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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 15h

NEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:

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‘Complete devastation’: How NSF gutted its social sciences research

Agency body that funds sociology, linguistics, and archaeology studies in U.S. gave 90% fewer new grants this year

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 18h

Dr Norma Bowe, 69, is a nurse and grandmother who was working at her mobile medical clinic outside Delaney Hall immigration center when protests broke out there in May. An ICE officer flung her to the ground while she was still wearing her stethoscope.

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The only reason why so many men oppose women’s freedom, autonomy and opportunity, is because they directly benefited from our oppression

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/10/2026

An American president is encouraging an enemy to destroy American cities. This is treason, though he will claim we are not at war.

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CorrinaLeeB 🇨🇦 @corrina.sheshed.rocks · 05/10/2026

We are all Jane Doe. Behind every name left unknown is a woman with a story that matters. We don’t need to know her name to believe her, stand beside her, or fight for her. We see you. We believe you. We stand with you 💜 #WeAreAllJaneDoe #BelieveSurvivors #VivaHerAlliance #SheShed

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MLC @chicyph80.bsky.social · 21h

I gotta tell you fam, I need to give the 3 powerhouse Dem counties in PA their flowers. These mail ballot return rates are INSANE!!! With 4 weeks to go, nearly 41% of all mail ballots have been returns in Philadelphia County! Just unreal numbers here! Way to go Team PA!

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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“You kidnapped my son”

ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”

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Human Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · 23h

Today, Ursula von der Leyen condemned attacks on civilian shipping in the Black Sea as “unacceptable.” Meanwhile, the US has spent a year blowing up boats in the Caribbean and Pacific, killing more than 200 people. Her silence makes today’s outrage difficult to take seriously.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/12/2025

how do women not die of rage aneurysms every single day

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VoteHub @votehub.com · 06/10/2026

29 days to go.

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Kate Doyle @katidoyle.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

“The slaveholders, with a craftiness peculiar to themselves, by encouraging the enmity of the poor, laboring white man against the blacks, succeeds in making the said white man almost as much a slave as the black slave himself.” —Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom (1855)

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Air passengers flying into Moscow from Irkutsk where a lab technician died of the plague are now being given mandatory temperature checks by masked staff before they’re allowed to disembark.

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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Mexican researcher Eva Ramón Gallegos achieved a milestone that puts Latin American science at the center of the world medical debate: she managed to completely eliminate the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) in controlled clinical studies.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Missouri Constitution clearly states that no taxpayer funds may be appropriated for use at private religious schools. Here is exact language👇🏻

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Isabel Wright @isabelwright.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Anita Hill warned us. Christine Blasey Ford warned us. #BelieveWomen #MeToo

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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Check again

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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

The Jetsons lied to us

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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Happy little accidents

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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Deadline Is Monday Texas voter registration closes Monday, Oct 5. Miss it, you sit out November. Texas is the hardest state in America to vote in, and that's no accident. It's 150 years of laws built to keep the list short. 🧵 open.substack.com/pub/lonestar...

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How Texas Turned Voter Registration Into A Political Weapon

150 years of making it hard on purpose. Check your registration before Monday.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: “We believe the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology.”

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The Decoded Podcast

Listen to The Decoded Podcast wherever you get your podcasts!

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Alexander Ross @hardpolitics.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Can't wait to respond Donald Trump's threat against Ohio by early voting Democratic in Ohio in two days.

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VoteHub @votehub.com · 05/10/2026

30 days to go.

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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The only person who is responsible for sexual assault is the person who committed it.

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Mary Brandt, MD, MDiv @drmlb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Brilliant. (This treads on a serious issue that can unite all Texans behind @jamestalarico.bsky.social!)

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Folks have insulted: My Southern drawl. My loc’d hair. My clothes. My shoes. My intelligence. I’ve been called a ghetto Black b!t€h. Now @JDVance says I don’t belong and should leave the very country my ancestors helped build. This is a lot y’all. It is. #AngieForFlorida

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Geologist & astronaut Dr. Kathryn Sullivan: the "most vertical human" in history. + From space: 1st American woman to walk in space, 11 Oct 1984 + To the deepest point of Earth's seabed: 1st woman to dive to the Challenger Deep (🔽 35,853 ft), 7 June 2020 She was born #OTD in 1951. #WomenInSTEM

