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Mary E Losch

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Dawna and RealMonkeyCat @dawna9.bsky.social · 11h
Almost immediately after the Warner Paramount+ Skydance merger was announced, a “pause” was placed on Stephen Colbert & son’s “Shadow of the Past” film. Utterly petty. This talent stifling merger is disastrous. The pettiness of inadequate ignorant invertebrate billionaires is disgusting.
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Dawna and RealMonkeyCat @dawna9.bsky.social · 12h
I love James Talarico’s simple statement in response to groveling Angela Paxton’s deplorable lowlife political ad. She’s a insult to smart, honest and hardworking American women. She’s earned her place in hell. #Pinks #Voices4Victory
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 04/10/2026
"OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company’s culture is ‘broken’. David Robinson joins other insiders in urging industry to take more care over rapidly developing technology" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company’s culture is ‘broken’
David Robinson joins other insiders in urging industry to take more care over rapidly developing technology
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Speaking of Kushner… cc: 🇺🇸 media
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Folks have insulted:  My Southern drawl.  My loc’d hair.  My clothes.  My shoes.  My intelligence.  I’ve been called a ghetto Black b!t€h. Now @JDVance says I don’t belong and should leave the very country my ancestors helped build. This is a lot y’all. It is. #AngieForFlorida
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In Kansas, kitchen table issues are what matter. Adam Hamilton is laser focused on addressing the rising expenses crushing everyday families, including energy, housing and prescription drug costs. He will also protect the safety nets seniors rely on. Elect Adam Hamilton U.S. Senate, Kansas
Graphic supporting Adam Hamilton for U.S. Senate, Kansas.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Again, <only Republicans> ever get to talk like this. If a single municipal level Democrat ever did, it would be a national outrage &spark a wave of “civility” discourse, & op-eds about how Dems must Respect Real Folkz & talk across difference. Democracy is incompatible with this double standard.
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Susan Perri @perri4health @perri4health.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We need to all vote as if our lives depend on it, because they do. The full impact of the cuts to Medicaid will not be felt till the end of November. Rural hospitals will be forced to close. People will have to drive hours for care. Why do republicans hate the old, poor, disabled and sick ?
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 04/10/2026
"Resurface"
With Elon Musk’s Return to Washington, Possible Conflicts of Interest Resurface

The founder of SpaceX, with billions of dollars in military contracts, joins several other defense industry executives on a Pentagon advisory board.
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The Calitaliano Kid 😎🇺🇦🗽 @moved2italy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’m not sure exactly WHY🤨 this Republican dark money group wanted to give almost $40,000 smackers to Xavier Becerra (a setup?), but he demonstrated both smarts and ethics by not getting his hands dirty! The first name on my ballot that I’m marking is #XavierBecerra! www.sacbee.com/news/politic...
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A mysterious dark money group gave Xavier Becerra $39k. He’s sending it back
The group had generally backed conservative candidates and is backed by an election law firm that’s worked closely with Elon Musk.
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Opinion Today @opiniontoday.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A month before the midterm elections, Democrats have opened leads or battled their way to ties or near-ties in 5 reliably Republican states where they are trying to flip Senate seats to win control of the chamber, according to new NYT/Siena U. polls. 🎁Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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Senate Races in Republican States Tilt Toward Democrats, Polls Find (Gift Article)
Democrats are performing strongly in five reliably Republican states where they are trying to flip Senate seats to win control of the chamber, new New York Times/Siena polls found.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 03/10/2026
Columnist Stephen Rattner probably got screwed over by the headline writer, but I'm seriously floored at how poor a job these six charts do at showing that we need AI.
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Opinion | Six Charts That Show Just How Much We Need A.I. (Gift Article)
All the worry about artificial intelligence should not obscure this key point: If we don’t develop it, we’ll be a lot worse off.
