went a little too hardcore
On day one of Tesla's racism trial, a witness said a Tesla lawyer misled him, and Tesla's counsel called the N-word a 'term of endearment.'
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
do you think the people at optum financial are trying to cause problems on purpose by sending emails that say 'direct deposit confirmed!' from "OF Service" when they're reimbursing medical expenses from people's flexible spending accounts
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Cornell University takes rape so seriously that seven #ChiPhi fraternity rapists (Matthew Ingalls, Jonathan Newell, Winston Lee, Gillio Lopes, Diego Sarabia, Scott Norris and Scott Kretzschmar) were punished by having to write an essay. And you wonder why women don't feel safe . . .
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/09/2026
Trump: "I'm rejecting their deal. They want to make a deal where they open the strait immediately ... we're winning tremendously. We have total control of the Hormuz Strait ... that deal would not be acceptable. They want to immediately open the Hormuz Strait."
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
THREE WEEKS FROM TODAY!!! Join the MAGA Resistance & make your voices heard. Accountability. Is. Coming.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
U.S. manufacturing jobs are down under Trump, including in the auto industry. His strategy failed, and so will this. Lowering standards will accelerate what he has already been doing: handing the clean tech future to China and forcing Americans to pay more at the pump.
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NPR @npr.org · 26/09/2026
The disclosure is the latest in a string of incidents in which the AI platform has been caught going rogue. OpenAI says it is reviewing the findings. n.pr/4hrlYc6
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OpenAI says its models engaged with US government websites in misbehavior disclosure
The disclosure is the latest in a string of incidents in which the AI platform has been caught going rogue. OpenAI says it is reviewing the findings.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
MS NOW reports that their White House reproter was denied access to the White House this morning despite a court order demanding she have access
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I don't know anything about this guy, but this is undeniably a clever and fun ad.
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Venus Kii Thomas @goddexxvenuskii.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I am absolutely pissed off after learning more details of who is behind the bills for proposing data centers in Baltimore.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is incredibly well-done reporting from NPR on an issue I have thought a lot about this summer: youtu.be/71qcn0xUtIY?...
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Why are doomed beach homes left fully furnished?
YouTube video by NPR
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026
“New students enrolling at the University of Texas at Austin can no longer major in studies focusing on Africans and the African diaspora, Mexican Americans and Latinos, or women and gender.” Puts a lot of “regain trust” rhetoric into proper relief.
texastribune.org
Majors related to race, gender cut at University of Texas
The University of Texas at Austin rejected a department’s plan to keep the majors, a decision that came without public knowledge, an interim department chair told faculty.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/09/2026
On September 17th, we filled our 200,000th pothole. See something that needs fixing in NYC? Call 311, tag @nyc311.bsky.social or go to portal.311.nyc.gov.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/09/2026
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
So the university co-founded by the founder of Palantir and the current head of 60 Minutes and CBS News is now starting a law school with help from the Federalist Society. Down with the elites!
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 18/09/2026
Truckers on skyrocketing diesel prices: "We can't continue to run like this." Semi trucks can carry up to 220 gallons of diesel fuel, which costs $1,320. So if diesel goes up, shipping costs go up with it and inflates the price of everything.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 14/09/2026
Nothing says “America First” like having Moscow sponsor the open bar.
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bestregardz.bsky.social @bestregardz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
UK ministers urged to act after US flies out diplomat accused of possessing indecent images of children
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