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Urbanist, New Englander, Scholar, Advocate. Background pic: Art from Survival Series by Jenny Holzer (Cheekwood, Nashville)

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
The Trump administration is gearing up to kick an estimated six million more people off of food assistance programs — including nearly two million children. The move would save just $1 billion a year, while Trump spends upwards of $1 billion per *day* on his new forever war. Priorities.
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Doc Sportello ❌👑 @digyoursoul.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Maryland will install $50 million worth of solar panels over its Department of Transportation parking lots and brownfields this year. marylandmatters.org/2026/03/01/s...
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$50 million worth of solar panels headed for 'highly visible' state lands - Maryland Matters
About $50 million worth of solar panels will appear on Maryland Department of Transportation parking lots and brownfields in coming years, paid for with money from a state renewable energy fund that h...
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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 23/03/2026
Report urges Ohio lawmakers to nix data center tax breaks and require them to build their own power ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/03/16/r...
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Report urges Ohio lawmakers to nix data center tax breaks and require them to build their own power • Ohio Capital Journal
Progressive research and advocacy nonprofit Innovation Ohio is urging state lawmakers to take a harder line with data centers. A new report calls for an end to tax breaks and new protections ensuring…
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/03/2026
If you’re roughly my age, it’s wild to reflect on the optimism for the future Americans felt when Obama was elected — young Americans spontaneously took to the streets to celebrate! — and contrast with what we face today. The falloff over the past 18 years is hard to process.
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Terre-Strial @terre-strial.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
“A country that can instantly fund endless wars but debates every dime for healthcare and education doesn't have a budget issue--it has a values issue." A billion dollars a day going towards the war in Iran so far.
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Paul Shelley @paulshelley.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed...This is not a way of life...it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.” -Dwight Eisenhower 1953
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
They cut Meals on Wheels for seniors, doctors for the VA, and food for American children - but send billions of taxpayer dollars to the Middle East for an unnecessary war of choice.
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Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · 03/03/2026
NEW: The military systems that the U.S. sent to the Iran region in recent weeks ALONE cost us nearly $60 MILLION per day — just a fraction of the cost of this war. That ~$60 million could cover Medicaid for 4 million Americans per day, or SNAP for 9.5 million. From @nationalpriorities.bsky.social:
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FACT SHEET: How Much Is the War in Iran Costing American Taxpayers? - Institute for Policy Studies
FACT SHEET: How Much Is the War in Iran Costing American Taxpayers?
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March For Our Lives @marchforourlives.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Gun violence costs the United States an estimated $557 billion every year. That is about 2.6 percent of the entire U.S. economy, or more than $1,600 per person, every year. This cost is higher than what the federal government spends annually on education.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Justice Department slashes funding for child sex trafficking
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‘Disheartening’: US justice department slashes funding to programs combating child sex trafficking
Prosecutors say cuts to funding and training limits their ability to bring child predators to justice
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Anna Kramer @annackramer.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
NEWS: Americans were told to evacuate the Middle East — but the State Dept is not helping them do it. We called the State hotline. First thing you hear is an automated message: "Do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation."
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Americans Stranded in the Middle East Aren’t Getting Help from the State Department
“Please do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation,” a State department hotline said when NOTUS called Tuesday afternoon.
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LG @drleightg.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Is it too much to ask that the NYT list the other states?? At least the biggest ones? Something? Instead of the singular focus on Florida? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/h...
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States Move to Limit Access to H.I.V. Treatment
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
A notable footnote from Justice Kagan, pointing out that if the court is so into parental rights why didn't it take up the claim brought by parents of transgender kids who want them to get gender-affirming care?
