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Cradle to grave: mostly healthcare (some disaster litigation tourism). Housing 1st; medical attendance; and fed. (<--Lower-case.) Raised by pirates.

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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 12h
Samuel Alito: We won't overturn Obergefell because it's engendered reliance interests. Jan Crawford: Well, many people had organized their lives around Roe v. Wade. Alito: No, they didn't. Women merely had an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in."
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The Alito Court: A rare interview with the influential Supreme Court justice
Justice Samuel Alito discussed his opinion in the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the leaked draft and its aftermath, same-sex marriage rights and why he's not retiring yet.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 02/10/2026
This is a better epilogue to my January story about the private equity firm profiting off of ICE's cruelest flights than I could have ever possibly hoped for. CHICAGO: You went to the mat and protected (at a minimum!) thousands of immigrants from torture. Take a bow. prospect.org/2026/10/02/i...
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The City That Brought Down an ICE Airline - The American Prospect
In Chicago, progressive alderpeople held up a contract until a private equity firm was forced to dispatch Omni Air International, protecting thousands of immigrants from deportation.
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Jan Kirsch, M.D., M.P.H. @drjanicekirsch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
An estimated 2.3 million new cancer cases globally in 2024 were linked to infections. HALF WERE VACCINE PREVENTABLE (Hep B and HPV) Read more from the study spkl.io/61877pZ9S
Figure: Age-standardised incidence rates of infection-attributable cancers per 100,000 person-years in 2024 for the six infectious agents with the most attributable cases.
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I've helpfully outlined the Pentagon's choice of experts to write a new report on the future of the U.S. military. The Future of War Is These Four Jerks, Apparently: gizmodo.com/the-future-o...
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 01/10/2026
The Pentagon taps Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to help decide what the military should do next
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The Pentagon taps Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to help decide what the military should do next
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth just launched a 120-day study on the future of warfare, led by Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and Newt Gingrich, and while it makes sense given their ties to the administration, critics could point out that Musk's and Luckey's companies already sell the kinds of technology the study is likely to recommend.
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Michael @mjfromla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The one guy in the corner cubicle who knew COBOL and FORTAN got the retire or be fired letter and was like ✌🏿, good luck...
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 30/09/2026
As data breaches go, this is pretty sizable, significant, and also bafflingly bad in terms of time it took to discover and that the stolen data was unencrypted. News of this breach comes weeks after a huge theft of FBI agents' personal data. Bypass for ad-blockers: web.archive.org/web/20260930...
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Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach | TechCrunch
The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach.
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Menestune @menestune.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There's a gecko who comes to the bathroom window each night when I turn on the light. No wonder she can scale anything... look at the grippers on her feet!!!!! #lizard #herps #Maui #adorbs #photography #nokings
Close up thru a window of the underneath of a gecko against the dark night and reflection.  Her toes are lined with rubbery stickers.
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@kfunk937.bsky.social @kfunk937.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Rahm Bomb robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm-b...
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The Rahm Bomb
He’s the single worst Democratic hopeful now (almost) running for president. Democratic midterm candidates be warned: stay away from him.
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@kfunk937.bsky.social @kfunk937.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Pick Up, Drop Off johanuniverseends.substack.com/p/pick-up-dr...
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Pick Up, Drop Off
How a country trained its people to stop asking questions, and sent the bill to the planet
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Phil Hare's Ghost @mrlepus.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026
Irving Finkel has done a new video. If you don't know who Irving Finkel is, this is him. He is a national treasure and must be given appropriate attention. youtu.be/3MZq_ZQDhJA?...
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Irving Finkel reads the Pharaoh's private mail | Curator's Corner ep 100
YouTube video by The British Museum
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/09/2026
Breaking News: OpenAI’s technology went rogue and meddled with three U.S. government websites this summer without the A.I. lab’s knowledge. nyti.ms/4y5MY7n
Open AI headquarters in San Francisco is pictured. Headline reads: "OpenAI’s A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites." Photo credit: Manuel Orbegozo for The New York Times.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Bless the memory of Stanislav Yevgrafovich, the Man Who Saved the World. At a moment when it mattered, he chose humanity.
