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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · 14h
NEW: "Unfortunately, the private jet lobby has worked hard to lower the tax obligations of the ultrawealthy," says IPS researcher @ocampomar.bsky.social. "It's time to stop making taxpayers subsidize luxury private jet travel."
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Private jet boom in the US has taxpayers, and the climate, picking up the tab
A new report argues that while only a tiny slice of the population enjoys the convenience of private jets, the public is left to help cover the costs.
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 14h
Over the past six months, dozens of people pitched in to create the MN Stolen Neighbors Quilt, which is made of 12,500 squares, each one representing an immigrant abducted in Minnesota by the Trump regime’s secret police (ICE + CBP). [kottke.org]
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The MN Stolen Neighbors Quilt
Over the past six months, dozens of people pitched in to create the MN Stolen Neighbors Quilt, which is made of 12,500 squares, each one representing an immigrant abducted in Minnesota by the Trump regime’s secret police
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14h
The arguments you've heard against California's billionaire tax are utter BS. Here to debunk them — and explain why you should vote YES on Prop 40 — is renowned economist @gabrielzucman.bsky.social
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 13h
Our new “Privacy’s Defenders” podcast talks to the activists, lawyers and technologists who have fought for a better, more secure and private digital future – a future that’s still attainable. Episode 1, “Cowboys, Cypherpunks and Visionaries,” is our origin story.
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Privacy’s Defenders Podcast: Cowboys, Cypherpunks and Visionaries
People are increasingly concerned about the ways in which mass surveillance is tracking our every move: from Flock license plate readers to face recognition to creepy ads that – based on what we see a...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13h
You don’t have to have a law degree to know that Trump's recent taxpayer funded ads are illegal. But why is he running them? Some thoughts... ⬇️ robertreich.substack.com/p/why-is-t…
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Pam Kan-Rice @ucanrpam.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
”You see an acceleration in the hydroclimate cycle overall. You see more extreme precipitation when it is raining and more extreme evaporation when it is not, simply by virtue of the temperature being higher than it used to be.” @weatherwest.bsky.social said
A sponge over plants in soil illustrates how the amount of water vapor the atmosphere can hold has increased by 7% with 1 degree Celsius of temperature rise
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As a fond aficionado and practitioner of various American aphorisms, colloquialisms, and idioms--and as a person with a very crowded and often chaotic calendar--this tracks.
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Recorded live and available below, in case you missed it!
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Steven Rodas @stevenrodas.bsky.social · 15h
As a record breaking El Niño continues to grow in the Pacific, @weatherwest.bsky.social explains what may be in store for the next year as we brace for an El Niño “so far above anything we've previously seen, it doesn't even fit on the same axis.” (@ninardietz.bsky.social for @insideclimatenews.org)
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Incoming El Niño Is so Extreme It Doesn’t Have a Scientific Name - Inside Climate News
As a record breaking El Niño continues to grow in the Eastern Pacific, climate scientist Daniel Swain explains what may be in store for the next year as we brace for an El Niño “so far above anything ...
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Amind the hoopla over RFK Jr's MAHA movement and his and Hegseth's fixation on testosterone levels, the reality is that the 2nd most widely used pesticide in the USA has been proven to cause chemical castration and even sex change in various animals. Naturally, no research on people.
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Hormone-disrupting herbicide contaminating 25% of continental US rivers, report finds
Atrazine, banned in 60 countries, polluting rivers at levels that can harm wildlife and may threaten human health
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration Monday filed its response to the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) lawsuit seeking records about any plans to seize or inspect ballots, voting machines or other election materials during the 2026 midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump DOJ responds to DNC lawsuit, offers no records on ballot seizure plans
The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) 13-page answer did not deny whether the Trump administration has considered such plans, identify whether responsive records exist or offer a timeline for producing th...
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CNN @cnn.com · 28/09/2026
Grocery prices are up, not “way down,” since former President Joe Biden left office. | Fact check: cnn.it/4xUDA65
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 29/09/2026
The owners of Camp Mystic have proposed selling off the riverfront property as part of a bankruptcy plan, with hopes that a buyer will preserve the camp's "historic mission" following the death of 27 campers and counselors swept away by a 2025 flood. to.pbs.org/3VWfL0o
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A bankrupt Camp Mystic seeks to sell the property as its legal troubles grow
The owners of Camp Mystic have proposed selling off the riverfront property in bankruptcy. The plan hopes that a buyer will preserve the “historic mission” of the century-old private Christian girls c...
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 29/09/2026
"I have asked the White House exactly which department is paying for it, and they have not given us that information," says Tamara Keith. "What I can tell from looking at AdImpact... the U.S. government has already spent more than a million dollars to air these ads." to.pbs.org/4iUewZo
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Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on taxpayer funds used for TV ads promoting Trump
NPR’s Tamara Keith and Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter join Geoff Bennett to discuss the latest political news, including the U.S. government paying for TV advertisements promo...
