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Rachel Fairbank @sweetsciencewriter.bsky.social · 7h
“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.” No words. I am speechless. This violates all ethical boundaries.
theguardian.com
Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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Glenn Kirschner @glennkirschner.bsky.social · 7h
Friends, join me on Tuesday, Oct. 13 from 3 to 4:30 pm ET. I'm hosting a phone bank calling Dem voters in Virginia's CD-2, where candidate Elaine Luria is poised to unseat her MAGA opponent. Activate America will train you if it's your first phone bank. Sign up here: www.mobilize.us/activateamer...
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 15h
Happy Filipino American History Month, California! From civil rights icons and entrepreneurs to farmworkers and educators, the Golden State celebrates the generations of Filipino Americans who have helped make our great state what it is today.
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Tom Bonier @tbonier.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
That’s not a misprint - more Latino voters have cast a ballot already than did at the same point in the 2024 presidential election.
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Winnable Democratic Races 💙 @winnabledemraces.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
💙💙💙 RATING CHANGES - Florida & Nebraska 💙 Sabato's Crystal Ball upgraded the FL-25 House race from Toss-Up to Leans D. 💙 They also upgraded the FL-22 House race from Leans R to Toss-Up. 💙 And NE-02, which began 2026 as a Toss-Up, will be practically unreachable by the Republicans.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
PARCL LABS: “.. As of this morning, in these 6 states, over 6% of everything for sale today is originating from home owners underwater on their mortgage. Nationally, this rate is 4.9%. Florida leads at 8.9% Texas: 7.8% Colorado: 7.5% Lousiana: 7.1% Arizona: 6.1% Utah: 6%”
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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.
Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It’s simply unimaginable that CDC Director Dr. Erica Schwartz has just bowed to RFK Jr. and approved funding for an utterly unethical clinical trial that will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine in Guinea Bissau. It is to be conducted by researchers accused of academic misconduct.
rollingstone.com
CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study
“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Leaked audio of Ken Paxton revealing he wants to cut programs like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid: “Making some reasonable cuts to mandatory spending… Suck it up.”
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Kimberly Guilfoyle was preparing for her congressional hearing to become U.S. ambassador to Greece when she reached out to a Trump donor with an urgent request: She needed $100,000 that she said she owed American Express—in a way that wouldn't leave a paper trail.
wsj.com
Exclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Wire $100,000 to Her Amex Account
Text messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Legendary percussion sheet of Steve Foreman, used in Hollywood soundtracks. Original post
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Amendment 87 would tax Coloradans making $500k+ a year. Opponents including Gov Jared Polis (D) are misleadingly claiming it will raise taxes on low-income seniors and vets.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Got political mail? Go to paidforby.info For federal races, you'll immediately get detailed information about who is behind the mail and their donors. And all uploaded mail will be reviewed by an independent journalist. (It also works for ads on TV and YouTube.)
paidforby.info
Who paid for this?
Find out who really paid for political mailers and TV ads.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
(And it isn’t just Meta) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Five-byline alert: 🚨 “.. In the last hours of Kristi Noem’s tenure as the homeland security secretary, her agency delivered a windfall to one of her political donors by buying five airplanes from the man’s firm at a substantial markup ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
wired.com
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Dems now leading GOP on every issue Quinnipiac polled, including the economy, national security, and immigration:
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/09/2026
ANOTHER DHS VOTER FRAUD CLAIM COLLAPSES Trump’s DHS claimed as many as 15,903 noncitizens were on Nevada’s voter rolls. Nevada pushed back and demanded evidence. 15,903 became 185. Nevada checked the 185. The new number: ZERO. Every single one was a US citizen.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026
peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”
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Andy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#FreeSpeech News Hollywood Reporter reporting that YouTube, TikTok and Meta platforms are refusing to take even paid ads for Alex Gibney's documentary which takes a, let's say, sceptical and questioning view of Elon Musk's career, personality and alleged achievements. "Musk" opens on 9 October.
hollywoodreporter.com
The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:
theguardian.com
Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people
Exclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’
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Hal Sparks @halsparks.com · 25/09/2026
The nerve of the people pearl clutching in disbelief at what Trump is doing. We fucking told you. The “its just the Lesser of Two Evils” crowd and the “I didnt vote for this” crowd deserve each other. FFS
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ICE shot Wilber Perez in the back. Now, Wilber can’t move the left side of his body. How does paralyzing a DoorDash driver make anyone more safe?