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@kfunk937.bsky.social @kfunk937.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Headtones in the running: You broke my dog yeah, expert animal behavioust (before med), what do you expect
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@kfunk937.bsky.social @kfunk937.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I have once again tripped over my 400 pound coffe table, that I bought for $200 my desk it is very bloody at least I wasn't on the phone, this time broke my nose, again
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@kfunk937.bsky.social @kfunk937.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
BTW, am actually a good editor but if I am over-tired, I relax sometimes into the rest of the panoply lingual Plus, it does not help that my "friend" sold me a backlit laptop that was not actually backlit, nor did it have the other things Mild text mssg: do you think that was going to be ok
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@kfunk937.bsky.social @kfunk937.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Aw, crap. Anniversaries. If my dad were alive, he'd be 90yo. My pirate
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@kfunk937.bsky.social @kfunk937.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
29-30 yrs, Cyriax syndrome. The medical term is interchondral subluxation. It's particulary hard to diagnose. The ED is useless: it doesn't show on X-ray. I can however demonstrate it And associated with a fairly-good checklist, now the EDS has expanded, to include adjacent super-bendy people.
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Nishreet - EllieBarbarash @nishreet.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I appreciate today’s column from my colleague JordanBarab jordanbarab.com/confinedspac...
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Something Wicked This Way Comes: Trump, Feds and Workplace Safety - Confined Space
Trump has declared war against federal employees (and worker in general). What impact will his actions have on workplace safety?
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@kfunk937.bsky.social @kfunk937.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
OMG, now there's widget! Failing to Protect America's Workers: The Weekly Toll jordanbarab.com/confinedspac...
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Failing to Protect America's Workers: The Weekly Toll - Confined Space
n average, 100 workers die every week from traumatic injuries on the job in the United States. Here are how a few died last week.
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@kfunk937.bsky.social @kfunk937.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
From Confined Space: Failing to Protect America’s Workers: The Weekly Toll jordanbarab.com/confinedspac...
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Failing to Protect America's Workers: The Weekly Toll - Confined Space
n average, 100 workers die every week from traumatic injuries on the job in the United States. Here are how a few died last week.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I’d highly recommend that nobody download this app. At best, it’s unfiltered propaganda. At worst, it’s spyware.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 15/09/2026
“When you don’t track something of that magnitude, then you don’t have to be confronted with the reality of what your policies have yielded”, said Faisal Al-Juburi, the co-chief executive of Raíces, an immigration services non-profit. Read the full story here:
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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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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.
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Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The promise of this article’s title is to come, but first let’s briefly explore the evidence in question, and then we can elaborate on the mechanism for pursuing criminal charges directly and in dozens of jurisdictions concurrently, all within
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
He is not wrong. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law" - United Nations Special Rapporteur on U.S. Killing “Narco-Terrorists” at Sea www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
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StrayCat🇨🇦 @straycatgood.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🇨🇦 He also hated the “Affordable Care Act”. I thought it was about his obsession with “Barack HUSSEIN Obama”. But maybe it was just the word “affordable” in the title. Who knew?! BTW. “Affordability” is in the dictionary. Just look it UP! What a ridiculous man.
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𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐲 𝐉.𝐒. 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐝𝐚 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 ¬1𝜄 = 𝗇𝗈𝗍 𝗈𝗇𝖾 𝗂𝗈𝗍𝖺 @ajsdecepida.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Précis of Linda Thornback’s Political Analysis/Commentary Essay ⤵
Précis of Linda Thornback’s Political Analysis/Commentary Essay
A Different Kind of Change
Linda Thornback argues that Mark Carney is better understood as a dismantler than a disruptor. Pierre Poilievre, in her formulation, wants to take control of the inherited machinery of government and redirect it. Donald Trump destabilizes institutions through confrontation and chaos. Carney is quieter: he identifies structures he believes no longer serve their purpose, removes or reorganizes them, then builds something different around a new objective.
That distinction is the article’s organizing idea. Carney’s calm, managerial style can make large changes appear incremental even when, in Thornback’s view, their cumulative effect is structural.
Taking over the Conservatives' Political Ground
The article begins with Carney’s effect on the Conservative Party. Thornback argues that Poilievre built his appeal around a sharp contrast with the Trudeau Liberals: lower carbon costs, fewer bureaucratic obstacles, faster resource development, more defence spending, tighter immigration policy and a government more willing to build.
