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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 4h
NEW: Colorado's elections officials are scrambling to sort out an error that led the Front Range Passenger Rail project to be listed on the wrong voters' ballots across several counties. @marshallglasses.bsky.social reports:
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Eliya Abu Hadr (إيليا أبو حاضر) @shadawar.bsky.social · 2h
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/s...
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OpenAI Releases Findings on 377 Math Problems, Further Roiling Field
After a previous solution angered mathematicians, the company characterized the new release as being more responsive to concerns about A.I. disrupting research.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 2h
After "AI solved a problem when a guy put his almost solving it paper up on the arXiv (open math universe) bc they pac-manned the paper + sent their machines to work on it for a bajillion hours" thing they just released solutions to almost 400 big math problems today, too bad work in progress etc
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 11h
Paramount has closed its $81 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. Billionaire David Ellison now controls: —CNN —CBS —HBO —Paramount —Warner Bros —Discovery —Skydance —Showtime —DC Studios —Nickelodeon —Cartoon Network —Food Network —MTV —Comedy Central —HGTV —TBS —TLC
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 9h
Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) notes on MSNOW how Trump's loudest applause line at Nebraska rally was Trump's statement about the theoretical bombing of Los Angeles and San Diego
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 9h
Trump is literally telling us he's about to attempt to take control of elections. We should believe him.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 19h
NEW FROM PP The Trump admin keeps denying immigration agents are grabbing Americans, so we tracked it 500+ Americans detained 70+ kids, some cuffed or zip-tied 60+ held after filming 36+ held for day+ w/o access to lawyer ~12 deported (yes, deported) projects.propublica.org/american-cit....
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Amendment 87 would tax Coloradans making $500k+ a year. Opponents including Gov Jared Polis (D) are misleadingly claiming it will raise taxes on low-income seniors and vets.
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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEWS: Trump has signed an executive order aimed at bringing down near-record diesel prices by waiving restrictions on cheaper red-dyed diesel
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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump on Iran: "With the war, it's just artificial… It's a small price to pay... let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay."
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Michael Karlik @michaelkarlik.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is wild. Of the 60 cases initiated in Colorado's U.S. District Court on September 28, *36* of them were immigration habeas cases. A little under half were filed by people without representation.
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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 05/10/2026
Just some more absolutely overt bribery from the most corrupt president in US history.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Translation: Sociopath elitist tech fascists who think they’re creating God and believe democracy is the enemy want us to finance our own demise to let them take over the world. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 05/10/2026
I wonder if they miss the days when they had diesel so cheap they could run massive trucker caravans against democrats.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
For the folks who are still in my mentions telling me this was a hoax: The military doesn’t move strategic bombers for funsies. There was clearly specific intelligence that necessitated emptying Fairford of B-1s.
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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
lmao, they’re making the new US passport a flip book?!? Everyone is 12 theory remains undefeated www.forbes.com/sites/suzann...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
TOMORROW: ABC TV goes to court here in DC asking a judge to intervene and halt the Trump Administration's onerous review of ABC TV stations FCC claims review is over diversity hiring at ABC Trump Admin critics accuse FCC of political retribution because of late night jokes
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A 10K contribution and a $900 million return. The scale of the graft in Homeland Security is a) off the charts and b) possible because no-one believes they will face any accountability
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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Samuel Alito: We won't overturn Obergefell because it's engendered reliance interests. Jan Crawford: Well, many people had organized their lives around Roe v. Wade. Alito: No, they didn't. Women merely had an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in."
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The Alito Court: A rare interview with the influential Supreme Court justice
Justice Samuel Alito discussed his opinion in the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the leaked draft and its aftermath, same-sex marriage rights and why he's not retiring yet.
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Dakota Smith @weatherdak.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Super Typhoon Choi-wan with an impressive look.
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
www.news-medical.net/news/2025081...
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Synthetic sugar-coated nanoparticle blocks Covid-19 from infecting human cells
Groundbreaking research led by a Swansea University academic has revealed a synthetic glycosystem - a sugar-coated polymer nanoparticle - that can block Covid-19 from infecting human cells, reducing i...
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Cool, cool. Lots of reporting that theres a suspected pneumonic plague outbreak in Russia, and several hospitals are under forced quarantine. Obviously, it’s Russia, so accurate information is scarce.
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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The fiscal year is over. The dying Social, Behavioral, and Economic division of NSF ended up awarding 90 total grants this year, as opposed to ~700-800 in recent past years. Source: grantwitness.org/nsf/analyses...
The graph shows the cumulative number of awards made by month across this fiscal year, as compared to the last 6 fiscal years. The line for this year is total flat until June, but then finally gets up to 91 by October. In prior years the increase starts building earlier and ends on average in the 700-800 range (with variability, last year was only between 400-500).
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KARE 11 @kare11.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Nolo strengthened into a major hurricane Saturday in the remote Pacific Ocean, far to the west of Hawaii's main islands and population centers. (NOAA via AP)
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Nolo becomes a Category 3 Hurricane in the remote Pacific Ocean
Nolo strengthened into a major hurricane Saturday in the remote Pacific Ocean, far to the west of Hawaii's main islands and population centers. (NOAA via AP)
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Margo Gontar @margogontar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
So, Russia bombed another bridge in Kyiv today that connects left and right banks . It’s the 5th attack on bridges in Kyiv in these 4 days . People left stranded , can’t get to work or get back home . Nothing military about it . only Russia trying to terrorise us into submission .
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/10/2026
The administration has found yet another way to fuck with solar power.
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The USDA just made it way harder for farmers to get grants for solar
Even farmers who were already promised funds from the REAP program may never get them under the Trump admin’s new restrictions. Some are suing.
