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Alexander Howard

@digiphile.bsky.social
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Dad, writer, cyclist, citizen, cereal dilettante. Advocate for freedom of information, open governance, & democracy. Lover of the Oxford Comma, hater of hubris. Recovering journalist. Trying to move carefully, & fix things. civic-texts.ghost.io

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Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social · 40s
Fun fact: Sandy Boynton went to my high school & made a comic for our choir’s tour of Slovakia & Austria in 1993. As I found storage spelunking today, my Mom held onto a poster. As I recall, we sang a fine version of Handel’s “Halle-moo-ya”’ chorus that holiday season.
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 2h
was just having a conversation about this. it's true. of all the trump admin crimes since 1/2025, these killings are among the clearest cut, with the most law/jurisprudence to support prosecution of a whole range of ppl involved, from leadership to subordinates.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 11h
Understanding Senator Eric Schmitt. His track record includes bringing this expensive litigation chock-full with misinformation all the way to Supreme Court. My article with @justinhendrix.bsky.social in 2024: A Conspiracy Theory Goes to the Supreme Court: How Did Murthy v Missouri Get This Far?
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A Conspiracy Theory Goes to the Supreme Court: How Did Murthy v Missouri Get This Far?
Murthy v Missouri may become a landmark case in which Supreme Court justices are led astray on the basis of a disinformation-laden record.
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David Greene @davidgreene.bsky.social · 22h
Win! CA Court of Appeal rules that the First Amendment protects to republish legally obtained police records even if they had been ordered sealed, affirms anti-SLAPP motion. law.justia.com/cases/califo... We @eff.org represented Jack Poulson who reported on the domestic violence arrest of a tech CEO
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Blackman v. Substack, A173244 (Cal. Ct. App. 2026)
Blackman v. Substack, California Court of Appeals 2026
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
an odd moment was the president posting an image wearing one glove and posing with xi, a photoshopped blonde woman, and a row of droids the president running an overtly political campaign ad paid for by the us government is a sign of blatant corruption and disregard for the rule of law
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Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
An investigation by @NYTimes.com has found that President Trump has aligned the USA “with an industry that is still plagued by the very criminality that he said he was fighting by arresting Mr. Maduro. Planes carried gold out of Venezuela before companies had even visited the mines.”
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Trump Brought Venezuelan Gold to the U.S., but Refiners Won’t Touch It (Gift Article)
The administration is brokering deals in a notoriously corrupt industry, including one with a company that the United States deems a security threat.
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Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Eventually, all repos merge into 1 & a service runs through it. The service was forked at the world's great hackathon & runs over cables from the basement of time. On some of the repos are timeless documentation. Under the repos are the code, & some of the code are theirs. I am haunted by binaries.
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Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Useful comparison of DOGE to USDS & is 18F by @donmoyn.bsky.social donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-vs-ci... …tho US-centric & mixes human-centric design applied to govtech in the federal government, versus civic tech work outside of it, after a decade of rebranding by @codeforamerica.org & USDS/18F.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@jkbjournalist.bsky.social reopened the Epstein case; Heidi Blake seems to have restarted the UK prosecuting Andrew Tate; Ronan Farrow, Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor made the system finally go after Weinstein for real. Journalism has again and again made the justice system do its job.
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Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
What would the United States be like without the five freedoms in the First Amendment? People who have lived, worked, studied in, or visited nations without constitutional protections the freedom of speech, religion, assembly, press, & petition can tell us.
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Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I went to #1AFest at the Wharf & celebrated the constitutional rights every person in the USA has under the 1st Amendment: 💟freedom of religion 🗣️freedom of speech 📰freedom of the press 👥freedom of peaceable assembly 🤳freedom to petition government for redress of grievances
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Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“The corrupt President of Kazakistan stoked hatred against press after a court ruled he could not ban independent news media from accessing the executive mansion in violation of the Constitution. He always complains when a court or justice upholds the rule of law against his authoritarian attacks.”
