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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6h
NBC: “U of Michigan survey shows Americans feel worse about the economy than during the Covid-19 pandemic or 2008 financial crisis… Trump promised a ‘Golden Age’, but under Republicans Americans are struggling more than ever.” www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 5h
Antoinette Jeffries never intended to be an unpaid airport information desk volunteer, but she says experiences such as receiving a surprise proposal are why she has remained behind the desk since 1987.
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For four decades, she’s seen it all from behind an airport help desk
Antoinette Jeffries never set out to be a volunteer at Reagan National Airport, but it’s been an adventure.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 5h
Artificial intelligence is turbocharging scams in unimaginable ways, as millions of Americans report being targeted and victims of AI scams. Take this AP quiz and test if you know how to spot what's real and what's AI.
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Could you spot an AI-powered scam? See if you can tell what’s real.
Artificial intelligence is turbocharging scams in ways unimaginable just a few years ago. Ninety-eight percent of Americans say they have been targeted by scammers — many on a daily basis — according to a poll conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20h
Dennis Haskins, who played Principal Richard Belding on the teen sitcom “Saved by the Bell,” his most memorable role in an acting career that spanned four decades, died on Sunday in Burbank, Calif. He was 75.
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Dennis Haskins, Principal Belding on ‘Saved by the Bell,’ Dies at 75
Mr. Haskins played the exasperated but well-meaning principal on the popular high school sitcom. He reprised the role in a long-running spinoff.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/09/2026
Jensen Huang: "We all need to hope it's an engineering problem. If it's not an engineering problem, it's not solvable."
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Pentagon's public tally of troops wounded during the Iran war was quietly increased this week without explanation from Trump's Defense Department. The total number of troops now wounded during the war is 861, according to DCAS.
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Pentagon quietly adds dozens to tally of troops wounded amid Iran war
With the addition of 29 U.S. sailors and eight Marines, the total number of personnel wounded since the start of hostilities has risen to 861, a Pentagon database shows.
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 26/09/2026
As the wealth gap widens and basic needs become unaffordable, the term “nepo baby” has expanded to include new stars with any kind of privilege. 🔗 on.wsj.com/4xJkboG
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Seriously?
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A large hacking group says they have hacked the FBI, stolen data + defaced websites: www.404media.co/we-hacked-th...
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‘We Hacked the FBI:’ Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI Employees
A sample of 5,000 alleged agents seen by 404 Media includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on FBI employees' spouses.
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Kirsten Grind @kirstengrind.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: Behind the A.I. boom is a perilous social scene full of underage partying, drug use and rape allegations. Much it is taking place at group tech houses, including the most notorious in Silicon Valley, AGI House www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/t...
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The A.I. Party House Where Networking Has a Dark Side
Group tech houses have proliferated across the San Francisco Bay Area in the artificial intelligence boom. One of the most prominent has also racked up an extensive police record.
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 22/09/2026
ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders, sources
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ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders, sources
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 21/09/2026
Jayden Daniels has dislocated his left elbow again.
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Commanders QB Jayden Daniels dislocates his left elbow for the second time in less than a year
Jayden Daniels has dislocated his left elbow again. He was hurt Sunday, less than a year after the previous injury that sidelined the Washington Commanders quarterback most of the second half of last season.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Heads up: The Russian government has been targeting Americans with covert online disinformation operations seeking to undermine public confidence the midterms — using a familiar playbook in an attempt to inject chaos into the voting season, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.
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Russia Aims to Inject Chaos Into Elections, U.S. Intelligence Finds
The Kremlin is once again seeking to undermine confidence in American democracy with online influence campaigns, U.S. officials said.
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IGN @ign.com · 19/09/2026
Toys 'R' Us, the once-ubiquitous toy store/mecca for 1980s kids, is set to open 120 new standalone stores this holiday season. bit.ly/4xWGUyy
Toys ‘R’ Us To Open 120 New Stores in the U.S.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18/09/2026
Last week, a group of tech leaders called for putting guardrails on artificial intelligence. This week, these calls have been met by backlash from tech executives, lawmakers and President Trump, who liken those ringing the alarm to a doomsday cult. Listen to "The Daily."
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The Techno-Religion at the Center of the A.I. Debate
Are those calling to slow down the development of artificial intelligence in a “doomsday cult,” as some critics say? Our reporter explains.
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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 17/09/2026
A federal immigration officer wanted on assault charges for shooting and wounding a Venezuelan man in Minneapolis was arrested there on Wednesday, eight months after a confrontation that became a flashpoint over U.S. President Donald Trump's deportation sweeps.
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ICE agent charged with assault, lying about shooting, arrested in Minnesota
A federal immigration officer wanted on assault charges for shooting and wounding a Venezuelan man in Minneapolis was arrested ​there on Wednesday, eight months after a confrontation that became a flashpoint over U.S. President Donald Trump's deportation sweeps.
