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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h

I always have mixed feelings about these images. Yes, it's inspiring to see these college students committed to democracy, but the fact that they have to do anything remotely difficult to exercise their voting rights is enraging. Taking part in a democracy should be as easy as possible.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 4h

“It looks dangerously like the construction of an internal spying agency...” "It’s also a weapon that the government will likely use against not only undocumented immigrants, but everyone else, too. That includes political enemies, intelligence experts said... prospect.org/2026/10/14/i...

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ICE Planning $100 Million ‘Nightmare’ Domestic Spy Program - The American Prospect

Under ERO ONE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to hire 142 intelligence contractors with top secret clearances and deploy them in cities across the country.

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 7h

from a real-world standpoint it's obvious untenable and unacceptable and incredibly obscenely immoral -- but also from a theoretical pov, from a Weberian pov, what the fuck is the US government if this one guy, who is not elected and not in the gov't, is making these kinds of decisions?

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 7h

the more i think about this the more i feel like it's possibly one of the most outrageous scandals to happen in global politics in a long time. if it is what it looks like it's an absolute watershed crisis moment for the US and world.

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Lola Kinicki @lolakinicki.bsky.social · 4h

Reading about recent events and wondering where all that data Dooooge stole during their smash and grab is being stored.

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 12h

Striking citation manipulation patterns in major journals related to cancer. These are journals with IF reaching into the 40s in some cases. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Well done to authors. Can see this in Impact Inflation also (from bit.ly/StrainQSS). Charts next post. 1/3

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PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Manny Ares 👀 @mannyares.bsky.social · 12h

⚠️ Another problematic NIH policy needs your attention ⚠️ NOT-OD-26-112: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... Redefines transient expression as "genetic modification". If adopted, mRNA medicines could be forbidden. Comments close October 19! Please go comment on this! osp.od.nih.gov/comment-form...

Screenshot of concerning policy proposal redefining "genetic modification".

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Lola Kinicki @lolakinicki.bsky.social · 11h

What a blood thirsty ghoul.

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Lake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live · 11h

Current* conditions near Mackinaw City, MI:

Northern view of the Mackinac Bridge traversing the Straits of Mackinac with Lake Michigan on the left. // Image captured at (local time): 2026-10-16 11:36:02 EDT (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: mackinacbridge.org // Current Temp in Mackinaw City: 47 F | 8 C // Precip: light rain // Wind: N at 16 mph | 26 kph // Humidity: 88%

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Boycott Citizens @boycottcitizens.org · 13h

The ethnic cleansing agenda not just cruel. It's also unbelievably stupid. From @pabloreports.bsky.social: migrantinsider.com/p/the-fine-p...

DHS forecasts up to 33,000 legal workers pushed off payroll, at a cost of $450 million.
DHS’s final rule on employment authorization documents, published Oct. 14, ends automatic extensions for many timely filed work-permit renewals. The rule includes its own estimate of the damage.

It forecasts that 20,000 to 33,000 permits will lapse in a single 18-month window starting in May 2027. The costs it projects:

$138.1 million in lost productivity

$312.1 million in employer turnover

$14.5 million in lost tax revenue

Between 1,700 and 2,800 employers will feel it.

These workers are authorized to work. They file on time. The lapses come because USCIS has not processed their renewals, and the rule says so: the agency attributes the gaps to its own delays. DHS finalized the policy without changes anyway. It chose repeated vetting over keeping legal workers employed.

Asylum seekers and green card applicants make up most of the affected caseload. Many of them work in jobs such as:

health care

elder care

hospitality

The administration’s delay becomes these workers’ unemployment.

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Lola Kinicki @lolakinicki.bsky.social · 13h

It's called a calico, maybe you've purred of it.

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Braden Serkas 🎃 @portmanteauface.bsky.social · 14h

It’s called ornithology, maybe you’ve bird of it

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Barbara Waxer 🌈 @barbara-waxer.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

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Triangle Blog Blog @triangleblogblog.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Early in-person voting in Chapel Hill up significantly vs 2022, per @gercohen.bsky.social, and competitive vs 2024. Huge jumps everywhere. Today's highlights: BOE HQ in Hillsborough and Carrboro at 161% of 2022 vote, close to 2024 vote. Chapel Hill Library more than double 2022 and 87% of 2024.

