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Scott Colom @scolom.bsky.social · 5h
She done lost her damn mind.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h
Troy Jackson to Susan Collins: "In light of the article last week from ProPublica, I'm shocked that you're up here talking about fraud, because there's only one person up here that's been accused of that by the FBI."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h
SUSAN COLLINS: My heart goes out to the family of the man who was shot in Biddeford. My Duran Guerrero TROY JACKSON: Well the man's name was Johan Sebastián Guerrero. That was his name.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 3h
I worked with—and deeply admired—Helen for almost 30 years. She was hands down *the best source* about emerging infectious diseases that I've ever known. My first warning of COVID was when on Dec 28, 2019 she reposted a ProMED mail report of an atypical pneumonia cluster: "This doesn't look good."
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Helen Branswell, whose reporting on infectious diseases and public health drew acclaim, dies at 69
Helen Branswell, STAT's infectious disease reporter who earned the respect of experts and public health officials with her accessible, prescient dispatches, has died at age 69.
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Jesse @jessereed78.bsky.social · 3h
it's like Jesus was always telling his disciples
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 6h
Everyone has a bad day at work sometimes - even the new White House press secretary. Watch Katie Zacharia give us her first try on a press briefing. It's... a little rough.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h
Q: If the president requests American ground troops in Iran, will you support that deployment even if it means more American casualties? MIKE COLLINS: *dissembles, doesn't answer Q* OSSOFF: The question was about the war in Iran. He's perfectly happy to send other people's children to die in war
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h
OSSOFF: Mike Collins called for killing immigrants by throwing them to their deaths out of helicopters. I'd like to hear if Mike Collins stands by that statement. Do you still believe in the extrajudicial killing of immigrants? MIKE COLLINS: *changes topic*
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h
OSSOFF: How weak a person do you have to be to be unable to stop someone under your own roof from disseminating neo-Nazi propaganda while you run for Senate? COLLINS: Will you denounce Reid Hoffman? O: If he was based in my house, then I'd understand you asking me to take responsibility for him
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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 4h
I’m sorry, did a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate just ‘Won’t somebody think of the neo-Nazis?’ during a live TV debate?
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Anders Puck Nielsen @anderspucknielsen.dk · 7h
Many people have a wrong idea about what US intelligence sharing with Ukraine is. In reality it's largely early warnings about air strikes so Ukrainians can seek shelter. This requires US satellites. But it looks like Trump might have instructed his military to stop giving Ukrainians that warning.
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Chicken WingDings 🇵🇸 @ebridget.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Ms Rachel from the top ropes
From Ms Rachel's account on Threads, she writes, "CORECIVIC, a company that makes hundreds of millions locking up KIDS in immigration detention
has a PAC that's sending campaign checks to Senator Susan Collins of Maine.
Susan Collins chairs the Senate committee that writes ICE's budget.
ICE is CoreCivic's customer.
The company gets paid out of a budget she controls, and it pays into her campaign."
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 8h
"Today, White evangelical Protestants are the only religious group in which more people approve than disapprove of Trump’s job performance (58% vs. 40%). In every other group, more disapprove than approve" (although that 58% is a 20 point drop from Jan. 2025) www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
pewresearch.org
Religious Groups Differ Widely in Their 2026 Midterm Preferences
White evangelical Protestants and White Catholics favor Republicans in the midterms, while other religious groups split or lean Democratic.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h
Troy Jackson: "She is the chair of appropriations. If she wants to stop the war, she could cut the funding off for the war, but she's not she is not willing to do that because Donald Trump wants this."
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 7h
@helenbranswell.bsky.social was probably the only person on here who each year closely tracked/posted US pediatric flu deaths—always covering every change for past seasons, too. these threads never got much notice or attention, but she kept writing them because she believed they should be reported.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7h
Excerpts from Michael Lewis on DOGE (Guardian article). 1. Gavin Kliger, white nationalist, refused to shake hands with the Black IRS staffer who briefed him on privacy issues. Or pay attention. Kliger now has a defense start-up valued at 1.4B thanks to DOGE. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Phyllis, who loved working for Kathleen and saw falling on hand grenades as part of her job, never told her how this one had felt. She knew Gavin had expressed enthusiasm for white nationalists, and he likely knew that she knew. She tried to break the ice by walking in with her hand extended; Gavin stared at it and declined to shake it, though he had shaken the hands of the white men who had offered them. “He was kind of cool towards me,” said Phyllis. Before she could even start the briefing, he said, You know, I’ve heard these rules before at other agencies. Yes, she said, but these rules are different, because no other agency is governed by this privacy law, and this law can get you thrown in jail very quickly. As she walked him through the basics – how you can’t use your personal phone for business, how if you happen to so much as glimpse a form 1040 with someone’s name on it you must avert your eyes – Gavin played on his phone. “He’s multitasking right in front of me, typing and texting,” said Phyllis. “It was, here’s a routine that I must endure.”
