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Good Trouble @good-tr0uble.bsky.social · 20m
Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional www.404media.co/federal-judg...
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Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional
Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.
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Good Trouble @good-tr0uble.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Micron now has an 88% margin on consumer memory as price hikes drive profits — client business is Micron's only unit that shipped less memory this quarter www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...
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Micron now has an 88% margin on consumer memory as price hikes drive profits — client business is Micron's only unit that shipped less memory this quarter
Micron's consumer business is also its most profitable one by margin.
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Good Trouble @good-tr0uble.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Trump administration illegally changed a form used by overseas voters to register and request mail ballots just weeks before the midterms, Democrats argue in a new lawsuit filed Thursday www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump admin quietly changed overseas voter form at 11th hour to disenfranchise Democrats, lawsuit says
The change is part of a Republican plan to make it more difficult to vote or outright disenfranchise a bloc of voters viewed as more inclined to vote Democratic, the DNC lawsuit argues.
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Good Trouble @good-tr0uble.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NYC is now the first city in America that bans sketchy subscriptions As of Thursday, the city’s click-to-cancel rule has taken effect, which requires businesses to make it as easy to cancel a subscription as it is to sign up www.theverge.com/policy/10034...
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NYC is now the first city in America that bans sketchy subscriptions
A federal version was halted by an appeals court.
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Good Trouble @good-tr0uble.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Endangered Species Act Protection for Monarch Butterfly Delayed Until 2030 Monarchs have declined by more than 80% since the 90s. They were proposed for Endangered Species Act protection in 2024, but instead of finalizing protections Trump officials delayed biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
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Endangered Species Act Protection for Monarch Butterfly Delayed Until 2030
Center for Biological Diversity: Iconic Pollinator Remains at Risk of Migratory Collapse
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Good Trouble @good-tr0uble.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
An appeals court Tuesday sided with a lower court judge who determined President Trump colluded with the Department of Justice (DOJ) in bringing and later dismissing a case seeking $10 billion in damages from the IRS thehill.com/regulation/c...
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Appeals court backs finding Trump colluded with IRS, Treasury
An appeals court Tuesday sided with a lower court judge who determined President Trump colluded with the Department of Justice (DOJ) in bringing and later dismissing a case seeking $10 billion in d…
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Good Trouble @good-tr0uble.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Homeland Security taps $20M in taxpayer funds for pro-Trump ads Data from the outside firm AdImpact shows more than $2.5 million was spent on the three ads over the past seven days. The senators said in their letter that DHS has committed $20 million to the campaign apnews.com/article/trum...
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Homeland Security taps $20M in taxpayer funds for pro-Trump ads
DHS has tapped $20 million to pay for campaign-style ads glorifying President Donald Trump.
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Good Trouble @good-tr0uble.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump’s border wall construction cut into an ancient ground carving older than Stonehenge The Las Playas Intaglio carving of a huge fish is at least 2,000 years older than the first Egyptian pyramid, according to researchers’ estimations www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Trump’s border wall construction cut into an ancient ground carving older than Stonehenge
The Las Playas Intaglio carving of a huge fish is at least 2,000 years older than the first Egyptian pyramid, according to researchers’ estimations.
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Good Trouble @good-tr0uble.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
California Farmers Are Struggling to Sell Grapes as Demand for Wine Drops Tariffs have reduced exports, particularly to Canada, which was the largest foreign buyer of American wine www.kqed.org/news/1210153...
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California Farmers Are Struggling to Sell Grapes as Demand for Wine Drops | KQED
Many California growers can’t find buyers as the industry produces more wine grapes than the market wants. Wine consumption is declining globally as people drink less.
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Good Trouble @good-tr0uble.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Texas allows dyed diesel on roads as fuel prices surge On Monday, Gov. Greg Abbott expanded the use of dyed diesel and raised the weight limit on fuel, agriculture and timber loads, while also suspending Texas Low Emission Diesel rules www.kxan.com/news/texas/t...
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Texas allows dyed diesel on roads as fuel prices surge
Texas farmers and truckers can temporarily use dyed diesel on public roads under a new emergency order from Gov. Greg Abbott. The proclamation also raises weight limits for certain loads and seeks …
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Good Trouble @good-tr0uble.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
AI Battle Between Insurers and Hospitals Jacked Up Patient Prices by Nearly $1 Billion AI-powered coding systems can scan medical records, doctors’ notes, and laboratory results for additional diagnoses that can increase the amount hospitals are paid www.commondreams.org/news/ai-in-h...
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AI Battle Between Insurers and Hospitals Jacked Up Patient Prices by Nearly $1 Billion | Common Dreams
"Not exactly the cancer cure we were promised," quipped one critic.