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Donald J. Trump
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Another Fake Story is that a very close friend of mine, a man I endorsed very early, Byron Donalds, is taking me off his website and Campaign materials. I won Florida by Millions of Votes, getting the Highest Vote Tally in History
- Three times! My numbers are better now than they were at the Election. The story started with the Woke and Dying USA Today, and then, of course, it permeated to CNN, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Newsweek, The New York Times, ABC, NBC, Forbes, and others — and I am more popular in Florida today, even more than I was in the last Record Breaking Election! This is the Corrupt Media Outlets trying to demean. Byron immediately put this picture out, and statements that it was not true, and greatly accelerated the fact that I have strongly Endorsed him. Two Rallies are already scheduled in Florida for Byron and, Will be, as always, "SOLD OUT!" This was a FakeTRUTH.
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be, as always, "SOLD OUT!" This was a Fake Story, with no sources, and the only justification for it is they want to stop my ever upward momentum. The Fake News Media been doing this for years, I call them out, but they should really be called out by the Courts, and should not be allowed to enter the White House premises, or Press Room, because they are CORRUPT and DISHONEST! It is amazing that I have succeeded so long in Politics. These are sick people that play the game, and it's happening all over our Country. Something must be done about it. The Courts must allow us to stop this totally dishonest form of Politics.
If America does not have a Free and Honest Press, it can never be truly Great Again, and I will make it my mission to call out the Hypocrisy, Dishonesty, and LIES that are being perpetrated upon the American Public! Byrontruthsocial.com - Private
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perpetrated upon the American Public! Byron Donalds has my Complete and Total
Endorsement, and he is leading against a Failed and Totally Incompetent Dumocrat Candidate, David Jolly, a known Letty Loser, and someone who does not stand for the Values of our Great Floridian Patriots. They are doing everything possible to make my beautiful "MAGA" hate Republicans when, actually, "MAGA" people are smart, and it's just driving them closer to us! It is truly amazing that I have been able to survive for so many years, politically, getting actually more Votes (TOO BIG TO RIG!) than I even did in 2016 and 2020 (A totally Rigged Election!). God must be looking down on me! If Florida thought the story that Byron "dropped" me was true, he would lose the Election, and that would be a terrible thing because he's going to be a fantastic Governor! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J.
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Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had…”
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Alf Sleeping
ALT: Alf Sleeping
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
She was an FBI agent. She started an investigation of the murder of Renee Good. Trump forced her to reclassify it as an ICE agent assault. She was then forced to resign. Her evidence confirms that a cover-up of the homicide has been undertaken, directed from the highest levels.
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FBI agent who initially investigated fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis has resigned | CNN Politics
The FBI agent who initially began working with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to investigate the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, two sources familiar with...
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We’ve been in a constitutional crisis since Jan. 20, 2025 and a blue wave in November won’t fix it if Trump can just ignore legislation passed by Congress.
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Trump cancels nearly $1 billion in spending approved by Congress, a move some lawmakers called illegal
President Trump moved to cancel almost $1 billion in spending that was approved by Congress, marking the second time his administration has employed a rarely used tactic that some lawmakers in both pa...
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I think something to consider here is that Collins voted to confirm Russ Vought as OMB Director despite the fact that he said a billion times that he thought Trump had a constitutional right to illegally impound funds, and now she’s doing shocked Pikachu reactions.
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Without warning or consultation, Congress just received an $810 million package of pocket rescissions from the Administration. This is the most recent attempt by this Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to undermine Congress's Constitutional power of the purse.
This move shows that OMB intentionally withheld these funds for months to execute this unlawful cancellation of appropriations that were approved on a bipartisan basis and signed into law.Not only is the delay itself an impoundment that was not reported to Congress, but also it is a usurpation of Congress's appropriations powers.
OMB is an agency of the executive branch. It does not get to decide which programs are worth funding.
