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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Simple information about what the SAVE Act would actually do to American voters. Tens of millions would lose their right to vote unless they spend lots of $$$ and jump through bureaucratic hoops before November.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Reminder the Senate is expected to vote on the Save America Act this week. Please contact your senator and urge them to vote no. You may be seeing a lot of apparent “support” for the bill on social media, but it is not organic. Bot accounts have been flooding senators pages urging them to vote yes.
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bthornburg.bsky.social @bthornburg.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
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Hart Cunningham @hart28.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
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Armando Rosario-Lebrón @rosariolebronentomology.com · 05/12/2025
Demodex mites live in your facial pores and have lost some of the genes that respond to daylight. They cannot make their own melatonin, so they use the melatonin your skin releases at night as a cue to crawl out and mate on your face. You're never truly alone. ❤️ 🧪 #entomology #invert 🪲🪳
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Science News @scinews.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
High-resolution climate model forecasts a wet, turbulent future With details as fine as short-term weather forecasts, model achieves newfound accuracy www.science.org/content/arti...
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High-resolution climate model forecasts a wet, turbulent future
With details as fine as short-term weather forecasts, model achieves newfound accuracy
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Anchorage Daily News @adn.com · 22/11/2025
In the course of a couple days in Fairbanks, stunning light pillars were visible, followed by a rare red aurora, says Alaska science writer Ned Rozell. www.adn.com/alaska-news/...
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As the dark season settles in, a unique parade of light appeared in Interior Alaska
In the course of a couple days in Fairbanks, stunning light pillars were visible, followed by a rare red aurora.
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bthornburg.bsky.social @bthornburg.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
China bought 27 million metric tons of soybeans from US farmers in 2024. But somehow this “deal” to buy significantly less is a huge victory.
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bthornburg.bsky.social @bthornburg.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
“.. It’s also the fastest accumulation of a trillion dollars in debt outside of the COVID-19 pandemic ..” @pbsnews.org www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
The nation’s largest private prison company is asking the Supreme Court to give federal contractors blanket immunity from lawsuits — including human trafficking claims. If they win, private contractors could operate with even less accountability than they do now.
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The Human Trafficking Case That Could Hand Government Contractors Blanket Immunity
In a little-noticed Supreme Court case, the country’s largest private prison operator argues companies should be shielded from lawsuits when doing the government’s dirty work.
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NPR @npr.org · 01/10/2025
A new report says that the number of books being challenged or removed from public schools across the country has risen exponentially in the past two years. A Clockwork Orange tops their list.
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PEN America warns of rise in books 'systematically removed from school libraries'
A new report says that the number of books being challenged or removed from public schools across the country has risen exponentially in the past two years. A Clockwork Orange tops their list.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
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DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing
Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrorism is far-right was disappeared.
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NPR @npr.org · 20/09/2025
Some 154 million people in the United States get health care through their employer — and for many, their costs are about to go way up.
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Health care costs are soaring. Blame insurers, drug companies — and your employer
Some 154 million people in the United States get health care through their employer — and for many, their costs are about to go way up.
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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Posting this for no particular reason -->
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
CBS News' ugly new surrender to Trump is an open invitation to Trumpers to lie on their network. As today's WaPo piece on this fiasco notes, it would "allow guests to spout falsehoods knowing they would not be edited out by the show." (cites my piece on this) www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Following backlash, ‘Face the Nation’ will air interviews unedited
CBS changes its policy after DHS Secretary Kristi L. Noem accused the network of trying to “whitewash the truth” by editing an interview on the Sunday morning show.
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bthornburg.bsky.social @bthornburg.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
China’s Military: ‘We’re Coming for You’ open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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China’s Military: ‘We’re Coming for You’
The People’s Liberation Army has been planning for decades to challenge the U.S. military. They may be getting close.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
All of the election fraud lies and conspiracy theories have softened the ground underneath our election process, enabling the Trump regime’s next steps… to use those lies to justify changing the rules of elections to (further) tilt them in their favor.
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bthornburg.bsky.social @bthornburg.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Bernie Sanders: Kennedy Must Resign www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
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Opinion | Bernie Sanders: Kennedy Must Resign
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bthornburg.bsky.social @bthornburg.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
A foul travesty and disgrace for the United States Air Force bsky.app/profile/fran...
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Hart Cunningham @hart28.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
8/7/25🚨453 days until 435(+5 non voting) House seats vote(218 needed-ample primaries) docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Midterm 2026
This will be a comprehensive list of all the Republicans & Democrats senators that need to be voted out OR kept in. These will be do-nothing democrats or MAGA republicans AND a list of candidates tha...
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putawomanincharge.bsky.social @putawomanincharge.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
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Stand Up America @standupamerica.com · 13/08/2025
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
From Chemistry World with former NIH Director Elias Zerhouni www.chemistryworld.com/news/its-car...
