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Wife to a Military Veteran, Mom, Grandma, Democrat. ‘Empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.’ – Octavia Butler

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Seems like this should be a bigger deal. 🤷🏼 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
EL RENO, Okla. — A damaged private water line at a data center in El Reno caused more than 3 million gallons of water to be wasted this week, prompting the city to issue emergency abatement and public nuisance notices. www.koco.com/article/el-r...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
TW ⚠️ — former @UTChattanooga basketball player “Teddy” Washington Jr. gets hair viciously pulled and punched in the face by an Arkansas State Trooper (From @AttorneyCrump) More: thegrio.com/2026/08/29/t...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
“.. In a widely cited report earlier this month, J.P. Morgan analysts warned that global food inflation would hit 5% in the first half of 2027, nearly double what it was in the first half of 2026.” @axios.com www.axios.com/2026/08/30/g...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The "constant roaring"... "It's like you're in the middle of the airport where the planes are taking off, but they never take off," she said. www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-mu...
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Elon Musk's data centers are pushing out a family that's owned land since "before people of color were allowed to"
A plant in Southaven, Mississippi, that powers Elon Musk's SpaceXAI data centers in the area has sparked backlash from residents concerned about noise and air pollution.
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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A civilian geography professor was fired from West Point for pushing back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change.
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West Point professor fired after pushing back on limitations to teaching climate change, lawsuit says
Adam Kalkstein pushed back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change, the lawsuit says.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
MS NOW: Troops fighting against Iran and alleged drug smugglers say they're being asked to violate international law. Orgs that help service members leave the military as conscientious objectors are seeing a large increase in concerns over U.S. strikes against alleged drug boats and inside Iran.
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Troops fighting against Iran and drug smugglers say they're being asked to violate international law
Organizations that help service members apply to leave the military as conscientious objectors are seeing a large increase in concerns over U.S. military strikes against alleged drug boats and targets...
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The water that data centers use for electricity generation in just the top 7 states with the most data centers is the equivalent of 12-times the annual water use of Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Washington, DC, combined. /1 news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-...
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Data Centers Use More Water Than California Cities, Study Says
Electric power generation for data centers is a threat to water supplies even in states outside the arid Southwest, according to a report published Tuesday by the think tank Ceres.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Reminder: watch what they do, not what they say
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. Americans are now paying roughly 75% more for aluminum than the rest of the world.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/u-s-...
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Rob Bon Vivant🌊 @77sunnyandclear.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Fourteen years ago, HBO's 'The Newsroom' laid out the truth about voter ID in this segment. It’s striking how little the arguments — or the tactics — have changed. Still a solution in search of a problem. History doesn’t repeat itself — it gets rerun.
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Garry @thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is why Dolly Parton will be remembered and loved ❤️📚
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
NYT: “.. The move could prevent residents from raising concerns about — or even learning about — data centers before permits are approved and construction starts.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/c...
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 25/08/2026
The Trump-installed board that runs the Kennedy Center told a federal judge the building will have to be torn down unless President Donald Trump's name goes on it.
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Trump board threatens to destroy 'unsafe' Kennedy Center in apocalyptic court filing
The Trump-installed board that runs the Kennedy Center told a federal judge the building will have to be torn down unless President Donald Trump's name goes on it.Justice Department lawyers made the argument for Trump on Monday in a court filing before U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper. It oppo...
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Let’s talk about Medicare for All. What would it mean for the individual American? ⬇ The day you’re born you get a card that gives you health insurance with no premium, co-pay, or deductible. Doesn’t matter if you get a job, lose a job, turn 26 or 65, get married or divorced — it's there for you.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/08/2026
WATCH: Hundreds of thousands of dollars in public subsidies goes to funding internet service to unlivable buildings on Alaska’s Adak Island. @kylehopkinsak.bsky.social knocked on every door and talked to every person he could find. Not a single person told him they used the service.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
"USDA reported a nearly 500% jump in beef export sales before revising the figure down by 90% a ​week later. The error was the latest of a series of questionable USDA reports amid ​concerns about data quality after staffing losses during the Trump administration..." www.reuters.com/business/ret...
