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DrH @drhaup.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Heads up Colorado! Amendment 84 is an attempt to hamper voting via mail in ballots. An Ohio conservative dark-money group has dropped $2.2 million on this CO measure that, if passed by voters, would significantly tighten requirements for mail ballots. www.denverpost.com/2026/09/19/c...
denverpost.com
Ohio dark-money group spends $2.2 million to support Colorado measure tightening mail-voting rules
A conservative dark money group based in Ohio has dropped $2.2 million on a Colorado measure that, if passed by voters, would significantly tighten requirements for mail ballots.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Trump's stock-trading is out of control. A president is supposed to govern for the benefit of the entire country — not for his own financial benefit.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
May I remind everyone that there is currently NO cure for rabies. May I also remind everyone there is absolutely NO scientific proof connecting ANY vaccine that we produce today with autism. This is true regarding vaccination in both humans AND in dogs. Vaccinate your pets please.
Worries about vaccination rates in dogs
As rabies seems to be spreading more in wildlife, veterinarians are especially worried about vaccine hesitancy spreading among pet owners, a dangerous trend that could lead to more dogs - and their owners
- becoming infected. A 2023 study published in the journal Vaccine found in nationally representative
sample of Americans that nearly 40% believed canine vaccines were unsafe and 37% believed that vaccines could lead their dogs to develop cognitive issues, such as autism.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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◉●○•° @cosmoecology.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Just a reminder: Elon Musk's personal fortune—estimated at $749 billion—exceeds the GDP of Egypt, Iran, Pakistan, South Africa, and Nigeria. His wealth alone could eradicate homelessness, fund universal healthcare access, cancel student debt, and still leave billions untouched.
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I haven’t seen much news about this, but this is a huge deal. For one of our allies to pull out of our financial system is not a vote of confidence. A run on confidence will hit everyone. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.
Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
13 When ballots are submitted to USPS in large-volume
batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,
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California Fast Food Workers Union @cafastfoodunion.org · 31/08/2026
FACTS: The fast food industry is growing much faster in the Los Angeles area than in the rest of the country.
A graphic that says Growrth in fast food restaurants since CA increased fast food minimum wage to $20, in April 2024: 6.9% - rest of the US: 3.3%
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DrummerWench @drummerwench.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Comments due “by September 21, 2026” (not clear if that’s *before* the 21st (EOD of the 20th) or *by EOD* of the 21st). Link to talking points for California commenters from CalWild.org www.calwild.org/roadlesscomm...
calwild.org
Submit An Official Roadless Rule Comment • CALWILD
Suggested Points To Guide Your Roadless Rule Message to Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollings by September 19th.   Personalize your message and consider emphasizing points below that we believe could ...
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Ea-nāṣir @jedgarnaut.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The police were defunded. But it wasn't the beat cops. It was the people protecting the public at the USDA, and the FDA, and the SEC, and the CFTC, amongst others.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 29/08/2026
Yes this. But also... Harris county. But that's every election.🤷🏿‍♂️ Texas has the most Black voters in the USA. Harris county has the most Black voters in the state of Texas. Only Cook (IL), King's (NY), and Wayne (MI) have more Black voters in the US. So US voter suppression always targets Harris.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A tetanus-diphtheria vaccine that doesn’t need a fridge has passed its first human trial. UK scientists reformulated a licensed shot using trehalose, the sugar that lets desert plants survive without water, keeping it stable for up to two years at 30°C. Gavi buff.ly/1kNIUHB #ShareGoodNewsToo
gavi.org
Fridge-free vaccine passes first human trial, raising hopes for the hardest-to-reach
Unreliable electricity makes it hard to keep vaccines at the right temperature – this development could change that.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.
Homeland Security 7
@DHSgov
X.com
Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
DHS.GOV/CBРНОМЕ

Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.
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Garry @thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is why Dolly Parton will be remembered and loved ❤️📚
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Emperor Joshua Norton II @joshuanortonii.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I see grief, but I also see an immense gratitude, admiration, and celebration of the life she lived, and who she was as a person.
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Carole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Will you please take a moment and submit a comment on the Roadless Rule? www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/08/2026
Foreign food safety inspections plummeted to a historic low after Trump's staffing cuts at the FDA last year. One food safety expert told us: “It’s only a matter of time before people die.” (Published Nov. 2025)
propublica.org
Foreign Food Safety Inspections Hit Historic Low After Trump Cuts
The dramatic shift in oversight comes at a time when the U.S. has never been more reliant on foreign food, which accounts for the vast majority of the nation’s seafood and more than half its fresh fru...
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DrummerWench @drummerwench.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Comment Period Ends:Aug 24 at 2026 at 11:59 PM EDT www.regulations.gov/search?searc...
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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Your typcal demand letter is agressively dismissive, but I'd describe this one more as "serenely implacable." It's a fascinating rhetorical study. flaccb.org/documents/20... (Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops, to Florida AG Uthmeyer, re: Catholic-school vaccination requirements.)
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Hey folks, this hasn’t gotten much attention, but remember those proposed OMB rule changes we all commented on recently? There’s a new attempt to sneak them just for NSF. We have three days to comment. Please don’t sleep on this!
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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This is one of those arguments that sounds like slopulism but is actually, if anything, understated. 56% of Colorado river water goes to GROWING FEED FOR LIVESTOCK IN THE DESERT.
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sephirAmy @sephiramy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
seeing real artists and writers constantly hit with accusations of AI cuz the damn thing was trained on real artists and writers, knowing the lil jobs that used to make ends meet are now outsourced to a shittier version of you that doesn't have bills, doesn't have a life some days I just get so MAD
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
"The team found that the greater the proportion of enslaved people in a county in 1860, the bigger the mortality gap between Black & white people in the 2010s, even after controlling for common factors tied to health inequalities, such as rurality or pop. density" www.science.org/content/arti...
science.org
Slavery linked to mortality gap between Black and white Americans today
New study is among the first to quantify and explain slavery’s influence in contemporary U.S. health disparities
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Joe Roberts 🔥💙🔥🐸 @robbyjoe.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
He didn’t change. They did.
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
If you got a bat stuck in your hair on August 9th at Olympic National Park, please go to the hospital immediately and then contact the Mason County Health Department, they're worried about you.
thenewstribune.com
Search is on for woman who got rabid bat caught in her hair at WA park
Olympic National Park says an unknown woman got a rabid bat caught in her hair on Sunday. Other visitors could be infected.
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Sean Chiplock 🟡 🔜 Animate! Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) @sonicmega.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
GOOGLE DOCS USES AI THAT TRAINS ON ANYTHING YOU WRITE IN IT, EVEN IF ITS A “PRIVATE” DOCUMENT. It’s now possible for users to get Google Docs’ AI to share information that is otherwise not publicly accessible, if it was written in Google Docs at some point. You CANNOT trust it w/ confidential info
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Chocobone💀Skare🎺Paradie🪦 @chocoboskaparadise.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Friendly reminder
A woman with tall hair, glasses, and a cigarette holds a paper. A luck cat jumps in the background
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👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
i encourage all of you, regardless of your age, to not take this shit advice
FORTUNE
Gen Z job seekers should be willing to work for free, long hours, 'willing to do anything, says Squarespace
СМО
BY ORIANNA ROSA ROYLE
July 20, 2024 at 3:00 AM PDT
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Danna Staaf @dannastaaf.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Wow, I love all this interest in little-known life cycles! Yay! I'm still researching Mazdas to figure out which sex carries the young (send refs if you have them!), but in the meantime please enjoy my previous study on airplane reproduction
A pencil drawing of an airplane flying low over power lines. The plane's position is similar to a bird laying an egg: bent at the lower back, abdomen lowered, cloaca stretched open as a round egg emerges. Its visible eye is squeezed shut in effort. The egg is about to be deposited on the power line, which already holds two round eggs that look exactly like the visibility markers you may have seen on power lines before.A pencil drawing of airplane eggs hatching on power lines. In the foreground, four balls are attached to a line. The first is a closed sphere with a faint outline of a baby plane inside. The second is torn open, with a baby plane emerging. The third is hanging empty, with the freshly hatched airplane perched on it. The fourth appears to be unfertilized, with three hatchling airplanes all around it, taking bites. (Biologists call this a nurse egg.) In the background, a distant set of eggs can be seen on another set of power lines.Pencil sketch, as from a naturalist's sketchbook, depicting four possible types of airplane fertilization. In the upper left, two planes in flight are connected by a bumpy tube which is labeled "intromittent organ." (This drawing looks very similar to in-flight fueling.) In the upper right, two jets fly in close formation, belly to belly. Where their lower parts touch is labeled "cloacal kiss." Both of these upper drawings are labelel "aerial internal fertilization."
In the lower left, two large passenger jets mate on the ground, one mounting the other from behind. No genitalia are visible. The drawing is labeled "terrestrial internal fertilization."
In the lower right, a light aircraft flies low over power lines with airplane eggs already deposited on them. From the abdominal region of the aircraft comes a cloud. This is labeled "external fertilization 'dusting'".
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Lisa Kadonaga @tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Soft Rains Day. "Today is August 4, 2026, in the city of Allendale, California. Today is Mr. Featherstone's birthday. Today is the anniversary of Tilita's marriage. Insurance is payable, as are the water, gas, and light bills." RIP Ray Bradbury, 1920-2012
There Will Come Soft Rains
By: Ray Bradbury

In the living room the voice-clock sang, Tick-tock, seven o'clock, time to get up, time to get up, seven o 'clock! as if it were afraid that nobody would. The morning house lay empty. The clock ticked on, repeating and repeating its sounds into the emptiness. Seven-nine, breakfast time, seven-nine!
In the kitchen the breakfast stove gave a hissing sigh and ejected from its warm interior eight pieces of perfectly browned toast, eight eggs sunny side up, sixteen slices of bacon, two coffees, and two
cool glasses of milk.
"Today is August 4, 2026," said a second voice from the kitchen ceiling, "in the city of Allendale, California." It repeated the date three times for memory's sake.
"Today is Mr. Featherstone's birthday. Today is the anniversary of Tilita's marriage. Insurance is payable, as are the water, gas, and light bills."

