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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The Amazon River discharges 20% of the world’s freshwater to the ocean and recycles up to 50% of its own rainfall through trees. Cut the forest, and the regional climate starts to collapse toward a savanna tipping point. Scientists warn 17–18% is already lost or heavily degraded.

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 15/10/2026

And yet gas-only cars constituted 77% of the new vehicle market in the US over that period. Has the US ever been this far behind the world average in new tech adoption for a major product type?

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

This fucking country

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Peter du Toit @peterdutoit.com · 14/10/2026

ICYMI The current assessment shows that SEVEN of the nine Planetary Boundaries have been transgressed. They are: 1. Climate Change 2. Change in Biosphere Integrity 3. Land System Change 4. Freshwater Change 1/2

PLANETARY
HEALTH CHECK 2026
A Scientific Assessment of the State of Our Planet

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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

"The Pentagon has named one of its own public affairs officials to run the publication Stars & Stripes, and he will keep his Pentagon job while doing it. This places a single official inside both the office that shapes the military's message, and the newsroom charged with covering it independently"

military.com

Pentagon PR Official Takes Over Stars and Stripes Months After Editor, Publisher Kicked Out

Christian Devine, an executive director and principal adviser in the Pentagon's public affairs office, was appointed weeks after terminations.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Good: Abolish ICE Even better:

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richmurphy-econ.bsky.social @richmurphy-econ.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

New research alert: Proactively guaranteeing tuition and housing tripled enrollment for low-income students eligible for automatic admission to UT Austin from high-poverty schools #rct doi.org/10.3102/0162... @mattgiani.bsky.social @drflorespolicy.bsky.social @joribarash.bsky.social

This figure shows the share of recruited students who submitted an application to, were admitted by, preliminarily enrolled in, and officially enrolled in University of Texas Austin. Recruited students are both eligible for free or reduced-price lunch and among the top 10% of their high school graduating cohort by GPA as of the end of their junior year. The outcome is the average share among the sample of eligible students in 32 high schools, with half randomized into each treatment arm. Error bars reflect a 95% confidence interval for the sample mean. The treatment effect estimates are from regression models of the UT outcomes on a dichotomous indicator of the Outreach plus Guarantee condition. Percentage points are denoted by pp. The standard error for the treatment effect is shown in parentheses.
Students in the Top 6% of their HS class are guaranteed admission. Among these students the enrollment rates of the treated group was 30.2% compared to 11% in the control. Among students not guaranteed admission (7-10%) the enrollment was 6.1% for the treated and 0.3% in the control

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

And still. Love love love this

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Chicken WingDings 🇵🇸 @ebridget.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Ms Rachel from the top ropes

From Ms Rachel's account on Threads, she writes, "CORECIVIC, a company that makes hundreds of millions locking up KIDS in immigration detention
has a PAC that's sending campaign checks to Senator Susan Collins of Maine.
Susan Collins chairs the Senate committee that writes ICE's budget.
ICE is CoreCivic's customer.
The company gets paid out of a budget she controls, and it pays into her campaign."

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I keep reading that there have been no public executions in the United States for decades. Not true.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

💙💛💯🇺🇦

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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Wow, good on the "law" for actually following the law. "A law enforcement official with direct knowledge of the situation described the confrontation as an intense showdown."

gvwire.com

Fresno Police Square Off With ICE Over Arrested Agent

Fresno police refused to release an arrested ICE agent to other federal agents early Friday morning at Community Regional Medical Center.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I just got back from the Middle East. What I saw made clear that Trump and Hegseth aren’t telling the American people the full story about the cost and damage of this war. Here are my four biggest takeaways.

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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 09/10/2026

Oh wow. This is the sort of thing which voters absolutely HATE (well, except for Trump who gets away with it all the time). And the contrast with Marshall suing & arresting his patients for similar amounts of past-due invoices is absolutely perfect.

BREAKING: Roger Marshall stiffed a local Kansas business who baked cookies for his campaign, refusing to pay a $678 bill - a bill larger than debts for which Roger Marshall had patients sued, arrested, and jailed, which ran as low as $114.49!

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Of course the Trump Savings Accounts for kids turns out to be scam. In effect, "our president is helping rich donors offload overvalued stocks onto children, who are forced to hold the stocks for five years whether they want to or not." www.rawstory.com/trump-accoun...

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Trump rigs kids’ piggy banks so billionaires can dump falling stock on them: analyst

A quiet change to President Donald Trump's namesake savings program for children amounts to a gift for billionaires, according to an economic analyst.In an article for The Bulwark on Thursday, economi...

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.

, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.

As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end

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Tim Karr @timkarr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

One important tidbit from @propublica.org's comprehensive documentation of more than 500 ICE abductions involving U.S. citizens: At least 63 Americans were detained while recording ICE, a constitutionally protected activity ... projects.propublica.org/american-cit...