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
More Sotomayor: "By granting these applications, the Court thrusts itself into the middle of every election-law dispute around the country... There is much reason to question whether the majority will exercise its newfound authority wisely." www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
"If this Court’s grasping reach extends even to a nonfinal
decision of a state trial court, then every decision from any
court is now fair game. By granting these applications, the
Court thrusts itself into the middle of every election-law
dispute around the country, even as many States redraw
their congressional maps ahead of the 2026 election. It also
invites parties searching for a sympathetic ear to file emergency applications directly with this Court, without even
bothering to ask the state courts first. There is much reason to question whether the majority will exercise its newfound authority wisely, but there is no reason to question this: If you build it, they will come"
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop this.
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Rana Awdish MD @ranaawdish.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Nail polish remover (acetone) unglued my fingers (superglue craft incident) and this is why a science education matters kids 😭 #MedSky
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Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
My God, we’re ruined.
Minute Maid discontinues frozen juice concentrate after 80 years
The process to make juice concentrate was invented by the research team C.D. Atkins, Edwin Moore and Louis MacDowell in the 1940s. Scene from the movie trading places
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers. The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇
nature.com
White House stalls release of approved US science budgets
The US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed.
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The Conference of Catholic Bishops is... not playing around in this brief. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
@wyden.senate.gov @johnlarsonct.bsky.social @ewarren.bsky.social @waysmeanscmte.bsky.social
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Heatmap News @heatmap.news · 26/02/2026
Our latest Heatmap Pro poll found that support for data centers has plummeted. The massive computing warehouses are now 24 points underwater with voters, compared to 2 points above in September 2025. Here’s the full story from @alexckaufman.bsky.social for The Fight: heatmap.news/plus/the-fig...
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Data Center Support Plummets in Latest Heatmap Pro Poll
The proportion of voters who strongly oppose development grew by nearly 50%.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
What happens now that the Ellisons will have both CBS News, plus CNN? *Dems could set out a populist anti-trust platform for the next election *Desperate need for new independent media sources - follow nonprofit or other models What else?
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LG @drleightg.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
what kind of reporting is this that doesn’t actually name the bill in question?? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/u...
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Senate G.O.P. Faces Pressure to Force ‘Talking Filibuster’ for Voter ID Bill
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 23/02/2026
Relevant to today's conversation about AI's inherent sexism, here's an email from cognitive psychologist and early AI theorist Roger Schank, arguing to Epstein that women can't be truly intelligent, because they care too much about what other people think.
To: Jeffrey epstein[jeevacation©gmail.com]
From: roger schank
Sent: Mon 1/4/2010 12:15:13 PM
Subject: there is a simpler explanation about women and intelligence
intelligence comes about in part from real focus (goal-directed
(this is why you have the absent minded professor caricature)
it is a rare woman who is not first and foremost focussed on what
thinking and feeling about her
hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why
hates you or why you dont own a kelly bag
roger schank
http://www.rogerschank.com/
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Nietifa Van Suiker @lukewanderer.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
"...about volunteers who had drawn up wills for the first time, in the wake of Renée Good’s killing, “in case they didn't come home to their kids.”"
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.
time.com
Pope Leo Will Spend July 4 Visiting Migrant Crossing Island
Pope Leo has spoken out against the treatment of migrants in the United States several times over the last year.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
This allows the Trump administration to literally condition citizenship on what it defines as acceptable speech
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LG @drleightg.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Alysa Liu skating to MacArthur Park is the energy I aspire to in life. ⛸️🪩💃🏼 #DonnaSummer #disco #Olympics #WinterOlympics #figureskating #Boston
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David Noll @david.noll.org · 21/02/2026
Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.
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LG @drleightg.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
“Cupich, in his homily, said: "This too is a day for those who are made to feel like dust, dust that can be swept away or treated as if they do not belong. … Yet, remember from the beginning it is dust that God uses to create humanity."”
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Arkansas Times @arktimes.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Every other state in the country extends Medicaid coverage for postpartum mothers for one year, but Gov. Sanders isn't letting up on her campaign to withhold such a mercy to Arkansans. We're #1 in maternal mortality, and we're sticking with it. arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...
