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Former media & politics Web editor—the late Cursor, 1997 to 2008. Worked @ Utne Reader before that. I was jolted out of retirement in early 2026 when ICE invaded and occupied my state of Minnesota. And still hangin’ around, for—One Outrage After Another.

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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 19h
—————————- ”…DHS has stopped offering tracking services for anyone arrested and detained with an outstanding removal order, priming detainees to be quickly removed to third countries without ever having spoken to an attorney or even their families.” AP broke the story: tinyurl.com/mvnbnkbv
slate.com
Trump Found a New Horrifying Way to Disappear ICE Detainees
President Trump and deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller have transformed America’s immigration system into an astonishingly cruel deportation machine.
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 20h
Supreme Court Says Trump Can Keep Deporting People to Random Places newrepublic.com/post/215995/... Like: “EL PAÍS spoke with a dozen migrants from Cuba, Honduras, Brazil and Colombia who were sent by the US to Africa and remain in a legal limbo with…no knowledge of what will happen to them.”
english.elpais.com
Held in hotels or detained for a year after being deported to Africa: ‘This is called human trafficking’
EL PAÍS spoke with a dozen migrants from Cuba, Honduras, Brazil and Colombia who were sent by the US to Africa and remain in a legal limbo with scant medical assistance and no knowledge of what will h...
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 15h
“Two months after Israeli settlers forced them out of their house, a Palestinian family was finally able to return to their home..only to be attacked by settlers once again. More than 100 Israeli settlers were involved in Tuesday’s attack…with some storming the house and setting it on fire.”
cnn.com
100 Israeli settlers drove a Palestinian family from home again. Netanyahu blamed a ‘handful of rioters’ | CNN
Two months after Israeli settlers forced them out of their house, a Palestinian family was finally able to return to their home overnight – only to be attacked by settlers once again.
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 12h
——————————— DOJ Unlawfully Withheld Grants to Combat Domestic Violence “These grants help sustain shelters, crisis response services, legal assistance and coordinated community efforts that survivors rely on in moments of profound danger,” the coalition of organizations suing said in a statement.“
nytimes.com
Justice Dept. Unlawfully Withheld Grants to Combat Domestic Violence, Judge Rules (Gift Article)
Judge Melissa R. DuBose said the department had placed arbitrary conditions on grants created by the Violence Against Women Act.
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 12h
———— Homeland Security taps $20M in taxpayer funds for pro-Trump ads “The political uproar over Trump’s hagiographic ads, which started running last week…has not abated as critics on the left and right raise alarms about the use of taxpayer funds, particularly so close to the midterm elections.”
apnews.com
Homeland Security taps $20M in taxpayer funds for pro-Trump ads
DHS has tapped $20 million to pay for campaign-style ads glorifying President Donald Trump.
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 12h
————————————— The DOJ’s Collapsing Probe Into a Supposed Anti-Trump Conspiracy “It’s buckling under the weight of strategic errors, staff turnover, and, most of all, the facts.” (gift) www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 12h
——————————— DOJ Unlawfully Withheld Grants to Combat Domestic Violence “These grants help sustain shelters, crisis response services, legal assistance and coordinated community efforts that survivors rely on in moments of profound danger,” the coalition of organizations suing said in a statement.“
nytimes.com
Justice Dept. Unlawfully Withheld Grants to Combat Domestic Violence, Judge Rules (Gift Article)
Judge Melissa R. DuBose said the department had placed arbitrary conditions on grants created by the Violence Against Women Act.
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
————————————- Alito Recuses Himself Days Before Major Climate-Change Case NYT (gift) tinyurl.com/4cv32eb4 This kind of suit is what The Atlantic article below is about.
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 13h
—————————— There Is No AI “Race” “In the current narrative, the metric for winning or leading on AI is who has the fanciest models, says the author of ’Technology and the Rise of Great Powers.’ But…the lead is about who can diffuse AI across the entire economy and gain a productivity boost.”
newyorker.com
There Is No A.I. “Race”
We’re constantly told that Chinese advances in A.I. would have catastrophic consequences. But the first to innovate is rarely the one who wins.
