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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hi folks: Today's the deadline for public comments on the proposed removal of federal protection for nat'l forests Hundreds of endangered species will be affected Here's info from the American Bird Conservancy, & the link for comments: abcbirds.org/news/roadles... www.fs.usda.gov/managing-lan...
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Roadless Areas | US Forest Service
What's NewOn Aug. 18, 2026, U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brook L. Rollins announced that the proposed rule and draft environmental impact statement that recommends removing the 2001 Roadle...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
TODAY is the last day to register to vote in several states. I urge you to double check your state's deadline, verify that you are registered, and make changes to your registration if needed. Then contact three friends or family members and have them do the same. whenweallvote.org
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 03/04/2026
The U.S. Forest Service is closing 57 of its 77 research facilities in 31 states under a reorganization plan announced this week, threatening science that looked at how wildfires, drought, pests and global warming are putting pressure on forests.
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Forest Service Will Close Research Stations That Study Wildfire Risk
Scientists say their work on fires and climate change could be lost as the agency moves its headquarters to Utah from Washington and shuts 57 research stations.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
A year ago we were supposed to be getting $2,000 rebate checks, DOGE was going to find $2 trillion in waste to balance the budget, we were going to pay no income taxes because tariffs would pay for everything, gas and home electric bills would be cut in half, and no new wars.
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Remembering how cops tossed Kyle Rittenhouse - who was open carrying a semiautomatic rifle - a bottle of water and told him, “We appreciate you… we really do”
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Jason Furman @jasonfurman.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Some countries that have prosecuted or threatened to prosecute central bankers for the purpose of political intimidation or punishment for monetary policy decisions: Argentina, Russia, Turkey, Venezuela and Zimbabwe.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 17/11/2025
Former first lady Michelle Obama said the U.S. has “a lot of growing up to do” to be ready for a female president. “There’s still, sadly, a lot of men who do not feel like they can be led by a woman. And we saw it,” Obama said. wapo.st/48kepjO
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
So CBS settled Trump’s lawsuit where he frivolously sued because they edited Kamala Harris’s interview so it would fit into their air time. Then CBS does a 73 minute interview of Trump where they made big edits from the version that was broadcast. They aired 28 of 73 minutes.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
"A 60-year-old couple earning $85,000 may have to pay $31,000 for a health insurance plan in Kentucky... $28,000 for a plan in Oregon... $44,000 for a plan in Vermont..." www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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Health insurance sticker shock begins as shutdown battle over subsidies rages
Many states have shown rising premiums ahead of open enrollment for Affordable Care Act plans. The government shutdown is driven by Democrats and Republicans being far apart on the issue of extended s...
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 04/08/2025
“If these trends are not stopped, science is going to be destroyed." Here's my story on the accelerating growth of systemic research fraud--aka paper mills. Gift link: nyti.ms/45rDirw
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Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds
A statistical analysis found that the number of fake journal articles being churned out by “paper mills” is doubling every year and a half.
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Since May: Federal district courts have ruled against Trump admin 94% of the time. Supreme Court has sided with the Trump admin 94% of the time. A judiciary at war with itself.
Bar chart titled “The Supreme Court vs. The Lower Courts: Rulings on the Trump Administration” showing three horizontal bar charts for May 1-June 23, 2025. Federal District Courts: large red bar (82 cases, 94.3% against) with tiny green bar (5 cases, 5.7% for). Circuit Courts of Appeal: medium red bar (15 cases, 68.2% against) with smaller green bar (7 cases, 31.8% for). Supreme Court: tiny red bar (1 case, 6.3% against) with large green bar (15 cases, 93.7% for). Shows dramatic reversal from lower courts ruling against Trump administration to Supreme Court ruling for it.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Concerning…
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 20/06/2025
"The problem with recycling plastic lies not with the concept or process but with the material itself," Judith Enck and Jan Dell wrote in 2022.
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Plastic Recycling Doesn’t Work and Will Never Work
If the plastics industry is following the tobacco industry’s playbook, it may never admit to the failure of plastics recycling.
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Luke ❌👑 @lukehklipp.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
The only reason to end suicide prevention efforts designed for a specific vulnerable group of people is indifference to more of them committing suicide.
