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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The MAGA/MAHA Administration really loves to censor science www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...
medpagetoday.com
Trump Administration Suppressed USPSTF Recommendations
Group's recommendations on cervical cancer screening, cardiovascular prevention were blocked
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Roger @partlyhuman.com · 29/09/2026
Doxxing as a Service: "In one case, Muse unmasked a person whose name had been kept out of news reports for fear of retaliation and harassment. In another, it tied several pseudonymous accounts to the same person. It also matched a private Instagram account to a real person..."
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Caroline Baxter @convergingriskslab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pausing my AI/NATSEC commentary to share this with a personal take, stated as clearly as possible: This is fucking barbaric and should feature prominently and permanently in every US history textbook. We will never wash away this stain, so we better learn from it. www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
cnn.com
Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr...
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 29/09/2026
Unfortunately, the general public also REALLY needs to know about the somehow even more depraved branch of Silicon Valley freaks: the openly authoritarian Curtis Yarvin-led Dark Enlightenment (which also overlaps with the AI scene, Peter Thiel, and rationalism)
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27/09/2026
Remember the random dude who got 49020939 articles of uncritical media coverage in the space of two days because he quit anthropic based on his fears of existential AI risk? Yeah..........he's a climate denier. So is the whole AI industry. www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/22/a...
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For decades we have been saying: maybe Democrats should run ads that simply quote Republicans saying horrible things about their own constituents. But Democratic consultants convinced Democrats that that would be too effective. So, this is validating to watch. Also, always hated false civility.
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A car marked "New York Times" turning hard to the right off a highway labeled "Reality" to an exit named "Bedtime Stories for White Centrists""
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 28/09/2026
New Horizons is now *three days away* from shutting off its two heliophysics instruments, simply because NASA has not provided the $2M in funding it had promised to the mission last year or this year. There is no science basis for shutting these off. Our earlier coverage:
science.org
NASA’s New Horizons mission may shut down two instruments over lack of funding
Decision risks “incalculable loss” of data from the edge of the Sun’s influence, scientists say
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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
God I love Angie Nixon. I hope she wins
Now @AshleyMoodyFL. Why would I want to abolish the police when I want you arrested and in jail for stealing $10 million from sick kids? BFFR
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KB @gritodelares.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Am I on something in that thinking of these things as task based tends to be how many men think of, for example, chores? Like: "Take the kids to soccer practice" in this framing is concieved as a single task. This masks the many processes behind the task.
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Aedes aegypti
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Matt Calcara @mattcalcara.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Bill Kristol called for ABOLISHING ICE the other day and apologized to AOC and was like: "I was totally wrong about this and you were totally right." And I was a bit afraid I was having some sort of psychotic episode, but nope. I still don't trust him, but he picked the right side of history.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 28/09/2026
Any analysis of the Iran War that doesn't start and end with the fact that an entire cottage industry of think tankers and lobbyists and their friends in Congress were frothing at the mouth for literal decades for this got exactly what they wanted and it failed immediately and totally is wrong.
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 27/09/2026
This part, this part that has been the issue for so many minoritized folks for such a long fucking time is what just destroys me constantly: "I wish that 55% of my brain was not devoted to strategizing about the survival of me and of my friends." We just want to do our goofy little stuff.
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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Hoo-boy I have one word of suggestion to anyone using Claude and similar applications to do their research. Don't.
nytimes.com
Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026
Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.
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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Find out where you can watch the film here.
bleeckerstreetmedia.com
MUSK | Only In Select Theaters October 9, Nationwide October 16
An incisive look behind the legend of Elon Musk, the world’s most heralded “inventor-entrepreneur” who has enormous influence on the world in which we all live.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yeah, it doesn’t seem like the NYT has given any coverage to the frat gang rape scandal at Cornell. Not as important as Oberlin’s banh mi or Harvard’s eating clubs I guess
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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026
you know what? I agree with him my moral and ethical story about how we live together in this moment is we throw all of these assholes out of office and then we put them in jail
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Dr. Jennessa Hester 🍒 @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's important we listen to the man who spent over a billion dollars to make Quibi
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/09/2026
The free speech™️ people are at it again. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
hollywoodreporter.com
The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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curtlarock.bsky.social @curtlarock.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
With this administration it’s difficult to tell if someone is authentically stupid, or taking advantage of the Republican electorate’s lack of critical thinking skills to commit evil.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
We had to wait for the....NEW YORK POST to write about this. Y'all know there is so much more where this came from but journalists don't want to dig and people are terrified to speak to any journalist seeing the type of reporting they've been doing
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“In the future they have people who are not men and not women, sometimes surgery is involved” “Do you take me for a fool? I know what a eunuch is!”
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curtlarock.bsky.social @curtlarock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I’m sure the media will quiz every Republican they interview about this the same way they demand that every Democrat answer for some podcaster nobody over 30 has heard of.
