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Simmering Rage

@musicislife.bsky.social
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Xennial/musician/therapist/veteran/teacher. As many interests and proclivities as my neurospicy brain can manage. Just trying to make it while watching history repeat itself. Go birds!

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026
People are discussing how Halloween candy is so terrible these days. A reminder that alot of the candy we eat is made with women’s prison labor. Russell Stover’s factory in Kansas busses in 150 women a day via a convict leasing program to staff their candy factory.
Russell Stover has begun using prison labor to make candy in
Kansas
A Russell Stover candy factory in Kansas has begun hiring incarcerated workers through a work release program, Eoin Higgins reports in his newsletter, The Flashpoint. About 150 women are bussed in from the Topeka Correctional Facility and paid $14 an hour, but the prison keeps some of their wages for room and board, taxes, transportation, and other expenses. When all is said and done, they take home less than $6 per hour. These deductions are high, but elsewhere in the country, they're even higher: In our May series on prison
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
🧵🧵🧵 I was going to write a simple sentence about the madness of the moment, but I got distracted by the U.S. president’s complaint that he was screwed out of the Nobel Peace Prize after bombing multiple countries, and then he bolstered his case with a plan to execute a guy in a wheelchair and ...
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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Very dystopian that on the article about a A.I. data center poisoning the air, there's a little rainbow A.I. chatbot button just lurking at the edge, waiting to poison the air some more to answer your banal question
The article below with a rainbow tab on the side which initiates a chat bot 
Text: 
Gadget Revieu_

HOME Y

EMERGING TECH / AI

Virginia Data Center Ran
Diesel Generators for 24
Hours. Residents Fled Their

Homes

+

Sterling residents had no legal recourse as
189 of Virginia's 197 data-center air permits
allow emergency diesel runs without public

review
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Really important point about the political economy of media in the Trump era.
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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Using antitrust laws to go after worker collective action. We really are back to the early 1900s
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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
sooo, you should take this and be as shocked as i am. i inputted the most destructive answers and could still open a school in VA + 8 other states. and i’d still get taxpayer money.
projects.propublica.org
Quiz: Where Could You Open a Private School? — ProPublica
Private school requirements vary wildly across states. Take our quiz to find out just how easy starting one can be.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Why is 🇺🇸 media not reporting on this 128 day Albanian protest of Kushner and Ivanka’s insane corruption?
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Simmering Rage @musicislife.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Incredible
As troops arrived at the Marine Corps History Center an hour before the speech, a 144-page “War Department field manual” was on tables to grab. The book included four of Hegseth’s speeches, including last year’s Quantico address. Trump wrote a foreword that said, “I will not ask you to fight dumb wars.”
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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
trib.al
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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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A Walla Walla, WA newspaper editor in 1951 advocated rooting out the Marxists and Communists, claiming that the Democratic president had been too attentive to the rights of minorities and insufficiently respectful of the rights of White Christians. That editor was Syd Pierce, an antisemitic fascist.
given our country over into the hands of MINORITIES, without regard to the rights of the majority White Christian Constitutional Americans. Mr. Truman has con-doned, rather than condemned, racketeering and corruption in high places. He has NEVER made any real attempt to ROOT OUT
Marxist-communists
from govern-
ment.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If we had actual journalists in this country, this would have been reported as a story.
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 22/09/2026
The Oligarch who funded Don Jr.'s wedding is deeply linked to Russia's mass kidnapping of Ukrainian children.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
White House readies next major attack on United States www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/s...
nytimes.com
White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants
Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 20/09/2026
As we've been saying since April... theintercept.com/2026/04/01/i...
theintercept.com
“Casualty Cover-Up”: The Pentagon Is Hiding U.S. Losses Under Trump in the Middle East
The Pentagon has sent outdated statements on the number of U.S. troops killed or wounded during the Iran War, resulting in undercounts.
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.
Nichole Hiltz
The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

