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Carl Settlemyer

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 20/08/2026
We know. We've checked.
A steel mill. Liquid steel is poured into a vat. A squishy toy sits on the edge of the urn. The text reads: You won't find molten steel in squishy toys. But when a hot one explodes on your skin, that's how it will feel. Squishy toys left in hot cars can burst and cause severe injuries. Never heat squishy toys in a microwave or anywhere else.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026
In the meantime, you can access the censored Amnesty reports on gender critical groups here. Make sure they cannot erase these documents from the internet. Like a snowball. dn711306.ca.archive.org/0/items/amne... A growing threat. archive.org/download/rep...
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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
My husband says he never despises other people as much as he does when he’s driving in traffic. I explained that’s because he’s not on social media.
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Carl Settlemyer @carl3settlemyer.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Be safe out there: www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/New...
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CPSC Shares Fireworks Safety Tips as America Turns 250
CPSC Shares Fireworks Safety Tips as America Turns 250
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics. "It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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R.L. Stollar @rlstollar.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Damn. 💔✊ Full poem here: poets.org/poem/renee-n....
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Carl Settlemyer @carl3settlemyer.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
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Bats and Rabies: What to Do If You Find a Bat in Your House
Even if you don't have a noticeable bat bite mark, you could have been exposed to rabies. Learn about rabies treatment for humans after bat exposure.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/03/2025
THREAD: There’s a dire situation in Vietnam, at the largest Agent Orange spill in the country. When Trump and Marco Rubio cancelled foreign aid, froze funding and began dismantling USAID, those who were cleaning up the Bien Hoa air base had to halt work. 1/
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Imran Bristol @imranicus.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
DOGE's latest contract cutting means "around 300,000 kids, mostly in Africa" don't get food aid but these aid packages were manufactured by Americans workers and grown by American farmers. Musk is bringing death to the continent he was born in and helping to impoverish the nation he now lives in.
According to Moore, the cancellation of Mana’s latest contracts will mean that around 300,000 kids, mostly in Africa, don’t get aid packets that Congress intended for them. But we, too, are the losers: This paste is manufactured by American workers, and made of peanuts and dairy grown by American farmers, in a spreading of American bounty and goodwill that has long had bipartisan support. Now it’s piled up in a warehouse in Savannah, unshipped and uneaten.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
One of the greatest tricks that Donald Trump and Elon Musk ever pulled is to convince millions of people that DOGE is about government efficiency. It's about narcissistic, resentful destruction: The Death of Government Expertise. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Death of Government Expertise
Why Trump and Musk are on a firing spree
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Carl Settlemyer @carl3settlemyer.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Chesterton’s Electrified Fence. Trump firings cause chaos at agency responsible for America’s nuclear weapons www.npr.org/2025/02/14/n...
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Trump firings cause chaos at agency responsible for America's nuclear weapons
The National Nuclear Security Administration is a semi-autonomous agency within the Department of Energy that oversees the U.S. stockpile of thousands of nuclear weapons. Officials were given hours to...
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KSV @ksvesq.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Our pro bono project helping junior lawyers that have been displaced by Trump’s hiring freeze of federal attorneys has been a huge success so far. If you’re looking to hire a junior lawyer, ESPECIALLY A FIRST YEAR ASSOCIATE, please send me an email — karen@risepointsearch.com. No DMs, please.
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵
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Carl Settlemyer @carl3settlemyer.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
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Miss America
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Carl Settlemyer @carl3settlemyer.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
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Paul Simon - American Tune (1975)
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Erin Gallagher @3r1ng.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
“Elon Musk, after being selected by Mr. Trump to help recommend cuts to the federal work force, broadcast on X the names of several federal employees working in climate-related jobs. Those employees were then hounded online.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/o...
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Opinion | I’m a Federal Employee. This Is What We Need Most in the Trump Era.
Practical support matters more than encouragement.
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
One of the things us “Bluesky Elders” have learned from our year & a half here is that this experience is what you make of it. Block trolls, don’t quote drag, mute jerks, mute topics that make you angry or sad, just go all in on self-moderation and this place can be so fucking chill. It’s worth it.
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