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C.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I really love this pediatric study that found the Covid vax was 61% effective against Long COVID at the six-month mark, but that fell to less than 11% effective after 18 months. In case you need incentive to reup your protection!

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RECOVER: Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery

The long-term effects of COVID are real. Join the NIH in the search for answers.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Even more evidence that building new housing decreases rents: Researchers tracked the residents of a newly built luxury condo building and found that they freed up less expensive apartments nearby. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Using detailed address-level microdata, we trace movement chains originating with
the initial residents of The Central and document three main findings. First, we show
the building generated a substantial number of local vacancies. We identify 180 specific
addresses that became vacant because of moves into The Central. Scaling to account
for data coverage suggests the new tower induced more than 500 local vacancies in
the three years after construction, by setting off chains of moves. Second, while The
Central units were expensive on a per-square-foot basis, the homes vacated by movers
were significantly cheaper. Homes left behind by those moving into The Central were
about 40% less expensive. Unlike much of the prior literature, which track the changing
neighborhood characteristics of movers

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

News Team,
Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier.
I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity.
Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.
We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed
to kill the story.
If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we

have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient.
If the standard for airing a story becomes
"the government must agree to be
interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast.
We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state.
These men risked their lives to speak with us.
We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.
CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones.

We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it.
When it fails to air without a credible
explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet.
I care too much about this broadcast to watch
it be dismantled without a fight.
Sharyn

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 05/12/2025

The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Trump was a subject in 72% of the Epstein email threads. Data visualization by WSJ: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Scatterplot showing large cluster of blue dots signifying the mention of Trump after the 2016 election

Header:

Trump
In 1,670 out of 2,324 email threads

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🕸️ Cobweb Curtains For Zoosha 🦇 @brianvan.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

ABC News pulled the satellite imagery of the White House comparing Sept. 26 to today. abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...

Satellite view of the White House showing an image on the left where the East Wing is still standing and an image on the right where it's completely demolished

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

this is the third time Donald Trump has shut down the government while his party controls both houses of Congress

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John Cutting @fortunasaga.com · 04/09/2025

I suspect this is the most influential splash page in the English language.

Grover from the Monster at the end of this book lamenting that you turned the page.
It's a Master class on how to use speech bubbles to evoke emotions.

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Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋 @poppyhaze.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

this year marks 100 years of sticky tape! Masking tape, the first adhesive tape, was invented in 1925 by 3M employee Richard Gurley Drew who noticed frustrated auto company employees using butcher’s paper and glue to mask cars for painting then popular 2-tone paint jobs and stripes.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

If Ann M Martin ain’t on there I dismiss your credibility.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Oh I forgot to post the baseball cards of the striking workers they were handing out. Genius.

On the back “SUPPORT THE STRIKE. DON’T BUY FOOD OR DRINK”

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 23/07/2025

Starbucks had the worst CEO-to-worker pay ratio out of all S&P 500 companies in 2024. Their CEO received $97,813,843 in total compensation last year, or 6,666x more than Starbucks’ median employee. We stand with @sbworkersunited.org as they fight for their fair share.

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Kentucky Democrats @kydemocrats.org · 03/07/2025

That column to the left is Kentucky. That's $12 billion in rural health care cuts. The biggest cut to health care in US history, and we're hit hardest. The KY GOP only talks about fighting for rural communities. But now they’re cheering on a bill that will devastate rural KY.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.

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Paul Blumenthal @paulblumenthal.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

This is part of the reason why the lawyerly explanations of why this decision isn't so bad miss the forest for the trees

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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

a lot of things are happening, & a lot of folks are looking for something actionable to do—if you cannot do anything else, let wearing a respirator in your daily life be the tide-shifting behavior you seek. normalizing using this mitigation tool matters. seriously, watch👇🏻 www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjso3yCs/

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Absolutely wild how extremely far right rhetoric on Covid/disabled people, that liberals and leftists rightly attacked MAGA for in 2020, has now been mainstreamed to the point that leftists/liberals are further right on public health than most MAGA people were in 2020. Julia outlines it well here

thegauntlet.news

Liberals joined conservatives to mainstream anti-vax beliefs about viruses and public health

Viruses are bad for kids' health. Public health is a collective effort. Liberals no longer believe either.

