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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Every Woman knows a Woman Who's Been Raped, But no Man Ever Knows a Rapist.
What happens when a man confesses to rape and thinks he's telling you a sex story?
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 26/09/2026
Being a leftist means taking big shots. And making them.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Imagine losing a third of a city’s firefighters and then wondering why downtown is burning.” Connecting the dots between cuts and public sector failures is often difficult, but we are seeing the damage in public health. The only category of employee growing at CDC are political appointees.
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The US and the EU rejected a declaration by member countries of the UN that pledged international collaboration and solidarity in preparing for and responding to pandemics. Yes, you read that right. 🎁 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/u...
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U.S. Rejects U.N. Declaration on Preparing for Future Pandemics (Gift Article)
Most member nations spoke in support of the declaration, but some rich countries had strong objections.
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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 24/09/2026
Sen. DURBIN: If Republicans actually want to stand up for women in sports, they should address the real documented threats. Namely, unequal pay, failure to uphold title IX, rampant sexual abuse, and lack of equal resources for men's and women's teams.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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Liz Oyer @lawyeroyer.com · 23/09/2026
Extremely disturbing news about the lawyer defending Donald Trump’s media ban. Watch this sitting down, and please help spread the word. youtube.com/shorts/veF5d...
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Trump’s media ban gets even more disturbing
YouTube video by Lawyer Oyer
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.
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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins
The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
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🏳️‍🌈Alex Vander Veur💙🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇪🇺🇵🇸🇻🇪💙🇺🇸💔 @alexvanderveur.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Post by Shon (@gayclackvet):

Say you're in a room with 400 people. 36 don't have health insurance. 48 live in poverty. 85 are illiterate. 90 have untreated mental illnesses. And everyday, at least 1 person is shot. But 2 are trans so you decide ruining their lives is a priority. That is what's happening right now.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What does a sniper position at Memorial Circle actually defend against? Not China. Not a submarine. Not a missile. It overlooks a bridge, a traffic circle, and the front door of the National Mall. Those are places where Americans march. www.jackhopkinsnow.com
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Given the outrageous, dangerous, and outright false statements made about how the polio (and other) vaccine was a "fraud" (at the Children's Health Defense conference), here's a reminder of what a massive success it was. RFK Jr. & his minions must be stopped from destroying the US healthcare system.
Graph of the number of cases and deaths from polio from 1910 to 2022, showing how polio completely disappeared after the introduction of the vaccine -- one of the most important health advances of the 20th century. Data from the US Public Health Services; the Center for Disease Control.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The U.N. confirms what we all already knew: the Trump admin targeted a girls school and killed 178 civilians, most of whom were girls — and it was an action catalyzed by preventable negligence. God help us. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/w...
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U.S. Strike on Iranian School May Have Been War Crime, U.N. Report Says
Mistakes that led to the deaths of more than a hundred children “went beyond negligence,” investigators said. They also cited a separate strike the same day that killed a reported 22 civilians.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
National average for gallon of gas... Trump's first day in office: $3.12 Today: $4.37 (40.1% increase) National average for gallon of diesel... Trump's first day in office: $3.72 Today: $6.39 (71.8% increase)
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/09/2026
Apple just released its new iPhone operating system, iOS 27, and the biggest change is a smarter version of Siri. But iOS 27 brings other useful new features, too. These are the features worth trying once you’ve updated your device.
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iOS 27 Is Here. These Are the Best New Features, Including a Smarter Siri.
The latest, AI-charged version of Apple’s iPhone software is now available to download, and it finally makes Siri useful for more than setting timers.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The Trump administration is fulfilling a right-wing campaign to destroy public health and reshape it for ideological purposes. It’s a hell of a thing to watch. The dishonesty and corruption—just so out in the open.
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Josh Kaplan @josh-kaplan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: Don Trump Jr’s luxurious wedding was secretly bankrolled by a Russian oligarch close to Putin. A saga involving private islands, the Olympics, and a Russian government-backed biker gang: www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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House Foreign Affairs Committee Democrats @houseforeign.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Sudan remains the world's worst humanitarian crisis. Countless face starvation, while women and girls suffer from sexual exploitation and abuse. Trump's foreign aid cuts made every part of this worse. The admin must restore programs to protect women and girls and give them real economic opportunity.
