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Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 2h

Trump straight up doxxed Senator Tom Cotton this morning

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 1h

That’s nice 🙂 ⚠️ Polls aren’t votes All these races are 50-50… Run through the tape! 🏃‍♀️

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 1h

After 10 years of cravenly and fraudulently presenting the Know-Nothing Nazified Republican Party as one of two sane, understandable choices, major news organizations are not able to report the obvious, which is that U.S. voters seem to be increasingly coming to their senses. Epic, epic fail.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1h

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Trump’s past 24 hours of desperation:

— posts Sen. Tom Cotton’s cellphone number and tells people to call him over daylight saving time — again tries to scam voters with fraudulent promises $5,000 checks to every adult citizen if Republicans win the House and Senate — says if Democrats win it will be “a 1929 disaster” and an economic depression, essentially admitting he believes his term will lead to a Great Depression — tells a Mobile, Alabama rally to close their eyes and “pretend I’m on the ballot” — says he’s giving $100 checks to 20 million seniors

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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 1h

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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 1h

By treating college as a luxury good, we misunderstand its purpose as an engine for upward mobility and how that engine works.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 2h

If the Dems win the senate, expect this retirement and then the Senate GOP will jam the next person down our throats. Probably someone like Judge Eileen Cannon. Good lord www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

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Justice Alito confirms he is considering retirement

The conservative Supreme Court justice said in a CBS News interview that he’ll revisit the issue next year.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 2h

When state lawmakers attempt to rewrite how the internet works, users rely on courts to recognize that laws can’t make technical impossibilities a reality. Thankfully, a court has blocked Utah’s attempt to restrict VPN use. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

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Court Agrees with EFF: Utah’s VPN Law Demands a Technical

In a win for digital rights, a federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction blocking Utah’s SB 73, the state’s draconian anti-VPN age verification law. The decision comes as EFF submitted our

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 2h

Katie Phang: "Get the fuck out of here. Are you kidding me? You think it's a good use of taxpayers time and money to be able to do illegal redactions and withholds that are now forcing me to have to go and sue? Are you joking? But this is how Todd Blanche thinks."

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

He’s so close to getting it

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Brian Pierce MD @mainedpcdoc.medsky.social · 2h

I have some patients that focus on that. Is there a particular study or paper that explains that well?

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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 3h

11/ The bottom line is that the benefits continue to outweigh the risks when it comes to the Covid vaccine, especially if you're 65 or older. If you haven't already, now is a great time to book your Covid vaccine. After some bumps in the road, the vaccine should now be widely available.

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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 3h

10/ I've also had several people ask about myocarditis complications recently, so I made sure to look into current data on that as well. Myocarditis complications aren't a thing anymore with the Covid-19 vaccine. This is due to increased immunity (from infections and spaced-out vaccines).

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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 3h

9/ Now, what about the vaccine risks? Serious complications are very rare. Allergic reactions and Guillain-Barré (maybe) are really the only vaccine-related risks in the data, and they are very, very small. There is also no risk of blood clots from the vaccine.

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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 3h

8/ It also lowers the risk of Long Covid because it reduces risk of infection (by a little).

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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 3h

7/ Let’s start with the benefits. For adults 65+, Covid vaccination prevents about 1,200 hospitalizations for every 1 million doses. It also lowers the risk of Covid-related blood clots, including strokes, heart attacks, and blood clots in the legs or lungs.

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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 3h

6/ So I went digging to get the most current evidence. These estimates aren’t perfect, but they still make clear that the benefits continue to outweigh the risks, especially for those over 65 years old.

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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 3h

5/ Ultimately, this comes down to a pretty simple question: Do the benefits of Covid vaccination still outweigh the risks? This is normally a question that would be answered by ACIP, which is the committee that once guided evidence-based U.S. vaccine policy, but they haven't met in a long time.

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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 3h

4/ But if she wasn't receiving one of those treatments, I'm disappointed that he didn’t recommend the Covid-19 vaccine for her. People undergoing cancer treatments that weaken the immune system are at higher risk of severe Covid, which makes protection particularly important.

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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 3h

3/ If someone recently received a stem cell transplant or CAR-T therapy, delaying vaccination can make sense. Their immune system is heavily suppressed, so the vaccine may not work well. It's generally advised to delay vaccination for at least 3 months after these treatments.

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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 3h

2/ Obviously, I’m not part of this person’s clinical care team, and individual treatment plans influence the recommendations care teams give. Many factors could influence this decision. But broadly speaking, this is how I would think about it:

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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 3h

1/ Last weekend, I received an email from someone whose friend was being treated for cancer. The doctor advised her friend to get the flu shot, but said to skip the Covid vaccine. So the friend asked me if risks from the Covid vaccine are still a concern.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 3h

Also, having the Department of LABOR do this is a real chef’s kiss of historical understanding.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 3h

“Originalism is an incoherent doctrine. It allows you to prove anything. Thus what it amounts to is a ritual invocation of the Founders, gesturing at this or that piece of text, before delivering whatever conclusion was approved on Fox News the night before.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...