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
𝐈𝐂𝐄 𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐠𝐬 𝐀𝐛𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝟗 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫-𝐎𝐥𝐝 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐒𝐨𝐛𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐭 🚨 What the fk are we doing? How can we sit by and let this happen? It's up to US to push back on this, because silence is complicity! We have a month before the election, so volunteer & recruit friends! #ICELawlessness
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 03/10/2026
The White House will send $90 this month to more than 20 million older Americans who are enrolled in Medicare Part B. Democrats have questioned the legality of dipping into government accounts to send payments to Americans.
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Trump announces plan to send $90 payments to millions of seniors
The White House said the one-time payments would be drawn from a fund set up to improve Medicare.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 03/10/2026
The Nevada Republican sported V-shaped emblems that signified a valor award next to a Bronze Star. Flippo never received a Bronze Star for valor.
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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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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The subjugation of women is part of a neo-fascist, warrior culture going all the way back to the 1930s. It was on full display during Pete Hegseth’s military speech this week.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In Springfield, OH, nearly 1,400 workers were laid off at truck factory just days before Trump rally. Layoffs were large enough to basically erase an entire year of job growth in the greater Dayton, Ohio, area. apnews.com/article/trum...
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A gut punch in Ohio: Nearly 1,400 laid off at truck factory just days before Trump rally
President Donald Trump is trying to rally voters in the Dayton, Ohio, area on Saturday. But days ago, 1,400 workers were laid off from a truck factory there.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Georgia’s election board asked the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate a leading nonpartisan voter roll maintenance program, potentially adding yet another probe based on hyper-partisan conspiracy theories to the department’s portfolio. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Georgia’s GOP-controlled election board wants DOJ to investigate nonpartisan voter roll maintenance program
Despite his request for a federal investigation into ERIC, the board's executive director appeared to know very little about the organization during a meeting earlier this week.
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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The fiscal year is over. The dying Social, Behavioral, and Economic division of NSF ended up awarding 90 total grants this year, as opposed to ~700-800 in recent past years. Source: grantwitness.org/nsf/analyses...
The graph shows the cumulative number of awards made by month across this fiscal year, as compared to the last 6 fiscal years. The line for this year is total flat until June, but then finally gets up to 91 by October. In prior years the increase starts building earlier and ends on average in the 700-800 range (with variability, last year was only between 400-500).
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Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump straight up doxxed Senator Tom Cotton this morning
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump’s TIME interview should have been treated about like Biden’s debate performance. That it mostly wasn’t says a lot about the media’s ongoing normalization of Trump’s cognitive downward spiral.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ossoff: The money that they took from you when they slashed Medicaid and defunded hospitals and nursing homes—They’re taking that money to buy corrupt, taxpayer-funded political ads on national television to try to promote the failed and broken president…
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“He’s gotta resign. … We have to let our own people and everybody else know why it had to be done—because of what’s on the tape, because he lied.” — White House speechwriter Patrick J. Buchanan to White House chief of staff Alexander M. Haig, August 2, 1974
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
As we have been warning about...
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Vaccines Work. Here’s Why We Care About Your Unvaccinated Child.
While normal people don't want any child to suffer or die because their parents were tricked by disinformation, the leaders of the anti-vaccine movement, who profit by lying about vaccines, don't care
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
APPALLING— 4 ICE goons assaulted a man in New Brunswick NJ, violating his rights and dignity in front of by-passers. Despite being neutralized, his face crushed into the asphalt, his torturers threatened him with spraying chemicals to his face. We cannot stay silent — resist and report those crimes.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 03/10/2026
Stand Up for Science is proud to endorse Jasmine Clark, PhD for Georgia's 13th congressional district. It’s crucial we mobilize at the ballot box to put a stop to the war on science that’s being enabled by a complacent Congress. A vote for Jasmine is a vote for science & democracy.
Campaign poster endorsing Jasmine Clark, PhD for Georgia’s 13th Congressional District. 

