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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 23/09/2026

EIon Musk’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $984B Jeff Bezos’s Wealth 2009: $6B 2026: $370B Mark Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $256B Federal Minimum Wage 2009: $7.25 2023: $7.25 Billionaire tax rate: 8.2% Worker tax rate: 13% Pay workers. Tax & Abolish Billionaires. Save our economy & country.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My entire life I've heard centrists scolding leftist candidates with "oh, but how will we pay for all that? isn't your agenda unreasonable? shouldn't we run on a modest proposal for means-tested tax rebates?" Then Mamdani gets elected and makes it all look pretty easy. No wonder they hate him.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 21/09/2026

Russell Vought really doesn't want you to have cancer research and will do whatever he has to to ensure that’s the case. Even though his own daughter has benefited from federally funded research. Typical 🙄 Tap the link in our bio to Stop Vought and fund a new pro-science congress. tr.ee/DJEoui

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Bobbie Lynn @bobbielynn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The loss will be incalculable and generational.

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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

You don’t have to like this guy‘s politics to recognize that everyone who has insisted for decades that The Issues are almost all too complicated and too nuanced to explain to voters let alone address was lying to you.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 10/08/2026

We need to protect Social Security for the next generation.

$The Social Security payroll tax is capped at $184,500 in income. So if you're a nurse or construction worker, you pay Social Security on 100% of your income. But if you're a lawyer raking in millions, you only pay Social Security on a tiny fraction of your income. That is not right.$

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Bobbie Lynn @bobbielynn.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

"What I failed to recognise was that, in some cases, it transformed those summaries into what appeared to be direct quotations," he says. "The danger isn't that AI writes bad prose. The danger is that it writes persuasive prose attached to facts that never existed.”

Screenshot of text that reads: Lots of writers now only quote from original interviews, archives or physical books — anything else is too dangerous. It takes forever and I’m not sure there’s another way.

Then there’s a picture of text that reads: Earlier this year, author Steven Rosenbaum took a phone call that turned his world upside down.The book be had spent three years researching and writing, he was informed, contained fabrications by AI tools. “When I learned there were factual inaccuracies in The Future of Truth, my first reaction was: that’s impossible.” Rosenbaum tells the FT two months after the discovery. “It had gone through a traditional publishing process with multiple rounds of editing and review.” Rosenbaum had been clear about the use of AI tools in his nonfiction book - ironically, a study of the future of truth and technology - but had used them only to research and organize material, including summarizing source documents and interviews. “What I failed to recognise was that, in some cases, it transformed those summaries into what appeared to be direct quotations,” he says. “The danger isn’t that AI writes bad prose. The danger is that is writes persuasive prose attached to facts that never existed.”

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

1989: Margaret Thatcher, "Water privatisation I believe will go very successfully indeed. It will go very successfully indeed" 2026: BBC News, "Both terminals at the UK's second busiest airport, Gatwick, are without running water.. Toilets can't be flushed"

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

All generative text is a hallucination, some of it is correct and some of it is incorrect, and the computer has no idea which is which / there’s no invisible switch toggling between one or the other. Getting it right is as much an accident as getting it wrong

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Impressive pushback, and something every other sitting judge should be doing.

SCOTUS’s “hubristic originalists” have also corrupted our elections more broadly. The supermajority, Eddins wrote, has given “corporations the same speech rights as flesh-and-blood Americans,” letting “dollars talk louder than voters.” Just last month, it shredded “coordinated spending limits Congress had enacted, ensuring “that those who bankroll elections drown out the ordinary person.” As a result, “billionaires spend to be repaid. Everyone else just votes. The Roberts Court has made sure one’s wealth counts more than another’s vote.”

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Just 10 billionaires have already poured over $600 MILLION into this year's midterms. In the entire 2008 presidential cycle, the last election before Citizens United, total billionaire spending was $16 million. If you're wondering what the real threat to "election integrity" is, it's Big Money.

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New York Metro Weather @nymetrowx.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Thursday's Weather Rating: 1/10 Diabolical. Dense wildfire smoke is in place this morning, and will remain here all day long resulting in low visibility and terrible air quality. High temperatures reach into the mid 90s later, too. The vibes have vacated the area.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/07/2026

Massie: "I don't think the problem is that our elections aren't secure because we control the House, Senate, White House, and to some degree we control the Supreme Court. So I ask my Republican colleagues, why are you complaining about election fraud? We won all the damn elections!"

