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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 12h
The pundit view of the world is skewed by many things, one of which is a refusal/inability to understand geographic spaces that exist outside their own neighborhoods. It's all based on stereotypes and conjecture—even when they go to other places, and their columns are essentially bad travel writing.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 13h
fun fact: The Treaty of Tripoli, 1796, Signed by Prez John Adams, includes: "As the government of the United States of America is *not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion*, as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of [Muslims].." Just saying.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/10/2026
It has been 118 years since the Supreme Court ruled the federal government owes tribes water, but Native American communities in northern Arizona are still fighting for their rights to the Colorado River. (Published June)
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Native American Tribes Came Together to Secure Their Rights to Colorado River Water. Four States Are Stalling the Deal.
Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming are resisting the deal because it would allow the Navajo and Hopi to lease water to cities downstream, likely the growing towns around Phoenix.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
More than 1.5 million kids were missed in the last U.S. census. The undercount was 2.1% for children <18, and 5.4% for those <5, the highest rate of any age group. Now the Census Bureau is proposing major changes to 2030 Census rules that could make some children even harder to count.
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Children Are Already Undercounted in the Census. Proposed Changes Could Make It Worse. - Population Reference Bureau
Newly proposed rules for who is counted and where could make millions of children harder to count in the 2030 Census.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In two years we've gone from a standard where the President's budget proposal was a set of suggestions Congress would ignore to where Congressional appropriations are now a set of suggestions the President ignores.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026
The American Bar Association laid out the receipts. Big donors get appointments. Big money flows in, investigations disappear, pardons follow, regulations loosen and foreign governments get favorable treatment. The article calls it an “unprecedented pay-to-play culture.” #PayToPlayPresident
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 02/10/2026
Maryland became the first state to bar grocery stores from using electronic pricing tools to adjust the cost of food items throughout the day, which critics say could enable retailers to unfairly manipulate prices at a time when households are already squeezed by rising costs.
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Maryland becomes first state to ban dynamic pricing in grocery stores
The measure comes as households are struggling with rising costs.
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NPR @npr.org · 02/10/2026
The dark side of the prediction market boom is becoming more clear: Experts say the sites have become go-to outlets for gambling addicts to relapse as the companies avoid state consumer protections. n.pr/4hzSuJ0
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He was banned by betting sites, and filed for bankruptcy. Then he relapsed on Kalshi
The dark side of the prediction market boom is becoming more clear: Experts say the sites have become go-to outlets for gambling addicts to relapse as the companies avoid state consumer protections.
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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Would be fascinated to hear disability attorneys weigh in on this.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Zak Williams @zakwilliamswzw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yep
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 01/10/2026
The answer to the problem of eroding writing/reading skills in large portions of our society is not to stop teaching reading and writing to the children of the "elite", it's to rebuild a society in which literacy is widespread, like America at the time of the revolution, and many decades thereafter.
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 01/10/2026
A split court rejected a Koch-backed group's claim that requiring donors to be named violates the First Amendment story via @jimsmall.bsky.social
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Arizona's voter-approved dark money law defeats First Amendment challenge in appellate ruling
Arizona dark money law: The 9th Circuit upheld the voter-approved disclosure measure, rejecting a First Amendment challenge
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Larry Levitt @larrylevitt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Early results show people losing coverage due to early implementation of a Medicaid work requirement in Nebraska, with signs that they're being caught up in administrative barriers. www.kff.org/medicaid/ear...
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Early Medicaid Work Requirement Insights From Nebraska | KFF
This brief describes the verification process for Medicaid work requirements in Nebraska and examines early data on outcomes for individuals subject to work requirements.
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s, um…interesting that the documentation req’d by disadvantaged folks to access social safety net programs - in the interest of “accountability” to ensure no improper use - is not req’d by the very politicians who rail about the need to be responsible with taxpayer dollars.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 30/09/2026
don't amplify lies in the headline
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OpenAI delays IPO over AI safety concerns
OpenAI is seeking another $30 billion privately as its IPO plans slip.
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Jane Norman @janenorman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
POWER OF THE PURSE: And @jennifershutt.bsky.social had the latest in the struggle between Congress and the White House over canceling taxpayer funds www.newsfromthestates.com/article/cong...
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Congressional watchdog says Trump administration can’t defy lawmakers to revoke $810M
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration must spend the $810 million that it said last week it planned to cancel, according to a report released Tuesday by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Offic...
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Jane Norman @janenorman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