The independent Government Accountability Office has concluded that pocket rescissions are unlawful and not permitted by the Impoundment Control Act. Any effort to rescind appropriated funds without congressional approval is a clear violation of the law.
I will work with my colleagues to address these illegal actions.
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Jeff Merkley @jeff-merkley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A pocket rescission is an illegal line item veto. It’s the president canceling the lines of spending he doesn't like. Republicans said they would never let this happen. Well here it is. If they have any integrity they’ll join us in ending this practice.
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Trump cancels nearly $1 billion in spending approved by Congress, a move some lawmakers called illegal
President Trump moved to cancel almost $1 billion in spending that was approved by Congress, marking the second time his administration has employed a rarely used tactic that some lawmakers in both pa...
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kate conger @kateconger.com · 25/09/2026
Next week, Google is putting an experimental satellite into orbit that is the first step towards building A.I. data centers in space. This technology is all still very speculative, but tech leaders are increasingly adamant that this is the future of compute. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/t...
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Google Is Sending an A.I. Data Center to Outer Space (Gift Article)
Next Thursday, Google is sending an experimental satellite into orbit that will have enough computing power to answer simple A.I. queries from space.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/09/2026
A first-of-its-kind ProPublica analysis found that children who entered the U.S. by themselves are being detained and removed at about three times the rate they were during the final years of the first Trump presidency. (Published July)
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These Immigrant Kids Were Once Protected. Under Trump, Their Deportations Have Tripled.
A first-of-its-kind ProPublica analysis found that children who entered the U.S. by themselves are being detained and removed at about three times the rate they were during the final years of the firs...
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Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“Maybe we can all be a little less certain about knowing what someone is going through,” said Duncan Robinson. “It’s important to be in tune with the notion that you just don’t know. Obviously, my brother’s situation was extreme, but there’s also the reality here that everybody has their own Eli.”
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An improbable NBA breakthrough, a descent into darkness: ‘We weren’t all that different’ (Gift Article)
Behind Duncan Robinson’s unlikely ascent was a hidden second life — a decade spent as his brother's quiet lifeline.
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danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Today is Pub Day for "Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census"!!! ::bounce:: Please support me by buying a copy of the book or asking your library for a copy! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I saw a new yellow Porsche Taycan on Capitol Hill. Sleek electric sedan, without any uncommon political resonance. Unusual spare tire rack. Gorgeous design.
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Scoop: The anonymous source behind a POLITICO story that the White House is now using to justify a ban on the outlet was none other than JD Vance himself. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/white-hous...
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The Source Behind The Ban
The anonymous source behind one of the stories the White House cited to justify banning POLITICO was none other than Vice President JD Vance, Status has learned.
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
we get inured to the daily crimes but we shouldn't ignore this. an individual adjudicated by a US immigration court to face likely torture if returned to Peru is being deported, illegally, to the Central African Republic. a serious violation of domestic & international law.
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Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Mysky.social is wicked cool. Just set it up, as part of renengaging more constructively with the open social web on reentry this fall. Check it out: bsky.app/profile/mysk... Thx to @jonathanstray.com @noupside.bsky.social for showing how we might build a public sphere that belongs to all of us.
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MySky Social | Jonathan Stray | Substack
Open-source AI-driven Social Media Feeds for Everyone. Click to read MySky Social, by Jonathan Stray, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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Jonathan Stray @jonathanstray.com · 23/10/2025
GreenEarth is creating open source AI-driven recommender infrastructure for BlueSky. Type a prompt, see your feed change. We are here for the users, the builders, the dreamers. Join us. greenearthsocial.substack.com/p/introducin...
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Introducing GreenEarth
We're building advanced open source algorithms for social media
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New work featured in New Public!: There is no neutral feed algorithm. Each one makes source, ranking, & content diversity choices. @jonathanstray.com & I started MySky so you can see - and change! - these settings. Check it out here on Bluesky, in "Feeds" # newpublic.substack.com/p/meet-the-a...
