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Jennifer Clark @jclarkcrp.bsky.social · 10h

“Corporate-owned utilities charged the average household $823 a year, compared with $494 for publicly owned systems – a difference of $329, or 67%.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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US households pay 62% more for water than they did a decade ago, study finds

For-profit water corporations, federal cuts and climate crisis are ‘supercharging water rate hikes’, study co-author says

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 22h

Notice the absence of the traditional olive branch? The olive branch symbolized America prioritizing peace with war as a last resort. It has been part of the Great Seal of the United States since 1782 and was part of the original seal of the Department of Defense.

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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...

Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 05/10/2026

This November, Colorado voters will decide on anti-trans ballot measures. Now, Colorado's leading medical societies have formally condemned the surgery ban for transgender youth and announced their position against them. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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"Vote NO": Colorado's Top Medical Groups Formally Oppose Anti-Trans Ballot Prop. 135

There is not a single major medical group in the country that endorses blanket government restrictions on gender-affirming care like the one outlined in Prop. 135.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

do men understand the extent to which women are ready to burn it all down right now

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is a tremendous piece of writing and you could substitute the name of hundreds of institutions in the argument. Let's have the deep conversation about what these institutions are supposed to do, and who they're meant to serve. (Hint: everybody.)

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🚨BREAKING: Key federal agencies failed to provide any records to back up President Donald Trump’s allegations that tens of thousands of noncitizens are registered to vote in various blue states, a nonpartisan government watchdog said in a new lawsuit. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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DHS has failed to provide records to prove Trump’s allegations of noncitizen voting, watchdog says

Key federal agencies failed to provide any records to back up President Donald Trump’s allegations that 278,000 noncitizens are improperly registered to vote, a nonpartisan government watchdog said in...

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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If “irreparable harm” means anything, it means being sent to a country you’ve never seen, where you may well be imprisoned, tortured, or killed, under a policy that (the cert grant implicitly acknowledges!) may well be illegal

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never linger; rightly grow @nlrg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the court has made very clear that a republican president is irreparably harmed whenever he wants to break the law and doesn't get to

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 29/09/2026

A reminder that America cannot have a multiracial, multicultural democracy if the United States Supreme Court is allowed to continue to exist in its current form

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.

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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026

There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.

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Debra Rae Cohen @debraraecohen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Rogue agents”=“a few bad apples.”

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. In 2025, he made 1,794x more. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers? I will continue my boycott of Starbucks.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 26/09/2026

"rare authority" being... breaking the law?

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

i wonder how many people realize this is a real problem or just assume the party in power just always uses government money for campaign ads

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is Nazi rhetoric. Not similar. Not Nazi-like. It’s straight up lebensraum.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.

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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

‼️ Weeks before midterms, Texas election officials have discovered that an unknown number of voter registration applications havent been processed due to an error by the DPS. The Texas Association of County Elected Officials say number could be "tens of thousands" - much of them in urban areas.

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Error means unknown number of Texas voter registrations haven’t been processed yet

It’s unknown how many prospective voters have been affected.

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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Congratulations to the 2026 MSA Book Prize winner Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker for <Cosmo-Modernism and Theater in India: Writing and Staging Multilingual Modernisms> published by @columbiaup.bsky.social! You can order her book here: cup.columbia.edu/book/cosmo-m...

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Cosmo-Modernism and Theater in India | Columbia University Press

Finalist, 2026 Outstanding Book Award, Association for Theatre in Higher EducationUrban theater took shape in postindependence India as a large and complex f... | CUP

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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The winner of the 2026 MSA Translation Prize (for a translation published in 2024 or 2025) is Marta Figlerowicz, for her translation of Maria Janion’s <The Bad Child: A Maria Janion Reader> with @uminnpress.bsky.social

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The Bad Child

Collected writings from a visionary thinker about the perilous edge between patriotism and fascism How do nationalism and patriotism shape our understand...

