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Judy Zitnik

@judyz.bsky.social
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I connect dots and build solutions. Defender of repro freedom. Here for politics, tech, antiquity, and Rx news. ❤️ Cincinnati. Go Buckeyes. Go Irish. Go Bruno.

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 7h
“Medicare Advantage insurers are raising out-of-pocket costs for enrollees, drastically cutting money for dental work & other benefits, & eliminating plans that have broad networks of hospitals and doctors, according to federal data released this week & analyzed by STAT and several investment firms”
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Medicare Advantage plans shift more costs onto seniors in 2027
Premiums are stable, but Medicare Advantage plans are making big changes that could make care more expensive for patients.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
it didn't even occur to me that the government might try to execute someone a second time if they torture the person but fail to kill them during a first botched attempt. truly grotesque and a moral stain upon all involved.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 30/09/2026
53 years ago, hip-hop was born at a back-to-school party in the Bronx. Now, the Bronx School of Hip Hop is preparing a new generation of artists to shape what comes next. I sat down with Nas to talk about the past, present, and future of hip-hop in NYC — from the turntables to our classrooms.
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Mayor and Nas sit down to discuss the past, present and future of hip hop in NYC
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 16h
Jon Husted said “our work ethic is broken,” but that’s not what I see. Ohioans are working harder than ever before just to put gas in the tank and food on the table, all while billionaires and CEOs get tax breaks from Washington. The system is rigged, and I’m in this fight to fix it.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 19h
Article: It seems a number of police chiefs in western Pa. signed 287(g) agreements with ICE without telling their borough council or allowing any public input www.thecourierexpress.com/the_leader_v...
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Clarion Borough backs away from ICE agreement
CLARION – Using a procedural move, Clarion Borough will not enter into a proposed Memorandum of Understanding with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency that would have allowed Clarion
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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 19h
Ohio state lawmakers have approved a 90-day gas tax holiday at the urging of Republican candidate for governor Vivek Ramaswamy. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/09/30/o...
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Ohio lawmakers approve 90-day gas tax holiday just weeks ahead of election • Ohio Capital Journal
Ohio state lawmakers have approved a 90-day gas tax holiday at the urging of Republican candidate for governor Vivek Ramaswamy.
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socalbookish.bsky.social @socalbookish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In light of the news of Tennessee’s botched execution tonight, revisiting my colleague @laurengill.bsky.social’s piece on witnessing Alabama attempt to experiment with execution methods to kill a man. boltsmag.org/alabama-nitr...
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“Agony” and “Suffering” as Alabama Experiments with Nitrogen Executions - Bolts
Alabama said Alan Miller’s execution by lethal gas would be “more humane.” He writhed and gasped for air in his final moments.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026
The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
The lone woman on Tennessee's death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.
At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said
"executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring," her lawyers said in a federal court filing.
They said Pike "has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat," and that curtains to the death chamber "have gone down twice."
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: Meta found a way to turn massive data centers into “pilot models” and cash in on a 1980s tax credit. The result? Meta avoided nearly $4 billion in taxes last year alone. Gift link. 👇 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (Gift Article)
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Remember: while you struggle with skyrocketing gas costs, Trump lights MORE of your tax dollars on fire with his publicly-funded campaign ads.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New: Through a series of complex agreements with cities, the White House built a massive license plate camera database accessible to the feds. The program aggregates data across license plate companies (Flock, Axon, more) & is searchable by many agencies: www.404media.co/how-cities-a...
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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
God I love Angie Nixon. I hope she wins
Now @AshleyMoodyFL. Why would I want to abolish the police when I want you arrested and in jail for stealing $10 million from sick kids? BFFR
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Fuck that." "I'm Sherrod Brown and I approve of this message."
