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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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Doug Pennington @morfaleji.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A tornado inside a hurricane inside a firestorm. Agenda-setters would allow virtually nothing else to be discussed on the natl level
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Frederick Deknatel @freddydeknatel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If Biden or Obama had started a war that led to attacks like these on American bases—and then covered it up for months—the political backlash would eclipse Benghazi. One service member: "We're not defending these bases. We're just watching them get destroyed." www.cbsnews.com/news/new-pho...
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New photos show widespread damage at U.S. positions caused by Iranian missile, drone attacks
The images were sent to CBS News by active service members under condition of anonymity.
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Kateriffic @hungrykate.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
@jamellebouie.net Truly wild that Republicans are perfectly free to incite terrorism, because our media operates under the delusion that they have a monopoly on the legitimate use of force. Based on...vibes, I guess? GOP alone get to smile indulgently when their supporters threaten death.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
An armed man charged at the Democratic candidate for governor in Ohio less than a week ago, and yet Republicans aren't being yelled at to turn down the temperature. The double standard is maddening.
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Hecklers shout ‘hE should be shot’ as Ted Cruz calls out El-Sayed and Talarico
Republicans increasingly seek to tie Democrats to left-wing members of the caucus and personalities like Hasan Piker
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
if you tell me "A is a bully on social media(/in print, in whatever specific scenario) but very pleasant elsewhere" you are roughly 50x likelier to convince me that they have the additional vice of cowardice than you are to convince me that they have a hidden virtue of kindness
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Number one thing to know: Trump gutting our food monitoring so billionaires can make more money has consequences
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 05/08/2026
Three years ago, EPA proposed cybersecurity rules for municipal water systems. Republicans sued to prevent the rules from going into effect, and that was the end of that. Now seven states' water systems are under attack by Iran.
nytimes.com
Suspected Iran Cyberattacks on U.S. Water Supply Follow Years of Warnings and Neglect (Gift Article)
Federal and state officials are racing to address an assault on the nation’s water supply that they believe is the work of Iranian hackers.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 02/08/2026
In happier news, it turns out that blueberries grown beneath solar panels turn out sweeter! 🫐 (via @billmckibben.bsky.social)
ecoportal.net
In Massachusetts, a solar farm was raised nine feet above blueberry fields, and its shade is changing how the fruit grows and tastes
In Massachusetts, a solar farm was raised nine feet above some blueberry fields, and its shade is changing how the fruit grows and even how it tastes.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 01/08/2026
However horrible you think the Tate brothers are, I promise, it's worse than that. It's insane that Dems aren't making a bigger deal of the GOP embracing these grotesque monsters.
offmessage.net
The Tate Brothers' Should Be The Trumps' Second Epstein Scandal
The truth is much worse than most people realize, and they knew a lot of it.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
RFK Jr says kids might be “better off” if they aren’t given the flu vaccine He is wrong A new study in Pediatrics finds that overall vaccine effectiveness against death from flu was 80% from Aug 2016 to July 2025 (jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...) RFK Jr’s vile anti-vaxx crusade is costing lives
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New study—the flu vaccine reduces the risk of flu-related death in children by about 80%
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Kateriffic @hungrykate.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Once again, Trump is obsessed with First Lady issues, like how nice is the plane, while ignoring actual Presidential priorities like safety, security, capacity. We have a dementia-ridden FLOTUS, not a POTUS. Decorating and hosting events is his priority. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/u...
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Inside the Rushed Effort to Get Trump His New Air Force One
A New York Times investigation found that President Trump’s push to speed delivery of the aircraft led to ballooning costs and trade-offs in safety features.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...
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Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest
America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/07/2026
Can't wait for the national media freakout about this!
tiffinohio.net
Ohio Republicans stand by Rodney Creech despite child sex abuse allegations
State Rep. Rodney Creech — accused in state investigative records of climbing into bed with a minor female relative while erect and wearing only his underwear — remains the GOP nominee in House Distri...
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STAT @statnews.com · 23/06/2026
Eli Lilly gave extraordinary obesity drug access to a 79-year-old patient. Who was it? @lizzylawrence.bsky.social explains the STAT Exclusive Read the story: www.statnews.com/2026/06/23/e...
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Coleen Murphy @ctmurphy1.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Quintessential Trump: In 2025, Trump axed the program to combat New World Screwworm, stating that they had "saved" $1.5 million a year. In 2026, the Trump announces a $1 billion emergency program to combat the Screwworm outbreak. $1 billion would have funded the old program for 667 years.
