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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"
gadgetreview.com
Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge
Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.
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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yet another reason to boycott Amazon.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Absolutely extraordinary strategic and military concessions offered by Trump to Xi. Trump offered to sell weapons to China. That was revealed in an interview by David Perdue, the US ambassador. Trump is withholding a $14bn arms package to Taiwan already approved by Congress. All of this
nytimes.com
Trump Offered to Sell Arms to China, U.S. Ambassador Says
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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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#MedicareForAllNOW
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mikeeoj.bsky.social @mikeeoj.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"...WaPo investigation.. the Office of Remigration's...the agency is effectively paying out huge sums of taxpayer money to some really nasty governments in exchange for their acceptance of third-country deportees who, for various reasons, cannot be returned to their country of origin." Vote.
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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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Lyndsey Layton @lyndseylayton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Americans love their national parks. The Trump Administration has been messing with them www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/c...
nytimes.com
How Trump Has Disrupted National Parks (Gift Article)
Maintenance projects have been put off around the country and resources diverted to the president’s favored projects in Washington.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
great but unless reporters actually DO something this is the equivalent of frowny “concern” from susan collins
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 16/09/2026
This isn’t a “sale”. Israel purchases these weapons with a fund created with U.S. taxpayer dollars. Biden/Harris blocked these 2000-pound bombs from going to Israel. Congress can block this “sale.” VOTE. www.nbcwashington.com/news/nationa...
nbcwashington.com
Trump administration plans to send powerful bombs to Israel in $2.8B weapons sale
The Trump administration is planning to deliver powerful 2,000-pound bombs to Israel as part of an upcoming arms deal.
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“This should be unthinkable for the son of the president. End of story.” A Russian oligarch close to Putin bankrolled Don Jr.’s wedding. www.propublica.org/article/dona...
propublica.org
Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
So the GOP is celebrating a guy who created a darknet marketplace for heroin and meth, and put out multiple muder-for-hire contacts to conceal his crimes.
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Matthew Hoppock @hoppock.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Hey. Something enormous is being built in Kansas City out of public view. The government is building a massive new multi-agency immigration complex: a new Immigration Court, a huge ICE/OPLA office, a new USCIS “Kansas City Mission Center,” and CISA space, all in the same building. I got the plans.🧵
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.
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peapodscout.bsky.social @peapodscout.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is horrible and dystopian.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I worry that they are moving so fast—and that the media has been so bizarrely silent—that the “new global order” (Pax Silica) will be in place (& impossible to unwind) before the public knows anything about it. Thread. #PaxSilica 1/
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
In case facts still matter
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“In the wake of a hiring surge last summer, an official in charge of evaluating new recruits to ICE issued a dire warning. The Trump administration was cutting corners, violating the law and fast-tracking unqualified, ‘improperly vetted’ candidates.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/u...
nytimes.com
ICE Skipped Basic Checks in Rush for Recruits, Whistle-Blower Says
An official who oversaw the vetting of ICE recruits cited an “unprecedented lowering of standards” amid a hiring surge.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Everything is for sale. www.notus.org/agencies/tru...
notus.org
Trump’s Quietly Working to Give Part of Yosemite to a Private Developer
The National Park Service is under pressure to make an unprecedented deal that cedes a quarter-mile strip of the park.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 27/08/2026
So you can be mad about a guy who one time hung out with another guy who (maybe) said things you disagree with, or you can stay home and help the guy who’s funded by literal Nazis. michiganadvance.com/2025/08/05/p...
michiganadvance.com
Pro-Rogers Super PAC funded by ardent Christian Nationalist • Michigan Advance
A Texas oil billionaire with deep ties to the Christian Nationalist movement and a rising presence in the national GOP scene, has contributed $5 million to a super PAC backing Republican Mike Rogers’ ...
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 26/08/2026
Jesus Christ. All green card interviews worldwide are paused indefinitely
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 25/08/2026
Our troops could be using UNSAFE or INEFFECTIVE weapons because of Pete Hegseth. That's right. Hegseth gutted the office that tests weapons. @norcross.house.gov and I are pressing Hegseth to reverse these cuts. We shouldn’t unnecessarily risk troops’ lives and our national security.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
“”Local media has been dying all over America, which means that there’s essentially no real way to hold local governments accountable—& they can do whatever they want,’ Kevin DeAnna told an invitation-only gathering of [about] 50 white nationalists in Rome,” before adding, “This is a good thing.” 1/
confrontthehate.com
As Local News Dies, White Nationalists See an Opening
At an invitation-only gathering in Italy, far-right leaders mapped out strategies to target rural America while local press coverage vanishes.
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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I suspect a lot of you outside of the state of Ohio (and possibly some of you inside of the state of Ohio) are not aware of the current billion dollar bid Black Rock is making to buy up our electric utilities  Yes, -that- Black Rock I feel like this should be much, much bigger news 🚨
cleveland.com
Data center investors want to buy Ohio’s public utilities
Consumer advocates warn a $10 billion deal that would give BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, control over AES Ohio could create conflicts of interest that end up raising electricity rates ...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“Local media has been dying all over America, which means there’s essentially no way to hold local governments accountable— they can do whatever they want,” he told the white nationalists meeting. “You should be fantasizing about this. This is a good thing.” www.confrontthehate.com/p/white-nati...
confrontthehate.com
As Local News Dies, White Nationalists See an Opening
At an invitation-only gathering in Italy, far-right leaders mapped out strategies to target rural America while local press coverage vanishes.
