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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The fact that OAN is reporting this … (a) damn!, and also (b) this sort of thing is very good for democracy because it prepares the most partisan Republicans to understand and (maybe) accept election results that go against them
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katspan.bsky.social @katspan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
So pro-life they’ll kill you.
theguardian.com
Revealed: ICE lost count of miscarriages, while detaining a record number of pregnant women
ICE says it has no updated information on the number of miscarriages after 3 October 2025. Lawmakers, advocates and immigration attorneys have raised alarms that pregnant detainees are not receiving b...
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
No responsible news outlet should go to the White House as long as this ban on their colleagues is in effect. It’s time for big media to show some backbone. Also, any apologies about that embarrassing WHCA dinner yukking it up with Trump and his apparatchiks? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/b...
nytimes.com
CNN and MS NOW Reporters Barred From White House After Trump Announces Ban
The prohibition on certain journalists was a stark escalation in President Trump’s war on the media, and will probably face a legal challenge.
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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
bloomberg.com
Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
the president has finally revealed his true form: a 1980s preppie villain determined to tear down the rec center
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katspan.bsky.social @katspan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
GOOD. THAT IS THE WHOLE POINT. John Dewberry can go pound sand, but first he needs to sell this dumpster fire to someone who will actually develop the property.
atlantanewsfirst.com
Midtown high-rise owner says blight tax would be a ‘wrecking ball’ to development
Dewberry Capital says the property isn't blighted, but financing has been difficult to come by.
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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I've been curious about the balancing act that professional female athletes have to deal with when they become moms, and @emmabaccellieri.bsky.social does a great job explaining how four Washington Spirit players have managed it — with help from their teammates: www.washingtonsun.com/sports/spiri...
washingtonsun.com
The Spirit’s New Moms Navigate the Season with Babies in Tow
A league policy allows players to have their babies — and their spouses — travel with the team.
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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Irish musicians, Beoga, who play alongside Ed Sheeran, have withdrawn from Sheeran’s tour. This is the statement they published on Instagram:
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Canada will never forget.
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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Texas is delaying its typical September 1 release of maternal mortality data until December 1, conveniently timed to be after the midterm election. Recent reports have shown a sharp rise in ectopic pregnancy deaths after the abortion ban went into effect. www.austinchronicle.com/news/texas-p...
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Texas’ Pregnancy Death Report Set to Release After Midterms • The Austin Chronicle
Texas’ Pregnancy Death Report Set to Release After Midterms
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thousands of immigrants did the hard, dirty work of clearing rubble and toxic dust and debris from Ground Zero. Many were undocumented laborers sent to work every day with no special PPE, and got cancer as a result. Now some of those same people are living in fear of ICE. www.npr.org/2026/09/11/n...
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They cleaned up ground zero. Now many are hiding from ICE
After 9/11, thousands of rescue and cleanup crews went to work at ground zero. They were exposed to toxic debris and experienced psychological trauma. Today, many say they live in fear of deportation.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/09/2026
AN URGENT EXCLUSIVE: Ahmed Soliman, the 30-year-old gay man ICE expelled in April to Equatorial Guinea, a country he has no ties to, was arrested this morning and cannot be located, his attorneys say. They fear he may be in one of EG's torture prisons. prospect.org/2026/09/11/i...
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Immigrant Trump Sent to African Hotel Prison Arrested After Speaking With Media, Lawyers Say - The American Prospect
Ahmed Soliman’s attorneys fear he may have been sent to one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious torture prisons.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
JON STEWART: “They began covering their ass 3 weeks after 9/11… There was poison in the air, on the ground, on your pets/clothes… THE CITY KNEW. Rather than limit the damage, they covered it up… After 9/11, business will never be usual again.” (From @mamdanibulletin.bsky.social )
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Cassandra Jaramillo @cassandrajaramillo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New reporting from my colleagues: Ectopic-related deaths in abortion banned states are increasing. One expert said deaths from ectopic pregnancies should “really be a never event.” www.propublica.org/article/ecto...
propublica.org
Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Society hasn't indulged conspiracy theorists *enough*? When you look at <gestures widely> you think a reason we got here is that over the last decade or two, too *few* in positions of authority have tried being empathetic, sympathetic, or nice to cranks, conspiracy theorists and liars? You sure?
