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"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams—this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness—& maddest of all: to see life as it is & not as it should be!" -Cervantes

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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 1h
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Swiss glaciers suffer another year of record ice loss
Switzerland's glaciers are disappearing at a record pace. More than 5% of their ice has vanished this year alone — threatening water supplies, ecosystems and communities across Europe.
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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 1h
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The night sky is getting 10% brighter every year. We’re forgetting what darkness feels like
If more cities start regulating outdoor lighting, we humans could make the environment better for all living creatures
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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 9h
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A young sailor died by suicide. Her family blames health care gaps and long deployment
Jaimie Bethea, a 21-year-old mass communication specialist, had been deployed on the USS Fort Lauderdale for more than 11 months. She died by suicide in June.
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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 11h
Creatively Tapped-Out Peter Thiel Launches Startup Called ‘Frodo, But Evil’ — theonion.com/creatively-t...
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Creatively Tapped-Out Peter Thiel Launches Startup Called ‘Frodo, But Evil’
BUENOS AIRES—After exhausting a significant amount of his intellectual energy in a series of company launches, a creatively tapped-out Peter Thiel announced Tuesday a new startup called “Frodo, But Ev...
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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 13h
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How Trump keeps undercutting his anti-communist message
The Trump administration has taken government equity stakes in more than three dozen private companies.
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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 16h
Protesters call for Drexel to disaffiliate from Academy of Natural Sciences | PhillyVoice share.google/w1m1pJCqNofe...
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Academy of Natural Sciences is closed, but the fight for the museum continues
A grassroots group is urging Drexel's board to disaffiliate from the institution and calling for a public process to decide its future.
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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Meet the 20 scholars and artists who've just won MacArthur Fellowships
A historian who studies wage gaps between races and a saxophonist whose live performances include a chef are among the latest recipients of the philanthropic group's annual, no-strings-attached $800,0...
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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
DoorDash Agrees to Pay $131.5 Million in Historic Settlement with New York City | Democracy Now! share.google/BHvGdVIp3LVq...
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DoorDash Agrees to Pay $131.5 Million in Historic Settlement with New York City
In labor news, DoorDash has agreed to pay $131.5 million in a historic settlement reached with New York City that will impact more than 260,000 workers who were underpaid or not paid by the food deliv...
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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Democrat Pete Buttigieg criticizes Trump's rollback of fuel-economy standards
The former transportation secretary says weaker fuel-economy standards could raise long-term costs for drivers and leave U.S. automakers further behind China.
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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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‘A genre-defying monument’: how Sign o’ the Times captured Prince at his creative peak
As a new book on the Paisley Park polymath is released, author John McKie explains why Prince’s 1987 album is the ultimate showcase of his genius
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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Freud Got Plenty Wrong. Neuroscience Says He Got This Right
A pioneering neuropsychologist explains why Freud’s best ideas still matter, and how talk therapy may address the causes of suffering rather than just its symptoms.
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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Hormone-disrupting herbicide contaminating 25% of continental US rivers, report finds
Atrazine, banned in 60 countries, polluting rivers at levels that can harm wildlife and may threaten human health
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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Kyle MacLachlan says he was David Lynch's 'submersible' into dark places
MacLachlan was 23 when he auditioned for Lynch's adaptation of Dune. The two would go on to work together on the cult classics Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks. MacLachlan's new memoir is Fictional Selves.
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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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The Trump administration weakens fuel efficiency standards for new cars
The Trump administration says easing these standards will make cars more affordable. Critics say it's not so simple and could be costly for the environment.
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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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The Untold Origins of Trump’s Plan to Sharply Restrict Mail-In Voting
ProPublica’s reporting reveals for the first time the extent of the White House’s role in trying to dictate how mail-in ballots are processed, spurring behind-the-scenes drama that played out for near...
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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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AI leaders have known about the extinction threat for decades | Judith Levine
Scientists and entrepreneurs knew the dangers of AI a quarter-century ago. But animated by curiosity and profit, they went ahead anyway
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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Schools are experimenting with AI with little evidence or policy to guide them
Teachers are using AI to develop lesson plans, and in some districts, AI chatbots give students feedback on their work. Meanwhile, the research around how AI can help students is extremely limited.
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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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‘Contract between humans and river’: Bristol Avon’s rights enshrined in charter
River charters part of wider movement establishing ‘moral’ framework to protect nature and hold institutions to account
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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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How the Pro‑Nicotine “Wellness” Movement Rebranded an Addictive Drug - Nautilus
The movement is focused on the idea of “clean” nicotine use, such as pouches, which don’t contain tobacco
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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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What to know about the $810 million in spending canceled by President Trump
President Trump announced plans to cancel $810 million in Congressionally approved spending, a move that some in his own party are calling illegal.
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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Opinion | The Four TV Shows That Heralded America’s Fall (Gift Article)
Four TV shows, now acknowledged as the medium’s high point, each cannily predicted the ways in which America would start to crack apart.
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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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UK shares findings of damning climate crisis national security report suppressed under Starmer
El Niño poses critical threat to nations’ defences, says Ed Miliband in presentation to global foreign ministers
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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Trump cancels nearly $1bn in funding approved by Congress
President using rare power to revoke expenditure with bipartisan approval to aid immigrant services
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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
UCI Road World Championships: Brandon McNulty becomes first American winner in 33 years - BBC Sport share.google/0DI8ndFwAslP...
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UCI Road World Championships: Brandon McNulty becomes first American winner in 33 years
Brandon McNulty becomes the first American winner of the men's road race world title in 33 years with a stunning victory in Montreal.
