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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We are now, without a doubt, the greatest kleptocracy the world has ever known. By virtue of Donald Trump and the Republican Party promising to hate and abuse those people a nation of angry rubes wants to hate and abuse, they have lifted the national wallet and handed it back to the rubes, empty.
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gooddoc01.bsky.social @gooddoc01.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Congratulations to the 2026 class of MacArthur Fellows - such an inspiring group of exceptionally creative people! youtu.be/OZgdPqoN2QI?... #MacFellows
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Meet the 2026 MacArthur Fellows
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 22/09/2026
Trump has been coming for American higher education since January 20th, 2025. He came for targeted university presidents, grants and programs with any mention of diversity or inclusion, and those programs vanished, students and professors along with them. 🧵
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 15/09/2026
This is a win for the American people. Voting by mail has been, and still is, a pillar of our elections and is fundamental to full participation in our democracy for millions. Here in Illinois, I expanded vote-by-mail to ensure all our citizens can make their voices heard.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 11/09/2026
What do science and constitutional democracy have in common? In a PNAS Editorial, Harvey V. Fineberg explores how both rely on institutions that can recognize errors, revise judgments, and learn over time. In PNAS: ow.ly/ww7C50ZMFJY
PNAS Logo. NEW EDITORIAL. Perfectibility in science and democracy: Institutions that learn. Harvey V. Fineberg. Headshot of Harvey V. Fineberg. Credit: Charles Darwin Foundation.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/08/2026
Pritzker: So here’s the truth, plain and simple: Our state is under siege. Not by protesters, immigrants, the deep state, the press, Canada or Mexico or Greenland, Antifa or Jewish space lasers or pride parades. No. Our state's under siege by a petty, corrupt man in Washington.
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gooddoc01.bsky.social @gooddoc01.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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Balloon Juice - Help Worker Power launch a GOTV team to knock on 7,500 doors in 2 weeks in 2 of the most flippable House districts in the US
Help Worker Power launch a GOTV team to knock on 7,500 doors for 2 weeks in two of the most flippable House districts in the country. Donate https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bj4-worker-power-az-2026 ...
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: MIT Professor Develop Technology That Could Detect Ovarian Cancer Before It's Too Late After losing loved ones to cancer, MIT Professor Angela Belcher developed a technology that detects ovarian cancer early, before it spreads.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 23/07/2026
1. The new Trump / Kratsios plan for US science appears explicitly designed to destroy US universities. Diverting money to tech donors is probably just a bonus. Gift link.
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Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities (Gift Article)
Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
"I need you to *find* 11,780 votes." —Something said by someone who tries to interfere with elections, not something said by someone who is concerned with election interference.
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Men in Blazers Media Network @meninblazers.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
USMNT captain Tim Ream said the squad, which includes members from 12 different states, 13 dual-nationals, and is coached by an Argentine, is "a true representation of what America is." ❤️🤍💙
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
can your heart withstand the shocking truth of the SWAMP CREATURE www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Swamp creature
A cartoon by Tom Tomorrow.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 27/06/2026
The Trump administration shuttered Climate . gov last year. Now, former NOAA scientists fired during the DOGE cuts have launched Climate . us - a new home for trusted climate science and public resources. Science persists. ✊ zurl.co/GdVMU
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Ex-NOAA employees re-create a valuable climate data site shut down by Trump
Former NOAA staffers have launched a new website that provides climate information. It replaces a government site that was shut down when the Trump administration took office.
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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 21/06/2026
This is incredible. So satisfying. I was going to say it’s “cutting” but it’s more a knifing to the gut or maybe a beheading. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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The French aristocrat and the all-American idiot: Henry v Lalas is the World Cup’s most compelling battle
Fox’s broadcast at the tournament has become a story of two contrasting styles. And there is one clear winner
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
You thought Elon Musk and DOGE were bad? Russell Vought now wants to codify political control over ALL federal grant-funding, killing grants at will on anything from road repair to rural hospitals, cancer research and schools. Write to Congress! Share, share, share. actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...
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Oppose OMB Proposal to Put ALL Federal Government Funding Decisions in the Hands of Political Appointees
On May 29, 2026, the Office of Management and Budget issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), OMB-2026-0034, Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance. The scope of this proposed regulation is...
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
We elected this unrestrained, delusional, ass-ignorant brat to the United States presidency twice. Our republic is tragedy and farce.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 02/06/2026
The idea that only nuclear or gas can provide "firm power" -- the last line of defense against the relentless advance of clean energy -- is going the way of the dodo. There are no arguments left. The only reason to fight progress now is corruption & raw political power.