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 18h
Slacker “Brad” Arkansas Gov. Huckabee Sanders is facing right-wing backlash over an ad featuring a white man playing video games who got off welfare thanks to the state’s work requirement.,’ instead of using “right-wing stereotypes of women and people of color living off of government assistance..”
newrepublic.com
MAGA Furious Over Republican Ad Featuring White Man as Face of Welfare
Conservatives are pissed at Sarah Huckabee Sanders for choosing a young white man to portray welfare recipients.
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 15h
“Two months after Israeli settlers forced them out of their house, a Palestinian family was finally able to return to their home..only to be attacked by settlers once again. More than 100 Israeli settlers were involved in Tuesday’s attack…with some storming the house and setting it on fire.”
cnn.com
100 Israeli settlers drove a Palestinian family from home again. Netanyahu blamed a ‘handful of rioters’ | CNN
Two months after Israeli settlers forced them out of their house, a Palestinian family was finally able to return to their home overnight – only to be attacked by settlers once again.
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 20h
————————————— Supreme Court Says Trump Can Keep Deporting People to Random Places newrepublic.com/post/215995/... Places like this: Several panicked when they suspected that they were headed to Liberia. (Gift) www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/w...
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 20h
————————————— Supreme Court Says Trump Can Keep Deporting People to Random Places newrepublic.com/post/215995/... Places like this: “Witnesses: men were hooded & beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in…Trump’s deportation…” [atrocity].
nytimes.com
A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees (Gift Article)
Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 20h
Supreme Court Says Trump Can Keep Deporting People to Random Places newrepublic.com/post/215995/... Places like this: “He was in the kingdom of Eswatini, a tiny, landlocked country in southern Africa that until recently was called Swaziland. Mosquera had never heard of it.” Free to read.
rsn.org
He Was Deported to a Country He’d Never Heard Of. He May Never Go Free.
<p style="text-align: right;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ALSO SEE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.npr.org/2026/08/14/nx-s1-5...
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 18h
Slacker “Brad” Arkansas Gov. Huckabee Sanders is facing right-wing backlash over an ad featuring a white man playing video games who got off welfare thanks to the state’s work requirement.,’ instead of using “right-wing stereotypes of women and people of color living off of government assistance..”
newrepublic.com
MAGA Furious Over Republican Ad Featuring White Man as Face of Welfare
Conservatives are pissed at Sarah Huckabee Sanders for choosing a young white man to portray welfare recipients.
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
————————————————— Interview with the directors of NAZA: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 19h
—————————- ”…DHS has stopped offering tracking services for anyone arrested and detained with an outstanding removal order, priming detainees to be quickly removed to third countries without ever having spoken to an attorney or even their families.” AP broke the story: tinyurl.com/mvnbnkbv
slate.com
Trump Found a New Horrifying Way to Disappear ICE Detainees
President Trump and deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller have transformed America’s immigration system into an astonishingly cruel deportation machine.
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 19h
————— Will Bunch: The only thing wrong with ‘Woke 1.0′ was that it wasn’t implemented “Yes, the utterly ridiculous ‘war on woke’ is back on again. The equally senseless fighting in Iran is almost certain to end sooner than this boondoggle.”
inquirer.com
What everyone is getting wrong about ‘woke’ | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, the Eagles’ tie to the Tim Tebow scandal.
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 20h
Arrests by ICE this summer soared to record highs. Cato Institute‘s David Bier said “local partnerships, an infusion of federal dollars & new technology had made the dragnet so decentralized that it had attracted less attention.” Bier is an excellent immigration source: www.cato.org/people/david...
nytimes.com
A Quiet ICE Surge That Unfolded ‘Everywhere All at Once’ This Summer (Gift Article)
A review of dozens of incidents caught on camera sheds new light on a largely invisible crackdown.
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 20h
Supreme Court Says Trump Can Keep Deporting People to Random Places newrepublic.com/post/215995/... Places like this: “He was in the kingdom of Eswatini, a tiny, landlocked country in southern Africa that until recently was called Swaziland. Mosquera had never heard of it.” Free to read.
rsn.org
He Was Deported to a Country He’d Never Heard Of. He May Never Go Free.
<p style="text-align: right;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ALSO SEE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.npr.org/2026/08/14/nx-s1-5...