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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica

The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 06/10/2026

NEW: In a major break from past norms, the Trump administration sent criminal prosecutors and an FBI agent to monitor voters in Arizona's primaries earlier this year. The push comes as Trump exerts pressure on state elections as part of an ongoing attempt to find fraud before the midterms.

democracydocket.com

DOJ dispatched criminal prosecutors, FBI agent to monitor Arizona’s primary, documents reveal

The deployments mark a major break from past departmental norms.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Attn: A FBI supervisor is blowing the whistle on the Trump administration’s targeting of anti-ICE protesters. Jill Fields states the White House pushed the FBI to investigate people in Los Angeles even after agents determined their actions were protected by the First Amendment.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Donald Trump is not himself the disease of our politics. He’s just the worst symptom. The disease is the system that allows corporations to buy and sell politicians so they can rig it against the rest of us. Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I dunno it kind of seems that if Wendy’s genuinely said that they thought there was at least a 10% chance that their square hamburgers would end all human life we’d probably go hey you’ve got to stop selling those square burgers

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

There have been so many impeachable offenses, but lying about how you were a hero on a day that 2,753 people died in NYC in the 9/11 disaster—when you were on the other side of town, safely calling local media to brag about how you now had the tallest downtown building—is such a despicable one

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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The US destroyed 5 Iranian tankers and the Iranians launched a major attack on US bases in Jordan, possibly with cluster munitions, and tankers in Bahrain. And the Houthis attacked several Saudi oil refineries. Maybe this will be a news story in the US tomorrow. We’ll see. Oil is approaching $100.

reuters.com

War expands as Houthis attack Saudi cities and US strikes Iranian tankers

The Middle East war intensified on Tuesday with Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen launching strikes on several Saudi cities, further embroiling a U.S. ally in the conflict, while U.S. forces hit multip...

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 08/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Democrats, if they ever gain power, have to crush Musk and the technofascists. However it'll be tough because so many openly take money from them. Alas.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The idea that making a sitting president answer for criminal charges would distract him from important official duties has never looked more ridiculous.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

JUST IN: The D.C. Circuit rules 2-1 that the Trump administration may not implement a new system for states to bulk search DHS and Social Security data to verify voter citizenship. Voting rights groups say the system is fraught with errors. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

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Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is how fast oil use can disappear China's reduction in oil consumption during first half of 2026 due to replacement of fossil vehicles with EVs exceeded the UK’s entire oil consumption during that period China’s CO2 emis fall Q226 due to plummeting oil use carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

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Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions fall in Q2 2026 due to plummeting oil use - Carbon Brief

China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the second quarter of 2026, as oil consumption plummeted amid the strait of Hormuz crisis.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

JUST IN: Judge Chutkan orders the Trump admin to provide 48 hours’ notice before doing any work on President Trump’s proposed arch.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/09/2026

China's net greenhouse gas emissions *fell* this past quarter. Why? Because rapidly expanding electric vehicle use is putting a serious dent in oil demand. We could do that too. But we're not. We have the slowest EV update in the developed world, thanks to Trump.

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Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions fall in Q2 2026 due to plummeting oil use - Carbon Brief

China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the second quarter of 2026, as oil consumption plummeted amid the strait of Hormuz crisis.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

BREAKING: DOJ goes to SCOTUS seeking an order allowing the Trump admin to implement the new USPS rule restricting mail ballots, not even waiting for the First Circuit to rule on its stay request. It will be Docket No. 26A297.

No.
In the Supreme Court of the United States
UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE, ET AL., APPLICANTS u.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, ET AL.
DONALD J. TRUMP, ET AL., APPLICANTS
ひ．
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MASSACHUSETTS, ET AL.
APPLICATION FOR A STAY OF THE ORDER ISSUED BY THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS
AND REQUEST FOR AN IMMEDIATE ADMINISTRATIVE STAY
D. JOHN SAUER
Solicitor General
Counsel of Record
Department of Justice

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

centrist dems be like “we have bold, serious, inspiring policy proposals” and it’s literally fucking taxpayer subsidized car loans

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

MORE FROM MISSOURI: Besides stopping the GOP gerrymander, the state Supreme Court also ordered placed on the ballot a citizen measure that is meant to protect direct democracy and make it harder for lawmakers to ignore popular initiatives. www.stlpr.org/government-p...

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Missouri Supreme Court puts Respect Missouri Voters plan on November ballot

The Respect Missouri Voters plan would make it much harder for lawmakers to overturn voter-approved ballot initiatives.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I don't support many impeachment resolutions NOW, but this would be worth it--especially if it forced the GOP to stick around long enough to pass EpsteinTA 2.0.

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 03/09/2026

The Missouri Supreme Court this evening blocked the new congressional map that Republicans adopted last year with the goal of flipping a Democratic-held seat. The court ruled that voters get to decide a veto referendum in November. missouriindependent....

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Theresa McLeod @westtexascatlady.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

So much truth here! 😢

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Haha, a more fitting logo for Google.

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