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Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social · 19h
Since Trump took office, @publiccitizen.bsky.social has tracked the admin's retreat from enforcement against corporate lawbreaking. Today, our new report documents the admin's cancellation of investigations, lawsuits, & penalties against more than *200* corporations. www.citizen.org/article/trum...
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Trump’s Cascade of Canceled Corporate Enforcement Against Over 200 Corporations - Public Citizen
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 3h
Another way of saying this is there was no productivity gains, introducing LLMs just changed the "recipe" for producing code of the expected quality.
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This money is absolutely meaningless to Elon Musk, but it has the potential to completely rewrite your future. He's spent over $36 million in about 4 weeks, and he's adding millions a day. All to corrupt our government to push his agenda. Let your friends know what's up.
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 15h
Creating the very crisis they decry. Link: buff.ly/Ez3gqTn
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 13h
Thanks SCOTUS
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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
US: Trump Administration Rejects External Election Observers Decision Compounds Fears Sparked by Administration Actions Around Midterms The Banana Republic America
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US: Trump Administration Rejects External Election Observers
The Trump administration’s decision not to invite the leading international election observation body to monitor crucial US midterm polls fuels fears of serious human rights concerns around the upcoming elections.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 17h
The covert of “The Nickel Boys” by Colson Whitehead, a novel about a ‘reform school’ that brutalized and killed Black children in Florida, based on a real and terrible place.
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Julia Coronado @jc-econ.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I asked Chat GPT why the buildout of AI requires facism, and it gets it…
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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the US With nearly 3,900 reported cases, the nation is enduring its worst year for measles since 1991, according to the CDC.
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Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the US
With nearly 3,900 reported cases, the nation is enduring its worst year for measles since 1991, according to the CDC.
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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The bans involved a “record number of unique titles” – exceeding 7,000 – involving more than 4,000 authors, illustrators and translators. Analysts found 114 school districts that banned books during the school year, “the highest number ever for a single year”.
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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I'm actually pretty freaked out about this. An actual plague bioweapon makes nuclear war seem desirable, and Russia has been developing plague bioweapons for decades.
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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"
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Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge
Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This obit lists a remarkable number of lucky breaks in his career. One opponent gets sick, then another, another suddenly resigns, etc. and he continued to rise. You have to assume as all of this happened, he was always asking himself: “Will they ever find out?”
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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Nobel Prize awarded for showing inner workings of the brain US psychiatrist and neurologist Karl Deisseroth and his German colleagues Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have been awarded this year's Nobel Prize in for their work in the field of optogenetics.
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Nobel Prize 2026 awarded for showing inner workings of the brain
US psychiatrist and neurologist Karl Deisseroth and his German colleagues Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have been awarded for their work.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Wilber was finally able to undergo surgery on Thursday—11 days after he was shot. “When ICE can shoot a man in the back and then barely give him any medical treatment and let him suffer, there’s a reason for that because we have gotten to a point where we see people as less than human.”
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Austin man has surgery 11 days after being shot by ICE agent
The surgery on the Venezuelan national, who has been in custody since his Sept. 20 run-in with an immigration officer, removed the bullet lodged in his back.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 05/10/2026
“Democracy has been hailed as, like, the holy grail for the last couple hundred years, but democracies are inefficient,” said the crypto billionaire. “If you get a benevolent dictator, it’s actually extremely efficient." Hmm, where have I heard this before? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...
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Inside a Billionaire’s Paradise With Crypto’s Most Powerful Ex-Convict (Gift Article)
Changpeng Zhao, jailed in the United States for a financial crime and pardoned by President Trump, is now living a gilded life in the United Arab Emirates.
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Trump Action Tracker @trumpactiontracker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Border-wall construction equipment cut through the Las Playas Intaglio, a fish-shaped geoglyph in Arizona's Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge that new research dates to around 6,500–7,300 years old. The site lies within the ancestral homeland of the Tohono O'odham... TAT: [Attacking education]
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Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge
Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A few years ago, I said greedy egg producers like Cal-Maine were using their market power to deliberately drive up egg prices. My right-wing critics fried me for saying this — but now they all have egg on their face.
