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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
we have control mechanisms for this. it's called The Law. these guys should be held personally liable for these harms. the suicides, the thefts, the intrusions into computer systems. they should be sued and prosecuted as appropriate. problem immediately solved
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/09/2026
Many of the babies’ autopsy reports were clear: Vitamin K deficiency was the immediate cause of death, or contributed to it. The reports also included details about parents refusing the vitamin K shot, a long-standard injection, for their newborns. (Published May)
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What I Can’t Forget About the Babies Who Died After Not Receiving a Vitamin K Shot
Babies have died after not receiving the vitamin K shot at birth. Their autopsy records underscore how preventable their deaths could have been.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 24/09/2026
Harvard college and Harvard Law School grad by the way.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Welp… Trump’s numbers are so bad even Tennessee Republican congressional candidates are cutting ties… 😬🤷🏼 (H/T @philinvestigates.com )
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Johnny Normality (Spooky Mode) @probgobl.in · 23/09/2026
It rules how the Democrat establishment is saying, with their whole chest, "If you elect us, things will not get better. We will not even try. Fuck you for asking."
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Per Texas media, it’s looking like +100K registrations were affected. Secretary of State is saying that it shouldn’t affect voting.
We reached out to 24 counties today to see the extent of the problem. Here's what we got back:
Collin County - 40,000+
Travis County - 32,000
Brazoria County - 9,000+
Hays County - 8,100
Cameron County - 5,000
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I graduated med school in 2014. I was taught-and saw-how hard melanoma was to treat, like a death sentence Since then, new treatments have made it possible for people w/ the most advanced melanoma, like Jimmy Carter, to live to 100! We are killing ourselves by letting them destroy American science
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Renewed strikes on Iran are a possibility, but there are also indications the US could be preparing a strike on Yemen.
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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
So pointless.
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WhinterWeen @whinterqueen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
JFC. the hand soap was distributed to NC, MS, ND, NE, NC, MD, SC, WI, GA, PA, CA, IL, IA, NY, TX, & WA
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Hand soap recalled for potential contamination of antibiotic-resistant bacteria
Six hand soaps distributed across 15 states have been recalled over possible bacterial contamination. See the brands, lot codes and affected products.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Come on this is ridiculous.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I’ve already resigned myself to this happening. He destroys everything beautiful.
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JoseyRider @joseyrider.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
👀👇🤬
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17/09/2026
“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”
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The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo
“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Damn
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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
TRUTH. Like, yeah people came together to try to donate blood or bring water to people working the pile, but the sheer number of stories of folks also trying to stab brown CHILDREN on the bus in that period is really high. Like really really high. Sikh kids in particular were targeted a lot.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12/09/2026
Scott MacFarlane reports from Trump’s Reflecting Pool renovation, which remains a mess. There’s no date certain for when it will be fixed, and the only people coming by are “rubberneckers” who want to see “the scope and size of the damage.”
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 12/09/2026
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the release of thousands of air quality records, providing unprecedented insight into the lingering health consequences of the 9/11 attacks. Our friends over at @revealnews.org did a deep dive into this very topic: Listen now: bit.ly/4xyTK5j
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/09/2026
Rep. Derrick Van Orden: "I'm on Vice President Vance's anti-fraud task force. You know how I got on there? I was like, 'Hey JD, can I be on your task force?' And yes was like, 'Yeah.'"
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 10/09/2026
Nazi shit
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"They"? What? What's fun about Republicans is that they get to smear an entire political group as responsible for one random person's actions, but they themselves will deny any responsibility for the actions of their own deranged president or the racist billionaire who has bought them all.
They killed Charlie Kirk—one year ago today.

Then they spiked the football, openly celebrating his assassination.

A year later, they’re planning parties to savor that horrible tragedy.
