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Kate Baldwin

@katebaldwin.bsky.social
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Data geek, Episcopalian, proud member of the reality-based community. Follow climate change, religion, politics, SpEd. RT=agree. She/her. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦🇺🇸

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's absolutely bonkers to me that this image led directly to this tweet.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Among the first to appear before the judge was Angel, a 13-year-old. He had no attorney. “Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?” the judge asked “I don’t know,” Angel said, bursting into tears: “I have no one. I have nothing.” www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
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Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The best birthday present imaginable. #DollyDay 💖
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
So this story is WAY wilder than I thought The Trump post I flagged this morning because it includes Natalie Harp is actually based on the Getty photo you can see below. But there is one key difference -- MONICA CROWLEY'S FACE HAS BEEN EDITED TO LOOK LIKE NATALIE HARP'S WTF is going on here?
Getty pic of Xi and TrumpTrump TS post featuring the mentioned edit of Monica Crowley's faceoriginal pic image of MonicaTrump TS post which shows Natalie's face where Monica's is on the original. very weird
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
He ought to be asked about this when he’s presented as a Democratic strategist.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Correction: A company marketing a cartoon character obtained the cooperation of an opportunistic journalist for an infomercial, and it failed.
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 14/09/2026
One teen said he informed the ICE agents he was a citizen but was told, “I don’t give a damn.… Your parents can’t help you now.” trib.al/YQTcfYI
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ICE Attacks Two U.S. Citizen Minors on Their Way to Enlist in Marines
The ICE agents reportedly said they didn’t care after being told the two teenagers were citizens.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 15/09/2026
Attempting to frame these bigots like they’re brave pragmatists breaking from some kind of stalwart trans-affirming norm is the type of enormous lie where the ground should open up to pneumatic-tube you directly to hell.
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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It's really no different from all these big name law firms and attorneys getting caught filing hallucinated cases. It's us. It was always us.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/09/2026
@attackerman.bsky.social reported on the Amnesty report at the time, and astutely compared it to the torture boxes at Gitmo, where Ron DeSantis, as a young military lawyer, oversaw the torture. So once again, mainstream media is months behind independent media. www.forever-wars.com/torture-tech...
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Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
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Franchesca Ramsey @chescaleigh.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“you still got my support, but you gotta do something” 🐆💀
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The Local Crank @thelocalcrank.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
There’s not a single damned voter in Texas who was gonna vote for Paxton but changed their mind when they found out Talarico was willing to throw trans kids into the volcano
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
even Biden said there are “at least three” genders when a reporter tried to gotcha him so it is pretty embarassing someone half his age is out here doing “God divided the world into men, women and freaks” with his whole chest
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 12/09/2026
If Talarico will throw trans people under the bus he'll do it on abortion too and I'm not saying that makes him a bad vote vs Paxton BC SURELY NOT but voters deserve better than wondering
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Rick Pidcock @rickpidcock.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Says the guy who hangs out with Doug Wilson, the man who says not even Catholics should be allowed to hold public office in the U.S. due to not being Christian enough.
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Kate Baldwin @katebaldwin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
@weratedogs.com material
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
(1/X): I hate to be this person but the chances that we have an election for Trump where doesn’t interfere in some insane illegal way is zero. If I’m wrong, may God strike me dead on the spot
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Kate Baldwin @katebaldwin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Really disappointing.
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Peter Zusi @peterzusi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
NY Times Pitchbot wins comedy award with joke headline describing Trump’s latest venal lie about his role after 9/11: @nytpitchbot.bsky.social @nytimes.com
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It's finally happened: the improved quality of machine transcription and the greater ability to extract value from unlabelled data means "your tech is eavesdropping on you for marketing purposes" has crossed from "false conspiracy theory" to "true and concerning" www.theverge.com/tech/991190/...
theverge.com
LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby
Gamers Nexus comes for LG again.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The kind of sweaty conservative defensiveness I think we're all familiar with even today
Within two years proslavery writers had answered Uncle Tom's Cabin with at least fifteen novels whose thesis that slaves were better off than free workers in the North
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
And here's why Hasan Piker is a problem for Democrats
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Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The President of the United States today:
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Breaking: Someone appears to have hacked the Republican National Convention website and it now redirects to the Epstein Files website.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
If I'm reading this correctly, the President is threatening the Fed with tariffs.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Every day that the mainstream media don't report loudly and urgently that the president is insane is a day in which they're committing journalistic malpractice.
