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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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Montgomery County, MD Government @montgomerycountymd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🥬 Own a grocery store, corner store, farm stand or farmers market? Maryland’s NourishMD program offers grants of $25,000 to $150,000 to help eligible food retailers expand access to healthy food in underserved communities. Apply by Nov. 2: ow.ly/KGTA50ZQLJJ

Maryland grant opportunity for farm markets and food businesses to improve access to fresh, healthy food with funding from $25,000 to $150,000.

Eligibility criteria and fund usage details for a food retailer grant program with a QR code to apply.

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Montgomery County (MD) Department of Transportation @mcdotnow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

❓#DYK Montgomery County, MD Government residents can schedule a #free in-person or virtual car seat check on the #MCFRS website❓ 📌Details about the program can be found here▶️ ow.ly/tyPj50Tq3Tw PIO Pete Piringer #VisionZeroMC Montgomery County Council #mcpnews #carseatcheck

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Goooood morning! The 2026 Snail Facts Calendars are OUT! We've got 24 days of scratchable snail fact goodness, designed by Philly artist Kelly Nichols! Advent calendars are cute as hell, a delightful tradition, and keep @skypeascientist.bsky.social funded! Get one at SquidFacts.net Pls repost ❤️

An 11x14 inch poster featuring snails, slugs, nudibranchs, and other snails! There are 24 yellow-green snail shells that you can scratch off. There's a leaf sheep and sea bunny and sea angel and fire snail and banana slug and mystery snail and ramshorn snail and candy cane snail

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Wisconsin Sea Grant @uwiscseagrant.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Join our team! The UW–Madison Aquatic Sciences Center, which administers both Wisconsin Sea Grant and the Water Resources Institute, is hiring an Associate Director for Outreach and Engagement. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/associate-direct…

Great Lakes wetland background with a red banner announcing a job opening for Associate Director for Outreach and Engagement at the UW–Madison Aquatic Sciences Center.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

1. American taxpayers are spending $2 BILLION every year providing Medicaid benefits to hundreds of thousands of employees of Amazon and Walmart, a new analysis by Popular Information reveals.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I took a hard look at the financial donors to ICE’s biggest supporters in Congress. These are people who want to significantly expand ICE’s power and have sponsored or co-sponsored legislation to do so. Here are the top 25 consumer brands bankrolling the biggest ICE supporters in Congress:

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Governor Wes Moore @govwesmoore.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

We’re seeing intense heat all across Maryland. Make sure your household is staying hydrated and check in on your loved ones and neighbors. Please bookmark this page for local cooling centers and share it with others as well: go.md.gov/LocalCooling...

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Pages - Cooling Centers Contact List 2026

An official website of the State of Maryland.

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Birds of the World | The Cornell Lab @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is hiring an Extension Associate to serve as the manager for Youth and Community Engagement both nationally and in international settings, for strategic planning, partnership development, implementation, and evaluation of impact. apps.hr.cornell.edu/recruiting/f...

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Academic Career Opportunities

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Corporations spend more than $1.5 billion a year on union-busting. That’s $1.5 billion they could have spent on higher wages, better benefits, and improving workplace safety. Remember: if they weren’t so scared of worker power, they wouldn’t fight so hard against unions.

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US employers spend more than $1.5bn a year to fight labor unions, report finds

Critics say employers spend money hiring union-avoidance consultants and lawyers while not investing in workers

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Wisconsin Sea Grant @uwiscseagrant.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Deadline extended to April 20!

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Michigan Sea Grant @miseagrant.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Did a Michigan Sea Grant training or program make a lasting impact? Did a staff member leave a positive impression? Did Michigan Sea Grant help advance your research or education goals? Let us know through this quick feedback survey! buff.ly/Cek9qmi (1/2)

Lauren Stigers stands at a Mi Fresh Fish table, ready to greet guests at the Lansing Fish Fry

Geneva Langeland, wearing a Michigan Sea Grant sweatshirt, poses with two relatives on a northern Michigan dock

Meaghan Gass takes a selfie with a line of kids in waders collecting water samples

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Ever wonder how some billionaires can get away with paying such low tax rates compared to working class Americans? Here’s their secret playbook and what we can do about it.

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Minnesota Sea Grant (MNSG) @mnseagrant.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

These paddlers understood the assignment: stay safe, look good doing it. 🛶💅 Congrats to our 2025 #PaddleSafe Photo Quest champs! 📸 Diana Jones — “Morning Boarding” 📸 George Peterson — “Protected Paddling on Saganaga Lake” 📸 Josh Kempf — “Nor Shor” Stay buoyant out there, folks.

A man smiles in the front of a canoe, with a person paddling the canoe behind him. In the background is another canoe with two people paddling. Credit: George Peterson.

A young girl smiles while paddling a paddleboard on water covered with lily pads. Credit: Diana Johnson.

A person paddles a kayak with a fishing rod in it on a clear, blue day. Credit: Josh Kempf.

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Michigan Sea Grant @miseagrant.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Last month, two paddleboarders had to be rescued in Lake Superior, two miles from shore. One had never paddleboarded before -- neither wore a life jacket. Thankfully their story had a happy ending. Increase your odds of a safe paddling trip by learning to evaluate/respond to weather:

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Flipping your kayak or paddleboard in open water not always a laughing matter

Knowing basic safety skills will help paddlers stay safe no matter what type of water they venture on.

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 29/09/2025

"Corruption is why hedge funds get to buy up all the houses in your neighborhood, driving you out of the market and then your corporate landlord ignores your calls during a gas leak." - @ossoff.bsky.social

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

The biggest divide is not between “right” and “left." It’s between democracy and oligarchy. The billionaires who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us. They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see that they have all the wealth and power.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Just five media companies control 90% of our media market. But it’s not just media. In 75% of U.S. industries, fewer companies now control more of their markets than they did 20 years ago – leaving us vulnerable to higher prices and lower wages. Former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains.

