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More Perfect University @mpuniversity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@aoc.bsky.social: The best thing that we can do to rein in runaway costs at private institutions is by having tuition free public colleges and universities. “For anyone who wants to say that that’s pie in the sky and unrealistic… this is literally what baby boomers gave themselves.”
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 25/09/2026
The three-page letter written by Sheri Mecklenburg, obtained Friday by the Tribune, accused Boutros’ office of placing her on leave and keeping her in the dark about its responses to the growing controversy, including an announcement that it was investigating all of her previous actions.
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‘Broadview Six’ prosecutor pens fiery resignation letter saying US attorney pushed for felony charges
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John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is quite an achievement. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
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From 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle
It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This seems like a pretty big deal: donors made illegal contributions to Susan Collins and then were awarded lucrative contracts after her office intervened with the Navy. An FBI investigation was dropped under Trump. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
To skirt campaign finance laws and conceal the source of the funds, Navatek planned to funnel the donation through a shell company. The CEO wanted assurance that Collins would know where
the money came from. Reed confirmed that she would, the executive said - and that Navatek would get its government contracts.
After the Corner Bakery meeting, Navatek's CEO, Martin Kao, sent an initial $150,000 to the Collins super PAC using the shell company. Two months later, he told Navatek executives that Collins committed to getting the company $32 million in naval contracts, according to an internal company email reviewed by ProPublica.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
UPDATE: I spoke with a witness to this incident who tells me the man involved was walking to a pharmacy and says he was in the hospital the day before He tells me the man had an abrasion on his right temple, his right eye appeared swollen and he had blood on his shirt as ICE left the scene More 👇
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Victim in ICE stop was walking to pharmacy, witness says - Evanston Now
Agents drove off, leaving the man bloodied on the pavement.
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Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
BREAKING: Evanston police confirm a U.S. citizen was briefly detained by federal agents Sunday morning near Howard and Dodge before being released The man was taken to the hospital for injuries to his head, neck and teeth after agents drove off
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Federal agents detained U.S. citizen Sunday morning - Evanston Now
Police chief says officers responded to a man with injuries to head, neck and teeth on Howard and made contact with agents involved.
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Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Full statement now out by EPD "Officers are conducting a video canvass, preserving available body-worn-camera and in-car video, and collecting photographs and video from witnesses and community members." content.govdelivery.com/accounts/ILE...
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Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Evanston police chief Schenita Stewart tells me that EPD contacted the agents involved, including one who had blood on their hands The agent "told the officer that agents had attempted to identify an individual who resembled a person they were seeking."
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smellytoe @smellytoe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/o...
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Opinion | The G.O.P. Has Gone Off the Deep End (Gift Article)
The Republican fringe is becoming the Republican mainstream.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“The worst place ever I’ve been in my life," Sakariye Abdi Mohamed, a Somali asylum seeker, told me over the phone from Guantanamo Bay last week. Sakariye is one of 7 or 8 Somalis who are being held at Gitmo. They say guards tell them the order to keep Somalis at the facility comes from DC.
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The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo
“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"He is a minor; it's traumatic enough for an adult — for something like this to happen to him is really tough," said the mom of one of the teens. "It was eight hours without hearing from him; they wouldn't give me any information — they behaved very badly."
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‘Justice must be served': Family outraged after viral video shows ICE detaining 17-year-old in Alamo
A mother demands answers after a viral video captured ICE agents detaining her 17-year-old son in Alamo, sparking conflicting accounts between the family and DHS.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026
Update:
Sagadahoc County Sheriff's Office
3 hours ago
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Thank you Woolwich residents and Facebook detectives. The package thief/political campaigner has been identified and charges will be forthcoming
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A must read. A carefully researched report on how the Heritage Foundations promotes networks of truly extremist Christian nationalist schools and seeks public funding for them. civildefenseinstitute.org/features/her...
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How the Heritage Foundation Promotes Christian Nationalist Schooling — Civil Defense
Tracing Heritage and Kevin Roberts’s ties to a growing network of classical Christian schools—and the policies steering public money their way.