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Alan Grofield @alangrofield.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
The great project of the 21st century is to get conservatives to understand politics and ideology isn’t just on TV or in your phone, it’s actually real life
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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 04/06/2026
every remarkable achievement of the state must be undone to prove the state cannot achieve anything. ( if you don't know the screwworm story, see e.g. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch... )
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America’s Never-Ending Battle Against Flesh-Eating Worms
Inside the U.S. and Panama’s long-running collaboration to rid an entire continent of a deadly disease
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/06/2026
another day, another story about the administration's war on knowledge itself, all in service of allow its corporate patrons free rein to rob us blind and poison our world www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...
nytimes.com
Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System
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Kateriffic @hungrykate.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Reality TV Political movement is exactly what you expect from this reality TV presidency.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
publiccomment.blog/p/hyperfascism
I would like to suggest that Trumpism is best understood as a species of what I’m going to call hyperfascism. By “hyperfascism,” I don’t mean “superfascism” or anything like that. Instead, I’m using the hyper- prefix in a way similar to how Baudrillard deploys it in his definition of hyperreality as a sort of representation that is more “real” than whatever it was originally meant to represent. (He uses Disneyland as an example of the paradigmatic hyperreal space.) I’m also influenced by Anton Jäger’s suggestion that “hyperpolitics”—or constant and frenetic political activity in the absence of any structures that might convert this activity into real institutional change—is the dominant political register in 21st-century Western democracies.

So what is hyperfascism? It is hyperreal, hyperpolitical fascism. It’s a dramatic reenactment of totalitarian domination in a time and place where the infrastructure for real totalitarianism is nowhere to be found. It’s the signs and symbols of fascism detached from the machinery of the Nazi war economy or the large-scale, organized street violence of the Italian blackshirts.

Make no mistake: hyperfascism is still fascism. But it is a shallow sort of fascism, obsessed with outward appearances and completely uninterested in everything else. It is as if the architects of the Trump regime had cribbed their entire governing agenda from cheap cyberpunk thrillers about fascist dystopias. They certainly haven’t given much thought to how authoritarian regimes consolidate popular consent; in fact, they’re acting like the 2024 election represented the end of politics, and therefore the end of any need on their part to modulate their behavior in order to ensure regime stability.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
quite a headline (and it’s right)
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US is ‘simply choosing not to stop’ Ebola outbreak after massive public health cuts, experts say
Hundreds of cases reported in the DRC after USAID has been dismantled and key scientific research canceled
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Trump is putting no effort into becoming less unpopular but a TON into putting elements of a coup in place. Some of them may remain invisible, but the ones we can see point to his general approach: violent intimidation + corrupt judges + executive branch and congressional coconspirators + bribes.
offmessage.net
They're Really Going For It
Trump's plan to overturn the midterm elections comes into focus.
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Kateriffic @hungrykate.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
We have a name for this. It's called "looting." Looting the US taxpayer. Looting our Treasury. He's not a guy who boldly breaks the rules. He's a criminal who's looting our treasury, stealing our tax dollars, for himself and for his accomplices. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...
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Trump Administration Live Updates: Administration Sets Up $1.8 Billion Fund for Trump Allies
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Your tax dollars paid for this event freedom250.org/celebration/...
A button that reads: TPUSA. Wives submit, husbands love, children obey, Colossians 3:18-19
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/05/2026
this truly is the thing that makes the united states exceptional, and right wingers hate it so much they want to destroy it
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 10/05/2026
The important lesson to take away from this is not that we are all going to die of Hantavirus. We aren’t. It’s that the United States has zero pandemic prevention capacity at the present because of deliberate sabotage by the president and his appointed lackeys.
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
linktr.ee/jesseduquette
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
My latest @nytimes.com oped shows that the White House is dramatically understating the cost of the war in Iran. By my calculations—and I show my work—this war will cost the typical American family thousands, and it could cost them tens of thousands. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/o...
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Opinion | Hegseth Says This War Has Cost $25 Billion. I Tallied Up the True Amount.
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.
