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Blue Wave Earper

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British TV watcher. Democracy enthusiast. Covid realist. #CovidIsNotOver Owned by a one-eyed orange cat named Spike. 🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) #KeepCaliforniaBlue #BlueWave2026 Los Angeles

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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 5h
In so many ways we’ve gone backwards… masks extremely stigmatized & sometimes outright banned, anti-vax sentiment up, 19th century pathogens thriving, public health defunded & derided, Medicaid defunded, hospitals/schools/airports more likely to disable or kill you, & ableism worse than ever
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 5h
THIS WAS MONEY FOR CHILDREN’S HEALTHCARE. A Florida grand jury found $10 MILLION meant to help provide health insurance for poor children was misappropriated for political purposes. Moody & DeSantis took money meant for kids. #GOPWarOnHealthcare
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 3h
I think the Senate Judiciary Hearing today, where they tried…in vain…to smear Jack Smith, was better than anything else that could have taken place to boost voter turnout for democracy. I think it reminded a lot of people just how much they hate these swindlers…and why.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10h
🚨 BREAKING: Texas Rep. Gina Hinojosa has filed an official request to inspect unredacted communications between Gov. Greg Abbott’s office and Elon Musk after roughly 1,400 pages released last year were heavily redacted as “intimate and embarrassing.”
Texas State Rep. Gina Hinojosa stands indoors wearing a burgundy blazer and dark top, with campaign signage bearing her name and the outline of Texas visible behind her.Official letter dated September 29, 2026, from Texas State Rep. Gina Hinojosa to Gov. Greg Abbott’s office requesting inspection of unredacted communications between Abbott’s office and Elon Musk and his companies. Hinojosa seeks records previously released with redactions for information deemed “embarrassing” or “intimate,” citing her legislative authority under the Texas Public Information Act.
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 13h
Nicki Minaj isn’t a U.S. citizen, so she can’t even vote herself. For a network that pushed false claims about noncitizens voting, you’d think they’d mention that. If this is about getting Black women to vote red, I’m here to tell you that black women are smarter than all of us.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 6h
“This is about stepping up where the federal government has failed.” On Tuesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law banning law enforcement officers in the state from using electrical shock gloves.
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California bans ICE's favorite shock gloves
A DHS spokesperson has said that the agency "will not abide" by any state ban.
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JimCook@JimCook.bsky.social @jimcook.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 13h
This week in Carbon Brief’s essential guide to new climate research: 🔬 New science on coastal flooding, atmospheric dust, heat stress 🌊 Carbon Brief unpacks ‘OceanEye’ ⛈️ Developing El Niño is officially the strongest on record 🧊 Antarctic sea ice reaches the third-smallest winter peak on record
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Cited 29 September 2026: Record-breaking El Niño | The EU ‘OceanEye’ project | Antarctic sea ice peak - Carbon Brief
In the news EL NIÑO BREAKS RECORDS: Carbon Brief analysis found that this year’s “super El Niño” has entered record-breaking…
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13h
You don’t have to have a law degree to know that Trump's recent taxpayer funded ads are illegal. But why is he running them? Some thoughts... ⬇️ robertreich.substack.com/p/why-is-t…
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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 13h
went to Iowa to see what all the fuss is about www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Rob Sand says he Isn't trying to turn Iowa blue. It just might happen anyway.
In a midterms wave fueled by resistance and revenge, the Democratic candidate for governor is singing a different tune.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 13h
This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 13h
“I just wanted to do something good, and everyone is making it seem like I’m doing something wrong,” one temporary caregiver told @caitlindickerson.bsky.social, who reports on the babies left behind by Trump’s deportations and the individuals trying to care for them.
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The Babies Left Behind in America
The United States is deporting parents without their children, creating a whole new family-separation crisis.
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World Health Network @thewhn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We shouldn’t have to wait for a COVID surge to start protecting ourselves. Layered prevention helps reduce transmission before cases climb and hospitals become overwhelmed. Masking, cleaner indoor air, vaccination, testing, and staying home when sick all work together to reduce (...)
World Health Network graphic on a dark background with orange accents. At the top are the “whn.global” logo and the text “World Health Network — Science for a safer, healthier world.” Large text reads: “We should not need a COVID surge to care about prevention.” The words “COVID surge” are highlighted in orange. Below a horizontal line, smaller text reads: “Masking, clean air, vaccination, testing and staying home when sick work before hospitals become overwhelmed.”
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ken Paxton: The only thing that really saves us is that the Supreme Court came along and allowed Super PACs. Otherwise... I would be sitting here and never have a chance...
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This also sums up the American healthcare experience pretty well. American healthcare is a travesty. This is the bad place.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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Chris Kluwe, Candidate for Assembly District 72 @kluweoc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Proud to be endorsed by California Environmental Voters! I look forward to working with California Environmental Voters and community members to tackle the issues that matter most to our coastal communities, including access clean air and water, and standing up to polluters.
Chris Kluwe for Assembly is proudly endorsed by California Environmental Voters!
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Evan George @evanlgeorge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Oh no biggie, just the second largest electric transit bus purchase in the nation! Wow earthjustice.org/press/2026/l...
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LA Metro Approves Purchase of 220 Non-Polluting Electric Buses
Landmark investment is second largest electric transit bus purchase in the nation
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/09/2026
The legislation stems from a KQED-ProPublica report that found at least 14 educators were hired by new schools after their former employers found they had sexually harassed students or committed other misconduct. Read our original investigation:
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He Was Fired for Sexually Harassing Students. California Allowed Him to Keep Teaching Anyway.
