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Douglas Main

@dmain.bsky.social
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Environmental journalist, writer, artist, naturalist. Bylines: The Guardian, The Atlantic, NYT, Tech Review. Former senior editor/writer at Nat Geo. www.dougmain.com venmo.com/u/DouglasMain

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3h
Cowboys past and present are: Black, Indigenous, Latino, immigrant, queer, trans, radical, female (and the ones in rodeos rely on rodeo clowns to keep them safe). And that pro-democracy pro-Constitution patriots despise this dimwitted pile of hatreds. I've met cowboys and you, sir, are no cowboy.
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 3h
This is why I think it's good that Trump plans to spend the next month campaigning for Republicans: every time he opens his mouth, something epically stupid, racist, sexist, or incoherent comes out. His support for candidates (or sports teams, or anything) is now toxic.
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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Seattle
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
In response to our reporting, Susan Collins has mustered a defense that is full of incorrect and misleading claims. We’ve reviewed FBI evidence, examined thousands of pages of records and interviewed dozens of people. Here are the receipts.
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ProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption Probe
ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...
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Douglas Main @dmain.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reason enough (and there are many more) to not eat beef, or eat it less often / rarely
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please don't overreact to the SCOTUS SAVE database decision today Page 6 of the decision makes clear that we are in the 90 day statutory window when mass changes cannot be made to voter lists! Yeah it's a shit decision for the reasons the 3 dissenters say but we can deal with it. More to come...
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Supreme Court Allows Expansive Voter Screening Tool Ahead of Midterms (Gift Article)
Critics of the Trump administration system to monitor the citizenship status of voters had raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges.
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 24/09/2026
I don't have time to write more, but ICE is working to remove people to third countries in violation of D.V.D. v. DHS. I've been up since 5:20 A.M. working with two other attorneys to prevent our client from being shipped out. If you rep someone at risk of third country removal, check on them NOW
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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us in the back www.wsj.com/business/med...
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Exclusive | Newsom Expresses Concerns About State Antitrust Suit Against Paramount
The California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs.
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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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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is madness. Sheer madness. The majority who never make claims sustain any insurance enterprise. It's the essence of the insurance model.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is undoubtedly another act of sabotage specifically requested by a foreign adversary in a conservation with a Trump family member about a financial transaction. There's no explanation for this other than "Trump was paid to do it."
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Christ, these people are monsters. Just monsters. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
He is not wrong. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law" - United Nations Special Rapporteur on U.S. Killing “Narco-Terrorists” at Sea www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
one common thread (among the horrifying many) between the numerous ICE shootings/murders is that no first aid was administered to the victim. armed combatants of the government shot to kill, and if they didn’t kill right away, they gave time for it to happen anyway. it is absolutely grotesque.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🚨🚨🚨 Sub-30% presidential approval alert 🚨🚨🚨
American Research Group's poll of 1,100 adults shows Trump at 29% approval, and one away from the cool sex number in disapproval.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The video shows the agents literally just leaving the guy in the street and driving off.
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Krista Langlois @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A wild stat from this news story I edited: The maximum amount of plastic recorded in a chick was 67.4 grams, made up of 644 individual plastic fragments. That’s the equivalent of an average American human man walking around with 9.86 kilograms *** or 21.7 pounds*** of plastic in his stomach (!)
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Douglas Main @dmain.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
incredible shot!
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Stephen James @stephen5150.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Elon Musk is Running a Fake Voter Registration Site Designed to Steal and Sell Data
Musk's "VoteSafe.org" is a scam that doesn't actually register voters
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/09/2026
Glad folks are appalled by photos of the "phone booth" cage under an awning, but pls understand: This IG report is likely part of a cover-up. Amnesty Int'l interviewed detainees EIGHT MONTHS AGO who said the cage was half this size (couldn't stand up), had no awning, w feet chained to the bottom.
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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
trump has the temerity to talk about how the White House was in bad shape when he got there while my city looks like this
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
New: a secretive DHS predictive policing unit is analyzing Americans' financial activity, feeding those names to police, then having cops pull them over. Not suspected of any particular crime We're revealing the unit name too: Predictive Intelligence Targeting Team www.404media.co/a-secretive-...
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A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over
404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I think the political left should be the loudest voice calling for an AI model development pause, frontier pacing, and mandatory third party audits right now. Put aside the doomer stuff (though I think it’s plausible), we just found out that OpenAI’s agents committed a pretty major felony!
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
An OB-GYN sued (often low-income, uninsured) patients for owing as little as $114. He charged them 18% interest. And oh, he had many of them *arrested* if they didn't follow through. That OB-GYN? Republican Senator Roger Marshall www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u... Insane story by Sarah Kliff
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Roger Marshall Sued 700 Patients for Debts; 81 Were Arrested. Now He’s a Senator.
Patients sued by Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas were routinely charged 18 percent interest, The Times found. Some had bank accounts garnished.
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Douglas Main @dmain.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The corruption of this admin is stunning and it's very hard to forgive people who supported this because this kind of thing was so clearly going to happen insideclimatenews.org/news/0609202...
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Farmers Are Going Broke Amid Rising Gas Prices, While the Ag Secretary Profits Off Them - Inside Climate News
A new report finds that Trump is making millions off of his oil and gas stocks. His administration officials likely are, too.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"Perhaps more concerningly, the TVs were capable of recording microphone audio when in standby; this continued even after the TV was disconnected from the internet, with audio files stored offline and uploaded once a connection was restored."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/09/2026
the corruption is almost comical. the Trump regime is a government by and for criminals.
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Chasing Side Deals, Flexing Influence: Lewandowski’s Power Moves at DHS
Kristi Noem’s close adviser effectively controlled billions in spending at Homeland Security; Lewandowski denies seeking business or playing any role in agency’s contracts.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...
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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Criselda Vasquez, American, The New American Gothic, 2017, oil on canvas, 72 x 48 in, private collection The artist's father, portrayed in the painting, was kidnapped by ICE on 31 March 2026
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
OpenAI has filed an incident report with the EU over its rogue AI agents taking over a German website. I now have to admit that the AI doomers were right. The existential risks they described seemed outlandish at the time because LLMs couldn’t take actions in the real world. Then we built agents.
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OpenAI has sent EU incident report on hijacked German website, Commission says
U.S. artificial intelligence firm OpenAI has sent the ​European Commission a report ‌regarding a hijack of a German website by rogue agents, a ​Commission spokesperson said on ​Monday.
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Douglas Main @dmain.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
to be a naturalist — to be interested in learning the natural world — is to constantly learn astonishing new things and to be humbled by the limits of your knowledge. for example i realized today i have almost no clue how to tell ravens and crows apart, and often mistaken them. but i’m trying.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
These religious leaders were arrested for protesting ICE. Looks like fascism to me. This was in Vermont
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This country was built on the opposition to tyranny...so ICE must be abolished.
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Jeff Rudd 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 🇵🇸 @jeffrudd.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
2. Yes, you can check. He actually said this.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I still can’t believe that a nut job exclaimed, “They’re eating the cats, they’re eating the dogs” and millions of Americans said, “That’s the guy I want as president.”
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
If you haven't already, share this with every Philadelphian you know. I want to raise enough hell that Drexel will have no choice but to continue supporting the museum.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Trump Admins latest move to bring vote by mail sabotage plan to SCOTUS is a good example of the absolute necessity of breaking the current Court's corruption. This is transparently unconstitutional. Even if it weren't some version of Purcell wld require not rushing something so poorly planned ...
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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
BREAKING: according to GasBuddy data, the live U.S. national average price of diesel has set a new record: $5.820/gal, surpassing the previous daily $5.819/gal all-time high that occurred June 17, 2022. (9/3/26 3:25pm ET)
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Rest in peace, Wendell Berry.
The Peace of Wild Things
Wendell Berry