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Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 03/10/2026
Of recent interest here in Minnesota is that ICE is releasing detainees to satisfy Habeas requests, and then immediately detaining again. This really ought to be national news.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Corruption all the way down
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 01/10/2026
For the typical worker, more than half of every dollar of income growth is going right back out the door in debt payments. This new report from @tcfdotorg.bsky.social and @protectborrowers.bsky.social makes it clear: the economy is rigged against working families.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In July, I led several Senators in a request to the Secretary of the Air Force to disclose how much money is being stolen from taxpayers to pay for Trump’s luxury Qatari jet. Today I got a reply. 100 words. Telling Congress to screw off. Can’t wait for a Democratic Senate!
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration illegally changed a form used by overseas voters to register and request mail ballots just weeks before the midterms, Democrats argue in a new lawsuit filed Thursday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump admin quietly changed overseas voter form at 11th hour to disenfranchise Democrats, lawsuit says
The change is part of a Republican plan to make it more difficult to vote or outright disenfranchise a bloc of voters viewed as more inclined to vote Democratic, the DNC lawsuit argues.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You’ve gotta be fucking kidding me
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thanks Reagan 😕 The Republican agenda for the past 45 years in one chart 👇🏽
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
-Trump Airlines -Trump Beverages -Trump Casinos -Trump Magazine -Trump Mortgage -Trump Steaks -Trump's Travel Site -Trumpnet -Trump Tower Tampa -Trump University -Trump Vodka -Trump Fragrances -Trump Mattress -Trump Mobile All massive financial failures led by Trump. Now this...
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The Kennedy Center was solvent when Trump took over. Then its finances collapsed.
The Post examined 15 years of the institution’s financial records to see why it went south after the president took over
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 01/10/2026
Crazy-good foresight that Don Jr. and Eric had to invest in drone companies! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Drone startup tied to Trump sons aims to bring Ukrainian tech to US
US drone startup Powerus, which ​is set to go public by merging with a company backed by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, aims to bring Ukrainian ‌and other foreign technology to the US to help meet g...
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Where is Congress? Where? Republicans could put a stop to this, immediately, if they gave one damn.
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The Colorado Sun ☀️ @coloradosun.com · 01/10/2026
Colorado to stop killing wolves  amid worries over falling population, parasites and low pup counts coloradosun.com/2026/09/30/c...
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Colorado to stop killing wolves  amid worries over falling population, parasites and low pup counts
CPW says it will continue to work with ranchers to mitigate wolf attacks but that it must address low adult wolf survival rate and pup survival rate expected to fall
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Supreme Court’s majority gave no reason for its literal life-and-death decision to wipe out an appeals court order issued earlier today and which was, on its face, intended to be temporary in nature. Sotomayor wrote tonight’s dissent. Order and dissent: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
The Court's decision to vacate that stay interferes with the Sixth Circuit's routine administrative handling of a capital case and unnecessarily prevents that court from giving due consideration to Pike's claim. Worse, the Court grants such extraordinary relief solely to allow the State to execute Pike before litigation over her conviction has properly run its course in the lower courts. I see no reason to short-circuit the ordinary process of appellate review, particularly in light of the grave consequences of an erroneous de-cision. Tennessee's desire to expedite Pike's execution by a few days or even weeks cannot outweigh her "fundamentalinterest in [her] own life." Tennessee v. Garner, 471 U. S. 1,
9 (1985).
In capital cases, "[a]ppreciation of our own fallibility, and respect for the judgment of an appellate tribunal," demand caution before "acting irretrievably." Bowersox v. Williams,
517 U. S. 345, 347 (1996) (Ginsburg, J., dissenting). Indeed, this Court often states that it is "'a court of review, not of first view?" McLane Co. v. EEOC, 581 U.S. 72, 85 (2017) (quoting Cutter v. Wilkinson, 544 U.S. 709, 718, n. 7
(2005)). Today, the Court, as it has too often lately, chooses to overlook that principle precisely when it matters most.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Chuck Grassley also did not share the texts with Democratic senators before the hearing, breaking protocol.
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GripNoir @gripnoir.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"The plan premium covers only the price of carrying the Medicare Advantage card separate from the price of using it. That is the trick baked into a $0-premium comparison. The number on the front of the ANOC held flat. The lines that moved sit 5 pages deeper." #MedicareAdvantage #AnnualNoticeOfChange
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Your ANOC's First Page Says $0 Premium Again for 2027. Page Six Says the Hospital Copay Went From $295 a Day to $395, in the Same Size Type
Your Medicare Advantage plan kept its $0 premium for 2027, but buried deeper in that ANOC packet is a number that could cost you hundreds more for a single hospital stay, and most enrollees never read...
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 30/09/2026
The Pentagon is notifying millions of current and former U.S. military servicemembers and staff that hackers stole their *unencrypted* personal information during a months-long data breach. The agency that had the breach also handles ID and login/credential access to U.S. military systems and bases.
techcrunch.com
Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach | TechCrunch
The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 30/09/2026
This is obviously disgusting in so many ways. Gonna highlight one: Servicemember beard exemptions are all on religious or medical grounds. They're either Sikhs (mostly South Asian) or have a skin condition related to shaving curly hair (mostly African American). "No beardos" is racist as hell.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Hegseth: "Today, at my direction, I'm establishing the Office of Religious Affairs. It will report straight to the top -- a direct line to the secretary ... as Psalm 33:12 extolls us, blessed is the nation in which God is the Lord"
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🧊✈️ These are all ICE flights 👀
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 30/09/2026
The ACLU's Jeffrey Stein called the ruling a "huge step in the right direction." “The public deserves to know how our government is justifying the cold-blooded murder of hundreds of civilians." 🔽
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
US Senate blocks legislation to cap electricity bill increases tied to data centers
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