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dr. e. katherine @actualkatherine.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Ok I know he's a Yankee but you need to see this
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 21h
That’s not how any of this works but it is illustrative of not just RFK JR’s motivations but the entire MAHA industry. They’re bitter they never earned the respect and admiration of their peers and have to make it everyone else’s problem.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/09/2026
Meta's "Muse" launched with a nasty zero day flaw that gave hackers the ability to spy on Mac users, openly gives root access to people pretending to be Muse agents, and invited strangers over to another guy's house without telling him
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Meta's Latest AI Product Is A Terrifying And Hilarious Mess
Authoritarian-friendly mass surveillance has never been more adorable
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Kat is right about all of this. One of the reasons that college sexual violence is uniquely devastating is because it changes the victim’s entire future.
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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As fallout from the Cornell story continues, do you want to hear some history about the rape-on-campus/false-accusation panic from someone who was starting college as it took shape? Because this isn’t new, and it’s going to get ugly
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Sara Mitchell @sbmitche.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Speaking of not trusting what the administration says, a good summary of the pattern of T’s lies. www.cnn.com/2026/09/27/p...
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I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN Politics
Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Toad sipped his tea. “Frog,” he asked, “are you making this up?” “Maybe yes and maybe no,” said Frog.
Toad leans forward in his chair, sipping tea, transfixed by Frog's ghost story.

From "Shivers"
In *Days with Frog and Toad*
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
happy Jim Henson’s birthday from the museum of the moving image
A display case with the Statler and Waldorf puppets above one of Henson’s sketches
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 26/09/2026
So apropos of nothing in particular, let’s talk about media tie-in novel pay vs. original work pay, shall we? Let’s say you write a novel. It’s set in your own world, your own characters, and titled The Original. You get a book deal! Look at you go!
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 21/09/2026
Attention student journos: We're seeking a paid intern to cover the 2027 Texas Legislature. If you're finishing your schooling and want hands on experience in political/policy journalism, apply by October 30. 20/hours per week and located at our Austin office: www.texasobserver.org/2027-legisla...
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2027 Legislative Internship
The Texas Observer is hiring for an intern to help cover the 2027 Texas legislative session, running from January through early June. The Observer’s Legislative Internship program is for student…
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Each of these incidents is being framed as a success — a terrifying success that you must believe in and fear— rather than what it is as a criminal failure of ethics and institutional control.
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Dan Izzo @izzos.net · 25/09/2026
It's the glasses

"The electrical engineering community on Twitter discovers that an $80 WiFi router shaped like 'Kevin' the Minion is the strongest 6E internet router for its price point currently on the market"
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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 24/09/2026
Field guide in hand and she's gorgeous!
A copy of Networks of New York 2026 edition!!Page spread from Networks of New York 2026 on franchise agreements Page spread on Verizon fiber boxes
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
And if you’re in or near Stillwater Oklahoma in October, come on out and hear some thoughts related to this book and more!
A poster for a talk I’m giving. Key info from the poster is as follows:

FUTURE-PROOFING THE PAST: A POLITICAL ECONOMY OF
THE HUMANITIES WITHOUT AI
Humanities Week Keynote Lecture
with Dr. Sonja Drimmer, UMass Amherst
Thursday, October 8
4-5:30 PM
Helmerich Browsing Room
OSU Library
Why has Google invested so much in
art museums? What is OpenAI doing
in its partnerships with academic
libraries and archives? How has it
become popular for tech CEOs to
author manifestos in the guise of
historical treatises?
This talk offers an account of how
the political project of inserting
artifical intelligence into every civic
institution has depended, and
continues to depend, on the
technology industry's exploitation of
history.
Dr. Sonja Drimmer is Associate
Professor of the History of Art &
Architecture at the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research
interests include premodern notions of
authorship and authority, media
theory, book history, and the
aesthetics and material culture of
politics. She is the 2026-2027 W. Ford
Schumann Distinguished Visiting
Professor in Democratic Studies at
Williams College.
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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Op-ed: Hey #Florida Legislature, you should protect our remarkable springs www.tampabay.com/viewpoints/2...
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Florida’s Legislature must protect our valuable state springs | Column
Several of them stopped flowing this summer.
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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Never before has a turtle turtled this hard. Zoom in and appreciate The Foot
A fantastic painted turtle stands on a snag in a stream. Turtle has a smooth black carapace with bright red edges. Its neck and legs are a glorious riot of yellow racing stripes. It has its neck fully extended staring at the sky and the back right leg and foot are completely extended. This is an epic pose by a creature at the peak of its powers.
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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Trying to get my health insurance to cover chemo like
Charlie Brown saying “I got a rock”
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Rumors about “rigged elections" are now a fixture of U.S. elections, leading to diminished trust in election results & democracy (broadly). These rumors can sometimes be hard to debunk, esp. in their early stages. Our UW team has identified the 6 common ways that election integrity rumors mislead:
Infographic titled "Six Ways 'Rigged Election' Rumors Mislead." A two-column table pairs six labeled categories with descriptions. The first three categories are:

No Evidence: The rumor is entirely unsubstantiated. There's no evidence to support the rumor.

Fake/False Evidence: The rumor is based on fake or synthetic evidence (e.g. AI-generated content), manipulated evidence, or false witness testimony.

Misinterpreted Evidence: This rumor is based upon real evidence that has been misinterpreted or intentionally mischaracterized to create a false impression.

A black banner then introduces the final three categories: "Real Evidence, Real Voting Issue, False Narrative."

Exaggerated Impact: The rumor centers on a real issue with voting but falsely insinuates or exaggerates impact on election results.

Ignored Remedies: The rumor centers on a real issue with voting but ignores and/or obscures the remedies that would address this problem

False Blame: The rumor centers on a real issue with voting but either falsely attributes intent for an accidental issue or places blame on an innocent party.

Source: UW Center for an Informed Public, September 2026.
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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 22/09/2026
Hot take, the EA funded technofuturist ideological takeover of federal tech policy is of like kind to the Federalist Society and Christian Nationalist ideological takeover of the federal judiciary.
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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
On second thought I think what they're actually trying to do is create the premium death spiral they've been long predicting but that hasn't actually happened. They're saying not filing a claim is evidence of fraud, which gives them an excuse to kick healthy people off the system and manufacture it.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/09/2026
Well, *fuck*. California AG Rob Bonta just surrendered to the Trump-aligned billionaires who want to take over and destroy Warners, merging it with the chudded-out husk of Paramount, leaving these two corrupt assholes to control Warners, Paramount *and* Tiktok: www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

The Warner Brothers tower. It has been tinted orange and is leaning at a 30-40' angle. It is surmounted by Trump's hair. The tower is wavering. The background is ominous, red-tinged clouds, through which peek a marching army of banner-waving demons.

Image:
Todd Dwyer (modified)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Warner_Bros_Water_Tower_-_panoramio.jpg

