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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13/10/2026
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.
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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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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/10/2026
Our reporter mimicked the betting patterns of a problem gambler for 10 weeks, consulting a panel of addiction specialists, recovering gambling addicts and professional sports bettors for advice. Here are five things he learned.
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Our Reporter Spent 10 Weeks Gambling on DraftKings. Here Are 5 Things He Learned.
ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson immersed himself in the world of online sports betting on DraftKings to test the limits of the company’s “responsible gaming” safeguards. Here are five things he learn...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/10/2026
The FAA warned rocket launches could “significantly reduce safety” for airplanes after we reported earlier this year on a SpaceX rocket explosion. Such disruptions will likely become more frequent, as SpaceX is planning up to 76 launches a year.
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Club Med, a Disney Cruise and an Exploding Starship: SpaceX Used Bystander Videos to Track Falling Debris
A heavily redacted report obtained from the FAA by ProPublica reveals that SpaceX used videos from tourists and travelers in the Caribbean to help track falling debris after one of its Starship rocket...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/10/2026
“The day after I lost $1,800 on basketball in one night … an email popped into my inbox. ‘Welcome to the DraftKings VIP Showcase,’ the subject line read. I couldn’t believe it. My night of loss chasing was being rewarded.”
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I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.
Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and…
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13/09/2026
Oneil Cruz walked away from a deadly car crash without being charged and with his baseball career intact. The fixer who helped make the case go away launched a business empire that led to him partnering with Red Sox legend David Ortiz.
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How Oneil Cruz Walked Away From a Deadly Crash With a Fixer's Help
When an accident involving top prospect Oneil Cruz left three dead on a darkened road in the Dominican Republic, secret payoffs helped rescue his career and launched a shadowy business empire.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Anthropic Is building a surveillance system to monitor activists using a “pre-crime” approach that tries to predict incidents before they happen. The extensive monitoring system that the AI company is building is aimed primarily at keeping tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of AI.
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Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect
New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 09/09/2026
Yarra council bans smart glasses from pools, gyms, playgrounds and childcare centres
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Smart glasses banned from Melbourne council's pools, gyms and playgrounds
The City of Yarra has banned glasses with built-in cameras from its leisure centres, playgrounds and childcare centres to protect the community.
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darth2024.bsky.social @darth2024.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It's as annoying to see as when people who while talking on their their phones hold it like they're eating pizza.
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
If the mic is that small, pin it the fuck on. I cannot take this tiny mic holding phase one bit longer. Y'all look ridiculous.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/09/2026
We now know harmful “forever chemicals” are likely in the bodies of most people on Earth. Decades ago, 3M knew that these chemicals had seeped into the public’s blood, but they kept that a secret. One 3M scientist helped reporter Sharon Lerner understand how they kept it quiet for so long:
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How the Planet-Altering Disaster of “Forever Chemicals” Was Kept Secret
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Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
3 MILLION GALLONS — GONE. A waterline leak tied to a DATA CENTER in El Reno reportedly cost residents 3 MILLION gallons of treated water this week. Maybe before we rush to throw up data centers everywhere, we should STUDY what they demand
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Data center leak costs residents more than 3 million gallons of water
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 04/09/2026
We identified the top 100 sprayers of the controversial weedkiller Roundup in California—a state that produces more than three-quarters of the nation’s fruits and nuts and nearly half of its vegetables. Check out our new searchable database to find out who’s at the top of the list. bit.ly/3SqKXDZ
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is what living next door to a 30 megawatt data center sounds like.
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The Rundown @therundowntvo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"Today it’s Lake America, but tomorrow the propaganda coming from south of the border could be both more serious and insidious, and the actions of Google, Apple and other companies show plainly that they will not be on our side." —  @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social
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ANALYSIS: 'Lake America' makes one thing clear: we can’t trust U.S. tech companies | TVO Today
The president’s decree is dumb. Why is anyone going along with it?
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alexjungle.bsky.social @alexjungle.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Data centers are noisy, they take out drinking water and emit tons of EMFs all in the same package. And possibly take out jobs.
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Meta Resistance @metaresistance.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
A $19.2B AI data center planned for Edgecombe County, NC has been pulled after local opposition over water and power strain, one of the largest data center projects yet killed by community pushback.
A $19.2B AI data center planned for Edgecombe County, NC has been pulled after local opposition over water and power strain, one of the largest data center projects yet killed by community pushback.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/08/2026
NEW: We obtained recordings of 160+ emergency calls made from or about an immigration detention center where three people died within six weeks. “They will not give them medical treatment,” one caller said, seeking help for a detainee with kidney stones.