@treewarrior.bsky....
maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
No shit, 100% agree here.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Imagine a job where, faced with a difficult decision, you could just stop going to work www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
nbcnews.com
House to leave early, punting Hegseth impeachment vote until after November elections
House Republican leaders cancelled votes planned for Thursday. Members won’t return to Washington until Nov. 9.
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Dan Friedman @dfriedman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“There’s no other nation, only Somali people in Guantanamo Bay, in the prison,” he told me. “And when we ask them why we are here, they tell us…Washington…ordered to keep Somali people in the Guantanamo Bay.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo
“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16/09/2026
The lawsuit challenges the NIH's current policy of using keywords to flag grant applications associated with climate change, DEI, gender, misinformation research, and vaccine hesitancy, keywords that have been used to terminate my own funding as well. Below: just a few of the banned words.
Excerpt from NIH's banned words list. More banned words
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
“Intersex” is the “I” in LGBTQIA. Learned a lot, watching this.
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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Criselda Vasquez, American, The New American Gothic, 2017, oil on canvas, 72 x 48 in, private collection The artist's father, portrayed in the painting, was kidnapped by ICE on 31 March 2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/09/2026
"Marshall, a Republican seeking re-election this fall, filed lawsuits against more than 700 patients with outstanding bills ... Marshall's lawyers garnished patients’ paychecks and bank accounts. They routinely charged patients an 18% annual interest rate."
nytimes.com
Roger Marshall Sued 700 Patients for Debts; 81 Were Arrested. Now He’s a Senator. (Gift Article)
Patients sued by Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas were routinely charged 18 percent interest, The Times found. Some had bank accounts garnished.
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🚨 NEW: ICE Plans to Pay $5 Million to Create National Voting Database: As part of a broader DHS surge to investigate alleged voter fraud, ICE has announced it plans to pay up to $5 million to create what amounts to a federal voter database. @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-pl...
wired.com
ICE Plans to Pay $5 Million to Create National Voting Database
As part of a broader DHS surge to investigate alleged voter fraud, ICE has announced it plans to pay up to $5 million to create what amounts to a federal voter database.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Attention Philadelphia! We're hosting a rally to demand that Drexel University maintain The Academy of Natural Sciences Museum open to the public. Join us on Tuesday morning at 10am in front of the academy. Please spread the word, we need all hands on deck! RSVP here: luma.com/1qwnrqz2
A dinosaur on a white background with the text SAve the academy of Natural sciences museum rally Tuesday Sept 8 10am in front of the academy 1900 ben Franklin Parkway. "Tell Drexel University "Keep the museum open!" with the logos for Philly Science Action, Skype a Scientist, and Green Philly
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I’m livid. zeteo.com/p/trump-spri...
zeteo.com
Inside Trump’s Nightmare for Haitians in Springfield: ‘We’re Following Our Orders’
The most urgent moral test in all of Trump’s America today is happening in a small Ohio city – and we as a country are failing it miserably.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
ysph.yale.edu
Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/09/2026
Among the first agencies President Donald Trump gutted after taking office for his second term was a Department of Homeland Security team that had repeatedly disproved his stolen election claims.
propublica.org
8 Things You Should Know About Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections
From dismantling guardrails that upheld the integrity of past elections to gutting federal agencies and installing allies who supported Trump’s claim that the 2020 vote was stolen, here are the key ta...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Best in the original German: Befehl ist Befehl.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Just when you think you couldn’t love David Byrne more he goes to the Hollywood Bowl playing "Life During Wartime" projecting ICE raids 🔥
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Darline Graham said that because her own parents died when she was a kid, people today shouldn't expect "government health care." So I dug up the real story of the death of Darline/Lindsey's parents. It makes a strong case FOR government health care. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2148...
newrepublic.com
What Darline Graham’s Ugly, Viral Outburst About Death Really Reveals
The senator’s parents died when she was a kid. That’s tragic. But it’s also tragic that she’s against the kind of care that could help untold numbers of people avoid that fate today.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
After FDR cleaned up the mess created by Calvin Coolidge and blamed on Herbert Hoover, Democrats spent decades reminding voters what the two parties had done. In recent generations, that basic act of politicking has been deemed impolite by Democratic leaders. That needs to end.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
"The Trump administration has been deploying an obscure legal maneuver to try to obtain private information on journalists, non-profits and unions, raising alarm over a power the government has asserted without judicial oversight."
theguardian.com
Trump’s DHS is using an obscure law to secretly snoop on journalists, non-profits and unions: ‘It’s outrageous’
Even after judges rejected the same ploy, the Trump administration is going directly to social media and telecommunications companies
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Kacey325 @kacey325.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This is a horror and criminal and not enough people are talking about what they're doing to Haitians and US kids of Haitian descent.
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Several children, including a one-year-old child born in the United States, were among the latest batch of Haitians deported from the United States on Thursday to the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country.


