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NPR @npr.org · 16h
Jaimie Bethea, a 21-year-old mass communication specialist, had been deployed on the USS Fort Lauderdale for more than 11 months. She died by suicide in June. n.pr/4ymLaYr
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A young sailor died by suicide. Her family blames health care gaps and long deployment
Jaimie Bethea, a 21-year-old mass communication specialist, had been deployed on the USS Fort Lauderdale for more than 11 months. She died by suicide in June.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 1h
The ancient world was a far more interconnected place than is commonly recognised. Nearly 2,000 years ago, a sailor named Diogenes travelled 25 days inland from the coast of Tanzania to reach the source of the Nile near the “Mountains of the Moon” www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/ancient-ex...
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Ancient Expeditions to Central Africa and the Circumnavigation of the Continent
The ancient world was a far more interconnected place than is commonly recognised.
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Climate Watcher @pmagn.bsky.social · 3h
Climate change target of 2C is ‘dead’, says renowned Hansen www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Climate change target of 2C is ‘dead’, says renowned climate scientist
Prof James Hansen says pace of global heating has been significantly underestimated, though other scientists disagree
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2h
Fossil fuel interests have long weaponized philanthropy to exert control over academic programs, a new paper argues.
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How corporate influencers facilitated Trump’s assault on climate research
Fossil fuel interests have long weaponized philanthropy to exert control over academic programs, a new paper argues.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6h
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 10h
Dude screwed up so badly, he is getting murdered on the other site.
Screenshot of an X post by Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt), timestamped 6:54 PM on Sep 29, 2026. The post reads: “Who knew Jack Smith was a Caitlin Clark fan?” Below it, a Readers proposed context note says: “Still gathering ratings” and “Eric Schmitt accused Jack Smith of perjury during his congressional testimony because Eric did not know the difference between the Hawks and Hawkeyes,” followed by a truncated NBC News link.
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 10h
The Financial Times corroborated and expanded upon reporting by The Wall Street Journal regarding statements made by U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle concerning the collapse of Romania's government. www.ft.com/content/7af7...
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Donald Trump’s ambassador to Greece causes stir in Romania
Kimberly Guilfoyle told embassy dinner in Athens ‘we can do that to any country’, in reference to Romanian government’s fall
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Edward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social · 10h
ladies and gentlemen, Super Intelligence!
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 10h
The Trump administration used federal funds from U.S. Customs and Border Protection to fund pro-Trump TV ads that began airing last week—WSJ
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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 10h
Trump signed as President of the Unites [sic] States.
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 10h
Saw this two days ago and didn’t know the context. But yup.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 10h
Sen. Eric Schmitt was so overzealous to try and get Jack Smith, a good and honest man who has done great work, that Schmitt embarrassed himself by accusing Smith of going to the wrong basketball game. You can't make this stuff up. And right wing media will pretend it never happened.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h
“Well, you see, I have to stay on the White Supremacist Child Porn Rape Victim Doxxing site because that’s where my community is”
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 11h
Amy Klobuchar on that moment with Eric Schmitt: “You know, the minute I heard when they said Hawks and when Jack Smith said I never was out in Atlanta game, when you're from the Midwest, the Hawks also mean the Hawkeyes.”
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 10h
Getting ratioed on Musk’s site as a hard-right senator takes some real skill
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Who knew Jack Smith was a Caitlin Clark fan?
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 10h
they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 17h
Klobuchar: “For a US senator to have false information and imply, based on a confusion about the name of a team … and imply that you were in another city, that you were somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia, and then call you a dirtbag, is something that deserves an apology.”
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 10h
The red faced spinning out at the end was the cherry on top
Senator Eric Schmitt has an angry red face after embarrassing himself at a hearing
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 29/09/2026
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI canceled the planned launch of a new artificial intelligence model after it was found to take actions beyond the instructions it received and not accurately communicate to human users what it did.
