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Scott

@ecscott.bsky.social
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Retired Physics prof. Craft beer enthusiast, coffee addict, Prog rock fan and Wisconsinite. Unabashed liberal, despiser of all things Trump.

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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 2h
If you’re a woman who voted for Trump, shame on you!!!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23h
This is the book corporate America does not want you to read — which is exactly why you should pick up a copy.
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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
All of the expert analysis I have seen on a Diesel export ban says it will disastrously backfire and cause negative unintended consequences so I fully expect Trump to go through with it.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/09/2026
ICE IS ABOUT TO MAKE YOUR GROCERY BILL EVEN WORSE Cattle groups in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas say ICE raids are creating a “massive chilling effect” on legal, documented workers, disrupting meatpacking and delaying the processing of thousands of cattle. They’re reporting millions in losses.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It's already estimated that the richest 1% alone evade $163 billion in taxes every year. But Trump gutted the IRS — including the unit tasked with auditing billionaires. The agency's audit revenue fell 35%. Now, Trump's IRS is not publishing data on unpaid taxes. See the problem?
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026
ICE BEHIND THE MASKS HAVE NAMES 2 masked agents threatened to arrest Robert Peck for legally observing them. He sued. “And now, because of a lawsuit, the (ICE) agents have names.” A Hylton 📌Nicholas Lapointe 📌Christopher Semler I hope more people take ICE to court when their rights are violated.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020 — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026
A MORATORIUM ON DATA CENTERS SHOULDN’T EVEN BE IN QUESTION AT THIS POINT And we definitely need more reporting on this issue: HEAT Data centers devour electricity and water, dump heat into communities, and Big Tech is building them faster than lawmakers are dealing with the consequences.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They are playing in our faces
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.
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Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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Scott @ecscott.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Well worth the visit. Lots of good hiking trails around it as well.
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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I know I've posted this many times - needs to flood the media until election day.
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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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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
He kept yelling "I'm a U.S. citizen." They kept him pinned to the sidewalk anyway. He left in an ambulance with injuries to his head, neck, and teeth. DHS calls it "without further incident." www.jackhopkinsnow.com
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Being the undisputed worst POTUS in history is pretty cool, but I think we can do better on this approval rating
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Scott @ecscott.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
God damn fuckers.
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The two #Equinox are the only days when the Sun rises due East and sets due West, everywhere. At the Dec solstice the sun rises in the S-East. At the June solstice it rises in the N-East. As the days pass between the two, the sunrise position slowly changes passing due East each equinox.🤩 🔭🧪
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Rona Altana @ronaaltana.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Discord finally confirmed for real when they're rolling out age verification service-wide (tomorrow) and I've not seen a single person make a peep about it
discord.com
Safer for Teens, Same Discord for Adults
We’re launching a revamped, privacy-focused age assurance solution including methods that won’t require an ID or selfie. Here’s how it works.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful.
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Scott @ecscott.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Well well well. Not really surprised. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
propublica.org
The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Companies can turn diesel semi trucks into electric with swappable batteries. Lots of places are doing it (Aussies in this video but it's global). Of course, we don't do that here. m.youtube.com/watch?v=UEXf...
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The EV Truck Idea I Actually Didn't Believe Until I Saw It
YouTube video by Engineering with Rosie
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
EPA allowed pesticide giant Bayer to pick from a menu of regulation options for the controversial and destructive weedkiller dicamba. Dicamba is drift prone and kills vegetation and crops for miles around fields where it is sprayed, and is linked to liver cancer and Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
theguardian.com
US environment agency let Bayer pick regulations for destructive weedkiller, documents show
Environmental Protection Agency asked firm to choose rules it wanted for dicamba, then put the choices in a proposed federal rule
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Five corporations control 90% of the US media. Airlines have merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
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Scott @ecscott.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If only.
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Scott @ecscott.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
😂 😂
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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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James Hughes @dystopian-fashion.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Profound hypocrisy from the Nebraska Republican Governor At least 20 Pillen hog farms employed undocumented immigrants for decades. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/u...
nytimes.com
As He Backs ICE Crackdown, Nebraska Governor Employs Undocumented Workers
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
NASA astronaut Sunita Williams is the second-most experienced female spacewalker with 9 spacewalks. Her total spacewalk time of 62 hours and 6 minutes is fourth overall and the most by a woman. She was born #OTD in 1965. #WomenInSTEM
An official NASA portrait of astronaut Sunita Williams wearing a full white Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit. The bulky suit displays an American flag patch on the left shoulder, a mission patch on the right, and various controls on the chest pack; she holds the gold-visored helmet. With long dark hair framing her smiling face, she poses confidently in front of a large draped American flag against a cloudy Earth-toned backdrop, symbolizing American space exploration.