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Night of the Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
remembering that survey where the average American man thinks he could beat Serena Williams at tennis
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Brent broke $108
Brent Oil (USD/Bbl)
108.11 41.74 (+62.90%) 1Y
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10/09/2026
Today in "fuck this administration"
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is very near the Kruse Ancestral Home in suburban Kansas City and, uh, if they're sending the vice president there to shore up votes, they are freaking the fuck out.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 10/09/2026
As someone who has been covering transgender rights for years, let me be clear about something: When you see capitulation over sports, know that it NEVER stops at sports. And in fact, Turek illustrated this just yesterday when he embraced a federal ban on funding for all trans care.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/09/2026
CAIN: What about the existing illegal immigration population that is not a parole violator, or does not have a criminal record. Are they a priority? MARKWAYNE MULLIN: 100% a priority
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Israel has reportedly killed 4,383 people in Lebanon since early March and injured more than 12,000. Many of those killed were women and children. They’ve displaced tens of thousands more and erased entire villages.
courtneybonneauima... • X.com
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Lebanese Ministry of Health's updated casualty toll from Israel aggression since March 2, 2026: 4,383
killed and 12,406 wounded.
Hundreds of those killed were children, including six children killed just a week ago when Israeli forces massacred an entire family in an airstrike as they slept.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Sean Hannity’s selection to lead coverage of the midterms convention is a clear signal that Fox plans to produce a GOP infomercial, and it is functionally equivalent to simply letting the Republican National Committee program the coverage. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...
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Fox News is treating the GOP's midterm convention as a very special episode of Hannity
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Peter Navarro claims that Sean Hannity “fought hard” to get Fox News to air Trump's address on election security: www.mediamatters.org/election-den... Fox has Hannity anchoring its coverage of the GOP convention this week: www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...
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Fox News is treating the GOP's midterm convention as a very special episode of Hannity
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
giuliani: "Muslims have every desire to take us over. They want to dominate us." news media: "Some have characterized Giuliani's comments as anti-Muslim."
ABC:
Mamdani is expected to become the first Muslim mayor to attend the city's official 9/11 remembrance ceremony, though nearly every New York City mayor before him has participated in the event.

The debate intensified over the weekend when former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, speaking on Newsmax, said he would be offended if Mamdani attended the ceremony. Giuliani also made claims that critics and others have described as baseless, including suggesting the mayor does not believe the Sept. 11 attacks were acts of terrorism. Some have characterized Giuliani's comments as anti-Muslim.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Now, more than ever...
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"I don't know a single 9/11 family member who supported that petition. I don't know a single family member who actually signed it." Brett Eagleson, who lost his dad on 9/11, pushes back against the "pathetic" and "shameful" campaign against Mamdani. My full interview: zeteo.com/p/he-lost-hi...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Democrats should be at the microphone right now noting that this is a Hatch Act violation that they'll be pursuing in January. I don't care that the nation's become numb to this shit. It's still illegal and if Democrats should run against it and then act to crush it.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/09/2026
Pritzker: "He is suffering from dementia. I think we can all see that."
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
There’s such an easy answer to this “gotcha” question and it’s “Sports are inherently unsafe and unfair and it’s ridiculous to single out trans athletes when we allow 150 pound linebackers to go up against 260 pound linemen in freshman football on a daily basis. Let kids play with their friends.”
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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 09/09/2026
Haven't heard about the ICE occupation in Memphis? Not a coincidence. It's harder to record the agents in Tennessee than it is in other states.
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Memphis has spent a year under federal occupation. ICE would rather you didn't notice.
Watch as these officers arrest an activist for documenting from a reasonable distance.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
“When Democrats take the House, they must understand they are not a governing party. They are a dissident movement. Act like it.” @stuartpstevens.bsky.social is a Never-Trump Republican political strategist:
Stuart Stevens @ • 8/29/25
When Democrats take the House, they must understand they are not a governing party. They are a dissident movement.
Act like it.
First day:
- cut off all funding of Exec. Branch
-vote to nationalize Starlink and
SpaceX
-defund ICE
That's the first day.
