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News junkie. Believer in science, democracy, equal and civil rights. Unapologetic USC football fan ✌️and cat lover.

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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Fascist ideology is inherently self-defeating and ass-backwards. Just look at the MAGA ethnic cleansing campaign. Out of pure racist hatred, the USA is kidnapping random hardworking, tax-paying, society-contributing innocents off the street and *paying* foreign authoritarians to torture them.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 23/09/2026
"One word: hallucination."
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Former Air Traffic Controller Terrified New AI System Will Hallucinate and Cause Catastrophe
The federal government's new SMART AI-air traffic control system is raising eyebrows from one veteran controller.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In case facts still matter
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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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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Wiped out: US faces surging toilet paper prices amid trade war with Canada Paper products among hardest-hit sectors after trade negotiations broke down, with 25-50% tariffs estimated.
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Wiped out: US faces surging toilet paper prices amid trade war with Canada
Paper products among hardest-hit sectors after trade negotiations broke down, with 25-50% tariffs estimated
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
That’s the gist of it.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
(Bloomberg) - More than two-thirds of the electricity sought for the artificial intelligence boom in the US isn’t likely to materialize due to “phantom” projects and long-shot pitches. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Most Power Sought for US Data Centers Will Never Materialize
More than two-thirds of the electricity sought for the artificial intelligence boom in the US isn’t likely to materialize due to “phantom” projects and long-shot pitches.
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KS @ksangnyc.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The grift continues
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Trump promised to bring down rates. Before the Iran War, markets expected rate cuts of up to 0.75 points this year. The inflationary war flipped the calculus: now they're pricing in two rate HIKES by mid-2027. My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Trump claimed his tariffs would bring about a golden age of American manufacturing. Yet since his re-election, we've lost 75,000 manufacturing jobs. Over the same time period, Biden had created 625,000.
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Trump's $4 billion Presidential windfall is unprecedented in scale & source. Obama's wealth grew from royalties from books written before office, and Bush's largely came from a sports‑team stake from over a decade prior. Trump's new billions are from deals made in office.
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Trump’s draconian cuts to health care, education, and foreign aid were rationalized on balancing the budget. Yet thanks to his tax cuts for the rich, the deficit is on track to hit almost 7% of GDP by 2036. My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Under Trump, the debt held by the federal government has surpassed 100% of GDP. By 2030, it’ll shoot pass its all-time record from WWII. My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Maybe Canada isn’t the problem. (via CFR)
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
“.. American farms are on the verge of losing their dominant export status ... last year, the US exported $171 billion of agricultural goods (per @USDA), just $2 billion more than the export total claimed by Brazil ..” @financialtimes.com (via Schwab)
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 10/07/2026
Why we need permitting reform, and why we need to stop Trump’s corrupt blockade of American solar and wind (hint: he does it to force U.S. grids to buy expensive fossil power from his crooked donors, even though your costs go up).
A graph from Carbon Brief titled, “China now generates more electricity than the US, EU, and India combined,” depicts electricity generation by country in terawatt hours. A blue line climbing steadily upward from 1990-2025 represents China, while light grey lines that remain relatively flat represent the US, EU, and India.
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Danny Miller @danielmilleresq.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
This is so powerful. Inspired by the March of a Thousand Robes in Poland, retired and sitting judges in the United States walked down the streets of Columbus, Ohio to stand up for the Rule of Law. #JusticeinMotion
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Lynne Raughley @lynneraughley.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Gift link: share.inquirer.com/YqbJlp
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Trump administration quietly removed mentions of slavery from Independence Hall, Thomas Jefferson portrait
The Inquirer's discovery of these changes come as Philadelphians are grappling with the Trump administration's attacks on the President's House Site.
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NPR @npr.org · 27/06/2026
Just in: The number of people who signed up for a health plan and then didn't pay their premium fell much more sharply than it has in years past. Trump officials blame fraud. Health policy experts blame costs.
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5 million have dropped ACA insurance after Trump and the GOP let prices skyrocket
The number of people who signed up for a health plan and then didn't pay their premium fell much more sharply than it has in years past. Trump officials blame fraud. Health policy experts blame costs.