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EXCLUSIVE: Senate Democrats question USDA about data errors, staff losses
U.S. Senate Democrats asked the Department of Agriculture late on Wednesday ‌to explain what caused the agency to vastly overstate beef export sales last month and what role department staff losses pl...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
NYT: “.. Slaughtering wild horses is illegal, but the [Bureau of Land Management’s] actions create a loophole that enables people to get mustangs on the cheap and then quickly resell them to be exported alive, processed into cuts of meat and sold abroad.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/u...
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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
BREAKING: In unusual 9PM Friday Federal Register filing, Postal Service finalizes regulation to deny delivery of mail-in ballots not matching addresses in database BUT says won't implement 'til court orders are lifted. #SCOTUS still quiet. Doc: public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-17238.pdf
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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The Pentagon on Friday moved to fire the editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes as well as its retiring publisher and a civilian reporter who covers the Middle East for the news organization. Read more: www.stripes.com/theaters/us/... #Flashes
From left: Stars and Stripes Publisher Max D. Lederer Jr., Editor-in-Chief Erik Slavin and reporter Lara Korte. (Stars and Stripes)
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 21/08/2026
BREAKING: The editor of military newspaper Stars and Stripes says he has been fired for insubordination after calling any censorship a "red line."
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Stars and Stripes editor says he has been fired for insubordination after doing interview
The editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes says the Pentagon has fired the editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes, as well as its publisher and a reporter.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 20/08/2026
The Trump administration has been quietly selling thousands of wild mustangs to slaughterhouses for as little as $25 a horse — more than doubling sales since taking office, according to a Times analysis of government records
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Trump secretly sends thousands of horses to their deaths: 'Slaughter in plain sight'
Wild horses couldn't keep President Donald Trump away from the chance of making a kill, according to a new report.Under his administration, thousands of wild horses have been rounded up with helicopters, packed into metal trailers, trucked hundreds of miles, and sold off to be slaughtered, the New Y...
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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jt3ou123.bsky.social @jt3ou123.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Just a heads up, these gloves are being issued to ROs at schools: youtu.be/0n7O8Max8cM?...
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Omaha police unveil shock gloves for school resource officers
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Our second batch of 20oz tumblers is officially live! Sorry for the limited quantities. Thank you so much for the incredible support! 💚 100% of profits from this tumbler will support the 2026 Yosemite Facelift, an annual volunteer cleanup of Yosemite National Park.
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Resist Bear 20oz Tumbler - Olive Green
Olive green 20oz Polar Camel tumbler featuring our Resist Bear design permanently laser engraved into the finish, revealing the stainless steel underneath. Double-wall vacuum-insulated stainless steel...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Reporter: Family members of service members are concerned about conditions on the LIncoln. Trump: No they’re not. Reporter: Has the deployment gone on too long? Trump: No. Not nearly long enough.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
If all income in excess of $400,000 were subject to the Social Security payroll tax, Social Security’s solvency would be guaranteed forever. We could also expand Social Security benefits. There’s no reason even to consider reducing Social Security benefits or raising the age of eligibility.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
NEW AD: 14 years ago today, Ken Paxton stole someone's $1,000 pen. Today, Ken Paxton’s pen victim is endorsing James Talarico.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
WATCH — @timmiller.bsky.social : “We have internment camps in 🇺🇸, and I don’t think people have really mentally accepted that.” And it’s big business for Trump and his private prison donor buddies. (like @MarshaBlackburn’s friends at Core Civic)
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
New reporting reveals Ohio Republican Gov. candidate Vivek Ramaswamy hired his mother to manipulate clinical trial data for an Alzheimer's drug he owned the rights to. This scheme boosted Ramaswamy's company stock price and generated a $1.4 B IPO, where he then cashed out before the stock tanked.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
A recent survey found that 92% of U.S. adults have delayed or avoided medical care due to high costs. Meanwhile, a new study from Yale estimates that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year. If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have universal healthcare.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I don’t understand the logic in scrapping the electromagnetic aircraft launch system (EMALS), and neither do the navy personnel who operate these carriers. Just changing shit for no reason.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This is absolutely ridiculous. For all its potential pitfalls, the Ford aircraft carriers are built entirely around the EMALS system, and "replacing" it with steam catapults - which require large amounts of space and personnel - is simply not a realistic option. www.wsj.com/us-news/trum...
