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tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 19/09/2026

eliminate EV subsidies, ban cheap overseas EVs, ban EV component import, deport people bringing battery technology to the US, pay billions to kill clean energy projects, end fuel economy standards, and then do THIS is such an elaborate prank on the American people you almost have to respect it

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South Florida Sun Sentinel @sun-sentinel.com · 19/09/2026

A secret report shows Florida property insurance companies claimed losses while shuffling billions of dollars into sister companies. After our reporter obtained the report, the state Senate demanded the Sun Sentinel destroy all copies of it or face legal civil or criminal “implications.”

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How Florida fights to hide insurers’ finances

A secret report shows Florida insurers claimed losses as affiliates made billions. The state Senate demanded the Orlando Sentinel and Sun Sentinel destroy the report or face legal action.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $8 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of American households is worth just $4.27 trillion. Read that back. Remember: Wealth can’t be separated from power. Power begets wealth and wealth begets power.

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Lauren @beavisetc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Carly Rae Jepsen album release day is a very important holiday for a certain type of late 30s-early 40s white guy. Please be respectful of their religious practices today

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It’s fucking intolerable that the Secretary of Health and Human Services in the United States of America is a science-denying anti-vaxxer. It’s a disgrace that another unvaccinated person has just died of measles. Her life mattered.

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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 13/09/2026

If you are part of the Be Normal About Arch Manning Police Force, you have to be normal about this too (acknowledge it's an all-time finish for any QB/offense)

Drive chart showing 15 x 91 yards, 13 x 72 yards, 12 x 73 yards for three touchdowns

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Dr. Special K @drspecialk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Whelp Texas getting mogged by Ohio. Thanks Ted. This is cursed football. Also Arch seems off.

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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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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

MAHA has been in power for two years. They have decimated basic science, gutted food safety surveillance and kicked millions of people off food stamps. *That* is their ideology, not their polite platitudes about corporate control of the food supply.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It’s a grossly harmful worldview that has no relationship to the scientific consensus on the drivers of chronic disease. America’s disease burden (which is falling btw) is mostly a function of income and healthcare inequality, not the refusal of Americans to eat beef tallow.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Second, MAHA isn’t all that concerned with treatment of disease anyway. Its core claim is that nearly all diseases can be prevented through virtuous lifestyles. If we were all drinking raw milk and taking zinc supplements, we wouldn’t be coming down with heart disease and depression and COVID.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/09/2026

This seems absurdly simple, but: Republicans talk *all the time* about how Democrats are bad. Not this or that individual Democrat, but the party, the ideology, the very idea of Democrats. Democrats almost never do this about Republicans. Not in a coordinated, concerted way.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

fwiw, one reason young people are more attracted to egalitarian philosophies is that no young person is actually rich. children don't own any property in their own name. this is not just a tecnicality; it's a material reality that has realy material consequences. 1

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Dr. Special K @drspecialk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Kind of starting to feel like dumping Dolly for Jolene all those years ago was a mistake. But one must follow one’s heart, mustn’t one

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Jorge A. Caballero, MD @datadrivenmd.social · 23/08/2026

MAGA recalls the start of the COVID pandemic as a time when the President forced them to be indoors 24/7 and Biden was President, neither of which actually happened.

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ᴋɪɴɢᴘɪɴ ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇ ɪɴᴋᴘᴇɴ @killlthehype.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026

16 months ago: Never forget how it started.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Giving $1.7B of children’s health funding to a guy whose current job is literally getting paid to lie that vaccines cause autism

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 19/08/2026

when i was born my share of the national debt was $2,705. it's currently $119,713.

