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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 9h

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com · 9h

“I’m hopeful because I don’t have any other option. And the fact that the President of the United States came after an unknown student speaks a lot to the successes of our movement” - Mahmoud Khalil

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'Resistance Is Our Only Option': Mahmoud Khalil speaks

“I'm hopeful because I don't have any other option. And the fact that the President of the United States came after an unknown student speaks a lot to the successes of our movement”

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Moms Demand Action @momsdemandaction.org · 9h

VICTORY IN CALIFORNIA! @governor.ca.gov signed The Firearm Printing Prevention Act into law, making California the second state in the nation to require 3D printers sold in California to incorporate technology that identifies and blocks attempts to print guns and illegal gun parts.

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Saved By The City @savedbythecity.bsky.social · 12h

As @kkdumez.bsky.social found while researching for her new book, the real lives of many prominent Christian women were far more complicated than the neat and tidy theological boxes they were expected to fit into. Hear the full conversation: linktr.ee/savedbythecity

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 13h

“When food prices go up because farm workers go missing, that’s the ICE Tax. When construction grinds to a halt because no one is left to build homes, that’s the ICE Tax. When our elders can’t get the care they deserve because their caretakers and nurses are gone, that’s the ICE Tax.” #EndtheICETax

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CHC Chair: ‘ICE Is Not Just Busting The Budget, It’s Wrecking Our Economy’

Congressional Hispanic Caucus members joined America’s Voice to call for an end to the ICE Tax that’s making the lives of all working families more expensive.

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Shikha Dalmia @shikhadalmia.bsky.social · 11h

1/ You should check out my sobering and compelling conversation with @radleybalko.bsky.social about ICE and why it must be abolished before its abusive tactics spread to the rest of American law enforcement at @theunpopulist.net . 🧵 open.substack.com/pub/theunpop...

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Abolish ICE Before Its Abusive Tactics Spread to Other Law Enforcement: A Conversation With Radley Balko

The agency has gone rogue and cannot be reformed

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Tom Carter @thcarter123.bsky.social · 15h

We need a journalism conf in DC connecting all the Leonard Leo front groups and all the avenues they working to ratfvck Americans at the Leonard Leo Supreme Court. The forest, not just individual trees. Climate change, mifepristone in water, voter suppression, etc. newrepublic.com/article/2154...

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The Right-Wing Plot to Make It Harder to Sue Corporations

Oligarchs and their Republican lackeys are working together to shield corporations from accountability for the widespread harms they do to the American people.

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Leeja Miller @leejamiller.bsky.social · 22h

Here @apnews.com I fixed this headline for you. He didn't use a "rare authority" he violated the constitution. You're blatantly buying into administration talking points by saying he has "authority" to just decide not to spend Congressionally approved funds at the last minute

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 16h

It's a good day to google "Foxconn," "Wisconsin," "Trump," "2018," "13,000 jobs" and "didn't happen, didn't even come close"

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Project On Government Oversight @pogo.org · 28/09/2026

There's all sorts of problems allowing seeds of corruption to grow in our government-- including congressional stock trading. This moment is an inflection point where Congress needs to take serious action:

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The Corruption Vortex

When high-ranking government officials can profit from the crypto industry, prediction markets, and stock trading, corruption can thrive.

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Project On Government Oversight @pogo.org · 28/09/2026

The Stop Insider Trading Act is, simply put, weak. It doesn't do enough to stop the real problems caused by congressional stock trading. If the Senate wants to spend its limited time on this issue, they need to vote on the Restore Trust in Congress Act.

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Senate to vote on member stock trading bill

It’s likely to be one of the chamber’s final votes before the midterms.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 14h

A thing I learned about Meta when I was trying to understand how their statements relate to their actions a few years ago is that *they just tell absolutely indefensible lies* and journalists almost always let them. They believed no one would ever punish them for it in any way that matters.

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League of Women Voters of Ohio @lwvohio.bsky.social · 17h

The League of Women Voters is encouraging even those who think they are ready to vote to double-check their registration for “confirmation status” to see if the state has flagged the voter for inactivity or an address change. by Sydney Brown www.wkbn.com/news/electio...

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League of Women Voters urges Ohioans to check registration

Voting deadlines are coming up. In Ohio, you must be registered by next Monday. Early voting starts Tuesday.

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Jane Norman @janenorman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

TRUMP AND TARIFFS: Small businesses will again challenge Trump’s tariffs in federal court this week as they feel the squeeze of the administration’s roller coaster policy on import taxes, reports @ashleymurray.bsky.social @statesnewsroom.com DC www.newsfromthestates.com/article/trum...

