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🌱Behavioral ecologist, chemistry witch🧙🧪 and 📚 former educator. #Arkansas. CPTSD/neuro🌶. 🏳️‍🌈/NB. #Exvangelical and #ChurchAbuseSurvivors. My mother has a Cluster B personality disorder. Brown Ajah. 👁

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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 1h
People finding out why cloud services have huge margin
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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 1h
A GOP super PAC group had to pay NINE times as much as James Talarico to broadcast an ad during the same football game. apnews.com/article/midt...
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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 1h
BREAKING: US FWA shows August VMTs (vehicle miles traveled) down 0.6% nationally, down in every region, likely impacted by high fuel prices and economic shifts
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Samit Sarkar @samitsarkar.bsky.social · 1h
"If you look at the population of — well, all people in cities, particularly people who come to cities from elsewhere, but particularly homeless and other vulnerable people in cities [...] a pretty large chunk of those people who end up in cities were failed in some other parts of this country."
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h
An authoritarian government forcing people to use new politically-driven language in their speech -- call it "newspeak," if you will
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1h
I saw a video that’s getting a decent amount of circulation on Instagram that insinuates that a new Nobel laureate might have had some dealings with Epstein on the basis of the fact that his name appears in the files because he attended the World Science Festival. THIS IS AN UNHINGED CONCLUSION.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 1h
MFA of Ukraine = @ @MFA_Ukraine •4h
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Russia launched a cynical attack against Ukraine on October 7, firing around 70 missiles - many of them ballistic - along with Shahed drones. The attacks hit Kyiv and 12 regions, killing at least 19 people and injuring dozens.
In Pryluky, Chernihiv region, a Russian strike destroyed a five-storey residential building, killing 13 people, including three children. At least 43 people were injured, including children.
Nine apartment buildings were damaged in Dnipro and Kremenchuk. Two people were killed and 27 more injured. Two more people were killed in Kyiv and two in Oleksandriia.
Russian ballistic missiles remain one of the biggest threats. Ukraine urgently needs more air defence, including Patriot missiles, to protect lives.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1h
Bond market testing Warsh — like it tested Greenspan? 👀 (via DRW)
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3h
Vital Knowledge:
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3h
As Trump crisscrossed the country last week trying to help his party avoid a blowout in the midterms, two of his top political advisers — James Blair and Chris LaCivita — were in the Balkans helping a pro-Russian government looking to tighten its grip on power.
nytimes.com
Amid Midterm Crunch, Trump Advisers Took Time to Help Russia-Aligned Government
James Blair and Chris LaCivita, who are leading the president’s congressional campaign operation, traveled to Republika Srpska to provide election advice.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 3h
Days after Trump's rally in Alabama, there's a tough front page in the local paper
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2h
Abdul El-Sayed recently called Hasan Piker and told him to cool it with the rhetoric, warning it could cost him. He's also struggling with Black voters (this was always going to be the bigger issue for him than Jewish voters). edition.cnn.com/2026/10/07/p...
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Abdul El-Sayed is certain he’ll win Michigan’s Senate race. Some key Democrats quietly aren’t so sure | CNN Politics
Abdul El-Sayed predicts that he will win the Michigan Senate race by 7 points.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 2h
Reports of another Russian who’s fallen ill.
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WHO demands answers from Russia about ‘second plague victim’ — The Telegraph
Pressure increases on Moscow to disclose information about lab worker’s death following reports of another employee contracting the disease
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 2h
“Collapse is happening.” In dozens of Russian cities, the heating season could not begin due to the wear and tear of utility networks. In Omsk alone, 4100 people are now without heating.
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«Коллапс происходит». В десятках городов России не смогли начать отопительный сезон из-за износа коммунальных сетей - Русская служба The Moscow Times
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2h
#MIsen
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2h
BREAKING: ICE over the past year investigated hundreds of nonprofits across the U.S. that help people register to vote. The internal documents, obtained by the Democracy Forward, showed that ICE's investigative arm also contemplated sending undercover agents to investigate the organizations.
democracydocket.com
ICE  probed hundreds of voter registration groups across the U.S.