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Jesse Coburn @jessecoburn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

You and I — all of us taxpayers — funded this $533 million artillery plant outside of Dallas. It hasn’t produced a single usable shell. Yet the defense contractor, General Dynamics, has never been held publicly accountable. Nor has it had to pay a penny back… 1/

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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Fifteen years ago, in the classroom, wikipedia was annoying because it was hard to describe to kids who relied on it why it wasn't a good source to cite in a paper. Now, it's the final remaining example of citational responsibility any of them have ever seen.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The whole story about Ken Paxton, the stolen Mont Blanc pen, and a courthouse videotape, is just one wonderful detail after another. Here you go:

Related Texas comptroller-elect shuffles personnel, promises accurate state revenue estimate

AUSTIN - In the great pen caper, Texas' incoming Attorney General Ken Paxton drew a Blanc. It happened last year at a Collin County courthouse, where lawyer Joe Joplin rushed through the security stop, needing to get to a hearing. A few hours later, he realized he'd left a tray of three pens at the metal detector. One was a gift from his wife — a $1,000 Montblanc. Mon Dieu. "It came back like a Kodak moment. I knew I'd put it in a separate bin and that second plate didn't come out," Joplin recalled in a recent interview. He rushed to the security entrance and the pen was gone. Joplin talked to the sheriff's deputies, who told him that shortly after Joplin went through, another man picked up a tray of pens on top of the machine. Joplin said he's not into fancy pens, but it had sentimental value. He asked about security cameras and whether he might view the tape. The deputies were unable to help. Joplin, frustrated and a bit frightened of telling his wife, wrote to an old friend, "just to vent." The boyhood pal was Collin County Sheriff Terry Box. In an Aug. 14, 2013, email, Joplin recounted the details. "The loss of my pen is my responsibility," he wrote, but he also thought a lost and found procedure might be instituted.

Box is a sheriff who likes to see lost items returned. He ordered up the videotape. On the security video, the sheriff said he saw several people go through the machine after Joplin. And then he recognized the guy who picked up the pens — state Sen. Ken Paxton of McKinney. "It looked like he took a pen and put it in his pocket out of the tray," Box said. He asked a deputy to call Paxton and see whether he had it. He looked. He did. A day or so later, Paxton gave the pricey rollerball pen to a deputy to return to Joplin, the sheriff said. Paxton spokesman Anthony Holm called it a simple mistake. "Fifteen months ago a pen or pens was shuffled between two attorneys in a courthouse. This is far from newsworthy, as the pen was returned when the error was realized," Holm said. Joplin said he — and his wife — welcomed it back. "I don't want to cause anyone any harm. I was very grateful," he said. He declined to speculate on what might have happened. "You can surmise that," Joplin said.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The party of fiscal responsibility is led by a failed casino boss who never pays his bills.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Let's talk about AOC as a young scientist & her award winning research on antioxidants & C. elegans, a standard roundworm model. She grew up in the Bronx. Ethnically Puerto Rican, her dad Sergio, an architect, died when she was 19. Her mother cleaned houses, drove a school bus. Working class.

Alexandria with her project for ISEF 2007. A young woman with square glasses, she stands in front of a cardboard display recounting her work on antioxidants.

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Between 2016 and today, the US has spent almost $9 trillion on defense. It then ran dangerously low in many advanced munitions fighting a country with no air force and navy--after about two months of combat operations. This is an extraordinary scandal.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The most noticeable and probably most consequential shift I’ve noticed in my lifetime is from the news being about things that happened to the news being about things someone said.

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This man runs the US health system & literally has zero actual training or expertise or experience in public health, epidemiology, health sciences, or how to read & understand scientific research He is a clueless, venal, incompetent grifter For decades all he’s wanted is to derail vaccination

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I’m a doctor. I’m also a survivor of sexual assault & the co-Editor-in-Chief of Vaccine. My uncle led efforts to eliminate HBV in Alaska Native communities. You know him. We all know this wrong, but you voted for RFK Jr. & Blanche anyway. I’ll never forgive you for either.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

It’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The president took on a vanity project, gave no-bid contracts to contractors who screwed it up, made up a story about vandals to cover it up, and then fomented a felony prosecution against an innocent scapegoat. You could impeach for anything he's done but "This asshole is out of control" is a layup

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 30/07/2026

Let’s be clear here, when scientists say mistakes were made at the start of the pandemic, we DO NOT mean that we did too much. We mean not socially distancing quickly enough, not making tests widely available, and not acknowledging COVID is airborne and distributing N95 masks to everyone.

