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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A victory for the government in this case would greenlight long-term mass civil detention at a level not seen since Japanese internment during WWII. It would represent the largest change in how the US treats immigrants facing removal since 1996, and remind us again that the 96 law must be erased.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 26/09/2026
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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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 26/09/2026
Science world (and everyone who knows someone with cancer or dementia): Keep an eye on this! It looks like another try at the pocket rescission gambit.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If executive branch creates a system so that people under government control can be located and then just stops listing some people in that system — despite their still being under government control — that should be a five-alarm fire for the other branches, the states, and the public.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 20/09/2026
In a 2025 study, researchers show the grass species felines eat tend to be jagged and covered in spikelike projections. That allows them to latch onto intestinal hairballs, the team proposes, potentially helping cats dislodge them. Learn more: scim.ag/4ntn8VB #ScienceMagArchives
Gold-covered hairballs may reveal why cats eat grass
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Politico @politico.com · 20/09/2026
Trump asked budget chief to draft order bringing health research funding under his control
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Trump asked budget chief to draft order bringing health research funding under his control
The move came after the NIH director refused Trump’s request to cut Harvard grants in an Oval Office meeting.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The US already got a do over. A mulligan. A second chance. Much of the world, especially US allies, were ready to write off Trump’s first term as a fluke. The American people’s choice to put him back in power—as a convicted felon, after an openly bigoted, anti-democracy campaign—showed it was not.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
W/o getting drawn into the "seriously or literally" / "it'll never happen" trap, we need to stomp *hard* on the continuing effort to undermine Article 1 power of the purse by saying that this or that revenue stream makes something outside the normal budget process. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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Lutnick says Trump’s $5,000 checks for Americans wouldn’t rely on taxpayer funds
A top White House official suggested Congress would use a budget process to fund them. Vice President JD Vance had said tariff revenues.
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 10/09/2026
Another futile obsession living in NYC is night sky access and this was the best I've ever gotten
A clear and bright Milky Way photo, with a (presumed) satellite at the top of the frame.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Honest to god can we stop with the “Trump says…” ledes. I’m begging you
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
do any of you know what words mean or do you think "backfire" is when the expected and intended result occurs?
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Erika McEntarfer @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This change grants Commerce political appointees veto power over data and research releases by scientists and statisticians at NOAA, NIST, Census, and BEA.
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 01/09/2026
"The Commerce Department, quietly cut language banning political interference from the department's scientific integrity policy, NPR has learned." www.npr.org/2026/08/31/n...
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Trump officials cut political interference ban after unusual Census Bureau report
After the Census Bureau issued a report tied to a Trump-aligned think tank, the bureau's parent agency cut language banning political interference from its scientific integrity policy, NPR learned.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I don't agree with that. Because there is zero chance of whipping the votes, building the consensus if it's not public. I explain in this piece. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/clybu...
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Clyburn: Let’s Add Four
Rep. James Clyburn (D) of South Carolina said today on Meet the...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
1) DHS asks a federal judge for a warrant to hoover up private data from journalists, activists, and trade unions. 2) Judge denies because it is an obvious violation of the 1st and 4th Amendments with no justification. 3) DHS issues its own "Administrative Warrant" and sucks up the data anyway.
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Trump’s DHS is using an obscure law to secretly snoop on journalists, non-profits and unions: ‘It’s outrageous’
Even after judges rejected the same ploy, the Trump administration is going directly to social media and telecommunications companies
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Brad Reed @bwreed.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
So to add to my thesis about how social media has changed things: Images of wanton cruelty are the kinds of things governments used to try to hide. If Abu Ghraib happened today, Trump would give Lynndie England the Medal of Freedom.
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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I am politics posting and posting more than normal. You given Canada stuff, sorry. But Trump was an aberration in 2016, then building a wall and all the other shit became mainstream in R circles. Its insufficient to just say "well this is just a one off youll be fine after"
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
On some level, I think a lot of Dems just aren't willing to say flat out that Trump and Trumpism have failed in a very profound way. Dems have internalized the idea that this is too much for voters to hear. That's the source of a lot of problems. It's needlessly self-constraining.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I'm not a categorical pacifist but people have no idea how bad sustained political violence is to live under. one of the common ways that dictators get their initial legitimacy is being perceived as the guy who made that shit stop.
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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The Trump admin must be held accountable for everything they have done.
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Kevin Erdmann @kevinerdmann.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
What’s happening in Phoenix? fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1XS31
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
During WWII, one of the chief engineers at Grumman found that there was a direct correlation between the number of planes manufactured and women integrated into their plants
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
If this is accurate, this is truly distressing news. Terrible process and outcome.
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Joel D. Anderson @joelanderson.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
It’s pretty jarring we’ve just come to expect that the feds will lie to us and publicize false information and that there is virtually no consequence for it.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/08/2026
the president of the united states regularly goes on incredibly embarrassing unhinged posting sprees full of AI slop and somehow the entire political system just reacts like the This Is Fine dog
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Well, that’s the most repulsive thing I’ve read in a minute. I suppose I appreciate Adrian’s candor in saying all of this out loud.
