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NPR @npr.org · 20h
Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried. n.pr/4zauALa
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Over 1,000 children are buried at juvenile detention centers nationwide
Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried.
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 4h
in honor of margaret hamilton, i’m posting this iconic image of her standing next to the printed apollo flight software that she and her team developed that helped take humans to the moon. rest in peace to an incredible inspiration for women in the space industry.
Margaret Hamilton standing proudly next to a large stack of books as tall as her.
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Idaho Capital Sun @idahocapitalsun.com · 4h
In at least four states — Georgia, Indiana, Ohio and Utah — leaders have moved to temporarily suspend or reduce the state tax on gasoline.
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With election pressure mounting, states move to suspend fuel taxes • Idaho Capital Sun
In at least four states — Georgia, Indiana, Ohio and Utah — leaders have moved to temporarily suspend or reduce the state tax on gasoline.
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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 8h
Very sad to hear that Margaret Hamilton has passed away. Here's a short thread about her role in the Apollo mission, and her lesser-known work on the simulations that led to the discovery of Chaos Theory. 🧪 👩‍🔬 ⚛️
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Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 4h
The orange felon’s trashy Mobile scam suffered a data breach that exposed info for over 3.5K users, including names, phone numbers, home addresses and more. MAGA lunatic Eric Brunnett who oversees its IT and info security was also affected. Whoever purchases anything from him is dumb AF. FAFO.
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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 4h
It’s just criminals all the way down.
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 7h
Cass County Sheriff Bryan Welk said Wednesday that investigators have identified a gathering of people in the area around the time of Dylon Oothoudt's death last month. They believe others nearby may have witnessed it or been involved, and they are asking for help identifying those individuals.
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Cass County Sheriff, family seek public's help in Walker teen's homicide case
The Cass County Sheriff's Office is asking anyone with information about the death of 17-year-old Dylon Oothoudt to come forward.
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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 7h
The state accused Johanna and Clark Morgan of incompetent and untrustworthy funeral practices, unprofessional conduct and violating state regulations.
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South Chicago Chapel director denies state charges after rotting bodies found at funeral home
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
KEILAR: Does the president get to take some credit for that? ALSOBROOKS: Oh, absolutely not
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
Please vote for B*tch, Listen to win a Signal Listener's Choice Award for the episode in which @elienyc.bsky.social and I talk about how the Constitution is trash but it's working exactly the way the white slaver founders intended. You can vote here. You have to sign up. Do it! Do it now! Please?
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The Signal Listener's Choice Award needs YOU
I just voted for this finalist to win a Signal Listener's Choice Award. You should too.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
I got nominated for a Signal Award for B*tch, Listen! My interview w/ Elie Mystal—The Constitution: A Scam by Rich White Men, for Rich White Men—has been nominated for best individual episode in the Activism, Public Service, and Social Impact category! But now I need YOUR help. 1/2
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The Constitution: A Scam by Rich White Men, for Rich White Men
YouTube video by Rewire News Group
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 11h
Trump: "I can do whatever I want, if I want." He's telling you exactly how he sees his power. Now apply that to an election he's desperate to control.
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 11h
Nevada woman sent to prison and labeled ‘baby killer’ after a miscarriage wins $1.6M award
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Nevada mom convicted of manslaughter for miscarriage awarded $1.6m in settlement
Patience Rousseau was convicted under an arcane 1911 statute ‘that was on the books before women were even allowed to vote in Nevada,’ her attorney said
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11h
"Officially, the hurricane center forecasts the storm to make landfall about 100 miles south of San Diego around 5 a.m. Sunday, but the 'cone of uncertainty' shows the possible path of the center of the storm as far north as Anaheim — a highly unusual potential incursion into California."
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The National Hurricane Center just drew a forecast path into California. Is the threat legit?
Strong winds, large waves and storm surge are possible in Orange and San Diego counties, with heavy rain and flash flooding possible in Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Las Vegas and Phoenix.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h
TEXAS — @jamestalarico.bsky.social : “Why do we have a trillionaire when veterans are sleeping on the streets? The reason poverty exists is not because we can’t feed the poor, it’s because we can’t satisfy the rich.” (From @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social )
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 11h
Happy 100th birthday to the dedicated, driven, and dynamic Dr. Opal Lee! Thank you for your resilience, your strength, and for refusing to let this country ignore its history. You’ve poured so much love into this world. May your birthday be filled with the same love and joy you’ve given so many!❤️
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 11h
Victor Marx said it was to teach her a lesson, and that she was “fake crying” afterwards. trib.al/YZUG1VU
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MAGA Candidate Brags About Physically Abusing His Wife
Victor Marx said it was to teach her a lesson, and that she was “fake crying” afterwards.
