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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I've been anti-football for a while (sacrilege for a native Alabamian) because of CTE, which probably affected one of my younger brothers who died a decade ago. i think part of the reason it's been so consistently dismissed is that CTE victims are mostly Black men. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/u...
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At Least 1 in 4 NFL Players Gets CTE, Major New Study Finds (Gift Article)
The actual prevalence, researchers said, may be much higher.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 25/08/2026
Basically Musk hijacked billions of taxpayer dollars that was supposed to go to affordable fiber optic broadband, and instead gave it to himself for slower, more congested satellite broadband he had ALREADY PLANNED TO DEPLOY anyway My June piece in The Verge, if you missed it:
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Elon Musk and the plot to hijack America’s broadband
“We’re fed up … The BEAD program has failed us.”
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Seems likely this is the case. With the recent uptick in Russian provocations, and NATO’s show of force response around Kaliningrad, it would be wise to turn down the temperature. Skeptical that Russia will play ball, though.
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Ignacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
“Pennsylvania reports two measles deaths in Lancaster County, state’s first in three decades” “The deaths are the first associated with the highly contagious disease in Pennsylvania in 35 years and occurred amid a major measles outbreak that has sickened nearly 400 people this year.”
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Pennsylvania reports two measles deaths in Lancaster County, state’s first in three decades
The deaths are the first associated with the highly contagious disease in Pennsylvania in 35 years and occurred amid a major measles outbreak that has sickened nearly 400 people this year.
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Kent and Surrey Bylines @kentandsurreybylines.co.uk · 23/08/2026
The UK’s Defence Investment Plan and what it proposes A deep dive into the Ministry of Defence's most recent proposals, purchases, and orders for arms | Mike Phillips
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The UK’s Defence Investment Plan and what it proposes
A deep dive into the Ministry of Defence's most recent proposals, purchases, and orders for arms
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Impiety @noholyscripture.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
⚛️ Embrace reality if you seek peace! Embracing reality, grounded in reason, compassion and evidence, has a much greater chance of leading to stability & peace than religion, especially when contrasted with the historical and ongoing conflicts fueled by religious dogma, tribalism, and intolerance!
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Gaylan G. @gaylan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I Imagjne She's One Step Closer To A Pardon! Judge Rejects Ghislaine Maxwell's Effort To Overturn Sex Trafficking, Conviction And Sentence...
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Judge rejects Ghislaine Maxwell's effort to overturn sex-trafficking conviction and sentence
A federal judge on Tuesday rejected Ghislaine Maxwell's effort to toss out her 2021 conviction on sex-trafficking charges and 20-year prison sentence.
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:
BOYCOTT STARBUCKS is written inside a zig-zaggy speech bubble against crumbled paper. Beside it are the Starbucks Workers United logo and an image of a coffee cup being poured out.We, the 12,000 and growing members of Starbucks Workers United, call on everyone who stands with working people to boycott Starbucks until they finalize a contract with union baristas and stop union-busting.
What we’re fighting for is simple: a minimum $17/hr wage, enough hours to live on, better staffing in our stores, and basic workplace protections. Every year, our living costs rise but our wages don’t keep up – a growing pressure many American workers are feeling as corporate greed accelerates unchecked in our country. 
Starbucks is banking on customers' blind loyalty to the integrity and values this company once stood for in order to keep squeezing them for profits. At a time when working-class people across the country are struggling in a challenging economy, it is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers; choosing to spend money at Starbucks is choosing a law breaking corporation over the baristas who make your coffee everyday exactly as you ask for it.
Starbucks has violated U.S. labor law more than any other company in modern history–the NLRB and its judges have found that Starbucks committed hundreds of labor violations and there are currently more than 550 unresolved unfair labor practice charges still pending against the company. Instead of finalizing a fair and reasonable union contract, Starbucks has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of care for the workers who fuel the company’s profits by wasting millions of dollars on AI and technology that doesn’t work, launching countless gimmicky drinks designed to distract from real problems, and inventing pointless policies that do nothing but make our jobs harder. 
This ongoing, irrational behavior by Starbucks and its refusal to settle a fair union contract with workers leaves us with no other choice than to call for a boycott. We know when working people stand up together, we win. 
