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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
PMC COVlD Update, Oct 12, 2026 Continue to use layered COVlD precautions because we are in a 13th COVlD wave. 9/🧵
boosters, N95s, hybrid, virtual, outdoors, air purifiers, testing, staying home when sick, monitoring data
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trump: I could say the stupidest things and you'd clap
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
All done to fill the pockets of donors. So indefensible and depraved.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 10/10/2026
Once again: The ICE Air Operations Handbook allows children as young as 13 to be shackled on ICE flights. All adults are shackled except pregnant and postpartum women (up to two weeks) and, on removal flights only, single parents with young children. That’s according to their own policy.
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pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 10/10/2026
we gotta raise taxes. a lot.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My man ended USAID, condemning millions to death
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onion person @junlper.beer · 09/10/2026
elon musk has more empathy for lines of code than a majority of humanity
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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
without exaggeration the best account on here
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/10/2026
This is awful. Put in a full-body straitjacket and then pulled up the air stairs by his wrists and ankles. The WRAP is regularly used on ICE flights to Africa.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 09/10/2026
"Are my migraines hormonal, or am I thinking too hard about how Peter Thiel has more money than all nurses on Earth combined?" buff.ly/oLdL54C
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Is It Perimenopause or the Fascist Death Knell of Late-Stage Capitalism?
“Is my hair thinning, or am I ripping it out because a thirty-four-time convicted, sexually abusive steak salesman with a Hannibal Lecter fetish is five poin...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 08/10/2026
For the second time, a Journey Aviation ICE flight has stopped in Gitmo on its way to removal stops in Africa. On Sept. 24, a Journey plane deported Somali nationals held at Gitmo via Kenya.
An FR24 map showing N588AT going from AEX to Gitmo. An FR24 map showing N588AT going from Gitmo to San Juan. An FR24 map showing N588AT going from San Juan over the middle of the Atlantic toward Senegal.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 09/10/2026
The public execution of a paralyzed man… America 2026
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
what monstrous cannibal and savage could ever have gone a death-harvesting with such a hacking, horrifying implement
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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.
Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Lol. Princeton University praised Nobel laureate Anne Carson, a former classics professor at the school, on social media, despite denying her tenure in the 1980s.
nytimes.com
Princeton Celebrates Anne Carson, a Nobel Prize Winner Who Was Denied Tenure (Gift Article)
Carson, who was awarded the Literature prize on Thursday, was denied tenure when teaching at the university in the 1980s, leading social media users to mock a congratulatory message.
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Princeton following in the footsteps of Penn celebrating a Nobel laureate, yet conveniently skipping over the fact that she was denied tenure at their institution. Remember Katalin Karikó & her groundbreaking work that enabled mRNA vaccines? www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023 was awarded jointly to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman "for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of e...
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Interesting that they’ve learned that people will react positively to socialism if it is defined correctly so they’ve had to stop doing that.
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: Footage from Thursdays shooting shows an ICE agent in a construction vest brandishing a rifle. His name is Brenden Cuni. Federal judges have found multiple arrests involving Cuni unlawful. He has been accused of repeatedly Tasing a handcuffed man and tackling a pregnant woman in Minneapolis.
wired.com
ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests
Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the Apollo project who ultimately led the 100-person team that guided Armstrong and Aldrin to a safe landing on the moon, dies at 90. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/o...
nytimes.com
Margaret Hamilton, Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions, Has Died
Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90.
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Joel @sentantiq.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"and what I want to happen most of all in my crazy heart. Whom should I persuade (now again) to lead you back into her love? Who, O    Sappho, is wronging you?" Anne Carson's translation of Sappho fr. 1
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 08/10/2026
BREAKING: A Trump-appointed judge has ruled DHS violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment when it removed Ahmed Soliman to Equatorial Guinea and must facilitate his return to the US. prospect.org/2026/10/07/f...
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Federal Judge Rules DHS Must Bring Back Gay Arizona Man Imprisoned in Africa - The American Prospect
A Trump-apppointed judge ordered Ahmed Soliman must be returned to the United States.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Here is a link to the CourtListener page. I've purchased all of the relevant documents to make them available to anyone here: www.courtlistener.com/docket/74798...
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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Mike Lee's transformation over the past decade has been hard to understand.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 07/10/2026
"Are my hot flashes due to an estrogen imbalance or a rapidly warming planet hastened by unaccountable oil barons who own our elections?" buff.ly/oLdL54C
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Is It Perimenopause or the Fascist Death Knell of Late-Stage Capitalism?
