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Professor, birder, photographer, hiker, community organizer, lover of rescue dogs and cats and so much more. All power to the people!

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Jan Kirsch, M.D., M.P.H. @drjanicekirsch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
MAHA, NUH-UH! •USDA lost 20,000 workers, including 874 food inspectors. • FDA's workforce down by 20 •CDC’s team for tracking parasites dropped from 11 down to 3 •USDA shelved raw poultry standards barring sale of meat contaminated with salmonella. newrepublic.com/post/214946/...
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You’re Not Hallucinating: The Amount of Recalled Food Is Skyrocketing
Here’s a list of every food item that faced a recall in August.
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
#ResistanceEarth Farmworkers are struggling as temperatures rise, and not only due to heat stress. Extreme heat causes pesticides to evaporate faster, filling the air with dangerous chemicals. As workers sweat, their pores open, also increasing exposure through the skin. www.rfi.fr/en/environme...
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Farm workers face a ‘double-edged sword’ of extreme heat and pesticides
As extreme heat makes working outdoors increasingly dangerous, farm workers face another, less visible threat: the pesticides used on the crops around them. Higher temperatures can make these chemical...
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Bird + Camera @doctorbluebird.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
After a long hiatus I am back with a bird photo! Today's #birdoftheday theme is #birdinabush. Here's my noisy neighbor Merlin who went on and on throughout the day this summer. #bird #birdphotography #nature #wildlife Technically Merlin is in a tree but the tree is part of the bush, right?
A small raptor (Merlin) perches on a brach in an evergreen tree. The raptor has yellow legs and feet and white with some brown underfeathers, a striped brown and white tail and a brown back. Beak is yellow above with some white below. Head is white with light brown.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
www.newsweek.com/map-shows-us...
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Map shows US World Cup team's immigrant backgrounds
Twelve of the 26 players on the American national team at the World Cup have immigrant or diasporic roots across eight countries.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
NEW — I wanted to know if ICE’s newly uncovered plan to offload seven of the 11 concentration camp warehouses was actually a big deal, so I went straight to the expert: Michael Wriston of @projectsaltbox.com, which has been tracking these warehouses every step of the way. Our full convo here:
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ICE is offloading seven concentration camp warehouses. What does it really mean?
A Q+A with Michael Wriston of Project Salt Box
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
One thing I learned when I was just out of college and watching 6-8 hours of Fox News a day for my research job at Media Matters: Ingesting hours of propaganda on a daily basis changes you, no matter how smart you think you are. If you don't notice the changes, that just makes you an easier mark.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 19/06/2026
US-Iran talks in Switzerland abruptly called off
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US-Iran talks in Switzerland abruptly called off
JD Vance’s staff were at the airbase ready to fly to summit in Bürgenstock for Iran talks before trip was suddenly cancelled Talks set to take place on Friday between the ⁠United States ⁠and ​Iran on implementing the 14-point agreement to end their war have been cancelled, Switzerland’s foreign ministry has announced. The talks were set to begin in the tiny Swiss village of Obbürgen on Friday, two days after the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that opened a 60-day window to negotiate a permanent understanding about Iran’s nuclear program while getting oil traffic moving through the strait of Hormuz. Continue reading...
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CVJ @enuffsaysv.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Trump Tells Federal Employees to Wear "Freedom" Pins—Or Else Park Service officials have threatened to discipline employees who refuse to wear Freedom 250 swag. Mother Jones: apple.news/ADFJJp_6TSvG... 🤦🤪🤡good grief, this regime is so pathetic, so insecure, so desperate to seem powerful
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Trump Administration Tells Federal Employees to Wear "Freedom" Pins—Or Else — Mother Jones
Park Service officials have threatened to discipline employees who refuse to wear Freedom 250 swag.
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MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com · 19/06/2026
AI researchers and online privacy experts have long warned of the myriad dangers generative AI poses for personal privacy. These cases give us yet another scenario to worry about: generative AI exposing people’s real phone numbers.
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AI chatbots are giving out people’s real phone numbers
People report that their personal contact info was surfaced by Google AI—and there’s apparently no easy way to prevent it. 
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
💥 Apocalyptic scenes in Harouf, South Lebanon. Israel dropped bombs on residential buildings in the middle of the night. Entire families are now buried under the rubble. @sarahabdallah.bsky.social
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
❗SCOTUS ruled today a defendant can't just waive away their rights to an appeal if that'd be a miscarriage of justice. Gorsuch wrote a concurrence saying: If we don't limit this, prosecutors will keep pushing their luck. And he cited Bolts' article on waivers in Virginia to show how far they go:
If a defendant may prospectively waive the right to appeal his sentence, too, one might wonder what’s to stop
prosecutors from pushing their luck further yet. Might we
eventually face plea agreements that include prospective
waivers of the defendant’s right to complain about future
unreasonable searches and seizures of his home? See L.
