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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 9h

This is truly amazing—RFK Jr openly, gladly, joyfully telling people that under his leadership of the US health system, actual public health expertise, training, & experience is no longer needed. All that’s needed to lead the US health agencies is a past history of being a right wing blogger!

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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 29/09/2026

Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just a reminder that this is the same Sen. Schmitt who repeatedly claimed that Chief Judge Boasberg was receiving a disproportionate share of Trump-related cases because he confused the D.C. Superior Court (which has 62 judges) with the D.C. district court (which has 15).

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

renaissance painting when the renaissance is really fucking stupid

senator schmitt and his two idiot staffers after making a generational fuck up

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In a sane world, at the very least the staffer who prepared this line of argument would be fired by close of business.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: Donald Trump preyed on party loyalty and fear. One of the reasons he [failed] is bc Republicans stood up. I personally find it hard to understand how our investigation could be viewed as partisan when our strongest witnesses were Republicans. [Names Rusty Bowers and Mike Pence.]

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Rex is right: this sounds an awful lot like that Foxconn deal in Wisconsin when Trump promised a $4B deal with 13K jobs. Of course, that never happened...

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The most amazing thing is that this is like a page 29 story across the US

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Is it offensive to say Ken Paxton looks like if they hooked Boss Hogg on a GLP-1 and some hairplugs?

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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Rape culture is unfortunately thriving in Trump’s MAGA world. We need to fight for all the victims and vulnerable groups whose voices are not being heard. Justice must be served starting with the Cornell seven rapists.

We are currently living in a country where women can be thrown in jail for having an abortion, but seven men who get together to drug and violently sexually assault a woman face no criminal consequences and a few only have to write an essay to
"think about what they did."

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

PANTHEON: “.. We now expect headline #CPI inflation to average 3.5% in both Q3 and Q4, up from previous forecasts of 3.0% and 2.7% ..”

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Update on Pedro Mendoza Chávez: While he was in the hospital, ICE refused to let his wife see or speak to him, and an officer told her he had fallen. Pedro, 63, says agents kicked him to the ground. Instead of being in a hospital, he's at an ICE detention facility in Taylor, Texas.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/09/2026

If I had to guess, he was forced out for not subverting the elections fast enough. That’s pure speculation. OR he stood up for the agents who were demoted for not indicting the people who allegedly threatened Katie Miller. But most likely the former.

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Jeff Holcomb @jeffholcomb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is outrageous even for this POTUS. Corruption beyond anything since our country stole land from Native Americans. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/w...

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Trump Brought Venezuelan Gold to the U.S., but Refiners Won’t Touch It (Gift Article)

The administration is brokering deals in a notoriously corrupt industry, including one with a company that the United States deems a security threat.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

People like to talk to me about mastodon and I have to tell this story every time, which actually kind of sucks: I am not on mastodon because of the number of times I was called the N word during my first two weeks on it. The worst social media experience of my life.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Netanyahu government establishes a new principal: Jews living abroad who criticize Netanyahu may not be eligible for aliyah—return to Israel. Netanyahu revoked aliyah eligibility of two young Jewish activists, British & American, both active in protective presence in West Bank.

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Israel freezes aliyah for two Jews over activism protecting Palestinians

In both cases, the protective-presence activists, who did not know each other, had their passports photographed by a soldier or settler. These are the first known cases in which Israeli authorities ap...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026

absolutely demented. like a scene from a horror movie

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A couple quick observations here, which should be obvious. 1) insurance “risk pools” work by requiring younger/healthier people who make few or no claims to sign up and pay premiums alongside older/less healthy people who do, essentially covering their costs.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is like accusing someone of robbing a bank because they deposited money and never withdrew it

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Da Bears @chicagobearsx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Courtney Cronin: Per Ben Johnson, Tyson Bagent has cleared concussion protocol and will practice today. Caleb Williams will not practice for a third straight session, but no word on his designation yet. Injury report will be out in about 2 hours.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Russ Vought just sent a rescissions request to Congress, signaling he intends to illegally impound funds. The $810 million highlighted in this “request” (but this is a pretext to just illegally impound the funds) is not the exhaustive list of many billions of dollars he’s impounding this year.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Finally, segregationists have achieved their dream of capturing the Civil Rights Division and turning it to their own ends

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Netanyahu did a promo reel saying he’d reveal “the truth” about Mamdani and then his actual speech was a standard NY Post editorial.

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MS NOW @ms.now · 25/09/2026

BREAKING: MS NOW and CNN reporters and producers are blocked from attending a White House event after previously regaining access. MS NOW is usually approved for credentials for White House events on campus. @lbarronlopez.bsky.social reports.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."

Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Trump has raised $850 million supposedly for campaign ads but instead he's keeping the money and billing U.S. taxpayers for a spot Pure Mafia stuff

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/09/2026

The Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas renewed a call for a two-state solution in an address to the UN General Assembly on Thursday, while denouncing Israel for what he called "a genocidal war" against Palestinians. He did not appear in person because the Trump administration denied him a visa.

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Abbas Presses Case for Palestinian State in Taped General Assembly Address

The Palestinian leader renewed his call for a two-state solution on Thursday, as he accused Israel of prosecuting “a genocidal war” against Palestinians.

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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Jon Husted just voted to continue the Iran war for the 14th time. While Ohioans are paying record high costs at the gas pump and the grocery store, Jon Husted is voting for more war – and costing you more money – every chance he gets.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This lawsuit is about ICE's "short-term" hold room in 26 Federal Plaza, the main federal building in NYC. ICE's hold rooms were intended to be used for 12-hour stays at most; the equivalent of a police holding cell before someone is transferred to jail. In summer 2025, people were there for days.

A picture taken from Wikipedia of 26 Federal Plaza.

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More like I-ACK @mumbly-joe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When you realize international students basically never get financial aid and have thus been subsidizing American students for decades

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 23/09/2026

SCOOP: ICE is trying to ignore the appeals court decision striking down its third-country removal policy, using the thinnest of legal technicalities as a justification. It wants to expel a Peruvian man to the Central African Republic tomorrow. prospect.org/2026/09/23/i...

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ICE Is Trying to Ignore Court’s Decision Striking Down Third-Country Removals - The American Prospect

Immigration officials want to send a Peruvian man to the Central African Republic within hours, court filings show.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026

MS NOW reports that their White House reproter was denied access to the White House this morning despite a court order demanding she have access

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Eric Schmitt @erschm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

8 Navy sailors in U.S.S. Lincoln Strike Group attempted suicide during its more than 300 days at sea www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/u...

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8 Sailors in U.S.S. Lincoln Strike Group Attempted Suicide, Navy Says

The aircraft carrier with its crew of about 5,000 sailors has spent more than 300 days at sea.

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Jeff Holcomb @jeffholcomb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Seems like Shakespeare had something to say about this kind of thing......

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Luke Epplin @lukeepplin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I just spoke with a retired NBA player who told me that when he got drafted, he went out for ice cream to celebrate and was denied service. All these stories are still within living memory and they're still being contested at the highest levels of our government.

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Jeff Holcomb @jeffholcomb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Of course they walk Busch to get to Shaw. Of course he lines out. At least he hasn't ditched the team recently. #Cubs

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

He doesn't understand how risk pooling or insurance fraud works. People who "never file a claim" subsidize everyone else and cannot be committing insurance fraud (which requires filing claims).

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.

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