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Trump used impossible foreign labor standards as tariff workaround, small businesses say

WASHINGTON — Small businesses will once again challenge President Donald Trump’s tariffs in federal court this week as they continue to feel the squeeze of the administration’s roller coaster policy o...

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

God help us, the entire MAGA/MAHA government has literally NO IDEA how health insurance works 🤯 It’s a pool FFS! You NEED everyone in the pool—young, old, healthy, sick—contributing through premiums If you throw out healthy people, it sets up a death spiral—premiums rise & the system collapses

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 16h

Correct. Even though Obamacare was similar to a successful state level Republican plan, Romneycare, Republicans have tried repeatedly to destroy Obamacare & to push millions off health insurance coverage They’re now sabotaging it by forcing an insurance death spiral (kicking out healthy people)

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CAAD_Coalition @caadcoalition.bsky.social · 18h

This summer’s extreme weather has shown how the climate crisis and the information crisis go hand in hand. @councilonstrategicrisks.org's Tom Ellison and @caadcoalition.bsky.social's Phil Newell share practical ways to spot and respond to harmful disinfo. buff.ly/OanVaL4

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Keeping Safe from Fires and Liars

Explore the connection between climate crises and disinformation as experts discuss current challenges and their impacts.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 18h

How was a Nevada Republican with a 30-year mortgage on a $565,000 home able to loan his Congressional campaign $1.6 million? We don't know, because he has repeatedly failed to submit required financial disclosures that would illuminate his personal financial position.

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The mysterious millions powering a Nevada Republican’s bid for Congress

David Flippo, who has reported funneling nearly $2.5 million to his campaigns, has repeatedly failed to file financial disclosure forms since 2023.

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 18h

I believe renewal begins while the outcome remains in doubt. Helping someone remain involved when they are close to giving up can make the next act of refusal less lonely for both of us. We can begin that work before we have persuaded ourselves that we will succeed. Let us begin. -Mike Brock

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 18h

That is the recognition I believe is spreading now. Anger by itself can exhaust us. Recognition has to become a reason to find one another and undertake work we could not sustain alone.

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 18h

Despair can make our own moment seem uniquely closed. We can look at the power an institution still holds and fail to imagine how people might begin to change their relationship to it. These histories allow us to see people acting while the institutions they opposed could still punish them.

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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

we all know this season of America has jumped the shark but this is too much

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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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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

At what environmental cost? "Spacecraft is being landed in the sea with no plan to recover and recycle it...exploded in a huge fireball once it had hit the water" #PlanetaryBoundaries www.independent.co.uk/tech/spacex-...

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SpaceX’s Starship dramatically explodes after first orbital trip

Mission was hit by technical problems as it flew around Earth

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/09/2026

Trump aims to open nearly all national forest trails to dirt bikes and ATVs. “It’s going to create a lot of conflict and confusion and animosity.”

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Trump aims to open nearly all national forest trails to dirt bikes and ATVs

"It’s going to create a lot of conflict and confusion and animosity."

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Julia Azari @juliaazari.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

it can be done

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Kyle O’Neill @kyleoneill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As someone who does workplace training, this is an invaluable lesson. Training alone doesn't do anything if people aren't being held accountable. Introducing a standard while failing to uphold the standard makes the standard and future trainings a farce. Lots to love in this thread 👇

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m glad that so many people are talking about the Cornell 7. If you’re wondering how we got to this point, don’t disregard the impact pro sports have had on telling young men that SA isn’t that big of a deal.

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Sports Taught Americans to Ignore Sexual Assault - Dame Magazine

Within days of his election on November 5, Donald Trump, a man adjudicated liable for sexual abuse by a jury of his peers, nominated four men credibly accused of sexual misconduct for high-level cabin...

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Courage For Democracy @couragefordemocracy.com · 28/09/2026

Democracy needs accountability. That doesn’t happen without courage. Join us tomorrow D.C. for the Congressional Courage & Accountability Summit. We’re talking about what it actually looks like to demand accountability from the people elected to represent us. 📍 Washington, D.C. 📅 September 29

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jacob biba @jacobbiba.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The nonpartisan Voting Rights Lab considers Davis, and 17 other county election officials in North Carolina, election deniers. nclocal.org/2026/09/28/s...