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‘This is what I have to do to survive’: the Sudan refugees forced into sex work
They fled a brutal civil war to reach safety in Egypt, but now many Sudanese women and girls are falling prey to sexual exploitation
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/09/2026
AN URGENT EXCLUSIVE: Ahmed Soliman, the 30-year-old gay man ICE expelled in April to Equatorial Guinea, a country he has no ties to, was arrested this morning and cannot be located, his attorneys say. They fear he may be in one of EG's torture prisons. prospect.org/2026/09/11/i...
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Immigrant Trump Sent to African Hotel Prison Arrested After Speaking With Media, Lawyers Say - The American Prospect
Ahmed Soliman’s attorneys fear he may have been sent to one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious torture prisons.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 08/09/2026
What happens when RFK Jr takes over CDC? Other heroic public health and medical organizations have to step up instead. Click on the link for their evidence based recommendation for this year's flu, COVID, and RSV vaccines.
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Vaccine recommendations
Find the latest respiratory virus season immunization recommendations and resources from leading medical organizations.
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Mike Konczal @mtkonczal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
BLS this morning, with revised 2Q data: "The labor share, which is the percentage of output that accrues to workers in the form of compensation, was 52.8 percent in the second quarter of 2026, the lowest level in the series, which begins in the first quarter of 1947."
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
WSJ, with an ice-cold graphic: @wsj.com
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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Let's be clear about what DOGE actually accomplished: ✓ Cut cancer research ✓ Gutted veteran programs ✓ Axed aid to farmers ✓ Weaponized Social Security ✓ Slashed humanitarian aid ✓ Made Elon Musk $8 million a day That's cruelty disguised as “efficiency."
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A colleague today: “If I was his attending (physician) I wouldn’t feel comfortable sending him home. I’d be having a family meeting about his condition and the need for supervision” They’re 100% correct 🤦🏻‍♂️
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“We’ll grow our way out of it.” 🇺🇸
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Manimal @sammyhagarisgreat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dolly Parton decided to cover "Stairway to Heaven" as a gospel song, and asked Robert Plant for permission to write a new verse for it, and Robert Plant basically said "of course you can, you're Dolly Parton" youtu.be/YhTvxVxXJLQ
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Dolly Parton - Stairway to Heaven (Audio)
YouTube video by Dolly Parton
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Live your life in such a way that your acknowledgement in the New England Journal of Medicine for personally funding the vaccine for a devastating pandemic is just one in a long list of your many contributions to human health, joy and well-being.
Supported by the NIAID, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, under award numbers
UM1AI148373 (Kaiser Washington), UM1AI148576 (Emory University), UM1AI148684 (Emory University),
UM1AI148684-01S1 (Vanderbilt University Medical Center), and HHSN272201500002C (Emmes); by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, NIH, under award number UL1 TR002243 (Vanderbilt University Medical Center); and by the Dolly Parton
COVID-19 Research Fund (Vanderbilt University Medical Center). Funding for the manufacture of mRNA-1273 phase 1 material was provided by the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation (CEPI).
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Cut Civilian Protections Over the Objection of Top Commanders
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Top Commanders Told Hegseth Not to Cut Civilian Protection Program, Poll Showed. He Did It Anyway.
The U.S. military has killed hundreds of noncombatants since gutting its Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response mission last year. After significant blowback, the Defense Department is considering part...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/08/2026
I hope everyone caught this Lancet study confirming that Elon Musk & DOGE are responsible for genocidal levels of suffering & death.
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Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 21/08/2026
Republican town halls in 2026: 39 Democratic town halls in 2026: 451 Which one is listening to you and which one is hiding from you? www.alternet.org/republican-midterm…
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Why Republicans are hiding from their own voters
The numbers make it clear: Republicans have almost completely stopped holding town hall meetings in which they’re forced to confront their own constituents.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 21/08/2026
A Black war hero's family denounced President Donald Trump's reported move to rename the USS Doris Miller.
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Black war hero's family decries Trump's 'shock' move they weren't told about
A Black war hero's family denounced President Donald Trump's reported move to rename the USS Doris Miller.On Thursday, CNN revealed that the Navy is taking steps to rename the USS Doris Miller, an aircraft carrier that's still being built, and has already stopped referring to it by the name meant to...
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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
He's back in the ICU with "low blood pressure" now, and frankly, this is looking like it might be it. Please, friends, if you or someone you know has a safe, comfortable, loving landing zone for his two cats, please please *please* speak up ASAP.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 17/08/2026
Every time someone says "but how will we afford it?" I want to ask them how we are affording it now, and in many cases, the answer is that we aren't.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 17/08/2026
GLOUCESTER Come hither, friend; where is the King my master? KENT. (as CAIUS.) Here, sir, but trouble him not—his wits are gone.
