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Patrick @patrickin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Horrible. “The Education Department intends to use IRS data to determine students’ salaries four years after they graduate and compare them to those of people similar in age who just have high school diplomas. If they’re below that baseline, that degree will be ineligible for loans.”
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In two weeks, Russell Brand goes on trial in the UK on rape and sexual assault charges in cases involving six women. Tomorrow in DC, he's appearing at a MAHA gathering to 'moderate' a discussion with Dr Oz about medicare and medicaid. What the hell?
1:55 to 2:25 pm Reforms at CMS

Chris Klomp Chief Counselor HHS

Mehmet Oz, Administrator CMS

Moderated by Russell BRand, comedian and brodcaster
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Unbelievable. Apparently at the same time Trump is withholding a $14 billion arms package to Taiwan approved by Congress, he offered to sell arms to Xi Jinping, despite the fact that China is aiding Iran and Russia. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...
nytimes.com
Trump Offered to Sell Arms to China, U.S. Ambassador Says (Gift Article)
President Trump made the offer to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said David Perdue, the ambassador to China. The White House later said the U.S. had no plans for such a sale.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 26/09/2026
Sent from the US Embassy in Yaoundé, Cameroon, where ICE has expelled dozens of people with no ties to the country, where they are imprisoned in a government compound and pressured into chain refoulement. Many are queer asylum-seekers; homosexuality is illegal in Cameroon.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The White House says it banned Politico for using anonymous sources. One of the examples it cited was their own background briefing in which the White House itself provided the anonymous official. @scottnover.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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The White House banned Politico, citing anonymous sources. It provided the quotes.
In a letter defending its ban of Politico, the White House critiqued a report based on a press call it conducted, where reporters were told not to name the speaker.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Trump Tax is very real. We’re all paying for his pointless war.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/09/2026
This will make it nearly impossible to file habeas petitions, because attorneys won’t even know what federal district their client has been moved to to stage for their removal. Something like a third of all people in ICE custody. apnews.com/article/ice-...
apnews.com
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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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is about one thing and one thing alone. Steering our research dollars for cancer, heart disease, and new infectious diseases to Trump’s political allies and friends.
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Patrick @patrickin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Families and attorneys were already struggling to find detainees for days or weeks at a time. ICE is now disappearing far more people.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 17/09/2026
The new wild cat species is about the size of a domestic kitten and lives in Bolivia.
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New wild cat species is identified for first time in 100 years, researchers say
A type of tiger cat, the animal is smaller than a house cat, slender and spotted. It lives in the Bolivian cloud forest.
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Patrick @patrickin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In short, ICE agents beat a guy, then left him lying injured on the pavement and drove off when they figured out they had the wrong guy.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026
Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming theonion.com/trans-teen-hatches-nef…
Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming
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T. Thorn Coyle they/them @thorncoyle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez was delivering for DoorDash. His wife and lawyer have been trying to get access to him the hospital for several hours.
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tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 19/09/2026
eliminate EV subsidies, ban cheap overseas EVs, ban EV component import, deport people bringing battery technology to the US, pay billions to kill clean energy projects, end fuel economy standards, and then do THIS is such an elaborate prank on the American people you almost have to respect it
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 19/09/2026
The Kennedy Center was financially stable until Trump took over: "In the fiscal year ending in 2024, when the center was led by President Deborah Rutter and a bipartisan board of trustees, it brought in about $40 million more than it spent" www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
theatlantic.com
What the Kennedy Center’s Tax Return Reveals
A previously unseen filing captures the state of the institution seven months after Donald Trump’s takeover.
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Patrick @patrickin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Now I want to change my trivia team name to Slut Gnomes of False Berlin
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
underrated part of El-Sayed’s messaging strategy seems to be shaming journalists who ask dumb questions that play into right-wing frames. you can’t answer these in a way that satisfies them, but you can make it embarrassing enough that you impose a toll on asking.
Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 13/09/2026
Kushner on Ukraine: “President Putin's laid out his line of what he wants to achieve. If Ukraine, you know, wanted to withdraw to that line, then obviously, you know, we have the rest of the deal set up and put together. Ukraine right now does not want to do that.” Putin’s brain cell
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Patrick @patrickin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Our universities draw talented people from all over the world. The Trump regime is moving to destroy that with exorbitant, illegal taxes.
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Shawnfeb@bsky.social @shawnfeb24.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Welcome to the bathroom. 
A cat will be with you shortly.
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MondoAB @mondoab.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This lie is why I can't support Mark Carney. Ten years ago 1.5c was thought catastrophic, now it's just a number. 💔 "Every day this deception whispers seductively in the ears of mankind: “global warming is real but not urgent… Keep doing what you’re doing." www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-mas...
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The Gargantuan Lie That is Collapsing The World’s Climate
Thinking we have time left to address climate change, or that “Net Zero by 2050” will save us, is driving us toward full social collapse in ways that become more obvious with every new broken temperat...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Another epic backfire
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◉●○•° @cosmoecology.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
As the planet heats up, tundras are thawing, wetlands are fermenting, and forests are succumbing to larger and more frequent wildfires. A new study finds the breakdown of natural systems will amplify human-driven warming by 20 to 30 percent. The worst of predicted scenarios edge even closer.
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The Breakdown of Natural Systems Could Intensify Warming by 30 Percent
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026
Wow -- RNC video: "On June 14th, 1946, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, 'I need a caretaker,' so God gave us Trump." It only gets more unhinged and culty from there.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 08/09/2026
🚨 OCTOBER 17 — NO KINGS: VOTE EARLY! With our democracy at stake, we're showing up again to promote unprecedented voter participation in the midterms. Our goal is to translate the historic protest power of No Kings mobilizations into a massive wave of voter turnout.
NO KINGS
NO THRONES. NO CROWNS.
VOTE EARLY
OCTOBER 17
NOKINGS.ORG
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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Bombing civilian targets in retaliation for attacking valid military targets is a blatant war crime and it's a reflection of how far we've fallen that him boasting about doing so won't even be a news story.
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Joe Dator @joedator.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Today's Daily Cartoon for @newyorker.com by Kevin Maher and me.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
That's very untrue. Steinem once told Terry Gross that she didn't marry until her sixties because "first I had to reinvent the institution of marriage." Women had no economic equality in the workplace, no equal access, no right against marital rape, sexual harassment...
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Everyone's favorite time of year: the Ig Nobel Prizes have been announced. Economics especially spicy this year. arstechnica.com/science/2026...
arstechnica.com
Meet the 2026 Ig Nobel Prize winners
The annual award ceremony features miniature operas, scientific demos, and "24/7" lectures.
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 02/09/2026
Betting on wildfires needs to be prohibited, full stop. We should never provide an incentive for traders to root for disaster. This is despicable. www.vox.com/today-explai...
vox.com
People are betting on wildfires on Polymarket. What could go wrong?
Lawmakers are warning that predictions markets could make a bad wildfire season worse.
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Forum on the Arms Trade @forumarmstrade.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“...No armed conflict exists with the United States under international humanitarian law, since there is no military combat between two sides. The United States is simply killing individuals unilaterally without any legal basis or process..." www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
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United States: UN experts demand end to unlawful killings at sea, as one-year death toll hits 223
GENEVA – UN experts* today demanded an end to unlawful killings by the United States of America, after at least 223 deaths at sea were recorded from US air strikes in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific...
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Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com · 31/08/2026
This summer's food recalls are broader in scope, longer-lasting, and more severe than past years as regulators are slow to respond. The parasite surveillance staff at the CDC, which responds to outbreaks (such as cyclosporiasis), was downsized last year by DOGE from 11 people to three.
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A summer of recalls exposes holes in the nation’s food safety net • Minnesota Reformer
Jalapenos. Frozen berries. Beef. Alfalfa sprouts. A summer of food recalls, including the record-shattering cyclosporiasis outbreak tied to iceberg lettuce that has sickened thousands, has raised many...
