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Cait

@cait263.bsky.social
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Cape Cod, the Netherlands, Cambridge, Austin. Parent, teacher, coxswain. Travel, books, thrifting.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13h
While suspended from office and awaiting his impeachment trial, Texas AG Ken Paxton took at least 17 trips. State police joined him each time, costing taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars for trips unrelated to his job. with @texastribune.org
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Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.
Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to sta...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“They’re kids! They’re kids!” Monstrous. Abolish ICE.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This would sink a presidency in any other era. I would bet most Americans will never hear it even happened.
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Trump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policy
The purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk.
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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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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is the funniest shit of all time… wait for it…😂
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The alarmists have yet to be wrong 😕🇺🇸
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Fine. I’ll update with a word count when I start writing again. @legalminimum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
These should be making their way into national ads run by the Democrats. Republicans think this kind of stuff is popular because the groypers think it shows they're "tough". Ads saying "Republicans want ICE to give electric shocks to children" will hit them where they live.
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Samantha Michaels @samanthamichaels.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ICE arrested a dad with his son—then confusingly declared the boy "unaccompanied." As a result, he went to foster care. Scenes like this are playing out across the country. “They’re kidnapping people’s kids,” a former official told us. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/10/2026
Last year, just 21% of students from an Austin charter school using an AI learning platform passed state-mandated tests. Texas education leaders helped get the technology in front of public school leaders.
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How Texas Helped a Private School Chain’s AI Tool Get Into Public School Classrooms
Just three months after the Texas State Board of Education raised concerns about Alpha School’s AI learning platform, Education Commissioner Mike Morath was in talks about using the tool in public sch...
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 03/10/2026
When Washington Republicans passed their Big Ugly Bill, it handed big tech companies an even faster write-off for research spending while cutting more than $1 trillion from health care and slashing food help for families.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: Tarrant County voters filed an emergency lawsuit Friday accusing Republican county officials of intentionally making it harder for Black and Hispanic residents to vote by eliminating dozens of Election Day polling places. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Tarrant County voters sue to block GOP polling site cuts targeting minority voters
The lawsuit comes a month after the GOP-controlled Tarrant County Commissioners Court approved the cuts in a 3-2 vote despite intense opposition from residents and the court’s two Democratic commissio...
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 29/09/2026
UN warns of ‘narrowing window’ to restore world’s forests
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UN warns of ‘narrowing window’ to restore world’s forests
Food and Agriculture Organization urges governments to make forest restoration a national priority The world faces a “narrowing window” to restore forests essential for food security and resistance to the climate emergency, a United Nations report has warned. More than 489m hectares (1.2bn acres) of forests have been cleared since 1990, while an even greater area is degraded, the world body said in a call for governments to make forest restoration a national priority. Continue reading...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They are playing in our faces
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It is barbaric. There is no reason for women to be dying from ectopic pregnancies in the U.S. in 2026. Not one.
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The immigrants picking our crops, washing dishes,replacing roofs, and building homes paid $96.7 billion in taxes while many billionaires paid nothing. Tell us again who the freeloaders are!
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
New from Nikole Hannah-Jones: In fighting for every Black child, Did I betray my own? ‘A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge NYC’s unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice’
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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)
A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21/09/2026
ICE agent shoots and wounds man at traffic stop in Austin, Texas, officials say
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ICE agent shoots and wounds man at traffic stop in Austin, Texas, officials say
Anti-ICE protests break out in push for transparency as unnamed man is in serious but stable condition at hospital
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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This video was filmed in Palestine. My heart struggles to comprehend such cruelty and the heartbreaking disregard for human life. No human being should have to endure this.
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Aida 🇵🇷🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦🐾🌊🦋🗽💙🐸 @latina4jesusdshw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Insane! #Pinks #USDemocracy
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
From the Chief Oil Analyst for Gulf Oil. Fill up your tanks asap.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Mitch McConnell disappeared for three months & kept his full salary. Disabled people are forced to prove they’re “still disabled” just to remain in legislated poverty. Folks on SNAP must re-apply and prove they’re “still poor”. Republican Senators don’t even have to prove they’re alive.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/09/2026
Glad folks are appalled by photos of the "phone booth" cage under an awning, but pls understand: This IG report is likely part of a cover-up. Amnesty Int'l interviewed detainees EIGHT MONTHS AGO who said the cage was half this size (couldn't stand up), had no awning, w feet chained to the bottom.
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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
America is being run by monsters. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
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DHS watchdog finds immigrants held at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ in outdoor cages the size of phone booths
The cages, called “calming areas,” were used for detainees to “reflect on their behavior choices, manage their emotions, reduce stress and practice self-directed behavior,” according to the inspector ...
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“ICE agents were caught on video pulling one teen from the car and punching him repeatedly in the face while he lay on the ground. The other teen, Luis Ochoa, said he informed the ICE agents he was a citizen but was told, ‘I don’t give a damn.… Your parents can’t help you now.’”
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NPR @npr.org · 15/09/2026
In 2025, the Trump administration ended a long-running program to collecting air pollution data at U.S. embassies. A new study suggests that led to a 24-33% increase in local pollution levels. n.pr/3T0rSsv
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Air pollution spiked after the Trump administration stopped embassy monitoring
In 2025, the Trump administration ended a long-running program to collecting air pollution data at U.S. embassies. A new study suggests that led to a 24-33% increase in local pollution levels.