Gill, Virginia Governor Vetoes a Ban on Plea Deals that
Waive People’s Constitutional Rights, Bolts (Apr. 14, 2026),
https://perma.cc/3FL2-LBNB.
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Kepano Kolohe @alala55.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Help save whales from being tangled in commercial fishing gear. Urge NOAA Fisheries and other decisionmakers to protect whales by supporting the use of safer, whale-friendly fishing gear. act.biologicaldiversity.org/oLFZY9zxBEeI...
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Protect Whales From Deadly Entanglement
Help save whales from being tangled in commercial fishing gear. Urge NOAA Fisheries and other decisionmakers to protect whales by supporting the use of safer, whale-friendly fishing gear.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 15/06/2026
WHOA. At least three passenger jets appear to have had rejected landings/go-rounds in ~30 minutes while that UFC light show was going a mile away. @aaronparnas.bsky.social previously reported a commercial pilot filed an FAA safety report about being “nearly blinded” by a test run of the lights.
An FR24 map showing AAL1092 from Phoenix doing a rejected landing/go-round at DCA. An FR24 map showing DAL2962 from Minneapolis doing a rejected landing/go-round at DCA. An FR24 map showing SWA1295 from Dallas doing a rejected landing/go-round at DCA. A post from @musicologyduck.bsky.social showing the blinding lights being projected into a cloudy sky over the White House. 

Text reads: It looks like the sun is trying to come out I’m not even kidding
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
The third week of 250 to 250 videos. #WeAreAmerica250
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Week Three in 250 to 250
This was the second week of videos from the 250 to 250 Project that we’re producing to honor the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 08/06/2026
OPINION: "Cuts in funding and staffing have stressed NOAA’s ability to collect critical observations. Last year, retired NOAA scientists volunteered to staff hurricane hunter reconnaissance flights so the missions could still be flown," Brian Tang writes.
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Opinion | Federal Cuts Threaten to Stretch NOAA to Its Breaking Point
Brian Tang writes about why investing in hurricane forecasting technology is worth the cost.
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Bird + Camera @doctorbluebird.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Shame, shame, shame!
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
This is the single most alarming thing I’ve seen yet from RFK Jr. He is attempting to get identifiable medical records from ALL OF US. “Under the proposal, HHS would get data from 90% of the population’s medical records by 2028”. This CANNOT be permitted to happen.
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RFK Jr. seeks to peek at Americans’ medical records for clues on autism and vaccines | CNN
U.S. health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is pursuing federal government access to most Americans’ medical records, in a quest to research a link between vaccines and autism — a connection the medic...
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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
#MorningVibe The #Suffs march on Washington to demand the right to vote. Be inspired. We demand an amendment! #ERANow
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
One dog did this in two minutes. Original post
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250 to 250 @250to250.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Cleve Jones is a human rights advocate, author, and lecturer who joined the gay liberation movement in 1972, co-founded the San Francisco AIDS Foundation in 1983, and founded the AIDS Memorial Quilt—one of the world’s largest community arts projects—in 1987. #WeAreAmerica250
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250 to 250 @250to250.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Dr. Jelani Cobb is an author, journalist, and Dean of Columbia Journalism School. Cobb tells the story of John Peter Zenger, a newspaperman whose trial for printing critical statements about the royal governor of New York helped to define freedom of the press. #WeAreAmerica250
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Auntie Po'kchop @auntiepokchop.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Where is the Governor?
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Bird + Camera @doctorbluebird.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
This needs to be every day.
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
so, this is deeply, deeply horrifying thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...
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I found a second vote.gov — and it's registered to the White House
There is a moment in every investigation where the thing you have been looking for finds you instead.
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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 30/05/2026
The Justice Department removed hundreds of pages from its website detailing prosecutions and convictions of people involved in the Jan. 6, 2021 riot on the U.S. Capitol, including many from Philadelphia and across Pennsylvania.
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Trump's Justice Department purges information about convicted Jan. 6 rioters from Pennsylvania
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
If you've noticed an uptick of pro-Russia tankies hating on Ukraine, here is why: Russia hijacked hundreds of BlueSky accounts to spread propaganda and disinformation. This is why we also increased the anti-Kremlin posts by 300%. www.france24.com/en/live-news...
A Russian influence campaign hijacked hundreds of Bluesky accounts -- many belonging to influential Americans -- to spread propaganda, researchers said, in a striking disinformation tactic that weaponized authentic identities rather than relying on fake accounts.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 29/05/2026
It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
NEW: Trump's gross Aliens.gov site claims to map where immigrants have been taken into custody, but it includes more 83 spots where Americans alone were arrested. Over 700 locations include citizen arrests. The counter is fake. The music was ripped. And Puerto Rico is listed as a foreign country.