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ResJudicata22 @resjudicata22.bsky.social · 22h
Cartoonist: Clay Bennett
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It's shocking this is not shocking: "The UK’s largest private-sector employer is offering up to three days of paid leave which can be taken flexibly for activities such as attending court hearings, arranging emergency accommodation, changing locks, securing childcare or separating finances."
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Tesco is first supermarket to offer paid ‘safe leave’ for victims of domestic abuse
Exclusive: Britain’s largest private-sector employer has also trained managers to spot signs of domestic abuse
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
it takes something special see a man hounded out of his future by politics you've helped legitimize step in front of a truck and then ask how the trucker feels
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/10/2026
The Trump administration wanted NYC to explicitly turn away trans veterans from a shelter so NYC was forced to turn down funding for it because it would violate city and state law. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
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NYC turns down $1.3 million for homeless shelter due to dispute over transgender veterans
The city says the federal government would have required them to exclude transgender veterans from seeking shelter beds at the Borden Avenue Veterans' Residence.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
this reveals SO MUCH about legacy media
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The humiliation of a pop-punk singer badmouthing federal immigration agents became too much for the Department of Homeland Security on Sunday.
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Trump’s DHS Picks a Fight With Rock Star Over ICE Insult
Hayley Williams has incorporated the insult into the performance of a popular song.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Justice Alito is confusing a desire to reform the court with an effort to intimidate it. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Supreme Court expansion is ‘a concerted effort to intimidate the court,' Justice Alito says
Despite Americans' eroding trust in the Supreme Court, Alito says he's not discussed growing calls for expanding the court and setting term limits.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
BREAKING: White House “monitoring” a suspected outbreak of the plague in Russia. Five hospitals are reportedly under compulsory quarantine. Russian media reported an accident at a state biolab, which killed a lab worker. Pneumonic plague has a fatality rate of 100% unless treated within 24 hours.
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Scoop: White House monitors suspected plague outbreak in Russia
Administration is "aware, monitoring the outbreak, and assessing options," an official told Axios.
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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Flu vaccines come in different formulations. Who should get the higher-dose option? We answer a few common questions about respiratory viruses as the time to get your annual vaccines has arrived.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Brazil is voting today, and while the presidential election is likely to go to a runoff — the results are a clear and significant shift to the right since the 2022 election and set up Flávio Bolsonaro very well to oust Lula in the October 25 runoff.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 04/10/2026
The next No Kings Day is almost here. Let’s make it clear that We The People won’t let the fascists sabotage the midterms: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“.. Whatever the reasons were for going in, from an economic point of view the war in the Middle East has been a disaster. .. It’s been disastrous from a cost-of-living point of view, for Australians and indeed for people right around the world.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Since taking office, Ken Paxton has skipped at least 730 workdays as Attorney General. He has instead traveled to Europe and the Caribbean.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 04/10/2026
darkly funny that Alliance Defending Freedom says things like this when it's responsible for forcing people to fund religious schools in violation of the First Amendment
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The Hyde Amendment Turns 50: No One Should Be Forced to Fund Abortion
Since 1976, Congress has renewed one simple principle every year: Americans shouldn't be forced to pay for abortions.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 04/10/2026
There are new and specific numbers in this story, so it’s worth reading. I continue to resent the lack of credit to Nick Schwellenbach at @pogo.org, Dan Friedman at @motherjones.com, and me, who have previously reported every other aspect of this story, including that the sale prices were very high.
Kristi Noem's Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She
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The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Instead of a thousand words. Life in #Kyiv. A part of a Russian drone got stuck in someone's car.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My man looks like a beluga whale pitching Bitcoin
Elon Musk, douchy and doughy and pale
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Will Bunch: The facts are shocking enough, but the bigger reason that the Cornell gang-rape case has broken through is that everyday Americans are sick of the rich and powerful and their sons getting away with it. And everyone knows this fish stinks from the head. www.inquirer.com/opinion/corn...