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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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“They don’t understand the scale of the hunger!”- An unfolding crisis at the nation’s food banks
Weeks before the midterm elections, the cost crisis is hammering food pantries in red and blue states
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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Elephants treat themselves with medicinal plants, witnesses say
African elephants use dozens of different medicinal plants to treat themselves and their families when they are sick, research reveals.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2026
ProPublica obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing. From the archives:
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The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, ev...
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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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‘Refusing to meet Trump was an easy no’: Colin Kaepernick on being ‘blackballed’ for taking the knee, racism, and why he’s still ready to play
Ten years ago, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback refused to stand for the national anthem. He was accused of disrespecting the flag, the game, and America. In a rare interview, he talks about inspir...
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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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John Coltrane’s Mythologized 'Tiberi Tapes' Coming To Light - SPIN
On what would have been John Coltrane’s 100th birthday, Impulse! Records is opening another door into the saxophonist’s endlessly expanding musical universe. On what would have been John Coltrane’s 10...
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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Saved from smugglers, these baby apes face an uncertain recovery
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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Skylarks and sandwich terns among new birdies on reserve created from ‘boring old golf course’
National Trust has transformed Sandilands in Lincolnshire into a nature reserve with wetlands and wading pools
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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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US strikes on Ecuadorian fishing boats raise humanitarian concerns but Trump admin not wavering
Attorney says fishers ‘losing their livelihoods’, but Marco Rubio maintains US still willing to ‘blow up ships if need be’
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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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The U.S. has more thalidomide survivors than the government admits
In the 1950s and 1960s, doctors gave the drug thalidomide to pregnant patients without telling them — and without FDA approval. Now those patients' children want recognition.
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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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New Jersey datacenter fined $1.1m after visual investigation showed dozens of unpermitted generators
State regulator’s record fine for DataOne facility in Vineland follows Floodlight investigation with the Guardian
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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trump administration uses rare authority to claw back nearly $1B in spending approved by Congress www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
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Trump administration uses rare authority to claw back nearly $1B in spending approved by Congress
President Donald Trump is canceling nearly $1 billion in spending approved by Congress, the White House announced on Friday, using a rare and contested power to axe funding for immigrant services and ...
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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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We all know a lack of exercise is bad for our bodies. So what is relying on AI doing to our brains? | Devi Sridhar
Most of my students use AI, and I worry about its corrosive effects. We must not entrust tech companies with our long-term health, says Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the Universi...
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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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‘Let’s tell the truth’: Smithsonian head given standing ovation as he hits back at Trump attacks
Outgoing secretary Lonnie Bunch rejects claims the institution is unpatriotic, telling audience ‘You cannot understand all without illuminating the dark corners’
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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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‘Birdwatching is close to rapture’: Margaret Atwood on why she has given C$1m to avian research
Award-winning novelist celebrates late partner’s love of birds with gift to establish the Graeme Gibson chair in avian biology
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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Voter *disenfranchisement* system... "Supreme Court restores Trump's mass voter verification system" www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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Supreme Court restores Trump's mass voter verification system
WASHINGTON, Sept 25 (Reuters) - The US Supreme Court revived on Friday an expanded immigration database that President Donald Trump's administration said aims to combat voting by noncitizens but criti...
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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America
Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well be...
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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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There are still nearly pristine coral reefs. They're a blueprint for coral restoration
Coral reefs are under threat right now due to abnormally warm ocean temperatures. Scientists are studying the healthiest reefs in the world in search of ways to help all reefs with climate change.
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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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The Supporters Urging Trump to Declare Martial Law for the Midterms
Trump’s advisers have been working for months to move his focus away from baseless theories of election fraud. A group of outsiders is making that difficult.
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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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How would AI actually ‘kill all humans’? Here are the top five most likely scenarios | Toby Walsh
From a dangerous new bioweapon to total societal breakdown, is a ‘superintelligent’ AI capable of wiping out humanity?
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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Y Ya La Quiero (Live At The Village Vanguard, New York/1985)
YouTube video by Joe Henderson - Topic
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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Jonathan Majors’s anti-Islam action thriller is laughably terrible far-right propaganda www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
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Jonathan Majors’s anti-Islam action thriller is laughably terrible far-right propaganda
The disgraced former Marvel villain has found work with Ben Shapiro for hateful campus-set thriller Run Hide Fight: Infidels, which makes its politics clear from the outset
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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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“Pedagogy of the Oppressed” Brazilian Educator Paulo Freire Profiled in Film, “Reading the World”
Reading the World is a remarkable new documentary about Paulo Freire, the acclaimed Brazilian educator whose revolutionary approach to teaching connected literacy to critical thinking and democratic p...
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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Democrats accuse Susan Collins of 'corruption' following report on alleged pay-to-play scheme
Collins' office as well as FBI officials have said the allegations — contained in an investigative report from ProPublica — are completely false. But Democrats clearly hope to convince voters otherwis...
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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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‘Good music is good music, and most music is not!’ As he hits 90, master minimalist Steve Reich looks back
At 14, he heard Stravinsky and resolved to be a composer. As Reich approaches his 10th decade, the man revered by the likes of David Bowie reflects on a life that changed the soundtrack of modern livi...
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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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It's getting harder to afford rent in the U.S., even for middle-income families
Housing affordability challenges are spreading to higher income brackets, according to new research, which found one in five renters struggled last year to pay for their housing in full and on time.
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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Robert Reich (@robertreich)
Five corporations control 90% of the US media. Airlines have merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. Four giants control 80% of...
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