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The Illusion of Choice: How Big Business Controls Your Life (ft. Lina Khan)

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Michigan Sea Grant @miseagrant.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Very cool! Michigan has four species of native lamprey -- and not all are parasitic. As @solomonrdavid.bsky.social says, native parasitic lamprey species are smaller than invasive sea lamprey and take less of a toll on the fish they feed from, increasing the odds of survival. A healthy balance!

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

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Michigan Sea Grant @miseagrant.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

The new Center for Great Lakes Literacy website is brimming with resources for educators! Explore the ever-expanding resource library full of data-driven lessons, curriculum packages, success stories, videos, storymaps, and more. buff.ly/EqWx1QR @uwiscseagrant.bsky.social @mnseagrant.bsky.social

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Center for Great Lakes Literacy website brimming with resources for educators | Michigan Sea Grant

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

"There is no longer 'news' in the US: only speculation, propaganda in oligarch-run newspapers, dark money posts disguised as articles, the occasional well-researched but paywalled piece, and independent reporting blocked by algorithms." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/tunnel-vis...

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Tunnel Vision

Do you remember September 9?

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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

They are telling you you "can't tax capital gains" while they fly private jets from their yacht in the South of France to their third home in Aspen. Stop buying it. They live off their capital gains the same way we live off our income. The difference is, we pay our fair share.

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Michigan Sea Grant @miseagrant.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Join us on Saturday to hand-deliver tiny dinosaurs (aka baby lake sturgeon) to their new homes in the Saginaw Bay river system! We have four public release celebrations on Sept. 20 at various times from 11-2:30 in Midland, Chesaning, Flint, and Frankenmuth: buff.ly/xkyaEEZ

Saturday, September 20, 2025. Lake sturgeon reintroduction, Saginaw Bay watershed, saginawbaysturgeon.org

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

The 100 lowest-paying US corporations spent $644B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2024. Buybacks artificially boost share prices and inflate CEO pay. The typical worker at these companies earned $35k last year. Meanwhile, the average CEO was paid $17.2M See the problem?

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

I feel it’s important to once again remind everyone that the greatest movie ever made was released in 1908 and everything else is just battling for distant second youtu.be/qApoxM41NGQ

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The Dog Outwits the Kidnapper (1908)

YouTube video by BFI

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine," That's... usually not the case! In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using. We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that? youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk

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"Everyone Drank Raw Milk!" No They Didn't

YouTube video by Farm to Taber

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Candace Avalos @candaceavalos.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Every year it’s the same: Cut services. Blame the poor. Protect the powerful. But we know where the money is. It’s in corporate profits, real estate empires, and tax loopholes. Let’s go get it.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 12/05/2025

THIS WEEK: House Republicans are deciding how many families and senior citizens they’ll kick off Medicaid, SNAP, early education, and countless other programs that working families rely on — all to fund tax breaks for billionaires. Call your representative NOW if you live in a GOP district.

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CALL NOW: Tell your Republican Representative You Don’t Want To Pay The Price For Their Billionaire Tax Breaks

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Do you know how much CEO pay has skyrocketed since 1978? 100%? 500%? Try 1,085% Meanwhile, the $7.25/hr fed. minimum wage hasn't budged in 15 years and the tipped min. wage has been $2.13/hr since 1991. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Given the literal definition of deportation is removing a foreigner or noncitizen from the country, we - journalists, media orgs - should probably all stop referring to the ‘deportation’ of a 2 year old US citizen. It’s NOT a deportation. I’m not sure what it is. A kidnapping?

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

It was never just about schools, it was never just about libraries, and it isn't actually about the books. It's about finding a way to banish entire people, entire ideas, out of society, back into the closet or worse. www.chron.com/politics/art...

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Texas bill could punish bookstores for 'obscene' books

A new bill in the Texas Legislature, authored by Rep. Nate Schatzline, would allow businesses to be held liable if a minor reports damages from "obscene" books.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that *everyone* is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison. It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 17/04/2025

The only reason we ever became concerned with a “trade deficit” was in the 80s when Japanese car companies were eating American companies lunch. That’s it. It’s not meant to be an economic strategy. I have a trade deficit with Applebees but we’re fine

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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Some things are worth repeating: Social Security is an EARNED benefit that WE, the American people, pay into. It should not be a political punching bag. Hands all the way off.

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Huxley (1936): “The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human."

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JD Random - RandomWhiteGuy @thereelrandom.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

“Abortion is murder” turned into “Birth control is bad” turned into “Women should not vote & neither should those under 25” fast. That’s exactly what we, those outspoken folks like me, said would happen. Exactly. It’s a power grab by white men who miss the days when they controlled everything.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.

A tweet by Sarah Longwell (@SarahLongwell25
) reads: "He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. Don’t you see what’s happening here?"

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Senator Sarah Eckhardt @saraheckhardttx.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

A reminder that those among the ruling class often claim a “religious right,” not to serve everyday Texans- but to advance their own political agendas. Texans deserve a statewide leader that works for all of us, not one that dictates religious practices in public schools. #txlege

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Don’t look away That only helps the thieves who are stealing our country

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes per year — enough to end homelessness, hunger, and pay for universal childcare. 👆🏻 This is the crime wave we should be talking more about.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

This has always been the GOP's strategy: 1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves. 2) Explode the deficit. 3) Demand cuts to vital programs that help millions. 4) Repeat. They're trying to get away with it again.

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