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Listen to 911 Calls From Inside an Immigration Detention Center: “We Just Need to Take Him to the Hospital”
Reporters don’t have access to Camp East Montana, one of the largest immigration detention centers in the country. Emergency calls from the Texas facility offer a glimpse of unfolding crises faced by ...
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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 27/08/2026
You can just ban socially toxic technologies! They were socially banned like twelve years ago with Google Glasses, we can do it again in more formal ways with this latest attempt to push the Pervert's Delight™ onto society. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
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Push for import ban on 'pervert' smart glasses amid privacy concerns
Support is growing for a ban on the import of so-called “smart glasses”, amid an influx of low-cost devices that are being used to film Australians without their consent.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
A year ago, just 42% of Americans opposed a data center being built in their community. Today, a staggering 75% do. Are data centers really that bad? Let’s take a look.
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haversack @hsack121.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Imagine that, making people happy increases their productivity?! Microsoft Japan's 4-day work week boosted productivity by 40 percent mashable.com/article/micr...
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Microsoft Japan's 4-day work week boosted productivity by 40 percent
Ditch Fridays, and also long, stupid meetings.
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Whether it is Meta AI glasses used to harass & covertly film women, Apple AirTags used to track women, Meta algorithms that push sexist ads, Grok AI tools that nudify women's images, tech companies create harassment by design instead of privacy by design. www.irishtimes.com/technology/2...
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Women continue to bear the brunt of bad tech decisions
Meta’s smart glasses are just the latest example of technology being used in ways developers should have anticipated
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Djs @djszumylo.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
No lies detected.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 12/08/2026
“HateAid claims that Meta's smart glasses breach German privacy laws: specifically, the Telecommunications, Digital Services and Data Protection Act. It argues that selling the devices is a criminal offense because of their covert recording capabilities.”
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German nonprofit files criminal complaint over Meta smart glasses privacy - Engadget
Worrying about Google Glassholes almost feels quaint in comparison.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 11/08/2026
Earlier this summer, Amazon customers began noticing that emails related to their online orders looked sparse: Order confirmation emails didn’t name specific items anymore, and instead listed only item categories. AI is likely partially to blame. Read more from @miasato.bsky.social:
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Why your Amazon order confirmation emails have become so unhelpful
Why you’re getting emails about “Your Beauty and Electronics items”
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🦋 B34RS GYRL 💙 @b34rsgirl.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
And yes, this really happened. Trump as the POTUS went from pathetic to down right scary at this point. Those who support him must think life is a joke. The United States is likely most vulnerable it's been in over 150 years.
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John Dalton - brain marinated in woke sauce. They/them @johndaledalton.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Italy could be the next country to build a solar railway after Switzerland’s successful trial www.euronews.com/2026/07/05/i... #wato
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Switzerland’s solar railway has been a success. What happens next?
Solar railways could soon become commonplace in Europe, following a successful trial in Switzerland.
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I can't come up with one positive reason for these data centers to even exist.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 07/08/2026
January 2026: SoftBank donates $50 MILLION to Trump's library. March 2026: Trump announces a huge land deal for SoftBank's data center in Ohio. SoftBank is building what could be the LARGEST data center in America. More Trump corruption as costs increase for you.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/08/2026
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work. Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world. (Published May 2024)
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Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...
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💙💙💙💙💙Karactekus💙💙💙💙💙Never Forget The Milk Carton Kids @karacktekus.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
No one wealthy is going to buy a house next to a noisy migraine headache inducing data center. And those 70 to 100 jobs are gone after its complete
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migas7.bsky.social @migas7.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Interesting take about uses for data centers. Not benign.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/07/2026
Most plastic items are too small for recyclers to bother sorting and processing, or they're assembled in such a way that it's less expensive to just make new plastic. In fact, only 5% of Americans’ plastic finds new life. (Published Aug. 2024)
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When Is “Recyclable” Not Really Recyclable? When the Plastics Industry Gets to Define What the Word Means.
Companies whose futures depend on plastic production are trying to persuade the federal government to allow them to put the label “recyclable” on plastic shopping bags and other items virtually guaran...
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GroovyShelly @groovyshelly.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
It's neither safe nor benign. www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/99e9f9d...
