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Beth Morgan

@chopanic13.bsky.social
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reader / watcher / librarian / gamer (she/her)

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
Citizens United opened the floodgates to a wave of big money in politics, and people are tired of drowning so they're doing something about it ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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How States Are Pushing Back Against the Supreme Court’s Citizens United Decision
As it turns out, normal people do not like political corruption as much as the conservative legal movement does.
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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Impunity for U.S. atrocities after 9/11 paved the way for rank authoritarianism and forever war—all of it enabled by an imperial Supreme Court. @baherazmy.bsky.social, @ccrjustice.org legal director, on a quarter-century of national security exceptionalism:
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Sadistic, Blatant, and Wanton
Impunity for U.S. atrocities after 9/11 paved the way for rank authoritarianism and forever war—all of it enabled by an imperial Supreme Court.
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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 19/08/2026
"I moved 9 times in the 10 years between ages 19 and 29, and when we ended up in this house in 2010, I was ready for somewhere to put my books. But there is nothing that will teach you about entropy as quickly as owning a home" www.kameronhurley.com/everything-y...
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Everything You Own Ends Up Owning You: A Short Meditation On Battling Entropy - Kameron Hurley
“Everything you own, ends up owning you.” – Fight Club I spent a few hours yesterday rampaging through my yard with a mini-chainsaw and some Felco shears, savagely cutting back the verdant jungle that...
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 19/08/2026
Violence is precisely what spawned this undercover spying operation, but the real culprit was the violence of the government, not of the protesters. trib.al/O748QaL
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Trump’s Secret Police Spying on Americans? It’s Darker than We Knew.
Court papers reveal that the Department of Homeland Security’s covert surveillance of anti-ICE groups is much darker than it first appeared. Welcome to Donald Trump’s America.
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Bex @bexg93.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
🚨 The archived version of the suppressed Amnesty report into the anti-trans network operating to dismantle human rights in the UK has been "excluded" from the Wayback Machine. JKR is working very hard to scrub its existence from the eyes of the public. Thankfully, I kept screenshots.
A screenshot of the Wayback Machine page when trying to access the suppressed Amnesty report into anti-trans organisation and networks in the UK saying "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine".
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Lisa DeBruine @debruine.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Today is the only day you can experience Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” on the day it is set. Audio: archive.org/details/brad... PDF: thephilosopher.net/bredberi/wp-...
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theactualcathal.bsky.social @theactualcathal.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Well now I gotta share the terrific animated version. youtu.be/4oxP3TyuQx0?...
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Будет ласковый дождь / There Will Come Soft Rains (1984) [Eng CC]
YouTube video by Алекс Кэрролл
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 24/07/2026
It’s not.
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Get the Facts: Trans Inclusion in Sports
True fairness in sports means ensuring every individual has the opportunity to compete on a level playing field, regardless of their identity or background.
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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 23/07/2026
An autistic man with a special interest in the Harry Potter series has made the decision to value the lives and dignity of his trans friends more than a book about a wizard who grows up to be a cop, sources have reported.
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Autistic man with special interest in Harry Potter gets over it, leaving you with no excuse
An autistic man with a special interest in the Harry Potter series has made the decision to value the lives and dignity of his trans friends more than a book about a wizard who grows up to be a cop,…
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...
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Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest
America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.
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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 18/07/2026
New: Late last night, Taylor Farms quietly posted an official recall notice We now know that the parasite-linked iceberg lettuce was shipped to Walmart & food distributors in 27 (!) states It was for some reason still being sent out up until Thursday July 16 www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...
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Parasite-Linked Lettuce Was Sent to Walmart Stores and Food Distributors in 27 States - Consumer Reports
Taylor Farms' recalled the parasite-linked lettuce it said was sent to Walmart stores, Sysco, and other food distributors in 27 states.
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WIRED @wired.com · 17/07/2026
This month, we published another article revealing that MSG kept a database of VIP event attendees, labeling some of them as LGBTQIA and assigning a “risk score” to others. This is also now free to read:
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Madison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay Celebrities
An MSG database tracked and categorized hundreds of celebs, famous Knicks superfans, and even some of Taylor Swift’s wedding guests. Labels included “LGBTQIA,” “DO NOT HOST,” and low to high “risk.”
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WIRED @wired.com · 17/07/2026
In April, we reported on the MSG surveillance machine–an operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more. You can now read it for free.
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The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine
Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026
Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.
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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Sending this out tonight in the hope that we can all go back to not thinking about Graham Platner. "Most, if not all, of the major left-wing outlets hyping up Platner are fronted by men, if not made up of men entirely."