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peapodscout.bsky.social @peapodscout.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This list is insane.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
What could go wrong?
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garethhutchens.bsky.social @garethhutchens.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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Michelle Moore @trebula.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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nytimes.com
Under Trump, Protected Wild Horses Are Going to Slaughter
A legal loophole allows the government to sell mustangs on the cheap, stripping them of protections and clearing their path to destruction.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Professor Jason Stanley - ex-Yale, now Toronto - is also a leading authority on fascism. He busted Nathan Cofnas back in 2020 BEFORE his appointment at Cambridge. This entire story has been reported without any meaningful expertise of the context. spectator.com/article/acad...
spectator.com
Academics are trying to get my paper retracted — and some of them haven’t even read it
Philosophy is ultimately about questioning orthodoxies and challenging taboos
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10/08/2026
NEW: Internal National Park Service records obtained by MeidasTouch’s Scott MacFarlane reveal more than $400 MILLION has been steered toward Trump’s White House and D.C. projects, while funding for major national parks is being slashed.
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Trump Turns National Parks into Piggybank
Cutbacks and Setbacks Hammer America's National Parks in the Shadow of Trump's Vanity Projects
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Yep. Weapons can broadly be classified in two terms: Exquisite - the good shit. Expensive. Limited stock. Affordable mass - scalable production, large quantities, easy to replace. We’ve been using a lot of JASSM/JASSM-ER, TLAMs, PAC-3 interceptors, etc. That’s the good shit.
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peapodscout.bsky.social @peapodscout.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
This is a disgusting practice.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 26/07/2026
That book inspired the 1995 Oklahoma City federal building bombing, which killed 167 people, including a bunch of kids in the building's day care center. In case you wondered how dangerous this rhetoric is.
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
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🦋 Still Standing 🦋 @imstillstanding.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Well…isn’t this a little gem. @jenpsaki.bsky.social did you know about this?
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Trump wants to redirect $200B “toward AI, away from Colleges”*** The plan was laid out in a new report by the Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP) — led by “Peter Thiel Protégé” Michael Kratsios. 1/
WSJ
White House to Redirect Billions in Research Funds Toward AI, Away From Colleges
The overhaul will reshape $200 billion in spending a year and favors individual scientists to outpace China
By Amrith Ramkumar
July 21, 2026 at 6:00 pm ET
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Michael Kratsios
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
wow number one is a real shocker
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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
“Researchers affiliated with the institute created the first animal model for Parkinson’s, identified a pesticide called Paraquat, and proved that farm workers who sprayed Paraquat developed Parkinson’s at exceedingly high rates.” www.wired.com/story/scient...
wired.com
Scientists Thought Parkinson’s Was in Our Genes. It Might Be in the Water
New ideas about chronic illness could revolutionize treatment, if we take the research seriously.
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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Anna Paulina Luna apparently tipped off a MAGA influencer about Trump picking Vance as VP so he could win a bet on Polymarket. She even teased him for not betting more. This kind of shit should be illegal.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/07/2026
Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”
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Emily (spooky) @emilyrose.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.
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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 17/07/2026
Our bill would ensure that a human decision-maker always remains in the loop when lethal force is involved, because no machine should ever be given the power to decide to kill a human being on its own. With Rep. Tom Barrett and @sarajacobs.house.gov:
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Beyer, Barrett, Jacobs Introduce Bipartisan Legislation Requiring Human Control Over Autonomous Weapons
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The US Atomic Energy Act (Sec 123) allows the US to send nuclear material to a partner nation only if the partner nation agrees to international agency inspections of ALL of their nuclear materials & activities, not just US-supplied items. The Trump admin is considering a workaround for Israel…1/
neutronbytes.com
U.S. Tech Park in Israel May Have a Nuclear Power Plant
U.S. Tech Park in Israel May Have a Nuclear Power Plant UK is Seeking a Pipeline of Advanced Nuclear Projects Think Tank; Europe Must Show Stronger Policy Support Towards Nuclear U.S. Tech Park in …
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Ken Morales @kbmorales.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
14/ My colleague, @nicolefoy.bsky.social found that 170 US citizens have been caught up in them: www.propublica.org/article/immi...
propublica.org
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Thomas Paine is my favorite founding father. He was famously abolitionist and one of the earliest voices to point out the hypocrisy of fighting for independence while keeping slaves. He also firmly believed that keeping any friendship which required compromising your morals made you a bad person.
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Matt DeLong @mattdelong.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Simpsons meme with Hans Moleman on a pay phone saying “I need the biggest metaphor you have.” Followed by “No, that’s too big.”
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Wendy Siegelman @wendysiegelman.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
A top advisor shaping U.S. defense spending is a director of a public company with ties to Trump's Truth Social and deals linked to China
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A top advisor shaping U.S. defense spending is a director of a public company with ties to Trump’s Truth Social and deals linked to China
George Kollitides, a senior advisor overseeing U.S. defense spending, is also on the board of a public company, D. Boral Acquisition I Corp., which has several links to the Trump family business and Truth Social and deals in Asia.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Think of constitutional law scholars as mechanics, they are experts in the underlying mechanics of a complex system... ... none of which matter much when, like now, they're saying "the car is hitting trees because the driver is drunk idk what you expect from me."
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Zohran Mamdani and AOC aren’t the main reasons democratic socialists are getting elected. Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Donald Trump and Mike Johnson are the main reasons democratic socialists are getting elected. Eventually, people start to realize who’s keeping them poor.
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