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🎛️📲 Meet the algorithm you can actually control and understand
Jonathan Stray and Renée DiResta introduce MySky, a feed that shows its work
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NEW: In ‘24, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump eviscerated the FBI & DOJ public corruption teams. ProPublica unearthed the investigation and you can read it 👇 www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
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Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
@rtraister.bsky.social’s reporting in @nymag.com makes it clear Jackson didn’t “emerge from nowhere.” His long history in state politics and the relationships she describes are why he was able to become the candidate. The fact that DC & NY editors had never heard of him doesn’t mean Mainers hadn’t.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 21/09/2026
The government moving or hiding jailed people to avoid review by courts isn't some loophole in our habeas corpus rights. This government behavior has been considered a violation of the people's habeas corpus rights since at least the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_...
Jailors were forbidden to move prisoners from one prison to another or out of the country to evade the writ. In case of disobedience jailers would be punished with severe fines which had to be paid to the prisoner.[5][6]
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Glad to see @lastweektonight.com take on health insurance denials and prior authorization. Hey, someone should write a book on that! Oh, wait, I did! If watching the excellent John Oliver piece rightly got you riled up, give my book a read for a comprehensive treatment www.amazon.com/Coverage-Den...
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Amazon.com: Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality in the United States: 9781009649810: Yaver, Miranda: Books
Amazon.com: Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality in the United States: 9781009649810: Yaver, Miranda: Books
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Good to see these news organizations standing together at last. Civic courage is a public good, and so it's undersupplied. I wrote about this earlier this year in a lecture called "Spirit of Liberty." An essay from Geof Stone led me to the Norman Mailer quote. knightcolumbia.org/blog/the-spi...
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌 ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...
The imposing Callanish Stones stand talk with their shadows spanning out across the glass.  It's a super clear sky, but looks cold. Above the central stone is a strange figure-of-8 shape of dots.  This is the location of the Sun, at noon, on various different days across the year.
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Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I find @orinkerr.bsky.social’s argument persuasive: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... The public should always be able to access & download our papers & records without having to sue for them & be secure in our right to privacy without a judicial warrant. Secret government preservation is problematic.
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The Fourth Amendment Limits of Internet Content Preservation
Every year, hundreds of thousands of Internet accounts are copied and set aside by Internet providers on behalf of federal and state law enforcement. This proce
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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It’s been wild watching the @knightcolumbia.org team go from nuanced questions about blocking a follower to “of course it’s fucking unconstitutional”
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Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If President Trump “means to expel these news organizations from The White House press pool, his action is doubly unconstitutional because the press pool is a ‘public forum’ under the First Amendment, which means the president can’t exclude journalists from it on the basis of their viewpoints.”
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Trump Says He Has Banned CNN, MS NOW and Politico From White House (Gift Article)
The president cited reporting from the outlets that he deemed “fake news.” It was unclear how such a ban would be enforced or defended in court.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
WaPo Exclusive: More American service members have died during the Iran war than the Pentagon has disclosed publicly. Five of the officials said there have been at least 22 military fatalities — four more than what appears in the Pentagon's public database.
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More U.S. troops have died amid Iran war than Pentagon has disclosed publicly
Officials who spoke with The Post expressed frustration that the additional loss of life in the Middle East is not reflected in the Defense Department’s casualty database.
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Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“Defeatism is the death knell of a popular democracy movement, playing into the hands of despots…trying to convince the opposition…resistance is hopeless. What is crucial for pro-democracy forces at this stage is to realize that many of the guardrails are holding.” open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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UNDAUNTED: Take The Wins
🚨46 Days to the Midterms🚨
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Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If you’re an American citizen who is eligible to vote now or will be on Election Day, make sure you’re registered & make a plan to cast your ballot: vote.org The historic midterm elections of 2026 have already begun. Democracy is never a spectator sport: you’re the ones we’ve been waiting for. 🗳️ 🇺🇸 💪
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Everything You Need to Vote - Vote.org
Register to vote. Check your registration status. Get your absentee ballot. Fast, free, easy, secure, nonpartisan.
