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Aunt. Dog mom. Biz owner. News junkie. Interests: cities, culture, faith, centrist politics, travel, whimsy. I don't repost profanity or articles I haven't read.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
what fresh hell is this www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump
Allies
President Vladimir Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff. The deal raises new questions about conflicts of interest.
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David Cowhig 高大伟 @gaodawei.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/2026/10/03/u...
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Trump, Putin, Ukraine and an Oil Deal: 5 Takeaways (Gift Article)
A proposal to bolster relations with the Kremlin through the purchase of Russian energy assets is striking even for an administration that regularly mixes personal business interests with foreign poli...
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We are now, without a doubt, the greatest kleptocracy the world has ever known. By virtue of Donald Trump and the Republican Party promising to hate and abuse those people a nation of angry rubes wants to hate and abuse, they have lifted the national wallet and handed it back to the rubes, empty.
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Indy Auntie @indyauntie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Quite a kicker in this excellent essay.
So far, the AI industry has failed to teach machines to consistently act in the ways a wise and caring person would. Part of this problem is scientific—about how machines work—but another part is human, about how people care for one another. Before the organizations building AI can teach a superintelligence to treat humanity well, they’ll need to remember how to do it themselves.
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Indy Auntie @indyauntie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Took a free introduction to mahjong class today and won my first game. 💃 It wasn't as hard to learn as I expected it to be!
Picture of a winning "consecutive run" mahjong hand
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Indy Auntie @indyauntie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Writing through tears. I met Brooke Eby at a gathering of ALS patients and advocates. Her energy, humor, and youth made her a uniquely effective advocate. And her hope was contagious. This is a gut punch. 🎁 Gift article www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/o...
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Brooke Eby, Who Brought Humor and Awareness to A.L.S., Dies at 37 (Gift Article)
After her diagnosis in 2022, when she was only 33, she became a vocal, witty advocate for people confronting the disease.
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America Walks @americawalks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Whether for a single trip or the entire week, we invite you to try to get where you need to go without driving to understand how we can do better for nondrivers! Join us be signing up at buff.ly/IodVLX4 and share your experience using #WeekWithoutDriving.
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Week Without Driving: October 1-8, 2026
Sep 29th – Oct 5th, 2025 - An experience created for everyone to learn firsthand about barriers and challenges for nondrivers. Join, support, or become a host.
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America Walks @americawalks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This year, 800+ community organizations, public officials, and transit agencies across the U.S., Canada, and Australia are planning walking, biking, and scooting events, transportation bingo, and bus ride-alongs to encourage participation in the Week Without Driving.
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America Walks @americawalks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's almost our favorite time of the year... Week Without Driving! 👟👩🏾‍🦼🚲️🚌 With gas prices on the rise and our elected leaders more divided than ever over transportation, #WeekWithoutDriving challenges you to consider: 💭 What would your life be like if you didn’t drive?
photo of a highway system blurred with 'disrupt car dependency' written over and the logos for week without driving, nondrivers alliance, and america walks
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I wonder if there's going to be a move away from all business decisions made to please Donald Trump In about a month from now.
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Indy Auntie @indyauntie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Seeing these rally clips of Trump in Oklahoma, I strongly encourage him to insist on campaigning for Republicans in tight races. 😏
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Indy Auntie @indyauntie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"A truckload of pronouns" 😂 Thanks for the hearty, much-needed laugh, @thevaluesvoter.bsky.social!
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Indy Auntie @indyauntie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes, as well as the fact check. time.com/article/2026... Section 4 of the 25th Amendment exists for such a time as this.
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Steve Burtch @stephenburtch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I mean we already know he can't string coherent thoughts together, but reading it in print really does clarify how far gone he is.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
America today is a country where regulators won't allow private companies to air interviews of the opposition on TV, but declare that taxpayer funded propaganda is fine.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
TIME: So what is the hoax of AI? Who's behind it? TRUMP: The whole country is based on fake stuff because these people have Trump derangement syndrome.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"We're everywhere for many years." That oughta settle down the whiners.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New AP poll: Trump’s job approval rating falls to 31%, while 69% disapprove. • His approval rating on the economy: 26% • On the cost of living: 17% • On Iran: 28% • Trade negotiations: 38% • AI: 31% • Immigration: 39% • Border security: 48% apnorc.org/wp-content/u...
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Indy Auntie @indyauntie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Compared multiple new Honda lease offers today. Commented on significant interest rate difference across models. Salesman looked at me quizzically. Him: Where do you see the interest rates? Me: It's the money factor times 2400. Him: Wow, you know that? Me: I've been leasing for decades, dude. 🙄
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables
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Indy Auntie @indyauntie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Anthropic safety researcher Evan Hubinger estimated a greater than ‌10% probability that AI could kill humans within the ⁠next decade, echoing a sentiment by a former colleague, Jacob Coxon." 💀
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Indy Auntie @indyauntie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"That's a major strategic win for the Chinese and a major loss for Taiwan and a lot ​of US allies and partners in the region," said Chan, a former US diplomat in China. Trump fails us YET AGAIN.
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Indy Auntie @indyauntie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"This is theft from the American people, plain and simple ... Every Republican who voted for these bills should be furious, because Vought is saying their votes don't count."
