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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The future of four large research networks that test vaccines and treatments for HIV, TB and emerging infectious diseases is in limbo after weeks of delays from the Trump administration in launching the process to renew their funding. 🎁 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/h...
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Trump Administration Delays Threaten Funding for HIV Research (Gift Article)
The networks also develop treatments and preventions for other infectious diseases and were instrumental in testing the Covid vaccine.
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Glenn Kirschner @glennkirschner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Donald Trump lost yet again today in the Kennedy Center case. Will be discussing Judge Cooper's new court order on Substack live at 8:30 pm ET. Join us? open.substack.com/live-stream/...
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LIVE SOON: Another court loss for Trump, and a true crime discussion
Starting Oct 7 at 8:30 PM EDT
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 08/10/2026
A new study found that levies put in place last year by the Trump administration drove up consumer goods inflation by an estimated 2.9 percentage points as of February.
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Tariffs drove up prices for consumer goods, study finds
Without them, prices would have declined slightly, researchers at the New York Fed found.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 08/10/2026
The impossible dilemma that Black parents face | Saida Grundy
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The impossible dilemma that Black parents face | Saida Grundy
Having to choose between academic rigor and cultural inclusivity puts some families in an untenable conundrum
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 08/10/2026
I see what’s happening here in Paris: reasonable student demands met with awful violence | Helen Massy-Beresford
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I see what’s happening here in Paris: reasonable student demands met with awful violence | Helen Massy-Beresford
The debate around the schools protests is angry and polarised: a foretaste of how next year’s presidential election is likely to play out, says Helen Massy-Beresford, a British journalist and editor who lives in Paris
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The Onion @theonion.com · 08/10/2026
“Americans, we come to you on your semiquincentennial with a dire dispatch: You must keep up the great work, because things will only get more amazing from here on out.” — Commander Mecha-Aquila of the 10th Robo Battalion
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Time Travelers From Year 2376  Warn Of Future    Where America   Still Perfect
WASHINGTON—As they emerged from their smoldering, star-spangled chronochamber and urged the public to heed a consequential message, time travelers from the year 2376 attempted to warn the nation Satur...
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 08/10/2026
Leon Botstein resigns from Bard roles as key Democrat demands investigation into Epstein links
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Leon Botstein resigns from Bard roles as key Democrat demands investigation into Epstein links
Jamie Raskin says ‘startling’ email asked whether young woman was ‘for me, or are you keeping her for yourself’
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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
IMPEACH TRUMP FOR TREASON: "Let (Iran) take out L.A." IS giving our enemies "aid and comfort." It IS treasonous, per our constitution De-Trumpification accelerates. Abbott blows him off. Rogers. Sununu. Murdoch! And I'll unlock the secret: how did Don Larsen throw a perfect game? Pod at midnight
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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John Doffing @johndoffing.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"WELL PLAYED MISTER PUTIN . . . " "WELL PLAYED INDEED . . . " FIRST AS TRAGEDY SECOND AS FARCE churlish chekist corrupt clowns posse con-sequences #CCCP www.newsweek.com/putin-americ...
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Putin Tells U.S. to Stop Making Fun of Trump
Russian President Vladimir Putin said "one can argue but one can't show disrespect" to Donald Trump, regardless of whether you like him.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 08/10/2026
Trump is asking for American cities to be attacked. youtu.be/DhIeyeqI2Ng?...
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Daisy L.A.
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Eddie C @eddie2721819.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Stand fast, Canada!
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 08/10/2026
Analysis: These midterm elections may be remembered as the year the wealthy dominated in political spending. But money doesn’t seem to be solving Republicans’ problems, and the spending may backfire amid voters’ discontent with their government.
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Analysis | The extraordinary amount of money pouring into the midterm elections
How much is too much?
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I'm sorry, but I don't take health advice from someone who has turned himself into a human Slim Jim.
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Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 08/10/2026
The financial burden of caregiving extends well beyond the money spent directly on care. Here’s how to recognize the hidden costs of caregiving and plan for them:
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Caregiving is hard. These are the hidden financial costs.
Here’s how to recognize these costs, which extend well beyond the money spent directly on care, and plan for them.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 08/10/2026
In Opinion Almost 70 years after its inception, “The Twilight Zone” remains incredibly relevant, Alan Sepinwall writes. It tackled “prejudice, creeping authoritarianism, the dangers of humans being replaced by technology and the peril of conformity as a societal ideal in ways that still resonate.”