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Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is how every federal, state, & municipal government entity should use ALT tags, images, and plain language to inform & engage the people they serve & protect — whether we’re consumers, constituents, citizens, or residents. Making public info clear & universally accessible helps everyone. 🇺🇸
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Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Lucky knows how to forest bathe, properly. Dogs can teach humans how to be be fully present in woods, waters, & wilder lands. 🏡🦮🌳🌳🌳🌳
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 11/09/2026
After President Donald Trump told attendees at the Republican midterm convention Thursday night that "we want honesty in our elections," he led them in a pledge to "cheat like hell" and "go out and vote" in the midterm elections. to.pbs.org/4yTjfzl
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WATCH: Trump leads RNC in pledge to 'cheat like hell' in November elections
After President Donald Trump told attendees at the Republican midterm convention Thursday night that “we want honesty in our elections,” he led them in a pledge to “cheat like hell” and “go out and vo...
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Researchers across the country are turning to side hustles to fund their work. Behind the cuts sits a bigger shift: whether American science can still sustain durable research capacity. @lindseydcameron.bsky.social and I examine the stakes in a new piece @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The wrong platform for science
Daniel Blumstein recently sat in a Colorado meadow waiting for yellow-bellied marmots to appear, as the ecologist and evolutionary biologist had done many times before, the New York Times reported. Bu...
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Andy Carvin @acarv.in · 10/09/2026
“The work necessary to implement the rule…cannot be responsibly accomplished in the time that remains in a manner that ensures both that the rule is implemented correctly and other crucial preparations do not fall by the wayside,” the election officials wrote in the brief.
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Republican chief election officials say it is too late to implement Trump’s mail ballot order
Seven Republican election officials urged the Supreme Court to not let the Trump administration’s controversial proposal go into effect for November.
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Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
As @zephoria.bsky.social writes, “Every important decision about the 2030 census is about to take place NOW.” @whitehouse-47.bsky.social ordered the U.S. Census Bureau to violate the Constitution. Differential privacy abandoned. Critical data delayed. Appointees posted bogus report. Pay attention!
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Today's Census News is a Big Deal
tl;dr: "American democracy depends on the census. Trump is undermining it" is my new op-ed at the Guardian. Check it out! For census geeks, this summer has been one eeeek after another. Planks of the...
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
the scale of it is genuinely horrifying, no matter how much of it faceplants zeteo.com/p/19-ways-tr...
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Here Are 19 - Yes, 19! - Ways Trump and Republicans Are Plotting to Rig and Steal the Midterm Elections
Attacking immigrants and Black voting power. Gutting election security. Voter purges. Threats of arrests and raids. And so much more. Trump’s assault on elections is truly unprecedented.
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Cecilia Muñoz @ceciliamunoz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is terrible news, not just for the Smithsonian, but for the country. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/a...
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Smithsonian’s Secretary to Resign as Trump Tries to Rule the Institution
In the face of escalating White House attacks about how museums present American history, Lonnie G. Bunch III has announced his decision to depart.
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David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The scale of Trump's percolating threats, the complexity of the legal battles to beat back the federal govt from an unlawful role in state elections, and the relentless disinfo campaign to deligitimate elections all combine intentionally to overwhelm the senses. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
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Trump Launches Whole-of-Government Attack on Midterm Elections
A Critical Week Ahead for Democracy As I sat down this morning...
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Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"You can plainly see Trump’s old 2020 [ #Authoritarian ] playbook at work again, but this time using a whole-of-government approach to tamper with the midterm elections on the front end & then discredit the election results on the back end. – @davidkurtz.bsky.social Deceive, deny, disenfranchise.
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Trump Launches Whole-of-Government Attack on Midterm Elections
INSIDE: Todd Blanche ... Tony Fauci ... Christian Castro
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