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We have an even bigger problem than Graham Platner
The candidate's rise and fall perfectly illustrates the sexism in lefty media
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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 02/07/2026
Yeah, state gov didn't like some of the things we voted in, the past couple of years. They're doing everything they can to ignore or undo our votes. Including putting this fuckery on the ballot for a usually low-turnout election date. Get out there and vote (again), MO!
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Francis Sedgemore @hesgen.com · 25/06/2026
"How to burst the AI bubble: Strike at its roots" @doctorow.pluralistic.net
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How to burst the AI bubble: Strike at its roots
Sci-fi author/tech journalist Cory Doctorow on his new book, The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI.
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Autonomy News @autonomynews.co · 25/06/2026
HBO's hit show The Pitt showed some of the barriers sexual assault survivors face in healthcare—like rape kit backlogs, and lack of trained nurse examiners. But in this op-ed, three experts explain that the reality is even more dire than what the show depicted:
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For Sexual Assault Survivors, Reality Falls Far Short of ‘The Pitt’
It’s rare for ERs to have specially trained nurses working when survivors need them.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 24/06/2026
“and so it’s almost like a confession – as though the words on the pamphlet are: 'We worship the devil, signed, antifa’.” @reproutopia.bsky.social quoted in @lexmcmenamin.com's incredible new story
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‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison
Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
New - I wrote about progressive Jewish ascendancy in Mamdanistan:
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A new narrative for progressive Jewish New Yorkers
Judaism divorced from Zionism is now a winning political stance.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/06/2026
UnitedHealth is the nation’s largest health insurance conglomerate. ProPublica obtained what is effectively the company’s internal playbook for limiting and cutting therapy costs. Here’s what we found. (Published Nov. 2024)
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How UnitedHealth’s Playbook for Limiting Mental Health Coverage Puts Countless Americans’ Treatment at Risk
United used an algorithm system to identify patients who it determined were getting too much therapy and then limited coverage. It was deemed illegal in three states, but similar practices persist due...
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DFW Support Committee @dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
please read this statement written by Benjamin "Champagne" Song and share as far and wide as you can: prairielanddefendants.com/defendant…
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/06/2026
“We see, just, use of excessive force after use of excess force,” said Christy Lopez, who spent years investigating law enforcement misconduct at the DOJ. “In no scenario is it OK to be pepper-spraying people as you're leaving the scene.” w/ @frontlinepbs.bsky.social
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A Protester Threw a Snowball. Federal Agents Responded With Tear Gas and Pepper Balls.
A new investigation from ProPublica and FRONTLINE examines federal agents’ response to protesters and bystanders at the Trump administration’s immigration sweeps. “We see, just, use of excessive force...
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The war on metaphor is over and we lost. defector.com/promises-mad...
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Promises Made, Promises Kept: The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Absolutely Looks Like Shit Now | Defector
If everyone in the United States wasn’t living downstream from its consequences, it would be a pretty good tragic flaw that Donald Trump wants more than anything to be seen as a brilliant man who has ...
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Truthout @truthout.org · 15/06/2026
“[I was] focused on trying to frame up the crowd, and then the next thing I know, I can’t see anything.” A federal agent shooting from behind a fence struck Collins in his right eye with a .68 caliber FN 303 projectile, destroying Collins’s eyeball and fracturing his orbital bone.
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US Is Terrorizing Its Own Citizens With “Less-Lethal” Weapons, Victim Says
Human rights experts condemn the increasing use of weapons like tear gas, pepper balls, and rubber bullets.
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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
GenAI is plunder, pass it on (a comic)
PANEL 1: A demented robot holds laser gun at a guy (me): TURN OVER ALL YOUR CREATIVE OUTPUT FROM THE LAST 15 YEARS OR I VAPORIZE YOU!!
DJO: Whoa! Ok!

PANEL 2: The robot to a doufy guy: FOR $7.99 A MONTH YOU CAN USE THIS NYT BESTSELLING AUTHOR’S WORK TO CREATE YOUR OWN WATERED DOWN VERSIONS!
Doufy Guy: got yourself a deal, buddy!

PANEL 3: DJO: That robot guy just stole my shit and you’re paying him for it!
Doufy Guy: Sorry, pal! $7.99 is a great deal, and like it or not, that robot guy…

PANEL 4: doufy guy continued: …is the future! 