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 22/06/2026
The Trump administration just paid Invenergy $765 million to cancel four wind projects. That brings the running total to roughly $2.5 billion in taxpayer money spent to stop energy from being built. Think about that. At a time when electricity demand is rising,
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
U.S. STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE FALLS TO LOWEST LEVEL SINCE 1983: FT
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CYNC Verity Media @cvmedia.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Anne Applebaum warned in Vienna that Trump is not merely changing U.S. policy — he is redefining America away from democracy and toward the habits of autocratic power. The danger is not only foreign policy drift, but democratic backsliding at home. #Democracy #Autocracy @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu
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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
It seems, as I read the situation, that the WH decided not to disclose MOU terms tonight to avoid criticism spoiling UFC event; so Iran is disclosing phony terms that are even worse; which is infuriating WH folks, who want to respond; but they can’t get permission b/c principals are at the UFC thing
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KS @ksangnyc.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
🤣🤣
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KS @ksangnyc.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Go Knicks!! 🏀
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umsonst.bsky.social @umsonst.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Hydrological extremes reach now such magnitudes that they add massive amounts of water only to be removed at a record pace by massive heatwaves Its a pumping effect on the tectonic plates Could have a significant effect supporting earth quakes and volcano eruptions Wait for confirmation #climate
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San Andreas fault at highest stress level in 1,000 years
Researchers report that tectonic stress on the major San Andreas and San Jacinto fault systems has climbed to its highest levels in a millennium, and in some sections has already surpassed them.
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Insane self-blinding of the US. They are throwing away their investment in the ocean observation system and the benefits it provides. The only explanation I can think of: they don’t want the people to know what their fossil emissions are doing to our oceans. easternherald.com/2026/06/13/u...
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The US Is Pulling Up a $386 Million Climate Ocean Sensor Network
NSF dismantling Ocean Observatories Initiative as very strong El Niño forms. Edson, Robbins, McLean: an irreparable blind spot in U.S. climate observation.
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NPR @npr.org · 13/06/2026
For decades, immigrants who are legal permanent residents in the U.S. could get loans through the Small Business Administration, a core pillar of small-business lending. Not anymore.
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Door shuts on some immigrant entrepreneurs as U.S. restricts small-business loans
For decades, immigrants who are legal permanent residents in the U.S. could get loans through the Small Business Administration, a core pillar of small-business lending. Not anymore.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 12/06/2026
Amazing: KPMG wrote a report describing the successful use of AI by businesses. But the case studies turned out to be AI hallucinations. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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KPMG report contained AI hallucinations on benefits of . . . AI
Bogus case studies on UBS and transit systems exaggerated adoption of the technology
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Trump has been pushing the Fed to cut rates since he was elected. Because of his inflationary Iran War, the market thinks the Fed may now do exactly the opposite. My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart.
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Inflation has overtaken wages for the first time in 3 years. That means Americans’ incomes are shrinking in real terms, largely because of the Iran war. My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart.
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Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
After years of improving affordability, inflation has outstripped wage growth for two months Augur Infinity augurdigest.com/p/au...
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Trump should show up here at the L.A. County ballot processing center because he’d learn within five minutes this is democracy in action, not some conspiracy.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Peter Carter: NOAA's 2025 Greenhouse Gas Index shows 2024 atmospheric CO₂ equivalent (all GHGs) at record high and increasee accelerating. Atmospheric GHGs drive global warming, so the 1.5°C overshoot cannot be temporary; it can only keep increasing, and at the present accelerating rate.
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FactCheck.org @factcheck.org · 04/06/2026
Trump Misrepresents Climate Change Scenarios www.factcheck.org/2026/06/trum...