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Rogue OpenAI bot escaped lab and hacked rival
‘Unprecedented’ incident will revive concerns new tools could be repurposed for unstoppable cyber attacks
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/07/2026
THREAD: The boy is called a liar. He’s told not to defend himself. Then the private school owner encourages all of his peers to attack him, one by one. She hits him, repeatedly, with a plastic pipe-like object. How does this school still exist — and receive state funds? 🧵
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Canadian Loyalist 🇨🇦 @shakespearesgal.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Yup … technology is not all it’s cracked up to be … #cdnpoli
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Melayna @melaynalokosky.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
They keep getting harassed in their Cybertruck & want to sell it? Good job everyone!
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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
‘…we need to achieve a minimum of 40% street tree canopy cover, and preferably more, before we start to really feel the benefits of nature’s most advanced air-conditioning technology.’ Me, for Big Issue, on tackling urban #heatwaves…👇 www.bigissue.com/opinion/heat...
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Alex Pagliuca @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
"We are deploying responsibly
developed Al to liberate humanity from menial labor and usher in an era of unparalleled creativity and abundance."
SAM ALTMAN

"You ingested the entire written output of human civilization without consent, without compensation, and without credit, to build a system whose primary commercial application is eliminating the jobs of the people whose work you consumed.
You are not liberating human creativity - you are strip-mining it and selling it back at a markup while calling the theft training data."
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
"The system has 120kms (75-miles) of underground pipes distributing chilled water to museums, offices, hospitals, schools...Instead of thousands of individual air-conditioning units, cooling is produced centrally and shared across the city like a utility." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Kind of miracle solution’: How Paris is harnessing the Seine to replace air-con
City plans to triple system of underground pipes that distribute chilled river water, reducing need for individual cooling units
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James Hughes @dystopian-fashion.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
A massive Georgia data center drained nearly 30 million gallons of water, sparking outrage among local residents asked to conserve water during a drought. Residents of Fayetteville, Georgia, first noticed something was wrong when their home water pressure mysteriously plummeted.
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Nita Cosby @5-2blue.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Could Trump get anymore tacky? I know, it's a rhetorical question. I can't wait until this tacky Tumu shit comes down.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/06/2026
Tierra Walker knew that abortion was illegal in Texas, but she thought that hospitals could make an exception for patients like her, whose health was clearly on the line. At 20 weeks pregnant, she died of preeclampsia. (Published January)
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Women With High-Risk Pregnancies Have Limited Options Under Abortion Bans
Our reporting has found that abortion bans generally don’t include exceptions that cover health concerns pregnant women with chronic conditions can face — or if they do, doctors aren’t using them.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/06/2026
Under RFK Jr., the federal government is taking aim at not just fluoridated water but also fluoride supplements. The FDA announced efforts to restrict the sale of certain fluoride products to children and issued a warning about their risks to health care professionals. (Published January)
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After Sowing Distrust in Fluoridated Water, Kennedy and Skeptics Turn to Obstructing Other Fluoride Sources
Florida and Utah have banned fluoridation, with multiple other states looking to do the same. Critics of fluoride in drinking water point to supplements as an alternative, but many are creating barrie...
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Shocking. www.politico.eu/article/euro...
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Europe must choose between AI and climate goals, data center lobby says
Tech sector says only carbon-emitting gas plants are reliable enough today to power the EU’s AI goals.
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Catherine 🕊️🇪🇺💚 @demcath.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Fresh water is the new oil apparently. Coming from Bill Gates ,this is disgusting. How can they say that ? What gives them the right to monopolize water and our food and then make money from that ? This is greed in its ugly glory! It's dystopian and immoral. Share widely.
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Owners and operators of ~400 newspapers are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for scraping their content to build products like ChatGPT and Copilot without permission or compensation. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigat...
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OpenAI, Microsoft Sued by Publishers for Scraping Articles (1)
Publishers that collectively own and operate nearly 400 newspapers are suing OpenAI Inc. and Microsoft Corp. for scraping their content to build products like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot without permission or compensation.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/06/2026
Internal documents and former company executives revealed how Cigna doctors rejected patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said. (Published March 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)
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How Cigna Saves Millions by Having Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading Them
Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors reject patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/06/2026
The breast cancer center appealed thousands of Blue Cross reimbursements for being too low. At trial, the insurer revealed that it had never considered any of the appeals — and that they were pointless: “An appeal is not available to review an underpayment.” (Published April 2025)
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“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over Doctors
Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.
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