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Kristen Bourgault

@ksbourgault.bsky.social
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Mother, crafter, professor, instructional designer, feminist, agitator

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The right to vote is one of the most fundamental parts of our democracy. Check your voter registration at IWillVote.com and make a plan to vote early or on Election Day on November 3.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New from 404 Media: humans are reading ChatGPT conversations. OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats. I've seen internal docs, the review system, and real user prompts. Sometimes they contain very personal and sensitive information www.404media.co/inside-proje...
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Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 09/09/2026
You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews.
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Saganomics @saganomics.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I see a lot of social media discussion about what the “Democratic Party” is that’s untethered from reality as a party organizer. It’s not a black box in DC, it’s people in your neighborhood trying to make a difference. If you have new ideas, your local & state party are the ground floor opportunity.
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Apostolos K. @koutropoulos.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 29/07/2026
Dead or alive, Mitch McConnell is on extended medical leave — on your dime. This is the same Mitch McConnell who voted against: paid family and medical leave for everyone else.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
While you were over here trying to figure out how you were going to cover the rent and food—this guy was over there using $5.1 million in taxpayer money YOU paid into the system to cover these statues in 23 karat gold. Yeah, he did that.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 30/07/2026
"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."
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Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington
I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Huh. The president thought this was of such significant importance as to hold a national televised address
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Candice Odgers @candiceodgers.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Scary stories about teens sell. The data tells a different story. After decades studying adolescent mental health, here's what I found: This isn't an anxious generation. It's a resilient one. Let's start treating them that way. go.ted.com/candiceodgers
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What we're getting wrong about teens and tech
For years, the warning has been: smartphones are destroying a generation. But developmental psychologist Candice Odgers says that decades of data on teens tells a different story — violence, alcohol u...
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Dr. Annie Andrews @drannieandrews.com · 13/07/2026
Life is so much bigger than politics.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was murdered by ICE. His three sons called him “El mundo entero” — the whole world. They watched as their whole world died in a video posted on Facebook. Lorenzo was our neighbor and fellow Texan. He deserves justice.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Wow. And huh.
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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I really enjoyed @doctorow.pluralistic.net’s new book, and sat down with him to talk about it. slate.com/podcasts/wha...
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A.I. Enshittifies Everything
Should you base the whole economy on companies that hemorrhage money?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/06/2026
Massie: "I think it's ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and the White House, and we're yelling 'election fraud'? I mean, we won all the damn elections."
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250 to 250 @250to250.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Harrison Ford is an award-winning actor whose iconic career spans more than six decades. Ford looks back at the Civilian Conservation Corps, a New Deal program that put thousands of unemployed men to work improving America’s parks and natural lands. #WeAreAmerica250
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
NEW: Sen. John Hickenlooper is calling on Trump to personally pay back taxpayers for the millions he spent revamping the Reflecting Pool, now a cesspool of algae + chunks of blue sealant. “This was not a result of vandalism, but your administration’s incompetence." www.huffpost.com/entry/senato...
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Senator Demands Trump Personally Pay Taxpayers Back For Reflecting Pool Mess
“This was not a result of vandalism, but your administration’s incompetence,” Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.) told the president.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation. This is a national crisis. Trump thinks the public will stop paying attention. So I went to the Senate floor to call his bluff. I told the ENTIRE STORY of his 500 days of corruption. 1/ Here it is - in one🧵
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
At least 222 recruits at Lackland Air Force Base have been diagnosed with the flu; four hospitalized The outbreak is unfolding two months after Hegseth made the annual flu shot optional for troops, scrapping the military's requirement for it, which dates to 1945
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Military services again requiring recruits to get flu shots as Air Force outbreak grows
A flu outbreak at a basic training facility for the Air Force in San Antonio, Texas, is growing to at least 222 cases and four hospitalizations.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
honestly this is nuts, they're establishing an 8-hour security perimeter around the most used transportation hub in North America, so one guy can attend a basketball game
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Slate @slate.com · 08/06/2026
Send this to your friend who doesn't know who Merrick Garland is. Listen to Slow Burn: Becoming Justice Gorsuch now: swap.fm/l/slowburn
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Reminder: a.) Iran wasn't close to having a nuke and b.) the actions taken by Trump made them closer to getting one (when he pulled out of JCPOA) and c.) current war is not helping reduce the risk and d.) the price hikes will not be a short-term phenomenon. (And the lunatic with nukes is Trump.)
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 05/06/2026
NYT headline when the economy added 266,000 jobs under Biden vs. NYT headline when BLS says the economy added 172,000 jobs under Trump.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
AOC: This is what I want people to understand: this is our money. When you pay your taxes, that money is being stolen to pay for a vanity project like a ballroom or whatever it is that this guy wants to do, instead of what it should be used for…
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
NEW: WIRED analyzed Meta's AI app and found NameTag — a hidden facial recognition system designed to identify people via the wearer's smart glasses — has already shipped to over 50 million phones.
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Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 04/06/2026
If we confuse generative AI’s ability to produce text with consciousness, we risk assigning moral responsibility to chatbots—and not to their makers, Ted Chiang argues.
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No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious
Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.  
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/06/2026
Trump has no public events on his schedule again today. The last time he was seen publicly for something other than a pre-taped interview was six days ago -- Wednesday, May 27 -- for his cabinet meeting. (He went to Walter Reed the day before.)
