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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
When old SVU episodes don’t hold up in modern times.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/09/2026
When 3M scientist Kris Hansen discovered that a chemical the company produced was in the blood of the general public, her bosses questioned her work. Yet all along, some people inside the company had known the same thing. Listen to this excerpt:
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
WOOF no thank you
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Inside AOC’s MAHA outreach
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
very obvious why Canadians feel this way now but Americans still need to internalize how bad the PR damage of the last 2 years has been and how hard it is going to be to rebuild trust
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 06/09/2026
Read the essay from the film archivist behind Uncommon Ephemera on why it’s important to preserve filmstrips: blog.archive.org/2024/09/23/v...
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Vanishing Culture: On Filmstrips | Internet Archive Blogs
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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Authoritarianism does not always destroy government institutions—it can capture them. Courts, agencies, investigations, and enforcement become tools for rewarding loyalty and punishing dissent. When government serves a leader instead of the law, democracy is in danger.
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Ahem
America's To-Do List
End electoral college
Ratify the ERA
Protect voting rights
Reproductive freedom
End gerrymandering
DC statehood
Immigration reform
Congress term limits
Congress age limits
End Citizens United
Medicare for all
End corporate welfare
Sensible gun laws
Rich pay #FairShare Money out of politics
Religion out of politics
Limits on lobbying
Protect Social Security
Climate sanity
Reform SCOTUS
Ranked choice voting
Fair minimum wage
End Comstock Act
No stock trades for gov't officials
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Bock Sam @bocksam.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Let’s be honest, Vivek has zero understanding on what labor really means. Let’s work to get @amyactonoh.bsky.social and @davidpepperoh.bsky.social into office to work FOR the people of Ohio!
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The American press could probably make better sense of the world if it was not so dedicated to simply moving past the episode where we unilaterally decided to murder all the leaders of a country we were not, until that moment, at war with
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
following several national progressive wins, one socialist rallies an impressive campaign in the center of the country with little help and gets a historic number of votes, losing by a very narrow margin political headlines the next day: Dems Learn Harsh Lesson, Caring About Others Can't Win
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
www.thenation.com/article/arch...
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The Enduring Cult of the Vietnam ‘Missing in Action’
How a propaganda goof by Richard Nixon’s administration midwifed an urban legend that scarred American foreign policy and domestic politics for a generation.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
🚨BREAKING In a decisive win for voters, the Kansas Supreme Court rejected Secretary of State Scott Schwab’s (R) final emergency effort to revive a strict Election Day receipt deadline for mail-in ballots right before the state’s primary. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Kansas Supreme Court deals final blow to GOP bid to throw out late-arriving mail ballots
The ruling is a conclusive defeat for Schwab’s last-minute campaign to enforce a Republican-backed law that attempted to eliminate the grace period and required mail ballots to arrive on Election Day ...
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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
My mom would have had to update her voter registration and prove her citizenship 8 times under the SAVE Act, counting all her moves and name changes. That's just one tiny part of Trump's project to make govt exhausting, punitive and (for him) profitable. My latest www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-m...
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Trump Is Making Government Worse on Purpose
Instead of seeking to simplify and improve citizens’ lives, this administration keeps creating new obstacles and burdens.
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Mar-a-Hell-No! @mara-hell-no.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Nearly 36 water plants were attacked in Minnesota this week. But Trump blamed Gov. Tim Walz instead, despite evidence from U.S. intelligence officials saying it was likely to have been Iranian hackers. Because side with the enemy. #HelsinkiReboot. www.rawstory.com/irresponsibl...
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'Irresponsible as hell': Outrage as Trump doubts bombshell intel on hostile attack
President Donald Trump's remarks questioning whether Iran had hacked water systems in Minnesota sparked anger online Friday.Trump pushed back on the U.S. and state officials' reports about Iran hackin...
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Forbes @forbes.com · 31/07/2026
“This is a huge wake up call and a desperately needed reality check for lawmakers," said Natalia Abrams, President of the Student Debt Crisis Center, the organization that released the report.