The Robot holding a laser gun at a little girl: TURN OVER ALL YOUR CREATIVE OUTPUT FROM THE LAST 15 YEARS OR I VAPORIZE YOU!!
Girl: Dude, I’m seven
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Beast of Bourbon 🥃 @jenleepa.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
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Red sign on a transit shelter reads: WHEN YOU'VE GOT RID OF ALL THE MOSQUES
BUT THE COSTS OF LIFE STILL RISE
AND YOU'VE BUILT YOUR FORTRESSED BORDERS
BUT THE NHS STILL DIES 
AND THE MUSLIMS ARE ALL GONE 
AND YOUR TOWN'S A WALL OF WHITE 
BUT CORPORATE VULTURES ARE STILL PILLAGING
EVERY FACET OF OUR LIVES 
WHO WILL YOU BLAME THEN?
WHAT WILL YOU HAVE GAINED?
A BADGE FOR BARBARISM
AGAINST A BACKDROP OF DECAY
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
daaaamn london
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
The American taxpayer is responsible for making Musk a trillionaire: without the billions in public funds that have repeatedly bailed out and kept afloat his multiple failing businesses, he'd be just another serial bankrupt. His fortune was built on OUR backs. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Description of several federal and state sources for the billions in taxpayer funds that have kept Musk from bankruptcy and allowed him to buy the US government.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 12/06/2026
"Do not insult me with excuses such as needing separate browsers for personal and work situations. You damn well know that I offer multiple profiles in the same browser simultaneously. This isn’t a game."
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Would You Like to Set Google Chrome as Your Default Browser, or Would You Prefer Centuries of Untold Pain and Torment?
“I implore you to weigh the consequences of your actions. You are damning yourself to a wretched eternity of opening all email and Slack links in Apple’s Saf...
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Sinister Golden Bear 🎃 @sistergoldenbear.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
They came at Dolly. We ride at dawn.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 08/06/2026
a glaring omission from much of the convo about the Delaney Hall labor and hunger strike imo is the fact that *these people shouldn't be laboring in the first place* this is slavery, & even the 13th Amendment's 'punishment for a crime' exception doesn't apply! ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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The Delaney Hall Strike Is Exposing a Massive Thirteenth Amendment Crisis
The Delaney Hall Strike participants haven’t been convicted of anything—and are still being forced to work for nothing.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 04/06/2026
I wrote about a particularly embarrassing few weeks for AI hype, and how big tech is desperate to get ahead of an economic collapse they'll be directly responsible for (in more ways than one)
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Would You Just Look At This Shit
Even if you put AI ethics and tech's support of fascism aside (which you shouldn't), the quality control at major tech companies has become an embarrassing and dangerous mess as companies try to justi...
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Pete Sikora @petesikora.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I’ve now seen one story since the NYC power grid added just a massive amount of renewable energy on Monday. About 20% of the city’s grid is now renewable energy! Should be a huge good news story! Share the news 🎉🎉🎉 www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/06/03/c...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/06/2026
NEW: In 2023, three years after Louisville, Kentucky, police killed Breonna Taylor, the DOJ published a scathing report on the police department’s pattern of misconduct. In 2025, the DOJ halted oversight of the department, but problems remained. By @tophersanders.bsky.social
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After the Trump DOJ Halted Police Reform, This City Stepped In. Then Officers Shot and Killed Katelyn Hall.
Some cities celebrated when the Trump administration ended federal oversight of several police departments, but Louisville, Kentucky's mayor said the city would be “moving ahead rapidly” with reforms....
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The Real News Network @therealnews.com · 01/06/2026
“The rest of the world is ready to go. They’re waiting for Americans. They’re looking at us and saying, ‘It’s time for you guys to wake up, because we don’t want our planet destroyed [by] your out-of-control government and military empire.” - @abbymartin.bsky.social
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Abby Martin: The US military machine is destroying our planet
“The rest of the world is ready to go. They're waiting for Americans. They're looking at us and saying, ‘It's time for you guys to wake up, because we don't want our planet destroyed [by] your out-of-...
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Natasha Lennard @natashalennard.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
After Uvalde, Texas Stuffed Schools Full of Cops. They Brutalized Students… latest @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2026/05/29/u...
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After Uvalde, Texas Stuffed Schools Full of Cops. They Brutalized Students.
Texas’s response to school shootings was as predictable as it was doomed to produce only more violence in schools — violence by cops.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 27/05/2026
I don't care who you are, there will always be times when hell is other people. Not because other people are horrible - quite the opposite! Other people are *wonderful*, but boy are they ever *stubborn*. 1/
A hand-tinted image of elderly people in the lounge of a nursing home. Three killer robots have been inserted into the scene.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/05/2026
The AI boom is fueling a literal and metaphorical power grab by tech billionaires—and forcing a reckoning.