Date Orange Works (BOE) Carrboro Chapel of the Cross Chapel Hill Library Seymour Center Efland-Cheeks TOTALS
% votes 2022 % votes 2024 % votes 2022 % votes 2024 % votes 2022 % votes 2024 % votes 2022 % votes 2024 % votes 2022 % votes 2024 % votes 2022 % votes 2024 % votes 2022 % votes 2024
10/15/2026 161% 87% 161% 94% 160% 37% 239% 87% 150% 97% 159% 49% 169% 76%

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 15/10/2026

Police are having a press conference, in which they confirmed a suspect had been shot and killed. Officials said there were “multiple victims” but did not give details. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2026/1...

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‘Multiple victims’ in shooting near Bend elementary school; shooter dead

This is a developing news story.

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Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Anyone need a genuinely *nice* story for this Wednesday? "Takahashi thought the lost barrel might be adrift somewhere on the Bering Sea by now. Or, he imagined an 'Alaskan bear wearing my down jacket or like, playing my flute...'"

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B.C. man reunited with beloved flute, 5 years after it floated away down a Yukon river | CBC News

Jun Takahashi was stunned when he saw the online post: someone in the Yukon bush had found a canoe barrel full of his mildew-y camping gear, and his long-lost flute.

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UNITED24 @u24.gov.ua · 15/10/2026

Every day, russia terrorizes and murders innocent people. This time, russia killed a grandma and grandpa in their own home. Help protect Ukrainian families from russian terror. u24.gov.ua/sky-defense?...

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Tl;dr: An ethics code that won’t be enforced, or whatever “one more minor legal tweak will fix this” you like is not going to stop John Roberts & co. from ignoring the law, history, data, & the plain meaning of words in the Constitution & end the authoritarian parlor games they’ve played since 2000.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 14/10/2026

They are looting the government in broad daylight.

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

My heart yearns for policies that actually help farm workers

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Lola Kinicki @lolakinicki.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

oh my goodness, that's horrible! I'm so sorry.

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 14/10/2026

Elon Musk is a traitor and a war criminal and should be prosecuted accordingly, his citizenship revoked and his assets forfeited. SpaceX should face the choice of either being nationalized or being barred from government contracts.

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Ukrainian military’s access to Starlink satellite internet suddenly restricted

Outage of terminals managed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX comes as Russia launches ballistic missiles at Ukraine without any advance warning from US

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Lola Kinicki @lolakinicki.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I have two crows who appear to have made a home under my chaste tree and now huddle there day and night. I've seen mourning doves do this often, but not crows until now. I hope they are ok.

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Melissa Sanchez @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Officials in Kent County, Mich., promised they'd stop handing over immigrants in jail to ICE w/o judicial warrant. That didn't happen. Many of those arrested weren't charged w/ a crime - including women who say they're the victims of domestic violence. Our story: www.propublica.org/article/dome...

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These Women Were Trying to Escape Domestic Abuse. ICE Detained Them Instead.

It’s especially intimidating for immigrants suffering abuse to call 911. With this in mind, Congress has long treated people who need help as victims, not targets for deportation. Under the Trump admi...

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 14/10/2026

Musk's DOGE boys took a 'sledgehammer' to the federal govt & services people relied on. Now they're getting rich off the pain they caused. DOGE was never about efficiency, it was about breaking the govt & selling it off to Trump's billionaire buddies & allies. Endless grift.

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They came to Washington to dismantle government. Now, they’re profiting from it.

DOGE alumni have leveraged their government experience, raising at least half a billion dollars for firms spanning cyberwarfare, AI and data centers, a Post analysis found.

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Scott Colom @scolom.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

She done lost her damn mind.

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Valerie Bertinelli @wolfiesmom.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Yeah, I know it’s childish, but I do feel the tiniest bit better.

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Lola Kinicki @lolakinicki.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

They could be forced to blare out a few bars of that Radiohead song.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This can happen here. This WILL happen here.