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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The winner of the inaugural Caucus for Contingent and Independent Scholars Essay Prize is Mia Florin-Sefton for “The Recognition of Loss in Shola von Reinhold’s LOTE,” in Feminist Modernist Studies 8.2 (2025): 112–33. @fimassociation.bsky.social

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Bonus for whoever wrote this chyron

Trump speaking at UN — MS NOW chyron reads: Trump touts being a peacemaker while asking if he should annihilate Iran

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Been reading about Paramount's promise that an outside body will ensure CNN's editorial independence, and man is it wearisome to be the sole person on Earth who remembers anything that happened more than 10 years ago www.theguardian.com/business/200....

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Wall Street Journal committee claims Murdoch broke agreement

A special independent committee accused the press baron of breaking agreement to protect editorial integrity

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Gosh, if only there were some kind of professional organization for White House journalists that existed to advocate for the First Amendment and defend the freedom of the press. They could organize together as a united front against Trump's censorship. That would be something.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hey White House Correspondents' Association -- is *this enough?

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Who will show more commitment to, and solidarity in support of, First Amendment values: members of the White House Correspondents Association, or opening acts for Ed Sheeran?

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If I were still in the wh press pool, it would be such a no brainer (tho it’s not like I ever was granted decision making power): no one go until this is lifted and if you do, you are no longer a member of the WHCA

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

STOP LISTENING TO THE DEMOCRATIC CONSULTANT CLASS

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026

footage is making the rounds on Facebook of a canvasser wearing a Stronger Maine shirt (a super PAC that supports Susan Collins) stealing a package yesterday

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Dan Friedman @dfriedman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The Kennedy Center joins the Reflecting Pool, Lafayette Park and sort of the White House itself (no tours) where supposed renovations have led to indefinite loss of public access. After taxpayer funded plans/construction, these places are fenced off and closed down, not improved.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026

Just going to keep saying this - the fossil fuel crisis stopped being segmented and is now persistent and probably perpetual. The only way to protect yourself from this is to lobby your politicians to end reliance on this war-torn, unreliable, expensive fuel and switch to modern technology instead.

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Saudi Arabia shuts down key oil pipeline, blaming drones from Iraq

Riyadh has increased use of East-West pipeline since start of war on Iran to bypass closure of strait of Hormuz

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Streisand Effect. Congrats, Robert Kraft and pro genocide supporters. You've just made Macklemore and his speech mentioning "Free Palestine" into a global issue, galvanizing the majority.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Paris in August 1944 will have nothing on the mood in DC when we are finally rid of this guy.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is a weird way to frame it. More like "Kennedy Center Board Packed with Trump Apparatchicks Votes to Close It Down After Trump Wrecks Its Finances and Has Toddler-Like Meltdown After Courts Rule That He Can't Just Crayon His Name On the Building"

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The guy who thinks humans deserve health care is being trashed as dangerous. Dangerous to what exactly, we might ask.

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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026

the truly crazy making part of all of this is that voter fraud EFFECTIVELY DOES NOT EXIST. you have a better chance of finding an actual leprechaun at the end of the rainbow than of finding evidence of voter fraud that influences an election

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The rule they are overturning was predicted to give $120 billion in public health benefits by 2047, with projections that by 2035, it would would prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital and emergency room visits, 360K asthma attacks, 48K school absence days and 57K lost workdays each year

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“The contraction of used book stock & the inflation of used book prices is happening simultaneous with the reduction of library collections, the defunding of physical archives, & the enshittification of digital archives, & all are at least partially caused by pressures from frontier developers.”

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Guillotining Books Is Not Quite Guillotining Humanities Scholars. Not Quite.

Booksellers are benefitting from AI developers destructively scanning print books, but the activity is not victimless.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026

This is a tax guy. His advice could be the difference between someone having their assets seized & maybe going to jail, or not. Now imagine having to worry about racist shit in every interaction you have with any person in authority. Every doctor & nurse, every cop, every lawyer & judge, every boss

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 12/09/2026

This is completely fucking insane. To be clear, they’re blocking Iranian passport holders IN THE US AND CANADA from taking the LSAT.

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026

The international chess Federation banned trans women from playing women's chess. CHESS. It's not about fairness. The fairness argument is intended to radicalize people into more violent forms of transphobia.

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