David @dbc650.bsky.social · 18hinventing shit, or just repeating someone else's shit - either way, this post reeks of "I did my own rESeaRcH" 000
Reposted by DavidC. Allen @callenofgeorgia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Splitting MMR vaccines into multiple shots will keep people from completing the full course due to multiple visits, increased costs, and more confusion. Measles, Mumps, Pertussis, and Polio -- once nearly eradicated, now increasing. All courtesy of R. F. K. jr.... Now people getting sick from 👇 78036
Reposted by DavidRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 22hTime for this classic again. 137148174983
Reposted by DavidJen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026WTAF?!! Why don't we hear more about this? Mike Rogers campaigns with a Hitler group chat defender. Seems bad for the Jews. But the Republicans and corporate media don't talk about this. They want to hide who Rogers is. Why? 410544
David @dbc650.bsky.social · 29/09/2026hardlystrictlybluegrass.com HSB decisions. Do I go, and if so, Saturday? Never seen Gillian Welch, Steve Earle, Rilo Kiley ( @mikechenwriter.bsky.social ) - but schedule would mean running back & forth between sets, not ideal. Sunday? Miko Marks, Jesse Welles, Hiss Golden Messenger - all good too...hardlystrictlybluegrass.comHome - Hardly Strictly BluegrassHardly Strictly Bluegrass 25 - Fri Oct 3, Sat Oct 4, & Sun Oct 5, 2025. 3 days and 80 acts on 6 stages in San Francisco's beautiful Golden Gate Park 100
Reposted by DavidSanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Also, why would anyone say anything nice about Rahm Emanuel unless they were getting paid? 46413
Reposted by DavidMike Chen @mikechenwriter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The Goodreads giveaway for The Haunting of Santo Domingo Street is now LIVE! Enter for a chance to get book about "ghosts but the real horrors are gentrification and the tech industry's exploitation of immigrants" www.goodreads.com/giveaway/ent...goodreads.comGoodreadsSee what your friends are reading 263
Reposted by DavidAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong. 21188053851
Reposted by DavidDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it. 11141681434
Reposted by DavidRuth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Today I wrote about the Cornell fraternity brothers who saw the group chat about a rape in progress and chose silence. The high school that missed the opportunity to teach boys how to speak out against sexual assault. And the path of silence that connects them dot-connecting.ghost.io/the-silent-p...dot-connecting.ghost.ioThe silent path from Cornell to Hope HighThree hundred and twenty six miles separate Cornell University from Hope High School in Providence, Rhode Island, but right now those two schools sit adjacent in my mind. Two stories of sexual assault... 1016086
Reposted by DavidQasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/09/2026This article is for men. Women already know this. This week a woman filed a civil suit against 7 men at Cornell U for drugging, trafficking, and raping her. Zero have faced criminal charges. Women are not safe around men. And the data is devastating. www.qasimrashid.com/p/cornell-un...qasimrashid.comCornell University, Systemic Sexual Abuse, and the Men ResponsibleContent Warning: This is a post about men, rape, and women 21548235
Reposted by DavidNancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 27/09/2026New ICE facility, 'Dilley 2' is most accurately called a TRAFFICKING facility for migrant kids. The facility at England Airpark in Alexandria, Louisiana is within an airport. ICE plans to put kids on planes as quickly as possible. To countries unknown. apnews.com/article/huma...apnews.comAP exclusive: Change in human trafficking policy could make some minors easier to deportThe Trump administration has ordered caregivers for migrant children to stop reporting human trafficking concerns directly to the office created to help victims. 37650
Reposted by DavidKimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026But I need to smile more. 713143336285
Reposted by DavidAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/09/2026This is an entirely new phenomenon because before the vaccine, most women who survived measles were immune because they had it when they were young. But now, idiots who refuse to get vaccinated are giving birth to babies with measles. Two babies have died. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...nbcnews.comAmerica had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected. 59893553996
Reposted by DavidMJ @bstnboy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026 💥💥BOOM💥💥 Costco took its $184M in rebate refund and used it to lower costs targeting products that would have the most impact for members!! Kudos Costco!! www.seattletimes.com/business/cos...seattletimes.comCostco clinches $184M in tariff refunds, with more expectedThe big-box retailer said the money was reinvested to give "value back to our members." It’s more than a third of the total tariff refunds the company expects. 19970372280
