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@jlewisphd.bsky.social
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Scientist 🧪, Musician, Environmentalist (before it was fashionable), Impassioned Citizen

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 7h
As FT's reporting makes clear, the sole role played by Kushner and Witkoff throughout this process has been to advocate whatever Putin seeks, while helping themselves to lucrative private commercial deals he offers up. www.ft.com/content/7fd4...
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US warns Kyiv that strikes on Russia jeopardise intelligence-sharing
Trump suggests Volodymyr Zelenskyy should be replaced after Ukraine’s leader criticised diesel deal with Moscow
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 16h
We went from $200 million and you will pay for absolutely none of it to $600 million *at a bare minimum* and you will pay for almost all of it No president has ever stolen more money from the American people
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15h
Truer words were never uttered: California has the US number one economy, and it's been booming for a decade; it also ranks in the top five states in education, healthcare and life expectancy. Tennessee, conversely, ranks in the bottom five of the fifty states in each of these categories.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21h
Unmarked lunatics with guns attack your car when your kid is with you— you drive off too. Anyone who say otherwise is a liar. They almost killed the kid. What the fuck are we doing? 😳🇺🇸
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 11h
Trump NEVER intended to obey the "Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia Act of 2026." On Sept 22, just four days after signing the bill into law, Trump arranged for the import of 300,000 tons of Russian diesel. It is due to arrive any day now.
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OSINTRadar @osintradar.bsky.social · 11h
🇺🇸 U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee: “Congress banned imports of Russian energy products in 2022. The President of the United States cannot simply ignore this law and purchase diesel from Putin. Consultations with Congress and a formal review process are legally required.”
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 14h
This is so sick. So a Russian blood diesel vessel is on its way to NC set to arrive tomorrow. It left St Petersburg on Sept 22nd. This Trump-Putin plan has been in the works for weeks can’t picture what allies America will have left after this
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 23h
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5h
Buoyed by the embrace of Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin has supercharged his assassinations bureau and tasked it with murdering Europe's defense chiefs. www.ft.com/content/5da2...
ft.com
Russia steps up bid to kill European defence chiefs, spy agencies warn
Companies increase personal security for top executives as Kremlin orders expansion of sabotage and ‘hybrid’ operations
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🇨🇦Tadhg Dalaigh @tadhgdalaigh.bsky.social · 20h
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 19h
FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review. Experts are alarmed www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review. Experts are alarmed
Regulator looks to expand loophole to allow dangerous compounds in food as long as they’re not carcinogenic
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13h
At this point, there is no ambiguity about what just happened: Trump has stabbed the Ukrainian nation in the back in exchange for a shipment of diesel that would be a roughly 17 hour supply for the US market. It shows how easily Trump is manipulated by Putin, Xi and other dangerous dictators.
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OSINTRadar @osintradar.bsky.social · 19h
🇷🇺🇺🇸The first shipment of Russian diesel is arriving on the US East Coast less than 24 hours after the announcement that sanctions would be lifted. The Russian tanker MINERVA left St. Petersburg, Russia, on September 22 and appears to have been heading toward the US East Coast throughout this time.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 11h
Current DoD regulations for executions clearly state that in section 2.5(b) that "No person under the age of 18 shall witness the execution." Pete Hegseth plans to live-stream it, meaning the execution will be seen by millions of children.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 7h
Ken Paxton’s records do not show a business purpose for travel to Albania, Aruba, Australia, Costa Rica, the Czech Republic, the Dominican Republic, England, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Mexico, Poland, South Africa or Taiwan. with @texastribune.org
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Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.
Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to sta...
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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 11h
Using your official position to do favors in exchange for money is illegal. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Exclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Wire $100,000 to Her Amex Account
Text messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece.
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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 16h
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h
This seems like a very bad idea
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 8h
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President Trump's decision to lift sanctions on Russian fuel amidst Putin's ongoing and brutal attacks on civilian targets in Ukraine makes no sense and is a betrayal of the legacy and leadership of the late Senator Lindsey Graham.
While Ukraine fights for its survival, Putin's war machine continues to prosecute his terrorist war on civilian populations and innocent Ukrainians are dying every day.