“Is my hair thinning, or am I ripping it out because a thirty-four-time convicted, sexually abusive steak salesman with a Hannibal Lecter fetish is five poin...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026
the funny thing about this of course is that "athenian democracy" was a cautionary tale to the framers, who saw it as unstable and prone to demagogues and tyrants like the one rubio works for
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 06/10/2026
ICE has detained more than 500 U.S. citizens.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointee in New York, rebukes ICE for arresting two people erroneously — including a U.S. citizen — and later claiming "mistaken identity." "ICE agents falsified official records," he says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oh brother.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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Save Me From My Shelf Podcast @smfmspodcast.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Time for the clue to our next episode! For our Halloween episode later this month, we will be covering a text that a MUCH more famous horror novel ... just completely plagiarised. What is our creature feature?
Boris Karloff in the 1930s Mummy Film, all done up in bandagesBoris Karloff in the 1930s Frankenstein film, emerging from the shadowsLon Chaney Jr in the 1940s Wolfman film, looking like a hairy twit in the woodsBela Lugosi in the 1930s Dracula film, BLEHHH!
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All The Right Movies @alltherightmovies.com · 06/10/2026
Finally… not everyone was a fan. Infernal Affairs director Andrew Lau prefers his own film to Scorsese’s, and said: “I think the version I made is better, but the Hollywood version is pretty good too. Scorsese made a version more attuned to American culture.” 35/35
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All The Right Movies @alltherightmovies.com · 06/10/2026
In 2002, Hong Kong action thriller Infernal Affairs was released. Directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak, it is the story of two police officers – one a triad spy, the other undercover in the triads. It was a huge hit and spawned two sequels a year later. 2/35
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 01/10/2026
"I’m just thinking out loud here, but maybe a political party that has dedicated the last forty years to taking away women’s rights could also give some thought to how to protect girls and women after they’re born?" buff.ly/K3eqEvg
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How Could Such a Thing Still Happen in a Country with a Frat Boy Supreme Court Justice?
“I’m just thinking out loud here, but maybe a political party that has dedicated the last forty years to taking away women’s rights could also give some thou...
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 01/10/2026
“One of you will betray me”
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NEW: GOP Gov nominee Victor Marx says he'll respond today to domestic violence allegations - video/audio where he describes slamming his wife into a door and throwing his toddler across a room. Voters/reporters new to Marx may not realize he has a long history of justifying violence.
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 01/10/2026
Last week, Texas' highest court on criminal matters acquitted Crystal Mason, a woman who was sentenced to years in prison last decade for voting while on probation, which Texas prohibits.
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Texas woman triumphs as court upholds acquittal in voting error case
Crystal Mason has spent nearly a decade fighting conviction for casting provisional ballot that ultimately wasn’t counted
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Noel Healy @drnoelhealy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Guardian covered our paper: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Decades of fossil fuel influence paved way for Trump’s assault on university research, study says
Fossil fuel firms have spent years trying to regulate climate research by donating to US universities, study authors argue
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 28/09/2026
Breaking: The Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago.
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ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified
The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026
A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.
Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.
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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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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 27/09/2026
Imagine hearing these screams, breaking this window, and going home at night believing what you are doing is right and good.
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Britt Lundgren @brittlundgren.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Stop trying to make Rahm happen.
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 23/09/2026
The fact that ICE officers do not allow wrongfully detained people to “promptly go free” is a surprise to only one man in America.
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Brett Kavanaugh’s Imaginary Immigration Stops Opinion Gets More Embarrassing Every Day
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 23/09/2026
I did this interview with @thorbenson.bsky.social in mid-August, but I'm glad it's coming out today. 🙏
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22/09/2026
"When my guests come over, it’s gonna be like BLAMMO! Check out my shellacked decorative vegetables, assholes. Guess what season it is—fucking fall. There’s a nip in the air, and my house is full of mutant fucking squash." buff.ly/pykYN6f
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It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers
For the seventeenth year: Welcome to autumn, fuckheads.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In Maryland, just fifty miles from DC, a sheriff has targeted and attacked local immigrants for over twenty years. The harm to those communities is breathtaking. a NEW must-read, just weeks from his latest reelection race... (in a county that Harris won over Trump).
boltsmag.org
“We're Afraid on a Daily Basis”: How a Maryland Sheriff Targeted Immigrants Long Before ICE Raids Spiked - Bolts
Frederick County’s sheriff turned his office into a force multiplier for ICE before such collaboration became commonplace. As he again faces voters this year, the harm to immigrant communities is impo...
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Makes sense, as who actually loses their insurance is immaterial. The point is that Vance gets to fulfill his dream of denying hundreds of thousands of people access to potentially life saving medical care.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A federal judge has ordered Texas to air condition all of the state’s prisons by the end of 2029 High temperatures violate the Constitution’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment, the judge ruled.
texastribune.org
Texas ordered to air condition all prisons by the end of 2029
High temperatures violate the Constitution’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment, the judge ruled. Just over a third of Texas prisons are fully air conditioned.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026
mind you, birth of a nation is a movie so insanely racist that it legitimately should make you question whether the medium itself is evil
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