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Andrea LaFlamme @andrealaflamme.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Every single lawmaker that’s calling for their constituents to “be responsible with electricity usage” during the extreme heat had better be supporting heavy restrictions on data centers.

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Brad Siroky @bradsiroky.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

@schumer.senate.gov The 4 Justices that voted against this should be impeached & removed from the Court. If they cannot vote with something that is so clearly spelled out in the Constitution, they have no place on SCOTUS.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

All of these cases are basically litmus tests for any Dem nominee. Are immigrants Americans? Do trans Americans deserve human rights? Are corporations superhumans who get to spend endlessly on elections to put whoever they want into power? These are simple questions with simple answers.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

The new racist double standard set up by Alito in the TPS ruling: if there’s any other motive in addition to the racism, the racism doesn’t count, but if the state wants to *prevent* discrimination against black people, that is racist and unconstitutional www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The Roberts Court has been turning anti-discrimination law upside down for years. Its approach came into particular focus in May, with Louisiana v. Callais, in which it determined that not allowing Louisiana’s government to dilute Black votes was racist. In that case, Alito insisted that forcing the state to draw a second majority-Black congressional district would be an “unconstitutional racial gerrymander” because Republicans were entitled to discriminate against Black voters if they argued that their purpose was partisan instead of racist. The Court reaffirmed that position in a subsequent case dealing with Alabama, after a lower court had found ample evidence of deliberate racial discrimination, as opposed to the discriminatory effect of the Louisiana map.

Mullin now sets up an even more impossible double standard. If the government wants to discriminate against Black people, any pretext will do. “As long as there is a plausible basis—any plausible articulable basis—for the government’s action, then the Court will look to that basis as sufficient,” Aderson Francois, a law professor at Georgetown University, told me, “even in the face of evidence that government actors were motivated by animus.” If a Black person wants to prove they’ve been discriminated against, however, no amount of evidence will suffice.

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

As the summer begins please, my friend, remember that regardless of what the last several years have led you to believe it is not normal (it really is not normal) for everyone you know to get sick in the summer.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Some women at a Turning Point USA summit talked about relinquishing their right to vote to create a “more conservative” country. Here’s why we can’t afford to laugh it off as ridiculous. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 14/06/2026

Russell Vought’s grant proposal would give political appointees unprecedented influence over our federal research funding, threatening the independence of American science. That’s why we’re fighting back. Visit the link in our bio to take action, or go here: Article: zurl.co/AyP3y

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I’ve spent 40 years in research. I have never seen a threat to science like the new grantmaking rule

The federal government is now proposing to fundamentally rewire scientific research review for no good reason.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Remember this scene the next time a corporate reporter tries to insist that a rural diner full of white men in their 60s is somehow a more authentically "American" place, somehow more representative of who we are as a nation.

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Superb thread by Dr Harris: “It was confirmed years ago that the GBD was part of a political propaganda campaign boosted by the White House & right wing think tanks (who keep gold in a cage in the basement??) but some people still want to believe these guys were unfairly silenced renegades” 🤯

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Really important win for journalism but it’s the last paragraph that really struck me Palantir has to pay 95% of the Swiss magazine’s costs - which are $11,000 A case like this in the U.K. would cost *millions* in legal fees. Why it’s so easy for rich to suppress criticism

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Michael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

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Hart Cunningham @hart28.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Michigan Governor caught on hot mic with Oracle CEO Clay Magouyrk, discussing citizen opposition to AI data centers, bragging how she ignores their concerns: “We’re used to people saying 'f*ck no,' & doing it anyway.”🇺🇸

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

This puts all federal grants and contracts under the thumb of a commissar. It is profoundly anti-democratic and destructive. Political control will be instituted over science and every cent the USG disburses. Speak up now. This is really bad. It cannot stand. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/o...

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Opinion | Trump’s Assaults on Scientific Research Just Got Worse

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Danielle Beckman @daniellebeckman.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

The anatomical proximity and direct connection between the olfactory bulb and the orbital prefrontal cortex (OFC) make it a key neuroinvasion route for #COVID in the brain. In patients with #NeuroCovid, we observe thrombotic events, hypometabolism and atrophy in this region.

