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@obrien1988.bsky.social
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Unionist, mom, gun control, dairy farm kid, Cornell grad, Go Blue, CKCS mom, gardener, dancer, theater costumer, Moth, Navy daughter and sister, Army sister, knitter

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Politicians in the US are deathly afraid that Americans might ever see a Chinese EV.
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Michigan politicians want to ban Chinese-badged cars from even visiting the US
The latest bill would ban day trips from Canada or Mexico in Chinese cars.
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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Wait. For. It. NASA animation shows Global temps warm slowly at first, then rapidly. Warming is accelerating! Here’s the truth. It’s real. It’s us. And we have to come to terms with it, and deal with reality, rather than deceiving ourselves, and hoping it goes away. It won’t… without intervention.
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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
NO COUNTRY that hosts an international sports event should be allowed to deny entry to its competitors. It’s CHEATING by immigration chicanery. ONLY FIFA or IOC should have the authority to deny participation to an athlete, staff or official. Any country that refuses that should not get to host
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I’m shocked this is the end result of all the hype.
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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 09/06/2026
BREAKING: The 2026 Social Security Trustees Report confirms that Donald Trump's policies are weakening Social Security’s finances. Now Republicans are eyeing benefit cuts. Here's what you need to know: 🧵
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Nancy Knowlton @nancyknowlton.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Huge potential to use transportation corridors to create green energy - this is just a start! www.zmescience.com/science/news...
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Trains in Switzerland Are Now Running Over Solar Panels in a First-of-Its-Kind Test
The pilot turns unused railway space into a small but closely watched solar test.
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Jamie @booravenxer.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Blame the media for "instant" election results. The official counting shouldn't stop until every vote is counted. It's just that on election night the media tabulates the probability of the winner. And then "calls it". Then the opposition concedes. It's fucked up and anti-democractic.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 09/06/2026
It might sound minor, but every time a judge has to hold a hearing to figure out whether the Justice Department is lying, he or she is also not holding a trial for other parties who are entitled to their own day in court.
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How Trump’s DOJ Burned Its Most Important Asset
When the courts can’t trust the government, it is a major problem in our judicial system.
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SueinKelowna🦋🇨🇦❤️☀️🍷🦁 @sueinkelowna.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The President of The United States is a 5yo learning to spell new words in between nap time.
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Doc Jerr @docjerr.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The current administration is quietly trying to override the Presidential Records Act. They want to be trial-proof, impeachment-proof, and consequence-proof. Democracy cannot survive an unchecked executive.Read my full, uncompromised socio-political audit here: communitiesoftrust-jerrygoebel.com
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 09/06/2026
"Any person who cannot see that elections—which are constitutionally mandated and have never been forsaken, even at our darkest hour—are the beating heart of our democracy is not fit for the presidency." New from Robert Dallek: lnk.thebulwark.com/43J2DwF
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/06/2026
"Something remarkable happened in April. For the first time in history, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas across the entire planet. Not in a country. Not in a region. Globally." Tons of great news here from Danny Kennedy (via @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter, which rules).
proelectrica.substack.com
Elite Cognitive Dissonance and the Asian Energy Disruption
Notes from the Field — Singapore & Indonesia, May 2026
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/06/2026
If you or I had installed a water connection without the utility company's knowledge that was not linked to our account, we all know they wouldn't be saying that we have to be partners. Link to article: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
An investigation conducted by utility officials in Georgia’s Fayette County found that the Quality Technology Services (QTD) facility had two industrial-scale water hookups that weren’t being monitored. “One water connection had been installed without the utility’s knowledge, and the other was not linked to the company’s account and therefore wasn’t being billed,” Politico reported.

QTS eventually paid about $150,000 for the water, but there were no consequences for exceeding peak limits established by the county during the data center planning process. Frustrating residents, the county declined to fine QTS. Fayette County’s water system director, Vanessa Tigert, told Politico that the decision was partly because the county blamed itself and didn’t want to offend QTS.

“They’re our largest customer, and we have to be partners,” Tigert said. “It’s called customer service.”