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24/7 renewables could happen sooner than you think
Grouping wind, solar, and batteries together can already be more affordable than building a coal or gas plant in prime locations, new report finds.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
If the Congress changes hands in November, Russell Vought at OMB should be the first to be impeached. He is a deadly menace to society. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...
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Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule
Russell Vought is going destroy American Science
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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
So Trump blew up Obama's deal with Iran, launched a new war, depleted our arsenal, cost us tens of billions, exposed the US as weaker to the world, and ended up just going back to a version of Obama's deal but worse? Do I have that right?
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/05/2026
In chemistry, a supersaturated solution is one where you've kept adding a solute to a liquid beyond where the liquid can dissolve everything. All it takes is a nucleation site / seed crystal for the solution to rapidly (sometimes violently) crystalize. Unrelatedly, the US has more guns than people.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The destruction of US pandemic preparedness, infectious disease research, our withdrawal from WHO, is a five-alarm fire. Want something to be worried about? Should we be faced with another pandemic, we are now more vulnerable than ever. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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The Hantavirus Isn’t the Biggest Threat We’re Facing
The government’s destruction of our pandemic preparedness is.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 11/05/2026
if you read the NYT piece out today about the Trump admin condemning Black people to live in raw sewage in the name of fighting "illegal DEI," please make sure you also read and share the piece I wrote about this over a year ago! ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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Trump DOJ: Providing Basic Sewer Services to Black People Is Actually “Illegal DEI”
The Trump administration has nixed a 2023 settlement that was building modern sanitation infrastructure in Lowndes County, a predominantly Black county in Alabama.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
we don’t talk enough about how Chicago is the most gorgeous city in the country
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
RFK Jr. is a eugenicist. Plain and simple. He's ignorant of science and medicine and lives in a conspiracy-addled world of his own mind. He's is destroying American public health and biomedicine.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/05/2026
Pritzker: "I think the man has dementia. I don't really understand how it works up there for him."
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
The sense of entitlement for Israel to be immune from criticism reflected in the reaction to this speech is troubling, illegitimate, and worthy of being resisted forcefully.
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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
With the awful Supreme Court decision yesterday further gutting voting rights, we're about to see more craven gerrymandering. Its absurd and enough. The only way to keep voters in control is to move to proportional representation and end gerrymandering for good. protectdemocracy.org/work/proport...
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Proportional representation, explained
With proportional representation, parties don't win before elections even begin. And they can't manipulate the system to their advantage.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
No sugar-coating the Court’s decision today. Real talk. @allinwithchris.bsky.social
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
The 1st Amendment wasn't written so we'd feel free wishing each other a happy birthday. It was written so we'd feel free saying sharp and difficult things, such as stating plainly that the president of the United States is a convicted felon who is trying to destroy American democracy.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Just listen to this short post by @jamellebouie.net on the destruction of #USAID by #ElonMusk. Hundreds of thousands have died, millions-mostly black & brown people-more will die due to the white supremacist vision of this man. Bouie says it so directly, so clearly. www.instagram.com/reel/DXfJWyF...
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Jamelle Bouie on Instagram: "i'm really not exaggerating when I say that elon musk is one of history's great monsters."
12K likes, 467 comments - jbouie on April 23, 2026: "i'm really not exaggerating when I say that elon musk is one of history's great monsters.".
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
new toon! www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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The visionaries
As always, if you find value in this work I do, please consider helping me keep it sustainable by joining my weekly newsletter, Sparky’s List! You can get it in your inbox or read it on Patreon…
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
The task of de-Trumpification of science and public health will take a generation and a "Marshall Plan" to rebuild. Without a bold, expansive vision to guide us, there is no coming back. Small-bore, poll-tested versions of the future will not help us. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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We Need to Prepare for the Mammoth Task of De-Trumpification
The damage he and his cronies have wrought could take decades to repair, particularly when it comes to science and public health.
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
My succinct Strait of Hormuz synopsis:
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10/04/2026
Goddamn y'all. Robert Plant is 77 years old. The song "Ramble On" is 56 years old. And this sounds so fresh I wouldn't blink if I heard it on the radio today. One of the all-time greats.