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Boycott Citizens @boycottcitizens.org · 17/09/2026
WA residents, if you don't want a company that contracts with DHS to track immigrants down providing interpretation services for crime victims & injured workers, please reach out to @lniwa.bsky.social to ask them not to renew their contract with SOS International (SOSi).
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ICE triples its orders to the private firms hunting immigrants
Three of the firms also hold ICE contracts to check on migrant children. Another holds a third contract to collect fines from people already deported.
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Thomas [DARK MODE], DO @tom.medsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is a different guy than the one who had to quit for assaulting a 15 year old. tiffinohio.net/posts/husted...
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Jon Husted campaign chair quits after guilty plea in case involving 15-year-old
Havas served 90 days in jail after his 2009 case was reduced from sexual misconduct with a minor to misdemeanor assault, records show.
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Western Environmental Law Center @westernlaw.org · 11/09/2026
We're fighting a plan for exactly this in NV for the Townsite Data Center. BLM took a permit for a solar farm & said they could build a data center instead. Townsite would use 21x more water, use 167 MW of electricity instead of generating it, & pave 80% of the land in threatened tortoise habitat. 🌎
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Omg. When you’ve lost Joe DiGenova….
diGenova just told me by phone when I asked about his abrupt exit:
"If you want indictments where there's no evidence, you have an ethical problem"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026
JD Vance: "We were tired of being called racists for noticing that our country was becoming dirtier and poorer"
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Great idea for FOIAs!
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 10/09/2026
Today, we filed a FOIA request with DHS concerning an AI-generated image the @DHSgov X account posted this morning. The image depicts a Transformer facing a South Asian man, over a caption telling "Mr. Singh" to self-deport and get off American roads. We want the prompt.
AI-generated image posted by the DHS account on X, styled as a movie poster. A blue and red robot with the Department of Homeland Security seal on its chest faces a bearded South Asian man in a blue bandana and a monogrammed shirt. A city skyline sits between them at sunset. Text between the two faces reads "SELF-DEPORT OR FIND OUT." Below, in the Transformers logo and typeface, "TRANSFORMERS: AMERICA FOR AMERICANS," and beneath that, "GET OFF OUR ROADS, YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO DRIVE MR. SINGH." A garbled credit block runs along the bottom.First page of a Project Salt Box FOIA request to the DHS Privacy Office, dated September 9, 2026, addressed to the Office of Public Affairs. It seeks records about the use of generative AI to produce public-facing imagery published by DHS, and describes the image posted to the @DHSgov account that morning.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
How is ICE making record arrests? I found the answer in Pa. coal country, where cops lured by a promise of federal $$$ have embraced ICE's 287(g) and are throwing up checkpoints, raiding job sites, arresting 100s, and terrorizing their communities My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/penn...
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In Pa. coal country, local police join with ICE to bring arrests, fear | Will Bunch
Pa.'s Schuylkill County is the new face of Trump's mass deportation, as local cops lured by federal cash bust scores of migrants.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
UPDATE: The 2022 congressional map will be used in the general election for Missouri's congressional elections. The Republican-back HB1 map will not be used. www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-blo...
[UDPATE, 2:40 p.m. ET: Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway confirmed that the 2022 map will be used for the 2026 general election.

// Attorney General Catherine L. Hanaway &
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We affirm Secretary of State of Denny Hoskins's position and decision to advise local election authorities that the 2022 map is in effect. We respect and will continue to comply with all court decisions, including orders issued by the Supreme Court of Missouri.
We appreciate Secretary Hoskins's continued commitment to upholding the law and working diligently to fulfill his duties on behalf of Missouri.
2:07 PM • Sep 10, 2026 • 16.7K Views //
With that, the map question aspect of this matter is settled.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...