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Summers in the US are getting hotter due to human-caused climate change. 2026 will be the hottest and most humid in the contiguous US since records began in 1895. We need investments in clean energy, updates to permitting systems, and help for communities to adapt to climate hazards.
nytimes.com
Opinion | Summer Has Gotten Much Hotter. See How Bad It Is Where You Live. (Gift Article)
The notion of enduring the summer rather than embracing it has spread far beyond the Sun Belt.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It still sickens me this bigot mocked a disabled reporter and millions of Americans said, “No big deal. That’s who I want as president.”
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Obvious point: The Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, are far better Americans than Donald Trump and JD Vance and Stephen Miller.
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Conor Lamb @conorlambpa.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Meta’s settlement is roughly equivalent to someone making $100k being fined $600 a year for ten years. Not even close to the scale of the harm Meta has caused.
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Conor Lamb @conorlambpa.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The settlement with Meta seems to leave the algorithms untouched. Won’t this end up looking like when heroin was offered as a replacement for morphine as a 19th century cough suppressant? The same dangerous product stays on the market.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
When Gloria Steinem co-founded Ms. Magazine in 1972, the honorific “Ms.” was virtually unheard of. Unmarried women were referred to as “Miss [father’s last name]” and married women as “Mrs. [husband’s last name].” “Ms.” was an assertion of individual identity. Women who used it were widely mocked.
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ANSIRH @ansirh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Up to 25% of pregnant women experience bleeding or spotting in the first trimester. Now, because this could be associated with abortion, Indiana emergency rooms are referring out to overworked OB-GYns, according to new research. mirrorindy.org/indiana-abor...
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Indiana’s abortion ban has ‘chilling effect’ on ER pregnancy care
A study found ER doctors are more hesitant to care for pregnant patients who are bleeding.
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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 03/09/2026
More from my review of The Nerd Reich:
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
New: Texas cops who used Flock to search 80,000 cameras nationwide for a woman who had an abortion used Axon's AI to write up their police report about the incident. The tech "summarized" police discussion over whether a crime had been committed www.404media.co/texas-police...
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Texas Police Used AI to Write Report About Using Flock to Search for Woman Who Had Abortion
The incident shows how quickly police departments have come to use AI surveillance tools even in critically sensitive cases.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/09/2026
For me, the biggest takeaway from Sophie Cunningham’s hard launch into the right-wing culture wars is how *lucrative* bigotry is now. There’s an entire conservative media ecosystem that will turn anyone willing to make transphobia their personal brand into a well-compensated star.
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Sophie Cunningham and the cynical economics of the anti-trans athlete
The conservative media machine is turning WNBA athletes into well-compensated culture-war assets.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 01/09/2026
nobody in history has ever gotten a bigger "affirmative action" boost than JD Vance. these Yale mfs brought him in, literally taught him how to use a knife and fork, handed him to Amy Chua to learn ruthless sociopathy, and then a tech billionaire bought him a Senate seat over the counter
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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“I came to this country to pursue my education. I didn’t come here to commit a crime or hurt anyone. Yet now I’m walking through the streets with a GPS monitor on my leg, carrying a feeling of shame and humiliation that I never imagined I would experience.” www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/spring...
springfieldnewssun.com
Springfield Haitian student takes his own life after being fitted with ICE ankle monitor, advocates say
A 20-year-old Wright State student took his own life on Interstate 70 out of anguish over a required ICE ankle monitor, according to local community advocates.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 01/09/2026
Five years ago tonight, a lot of people were holding their breath to see if the Supreme Court would block an absurd Texas law designed to ban abortion even with Roe still on the books by letting any random piece of shit sue anyone involved in the abortion for $10,000. The court let it take effect
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Goes without saying but the president directing the fcc to “punish” nbc because a poll made him mad would have consumed basically any other White House in endless scandal
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Starting in the 1960s and for decades after, the Danish government implanted intrauterine devices in Greenlandic women and girls. Some of them were as young as 12, and many had no idea what was being done to them. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/w...