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ACLU of Pennsylvania @aclupa.org · 28/09/2026

Our Legislative Scorecard helps you make informed choices before Election Day. And once our state legislators are elected (or reelected), you can see how they vote on important issues all year long.

Illustrations on a yellow background of the top of the Pennsylvania Capitol, a ballot card with checks, a ballot box, and a sticker that says, "Confident in us. Vote.". There is additional text that says, "Stay informed with ACLU-PA's Legislative Scorecard".

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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

- be thoughtful and mindful in how you talk about this with friends/loved ones, especially people who've survived something like this. This is triggering. Being a survivor means you sometimes will be reminded of this in the strangest, weirdest moments, and it's HARD. Approach with empathy.

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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One more ask to this, since I'm thinking about it. One thing I really want to encourage ALL of us to do, is to: 1. Yes, talk to your children AND loved ones about this. This is in the news and all over social media. Give them the words. Help them process. 2. But at the same time -

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Trump’s Title IX regulation went into effect in 2020, where it received almost no media coverage during the pandemic. There were also few students on campus to participate in or protest the process. Schools went above and beyond in implementing hostility toward survivors.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The main reason you haven’t heard about campus sexual violence in a few years is because Trump and SCOTUS have made it much, much harder for survivors to come forward. You might vaguely remember that Title IX was a big battleground in his first term. And that we lost.

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Bill Allbritten, Ph.D. @billma.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also please support the work of Katie Koestner, survivor, and Executive director of Takebackthenight.org Much like the current situation, it took civil action on her part in 1990 to seek justice.

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Take Back the Night | Action Against Sexual Violence

Take Back the Night is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization that takes action against sexual violence and intimate partner violence.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In this moment, I hope all of us are thinking about how to support the survivors who are demanding more. College campuses are often the source of social change. The students find optimism in the places the rest of us are cynical. And they will be more powerful if we stand in solidarity with them.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For every story like the Cornell gang rape, there are thousands more that couldn’t make it into the light. I wrote about a few dozen of them at one university in On the Wrong Side. The university’s treatment of survivors is eerily similar to what Jane Doe at Cornell experienced.

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On the Wrong Side: How Universities Protect Perpetrators and Betray Survivors of Sexual Violence

"Bedera dispels deeply ingrained campus rape myths and puts the innate violence of the campus sexual assault reporting process into focus."--Jezebel"The book's grim conclusions are tempered with a hop...

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Really important thread. If you're disturbed by the shameful news out of Cornell, please follow @nbedera.bsky.social and read her work about Title IX and the systems at US universities that support harassers and rapists, which are not unique to Cornell. Title IX and HR are not our friends.

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Miss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#StayReadyCrew Companies are starting to tell you ahead of time that they are going to raise prices. PepsiCo is going to raise prices across a broad range of products by the end of this year or early 2027. finance.yahoo.com/economy/poli...

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PepsiCo is raising prices on the snacks customers love most

A company that spent the first half of 2026 trying to win customers back just made a decision that could undo all of it.

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

To support the rights of young people, join the Zinn Education Project’s virtual class TONIGHT at 7pm ET on the history of high school student organizing! ⬇️ Register: www.zinnedproject.org/news/one-hun...

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One Hundred Years of High School Student Organizing

Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian will be in conversation with historians Aaron G. Fountain Jr. and Jon N. Hale about student organizing and state repression. This class is part of the Zinn Edu...

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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Big Guidance is today's Big Tobacco. Immense profits are at stake, with even more rent to be sought as gatekeeper of which conditions may be diagnosed and treated, and which are ignored so resources can be diverted elsewhere. An inquiry needs to address the underlying corruption in guidance-making.

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Trump’s Cronies Aren’t What Broke Public Health - WHN

The structural blind spots that undermine medical progress and how to fix them. Public health didn’t die when RFK Jr. became Trump’s Health Secretary. It was already on life support, hamstrung by a si...

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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The year before Election 2024, I was helping run UCLA’s DEI Office in LA—and siccing my AuDHD savant 🧠 on analyzing not just Project 2025’s substance, but its impact on my nation. I predicted (not really a prediction) all these horrors. Most accused me of trying to scare ppl into voting for Harris.

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R. Charan Pagan @rcharanpagan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There are two way to engage in political battles: 1)You can attack each issue directly & try to beat the money & corruption in opposition. 2)You can attack the corruption & ELIMINATE it as an obstacle to ALL wise policy. A #CitizensCongress is strategy that uses the second method. ONE fix!!!

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