Text on the right hand side reads "A vote for Jasmine is a vote for science and democracy." and "Jasmine Clark is a molecular biologist and an experienced, fearless leader, who is a strong science voice in government, protecting funding for CDC, NIH, and healthcare."

To the left is a portrait of Jasmine, a short woman with curly hair and glasses, smiling. 

Bottom left hand corner features a logo that reads "Stand Up For Science Endorsed"
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
simpsons party convention meme edit: WE LOVE LIFE AND OURSELVES 

WE CAN GOVERN!
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump tweeting out Tom Cotton’s personal cell phone number because he’s angry at him reminded me of this great moment from ELEVEN YEARS AGO. He’s always been this guy. abcnews.com/video/325986...
abcnews.com
Video Donald Trump Gives Out Lindsey Graham's Cellphone Number
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump retaliates against 2016 opponent Sen. Lindsey Graham by reading his cellphone number aloud during a speech in Graham's home state of South Carolina.
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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Interior is still looking at the deal. Your member is home campaigning. Put the Yosemite letter on their desk anyway. Takes a minute. Then check your registration so the campaign actually matters.
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Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Yosemite Giveaway
Contact Congress today!
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Eric Deggans @edeggans.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
As a stone fan of British TV and Dominic West, it's tough to describe how much I enjoyed watching this new series on a wealthy couple's divorce and how the lawyers made it worse, called War. But I tried on WBUR/NPR's midday show Here and Now. LISTEN: loom.ly/DOY_2FY
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NPR @npr.org · 03/10/2026
Lambert started out as a scrappy country singer with a me-against-the-world attitude. How did she end up making lush disco songs and writing one of the biggest pop hits of the year? n.pr/4AGEK7X
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The record-breaking, genre-melting, career-redefining evolution of Miranda Lambert
Lambert started out as a scrappy country singer with a me-against-the-world attitude. How did she end up making lush disco songs and writing one of the biggest pop hits of the year?
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TommyBoy @tampatom69.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Annie literally wrote the book on WMD warfare - we all need to watch this carefully - Jim Sciutto
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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
People are saying that everyone knows the Manhattan Institute is extremists— but that is not true, centrists kiss up to them all the time. Here is a major Abundance event and look at all the people pal-ing around with a Manhattan Inst director.
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December 10 & 11
Washington, DC
Nicholas Bagley
Professor, University of Michigan
Law School
Matt Clancy
Program Director, Coefficient
Giving
Colani Nottoni
Judge Glock Director of Research, Manhattan
Institute
Derek Kaufman
Founder & CEO, Inclusive
Abundance
Jennifer Pahlka
Author, Recoding America
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Ian Kremer @wolverinebear.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
'It Has to Stop': Community Members Condemn ICE Arrests at Bus Stops After GOP Blocks Bill to Protect Kids www.commondreams.org/news/ice-rai... #ICE #DHS #immigration #CivilRights #HumanRights #Blues
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'It Has to Stop': Community Members Condemn ICE Arrests at Bus Stops After GOP Blocks Bill to Protect Kids | Common Dreams
Republicans in the US Senate blocked a bill to protect school bus stops from ICE arrests, leading to outrage in Pennsylvania and Austin. Children left abandoned as parents are detained. Is this the Am...
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RootHog @roothog.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Giknowbili @giknowbili.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
On this note, the capture of public education by corporate interests brings the misery and drudgery of the workplace into schools to a further extent, and it shows up in a lot of facially neutral practices (bell-to-bell instruction, short lunch breaks, relentless emphasis on quantifiable growth).
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Betty C. Jung @bettycjung.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@angierasmussen.bsky.social shares her harrowing experiences with sexual assault in academia. It's an environment that devalues women professionally and personally. A must-read about why things have to change. substack.com/@rasmussenre...
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Dr. Angela Rasmussen (@rasmussenretorts)
I was sexually assaulted by another student in my PhD program on campus after a department party in front of multiple witnesses, who prevented sexual assault from becoming full on rape. I complained a...