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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 15/09/2026
Spain's data protection watchdog said it has received the first reported notification of a personal data breach allegedly carried out by an artificial intelligence agent, a case that suggests autonomous systems are beginning to play a direct role in cyberattacks.
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Spanish data watchdog publicises first AI agent-linked data breach report
Spain's data protection watchdog said it has received the first reported notification of a personal data breach allegedly carried out by an artificial intelligence agent, a case that suggests autonomous ​systems are beginning to play a direct role in cyberattacks.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
AI doom or not, something has shifted with AI recently. The guardrails that kept AI sitting in a chatbox are gone, the models are better, there's more compute. AI agents are everywhere. They are annoying as hell. IMO the situation is going to get much worse www.404media.co/theres-a-100...
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There’s a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Already Ruining the Internet
“AI agents” now have enough power and permission to be extremely annoying online.
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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 15/09/2026
Via Sofia Resnick and Stateline: Many doctors and researchers are concerned that vaccine misinformation — amplified by the Trump administration — and the resulting increase in vaccine hesitancy could blunt the impact of emerging cancer vaccines. ow.ly/2EPS50ZNuA5
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
CBS NEWS(max) IN MEMPHIS: “It sounds like there’s a jet plane coming towards me. I can understand why residents are losing sleep over this.” #XAI @memphisvsmusk @nonewdatacenters Full: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTUXSkFJH/
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
PRO PUBLICA: “Don JR’s wedding secretly bankrolled by Russian oligarch close to Putin” 🤔 So weird how this keeps happening 🤷🏼 www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
IF YOU LOST A SMALL FOLDER OF GAIL SIMONE COMICS AT ROSE CITY COMIC CON—we are going to lunch, Karl Kesel has your folder, one table over!
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 13/09/2026
The Olympic flame arrived in Senegal's capital with music, dancing, and a march by 100 women.
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Olympic flame arrives in Senegal for the first Olympic event to be held in Africa
The Olympic flame arrived in Senegal's capital with music, dancing, and a march by 100 women. The celebration in Dakar on Saturday marks the countdown to the first Olympic sporting event in Africa.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 12/09/2026
The Trump administration has blocked more than 130 projects in national parks worth $25 million in funding that had already been secured for work such as fire preparedness in California, prehistoric mound protection in Iowa and sled dog care in Alaska. wapo.st/4xQAfFZ
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 10/09/2026
Barry Melrose, a hockey player-turned-coach who led the Los Angeles Kings to the 1993 Stanley Cup Final before going on to a long career in broadcasting the sport, has died.
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Hockey player and coach-turned-broadcaster Barry Melrose dies at age 70
Barry Melrose, a hockey player-turned-coach who led the Los Angeles Kings to the 1993 Stanley Cup Final before going on to a long career in broadcasting the sport, has died.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“.. after another employee said he was quitting the company over concerns that AI labs are ‘gambling with our lives.’” @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2026/09/09/a...
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 09/09/2026
A judge has sentenced a former forensic analyst for the Colorado Bureau of Investigation to 10 years in prison after prosecutors said she manipulated and omitted data to speed up her work.
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Former Colorado crime analyst gets 10-year prison sentence for manipulating DNA data
A judge has sentenced a former forensic analyst for the Colorado Bureau of Investigation to 10 years in prison after prosecutors said she manipulated and omitted data to speed up her work.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
DHS is doing predictive policing using unknown financial databases and other info and then passing targets to local cops. What could go wrong? www.404media.co/a-secretive-...
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A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans’ Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over
404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.
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notthatdude.bsky.social @notthatdude.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I don’t get any part of this life rn and idk where to go with it
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“What is it?” 🐄 “We don’t know.” “Where’s it from?” “We don’t know.” “Why don’t we know?” “They don’t have to tell us.” “Will it help ranchers?” “No. They’re actually pretty pissed.” 🧑‍🌾 @morningbrew roasts Trump’s tariff-free import of 300,000 metric tons of beef
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"At least 18 service members have died and more than 400 troops have been wounded ...."
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
NEW: ICE is creating a national voter database to "support Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) fraud detection and data segmentation activities," according to documents reviewed by @wired.com. @davidgilbert.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/ice-pl...
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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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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
New: Texas cops who used Flock to search 80,000 cameras nationwide for a woman who had an abortion used Axon's AI to write up their police report about the incident. The tech "summarized" police discussion over whether a crime had been committed www.404media.co/texas-police...
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Texas Police Used AI to Write Report About Using Flock to Search for Woman Who Had Abortion
The incident shows how quickly police departments have come to use AI surveillance tools even in critically sensitive cases.