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Surplus Cornbread @surpluscornbread.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It's interesting how the media immediately went to "lab leak is crank" while scientists largely started with "damn, could be true." And those positions completely flipped. Of course the scientists flipped for good reasons. The journalists, not so much.

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Screaming Pectoriloquy @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

the best part about podcasts is that you get to listen to all your friends talk to you through your phone’s speaker and sometimes they give you coded instructions about What To Do.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This is an important point! Wealthy countries don't usually have a lot of doctors & researchers who are good at diagnosing, tracking, & treating parasite infections. Why? Treating parasites is kinda walled off into "tropical medicine" and "third-world medicine." You know, USAID stuff.

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SickosFC @sickosfc.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Just realized that two of the six flags over Texas are playing a World Cup match down the street from Six Flags Over Texas.

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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Getting diarrhea like, "Hope this isn't the diarrhea that was on the news"

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Dr. Special K @drspecialk.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I am 17 years in to this Doctoring thing and I still don’t know what anyone means when they say “numbness” and “dizziness”. But I’m actually just a dog in a party hat so this is understandable.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

KEY: all three witnesses are being detained apart, and their story is consistent. They say that there were agents along the side of the vehicle but none in front. When you add the videos showing a lack of evidence of damage to the front despite ICE's ramming claim, ICE's story is falling apart.

“That is a lie,” wrote Jose Trinidad Rojas, 51, in a handwritten statement. “It is impossible for them to say that they were going to get run over … there were no officers in front of or behind the vehicle. They were on the sides.”

Balderas-Ibarra spoke to Rojas, Daniel Tirado Pantoja, 43, and the shooting victim’s brother, Victor Salgado, 44, and said he heard the same story from each as he interviewed them separately. The men are not being housed together, the attorney said. All three are undocumented Mexican immigrants who are now facing removal proceedings.

“All of them reiterated that there were never any ICE agents in front of the van,” Balderas-Ibarra said. “They came in and started shooting from the sides.”

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND

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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 02/07/2026

they trained millennials how to use computers too good and napster basically flattened an entire industry. I think that's why they don't even want you to touch your phone's file system now, they can't let kids become that powerful again

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

the egg price thing under biden was all fake lol

From mid-2022 to early 2025, the egg producers communicated with each other to coordinate bidding activity on a widely used pricing service, according to a complaint filed in a federal court in Iowa.
The complaint details instances of executives for the companies calling and texting each other in an effort to push prices higher.
Under the settlement, the state DOJ says the three companies must end their price coordination, adopt compliance measures and cooperate with

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Fietser Brandon @americanfietser.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

This is probably one of the best breakdowns I've seen of why the modern economy feels so draining. @bennjordan.bsky.social explains how we're being robbed of the ability to just live our lives and appreciate our time through what he calls "leveragism".

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The Richest Country Is Pretty Mid Now

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Dr. Special K @drspecialk.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

One of the problems with being a man in your 40’s is that your death will no longer be shocking, it might not even be that unexpected. So you’ve got to start preparing for it early, even though it could still be 40 years away. Like an annoying expected visitor with a very loose itinerary.

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Dr. Special K @drspecialk.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Couldn’t find any Juneteenth cards at the checkout counter at the 7-11 and you’re telling me this isn’t a racist country?

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

“The phenomenon is known as induced demand. The result is an endless cycle in which congestion leads to highway expansion, which invites more trips, which brings back traffic…The pattern is so inevitable that economists have dubbed it the iron law of congestion.” Via @slate.com #InducedDemand

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It’s an American Obsession. It’s Based on a Total Lie. We Have to Stop Before It’s Too Late.

The truth about what's happening on America's roads—and how we can stop it.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/06/2026

at last, a worthy target for all the lawyers who tried to bankrupt every teen with kazaa installed circa 2002

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