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Andrew Weissmann @weissmann.substack.com · 30/05/2026
An important announcement of proposed new Trump administration rules. NOW is the time to object to any you disagree with (or to support any).
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 24/04/2026
Rep. Frank J. Mrvan (D-IN) scolded Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick after the Trump administration official appeared to laugh at job losses in his district.
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'Nothing funny about it!' Dem scolds Commerce Secretary for laughing at union job losses
Rep. Frank J. Mrvan (D-IN) scolded Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick after the Trump administration official appeared to laugh at job losses in his district.During a House Appropriations Committee hearing on Thursday, Mrvan observed that Lutnick had been supportive of union jobs outside of governmen...
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Reuters @reuters.com · 24/04/2026
In El Salvador, shackled prisoners watch their mass trial on a big screen reut.rs/4cv0Hgo
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In El Salvador, shackled prisoners watch their mass trial on a big screen
From inside a Salvadoran mega prison, more than one hundred alleged gang members sit in rows, wrists cuffed and ankles shackled, to watch court proceedings on a large screen ​that will decide the fate of all of them.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 16/04/2026
Extreme heat is already creating “nonsurvivable” conditions for humans in heatwaves that have killed thousands and likely many more, according to new research that warns people are more susceptible to rising temperatures than first thought.
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"Nonsurvivable": Today's heatwaves have surpassed our bodies' ability to stay cool
A new analysis reveals the deadly potential of six extreme heat events, especially for elders.
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 16/04/2026
An immigration agent shot out his eye at a 'No Kings' rally. His lawyers plan to file claim against Homeland Security
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An immigration agent shot out his eye at a 'No Kings' rally. His lawyers plan to file claim against Homeland Security
The attorney for a USC student shot and blinded by a Department of Homeland Security officer at a "No Kings" rally announced Wednesday that they're filing a federal claim against the agency — the first step in filing a federal civil rights lawsuit.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 16/04/2026
During Trump's busy day of golf at Mar-a-Lago, the president stopped his golf cart for a picture with golf content creator and MAGA supporter Nina Coates, remarking, “She’s in great shape, great shape, look at her ... Is she in good shape or what?” trib.al/yaFfNwX
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Trump Creepily Gawks at Married Woman in Front of His Grandson
“Is she in good shape or what?” the president said while spending time with his grandson.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 16/04/2026
Before the United States was founded, the idea of volunteering was well underway in the colonies. Now, Americans consistently donate more of their time than citizens of any other country. to.pbs.org/41Bilc0
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Why the spirit of volunteering is a defining part of America's identity
Before the United States was founded, the idea of volunteering was well underway in the colonies. Now, Americans consistently donate more of their time than citizens of any other country. Judy Woodruf...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16/04/2026
The Sisters of Charity of New York, an influential order of nuns that has helped shape the city for two centuries, has decided that the congregation should cease to exist when the last sister dies. The only question left is how to finish well.
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Sister Mary Kay and the Waning Days of the Sisters of Charity
An influential order of nuns decided to complete its mission when the last sister dies. The only question left is how to finish well.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
I will say this again: Science isn’t just something that nerds do, it’s the foundation of the modern world. It’s why this app exists. It’s why child mortality rate isn’t 50% anymore. It’s how we’re able to launch people to the moon. It’s how we’re able to grow food that feeds half the world.
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Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration
Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.
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ChelseaNH @chelseanh.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Amateurs study tactics; professionals study logistics; Hegseth studies his camera angles.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Wealth inequality is eating this country alive. Concentrated wealth is already endangering our democracy. Wealth doesn’t just beget more wealth — it begets more power. It’s a vicious cycle that destroys our economy and democracy at the same time.
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Zorka Milin @zorkamilin.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
"This isn’t just about clever accounting — it's about power and impunity. When millionaires and billionaires stash trillions of dollars in offshore tax havens, they place themselves above the obligations that bind the rest of society." Christian Hallum, @oxfaminternational.bsky.social
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David Shaywitz @dshaywitz.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Saw this perhaps of interest (or not) www.wsj.com/health/welln...
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Essay | How a Scary Diagnosis Taught Me to Cope With Stressful Uncertainty
For anyone facing potentially dire medical results or other nerve-racking ambiguities, the waiting is the hardest part. Here are a few strategies for keeping anticipatory anxiety at bay.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/04/2026
the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...
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BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service
The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
The 100-second video, posted by Trump, also depicts a skyscraper that appears to be about 50 stories tall. That would tower over other presidential libraries. (Obama’s is 225 feet.) Politico reported in December that Trump's allies were eying a 47-story skyscraper in honor of the 47th president.
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Trump unveils renderings of planned presidential library tower
The president and his son Eric shared images of a towering skyscraper that would be located in downtown Miami.
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
There's one trait where economists clearly outperform the other social sciences: Hubris.
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RoseyRoseamund - VOTE, OR FUCK OFF! @roseyroseamund.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
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Data centers are creating ‘heat islands’ and warming the land around them by up to 16 degrees | CNN
The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence are so energy hungry that they’re heating up their surroundings, according to new research. It’s an alarming finding given the number of data c...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
This is why you play the games!
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
This is excellent. open.substack.com/pub/no01/p/m...
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March, 19-21: God is a comedian
A stiff drink is recommended
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
The Miserable One is at the center of our Misery Machines. 🥹
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/03/2026
Of course.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
The Trump administration is gearing up to kick an estimated six million more people off of food assistance programs — including nearly two million children. The move would save just $1 billion a year, while Trump spends upwards of $1 billion per *day* on his new forever war. Priorities.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
It’s all just political theater by the Trump administration.
