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Henry Cook

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I recommend wandrer.earth as a fun diversion to break up your exercise routine. My attempt to hold MDOT SHA accountable to Vision Zero - Maryland’s Lethal Highways at henrycook3c637a682a.wordpress.com Member of baltpop.org

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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 12h
You’re going to see more of this, and it’s going to be a lot better to say “welcome to the party” than holding onto old grudges and saying “I told you so”. You get to feel the win inside.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
like I hope it's obvious by now that all the "MeToo went too far!" bleating is because it got rapists in trouble and they don't think rapists should get in trouble.
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Adam @adamshap.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NYC’s congestion pricing program cut ambulance travel times by over a minute
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
damn that's crazy. so was he totally free of emotions when he missed back-to-back-to-back game winning field goals against the Seahawks in 2005, just pure Being Bad At Kicking with no mental factors at all
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
hi i'm Greydon Grey IV, chief marketing exec at Grey Uniforms Inc. Here's why we think your NFL team could use some grey uniforms: —gets away from your team's iconic color sets —does not look good —extremely forgettable —looks bad —could easily be confused with any other team —looks like crap
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ken Paxton keeps dodging debates. So I called his cell to invite him to a debate on Fox News. He didn’t pick up.
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Metro @wmata.com · 25/09/2026
National #WeekWithoutDriving is coming up! This is an opportunity to rethink how you get around the region and better understand the experiences of those who depend on public transit every day. 🚇🚍🚲🚶   We'll be sharing one simple step each day leading up to Oct. 1 so be sure to follow along!
Infographic. Man walking to a bus. Text: October 1 to 8. National week without driving.
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Henry Cook @hmc3rd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is missing “Kiff” - a show my kids started watching but is genuinely entertaining and fun for adults too. Definitely better than one or two of the shows on this list.
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Todd Achilles | Achilles for Idaho @achillesid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Todd Achilles is an independent running for Senate in Idaho, and he thinks blindly following party leadership into needless wars is the worst kind of leadership. If you're looking for a Veteran with common sense, go to AchillesForIdaho.com to learn how to retire Jim Risch. Donation link in bio!
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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...
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Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily
Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 23/09/2026
EIon Musk’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $984B Jeff Bezos’s Wealth 2009: $6B 2026: $370B Mark Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $256B Federal Minimum Wage 2009: $7.25 2023: $7.25 Billionaire tax rate: 8.2% Worker tax rate: 13% Pay workers. Tax & Abolish Billionaires. Save our economy & country.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Computer crimes are already illegal. I do not think “we knowingly deployed software we can’t control” is a legitimate defense against break those laws.
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ceej @ceej.online · 24/09/2026
impeach them all. fuck em. why should they get to fly around on our dime and hurt people? “they’ll never actually removed from office” who gives a shit? I want them miserable every day for the rest of the term. I hope they have nightmares. air their dirty laundry. make em sweat
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
Hannity's list of "TRUMP'S TOP ACCOMPLISHMENTS" includes restoring Confederate names to military bases and releasing dietary guidelines
cap from Hannity
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Decades and decades of a national policy and zeitgeist that amounts to 'nobody needs to care about social studies' and we're now in an unwinnable war with a foreign country whose culture and leadership we did not understand based around geography we ignored. 🤷‍♂️
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 23/09/2026
all these companies need to be regulatory nuked from orbit, but i find kalshi’s CEO fucking loathsome even by the standards of gambling industry executives
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/09/2026
DoorDash has ripped off more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers. We’re making them pay $131.5 million — the largest worker settlement in City history. This is New York, where hard work pays and greed will cost you.
DoorDash messed up.
They repeatedly left more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers underpaid or paid late, causing them immense stress and financial difficulty.
That's unacceptable.
We've secured a $131.5M settlement from
DoorDash - the largest worker settlement in NYC history and largest delivery worker settlement in
American municipal history.
Every worker will be paid what they are owed, and every company will be forced to abide by the laws of this city.

