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Brian Lehigh, of the Indiana Lehighs

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Crazy cat guy; guitar music lover; endless scroller; perpetual goofball

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 1h
BREAKING: Republican attorneys general from Louisiana, Alabama, and Arkansas have filed two sweeping lawsuits targeting dozens of providers who ship abortion pills—and the blue states that protect them.
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 49m
The Bible actually does have something to say about this: Exodus 20:16: "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor."
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Sister Golden Bear @sistergoldenbear.bsky.social · 2h
They want us trans people eradicated
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Tremendous Kielbasa @rsaltasaurus.bsky.social · 3h
This is incomplete reprint designed to provoke. The bill had voter ID attached to it in order to get it killed, making it so Republicans could run this exact headline.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 4h
“We’re at a period where our molecular understanding is unprecedented,” said Dr. Paul Mischel, a physician scientist at Stanford. “But the infrastructure is really falling apart.” “It’s a problem — it’s a big, big problem,” he added. “People should be really angry.”
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New Cancer Drugs Are Revolutionary. Why Don’t More Patients Get Them?
Targeted gene therapies are highly effective at stopping cancers, but the very abundance of the treatments, plus cost and sluggish change, are hindering access.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 7h
They're moving on from trans youth towards advocating banning care for trans adults, just like we said they would.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 4h
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 17h
What emerges when you take a deep breath is a picture of what we all know by now to be true. This is not a president who is committed to governing, to public service. This is a smash and grab, and we are the victims. joycevance.substack.com/p/flooding-t...
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Flooding the Zone
Jack Smith kicked off his testimony on the Hill today like this: “I stand by my decisions as special counsel, including my decision to bring charges against President Trump.” He told senators that his...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19h
this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If this goes ahead it is Trump overtly taking Russia's side in the war against Ukraine and Europe, aligning the United States with China, Iran, and North Korea. Like the Putin G20 visit, it cannot be allowed to happen. We must fight.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Republicans cried that Trump needed money for the border and then he stole the money to pay for a millions in totally illegal, taxpayer funded campaign ads. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Exclusive | Homeland Security Money Financed Pro-Trump Television Ads
White House calls the spots public-service ads, but critics argue using taxpayer money for campaign-like messaging may violate federal law.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 29/09/2026
Don’t ask an elected official if they “believe” in climate change, it’s not a religion. Don’t ask if they think it’s serious: it is. Ask them what matters most: what are they doing about it? Excellent application here, 10/10 no notes 👏⬇️👏
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We all complain about the media’s failures but organizations like @propublica.org and @texastribune.org are doing the work and deserve our financial support
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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It cannot be said any more clearly. Trump should have been arrested on January 20, 2021, and held without bail. Trump should be arrested now, or at least on January 20, 2029, if a Democrat wins. Let the justice system go to work. And if SCOTUS frees him, send him to prison in New York.
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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 28/09/2026
New Horizons is now *three days away* from shutting off its two heliophysics instruments, simply because NASA has not provided the $2M in funding it had promised to the mission last year or this year. There is no science basis for shutting these off. Our earlier coverage:
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NASA’s New Horizons mission may shut down two instruments over lack of funding
Decision risks “incalculable loss” of data from the edge of the Sun’s influence, scientists say
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 29/09/2026
Reminder that Trump cut funds that could have helped Africa stop the spread of Ebola. trib.al/an8St24
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Trump Asks African Reporter How Ebola Is Going
Reminder that Trump cut funds that could have helped Africa stop the spread of Ebola.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27/09/2026
Remember the random dude who got 49020939 articles of uncritical media coverage in the space of two days because he quit anthropic based on his fears of existential AI risk? Yeah..........he's a climate denier. So is the whole AI industry. www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/22/a...
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
FYI this bill does nothing. It contains no new mandatory rules restricting data centers. It's just fakery to try to fool voters into forgetting that Republicans spent the entire term trying to stop states from regulating AI (as requested by the AI companies). www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Exclusive: Some Republicans push to prioritize Husted data center bill
Republican senators have discussed the idea but made no final decision.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
if i were a foreign government looking for an edge, id probably try to convince america that climate change is woke bull shit and combustion engines are for real men with penises, all while also convincing them to invest every dollar in bull shit tech while we take the lead on green energy
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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
GOP Consultants : what do you mean she just fucking tweeted it out
Marjorie Taylor Greene
We have not seen a caravan headed to the U.S.
southern border in several years, why now?
Oh yeah, there is an election coming and the
GOP needs to scare you into voting because
nothing else is working.

Anthony Aguero Live
Over 400 aliens predominantly from
Honduras entered Mexico on Thursday,
ready to make their way to the US southern
border ... Here's footage of the caravan.
Someone is incentivizing this movement, t ...