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Greenlandic Women Will Finally Get Money for Forced Contraception
For decades, Denmark implanted intrauterine devices in women in Greenland in an effort to keep down the island’s population. On Thursday, the government passed a compensation bill.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
You can’t say you weren’t warned
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Majority Black Gary, Indiana lost electricity for 2 weeks. @sarahlazare.bsky.social visited the city, finding buildings reeking of rotten food, elderly residents trapped in their homes, & mass chaos. This is what happens when climate disaster meets institutional neglect: prospect.org/2026/08/28/g...
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Gary, Indiana, Is America’s Latest Climate Victim - The American Prospect
This community has already faced structural racism and disinvestment. A two-week blackout unleashed a humanitarian disaster.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/08/2026
If this were happening somewhere else, we would call them what they are: Internally Displaced People.
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 28/08/2026
Eddie Reyes-Ochoa has been in the U.S. for 20 years. He works in construction, has a wife who just graduated law school with a baby on the way, and is close to earning his green card. But after a car accident on Aug. 21, ICE detained Eddie and sent him to a detention center in Natchez, Mississippi.
mississippifreepress.org
ICE Detains Kiln Man, Leaving Pregnant Wife Alone: ‘We’ve Done What the Government Told Us’
Eddie Reyes-Ochoa, just weeks from earning his green card, was detained by ICE and taken to an immigration detention center in Natchez, Mississippi.
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Michelle R. Smith @bymichellersmith.com · 27/08/2026
Senator calls for criminal investigation of RFK Jr after Guardian report www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Senator calls for criminal investigation of RFK Jr after Guardian report
Newly obtained records indicate health secretary lied about Samoa trip during Senate confirmation hearings last year
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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton supported so many important causes, among them donating a million dollars to COVID vaccine research early in the pandemic, which saved millions of lives. She will always be remembered as a champion of the people.
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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️
Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.
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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Sorry, I can’t type that.
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Arrested Development @bluthquotes.lucille2.com · 22/08/2026
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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
After his 35-year-old wife bled to death from a miscarriage in a Houston-area hospital, a Texas father is suing—and taking her story to Capitol Hill. msmagazine.com/2026/08/21/p...
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‘It’s Killing the Women You Represent’: Texas Widower’s Plea to Lawmakers to End Abortion Ban
After his wife Porsha Ngumezi bled to death from a miscarriage in Houston, a Texas father is suing and taking Porsha's story to Capitol Hill.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Big step forward for the dictatorship
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This is a beautiful essay by @calebgayle.bsky.social in @bittersouth.bsky.social “I realized the faith I inherited was built to address the wrong Hell. Ill-prepared to address the misery that arrives now — in procedure rooms, in news alerts, in casualty reports, in deportations, and killings...”
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To Hell With It — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
These days fewer than 50 percent of Americans report attending church weekly and many of us consider hell-on-earth our 2026 reality. Here, author Caleb Gayle makes the case for working on America’s si...
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
It really is unbearably pathetic how we have people publicly justifying their turn to fascism on the basis that they once saw “pregnant people” on a website.
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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Published Tuesday; living it Sunday: aqi is so bad thanks to a local fire I have to close all the windows in a high-desert house with no air conditioning. "...the smoke, dangerous to breathe, hangs in the air, dimming the view, changing the very color of sunlight into something grimly unsettling.
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We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit
Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys
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Gavril Ducu 🇷🇴 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @ducugavril.nafoforum.org · 09/08/2026
I went looking for old anti-vaccine propaganda and expected an interesting historical curiosity. Instead I found arguments from 1802, 1885 and 1920 that would barely need rewriting to circulate online today. That raises a rather disconcerting question.
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Benjamin Hoffman @bhh.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I’m reading a book published in 1944 and this logo is so unbelievably tough. I’d absolutely wear a shirt with this exact design.
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