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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/10/2026
“There was zero plan, except causing pain,” said one U.N. official about the Trump administration’s decision to stop funding the group with no notice or communication. “And that is not forgivable.” (Published Dec. 2025)
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After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
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Jon Crisp @joncrisp.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Why would the Gulf of America do this to us?
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.
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Jon Crisp @joncrisp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This makes the Clippers-Kawhi Leonard fraud look like child’s play
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Jon Crisp @joncrisp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What a great morning volunteering at Farmer Foodshare in Durham to celebrate Eric Montross’ life of service. Together with staff and 5 other volunteers we packed 476 boxes with 5,507 lbs of fresh NC produce. #montrossdayofservice #farmerfoodshare
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EQV Analytics @eqvanalytics.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
What is it with NC GOP senate candidate Michael Whatley and his increasingly numerous convicted pedophile friends? cardinalpine.com/news/michael...
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Convicted sex offender offered opening prayer at Michael Whatley rally
A registered sex offender kicked off a recent campaign stop for Michael Whatley, the Republican nominee for Senate from North Carolina.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026
It's a Python loop and a chatbot. The people responsible didn't accidentally create god: they created autonomous malicious software and then failed to closely monitor it, resulting in it doing something both foreseeable and bad.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026
"AI" - chatbots that wake up, "set their own goals," and "spontaneously" start hacking servers - is fake. It doesn't have "a 10% chance of ending the human race." The Hugging Face hack isn't a mysterious, supernatural occurrence.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026
Once you understand the corporate culture of AI hyperscalers is everyone cooking their brains by locking themselves in the bathroom, holding flashlights under their chins, and saying "Aaaaaaaaaay Eyeeeeeee" until they wet themselves in terror, things snap into focus: pluralistic.net/2023/06/04/a...
A cutaway view of a stone tower containing an elaborate water-powered medieval geared machine. Rising out of the machine is a rainbow-tinted, pixelated God with the robes, beard and all. To one side of this scene is a cluster of tiny people in Jesus-era robes, falling about themselves in religious ecstasy all over a stone staircase, atop of which stands a robed priest with his hands upraised. The background is a set of shining golden rays, emanating from pixel-God.
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Jon Crisp @joncrisp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Horrible, even for Trump
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Jon Crisp @joncrisp.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
GTFOH
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Jon Crisp @joncrisp.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
There will be lots of blame to go around, but top of the list needs to be whoever gave out all those helmet stickers before Michigan had played a game
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Carolina Forward @carolinaforward.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Operatives for the Senate Leadership Fund, the main Republican U.S. Senate super PAC, lied to the father of a young man murdered in Charlotte. Full story: ncnewsline.com/2026/08/31/nc-father…
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Jon Crisp @joncrisp.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Unreal
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Jon Crisp @joncrisp.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I’m still going to watch (of course) but this might be the least excited I’ve ever been about a new season of Carolina football.
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Jon Crisp @joncrisp.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It’s not just Flock
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Trump is promising to boost the U.S. economy by making it harder for Americans to trade with the rest of the world. He is also promising to destroy Iran's economy by making it harder for Iranians to trade with the rest of the world.
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Jon Crisp @joncrisp.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
So wait, Americans pay for these tariffs after all?
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I have a trade deficit with my beer store. I give them money, they give me beer.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
In his speech yesterday, Canada PM Mark Carney seemed to try to explain to the President what a “trade deficit” is. You’re not just giving another country 100s of millions of dollars… You’re buying things from them! That you want!
Another prominent justification for U.S. tariffs has been their claim that, since the United States runs a trade deficit with Canada, we were "ripping them off"
But the United States' narrow merchandise trade deficit only exists because the U.S. buys so much of its energy from us.
Canada fuels American growth: supplying 99% of their natural gas imports, 85% of electricity imports, and 60% of crude oil imports. I don't think they want us to stop sending it.