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Exclusive | Trump Orders Navy to Restore Old Technology in Aircraft Carriers, Costing Billions
The Navy spent years fighting the president’s push to go back to steam catapults.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
NEW: Vice chair of Senate Appropriations Cmte launches probe into Trump Admin's purchase of fleet of "luxury jets" to transport top officials, including Tom Homan & Kash Patel “It has come to our attention that the Dept. is effectively running an in-house private jet service"
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The president is refusing to spend taxpayer money assisting Americans suffering from natural disasters solely because their states didn't vote for him. I know there are a thousand scandals at the moment, but this one deserves some more oxygen at every level.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12/08/2026
SHOCK REPORT: Desperate sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have tried to jump overboard amid an extended Middle East deployment, as families sound the alarm over severe mental health struggles, exhaustion, food shortages, water contamination, deteriorating conditions, + more, per Military Times.
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Multiple USS Abraham Lincoln sailors have tried to go overboard amid extended deployment, families say
Multiple sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have attempted to go overboard as the carrier's deployment stretches into its ninth month.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
“Socialism is a scareword they have hurled at every advance the people have made… socialism is their name for most anything that helps the people. 1952. Truman. This is how stale their desperate fearmongering is. cc: @MarshaBlackburn
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This is insane. New immigration judges, many of whom have never read a single immigration law case in their life before they got the job, are getting just 12 weekdays of training before they go on the bench, and very little of it is on the substantive law.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/08/2026
El-Sayed: "Imagine if instead of paying that to your health insurance company, whose CEO makes $20m a year, you paid a little bit more in taxes for healthcare you wouldn't lose. I think all of us would a lot more interested in that system if we knew our healthcare would be free at point of care"
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
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𝙾𝙻𝙸𝚅𝙸𝙰 🤍 🇲🇽 𝟺𝚃𝙷 𝚃𝚁𝙰𝙽𝚂𝙵𝙾𝚁𝙼𝙴𝚁 @olivia4t.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
🚨 #BREAKING (CHICAGO SUBURBS) ÏCE agents pulled a GUN, and a TASER, on unarmed U.S. citizens for recording them from a public sidewalk… while threatening, “you aren’t going to like the outcome.”
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Dianne Dupuis @iamfreetobeme.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
A data center in Wyoming has contaminated the water supply.
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Wyoming officials say Meta’s 715,000-square-foot data center is responsible for contaminating its water system with a rare bacterium — FORTUNE
July 10, 2026, 10:53 AM ET Wyoming residents attend an Evanston planning and zoning commission meeting regarding the construction of the nearby Prometheus Hyperscale data center. Cheyenne, Wyoming, of...
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Blanche’s appeasement is hollow. Trump still gets immunity from tax audits worth $100 million. And last week’s payout to abortion clinic blocker shows the path to payouts to rewrite history will be individual settlements instead of one designated fund. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
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Blanche Gives G.O.P. Senators Written Assurances on Trump’s I.R.S. Deal (Gift Article)
Todd Blanche’s confirmation as attorney general has been held up over concerns about a planned $1.8 billion fund for Trump allies and the president’s immunity from tax scrutiny.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/08/2026
🚨NEW: Todd Blanche’s new order rescinds the May 18 Anti-Weaponization Fund—but quietly leaves the May 19 IRS immunity settlement intact. Instead of rescinding it, the accompanying memo reaffirms DOJ’s interpretation, arguing the immunity applies only retroactively and only to the parties involved.1/
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/08/2026
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
“Blanche Gives G.O.P. Senators Written Assurances on Trump’s I.R.S. Deal” 1/ Blanche didn’t sign the IRS assurance. 2/ There’s still a huge IRS break for the Trumps worth tens of millions of dollars. 3/ Trump could reimpose the $1.8B insurrectionist slush fund later, after Blanche gets confirmed.
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Blanche Gives G.O.P. Senators Written Assurances on Trump’s I.R.S. Deal (Gift Article)
Todd Blanche’s confirmation as attorney general has been held up over concerns about a planned $1.8 billion fund for Trump allies and the president’s immunity from tax scrutiny.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 02/08/2026
New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo
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She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.
Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.
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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
This disturbing encounter was caught on camera in New York City and appears to show a masked ICE agent pepper-spraying a woman for filming ICE’s actions. Legal experts say using force against someone for recording law enforcement is against the law.
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