No Contract? No Coffee.
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MantaHunk 🌎🏳️‍🌈☮️🟧 @mantahunk.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Mandani has it out of order. We need to articulate very clearly what we are standing for, BEFORE the midterms.
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KGVAlum 📎 @staceyryn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Nothing to see here. No nefarious deeds in the making, no sirree.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
France's Macron: "Russia will try to escalate against European countries to deter them from assisting Ukraine. We reiterate our solidarity with all colleagues attacked in the last weeks. NATO countries will be targeted, and provocations will multiply. "Keep calm; carry on."
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 25/08/2026
Imagine waking up on a freezing Michigan morning with no power—not because of a storm, but because Canada cut the electricity during a trade war started by our own president. This is where Trump’s treatment of our allies has brought us. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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The Power Switch Canada is Ready to Flip
Ontario’s threat to withhold electricity and critical minerals reveals the foolishness of attacking America’s closest ally.
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Sharon 🩺🦋🫶🏻💙🍿🐸🚫👑 @sharonsf.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
#BLUES
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Brad Takei @bradtakei.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Louder for the people in the back!
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 25/08/2026
He preaches holy war, iron discipline, and male dominance. And one of his disciples runs the Pentagon.
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Pete Hegseth dreams of holy war. Meet his spiritual adviser.
Doug Wilson preaches iron discipline and male dominance. One of his disciples runs the Pentagon.
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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Personally, I think Canada should solve everything by renaming Lake Ontario the Gulf of Mexico
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 25/08/2026
Of all the bad things I could say about my alma mater (I think U of C grads may be the most ambivalent alums of any elite institution), I have to agree with this. The culture is deadly serious about the "not what to think but how to think" philosophy in sometimes annoying ways. But this is great.
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Sharon 🩺🦋🫶🏻💙🍿🐸🚫👑 @sharonsf.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I'm looking at you and your guests, @ms.now. Calling them "conservatives" - and you do it ALL the time - lends them an absolutely unwarranted legitimacy. The term no longer applies. Stop it.
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Kat4Obama @kat4obama.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"What strikes me about all this as well is that it’s yet another admission that Trump’s tariffs actually do raise the prices for American consumers."
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Steely Connie @zuhleika.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Resistance principle #4: force the fight When abusive authority tries to consolidate power, make them fight for every inch. Force them to respond, to slow down, to pay a price. Extract whatever concessions you can...partial victories now become foundations for total victories later 1/2
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Sharon 🩺🦋🫶🏻💙🍿🐸🚫👑 @sharonsf.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
🤡🎪🤬
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/08/2026
Retired Navy Commander Bobby Jones on the part of Doris Miller’s story too many Americans were never taught: His heroism at Pearl Harbor should have earned him the Medal of Honor. Why didn’t it? “I’ll give you one guess. He was a Black man.” Now they want to take his name off an aircraft carrier
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 25/08/2026
www.cbsnews.com/news/autism-...
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Trump puts autistic kids in the spotlight and cuts agencies built to protect them
Researchers and disability rights advocates warn that the dismantling of the Education Department and its erosions of civil rights oversight risk widening the disparities autistic children face.
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Jlou @wehearvoices.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Y’all see how this is done? I keep hearing the question, “How’d we get here?” This is how. The populace has bought the Trump regime chaos game and can no longer see the dismantling of America. Wise up, MAGA. #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #Pinks #SheShed
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/08/2026
"I was not shocked that he helped somebody. My shock is that he was murdered. And no one has given us the complete truth or anyone has been held accountable. And it's been 7 months! ... there was more effort in vilifying him than pursuing justice" -- Alex Pretti's parents
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/08/2026
"We watched it on TV. And it's like, 'That's our son. That's Alex. And they killed him' ... trying to help someone" -- Alex Pretti's dad
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 25/08/2026
Anonymous sources: They discussed possible “common ground.” People are crashing out over a leak, presumably from Team Trump/Kushner, and their version of what happened in that meeting. Did it ever occur to folks that Team Trump is playing you?