CONTEMPT: @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social also covered a long hearing with multiple appeals judges on possible contempt charges against the administration www.newsfromthestates.com/article/appe...
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Appeals court poised to allow contempt probe of DHS deportation flights to El Salvador
WASHINGTON — Most judges on a federal appeals court seemed inclined during oral arguments Tuesday to allow a federal judge to continue investigating Trump officials for possible criminal contempt-of-c...
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Jane Norman @janenorman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
THE MEDIA BAN: Our @jennifershutt.bsky.social caught us up with First Amendment news and the White House www.newsfromthestates.com/article/news...
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News orgs banned from White House accuse Trump of First Amendment violation
WASHINGTON — The three news organizations that President Donald Trump barred from entering the White House grounds earlier this month have asked a federal judge to ensure their reporters continue to h...
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Jane Norman @janenorman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
$20 MILLION: The TV promos made by the Trump folks were found by Dems to have been paid for with taxpayer funds from the Department of Homeland Security, @jonshorman.bsky.social reported www.newsfromthestates.com/article/trum...
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Trump TV ads paid for with $20M in Homeland Security funds, Dems find
President Donald Trump is tapping $20 million in Homeland Security funding to pay for TV ads that heavily feature him ahead of the midterm elections, Democrats said Tuesday as the promos critics call ...
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Jane Norman @janenorman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
YOU'RE JUST A 'DIRTBAG': Then, @ashleymurray.bsky.social was at the Judiciary hearing that went viral when a senator suffered from a sports bungle www.newsfromthestates.com/article/gop-...
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GOP senator bungles accusation against former special counsel Jack Smith in heated hearing
WASHINGTON — Former special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday defended before a U.S. Senate panel his past investigations of President Donald Trump’s possession of classified documents and alleged role in...
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Jane Norman @janenorman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
BUSY DAY IN DC: Our @statesnewsroom.com DC staff has been on the run all day. @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social reported on third-country deportations greenlit for now by the Supreme Court www.newsfromthestates.com/article/us-s...
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US Supreme Court allows Trump to resume deportations outside immigrants’ home countries
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday granted, for now, the Trump administration’s request to continue rapid third-country deportation of immigrants to countries not their own.
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Spud Lovr @spudlovr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hundreds of nurses at Dane County SSM clinics vote to unionize wisconsinexaminer.co... #wipolitics
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Hundreds of nurses at Dane County SSM clinics vote to unionize • Wisconsin Examiner
Nurses at 10 SSM Health clinics across Dane County voted last week to form a union. Joining nurses at SSM St. Mary's doing the same in June.
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Jonathan Shorman @jonshorman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump taps $20 million to pay for promotional ads, Democrats say, as criticism of TV campaign mounts www.newsfromthestates.com/article/trum...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 29/09/2026
DraftKings has argued that its ‘responsible gaming’ system provides adequate safeguards to protect customers from spiraling out of control. So I decided to find out: If I bet like a compulsive gambler, would DraftKings stop me? by Jake Pearson
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I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.
Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and pro...
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...
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• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
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• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Let the history books show that STUDENT reporters brought national attention to unchecked abuse. I hope that their cups and opportunities forever overfloweth.This is courage.
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District attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University 'gang rape'
Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the case of alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity.
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wortnews.bsky.social @wortnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For a closer look at this latest round of ballot questions and what could change after the midterms, @fayeparks.bsky.social sat down with @henry-redman.bsky.social. www.wortfm.org/three-consti...
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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 28/09/2026
Ohio received an “F” for its sex education policy, according to a new report from the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/09/28/o...
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Ohio gets a failing mark on sex education policy from national group • Ohio Capital Journal
Ohio received an “F” for its sex education policy, according to a new report from the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Our country is staring into the abyss, and much of our national press corps lacks the fortitude that this moment demands www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/b...
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TV Networks to Resume Trump Coverage, Even as White House Excludes CNN (Gift Article)
The White House TV pool went dark this past week amid a standoff between CNN and the president. Network leaders, however, believe an indefinite suspension may be untenable.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
5) there is a more logical explanation: lots of cheaper ACA plans have very high deductible and copays, so that you’d still avoid getting health care unless or until your seriously needed it. People choose these plans either because they think they’re healthy and won’t need it, or can’t afford it.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