CC BY-SA 3.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 22/09/2026
Happy mushroom season!
A comic titled "Types of mushrooms" with 12 mushroom species. A wrinkly-looking morel is labeled "creepy but tasty". A brownish deadly galerina is labeled "boring but deadly". A witch's butter on a branch is labeled "jiggles if you poke it". A large puffball is labeled "egg". A creepy red-dripping bleeding tooth fungus is labeled "deeply disconcerting". A fly agaric with a green treefrog sitting under it is labeled "frog umbrella". A black chanterelle is labeled "chalice for forbidden elixers". Three straight-stemmed entolomas are labeled "haha, nipples". A bright purple viscid violet cort is labeled "purple is nice". A birch polypore sticking out of a birch trunk is labeled "tree nose". A complex yellow-tpped coral fungus is labeled "cursed citadel where dwells a fairy queen". A Ravenel's stinkhorn is pixellated at the top for your safety, and labeled "NSFW".
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
All of this was debunked 20 years ago.... RFK, Jr., is focusing attention on electromagnetic fields. Here’s what the science says about exposure www.scientificamerican.com/article/rfk-...
scientificamerican.com
RFK, Jr., is focusing attention on electromagnetic fields. Here’s what the science says about exposure
The research into how electromagnetic waves and radio frequency radiation influence health has been plagued by low-quality studies
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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is a stunning lunar corona, visible in Death Valley. A corona is an optical phenomenon you may see when thin clouds partially veil the Sun or the Moon. Photo: Arpan Das Source: epod.usra.edu/blog/2021/08... 🔭🧪⚛️ #sciart #science #optics
A night landscape in Death Valley. In the foreground the playa is dry and cracked. The ground is broken into blue-grey plates of mud or salt, divided by dark fissures. Near the bottom center one crack forms a wide, almost round shape, like a plate that has split. Some of those surfaces pick up a faint gloss from the moonlight.A dark mountain range sits farther back, low and uneven against the sky. The Moon is high and very bright. The disk is overexposed, almost a white glare. A lunar corona surrounds it. First comes a bright aureole. Outside that the colour changes. Near the Moon it is bluish-white. Then green. Then yellow. At the edge there is a faint pink-violet rim. The rings stay soft and run into one another.
Thin, streaky clouds drift across the sky, partly veiling the Moon and helping form the corona. The night sky offers a magical view. The whole scene is cast in cool blue tones, quiet and wide.
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
this stood out in a speech full of threats and lies not just for its venom, but because most leaders know not to get up to that rostrum and threaten grave crimes. their staff know not to do it; the leader might repercussions from it. Trump's staff embraces it & he expects no punishment for doing it
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 07/09/2026
Registration is open, free, limited, & required. Great set of research presentations lined up on education, health, economy, mutual aid & more. Learn about the frontier evidence and connect with those working to generate it. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
When I was talking about how "Yes, the GOP will try & take your votes. And YES, THEY CAN BE STOPPED"? There's a great example here in North Carolina right now! Our area is one of the GOP's testing grounds for new ways to steal votes. Stop them here, you stop them everywhere. Help us help you!
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Stand With Irene Grimes: Legal Defense Fund
Irene Grimes told the truth about an attempt to fire Cumberland County's elections director behind closed doors, and now the same partisan majority she exposed is trying to remove her from the board.
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Simon S. Andersen @snakepixel.art · 21/09/2026
Anyway! #pixelart #ドット絵
A pixel-art scene from Street Fighter 3 Third Strike with Lottie the calico cat fighting the character Ruy. She's already cleared the first round with a no-hit perfect. Good job.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This will be a catastrophe for both filmed entertainment and news, and it's a great shame that the California AG caved. Trump and his people will celebrate this news today. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/b...
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Paramount to Resolve Antitrust Lawsuit, Clearing the Way for Warner Bros. Acquisition (Gift Article)
The deal would remove the last significant hurdle the media mogul David Ellison faced to create a news and entertainment empire, home to movie studios, HBO, CBS and CNN.
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The old internet @theoldinternet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
well that's not good...
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 20/09/2026
Well done again 🇪🇸 Spain’s new weapon against drink spiking: an ice cube that traps the drug as evidence euroweeklynews.com/2026/09/19/s...
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Spain’s new weapon against drink spiking: an ice cube that traps the drug as evidence
A Madrid startup has built an ice cube that turns blue, bitter and solid the instant a drink is spiked, trapping the drug as evidence for police.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Stories like this have, for ages, treated men's desire to harm women as a sort of background noise, a weather we just normalize and accept and try to work around. Feminism is among other things a process of denormalization.
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Brian McNoldy @bmcnoldy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
One of the most infamous and violent hurricane landfalls in recent memory occurred 9 years ago today: Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico (September 20, 2017). The animation ends abruptly when the radar was obliterated by the upper-end Category 4 hurricane.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/b...
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At DraftKings, AI Targets the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose (Gift Article)
Data science helps determine who receives betting incentives, but the company has resisted using similar technology to protect gamblers at risk of addiction.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
How is ICE making record arrests? I found the answer in Pa. coal country, where cops lured by a promise of federal $$$ have embraced ICE's 287(g) and are throwing up checkpoints, raiding job sites, arresting 100s, and terrorizing their communities My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/penn...
inquirer.com
In Pa. coal country, local police join with ICE to bring arrests, fear | Will Bunch
Pa.'s Schuylkill County is the new face of Trump's mass deportation, as local cops lured by federal cash bust scores of migrants.
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Pen, watercolor, black & white charcoal pencil.

Another featured piece from the Spooky Pants book.

A man in a sweater stands with his hands on his hips looking out of a large window with the curtains open. Things aren’t looking good outside, reader. A massive winged demon is emerging from the clouds as dozens of little ghosts and bone demons rip through the sky. On the ground below we see townsfolk running through the grass. Our man in the window is in no mood for this. He lets us know, “Oh, I am in no mood for this.” His dog looks out the window as well, wagging its tail. 