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Forbes @forbes.com · 02/10/2026
Kushner’s private equity firm is the largest stakeholder in an Israeli financial institution that invests in Israeli defense companies.
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Kushner Rejects CNN Report That His Israeli Diplomacy Might Benefit His Private Equity Fund
Kushner’s private equity firm is the largest stakeholder in an Israeli financial institution that invests in Israeli defense companies.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/10/2026
Emily Marris bought raw milk from a farm recommended to her on Facebook. After her 17-month-old drank it, the toddler contracted E. coli and nearly died. Despite knowing this, the farmer continued advertising “raw goat milk from a clean tested herd.”
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is actually a pretty interesting theory. Social media works on community detection and triadic closure to feed you stuff that'll keep you engaged. But LLMs work differently and don't really have the training data to keep a random person in an epistemic bubble, I don't think.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Gift link. Rewriting Nixon’s Watergate story allows DOJ to reject the ethical reforms that followed. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
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Exclusive | Decades After Watergate, Justice Department Reviews Whether Nixon Got a Raw Deal
A revisionist historian went to the DOJ headquarters to present his case that the former president and his associates weren’t treated fairly.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
And at the turn of the 20th Century, the American people saw the wisdom of antitrust, food and drug regulation, child labor laws, and national park preservation. Let’s go!
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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
New blog: Leaving the UK with a heavy heart. growinguptransgender.com/2026/10/02/l...
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Leaving the UK with a heavy heart
Today, as a family, we have booked our flights and our one-way ticket out of the UK. This has not felt like a choice. This feels like fleeing to protect ourselves. For the past 7 years we have look…
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mike Pompeo has been rewarded with a teaching fellowship at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. The same school that canceled my class on media, race and international affairs. @columbiasipa.bsky.social share.google/KEvTy5yER71U...
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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join SIPA faculty
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will join the School of International and Public Affairs as a fellow at SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics in March, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: In a win for voters, the Kansas Court of Appeals Friday denied Secretary of State Scott Schwab’s (R) latest request to revive a GOP-backed law that would throw out mail-in ballots received after Election Day, even if they were cast on time. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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GOP bid to scrap Kansas mail ballot grace period fails again
The ruling means Kansas election officials must continue counting ballots postmarked by Election Day and received within the following three days, including in the upcoming November elections.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A major win! A federal court in Texas today temporarily blocked the Trump administration from building a border wall and other infrastructure across the state’s Big Bend region. The fight isn’t over, but this is a big step toward protecting Big Bend!
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Judge temporarily blocks border wall construction in Texas’ Big Bend region
A federal court in Texas has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from building a border wall in the Big Bend region.
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Adam Hamilton @hamilton4kansas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Roger Marshall’s false attacks have already been investigated and debunked by reporters across Kansas. This type of mudslinging is exactly what’s wrong with Washington right now. These are the attacks of a desperate, flailing candidate. It’s time to bring decency back to politics.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A plague case has been linked to a lab worker’s death in Siberia. Nearly 200 people are now under observation after the lab worker died from plague. Because apparently “deadly plague at a Russian lab” wasn’t ominous enough. www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/10/02/n...
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Nearly 200 People Under Observation After Irkutsk Lab Worker Dies From Plague - The Moscow Times
Health authorities in Siberia’s Irkutsk region have placed nearly 200 people under medical observation after a laboratory worker died from plague, according to media reports and a statement by a regio...
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Adam Hamilton @hamilton4kansas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Adam is honored to have the endorsement of another Republican Governor, Mike Hayden! Republicans, Democrats and Independents agree: It's time for something different. 🌻
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/10/2026
BREAKING: A while back, I sued DOGE (FOIA) to get Musk's communications. DOJ argued that Musk wasn't a govt employee anymore, BUT Hegseth just hired him again to work on a Pentagon warfare initiative called Project Meridian. So we noticed Judge Boasberg. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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