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Opinion | ‘The Twilight Zone’ Was a Warning America Ignored
With “The Twilight Zone,” Rod Serling created a durable blueprint for understanding our surreal reality.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
@garthtoons.bsky.social
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 08/10/2026
An American Airlines flight was forced to land several hours early on Tuesday because of an urgent problem: Most of the plane’s bathrooms had stopped working.
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6 Broken Bathrooms Force Flight to Make an Urgent Landing
An American Airlines flight was diverted to New York on Tuesday because of an “inadequate number of operational lavatories” — two, on a plane that normally has eight.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Trump Crime Family
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
@chrisbritt.bsky.social
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Road salt would have been delicious on the steaks you can no longer afford thanks to Donald Trump." —Susan Collins, Senator from Maine
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The problem is he believes this.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In two weeks.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 08/10/2026
AI is steadily reshaping parts of the U.S. economy in ways that aren’t immediately obvious. Zooming in on those changes reveals how the AI investment boom is creating economic dynamism but also instability.
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The unexpected ways that AI is reshaping the U.S. economy
The technology is bringing new prosperity to certain parts of the economy, but also creating new vulnerabilities.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 08/10/2026
Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy condemns ‘vile’ attacks from Russia that killed 20 in one apartment
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Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy condemns ‘vile’ attacks from Russia that killed 20 in one apartment
Death toll from latest attack wave on Ukraine climbs to 28; Moscow says it ​hit military cargo vessel and port infrastructure. What we know on day 1,688 The death toll from Russia’s latest attack on Ukraine has climbed to 28, its interior minister, Ivan Vyhivskyi, has said. Russia pounded Ukraine with waves of missiles and drones on Wednesday. The heaviest losses were in ⁠Pryluky, in Ukraine’s northern Chernihiv region, where ​a Russian missile obliterated a five-storey residential building. Twenty people died in the attack, including five children, said Pryluky’s regional governor, Vyacheslav Chaus. On Wednesday evening, prosecutors in Kyiv said falling debris from a drone killed two people in a suburb of the capital. In ‌Pryluky, an excavator and dozens of rescuers with ‌shovels sifted through rubble at the site where several sections of the apartment block had collapsed. Emergency workers used ladders to get to the upper floors of what remained of the building, and as they worked their way down brought out ‌15 survivors. About 55 people were wounded in the town, regional officials said. Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the Pryluky attack one of Russia’s “most vile”. “The Russians wanted to strike painfully and demonstratively,” the Ukrainian president said. “This was one of the most vile strikes.” Russia’s ⁠defence ministry has said ⁠its ⁠forces struck a ⁠vessel heading ⁠to the ​Ukrainian ‌Black ‌seaport of ‌Odesa with cargo for the Ukrainian military. The ‌statement on Telegram on Wednesday gave ​no further details of the strike. The ⁠ministry also said ​Russian ​drones had ​hit ​infrastructure in ‌Ukrainian ​ports, without ​elaborating. Bulgarian president Iliana Yotova blamed Russia’s war in Ukraine for worsening security in the Black Sea on Wednesday. Early on Tuesday, two ⁠ships were hit in ​a drone attack in Bulgaria’s Black Sea exclusive economic zone, with one sinking and the other damaged. The crew of the damaged ship were rescued but the crew of the ⁠sunken one remain missing. Yotova did not directly blame Russia, but said on Wednesday that the war had led to “a significant deterioration” in security for commercial vessels in the region. Bulgaria has halted its search for the missing ⁠crew. European Union envoys approved 1,646 new designations under the bloc’s sanctions regime for Russia, with most focused ⁠on the country’s military industrial complex, three EU diplomats said on Wednesday. More than half of the newly added entities and individuals are involved in the ⁠chain of production of Russia’s ballistic missiles. Continue reading...
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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Breaking news: The military judge just threw out the confessions of the fourth defendant in the 9/11 case -- which has gone on so long in part because prosecutors fought hard to keep them. It's a blow to the Bush administration's clean team theory. Scorecard: 5-0. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u...
