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LaPoodella

@lapoodella.bsky.social
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Retired CA aty, Broward-FL resident, Cape Cod raised lifelong liberal, poodle lover, sailor, opera fan, history student, classical music,films, jazz, ballroom dancing. No DMs I block crypto,porn,sexism,racism, ageism, religious proseletyzing.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“.. One idea under discussion is insurance against losses on loans to upstart cloud computing companies, or “neoclouds”, if they default and the Nvidia chips pledged against their debt cannot be resold ..” @financialtimes.com $NVDA www.ft.com/content/d6a9...
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Pocket News 📰 @jeanpocket.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today before Senate.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 23h
Um? Can we return to that motion to table Pete Hegseth’s impeachment? Um, dude, needs to be impeach before he fires everyone in the Army and Navy?
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Brett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 23h
NEW: The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals declined "​to immediately block sanctions against lawyers for Donald ‌Trump" after a federal judge found that the attorneys misused the court system in "settling" his IRS lawsuit. www.reuters.com/world/us-app...
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Appeals court declines to pause sanctions against Trump lawyers in IRS settlement
A US appeals court declined on Tuesday ​to immediately block sanctions against lawyers for Donald ‌Trump who a judge accused of misusing the court system in settling a lawsuit the Republican president...
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Ernesto @ernest33141.bsky.social · 23h
#JackSmith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort." Mr. Jack Smith
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🧵 NEW: Interfaith clergy to protest new ICE facility for kids this Thursday, Oct. 1, in Alexandria, Louisiana. New ICE detention facility is within an airport to speed deportations of unaccompanied migrant kids. ICE will pack kids onto planes to unknown countries, put them at risk of trafficking.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: “it’s inconceivable to me how you can pardon people who beat police officers… and then vilify the officers”
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
TILLIS: can the classified documents case be brought again in the future? JACK: we dismissed it without prejudice YESSSSS
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23h
Incredible. The 11th Circuit, in a 3-0 opinion (two Obama appointees and one Trump 1.0 appointee), agrees that Trump and his lawyers have failed to rebut the judge's finding that the entire IRS settlement was collusive, highlighting that no other explanation for their conduct was even offered.
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The appellants mount two main attacks on the district
court’s speech-related sanction. First, they argue that the court
lacked a sufficient basis to find that the lawsuit and the settlement
were collusive and that Messrs. Brito and Epstein acted in bad faith.
Second, they contend that the sanction is a broad and impermissible gag order which constitutes a prior restraint and violates the
First Amendment. We conclude that the appellants have not made
a strong showing that they will succeed on either of these grounds.The appellants did not submit or offer any evidence to explain their litigation conduct or demonstrate that the lawsuit and the settlement were not collusive. Given the record before us, the
appellants have not made a strong showing that the district court
committed clear error in its collusion and bad faith findings
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith looked the Senate in the eye today: "I will not be silenced." He says his evidence proved criminal conduct beyond a reasonable doubt, and he'd charge Trump again.
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LaPoodella @lapoodella.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Dogs Will Fight Bears. But Not Because of the Reason You Might Think. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/s... When walking in the wilderness I always think of my dog as bait for a predator. I keep it on a leash because I love it and don’t want it to get eaten.
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Dogs Will Fight Bears. But Not Because of the Reason You Might Think. (Gift Article)
Scientists analyzed hundreds of encounters between bears and canines. The results raise the suggestion that dogs may not always protect people in the wild.
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LaPoodella @lapoodella.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Id, the Ego and the Superintelligence www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/o...
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Opinion | The Id, the Ego and the Superintelligence (Gift Article)
Artificial intelligence isn’t coming for philosophers’ jobs — it needs philosophers, and always will.
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LaPoodella @lapoodella.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Other Bond Market You Need to Worry About www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/o... Unwinding the carry trade
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Opinion | The Other Bond Market You Need to Worry About (Gift Article)
The revival of Japan’s economy isn’t all good news.
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LaPoodella @lapoodella.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Am I the only one who thinks of these when someone mentions Kardashians?
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Star Trek Deep Space Nine: Garak Nods YES!!
ALT: Star Trek Deep Space Nine: Garak Nods YES!!
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LaPoodella @lapoodella.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Justin Verlander’s daughter runs to mound in emotional sendoff for Hall of Fame career www.nytimes.com/athletic/763...
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Justin Verlander’s daughter runs to mound in emotional sendoff for Hall of Fame career (Gift Article)
Verlander fought through a hamstring injury to will this start into existence, the same way he did much of his Hall of Fame career.
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LaPoodella @lapoodella.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Prosecutor Resigns, Saying U.S. Attorney Mishandled Chicago Protest Case www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/u... The case continues as the six press for investigation into prosecutorial misconduct against Boutros.
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Prosecutor Resigns, Saying U.S. Attorney Mishandled Chicago Protest Case (Gift Article)
The prosecutor said that U.S. Attorney Andrew S. Boutros had intervened and overruled her in the case against a group of protesters known as the “Broadview Six.”
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LaPoodella @lapoodella.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In an $80 Motel Room, a Discovery to Shed Light on the Origins of Life www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/s... I read this bc I helped Dr Lynn Margulis on her books Five Kingdoms and The Origin Of Sex. Evolution is symbiotic. MAGA doesn’t like that. It believes it is survival of the fittest.
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In an $80 Motel Room, a Discovery to Shed Light on the Origins of Life (Gift Article)
A scrappy science project led to a significant discovery: two new species of a rare organism that could elucidate a fundamental transition in the history of life on our planet.
