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markpltz.bsky.social @markpltz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I'm not hearing enough from candidates about an amendment overturning Citizens United.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is how AI will kill us all
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Trump Was Reportedly Pushed Into Invading Venezuela by Conversation With Grok
Trump reportedly consulted with Grok for hours on his next course of action in Venezuela before launching a military invasion.
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markpltz.bsky.social @markpltz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I am absolutely baffled by the administration's fetishizing coal.
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markpltz.bsky.social @markpltz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is absolutely the case. Even if he doesn't switch parties, he would be a Manchen or Sinema on steroids.
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markpltz.bsky.social @markpltz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This.
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markpltz.bsky.social @markpltz.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Once again the EU acts in the interests of its citizens while the Trump administration serves big money.
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markpltz.bsky.social @markpltz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Not only are the administration policies discouraging the brightest minds from coming to the US, academics are choosing to emigrate to countries where their research isn't directed by a political agenda. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/w...
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Canada Hires 48 Scholars Away From Top U.S. Universities
A crackdown on American academia by the Trump administration has handed Canadian universities a rare opportunity to lure some top researchers north.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Former USAID disaster-response chief @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social suggested that the Trump regime’s DOGE funding cuts to USAID, including the SERVIR program, impacted flood prediction and early warning systems in Nepal and made it way more deadly.
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Unsettling question raised over Trump admin's role in devastating Nepal floods
The devastating flash floods in Nepal this week that killed at least 670 people and left around 3,000 missing — including 90 Americans — might have claimed fewer lives if not for the actions of the Tr...
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Rajani Thindiath (Ruhj-ni) @rajanithindiath.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
This thread is lit! ✨ Spanning biology, history, geography with some neat insights. Bookmarked!
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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markpltz.bsky.social @markpltz.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Our county has been hit by three major wind events this summer leaving widescale damage and people without power, sometimes for over a week. The idea that significant parts of our construction and landscaping workforce fears harassment and detention by authorities is maddening.
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markpltz.bsky.social @markpltz.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
As Trump tries to demonize the left, I am reminded that his mentor was Roy Cohn, Joe McCarthy's chief counsel. When Joe McCarthy was finally disgraced, his popularity dropped to 34% (a familiar poll number today).
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markpltz.bsky.social @markpltz.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Susan Collins has voted with Trump 95% of the time. Of the remaining 5% how many votes actually stopped Trump from what he wanted as opposed to a symbolic gesture permitted by the party. I don't recall any John McCain-type votes of bravery.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
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markpltz.bsky.social @markpltz.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
It's nice to bring such moments to the fore.
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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Things that shouldn’t need to be said but need to be said:
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 14/07/2026
I do not believe democracy is compatible with billionaires being able to spend unlimited amounts of money on politics.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Let’s reflect on the DOGE “legacy”. It caused complete havoc, led to a ton of good people losing their jobs, reduced government spending by $0(it actually increased spending), and stole all of Americans’ data.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
DOGE reached its scheduled termination date on Saturday, July 4, 2026, and its website has now been taken down. DOGE isn’t officially terminated, most of the staff have moved over to the National Design Studio.
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
When you tell colleagues that the public still maintains deep trust in our work (imperfectly & with growing fractures) they are often *very* surprised, in part because of the organized investment in "a rhetoric of science in crisis” to foster an actual crisis. www.nature.com/articles/d41... a 🧵
nature.com
Have people stopped trusting science? The data tell a surprising story
Some say there’s a global crisis of trust — but research reveals where the real problems lie.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Trump is accusing vandals of causing the Reflecting Pool coating to peel, but that’s not what appears to be happening here. The real issue is the administration’s reliance on no-bid contracts and what appears to be a rushed project with inadequate quality control.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Funny how the all the people ransacking the Capitol on January 6 were liberals, plants, and ANTIFA—until there was money to be made from it.
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markpltz.bsky.social @markpltz.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
This administration is drowning the country in corruption.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 28/04/2026
Hold on. We the taxpayers are going to pay companies $900 million, which is more than 6x what we spend on wind power R&D, to NOT build wind power at a time when electricity prices are spiking and we need more clean power?