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For a fed-up America, the elite impunity of the Cornell rape case is the last straw | Will Bunch
A nation’s frustration with rich and powerful men boils over after a stunning rape allegation at an Ivy League college.
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 04/10/2026
Iran allegedly plotted to hit the British base launching our bombers, and now every US bomber at RAF Fairford has flown home. Fuckface's FBI fired counterespionage agents, Iran specialists among them, days before this war began. Now Tehran is making us move.
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US removes all Air Force bombers from UK base following new threat | CNN Politics
The United States has moved long-range bombers back to their American home stations after an unspecified new threat, according to a person familiar, days after the British government arrested a number...
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Together! 🇪🇺🇺🇦 Thank you, friends.
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Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Woman Dies of Suspected Plague Infection, Nearly 200 People Who Had Contact with Her Placed Under Medical Observation Daria Shipilova, a lab technician in her late 20s, died of a suspected pneumonic plague infection in Russia on Oct. 2 people.com/woman-dies-o...
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Woman Dies of Suspected Plague Infection, Nearly 200 People Hospitalized After Exposure
Daria Shipilova, a lab technician, died of a suspected pneumonic plague infection in Russia on Oct. 2. Nearly 200 people who had contact with the woman, who worked at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute...
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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 04/10/2026
The administration has turned an unfixable fact—Chinese parts in nearly every U.S. voting machine—into a license to contest any election it loses. @juliacurlee.bsky.social explains how the litigators, researchers, and the groups that back election officials could push back.
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Laundering Federal Election Interference in the Midterms
The administration has turned an unfixable fact—Chinese parts in nearly every U.S. voting machine—into a license to contest any election it loses.
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 03/10/2026
Watch Tucker Carlson get a quick economics lesson after claiming Russia’s economy is bigger than Britain’s.
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is a powerful article. Infuriating how every time the trucker was trying to find empathy for Pierre and Haitians in general, his girlfriend and mom kept intervening with some racist logic or conspiracy.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Justice Alito is confusing a desire to reform the court with an effort to intimidate it. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Supreme Court expansion is ‘a concerted effort to intimidate the court,' Justice Alito says
Despite Americans' eroding trust in the Supreme Court, Alito says he's not discussed growing calls for expanding the court and setting term limits.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 04/10/2026
Happening now in the Chicago suburb of Bridgeview: A few hundred people are out protesting right-wing provocateur Jake Lang and his attempted "crusader march" on the local Palestine Fest going on nearby. Police in riot gear just formed a line, with Lang's group behind them.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/10/2026
The Epstein Class sticks together
Screenshot of a post from The Kobeissi Letter on X reading: “BREAKING: Elon Musk says SpaceXAI will be renamed to ‘SpaceXSI’ after President Trump changed the name of ‘Artificial Intelligence (AI)’ to ‘Super Intelligence (SI).’ ‘No more AI. SI. It’s better,’ Elon Musk says.” Below the text is a photo showing Donald Trump and Elon Musk standing outdoors with a group of officials and tech executives.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/10/2026
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: In my lawsuit, the FBI has admitted to having NINE Epstein files redaction training videos. TWO of them instructed agents to flag files with Trump’s name for supervisory review. I will cover at NOON PT here: youtube.com/live/dYiQOhP...
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LIVE: FBI’s Trump-Epstein Training Videos Finally DISCOVERED…
YouTube video by MeidasTouch
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/10/2026
It’s batshit to me that the far left think they can win national, statewide, or even local races across this country w/out building a coalition that includes moderates. I’m a progressive. But I know calling moderates names doesn’t win them over, it just shrinks your coalition.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I believe in Medicare for All like I believe in public schools. There for you no matter what.
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Todd Blanche Defends DOJ Sending Federal Agents To Polling Stations #CrooksAndLiars
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Todd Blanche Defends DOJ Sending Federal Agents To Polling Stations | Crooks and Liars
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Yeah, famously, eggheads and poindexters and nerds have never asked “is this true.”
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
With Musk tweeting autism supremacy stuff again today, good time to read @juliametraux.bsky.social’s piece on the subject www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The 4chan-coded ideology behind Elon Musk's war on normies
Musk thinks autism makes him superhuman. Just don't call it that.
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