Math teacher Jason Agan was deemed “unfit to teach.” But the finding was never made public. This is how the state allowed him — and dozens of other educators found to have committed sexual harassment…
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 28/09/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com The certainty around “super El Niño” conditions in the Pacific Ocean this year “means that many of the expected impacts — intense rainfall in some regions, drought and wildfire in others and an increase in global warming — are very likely to occur,” Jeffrey Shaman writes.
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Opinion | The Super El Niño Comes Bearing One Gift: Time to Prepare
There’s still time to prepare.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump had $400 million in his PAC and he STILL decided that he needed to steal taxpayer money to pay for campaign ads for the midterms.
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Wakefield was a fraud who engaged in deliberate data falsification. Investigations revealed that he had altered patient medical histories, fabricated data, and reported false onset times. He lost his license to practice medicine in the UK in 2010. www.immunize.org/clinical/vac...
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Thomson Reuters, which owns news agency Reuters, has signed a $125M deal giving ICE access to its databases of personal data. USA Today has partnered with Palantir to gain "actionable intelligence" on its audiences. The media should be opponents of Trump's police state — not collaborators.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Vought is breaking the law but he is not “going rogue.” At his confirmation hearings, Vought told Republicans he would do this and they voted for him anyway. If they want to stop him, they still can via impeachment. They won’t.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
These people make Marie Antoinette look connected to the people and empathetic by comparison. They laugh at what their own voters are going through as they continue to mock them as they enrich themselves and have a great time.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 27/09/2026
As tech titans warned an AI-weary world that their own advanced systems could endanger humanity, the question emerged: What do they have to gain?
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Anthropic and OpenAI sound the alarm on AI safety — and seek to shape how it's controlled
As tech titans warned an AI-weary world that their own advanced systems could endanger humanity, the question emerged: What do they have to gain?
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 27/09/2026
EXACTLY WHAT WE’VE BEEN WARNING ABOUT What will it take for Speaker Johnson to bring the House back and deal with it? AI ISN’T WAITING FOR CONGRESS. 📌 OpenAI says its agents accessed federal government sites. Researchers say an agent also attempted to breach the Education Department’s website.
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Elayne Boosler @eboosler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The UN: "The US was the ONLY nation to vote "NO" against ensuring & strengthening worldwide access to justice for all women & girls. The resolution passed with 37 yes votes, 6 countries (Côte d’Ivoire, Congo, Egypt, Mali, Mauritania & Saudi Arabia) abstained." Good company, huh? Vote Blue!
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Epic www.france24.com/en/send-in-t... ChrisThompsonthreads.com/@cthompsonyyc
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Dovewoman 💙 🇺🇦 💙 @dovewoman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Ricky Gervais @mrrickygervais.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Look at my beautiful cat.
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
OK. Huge baseball fan here, and I've also backpacked the Teton Crest Trail. Building a baseball stadium at a national park is one of the dumbest ideas I've ever heard. It's insane that MLB would ask, and worse that the National Park Service would consider Grand Teton.
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Trump administration considers building baseball park in Grand Teton National Park
Major League Baseball contacted the administration about hosting a game in a national park, with an agency official scouting Grand Teton as a possible location.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020 — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.
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Blue Wave Earper @blueearper.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Hey #CovidConscious folks. Any thoughts on the current accuracy of home tests with the latest variant. Finally got my insurance to cover them but CVS only gave me their brand. It says not to use with no symptoms. My friends and I always test before a large gathering whether we have symptoms or not.
Picture of Covid test kit box from CVS. Highlighted text say not for use with no symptoms at all.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think this shows how monumentally stupid JD Vance is, that he walked right into that. Anyone with any clue could have seen that set-up a mile away.
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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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☮️💙ENOUGH! !! @alletto.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Share this! It's outrageous!!
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEW: I came across a bookseller who was afraid that a mysterious company trying to buy some of his rarest books was going to use them to train AI models. I went down the rabbithole with him, and was confused and altogether existentially weirded out by what I found www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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A bookseller confronts a mysterious company hunting his rarest books
Was a Kentucky retailer targeted by a destructive AI "predator"?
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026
A MORATORIUM ON DATA CENTERS SHOULDN’T EVEN BE IN QUESTION AT THIS POINT And we definitely need more reporting on this issue: HEAT Data centers devour electricity and water, dump heat into communities, and Big Tech is building them faster than lawmakers are dealing with the consequences.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 26/09/2026
John Roberts has spent his entire career trying to kill the Voting Rights Act. Now his Republican-appointed majority is dusting off arguments once used to destroy Reconstruction to roll back the gains made during the civil rights era. The latest from @AriBerman & @pemalevy: tinyurl.com/3m6nawpj
Mother Jones magazine cover linking the Roberts Supreme Court to a revival of Jim Crow: a black judicial robe hangs next to a white KKK hooded robe with a hand reaching toward it; headline "The Southern Strategy" and subhead "Jim Crow was dead and buried. Then came the Roberts court."
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.
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Indivisible DuPage @indivisibledupage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If we elect enough Senators, we can impeach this guy.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
PLEASE SHARE
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is the trailer that all the major platforms refuse to run as a paid ad:
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 26/09/2026
Ahem: You. Me. Same Busses have one huge advantage: the US already has a zillion miles of roads. They take advantage of EXISTING infrastructure that could be improved with some paint and cameras.
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Better Bus Systems Could Slow Climate Change
Electric cars alone can’t solve our emissions problem
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Rep. Jason Crow @crow.house.gov · 25/09/2026
President Trump continues to roll out the red carpet for autocrats. First Putin, now Xi. Shamefully wining & dining our adversaries as he kicks our allies to the curb.
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