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@gkmerri2.bsky.social
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Trying to be kind, hopeful, and courageous while living in the Hunger Games prequel.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Also important to note that it's not completely surprising to see a poll with Collins +3 if the race is really Jackson +3(ish), that's how polling and the distribution of errors works.
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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 5h
Yup, absolutely. I think it’s wrong to treat the Iran War as simply one bad error that happened to the Trump Admin rather than the entirely logical consequence of the way it operates. If it wasn’t Iran, it would almost certainly have been something else
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Mike Sharp @mikesh8rp.bsky.social · 9h
Always fun to see a meme being born.
Two guys who just found out their gotcha setup was actually a reverse gotcha
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 6h
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 5h
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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
While the news & white papers breathlessly cover the idea of a threat of a future AI bioweapon, an Ebola outbreak is escalating, having killed nearly 4,000 people so far. The Trump admin has diminished US support to control it w/travel bans, an eroded CDC & a hobbled WHO www.who.int/emergencies/...
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Ebola disease caused by Bundibugyo virus - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Since the last Disease Outbreak News was published on 11 September 2026, the Bundibugyo virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has expanded further, with two additional health zones af...
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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 28/09/2026
New Horizons is now *three days away* from shutting off its two heliophysics instruments, simply because NASA has not provided the $2M in funding it had promised to the mission last year or this year. There is no science basis for shutting these off. Our earlier coverage:
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NASA’s New Horizons mission may shut down two instruments over lack of funding
Decision risks “incalculable loss” of data from the edge of the Sun’s influence, scientists say
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
fucking really
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Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students
The Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati…
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Rosa" says, "I'm harvesting sweet potatoes in Livingston CA area. I work 8 hrs/day and earn CA minimum wage. I wake up at 2 am, prepare my lunch, drive to work and start by 4am. I finished for the day by 12:30 pm. It's very hard to pay our bills from this low pay." #WeFeedYou
Workers harvesting sweet potatoes in Livingston California
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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CalMatters @calmatters.org · 29/09/2026
Newsom signs new gun control laws, including one requiring owners to take a 4-hour class Gov. Newsom signed 10 new gun control laws, including one requiring people to take a four-hour safety course. Some likely will face Second Amendment challenges.
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Newsom signs new gun control laws, including one requiring owners to take a 4-hour class
Gov. Newsom signed 10 new gun control laws, including one requiring people to take a four-hour safety course. Some likely will face Second Amendment challenges.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 29/09/2026
The student journalists are showing more courage and leadership than the Administrators.
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Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 15h
Big news out of Mercer County: Officials reject regulations to allow data centers next to coal-fired power plant From @liamniemeyer.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2026/09/29/m...
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Mercer County officials reject regulations to allow data centers next to coal-fired power plant • Kentucky Lantern
HARRODSBURG — The Mercer County Fiscal Court rejected zoning regulations on Monday that would have allowed the siting of large data centers on land adjacent to a Kentucky Utilities coal-fired power pl...
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 14h
"Alba" is a WA State farm worker. "I'm placing ties around the apple tree limbs so they don't get too heavy and break. I worry about my safety since the ladders can get heavy. I have to be careful how I place it to avoid accidents. I earn minimum wage for this work." #WeFeedYou
A farm worker placing ties around the apple tree limbs so they don't get too heavy and break.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 14h
BATTLEFIELD EXPANDS: Democrats are eyeing an investment in Mississippi U.S. Senate race youtu.be/BXNDuLdDHo0?...
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🚨 Trump gets news he FEARED from Mississippi!
YouTube video by Scott MacFarlane Reports
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Charlie Thomas @cthomasjamh.bsky.social · 14h
I can’t imagine that there is any downside for a deeply unpopular administration to replace all direct interaction with most government bureaus with a rushed out chatbot- people love those right?!
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 5h
Yup, MAHA/MAGA is doing all it can to torpedo cervical cancer prevention: -It blocked the US Preventive Services Taskforce from issuing a recommendation on screening -RFK Jr peddles the horrific, deadly lie that HPV vaccine increases risk of cervical cancer (he made $$$$ suing the vaccine maker)
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 7h
In which Eric Schmitt, rumored candidate for VP in an (ugh) JD Vance 2028 presidential run, pre-emptively loses 22 electoral votes in Georgia and Iowa
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Brad365 @brad365.bsky.social · 5h
Researchers estimate infections caused 2.3 million new cancer cases worldwide in 2024 1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide is caused by infections, study suggests www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
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Researchers are discovering more infections that can cause cancer | CBC News
New global research suggests 12 per cent of cancers were caused by infections, predominantly caused by HPV and H. pylori
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10h
You think this is bad? The worst effects are already scheduled to kick in AFTER Election Day. #GOPWarOnHealthcare
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Destiny's Problem Child 🏳️‍🌈 @destinysproblmchld.bsky.social · 7h
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 8h
That cocky, misplaced look of smug success on Senator Eric Schmitt’s face—moments before everything came crashing down around him because he’s so carelessly incompetent.