And the comprehensive U.S.-Canada trade balance, which includes the many services - from finance to entertainment - that we buy from the U.S. shows a persistent American trade surplus.
Most fundamentally, trade is about building mutual strength - creating a relationship that benefits both countries.
For example, Canada is the largest customer for U.S. cars - in fact, we buy more American-built cars than the United Kingdom, Japan, and China combined.
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ElleO 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @ellohhlo.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I know which America I choose.
A screenshot of a post Donald Trump made in truth social showing him and his wife in the left and Abdul El-Sayed and his wife on the right. Trump labeled the post: 
Two different America's (sic)

Added to the post:
Trump: adjudicated rapist
Melania: former nude model 
El-Sayed: PhD, MD, epidemiologist 
Sarah Jukalu: MD, psychiatrist
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Jon Crisp @joncrisp.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
What a fascinating article about how Duke’s Conservative Union fostered the rogue’s gallery of arch conservatives currently ruining our country
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Rocky Mountain Mike @rockymntnmike.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
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Lisa Sorg @lisasorg.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
This is incredible journalism by the INDY Every Durhamites' blood should boil: corporate landlords getting major property tax breaks + county tax office incompetence = big budget holes for the city indyweek.com/news/durham-...
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How $4 Billion Came Off Durham’s Tax Rolls Last Year, Mostly Benefiting Corporate Landlords—and Blowing a Hole in the City Budget
Landlords and national companies won billions in property tax reductions. City leadership, banking on the revenue, didn’t know until April.
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Gro-Tsen @gro-tsen.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
As usual, it's either “we need this to protect you against the dangerous terrorists” or “will someone please think of the children?”. (This cartoon is at least 20 years old, by the way. Some things just don't change. People fall for it every time.)
Cartoon drawing by John Jonik depicting Uncle Sam having bought a box labeled “control of Internet Speech”; a salesman wearing a “corporate media” label asks him “how would you like this wrapped?”; behind him, two gift wrappers, one labeled “anti-terrorism” and the other, “protect kids”
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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The three players in this photo: 1. Nigerian heritage, grew up in England, and is only a citizen thanks to birthright citizenship. 2. Born + raised in Holland, has a dad who immigrated to the US from Suriname. 3. Said he wanted to “make people who look like me proud” while playing on Juneteenth
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Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
once again the Guardian is showing U.S. editors what an accurate headline looks like www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Trump hails Iran deal that fixes nothing except a problem his war caused
Deal will leave things almost exactly as they were before feckless war of choice started
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Cheerwine makes you better at hockey
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
What Musk has done. The hero of breathless IPO stories. www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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USAID cuts may cause over 14 million additional deaths by 2030, study says
Deep funding cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development and its potential dismantling could result in more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, according to research published in The ...
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I have to say, removing a usurper king's name from a building really is a great way to celebrate the 250th anniversary of our founding.
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Jon Crisp @joncrisp.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
What a bad look for America. Bit by bit we are setting on fire the soft power and goodwill we acquired over prior 80 years.
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Jon Crisp @joncrisp.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
What a fart-eating dumbass www.theassemblync.com/news/politic...
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Can Michael Whatley Name a Hurricanes Player?
The U.S. Senate candidate posted AI-generated images of the Stanley Cup Finals team, then struggled to name his favorite player.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Giants OLB Abdul Carter on why he responded critically to Jaxson Dart’s decision to introduce Donald Trump: www.usatoday.com/story/sports...
"First off, I'm going to say that some things are bigger than football, and this is one of those things. Jason is one of our leaders," Carter said.
. "He's the face of our franchise. He not only represents himself and what he does, but he represents all of us, and that goes for anybody who wears a Giants uniform.
"But if he chooses to align himself with a man like President Trump, it's my responsibility based on what I believe and what I stand on to not only show my teammates that I'm against that, but to show the world.
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WUNC News @wunc.org · 20/05/2026
North Carolina is projected to have a shortage of 750,000 housing units by 2029. With Executive Order 36, Stein aimed to direct cabinet agencies to work together to boost housing supply. www.wunc.org/politics/202...