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OpenAI cancels new AI launch, citing safety issues
The cancellation of the new release comes days after OpenAI said it stopped training powerful new AI after safety incidents.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🇺🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱 Israeli settlers raided the home of 78-year-old Palestinian-American Mustafa Zaatar in the West Bank village of Abu Falah, setting three of his cars on fire and trying to break in while he and his wife were inside. He watched the attack on security cameras as neighbors confronted the
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 29/09/2026
For years we've heard that Biden created a "Ministry of Truth," which didn't actually happen. But, I still hear people talking about it. But then Trump directed his FCC boss to be a literal Minister of Truth and the story disappeared within a day or two. What are we even doing here?
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Kyle Kulinski: “All Republicans, once they get power, they’re all the fucking same. They wage multiple illegal wars of aggression against countries that didn’t attack us so they are the terrorists, they do terrorism. Cutting pediatric cancer research, cutting Meals on Wheels, cutting taxes
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 27/09/2026
Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/kQdKbY1
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Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees
Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 25/09/2026
This week the Trump administration ran a 30-second campaign spot on Fox News and Newsmax, labeled "Paid for by the U.S. Government." This kind of propaganda using taxpayer dollars is unacceptable and very likely illegal.
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Administration's pro-Trump TV ad is taxpayer-funded
The Trump administration is running a pro-Trump ad on cable news featuring Trump boasting about his record and vowing the US "will never be a communist country."
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A scathing court ruling decrying the overcrowded and "inhumane" conditions at NYC's notorious ICE detention facility included diagrams that are eerily reminiscent of slave ships. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/federal...
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I think something to consider here is that Collins voted to confirm Russ Vought as OMB Director despite the fact that he said a billion times that he thought Trump had a constitutional right to illegally impound funds, and now she’s doing shocked Pikachu reactions.
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Without warning or consultation, Congress just received an $810 million package of pocket rescissions from the Administration. This is the most recent attempt by this Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to undermine Congress's Constitutional power of the purse.
This move shows that OMB intentionally withheld these funds for months to execute this unlawful cancellation of appropriations that were approved on a bipartisan basis and signed into law.Not only is the delay itself an impoundment that was not reported to Congress, but also it is a usurpation of Congress's appropriations powers.
OMB is an agency of the executive branch. It does not get to decide which programs are worth funding.
The independent Government Accountability Office has concluded that pocket rescissions are unlawful and not permitted by the Impoundment Control Act. Any effort to rescind appropriated funds without congressional approval is a clear violation of the law.
I will work with my colleagues to address these illegal actions.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Susan Collins is always horrified by the predictable results of her own vote, which means Mainers who genuinely care about Susan Collins should elect Troy Jackson as he won’t vote for things that wind up upsetting Susan Collins, unlike Susan Collins
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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
"Shah Alam, 56, did not speak English. He was lost. He could not see. Border Patrol didn't contact his family or lawyer. They left him on the streets of Buffalo, where he died five days later."
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Nurul Amin Shah Alam, Blind Rohingya refugee dumped by CBP, dies in cold
"They just left him."
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026
A MORATORIUM ON DATA CENTERS SHOULDN’T EVEN BE IN QUESTION AT THIS POINT And we definitely need more reporting on this issue: HEAT Data centers devour electricity and water, dump heat into communities, and Big Tech is building them faster than lawmakers are dealing with the consequences.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 25/09/2026
Really enjoyed reading Greg Cook, a Trump nominee to a district court in Alabama, spend roughly 50 pages explaining that the time he said that "ANY REPUBLICAN IS BETTER THAN ANY DEMOCRAT" does not in any way suggest that he might be biased in favor of Republicans
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Trump Judicial Nominee: For Ethical Reasons, I Cannot Discuss the Time I Called Biden a “Great National Nightmare”
Lots of judges are Republicans. Not all of them are this loud about it.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/09/2026
Sen. Tommy Tuberville's "furry" obsession got even more embarrassing once the community note arrived.