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Good Trouble @good-tr0uble.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The chief executives of OpenAI and Anthropic have been called to face a Senate inquiry after rogue OpenAI agents hacked Australian and US government websites www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Heads of OpenAI and Anthropic called to face Senate inquiry after rogue agent incidents
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei have been invited to appear before the Greens-led inquiry into AI and datacentres
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Good Trouble @good-tr0uble.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Appeals court rules that states can regulate Kalshi’s sports prediction markets, dealing another legal blow to platforms www.cnbc.com/2026/09/25/a...
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Appeals court rules that states can regulate Kalshi’s sports prediction markets, dealing another legal blow to platforms
The decision is the second in less than a month by an appeals court that states have a role in regulating sports-related event contracts.
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Good Trouble @good-tr0uble.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Supreme Court blocks Trump-backed Missouri congressional map The court warned that changing maps now would cause "electoral chaos." The decision requires the state use the same districts provided to voters in 2022 and 2024 www.npr.org/2026/09/25/n...
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Supreme Court blocks Trump-backed Missouri congressional map
The ruling is a defeat for Republicans seeking to give their party an edge in the midterms for control of the House. It means voters will face a different map than the one used in the primaries.
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Good Trouble @good-tr0uble.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Supreme Court allows Trump administration to use expanded database for potential voter purges www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
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Supreme Court allows Trump administration to use expanded database for potential voter purges
Critics have said the data could lead to U.S. citizens being kicked off the voter rolls, but the justices noted the law prohibits broad voter purges in the weeks leading up to an election.
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Good Trouble @good-tr0uble.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has declared a state of emergency in Louisiana as diesel prices rise to record levels during peak harvest season www.wdsu.com/article/loui...
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Louisiana governor declares state of emergency as diesel prices hit farmers hard
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has declared a state of emergency in Louisiana as diesel prices rise to record levels during peak harvest season.
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Good Trouble @good-tr0uble.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Collapse of Farm Exports Is the Most Underappreciated Story in American Politics American farm exports to China peaked in 2022 at $38.1 billion before falling to $8.4 billion last year. That's a 78 percent drop in the span of just three years reason.com/2026/09/24/t...
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The collapse of farm exports is the most underappreciated story in American politics
It was a direct result of President Donald Trump's trade war, as even the Department of Agriculture now admits.
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Good Trouble @good-tr0uble.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
8 US navy personnel assigned to the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group have attempted suicide since the start of their lengthy deployment as part of the US war on Iran www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Eight USS Lincoln personnel have attempted suicide, US navy confirms
Hung Cao, acting US navy secretary, answered questions from US senator Kirsten Gillibrand in a letter
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Good Trouble @good-tr0uble.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Missouri election workers warned switching maps this late is ‘practically impossible’ but the 8th Circuit ordered it anyway In Johnson County, Clerk Diane Norcross Thompson encouraged people to avoid absentee voting until the redistricting fight is resolved www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Missouri election workers warned switching maps this late is ‘practically impossible’ but the 8th Circuit ordered it anyway
A federal appeals court decision reinstating Missouri’s gerrymandered map for the midterms breezes past the practical considerations of election workers scrambling to prepare as voting begins.
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Good Trouble @good-tr0uble.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Election boards advise absentee voters that they can't vote again if Missouri congressional maps change www.kshb.com/news/local-n...
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Election boards advise absentee voters that they can't vote again if Missouri congressional maps change
Election boards in Kansas City and Jackson County published notices on the first day of absentee voting that U.S. congressional maps could change after someone votes, and they won't get to vote again.
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Good Trouble @good-tr0uble.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Flock, Axon dodge Senate hearing after invite from Chair Josh Hawley "For the Flock CEOs, obviously they're nervous about being on camera," Durbin said www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/09/...
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Flock, Axon dodge Senate hearing after invite from Chair Josh Hawley
Prior to the hearing about the surveillance technology companies, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., suggested the executives could face subpoenas.
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Good Trouble @good-tr0uble.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New York sued the prediction market Polymarket on Thursday, arguing the platform is an unlicensed gambling operation and calling for a judge to block the company from operating in the state apnews.com/article/poly...
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New York sues prediction market Polymarket, calling it an unlicensed gambling operation
New York has sued the prediction market Polymarket. It argues that the platform is an unlicensed gambling operation and wants a judge to block the company from operating in the state.
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Good Trouble @good-tr0uble.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
JD Vance Planted the Story That Sparked White House Media Ban The White House says a media ban is needed to protect national security. But one of the stories it cited as a threat came straight from the vice president newrepublic.com/post/215799/...
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JD Vance Planted the Story That Sparked White House Media Ban
The White House says a media ban is needed to protect national security. But one of the stories it cited as a threat came straight from the vice president.
