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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1h
Latest AI safety guy to quit and issue a dire warning about the risks and the fecklessness of those in charge:
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I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken
The industry’s approach to safety will guarantee more failures unless something changes.
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Chaos @homeagain.bsky.social · 1h
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/m...
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Dying Patients Are Inundated by Misinformation. My Dad Was One of Them. (Gift Article)
Cancer patients are being persuaded to spend tens of thousands on unproven treatments by alternative-medicine clinics.
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Chaos @homeagain.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Video: How Trump Directed Tax Dollars to Ads Praising Him
President Trump personally directed the use of taxpayer money for ads praising his presidency, according to people familiar with the matter. Our White House correspondent, Maggie Haberman, explains.
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Chaos @homeagain.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Just Lilo @justlilo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
People need to hear this. On Russ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
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Who’s the Shadow President?
Podcast Episode · Paper Trail · October 1 · 36m
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Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Our immigration enforcement system is simply broken. The deportation of children and innocent families is inhumane and unacceptable. No small child should face a judge without an attorney. 
It’s time to abolish ICE.
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Chaos @homeagain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Amesh Adalja @ameshaa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“The AAP recommends that babies..get the antibody..ideally before leaving the hospital. Many birthing hospitals don't offer it, largely because insurers' bundled payment for the birth stay excludes the roughly $500 antibody” www.cidrap.umn.edu/vaccine-poli...
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Long COVID, disputing measles deaths, and newborns without RSV protection: The State of US Vaccine Policy
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Chaos @homeagain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/o...
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Opinion | Stop Talking About A.I. Like a Human (Gift Article)
If we want to figure out the proper way to control A.I. models, we need to recognize what they really are.
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Chaos @homeagain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A Scene before the Senate Judiciary Committee heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/confidentl...
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A Scene before the Senate Judiciary Committee
To read this letter, click here:
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Chaos @homeagain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Trump Wants to Get His Hands on the Power of the Purse www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/o...
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Opinion | Trump Wants to Get His Hands on the Power of the Purse
The search for fraud in the federal government must always end in the same place.
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kvconner.bsky.social @kvconner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🎁Gift Article Pennsylvania Measles Outbreak Grows to Nearly 900 Cases State health officials said 55 new cases had been reported since Wednesday. In all, 890 measles cases have been reported across 39 counties so far this year www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...
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Pennsylvania Measles Outbreak Grows to Nearly 900 Cases (Gift Article)
State health officials said 55 new cases had been reported since Wednesday. In all, 890 measles cases have been reported across 39 counties so far this year.
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Chaos @homeagain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
‘I Write This to Frighten You’: How Scientists Took On Existential Risk Once Before www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/b...
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‘I Write This to Frighten You’: How Scientists Took On Existential Risk Once Before
Artificial intelligence workers may have leverage to make the world safer.
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The Mighty Jungle💙💛 @ocanannain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ken Paxton’s Christian identity politics obscure a history of scandal. The Texas Senate candidate rose to power as a culture warrior. His record is a marriage of hypocrisy and cynicism -- Sidney Blumenthal
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Ken Paxton’s Christian identity politics obscure a history of scandal | Sidney Blumenthal
The Texas Senate candidate rose to power as a culture warrior. His record is a marriage of hypocrisy and cynicism
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Chaos @homeagain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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The Last Word With Lawrence O'Donnell 9/29/26 | 🅼🆂🅽🅱️🅲 Breaking News Today September 29, 2026
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Chaos @homeagain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...
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Opinion | Bill Gates’s Blunt Warning on A.I. (Gift Article)
As A.I. capabilities accelerate, the technologist is shocked by the “complete lack of engagement” with the question of how to manage its risks.
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Chaos @homeagain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...
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Opinion | I’m Exhausted. You’re Demoralized. We Weren’t Built for a World Like This. (Gift Article)
A greatly underappreciated virtue of other presidents was that you could forget about them for weeks at a time.