Now, Instead of implementing the tough sanctions Lindsey Graham fought to his last breath to enact, President Trump has announced the United States is lifting sanctions on Russian energy, fueling the Putin's war machine.
As I saw firsthand in Ukraine last month, Putin is losing this war. Ukraine has fought the Russian military to a standstill and reinvented warfare with drones taking the fight into the heart of Russia.
America should not be throwing a lifeline to Putin's war machine. Now is the time to stand strong against Russian aggression as we did during the first Trump administration.America should not be throwing a lifeline to Putin's war machine. Now is the time to stand strong against Russian aggression as we did during the first Trump administration.
Putin doesn't want peace. Putin wants Ukraine. I have no doubt that if Putin overruns Ukraine, it will only be a matter of time until Russia's military crosses a border that our troops will have to deal with him.
America is the Leader of the Free World. For our National Security, for the security of our Allies in Europe including Ukraine, President Trump should rescind this deal immediately and return to the strong policies of our four years in the White House; impose harsh sanctions on any nation purchasing Russian energy and work with our allies to ensure Ukraine has the military support it needs to repel and defeat this Russian invasion once and for all. Slava UkrainiE
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 8h
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10h
In Alabama, three Republican elected officials have been arrested and charged with human trafficking involving children. They're all white, Evangelical Christians and pillars of the MAGA community. So the Alabama media have decided it's really no big deal. www.wkrg.com/alabama-news...
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Alabama lawmaker and Satsuma school board president arrested on charges of human trafficking | WKRG.com
Video above: ‘News 5 Now’ — Top Stories from Oct. 2, 2026 UPDATE (10/5/2026 8:15 a.m.): A news release from Satsuma City Schools says Kory Wesley has resigned: Satsuma City Schools announced Sunday…
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 19h
Today in DC: "Beginning Saturday, crews will start another major round of cutting at the historic public golf course. The first phase contains 169 trees marked for removal. The Trump Administration says as many as 529 could eventually come down..." www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2026/...
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More than 500 trees may be removed from D.C. golf course Trump wants to redesign
Beginning Saturday, National Park Service crews will start another major round of cutting at East Potomac Golf Links, according to a new filing in federal court.
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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 18h
No American city and no American’s life is a “small price to pay.”   Trump was given every opportunity to clarify or walk back his comments that Iran could take out San Diego and Los Angeles. Instead, he doubled down and said them again.   thehill.com/homenews/adm...
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Trump doubles down on California comments: ‘Let them hit San Diego, let them hit Los Angeles’
President Trump doubled down on his comments suggesting Iran could hit Los Angeles and San Diego during a rally in Texas on Wednesday, adding that the U.S. would not let such a scenario play out. &…
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16h
Billionaire families have spent $1.7 BILLION on the 2026 midterms so far — a 5,200% increase since the 2010 midterms. Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day. Big Money is the root of our dysfunction.
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 7h
No shit. Way to tell that crazy Twatzi Laura Looney off, Bill.
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404 Media @404media.co · 9h
Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote. www.404media.co/federal-judg...
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Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional
Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 6h
Gen Keith Kellogg, Trump's original Ukraine envoy (the appointment was vetoed by Putin) says that Ukraine should ignore Trump's request and continue its bombardment of Russian refineries, pipelines and storage facilities.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8h
Ellison family consolidates dozens of media outlets: Cool, no problem, go ahead guys. Media coordinates to protest Trump's first amendment violations: Oh, that's antitrust! www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/b...
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Justice Dept. Is Investigating TV Networks Over Trump Pool Coverage (Gift Article)
Major TV networks were notified on Friday that the department was examining whether they violated antitrust laws when they suspended pool coverage of President Trump.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 10/10/2026
Magnitude 7.7 earthquake rocks Panama, damaging buildings
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Magnitude 7.7 earthquake rocks Panama, damaging buildings
The powerful tremor triggered an alert for a possible tsunami across the region, but no damage was reported from waves.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
JUST UNSEALED: A judge ruled this week that the first Trump admin's "Remain in Mexico" policy illegally subjected thousands of people – many with meritorious asylum claims — to horrifically dangerous and violent conditions and deprived them of access to attorneys. cgrs.uclawsf.edu/en/legal-doc...
