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JBloomie

@jbloomie.bsky.social
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Writer. Hospice, school & Field Team 6 volunteer, sports, gardening & politics addict. Climate first, guns last. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ ally, fan of walkable/bikeable cities, public interest design. MAGAism is Fascism. 🚫 No DMs please.

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JBloomie @jbloomie.bsky.social · 6h
Steve Hitler trying to walk the line and distance himself (but not too far) from Trump is quite the trick…
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/09/2026
NEW: ProPublica’s reporting reveals for the first time the extent of the White House’s role in trying to dictate how mail-in ballots are processed, spurring behind-the-scenes drama that played out for nearly a year.
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The Untold Origins of Trump’s Plan to Sharply Restrict Mail-In Voting
ProPublica’s reporting reveals for the first time the extent of the White House’s role in trying to dictate how mail-in ballots are processed, spurring behind-the-scenes drama that played out for near...
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"To say that we're gob smacked is an understatement" Cultural Landscape Foundation blisters Team Trump for shutting down public comment on Trump Monumental Arch Group says Trump Admin has deemed 1000's of public concerns about Arch to be "meaningless, unimportant & of no value whatsoever"
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JBloomie @jbloomie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
How long will it take for Trump to claim he personally directed the Whelford farmer to dial 999 based on his insider SuperIntelligence and gut instinct when rooting out terrorist plots?
bbc.com
My 999 call foiled RAF Fairford plot, farmer tells BBC
The member of the public says the authorities "dropped the ball" in their handling of the incident.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.
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Liz Ahern 🌈🇲🇽🏳️‍⚧️☮️ @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Abbott is not only contributing to the deaths of pregnant women, he’s hiding maternal death data. Texans who think women should live will vote for a new governor. #GinaForTexas #AbbottFailsTexas
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#MedicareForAllNOW
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Censorship is alive and well in the American tech oligarchy. 🇺🇸 www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 27/09/2026
Breaking News! Code: FUBAR!!! The preliminary Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature for September 25th was 29.822°C. This breaks the previous highest temperature ever recorded in the region of 29.815°C, set on November 17th, 2015. The Climate 8-ball is exiting, stage right.
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JBloomie @jbloomie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Kruk and Kuip. Best MLB broadcast team in my lifetime. Thanks for the memories ❤️
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
4/ But over the next 10 weeks, I’d mimic the patterns of a problem gambler with the help of a panel of gambling experts and learn just how much DraftKings would encourage my recklessness — and just how little pushback I’d get as I spiraled downward.
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I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.
Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and pro...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They are playing in our faces
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JBloomie @jbloomie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Dr. Frankenstein, a.k.a. Sam Altman, has no control of his monster. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/t...
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OpenAI’s A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites (Gift Article)
The company did not learn until recently that its technology had meddled with websites for the Education and Commerce Departments and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Medias 🇨🇦 @mediasca.skyfleet.blue · 24/09/2026
OpenAI’s agent hacked an Australian government website. What we know so far
globalnews.ca
OpenAI’s agent hacked an Australian government website. What we know so far - National | Globalnews.ca
The hack relates to the website for Medicare, Australia’s publicly funded universal health insurance plan, which was hacked in June.
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Steve Moskal @samoskal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Altman remained silent and did not answer four times when asked by this masthead what he would say to Australians about the breach, whether he should apologise or why it took months for OpenAI to detect and report it to the Australian government" Silent about the hacking from OpenAI #auspol
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OpenAI boss refuses to answer Medicare hack questions after Trump-Xi dinner
Sam Altman remained silent and did not answer four times when asked by this masthead what he would say to Australians about the breach or why it took so long to report.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wait, a man who drove his wife to suicide by proving how popular he is with the ladies stole money from black kids for their health to fund an entourage to prove how important he is? It's *almost* as if RFK, Jr. is a truly horrible, insecure person!
wsj.com
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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Ian Kremer @wolverinebear.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Mortgage Rates Hit 7% as Iran War Fallout Crushes a Weak Housing Market www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/b... #TrumpEconomy #inflation #affordability #housing #InterestRates #Blues
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Mortgage Rates Hit 7% as Iran War Fallout Crushes a Weak Housing Market (Gift Article)
The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the United States jumped to 7.03 percent, putting pressure on housing affordability.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/09/2026
Sen. Gillibrand to on reported suicide attempts aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln: We just received a letter back and it said there had been eight attempted suicides. One person they had to fish out of the water and thank God saved his life. Another was about to jump, but his colleague stopped him.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING: In a major loss for voters, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to allow the Trump administration to initiate voter roll purges using a flawed database involving Americans' private data. The ruling will disproportionately impact naturalized citizens who've been wrongly flagged in the system.
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JBloomie @jbloomie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Same vibes
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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trump officials are drafting an executive order that would give the White House control over NIH grants. This would allow Trump to reject research projects that do not align with his political agenda. Making health research political isn't just stupid - it could be deadly.
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JBloomie @jbloomie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ruh-roh. Are the leopards eating your face?
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Dutchy Patrick @dutchiepatrick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“If I become FDA-commissioner I’ll let you know what Trump tells me to say”….
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
As we all expected. CNN, MS NOW, and POLITICO reporters are still being denied access to the White House this morning, despite a federal judge ordering the administration to immediately restore their press credentials.
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Politico, MS NOW, CNN denied access to White House despite judge's order
Politico, MS NOW and CNN reporters were barred from the White House, ​just hours after a judge deemed President Donald Trump's ban of the three news ‌outlets likely unconstitutional and ordered their ...