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Chaos @homeagain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Man Shot by ICE Agent in Austin Is Charged With Assault www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
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Body Camera Captured Incident Between ICE Agent and Driver in Austin
The charge reveals the existence of body camera footage of the shooting, though that video has not been released.
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Chaos @homeagain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified www.texastribune.org/2026/09/28/h...
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ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified
The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“We have basically cut off or severely limited every pipeline that we have for … welcoming foreign-born workers,” said one eldercare leader. “We don’t have a sort of ready supply of U.S.-born individuals who are clamoring to work in aging services, and that’s not a new issue.” #EndtheICETax
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Federal immigration policy shifts may be worsening Wisconsin's caregiver shortage
This story was produced and originally published by Wisconsin Watch, a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom. Americans are getting older. In 2025, nearly 19% of the U.S. population was over 65, and ...
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 28/09/2026
We posted a few days ago about the death and state of emergency associated with dengue in Florida. We thought we’d also take a minute to expand on what dengue is and how it spreads.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 28/09/2026
Want to know more? Check out what the WHO says about dengue:
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Dengue
WHO fact sheet on dengue, providing information on symptoms, diagnostics and treatment, global burden, transmission, risk factors, prevention and control and WHO's work in this area.
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Chaos @homeagain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
How are Democrats Fighting Back Against Trump and Best Able to Win in November - Live with Scott MacFarlane & Gov. Mikie Sherrill macfarlanenews.substack.com/p/how-are-de...
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How are Democrats Fighting Back Against Trump and Best Able to Win in November - Live with Scott MacFarlane & Gov. Mikie Sherrill
Gov Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) won big in 2025, but she says Democrats can have an even bigger 2026
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Chaos @homeagain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Regime Change and Corruption with Anne Applebaum snyder.substack.com/p/regime-cha...
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Regime Change and Corruption with Anne Applebaum
A recording from Timothy Snyder's live video
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Chaos @homeagain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump taxpayer-funded TV ads will be investigated & subject to legal challenges macfarlanenews.substack.com/p/trump-taxp...
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Trump taxpayer-funded TV ads will be investigated & subject to legal challenges
Watch now (24 mins) | Scott MacFarlane and Ken Harbaugh Show's live video
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Chaos @homeagain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Fire, Smoke and Desperation After a Strike in the Heart of Kyiv www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/w...
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Russian Drone Strikes Ukraine’s Science Academy, Causing Fire in City Center
A Russian jet-powered drone hit Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences, the source of almost all of the country’s major scientific discoveries.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Timothy Mellon, heir to Gilded Age tycoon Andrew Mellon's fortune, gave nearly $200M to elect Trump and Republicans in 2024 and over $20M so far this midterm cycle. Tax dynastic wealth now.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 26/09/2026
Staggering staff losses at the CDC have left the agency "zombified'—and unable to address a series of escalating health crises
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Union: CDC Lost a Third of Its Workforce In One Year
Under Trump 2.0, the country's premier public health agency has been "zombified."
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Chaos @homeagain.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/o...
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Opinion | Hold My Hand, Warm My Heart (Gift Article)
Two of the things that count most in life are love and usefulness. Holding hands offers both.
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Chaos @homeagain.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Fuck this dangerous filthy-rich guy...living in upside-down universe.
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
ICE for-profit prison contractors CoreCivic and GEO Group reported combined $1.4 billion in Q2 revenue. After ICE Gave GEO Group $165 million a year in contracts, a GEO subsidiary donated more than $1.4 million to Trump's super PAC. Follow the money. Abolish ICE. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/u...
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Prison Firm Donated to Trump’s PAC After ICE Gave It $165 Million a Year in Contracts (Gift Article)
The GEO Group has profited from the administration’s mass deportation campaign. A subsidiary donated more than $1.4 million to the president’s super PAC last month.
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Chaos @homeagain.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Pay-To-Play heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/pay-to-pla...