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Stein signs executive order aimed at addressing affordable housing
North Carolina is projected to have a shortage of 750,000 housing units by 2029. With Executive Order 36, Stein aimed to direct cabinet agencies to work together to boost housing supply.
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Deb Ryan @missdebcollege.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The Chapel Hill trustees are slowly destroying our flagship university, one asinine decision after another. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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UNC Board Rejects Hire of Women and Gender Studies Professor
The vote against Kiran Asher’s appointment is the second high-profile rejection of a scholar who was otherwise approved by faculty and administrators.
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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 16/05/2026
Exactly. A real celebration of America’s founding ideals would reflect the nation’s religious diversity — and the constitutional principle that government must stay neutral on religion. “Rededicate 250” is just another Christian nationalist rally dressed up as patriotism.
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Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
An event truly meant to unify America would recognize our heritage of religious pluralism. That's not what Trump's Christian Nationalists have in mind with this weekend's "Rededicate 250." That's why the speakers are basically all MAGA Christians. www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...
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Mike Johnson Says ‘Rededicate 250’ Event ‘Transcends Politics’; So Why Are All the Speakers MAGA Christians?
An event truly meant to unify America would recognize our heritage of religious pluralism. That's not what Trump's Christian Nationalists have in mind.
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
This has to be the funniest question AND response I've ever seen in a poll. Less than half of Republican men think they could beat Trump in a fight. What a bunch of pathetic losers.
Democratic women are more likely than Republican men to say they could win a fight with Donald Trump
Who do you think would win in a physical fight between you and Donald Trump? (%)


Bar chart shows the following think they would win in a fight vs Trump

Dem men: 82%
Dem women: 71%
Independent men; 69%
Independent women: 46%
Republican men: 46%
Republican women: 19%
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Duaa Eldeib @deldeib.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying. www.propublica.org/article/more...
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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
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Jon Crisp @joncrisp.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
A game changer for the developing world
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ACLU @aclu.org · 17/04/2026
With federal agents becoming more aggressive and committing more constitutional violations, states must act to make sure we can hold these agents accountable in court. Justice can't wait.
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States Should Allow People to Sue Federal Agents for Violating Rights
Amid rampant abuse by federal agents, such as ICE, state legislatures can pass critical laws that allow people to take federal agents to court.
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Jon Crisp @joncrisp.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
This line is my spring happy place. @fullframefest.bsky.social #Durham
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Tony Kocúrko @littletomcat.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
There's no bigger skeptic of AI than @doctorow.pluralistic.net , but here's his view on how the AI implosion will tank the economy, leading to austerity, which in Canada, I fear, will be called "pragmatism", which will lead to fascism, if I read correctly. pluralistic.net/2026/04/13/a...
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Pluralistic: Austerity creates fascism (13 Apr 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
dems are not perfect but they got this guy out in the span of a weekend, while the republicans made Hegseth the secretary of defense
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.
A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric
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Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 08/04/2026
Last night, on the final festive day of Pesach, I was woken up by missile sirens from Iran. Now I see that sirens continued for an hour after the 'ceasefire' was supposed to come into effect. Some thoughts on reconnecting:
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 03/04/2026
Consider the opportunity costs of the war in Iran. The missiles might have been sent to Ukraine, to end that war. The money might have bought healthcare for Americans. The attention of Europe and Asia might have been focused on countering Russia and China, not re-opening the Strait of Hormuz
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Jon Crisp @joncrisp.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
This has got to be a broadcast producer’s worst nightmare
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
To recap: We need a fresh $200 billion and international assistance to win the war that we have already won and for which we need no assistance
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 18/03/2026
Trump does not think strategically, historically, geographically, or even rationally. He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. Allied leaders know that if they help him in the Gulf, he won't be grateful, or even remember www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done
Allied leaders know that any positive gesture they make will count for nothing.
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