The illegal alien is a line-jumper and a violator of sovereign borders, a thief of both time and space, and generally speaking a thief may pass no valid title to stolen goods. Of course the child of an illegal alien is innocent of any personal wrongdoing, but the problem is that the parents lack the kind of lawful status that could ground transmission to their descendants of the citizenship, and the share of sovereignty, to which the parents are not themselves entitled. Our law, interpreted in this way, would merely deny to the illegal alien, a violator of the republic's laws, the ability to pass on to their children the fruits of the parents' own wrongdoing, the crucial ability to vest a share of republican sovereignty in their
own descendants. A mild remedy indeed.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
If you have type-O positive blood and you can manage it, please consider donating blood *as soon as possible* - this is a very bad situation.
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Phillip @obscureshapes.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Debian's Testing kernel stability is always a crapshoot on my laptop. Some kernels let me go for months with no issues while others leave me with multiple freezes in day. I suspect it's related to my integrated AMD GPU, but unfortunately I have neither the time nor skills to debug it.
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Phillip @obscureshapes.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I think it's just baked in that 25-25% of the US will support Trump no matter what, but it's frustrating that there's another 15-25% of the US who support Trump until they see his policies fail. He's a deeply stupid, bigoted, cruel, and corrupt man- all the past 19 months were easily foreseeable!
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 22/07/2026
🚨 ICE just published their recent numbers and it's worse than we thought. JUNE: ICE and CBP took 43,138 people. That works out to 1,474 of our neighbors every single day. JULY: 65,765 people are now inside US concentration camps.
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ICE Quietly Arresting More People Than Ever According to Latest Data
NEW DATA ALERT 🚨 After months of data silence, ICE's new numbers show 65,765 people in immigration detention, deportations near 1,250 a day, and arrests now at 1,473 a day.
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
NEW: A second ex-wife of David Brouillette, the ICE agent who killed Joan Durán Guerrero in Maine, Lucinda Brouillette, issued a statement this morning. "If you were to ask me whether I believe David Brouillette is capable of this level of extreme violence, my answer is unequivocally yes." /
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
seattle'a single family homes have not been affordable for *decades* - it has nothing to do with hedge funds and wealthy corporations and everything to do with policies that prioritize existing homeowners over new condos and missing middle homes. zoning. construction costs. single stair bans. etc
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
The Democratic Party's approval rating is in the toilet, and the main reason is voters see Dem leaders and prominent members acting like things are basically okay instead of fighting like there's an emergency. Slot "my friend Lindsey Graham, so funny, how great to work with him" comments into that.
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Phillip @obscureshapes.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Molecular biologists will all think the AI line should be: ChatGTP -> ChatGDP + Pi
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/01/2024
In re: Your periodic reminder that Christy Romer was right, Obama should’ve listened to her instead of Rahm & Summers, & he effectively kneecapped his entire presidency before it even started by preemptively self-constraining the bargaining space on the size & composition of the 2009 stimulus.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 11/07/2026
i genuinely think that maga hates america. they hate america because america makes them feel small.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Normie Dems are demanding candidates with "fight"; ideology and hot button policy positions are far less important. It's worth understanding what they're saying. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-res...
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A Response to Matt Yglesias About ‘Fight’ in Democratic Candidates
This morning on Bluesky Politico’s Josh Gerstein flagged to me and others...
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I like civilization, the actual place we live in (not the fetish dream of some fuckwad), and want it to be better and don't want so fuckos to burn it down because they think they aren't flammable
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Josh is one of the very few people who I think grasps the actual extent of the problem we're facing and the approach we need to address it.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Please RT this piece and share on other social channels talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusi...
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Exclusive: DOJ Taps Gang, Terrorism Prosecutors to Crack Down on Political Groups
The Department of Justice has tapped two prosecutors with expertise in organized...
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 27/06/2026
There are only 1️⃣6️⃣!! days left to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding. Take action here: zurl.co/HxmCO #standupforscience #savescience #vought #omb #sciencesaveslives #scienceforall
Graphic from Stand Up for Science with a large red "16" and the text "Days Left" on the left side. At the top center, bold text reads, "Help Us Stop Vought From Destroying American Science." On the right is a cutout photo of Russell Vought in front of a muted green circle, partially overlapping an image of the U.S. Capitol. Along the bottom, the graphic urges viewers to "Submit a Comment on the OMB Proposal" and directs them to the "Link in Bio to Take Action." The Stand Up for Science logo appears in the upper left corner.
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Erika McEntarfer @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Interesting new work out of the California Policy Lab, linking state UI claims data to AI exposure. Takeaway: no evidence of rising UI claims among AI-exposed occupations in CA. Unexpected: AI-exposed workers account for a large share of overall UI claims. capolicylab.org/california-a...
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California AI-Unemployment Tracker (CAIT) - California Policy Lab
Tracking AI-Related Job Loss Using Unemployment Insurance Claims Data in California The California Employment Development Department partnered with the nonpartisan California Policy Lab at the Univers...
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I support any and all efforts to encourage a return to blogging / writing and thinking in complete sentences and paragraphs.
Norman Rockwell freedom of speech meme
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