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Jim Andrakakis @jimandrakakis.net · 09/06/2026
A piece of good news in the middle of the darkness we live in: "SpaceX will not gain accelerated access to potentially billions more dollars through passive investment funds that automatically purchase shares of S&P 500 companies." arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic
SpaceX won’t get easy access to billions of dollars from passive investors.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Hoping that someone on HJC points out that one of the SD mosque killers were on the FBI radar, but Kash failed to stop it, and that ADL had warned about the Evergreen shooter, and FBI's response was to stop accepting tips from them. @raskin.house.gov
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L S D @lsdaif.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
It’s wild how we’ve gone from “government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth” to government of the Epstein Class, by the Epstein Class, for the Epstein class, doing everything in their power to cause the earth to perish. Release the files! Save the earth!
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
This is the effect of abortion bans on women & mothers. Post partem hemorrhage is a cause of death in women. D&C is needed to remove the remaining placenta after birth. This woman bled until she was unconscious because they didn’t perform a D&C on her. Why? B/c it is used in abortions. #pinks
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Possibly the pettiest loser government in the world. The US has withdrawn Iran’s allocation of World Cup tickets for supporters days before the tournament starts, Iran’s football federation said.
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Gordon Wark 🤬💥😡🔥🕗🕕🕓🕖 @1stwark.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Finally a journalist who had more balls than the entire press corps of the USA. It figures it would be a woman who we assume has no balls, which shows us that the so called "men" of the US press are capons, not roosters.
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AB Garden Girl 🇨🇦 @ab-garden-girl.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Everybody talks about how nothing is affordable anymore but no one talks about how poorly made and disposable things are. Part of the affordability crisis is because we keep repurchasing things, cars, appliances, clothes etc because things don’t last.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
He made half the city shut down and every fan endure a 2 hour security line so he could go to the NBA finals and sleep through it.
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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
NEW: In February, I visited Raw Farm. You may have heard of it. RFK Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow are customers. It supplies raw dairy products to 500 stores nationwide. And regulators have linked it to over a dozen recalls and outbreaks that have made hundreds sick. 🧵👇
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He Profits Off Raw Milk That’s Making People Sick. The Government Isn’t Stopping Him.
With Raw Farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, Mark McAfee has capitalized on a once-fringe product that’s been thrust into the mainstream in recent years and backed by Health Secretary Rob...
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I wrote about the smash-and-grab politics of fascist gangsterism and what it would mean to take back what’s been stolen. “The task is mass reclamation and transformation: taking back what has been stolen and making it impossible for so few to steal so much again.”
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The Heist State
“We are being robbed by the worst people in the world.”
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 09/06/2026
Make no mistake: in California, our democracy is working as it should. But our President is doing everything in his power to make you doubt that with constant lies. His baseless, anti-democratic rhetoric has no place in our electoral process.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The Knicks were on a 13-game winning streak until this thing slithered in. He shut the city down, got booed, fell asleep, & stunk up the place. Stay at one of your clubs or the White House. This obnoxious creature causes nothing but chaos and, as Rick Wilson says, ETTD. He probably jinxed them too.
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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Raise your hand if you knew the Knicks were going to lose the minute the asshole’s presence at the game was announced. That SOB ruins literally everything he touches.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 01/06/2026
Ossoff: "This is what small men like Donald Trump and JD Vance and Stephen Miller will never understand. That our national greatness flows not through our blood or our genes, but through our ideas. Americans are not a race, we're a people united not by ethnicity, but by our shared convictions."