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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Advice for my younger friends: if you want to encourage yourself to stay healthy and functional, to exercise and eat well... ...pick a couple of motherfuckers you really want to outlive.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
insane story. dr. oz is every bit as deranged as you think he is.
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Dale Waffle @darkbrownwaffles.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hanania's hard drives should be regularly and repeatedly searched. You don't say this kind of stuff out loud without there being anything additional involved.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 24/09/2026
Please read this article on the massive weirdos who are largely running the massively powerful and big-money AI industry in the U.S. today.
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Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's a good thing, perhaps, that rats are fleeing the sinking ship, but that doesn't mean you need to pick them up and cuddle 'em
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End Brokeness @zart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Agnes Callard slept with her grad student who was half her age. She divorced her husband, married the student and moved him into her home with her ex-husband and children. Then got pregnant with a third child.
Agnes Callard slept with her grad student who was half her age. She divorced her husband, married the student and moved him into her home with her ex-husband and children, then got pregnant with a third child.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
i will NOT be doing that. see you all in portland in 8 hours or something. or in greenland. or in hell.
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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
He blamed COVID-19 on the Jews. Then he took his shotgun to a synagogue on Kol Nidre. Conspiracy theories kill. (In this case it only killed the gunman, B''H.)
globalnews.ca
Belleville gunman spouted COVID-19 conspiracies while in army, say sources | Globalnews.ca
The Canadian Armed Forces confirmed Sean Ward served in the military until 2022.
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Eddie Mars Attacks! @eddiemarsattacks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It’s because Xi is coming on Wednesday and apparently my guys are a peace offering.
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Luke Russell @lukerussell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This man can never be Speaker.
thebulwark.com
Jeffries Abruptly Cancels Fundraiser With Fox News’s Favorite Dem
“The event is not on his calendar and it is not taking place.”
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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.
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Rep. James Walkinshaw @repwalkinshaw.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Zero. That's the raise Trump wants to give federal workers. With inflation at 3.4%, that's a pay cut. The Federal Workforce Caucus led a coalition of 110 lawmakers pushing Congress to deliver a 4.1% raise. Congress has the power to stop Trump’s pay freeze. It’s time to act.
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
The outright refusal to treat white supremacy as an ideology which motivates action and treat it as generally objectionable is what allows this strategy to be viable for Elon Musk.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Yeah, it's definitely a DEI plot that prize-winning histories are often about minorities. Couldn't be that those works represent the cutting-edge research into fields that *haven't* been mined to death like Great White Men Histories and also have compelling underdog stories people love. Nah. DEI.
Much the same goes for the Pulitzer Prizes. Of the past 10 years’ worth of winners for music and drama, nearly all have been minorities. Whether or not the winners are themselves minorities, they almost invariably win for work about minorities. For the prize in history, Kathleen DuVal won in 2025 for her history of Native American nations; Jacqueline Jones in 2024 for her account of Black workers in Boston during the Civil War; Jefferson Cowie in 2023 for his examination of white supremacy in an Alabama county in the 19th and 20th centuries; W. Caleb McDaniel in 2020 for his story of a former slave’s fight for justice in post-Civil War America; David Blight in 2019 for his biography of the abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Susan Collins has had skeletons in her closet for a long time. Maybe journalists will finally start looking into them now that Propublica broke the story about her criminal bribery scandal with a defense contractor. It’s time to let the public know just how corrupt Collins is.
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Chiaki Mitama 🐾🌭 @terrible.moe · 22/09/2026
Anime characters that made you go "wow, they're just like me" in 2001 / Anime characters that make you go "wow, they're just like me" in 2026
Faye Valentine with a submachine gun, sun glasses and a cigarette Faye Valentine popping her head out of her cockpit and making a concerned and panicked face.
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Trump administration tries - yet again - to get federal research research funding under its ideological control. Let’s defeat it like we did the last one!
science.org
Yet Another Attempt to Strangle Scientific Funding
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
preparing for the new expedition into area x
jeff in a rabbit suit with a sign reading I'm a rabbit.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Sad excuse for journalism: Big profile of DOGE lord doesn’t say a word about all the damage he did. And it was not an “ill fated cost-cutting effort.” It was a malignant, catastrophic attack on the government and its workers by arrogant and ignorant assholes. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
washingtonpost.com
He spent 11 months inside DOGE. Now he wants to set the record straight.
In his first major interview about his tell-all memoir, Tyler Hassen describes the culture clash surrounding DOGE’s mission and the backlash that followed.
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I want the name of every consultant who convinces a Democrat to run an ad ceding ground to trans hatred, and I want them blacklisted by the party and noted so I can never give a cent to anyone who hires them ever again.
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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Preaching to the converted here but Russ Vought is a psychotic anti-modernity theocrat. Left to his own devices, his ideal amount of federal science funding is $0.00.
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