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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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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What everyone has to prepare for is the constitutional crisis to accelerate if the Democrats take the House and the Senate. Vought has been allowed by the Republicans to act with impunity, so have he will continue to ignore Congress. This is why you have to impeach him immediately.
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Douglas Main @dmain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
fucking insane
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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago
I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861
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Douglas Main @dmain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
sure you may have battened down the hatches, and why shouldn't you... but you have you ever, battened? recommend tbh
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Douglas Main @dmain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
nobody ever asked me if i wanted to opt in to society, which feels rude imo
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Not “mind-boggling.” Trump has made our once-beloved country an unwelcoming place and an unsafe place for foreign visitors.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Justice Kavanaugh, please explain to me — and Christa Pike— how this is an “interim” decision? Justice Barrett, please explain to us how this is merely a “preliminary” ruling?
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Douglas Main @dmain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Amen 🙏🏼
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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 · 30/09/2026
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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Douglas Main @dmain.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Any advice on telling apart a Lincoln’s and a song sparrow? I’m still a novice with sparrow IDs it seems. Pretty sure the bird I saw today in Ithaca NY was a Lincolns, given it looks just like your awesome pic, but my use of Merlin led me to believe song sparrow
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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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Douglas Main @dmain.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
holy shit, that’s intense!
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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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ghost malone ergo propter bones @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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Douglas Main @dmain.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
So?
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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
and i think the difference matters quite a bit, it is not academic
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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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