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NPR @npr.org · 01/09/2026
Georgetown Law professor Stephen Vladeck explains the separation-of-powers questions raised by the Supreme Court's decision on the White House ballroom. n.pr/4h38sMy
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Why the Supreme Court's ballroom ruling could matter beyond the ballroom
Georgetown Law professor Stephen Vladeck explains the separation-of-powers questions raised by the Supreme Court's decision on the White House ballroom.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“Corporate profits at record highs while workers slice of the pie has sunk to historic lows” (Aka the Republican agenda since Reagan) THIS is why the DSA is gaining steam. It isn’t “SoCiALiSm” to want to stop this trend.
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IGN @ign.com · 01/09/2026
Bit Reactor, the studio behind Star Wars Zero Company, furloughed the majority of its staff just before the game launched. bit.ly/4yjSeER
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/09/2026
Juan Tamariz, a zany magician whose ingenious card tricks baffled audiences and stumped other sleight-of-hand practitioners, earning him mythic stature as the world’s pre-eminent master of close-up magic, died at 83.
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Juan Tamariz, Master Magician of Misdirection and Joy, Dies at 83
A magician’s magician, he was a philosopher of the craft. He didn’t just want to fool people; he wanted to share in their awe of the inexplicable.
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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 01/09/2026
The percentage of parents and caregivers in the United States refusing a standard vitamin K shot for infants at birth has accelerated sharply this year, an exclusive data analysis for Reuters found, putting more newborns at risk of life-threatening bleeding episodes.
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EXCLUSIVE: US refusals of crucial newborn vitamin spike, raising risk of dangerous bleeding
The percentage of parents and caregivers in the United States refusing a standard vitamin K shot for infants at birth has accelerated sharply this year, an ​exclusive data analysis for Reuters found, putting more newborns at risk of life-threatening bleeding episodes.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 01/09/2026
A last-resort insurance policy with fewer homeowner protections and less government oversight is booming, a Post analysis finds, as traditional insurers continue to back away from areas of the country most vulnerable to extreme weather. wapo.st/4ciZ4BZ
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NPR @npr.org · 01/09/2026
A whistleblower says the U.S. Postal Service is rushing out an online system for President Trump's push to restrict mail voting that could "derail" the midterm election if courts allow it to proceed. n.pr/4xvMl7f
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Whistleblower claims USPS plan for Trump's mail voting order could 'derail' midterms
A whistleblower says the U.S. Postal Service is rushing out an online system for President Trump's push to restrict mail voting that could "derail" the midterm election if courts allow it to proceed.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/09/2026
Breaking News: A whistle-blower at the U.S. Postal Service said Trump officials were defying court orders with a “secretive, rushed” effort affecting voting by mail.
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Whistle-Blower Says Trump Officials Are Defying Court Orders on Voting by Mail
A report detailed “grave concerns” that a new system being rushed into use by the U.S. Postal Service could imperil millions of mail ballots ahead of the midterm elections.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
“.. The decision to exclude individual reporters is the latest example of the Trump administration restricting access to certain journalists.” #G20 @nytimes.com @benmullin.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/08/29/b...
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I never would have predicted that cutting 20% of the staff at the federal agency that makes sure our food is safe would result in a bunch of our food being declared unsafe.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 29/08/2026
BREAKING: President Trump says the U.S. has entered a deal with Venezuela to take control of 65 billion barrels of its oil reserves.
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Trump says US has entered deal with Venezuela to take control of 65 billion barrels of oil reserves
President Donald Trump says the U.S. has entered an agreement with Venezuela to take control of 65 billion barrels of the South American country’s oil reserves.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 28/08/2026
More than half of all the people ICE arrested in July did not have a criminal record, the highest single-month total since January 2025, newly released government data shows.
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ICE is arresting soaring numbers of immigrants with no criminal record
Federal immigration officers are shifting their targets and tactics to increase arrests. More than half of those detained last month did not have a criminal record.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/08/2026
Rupert Grint, who starred as Ron Weasley in all eight “Harry Potter” films, will play the same role on Broadway, starting early next year.
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Rupert Grint Will Join ‘Harry Potter’ Again, This Time on Broadway
The British actor, who played Ron Weasley in all eight films, will play the same character, this time as an adult, in “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.”
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Reminder: watch what they do, not what they say
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“.. His warning is a striking shift from three years ago, when he wrote that the coming ‘bumpy’ AI job disruption would lead to a “manageable” transition .. .. Now, he says it will wreak economic catastrophe, with ‘far fewer’ jobs than exist today ..” @semafor.com www.semafor.com/article/08/2...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/08/2026
Bird flu is sweeping across Australia, devastating its unique birds and mammals, many of which are found nowhere else in the world. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/w...
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