A candid photograph of pioneering American astronaut and oceanographer Dr. Kathryn D. Sullivan (born 1951) celebrating her historic June 2020 return from the Challenger Deep—the deepest known point in Earth’s oceans. This moment solidified her legacy as the first person to both walk in space and reach the ocean floor. The outdoor shot frames Sullivan off-center against a deep blue, slightly undulating ocean that stretches out to a hazy, light-clouded horizon line under bright sunlight. Sullivan stands leaning slightly out from a white oceanic vessel hatch or submersible entry point. She smiles broadly with triumphant energy, looking off-camera to the left. Her left arm is fully extended outward, flashing an enthusiastic thumbs-up sign. On the far left edge of the frame, another crew member's hand wearing a black textured glove mirrors her thumbs-up gesture. She wears a cobalt blue utility flight suit featuring a golden rectangular patch over her right chest. Her light brown hair is short and windblown, and she wears rectangular tortoiseshell sunglasses. Thick, bright yellow heavy-duty rigging straps slice vertically through the left foreground, framing her body, while a curved metallic silver handrail sits to her left. The overall mood is joyful, victorious, and adventurous.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/10/2026

Calling alleged rape “bad decisions” isn’t a defense of due process. It’s victim-blaming dressed up as an op-ed. If anyone thinks the Cornell 7 are experiencing an unfair rush to judgment, imagine if they were Black men. There would be another Trump-style Central Park Five ad. Or worse.

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Shahab Bakhtiari @shahabbakht.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I had a feeling recently that seems to be corroborated by chats with colleagues, so I decided to share it here. A lot of systems neuroscientists driven by algorithmic-level questions are going through what looks and feels like a research depression. 🧵 (1/n) 🧠📈 #NeuroAI

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We fight for democracy by showing up, not just where winning is easy, but where someone has been told not to even bother. I ran in one of those places, and I lost, but the next Democrat won’t have to start from scratch. Now imagine doing that in every district. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

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The Only Race We Can’t Win...

Is the one we don’t run

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mike Pompeo has been rewarded with a teaching fellowship at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. The same school that canceled my class on media, race and international affairs. @columbiasipa.bsky.social share.google/KEvTy5yER71U...

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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join SIPA faculty

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will join the School of International and Public Affairs as a fellow at SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics in March, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

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Dennis Goris | Cartoons @dennisgoris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

911, what is your emergency?

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 01/10/2026

"I’m just thinking out loud here, but maybe a political party that has dedicated the last forty years to taking away women’s rights could also give some thought to how to protect girls and women after they’re born?" buff.ly/K3eqEvg

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How Could Such a Thing Still Happen in a Country with a Frat Boy Supreme Court Justice?

“I’m just thinking out loud here, but maybe a political party that has dedicated the last forty years to taking away women’s rights could also give some thou...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵

A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.

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ResJudicata22 @resjudicata22.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Cartoonist: Steve Jones

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🚨BREAKING: Georgia’s Republican-controlled election board invited the Department of Justice (DOJ) Thursday to declare the state’s voting system unlawful before the upcoming midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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GOP-controlled Georgia election board asks DOJ to declare state’s voting machines illegal

The request represents a major assault on the state's voting system by unelected state officials.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.

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VoteHub @votehub.com · 02/10/2026

Teton County leaders sent letters to the Trump administration and MLB firmly rejecting the idea of a ballpark in Grand Teton National Park. MLB has now abandoned its proposal.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm not sure who saw this coming, but so far nearly all the jobs created during the second Trump administration have gone to women.

Line chart titled "So far during Trump's second term, just 8% of all job growth has gone to men" showing change in employment by gender since January 2025. Total nonfarm employment grew by 776,000 jobs through September 2026, with women gaining 711,000 positions (92% of growth) while men added only 65,000 jobs (8% of growth). Women's employment gains accelerated sharply through 2026, reaching 711,000 by September, while men's employment growth remained flat with brief periods of decline, including a drop of 96,000 jobs in February 2026.

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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

it continues to absolutely boggle my mind how few people realize that refineries in the US Rockies, Plains, Midwest/Great Lakes rely so heavily on millions of barrels of Canadian crude oil *every day* and have since the 1950s

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1

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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 02/10/2026

Five Haitians from Springfield, Ohio have been deported back to Haiti after President Donald Trump revoked their legal status, said Theresa Hice-Fromille, a board member of the Haitian Community Help and Support Center. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/10/02/f...

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Five Haitians from Springfield, Ohio have been deported after Trump ended protected status • Ohio Capital Journal

Five Haitians from Springfield, Ohio have been deported back to Haiti after President Donald Trump revoked their legal status.

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Rhonda 🌊 @silverarticfox.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

OHIO - Don't be misled by the wording on Ohio Issue 3. A "NO" vote keeps our current secure photo ID laws while protecting the rights of military members to use digital ID options later on. A "YES" vote permanently blocks that flexibility. Let's protect our service members—Vote NO on Issue 3!

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

BREAKING: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has named New York State Attorney General Letitia James to serve as special prosecutor to investigate the Cornell rape case.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Last year not a single refugee fleeing religious persecution was admitted to the US.

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