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is a disaster. The ethics committee in Denmark that approved the Guinea-Bissau study which will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine “had never considered medical studies before but it changed the rules in order to vote on this one”. Four members of the committee have resigned in protest.
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Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The National Association of Evangelicals has now aligned itself fully with the statement of Archbishop Coakley for the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, condemning Hegseth's plans for a live-streamed execution at Ft Hood. religionnews.com/2026/10/09/h...
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Catholic, evangelical leaders condemn public execution plan of Fort Hood gunman
(RNS) — ‘The public execution even of one who has done grave harm will only further undermine the moral fabric of our nation and be a blight on the conscience of its people,’ Archbishop Paul S. Coakle...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Trump: "They would've probably hit places like San Diego, Los Angeles, first. Because the route for a missile is much more convenient."
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/10/2026
Steve Hilton must be mistaking Los Angeles for MAGA country. This is foolishness that we are buying. The millionaire promising he can deliver $3/gal statewide permanently. Californians know damn well a governor doesn’t control global oil prices, refining costs, or the entire fuel market.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 10/10/2026
4% increase in imports from Canada would easily replace the entire physical volume of diesel “negotiated” in the new US-Russia pact.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 09/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: A judge ruled the DOJ's policy of collecting states' unredacted voter rolls and urging them to remove voters flagged as ineligible is illegal. "This policy...has left untold numbers of disenfranchised voters in its wake and inflicted injuries to the Plaintiffs' privacy," the court wrote.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
There are no "rogue AI agents" that are spoiling the reputation of all the GOOD AI agents. Anthropic created a bad and dangerous product; the bad and dangerous product did this. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...
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Anthropic Says Its A.I. Agents Attempted to Access a Range of Government Sites
The company said rogue A.I. agents acted on their own as they tried to access federal, state and local sites. The Philadelphia Police Department said its site was one of them.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“RFK Jr. has once again created a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. It's more window dressing to advance his anti-vaccine agenda and will only serve to create more confusion and doubt in public health”. My impression of RFK Jr.’s announcement about his new “vaccine injury” initiative.
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HHS Touts New Vaccine-Injury Initiatives
Proposed changes will only undermine confidence in vaccines, health groups say
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The NYPD (God bless 'em) has just released their surveillance videos, which show unequivocally that all the statements made by Markwayne Mullin about the Marble Hill shooting are false. But then we knew that. Let's give him a five-Pinocchios award for today's show. bsky.app/profile/reic...
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 09/10/2026
'The Trump plan changed nothing': One year later, Gaza still lives in ruins, under bombs
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'The Trump plan changed nothing': One year later, Gaza still lives in ruins, under bombs
Three years after the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023, residents of the Palestinian territory continue to live among rubble. The plan brokered under the auspices of the American president on October 10, 2025 has stalled, and despite the ceasefire it provides for, Israel's campaign of destruction has continued.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
AOC: “ICE is a rogue, lawless paramilitary and surveillance agency. It does not belong in NYC and should not exist in 🇺🇸. Abolish ICE.”
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Zelenskyy issues a statement responding to Trump’s deal with Putin to lift sanctions to purchase Russian oil and diesel.
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump just announced a "$100 million program to jump-start scientific research." This comes on the heels of Trump cancelling $11 billion in funding for science. Now he wants credit for giving back less than 1% of what he stole.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Pete needs to be removed without hesitation.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
STOP DESTROYING OUR TREES!!!
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/10/2026
Of course Kash Patel wants to hand the UFC a NO-BID contract to train FBI agents. The UFC is a sports entertainment business. The FBI already trains agents in defensive tactics. And we’re supposed to believe Dana White, Trump’s buddy, runs the only organization in America qualified to do this.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Millions with private Medicare coverage are being forced to change their insurance for 2027 and will pay more for prescriptions and medical care. More older Americans will face greater financial hardship. In the “greatest country in the world.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/b...
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Narcissistic crook says what?
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Nailed it. 🔨
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