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no one (spooky👻) @gregory-c-leavitt.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
you really aren’t angry enough they poison the air and water, drive species into extinction, force slaves to exploit natural resources, traffic children for sex, and bomb schools and hospitals these people are traitors to creation and it’s time we stop being politic about it be serious people
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“The United States will no longer limit the planet-warming pollution that power plants pump into the air while burning coal and gas” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/c...
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E.P.A. Will Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plants (Gift Article)
Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We are under relentless lethal attack by our government. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/c...
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E.P.A. Will Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plants
Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.
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WIRED @wired.com · 12/09/2026
And if your tap water is undrinkable, you have no “constitutional right to truthful information” about it. www.wired.com/story/you-do...
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You Don’t Have a Right to Safe Drinking Water, Trump-Appointed Judge Rules
And if your tap water is undrinkable, you have no “constitutional right to truthful information” about it.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/09/2026
Okay everyone. Here’s the YouTube interview with @jimmykimmel.com and @jamestalarico.bsky.social You know what to do. Watch it. Share it. Donate. Bury them. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...
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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thousands of immigrants did the hard, dirty work of clearing rubble and toxic dust and debris from Ground Zero. Many were undocumented laborers sent to work every day with no special PPE, and got cancer as a result. Now some of those same people are living in fear of ICE. www.npr.org/2026/09/11/n...
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They cleaned up ground zero. Now many are hiding from ICE
After 9/11, thousands of rescue and cleanup crews went to work at ground zero. They were exposed to toxic debris and experienced psychological trauma. Today, many say they live in fear of deportation.
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Reveal @revealnews.org · 10/09/2026
A few days before the 25th anniversary of 9/11, NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the release of thousands of air quality records. Our latest episode is a deep dive into this very topic, following a former doctor-turned-journalist exploring why, two decades later, the illnesses haven’t stopped.
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More People Have Died From 9/11 Than on 9/11 - Reveal
A Long Island doctor once treated 9/11 responders who were dying. Now she’s a reporter and trying to figure out why the illnesses haven’t stopped.
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Michelle H. Davis @lonestarleft.com · 02/09/2026
How the dying majority spent Tuesday stripping polling places, praising Charlie Kirk, and giving a sheriff a plaque for 81 deaths
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The Last Stand Of Tarrant County Republicans
How the dying majority spent Tuesday stripping polling places, praising Charlie Kirk, and giving a sheriff a plaque for 81 deaths
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I don't think it should be controversial to say, "we will not provide financial or military assistance to a country where the Minister of National Security brags about popping people's dreams of 'food' and 'education' then sending them to a prison where they are starved."
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 30/08/2026
Afghan national granted protection in the US is one of dozens of people deported to war-torn Central African Republic.
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US deports relative of Afghans who aided military to Africa
Afghan national granted protection in the US is one of dozens of people deported to war-torn Central African Republic.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 21/08/2026
Today's reminder that the current genAI boom is powered by GPUs manufactured with a mineral called coltan (and other rare earths, and cobalt) mined through the labor of enslaved children in Congo, and the US and UAE fund the paramilitaries which protect those mines and keep those children enslaved.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/08/2026
Insane that this has been normalized and is probably not even gonna crack the news.
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The end of TPS was only finalized a few days ago and it is only now starting to break as they are losing their jobs and being detained and feeling the heft of this wholly fucking evitable human tragedy that some of the worst people on the planet have brought upon them
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The man they accused of tearing up the Reflecting Pool has volunteered in our national parks for 20 years He was raised to leave nothing but footprints They charged him w/ a felony w/o evidence, & it turned out to be a SHODDY sealant job BY THE ADMIN? Davey & I joined @npr.org to discuss👇 -TN
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🔊 Listen Now: After his Reflecting Pool vandalism case is dismissed, David Hearn looks for closure
All Things Considered on NPR One | 5:52
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 12/08/2026
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks that are intended to gain compliance from combative individuals.
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AP Exclusive: ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks that are intended to gain compliance from combative individuals.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Internal National Park Service records shared with us: 2024 - $7 million allotted for White House grounds projects and upgrades 2026 - $323 million allotted for White House grounds projects and upgrades ===>
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Many of you are asking how you can help me. My only ask is this: Spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. Tell everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket and share its content. demdock.com/4w6emld
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
NYT stating this like it’s normal when it’s absolutely berserk.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Um… “For the first time, scientists have used artificial intelligence to create new kinds of viruses, raising hopes for medical advances while also raising the disturbing possibility that the technology could someday be used to invent dangerous pathogens.” Gift link:
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This A.I. Just Created Viruses Not Found in Nature (Gift Article)
Scientists trained artificial intelligence on libraries of DNA and then asked the model to create recipes for viral genomes. Sixteen of them were viable, yielding new viruses.
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Cait @cait263.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Honestly might steal this for use with my paras! Thanks for sharing. As a pretty introverted teacher and now introverted semi-admin, this is a decent icebreaker for me 😂
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/07/2026
Lemme tell you about the angel of history being blown backwards into the future: The shackles these people have been put in are Hiatt brand, same company founded in 1780 to mass produce shackles for slaver ships.
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