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
The defenders of Western Civilization are strangely uninterested in Western Civilization.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 22/03/2026
And it’s well-known now too that research on-campus at NIH is being slowly choked to death. Scientists are leaving and not being replaced, lecture visits blocked, people are spending more and more time not on science but on fruitless paperwork seemingly created to stop progress.
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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
How can this go on for another 3 years?
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Andrew Weissmann @weissmann.substack.com · 21/03/2026
Robert S. Mueller,III, a great man and role model for all America, has died. This country is better for his lifetime of dedicated service. May his memory be a blessing.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 16/03/2026
Jessie Buckley wins Best Actress for role as Agnes in “Hamnet.” "It’s Mother’s Day in the U.K. today,” Buckley said while accepting the Oscar. “So I would like to dedicate this to the beautiful chaos of a mother’s heart.” See more winners: wapo.st/4boVqFg
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Steph @stephy.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Retired NIH Program Officer Requests Grandson Address Weaknesses From Last Year’s Christmas List Before Considering New Submission open.substack.com/pub/inprepar...
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Retired NIH Program Officer Requests Grandson Address Weaknesses From Last Year’s Christmas List Before Considering New Submission
BETHESDA, MD—Explaining that he needed to see substantial revision before proceeding, retired NIH program officer Harold Wexler, 74, informed his grandson Sunday that he would need to address weakness...
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 07/03/2026
NBC - Two arrested and two IEDs seized as right wingers hold an anti-Islam demo outside Gracie Mansion today during Ramadan. Not immediately known if Mayor Mamdani was home. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Photo w caption: A person flees after throwing a homemade explosive device during a protest organized by far-right influencer Jake Lang in front of Mayor Zohran Mamdani's official residence on Saturday.
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Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 08/03/2026
Today we observed six shackled detainees being loaded onto the ICE Air flight at MSP. They're heading to El Paso, where conditions are so horrific, staff gamble on who the next prisoner to commit suicide will be. The man walking from right to left at the beginning of the clip is dragging shackles.
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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 04/03/2026
Stranded travelers are being forced to improvise byzantine routes out of the widening war zone across the Middle East.
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Cabs, cash and twisted routes to escape Dubai
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Trump just triggered a broadening regional war in the Middle East & only after doing so & after the airports closed down, tells Americans to book commercial flights to come back to the U.S. This inept regime has no plan. It’s all shoot from the hip. So many will pay the price.
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Gavin Newsom: “Review the tape — Trump spent more time talking about the curtains & his ballroom than of the 4 service members that died bc of his operation & his declaration of war without congressional consent — He still has not articulated clear vision of what the end game is. Period. Full stop”
Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks with members of the news media. (Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images)
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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
When you have the chance, please take the time to watch Harrison Ford's remarkable, beautiful Life Achievement Award acceptance speech. #ActorAwards www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV_2...
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Harrison Ford: Life Achievement Award Acceptance Speech | 32nd Annual Actor Awards
YouTube video by Netflix
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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
A friend has asked me to share this petition to defend the Classical Languages major at Iowa, which is slated for closure despite having 18 majors. If ancient languages aren't supported at universities, where will they be? www.change.org/p/keep-the-c...
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Sign the Petition
Keep the Classical Languages Major at the University of Iowa
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Guitarcoyote108 @coyote108.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The Sunday Guardian sundayguardianlive.com/world/iran-a...
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Iran Activates Decentralized Mosaic Defense: IRGC Splits into 31 Independent Regiment for Guerrilla Hell, Provincial Commanders Get Free Rein —What Happens Next in Strait of Hormuz?
Israel-Iran War: Iran activates Decentralized Mosaic Defense: IRGC commanders go autonomous amid US-Israel strikes. 31 units, guerrilla shift explained—conflict changer?
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 02/03/2026
Donald Trump’s plans to oust the Iranian regime, which led to the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, made some of his advisers nervous, The Atlantic reports. Read about what went into the decision to attack Iran, and what might come next:
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‘The Worst-Case Outcome Is Complete Chaos’
Killing the Supreme Leader was one thing. Ousting the regime will be another.
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F. Lee @karrieas.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Nice how he only greets the male justices.
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Nice how he only greets the male justices.
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Someone please explain to me why Al Green was booted instead of Trump.
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ZoomCenter @zoomcenter.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Rep. Al Green was escorted out of the House chamber just minutes into President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address for holding a sign reading “Black people aren’t apes!”
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Addendum: I provide links to all the documents (including the two sets of "stand down" emails) here: A Timeline of New York Law Enforcement and Epstein Investigations (The full video gives more of the context and where this might be headed.) www.justsecurity.org/132230/fbi-s...
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FBI’s “Stand Down” Directive to NYPD on Jeffrey Epstein Investigations, and More
The most comprehensive timeline to date of the publicly available record on New York law enforcement authorities’ action and inaction with regard to Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and other potential co-c...
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
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The NYPD Arrested Epstein. Then the FBI Intervened.
The Justice Department’s latest Epstein files release reveals the new timeline.
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
This clip should be in every Dem campaign ad until the day he’s gone and the media is barely talking about it.
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City Mouse Garden @citymousegarden.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
You know you found the right partner when he sees a nice long branch fall in the wind onto the parkway from the office window & sends me a pic immediately so I can grab it & add it to my deadwood fencing while it is still green & bendy. 💚💚💚 #gardening #NoSpray #nature #ecosystem #sustainability 🌱
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Newsweek @newsweek.com · 21/02/2026
An organized protest against the president signals a shift from traditional in‑chamber dissent to an alternative event.
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List of Democrats Set To Boycott Trump’s State of the Union Speech
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