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Addy Bross 🌈 they/xe @aebrossbooks.com · 22/05/2025

Y'all, we have ONE DAY left to leave feedback. ONE. Make your voice known. Leave a comment. Make sure they know that if this continues, they did this without our consent. Voicing your dissent is important and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

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Regulations.gov

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Sesame Street is officially UNION! Workers at Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street, have voted 55-19 to join @opeiulocal153.bsky.social Huge congrats to @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social! “We can officially say that today, May 15th, is brought to you by the letter U!”

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Mercy @coast333.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Great movement Medford Oregon around 3000 people and one place.

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

The Fine (R) win in the CD-6 special election of about 8 points is much, much different than the 33 point Waltz (R) margin in 2024. While I know a disappointment to some it is very difficult to move a district as much as this one did

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onion person @junlper.beer · 01/04/2025

vote in the wisconsin state supreme court election today so that elon musk has the worst night imaginable

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bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

i have never added a stranger to a text thread or group chat because i pay attention to these sorts of things

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

how many child cancer researchers were fired to pay for this?

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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Donald Trump is openly calling himself a king. Any Republican who pretends they don’t know where this is going is lying to you.

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Sam Reich @samreich.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

happy presidents day

Screenshots from the Game Changer episode "Second Place" where Brennan Lee Mulligan is saying "we're here celebrating what I can only describe as the sickness at the core of America".

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

saying "go birds" but just rooting for birds in general, hope they're having fun and not catching that flu

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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 31/01/2025

"If you get tired Learn to rest Not to quit" Credit Banksy Fox Friday

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Got a Dem Senator? They can do more than just vote. -Oppose Nominees -Reject Unanimous Consent -Vote NO on Cloture -Request Quorum Calls This is a constitutional crisis. They should act like it. Send an email to your Dem senators here: act.indivisible.org/sign/urge-de...

act.indivisible.org

Urge your Democratic Senator to Fight Trump's Unconstitutional Funding Freeze

Trump’s unconstitutional funding freeze is throwing our democracy into chaos and putting millions of lives at risk. This is a moment for action—Senate Democrats must use every tool at their disposal t...

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

personally i plan on being a huge bitch about it until i die. we'll be eating expired kidney beans in the climate-ravaged ruins of a wegmans and i'll be like "well i hope those AI pictures of cats made out of bread were fucking worth it brittney"

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Hypatia L.A. Seneschale @femiyahtzee.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

As George Lakoff says, when you use their “framing,” they’ve won. You need to reject their framing altogether and have your own (accurate!!!) message.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 25/01/2025

re Leaving America… like 1. fuck you! my friends are here and 2. do people think that there’s a country that they’ve never heard of that’s immune to the fascist turn by every nuclear power that you can only see if you look at a globe in a mirror

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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 21/01/2025

I strongly advise you to get this into your mind and then to try and drill it into the minds of everyone you know. Do not comply in advance. These hateful authoritarian lunatics are incompetent and stupid. They are relying on you treating them with respect and compliance to achieve anything

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Today: On how all the normalizing is about (in part) fear of facing the grief & loss that this moment demands. But people have been up against harder, and faced it down. This is new terrain, but we can do this. It's time for you to become the leader you seek. We must figure this out together.

lifeisasacredtext.com

Feel. Then Do.

our work in this new era

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Petrana 冰冰 Radulovic (she/her) @petrana.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Poetry Foundation not fucking around with today's poem of the day www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...

A screenshot of Maggie Smith's "Good Bones"
Life is short, though I keep this from my children.
Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine
in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways,
a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways
I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least
fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative
estimate, though I keep this from my children.
For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird.
For every loved child, a child broken, bagged,
sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world
is at least half terrible, and for every kind
stranger, there is one who would break you,
though I keep this from my children. I am trying
to sell them the world. Any decent realtor,
walking you through a real shithole, chirps on
about good bones: This place could be beautiful,
right? You could make this place beautiful.

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Rabbi Emily Cohen @thatrabbicohen.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Two things that are true: 1) you do not have an obligation to bear witness to tomorrow’s inauguration. Care for yourself however you need to (safely) to get through the day. 2) You absolutely have an obligation to resist this administration in whatever ways you are able, tomorrow and every day.

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Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 20/01/2025

Three things that remain true, no matter what Trump does: 1) Trans people have as much right to express their identities with dignity as anyone else. 2) Immigrants are awesome, create wealth, and make our culture better. 3) Trade with people around the world enriches us, and not just financially.

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