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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 1h
“Because we’ve seen this movie, we know how it ends, which is a politician in robes who is following Trump’s orders on most major questions.” - @blumenthal.senate.gov Every single Sen Democrat should be committing to blocking every Trump nominee to any federal court.
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Some Democrats don’t expect to fill a Supreme Court vacancy under Trump
Democrats need a net gain of four seats to capture the Senate. If they get it, they’d control what happens in a vacancy, as Justice Samuel Alito admits he has thought about retirement.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 16h
Trump says 'Let them take out Los Angeles.' Recall this map: The *entire states* with population smaller than LA County. Among them they have 80+ US Senators. LA is about 1/3 of Calif's population, which has 2.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 20h
Poor Zaz will only get a golden parachute of more than a half-billion dollars, after he spent the past few years cutting Warner Bros to the bone so it could get gobbled up by another company (and retire with a massive pay package). variety.com/2026/film/ne...
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David Zaslav Bids Farewell to Warner Bros. Employees in Video on Eve of Skydance Merger Close: ‘It’s Been a Great Honor to Be Alongside All of You’
David Zaslav, who will be departing as CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery with Paramount's takeover to form Skydance, shared a farewell message to employees.
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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 1h
Putin-Trump was the most successful covert operation in modern history. David Corn on today's "To the Contrary" Podcast.
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jkavanagh.bsky.social @jkavanagh.bsky.social · 2h
“The lifeblood of MAGA is sadism: a desire to inflict pain on women, minorities, LGBTQ people. A lot of people don't necessarily feel comfortable saying that on an individual basis, but when they go to a rally, they can chant hateful, racist things and get that glee, and they're kind of anonymous.”
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h
White supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask?
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 3h
Wait, you mean I’M “the enemy within”? I thought you must have meant someone else.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 3h
If you want to access some government information, even if it's public, you need to give up personal data to set up an account with a multibillion-dollar monopoly private vendor called ID.me. Why? prospect.org/2026/10/06/i...
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Identity Crisis - The American Prospect
Citizen access to public agencies is a basic public function. Why does government contract out the process of verifying identity to a for-profit monopoly company?
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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 22h
Mumps in a sports team: not an anti-vaccine issue. The measles and rubella components of MMR protect most people for life, but the mumps component wanes. It likelyl protects from complications, but not disease; a booster is recommended in outbreaks. sports.yahoo.com/articles/san...
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San Diego State mumps outbreak: What we know about 17 Aztecs football players out vs. Texas State
San Diego State opens Pac-12 play against Texas State on Saturday night severely short-handed while dealing with an unusual mumps outbreak blamed on anti-vaccination movement.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 5h
13/ Collectively, these cases show that as the administration has relentlessly pursued immigrants, federal agents have run roughshod over the constitutional rights of citizens too. Read our investigation:
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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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Ben D’Avanzo @bendavanzo.bsky.social · 20h
She started as the annual Green Party board candidate in Arlington in 2011. In 2018, her campaign was about opposing a high school removing Robert E Lee from their name. She ran on opposing new housing in 2022. This year, she's run on opposing immigrants, and then this happened.
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Medusa Rising | World Building Women @medusarisingorg.bsky.social · 11h
Essay | Men have a lot to fear.
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Cancelled: The First Amendment & Women | by Esmee Streachailt
Essay | Men have a lot to fear.
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Freya @saintdagny.bsky.social · 21h
Still not happening.
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 20h
ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...
Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'll save you the click-through: A lab at University of Copenhagen had been feeding draft manuscripts & data into "Claude Science" & then Anthropic announces a discovery that this lab made a year ago but hasn't published yet. It's plausible that Claude found the same signatures independently...
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 15h
An underappreciated part of the two abortion pill cases filed last week: they target not just mifepristone, but also *misoprostol.* That's the second drug in a typical regimen, but it's effective on its own. Louisiana says the cases would prevent mailing "back-up drugs" @autonomynews.co
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Three States Try Express Lane to Supreme Court Over ‘Shield’ Laws: October 5 News Roundup
Complaints filed last week target access to both mifepristone and misoprostol, a back-up abortion pill method.