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The orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) is part of the olfactory cortex. Also controls emotions, reward value, reward-related decision-making, and inhibitory behavior
Damage to the OFC can lead to disinhibition, characterized by perseveration (repeated actions), reduced reversal ability (difficulty adapting to changing rules) and impulsive choices.

Followed by microscopy images showing Cerebral microhemorrhages (CMHs) in the OFC after COVID-19 infection

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Authoritarianism only succeeds when ordinary people and institutions are willing to carry its water. Police harassing and arresting physicians for distributing an editorial that criticizes the policies of the regime is very telling. Do not look away. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/w...

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Police Remove Diabetes Experts From Conference for Distributing Critique of Trump Administration

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 05/06/2026

"the screwworm is a lesson about the reality of good governance. State capacity is not so different from managing the electricity system or, for that matter, cutting carbon emissions, in that there is little political reward for getting it right." heatmap.news/daily/screww...

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The U.S. Government’s Screwworm Screw-Up

An unwanted lesson in good governance.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

This is the single most alarming thing I’ve seen yet from RFK Jr. He is attempting to get identifiable medical records from ALL OF US. “Under the proposal, HHS would get data from 90% of the population’s medical records by 2028”. This CANNOT be permitted to happen.

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RFK Jr. seeks to peek at Americans’ medical records for clues on autism and vaccines | CNN

U.S. health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is pursuing federal government access to most Americans’ medical records, in a quest to research a link between vaccines and autism — a connection the medic...

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The regulatory state is more important to the smooth operation of society to which we’ve become accustomed than anyone in this administration realizes, and in a lot of ways, we’ve already run off the cliff and are just starting to look down

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Monroe, born 100 years ago today. When Ella Fitzgerald couldn’t get booked at the Mocambo Club because she was Black, Monroe called the owner and told him: if he booked Ella, she would take a front table every night. And she did. #RIP

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

The latest assault by the Trump Administration would effectively end scientific research in the US (funding will be decided by political appointees—not scientists—& must advance Trump’s political agenda) This is the time for universities to step up If not now—when? If not now—what are they for?

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elizabethginexi.bsky.social @elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

“What OMB is proposing is not a reform of grants management,” Elizabeth Ginexi, a former program officer at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), writes in a Substack post. “It is a vehicle for complete political control of science … ” www.science.org/content/arti...

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White House seeks to tighten political oversight of grantmaking

Sweeping proposed rule, now open for comments, would also restrict foreign collaborations and remove federal funding for open-access fees

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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 28/05/2026

“In effect, today’s corporations and wealthy are hoarding the society’s resources for themselves, while starving the treasury of funds that are badly needed for repairing and strengthening the society on which their wealth depends.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

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CEOs Still Fail to Understand the Rage Against Them

As the trial of Luigi Mangione moved forward in New York state court last week, the proceedings highlighted how deeply the murder of UnitedHealthcare Group Inc. executive Brian Thompson has unsettled ...

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Probably shouldn't have let a handful of weird business perverts unwind the cultural miracle of American research universities

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

A President ordering the Justice Department to criminally investigate a woman who won a sexual assault lawsuit against him makes Watergate look like an unpaid parking ticket.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I just spoke with Sister Sharon of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Philly. She drove straight from the ICE prison there where she was doing a weekly prayer session to Delaney Hall to support the hunger strikers. This is what she had to say:

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Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

LLMs impress the writers who do not want to write, the coders who don't want to code, the researchers who don't want to research, and the lawyers that don't want to actually understand case law. Those that desperately tell you how powerful Al is and that you simply must use it are looking for you to validate their own laziness or distaste for effort, and those who are impressed with LLMs' outputs tend to be people with low standards.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

This photo of Andy Kim in the moments before ICE gassed everyone at Delaney Hall is going into the history books. We need more of this from our electeds.

Senator Andy Kim runs into the street as an ICE armored vehicle behind him prepares to deploy chemical agents against protestors in front of Delaney Hall concentration camp in Newark, NJ. His hands are outstretched and he appears to be shouting.

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