LOGOS:
The OFFICE of the MAYOR of NYC
NYC Consumer and Worker Protection Mayor Mamdani and Deliveristas representatives stand behind a podium.Mayor Mamdani signs a giant check.Three delivery workers holding a giant fake check for $131.5M.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 22/09/2026
"OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman gave Trump's super PAC a whopping $25 million" is one of those things that could really stand to be pointed out more:
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OpenAI exec becomes top Trump donor with $25 million gift
The super PAC will help fund Republicans' midterm election battle.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026
huh, this piece nailed the AI bros like a decade ago
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If executive branch creates a system so that people under government control can be located and then just stops listing some people in that system — despite their still being under government control — that should be a five-alarm fire for the other branches, the states, and the public.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
some people replying and saying ed sheeran can’t take the same risks as an established legend like david byrne, but then you look at olivia rodrigo who is 12 years younger than sheeran and just organized an entire festival to support ABORTION. bravery has little to do with age/experience.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If someone posted this about a Jewish Senator, it would be rightly condemned as anti-semitism. El-Sayed was born and raised in Michigan, but because he is Muslim he is perpetually foreign and under suspicion.
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Henry Cook @hmc3rd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Status quo - probably the best deal the Trump 2.0 admin has managed to achieve for us.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Maybe the most important political story of our time. People just want the bullshit to stop.
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71% of Americans Say They're Completely Exhausted
A CDC report shows that people are not feeling relaxed and restful in the United States.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/09/2026
I love this slide. I really don't think the geopolitical implications of the clean energy transition have sunk in for most people.
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Historical Marker Ahead @historicalmarker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I don’t want to be alarmist but if Trump can effectively kill the Kennedy Center he can fuck up all the Smithsonians, too
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Pannier Peter 🚲 @peter.dev · 14/09/2026
When I do stop I'd say probably half the time the driver that should go just sits there, probably waving me through behind glass that I can't see through at all.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/09/2026
In states with abortion bans, medical providers are hesitating or flat-out refusing to terminate ectopic pregnancies, lawsuits allege. “I genuinely thought I was going to die,” said Kyleigh Thurman, who couldn’t get care in Texas.
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Money that comes into the United States government is government revenue. It is part of the public fisc. There's not "taxpayer money" and then "extra bonus money outside the rules." It's all taxpayer money. And spending *any* of it requires Congressional authorization. 2/
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
There have to be so many prosecutions. This all can’t just be forgotten or papered over.
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
When reactionaries advance some bullshit, the FIRST thing to do is identify the framing and reject it They're selling this as "trans rights vs. women's sports" when they hate both those things and want to ruin them both Accept the frame and you've lost Reject the frame and call bullshit
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 01/09/2026
New York’s congestion pricing program has resulted in a statistically significant reduction in travel times for EMS vehicles
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Urban Congestion Pricing and the Response Times of Emergency Medical Services
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 08/09/2026
Imagine the self restraint to wait two and a half decades to tell this story for the first time.
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Ted Cruz called the FBI on me @weareronin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Concerning
Musk Loses Bid To Block
MN Law Against AI Child
Porn
• September 5, 2026 • Elon Musk, Extremists
Politico reports:
A federal judge Friday refused to block a Minnesota law prohibiting the creation of sexually explicit deepfake images that's being challenged by Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, SpaceXAI.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 07/09/2026
Black text on white page that reads:

In 1882, 10,000 workers marched up Broadway in the first-ever Labor Day parade. Led by democratic socialists and organized by New York’s unions, they rallied the movement that went on to win us weekends, safety standards, overtime pay, a minimum wage, and social security.

None of those victories were guaranteed. And none are permanent.

We created the first-in-the-nation Office of Worker Power to put the full weight of City Hall behind the people who keep New York running. On Labor Day, we honor the workers who came before us by fighting for the workers who come next.

Happy Labor Day, New York. The future of worker power is ours to build. Learn more at nyc.gov/workerpower.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/09/2026
The story linked above involves LLM-assisted work in which the LLM presented an argument developed by someone else as its own. If a human researcher did that, it would be straightforward misconduct and there could be career consequences. We need a process for addressing this now; we don’t have one.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 06/09/2026
I get that revving your engine was a sign of automotive power for more than a century, but every time I hear somebody do it now I can't help buy think "My dude I don't care how much you've tricked out your ride, an electric family SUV could probably beat you out of the blocks any day of the week."
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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Tesla has told first responders that they might need to “push” the new Cybercab out of the way in an emergency
Opening paragraph of an NBC News story: Tesla's new Cybercab may need a "push" from first responders if it stalls on the road because the vehicle has no steering wheel or pedals that would let an officer drive it out of the way, according to a safety plan filed with Texas officials.
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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
GET READY TO BE PUNCHED IN THE FUCKING FACE, FUCKFACE. defector.com/defector-has...
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Defector Has A New NFL Podcast, And It Won’t Have Any Gambling Shit In It | Defector
If you’re as horny for football as I am, you’ve probably noticed that a vast, vast majority of NFL podcasts have some unwelcome amount of gambling/fantasy chatter in them. Corporate pods are often dir...
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 09/12/2023
The latest "historical" American Girl doll characters are identical twin girls who lived in Seattle in 1999.
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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Republicans have spent the last year trying to defund Dolly Parton
article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Indianaarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Kentuckyarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Missouriiarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Washington
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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com
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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Chinese strategists can’t believe their luck. All they have to do is be steady, reliable, consistent. Can be demanding, attach a bunch of strings, even somewhat exploitative, and they still look more appealing as a global power than alternatives just by talking in good faith and following through.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/08/2026
Did you catch that the Trumpies want to permanently end appliance efficiency standards? They have saved US consumers billions of dollars over the years, but they are a mild inconvenience to the makers of less efficient appliances, so.
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DOE wants to ‘permanently end’ appliance efficiency requirements
A proposed rule would create an “obstacle course of restrictions” bogging down the Department of Energy’s appliance efficiency program, a consumer advocate said.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026
here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.
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