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Neme

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Voracious reader of news and nonsense.

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“In some rural counties from Oregon to New Hampshire, older Americans shopping for private Medicare Advantage plans will find that options have vanished completely or are dwindling to just a few plans… as open enrollment begins this month, roughly five million people will be forced to switch plans”
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Private Medicare Plans Are Raising Costs And Forcing Millions To Find New Insurance
As enrollment for Medicare Advantage begins this month, older Americans are confronting fewer options because insurers are discontinuing coverage in many areas.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Shocked this country famous for lynchings, strangling Black men on the street, kidnapping and killing foreign leaders & arming genocides everywhere is doing a public execution by gunfire. This is NOT the American way.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 07/10/2026
guys i don't know... i feel like if you try to chemically kill a woman twice and it doesn't work that's the limit I think you gotta leave her alone www.nytimes.com/live/2026/10...
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Christa Pike Live Updates: Her Lawyers Say She Is Angry and Confused After Failed Execution (Gift Article)
A Tennessee judge said the state must preserve syringes and other material from the execution chamber a week after Ms. Pike survived two doses of a drug meant to kill her.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/10/2026
Regulators have linked Mark McAfee’s raw dairy farm to more than a dozen recalls and outbreaks that left hundreds of people ill. “I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital,” McAfee said. “But here’s the thing: I’m a pioneer.” (Published June)
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He Profits Off Raw Milk That’s Making People Sick. The Government Isn’t Stopping Him.
With Raw Farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, Mark McAfee has capitalized on a once-fringe product that’s been thrust into the mainstream in recent years and backed by Health Secretary Rob...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/10/2026
Experts believe Tennessee is unnecessarily placing kids incarcerated for minor offenses into its highest-security prisons, which they say are more punitive than rehabilitative. “These institutions are not humane places,” said an advocate. with @wpln.bsky.social
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Across the Country, Youth Prisons Are Closing. This State Is Building More.
Tennessee officials say they need more high-security facilities for kids who commit crimes. Experts say this approach flies in the face of crime data and research that shows youth prisons are not reha...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/09/2026
A policy expert described Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s push in favor of private schools as a “great American heist,” funneling money from public schools: “It’s a strategic theft of the future of our country, our kids and our democracy.” (Published Oct. 2025)
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These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.
Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...
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Nothing @nothingofvalue.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
That Rolling Stome article on “Choosin Texas” complaining about how people who haven’t heard the song are siloing themselves is hilarious to me. Popular Country music in the US is possibly the MOST siloed genre in the country, especially in the 21st century.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/09/2026
For likely the first time in modern history, the Supreme Court decided more cases in fast-tracked, secretive proceedings than in open court. Watch us break down how a once-rare emergency process became the norm.
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The Supreme Court Changed. What Now?
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 18/09/2026
In a Manhattan federal courtroom today, a lawyer for the Trump administration argued that Article II of the Constitution lets the president fire a federal employee because he’s Black, and there’s nothing a court can do about it. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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DOJ says recent Supreme Court ruling shields Maurene Comey firing
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Trai... so tired of billionaires @trai70.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A lot of rich folks got that way by spending other peoples' money. Most wealthy business owners are anti-union (for their workers) but they all have clubs and cliques where they gather and conspire with other rich folks (what is that if not a union?) Private schools are like that too. Cliques.
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Jennifer Smyth @jensmyth.myatproto.social · 21/09/2026
My mind on Leandro was blown when GK Butterfield told us about how that clause in our state constitution came in at Reconstruction: the right to a sound basic education was a thing insisted on by our first Black legislators. They knew an education was the best insurance against regression.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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This Back to School Season, Kids Face a New Fear: ICE Taking Their Parents
More than 200,000 children in the US are estimated to have had a parent detained by ICE.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“Langston Hughes’ literary estate now belongs to International Literary Properties, which says a Harlem Renaissance licensing program is next on its list.”
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Private Equity Is Coming for Authors, Dead or Alive - The Ankler
Like music catalogs, literary estates are now targeted by investment firms and changing how Hollywood will deal with IP
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Ed@Retired In CrazyTimes @ed-retired.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ectopic pregnancy deaths have nearly doubled. It’s worse in states with abortion bans. floridaphoenix.com/2026/09/14/r...
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Ectopic pregnancy deaths have nearly doubled. It’s worse in states with abortion bans. • Florida Phoenix
The number of women who died after an ectopic pregnancy has spiked in recent years, a ProPublica analysis found. The mounting deaths in Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data have drawn littl...
