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gen3sf.bsky.social @gen3sf.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The Sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln Deserve Better
The treatment of those on board betrays the promise made by the 16th president himself.
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gen3sf.bsky.social @gen3sf.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...
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This El Niño Will Be Unlike Any in the Past Eight Decades
Die-offs and floods have started already, a prelude to supercharged storms and droughts.  
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gen3sf.bsky.social @gen3sf.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The work of building efficient, scalable AI systems hasn't been done, Alex Reisner argues. He explores the industry's inefficiency, and how it’s costing the rest of us: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster
A shockingly inefficient trillion-dollar project
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gen3sf.bsky.social @gen3sf.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Critics on the left and the right are, for different reasons, obscuring the Democratic Party’s long commitment to universal health care, @jonathanchait argues: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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You Don’t Need to Vote for Socialists to Get Universal Health Care
Critics on the left and the right are, for different reasons, obscuring the Democratic Party’s long commitment to this cause.
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gen3sf.bsky.social @gen3sf.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
The Supreme Court's decision to uphold birthright citizenship is less a victory than a reprieve, Adam Serwer argues. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
In 1898, the same Supreme Court that upheld Jim Crow segregation as constitutional also upheld the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of birthright citizenship, by a 6–2 vote. This was a profoundly racist Court in a profoundly racist era—around the peak of the lynching epidemic—that nonetheless could find no way around the plain text of the Constitution, and was forced to affirm that people of Chinese descent could be citizens.

Nearly 130 years later, in our much more enlightened time, that bedrock guarantee drew more opposition at the Supreme Court. This week, in Trump v. Barbara, a 6–3 majority struck down President Trump’s executive order repealing birthright citizenship for undocumented immigrants and temporary visitors. But only five justices voted to invalidate the order on constitutional grounds. The other four indicated varying degrees of openness to narrowing birthright citizenship, if not exactly along the lines that the Trump administration had sought.

By ruling with such a slim majority, “the Court has just handed right-wingers a new bloody shirt to wave in every single political campaign,” Aderson Francois, a law professor at Georgetown University, told me. “The main legacy of the decision is that for the next few years, this will become the new Roe v. 
Wade.” After all, conservatives now know they are only one vote away from eliminating birthright citizenship by judicial fiat.
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gen3sf.bsky.social @gen3sf.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Many Americans assume that if they can afford paid help in older age, they won’t need to rely on kin—but this myth will leave them incredibly unprepared, Stephanie H. Murray argues. www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/...
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Americans Are in Denial About Elder Care
Many assume that if they can afford paid help in older age, they won’t need to rely on kin. They’re wrong.
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gen3sf.bsky.social @gen3sf.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The latest flu shot is ready for review—but nearly a dozen experts, including former ACIP members and former HHS officials told @KatherineJWu they have never encountered such uncertainty about the basic government process of recommending the vaccines. www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...
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Flu Vaccines Should Not Be This Hard
Normally, the CDC’s vaccine advisors weigh in on flu vaccines in June. This year, the panel is in disarray.
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gen3sf.bsky.social @gen3sf.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Ahead of the midterms, the Democratic base is raring to go—but it’s also demanding a reckoning from its highest ranks that hasn’t come, @elainejgodfrey reports: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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The Democratic Base Is Angry
Is the party paying attention?
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gen3sf.bsky.social @gen3sf.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Gift Article from The Atlantic archives April 13, 2023: What if ice cream is actually good for you? @davidmjohns reports on the finding that keeps baffling nutrition scientists: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc... by
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Nutrition Science’s Most Preposterous Result: Could Ice Cream Possibly Be Good for You?
Studies show a mysterious health benefit to ice cream. Scientists don’t want to talk about it.
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gen3sf.bsky.social @gen3sf.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... When it comes to preventing an outbreak from becoming a pandemic, insisting on the wrong answer to that most central question—How does it spread?—may well be worse than not having an answer at all.
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The Close, Prolonged Contact Myth
Knowing how a virus spreads is essential to public health, but people keep getting it wrong.
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gen3sf.bsky.social @gen3sf.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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The AI Backlash Could Get Very Ugly
Imagine what happens if jobs actually start disappearing.
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gen3sf.bsky.social @gen3sf.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... The poor quality of this putative strategy is a reminder of what happens when unserious people are asked to undertake a serious job. The US always needs experienced national-security officials.
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The Trump Counterterrorism Strategy Is a Dangerous Joke
The policy is unfocused, run by amateurs, and concerned more with the president’s many grievances than the security of the United States.