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Tuberville’s Furry Pilot Panic Gets Community Noted
Fact check calls out gubernatorial candidate’s tall tale.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trump and Rubio are inviting Vladimir Putin to the G20 Summit in December which is being held at Trump’s Doral Golf Course. I think we all know why he’s having it there and it’s for the money he will make from it. This is a spit in the face to all of our other allies. Disgusting.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A video Netanyahu doesn't want you to see. "If you're Jewish or non-Jewish, please, let the world know: Jews all over the world are not responsible for the actions of the Zionist State of Israel! Israel doesn't represent the Jewish people!" - Rabbi Yakoov Shapiro in Jerusalem.
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Alex Karp got marching orders to be against Anthropic and did too much coke and is confused I think
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Alex Karp of Palantir says the AI industry must be nationalized to protect it from lawsuits if it accidentally destroys the world. More likely, he sees the bubble about to burst and he wants to be bought out with our tax dollars before that happens.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 22/09/2026
They even made DoorDash apologize.
DoorDash on Instagram: We messed up.
Our mistakes meant some NYC Dashers were underpaid or paid late. That's unacceptable, and we're deeply sorry to the Dashers we let down.
We've reached a settlement with the City of New York, and we will make this right by paying every impacted Dasher the amounts they are owed.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
To me, this feels like an extension of DOGE. Big claims about fraud, using data-matching to drop people from coverage. Without actual data, or investigation, it is impossible to refute the claims, but such transparency is unlikely to be forthcoming.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"When Trump there’s something wrong with a country that allows [media criticism of him], he’s really saying there’s something wrong with America. That’s the central feature of the whole thing: The government answers to us." @kristyparker.bsky.social nails it here: newrepublic.com/article/2156...
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I was deputy M.E. at the WSJ when Murdoch took over, with a similar “editorial independence board.” Within 4 months, our top editor was gone, replaced by a loyal Murdoch deputy. That board raised a quivering objection, but the deed was done. If the Ellisons own CNN, they’ll do whatever they want.
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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"It was not a rogue system exercising some terrifying new form of agency that almost led us to war with China, but the outsourcing of human thought and labor to a machine that lacks human competence and discernment."
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A free society cannot allow the government to disappear people in order to cutoff access to legal remedies.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
".. The settlement, which is expected to be announced later today, paves the way for one of the largest mergers in Hollywood history." @bloomberg.com $PSKY $WBD www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Paramount to Settle Lawsuits, Paving Way for Warner Bros. Merger
Paramount Skydance Corp. has reached a settlement with California and other states suing to block its proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., according to a person familiar with the matte...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"After speaking with the Saudi crown prince, Trump reversed himself and told the Pentagon to prepare for airstrikes against the Houthis. But by midday Sunday, the president appeared to have reversed himself again..." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...
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Trump Gets Caught in a Dilemma Over a Saudi Plea for Military Help
The president vacillated but decided on Sunday not to join Saudi Arabia, for now, in joint strikes against the Houthis in Yemen. But he also needs the kingdom’s cooperation in his war against Iran.
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Bangor Daily News @bangordailynews.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"We don’t need slogans about affordability. We need someone who understands the mechanics of actually making Maine more affordable." www.bangordailynews.com/2026/09/21/o...
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Opinion: Hannah Pingree is the governor Maine needs
"The next governor is going to inherit some extraordinarily difficult problems."
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The worst part of Bonta caving on the Paramount merger is that it's a big flashing signal to every other company that there is no antitrust enforcement in America and you can bully your way into getting whatever you want. It's a monumentally bad decision.
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I have been turning this quote over and over in my head and still can't quite wrap my head around the idea
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 21/09/2026
Holy smokes they actually did it www.cnbc.com/2026/09/21/t...
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White House TV press pool won't cover Trump after CNN ban
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The timeline behind the president’s Friday tantrum has been revealed.
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Natalie Harp’s Role in Trump’s Media Meltdown Is Leaked
The timeline behind the president’s Friday tantrum has been revealed.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026
congratulations to everyone on reinventing Worse Cable
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