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And in the annals of junk science on abortion, we have this dreck, co-authored by a woman doctor who said in a Congressional hearing that 9-year-olds can safely give birth: www.autonomynews.co/new-white-ho...

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Babe, wake up, new fake paper on abortion dropped! Groups that want the FDA to force people to travel to clinics to get abortion pills are rallying behind a “peer-reviewed article” claiming that the agency lacked the required evidence to allow telehealth prescriptions of mifepristone. But this paper appears in a notorious journal run by an anti-abortion organization called the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, the coalition of physician groups that tried and failed to force the FDA take mifepristone off the market in a 2022 lawsuit. It’s the same journal that published a bogus “study” claiming mifepristone is in the drinking water of three U.S. cities. One of the co-authors is Dr. Ingrid Skop, an anti-abortion activist who said in a Congressional hearing that 9-year-olds can safely give birth.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 5h

This is absolutely hilarious.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 5h

"raises serious questions" was *maybe* a feburary 2017 argument. this is a man who was twice impeached who led an armed insurrection against the us government. wake the hell up.

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Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 5h

The timing of this raid and reports that a White House official was involved raise serious questions that should concern all Americans, regardless of political party.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 6h

I said this in a thread last night and in a thousand threads before it, but you really are doing the work of those who would destroy democracy and the rule of law when you are a doomer. You can be aware of — and vigorously oppose — the lawlessness of this administration without insisting on doom.

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Unfortunately, @transportation.seattle.gov needs to face up to the fact that, if it wants to achieve Vision Zero, we can't have multi-lane streets anymore. One in each direction, plus a bus lane, is the maximum that can be made safe.

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Braeden 🎣🦀🌲🦅 @bvd100.bsky.social · 20h

I was pretty excited @mayor.seattle.gov’s Vision Zero Executive Order called out MLK Jr Way S for rapid improvements. I am concerned the new speed cushions in the CD are all we’re getting out of that…

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 11/10/2026

Tax the rich. Fund public schools. Protect the millionaires tax in WA and vote NO on I-645.

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Aubrey Gordon @yrfatfriend.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Fellow fat people/people who wear plus sizes: what would real solidarity from your thinner friends & family look like for you? (Once again, asking thin & midsize people to sit this one out & just listen. Take notes & take action!)

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 11/10/2026

Repeat after me: Yes on 40, no on 41 and 42, which are designed to cancel out 40!

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pnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼 @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

When the paper of record endorses abusers of staff like it’s nothing but relentlessly chided me on decorum, the unspoken here is that it’s ok to be rude, aggressive, abusive, so long as it’s not to other people in power. The line I cross is I don’t mind pushing back on the powerful.

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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 11/10/2026

Unprecedented corruption. Reporting via @wsj

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Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

When we take back power, here is what we should do: ✅ HR 1: Tax billionaires to pay for free childcare & universal healthcare. (reconciliation) ✅ HR 2: No aid to Israel, cut bloated war budget ✅ HR 3: Freedom to Vote Act w/ Truth & Accountability Commission for corruption

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026

I don’t understand why there are so many people eager to ignore this in order to get the left “onboard” with AI

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

DHS claims that agents in NYC only shot Oscar Belgal because he "weaponized his vehicle." We don't know the truth...yet But we do know that DHS keeps making that claim, and it keeps falling apart The Guardian tracked 26 cases Just one got ended in conviction www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

most of those claims have fallen apart under scrutiny, with the accusations consistently disproven by evidence or rejected in court. Only one of the 26 cases has resulted in an assault conviction, according to court records and information shared by prosecutors.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 11/10/2026

Agree with Don. I’d add that the H1 people mostly (in my expc) didn’t *really* think the right cared about threats to free speech. Instead the H1 folks felt status threat, objected to the way DEI was being handled, and didn’t know how to say it. So they deflected their feelings onto “free speech”

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

In other professors’ syllabi, the bot flagged the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, essays by the Mexican American MacArthur genius grant recipient Sandra Cisneros, and materials related to a class about the Holocaust (that professor was told to drop material regarding Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people).

Putting aside the ideological slant of the new rules, the bot, like many large language models, seems to “hallucinate,” or make mistakes. The AAUP lawsuit lists texts banned for their “sex-based ecofeminist framework” and “gendered ecofeminist frameworks.” These phrases might sound persuasively like academese, but the academics behind the lawsuit had never heard of them; these concepts “do not exist,” the complaint says. Matthew Pehl, a history professor at Tech, told me that he knew several people who’d received reports from the system that were “plainly written by an AI that had hallucinated content or confused content from one class to another.”

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ossoff is acting like Trump/MAGA/GOP and what they’ve done to the country is Actually Bad. Charismatic and well spoken, which sure helps. But no “my friends across the aisle,” no acting like the imaginary “Baileys” are the only ones who matter, no “don’t talk values, only kitchen table.” That’s it.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It's already illegal. Congress banned it near-unanimously in 2022. That law allows the ban to be lifted only if Russia withdraws from Ukraine. He's simply breaking the law that's already on the books.

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Liz Sepper @lsepper.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

idk man you’ve been blowing up a lot of fishermen and school girls for a guy worried about innocent life

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Devin @kasota.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Climate change will take so much from all of us.

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Sara Bliss @urbanistmom.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Car-free Ave! Ballard Ave next, please!