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Jordan Harper @jordanharper.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Part of what we're seeing is the long-foretold victory of Lee Atwater's covert racism strategy. Forty years later and journalists still have no ability to accurately describe a racist who doesn't use the n-word in public.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
evil www.propublica.org/article/kids...
propublica.org
Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Has Harmed Scores of Kids With Tear Gas, Pepper Spray
In several cities, judges have chastised federal officers, saying they used excessive force. One former DHS leader called ProPublica’s findings a “bright red flag.”
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Annalise Maxine Shaw Keating, Openly Black Attorney at Law @moniquely-uniq.blacksky.app · 06/05/2026
Parents are allowed to refuse something like this but a Black woman says she doesn't want a c section b/c the vaginal birth risk is extremely low is taken to court and forced into surgery. Yeah, ok.
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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
They're really stopping an election that's already under way to erase my people from the map.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/05/2026
BREAKING: in April 2026, *every single one* of the 1,570 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,066 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else.
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
New: A Dem party that prioritizes symbolic legislation and hearings about costs over investigations and impeachment is going to be horribly maladapted for a post-wave GOP that, by composition, will be the party's most fascistic incarnation yet. www.offmessage.net/p/trump-fasc...
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When The Fascist Rump Is All That's Left
Democrats need to prepare for partisan trench warfare in 2027; instead they're preparing to rerun the failed strategies of the past.
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 28/04/2026
In case people didn’t know: This is the leading scholar behind the very first big legal challenge to Obamacare, and is now among the leading theorists supporting Donald Trump’s assault on birthright citizenship as spelled out in the 14th Amendment. There’s probably a throughline there.
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Just wild that the Secret Service shot a Donald Trump supporter dead at Mar-a-Lago two months ago because he had a gun & was trying to kill the president over the Epstein files but—speaking only for myself—I haven’t heard a word about it amid the coverage tonight www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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New details emerge about armed man shot and killed at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
Austin Tucker Martin, 21, was killed by Secret Service after entering Trump’s Florida resort with a shotgun on Sunday
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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.
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Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Really well-observed, cutting account of Trump watching a UFC bout while talks collapse in Iran: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/u...
nytimes.com
Trump Was Watching a U.F.C. Fight in Miami While Iran Talks Collapsed
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Mike Fainzilber @mfainzilber.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
🧪 Do not try to outrun the laws of physics… nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/in...
nationalinterest.org
In 1956, a US Navy Test Pilot Shot Down His Own Plane
The incident taught Navy pilots a valuable lesson about flying faster than the bullets in front of them.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
This is very very big. Like a big deal and massive cuts. These can’t even be seen as budgetary since you don’t get much savings in the context of trillions budget. They want the US out of R&D out of science research.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 04/04/2026
the accumulation of executive discretion as if it were a substitute for congressional legislation has, in immigration as in so much else, been kind of a shitshow
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
The DOJ dropped 23,000 cases against everyone from terrorists to sex traffickers, prioritizing immigrant roundups over prosecuting violent crime.
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Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration
Under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the DOJ abandoned a record number of cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — in just the first six months of Presi...
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
I hope this is driving home to folks that anti-DEI/anti-woke are functioning mostly as a way to make racism more palatable by framing it as a kind of defensive reaction to an imagined unfairness.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Hegseth firing Generals who wouldn't go along with his purge of Black and female officers www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...
Two of the officers targeted by Mr. Hegseth are Black and two are women on a promotion list that consisted of 29 other officers, most of whom are white men. Mr. Hegseth’s highly unusual decision to remove the officers prompted some senior military officials to question whether they were being singled out because of their race or gender, officials said.

Mr. Hegseth had been pressing Mr. Driscoll and General George for months to remove the officers from the promotion list. But Mr. Driscoll and General George refused, citing the officers’ long records of exemplary service.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
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The Department of State tweets a video of Secretary Marco Rubio. In the video, Rubio says: "Imagine if instead of spending billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, Iran had spent that money helping the people of Iran. They would have a much different country."FactPost News tweets a video of Donald Trump speaking at a podium. In the video he says: "We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things."
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CYNC Verity Media @cvmedia.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Zelensky says Russia is surveilling U.S. bases to aid Iran—yet no visible pushback from Trump on Putin. As strikes escalate, Moscow appears directly enabling attacks on U.S. assets. #Putin #Trump #Iran #Targeting kyivindependent.com/russia-surve...
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Russia surveilling US military assets in Middle East to aid Iran, Zelensky says
Russia took satellite photographs of the Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia the day before Iran launched an attack on the facility that injured 12 U.S. troops, Zelensky said.
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