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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 8h
This is a trend. A lot of officials think they’re $50 million dollar grifters, and get fired when it turns out they’re just $200k grifters Their prize in this administration is not vast fortunes. It’s making the same salary as a doctor while barely being able to read
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 8h
Incredible first day for new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 8h
“Sir, we are cratering in the polls, please try and not do anything nuts for the next month. Maybe on social, just keep it benign.” “Like what?” “I don’t know. People like animals. A lot of people just post like cat videos and stuff.” “Gotcha, say no more.”
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 11h
New paper out today shows that ICE and National Guard presence in DC led to a pretty sizable drop in pediatric ER visits among Spanish-speaking and Hispanic patients. If sick kids can't go to the emergency room, immigration justice has to be a public health issue. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Federal Immigration Enforcement Deployment and ED Utilization Among Children
This cross-sectional study evaluates changes in pediatric emergency department utilization following the August 11, 2025, immigration enforcement deployment in Washington, DC, and whether these chang...
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 11h
A 24-year-old woman spent 13 days in jail after Flock cameras wrongly identified her as being associated with a deadly highway crash: "I’m forever changed. I will carry this with me for the rest of my life."
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Joe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 11h
Dominoes meme from Iran War to Domino’s
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 11h
Remembering that time when some big name accounts were arguing that X is all good now and the algorithm has been de-Elon'd. Wait, that was yesterday. The same time this was happening.
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Chris Sommerfeldt @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social · 10h
New: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin have reached a deal to abolish NYC's horse carriage industry — a critical breakthrough in a decadeslong, politically fraught effort to ban the tourist attraction. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
politico.com
Mamdani and City Council strike deal to ban NYC horse carriage industry
The deal marks a major breakthrough in a long-running effort to outlaw the industry. It is also likely to inflame Mamdani’s relationship with a powerful local union.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 12h
Here is RFK Jr telling a crowd in Pennsylvania that the cure for measles is "chicken soup"
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Jake Lahut @jakelahut.bsky.social · 12h
What???
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 14h
Q: "The president said yesterday to reporters that he is considering firing [Kimberly Guilfoyle]. Do you know a timeline for that?" Zacharia: "We have asked Ambassador Guilfoyle to resign."
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 16h
People Say These Peptides Hurt Them. Their Stories Are Muffled in MAHA’s Push for Medical Freedom. kffhealthnews.org/public-healt...
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People Say These Peptides Hurt Them. Their Stories Are Muffled in MAHA’s Push for Medical Freedom. - KFF Health News
People who have taken experimental peptides, such as BPC-157, complain of migraines, eye pain, fatigue, and more. Learning whether these popular but unproven drugs are to blame may become harder if Ro...
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Andy Kaczynski @kfile.bsky.social · 16h
NEW: Among the Truth Social posts we found shared by incoming White House press secretary Katie Zacharia were a seemingly pro-Putin post claiming he was fighting a “cabal” in Ukraine, and another implying Joan Rivers was killed for saying Michelle Obama had a penis. www.cnn.com/2026/10/12/p...
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New White House press secretary has a history of conspiracy-laced social media posts | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump’s incoming White House press secretary, Katie Zacharia, repeatedly made baseless accusations of pedophilia against prominent Democrats and shared conspiracy-related content, inc...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 18h
Last night the BBC’s Newsnight booked the former spokesperson to a war criminal to call UK PM Andy Burnham a liar about Russian interference in the Brexit vote: Putin mouthpiece Sergei Markov. What was he supposed to say? Yeah, hands up, you got us.