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“Ramble On” - Robert Plant with Saving Grace (LIVE on The Late Show)
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Reason number 632 why #JayBhattacharya is not a serious scientist and is an ideological hack (and has been this way since at least 2020). His politics drives his thinking and his politics is now all in with MAGA.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
8 Million protesters yesterday at #NoKings. No police beaten with flag poles. No fire extinguishers thrown at other humans. No vandalism or theft. No racist flags. No zip ties. No death threats. No pipe bombs. No poop smeared on walls. That's what happens when mature, civilized people protest.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 28/03/2026
It was a long winter but No Kings Spring has arrived in Chicago. #NoKings
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/03/2026
if nothing else, there is something to be said for spending time outside in the sun with thousands of people who share your anger at the state of things
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Now get out and vote in the midterms like your life depends on it, because it does. #NoKings
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 25/03/2026
The E Street Band is coming your way!
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Enjoy the body bags, gas prices and well-protected child rapists, MAGA voters. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Concentration camps. Use the term. Do not stop using the term until this current American regime falls and the camps are liberated. Then use the term in The Hague. This is Trumpism. This is white nationalism. This is he moral gutter into which America has fallen.
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Record deaths in US immigration custody expose systemic failures
Families, advocates and lawmakers say poor care, opaque investigations and bureaucracy leave deaths unexplained
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Wrote about how MAGA is a rebellion against the reality of interdependence, and how that led the Trump administration to completely ignore the potential fallout of going to war with Iran. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Margaret Thatcher once declared that “there is no such thing” as society. She always insisted that what she meant was that “society was not an abstraction, separate from the men and women who composed it, but a living structure of individuals, families, neighbours and voluntary associations.“

Trump, however, and the Trumpified Republican Party, might actually subscribe to the way her critics understood her point—that society doesn’t exist, and that therefore none of us has any responsibilities or obligations to anyone else, other than the ones we choose to have.

Life is more complicated than that, especially when you’re trying to make war on a state that can close a strategic waterway that is crucial to the world economy. The Trump administration seems to have neither anticipated nor planned properly for the closing of the Strait of Hormuz, through which much of the world’s oil is transported. Iran has begun firing at ships in the strait, dissuading commercial traffic from transiting it. Energy prices are almost certain to rise, but so are prices on other products—you need energy to transport goods to meet global market demand. The possibility that the war might destabilize the world economy either was not part of the Trump administration’s plans for this capricious, ill-advised, and arguably unconstitutional military venture, or was not taken seriously. American war planners seem to have not factored in that, despite being adversaries, the U.S. and Iran are interconnected in vital ways that waging war on Iran would disrupt.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/03/2026
So NYT is in this dilemma of its own making. Maintaining the noble-savage myth about MAGA requires ... never actually hearing directly from MAGA. Hearing directly from MAGA requires ... abandoning your own stated moral & journalistic principles. There's no solution to that equation, as I wrote:
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The real problem with the New York Times op-ed page: it’s not honest about US conservatism
It wants to challenge its readers, but not with the ugly truth.
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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
As I've posted, it's baffling the confidence with which establishment finance and political types dismiss me when I've expressed concern about the dollar being replaced as the global reserve currency. People lack imagination I guess. But maybe not the Iranians: www.thebulwark.com/p/the-war-de...
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The War Development(s) That Should Truly Scare Us
How Iran could speed up de-dollarization and how Trump could put boots on the ground in Iran—sort of.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 12/03/2026
"The responsibility for food security must shift decisively toward social and economic systems … Agricultural research is needed to improve the sustainability and productivity of food production systems," writes Christoph Müller in a new #ScienceEditorial. scim.ag/3P6zC9Z
"… food insecurity is a by-product of prevailing political and economic systems." - Christoph Müller, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Happening today: public health chaos and research funding cuts are inspiring nationwide pro-science protests against the Trump administration
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Stand Up for Science plans second rally on March 7
Public health chaos and research funding cuts are inspiring nationwide pro-science protests against the Trump administration
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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
“Donald Trump’s White House is blocking top US intelligence agencies from warning law enforcement across the country about rising threats to the homeland tied to his war with Iran, the Daily Mail can reveal”
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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I’m baffled why there is so little talk of the actual worst case scenarios. Trump obviously doesn’t get them. But the guns of August started as an assassination in Sarajevo. This war is already expanding countries by the day. And the world is filled with flammable tinder.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
After the arrests of powerful men across the world, you might be asking why the US has so much trouble holding its leaders accountable for lawbreaking. Since Nixon, all three branches of government have worked hard to ensure they can break the law with impunity www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account
Our national project of elite impunity
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