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Just a Dad 📎 @dadmakingcans.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
It's crazy how we have both the World Cup and America 250 this year and almost no one cares about them because the administration has wholly sucked the joy out of even momentous national events
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/06/2026
What’s good, ya’ll? Here’s something 🤎 Dr Iman Abuzeid looked at a broken healthcare hiring system & built a billion-dollar company that flipped it upside down. She built a platform where hospitals apply to nurses instead of nurses applying to hospitals. That’s not DEI. That’s Black excellence.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/06/2026
earned more than 80 commendations. The court upheld an injunction protecting current transgender service members from being expelled under the policy, while vacating the injunction as it applies to new applicants seeking to enlist. 3/3
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/06/2026
In a blistering opinion, Judge Wilkins wrote that the administration provided no factual basis for claims that transgender service members lack the honesty, humility, or integrity required for military service, noting that many of the plaintiffs have served honorably for years and... 2/3
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/06/2026
🚨 BREAKING: A federal appeals court has ruled, in a 2-1 decision, that the Trump-Hegseth transgender military ban is likely unconstitutional, finding that the policy appears to be driven by a “bare desire to harm a politically unpopular group” and is “both arbitrary and based upon animus.” 1/3
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TrekMovie.com @trekmovie.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
On his birthday, we remember René Auberjonois, who was Odo for all 7 seasons of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and directed 8 episodes, guest starred on Enterprise, and played Colonel West in an eventually deleted scene from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. He is very missed.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
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Shelly Marsh: It's So Stupid (South Park)
ALT: Shelly Marsh: It's So Stupid (South Park)
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
It’s absolutely crazy they can void an election with no consequences.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 01/06/2026
Of course, it was always going to end with Donald Trump turning America's 250th birthday into the Fyre Festival (link in reply)
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LisaLisa @lisalisa42.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Had to share - MSM seems to be ignoring it.
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Eric R Fairhurst 📚 🦋 🎷🎨 @efairhurst.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Indiana told the public it gave less than $1 million in data center subsidies in 2025. The real number? $655 million. And $561 million of that went to a single company: Amazon. While Hoosiers pay sales tax on groceries, Amazon paid nothing. This isn’t economic development. It’s a heist.
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13 Investigates: You pay sales tax. Some Indiana data centers didn’t. Here’s what we found
New records show some Indiana data centers have reported hundreds of millions in state sales and use tax exemptions.
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
You can think of this as a "reverse" or "turn" strategy. Reversing attention from the distraction & recentering attention on what is essential. Calling out the politics of creating hate-objects & turning attention back to those who profit from the strategy. It's a contrast. Well played. (from March)
Interview with James Talarico from March 9, 2026 on MSNBC.
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Ariaa® @ariaa.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Scientists engineered biocompatible lipid-shell nanocarriers to encapsulate the enzymes, allowing them to travel through the bloodstream undetected by the immune system. The dissolve the mechanical blockage and restore blood flow without requiring a single invasive incision or stent deployment.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/06/2026
Today, I signed an Executive Order temporarily repealing bedtimes in the City of New York so that kids of all ages can watch our team in the NBA Finals. As Mayor, you’re forced to make many difficult decisions. This was not one of them. Go Knicks.
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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
As of noon today, just 16% of primary ballots have been returned & of those: Just 10% are from voters between 18-34! 76% are from voters 50+ (with 53% over 65+!) 69% are from white voters. CA’s polls close tomorrow at 8pm. Your vote counts! tracker.politicaldata.com?type=statewide
Chart displaying who has returned their ballots in CA’s primary election.  Details here https://tracker.politicaldata.com/?type=statewide
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obrien1988.bsky.social @obrien1988.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Male runner, 61, completes first. Marathon.
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
If you are as infuriated as you read this as I am, know that Congress not only has the power to fix the abuse of the Shadow Docket but also that the legislation is already drafted. We just need to get it to the floor. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
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The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/04/2026
OOP New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!' www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
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"In public, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country and the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis.

When colleagues warned the chief justice that he was proposing an unprecedented move, he was dismissive. “I recognize that the posture of this stay request is not typical,” he wrote. But he argued that the Obama plan, which aimed to regulate coal-fired plants, was “the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector,” and too big, costly and consequential for the court not to act immediately."
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
The NYT big expose on SCOTUS today pairs well with @ariberman.bsky.social and @pemalevy.bsky.social's cover story on how ~everything wrong with this country today can be laid at the feet of John Roberts: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Cover of Mother Jones with an image of fingers pointing at John Roberts and the coverline "Blame John Roberts for Everything"
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Today is the 251st anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops. I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Remind you of anyone?
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
"She’s been a court interpreter for over 20 years, the only one licensed in Texas for Hindi, Punjabi, or Urdu. Her language skills are requested nationwide..." "One of her children recently enlisted in the military... www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/04/2026
The FBI Director, the DC US Attorney, and the Secretary of Defense walk into a bar. Apparently like every day.
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