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LaPoodella @lapoodella.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Super El Niño Comes Bearing One Gift: Time to Prepare www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/o... World temperatures after previous El Niños remained elevated. The summer of 2027 will be hotter than ever.
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Opinion | The Super El Niño Comes Bearing One Gift: Time to Prepare (Gift Article)
There’s still time to prepare.
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LaPoodella @lapoodella.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Pastor loses bid to remain: ICE deports him to Haiti despite U.S.-citizen wife, kids
Despite relentless advocacy from his family, faith leaders, and a national coalition of supporters, ICE deported Pastor Molis Augustave to Haiti on Thursday, along with dozens of other Haitians.
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LLLwry @lglly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Since they want to drag us back to the Gilded Age of Robber Barron's & Industrialists & War Profiteering 😤 Let's Tax them like Ike
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This dog does not just obey commands, it solves problems like a toddler would, testing strategies until one works.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
HUGE: Autozone workers just won the first ever union at the company. Despite Autozone spending an estimated $210,696 and using every tactic in the book to stop just 11 workers from forming a union, the small shop in New York chose to unionize today. These workers will now join the @uaw.org.
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
There has been a recent rash of "baby's in his find out era". 🤣🤣🤣
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care. Congenital measles is a disease that’s rarely, if ever, seen in the U.S..." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trump asked the Supreme Court to revive rapid deportations to countries where migrants have no ties, after lower courts said people must get a meaningful chance to argue they could face persecution or torture. Apparently due process is the inconvenient layover. #Immigration
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West Seattle Bike Blob @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My wife just successfully helped a friend get out of ICE detainment after three terrible months in Tacoma, she is a true superhero
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Another fight over who controls the nation’s purse strings. The White House announced that it plans to cancel $810 million in spending already approved by Congress, using a rarely used maneuver known as a “pocket rescission.”
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LaPoodella @lapoodella.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So far I haven’t had any denials. But I am relatively healthy.
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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I hear immigrant children also have heartbeats.
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May Bee🌻🇺🇸🐝💙🌈 @maysurvivethis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hilarious!!!
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Here is a picture of a baby otter and you should probably look at it.
A close-up photo of Steve, a newborn otter, curled up and sleeping in a pair of cupped human hands.  
There is no text baked into the image.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026
A MORATORIUM ON DATA CENTERS SHOULDN’T EVEN BE IN QUESTION AT THIS POINT And we definitely need more reporting on this issue: HEAT Data centers devour electricity and water, dump heat into communities, and Big Tech is building them faster than lawmakers are dealing with the consequences.
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AliceLastname @alicelastname2025.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
And the editor in chief of CBS News is introducing him at his talks with gleeful praise which honestly seems a lot like when TPUSA brought out Kyle Rittenhouse on stage with lights, smoke, music ala WWF. This is all a very bad acid trip.
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LaPoodella @lapoodella.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
But this would impact entrenched financial interests that have had their claws in the government since whaling.
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LaPoodella @lapoodella.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
And even more Global Warming news, this one kinda nice if you don't think about all the downsides. www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...
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Endangered sea turtle lays eggs in Calif. for first time in recorded history
Experts are unsure why this sea turtle has chosen California to lay her nest.
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LaPoodella @lapoodella.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
More Global Warming disaster news: www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...
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Biologists fear the worst as Bay Area seabirds starve
Conditions are "are only going to get worse as El Niño progresses," one expert said.
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LaPoodella @lapoodella.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
El Nino? It's called Climate Change or Global Warming! It's causing the biggest El Nino ever. www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...
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El Niño is already swallowing Orange County's famous beaches
The state's idyllic beach towns are in a race against the clock.
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LaPoodella @lapoodella.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti... Scientists warned us about thawing permafrost.
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California scientists discover that thawing permafrost is turning rivers orange
They were even more acidic and metallic than water leached from mines.
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LaPoodella @lapoodella.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
From 16,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u... More BS from DHS.
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From 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle (Gift Article)
It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.
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LaPoodella @lapoodella.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
OpenAI’s Systems Meddled With U.S. Government Sites After Going Rogue www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/t...
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OpenAI’s A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites (Gift Article)
The company did not learn until recently that its technology had meddled with websites for the Education and Commerce Departments and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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LaPoodella @lapoodella.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Airline Credit Cards Are Screwing Up the Whole Industry www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/o...
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Opinion | Airline Credit Cards Are Screwing Up the Whole Industry (Gift Article)
Airline loyalty programs are anticompetitive and hurting consumers.
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LaPoodella @lapoodella.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Unused Tents and Uneaten Food: Watchdog Finds ‘Waste’ in Immigration Crackdown www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u... As expected, he’s a spendthrift.
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Unused Tents and Uneaten Food: Watchdog Finds ‘Waste’ in Immigration Crackdown (Gift Article)
In a report Thursday, the Government Accountability Office said the Trump administration squandered millions of dollars to expand detention.
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LaPoodella @lapoodella.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I just got a new library card and little tutorial on how to download ebooks from the library. I’m preparing to quit Prime. I haven’t turned on the TV in over a week.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If we had actual journalists in this country, this would have been reported as a story.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
States aren't just laboratories of democracy. Some like Montana and Hawaii have become the frontlines for saving our democracy from Citizens United and restoring power to the people. Read this piece from James Baratta in The American Prospect.
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Can the States Stop the Corporate Domination of Our Politics? - The American Prospect
States giveth corporations the right to exist, so the states can taketh away their political spending power—or at least,
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Bob Patin @bobpatin.com · 24/09/2026
TV ads for online gambling sites should be permanently banned.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BREAKING: The state of New York is suing Polymarket, claiming the company operates an illegal gambling platform in violation of state gambling laws.
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