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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 9h
When the Trump administration started dismantling a $368 million ocean monitoring system earlier this year, scientists, fishermen and Congress fought back. On Saturday, a 238-foot ship set sail to reinstall the first batch of monitors in the waters of the Pacific.
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After Outcry, Monitors the Trump Administration Tried to Scrap Return to Sea
Under pressure from Congress, a network of ocean monitors that provides vital data to meteorologists, climate scientists, oceanographers and the fishing industry is being restored.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 8h
Hot take: I don't think social media made people dumber. We've been dumb this whole time. It's just that you used to have to have a job that people sent their dumb letters to, to notice. This made "Engaging with fools" an occupational hazard rather than the 24/7 experience it is presently.
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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent
Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range
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Jean-Michel Connard @torriangray.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The degree to which Republicans think about bathrooms is really strange.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 23h
Community Notes for the win here, Megyn Kelly. 👌
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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 22h
One of my formative political experiences is the anger that I felt when, after Clinton achieved robust short-term federal fiscal health, every GOP-run state used the opportunity to cut their taxes, *then* Republicans gutted federal revenue the moment they had the chance.
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 03/10/2026
Watch Tucker Carlson get a quick economics lesson after claiming Russia’s economy is bigger than Britain’s.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Conservative Cuban Americans have long made S. Florida GOP-friendly. But Trump has deported a record number of Cubans. Older Cubans who lived in the US for decades were deported to Mexico, where they've struggled to get by. Some have been deported to Africa..." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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How Trump’s Deportation Policies Have Rocked a South Florida House Race
Representative María Elvira Salazar, a Republican, ran an ad criticizing the Trump administration. It may have jolted other Republicans — and drawn attention to her Democratic opponent.
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NPR @npr.org · 03/10/2026
The architect of Tennessee’s new lethal injection protocols is stepping down as leader of the Department of Correction after a second failed execution. (via @wpln.bsky.social) n.pr/3TiuO3V
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Tennessee correction commissioner steps down after failed execution
The architect of Tennessee’s new lethal injection protocols is stepping down as leader of the Department of Correction after a second failed execution
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Brian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Remember this is why we need Democrats to take back power in DC so that they can stop some of these cuts that take effect after the election. #LetsGetVoteReady by checking your voter registration status, vote early and vote all the way down the ballot. Your vote is your voice so use it.
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Andy “Homegrown” Smith 📎 @butterwise.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The majority of Supreme Court justices lied in order to earn confirmation.
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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
READ READ READ Robinson advocates applying safety principles from other fields.
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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 02/10/2026
This corruption must be investigated.
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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In the history of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most. SMH. Politicians lie. These politicians lie so often it seems like breathing.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
When a rapist sticks up for other rapists it's called a professional courtesy.
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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 03/10/2026
"This young woman was failed by many people. She was clearly failed by people who took advantage of her state of incapacitation. She clearly was failed by the district attorney, and she was failed by the law of New York State."
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The loophole that likely doomed the Cornell rape case before it even started
Accusers who voluntarily drink have little protection under an antiquated law many see as victim-blaming.
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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I think there are three separate issues here. 1) People that know what the LLMs & LIMs, what there limitations are, & have legitimate uses for them & those legitimate uses are things that the LLMs & LIMs doing business as AI can actually do well w/appropriate human oversight. 1/
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Just a reminder that the few remaining experts at the CDC's food-borne illness division identified Taylor Farms as the source of the cyclospora outbreak very early on, but because the owner of Taylor Farms is a big Trump donor, he was able to prevent a recall for weeks as thousands fell ill.
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Cyclospora found at Mexican farm linked to lettuce outbreak, FDA says
Announcement from US officials comes after CDC declared end to outbreak that infected nearly 13,000 people
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This guy is a hero 👏 That ending was peak unnecessary police overreach.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Tucker: “I never understood why 🇬🇧 fought World War 2?” 😕 Rees-Mogg: “It was good vs. evil…We did the right thing…” Tucker: “Has 🇬🇧 benefitted?” RM: “We defeated Hitler… We’d all be speaking German…” Tucker: “Who cares?” 🤔
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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patpat3861 @cloudydayisvaxxed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The RAPIST has changed his name to Allen Turner instead of Brock Turner. May he never have a days peace...
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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🧵!!!! I remind everyone that Elon lost a battle of wits to a package of pop-tarts and a toaster.
The Time Elon Musk Hurt Himself Trying to Eat Pop-Tarts

Space journalist Eric Berger's 2021 book Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX includes an anecdote from one of Musk's colleagues in the extraterrestrial exploration industry in which Musk encounters worthy adversaries at his hotel's breakfast bar - a packet of Pop-Tarts and a typical toaster.

"Elon comes down, and he walks over to the breakfast bar and he picks up a package of Pop-Tarts," the man recalled. "He was transfixed. This was like a scene out of 2001: A Space Odyssey, when the apes examine the monolith. It was clearly the most fascinating thing he had seen that morning"

When Musk finally realized that Pop-Tarts are best prepared toasted, he took the package to the toaster and inserted the two pastries into the slots - horizontally. After the Pop-Tarts were done cooking, instead of doing literally anything else, Musk dug his fingers in between the grates to get the treats that were out of reach, screaming "Fuck, it burns!
Fuck, it burns!" at the top of his lungs.