Breaking News (from the New York Times):
The federal suicide prevention hotline will no longer work with the Trevor Project or provide speciality support to LGBTQ callers.
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NPR @npr.org · 19/06/2025
The 988 Suicide and Crisis Prevention Lifeline included a service that provided specialized suicide prevention support by phone and text for LGBTQ+ kids. That's ending.
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Trump administration cuts specialized suicide prevention service for LGBTQ+ youth
The 988 Suicide and Crisis Prevention Lifeline included a service that provided specialized suicide prevention support by phone and text for LGBTQ+ kids. That's ending.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
A live re-enactment of the messiest day of the Trump admin: youtu.be/lBiutfRDN2Q?...
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See live-action replay of Trump-Elon feud: Hayes and Wagner act out 'messy breakup'
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
RFK Jr once said the Tea Party was the resurgence of the Confederacy and they didn’t want a Black person to be president
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 14/05/2025
The nation’s air-safety system suffers from the same malady as much of the federal government: years of underfunding by politicians who somehow expect to get something for nothing, David A. Graham writes in The Atlantic Daily.
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The Mess at Airports Is Part of a Larger Pattern
What’s behind the Newark airport fiasco
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 30/04/2025
NEW: The Trump Organization has agreed to a new Middle East golf course and real estate deal that involves a Qatari government-owned firm, two weeks before President Trump is set to travel to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates on a state visit. with Vivian Nereim nyti.ms/4k2vDFH
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New Mideast Project Is Latest Trump Company Deal Tied to Foreign Government (Gift Article)
The Trump Organization agreed to partner on a real estate project in Qatar in the latest of a series of projects tied to foreign governments.
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
"The Agriculture Department will not require poultry companies to limit salmonella bacteria in their products, halting a Biden Administration effort to prevent food poisoning from contaminated meat." www.seattletimes.com/business/usd...
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USDA withdraws a plan to limit salmonella levels in raw poultry
The Agriculture Department says it is withdrawing a plan to limit salmonella bacteria in poultry products.
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Josh Kovensky @joshkovensky.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
New: In a filing, the Trump administration answered only one of the three questions that Judge Xinis ordered it to address. It said that Abrego Garcia is in CECOT and is alive. It didn't answer the other two questions: what steps it's taken to return him, and what steps it plans to take to do so.
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CNN @cnn.com · 11/04/2025
The Trump administration plans to eliminate the research arm of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, close all weather and climate labs and eviscerate its budget along with several other NOAA offices, according to internal documents obtained by CNN.
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Trump’s draft budget eviscerates weather and climate tracking and research | CNN
The move would devastate weather and climate research even as weather is becoming more erratic and extreme, and would cripple the US industries — including agriculture — that depend on free, accurate ...
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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
This is exactly how Democrats should be responding to Republican attacks.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10/04/2025
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “I have many reactions to President Trump’s largely caving on his harebrained plan to tariff the world, but overall, one reaction just keeps coming back to me: If you hire clowns, you should expect a circus,” our columnist @thomaslfriedman.bsky.social writes.
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Opinion | What Trump Just Cost America
Do you think these former close U.S. allies are ever going to trust getting into a trench with this administration again?
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 07/04/2025
The Trump administration has fired a top Navy admiral assigned to NATO headquarters in Brussels, people familiar with the matter said Monday, the latest ouster in an ongoing purge of senior military officers that has disproportionately targeted women.
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U.S. admiral at NATO fired, latest ouster in Trump military purge
Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield is one of at least nine senior military leaders — and the fourth woman — removed since Trump’s return to Washington.
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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
As someone whose life was saved by cancer research (and may depend on more in the future), I am biased here. But biased on the side of not-cancer. So.
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Scott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
FDA planning for fewer food and drug inspections due to layoffs, officials say
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FDA planning for fewer food and drug inspections due to layoffs, officials say
Around 170 staff were cut from the FDA's Office of Inspections and Investigations this week as part of wider cuts at U.S. health agencies.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 02/04/2025
The use of Gmail, a far less secure method of communication than the encrypted messaging app Signal, is the latest example of questionable data security practices by top national security officials already under fire. Read more here:
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Waltz and staff used Gmail for government communications, officials say
Trump’s national security adviser is trying to manage his way out of a crisis. But new revelations about his team’s operational security are piling up in the inbox.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
This is, in large part, pandemic revenge. As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do. They can't keep spewing carbon. They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying. They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Wisconsin! Judge Susan Crawford will work to protect your rights and freedoms. So get out there and vote today by 8pm. You can find your polling place at wisdems.org/vote. If you have any questions about voting, call or text the Voter Assistance Hotline at 608-336-3232.
