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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

If you are doing your best and trying to do better, and making an effort not to hurt others...you're all right with me and I wish you a happy 2026!

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

“The company did not address detailed questions from The Times about the contamination found inside the Van Ness home after the insurer-led remediation, or about the carcinogens detected in the family’s hair, saying that “we cannot comment on individual claims or customers.”

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

“In California, insurers began trying to limit payouts for smoke damage… after a series of devastating wildfires, according to Dave Jones, a former state insurance commissioner who was the top regulator when carriers first started inserting policy language that excluded toxic smoke”

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

“Evidence showing that the remediation approved by insurers is inadequate is mounting: Data from 45 homes tested after professional cleaning showed that 43 of them still tested positive for unsafe levels of lead, according to Eaton Fire Residents United, a coalition of concerned residents.”

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

“The most shocking thing is that this is after the home was remediated,” said Joseph G. Allen, the director of the Healthy Buildings Program at Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a former scientific adviser to the White House, who reviewed the results.”

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

“All 10 experts who reviewed the testing results from the house expressed concern about the level of contamination &said that the insurance-led remediation effort was not sufficient. Several of them highlighted the risk in the attic, where testing by The Times detected beryllium, chromium & cadmium”

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

“The concentrations found in the attic were “sky high,” said Joe L. Nieusma, a toxicologist who was one of 10 experts who reviewed the results. “There are multiple carcinogens in the house and extremely high levels of lead… It’s not safe for humans — or animals — to live in that residence.”

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

“We call it the tobacco playbook because it was done for so long and so successfully by an industry that was making a deadly product,” said David Michaels… who has written two books detailing this strategy. “This is absolutely the latest iteration of ‘science for hire.’” cc @profgoldberg.bsky.social

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

“According to more than two dozen scientists, insurance adjusters and consumer advocates interviewed for this article, as well as a review of thousands of pages… this approach is supported by a small roster of industry consultants who cite research papers that have not been peer-reviewed”

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

“By contrast, the insurance industry is relying on what experts interviewed by The Times describe as outdated or incomplete research, endorsing cleanups based only on what can be seen and smelled. If insurers test at all, it is for a small subset of contaminants.”

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

“Microscopic particles carried by the smoke slip into a home’s insulation… Industrial hygienists and toxicologists insist that removing the contamination requires tearing out nearly every surface the smoke touched — not just the insulation, but the hardwood floors, tiles, plaster and stucco.”

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

“Like most insurance policies in California, the Van Nesses’ contract with Farmers — the second largest home insurer in the state — covers smoke damage, but it doesn’t spell out how the damage should be repaired. That’s because there are no state or federal standards”

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

“For nearly every house reduced to ash by the fires that blackened the Los Angeles sky last January, another was left standing but steeped in smoke, according to an analysis by The New York Times. These homes sit at an uncomfortable juncture: intact but potentially contaminated.”

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

“We don’t have the means to pay our mortgage and live somewhere else,” said Mr. Van Ness, 44, a waiter at a five-star hotel. “It’s a feeling of helplessness that is indescribable.”

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

“The family reluctantly returned home in August… two months after a consultant they hired found lead — a dangerous neurotoxin — inside the house. After their insurer, Farmers Insurance, dismissed those findings and cut off payments for their hotel, the Van Nesses had little choice but to return”

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Insurers Said They Could Return Home. Our Tests Found Neurotoxins in Their Bodies.

A Times investigation has found that insurers are driving families into homes contaminated by smoke. Lab results show how one family was exposed to neurotoxins and carcinogens.

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 29/12/2025

From President Trump’s first day in office — marked by his pardons of Jan. 6 insurrectionists — he began a multi-pronged effort to undermine U.S. elections. Sean Morales-Doyle and other Brennan Center experts join The Briefing with Michael Waldman to discuss the year in review. bit.ly/48SQYPc

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Miiriya @miiriya.com · 29/12/2025

A Black Mom lost her job this year after graduating from college- She went to try and give her children a better life, but the spiraling economy made things worse for her, she’s behind on electric and gas bills. Let’s please give $1 to reach her goal and alleviate some of the bills.

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Help someone struggling in the community!

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

This is an important point. And as our information system has evolved over the past 10 years it has more obviously become a partisan press model. Not just websites and podcasts, but ownership of what were once mainstream/non-partisan news outlets. People consume propaganda without realizing it.