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Not an exaggeration to say when authoritarian thugs distort scientific research toward their own petty or prejudiced tastes, economies suffer, national security is compromised, people die. Exact proportion of each of those consequences varies from one authoritarian state to another, but all happen
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Isn’t it part of US military doctrine to place critical military installations in traffic circles?
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
finally?????!????
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women
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Devin Nunes' Alt-Mom @nunesalt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is why I only buy local Iowa bananas
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
8 months ago.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17/09/2026
Manchin wants to talk about what Democrats lost? How about what Dems lost because of him? Voting rights. The expanded Child Tax Credit. Paid family leave. Childcare. Major climate provisions. Manchin caused Democrats to walk away from some of the biggest promises they made to voters.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
JUST NOW: A confused, clearly not-there McConnell votes “AYE” after almost voting NO with Dems but getting *corrected* by handlers around him
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
So literally "Allahu akbar," only in English
@60Minutes on X:
Bravo, the U.S. Air Force weapon systems officer who was stranded behind enemy lines in Iran for two days, tells 60 Minutes about the first message he was able to send to the U.S.: “God is good.” cbsn.ws/4gOIzjI
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“SHAME ON YOU!” KANSAS Republican Senator Roger Marshall ripped by the crowd after the news he was suing poor OB-GYN patients and having them arrested after they faced outstanding bills from pregnancies. A broken system. #MedicareForAllNOW
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David Cavlovic🇨🇦🍁 @davidcavlovic.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12/09/2026
I absolutely LOVE this. Christian Bale spent roughly 17 years fighting to make this happen. This week, his foster-care village opened in Palmdale, California: 12 homes built specifically to help keep siblings together when they enter foster care.
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Matthew Remski @matthewremski.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I interview @ajawoods.bsky.social about the history of "cultural marxism", which relabels any struggle—civil rights, feminism, trans rights, climate action—as an elite conspiracy, so its gains can be revoked. www.conspirituality.net/episodes/brief-cultural-marxism-conspiracy-theory-aja-woods
conspirituality.net
Brief: The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy Theory (w/AJA Woods) — Conspirituality
AJA Woods (The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy) joins Matthew to trace how "cultural Marxism" mutated from Nazi "cultural Bolshevism" and the British Union of Fascists' attacks on modernist art, through L...
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thinking about how a girl at Christian summer camp asked me if my dad was in Al Qaeda and I got in trouble for asking if her dad was a Klansman bc “her question was understandable”
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Yuh-Line Niou, who served in the New York State Assembly, was present at the ceremony today and is correcting the misleading narrative surrounding @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social & @aoc.bsky.social many right-wingers are shamelessly using to weaponize the 9/11 event👇🏽
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Patt Morrison @pattmlatimes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
For 25 years, I have saved this drawing by 8-year-old Kevin Wang, and each time I look at it, it makes me cry.
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 11/09/2026
A tribute thousands of miles from New York that gave me CHILLS. New Zealand firefighters performed a haka honoring the 343 FDNY firefighters lost on 9/11. ♥️ #SheShed
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/09/2026
NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.
propublica.org
Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 09/09/2026
BREAKING: The Missouri Supreme Court has ordered Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins to appear in person Thursday and explain why he should not be held in contempt for allegedly violating the court’s injunction blocking Trump-backed congressional maps. 1/
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