When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

from Openings: Poems (1968)
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Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 01/09/2026
I don't know if anyone outside of Canada has been following the saga of the island that appeared then disappeared but there has been a big development. It has re-appeared. And that's the top story on CBC News right now: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Screenshot  of main cbcnews.ca page: Lost island in northern B.C. lake — that appeared then disappeared — located, B.C. Hydro says
Newly formed island found along shore of Williston Reservoir after drifting for 30 kilometres
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An island mysteriously appeared — then disappeared — on B.C.'s largest reservoir
Used bookstores navigate 'suspicious' bulk orders amid AI book-shredding fears
Canadian booksellers worry buyers are scanning, destroying books to train AI
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To shelve or not to shelve: How the American alcohol response varies widely by province
'That choice to not shelve product, that's been a very powerful symbolic message,' says tariffs expert
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Élections Québec to mail voter information in French only for 1st time in a provincial election
Élections Québec will send voters information documents in French only for the first time in a general election to comply with changes to Quebec's language laws, the agency said in a news release on Tuesday.
Canada -Montreal |
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Schools in Edmonton and across Canada cancel international field trips
Boards are calling off trips due to trade war, unrest, 'evolving global context'
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Liberals sweep 3 federal byelections in Ontario, Quebec and B.C.
Carney government secures majority in crucial test amid U.S. trade war
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2 tankers carrying Saudi oil hit in Strait of Hormuz as war shows no signs of stopping
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'It is Lake Ontario and it won’t change,' business owners in Niagara region respond to Trump renaming lake
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.
Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
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batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 01/09/2026
rest in peace to Wendell Berry
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
amazing stuff
"This government hates us and wants us dead," Kathleen Hanna remarked during Bikini
Kill's set. "They don't give a shit about anybody's healthcare. They don't care if we're dying in parking lots of curable illnesses.
They don't give a shit. They don't care if our rights are taken away. They're ripping people off the streets. I'm not gonna tell you all the bad things! But I am gonna say it makes it hard for me in my body sometimes to have a good time. 'Cause it's hard to turn it off. And I was thinking that on the way here. I was like,
'What a gift.' What a gift we have to be able to play for you. What a gift Olivia has given all of us to do this festival.
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Douglas Main @dmain.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This is a moderate position - take note Dems!
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Douglas Main @dmain.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
My cat is quickly warming to my newborn girl and it’s just the most wholesome thing ever also go Knicks
Me wearing a black Knicks snapback and a plaid shirt sitting outside holding a newborn girl in a swaddle while a black cat sit on my lap
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Douglas Main @dmain.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Go ahead and put in the paper that I’m absolutely furious about this www.notus.org/agencies/tru...
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Trump’s Quietly Working to Give Part of Yosemite to a Private Developer
The National Park Service is under pressure to make an unprecedented deal that cedes a quarter-mile strip of the park.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Working on a piece for the newsletter, this is a data point - smart people keep shrugging and saying “communities don’t like data centers because of ‘vibes’” etc when it’s really that people are in fact smart enough to know they are bad faith neighbors. It is *entirely rational* not to trust them.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
BREAKING: Liam Tadeo was just deported by ICE.
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Douglas Main @dmain.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A story I co-created with my partner was last week’s lead story in The New York Times Science Times (D1 in print, teased on A1!). What makes it even cooler (and is ofc a bigger deal) is that we welcomed to the world a baby daughter the same day! Hooray! www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/s...
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Jaguars Are Ready to Come Back. The Border Wall Might Stop Them.
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