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Sliwa getting a flu shot: This could be very embarrassing. I’m supposed to be a tough guy, right? Mamdani: I can hold your hand. Sliwa: What happens if I faint? Mamdani: I got you. Doctor: You’re in great hands, literally. New Yorkers can find free flu shots and locations at nyc.gov/healthmap

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 21h

And so it continues... Our economic debates seem utterly disconnected from the reality. That reality: This is an economy mostly creating healthcare jobs, and it does so month after month, and everything else is just noise.

Line chart titled "Effectively all of the net job creation has been in healthcare and social assistance, and jobs are shrinking in the rest of the economy" showing change in non-farm payrolls since January 2025 through September 2026. Healthcare and social assistance added 998,000 jobs with consistent growth throughout the period, while the rest of the economy lost 222,000 jobs, meaning all net job creation came from healthcare. The rest of the economy showed particular weakness from May through August 2025 when losses reached 218,000 jobs. This striking divergence reveals an unusual concentration where one sector's growth of roughly 48,000 jobs per month has offset persistent contraction across all other industries combined.

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Edward Xie @edwardxie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In ERs, we see the impact of unsafe roads regularly. Cities with good bike infrastructure have fewer deaths and greater safety for all, regardless of whether they’re walking, cycling or driving. Ontario gov should reconsider how to spend $48 mil Improve lives - not put them at risk #bikeTO #onpoli

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Why hundreds of doctors are fighting Ford’s removal of Toronto bike lanes

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19h

Today's jobs report is a reminder that tax cuts for corporations and the rich don’t create jobs or grow the economy. What's required is investment in working people — and better wages. When workers have money to spend, the economy grows and businesses create more jobs. Remember this.

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Will Norman @willnorman.co.uk · 02/10/2026

Cargo bike use in London is booming - up 126% since 2022. This week I joined 50 businesses - from Royal Mail to delivery firms, waste companies & tradespeople - to celebrate & raise awareness of this clean, green & economical alternative to diesel vans. #CargoBikeCruiseLDN

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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 20h

Good on you Sister's 👏

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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 21h

This right here. This is how you respond to their bullshit.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 21h

They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 20h

Wow, these job numbers are TERRIBLE. Many people are saying we must have an “incompetent” president who is “asleep at the wheel”

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Doug Walter (he/his) @dougwalter5.bsky.social · 16h

"In Yolo County, fire risk is higher than in 92% of counties, and in Placer and El Dorado counties, it’s higher than in almost every county in the country, according to the U.S. Forest Service." This town was created because of a fire and the need for protection. www.abridged.org/news/bills-i...

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Newsom signed a lot of bills into law. Which mean the most to the Sacramento region?

Multiple bills that crossed Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk have implications for the Sacramento region, from daycares to fireworks regulation.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 19h

Directing DOJ to slow-walk politically damaging decisions until after people vote would be a major scandal under any normal administration. Here, it’s just Friday.

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Sande @sande0724.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

THANK YOU.

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Doug Walter (he/his) @dougwalter5.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"The impotence of the Israeli military, the scale of the assault and the injuries inflicted on Israeli security officers by settlers prompted unusually harsh condemnation from Israeli politicians and commenters." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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Israeli forces overwhelmed by violent settlers in ‘terrorist attack’ on Palestinian family

Settler violence in West Bank makes everyday life ‘untenable’ for Palestinians, says ICRC after assault on family trying to return home in Jalud

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Mike Rogers has the audacity to lie to you about his plan like he didn't vote 4 times to stop you from getting cheaper medication from Canada, take $1M from Big Pharma, and vote 19 times to keep prescription drug prices higher. GTFOH.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

36 minutes before the hearing started.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

While I'm enjoying the humiliation justifiably being heaped on Senator Eric Schmitt, I don't don't think enough mockery is being directed at his accomplice, Senator Kennedy, the Cornpone Clown, with this stupidly victorious expression as he smugly holds up the ridiculous "evidence."

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Ann @lifeinthepnw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Dear Eric Schmitt: Other places where Jack Smith was not on February 3 — Skateboarding with Tony Hawk Watching a Howard Hawks film Visiting Ethan Hawke Jamming with Hamish Hawk At a Seattle Seahawks game At a Chicago Blackhawks game Birdwatching Cooper’s hawks …but now he’s watching you like a hawk

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026

I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president

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Doug Walter (he/his) @dougwalter5.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“I want to say to the millions of people in this country and indeed elsewhere who have been moved and outraged by the plight of the Palestinian people: we hear you, you were right.” #SoThere www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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‘You were right’: Ed Miliband tells critics Labour was wrong on Gaza

Foreign secretary will tell party’s conference ‘we are not here to accept the status quo but to change it’

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/09/2026

Three more tankers were just struck in the Strait of Hormuz as Trump’s Iran war drags on. Now a Republican senator in a battleground seat who voted against pulling U.S. forces out is trying to explain away his vote.

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Trump’s Iran War Leaves Three More Tankers Struck as Husted Tries to Rewrite His Vote

As fuel costs climbed and commercial ships again came under fire in the Strait of Hormuz, Ohio Sen. Jon Husted blamed Iran, Russia, and congressional Democrats after voting against an order to pull U....