On the second, get more aggressive.
There is nothing in the middle of the road but yellow lines and dead armadillos.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/09/2026
Women and children must die so men can get a hard on is a Trump administration policy.
A screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) by user Eric Katz (@EricM_Katz), which quotes a post by Paige W. Cunningham (@pw_cunningham).
The post text reads:
"👀 In canceling the maternal and infant mortality grants, HHS said those issues were no longer a priority for the office and grants would instead focus on 'low sperm count, low testosterone levels and erectile dysfunction.' 👇"
The quoted post by Paige W. Cunningham reads:
"Scoop: HHS's Office of Minority Health has cancelled 16 grants, several focused on maternal/infant health, telling grantees it's pivoting to a focus on the root causes of infertility and promoting exercise. with @EricM_Katz notus.org/health-science..."
At the bottom, the post metadata indicates it was posted at 3:05 PM on Sep 4, 2026, and has 133K views.
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Pete Hegseth has taken out more American generals than Iranian ones. jojofromjerz.substack.com/p/get-pete-h...
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GET PETE HEGSETH THE FUCK OUT OF THE PENTAGON
The most powerful military on Earth is being dismantled by a cable-news pick-me with a fucking grudge.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/09/2026
Children in an Idaho faith-healing sect keep dying. Some are sick for hours or days; others endured months or years of disease. In at least 15 cases, medical experts told us children died from conditions that doctors could’ve treated.
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These Children’s Deaths Were Preventable. Their Parents Prayed Instead of Seeking Medical Care.
For decades, Idaho laws have allowed parents who belong to the Followers of Christ and other faith-healing sects to pray rather than seek medical care. Since 2015, at least 15 children have died of tr...
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/09/2026
Daily life on death row nearly robbed him of his sanity, Jimmie Duncan told @veritenews.org and ProPublica. Like all inmates awaiting execution, Duncan remained in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day — for more than 20 years.
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He Spent 27 Years on Death Row as a Wrongfully Convicted Man. What Comes Next?
23-hour solitary confinement. 115-degree heat. Jimmie Duncan is haunted by the decades he spent in Louisiana's Angola prison -- and how, even after being released, he still isn't truly free.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
So many of the supposed divides in the Democratic caucus simply boil down to "this one will fight for all of us, this one will not" and for the past two years Team Fight is sweeping the board.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 31/08/2026
Just horrific—I assumed this was a big factory raid. It was at a bar.
The Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition condemned the operation. Executive Director Sherman Luna released the following statement.
"When more than 100 people are violently rounded up in the middle of the night it sends devastating shockwaves through the entire community. Fathers not returning home to their families, roommates left wondering where their friend is, businesses left shuttered and short-staffed as entrepreneurs and workers don't show up Monday morning.
When we say this administration is trying to reshape our nation in their narrow white nationalist vision, this is what it looks like: disappearing our families, neighbors, friends, and co-workers in the night with no regard for the devastation they leave behind."
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 30/08/2026
Investigate West reports on an Idaho county that has shared a list of foreign-born residents with ICE:
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Idaho probation office compiles ‘foreign born list’ for ICE
Emails show how Canyon County probation officers are helping immigration authorities — including making a list of foreign-born individuals
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Will Jones @willpjones.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Gift link: @lollardfish.bsky.social on why blue state universities need to market themselves as engines of the public good rather than job-training. This will require them to do a better job defending academic freedom, as well as the liberal arts.
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Perry: Republicans fought ‘indoctrination.’ Now they’re telling students what to study.
The conservative attack on higher education in states like Iowa is hard to watch. But it also provides an opportunity for blue states like Minnesota.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Roughly 100 US cities have torn out Flock Safety's licence plate cameras over federal immigration (ICE) access and privacy concerns. The company taking those contracts holds a $220m ICE procurement, works near-identically, and Trump's trust owns its stock.
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