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ALS Advocacy @alsadvocacy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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Indy Auntie @indyauntie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hard to believe we're here, USA. 😢
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Despite being a famous Hollywood star if you want to know what sort of person DAVID NIVEN was, the largest wreath at his funeral was from the Porters at Heathrow Airport. It read: “To the finest gentleman who ever walked through these halls. He made a Porter feel like a King.”
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"We’re now not just recipients of information but distributors and creators of it. That’s a fundamental shift. If you have a mobile phone, you’re part of the process."
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Everyone, because the role of verification used to be something the public trusted institutions to do on their behalf. As that trust has been lost, it has fallen into the lap of the public."
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Why Bellingcat Wants Everyone To Become An Investigator
The founder of one of the world's best-known open-source investigation outfits on building it from a laptop, why anyone can do this work, and why democracies have misread the problem.
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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sarah’s full reflection is well worth reading; the ending is the most poignant: kaleidoscopeinstitute.substack.com/p/love-witho...
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Love Without End
A Parable from Western North Carolina in the Time of Helene
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Indy Auntie @indyauntie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Reading this thread from @genuinemichael.bsky.social and article from @sarahskinner.bsky.social is a good way to begin your new week with a reflective, compassionate mindset that is much needed in these difficult days.
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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"The Republican and the Democrat, the libertarian and the anarchist, the hippie and the veteran, the pastor and the atheist all chopped wood, carried water, baked bread, and lay hands upon one another’s wounds. And they beheld no stranger."
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Indy Auntie @indyauntie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Jane Wickline on SNL is underrated. Love her deadpan and *awkward* delivery. ❤️
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Central Oregon Daily News @codaily.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
'SNL' spoofs Trump and Mamdani bromance, skewers Natalie Harp
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'SNL' spoofs Trump and Mamdani bromance, skewers Natalie Harp
"Saturday Night Live" is back! The NBC sketch show returned on Sept. 26 with the premiere of Season 52, hosted by New York Knicks star Jalen Brunson and with musical
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Indy Auntie @indyauntie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Over dinner with a friend tonight, I learned I am only three degrees of separation from Natalie Harp. Hearing stories of the heartbreak in her family made me even more concerned that Natalie controls so much of what Trump sees - and says.
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Indy Auntie @indyauntie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My car lease is up next month, and hybrids are at the top of my list for the first time. Trump appears intent to destroy America and the planet, and I will not be a party to either.
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Indy Auntie @indyauntie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It will be interesting to see how Trump responds to the SNL cold open featuring him with Zohran Mamdani and Natalie Harp. 💀
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Indy Auntie @indyauntie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"...the President may be brought low this fall not by the Democrats who would crawl over broken glass to defeat him but by the very voters who sent him back to the White House in the first place."
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Thanks to SCOTUS GOP-appointed majority (same ones who attended Trump's state dinner last night), Trump admin will use faulty & inaccurate data to wrongly label eligible voters non-citizens & pressure states to remove them from rolls. Sets a chilling precedent www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Supreme Court allows Trump to use flawed database to vet voter citizenship
While the impact on the midterms might be minimal, Justice Jackson warns some eligible voters could be disenfranchised.
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Indy Auntie @indyauntie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
From your keyboard to God's ears.
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Adam Hamilton @hamilton4kansas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Arch "Pond" Naramore ran against Marshall in the Republican primary. He spent $120 on an ad in Grass and Grain and earned more than 20% of the vote. Kansans of every political party agree: Roger Marshall isn't getting the job done.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Forget that Texas-SD09 poll or that Idaho poll, this is the '🤯 if it actually happens' test of the blue tsunami. Phil Scott, the seemingly untouchable GOP governor of Vermont (who won by 52% in 2024, 47% in 2022, 41% in 2020) trails 49/43 in a new poll by UNH. scholars.unh.edu/survey_cente...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Subtle. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/b...
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Huzzah! Another spectacular example of Trump's attempted election takeovers faceplanting. Gift link, friends. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
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From 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle (Gift Article)
It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.
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Indy Auntie @indyauntie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Smart piece on Mamdani with thought-provoking insights.
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Indy Auntie @indyauntie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"If you genuinely believe that the government can do good in people’s lives, then you should be obsessed with making it run well. You should want to be the party that hunts down waste, fraud, and abuse and fixes the broken agency, because a government that works is the best argument your side has."
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Relevant essays: 1) Dems need to have & advertise a realistic agenda considering Trump‘s veto etc www.ms.now/opinion/democrats-plan-w… 2) cool tools they do have www.salon.com/2026/09/24/the-democr…
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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEWS: My new investigation uncovers the horrific ChatGPT history of the Tumbler Ridge school shooter. OpenAI’s chatbot fueled the shooter's violent fantasies and plans up to the day of the massacre. Chats about guns, timing of attacks, becoming infamous, and more. www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Lord, President Xi just insulted Trump and the USA, right to Trump's face-in the White House. Xi referred, yet again, to the "Thucydides trap". This is an reference to the US being in decline and China replacing it. And Trump sits their making moo eyes like a lovestruck teenager
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