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Michael James 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🇵🇦

@emjay.bsky.social
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Los Angeleno, Humanist, Champion of the Underdog, Hugger of Trees and Strangers, Literary Nerd, Hockey Fan, Purveyor of Letting Go, Being Present, Opening Up. (Pic is a fave from 20+ years ago)

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Michael James 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🇵🇦 @emjay.bsky.social · 23h
Hearing Aimed at Jack Smith, Who Charged Trump, Devolves When Questions Turn to Basketball www.nytimes.com/live/2026/09... Republican Senators are joke.
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Hearing Aimed at Jack Smith, Who Charged Trump, Devolves When Questions Turn to Basketball
Senator Eric Schmitt, a Republican who accused the former special counsel of perjury, based his allegation on text messages about a basketball game that he appeared to misunderstand.
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Michael James 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🇵🇦 @emjay.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There’s another group, too: the willfully ignorant. They don’t know anything about politics and they don’t want to know. Slightly, privately, secretly they may very well vote Maga, but one thing for sure they do not want to be confronted with their lack of morality. 
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Michael James 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🇵🇦 @emjay.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
All of these non-citizen voting claims have always been a canard. Our typical registered voter turnout says all you need to know about how disinterested people who live here in casting a vote.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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DrH @drhaup.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Donald Johnson is 81. He has driven over 200,000 miles delivering lost luggage as his wife Josephine has cancer & he needs to pay her medical bills. “It’s the only job that will hire me.” Vote blue for a country where 81-year-olds get to care for their wives. #BlueWaveIn40Days
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 24/09/2026
Every conversation I’ve had with my MAGA relatives for the last ten years distilled into three sentences.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🧑‍🌾 🐄 “Life on the farm is stressful… the help situation isn’t getting better… why should we keep going?” A dairy farmer who voted for anti-immigrant Trump complains she can’t find workers — then lashes out when the internet calls her out for voting against her own interests.
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Michael James 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🇵🇦 @emjay.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The manchild is desperate 
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Michael James 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🇵🇦 @emjay.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/u... I will temper my hopes but this Presidency would be the best outcome ever for regular Americans.
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Will Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Run for President in 2028? Here’s What She Said. (Gift Article)
In a wide-ranging interview, the New York congresswoman offered her most detailed insight yet into how she is thinking about a possible presidential run.
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Michael James 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🇵🇦 @emjay.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I came to appreciate anime through my kids. My faves listed: Attack on Titan Demon Slayer My Hero Academia Blue-Eyed Samurai (close enough) Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Death Note Haikyu! One Piece Neon Genesis: Evangelion
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Michael James 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🇵🇦 @emjay.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I learned the lesson from Kurt Vonnegut in slaughterhouse five. A man who is not out stealing but rather makes an honest living is worthy of respect. I doubt Shaq ever read Vonnegut. 1st Elizabeth Holmes, then Beabadobee, now Shaq. We need to fix our education system. #WealthIsNotValue 
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Michael James 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🇵🇦 @emjay.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Report: Patriots owner Robert Kraft linked to Donald Trump’s Kennedy Center battle
New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft has been linked to the ongoing dispute surrounding President Donald Trump and the Kennedy Center, according to a
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Allegations against Lauren Boebert include sexual relations with Congressional employees, hush money payments, and thousands of dollars in misused official and campaign funds. Here's the redacted complaint: media.coloradotimesrecorder.com/wp-content/u...
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Michael James 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🇵🇦 @emjay.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Duncan Sheik, Who Traded Pop Stardom for Broadway, Dies at 56 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/a... I remember when I heard Barely Breathing, maybe this is the artist who will fill my Jeff Buckley void. I was disappointed on that point but always respected and liked Duncan Sheik.
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Duncan Sheik, Who Traded Pop Stardom for Broadway, Dies at 56
Weary of the heartthrob label after his 1996 hit “Barely Breathing,” he pivoted to musical theater and won two Tonys for composing “Spring Awakening.”
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Michael James 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🇵🇦 @emjay.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
NFL fines Texans LB Azeez Al-Shaair for displaying name of Palestinian girl on eye black www.nytimes.com/athletic/760... Human - check Hero - check
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NFL fines Texans LB Azeez Al-Shaair for displaying name of Palestinian girl on eye black (Gift Article)
The league issued Al-Shaair a similar fine in January for a message in his eye black that read “stop the genocide.”
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
KAEPERNICK: The part that I hope people take away in this moment is what Robert Kraft and what they’re saying by denying Macklemore is they are openly colluding. They also want people to know that if you take an action that they don’t agree with, they will come for you.
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Michael James 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🇵🇦 @emjay.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Kosovo’s Former Leader Is Sentenced to 25 Years in War Crimes Case www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/w... Support the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
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Kosovo’s Former Leader Is Sentenced to 25 Years in War Crimes Case
A tribunal in The Hague found Hashim Thaci, who led Kosovo’s independence struggle in the 1990s, responsible for arbitrary detention, torture and murder.