Carney blunted that contrast by adopting several of those priorities himself. Thornback describes the result as political dismantling: rather than defeating Conservative ideas outright, Carney separated popular parts of their program from Poilievre and incorporated them into Liberal government.
The effect deepened when Conservative MPs crossed the floor, an NDP MP joined the Liberals and three April 2026 by-elections gave Carney a parliamentary majority. In Thornback’s telling, the Conservatives have lost not only seats but some of the political territory on which they expected to rebuild.Reworking Canada's Operating Assumptions
Thornback then broadens the argument beyond party competition.
On Canada-U.S. relations, she says Carney has stopped treating American hostility as a temporary deviation that a future administration will repair. Instead, he is reducing Canada’s strategic dependence on the United States by building denser defence, trade, technology and political relationships with Europe. The objective is not to sever the U.S. relationship but to replace the assumption that it will always remain dependable.
Inside government, the same pattern appears in public-service reductions and spending shifts. Thornback portrays Carney as dismantling the Trudeau-era model of an expanding federal apparatus and redirecting capacity toward defence, infrastructure, investment, trade and major projects. She acknowledges the risk: staff reductions can remove expertise, institutional memory and internal checks that are difficult to reconstruct later.
Federalism receives similar treatment. National-interest projects, the Alberta pipeline initiative and the China electric-vehicle agreement all involve Ottawa making decisions with uneven regional consequences. Thornback argues that the practical force of provincial autonomy may be weakening as the federal government defines national objectives, negotiates with the provinces it needs and manages other objections afterward.
Parliament, in her account, is being changed less by direct attack than by the movement of consequential decisions into cabinet, the Prime Minister’s Office, the Major Projects Office and executive negotiations. Bill C-5 becomes the central example: Parliament granted cabinet broad authority to accelerate projects deemed nationally important.The Management Precedent
Thornback traces the governing method back to Carney’s tenure at the Bank of England. His “One Mission, One Bank” strategy reorganized an institution that had rapidly expanded after the financial crisis. Teams were integrated, overlapping functions removed, staff moved and internal structures recast around a single mission.
For Thornback, that experience supplies the pattern: Carney decides what an institution should fundamentally do and redraws its structure around that purpose.
The unresolved question is what follows the dismantling. Some of the changes she describes may be overdue or defensible individually. Her concern is cumulative. If Canada’s relationship with the United States, public service, federal-provincial balance, parliamentary practice and party system are all being altered at once, Canadians need a clearer account of what the replacement architecture is supposed to be.
The article therefore ends less as an accusation than as a demand for definition: if Carney is deliberately rebuilding Canada for a different geopolitical and economic era, what kind of country is he trying to leave behind?
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sherri 11/07 @17x2lizards.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/n... Hurubie Meko, Maria Cramer The leaps being made in artificial intelligence and the plunging costs of drones pose dangers to cities across the United States, according to the Police Executive Research Forum
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The Rise of A.I. Is Raising Threats From Drones, Police Group Warns (Gift Article)
The leaps being made in artificial intelligence and the plunging costs of drones pose dangers to cities across the United States, according to the Police Executive Research Forum.
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💙🇺🇦 🚫🧊 @kaysid.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
There Is Something We Have to Do Right Now About A.I. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/o...
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Opinion | There Is Something We Have to Do Right Now About A.I. (Gift Article)
Letting A.I. patrol its own frontier is like asking Jesse James to patrol the Wild West.
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Heather Spaulding (Akalsha) @akalsha.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is the vehicle involved in the TX ICE shooting today. 😡 NYT article: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...
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sherri 11/07 @17x2lizards.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/o... Alexandra Prokopenko Sunday, ruling United Russia party will win commanding majority in Russia’s Parliament. This is not in doubt. 5 wks before vote, country’s Supreme Court struck Yabloko, the only antiwar party, from ballot..Kremlin is clearly taking no chances ⬇️
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Opinion | Russia’s Elite Has Lost Its Room to Maneuver (Gift Article)
Vladimir Putin has taken complete control.