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Damon Beres @damonberes.com · 29/05/2026
“Working on AI text, as an editor, is like trying to operate on a body whose skin, muscles, veins, bones, and organs are all compromised. There’s nothing to leave intact, nowhere to begin.”
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The Biggest Tell That Something Was Written By AI
Looks closely and you’ll see that everything is equally off.
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Sean Hecker @sean-hecker.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
So true - the Trump Administration has decided to murder people it thinks (maybe) are engaged in drug trafficking, rather than relying on our criminal justice system to determine guilt or innocence, let alone punishment. And Congress is doing nothing. And it doesn’t register as a campaign issue.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
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Trump Bought Stock In UFC's Parent Company As He Promoted White House Fight
The president purchased as much as $50,000 of TKO Group Holdings even as he heavily promotes an Ultimate Fighting Championship event for his birthday.
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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I am pretty clear on my feelings about Ai use and I feel like the students overwhelmingly are the same. And of course, my statement on Ai comes with every syllabus - so they know...
a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - for that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Reporter: Ken Paxton has taken to calling you ‘Talafreako’ @JamesTalarico: If Ken Paxton is worried about freaks, he should stop giving Epstein-style sweetheart deals to pedophiles. This is the guy who just released Adam Hoffman from jail, an admitted child rapist.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 27/05/2026
The contractor working on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is being paid an inflated and excessive profit margin, according to federal documents obtained by The New York Times. nyti.ms/4dz0oSb
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 26/05/2026
Iran shot down a U.S. drone, fired on an F-35, and says the U.S. has violated the ceasefire — all while Trump was at Walter Reed for his third hospital visit this year posting QAnon memes. Your midday update is here:
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Tuesday Afternoon Updates: Iran Fires Back after U.S. Attack While Trump at Walter Reed – 5/26/26
Hi all, Ben here.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
The cost to repaint the Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC blue is now estimated to be over $13 million. Trump initially promised it would cost only $1.8 million. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/u...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
The guy whose undergrad professor at Penn remembered him as the dumbest student he ever had, thinks that a Columbia and Harvard Law grad could not match his skills in Identifying Animals 101
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Today, we honor and remember Virginia Roberts Giuffre on the one-year anniversary of her passing. Her courage has allowed countless survivors to be seen, heard, and to be believed. Sending love to her family on this difficult day—and to all the survivors out there still on this journey for justice.❤️
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 26/04/2026
Breaking news: The Trump administration provided a lower level of security for the White House correspondents’ dinner than it has for other gatherings of high-ranking officials, according to officials familiar with the plan.
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Correspondents’ dinner lacked highest security level despite presence of top officials
The White House Correspondents’ Dinner, which was attended by the President and many Cabinet members, was not given top security status that would have unlocked the full weight of federal security res...
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 23/04/2026
Sarah Fitzpatrick talked with more than two dozen sources about FBI Director Kash Patel, including colleagues of his who are alarmed by what they say is erratic behavior and excessive drinking. She speaks with Hanna Rosin about her reporting:
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The Kash Patel Fallout
An interview with the Atlantic staff writer Sarah Fitzpatrick about her reporting
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 23/04/2026
One in five student interactions with generative A.I. “involved cheating, self-harm, bullying, and other problematic behaviors,” according to a report published by Education Week. Why is the technology being adopted by schools? newyorkermag.visitlink.me/vC5MJK
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What Will It Take to Get A.I. Out of Schools?
“I find myself speaking with my kids about A.I. in the same terms that we might discuss a creepy neighbor who lives down the block,” Jessica Winter writes. Read her report on the push for A.I. in education.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 21/04/2026
Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them. New piece ↓ open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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This Isn't Trading. It's Theft from Your Retirement.
Someone keeps making perfectly-timed bets right before the President speaks. The victims are your pension, your 401(k), and the country I took an oath to defend.
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AFT @aft.org · 20/04/2026
Trump’s approval just hit a new low and young voters are driving the shift. When 8 in 10 Gen Z-ers say the country is on the wrong track, what does the next generation have to look forward to? www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...
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Trump approval hits new low as young Republicans break away over economy
President Donald Trump has faced a significant slide in support throughout the Iran war.
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Dr. Amy Nusbaum @amynusbaum.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Friends! My university is hiring an Asst Professor of Biology and an Asst Professor of History and American Indian Studies. Our students are wonderful, my colleagues are great, we do good work. Please share! Happy to answer questions :) heritage.edu/wp-content/u... heritage.edu/wp-content/u...
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
The story of ed tech is a repeated loop of massive hype and massive disappointment See MOOCs, and now AI Evidence can interrupt this unproductive cycle The Stanford SCALE Initiative, led by rock star Prof Susanna Loeb, brings evidence to the conversation scale.stanford.edu/sites/defaul...
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
For all those still feeling the moon joy—Artemis II was brought to you by public schools and publicly funded science. Copy that! 👩‍🚀🚀💕 *All four astronauts went to public schools!
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God @thegodshow.com · 14/04/2026
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
If you think this depicts a doctor you desperately need a doctor.
The image Trump posted of himself as Jesus, which he now says he thought was of him as a doctor, associated with the Red Cross, despite no cross being in the picture
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
It's telling that: a) he caught enough pushback from the religious right to delete something, which he almost never does b) those people have not used this influence to cross him on anything more substantive than a gross but fundamentally superficial aesthetic insult to their brand
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Kristen Bourgault @ksbourgault.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
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The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit
The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The idea that the President of the United States could publish an image of himself as the Messiah and no news outlet covers it is the biggest indictment of the American free press.
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