Now that we have it under U.S.A. control, should we change the name Hormuz Strait to TRUMP STRAIT??? Like America itself, it would be “hotter” than ever before! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/09/2026
Let this trouncing be a message to anyone who thinks throwing trans people under the bus is a good idea.
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Well, there’s your standing
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Mari Ness, writer of things @mariness.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
....the ongoing delights of being both a Hugo finalist and a wheelchair user. "The backstage is for walking participants," said directly to my face, as a wheelchair user.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 30/08/2026
That boot’s not gonna lick itself.
Google Maps shows “Lake America.”
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Why were there only 3 measles deaths in the last 10 years Robert
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
most embarrassing guy of all time
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Justin Schuh @justinschuh.com · 29/08/2026
It'd be nice to know how the Managing Editor of @propublica.org has gotten so brain-boiled on the lab leak conspiracy that he's pushing far-right disinfo from Daily Caller. This has been going on for years, and it really tarnishes the whole outlet.
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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
If you still have a Twitter account, today is a great day to delete it. Nothing you could possibly get out of that site is worth having your name associated with child pornography. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says
xAI accused of training Grok on real and AI-generated child pornography.
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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Even if you grant the absurd premise about Jews and Italians, this only makes sense if you know *nothing* about India or its politics. Mamdani is criticizing a leader of the RSS. It's a violent Hindu nationalist group, one of whose devotees literally killed Gandhi.
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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 27/08/2026
In the past year, the Trump administration has killed at least 223 people in Caribbean Sea and East Pacific boat strikes. These attacks are extrajudicial killings and should be considered murder under domestic law and crimes against humanity under international law, writes @seharrison7.bsky.social.
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The Boat Strikes Aren’t Part of a War. They’re Murder.
By debating war powers and war crimes, Congress is missing the simpler, graver truth: The president is directing summary executions.
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Every hour there's a story of like a Norwegian death metal guy saying hey I never met Dolly Parton but she sent me a handwritten note saying she loved our song Corpse in the Copse and to keep speaking our truth
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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 25/08/2026
I LOVE THIS IDEA
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
And as soon as tomorrow, Judge Talwani may also issue a TRO against the new rule the USPS issued Friday night to implement the EO. In other words, this is a small win for the Trump administration, but *not* a ruling that fully clears the way for Trump to mess with mail-in ballots come November.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
On 9/11, US airspace closed, Canada launched Operation Yellow Ribbon. Gander, a town of 10,000, received 38 airliners. Residents immediately sheltered, fed, clothed, and supported stranded passengers for days, providing this hospitality free of charge. interestingengineering.com/culture/oper...
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
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Induction of lung mucosal immunity by a next-generation inhaled aerosol COVID-19 vaccine: an open-label, multi-arm phase 1 clinical trial - PubMed
The current COVID-19 vaccines are suboptimal against the evolving SARS-CoV-2 variants, particularly in high-risk populations. A next-generation vaccine strategy capable of effective induction of respiratory mucosal immunity remains to be clinically developed. Here, we report an open-label, multi-arm …
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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
one real miracle of Trumpism is that his odiousness has done more to bring the Quebecqois together with the rest of Canada than anything a Canadian has done in my lifetime
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Addled Trump threatens to use the military on bond traders. bsky.app/profile/acyn...
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 21/08/2026
This is the funniest shit. Florida allows religious exemptions for vaccines. Catholic schools in Florida: we require vaccines. Florida's attorney general, who is Catholic, is threatening to pull vouchers if they don't allow for religious exemptions The Bishops: separation of church & state
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Catholic bishops remind attorney general about separation of church and state
“The government may not decide that Church teaching is insufficiently religious,” wrote the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The videos can't capture the scope of what's happening. ICE is out of control. ICE accosted a man on his way to a medical appointment, handcuffed him, and forced him back to his house. Agents conducted a warrantless invasion of his home, where his 3 minor US citizen kids lived
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 19/08/2026
I can’t believe women don’t want to date a guy who thinks that women aren’t people
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 19/08/2026
Result in high-risk patients validates decades of research into mRNA-based therapeutic cancer vaccines. on.wsj.com/4zwRduC
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Moderna, Merck Vaccine Succeeds in Preventing Melanoma From Returning
Result in high-risk patients validates decades of research into mRNA-based therapeutic cancer vaccines.
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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
If you are producing scholarship with AI and your work could plausibly be accessed in the EU, you are now legally compelled to disclose the nature and extent of your AI use. A tremendous win for scholarly integrity. www.lexacademic.com/blog/the-sta...
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The Stamp of Shame: What Claude’s New Legal Watermark Means for your Research - Lex Academic®
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