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Alex Moody @moodyblx.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Trump Posts Map Suggesting New Mexico Be Renamed as ‘New America’
The suggestion, posted on social media, appeared to be the latest in the president’s efforts to alter geographic names.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 09/09/2026
Another 26 US service members have then been added to the casualty count. Pentagon data puts the total since the war began at 838: 18 killed, 820 wounded. And tonight Iran is still firing ballistic missiles at US bases in Jordan.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/09/2026
Wow -- Lutnick is pressed on his corruption KERNEN: The perception is you're sitting at Commerce & able to control what Cantor is getting in fees w/ your sons running it. It looks like a conflict LUTNICK: It's just not. I'm no longer involved in my own companies & this is just minor stuff anyway
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iTunes Brian 🇨🇦 🇮🇪 🇷🇸 🇺🇦 @itunesbrian.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Although I’ve stopped most of my business dealings with America (as a Canadian), I will still support PBS (Public Broadcasting Service). I watch PBS news & I watch enormous amounts of PBS Programs. PBS viewers are the good Americans, (like family to me). Support PBS.🇨🇦 www.btpm.org/commitment-t...
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Buffalo Toronto Public Media's Commitment to Canada
As a truly binational public media station, Buffalo Toronto Public Media (BTPM) has proudly served the people of Western New York and Southern Ontario for over half a century, providing a community-su...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Same. I come from sharecroppers. At least once a month I say, aloud, “it ain’t picking cotton!” But that doesn’t mean it isn’t absolutely brutal. I wouldn’t change my current life for anything but few can appreciate the toll it took on me. And that was BEFORE the tech $$ added fuel to the fire.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Angie Nixon’s victory didn’t come out of nowhere. It came because Black voters in the South are furious after the Supreme Court killed the Voting Rights Act. In almost every election since, Black voter turnout skyrocketed. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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‘People are p*****’: Black voters energized after Supreme Court guts Voting Rights
The Supreme Court loosened the rules allowing redistricting. Eric Garcia breaks down the numbers and they show that Black voters are protesting with their ballots — and their growing numbers could swi...
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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
After his 35-year-old wife bled to death from a miscarriage in a Houston-area hospital, a Texas father is suing—and taking her story to Capitol Hill. msmagazine.com/2026/08/21/p...
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‘It’s Killing the Women You Represent’: Texas Widower’s Plea to Lawmakers to End Abortion Ban
After his wife Porsha Ngumezi bled to death from a miscarriage in Houston, a Texas father is suing and taking Porsha's story to Capitol Hill.
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Pretty strong WTF here. I noted the sudden retirement of the publisher in my newsletter yesterday -- now, to FIRE someone who is already leaving, PLUS the editor, is quite a thing
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/08/2026
CORRECTION: After looking at the flight data a little closer, there were SIX third-country removals, with an additional stop in Equatorial Guinea -- where migrants already trapped there say officials are beating them and threatening them at gunpoint.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
How many insane things can Trump say in a day for the media to treat it as important as Biden forgetting a name.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Couldn’t make it up if we tried
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: In a letter sent Wednesday to California Secretary of State Shirley Weber, Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff said they have “grave concern” over Shasta Registrar of Voters plan to hire Peters to replace his current assistant in September. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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California senators call for ‘maximum oversight’ over conspiracist Tina Peters’ new election job
In a letter sent to California Secretary of State Shirley Weber, Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff said they have “grave concern” over Shasta Registrar of Voters Clint Curtis’ plan to hire Peters.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 19/08/2026
Glad to see some reporting on this. When I first posted on July 17 about these incidents where an airline worker is asked or tricked into helping ICE, person who told me was too afraid of being identifiable for me to report it out. Bottom line: If you are not a citizen, do not use US air travel rn.
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com
I saw video this week from another major airport of a woman being taken by plainclothes ICE after an airline worker paged them to the ticket counter.
Worker clearly didn't know it was ICE asking them to page and was upset. They follow, asking ICE for a warrant & woman who they can call for her.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This thread in response to David Perry's post of the (horrific) NYer piece on a Nobel laureate/serial child molester brings me back to something I run into all the time: a lack of awareness of how much society has changed over the past several decades.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
One thing I remember and hardly anyone seems to is that there's a sort of sexual revolution interregnum when all sex was good (seen from the adult male perspective, which it mostly was) including sex with children, which was publicly defended. Feminism, mostly, is what changed that.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“I realized I’m in the middle of a pedophile operation that has been run out of the N.I.H. by a Nobel laureate for thirty years.” Aviv has made a lot of choices in how she frames this story, and I'm not criticizing it (I am thinking about it), but burying this in the middle is one.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 19/08/2026
i've not read the article yet, just David's thread (and @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social's follow-up thread) about the article and their thoughts but i said 'what the fuck' aloud many times over because What The Fuck!!!!!