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 25/04/2026
Sorry, but if you’re mad that the Southern Poverty Law Center paid informants to infiltrate Nazi groups to expose them, then you are a Nazi.
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markpltz.bsky.social @markpltz.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Perhaps we should be honest in our actions.
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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
The entire research arm of the Forest Service being killed, “Because a scientist who says you can’t log that watershed without destroying it is inconvenient. A lab that documents the damage from mining runoff or road-building or clear-cutting is an enemy. And enemies get eliminated.”
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Is Convicted Felon Donald Trump’s super-duper secure SCIF with soft banquet-hall curtains, open air top, unsecured electronic devices, and roving guests located next to the bathroom where the classified documents are stored?
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markpltz.bsky.social @markpltz.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
So what is Trump getting out of this proxy war for Israel? Did Netanyahu make promises to Trump Inc for contracts in Gaza?
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 28/02/2026
Remember: Donald Trump created this crisis. He walked away from the Iran nuclear deal that was working, promising a "better deal." He didn't deliver. He escalated, abandoned real diplomacy, and has now led us into a conflict that puts us all at risk.
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Brian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
🚨🚨Check this out👇👇A French judge states that Trump sent people from the US Embassy to try to intimidate her during Le Pen’s trial for embezzlement. She says he’s done this to other judges around the world. What do you think he’s doing to judges in the US. This is madness‼️
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Andrea Joy Campbell @ajcampbellma.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Let's try this again 👋 Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA. I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Wow -- incredible!!!
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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I’m completely fed up with elected Representatives saying shit like, “Republicans will tell you behind closed doors that they don’t agree with what ICE is doing”. Playtime is over. Professional courtesy no longer exists. Name them, record them, and make it public.
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markpltz.bsky.social @markpltz.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
If a president chooses to violate treaty obligations for a "psychological" need, he is psychologically unfit to hold office. From NYTimes interview: "When asked why he needed to possess the territory, he (Trump) said: 'Because that’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success.'"
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 06/01/2026
For all of the recent White House talk about the Monroe Doctrine, a different 19th-century concept — Manifest Destiny — should be part of the same conversation. Instead of eying US expansion to the Pacific, Team Trump apparently believes we’re destined to control the entire hemisphere.
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White House’s Stephen Miller suggests the U.S. is entitled to Greenland
For all the talk about the Monroe Doctrine, we really ought to discuss a different 19th century concept: Manifest Destiny.
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markpltz.bsky.social @markpltz.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
I haven't heard talking heads raising the possibility that Trump just wanted to have a special operations success because Obama sent the Seals after Bin Laden. So much of Trump's actions are due to Obama occupying his head.
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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
The cynics think today's attack on Venezuela is staged and transactional. Maduro is allied with Putin, but in 2019 Putin offered Trump a swap: Russia cedes Venezuela and gets Ukraine. (See Fiona Hill's testimony in Trump's first impeachment trial, h/t @davetroy.com). Even Maduro may be in on it. 2/
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
But on 12/1/25, Trump pardoned convicted drug trafficker/former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, who went to trial in the US & was sentenced to 45 years in prison. And Vance saying the OIL part out loud as if we didn’t know that all along.
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markpltz.bsky.social @markpltz.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
The fact that MSNow invites John Bolton for offering insight on the Venezuelan kidnapping is an indictment of its editorial decisions. Do we remember Iraq?
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Rudbeckia @rudbeckia.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
uh holy SHIT?
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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Such a good one in @privateeyenews.bsky.social.
Edward Hooper‘s Nighthawks, but with Deliveroo drivers picking up orders
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago. His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship." He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
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Eric Holthaus @ericholthaus.com · 19/11/2025
The combination of unique politics, climate change, and bad luck have brought a true drought emergency to Tehran. "Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian warned that Tehran’s residents would have to ration water—and eventually evacuate the capital—if there was no rain by late November."
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Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science (ACEAS) @antarcticsciaus.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
🌊 What is the Meridional Overturning Circulation and why is it important? The Meridional Overturning Circulation (#MOC) – critical for transporting heat, carbon, oxygen and nutrients across the globe – is weakening under climate change.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
This seems like the most straightforward and also basically accurate message.
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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Brilliant new ad campaign I just spotted at the Southwark tube station in London.
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