Haitian authorities confirmed that the child arrived on the ICE Air Global X charter flight A6196, carrying 57 Haitians, including several other children born in the United States, when the second flight in a week landed in Cap-Haïtien.

https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/world-news/20260829/america-born-children-among-haitians-deported-united-states
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 29/08/2026
Hegseth’s entire plan to modernize the military was basically carried out to get rid of “woke,” to purge anyone who didn’t meet his Christian warrior image, and to sunset rules of engagement that might prevent the killing of civilians. trib.al/LvdNDrH
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
It's a complex message to convey and designed to be that way. So what can EVERY DEM say instead, instead of attacking Twitch streamers they've never even watched: THE WORST OF WHAT DONALD TRUMP IS DOING HAS NOT EVEN BEGUN TO BE FELT YET
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Whit EM @whittyrem.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is literally always in the back of my mind
A meme of two teens writing. The woman is labeled Dolly Parton and underneath it says 9 to 5. The man is looking at her work. He is labeled Karl Marx and underneath it says the communist manifesto
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jentrification ♎ @jentrification.com · 25/08/2026
he has a free text line, ijs 1-888-311-1846
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
This is where we are: a tech billionaire who, as an undergrad writing in the Stanford Review, "blasted a student movement to raise custodians' pay, warning it 'destroys incentive for them to improve themselves,'" is now a chief architect of a homelessness policy built around punishment and coercion.
nytimes.com
How the Billionaire Joe Lonsdale Shaped Trump’s Homelessness Policy (Gift Article)
As Republicans have embraced tough measures to clear the streets, no group has led the way more than the Cicero Institute, founded by the venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale.
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Alan Regenberg @aregenberg.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Slavery linked to mortality gap between Black and white Americans today. New study is among the first to quantify and explain slavery’s influence in contemporary U.S. health disparities. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
science.org
Slavery linked to mortality gap between Black and white Americans today
New study is among the first to quantify and explain slavery’s influence in contemporary U.S. health disparities
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Body cameras, lol they’re following themselves with film crew and putting it to fucking Beastie Boys music Body cameras without civilian oversight and control of the footage is a fig leaf
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I wrote about competing visions and lacks-of-vision, and the fault lines between our competing and overlapping stories of Us. Seeking radical vision at a time when people increasingly seek radical remedy. Coherent and incoherent politics. The doctor is in. www.the-reframe.com/story-of-us/
the-reframe.com
Story of Us
People increasingly want radical remedy, and need a radical vision. Pearls before swine, and disrupting the dominant scripts.
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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Anyway, if you or someone you know is a currently serving sailor or Marine deployed aboard a ship and dealing with poor conditions, @taskandpurpose.com wants to hear from you. taskandpurpose.com/news/navy-ab...
taskandpurpose.com
Navy to swap USS Abraham Lincoln for George Washington in the Middle East
The US military reportedly plans to send the aircraft carrier USS George Washington to the Middle East to replace the USS Abraham Lincoln.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
There is a certain type of bad guy whose main contribution is sowing confusion between good and bad by failing to understand things that are easily understood.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Are we comfortably numb with police violence? The brutal cop killing of Corey Ruiz in Madison, Wisc. sparked local protest but only muted outrage on the national level. Despite falling crime, cops gun down more Americans than ever Where's the outrage? My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/core...
inquirer.com
Corey Ruiz police killing reveals an America numb to violence | Will Bunch
Police killings like the death of Madison’s Corey Ruiz, caught on gruesome video, are rising, but public outrage is not.
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026
"This is more than just a niche issue for astronomers. This is an issue that's going to affect the quality of life for everybody on Earth." www.space.com/space-exploration/sat…
space.com
Private companies could ruin the night sky for the entire world, and international law can't stop them
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) can single-handedly approve space projects that will change the night sky around the world. The international community can do very little against it.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Everyone coming on my feed and explaining to me that all is lost, I note what I have noted before, that there are no Negro Spirituals entitled, “Welp, I Guess It All Sucks and I Am Giving Up.”
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 24/07/2026
This take seems to come out every two months or so and I honestly don't get it. If the most right-leaning Dem ran for office, MAGA would still call them "communist." They always do. The actual policies don't matter. Run people who believe in building a better world and who connect with voters.
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