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Personal heuristic: If the lead story on the NY Times website is about the bond market, things are not going well with the economy.
Bond Sell-Off Sends Borrowing Costs to Highest Level Since 2007
Yields on the 30-year U.S. Treasury and government bonds across the world rose to multiyear highs as investors fret about inflation, deficits and A.I. spending.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
As you read this account of state terror & maltreatment of a woman snatched arbitrarily from her husband’s side, consider that hers is one of the better briefer such ICE atrocities daily documented & that her husband wished & enabled this hell on countless others. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/16/u...
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He Was a MAGA Patriot. ICE Took His Wife Away.
The case represents a new front in President Trump’s mass deportation drive: arrests at airports of people who have active immigration cases and no criminal history.
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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
An article on a 3-time Trump voter who voted for the man bc he liked his anti-immigrant agenda, until Trump came for his own wife. He wanted Trump to go after other people's families, not his own family.
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He Was a MAGA Patriot. ICE Took His Wife Away. (Gift Article)
The case represents a new front in President Trump’s mass deportation drive: arrests at airports of people who have active immigration cases and no criminal history.
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Marketplace @marketplace.org · 14/08/2026
For the first time since World War II, the country’s debt is actually larger than the economy itself. Driven by surging federal spending, the government has already borrowed almost $2 trillion in fiscal year 2026 and is on track to borrow even more before the year is over.
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This year's budget deficit has almost reached $2 trillion. It's not over yet.
The U.S. has already surpassed its 2025 budget deficit with about a month and a half left to go in its fiscal year. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the government is on track to borrow m...
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Marshall Shepherd @drshepherd2013.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Here is Greg Diamond’s tweet that I mentioned in my post. You can see the blurry snowflakes in this still image, but it is even more evident in his GIF animation here: x.com/gdimeweather....
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Greg Diamond (@gdimeweather) on X
It's happening. Hurricane Lala is currently producing SNOW on the summit of Mauna Kea
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Marshall Shepherd @drshepherd2013.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Hurricane Lala approaching the Big Island of Hawaii. That sharp line is showing the blockage of the radar beam by volcanic mountains. It's precipitating on the entire island. also hearing reports of snow at higher elevations. Haven't seen that report in my career before. Posted 933 pm eastern.
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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Early Edition: PMC COVlD Update, Week of Aug 17, 2026 (US) 🔥15 states/territories with COVlD outbreaks 🔥Worst in CA, AK, HI, TX, GU 🔥Reporting irregularities in TX 🔥2.2 million estimated infections/week 🔥1 in 144 people estimated infectious Details: See Alt text. 🧵(1/4)
We have posted this report 48 hours early in light of increased transmission.

The US has 15 states/territories with COVlD outbreaks, characterized by one or multiple counties at high to very high levels. The largest waves are in California, Texas, Alaska, Hawai’i, and Guam. Washington, Nevada, Mississippi, Alabama, Kentucky, and Florida are experiencing regional outbreaks. Finally, there are isolated hot spots in north central Utah (Summit/Wasatch), north central Illinois (Boone/DeKalb), central North Carolina (Cabarrus), and northwest Connecticut (Litchfield).

There are major reporting irregularities in Texas. Of the 19 sites online this week, 3 (16%) reported with high/very high levels. Of the 20 Texas sites offline this week that have reported data for last week, 18 (90%) report high/very high levels, with 16 (80%) reporting very high levels. The reason why high and very high sites are disproportionately offline this week is unknown. This creates a major discrepancy between the PMC and CDC maps. If carrying forward last week’s data for the offline sites, the CDC would place Texas in their “high” category, with 21 of 39 sites at high/very high levels (54%), and just below the threshhold for “very high” (17/39, 44%). Houston was previously a leader in wastewater monitoring with 8 sites but has not reported any data the past two updates.
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