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Scott @ecscott.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Fortunately, we know that criminals will respect borders. 🙄
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
CNN, Politico, and MS NOW reporters have been denied access to the White House this morning.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Understandable that he doesn't want to answer these questions, and he should be asked them much more often.
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Scott @ecscott.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If you can’t stand the heat …….
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
1/ At least 105 members of Congress hold up to $287 million in AI-linked investments. Forty-four sit on committees overseeing AI, chips, defense, energy, antitrust, or China policy. The referees are financially exposed to the teams. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Trump administration suffered its 24th straight court loss in its voter roll grab Thursday, after a federal judge in Vermont denied the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) effort to access Green Mountain State voters’ unredacted personal data. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
DOJ is 0-24 in its voter roll grab after Vermont demand rejected
So far, the DOJ has lost every one of its case to have been decided — and it also lost an appeal to the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
NEW: A BIG order in my lawsuit against Todd Blanche, ordering him to finally answer my complaint. I explain how the judge rejected every one of Blanche’s excuses as to why he blew the deadline to respond & why this order moves my lawsuit even faster to the finish line: youtu.be/9bKB3rbRNCo?...
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🚨Judge SLAMS AG Blanche And REJECTS His EXCUSES In NEW Order In MY Epstein Lawsuit!!
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16/09/2026
Here's the Guardian.
theguardian.com
New lawsuit accuses Trump administration of blocking NIH grants as form of censorship
The administration has used a list of 235 keywords – such as ‘gender’ and ‘racist’ – to prevent topics from being funded
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NPR @npr.org · 17/09/2026
Human rights experts commissioned by the U.N. say they have found "reasonable grounds" to believe the U.S. committed war crimes in Iran, including a strike on a school in the southern city of Minab. n.pr/4Ak7inF
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U.N.-backed experts cite possible U.S. war crimes in Iran, including a school attack
Human rights experts commissioned by the U.N. say they have found "reasonable grounds" to believe the U.S. committed war crimes in Iran, including a strike on a school in the southern city of Minab.
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Scott @ecscott.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Johnson is such a boot-licking piece of shit.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I don’t believe the U.S. taxpayer should continue to arm Netanyahu’s government with deadly military equipment. I believe Netanyahu is a war criminal and that his government has committed genocide in Gaza. This doesn't make me antisemitic. (I’m Jewish, by the way.)
washingtonpost.com
Trump’s planned sale of controversial bombs to Israel is largest in years
The pending transfer of the 2,000-pound munition, involved in scores of incidents resulting in civilian casualties, sets
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Scott @ecscott.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
And of course Thomas and Alito dissented.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My man looks like a Teddy Ruxpin doll programmed by the Heritage Foundation
thedailybeast.com
JD Vance Called Out Over Hypocritical Racist Dogwhistle
The vice president’s remarks about America becoming “dirtier” sparked fierce backlash.
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Rock Music Association @rockmusicassoc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Born In The Rock 9/12/1952: The late, great Neil Peart, drummer, percussionist, and primary lyricist for Rush. Peart was undeniably one of the greatest rock drummers of all time. He may not have invented the in concert drum solo, but he did perfect it.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
According to a new report, Atlantic Industrial Coatings found that workers failed to apply enough primer in some areas and that two materials used in the liner system were incompatible. So no, the damage didn’t “happen because of vandalism.” It was the result of a botched renovation!
inquirer.com
Contractor blames its own repairs, not vandals, for Reflecting Pool failure
Documents, which have not previously been reported, make clear that the contractor found problems in the design and the execution of the renovation.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 12/09/2026
It’s valid to be skeptical of the CDC, given the leadership there. But most outbreak data comes from state health departments. You can easily double check any aggregated national data the CDC publishes by comparing for with state level data for consistency.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
@thebulwark.com did a supercut of all the prior times Trump said he was going to give Americans a $5000 check or whatever. It is glorious
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This 9/11 is hitting me harder than most. I worked in the North Tower in the mid 1980s. I know the focus is rightly on those who died that day and the years following, but I also really miss those buildings. They held so many memories. This drone show is a powerful tribute to who and what was lost:
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/09/2026
TikTok investor Jeff Yass avoided paying $1 billion in taxes while largely escaping public scrutiny. He then poured that money into campaigns to cut taxes and support election deniers. (Published 2022)
propublica.org
Meet the Billionaire and Rising GOP Mega-Donor Who’s Gaming the Tax System
Susquehanna founder and TikTok investor Jeff Yass has avoided $1 billion in taxes while largely escaping public scrutiny. He’s now pouring his money into campaigns to cut taxes and support election de...
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Scott @ecscott.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Pretty sure he thought of this on the spur of the moment and thought it would be a “great” idea. Lol. He’s such a fucking idiot.
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