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The White House’s Aliens.gov Site Brags That ICE Arrested More Than 700 US Citizens
The website, which compares human beings to extraterrestrials, touts arrest numbers from the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration crackdown. But some of its details are really out there.
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gloriousruby.bsky.social @gloriousruby.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
In Spokane WA three ice demonstrators have been convicted this week.
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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Katy Tur on Trump's $1.8 Billion slush fund: The January 6th rioters are clearly who this is intended for. David Dempsey, who stomped on an officer's head, went on an hour-long rampage. Sentenced to 20 years in prison. Donald Trump pardoned him. And now we're going to pay him?
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Lots of chatter about whether DOJ is investigating E. Jean Carroll. Most of it misses the key issue: Even if DOJ wants to indict, doing so could create major legal problems like vindictive prosecution claims. The reporting conflicts; the legal implications don't. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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E. Jean Carroll
Is DOJ investigating her, or not?
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Bird + Camera @doctorbluebird.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
What a f***ed up country we're living in. The more unpopular this regime gets, the more they tighten the screws.
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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
The person organizing this conference that Greg Bovino is speaking at is Martin Sellner, a neo-Nazi activist. Sellner, among other things, corresponded and agreed to meet with the man who went on to murder 51 worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch, NZ in 2019 www.theguardian.com/world/2019/m...
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Memphis Residents Sue Federal Agents Over Arrest Tactics Amid Crime and Immigration Crackdown www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/u...
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Memphis Residents Are Latest to Sue Over Federal Agents’ Arrest Tactics
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Cartoon Brew @cartoonbrew.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
“This is an assault on artists everywhere”: 'Good Advice Cupcake' creator Loryn Brantz has condemned BuzzFeed and Amazon MGM Studios after learning her character is being adapted into an AI-assisted animated series without her involvement or approval. www.cartoonbrew.com/artificial-i...
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'Good Advice Cupcake's' Loryn Brantz Slams BuzzFeed’s AI Plans
The creator says BuzzFeed misled her before turning her deeply personal character into part of a controversial AI animation project.
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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 22/05/2026
“When people fall through the cracks, it is not inevitable,” Michelle C. Flynn, Janida Emerson and Kevin Curtis write in an op-ed. “It is a failure of coordination, and fixing that is a shared responsibility.”
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Voices: Housing alone does not solve homelessness. We’ve seen how coordinating care can save lives.
“When people fall through the cracks, it is not inevitable,” Michelle C. Flynn, Janida Emerson and Kevin Curtis write in an op-ed. “It is a failure of coordination, and fixing that is a shared responsibility.”
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Bird + Camera @doctorbluebird.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
At least some people understand how horrible this regime is and understand that we shouldn't support it.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19/05/2026
Memphis is “under full-blown occupation” by ICE. Here’s why you may not know that.
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Memphis is “under full-blown occupation” by ICE. Here’s why you may not know that.
Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.
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Erik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
When Minneapolis felt under heavy siege, people from everywhere helped and reached out and it was really heartening and made a difference. Memphis deserves that too, all the more so because there appears to be a concerted effort to keep their occupation out of the news
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Do you know I actually think that these people are so inoculated from any public sentiment that they are legitimately shook by a handful of boos at commencements this week?
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papaesoco.bsky.social @papaesoco.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
www.commondreams.org/news/gas-pri... “This data shows that energy price shocks function as an economy-wide, unacknowledged tax on households, with costs comparable to large federal programs and policies,” said the Climate Solutions Lab director.
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Trump's Iran War Has Already Cost Americans Over $40 Billion Extra on Gas and Diesel | Common Dreams
President Trump's illegal war on Iran has cost American consumers over $40 billion at the fuel pump.
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papaesoco.bsky.social @papaesoco.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump seeks passage of SAVE America Act via housing and FISA bills
Trump is still hoping he can save the anti-voter SAVE America Act by attaching it to other bills pending in Congress.
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Deborah Sandidge Photography "A roseate spoonbill preens her pink feathers and stretches her wings, perfectly mirrored in a pond, double the magic, double the fun! Filmed with my Nikon Z 9 and 600mm f/4 TC lens, slow motion video.'
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/05/2026
The Trump administration will not rest until every elite institution has purged itself of black people. ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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Trump DOJ: Yale’s Medical School Has Way Too Many Black Students
The administration’s view is that the mere presence of students of color at Yale Medical School proves discrimination against white people.
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Bird + Camera @doctorbluebird.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
The #birdoftheday theme is #feeders with an alternate theme of #ducksintheair. Here is the tiny Bufflehead duck flying in late winter. #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #nature
Small black and white duck flies with wings outstretched over a swamp. Background has yellowish red tall plants.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
This is life! This is community! This is beautiful!
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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.
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