The agency also contemplated deploying undercover agents to "initiate prosecutions" against the groups and "dismantle" them.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2h
Trump just raged wildly at Dr Annie Andrews, the Dem Senate candidate taking on Darline Graham in South Carolina, smearing her with vile anti-trans slurs. Turns out two GOP-aligned polls just found the race very close. Details on these GOP polls and much more here: newrepublic.com/article/2163...
newrepublic.com
Trump Spirals into Crazed Fury as GOP Pollsters Deliver Very Bad News
As Trump explodes at South Carolina Senate candidate Annie Andrews—who is doing surprisingly well in GOP-aligned surveys—a Democratic operative in the state discusses the very uphill climb that lies a...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1h
“.. defense companies backed by the president's sons, including Anduril, have now raked in more than $6 billion dollars in active or promised government contracts since those investments were made, according to the government's official contract reporting. abcnews.com/Politics/tru...
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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 3h
🇫🇷 France's Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot: Listen to what is being said in Moscow: Europe is going to war and is losing its moral values. Listen to what is being said across the Atlantic in MAGA circles: Europe is supposedly a decadent, backward, totalitarian civilization.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3h
Ahead of a $39 billion 10-year note auction at 1p.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h
(AXIOS) - Texas Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton privately lamented the impact of the Iran war and gas prices on his campaign in a meeting last month, telling a group of donors and lobbyists, "I don't make the decisions," according to audio obtained by Axios #TXsen www.axios.com/2026/10/07/k...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 4h
🚨BREAKING: ICE collected tens of millions of voter records, explored undercover investigations against voter registration groups and considered feeding election data into a system used to locate people for deportation as part of an effort to find voter fraud. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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ICE amassed millions of voter records in sweeping fraud hunt, documents reveal
It's one of the clearest pictures yet of how deeply Trump's immigration enforcement apparatus has become involved in elections.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h
What a hedline: @apnews.com apnews.com/article/midt...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h
BARCLAYS: “.. Chips & memory are <30% of the S&P 500 today yet make up 70%+ of aggregate EPS revisions and growth estimates in FY27.”
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 4h
What did I say about: (a) Scott Colum and (b) Annie Andrews. The South is more diverse than Maine or Kansas or Iowa. In a wave year, who knows?
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3h
As I suggest in this pod discussion, if someone told me a decade ago that the two 2026 Senate races that Dems would be running away with would both be in the South (Georgia and North Carolina), I would have thought it's utterly nuts
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3h
“.. We don’t have the attitude, the infrastructure, or the resources. We lost that battle decades ago, and cannot will it back.” @fastcompany.com @scottlincicome.bsky.social www.fastcompany.com/91617670/why...
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Arkansas Advocate @arkansasadvocate.com · 5h
Democrats could win majority of governor’s offices for first time in 16 years arkansasadvocate.com/2026/10/07/r...
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Democrats could win majority of governor’s offices for first time in 16 years | Arkansas Advocate
As the political prospects for Republicans worsen ahead of November’s midterm elections, the GOP is increasingly playing defense over its yearslong grip on state governments.
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Arkansas Advocate @arkansasadvocate.com · 4h
USDA to increase research into US seed stores, partner with Justice Department to investigate seed industry arkansasadvocate.com/2026/10/07/r...
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USDA to increase research into US seed stores, partner with Justice Department to investigate seed industry | Arkansas Advocate
USDA launched a program to increase research of the country’s seed collection and to investigate competition in the seed industry.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h
WAPO: “.. The plan calls for a parcel of the private club to be designated a permanent, official sanctuary for foreign leaders and future U.S. presidents, designed to host international summits and house presidents when they take vacations in Florida ..” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 13h
At a press conference in Hollywood on Tuesday, @passantino.bsky.social directly confronted David Ellison about his coziness with Donald Trump. "Do you think the company has been politicized?" Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/david-elli...
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Ellison’s Day-One Dance
On the first day atop his new Skydance media empire, David Ellison faced pointed questions from Anderson Cooper and Status about CNN, his coziness with Donald Trump, and his commitment to editorial in...
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Law360 @law360.bsky.social · 17h
A former FBI agent has come forward with a claim that when U.S. Circuit Judge Emil Bove was at the U.S. Department of Justice, he directed the Los Angeles field office to illegally investigate protesters. www.law360.com/artic...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h
“.. A lot of people in the investment community had hoped he was the adult in the room,” said Stephen Myrow, a former Treasury official. Investors are “starting to see him as acting more and more like Trump…and that’s shaking confidence in him.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h
MERCX: “.. Why pay $29.50 per barrel just to ship oil from West Africa to China? Because you need the oil now and cannot afford to wait.”