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Congressional statute: "There is a Director of National Intelligence who shall be appointed by the President ... Any individual nominated for appointment as Director of National Intelligence shall have extensive national security expertise." 50 U.S. Code § 3023
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 01/06/2026
Trump administration shuts down deep-sea instruments that monitored climate change for a decade. “By dismantling such a system, we push the United States back yet again into a rear seat in global scientific leadership,” said a former official. Story by @eniiler.bsky.social Gift link: nyti.ms/4voqmxP
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/06/2026
NEW: lots of you have sent me this article asking for my thoughts. I’ve been able to confirm it. Just as she says, Trump’s administration is staging vote.gov on a non-government cloudflare account under the EOP where there’s no oversight or accounting. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/thedreyd...
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I found a second vote.gov — and it's registered to the White House
There is a moment in every investigation where the thing you have been looking for finds you instead.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.
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Michael D. Green, PhD @michaeldgreen.phd · 28/05/2026
President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...
So let me say it as clearly as I can: Without basic scientific research, supported by the kind of farsighted public investment that allows large-scale, undirected, curiosity-driven inquiry, the scientific pipeline will run dry.
In daily life, people may not feel the effects right away, or even in 10 years. But we will feel it. And when someone we love needs therapies that could have emerged but didn't or when other countries now
investing in science can launch new science-based industries or run their societies on vast resources of fusion energy or reap the benefits of quantum computing power or advanced medical breakthroughs, America will wish it sustained its leadership in scientific research here and now.
Sally Kornbluth is the president of MIT.
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
13.1% OF US CREDIT CARD BALANCES ARE DELINQUENT FOR 90+ DAYS, THE HIGHEST SINCE 2011, ACCORDING TO NY FED.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
North Carolina Bill Would Legalize Killing Abortion Providers and Advocates—Seriously jessica.substack.com/p/north-caro...
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North Carolina Bill Would Legalize Killing Abortion Providers and Advocates—Seriously
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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 24/05/2026
New studies reveal more pregnancy-associated deaths & a decline in miscarriage treatment in abortion ban states, “adding extra trauma” says Kaitlyn Kash, whose own care was compromised. "This is not how health care should work. This is not how human rights should work,” says @robinmarty.com.
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New studies show miscarriage patients living under abortion bans pay a price
New studies from the Journals of the American Medical Association and the American Journal of Public Health reveal that in states with abortion bans, women are less likely to be given the best standard of care medication, and those states saw a possible 9.2% increase in pregnancy-associated deaths, either during or up to one year after pregnancy. "When I miscarried, I bled for five days at home. I finally went to the OB, we did a sonogram and found out my baby no longer had a heartbeat. She prescribed me medication, I left, I went to the pharmacy, and they wouldn’t fill it.,” says Kaitlyn Kash. It’s a “cascading ripple effect,” says Robin Marty of West Alabama Women’s Center. Many hospitals "are just not seeing miscarry patients."
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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
This gentleman gets it. 🎯🎯🎯👇
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Andrew Ferguson @epikt.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
ohio's government passed a bill that let adults take your kids out of school to give them "bible education" and surprise! a number of those adults were actually child rapists
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
In normal times, the fact that government officials at HHS blatantly lied to the public and got caught would be a scandal of unusual size. Everyone involved in this disinformation scheme against the people of the United States should be held accountable.
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No child deaths definitively linked to Covid shots, FDA says
The agency’s analysis contradicts claims made by former vaccine chief Dr. Vinay Prasad.
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Laurel Davila @laureldavilacpa.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
“No child deaths have been definitively linked to Covid vaccines, according to a report from the FDA that was quietly made public.” #Pinks #MomSky #ProudBlue www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
nbcnews.com
No child deaths definitively linked to Covid shots, FDA says
The agency’s analysis contradicts claims made by former vaccine chief Dr. Vinay Prasad.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
1. London Underground station flooding has reportedly been reduced by around 90% thanks to a group of engineers: beavers. After conservationists reintroduced a family of beavers into a nearby city park, the animals built dams and restored wetlands that now absorb and slow floodwater naturally.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 17/05/2026
FYI
Neil Stone @ @DrNeilStone • 2h
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has one of the few labs in the world which can study
Ebola virus.
In March 2025 RFK Jr had it shut down.
We now have a huge Ebola outbreak on our hands.
What a foolish move
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