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Asia Russell @asia-ilse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
worth noting Vought's own daughter has cystic fibrosis, he is v aware of the lifesaving benefits of independent scientific research (which is this case led to medicines she takes to live) and of studying disparate health outcomes. He just doesn't give af www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Project 2025 is gutting medical funding that helped Russell Vought's own kid
Its architect's daughter has cystic fibrosis—and benefits from a "miracle drug" backed by an agency he's attacking.
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Andrew Thrasher @tituslegaldesign.com · 01/09/2026
From what we know about this contract via previous RFI docs, GardaWorld will be coordinating with the National Coordination Center ICE is building in Nashville. The previous version included an expectation for the contractor to facilitate detainee pick-ups and transfers in less than 30 minutes.
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Mary Turck @maryturck.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
In Minnesota immigration news: • Christian Castro Arrested in Minneapolis • Operation Metro Surge: documenting the legal, human, and economic costs • Minnesota Sues to Stop Future Surge • ICE and Green Beanies • Immigration Court Judges Quit maryturckimmigration.wordpress.com/2026/09/18/m...
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Minnesota Immigration News: September 18, 2026
In Minnesota immigration news: Christian Castro Arrested in Minneapolis Operation Metro Surge: documenting the legal, human, and economic costs Minnesota Sues to Stop Future Surge ICE and Green Bea…
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@kfunk937.bsky.social @kfunk937.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Start here, then read down It is all important
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"As Thoreau, someone she admires very much, once wrote, “In the long run, we only ever hit what we aim at.” She was pointing us there." Well this essay knocked me back.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Remember that adverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb." rude :)
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@kfunk937.bsky.social @kfunk937.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
On some occasions, to stand tall, one needs to kneel
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
KAEPERNICK: The part that I hope people take away in this moment is what Robert Kraft and what they’re saying by denying Macklemore is they are openly colluding. They also want people to know that if you take an action that they don’t agree with, they will come for you.
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“We need to pump the brakes until we have rules in place to stop this technology from doing grave harm,” says Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen. “And that includes instituting mandatory safeguards and a comprehensive testing regime.” www.commondreams.org/news/can-ai-...
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Poll Shows 63% of Americans Fear AI Could End Humanity as Industry 'Corruption' Called Out | Common Dreams
"We need to pump the brakes until we have rules in place to stop this technology from doing grave harm," says Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen. "And that includes instituting mandatory safeguards and ...
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
So many trains could have been built
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Oksii ✚ 🇺🇦 @oksii33.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Ukrainian Armed Forces liberated an area larger than Zhytomyr during the offensive in the Donetsk region. The area is almost equal to Chernihiv, the Third Army Corps reported.
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@kfunk937.bsky.social @kfunk937.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Day 2 of Why are there ribs, anyway 29 f'ing years of randomish pop-outs Rheumatologist, years ago: never seen that before Me: abdominal breathiing exemplar, and trust me, if your ribs go walkabout, it's an answer to youf question It's the most painful thing
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@kfunk937.bsky.social @kfunk937.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
All my pooeple speak food in the grocery store so, up our neighbors
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Kevin D @omahakcsportsidiot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
He lives a good life, but at what cost? We dont support all of our first responders enough. And we can never understand the things they've had to endure, and what till it took on them mentally.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Kremlev, the Russian who sponsored Don Jr's wedding, is a former member of the Night Wolves biker gang, went to China with Putin and is personally sanctioned by Ukraine for his role in abducting children. He praises Stalin on social media www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Two shocking things here: the cages themselves, which are monstrous and evil, and the fact that there is still a functioning DHS watchdog.
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Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Back in December, I found two witnesses who verified that ICE was using tiny cages to punish detained at "Alligator Alcatraz." DHS inspector general just revealed it was all true. "Use of these small metal enclosures for any reason is unprecedented..." www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/defaul...
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Frontiers | Thermal tolerance under climate warming in the mangrove fiddler crab Paraleptuca chlorophthalmus: an integrative metabolic and behavioral approach www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.... 🧪🌎🦑
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Frontiers | Thermal tolerance under climate warming in the mangrove fiddler crab Paraleptuca chlorophthalmus: an integrative metabolic and behavioral approach
Thermal tolerance is a key determinant factor of species persistence and distribution under climate change, particularly in ectotherms inhabiting highly vari...
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