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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Loser behavior from a guy who’s clinging like a shriveled old barnacle to a sport he doesn’t actually care about in a desperate bid for relevance. Do not cede one inch to him or anyone who acts this way.
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melissafenton.bsky.social @melissafenton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
That's what he looks like?!?! Startling
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Tyler Parker @tylerparker.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Wrote about Olivia Miles. She rules.
theringer.com
The WNBA Already Belongs to Olivia Miles
The superfly rookie can see the future. Good luck keeping up.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The pointless National Guard deployment in Washington DC until January 2029 will cost approximately $1.4 billion. This amount could have funded the National Endowment for the Arts or the National Endowment for the Humanities for almost 7 years.
civilbeat.org
Guard Deployment To Washington Into 2029 Will Cost Roughly $1.4B
Hawai‘i will bring home its 27 members later this month after the Freedom 250 Grand Prix.
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melissafenton.bsky.social @melissafenton.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The racist trope he just slid right into his analogy! Skillful
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melissafenton.bsky.social @melissafenton.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
What an unhinged and untrue thing to say in a hearing?!?! So shameful. Hope there are some consequences for Moreno in the after times
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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This is why they’re going after Dr Fauci: he impeded grifters
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melissafenton.bsky.social @melissafenton.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
It took me longer than I'd like to admit that Charles the Entertainment Cheese was Chuck E. Cheese 🤦‍♀️
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melissafenton.bsky.social @melissafenton.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I'm sure Claude can distill 4 years of coursework, mentored research, and trial and error learning about my niche topic in 45 minutes accurately...🙄
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Politico @politico.com · 16/07/2026
Trump seemingly has a plan for the nation's election system: Dismantle it with a series of cuts, firings and threats, rather than a sledgehammer. “This is a concerted effort of death by a thousand cuts,” said one Dem county clerk. “Every day is another battle."
politico.com
‘Death by a thousand cuts’: Inside Trump’s remaking of American elections
The president remains laser-focused on an electoral system he claims is rigged — and his administration is uprooting entire chunks of the current structure ahead of the midterms.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
37-year-old lifelong New Yorker here. You know, growing up, I don’t remember being trapped inside by toxic wildfire smoke. Certainly not with this regularity. I have a toddler. I am beyond outraged over the state of the planet he will inherit—a crisis fueled by greedy businessmen and their allies
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
‼️ AHRQ is in the midst of a mass grant termination event. We (at Grant Witness) need your help to launch a tracker ASAP. If you received an AHRQ termination notice--or if you know of someone else who did--please submit information about the grant here: grant-witness.us/submit-nih.h...
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bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
i remember scientists saying 20 years ago that climate change-fueled wildfires would darken and poison the skies hundreds of miles away. but republicans said that was a lie, so now climate change-fueled wildfires darken and poison the skies hundreds of miles away every summer
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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Weird how there’s just always an epidemic disease outbreak with this guy. prospect.org/2026/07/16/h...
prospect.org
How Donald Trump Created the Worst Diarrhea Outbreak This Century - The American Prospect
The ‘MAHA Trots’ are what happens when Republicans implement their anti-government agenda.
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melissafenton.bsky.social @melissafenton.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
That is sick! What the hell is happening?!?
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NPR @npr.org · 13/07/2026
For some electric vehicle batteries, it costs more to recycle them than they're worth. That creates all kinds of problems, which a new Colorado law aims to solve. n.pr/4eXlIS5
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EV battery recycling has an economics problem. Colorado has a solution
For some electric vehicle batteries, it costs more to recycle them than they're worth. That creates all kinds of problems, which a new Colorado law aims to solve.
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Jason M Ernst @jason-m-ernst.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Here’s a crazy idea: if a corporation wants to build a data center, they should also be required to construct renewable resource mechanisms to operate it—not funded by the public, but from the mountains of wealth they already possess.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I wrote about the sad Trump Country Fair thing and the very specific and hilariously shitty vision of America that it expresses. The war on metaphor continues apace. defector.com/dead-country...
defector.com
Dead Country Fair | Defector
Things come out of Donald Trump’s mouth, then just keep on coming out of it. If he says something once, he will say it again, primarily to reinforce how powerfully and unprecedentedly successful he wa...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/06/2026
"I recently had the opportunity to hear Bhattacharya in person during his visit to Purdue University. I expected to endure scientific ignorance, right-wing pandering and claims of victimisation, and I was not disappointed." @davidsanderssci.bsky.social in @timeshighered.bsky.social
timeshighereducation.com
The NIH director’s visit has only deepened my concerns about him
I expected scientific ignorance, right-wing pandering and victimisation claims from Jay Bhattacharya. I was not disappointed, says David Sanders
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 11/06/2026
It’s not really surprising that people are becoming more distrustful and cynical about tech (and everything else) when there’s a constant drumbeat of stories, like this, about a seemingly innocuous game/tool/website harvesting data that is then used for murderous purposes:
dronexl.co
Pokémon Go Scans Quietly Trained The Navigation Tech Now Headed Into Military Drones
Pokémon Go players' 30 billion scans trained navigation tech now bound for military drones, via Niantic Spatial's defense partnership with Vantor.