Source:
https://www.btboces.org/Downloads/7_There%20Will%20Come%20Soft%20Rains%20by%20Ray%20Bradbury.pdf
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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Our community lost so many of its elders... the very people who battled and paid with their lives to bring us the rights and freedoms we have today... and it's painful for me to witness the disrespect, and even disdain, that the young LGBTQ+ folk have for the elders that remain.
The lack of boomer LGBTQ+ people
isn't because it's "more popular now."
Many were murdered by their peers,
died from government inaction during
the AIDS crisis, committed suicide due
to lack of social supports, or have had
to live in the closet due to their peers'
cruelty.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
Trump has denied most disaster requests from Democratic-led states

A graph  showing Presidential approval rates for disaster requests from Democratic-led states and Republican-led states

Source: POLITICO's E&E News analysis of FEMA records
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
tl;dr LJ in the Aughts had become a place where Russians were able to organize outside of state control (servers in CA!) until inevitably a Russian banker with "alleged" Kremlin ties bought it. now the servers are... in Russia. And people have been sentenced to prison for blog opinions.
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Passing Strange At Present @chimaera.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Please protect your neighbors, because the fucking Feds don't mind orphaning & traumatizing children AT ALL.
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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
🧵The US no longer meets criteria for measles elimination. Utah's outbreak has lasted for more than a yr. And cases this yr are at a 35-yr high. I talked w/pediatricians treating measles & talking w/parents who don't vaccinate. My latest @wired.com @kffhealthnews.org www.wired.com/story/the-ch...
wired.com
‘The Child Is Terrified’: Measles Doctors Speak Out
Hear from six pediatricians in measles hot spot Utah, as the US faces infection levels not seen in over three decades and prepares to lose its status as a country that eliminated the dangerous disease...
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AK Faulkner 🔜 NYCC @ravenswordpress.com · 25/07/2026
FLAWLESS time to share my favourite dude rocking 😆
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Lar deSouza @lartist.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Editorial cartoon: Schrodinger's McConnell. With thanks to @neolithicsheep.bsky.social for alerting me to this phrase :)
cartoon: Schrodinger and a cat look at a closed coffin.
Cat: The box choice doesn't inspire confidence.
Caption: Schrodinger's McConnell
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Milan Paurich @milanpaurich.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b... 😡
nytimes.com
Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
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L'Histoire de Manon @manonatelier.blacksky.app · 25/07/2026
WHY IS TACO BELL AND NOT TAYLOR FARMS IN THIS PHOTO?????? y'all think you're so slick 😡
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 24/07/2026
Listen, i work in historic preservation and conservation and this headline is misleadingly skipping the key point: this specifically and pointedly destroys the protections for Native American sacred sites. built heritage matters but not as much as the rights of indigenous folk.
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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
nytimes.com
Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
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Amanda Deibert @amandadeibert.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
#SDCC comic con: our daughter left her 3D printed black dragon in the restroom near E/Starbucks. She printed it herself and is devastated. We checked the restroom and lost and found which means someone picked it up. If you bring it to 5552 I will give you a signed comic as reward
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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
If anyone sees this, please, help get this dragon home!
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Hear me out: this is even wilder than it looks. Out in the ag world, Taylor Farms was THE instigator for a lot of the big food safety moves for lettuce over the last 20 years. That's a legacy that just should NOT have ended up like this.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
the reason we dont have medicare for all is bc corporations need employer based healthcare to keep you chained to your desk in a job you hate that doesnt pay you what youre worth
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
You opened a credit card. ICE now knows where you live. Here's how when you open a credit card your address leaves your bank, goes through middlemen companies, and ends up with ICE. ICE plans to use this data for immigration and 'voter fraud'. No warrant More: www.404media.co/you-opened-a...
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I took a hard look at the financial donors to ICE’s biggest supporters in Congress. These are people who want to significantly expand ICE’s power and have sponsored or co-sponsored legislation to do so. Here are the top 25 consumer brands bankrolling the biggest ICE supporters in Congress:
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
If the people who run companies see "Taco Bell helps authorities find outbreak > then just gets blamed for starting it" How willing do you think they're gonna be to help pin down the next outbreak?
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