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Arkansas now the only state in the country to withhold Medicaid from new moms - Arkansas Times
Why is Arkansas the lone holdout state still refusing to provide health care coverage to new mothers at an incredibly vulnerable, exhausted and fuzzy-thinking time in their lives? Mainly it's because…
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Rebecca Bennett @rebeccabennettforcongress.com · 20/02/2026
This is a win for veterans everywhere. The fact that this was proposed in the first place was an insult to every person who has ever put on the uniform. We will continue to hold this administration accountable to make sure our promises to those who served are kept, period.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/02/2026
congrats to DC on achieving statehood
Fox graphic of the "TOP 10 STATES WITH HIGHEST ELECTRICITY PRICES" featuring DC as number 10
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/02/2026
I told you they’d come after Veterans’ benefits. www.stripes.com/veterans/202...
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Veterans slam new VA rule for determining disability ratings
The new rule states that a disability level must be based on how well a veteran functions while on medication and not on the underlying impairment.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
Mia Valentina Paz Faria
A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas 
Detained for 70 days

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by 
@micarosenberg
 et al for ProPublica:
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Schwarziest (fuck Trump edition) @schwarziest.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
It's sad that the media's focus will be "Malinin chokes" instead of "Mikhail Shaidorov shines." Misha earned his gold!
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welcome to the glennaissance @maillardreaction.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
because I need to heal, here's the very touching moment when ilia malinin congratulated mikhail shaidorov on winning gold seconds after his own dream was crushed #MilanoCortina2026 #figureskating
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
"The owners of a Dallas County warehouse that ICE had planned to use as a mega detention center said Monday it will not sell or lease the property to the federal government. “God answered our prayers,” the Hutchins Mayor said after learning of the decision... www.dallasnews.com/news/immigra...
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Warehouse owner won’t sell Dallas County property to ICE for migrant detention center
The owners of a Dallas County warehouse that Immigration and Customs Enforcement had planned to use as a mega detention center said Monday it will not sell or...
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Rep. Lloyd Doggett @doggett.house.gov · 16/02/2026
The disruptive climate crisis makes hot weather hotter and cold, colder. This year, our overheated planet has been making some of our weather much colder and in Washington much snowier.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
"Hold on, we actually allow a failsafe" The failsafe: Having a birth certificate, ID, and being willing to sign an affidavit on penalty of perjury. This is what gendered administrative burdens look like. academic.oup.com/jpart/articl...
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
We should not fund a Department of Homeland Security that terrorizes children and forces them to spend their dying days trying to see their father one last time.
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Defector @defector.com · 14/02/2026
Alluringly homoerotic and abjectly nonsensical, doubles luge might be the strangest event of any Olympics, winter or summer.
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High-Level, Actionable Insights From Watching Doubles Luge For The First Time | Defector
To the uninitiated, luge itself might seem a silly sport, given that the average person might guess it mostly consists of holding onto a sled real tight as it goes fast down the ice. Of course, this…
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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 11/02/2026
been watching the olympics and i think i found a solution to the male loneliness crisis
doubles luge. one guy lays on his back on the luge sled and the second guy lays on his back on top of the first guy
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/02/2026
Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
You might think that the inhumane conditions at America's concentration camps is because of this administration's usual lazy incompetence, but, no, it's because of this administration's usual vicious cruelty.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
MAHA: Eating a giant steak cooked in butter alongside beef tallow fries and washing it down with coffee spiked with butter Not MAHA: Clean air, clean water, health insurance, vaccines, disease monitoring, scientific research, food assistance, food safety, bike lanes
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10/02/2026
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
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Rachel Hall-Clifford, PhD, MPH, MSc @rahallclifford.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
<Cringe post, don't care> I just gave a global health talk at Johns Hopkins, and one of their students came up afterward to introduce herself. She had taken my global health class at Emory, and she said that's what made her go into the field. Sometimes the things we do matter 🥹
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