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Student Loan Payments Spike By $500 As Borrowers Struggle With Repayment Changes, Says Report
Borrowers are seeing their student loan payments jump by $500 or more as they are forced out of a popular repayment plan, according to a new report released last week.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
See, it's funny because it's true. #Sad
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
It’s worth repeating on a regular basis: the Trump administration’s corruption is truly unprecedented. I get why Trump is seeking bribes. What I’m less sure about is how the bribers think this will end. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-corrup...
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The Corruption Is the Point
An awful lot of folks are okay with bribing Donald Trump, his family, and his administration. What will the reckoning look like -- or will it happen at all?
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Holy crap. This would be huge. And I can only imagine the other members of the FOMC are *pissed www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/b...
nytimes.com
Warsh Considers Reducing Frequency of Fed Policy Meetings (Gift Article)
The Federal Reserve has met at least eight times a year for decades. Reducing the number of meetings would represent the biggest change by Kevin M. Warsh since he became chairman.
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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
My friend the climatologist worries that the heat is rising. My friend the epidemiologist worries that cases are rising. My friend the historian worries that fascism is rising. My friend the activist worries that we are not rising.
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rainypoesia.bsky.social @rainypoesia.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
“Thinking for ourselves is hard and error prone but worthwhile - and there are no shortcuts to understanding.” 💯💯💯
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Millions of Americans with student loan debt will soon pay far more in student debt payments because of Trump’s Big Tax cut last July -about 4k a year for a typical family with student debt. This is a betrayal of young Americans who need loans to pursue college or career www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
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Opinion | America’s student loan system is a mess. Along comes Trump to make it worse.
Randi Weingarten and Mike Pierce: Ballooning student loan payments are Trump's latest contribution to the affordability crisis
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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Here’s what the White House, echoing Project 2025’s proposal, says is the “radical indoctrination” that justifies gutting the 61-year-old daycare program for poor kids
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
If you haven't been to DC lately, the new gilded statues look really, really, really fucking tacky
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
EXTRAODINARY HEAT IN NORTH AMERICA Records are being pulverized every day in every single country of Central America and Caribbean 42C in Honduras,39C in Nicaragua,38C Costa Rica, 39C in Cuba (38.8 Camaguey all time record again). Never happened anything like this.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 31/07/2026
🤔 Wonder which Trump officials are regulating the industries that made them rich? @publiccitizen.bsky.social built a tracker so you can find out—updated regularly. And look how many promised to recuse rather than divest!
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Tracker: Trump Appointees' Corporate Conflicts of Interest - Public Citizen
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This is 100% what we are seeing locally. Black voters are highly motivated, organized, & getting it done.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
It is crucial to keep saying this, because too many people are going to say, "Let's just move on" if the Democrats win in November & 2028. But we can't just do that & leave the entire competitive authoritarian system in place. We have to become a real democracy. That requires institutional reform:
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Gotta stop writing down what he says when you know it ain't true.
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 31/07/2026
How can the Administration justify asking for a $1.5 trillion defense budget when the Pentagon has never even passed a full audit?
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The biggest Republican donor in 2026 is also the world's most vocal advocate for ethnic cleansing. That's a big deal, right? So why aren't you hearing about it? presswatchers.org/2026/07/the-...
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The world’s most vocal racist will be the Republican Party’s biggest donor again. But don’t mention it. | Press Watch
Our top news organizations are covering up Elon Musk’s virulent racism
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
FLASH: Justice Dept seeks to dismiss Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn Trump Admin acknowledges: "Damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor"
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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Bjørn hits the nail on the head. Islamic terrorism is far-right, just cloaked in different language. Bring the same energy for combating this as you do for Nazis.
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Tracy O’Connell Novick @tracynovick.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
reminder to @edmarkey.bsky.social and @warren.senate.gov that you should ABSOLUTELY not be voting for this. (I shall also get in touch tomorrow)
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Anne @annieoranne.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
@amyklobuchar.com @smith.senate.gov This bill will do nothing to protect kids, and in fact will only harm people (especially kids) Privacy, not more surveillance #KOSASucks
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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 31/07/2026
the google earth example demonstrates that they can turn AI shit off. the right thing to do is thank everyone who has shown how AI has caused, is causing, and will cause harm to people. acknowledge the harm done and make it right for those already harmed. but first of all: turn it the fuck off.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 31/07/2026
The fact that it’s poisoning Black people is not seen as a negative to these folks.