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EF @frohe.bsky.social · 16h
It's like they never heard of Jeff Galloway who ran a 2:16:35 marathon using run-walk-run and inspired thousands of people (including me) to become runners using his method 🤷‍♀️
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EF @frohe.bsky.social · 16h
www.runnersworld.com/news/a710526...
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Nike Removes Controversial Sign in Boston That Read, ‘Runners Welcome. Walkers Tolerated’
After online backlash, the brand took down the sign on Newbury Street that was put up ahead of the Boston Marathon.
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EF @frohe.bsky.social · 16h
Maybe it was insulting the millions of walkers out there
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EF @frohe.bsky.social · 16h
A parallel situation with a Dem president and liberal crowd causally dismissing the destruction of "heartland" cities would be years worth of content on Fox
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EF @frohe.bsky.social · 17h
No reforming this. You need to burn it to the ground.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17h
Congrats again to the New York Times on its long form journalism
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VERTICAL📼BLANKING📺INTERVAL @vertiblank.bsky.social · 23h
A Hark! A Vagrant classic
Watson: Oooh, what’s that you’ve got?
Franklin: My final report
Watson: Little Rosie Franklin’s research! I bet it’s something!
Franklin: ROSALIND.
Crick: Oh, that’s a big name
W: You’re getting fancy on us! Tell me—
F: Ah. I love this game.
W: Is it a scientific breakthrough in feelings?
F: Well, I suppose I have to go into hysterics or have a baby somewhere, good day gentlemen
W: GO, GO
[W and C slip a look at F’s notes]
C: Nice
W: Quit hogging
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 22h
the thing to remember about the global far-right is that it is fundamentally a movement of unhappy freaks who scapegoat immigrants for their own inadequacies
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Deepak Karra (deepak_karra on IG) captured this shot of a pink robin, native to the forests of South Australia & Tasmania. In technical terms, this is a bird shaped like an orb, or 'BORB'. 🐦🟣 Reminder that this little guy is a direct descendant of theropod dinosaurs like T. rex. (📷: Deepak Karra)
A poof of bright pink belly feathers that looks like one of those fuzzy pencil-toppers is surmounted by a dark grey head in which is a wary dark eye.  It's gripping a pink flowering branch that changes from nearly vertical to actually vertical, requiring a sort of death grip by the legs.
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
For more years than I'd like to count, I've been noting that the transition to clean energy is being driven by favorable economics. It's simple math and Fed Ex did it.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 05/10/2026
Slovenian glacier could disappear in days, researchers say reut.rs/4rKEy3o
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Slovenian glacier could disappear in days, researchers say
Once a magnet for summer skiers and cherished by generations as a symbol of Slovenia's ​Alpine heritage, one of the country's last glaciers has ‌dwindled to a few patches of ice that researchers say could disappear within days.
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Lee Kovarsky @kovarsky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
These people don't realize the irony in simultaneously arguing that AI has the predicates of personhood and that it's committing crimes for which entities bearing the predicates of personhood are criminally punished.
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Simon Owens @simonowens.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Honestly don’t know how we continue functioning as a society with such a small number of people vacuuming up this much wealth. Basically the equivalent of the US defense budget was rerouted to 500 people in just the last nine months.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 05/10/2026
when emerging technologies are guided by long-termist utilitarianism, the public gets the deaths and doesn't get the benefits, while the Musks and Kalanicks get vast wealth... the current LLM/AI space is different in many ways, but utilitarian arguments should still be a massive, screaming red flag
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 05/10/2026
I don't know who needs to hear this, but the autonomous vehicle developers who most vocally argued that society must accept a certain number of deaths to enjoy the technology's safety benefits (Tesla & Uber ATG) were the only ones who killed people and never actually delivered on their promises
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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
To be scrupulously fair to Alito, he doesn't really believe women are people, so I guess it isn't surprising that he doesn't think they have concrete reliance interests.
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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 05/10/2026
On the one hand, it’s comforting to know that Americans aren’t uniquely stupid, voters everywhere have skulls filled with mush and worms. On the other hand, global fascism is probably not an ideal state of affairs.