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Chris Kluwe, Candidate for Assembly District 72 @kluweoc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Proud to be endorsed by California Environmental Voters! I look forward to working with California Environmental Voters and community members to tackle the issues that matter most to our coastal communities, including access clean air and water, and standing up to polluters.
Chris Kluwe for Assembly is proudly endorsed by California Environmental Voters!
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Mike Johnson says opposition to data centers is a Chinese conspiracy. Huh? Meanwhile, 61% of Americans oppose building a new data center in their own area.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 29/09/2026
The edge of California is falling into the ocean—and coming storms are likely to worsen the situation for people on the coast, @partlowjosh.bsky.social reports.
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The Edge of California Is Falling Into the Ocean
Storms driven by El Niño are pulling chunks of coast away.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Kash Patel should resign in disgrace. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
Ciaran Martin, the former head of Britain’s cyberdefense agency, said the F.B.I. hack likely had “huge impact on the operational capability” of the bureau and could rank as one of the most consequential data breaches in history — graver even than the Office of Personnel Management burglary.

“Losing the data on 20 million federal employees to the Chinese was bad,” Mr. Martin said. “But you knew the Chinese weren’t going to sell or publish it.”
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KneeDeep Times Magazine @kneedeeptimes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
As the Bay Area confronts rising seas and stronger storms, local leaders are designing #climate solutions that work with #nature instead of against it. Read our latest newsletter: buff.ly/vyncSBG 🧵 1/4
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 07/09/2026
A reminder on Labor Day that Reagonomics scam stole $79 Trillion from the bottom 90% and redistributed it to the top 1%, which is why wealth inequality now is worse than it was after the Great Depression. Stop defending billionaires. Start abolishing them. www.qasimrashid.com/p/9-facts-on...
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9 Facts on Labor Day Legacy Media Won't Mention
This Labor Day, a reminder that the USA ranks worse than Russia and China on economic inequality—without immediate change, we all but ensure economic catastrophe
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Please let your reps know how you feel about Russ Vogt's leadership, which includes an ongoing pillaging of Congressionally appropriate funds to support public science. And this is as much an attack on higher education as it is public science funding.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
$16 million later, the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was supposed to be open by July 4. Instead, it looks like this.
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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The idea that making a sitting president answer for criminal charges would distract him from important official duties has never looked more ridiculous.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie
Donald Trump posts an image on his Truth Social account. It shows a new uniform for US Space Force members, comprising of an all-black outfit with knee-high black leather boots, black cap, and minimalist looking suit.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
HANDS OFF OUR PUBLIC LANDS!   Chaco Canyon, Oak Flat, Yosemite, and 44 million acres of our national forests. Standing strong against this Administration’s land grab—in Congress, in the courts, and in our communities!
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Rep. Stansbury: Hands off our public lands!
YouTube video by Rep. Melanie Stansbury
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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Experts say now is the right time to consider getting flood insurance. That’s because some policies have a mandatory waiting period of a month or so before coverage kicks in, and others may become unavailable when storms arrive.
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Get this key protection for your home before El Niño hits California
Regular home insurance doesn’t cover all of the impacts of winter storms. If you want a flood insurance policy ahead of El Niño, the time to get it is now.
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
At last, a clearer forecast re: California and Marie! Marie is now weakening and will stay well offshore. However, confidence has increased that Marie's remnants will actually have a substantial influence on CA weather for the next 5-6 days! [Thread] #CAwx
Current satellite snapshot of the North Pacific. It's a wide view, and it shows *three* separate tropical cyclones (hurricanes) between Mexico and Hawaii (indicative of a hyperactive East Pacific hurricane season). Marie is the easternmost of the three.
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The ECMWF seasonal ensemble has just updated for September, and it continues to suggest that a soon record-strength El Niño will exert a very strong tilt in the odds toward wet conditions across the U.S. southern tier, including all of California, the Lower Colorado, and SE U.S.
Plot showing data from ECMWF SEAS5 seasonal model September update. It depicts the most likely "tercile" of precipitation during Jan-Mar 2027, and California is painted as "upper tercile" with 70-100% confidence.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
They filter drinking water, reduce flooding, and provide critical habitat for birds, fish, and wildlife. Destroying these protections won’t just erase wetlands it will leave communities paying the price in dirtier water!
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The Trump administration is moving to strip federal protections from millions of acres of wetlands across the country. A new EPA and Army Corps proposal would dramatically narrow which waters qualify for protection under the Clean Water Act. Wetlands aren’t wasted space.
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Lol the United States was the only country of 165 which voted "no" to adopting an accurate map instead of the distorted Mercator projection. I'm guessing it was 30% inspired by an imperialist desire to keep Greenland looking big and 70% a racist desire to keep Africa small.