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Michael James 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🇵🇦 @emjay.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Trump Approves $2.8 Billion Arms Sale to Israel, Including 40,000 One-Ton Bombs www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/u... Who knows if we electedhim or foul pllay was involved? Either way we literally have the antichrist for President.
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Trump Approves $2.8 Billion Arms Sale to Israel, Including 40,000 One-Ton Bombs
The package would be among the largest deliveries of U.S. munitions to Israel.
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Michael James 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🇵🇦 @emjay.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Trump Fights Back After Judge Says Name Must Stay Off Kennedy Center www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/a... Tfg. We don’t talk about this behavior enough. What a doophus and how far away from being a statesman can he get?
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Trump Fights Back After Judge Says Name Must Stay Off Kennedy Center
President Trump threatened to cancel a $257 million renovation of the performing arts venue if the judge’s ban was not overturned.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
remember when the whole SNL bit on him was organized around his weird pronunciation of the word "china" because he was constantly saying the word "china" all the time, since being tough on china was his whole political schtick? thehill.com/homenews/adm...
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Trump says he would allow Chinese automakers to build cars in US
President Trump said Friday he would permit Chinese automakers to move manufacturing to the U.S. over the protest of American automakers.  “If China wanted to come in and open a plant to build…
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Michael James 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🇵🇦 @emjay.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Trump Says a Smart President Is All That’s Needed to Rein In A.I. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/u... The way he calls out leakers tho. I'd like to hear him explain that.
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Trump Rejects Talk of A.I. Regulation and Calls Out Anthropic’s CEO
The president again rejected calls to try to regulate the industry, even as some of its leaders are speaking more openly about the risks of rapidly developing artificial intelligence.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
More obstruction of justice by Todd Blanche and the Trump DOJ, this time in refusing to cooperate with international law enforcement's efforts to investigate the Epstein Files
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Michael James 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🇵🇦 @emjay.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Can you even believe they’re still using Sharia law and dismantle capitalism tropes? Sheesh.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
These trucks were seen circling the RNC Convention in Dallas
VOTE LIKE JESUS
IS WATCHING
SAY NO TO CORRUPT
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PAID FOR BY LONE STAR RISING PAC. WWW.LONESTARRISINGPAC.COM.
NOT AJTHORIZED BY ANY CANDIDATE OR CANDIDATE'S COMMITTEE.
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Michael James 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🇵🇦 @emjay.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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Judge slams HHS for referencing fake studies generated by misuse of AI
The Department of Health and Human Services has suffered more than its share of AI-related humiliations. The list, alas, is still growing.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Yikes
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Michael James 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🇵🇦 @emjay.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Early Data Indicates an A.I.-Generated Drug Could Slow Aging www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/s...
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Early Data Indicates an A.I.-Generated Drug Could Slow Aging
Artificial intelligence was used to help develop a drug candidate, rentosertib, for a rare lung condition. Its maker says the drug also seems to reduce the biological hallmarks of age.
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Michael James 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🇵🇦 @emjay.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A Doctor Sued 700 Patients for Debts; 81 Were Arrested. Now He’s a Senator. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u... Imagine being a Kansas voter and not being able to figure out that this is a bad guy who deserves zero votes. #Kansas
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Roger Marshall Sued 700 Patients for Debts; 81 Were Arrested. Now He’s a Senator.
Patients sued by Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas were routinely charged 18 percent interest, The Times found. Some had bank accounts garnished.
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Michael James 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🇵🇦 @emjay.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Trump to Break Ground on Arch Before Getting Approval www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/u... Even if an adjustment is required this arch, if built, should come to mean to Americans "Never again will we elect such a money-grubbing despot to our highest office."
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Trump to Break Ground on Arch Before Getting Approval
Doug Burgum, the interior secretary, announced plans to start work on the site of the 250-foot-tall triumphal arch. Final approval of the project is still pending.
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Michael James 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🇵🇦 @emjay.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
From Top Civil Rights Post, She Spars With the Left, and Her Colleagues www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/u... As Emerson said, Human character expresses itself evermore. In this case it can be seen on her face.
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From Top Civil Rights Post, She Spars With the Left, and Her Colleagues
Harmeet Dhillon, who leads the Justice Department’s civil rights unit, has extracted flashy agreements and personnel moves from big universities and sought to force states to turn over confidential vo...
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Michael James 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🇵🇦 @emjay.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Women’s Movement, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/u... Talk about a badass. This woman moved civilization forward. I can't tell you how many role models and men in my life from childhood to now have disparaged her just at hearing her name. Long ways 2 go
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Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Feminist Movement, Dies at 92
She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.