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gen3sf.bsky.social @gen3sf.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
grist.org/accountabili... Since Trump took office, the SEC has made it harder for small & activist investors to raise concerns through the government filing system EDGAR. Now they’re pushing back with their own alternative platform, which they call the Proxy Open Exchange — or POE.
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The SEC tried to silence activist investors. Now they're fighting back.
Small investors, shut out of an SEC communication platform called EDGAR, built their own. They call it POE and say it will increase transparency.
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gen3sf.bsky.social @gen3sf.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
grist.org/drought/this... This snowmelt crisis is having dire impacts on the Colorado River, one of the most crucial water sources in the West, which provides water for 40 million people across 7 states. River flow in some areas on the Colorado had slowed to a trickle last week.
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This summer, the American water crisis becomes real
Concerns over water access are poised to consume summer in the US, as crises in Corpus Christi and across the Colorado River threaten to boil over.
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gen3sf.bsky.social @gen3sf.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
www.motherjones.com/politics/202... last week, Chief Justice John Roberts gave a speech where he insisted the justices were not “political actors,” but the court’s last-minute intervention in favor of Alabama violates every norm the court claims to follow.
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In approving Alabama gerrymander, the Roberts Court shows its naked political bias
The justices tossed precedents to allow Republicans to dismantle yet another majority-Black district.
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gen3sf.bsky.social @gen3sf.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Trump admin. has up to 120,000 pages of documents on Ghislaine Maxwell’s prison transfer
The bad news: It won't tell us when our FOIA request for these records will be fulfilled.
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gen3sf.bsky.social @gen3sf.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
thehill.com/homenews/587... President Trump said he does not know the contractor who is renovating the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after previously saying he spoke to a man he knew about it.
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Trump changes story on Reflecting Pool contractor
President Trump said Tuesday he does not know the contractor who is renovating the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after previously saying he spoke to a man he knew about it. Renovation of the poo…
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gen3sf.bsky.social @gen3sf.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
thehill.com/homenews/sen... Three Republican senators broke with their leadership and voted to advance a Democratic-sponsored resolution under the 1973 War Powers Act to halt the conflict with Iran unless Congress formally authorizes further military action.
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3 GOP senators break with leadership, vote to advance resolution to end Iran war
Three Republican senators broke with their leadership Wednesday and voted to advance a Democratic-sponsored resolution under the 1973 War Powers Act to halt the conflict with Iran unless Congress f…
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gen3sf.bsky.social @gen3sf.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Inside the Interstitium, the Human Body’s Hidden Pathways (Gift Article)
The detection of another circulatory system in the human body could have enormous scientific implications.
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gen3sf.bsky.social @gen3sf.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
“I was born in 1933, and much of what I remember as a little girl was defined by either the war or what we called, simply, sickness,” Fran Moreland Johns writes. “The rejection of science is sending us back to those dark ages,” she argues. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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I Remember America Before the Measles Vaccine
And I wish Robert F. Kennedy Jr. did too.
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gen3sf.bsky.social @gen3sf.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Paul McCartney’s recent performances confront the last frontier of rock and roll: mortality, @davidulin writes. He considers Jim Windolf’s new book, “Where the Music Had to Go,” and the “late style” of rock: www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...
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Rock and Roll Faces the Inevitable
Bob Dylan and Paul McCartney are wringing great art and performance out of the relationship between the present and the past.
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gen3sf.bsky.social @gen3sf.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Gift Article from The Atlantic Archives Feb 13, 2017: Neurogastronomy takes a multidisciplinary approach to food, blending the expertise of scientists, chefs, clinicians, & agriculture professionals. Inborn taste inclinations are not immutable. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
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The Science That Could Make You Crave Broccoli More Than Chocolate
Neurogastronomy wants to rewire how people perceive flavors—and may be able to help those who have lost their sense of taste.
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gen3sf.bsky.social @gen3sf.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
President Trump’s global allies and rivals once viewed his approach to international relations as strategic unpredictability—now it feels more like destabilizing unreliability, officials tell Vivian Salama www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
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Trump Has Gone From Unpredictable to Unreliable
Allies and rivals alike are less likely to give the president what he seeks.
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gen3sf.bsky.social @gen3sf.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
apnews.com/article/sena... Trump has said the ballroom’s construction would cost $400 million and use private funds, but he had not proposed a number for security costs.
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Democrats vow to fight $1 billion Senate security proposal for White House ballroom
Republicans returning to Washington on Monday are facing questions about a $1 billion Senate security proposal that could help pay for President Donald Trump’s ballroom.
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gen3sf.bsky.social @gen3sf.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
apnews.com/article/open... The widow of a man killed in last year’s mass shooting at Florida State University is suing ChatGPT maker OpenAI, blaming the company’s artificial intelligence chatbot for giving advice on how to carry out the rampage.