Next time, just get a muffin.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It was the fucking-aroundiest of times, it was the finding-outiest of times ....
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Every election cycle, there seems to be a stolen valor plot line. @nlanard.bsky.social on the one this time: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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David Flippo blamed staff for exaggerating his military record. His own hat tells a different story.
The Nevada Republican sported V-shaped emblems that signify a valor award next to a Bronze Star. Flippo never received a Bronze Star for valor.
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Ned Pyle @nedpyle.com · 02/10/2026
We really don’t do enough “pete hegseth is Captain Stillman” memes
John Laroqutte as the bumbling incompetent blowhard captain stillman in Stripes , playing with his toy soldiers
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“It will take decades to undo the damage inflicted by weakening an agency that bears great responsibility for safeguarding the health and well-being of all Americans. While officials loftily proclaim that they are working to “Make America Healthy Again,” they are in fact doing the opposite.”
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Opinion | The C.D.C. Gutted, and Lives at Risk
Doctors write about how the Trump administration has cut the C.D.C. and is undermining faith in vaccines. Also: Republican shifts of convenience.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This guy has been doing everything he possibly can every day to use his position of SecDef to tamper with the midterms, from speaking at Republican campaign rallies, to giving partisan political speeches to troops, to this. Do all federal employees get a day off to vote?
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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026
getting mad at the pope for not thinking the chatbot has a soul is easily the funniest thing I've read all week
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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Put all homeless in separate camps and all the mentally ill in straitjackets forever without trial are two more of Trump's decades-long hangups that he is intent on seeing through this time.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The renovation of the Reflecting Pool was supposed to cost $1.5 million. The cost now exceeds $16 million.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The term “remigration” is associated with the extreme right and only came into widespread usage in 2023-4. Even Germany’s AfD avoided using the term in 2024 for fear of scaring away voters. Today the US government is celebrating the “victories” it’s racked up in the “ethnic cleansing” column.
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Net negative migration for the first time in HALF a CENTURY.
Americans are amassing victories NEVER seen before thanks to President Trump.
We will continue to grow our efforts to fulfill the mandate given to this administration.
REMIGRATION REPORT
94%)
3.3+
MILLION REMOVALS
INCLUDING DEPORTATIONS AND VOLUNTARY REMOVALS
ASYLUM DENIAL AT 94%
250,000
VISAS REVOKED
REVOKED
TRAVEL BANNED
FROM 39 COUNTRIES
2,600+
287(G)
AGREEMENTS
NATURALIZATIONS
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75%
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/10/2026
Soon you could buy a gun online and have it shipped to your door without ever setting foot in a gun store—if a Trump administration proposal is finalized. Donald Trump Jr. is a shareholder and board member of a company that says it’s “uniquely positioned” to capitalize on the opportunity.
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The Great Pumpkinsquatch - Scott Kelley Ernest 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @mxscottkernest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
BOMBSHELL: WaPo reports Trump's ads were funded with money meant for slain officers' funerals youtu.be/GwqOZ0eaoDI?...
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BOMBSHELL: WaPo reports Trump's ads were funded with money meant for slain officers' funerals
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Kara Yorio @karayorio.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"State law in Arkansas doesn’t require much to open a private school, nothing about teacher skills or what kids learn. But it does require that all schools display an American flag, and we wanted to follow the rules." Unbelievable story. Also, immediately ordering the ProPublica Academy pencils.
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Whoa.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Economist analysis of more than 3,000 US counties finds that in reliably GOP counties, annual deaths now exceed births by 0.4 per 1k residents, while in reliably Democratic counties, births exceed deaths by 2.8 per 1k. Population growth in the GOP counties is largely driven by internal migration.
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In MAGA-land people are dying faster than they are being born
Our analysis suggests Trump country is only growing because of migration
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This 👇
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
DUN DUN DUN -- Fox Business on the September jobs report: "The numbers do not look good. I'm looking at 29,000 jobs added. That is well below expectations for 90,000, and our unemployment rate jumps up to 4.2%. A significant slowdown."
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And so it continues... Our economic debates seem utterly disconnected from the reality. That reality: This is an economy mostly creating healthcare jobs, and it does so month after month, and everything else is just noise.
Line chart titled "Effectively all of the net job creation has been in healthcare and social assistance, and jobs are shrinking in the rest of the economy" showing change in non-farm payrolls since January 2025 through September 2026. Healthcare and social assistance added 998,000 jobs with consistent growth throughout the period, while the rest of the economy lost 222,000 jobs, meaning all net job creation came from healthcare. The rest of the economy showed particular weakness from May through August 2025 when losses reached 218,000 jobs. This striking divergence reveals an unusual concentration where one sector's growth of roughly 48,000 jobs per month has offset persistent contraction across all other industries combined.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
1. Let's not say goodbye to Eric Schmitt just yet. His story is about more than a power-mad senator falling on his face. It's part of a larger story about the Republicans defending the leader of an insurrection against the United States.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sen Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on jobs report: “Trump’s economy has only added 33,000 jobs a month on average, far below the 120,000-a-month average in 2024. At the same time, paychecks are growing at their slowest rate in nearly 7 years”
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Exit polls showed that 75% of truckers voted for Trump in 2024. Now they are struggling to survive.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Stroke victims are often given leg braces to help them walk.
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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is a good introduction to why the AI executives sound like they do. I should probably read Becker's book again. I didn't know all the names the first time through.
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