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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
DHS is torturing transgender people in its gulags www.themarshallproject.org/2026/09/12/i...
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ICE Treatment of Transgender Women Reversing Years-Long Practices
Women said they face harassment and lack proper medical care.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
BET Digital has permanently removed all its digital news articles from its website to 'prioritize video content,' I'm told. Years of news articles are now gone forever. Some writers were able to save their stories; some weren't
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 04/09/2026
When concerns were raised during the primary about supporting a guy who would chase down a random Blacl person and hold them at gunpoint they were brushed aside, even now the callousness of that act is still thought to have no reflection on his character despite what we know.
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Gourdon P. Squash @dewterium2.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is why they coined the term "cancel culture" and attacked it so furiously. What they were calling cancel culture was actually the conscience of civil society, which is their enemy.
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geraldmcgrew @geraldmcgrew.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
*Wealthy media owners are using the national debt to justify cutting Social Security and Medicare instead of taxing the rich or addressing excessive health care costs* By @deanbaker13.bsky.social #EconomicInequality #UnitedStates cepr.net/publications...
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The Rich Own the Media. They Want to Take Your Social Security
The rich media owners pushing Social Security and Medicare cuts ignore how tax cuts and excessive health costs created the deficit.
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NPR @npr.org · 17/08/2026
For 10 years, a Catholic-run home offered young women an affordable place to live in the nation's capital as they studied and launched careers. Now, that community is saying goodbye.
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Living with nuns: Priced out of D.C., young women found low rent with unlikely roommates
For 10 years, a Catholic-run home offered young women an affordable place to live in the nation's capital as they studied and launched careers. Now, that community is saying goodbye.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 17/08/2026
US child vaccination rates have plunged since before the pandemic, with kindergarten classrooms in more than 70% of counties now lacking herd immunity against measles.
US choropleth map showing percentage change in MMR or overall vaccination rates since before the pandemic, by county. Decreases are shown in pink, increases in green.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/08/2026
NEW: Tennessee’s highest-security youth prisons are operated by a single private company. Former staff say they felt pressure to hide abuse and other serious incidents from the state and to handle medical emergencies without calling 911. with @wpln.bsky.social
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He Suffered Abuse in a Private Youth Jail. The Company Never Reported It.
Tennessee’s highest-security youth prisons are operated by a single private company. Former staff say they felt pressure to hide abuse and other serious incidents from the state and to handle medical ...
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 12/08/2026
again, the only way this dishonest whining works is to ignore what happened: a dam broke and the routine police murder of Black people mobilized some white people, and that was scary to other white people
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Sebastian2 @sebastian2.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Jeezus f**king Christ... In essence that ruling says that any time your side doesn't win an election, just ransack the capitol, and everything will be okay...
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US judge grants DOJ request to dismiss January 6 cases against Oath Keepers
By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON, Aug 4 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Tuesday granted the U.S.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Another example of the lunacy of thinking discrimination against a marginalized group won't affect you if you're not part of that group bsky.app/profile/gbbr...
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/08/2026
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
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The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
There are a lot of important things going on. Maybe this isn’t a top twenty concern. But, this is actually workplace harassment, the kind that can get people killed.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This is VERY bad. Congressional investigation immediately. They’re trying to use Palantir to figure out who you voted for. 0% chance this ends well. Stop it ASAP.
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Exclusive: FBI gets voter's IP address in new fraud probe tactic
The move offers a glimpse into how authorities are now digging into voter rolls and registration practices.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 30/07/2026
"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."
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Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington
I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
🚨BREAKING: A North Carolina Senate committee greenlit new voter suppression measures Tuesday, moving forward a bill that would make it easier to purge voters from the rolls and impose stricter requirements for registering to vote. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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North Carolina advances more voter suppression measures
The bill also reduces the early voting period for primaries, runoffs and special elections from 17 to 10 days.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The self-destruction of America. fortune.com/2026/07/26/g...
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Gambling becomes America's favorite pastime as Americans spend more on sports bets than movies, arts, museums, and music combined | Fortune
Americans wagered $166 billion on sports last year, more than Hollywood, the music industry, books, and museums combined.