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Anonymous Bureaucrat @bureaucratanon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Something to keep in mind is Lula actually did do some of the things people on here are very confident in like prosecuting Jair Bolsonaro and restricting social media to try and staunch the far-right propaganda. It appears to have mattered little
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EF @frohe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." - H.L. Mencken
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 04/10/2026
New York lawmakers will review sexual-assault laws, including voluntary intoxication rule at the heart of Cornell case.
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Cornell case puts New York's progressive image at odds with its rape laws
New York lawmakers will review sexual-assault laws, including voluntary intoxication rule at the heart of Cornell case.
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
New York Knicks center Karl-Anthony Towns, who tragically lost his 58-year-old mum and several family members to COVID-19 complications, continues advocating for vaccination. “I have asthma,” Towns said, highlighting his “high-risk status” while raising awareness of the non-mRNA NUVAXOVID vaccine.
A screenshot of a Forbes article titled "Karl-Anthony Towns Who Lost Mom To COVID-19 Talks Of Value Of Vaccine." The article is written by Bruce Y. Lee and shows a publication date from early October 2026. Below the headline, a photograph captures NBA player Karl-Anthony Towns sitting at a press conference microphone wearing a white New York Knicks jersey. He is looking forward with a serious expression against a blue backdrop covered in repeating logos for Chase and the New York Knicks. A caption below the photo identifies him as the Knicks center speaking at a recent Media Day.
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chrispycod @chrispycod.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Unfortunately never more relevant ......No Pasaran!
Plague commemorating the Battle of Cable Street 90 years ago today
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I’m more sympathetic to the median voter (derogatory) than most people on here but it seems like the only way you can instill some sense of civic virtue is to shove the consequences directly into their face after the fact
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Every single one of these stories is like this and it pisses me off to no end
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 04/10/2026
Alll of this. I started my career in construction, working office jobs alongside people who worked trades. Know how many 60-year-old guys I saw working as bricklayers? Doing demo? Zero. How many 50-year-old roofers there are? Zero. One reason unions fight for high wages is because careers are SHORT.
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The Asian Feminist @theasianfeminist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
When the tap runs dry: Women carry more than water in Kazakhstan Rural women in Kazakhstan work 10 to 15 hours per day, most of it uncounted and unpaid.
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When the tap runs dry: Women carry more than water in Kazakhstan
When a woman learns to calculate the value of her time and says, “This is evidence, and they must answer,” a permanent shift takes place for her and the community.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/10/2026
For years, Project 2025 architect Russell Vought has set out to erode our system of checks and balances of power and to concentrate power in the hands of one person: President Trump. Now he’s quietly making it all happen. 🔊 Listen to this episode: propub.li/3TzIyaA
“I don’t want President Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.” - Russell Vought, Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The problem with this entire “talking across difference” approach to politics is that it assumes a shared consensus about democracy that no longer exists b/w the 2 main 🇺🇸 political parties. You don’t need to have lunch with people who don’t believe in free elections, equal rights, & the rule of law.
Przeworski, Democracy and the marketDemocracy is a system in which parties lose elections
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I think this is probably right, and the synthesis is knowing that it’s gonna happen, and having comprehensive charges prepped to pull the trigger on the second it does. The budget will certainly be a flashpoint, but Alito retiring and being replaced by a lame duck GOP Congress would be another.
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EF @frohe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This will need to happen to all of the 1000s of ICE/CBP agents who violated constitutional rights and laws.
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Just 5 Infections Responsible For More Than 2 Million New Cancer Cases Annually" 🦠H. pylori 🦠Human papillomavirus (HPV) 🦠Hepatitis B virus (HBV) 🦠Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) 🦠Hepatitis C virus (HCV)
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Just 5 Infections Responsible For More Than 2 Million New Cancer Cases Annually
Cancer may seem like an inevitable part of life, but there are so many factors that can help reduce your risk.
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☠️𝔖𝔭𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔶 𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰🦇 @freydalpishti.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Paul Verhoeven the most vindicated guy to ever exist.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@maxwelhohn.bsky.social captures a raft of otters: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...
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