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UN votes to adopt new world map that shows Africa’s true scale
Togo-sponsored resolution called to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
August added 162,000 jobs, way above forecasts of 50-60,000.⁣ ⁣ But the composition tells a different story than the headline. New jobs are mostly all in healthcare or social assistance. Other sectors suffered.⁣ ⁣ newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…
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Where Are the Hard Hats in This Jobs Report?
This administration promised a manufacturing revival. What we got is an aging country hiring nurses and aides—and outside of health care, the economy has shed jobs.
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Mike Dettinger @mdettinger.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Forbes briefing on the costs of the DOGE cuts to federal weather agencies and networks…who is paying the price now? youtu.be/SQku0QG2g40?...
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DOGE Broke America’s Weather Machine. Now Fishermen, Insurers And Farmers Are Paying For It.
YouTube video by Forbes
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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 03/09/2026
NEW: the UN's weather and climate agency issued a stark and historic warning this morning about the supersized El Nino, issuing what it says is the most certain forecast in the history of the organization about the strength of the building phenomenon:
wired.com
We’ve Got a ‘Supersized’ El Niño on Our Hands
The World Meteorological Organization is warning that the climate phenomenon that has the Pacific running a fever will last until at least February, with dire consequences for weather worldwide.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
President Donald Trump and the U.S. Postal Service risk unleashing “massive chaos and confusion” by implementing expansive mail voting restrictions weeks before the upcoming midterms, a widely respected elections expert said in a new court filing. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Leading elections expert says Trump’s mail voting restrictions will create ‘massive chaos and confusion’
Tammy Patrick, an expert on election mail, said the Postal Service itself can't feasibly enforce the mail voting restrictions it's pursuing.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
WHAT IF EVER STUDIED BODIES OF HALF OF POPULATION HOW MIGHT THAT GO (also bodies are WILD)
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“USPS officials confirmed it was possible that one ballot with a bad barcode or wrong voter information within the more than 2 million ballots could delay the entire mailing, according to two people who attended the related committee meeting.”
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/09/2026
There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
When there are multiple stories about data centers simply building gas turbines without permits, PROVING they can’t be trusted, you’d be a fool to trust them. This is not paranoia, it’s pragmatism.
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chadzia dax 🔞😷 @m00psy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Center on Budget and Policy Priorities @centeronbudget.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
We've updated our Health Coverage Tracker with the latest Medicaid enrollment data. As of May 2026, 4.8 million fewer people had Medicaid than a year earlier. Explore the latest national and state data: www.cbpp.org/research/hea...
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Health Coverage Tracker: Millions of People Are Losing Coverage Following 2025 Republican Policy Changes
This tool tracks declines in the number of people enrolled in the ACA marketplaces and Medicaid: two sources of coverage that have been crucial to delivering affordable health care to people with low ...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Since 2019, corporate profits have grown 52 percent. Wages have grown 12 percent. Read that back. This is what a rigged economy looks like. [Chart by @groundwork.bsky.social]
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Octavia E. Butler’s novel “Parable of the Talents” depicts a dystopian United States run by Christian Nationalists. Their slogan is “Make America Great Again.” Published in 1998, many years before Trump’s political career, but this poem in the book prophesied Trump. (Poem from @zymplex.bsky.social)
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
In 2023, I wrote a book about taking my children to national parks before the parks were destroyed, fearing exactly this outcome. But even I didn't think it would happen this soon and with so little Congressional pushback. My book is called THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP.
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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
How indexing capital gains works: Rich guy buys a stock for $1M. Sells it for $2M after 20 years of inflation. Pays tax on $0 of real gain. Roughly 70% of all capital gains already go to the top 1%. This was written for the rich. And only the rich.
Graph shows: “indexing capital gains for inflation would overwhelmingly benefit wealthy Americans”
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 26/08/2026
“Police can just sit down on their computer and search for those plates without a warrant from a judge. So, it is a system tailor-made for abuse,” EFF’s @mguariglia.bsky.social told @wsav.bsky.social.
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‘We trusted these individuals’, mayor says about Flock camera misuse
Flock cameras are designed to help law enforcement track down suspects and solve crimes, but it is now under scrutiny locally.
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Climate change is absolutely a national security concern, as literally decades of defense and intelligence community assessments have documented, until they began to be censored by Trump et al. I've summarized those assessments here: www.stripes.com/branches/arm... share.google/Pg4VKEKKezzQ...
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Climate Change, Water, the Environment and National Security: An Annotated History of U.S. Defense, Intelligence, and Security Assessments (Part 1: to 2010)
Summary: For more than half a century, U.S. intelligence and defense communities have worked to understand the threats to national and international security from a range of enviro
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. In 2025, he made 1,794x more. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers? I will continue my boycott of Starbucks. Solidarity with @sbworkersunited.org
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