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 30/09/2026
The United States is deporting parents without their children, leaving babies behind in America, @caitlindickerson.bsky.social reports. She spoke with the parents who don’t know if they’ll see their kids again, and the caretakers left to watch the children: theatln.tc/j6Df5aTI
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Klobuchar has Schmitt dead to rights: "The game in fact was in Maryland. For a senator to have false information & imply, based on confusion about name of a team, that you were in another city & somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia & call you a 'dirtbag' deserves an apology"
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Senator Jeff Merkley @merkley.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Trump’s Republican allies in the Senate BLOCKED my bill with Senator Murkowski to stop the Kennedy Center—or any presidential national memorial—from being demolished without an act of Congress. Just shameful.
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David DeWitt @daviddewitt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ohio received an “F” for its sex education policy, according to a new report from the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/09/28/o...
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Ohio gets a failing mark on sex education policy from national group • Ohio Capital Journal
Ohio received an “F” for its sex education policy, according to a new report from the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 27/09/2026
If only there were a more concise word for “an overtly political campaign advertisement paid for by the government.” If only there were a roomful of writers and editors one could consult…
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What an odd moment in United States history.
A U.S. president is running an overtly political camaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government.
Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is extraordinarily well written.
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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A familiar story for anyone who follows @volts.wtf. “The Chronicle spoke to more than half a dozen grid experts…to try to understand why Texas’s notoriously unreliable grid had a remarkably reliable summer. The answer was unanimous: solar panels and batteries.”
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Texas shattered energy demand records this summer. Here's why the grid held up.
Texas repeatedly broke electricity demand records this summer, but ERCOT avoided emergencies as booming solar and battery capacity helped keep the grid stable.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is one of those stories that drives home just how horrifying the current administration and its immigration policies / enforcement tactics are. It’s heartbreaking and stomach turning.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 25/09/2026
The Bulwark community has raised more than $100,000 for the Haitian Support Center in Springfield, Ohio, which is helping families with food, transportation, legal assistance, and other basic needs. If you’re able, please consider donating.
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The Bulwark Community Stands With Springfield
Over the past year, we’ve been telling you about what is happening to Springfield’s Haitian community, and about the extraordinary people there who have stepped up to help their friends and neighbors through an incredibly difficult time. Now we’re asking the Bulwark community to step up with them. We’re raising money for the Haitian Support Center, which is on the ground in Springfield helping families with food, transportation, legal assistance, and other basic needs.
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David DeWitt @daviddewitt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Government investigators Thursday released a report that found Homeland Security wasted more than $20 million in federal funding in its rapid expansion of immigration detention, including warehouse purchases strongly opposed in U.S. communities. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/09/25/r...
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Millions of dollars of waste found in Trump administration push for immigration detention • Ohio Capital Journal
WASHINGTON — Government investigators Thursday released a report that found the Department of Homeland Security wasted more than $20 million in federal funding in its rapid expansion of immigration…
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.
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Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/09/2026
The DOJ dropped 23,000 criminal cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in the first six months of Trump’s second term. (Published March)
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Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration
Under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the DOJ abandoned a record number of cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — in just the first six months of Presi...
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Art Weber @artweber.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026
I read this story and can’t help think of the breathless coverage media has given these delusional fantasies about superintelligent AI killing humanity in ten years, when companies are releasing tools coaching mass shooters and helping people kill themselves. People need to wake the fuck up.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026
Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI theonion.com/dog-cant-believe-guy-s…
Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI
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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"But she didn't go to the police!" yell the chuds defending their favorite candidates/celebrities/CEOs against rape allegations.
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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I need folks who are always posting, "Why does Texas vote the way it does???" to pay attention to stuff like this.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 22/09/2026
"OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman gave Trump's super PAC a whopping $25 million" is one of those things that could really stand to be pointed out more:
finance.yahoo.com
OpenAI exec becomes top Trump donor with $25 million gift
The super PAC will help fund Republicans' midterm election battle.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
literally thousands of jobs in higher education were cut *last year alone* and there's been almost no media coverage and no government action
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Oversight Dems @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Today, Oversight Dems are hearing from family members and witnesses of Americans killed by ICE—Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, Renée Good, Johan Guerrero, and Alex Pretti. We’ll be streaming across platforms at 3:30 PM EST.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New: OpenAI has thousands of contractors improving its AI, including reading ChatGPT users' prompts We've found many of those contractors have been fired for themselves using AI to train the AI. People using AI "all the time and people are let go for it all the time" www.404media.co/people-train...