Reposted by David[Display Name Here] @whatusername.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Like I’ve told my family, please don’t come to America so long as these assholes need to meet quotas from their master Milsterafu. 1154
Reposted by DavidTim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Reminder: machines do not have intention or motivation or agency. If I leave bomb out on the street and it eventually blows up and kills people, did the bomb "go rogue" or am I a fucking criminal?nytimes.comOpenAI’s A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government WebsitesThe company did not learn until recently that its technology had meddled with websites for the Education and Commerce Departments and the Securities and Exchange Commission. 47016
Reposted by DavidProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. (Published Feb. 2025)propublica.orgTexas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban. 361155588
Reposted by DavidBrad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 26/09/2026Time to fight for the Constitution 25224
Reposted by Davidpiquedpensioner.bsky.social @piquedpensioner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026 “You can still be twisted. Just be clever about it.” AI as criminal conspirator. 02510
Reposted by DavidMurshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is consistent w/ Trump never wanting to pay for anything and this time making the taxpayers for Republican campaign commercials. It’s also consistent w/ Republicans’ utter disregard for rules or just lawlessness. That said, silver lining: Trump on TV only means more disaster for Rs - good! 13211
Reposted by DavidEbony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026Share with everyone you know. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JI4...youtube.comElizabeth Banks in "Just a Little Heart Attack"YouTube video by American Heart Association 58560
Reposted by DavidJack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026He kept yelling "I'm a U.S. citizen." They kept him pinned to the sidewalk anyway. He left in an ambulance with injuries to his head, neck, and teeth. DHS calls it "without further incident." www.jackhopkinsnow.com 43183824150
David @dbc650.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Yes, please! I low key lost my shit when an education org. was pushing a guide to AI use suggesting that LLMs should serve as a "thought partner" for students. 020
Reposted by DavidKate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Rumors about “rigged elections" are now a fixture of U.S. elections, leading to diminished trust in election results & democracy (broadly). These rumors can sometimes be hard to debunk, esp. in their early stages. Our UW team has identified the 6 common ways that election integrity rumors mislead: 15502221
Reposted by DavidMother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/09/2026Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.motherjones.comAI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening. 7213101
Reposted by DavidErin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This is human trafficking on a massive scale. 332304782
Reposted by DavidKate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The DOJ is intentionally drawing attention to this incident of mail dumping to sow distrust in mail-in voting, suppress votes, & motivate changes to the law to make it harder to vote. If you're amplifying and feeding that frame, even from the other side, you're a pawn in their information operation. 29624
Reposted by DavidChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I was, thankfully, asleep when this one happened, but, my god, he's an idiot. 4884299
Reposted by DavidMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/09/2026The US State Department is issuing security advisories right now in multiple Middle Eastern nations. Alerts have been sent in at least 9 countries so far. 17732981077
Reposted by DavidKatherine T. Tyson @katherinettyson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The U.S. military almost started a war with China due to "AI error" An entirely hallucinated report almost started a US-China war Today, CNN lost their White House access reporting things like this Officials need to understand the limitations of AI: those in positions of power have a duty of carecnn.comExclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN PoliticsThe episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war 1187
Reposted by DavidMother Jones @motherjones.com · 19/09/2026Trump’s friends are already signing deals to take Venezuela’s oil.motherjones.comTrump's friends are already signing deals to take Venezuela's oilChevron is first in line. ExxonMobil—and a company led by a Trump adviser—look to be next. 1615484