3) the only logical argument here is if insurance companies are signing up fake customers and then taking the government subsidies for that coverage, while paying out no claims. IF that is happening, it would be business/corporate fraud, not consumer fraud.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
2) insurance fraud, from a consumer point of view, consists of filing fake or excessive claims, not paying premiums and then making no claims. Where’s the payout?
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A couple quick observations here, which should be obvious. 1) insurance “risk pools” work by requiring younger/healthier people who make few or no claims to sign up and pay premiums alongside older/less healthy people who do, essentially covering their costs.
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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Congratulations, America: Our public health policy is now dictated by Grandpa Simpson.
From the NYT: Mr. Kennedy’s associates outside the administration have also been allowed direct access to senior C.D.C. staff members. Dr. Ben Edwards, a physician in Lubbock, Texas, who treated children while he was infected with measles and whom Mr. Kennedy had praised as an “extraordinary” healer, asked senior C.D.C. officials to look into cod liver oil as a treatment for measles, citing “historical references dating back to the 1700s,” in an email viewed by The Times.
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Again no link between Tylenol intake during pregnancy. “Current epidemiological evidence does not support a robust causal relationship, and paracetamol remains an appropriate first-line treatment during pregnancy…” Can we stop beating the dead horse now? 🧪 www.cidrap.umn.edu/anti-science...
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Tylenol during pregnancy not linked to autism, ADHD, major review finds
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 25/09/2026
In which my RNS colleague @bmietana.bsky.social tracks the "Rise of the Jim Crow theobros." Fascinating an unsettling reporting here, but this is a key line: "…along the way, they are turning outrage into cash." religionnews.com/2026/09/24/t...
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The rise of the Jim Crow theobros
(RNS) — A group of Reformed pastors and influencers has wedded old-school segregationist theology with the hypermasculinity of the manosphere and the savvy of the attention economy to preach and sell ...
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James Wigderson @jwigderson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Tiffany Goon Prevents Reporters from Covering Campaign Event jameswigderson.substack.com/p/tiffany-go...
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Tiffany Goon Prevents Reporters from Covering Campaign Event
Tiffany Demonstrates a Trump-Like Scorn for the 1st Amendment
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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 24/09/2026
Via Jennifer Shutt: U.S. District Court Judge Timothy J. Kelly indicated during a Wednesday hearing he may order the Trump administration to reinstate White House press passes for reporters from three news organizations who had their credentials revoked this weekend. ow.ly/rVUN50ZQOkw
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/09/2026
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter. (Published Jan. 2025)
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A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends....
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026
All of this is VERY much by design: the faux-"thinking" that the system provides in logs inherently plays to sci-fi narrative tropes in its training data The companies then point at that and say "SEE? IT'S INEVITABLY INTELLIGENT. LET US REGULATE OURSELVES" And it's 100% working. Go watch this:
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The Truth about OpenAI’s “Secret AI Civilizations”
YouTube video by Cal Newport
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If you're a campaign finance lawyer, particularly one with expertise in the Hatch Act ... DM or hit me up on Signal? Thank you!!!!
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 23/09/2026
The biggest challenge for the US political system is reforming itself so that it can work with regular alternation in party control without either party trying to murder the other party's voters with secret police outside the law or, more generally, ignoring our Constitution.
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Mark Krajnak @jerseystylephoto.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Happy birthday, Bruce! It's weird to say I've shot him more times than I can count but it's kinda true, the way life has worked out. It's always special for me, though. This was at Madison Square Garden last May, for @letters2u.bsky.social #Springsteen #music
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Erik Gunn @erikgunn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It astonishes me that this style of folder, with vertical pockets, seems nowhere to be found anymore!
Photograph of a cardboard folder opened up with vertical pockets on either side in which papers are stashed.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Rumors about “rigged elections" are now a fixture of U.S. elections, leading to diminished trust in election results & democracy (broadly). These rumors can sometimes be hard to debunk, esp. in their early stages. Our UW team has identified the 6 common ways that election integrity rumors mislead:
Infographic titled "Six Ways 'Rigged Election' Rumors Mislead." A two-column table pairs six labeled categories with descriptions. The first three categories are:

No Evidence: The rumor is entirely unsubstantiated. There's no evidence to support the rumor.

Fake/False Evidence: The rumor is based on fake or synthetic evidence (e.g. AI-generated content), manipulated evidence, or false witness testimony.

Misinterpreted Evidence: This rumor is based upon real evidence that has been misinterpreted or intentionally mischaracterized to create a false impression.

A black banner then introduces the final three categories: "Real Evidence, Real Voting Issue, False Narrative."

Exaggerated Impact: The rumor centers on a real issue with voting but falsely insinuates or exaggerates impact on election results.

Ignored Remedies: The rumor centers on a real issue with voting but ignores and/or obscures the remedies that would address this problem

False Blame: The rumor centers on a real issue with voting but either falsely attributes intent for an accidental issue or places blame on an innocent party.

Source: UW Center for an Informed Public, September 2026.
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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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