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
It is unclear why CIA Director John Ratcliffe came to Moscow, but numerous theories about the purpose of the visit have already emerged. Putin’s schedule was changed because of Ratcliffe’s visit. "The president had a major event scheduled for this Tuesday -
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/08/2026
"I aspire to be like him" -- Alex Pretti's family sat down with ABC News and it's heartbreaking
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
What is a U.S. military transport aircraft doing at the Moscow airport? 🤷‍♀️ The plane had originally departed from the U.S. Air Force’s Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Sunday afternoon just before 5 p.m. ET., the data showed. www.nbcnews.com/world/russia...
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Mystery as U.S. military transport plane lands in Moscow
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said he did not have information about the aircraft.
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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Shorter me: if this is a war, wars have war aims. Ours is a deal Canada can trust. Trump definitionally cannot give us that. A new Congress can. Ergo, our aim should be the maximal defeat of the Republican party. Doing that means the broadest possible economic pain between now and November 3rd.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/08/2026
New in PN: Roberts knives democracy again "So states have to wait for Trump to wreck the constitutional order, 10 weeks before midterms, before they can challenge Trump wrecking the constitutional order, 10 weeks before midterms. But it’s also such an emergency the Court had to step in. Got it."
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John Roberts sticks two more knives in democracy’s back
The mail voting and ballroom decisions are a travesty.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Whatever you call it, you just made all the goods we buy that come across our border more expensive. Michigan, he’s asking us to pay for his vanity trade war with our money.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Wow. SIEMENS EXEC: “.. We are actively working to not be wholly dependent on data centers. .. We understand at some point there could be a bubble and we’re racing to pay back the investments as quickly as possible.” @blsuth.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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jfbass.bsky.social @jfbass.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Scary and CREEPY!
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
DHS Exempted Itself from Normal Law for Undercover Investigation Into Protesters talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dhs-exe...
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DHS Exempted Itself from Normal Law for Undercover Investigation Into Protesters
Tucked in at the bottom of a bombshell document released last week...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 21/08/2026
ICE is fundamentally broken. We need to rip it down to the studs. Start over.
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jfbass.bsky.social @jfbass.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Truth
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
“The president cut your health care so he could build himself a golden ballroom” is a pretty easy message to sell
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Sue Me @superberg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Is Ivanka jealous or relieved?
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 21/08/2026
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 21/08/2026
This month, he appears to have joined DOJ's Civil Rights Division — standing beside senior Voting Section counsel at a Minneapolis polling site until an election judge stopped to check his credentials.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 21/08/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Ten years ago, David Michael Levin was convicted of hacking into government election websites. Now, he appears to have been hired by the Trump DOJ to...wait for it...monitor elections.
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Exclusive: Trump DOJ appears to have hired lawyer convicted of hacking election sites to check ‘integrity’
Levin’s involvement in election monitoring could offer a hint of the kind of personnel who will staff the operation this fall, when the DOJ has said it will send 1,000 monitors to the polls.
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Tracytastic Bitchcakes @trcytstcbitchcakes.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
No Alfalfa sprouts www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/p...
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Popular sandwich topping linked to food poisoning illnesses in 2 Midwest states
In total, more than 40 people across two states have been sickened with either E. coli or Salmonella after eating the sprouts.
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Otter Poppa's Poppaler Nature Facts @peezkyweezky.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Bro that is SO MUCH MORE worrisome. "Don't worry, you won't be able to actually use anything they gather, it's just for spying ON you and gathering data for US to profit from."
Mark Gurman on X saying "The other plan that stays the same as my last report on the Airpods with cameras: the lenses are for AI and visual intelligence only. They cannot take pictures or record video, so people need not be worried"
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Natalie Harp is a year older than Martin Luther King Jr. was when he gave his I Have a Dream speech. She has agency and is running the propaganda operation that serves to put people in concentration camps. She does not get a pass because she looks like a dipshit teenager.
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MantaHunk 🌎🏳️‍🌈☮️🟧 @mantahunk.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
For those of us on a budget, we don't buy anything, and I mean anything that's behind the meat counter. That's for rich people. Salmon is behind the counter.
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David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The Natalie Harp letters to Trump are bizarre and creepy, but it’s terrifying that this is the person closest to the President of the United States and has the ability to influence policy and the day to day focus of the President. Terrifying stuff.
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