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 17h
Since his first trip to Moscow in 1987, Trump “has loudly repeated Russian propaganda … Upon returning from that trip, he took out full-page ads in three newspapers, attacking American alliances ... For nearly 40 yers, he has been saying much the same thing.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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Trump’s Message to Ukraine Is Now Crystal Clear
The president’s actions over the past 72 hours look like an effort to force Kyiv to surrender.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 17h
1. Trump’s new White House press secretary, Katie Zacharia, says she is a lawyer. She has claimed to be a lawyer repeatedly on national TV, on podcasts, and on social media. But there is no evidence that Zacharia has ever been licensed to practice law.
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Scoop: Lesley Stahl's "60 Minutes" piece on the extremist Israeli settlers in the West Bank spurred HEATED clashes behind the scenes at CBS News, with Bari Weiss "very, very hands-on." Stahl grew so frustrated, she floated quitting. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/bari-weiss...
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Bari’s Stahl Showdown
Two recent clashes over Israel coverage have roiled Bari Weiss' CBS News, Status has learned, with one confrontation even pushing legendary “60 Minutes” correspondent Lesley Stahl to the brink of quit...
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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Worst letter to Penthouse ever.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Oh Wow.
Tweet one:
James Talarico posts a picture with Kacey Musgraves.

Tweet two:
Kristi Noem responds "I’ll take @ellalangleymsic over Kacey Musgraves any day.

And if I’m choosin’ Texas, I’ll take Ken Paxton over James Talarico."

Tweet three:
Kacey Musgraves responds "I don’t think you have a dog in this fight but if you did you would have shot it."
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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I shouldn't have to tell you that the church Colonial Williamsburg tore down & replaced with a parking lot was a Black church.
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gopickles.bsky.social @gopickles.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Looks like I need to catch up on my internet memes.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 12/10/2026
"AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer, says Palantir CTO"
businessinsider.com
AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer, says Palantir CTO
Some AI believers expect the technology to make smoking-related health risks like cancer a thing of the past, Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar said.
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gopickles.bsky.social @gopickles.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
real quick, someone ask chatgpt if cancer is the only health consequence of smoking
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12/10/2026
Andy Biggs refuses to answer why he didn’t take action despite knowing that the federal government was investigating local police for their involvement in FLDS leader Warren Jeffs’s polygamist pedophile cult while in prison: “I think your question is grossly unfair.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/10/2026
Q: Russia already violated the ceasefire and attacked Ukraine last night. TRUMP: Well I'm not sure about that. But all I know is that Zelenskyy and Putin have to get together and end that ridiculous war.
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
How wonderful 🫶🏼 #BookSky
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 12/10/2026
Last month, Van Hollen became the first Member of Congress to call on European states to sanction the president. Now, he seems to be the first Member of Congress to say that Trump himself should be investigated and possibly prosecuted by the ICC.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/10/2026
Q: How are going to make Putin abide by the ceasefire? TRUMP: I think what's happening is he wants to make a deal and we have to get Zelenskyy to want to make a deal. I think Putin wants to make a deal more than Zelenskyy.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 12/10/2026
Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський
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A report from the negotiating team following its meetings in the United States and based on daily communication with the American President’s team. Ukraine is ready for real decisions and de-escalatory steps to bring an end to this war closer. Ukraine has supported the energy ceasefire. Our position is absolutely clear: Ukraine is ready to guarantee the energy ceasefire, as announced by the American President, and Russia must take corresponding steps.

As of now, there is no indication that Russia is complying with the conditions outlined by the American President. Unfortunately, there were strikes on our energy infrastructure yesterday, and strikes on our energy infrastructure continue today. All day long, there have been air raid alerts across Ukraine, Russian “shaheds” are being used, and aerial bomb strikes continue. If these strikes are indeed Russia’s response to the U.S. President’s statement, it means the Russians have squandered yet another opportunity to bring peace closer. A lot depends on America’s position for de-escalation to actually succeed. Pressure on Russia is needed. We continue to communicate with the American side at all levels. We defined the next steps and the diplomatic framework. Glory to Ukraine!
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I realize it often feels like nothing matters anymore, but a comedian going on SNL and calling women whores— calling the ordinary women he sees at the gym *whores* — because of their clothes matters to me. It’s really gross, and I’m glad Levy said something.
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𝓒𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓲𝓮 @anondananda.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Dr. John Francis @drjohnfrancis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Wrong Portland. @nbcnews.com #MEsen www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
A sixth measles death in PA. www.pennlive.com/health/2026/...
pennlive.com
Central Pa. woman dies after contracting measles, coroner says
The county coroner's office said that the woman had several underlying conditions, including a past diagnosis of measles.
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