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Find Your Voting Locations | WISDEMS Voter Protection Team
This searchable map shows you early voting and dropbox info for hundreds of villages, towns, and cities across Wisconsin. Enter the address you're registered at and your options will pop up!
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NPR @npr.org · 01/04/2025
Some 2,000 scientists, including dozens of Nobel Prize winners, have signed an open letter warning that the U.S. lead in science is being "decimated" by the Trump administration's cuts to research.
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Top scientists warn that Trump policies are causing a 'climate of fear' in research
Some 2,000 scientists, including dozens of Nobel Prize winners, have signed an open letter warning that the U.S. lead in science is being "decimated" by the Trump administration's cuts to research.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Hi, BlueSky. It's Hillary. I've joined up here to help get the word out about an important election in Wisconsin tomorrow, and other ways to defend our democracy against those who think votes can be bought.
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Erika Pretzel @erikapretzel.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social @meidastouch.com @therealhoarse.bsky.social @lincolnproject.us @hcrichardson.bsky.social I’m a voter in WI. In addition to numerous text offers of $100 in the past week, I received this lucrative offer this morning, one day before our election. 🫤
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Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 31/03/2025
Tomorrow is Election Day for the Wisconsin Supreme Court race — and we have a message for Elon Musk: Wisconsin is not for sale! @benwikler.bsky.social @wisdems.bsky.social Make sure to go vote and elect Judge Crawford, WI!
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Eric Kusiak @erickusiak.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
As an Iowa City resident and nurse leader who manages three inpatient units, I have nurses who work for me who have had to drop out of school because their grants were cut. Foreign healthcare researchers on work visas may have to leave the country since their work is contingent on their research.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
He fired the black chairman of the joint chiefs for being woke and hired his brother.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved
graph of NIH basisfor new drugs
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 01/03/2025
As the Trump administration announced mass terminations at dozens of National Weather Services offices across the country this week, current and former staffers said an exodus of new hires and veterans will hinder the agency’s ability to predict weather hazards.
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Trump fired hundreds at NOAA, Weather Service. Here’s what that means for forecasts.
Current and former agency officials and lawmakers said the cuts could have major impacts on Americans and the economy, compromising important functions.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
So now we are selling US citizenship for $5 million. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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NPR @npr.org · 24/02/2025
Researchers say the Trump administration's plan to slash payments for indirect costs will hamper new medical science. One example? A lab studying respiratory viruses faces losing half its staff.
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Medical research labs brace for possible funding cuts that could disrupt their work
Researchers say the Trump administration's plan to slash payments for indirect costs will hamper new medical science. One example? A lab studying respiratory viruses faces losing half its staff.
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brk03.bsky.social @brk03.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
“Cutting government personnel by one-fourth would reduce federal spending by about 1 percent.”
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brk03.bsky.social @brk03.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Hey @raygunsite.com, love the Ava Strong tshirt! Might I recommend you print them in pink? The Feb 23 WBB game is pink out for cancer awareness. www.raygunsite.com/products/ava...
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Kerith Burke @kerithburke.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Gasping in horror at the unnecessary cruelty, and the waves of preventable harm these actions create. Damn him forever. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...
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Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid (Gift Article)
Lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for tuberculosis, malaria, H.I.V. and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 02/02/2025
Stating the obvious: tariffs are a regressive tax on the poorest Americans. A company pays the tariff, and raises their prices to get that money. That price is paid by the consumer. Duh
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/01/2025
i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 30/01/2025
Well said, Pete Buttigieg
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/01/2025
REPORTER: Is there an acting FAA director? DUFFY: *walks away* (The FAA director resigned on the day of Trump's inauguration under pressure from Elon Musk)
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brk03.bsky.social @brk03.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
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