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Judge Throws Out Last Defendant’s Confession in Sept. 11 Case at Guantánamo (Gift Article)
The government is now 0-5 in its efforts to admit the so-called clean team confessions to the capital cases at Guantánamo Bay.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Today we got access to a smoking gun document from ICE that shows how it is weaponized against progressive groups registering voters while building a voter suppression database.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 08/10/2026
Exclusive: The Trump administration is crafting plans that would allow the temporary sale of some previously restricted peptides as officials hammer out new regulations around the controversial products, according to two people familiar with the matter.
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Trump administration paving way for temporary sale of some unapproved peptides
Food and Drug Administration scientists and some medical experts have raised alarms about increasing access to certain peptides.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Beyond parody. So sweaty, so untethered from reality, so desperate.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 08/10/2026
Federal Reserve officials are increasingly pointing to “surging AI-related investments,” alongside higher prices for crude oil and fuel due to the war in Iran, rather than tariffs to explain why the prices of goods keep rising.
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Data center boom is pushing prices higher, according to Fed officials
Federal Reserve officials are increasingly pointing to the artificial intelligence buildout, rather than tariffs, to explain why the prices of goods keep rising.
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Christine Hallquist @christinehallquist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A billionaire Trump supporter will now own much of the news media. It is going to be important for all of us to become the media. www.huffpost.com/entry/elliso...
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One Billionaire Trump-Aligned Family Will Soon Own All These Channels
The father-son Ellison duo will reign over a kingdom of media properties now that Warner Bros. shareholders approved a major deal.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/10/2026
As budget director, Russell Vought has often ignored Congress by … not signing the checks. At other times, he’s been able to take money Congress intended for one thing and use it for something else by justifying it as a “national emergency.” Listen to our latest episode:
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Podcast: Who’s the Shadow President?
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 08/10/2026
Cunningham is making transphobia her entire personality to parlay it into being a conservative media darling. It's all she has at this point and it's pathetic. www.latimes.com/sports/story...
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Sophie Cunningham appears to troll transgender community with hat at Missouri football game
Indiana Fever player Sophie Cunningham appeared at Missouri’s homecoming game with a hat bearing a slogan that seemed to imply that transgender women are not actually women.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Fuck this. I don’t know what else to say. Prison kills. mississippitoday.org/2026/10/07/c...
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Wrongly imprisoned Curtis Flowers dies
After Flowers was convicted in a sixth trial, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned it and a state judge dismissed capital murder charges against him.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 08/10/2026
During September, moisture levels in Earth’s atmosphere were the highest on record for that month. This is the second consecutive month that such a record has been broken.
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Earth set a record for atmospheric moisture in September
This probably marks the start of moisture records for the planet due to rising temperatures and the strongest El Niño increasing air’s water vapor-carrying capacity.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
gocomics.com/drewsheneman
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 07/10/2026
Texas Railroad Commission candidate Bo French refused to take down an anti-immigrant post about students celebrating at a University of Texas football game, instead attempting to raise funds off of the publicity. Donations have poured in for his opponent.
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Anti-immigrant post fuels donations to Texas GOP candidate’s opponent
Donations from around the country have poured into an obscure Texas campaign.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 07/10/2026
To fill its depleted ranks, the Justice Department’s civil rights division has opened its doors to recruits whose questionable work histories and lack of education might have disqualified them from being hired in the past, former officials said. nyti.ms/3U9VQuA
The Department of Justice building in Washington, D.C., is pictured. Headline reads: "Justice Dept. Turns to Partisans and Conspiracists to Fill Depleted Ranks." Photo credit: Jason Andrew for The New York Times.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 07/10/2026
Rick sits down with historian Timothy Snyder, author of ON TYRANNY and ON FREEDOM. His message: Trump isn’t strong. He’s weak. The answer isn’t fear—it’s mockery, organizing, and overwhelming turnout this November. A historian’s warning—and a battle plan. WATCH: youtu.be/7Y3o9rPG34U
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 07/10/2026
Democrat Troy Jackson attempted to pierce Republican Sen. Susan Collins’s reputation as an effective senator who steers millions of dollars to Maine in a Tuesday night debate, criticizing her for making life more expensive for Mainers.
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Takeaways from the Maine Senate debate between Susan Collins, Troy Jackson
The debate in a race for a critical Senate seat featured lots of talk about President Trump, high prices and the war in Iran.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 07/10/2026
US households pay 62% more for water than they did a decade ago, study finds
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US households pay 62% more for water than they did a decade ago, study finds
For-profit water corporations, federal cuts and climate crisis are ‘supercharging water rate hikes’, study co-author says
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Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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