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 20h
Supreme Court Says Trump Can Keep Deporting People to Random Places newrepublic.com/post/215995/... Like: “EL PAÍS spoke with a dozen migrants from Cuba, Honduras, Brazil and Colombia who were sent by the US to Africa and remain in a legal limbo with…no knowledge of what will happen to them.”
english.elpais.com
Held in hotels or detained for a year after being deported to Africa: ‘This is called human trafficking’
EL PAÍS spoke with a dozen migrants from Cuba, Honduras, Brazil and Colombia who were sent by the US to Africa and remain in a legal limbo with scant medical assistance and no knowledge of what will h...
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 20h
————————————— Supreme Court Says Trump Can Keep Deporting People to Random Places newrepublic.com/post/215995/... Places like this: “Witnesses: men were hooded & beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in…Trump’s deportation…” [atrocity].
nytimes.com
A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees (Gift Article)
Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 20h
————————————— Supreme Court Says Trump Can Keep Deporting People to Random Places newrepublic.com/post/215995/... Places like this: Several panicked when they suspected that they were headed to Liberia. (Gift) www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/w...
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 20h
————————- Real Clear Polling: Senate: www.realclearpolling.com/latest-polls... House: www.realclearpolling.com/latest-polls... Thx for thd post & gif!
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
—— Trump Brought Venezuelan Gold to the U.S., but Refiners Won’t Touch It ”…a notoriously corrupt industry.” But, “refiners would need to guarantee, under international rules, that the gold has not funded gangs, environmental destruction or corruption.” ⚜️Trump‘s Too Crooked For the Gold Industry❗️
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
— “DHS fusion centers have started monitoring anti-surveillance activists, according to records obtained by Reason….tracking online critics of…ALPRs like Flock Safety. Included among the critics…SparrowMap….processing publicly available livestreams & footage provided by volunteers…” sparrowmap.com
reason.com
Homeland Security is monitoring activists building anti-flock tech
SparrowMap uses volunteer cameras to track the police in the same way police track the public. The government considers it a potential threat.
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
————————- Trump & Zelensky in total agreement—no daylight between them! “I agreed with Zelenskyy that we talked about a lot of different topics.“
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“The industry’s main super PAC, Fairshake…backed by some of the richest people in Silicon Valley, is starting to unspool a planned $30 million ad campaign against Sherrod Brown…” Public Citizen: Crpto is #1 Spender—By Far! tinyurl.com/2774j2th Brown +3.8 www.realclearpolling.com/polls/senate...
nytimes.com
The Crypto Industry Aims to Crush One of Democrats’ Top Senate Candidates (Gift Article)
Angry after the defeat of a major crypto bill last week, the industry is planning to spend $30 million against Sherrod Brown in Ohio.
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
——————————- Patagonia sues Trump over slashing of protected areas in Utah www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
————————————————— Interview with the directors of NAZA: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
—————————— The mainstream media doesn’t handle Trump’s lying well enough [If at all!] ”Too often, coverage of flagrantly dishonest Trump speeches still mentioned the dishonesty in passing or not at all. Too often, coverage still quoted the president’s lies without explaining that they were wrong.”
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
——————————- Patagonia sues Trump over slashing of protected areas in Utah www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“The industry’s main super PAC, Fairshake…backed by some of the richest people in Silicon Valley, is starting to unspool a planned $30 million ad campaign against Sherrod Brown…” Public Citizen: Crpto is #1 Spender—By Far! tinyurl.com/2774j2th Brown +3.8 www.realclearpolling.com/polls/senate...
nytimes.com
The Crypto Industry Aims to Crush One of Democrats’ Top Senate Candidates (Gift Article)
Angry after the defeat of a major crypto bill last week, the industry is planning to spend $30 million against Sherrod Brown in Ohio.
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
———————- The Rahm Bomb robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm-b...
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Schools teach Russian curricula. Official documents…tie residents to the Russian state. Russian systems govern access to housing and public services.…Moscow’s task is to unify these Ukrainian territories into a legal, economic, educational, cultural, and information space under Russia by 2030.“
theatlantic.com
The Hidden State Russia Is Building Inside Ukraine
Russian occupation authorities are doing everything possible to make Ukrainian lands unrecoverable.