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h
“.. The role of a president is to protect the country, not to actively threaten it and encourage attacks on American lives,” she said in a social media statement. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/w...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h
“Republicans' redistricting .. created 14 new strongly red districts, but the GOP is a sure bet to win only five .. And.. since Sept. 1, Republican candidates and super PACs have spent nearly $100 million .. trying to flip the other nine.” @punchbowlnews.bsky.social punchbowl.news/article/camp...
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Pepperfree🦋 🍉❌️👑🇺🇸 @justpepper.bsky.social · 5h
Wasn't Ol' Domny protecting us from the hurricanes somehow? 🤔
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h
MIAMI (AP) - Tropical Storm Isaias forms off eastern Mexico, forecast to become a hurricane and hit the US Gulf Coast this week. @apnews.com
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Arkansas Advocate @arkansasadvocate.com · 5h
Americans’ water bills are growing faster than groceries, overall inflation arkansasadvocate.com/2026/10/07/r...
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Americans’ water bills are growing faster than groceries, overall inflation | Arkansas Advocate
Household water bills are increasing faster than inflation and income, according to a new analysis.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h
“.. Each hour, Muse updates its dossiers on you and the people you’ve mentioned in chats, messages, and emails that Muse has read. .. Even people who don’t use Muse are subject to this mapping process by other people’s Muse agents.” @time.com $META time.com/article/2026...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h
SHELL CEO: “There’s a limit to how much those shock absorbers can continue to take. .. We have maybe softened the worst impact of the crisis, but there is only so long that you can continue to do that without further discontinuities emerging.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16h
A day after Trump said his super PAC would pay for those propaganda ads that had been funded by taxpayers, White House officials said the group did *not* plan to reimburse the government for the more than $10 million it had already spent on the ads.
nytimes.com
Trump Does Not Plan to Reimburse Taxpayers for Promotional Ads
A day after the president said his super PAC would pay for the ads, which had drawn bipartisan backlash, officials said that he meant moving forward. A new taxpayer-funded ad aired Tuesday.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h
SENTIMENTRADER: “.. S&P 500 closed at a record high. With twice as many lows as highs on the NYSE. Here's every date the S&P closed at a record and the NYSE low/high ratio was > 2: 6/22/29...2.1 12/3/99...2.0 12/21/99...4.2 12/22/99...4.1 12/23/99...2.3 12/29/99...2.4 10/6/26...2.6”
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I wrote about the Cornell rape case, specifically about how MAGA responses to it highlight the male supremacism on the American right. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-illusion...
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The Illusion of Consent: A Rape at Cornell and the MAGA Right
For the new right, when a man is accused of rape, he is first and foremost a victim of feminism.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h
“.. Without it, you do have that $200-a-barrel scenario, so it is pretty important it continues,” he said. “There aren’t any more inventories to drain in the west.” @financialtimes.com ⛽️ www.ft.com/content/95db...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h
“.. Oil market turmoil will continue beyond next year, executives said at the conference on Monday, as it could take years to refill inventories on top of meeting global demand.” @reuters.com ⛽️ www.reuters.com/business/ene...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 15h
New whistleblower complaint: The Trump admin pushed the FBI to investigate Los Angeles protesters in violation of their constitutional rights and the bureau's policies, a former FBI supervisor alleges in a new whistleblower complaint.
nbcnews.com
FBI whistleblower says White House pushed unconstitutional probe of protesters
The former analyst says supervisors were told not to put things in writing, so many of the directives came in face-to-face meetings.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 20h
Ukraine's reply to Russian attacks on civilian ships, at least one shadow fleet tanker destroyed.
Russian shadow fleet tanker on fire
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 06/10/2026
Ursula von der Leyen & @vonderleyen
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The situation in the Black Sea is increasingly concerning.
Commercial ships - and innocent crews - are being targeted, with lives already lost at sea.
Today, two commercial vessels were hit in Bulgaria's economic zone in Black Sea.
This comes just one day after a Turkish ship carrying Ukrainian grain was struck and sunk off the Romanian coast.
While exact circumstances of these incidents are still being established, the developments are very concerning.
Attacks on civilian shipping are unacceptable.
We stand in full solidarity with our Member States on the Eastern flank.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 19h
NEW TEXAS POLL! #TXSen James Talarico 50% Ken Paxton 44% #TXGov Gina Hinojosa 48% Greg Abbott 47% d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/tt...
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