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People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI
OpenAI has thousands and thousands of contractors helping improve the company's AI models. Multiple contractors have been fired for using AI to train the AI.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
1. Elon Musk is blanketing the internet with digital ads falsely accusing Democratic Senate candidates of supporting “taxpayer-funded sex changes for kids.”
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 22/09/2026
a16z invests $35M in Horowitz Andreessen Academy, an independent, unaccredited two-year alternative to college; Anthropic, Meta, and others will provide compute (Katherine Bindley/Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If Mitch McConnell hadn't stopped the momentum behind the move to impeach Trump and bar him from all future offices, the GOP could've licked its wounds, claimed redemption and been ready for a revival in the 2024 election, when conditions would've aligned for an easy win.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
NEW: In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump was reelected and eviscerated the FBI and DOJ teams handling public corruption probes.
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/09/2026
This will make it nearly impossible to file habeas petitions, because attorneys won’t even know what federal district their client has been moved to to stage for their removal. Something like a third of all people in ICE custody. apnews.com/article/ice-...
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Here you go! The Ellison Billionaire Empire.
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TpryorUndead 👻 💀🎃 @pryorhistory.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In Ohio, they can run campaign ads that basically lie, so that's great. Ohio TV stations are required to air campaign ads, even if they are misleading • Ohio Capital Journal share.google/4FxWtLyhvjPp...
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Ohio TV stations are required to air campaign ads, even if they are misleading • Ohio Capital Journal
Not only are local Ohio television stations required to air campaign ads, even if they are misleading or contain lies, but candidates can also clip news reports for their own agenda.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Crypto is going to dump $30 million to sink Sherrod Brown, per: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/u...
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The Crypto Industry Targets Sherrod Brown of Ohio, a Top Democratic Senate Candidate
Angry after the defeat of a major crypto bill last week, the industry is planning to spend $30 million against Sherrod Brown in Ohio.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 21/09/2026
Breast cancer patients shouldn’t be denied hope of a new lifesaving treatment because Russ Vought thinks women’s health research is woke. I will fight this plan tooth and nail.
nytimes.com
White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants
Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.
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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Assistant Professor (Literary, Rhetorical, and Social Worlds of Ancient Greece); Department of Global Humanities, Simon Fraser University (Deadline October 19th) - The Classical Association of Canada www.cac-scec.ca/2026/09/sfug...
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Assistant Professor (Literary, Rhetorical, and Social Worlds of Ancient Greece); Department of Global Humanities, Simon Fraser University (Deadline October 19th) - The Classical Association of Canada
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WNBA @wnba.com · 20/09/2026
NO ROOKIE HAS SCORED MORE 👏 With her first point today, Olivia Miles passes Caitlin Clark (769) for the most points scored by a rookie in WNBA history. #WNBASeason30 | 2026 Postseason Push | DraftKings
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Secret contracts reveal undisclosed terms in Trump’s drug-pricing deals Agreements with Pfizer and Eli Lilly include tariff protections, overseas pricing inducements and broad confidentiality clauses. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Secret contracts reveal undisclosed terms in Trump’s drug-pricing deals
Agreements with Pfizer and Eli Lilly include tariff protections, overseas pricing inducements and broad confidentiality clauses.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
AI didn’t “go rogue.” People connected a computer system they know can mess with another computer system in unpredictable ways to less advanced computer system and it messed with that computer system in unpredicted ways. As @tressiemcphd.bsky.social argues, don’t lose sight that *people* did that.
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Opinion | Panic Won’t Fix the Looming A.I. Threat. Politics Will.
The threats from A.I. are real — and they’re ones we know how to deal with.
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