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Michael James 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🇵🇦 @emjay.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Michael James 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🇵🇦 @emjay.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Cassandra Wilson, Star Jazz Singer, Dies at 70 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/a... If you like Jack White's cover of U2's Love is Blindness, you should-it's good. However, Cassandra Wilson's cover back in the 90s was also terrific. (Ironically the article mentions New Moon Daughter's sales but (1of2)
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Cassandra Wilson, Star Jazz Singer, Dies at 70
With a low and smoky voice, she conjured the blues tradition of her native Mississippi in both her own songs and in covers.
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Michael James 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🇵🇦 @emjay.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Trump Administration Begins Blitz to Find Elusive Voter Fraud Ahead of Midterms www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/u... More crime from the Trump admin.
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Trump Administration Launches Hunt For Noncitizen Voter Fraud Before Midterms
Election fraud is exceedingly rare, but President Trump has fixated on rooting it out this year, claiming without evidence that tens of thousands of noncitizens are registered to vote.
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Michael James 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🇵🇦 @emjay.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I sincerely hope Pete Hegseth finds some time to visit the Netherlands when his time in government has come to an end.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I don’t think there’s really even a colorable argument that this isn’t mass murder. theintercept.com/2026/09/02/m...
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The U.S. Has Killed 227 Civilians in Boat Strikes During “A Year of Murders”
“The boat strikes are, perhaps, the most stark testament to the lawlessness of the Trump administration.”
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Michael James 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🇵🇦 @emjay.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The Republican game plan is: Cheating. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...
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Whistle-Blower Says USPS Is Secretly Proceeding on Trump’s Mail Voting Plan Before Midterms (Gift Article)
The Postal Service disputed allegations by the whistle-blower that the agency had violated several court orders that should have halted work on the plan.
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Michael James 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🇵🇦 @emjay.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Clancy Murder Trial: Jury Deliberations Will Stretch Into 5th Day www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u... What is the right, moral outcome here? I don't know. She needs to b somewhere she can never harm any1 ever again but beyond that? I mean what a horrific situation and I can't imagine her state of mind.
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Lindsay Clancy Trial: Jury Deliberations Will Stretch Into 5th Day
Jurors have now deliberated for nearly 24 hours over four days and say they are deadlocked. A judge told them to keep trying to reach a verdict.
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Michael James 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🇵🇦 @emjay.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Meet the Megadonors Who Have Poured $1.2 Billion Into the Midterms www.nytimes.com/interactive/... Here is the answer to why so many people vote Republican clearly against their interests and society's interests.
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Meet the Megadonors Who Have Poured $1.2 Billion Into the Midterms
The leaderboard of the top 20 donors is dominated by the tech industry and ultrawealthy Republicans.
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Michael James 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🇵🇦 @emjay.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Kalshi Permanently Bars George Santos From the Platform www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/b... This guy should be widely shunned everywhere he goes in public.
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Kalshi Permanently Bars George Santos From the Platform
The prediction market said it had barred George Santos, the former congressman from New York, and fined him $71,356 over evidence he engaged in insider trading.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Just when you think you couldn’t love David Byrne more he goes to the Hollywood Bowl playing "Life During Wartime" projecting ICE raids 🔥
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Michael James 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🇵🇦 @emjay.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
For the record if and when Steve Ballmer makes somewhere in California his primary residence and pays our wealth tax I will renounce the Lakers and become a bonafide Clipper fan.
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Michael James 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🇵🇦 @emjay.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/u...
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At Least 1 in 4 NFL Players Gets CTE, Major New Study Finds (Gift Article)
The actual prevalence, researchers said, may be much higher.
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Michael James 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🇵🇦 @emjay.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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Michael James 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🇵🇦 @emjay.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...
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Trump, 80, Declares Fox News Host an Enemy of MAGA
The president worked himself into a fury after watching the Fox News host.
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Therese 88 @therese88.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
US Faces Triple Threat of Climate Crisis, Economic Hardship, and Donald Trump www.sierraclub.org/sierra/us-fa...
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US Faces Triple Threat of Climate Crisis, Economic Hardship, and Donald Trump
Scientists warn Trump’s “systemic assault” on science comes as we enter an unprecedented Danger Season
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 15/08/2026
📣GOOD NEWS: The SAVE Act failed in the Senate…again. Even a stripped-down version couldn’t get 60 votes. Now, senators are in recess until mid-September, making it too late to pass before the midterms. Marc Elias explains👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEUc2JeYBr4
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Joe Roberts 🔥💙🔥🐸 @robbyjoe.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
He didn’t change. They did.
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Michael James 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🇵🇦 @emjay.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
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Inside Luigi Mangione’s Missing Months (Gift Article)
From beers at a Bangkok bar to a climb up Mount Omine in Japan, The Times traced the pivotal months before Mr. Mangione was charged with killing UnitedHealthcare’s C.E.O.
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Michael James 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🇵🇦 @emjay.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
#Music #ReactionVideos #JeffBuckley youtu.be/zHd7-au1X4M?...
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Gen Z Opera Singer Reacts To Jeff Buckley - Lover You Should've Come Over
YouTube video by Aaliyah Capili
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