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Pay-To-Play
September 23, 2026
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Chaos @homeagain.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
DANGEROUS and CORRUPT CHARLATAN Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/u...
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RFK Jr. Drew $4 Million in Book Advances From Publisher Who Also Monetized MAHA (Gift Article)
A new disclosure also shows $210,000 in consulting fees paid to Cheryl Hines, the health secretary’s wife, by one of several MAHA-affiliated groups capitalizing from his agenda.
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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"The Department of Health and Human Services informed congressional appropriators earlier this year that it was moving about $12 million from its Office of Minority Health to help cover the ballooning cost of security for [RFK Jr.]" www.wsj.com/politics/pol... @lizwhyte.bsky.social @wsj.com
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Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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Chaos @homeagain.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Trump aides explore attaching president’s name to Ford’s Theatre
The playhouse where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated has been mentioned among federal properties that could carry the president’s name, people familiar with the effort told MS NOW.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm keeping a close eye on this (thanks to @projectsaltbox.com!). After the tent camp plan of 2025 fell through, and the warehouse plan of early 2026 fell through, ICE's third attempt at spending their billions appears to be constructing new permanent detention centers on existing federal property.
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If you don't already follow Project Salt Box, you should. They're doing some of the deepest reporting on ICE detention, private prison concentration camps.
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Chaos @homeagain.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
MADMAN: Killing Americans Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
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Opinion | Kennedy Keeps Finding New Ways to Undermine Trust in Vaccines (Gift Article)
Four are dead in Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak. But the C.D.C. isn’t yet convinced.
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MGB💙 @wtpmary.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Pete is brilliant
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026
Ossoff: "What did they spend the most political capital trying to do over the last 18 months? Cover up the Epstein files. They worked harder to cover up the Epstein files than they ever did to lower grocery prices."
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Chaos @homeagain.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Sickos and Sadists
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The lawyer for the Venezuelan man shot by ICE yesterday says he was discharged from the hospital and transferred to ICE detention while the bullet was still inside of him, and that in Pearsall he's not received any pain meds and was forced to sleep on the floor.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My new book—HOW RUSSIA WON: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and the Fight for America—is now out. It's the full story of Putin's decade-long clandestine attack on the US to aid Trump & Trump's complicity in this assault. See this video narrated by Nick Offerman. Learn more & order at HowRussiaWon.com.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NEW AD: Ken Paxton loves to make false claims about James Talarico’s record on China. But he’s been hiding his own. Paxton took an all-expenses-paid trip to China to meet with Communist Party leaders — then took massive donations from China-linked real estate developers.
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Chaos @homeagain.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Has Trump Gone Full Authoritarian? With Ruth Ben-Ghiat thelefthook.substack.com/p/has-trump-...
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Has Trump Gone Full Authoritarian? With Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat charts the ways Trump is going full authoritarian and willing to burn down America to maximize his power, wealth, and security
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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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Congresswoman Maxine Dexter, M.D. @repdexteror.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ICE shot this man, then detained him, with a bullet still lodged near his spine. He was denied sufficient medical care and forced to sleep on the floor. Where is the humanity? This cruelty demands accountability. Abolish ICE. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Venezuelan man shot by ICE in Texas says he’s in pain and still has bullet in his back
Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez spoke from detention as lawmakers and advocates said he’s the victim of an ICE shooting and its “key witness” and shouldn’t be deported.
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Chaos @homeagain.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
FUCK US healthcare...an abomination. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/b...
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Laid Off After 50, and No Health Insurance? Here’s What to Consider. (Gift Article)
At best, older workers will struggle to find health insurance that bridges the years before they qualify for Medicare at age 65.
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Stephen Wunderlich @swonder.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Has Trump Gone Full Authoritarian? With Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat charts the ways Trump is going full authoritarian and willing to burn down America to maximize his power, wealth, and security
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Good news: a federal judge just paused Wilber's deportation. The government shouldn’t be allowed to shoot you from an unmarked vehicle and then cover it up by deporting you. Keep speaking out, it's working.
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