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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 8h
Paddling (canoeing) across Windermere today, into the teeth of a pretty stiff Force 3 wind - lumpy, and just this side of whitecaps - I came across a swimming squirrel, looking very stressed. Not a planned swim, I'm guessing. It was 300m to either shore, so I'm not sure s/he was going to be okay.
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Fella Historian🌻 @thisuserisdumb.bsky.social · 12h
Maybe Senator Schmitt should have watched more Sesame Street when he was a kid🤷‍♀️
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 11h
Klobuchar: “For a US senator to have false information and imply, based on a confusion about the name of a team … and imply that you were in another city, that you were somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia, and then call you a dirtbag, is something that deserves an apology.”
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 12h
A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 5h
Bc the last 30 seconds of this are the best, reminder that @amyklobuchar.com's dad was a sports journalist, which may explain her utter contempt for Schmitt mistaking the Hawks and Hawkeyes.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’m sorry, what? This piece was not a joint publication/ reporting job (as some are). It was @propublica’s alone and the Times followed with a summary. This is so indicative of NYT. If they don’t ignore proper credit, they just go for stolen valor.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Can you tell texas republicans are not used to competitive races bsky.app/profile/head...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We've all heard how corrupt Ken Paxton is. But he is also incredibly stupid if he thinks this "well, he served 60 whole days" excuse for releasing Adam Hoffman, who sexually abused a boy over a three-year period starting when he was 8.
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God @thegodshow.com · 29/09/2026
Is he serious
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Leo XIV says reporters are welcome to cover him, affirms need for media when asked about Trump ban at White House.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Tucker Carlson told NPR that Donald Trump should be removed from office via the 25th Amendment over his threats against Iran.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
From 16,000 to 185 to Zero. The Trump admin claimed as many as 16,000 noncitizens had been registered to vote in Nevada. Then DHS came back and said the number was actually 185. This week, Nevada told the admin every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
GOP support grows for subpoenaing Donald Trump Jr. over the wedding party controversy: Five Senate Republicans (and counting) are taking the burgeoning scandal seriously, which is five more than usual.
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GOP support grows for subpoenaing Donald Trump Jr. over wedding party controversy
Five Senate Republicans (and counting) are taking the burgeoning scandal seriously, which is five more than usual.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
BREAKING on MS NOW: Former Missouri AG Andrew Bailey, who joined the FBI as 'co-deputy director' work alongside then-Deputy Director Dan Bongino, is stepping aside. Bailey was overseeing election-related matters at the FBI.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Trump White House official app is fraught with trackers. The White House app covertly collects excessive user data and shares it with third-party trackers while sidestepping federal security rules. For example, the app includes scripts to monitor a user's location several times per minute.
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White House Drove Users to Official App Fraught With Trackers
The White House app became the App Store’s most downloaded news app after the president barred three news outlets.
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Odd that Trump’s ear is cut slightly and the whole World knows about it.. but US service personnel get injured and killed in his illegal War and it’s swept under the rug.. almost as if they’re an embarrassment
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Pentagon never disclosed that eight US Marines were injured when an Iranian cruise missile hit their vessel in the Strait of Hormuz on September 14, NBC reports. Injuries were eventually added to the casualty record with no announcement ten days later.
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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I am a mom and scientist begging everyone to look closer at the muck. We’ve been conditioned to see wetlands as wastelands. But three decades of research, I see a fiercely defiant wilderness. The boreal mire is a dynamic carbon-trapping vault that in some places has outlasted ice ages. 1/
A woman scientist - me! - standing over the boreal forest in interior Alaska.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You wouldn't know it from reading the headlines, but the president's downward mental health spiral is the biggest story in America right now We won't salvage democracy unless the media and pols start speaking the truth about Trump's damaged mind My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
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We need to find the words for Trump’s madness before things blow up | Will Bunch
The media and politicians haven’t pinned down anything resembling a suitable description for a president’s downward spiral or the looming battle for U.S. democracy.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026
this is a genuinely crazy story
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026
i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Trump's foreign policy is not isolationist. On the contrary, his ideologues want to build an international empire run by far-right political movements who serve American crypto, mineral and tech companies, many with links to the president. Read more here: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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Empire of Grift
Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“.. “We need to get some other voices in there to push back a little bit on this stuff,” said Nancy Danner, who farms thousands of acres of corn and soybeans with her husband, Kevin, in western Iowa. “We need as many changes as we can get.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#FL27 @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#FL27 @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/u...
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Walk. Out.
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Rob Grant @robgrant9.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I felt that way at first, but her essay is such an incredible piece of writing.
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