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
”’Don’t let the Fake News get away with their lies about our epic PSAs…,’ WH communications director Steven Cheung, posted on X…” Rep. Massie: “Don’t worry, using taxpayer dollars to run ominous campaign ads of the President has been done before and is completely legal… in banana republics.”
apnews.com
Taxpayers have funded nearly $1.5M in pro-Trump ads. Criticism is mounting, including from the GOP
AdImpact says three taxpayer-funded ads promoting President Donald Trump are nearing a cost of at least $1.5 million.
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
————————- Trump & Zelensky in total agreement—no daylight between them! “I agreed with Zelenskyy that we talked about a lot of different topics.“
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Int’l Settlers Anthem “From lyrics of songs on the 2025 album Guardians of the Threshold, a collaboration by Israeli rappers the Shadow and Subliminal. Israeli national-security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, attended the rappers’ joint birthday party in December.” harpers.org/archive/2026...
Lyrics by Israeli nationalistic rappers.
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Babies Left Behind in America By Caitlin Dickerson “…Trump’s rush to deport as many immigrants as possible is creating a new family-separation crisis…separating families living in the U.S. as part of a purge.…Trump officials claim that this is untrue. But [these] stories are not hard to find…”
theatlantic.com
The Babies Left Behind in America
The United States is deporting parents without their children, creating a whole new family-separation crisis.
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
——————————————- Robert Reich—The Rahm Bomb “He’s the single worst Democratic hopeful now (almost) running for president. Democratic midterm candidates be warned: stay away from him.” robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm-b...
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
————————————- Alito Recuses Himself Days Before Major Climate-Change Case NYT (gift) tinyurl.com/4cv32eb4 This kind of suit is what The Atlantic article below is about.
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Patty Read Project 2025 @handi817.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Already awarded. Please see Rachel's new film.
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
————- Karl Rove says Republican Party is being taken over by ‘Nazis’ “Nick Fuentes goes to Dallas and meets with a bunch of Republican leaders. This guy is a Nazi. We’ve got all these people getting on their little podcasts and so forth, saying: ‘We’re just asking questions about the Jews.”
sacurrent.com
Karl Rove says Republican Party is being taken over by 'Nazis'
The Bush-era GOP political operative also said Republicans would be winning the battle for Texas' U.S. Senate seat if John Cornyn was the nominee.
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
—— Trump Brought Venezuelan Gold to the U.S., but Refiners Won’t Touch It ”…a notoriously corrupt industry.” But, “refiners would need to guarantee, under international rules, that the gold has not funded gangs, environmental destruction or corruption.” ⚜️Trump‘s Too Crooked For the Gold Industry❗️
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
————————————————————- Has anyone seen a Democratic campaign ad that incorporates this? It’s hard to believe there aren’t any.
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱 “The Israeli documentary “NAZA” will make its North American premiere on the heels of Netanyahu’s vitriolic speech at the UN. The revelation of [its] existence, after being produced in secret for three years, sent shockwaves through Israeli society.“ Intercept: tinyurl.com/mrx8z5nd Guardian:
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
——————————————- Paxton: That’s 60 times longer!
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
————- Karl Rove says Republican Party is being taken over by ‘Nazis’ “Nick Fuentes goes to Dallas and meets with a bunch of Republican leaders. This guy is a Nazi. We’ve got all these people getting on their little podcasts and so forth, saying: ‘We’re just asking questions about the Jews.”
sacurrent.com
Karl Rove says Republican Party is being taken over by 'Nazis'
The Bush-era GOP political operative also said Republicans would be winning the battle for Texas' U.S. Senate seat if John Cornyn was the nominee.
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
”For me, several aspects of modern life have made wonder seem out of reach…the decline of serendipity in a world where every trip is Google Mapped…our tendency to fill the gaps in our days by staring at our phones…wonder feels scarce because contemporary life has depleted the value of the moment.“
theatlantic.com
The Missing Ingredient of Modern Life
Why we need wonder
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Someone may not be able to work, but they can’t see a doctor because they can’t afford it. So they’re now applying for Medicaid,” said Jennifer Tolbert, director of state health policy and data at the research organization KFF. “But Medicaid is saying you need documentation from a provider.”
apnews.com
As work requirements kick in for Medicaid, some states are taking a tougher stance
At least six states will require documentation that individuals are too sick to meet Medicaid work requirements kicking in next year.
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