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melissafenton.bsky.social @melissafenton.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Yikes...so much support for these researchers for not backing down! Kicking the editor of your organizations journal out of a conference for distributing an article critical of Trump published in said journal and then making this statement seems like greasing the wheels of fascism to me.
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melissafenton.bsky.social @melissafenton.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Ah yes the Candy Crush businessman who is also apparently an expert in higher education. These "truth is whatever I want it to be" people need to go away.
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melissafenton.bsky.social @melissafenton.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I like seeing a woman speaking, with the men supporting her! Something I don't think I've ever seen in a Republican press event.
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melissafenton.bsky.social @melissafenton.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
And his name is Waffle 🥺
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melissafenton.bsky.social @melissafenton.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
It indeed did end up on the discovery feed but I think provided an opportunity for solidarity with all of us who are also going through it. So thanks for sharing!
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Can MAGA Survive Without Its Moms? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/23/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | Can MAGA Survive Without Its Moms?
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melissafenton.bsky.social @melissafenton.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
What a man of the people does. So lovely ❤️
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melissafenton.bsky.social @melissafenton.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Racist ghouls
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melissafenton.bsky.social @melissafenton.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Keep cooking ma'am!
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melissafenton.bsky.social @melissafenton.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
It's Tampa.....
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melissafenton.bsky.social @melissafenton.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Why are mass layoffs becoming the new norm @forbes.com? Who is to blame for harming people @forbes.com? Perhaps you could interrogate those questions vs. place the onus on individuals to be "resilient"
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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
whale head. raccoon penis. it's glaringly obvious that rfk jr is assembling some sort of Super Animal... and i fear he may soon acquire flamingo legs
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/04/2026
can’t say what i want to happen to these people for legal reasons
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melissafenton.bsky.social @melissafenton.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
This sounds terrible. Why would anyone listen to an Epstein pal interrupt a woman repeatedly to talk about his buddy Trump? Yuck
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melissafenton.bsky.social @melissafenton.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Looking forward to the @michaelhobbes.bsky.social and @yrfatfriend.bsky.social what the hell is going on with RFK Jr. Part 4 episode (or is it part 3? There's so much to cover!)
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melissafenton.bsky.social @melissafenton.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Jacks of all trades, masters of none.
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
There are real American heroes all around us if we pay attention. techcrunch.com/2026/03/24/k...
techcrunch.com
Kentucky woman rejects $26M offer to turn her farm into a data center | TechCrunch
A "major artificial intelligence company" reportedly offered a Kentucky family $26 million to build a data center on their farm.
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melissafenton.bsky.social @melissafenton.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Listening to the fabulous 2-parter @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social on Bari and am throughly enjoying this
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
President threatens to block all legislation in order to disenfranchise large numbers of married women, others donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-save-a...
donmoynihan.substack.com
The SAVE Act is Christian Nationalism in Action
Gendered Burdens and the Right to Vote
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 04/03/2026
"The most effective consumer boycotts in history share two qualities: they are narrow and they are easy," writes @rutgerbregman.com
theguardian.com
Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman
As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman
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Science Magazine @science.org · 03/03/2026
Many of the scientists Jeffrey Epstein courted were already well-established and well-funded. So why didn’t they all just say no? Science talked with three who did just that. Here’s how Epstein approached them, and why they refused to have anything to do with him. ⬇️ scim.ag/40qbXnv
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Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein
The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/03/2026
New in PN: The irrational strongman we’ve been warned about is here "The fantasy monster that president after president has conjured up is real, and he is squatting orangely over his phone in the bathroom at Mar-A-Lago."
publicnotice.co
The irrational strongman we’ve been warned about is here
His name is Donald J. Trump.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Liver's cheap because there's low demand for it. If everyone started eating it, it would become expensive. And even if everyone loved it, it's only recommended that you eat it once a week, or you risk vitamin A toxicity. Would be nice if the secretary of HEALTH knew that!
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
is life just a series of days where you're tired in the afternoon and wide awake at night, running behind on weekly deadlines, and seeing pants get slim and big and then slim again over the years until you die?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Cartoon by Mike Luckovich.
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melissafenton.bsky.social @melissafenton.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
*Stares longingly*
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melissafenton.bsky.social @melissafenton.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I'm disturbed in ways I didn't think possible by this image
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Mike Slaven @mcslaven.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Very astute: "If America’s university presidents believe that their foremost responsibility is simply to keep their institutions operational ... they are mistaken. Much as lawyers are guardians of the rule of law, presidents and chancellors are stewards of intellectual freedom and democratic norms"
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