Reposted by DavidJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 18/09/20261) The US federal system is gravely flawed (as I've written one zillion times). Was engineered in slavery-era compromise to over-represent Southern states. Now grossly over-represents rural (mostly conservative) states. Not a coincidence that virtually no other democracy has copied this system... 212828
Reposted by DavidAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I wrote about who is actually making America “poorer and dirtier.” It’s not immigrants. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... 362827764
David @dbc650.bsky.social · 17/09/2026We have a ton of work to do in civics education to help EVERYONE - especially the young folk - to recognize how fucked up this is, and how unprecedented in the before times 043
Reposted by DavidPrincess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Banning words in grant applications violates the First Amendment. "NIH is systematically trying to silence research-related speech, including biomedical results that it suspects will express views the administration does not like on everything from DEI to gender identity to climate change..." 🧪science.orgResearchers file First Amendment challenge to NIH grant screeningLawsuit argues that Trump policy of purging politically sensitive terms from research projects violates free speech 6330161
Reposted by DavidSenator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 17/09/2026Republican abortion bans are killing women—and the worst part is, they knew this would happen. Republicans care more about controlling women's bodies than they do about actually protecting them. Abortion rights in all 50 states.19thnews.orgTierra Walker died after she couldn’t get an abortion. Her family is suing Ken Paxton.The case argues that Texas’ near-total abortion ban violates the state and U.S. constitutions. It is the first lawsuit over a death linked to an abortion ban. 8365120
Reposted by DavidChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17/09/2026LEAKED PHOTOS Hegseth isn’t coming clean on the extent of the damage to American assets overseas. Now we’re seeing the leaked photos. Hundreds of structures damaged or destroyed. Nearly 60 aircraft damaged or lost. Up to $3.7 BILLION in equipment losses. 14428701624
Reposted by DavidSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026newrepublic.com/post/215423/...newrepublic.comPentagon Watchdog Reveals Devastating U.S. Losses in Iran WarThe Defense Department’s inspector general reports a major munitions shortfall—and damage to U.S. bases throughout the region. 9484231
Reposted by DavidNick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This guy is an energy pricing expert. Currently chief energy advisor at Gulf, long time contributor to various NPR shows. Incredibly distressing. 602109420
Reposted by DavidHansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 15/09/2026BREAKING: The Supreme Court has refused to allow mail-in voting restrictions for the midterms, rejecting the Trump administration’s bid to revive a U.S. Postal Service plan. USPS is expected to continue delivering mail ballots as usual www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...documentcloud.org26A305 19645211
Reposted by DavidKristen Lopez @kristenklopez.bsky.social · 11/09/2026As an actual disabled critic, BEING HEUMANN is a landmark for disabled representation that abled audiences aren't going to immediately grasp its power. An essential piece of disability history in an era when our rights are being eroded. My review is live: thefilmmaven.com/being-heuman...thefilmmaven.comBeing Heumann Review: The Disability Representation We've Been Waiting ForWe finally broke the Tod Browning "Freaks" record for most disabled cast members! 6320125
Reposted by DavidChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 07/09/2026Not BREAKING NEWS because the Trump admin has been deleting and altering federal datasets for over a year. You can argue about policy. But when the government starts eliminating the data we use to determine whether those policies are actually working, that deserves a hell of a lot more attention. 15430931786
Reposted by DavidAndrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 07/09/2026On this Labor Day, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor. 16994296
Reposted by DavidMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 07/09/2026Trump posted 100+ times in a day. One line in his Labor Day message accidentally gave away the whole strategy. Here's what he's hoping you miss while you're distracted by the map memes.meidasplus.comMonday Updates: Trump’s Labor Day Gets Ugly – 9/7/26Your Monday updates. Paywall free. 2331597590
Reposted by DavidRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I wrote in March: Feminism is far from dead, but people love to write its obituary. I’ve lived through dozens of them over the decades, and there’s been a fresh flurry over the past few years....theguardian.comThe one thing everyone gets wrong about feminismPeople love to declare the death of the women’s movement, pointing to the ‘failure’ of #MeToo or the Epstein files, but don’t give up the fight just yet, writes Rebecca Solnit 934897