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We Have No Supreme Court

The philosophical incoherence of originalism prevents the Court from performing its core functions as a supreme court.

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404 Media @404media.co · 3h

USPS says the cameras, put on USPS truck dashboards, will scan roads, signs, and more. www.404media.co/usps-to-put-...

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USPS To Put Cameras in Trucks That Scan Roads for ‘Community Safety’

USPS says the cameras, put on USPS truck dashboards, will scan roads, signs, and more.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 3h

“For Rufo integration of nonwhite immigrants isn’t the desired outcome at all. Successful integration is a problem. So while he dresses up his objections in the language of “cultural cohesion” and “high trust” societies, those are protective camouflage…” www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...

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Editor's Notes: "The Indian Question" Shows That No One Is Safe From White Nationalism

That is the entire point.

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Yoïn van Spijk @yvanspijk.bsky.social · 3h

In many Romance languages, one way of saying “my name is” is “I call myself”: Italian ‘mi chiamo’ Spanish ‘me llamo’ Portuguese ‘chamo-me’ These verbs all stem from Latin ‘clāmō’. At first glance, cl- changed in very different ways, but it all started with one common change. My graphic explains:

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3h

2026 Maine Fall Foliage Tour

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 3h

Thank you once again Politico for providing a canonical example of when not to grant anonymity.

"Looks like a pussy move to send a text instead of actually saying it to someone's face. Shows what kind of character he is," a senior White House official told Playbook's Megan Messerly.

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WIRED @wired.com · 2h

Lost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family. Lost lives. Our joint investigation reveals the system that has divided the West Bank and measures what it cost people to move through it.

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How Israeli Checkpoints Choke Palestinian Life in the Occupied West Bank

Lost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family. Lost lives. Our joint investigation reveals the system that has divided the West Bank and measures what it cost people to move through it.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8h

All Republicans have to offer voters in the midterms is failure, lies, corruption, cover ups, fear mongering, name calling, enrichment of oligarchs, christian nationalism, racism, data centers everywhere, flock cameras, higher prices, new wars and fake bribes. Hell of a platform.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 7h

This article seems to start from the old fashioned assumption that there is a difference between a) the public interest and b) the pecuniary interests of Trump’s family and friends.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6h

Every time Trump is asked about people struggling to pay rent, buy a home, afford groceries, health care and gas and he responds claiming this is the greatest economy ever and people on Wall Street are making tons of money speculating on AI, Republicans go down another point in the polls.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 16h

"This is what they asked for. Republicans have had so many opportunities to turn this thing around - there have been 20 war powers votes in the House and Senate since the war started in February - and they’ve just blown past every single off ramp.“

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Trump’s Taxpayer-Funded Self-Promotion Just Backfired

An ad promoting the Iran War only serves to remind voters just how much of a disaster the war is, a baffling strategy just a month out from midterms.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 15h

If USA Today is indeed unilaterally putting source interviews in some sort of database, in their entirety, allowing them to be cherry-picked by other reporters—and *AI*(!!)—that is journalistically indefensible and no one should ever talk to them again. Is this true? Is it Gannett wide?

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14h

Speer: “Spare the German people, my Führer.” Hitler: “If my own people fail this test, I will shed not one tear for them. They deserve nothing else. It’s their own destiny. They themselves are to blame.” (Speer then reveals that he had been systematically disobeying Hitler’s orders.)

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14h

This reminds me of two scenes in the German movie “Downfall,” which depicts, historically accurately, Hitler’s last days. Both scenes involve Hitler and Albert Speer discussing Hitler’s “Nero Order,” by which the Führer had ordered the destruction of the Reich’s remaining economic infrastructure...

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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 21h

Trump’s tomato tariffs could be coming for your free chips and salsa. A 17% tariff on Mexican tomatoes has sent tomato prices soaring. Restaurants say the added costs are getting harder to absorb, and some are considering charging for salsa instead of putting it on the table for free.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 21h

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
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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+
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AGREEMENTS
NATURALIZATIONS
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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 19h

Measles milestones: US closes in on 4,000 cases as Pennsylvania nears 1,000 With more than 200 new cases, the US now has 3,886 confirmed infections, while Pennsylvania has reached 977. Read more: bit.ly/4jBBqVB 📷: CDC / Cynthia S. Goldsmith, William Bellini

Measles virus highly magnified and burgundy in color

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19h

Whoa. A Biden-appointed judge in the southern district of Florida just ruled that the 1996 federal law criminalizing voting by non-citizens is unconstitutional. 👀

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