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‘It’s carnage’: Former NIH director decries Trump administration efforts to slash research spending
Elias Zerhouni tells Chemistry World what's changed from when he was appointed by a Republican president to the current Trump administration
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
The winners of the midterms are already working on how to integrate ChatGPT , Gemini , etc into their campaigns. Millions of voters will simply ask " who should I vote for this election"
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bthornburg.bsky.social @bthornburg.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Here in Indiana, our governor has by fiat replaced the trustees of our great public university, Indiana University, with hispolitical picks. And has done away with the tradition of alums on the board. And, IU has been stripped of most of its liberal arts majors. Any cogent support for this?
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Ian L Morgan @ianlmorgan.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Even with flat funding for the NIH, under the current FY26 plan, there will be 60% less cancer research and much less research funded overall. We need to make sure Congress understands these tricks and protects against them in their budget plan.
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Odds of winning NIH grants plummet as new funding policy and spending delays bite
Funding multiyear grants up front will sharply cut number of investigators receiving awards
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Katie C @spiffykt.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
In “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism,” the author describes “inevitablism” as a tactic companies use to stop conversation about the amount of our private lives they are commodifying and selling.
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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
American science and innovation should not be subject to the political winds of the day. Find out how the Trump administration’s grant terminations are affecting your school, your community, and your future. www.americanprogress.org/article/mapp...
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Mapping Federal Funding Cuts to U.S. Colleges and Universities
American science and innovation should not be subject to the political winds of the day. Find out how the Trump administration’s grant terminations are affecting your school, your community, and your ...
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bthornburg.bsky.social @bthornburg.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
"If you look at page 1 of the tariff handbook, it says: Don't tariff inputs. It's the simplest way to make it harder—more expensive—for Americans to do business. Any factory around the world can get the steel, copper, and aluminum it needs without paying a 50% upcharge, except an American factory."
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bthornburg.bsky.social @bthornburg.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
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Shah Tyree (@shahtyree855703) on Threads
I lost sleep watching this. Meanwhile, the people responsible are probably sleeping just fine—in comfort, in office, and without consequence.
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
“Superman is too woke!” Literally the first page of the first ever appearance of Superman:
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kattsdogma.bsky.social @kattsdogma.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
is it by denying them healthcare, it’s by denying them healthcare isn’t it
United Health has launched a campaign to kill i mean quiet it’s critics 👻
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Hart Cunningham @hart28.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
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bthornburg.bsky.social @bthornburg.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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NPR @npr.org · 28/06/2025
The state and local health departments that rely on CDC funding say the money is not coming in on time and no one can tell them why. Some are laying off staff.
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'Where's our money?' CDC grant funding is moving so slowly layoffs are happening
The state and local health departments that rely on CDC funding say the money is not coming in on time and no one can tell them why. Some are laying off staff.
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bthornburg.bsky.social @bthornburg.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
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The Halfway Post (@thehalfwaypost) on Threads
BREAKING: ICE is asking people to stop clogging their hotline by calling in and reporting an undocumented girl named “Anne Frank” hiding in the top floor of various Republican lawmakers’ houses.
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bthornburg.bsky.social @bthornburg.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
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bthornburg.bsky.social @bthornburg.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS INDIANAPOLIS” - sign up now to join me! #aftvotes www.mobilize.us/aft/event/78...
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NO KINGS INDIANAPOLIS · AFT
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allies. We’ve watched as they’ve cracked down on free speech, detained people for their political views, threatened to deport American citizens, and defied the courts. They’ve done this all while continuing to serve and enrich their billionaire allies. 🚨**On Saturday, June 14, we’re taking to the streets nationwide. We’re not gathering to feed his ego. We’re building a movement that leaves him behind.**🚨 The flag doesn’t belong to Donald Trump. It belongs to us. We’re not watching history happen. We’re making it. **On June 14th, we’re showing up everywhere he isn’t—to say no thrones, no crowns, no kings.** Check out nokings.org for more information. *A core principle behind all No Kings events is a commitment to nonviolent action. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values.*
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
NEW PIECE: The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” Eliminates the Office of Financial Research—Threatening the Stability of the Treasury Market www.crisesnotes.com/the-one-big-...
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The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” Eliminates the Office of Financial Research—Threatening the Stability of the Treasury Market
Early last week I started working on a piece on why the Federal Reserve didn’t step in during the Trump Tariff Financial Panic. The basic idea of that piece is simply that “repo rates”- the interest r...
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bthornburg.bsky.social @bthornburg.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
“Those South Africans are being sent to El Salvador!”
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bthornburg.bsky.social @bthornburg.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Never forget that according to Donald Trump's own Chief of Staff John Kelly, Donald Trump thinks America's fallen soldiers are "suckers and losers"
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Hart Cunningham @hart28.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
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Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
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bthornburg.bsky.social @bthornburg.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Nicholas Kristof on ridicule as effective and proven in diminishing a fascist tyrant. (Keep at it,Trump memes and smarmy protest signs!) www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/o...
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Opinion | Three Well-Tested Ways to Undermine an Autocrat
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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
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