Fantasia (1940) inspired drawing. I think I could’ve gone a little heavier with the chaos outside but we’ll try again with fresh drawings this October. I like how the clouds turned out. Trying to balance my sloppy lines with more detail can be tricky but I think we achieved a good result.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
As someone who used to make ads and was responsible for directing the photo shoots, this is the most on purpose shit ever. Horrifying shit man.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Once upon a time, Congress had its own in-house think tank that would research and suggest remedies for technical problems politicians might not have a handle on. Might be a good resource now, ay? Here's @maxmoranhi.bsky.social on the long-lost Office of Technology Assessment:
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What Congress Actually Needs to Do About AI: Staff Up - The American Prospect
In 1995, Newt Gingrich lobotomized Congress’s technical brain trust. It should be rebuilt.
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Mike Diver @mikediver.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
With The Transformers: The Movie back in cinemas right now, here are some words I wrote several years ago for @kerrang.com about its very hair metal soundtrack. www.kerrang.com/how-transfor...
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How Transformers: The Movie Introduced Me To Heavy Metal
Gigantic fighting robots soundtracked by killer riffs… what's not to love?
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Mia @miak06.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
He is really going to tear down the Kennedy Center & defy all court orders, isn’t he The Kennedy Center simply because he can’t bear the fact that there is an institution that bears the name of another US President, esp an iconic one like JFK Like G Conway said, what he can’t have he’ll destroy
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
ROGER MOORE had such a great sense of humour & fun. Here he is in 1963 being interviewed about THE SAINT (1962-69)
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hooliganmom.bsky.social @hooliganmom.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Stop this the amount of birds we’ve rescued and seen entrapped in fishing line is horrendous. The trash left behind awful there are other places to fish. #surfbeach
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Hillary DePiano @hillarydepiano.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
one tells only the truth and the other only tells lies about whether your refrigerator is running
Photo of two refrigerators standing in front of a household garage. One is white, one is stainless steel and black.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
my fav thing about social media is how you have friends you'll interact with but even so its like you live in different worlds with entirely different media environments
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Leilani (she/her) @glittergremlei.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Hi! Lifelong New Englander here 🥰 and it has come to my attention that one of our biggest, most unhinged bullies - one Robert Kraft - has boosted his own profile to normies nationwide. Far be it from me to block anyone’s blessings, so read on to learn about (Not) Boston’s Local Billionare!
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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: When elected officials and advocates in Danbury, Connecticut, said ICE arrested a parent at a school bus stop Aug. 26, federal officials denied their accounts. I got video that appears to show such an arrest. My latest at @ctinsider.bsky.social — www.ctinsider.com/news/article...
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Video appears to show ICE arrest near CT school bus stop, despite federal denials
ICE has denied it made an arrest at a school bus stop, but confirmed it made 118 arrests in Connecticut that week.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Obviously the feds lie a lot no matter who is president but holy shit if it was at like an 8 before the trump Vance era has dialed it up to an 18 at least. I know u know this but: it is absurd the sheer degree that “assume their statements false until proven otherwise” is just standard operating…
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 15/09/2026
This thread, I think, makes a good distinction. The conduct of the Trump administration is no longer surprising or shocking, but it still does, and should, shock the conscience: a phrase that refers not to the unexpectedness, but the brazen cruelty of the actions.
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Bethany Mannon @drbethany.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"The cost of living is dragging down Republicans more than any other issue, as even some Republican voters lose faith in Mr. Trump’s economy. Only 28 percent of voters said they approved of how Mr. Trump has managed matters related to affordability." Those 28%? Of course, Evangelicals
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Democrats Gain Midterms Edge as Trump Drags Down Republicans, Per Times/Siena Poll (Gift Article)
Even some Republicans are losing faith in Trump’s economy, a New York Times/Siena poll found, and Democrats were favored on the top issues as the sprint to the midterms gets underway.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 15/09/2026
Given all the *flails hands* you all deserve one of the most adorable pictures I took of Baby Bird Season 2026. A snowy ploverlet peeking through a little sand shrub. Perhaps a once in a lifetime shot. 🪶 🐣
a tiny snowy plover chick, about 2 inches tall, looks through a shrub as if theyr hiding, on a beach
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