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
"U.S. diplomatic facilities, including outside the Middle East, have been targeted. Iran and groups supportive of Iran may target other U.S. interests overseas or at locations associated with the United States and Americans throughout the world. "
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Michele Dotson 🇺🇸🫶🏾⚖️🗳📬🇺🇦✌🏾🦾 @michelesgreenbook.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Nationally criminalizing homelessness in 2024 is yet another travesty of the Chief Justice John Roberts' Supreme Court MAGA supermajority. The decision was 6-3. The three liberal justices dissented. www.npr.org/2024/06/28/n...
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The Supreme Court says cities can punish people for sleeping in public places
The decision is a win for Western cities that wanted more powers to manage record homelessness. But advocates for the unhoused say the decision will do nothing to solve the larger problem
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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Food pantries(even at their absolute best) are no substitute for adequately funding SNAP.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Remember the SNAP cuts in the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill?” Children account for nearly half of the 2.4 million people who are no longer receiving SNAP in at least 19 states. The true number of kids impacted nationwide is unknown. This is horrifying. No child should go hungry.
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Claudia Stellar, PhD @claudiastellar.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I sometimes wonder if treating dumb and evil as synonymous is a coping mechanism. It's comforting to believe malicious people must also be incompetent. But a lot of harm comes from people who know exactly what they're doing.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 20/07/2026
“The proposed “Restoring Resiliency” project featured a plan to remove toxic substances such as mold, lead paint, and asbestos from homes, repair a nearly 82-year-old wastewater system, and convert part of a shuttered high school band room into a health clinic.”
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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This is not about national security. This is about not liking factual news coverage. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/b...
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
It's so funny. And you know a certain type of USian loves to bleat on and on about "corruption" and "Third World Countries." This is high-larious.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I think that it's so funny that they just handed the seat to Graham's sister. Absolutely Nepo undemocratic.
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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 14/07/2026
$81 billion in tariffs you paid given to companies.
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US refunds $81bn in Trump tariffs after supreme court ruled them illegal
Government had been forced to pay back duties to companies that imported goods into the US that were hit by Trump’s tariffs
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
They aren't claiming the officer feared for his life, but "feared for public safety" when Guerrero attempted to flee. But he was not the target of the warrant. Which means they had no reason to think he was dangerous. Fleeing an immigration stop does not make you a threat to public safety.
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DHS breaks hours of silence on deadly ICE shooting in Maine, saying officer was ‘fearing for public safety’ | CNN
The man in the fatal shooting was identified by his neighbor as 26-year-old Joan Sebastian Guerrero from Colombia.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/07/2026
shoutout the chucklefuck pundit who insisted once that “environmental racism” was a nonsense term
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Black.Metronome 🇧🇧 🇧🇲 @blackmetronome.blacksky.app · 11/07/2026
Americans voted to violently shit their organs out because they like racism. Who needs regulations and government agencies that work to prevent parasites from infecting produce, right? As long as the Blacks are oppressed and the Browns are rounded up into camps, that's all that matter.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 09/07/2026
Dude is running his own localized surveillance state, including functions that are essentially predictive policing and a gang database, except it’s for people who have said anything remotely critical of the organization, or anyone who associates with those critics.
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Madison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay Celebrities
An MSG database tracked and categorized hundreds of celebs, famous Knicks superfans, and even some of Taylor Swift’s wedding guests. Labels included “LGBTQIA,” “DO NOT HOST,” and low to high “risk.”
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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Reminder: we are war crime-ing Cuba right now because Trump and Rubio want to collapse their government. Not a major part of the media discourse but it should be.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 07/07/2026
As I've written before, if Republicans successfully redefine some forms of birth control as causing abortion (IUDs, emergency contraception) they can restrict access to contraception without touching Griswold. Thanks, Sam Alito newrepublic.com/article/1796...
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Jason M Ernst @jason-m-ernst.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Here’s a crazy idea: if a corporation wants to build a data center, they should also be required to construct renewable resource mechanisms to operate it—not funded by the public, but from the mountains of wealth they already possess.
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 06/07/2026
While raking in this cash from the family business, Trump oversaw the passage of the GENIUS Act, unleashing barely regulated stablecoin onto the American financial system. prospect.org?p=140557
Representation of the $Trump meme coin together with Bitcoin and crypto coins
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 06/07/2026
A broadside assault on truth that must be taken seriously. This administration wants to replace independent scholarship and curation with propaganda and Prager U. drivel. The Kennedy Center was bad enough. This is worse.
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White House Criticizes Smithsonian Museum for ‘Extreme Political Activism’
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