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Good Trouble @good-tr0uble.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Judge orders White House to restore access for CNN, MS NOW and Politico Kelly wrote that the plaintiffs are likely to succeed in their lawsuit against the Trump administration, at least on the grounds that their credentials were revoked without due process www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
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Judge orders White House to restore access for CNN, MS NOW and Politico
Attorneys for the three news outlets had argued that President Donald Trump’s directive barring them from White House grounds was unconstitutional.
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Good Trouble @good-tr0uble.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Just over a month before the midterm elections in November, Texas has a backlog of voter registrations thanks to an error by the state Department of Public Safety newrepublic.com/post/215767/...
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Massive Error Affects Unknown Number of Texas Voter Registrations
The state Department of Public Safety wouldn’t say how many voters are affected.
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Good Trouble @good-tr0uble.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Seattle became the first city in the country to ban surveillance pricing on Tuesday afternoon after the City Council voted 7-2 to approve a measure co-sponsored and championed by progressive Mayor Katie Wilson www.commondreams.org/news/seattle...
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'Historic': Seattle Passes First City Ban on AI-Enabled Surveillance Pricing | Common Dreams
"​The price you see shouldn’t be different based on who you are. Mayor Wilson and the city council have made Seattle a leader on protecting shoppers from unfair grocery pricing tactics with this bill,...
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Good Trouble @good-tr0uble.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trump discloses more than 1,100 July trades, including up to $25 million each in sales of Microsoft, Amazon www.cnbc.com/2026/09/22/t...
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Trump discloses more than 1,100 July trades, including up to $25 million each in sales of Microsoft, Amazon
Trump sold tech stocks including Amazon and Microsoft when the Mag 7 stocks popped on July 20, adding $291 billion in market value in one day.
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Good Trouble @good-tr0uble.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why. DoorDash also gave $1.8 million to Local Economies Forward NY, a super PAC that contributed more than $360,000 to Cuomo’s campaign theintercept.com/2026/09/23/d...
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mamdani.
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Good Trouble @good-tr0uble.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
SF sues Trump's Truth Social over paid subscriptions City Attorney David Chiu announced a lawsuit against Trump Media for insider trading through early access to the online platform www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/s...
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'Unprecedented corruption': SF sues Trump's Truth Social over paid subscriptions
President Donald Trump's Truth Social is accused of "unprecedented corruption" and insider trading, according to a lawsuit announced Tuesday.
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Good Trouble @good-tr0uble.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
DoorDash will pay $131.5 million to settle claims that it underpaid delivery workers in New York City, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Tuesday apnews.com/article/door...
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DoorDash to pay $131M for underpaying delivery workers in New York City
DoorDash will pay $131.5 million to settle claims that it underpaid delivery workers in New York City. Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the agreement Tuesday.
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Good Trouble @good-tr0uble.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Trump wants to open nearly all national forest trails to dirt bikes and ATVs grist.org/regulation/t...
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Trump wants to open nearly all national forest trails to dirt bikes and ATVs
The Forest Service is proposing to allow motorized vehicles on all trails, two-tracks, and roads unless it explicitly designates otherwise.
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Good Trouble @good-tr0uble.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding thousands of detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, an unannounced move that has made it far more difficult for lawyers and relatives to find them apnews.com/article/ice-...
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Good Trouble @good-tr0uble.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Trump was inaudible during a press conference Monday after the TV pool suspended coverage, with White House-provided video carrying no usable audio of his remarks www.axios.com/2026/09/21/t...
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Trump inaudible during White House TV pool blackout
The fallout from Trump's media ban was visible — and audible — Monday.
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Good Trouble @good-tr0uble.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Garbage trucks analyze thousands of homes with AI-powered cameras The cameras quietly snap photos of residents’ yards and run the images through software that flags tall grass, litter, graffiti, or other more serious code violations like collapsing roofs www.popsci.com/technology/c...
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Garbage trucks analyze thousands of homes with AI-powered cameras
City Detects’s Blight Scores can help catch code violations, but critics aren’t so sure.
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Good Trouble @good-tr0uble.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Journalists denied White House access after Trump banned some media outlets Politico, CNN and MS NOW journalists have been denied access to the White House www.bbc.com/news/article...
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CNN, MS NOW and Politico say reporters denied White House access after Trump banned some media outlets
CNN, MS NOW and Politico reporters' White House press badges were confiscated, the outlets reported.
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Good Trouble @good-tr0uble.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Trump administration won a substantial victory in a Fourth Amendment fight on Thursday as a federal court of appeals ruled that a traveler's cellphone may be searched by government agents at the border without a warrant or suspicion lawandcrime.com/high-profile...
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Border agents can search cellphones without a warrant or reasonable suspicion: 2nd Circuit
A federal court of appeals ruled that a traveler's cellphone may be searched by government agents at the border without a warrant or suspicion.
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Good Trouble @good-tr0uble.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Since convening in January 2025, the 119th Congress has passed 108 major laws — and only 36 this year Johnson has canceled 63 scheduled voting days. Through Aug. 31, the House was in session for 383 hours — an average of 48 hours per month www.ms.now/opinion/hous...