Groups of people enjoying a car-free Ave, sitting out at tables, playing oversized chess, etc. The sky is blue and the trees are changing colors.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The right wing crash out over asian students celebrating at a UT football game reveals that all along the true goal of reactionary colorblindness was never “meritocracy” but resegregation. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Color-blind meritocracy was, for many years, a successful rhetorical strategy for undermining antidiscrimination law and excluding Black people from selective schools and prominent positions. That’s why so many former segregationists seemed to suddenly embrace the concept in the 1970s. For them, resegregation—not color-blindness—was always the goal. As long as the success of some immigrants could be used to paint Black students as undeserving, color-blind meritocracy was good. But now many on the right see a new problem: too many Asian Americans in elite spaces. Their success, therefore, must be portrayed as a sinister theft of real (white) Americans’ birthright.

The declining “social trust” that the administration warned against is, of course, not the fault of these students. The problem is bigots like Bo French who cannot accept into their community people who do not share their race and religion, and those who monetize or otherwise profit from that bigotry by spreading it through social media. Like the proverbial child who kills their parents and asks for mercy as an orphan, they are responsible for the problem they are decrying.

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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

S.F. just set a new October high tide record — by a wide margin www.sfchronicle.com/weather/arti...

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Kathy Zeim @buildmorehomes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

💯🔥💯🔥💯🔥

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

My support for bluesky/atproto is pretty much explicitly a "political" project. It is bad for a small number of (mostly right-wing) people to literally own all the sources of media. Open-source algorithms + the ability to move your account without negative network effects opposes this.

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Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 10/10/2026

Unless somebody kept the receipt and Kiewit has a really good return policy, imho the time for dunking on Pinehurst Station has passed. It's built, now we upzone the heck out of the area & take a bulldozer to the fence around the soon-to-be-former golf course so the rest of us get to use the spot.

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SMB @smbdemocracy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The man had his five year old in the car. Why wouldn’t he try to get away from men running at him with guns drawn?

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Tomorrow!

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Remarkable: As of now, Latino early vote is outpacing where it was at same time in 2024 in both percentages of vote share and in RAW VOTE TOTALS. That's big. Presidential turnout is usually higher than midterms. I obtained new analysis from Dem firm TargetSmart: newrepublic.com/article/2164...

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

a lot of people are replying with 'what are you going to do about it,' and while every level of government could do more, the powers the *DC City Council* has in this situation are comparatively limited. This isn't just voter intimidation, but an argument for statehood for the District of Columbia.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Funny how Marco Rubio tries to differentiate himself from all the other children of recent immigrants who are now getting removed from the country by the master he now serves. Rubio, you see, is a descendent of *the West*

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026

Its funny because people will continue to be shocked that there is white supremacy in Latin America.

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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I've been thinking and talking and writing about the death penalty for my whole adult life and the past week+ has been truly surreal and exhausting, not only because of the onslaught of horrors but because there seems to be so little historical memory of what this system is and always has been.

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The Needling @theneedling.com · 09/10/2026

Ballot Measure I-638 to Require Gender Verification for Playing Magic: The Gathering: tinyurl.com/4usc92fu

Close up of girl holding Magic: The Gathering cards

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Black Cheesebürder #MDANT Band Naming Expert @blackcheeseburger.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

At lunch at an office building in Issaquah in 1996 back when it was cool and there were only 2 genders (Teva and North Face).

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Stephen Leahy @stephenleahy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Reminder: far cheaper to build renewables that operate for free for 30 years than to keep paying higher and higher gas prices

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

By "not actually released" I mean that I obtained the documents through my reporting. Saying they were "released" implies that I found them online or something. It's fairly typical for the Times, when it credits me for anything, to downplay my work in some way and only give credit for a part of it.

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The Times story did credit me for reporting on "previously released documents" (which weren't actually "released") but not the rest of my reporting, which was primarily about the allegations that Kinnison restricted access to her email so the public records officer couldn't see it.

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KCRHA CEO Sought to Shield Records From Public Disclosure, Emails Suggest - PubliCola

By Erica C. Barnett King County Regional Homelessness Authority CEO Kelly Kinnison sought to exempt many of her emails from…

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

One takeaway from tonight: just one Bellevue CM (Jared Nieuwenhuis) thinks that the city spending 29% of new transportation revenue on pedestrian and bike infrastructure is too much.

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

ABC: Presidents have criticized broadcasters before but this is different. This is retaliation by the FCC against ABC for its speech, exactly the kind of thing the Court said violated the First Amendment in NRA v Vullo

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

18 former FCC Chairs, Commissioners and senior leaders of both parties (mostly Republicans) urged the court to block Brendan Carr's flagrant abuses of power. See the led we at @techfreedom.org filed along with @protectdemocracy.org techfreedom.org/fcc-threaten...

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FCC Threatens Free Speech, Bipartisan Coalition of FCC Veterans Tells D.C. District Court

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@notesfromdevin @notesfromdevin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

People need an alternative to jump ship.

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Important reminder to vote yes on the ballot question that would allow the mayor's office and DOT to speed up the installation of safe street designs, bike lanes, and transit upgrades. These are the people who want to retain their veto and keep us mired in a dysfunctional status quo.

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What to Know About NYC’s 5 Ballot Proposals Ahead of Election Day

New York voters will answer five questions in November’s general election.

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