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How the American oligarchy went hyperscale
The AI boom is fueling a literal and metaphorical power grab by tech billionaires—and forcing a reckoning.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 20/05/2026
on my birthday I took to the newsletter to write about the AI commencement address backlash, and how growing anger at AI is now irreversibly tethered to justified rage at the extraction class -- whether AI boosters like it or not
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AI Rage Is Inextricably Fused With Justified Loathing Of The Extraction Class. 'Deal With It'
Commencement AI booing reflects growing class revolt now tightly tethered to AI -- whether the technology's biggest proponents like it or not.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/05/2026
"He keeps looking for someone else to swoop in and end the disaster he caused — first Europe, now China, and who knows whose help he might plead for next. Unfortunately, no one can end this but him." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social
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No one is coming to bail Trump out of his disastrous war
He's the only one who can end this.
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
"We are under full-blown occupation and immigrants are going missing,” Hunter Demster, who runs a soup kitchen in Memphis, tells @samanthamichaels.bsky.social. “No one should fear their government for holding a phone.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Memphis is “under full-blown occupation” by ICE. Here’s why you may not know that.
Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Chinese researchers sprayed cyanobacteria onto desert sand and turned it into stable soil in just 10 months. Cyanobacteria oozes sticky sugars that glue loose grains of sand into a crust that’s tough enough to cut wind erosion and trap water. buff.ly/koBHJr5 #ShareGoodNewsToo
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Chinese Researchers Soil Innovation: Chinese researchers turn desert sand into fertile soil in just 10 months using cyanobacteria | - The Times of India
Science News: The researchers at the Shapotou Desert Experimental Research Station in China have developed a revolutionary approach for reversing desertification an.
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Unmanned submarine mapping West Antarctica’s Dotson Ice Shelf reported strange under-ice structures, then went silent after traveling underwater roughly ten miles towards the ice shelf’s center. www.earth.com/news/ran-rob...
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Robot submarine finds unknown structures beneath Antarctica, then loses contact and disappears
An autonomous submarine named Ran discovers strange structures under the Dotson Ice Shelf in Antarctica, before mysteriously disappearing.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/05/2026
NEW: An Oklahoma family was forced to abandon their home after it filled with slick, black goo, reaching gas concentrations at explosive levels. Despite ample evidence of oil and gas pollution, state regulators say they cannot help.
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Oily Sludge Is Flooding Their Dream Home. Oklahoma Regulators Say They Can’t Help.
The Merediths were forced to abandon their house after it filled with black goo, reaching gas concentrations at explosive levels. Despite evidence of oil and gas pollution, the state “wanted to act li...
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Maximillian Alvarez @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
“This is a class war happening on two fronts: A war in reality, and a war on reality and our capacity to perceive it." Here is the full text version of my keynote speech at the 2026 Izzy Awards, published @therealnews.com I really want to hear what y'all think... therealnews.com/the-war-on-o...
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The war on our sight
"This is a class war happening on two fronts: A war in reality, and a war on reality and our capacity to perceive it. And it’s high time we all start seeing and responding to all of this in the terms ...
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Josh Caress @joshcaress.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
This happened today and I hadn’t heard about it until I looked it up just now
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Epstein survivors give tearful testimony in House field hearing in Palm Beach
Oversight panel Democrats hold event at ‘the scene of the crime’ in Florida and ask Trump to not pardon Maxwell
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 11/05/2026
if you read the NYT piece out today about the Trump admin condemning Black people to live in raw sewage in the name of fighting "illegal DEI," please make sure you also read and share the piece I wrote about this over a year ago! ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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Trump DOJ: Providing Basic Sewer Services to Black People Is Actually “Illegal DEI”
The Trump administration has nixed a 2023 settlement that was building modern sanitation infrastructure in Lowndes County, a predominantly Black county in Alabama.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/05/2026
Staffing “was always bad. And now it’s at a breaking point,” a VA psychologist said. They described being stretched so thin that one-on-one appointments were cut down to 16 minutes or replaced with group sessions with as many as 35 veterans.
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Veterans Who Depend on Mental Health Care Keep Losing Their Therapists Under Trump
Hundreds of mental health professionals have left the Department of Veterans Affairs since President Donald Trump took office, leaving staff “at a breaking point” and some veterans waiting as long as ...
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