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Donna Stern @dvsmemphis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Federal judge: restore press access immediately, the ban is unconstitutional. Trump’s White House: seizes a Politico reporter’s credentials anyway and keeps Betsy Klein locked out. Courts don’t matter to men who think they’re kings. This is what fascism looks like up close #momsky#sheshed
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/09/2026
NEW: 8 sailors aboard the Lincoln attempted suicide per a letter from the Secretary of the Navy to Congress. That is “incredibly high”. www.cnn.com/2026/09/23/p...
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Eight sailors assigned to US carrier group that fought in Iran war attempted suicide, Navy secretary tells Congress | CNN Politics
Eight US Navy personnel assigned to the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group attempted suicide during a period that included when the ships undertook combat operations against Iran and the carrier...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ProPublica: In 2024, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping pay-to-play investigation examining interactions between Sen. Susan Collins and a top donor, records and emails show. After Trump returned to office, the investigation died.
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22/09/2026
NEW: OpenAI took 20 million ChatGPT responses and had one of its experts search for chunks of text—specifically chunks of 25 words in a row- that were identical between ChatGPT’s responses and a news article. They found more than 400,000 of these 25-word overlaps between ChatGPT and our articles.
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AI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”
Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.
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Donna Stern @dvsmemphis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way www.propublica.org/article/fbi-... #momsky#sheshed
propublica.org
The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 21/09/2026
This shit is so infuriating. We should make these parents famous. Get their faces out there: "this is the couple that demanded the right to beat and intimidate their children without interference."
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Just like with the ballroom, another scam by Trump to turn this into a “military complex” to prevent the courts from intervening by using “national security” as his excuse for vanity projects.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
WaPo Exclusive: More American service members have died during the Iran war than the Pentagon has disclosed publicly. Five of the officials said there have been at least 22 military fatalities — four more than what appears in the Pentagon's public database.
washingtonpost.com
More U.S. troops have died amid Iran war than Pentagon has disclosed publicly
Officials who spoke with The Post expressed frustration that the additional loss of life in the Middle East is not reflected in the Defense Department’s casualty database.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/09/2026
Illinois will not look away and stay silent — we must remain vigilant and prepared. What happened here during Operation Midway Blitz cannot simply disappear from the public record.
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ICE Says It Can't Find Its Own Records Of Teargassing And Arresting Broadview Protesters
ICE's own rules require reports every time an agent uses force. But the agency says it can't find any from its attacks on protesters on Sept. 19, 2025.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026
alert the press: it is not normal for the president to be unable to stay conscious during televised events in the Oval Office
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Scientists warned for years: if we clear 20-25% of the Amazon, we cross the point of no return. We've already cleared 17%. We are right on the edge.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
👇👇👇👇
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I’m a former in-house lawyer for Harvard. During my recent role as DEI Director at UCLA, I fixated my AuDHD brain on digesting, analyzing and memorizing Project 2025. Since then, unfortunately every one of my political predictions has come to pass. P2025 is 55% complete. The last 1/2 is terrifying.
project2025.observer
Project 2025 Tracker
A comprehensive, community-driven initiative to track the implementation of Project 2025's policy proposals
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A CNN investigation reveals Russia likely provided crucial satellite information about U.S. bases, giving Tehran a major advantage in the war. And not a word from Senile Satan.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
You don't solve a budget shortfall by auctioning off 45 million acres of national forest to the timber industry. It's not a management plan; it's a taxpayer-funded liquidation of public land. Demand your representative block this corporate giveaway: 👇 actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
actionnetwork.org
Tell Congress: Stop Trump from destroying 45 million acres of our National forests
Contact Congress today!
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JBloomie @jbloomie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The industry is alarmed, but our president says AI threats are a hoax. Gee, who do we believe? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/t...
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OpenAI Discloses Six New Incidents of ‘Concerning' A.I. Behavior (Gift Article)
The artificial intelligence company also released a framework for reporting when its systems go wrong.
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Dreamweasel @dreamweasel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Again: what Robert Kraft is doing is perfectly legal. But if you care at all about freedom of expression, you should at least be a little concerned that The Guy Who Owns the Stadium now gets veto power over what performers are allowed to say there.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 16/09/2026
As I said the first time Trump proposed tariffs: this is precisely why he likes them! It makes everyone come to him on bended knee, begging for exemptions. It makes economic survival dependent on his whim. That, not any economic theory, is the whole attraction. Mafia boss thinking.
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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Macklemore can sue Robert Kraft for Tortious Interference for economic harm and I hope he does. Discovery would be fun: "Which other stadium owners did you talk to?" and "We need all related emails, text messages and contracts between you and them and you and Sheeran and Sheeran's team."
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A massive diesel spill at a New Jersey data center has dumped roughly 5,000 gallons of fuel into wetlands connected to the Meadowlands. Local officials say a “computer glitch” caused the backup generator system to keep calling for fuel. The diesel entered Anderson Creek,
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
KAEPERNICK: The part that I hope people take away in this moment is what Robert Kraft and what they’re saying by denying Macklemore is they are openly colluding. They also want people to know that if you take an action that they don’t agree with, they will come for you.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
18 service members were killed 750 were wounded The Trump administration spent $33.4 billion-$7.4 billion in contingency expenses, $22.3 billion in munitions, and $3.7 billion in equipment We lost control of the Strait of Hormuz And the Pentagon won’t even tell us why we really attacked Iran
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🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
No time like the present to — 🗳️Register to VOTE ✅ Check your voter registration 🤗Make a plan to vote ✊🏼Go to Iwillvote.com or vote.org
It's a
beautiful
day to check your voter registration.

Iwillvote.com
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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JBloomie @jbloomie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The most obvious thing on the planet: if Trump says it’s a hoax, it’s absolutely real.
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