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The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

DON'T USE SCENTED LAUNDRY PRODUCTS IN SPACES WHERE YOU SHARE AIR!!!

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The GrindDad @grinddad.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

People needs to get with it. If you can’t make principled lifestyle and workflow changes right now then you just don’t fucking care.

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𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐁𝐚𝐭𝐬𝐨𝐧 @bretbatson.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Getting through 2026 be like

Ryan Thomas Gosling is ready for a visit from the Goo Goo Man.

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Lola Kinicki @lolakinicki.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Editorial Manager is the worst. I don't know why such a profitable business can't be bothered to update its software to modern standards.

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Life goal achieved: @ramckay.bsky.social & I made it into Duke Today, Duke University's "one stop shop" for BIG news I've asked Duke comms to get this piece to Swift's people (I said: "Duke comms has SWAY and surely you can sashay your way to getting this to Tay?") today.duke.edu/2026/10/opin...

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OPINION: Has Taylor Swift Defanged the Toxic Term ‘Patient Zero’ ? | Duke Today

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

You know how Trump is making things worse every day everywhere? That’s when he’s trying to win votes. Just wait until after the midterms my god.

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Holy shit FOUR members of the ethics committee in Denmark that gave the green light to allow the widely-condemned RFK Jr-funded trial to proceed in Guinea-Bissau have now resigned in protest This quote is 🔥 Great reporting by @melodyschreiber.com www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Stig Børsen Hansen, a founding member who was one of two reviewers who presented the study to the Danish committee, resigned from the group in protest on Friday, citing major ethical issues with the study.

“You are now enrolling newborns in a lottery to test a hypothesis,” Hansen said. The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage. “They contract hepatitis B in the context of being part of a research project,” Hansen said, which made their infection happen, in effect, “by design”.

Three other members of the committee have also resigned in protest.

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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Vaccinefinder.org is especially important, given that vaccines.gov, run by the CDC, isn’t working. share.google/o1tvY3As6Het...

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Find pharmacies near you

Vaccines.gov helps you find nearby pharmacies in the United States.

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It Ain't Me. @notimeforbs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

-Streaming an execution -The Lisa Cook investigation -Sanctions on the ICC -Removing sanctions on Russia.. He cares nothing about the coming elections. He's practically daring everyone to do anything.

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

There are flocks of birds feasting on my sunflowers! 🌱

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Governor Josh Stein @ncgovernor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

North Carolina, our team is closely tracking Hurricane Isaias and any impacts that may come our way. Rainfall, which could be heavy in some locations, is expected to start in the western part of the state overnight Friday.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is by no means a nothingburger, it's worth watching, but for context: there are about 100,000 polling places in the US. One real constraint on direct election interference of this sort is that our elections are monumentally massive undertakings on a scale that vastly outstrips federal manpower.

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Lola Kinicki @lolakinicki.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Odd how Rubber-stamp Republicans have been working to make us sicker and weaken our food supply. A lot of coincidences now: attenuated supply of potash, skyrocketing diesel, lax food safety, terrorizing necessary labor force, undermining public health. Why? Tax breaks? Something else?

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Why does today feel like another Monday? Anyway, here's another owl video. #birds

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Policy at Play @policyatplay.com · 07/10/2026

Presidents sometimes need to talk to adversaries. But Putin is not America’s friend: U.S. intelligence still identifies Russia as a major military and cyber threat. And on his birthday today, Russian strikes killed at least 24 people in Ukraine. Diplomacy is necessary; friendship isn’t.

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 07/10/2026

Ukraine war latest: Russian attack on Pryluky kills at least 20, including 5 children • Russia slams Ukraine with missiles, drones on Putin's 74th birthday, at least 26 dead including 5 children • Huge blaze breaks out at Russian oil facility in Samara Oblast

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Ukraine war latest: Russian attack on Pryluky kills at least 20, including 5 children

Key developments on Oct. 7: * Russia slams Ukraine with missiles, drones on Putin's 74th birthday, at least 26 dead including 5 children * Huge blaze breaks out at Russian oil facility in Samara Ob...

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