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Mike Johnson’s do-nothing House goes home with a whimper
It is a fitting step for what has been, undoubtedly, the least effective Congress in American history.
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Good Trouble @good-tr0uble.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges arstechnica.com/health/2023/...
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UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges
For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.
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Good Trouble @good-tr0uble.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
More than 1,600 critically imperiled species protected under the US Endangered Species Act (ESA) face losing further federal protections following a new reinterpretation of the 1973 law by the Donald Trump administration www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump officials move to dismantle key protection for US endangered species
Fish and Wildlife Service memo calls for change in what it means to ‘take’ an endangered species
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Good Trouble @good-tr0uble.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Grandmother jailed for six months after facial recognition mistake launches $10 million lawsuit against Fargo and detective She lost her home, car, and dog while jailed for a crime committed more than 1,200 miles away www.techspot.com/news/113883-...
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Grandmother jailed for six months after facial recognition mistake launches $10 million lawsuit against Fargo and detective
In July 2025, a team of US Marshals arrested 50-year-old Lipps in Tennessee at gunpoint while she was babysitting four young children. She was booked into the...
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Good Trouble @good-tr0uble.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Since 2025, Trump Made More Stock Trades Than All 535 Congress Members Combined truthout.org/articles/sin...
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Since 2025, Trump Made More Stock Trades Than All 535 Congress Members Combined
This amounts to more than 80 trades per market day for the president in his first 17 months back in office.
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Good Trouble @good-tr0uble.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Iran war has cost the US more than $38B, budget office says apnews.com/article/iran...
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Good Trouble @good-tr0uble.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Florida DMV says it was hacked shortly after major driver’s license breach The breach is the second time this month that hackers broke into a target that stores driver’s license information for millions of Americans www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...
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Florida DMV says it was hacked shortly after major driver’s license breach
The breach is the second time this month that hackers broke into a target that stores driver’s license information for millions of Americans.
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Good Trouble @good-tr0uble.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Air pollution spiked after the Trump administration stopped embassy monitoring www.npr.org/2026/09/15/n...
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Air pollution spiked after the Trump administration stopped embassy monitoring
In 2025, the Trump administration ended a long-running program to collect air pollution data at U.S. embassies. A new study suggests that led to a 24-33% increase in local pollution levels.
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Good Trouble @good-tr0uble.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
‘Tidal wave’ of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry, campaigners warn The boom in AI tech was leading demand, with Pfas used for “eco-friendly” datacentre cooling and in various stages of semiconductor manufacturing www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Tidal wave’ of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry, campaigners warn
Big manufacturers planning to produce more of the forever chemicals to meet demand from datacentres
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Good Trouble @good-tr0uble.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Costco hikes motor oil prices and puts limits on how much members can buy In times of short supply, refineries typically prioritize fuels like gasoline and diesel, further limiting motor oil supply www.cnbc.com/2026/09/14/c...
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Costco hikes motor oil prices and puts limits on how much members can buy
Costco is limiting sales of its house brand motor oil to two units per customer per week amid rising oil prices.
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Good Trouble @good-tr0uble.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Cops Search Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of ‘LMAO,’ ‘IDK,’ ‘Hehe,’ and ‘asdfg’ “Mass surveillance is incompatible with a free society, and especially so when the people with access to this data are treating it like a joke.” www.404media.co/cops-search-...
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Cops Search Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of ‘LMAO,’ ‘IDK,’ ‘Hehe,’ and ‘asdfg’
The EFF found cops writing “idiot,” “WEIRD KID,” "blah," "leave me alone," and button mashing in Flock's 'reason' box.
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Good Trouble @good-tr0uble.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Rules aimed at limiting pollution from coal and gas power plants are being scrapped, the head of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced www.bbc.com/news/article...
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US scraps limits on emissions from coal and gas power plants
The Environment Protection Agency says the move will save the country billions of dollars and reduce energy prices.
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Good Trouble @good-tr0uble.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
10-year Treasury yield tops 5% as oil surges and diesel hits all-time high Talks between Iran and Gulf countries on the future of the Strait of Hormuz were delayed after a key Saudi pipeline was hit www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...
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10-year Treasury yield tops 5% as oil surges and diesel hits all-time high
Talks between Iran and Gulf countries on the future of the Strait of Hormuz were delayed after a key Saudi pipeline was hit.
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Good Trouble @good-tr0uble.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The Kennedy Center Board of Trustees is planning to propose adding Trump's name to the facility's exterior in recognition of his saving the building from its "precarious fiscal position," according to a new court filing in a suit aimed at blocking the addition of his name www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
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Kennedy Center board to propose new options for honoring Trump, according to court filing
The document proposes 10 options for adding the president's name to the building's exterior.
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