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every college in this country decided that expelling and/or sending the police to beat the shit out of their own students for the crime of being opposed to genocide was their top priority. That and giving Trump complete control of what they teach. Contrast that with how they treat rapists.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
US Tax Dollars Now Used to Secure Deals for Trump Family Cronies talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/us-ta...
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US Tax Dollars Now Used to Secure Deals for Trump Family Cronies
This has gotten very little attention, as far as I can tell....
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When I say we desperately need a Democratic doctor in the US Senate I mean it.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In March, Washington State passed a tax on millionaires to fund public education, childcare, and expand its earned income tax credit. Now, special interest groups backed by the rich are trying to trick voters into repealing the tax by claiming it will apply to non-millionaires. Don't fall for it.
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Washington Taxed Its Millionaires. Now the Rich Want It Repealed.
Washington State voters will get a chance to accept or reject the 9.9 percent income tax on millionaires approved by the Legislature, which broke the state’s taboo against levying income taxes.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is also The Plot to Enslave America — monomanical focus on destruction of our education system comes first
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 27/09/2026
Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/kQdKbY1
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Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees
Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
But if trans girls are "cheating" by playing women's sports, what else are the sneaky trans people cheating about. They're also coming for Title IX. They don't care about women in sports. They want women out of sports. Please, I am begging you, stop falling for this shit.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hard to think of a more glaring success of the right-wing media capture than Trump completely avoiding having to account for blundering into the Iran War, the most obvious strategic failure of the century, if not US history.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You wouldn't know it from reading the headlines, but the president's downward mental health spiral is the biggest story in America right now We won't salvage democracy unless the media and pols start speaking the truth about Trump's damaged mind My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
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We need to find the words for Trump’s madness before things blow up | Will Bunch
The media and politicians haven’t pinned down anything resembling a suitable description for a president’s downward spiral or the looming battle for U.S. democracy.
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Cough…John Roberts did this…cough
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 27/09/2026
this story describes cult dynamics amongst a group of people who are all deeply unqualified for their jobs and an executive who is grossly incompetent and unfit for his position
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Serving at his pleasure: What it’s like to be in Trump’s Cabinet
What it’s like to be in Donald Trump’s Cabinet.
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
@apnews.com stacks the deck for Susan Collins in a piece on blowback for her role in Roe's demise, giving a 'woman on the street' quote to lobbyist Mary Ann Lynch, a Collins crony/campaign surrogate who's had TWO pieces flaking for Collins in @pressherald.com THIS MONTH ALONE! #bias #MEpolitics
AP: “I think I’ve tried to not have my allegiance to party make me blind to what may be a better path from time to time,” said Mary Ann Lynch, a Democrat supporting Collins. “Neither party, in my view, has a monopoly on the truth and how best to do things. So I think it’s really important to have people who will reach across the aisle.”
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It is illegal. For this reason alone, he should be impeached and removed and convicted. There is no justification under law or the Constitution for a president to "cancel" funding appropriated by the Congress and signed into law by previous presidents. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Trump cancels $1B in federal spending in latest challenge to Congress
Many lawmakers, including some top Republicans, say the "pocket rescission" tactic is illegal.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
On this day in 1994, the Clinton administration's heathcare reform plan was declared "dead" by Congress. Over 30 years later, the US is still the only industrialized country without universal healthcare. This should be a national outrage.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This serves as advertisement for Alex Gibney’s documentary, Musk, opening October 9. Pass it on.
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Not everybody knows this, and everybody should. On Sept. 26, 1983, a Soviet nuclear warning system alerted Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov that the U.S. had launched a missile attack. He did not retaliate, preventing WWIII. This is a post about AI. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...
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Stanislav Petrov - Wikipedia
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Doctors TARDIS @doctorstardis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
*spins wheel* Clams with *throws dart* hepatitis
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Malaclypse the Middle @malaclypse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Iran-Contra began in 1981.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Once again, the Supreme Court prioritizes imaginary harms done to Trump by not allowing him to indulge in his conspiracy theories, as opposed to the very real harm done to citizens who may lose the ability to vote in this case.
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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fake. USDA. Seals. Used by an NC meat processing plant on 83.5 TONS of meat. Produced entirely outside the federal inspection system, according to news reports. We are pretty close to The Jungle (second ed.) now, no? www.scrippsnews.com/life/recalls...
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Interactive: Meat recall linked to fake USDA labels
Pork, beef and goat products are being recalled after a company allegedly used fake USDA inspection labels. Explore our interactive guide to see which products are affected and what to look for.
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NukularBiskits: 86 + 47 = 133 @nukularbiskits.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Sent this to my manager this morning, telling him I was unable to come to work because I was at the hospital getting an MRI:
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just putting this out there. If Democrats win the midterms, we need a full-court press to reverse the damage Russell Vought and RFK Jr. have caused. No half-measures will do. Put on your big boy pants and get to work. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Trump Is Destroying Public Health. Democrats Need to Fight Back.
If they win in the midterms, the party must move quickly and aggressively to undo the harm Trump and his cronies have caused.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Every taxpayer, no matter your party, should be outraged by this. Your money is being used to fund campaign ads for Trump. It’s totally completely illegally. He’s stealing your money for his campaign. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
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‘Love Me’ Ad Promotes Trump With Public Money Ahead of the Midterms
A disclaimer says the ad was paid for by the U.S. government, which could violate federal law.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 25/09/2026
America cannot have a multiracial, multicultural democracy if the United States Supreme Court is allowed to continue to exist in its current form
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Trump administration started a war of choice against Iran, which has proved a disaster, and now plans a second war. No popular support, no looming threat, just an imperial presidency.
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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Seems bad.
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Jon Husted has now voted 14 times to continue the Iran war. That’s 14 votes causing record high gas and grocery prices, and Ohioans are paying the price.
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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 25/09/2026
If the ballroom construction is such a sensitive national security matter, why is Trump inviting the Chinese delegation on a tour???
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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