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Lawsuit blames ChatGPT maker OpenAI for bot helping plan a mass shooting
The widow of a man killed in a mass shooting at Florida State University is suing ChatGPT maker OpenAI, blaming the artificial intelligence chatbot for contributing to the tragedy.
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gen3sf.bsky.social @gen3sf.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
www.oregonlive.com/nation/2026/... The letter cited “significant loss of self-control” and “escalating violence that threatens national and global stability.”
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Three dozen medical experts say Trump ‘mentally unfit,’ should be removed from office with ‘greatest urgency’
The 36 neurologists, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals said they had seen “objectively observable” signs of serious medical concerns in Trump.
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gen3sf.bsky.social @gen3sf.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... Patel has distributed his self-branded bottles while on official business, including during at least 1 FBI event. He has transported the whiskey using a DOJ plane, including when to Milan during the Olympics. One of the bottles was left behind in a locker room.
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Kash Patel’s Personalized Bourbon Stash
The FBI director has been leaving an unusual calling card.
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gen3sf.bsky.social @gen3sf.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... Canvas, an online service used by as many as 40% of North American colleges, fell victim to a ransomware attack. Canvas has replaced analog systems at almost every college & university, where it is used to run classrooms, manage assignments, & handle grading.
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Software Ate My Homework
A ransomware attack took down a popular university-course-management software right in the middle of finals.
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gen3sf.bsky.social @gen3sf.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026... The NBA has entered a moment of institutional crisis. Commissioner Silver is confronting urgent, headline-grabbing allegations of corrupt ownership & betting scandals & teams intentionally losing games.
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Adam Silver Goes to War
The mild-mannered NBA commissioner has overseen a time of peace and prosperity for his league. Until now.
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gen3sf.bsky.social @gen3sf.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026... Despite Trump officials’ efforts to impose their values & version of American history on knowledge-making institutions, doing so may not be as simple as they thought, particularly given their slapdash methods that have now been called out by a federal judge.
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The DOGE-ing of the Humanities Is Being Reversed
The Trump administration hastily canceled research grants last year—but just hit a roadblock in court.
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gen3sf.bsky.social @gen3sf.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
substack.com/@50501/note/...
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The 50501 Movement (@50501)
If you care, share ✨️
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gen3sf.bsky.social @gen3sf.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Doctors and health experts in Hawaii say a decades-old federal program meant to support Native Hawaiians through medical school and better serve some of the islands’ most underserved communities is under attack after a conservative group filed suit
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A federal program has helped Native Hawaiian medical students for 35 years. It’s now being sued for discrimination
Do No Harm, a conservative group, wants the scholarship, which has helped islands’ underserved communities, declared unconstitutional
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gen3sf.bsky.social @gen3sf.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... DOJ is bringing back firing squads & readopting the lethal injection protocol used during the 1st Trump term. DOJ has also rescinded the moratorium on federal executions & authorized seeking death sentences against 44 defendants
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US justice department to allow firing squads as federal death penalty method
Trump’s DoJ says it is taking steps to ‘strengthen the federal death penalty’ in opposition to Biden-era policies
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gen3sf.bsky.social @gen3sf.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... California’s jet fuel supply has dropped to a level not seen since 2023, as turmoil in the Middle East continues to squeeze the global oil market. Consumers nationwide are beginning to absorb the financial shock from jet fuel supply changes.
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California’s jet fuel supply drops to three-year low as Middle East turmoil squeezes global oil market
Industry analysts say fuel price surge could lead to canceled flight routes that could snarl travelers’ plans
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gen3sf.bsky.social @gen3sf.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... ICE is planning a detention facility for children & their families on one of the most PFAS-contaminated sites in the US, which also serves as a hub for the deportation program. PFAS are highly mobile & volatile w/children at more risk because of smaller bodies.
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ICE planning facility for children and families on Pfas-contaminated site
High concentration of toxic ‘forever chemicals’ found in groundwater at former military facility in Louisiana
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gen3sf.bsky.social @gen3sf.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Democrats demand FBI director, Kash Patel, take alcohol abuse test
Amid growing congressional scrutiny of his conduct, Patel has claimed he has ‘never been intoxicated on the job’
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gen3sf.bsky.social @gen3sf.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...
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A ‘Barbaric’ Problem in American Hospitals Is Only Getting Bigger
Patients are getting stuck in the emergency department for days while waiting for a spot in an inpatient ward.
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gen3sf.bsky.social @gen3sf.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
www.motherjones.com/politics/202... None of the material released proves the purported conspiracy theories. Gabbard misrepresents once-classified material to setup show trials & shows she will lie & cheat for Trump to stay employed. Nothing she says—in private to Trump or in public—can be trusted.