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Fox News Mocked Me For Being Right
When I said three years ago that egg companies were using the avian flu as cover to price-gouge, Fox News called me craz
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Angelica Shalagina Official🇺🇦 @angel-shalagina.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I have no words🤬🤬 This is what russia is doing to Kyiv. The moment of a direct strike on the Northern Bridge. Cars were driving across it at the exact moment of impact. There may be casualties. This is a bridge full of civilians.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 04/10/2026
It’s been nearly a year since the so-called ceasefire in Gaza was brokered by Trump. "So far, only one item of the 20 items on the Trump plan has been fulfilled, and that is the release of every single Israeli hostage in Gaza," says writer and analyst from Gaza Muhammad Shehada.
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“Buying More Time for the Genocide”: Muhammad Shehada on Trump’s Gaza Plan 1 Year Later
The Palestinian death toll from Israel’s war on Gaza has surpassed 74,000, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza. While this figure represents the official death toll as confirmed by local autho...
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Rules for thee, but not for me, right Paul?
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MAGA Candidate Rages After ICE Targets Family Member For Deportation—And The Hypocrisy Is Rich
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
There are no limits to the horrors created by ICE’s cruelty and DHS indifference. (Link below, viewer discretion advised.) Link: buff.ly/EcgGzAa
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Trump Action Tracker @trumpactiontracker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The National Science Foundation, one of the biggest sources of federal research funding, withheld $1.4 billion that Congress had intended for research over the course of the past year, according to internal data reviewed by The New York Times. TAT: [Attacking science | Undermining democracy]
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress
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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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Just a reminder that the few remaining experts at the CDC's food-borne illness division identified Taylor Farms as the source of the cyclospora outbreak very early on, but because the owner of Taylor Farms is a big Trump donor, he was able to prevent a recall for weeks as thousands fell ill.
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Cyclospora found at Mexican farm linked to lettuce outbreak, FDA says
Announcement from US officials comes after CDC declared end to outbreak that infected nearly 13,000 people
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Authoritarian dictators always use government resources to boost their own image and ego. I've seen it happen in Russia, Kazakhstan, Iraq, Vietnam, and elsewhere. Trump is now running 13 different campaign ads (including come he ran in is 2024 campaign) at taxpayer expense. State propaganda.
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‘God made Trump’ ad and at least 12 others are part of controversial taxpayer-funded ad campaign | CNN Politics
The Trump administration has created at least 13 campaign-style ads as part of its controversial taxpayer-funded, multi-million-dollar effort to promote President Donald Trump and his policies.
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Renee Good’s family is suing the officials who sent the ICE agent who killed her, using a law Congress wrote to stop the Klan. Their real goal may be discovery, and the Trump regime will fight hard to deny it. My write-up in the link in the comments.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million to defeat Prop 40. Their combined wealth in January 2025 was $439 BILLION. By September 2026, it had grown to $722 BILLION. They're accidentally making the case for the billionaire tax better than anyone else could.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 01/10/2026
“Right now, the public backlash is so strong against Flock, and the public is not as well aware of the concerns with Axon and some of the other surveillance companies,” EFF’s Beryl Lipton told @thorbenson.bsky.social for @prospect.org.
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License Plate and Switch - The American Prospect
Cities are succumbing to public pressure and removing Flock license plate readers. But they are substituting alternatives with the same capabilities.
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wake up, babe. That socialist in NYC is building homes for previously homeless and lower income seniors.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
At least 56 people have died in ICE custody during Trump’s second term. According to ICE’s internal reviews, detention staff did not provide sufficient medical care to at least six of those detainees. ICE has now taken down those reviews from its website. What other cruelty is ICE trying to hide?
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ICE Deleted Reviews for Deaths in Custody That Cited Shoddy Medical Care
Three-quarters of ICE’s own 2025 death reviews, briefly posted online, raised substandard and “inappropriate” care of il
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We must make everyone who was a part of this horror pay for their part in it. Starting with Stephen Miller.
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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Be very concerned. Reasonable people with expertise and experience replaced by hotheads. 'Clowns out, cowboys in,' says Hegseth as a fifth of generals and admirals are fired
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'Clowns out, cowboys in,' says Hegseth as a fifth of generals and admirals are fired
Roughly 20 admirals and generals already have either resigned or been fired since Hegseth took over the defence department.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Why do our cells age? It's not just wear and tear, accumulated damage. Loss of cell identity takes center stage. A new Nature paper and connection with prior work that substantially advances the science of aging. In the new Ground Truths. erictopol.substack.com/p/loss-of-ce...