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Tuesday: The US govt offers its “deepest condolences to the victims and their families” after armed gangs storm a mountainside town in Haiti, killing dozens and kidnapping more than 50, including infants. Thursday: The govt deports 57 people, including a 3-year-old born in the U.S., to Haiti. 1/
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.
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Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
DHS.GOV/CBРНОМЕ

Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The service academies aren't the only institutions in the US being destroyed as universities. But they're the only federal public universities in the US at all, and they play an important role in training the armed forces' leadership, which ultimately means... www.stripes.com/branches/arm...
stripes.com
West Point professor fired after pushing back on limitations to teaching climate change, lawsuit says
Adam Kalkstein pushed back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change, the lawsuit says.
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
23% drop in student visas to US in 2025 57% drop from India alone catastrophic for research and learning, here and abroad www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
Graph of visas issued to students per month in 2024 and 2025
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 25/08/2026
Here's the 30-day running mean for the global temperature anomaly from Jan. 1, 1941 to Aug. 23, 2026, along with a quadratic trendline. The Climate Casino is taking the Over on breaking 2.0°C at some point in the next 6 months.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 25/08/2026
"Soon I’ll be spending Saturday afternoons writing my informative classroom NEWSLETTERS and Sunday afternoons hemming and hawing about my LESSON PLANS, so I need to store up all my FRIEND TIME like I’m a GRIZZLY BEAR who’s getting ready to SOCIALLY HIBERNATE." buff.ly/2gBeiUa
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Hang Out with Me, a Teacher, Before Summer Is Gone
“My social calendar is CLOSING for the season except for occasional SATURDAY NIGHTS during the school year until around 8:30 p.m. (sorry) because by then my ...
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TheValuesVoter @thevaluesvoter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
There are about 100 trans people playing on any sports teams from K-12 all the way up to professional - in the WHOLE COUNTRY. The amount of attention this boogeyman issue gets is just astounding.
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(C)all (M)e "Shirley" or don't, I don't care @realcinematik.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
It's worth reiterating every time the Trump regime performs one of these murders that they are murders, wholly illegal, & everyone in the chain of command from the president on down to the officers who fired the weapons should be prosecuted for their crimes in aiding & abetting the murders.
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Governor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 22/08/2026
This is outrageous. A free press cannot function under constant threats and retaliation from the government. Reporters must be free to hold those in power accountable — without fear of retribution. The assault on the free press must end!
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If you didn't vote Dem, you helped make this: @airbagmoments.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Billionaires who pay no taxes threaten to move from areas where they have paid no taxes to new areas where they plan to pay no taxes. Seems like a dog-bites-man story to me.
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Solar panel prices have fallen 90% since 2010, making solar the cheapest form of energy on Earth. oilprice.com/Alternative-...
oilprice.com
How Solar Panel Prices Fell 90 Percent In 15 Years | OilPrice.com
Solar power outpaced every other energy source in 2025, driven by falling costs, early policy bets and a global push for energy security.
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 20/08/2026
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement charter flight landed in Liberia today, likely carrying immigrants with no ties to the country, marking Liberia’s entrance into the Trump administration’s network of countries taking so-called third-country nationals. buff.ly/43SshI5
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Liberia Joins Trump’s ‘Third-Country Deportation’ Network - The American Prospect
The African republic says it will take up to 1,200 noncitizen deportees beginning with the flight on Thursday.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The bond market isn't just a Wall Street story. It affects government borrowing costs, mortgages, car loans, and credit cards. So what is it telling us right now? I break it down in today's Substack: newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/the-bond-m...
newsletter.platypuseconomics.com
The Bond Market Is Trying To Tell Us Something, But Are We Listening?
Talking about bonds can feel tricky. Let’s break it down.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
JFC! This is not a car crash! This is a driver killing and injuring people on bikes with a car.
apnews.com
2 college cyclists killed and 7 injured in Tennessee car crash
Two members of a university cycling team have been killed and seven others were injured in a car crash in northeastern Tennessee.
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