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Tulsi Gabbard’s dangerous war
Trump's hatchet woman is weaponizing classified intelligence like never before.
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gen3sf.bsky.social @gen3sf.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Majority backs Trump impeachment — even one in five of his own voters
The presdient's approval rating is sinking.
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gen3sf.bsky.social @gen3sf.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
apnews.com/article/immi...
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Federal appeals court blocks California law requiring federal agents to wear identification
An appeals court has blocked a California law passed in 2025 requiring federal immigration agents to wear a badge or some form of identification.
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gen3sf.bsky.social @gen3sf.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
apnews.com/article/ai-t... Sony built the robotic arm it calls Ace and pitted it against professional athletes. Ace proved a worthy adversary, though one with some non-human attributes: 9 camera eyes positioned around the court and an ability to follow the ball’s logo to measure its spin.
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A robot is beating human pros at table tennis. Its maker calls it a milestone for machines
A paddle-wielding robot is so adept at playing table tennis that it is posing a tough challenge to elite human players and sometimes defeating them, according to a new study in the journal Nature that...
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gen3sf.bsky.social @gen3sf.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
apnews.com/article/gerr...
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The US has a long history of changing voting districts for political reasons. Is it legal?
Gerrymandering is proliferating in states across the U.S. Republicans and Democrats alike have been redrawing voting districts for the U.S.
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gen3sf.bsky.social @gen3sf.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
apnews.com/article/us-i... Iran fired on 3 ships in the Strait of Hormuz and seized 2 of them, intensifying its assault on shipping in the key waterway. The attacks came a day after President Trump extended a ceasefire while maintaining an American blockade of Iranian ports.
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Iran fires on 3 ships in the Strait of Hormuz as US maintains blockade and diplomacy stalls
Iran has fired on three ships in the Strait of Hormuz and seized two of them. The intensification of Iran's assault on shipping in a waterway crucial to global energy supplies comes a day after U.S.
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gen3sf.bsky.social @gen3sf.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
grist.org/energy/utah-... Plug-in solar panels — sometimes called “balcony solar” — allow people to generate electricity by plugging panels directly into a standard outlet and help cut down on utility bills, without the need for expensive rooftop installations.
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How deep-red Utah helped launch a portable plug-in solar movement
Since Utah passed a law letting residents plug solar systems into their home outlets, 30 more states have drafted similar bills.
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gen3sf.bsky.social @gen3sf.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
grist.org/regulation/t... Trump has pushed to intensify timber production, including making it easier to use legal loopholes to fell trees. With the Dept of Agriculture aiming to overturn the roadless rule this year, the debate is shifting from Washington to the last protected forests in the East.
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The Trump administration wants to take an ax to the East's last great forests
The fight over the roadless rule has long focused on the West, but its repeal could fragment some of the last pristine forests in the East.
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gen3sf.bsky.social @gen3sf.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
apnews.com/article/dr-o... The Trump administration will require all 50 states to explain their plans to revalidate some of their Medicaid providers in a national escalation of anti-fraud efforts that have so far largely focused on specific states.
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Dr. Oz announces a 50-state audit of Medicaid program oversight
The Trump administration is requiring all 50 states to explain their plans to revalidate some Medicaid providers. Dr.
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gen3sf.bsky.social @gen3sf.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
apnews.com/article/auti...
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Simple ways to make meetings work better for employees on the autism spectrum
Employees on the autism spectrum and employers that want to embrace neurodiversity can make work environments more welcoming for people who may struggle with job-related social interactions.
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gen3sf.bsky.social @gen3sf.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
apnews.com/article/blac... Until now, a black hole’s jet power had to be averaged over tens of thousands of years, the researchers said.
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Astronomers measure the mind-blowing power and speed of black hole jets for the first time
Scientists for the first time have measured the instantaneous mind-blowing power of jets blasting from a black hole.
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gen3sf.bsky.social @gen3sf.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
apnews.com/article/blue... Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin blamed a bad engine for a failed weekend launch that left a satellite in the wrong orbit, dooming it. Launches of the huge New Glenn rocket are grounded until Blue Origin and the Federal Aviation Administration complete their investigation.
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Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket is grounded after launching satellite into the wrong orbit
Jeff Bezos' rocket company Blue Origin is blaming a bad engine for a failed launch that left a satellite in the wrong orbit, dooming it.
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gen3sf.bsky.social @gen3sf.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
apnews.com/article/roma...
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Priceless 2,500-year-old golden helmet returned to Romania after Dutch museum raid
A 2,500-year-old golden helmet stolen last year from a Dutch museum where it was on loan has been returned to Romania.
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