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Loss of Cell Identity Drives Human Aging
That’s What Biological (Epigenetic) Aging Clocks Are Measuring
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On the same day Trump announces that top tech firms have signed an accord to "self-police" their own AI development, we learned that OpenAI employees and security researchers were reportedly ignored when they brought safety concerns to the company's top executives. See the problem here?
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OpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely Testing A.I. Models
Employees and security researchers said that they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but that OpenAI did not listen.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In lawsuits trying to keep an entire class of American citizens from voting, the GOP has openly admitted that the reason they want to disenfranchise the Americans is that they don't tend to vote for Republicans. The most anti-American, anti-Constitutional cult ever.
In lawsuits, GOP officials have argued state laws and other rules permitting voting by never-resided citizens violate state constitutions. They also have claimed in court filings that these U.S. citizens are disproportionately registered as non-Republican voters and allowing them to cast ballots hurts GOP chances of winning elections.
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Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · 30/09/2026
NEW: Starbucks repeatedly violates labor law, refuses to bargain with its union @sbworkersunited.org, and just announced it's closing 250 stores. Yet CEO Brian Niccol alone took home $31 MILLION last year. End CEO greed. Listen to workers. Boycott Starbucks.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
More proof that Trump and his MAGA minions are the real source of election fraud. Uber-MAGA candidate and devoted Trumpist Gaea Powell ran for a key election-related position on a platform of "election integrity." She was just convicted of 9 felony counts of election fraud.
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MAGA candidate in small Calif. town convicted on 9 counts of election fraud
It turns out this conservative candidate wasn't following election laws herself.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
GOP really does stand for "Guardians of Pedophiles." Trump-backed Ken Paxton is defending himself against charges that he let a notorious convicted pedophile out of prison after only one day by pointing out that it was 60 days. Yep, rape multiple kids and that's what you get if you're MAGA.
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Ken Paxton Defends One-Day Plea Deal Offered to Child Sex Predator
The Texas attorney general (and Republican Senate candidate) apparently thought this was a good argument.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The House has only been in session for 72 days this year
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The most amazing thing is that this is like a page 29 story across the US
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Lexington Herald-Leader @kentucky.com · 29/09/2026
Lexington police say officers used their Flock camera database to try to find a car tied to a road rage case. It led them to the home of Samuel Penn, who had nothing to do with the incident.
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Lexington police used Flock cams to find road rage suspect. It led them to an innocent man
Lexington police say officers used their Flock camera database to try to find a car tied to a road rage case. It led them to the home of Samuel Penn, who had nothing to do with the incident.
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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the Fuel Clock shows Americans have paid $74.4 billion more on gasoline & $47.5 billion more on diesel since March 1 compared to a year ago. Total cost will hit $122 billion today. also updated the state map where you can find out how much more you're paying. link in my profile.
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Each time laws go unenforced the incentives to be lawless increase.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One of the unacknowledged advantages of this awful era is that it's revealing for all to see the putrid connections between great wealth and great power. The intentions of the oligarchs are fully exposed and more blatant than ever. But remember: We outnumber the oligarchs.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Donate to his Super PAC? He'll pardon your crimes. Donate to his Super PAC? He'll appoint you to a government position. Donate to his Super PAC? He'll grant you favorable regulatory rulings that help boost your bottom line. We must not become numb to this blatant corruption.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
new toon: morning briefing www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Morning briefing
A cartoon by Tom Tomorrow.
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Michael Lin, MD PhD @michaelzlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Excited to share a new study from our lab in Cell: “Non-invasive control of gene editing in vivo by photoswitchable Cas12f and focused ultrasound” We engineered a compact CRISPR system that can be activated at specific locations in the body using focused ultrasound (🧵) www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Non-invasive control of gene editing in vivo by photoswitchable Cas12f and focused ultrasound
Remote activation of a single-AAV-deliverable photoswitchable Cas12f system enables precise spatial and temporal control of genome editing in deep tissues without surgery or implanted devices.
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’m listening. We all should be. Video: buff.ly/tnaKUD8
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