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🪷Gangsta Mittens’ Baby Sister @lbrass3.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

And dump every ounce of rubble onto Mar-A-Lago or his grave, whichever way is cheapest. Or most expensive if it’s somehow being paid for by funds confiscated from his and/or his family’s estate. 😒

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Joshua McElwee @joshmcelwee.org · 25/12/2025

Pope Leo decried conditions for Palestinians in Gaza in his Christmas sermon on Thursday, in an unusually direct appeal during what is normally a solemn, spiritual service on the day Christians across the globe celebrate the birth of Jesus. For @reuters.com:

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In first Christmas sermon, Pope Leo decries conditions for Palestinians in Gaza

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Our beauty never leaves. We just need to see it

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

These are the actions of an administration that, unconstrained by law, seeks to assert authoritarian power over the institutions of civil society that it dislikes.

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

It may seem a minor point but mentioning Harvard first in the ‘dispute’ suggests that the university is equally if not more culpable. It would have helpful to note that no administration has the legal right to use extortionate means to “exert influence over elite colleges…it views as too liberal.”

It was unclear whether Ms. McMahon’s interpretation of Harvard’s proposal resulted from a miscommunication or from a deliberate effort to force the university into a year-end deal after months of faltering negotiations.
Whatever the case, it was the latest twist in the long-running dispute between Harvard and the Trump administration, which has shaped up to be the marquee battle in the administration’s effort to exert more influence over elite colleges and universities it views as too liberal.

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

The caption below, which refers vaguely to an “exchange,” ascribes equal agency to both sides in this “marquee battle,” even though the evidence in the article very clearly shows the Trump administration is relying not on the law but on the force of federal power to punish Harvard.

An exchange between Linda McMahon, President Trump’s education secretary, and Alan M. Garber, Harvard University’s president, has complicated efforts by the White House and Harvard to end the marquee battle.
By Michael S. Schmidt, Alan Blinder and Michael C. Bender
The letter landed with a thud on Saturday int he inbox of Harvard University’s president, Alan M. Garber.

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

This is not a “duel,” which suggests both sides are equally culpable, but the latest salvo in the Trump administration’s ideological war on Harvard and higher education. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/u...

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In Private Letters, Harvard and Trump Administration Escalate Duel

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🪷Gangsta Mittens’ Baby Sister @lbrass3.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Merry Christmas to Shelby especially! 😜🎄🎁

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Diana 💚☘️🏀 @dmr09.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Shelby can’t read, ok?!?!? How else is she going to know which stocking is hers????

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Angie @sassystrega.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

I promise you- people think they want to know the lurid details- they don't. I spent 30 years reading accounts of CA/SA and that shit never leaves your head. I'm interested in knowing who was on public payroll and didn't do their jobs. And I'm happy to wait for the truth so it sticks.

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

And as several folks are saying in the comments: curiosity about the Epstein files is understandable, but just for yourself personally, think carefully about what you want in your head forever. It will come to you later in upsetting ways that you may not expect. bsky.app/profile/sass...

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Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Samuel L. Jackson wishes everyone a Merry Christmas: “Merry Christmas Muthafukas”

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🪷Gangsta Mittens’ Baby Sister @lbrass3.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Happy Thanksgiving everyone, no matter how you may or may not be celebrating! Despite everything going on at the moment, I have a lot to be thankful for, so I’m gonna focus on that! 🍂🍁🦃✌🏾

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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

"should there be changes 2 state law which explicitly allows trans students 2 [play sports]-" "yes! i think it goes back 2- i think we have 2 figure this out.... i said what i thought.... many ppl have the same point of view but don't say it publicly & i think that's more shameful in many respects."

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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

the whole thing is frankly even more offensive than this clip. it's from this interview with @kqednews.kqed.org a few days ago: youtu.be/4Dm3diA6z08?...

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Gavin Newsom on Prop 50, Trans Rights, and Why Democrats Are "Weak As A Party" | Political Breakdown

YouTube video by KQED News

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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

gavin newsom says he wants to pass legislation banning trans people from playing sports in california

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Matt Peterson @mattpeterson.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

The White House just blasted this out under the headline "Good News You May Have Missed"

🧑‍🎓 New foreign student enrollment at U.S. colleges and universities is down by 17% over last year: “American universities have suffered one of the sharpest ever declines in foreign enrollments in the face of tough policies from President Donald Trump, with the number of new international students falling 17 percent this year.”

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🪷Gangsta Mittens’ Baby Sister @lbrass3.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

The second hand embarrassment would be massive if I didn’t despise him.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Elon making a robot that pathetically glazes him is extremely embarrassing, proves that generative AI is an instrument of fascism, *and* reveals how cognitively and emotionally devastating having obscene wealth is. Any normal person would experience deep shame doing this, a billionaire cannot.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

The stakes are too high to wait: we need to impeach Trump now. I’ll be speaking at the Remove the Regime rally in Washington, DC this Saturday. I hope to see you there! @flareusa.bsky.social @removalcoalition.bsky.social

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🪷Gangsta Mittens’ Baby Sister @lbrass3.bsky.social · 20/11/2025