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SpaceX won’t remove all of xAI’s unpermitted turbines for another year | TechCrunch
SpaceX is building a new power plant for xAI's Colossus data centers, but it won't remove existing, unpermitted turbines for many more months.
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Let them eat gold foil. 😬
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
See how he brought it back to shared values and shared interests. See how he connected it to the core themes of his brand. See how he didn't clear his throat over athletes for twenty minutes www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...
newyorker.com
Abdul El-Sayed’s Argument for America—and Against His Own Party
The Michigan U.S. Senate candidate on campaigning with Hasan Piker, being a capitalist, and why his fellow-Democrats need to “stop compromising.”
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
El Sayed: "When it comes to trans rights, this is the right to get the health care that you need...It’s the right not to be discriminated against by your government because of who you are. Because what tends to happen is they come for theirs, then they come for yours"
The idea that we can assent to the taking away of anybody’s rights, and think that somehow the government won’t come for all of our rights, is itself the problem. And, look, I don’t need people to understand how they use their rights. I just need people to agree that the government shouldn’t be able to take any of our rights. I put my face on the ground thirty-four times a day, David. Most people don’t understand why I do it. I don’t need them to understand. I just want to have the right to do it. And when people decide that they want to take away my right to do that, I’ve got a problem.Now, I hope that everybody’s going to show up and say, No, no, no. You can’t stop that person or that community from reflecting and praying as they choose. Similarly, when it comes to trans rights, this is the right to get the health care that you need. That’s really what it comes down to. It’s the right to be who you are. It’s the right not to be discriminated against by your government because of who you are. Because what tends to happen is they come for theirs, then they come for yours, then they come for theirs. And at some point you live in a society where rights are negotiable, and that is not the America I was born in. It’s not the America I know and love. It’s not the America I’m going to allow somebody like Donald Trump to give us.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
More people died from heat between April 1, 2026 thru July 19, 2026 than in the ten entire preceding years combined
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
It’s important to understand “age verification” and “kick the kids off social media” laws as a gift to Big Tech. These policies allow surveillance capitalism to chug along full steam ahead and let Silicon Valley giants off the hook. Instead of regulating their biz model, we just put up age gates
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Edmonton Bike Coalition @yegbike.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This is such an affordable way to improve response times, without having to deploy fire trucks or other emergency responders who need to be available for different calls.
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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
It’ll be fun they said. What could go wrong they said.
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404 Media @404media.co · 28/07/2026
“They didn't understand it was satire in the beginning until the end,” Casa Grande, Arizona resident Jacob Petrosky told 404 Media. “They were not happy, they were very upset.”
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'I Would Never Do This To You:' Protesting Flock, Arizona Man Presents Plan to Surveil Government Officials
“They didn't understand it was satire in the beginning until the end,” Casa Grande, Arizona resident Jacob Petrosky told 404 Media. “They were not happy, they were very upset.”
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404 Media @404media.co · 29/07/2026
A new AI data center can be up and running in a year. Building new energy infrastructure to power it could take a decade.
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Data Centers Are Easy to Build. Powering Them Is Complicated, Slow, and Expensive
A new AI data center can be up and running in a year. Building new energy infrastructure to power it could take a decade.
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elderberry2025.bsky.social @elderberry2025.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Please read @charlieberens.bsky.social
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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
the more I look into data centers, the more I find a couple of issues that drive me insane. just basic physics-style issues. the power generation problem is one of them
404media.co
Data Centers Are Easy to Build. Powering Them Is Complicated, Slow, and Expensive
A new AI data center can be up and running in a year. Building new energy infrastructure to power it could take a decade.
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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
this follows @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social's reporting on what exactly they were offering AI companies: www.404media.co/ai-companies...
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AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop
ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”
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