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Doug Walter (he/his) @dougwalter5.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“[F]or decades...church officials in all three dioceses knew about the sexual abuse of children yet did not take effective action to prevent it or to examine the institutional failures of leadership that led to scores of children being victimized at the hands of abusive priests.”

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 28/09/2026

“The clearest example of that is George Santos." David Flippo was required to file a financial disclosure in 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026. Instead, the Nevada Republican has turned in nothing while running for Congress.

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The mysterious millions powering a Nevada Republican’s bid for Congress

David Flippo, who has reported funneling nearly $2.5 million to his campaigns, has repeatedly failed to file financial disclosure forms since 2023.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

MTG has really been going after her own.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/09/2026

To the people complaining these sex abuse cases have created a world where men now have to think 10 times before they touch a woman. Yes, that's the point. It's called consent. Welcome to human decency.

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

texans, you are going to see this clip once a week and twice on sundays until the election

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Doug Walter (he/his) @dougwalter5.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"The dustup targeting Sanders... illustrates how achieving long-standing conservative policy goals...is often not enough for identity-obsessed MAGA allies, who want to display dominance over their perceived political enemies far more than they want to fix the nuts and bolts of governance."

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Doug Walter (he/his) @dougwalter5.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Few Californians want to face the prospect that beachfront homes may simply no longer be viable along stretches of the coast." #InconvenientTruth www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

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The Edge of California Is Falling Into the Ocean

Storms driven by El Niño are pulling chunks of coast away.

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Doug Walter (he/his) @dougwalter5.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Perhaps most challenging for Israel’s political elite is that it is a story told exclusively in Hebrew by 24 anonymised Israeli military insiders, many of them from elite units." www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...

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From ovations in Venice to death threats in Israel: the extreme responses to NAZA documentary

As Gaza documentary wins cinematic acclaim, its directors face vitriol in Israel amid a febrile election campaign

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NerdBrick @nerdbrick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As Texas gas prices inch up, Talarico's chances increase. #VoteBlue

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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

1/ Big news out of Berlin. Germany's left just had its best result in years, and the playbook should sound familiar. Simple message, huge ground game, relentless positivity. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy novaramedia.com/2026/09/21/h...

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How Zohran Mamdani Helped Germany’s Left Party Win in Berlin | Steven Methven

Die Linke’s victory in Berlin comes off the back of a laser-focused campaign on the city’s mounting housing crisis, writes Steven Methven.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is an absolute disaster from a national security perspective. Obviously, a lot on F-35s is classified, but a weapons-bay door and a canopy with radar-absorbing material are some of the most sensitive. Hard to describe how bad this is.

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Ankit Panda @nktpnd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"The Trump administration has been quietly holding talks with China about its rapidly expanding nuclear arsenal amid doubts over Beijing’s compliance with a 30-year test ban, U.S. officials said." www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

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Exclusive | Trump Administration Presses China on Suspected Nuclear Tests in Confidential Talks

The discussions have occurred on the sidelines of multilateral meetings in Geneva, New York and Casablanca, Morocco.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 24/09/2026

“I wanted to know if you agree that an IUD is an abortifacient,” Washington Democrat Patty Murray asked Dr. Heidi Overton, Donald Trump’s nominee to be the next head of the FDA. Overton not only refused to answer, but her response even suggested that the FDA could change its stance.

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Trump’s FDA pick refuses to say IUDs don’t cause abortions

Dr. Heidi Overton also tells senators she's also open investigating abortion pill manufacturers.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🚨BREAKING: The California Supreme Court ruled that Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco violated state law when he seized roughly 650,000 ballots from last year’s special redistricting election after pursuing debunked claims of a massive ballot discrepancy. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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California Supreme Court orders GOP sheriff to return seized ballots, affirms state’s power over local law enforcement

The twin rulings stand to make it significantly harder for local law enforcement to create election chaos and use unsubstantiated fraud claims to seize ballots outside California’s established electio...

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

But wage theft is at an all-time high. So what I'm saying is that the Republican agenda is working.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Nearly 3 billion opioid pills entered MI within 7 years. Big Pharma made billions and bought off politicians like Mike Rogers, who took $1M. I put free Narcan in 100 places in Wayne County to fix what he broke. Today, on National Save a Life Day, take a moment to learn how Narcan can save a life.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It now costs the truck drivers on average $1,200 to fill up a single tank because of the war in Iran. Mike Rogers said it's a win-win-win. Are you winning?

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Doug Walter (he/his) @dougwalter5.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Danish defence intelligence service warned of a “low but growing risk” that Russia could launch long-range strikes on NATO infrastructure supporting Ukraine, or carry out a limited incursion into a neighbouring country with a small number of troops." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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Russia could attack a Nato country within months, Danish intelligence says

Warning comes hours after Poland says fire at Starlink satellite station was ‘act of sabotage’

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@Boom-WhatsGoingOn.bsky.social @boom-whatsgoingon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In an average of high-quality national polls, Dems led Republicans among Hispanic likely voters by 35 points on congressional ballot, which asks voters which party they’ll support for Congress. A reversal from 2024 when polls found VP Harris leading by only 7 points. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/u...