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
“One baby at a time, the world is marching toward a grim milestone: Because of global cuts to foreign aid, the Gates Foundation has predicted that 2025 will be the first year this century where child deaths will increase.” apnews.com/article/usai...
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USAID fallout: In Nepal, when the aid workers stopped coming, the women and babies started dying
The Associated Press has found that the decision by the United States to slash its foreign aid funding last year has increased pregnancy complications and deaths in Nepal.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Is this just business as usual in politics? No. Approval rates of federal disaster aid requests were about the same regardless of the state and did not vary much with the party of the President. This graph powerfully conveys the scale of the partisan discrimination now.
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goatest.bsky.social @goatest.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Lala just learning *now* that Dee won $1 million for Survivor is wild. Has she never watched the show before? How did she even get cast? #bb28
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Wow, who did this?
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Dr. Jay Bhattacharya treats rare, mild vaccine side effects as worse than death from COVID, 6-2021
YouTube video by Jonathan Howard
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 07/08/2026
Hundreds of Save Our Signs volunteers compiled more than 17,000 photos of national parks signs, including at least 60 that were later removed or altered by the Trump administration. Volunteers were able to document what some of these changes look like with “before” and “after” photos.
A collage of images from the Save Our Signs archive
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Excellent, but upsetting, piece on how the huge loss of staff under Bhattacharya led to losses in: knowledge & institutional memory; new perspectives, emerging scientific expertise, & future leaders; trust & transparency; ability to carry out NIH’s most basic functions; & community partnerships
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goatest.bsky.social @goatest.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
My hopes for the season are now entirely on Lala’s shoulders #bb28
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goatest.bsky.social @goatest.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Damn. Mal is out. The worst timeline of Kamu winning might come to pass #bb28
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Fired but Fighting (National Public Health Coalition) @firedbutfighting.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Help! We need a bigger boat. #Odyssey #Scylla #PublicHealth
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 06/08/2026
If these AI agents in controlled tests are going rogue it really has to make you wonder: What will happen when these super powerful tools are really in the wild? www.reuters.com/legal/litiga....
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OpenAI, Anthropic AI agents implicated in new security breaches
An AI agent was caught ​creating fake online identities to gain unauthorized access to secure systems during tests of models from OpenAI and Anthropic ‌which revealed a series of new breaches, Britain...
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Joshua Smith @smithmachine.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The Government Accountability Office, the actual professionals trying to root our government waste, is out with a 52-page report cataloging methodological errors and data limitations with DOGE's "Wall of Receipts." (I bet this was fun for them to write.)
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U.S. GAO - DOGE Wall of Receipts: More Transparency Needed on How Savings Are Derived from Contract, Grant, and Lease Terminations
The President established the Department of Government Efficiency to transform federal spending. DOGE instructed agencies to review federal contracts...
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goatest.bsky.social @goatest.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I think Dee kept her power a secret from Devens so she can 1) use it against him or 2) not use it and then tell the BB jurors at the final 2 that she had it. Just like she revealed a secret at FTC when she won Survivor over her closest ally. She wants to replicate her winning formula. #rhap #bb28
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Miriam Rabkin @miriam2024.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
For perspective, that means infant mortality in Mississippi is about the same as in Iran and Tunisia data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP...
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World Bank Open Data
Free and open access to global development data
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 04/08/2026
When President Trump sharply reduced the size of Bears Ears National Monument in Utah by more than 1.2 million acres, he claimed it was necessary because recreation was virtually impossible within the site’s boundaries. Documents reviewed by The New York Times show officials knew otherwise.
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Documents Undercut Trump’s Claims About Bears Ears National Monument
President Trump said recreation in Bears Ears National Monument was virtually impossible. Documents reviewed by The New York Times show officials knew otherwise.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/08/2026
“If you take the deal, you’re going to be exploited. If you don’t take it, you’re going to die,” said attorney Frank Ssekamwa about the U.S. demand to access the health data of millions of Ugandans. “It’s the essence of digital colonialism.”
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“Digital Colonialism”: U.S. Demands to Access Africans’ Data Raise Privacy, Sovereignty Concerns
The United States is requiring access to health data as part of lifesaving aid deals with African countries. The U.S. says the data will be aggregated and anonymized, but privacy experts fear the info...
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kate k @kathrwn.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
if you want to know how american politics is going, a bill that would ban OSHA from making workplace heat standards just passed a committee vote. the year this bill was introduced was the hottest year on record.
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