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taber @kvetch.gay · 28/09/2026

Here's a map of how iron ore mined in Minnesota moves (the red lines). Note the markers for where steel facilities are located, they're where they are because you have to move the stuff on ships. There are no steel mills in Iowa of any size because you can't get the fucking stuff it's made of there

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Rex is right: this sounds an awful lot like that Foxconn deal in Wisconsin when Trump promised a $4B deal with 13K jobs. Of course, that never happened...

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NPR @npr.org · 28/09/2026

Authors Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor identify supremacists that have, despite ideological differences, converged around the conviction that they are part of an elite destined to survive an apocalypse. n.pr/4AC1wxU

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'End Times Fascism' looks at supremacist groups uniting around end-of-the-world ideas

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The Nature Conservancy @nature.org · 26/09/2026

Public lands are where we hike, camp, explore and make lasting memories. They're also worth speaking up for. This National Public Lands Day, join us in urging Congress to keep public lands in public hands: nature.ly/4A17ZlL

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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Tom Tiffany voted to raise the cost of your healthcare… and then gave a tax break for data centers.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026

Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.

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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals

OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.

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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Warrior Princess ⬇️

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

For those who have forgotten the past 40 years: Tax cuts for the rich ...don’t trickle down Boosting military spending ...doesn’t bring peace Slashing regulations ...doesn’t create jobs Folks, we’ve seen this all before.

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

NEW: Brown Brothers Media is the most successful media company you've never heard of. For years, its success was fueled by AI, fake writers, and fake reporting. When we started asking questions, BBM started mass-deleting content. Somehow, what came next was even worse. futurism.com/artificial-i...

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How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month

Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is a really important story. You know how over reliance on AI makes you lazy and stupid? This shows how that’s happening within the military — a military, it cannot be pointed out often enough, that’s growing ever more reliant on AI. The children of Shajarah Tayyebah Elementary paid the price

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If my company killed 123 children, the U.S. government would shut us down and send me to jail

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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is a good deep-dive into AI slop invading what used to be legit media sites. One thing I’m seeing more and more: slop outlets churning archaeology stories from 1-5 years ago and presenting them as news. 🏺🧪

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How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month

Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.

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coffeebean-26.bsky.social @coffeebean-26.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Oh, Wisconsin. Remember the good old days when our state parks were well funded? Then came Scott Walker and Tom Tiffany. Our parks need over $1 billion to repair infrastructure. captimes.com/opinion/gues... #Wisconsin #wipolitics #wisdems #wisgop #WIGov

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Opinion | State parks' 125th birthday gift? Least state funding in US

Spencer Black: Former Gov. Scott Walker and Republicans cut off support for the Wisconsin state park system. It's time to reverse that decision.

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Andy Olsen @andyo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

They're Putin Republicans. It's really an amazing historic turn of events when Russian desires to tear down the USA coincide with Republican desires to tear down the USA government.

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drew hanson @pedview.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

RT with your home river. Birth-late teens and prior six generations: the Peshtigo and Menominee rivers of Marinette County WI and Menominee County MI

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drew hanson @pedview.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It’s a fascinating landscape. Adam Cahow once led me on a memorable hike of an ice-walled lake plain at the Chippewa Moraine Reserve in which we followed a gully down-slope as he described how erosion shaped the micro-landscape.

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I love these comparisons even if this one is pretty sad. Here is the 1941 vs 2004 view of the Muir Glacier in Alaska. Source: buff.ly/sKlaZoL

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MTH @megt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Researchers studying patients undergoing testing for lung problems have found that those diagnosed with lung cancer were more likely to have detectable microplastics in their lungs. 🧪https://www.newsweek.com/scientists-studied-lung-cancer-patients-a-troubling-pattern-emerged-12403862

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Scientists studied lung cancer patients—A troubling pattern emerged

A new study has revealed a striking difference between people with lung cancer and those without the disease.

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Stockholm Resilience Centre @sthlmresilience.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The biosphere is in our guts, on our skin and in our breathing. Most people think of the biosphere as the natural world around them. But few consider the nature that is found within them. A new research article from the Centre explores how organisms interact in the web of life.

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Nick Davies / Aster Loxley / Spiral Island @spiralisland.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Got blessed* by the swiftnado *shat on

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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Just off the shores of Lake Geneva, the Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, WI, holds the largest refracting telescope ever built (40-inch lens, 1897). Known as the birthplace of modern astrophysics, Einstein visited in 1921 and called it “wunderschön” [absolutely beautiful].

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Corporations spend more than $1.5 billion a year on union-busting. That’s $1.5 billion they could have spent on higher wages, better benefits, and improving workplace safety. Remember: if they weren’t so scared of worker power, they wouldn’t fight so hard against unions.

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U.S. employers spend more than $1.5 billion annually on union avoidance

Key takeaways Many U.S. employers hire union avoidance consultants to keep their workers from organizing and bargaining

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Andy Olsen @andyo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Hilarious.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It still sickens me this bigot mocked a disabled reporter and millions of Americans said, “No big deal. That’s who I want as president.”

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Victor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Excellent conversation with Abdul El-Sayed. I especially liked his explanation of public goods like infrastructure and healthcare and why the market won't support them.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 02/09/2026

I am a scientist – and the answer is climate change. Yes, there is nuance. Yes, it could take a long time to identify the precise mechanisms. But there is no question why ice and snow-related disasters are on the rise. Our planet is warming at an unprecedented rate, and humans are responsible.

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Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"The USFS said the climbers told them they had used an artificial intelligence platform, YouTube videos and AllTrails to plan the trip. They said they relied on AI to decide what food to bring and how much food and water they would need." 🙃

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Three Mount Shasta climbers rescued after relying on AI to plan climb

Three novice climbers were rescued from Mount Shasta on Sunday after becoming lost, running low on supplies and spending an unplanned night in Mud Creek Canyon,

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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 31/08/2026

While everyone’s distracted by the Trump admin.’s erratic actions on the world stage, it keeps approving dangerous forever pesticides right here on our own soil. It’s unconscionable, immoral and illegal. Our kids and grandkids deserve better than to be saddled with #pollution that never goes away.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It's like a parody, but it's deadly serious; the Commerce Department (which includes Census, NOAA, and others) has outright deleted "don't alter or suppress scientific findings for political reasons" from its scientific integrity rules. Seriously.

Protecting against "inappropriate influence" is no longer a "hallmark" of scientific integrity

The Commerce Department updated its policy for promoting a "culture of scientific integrity" in January 2025, days before Trump's second inauguration.

A new Trump administration order bans the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis from using statistical “noise,” or data for fuzzing survey results, to protect people’s privacy in their statistics.

The 2025 version included bans on attempts to shape or interfere in data collection, statistical analysis and other scientific activities "against well-accepted scientific methods and theories or without scientific justification."

The department's policy, the 2025 version said, involves ensuring scientific findings at its agencies "are not suppressed, delayed, or altered for political purposes and are not subjected to inappropriate influence," as well as making sure there's "independent review of facilities, methodologies, and other scientific activities as appropriate to ensure scientific integrity."

That language is missing, however, in the Trump administration's revision of the policy, according to an NPR analysis of text posted on the Commerce Department's website.

And while the revision adopts a definition for "scientific integrity" that is similar to the previous version, it no longer says that "protection from inappropriate influence" is among the "hallmarks of scientific integrity."

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Andy Olsen @andyo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

30 million acres of corn for ethanol, much carved out of forests. Also, solar with good land stewardship has native plants that hold soils in place, provide habitat for pollinators and other critters and does not require chemicals as does ag. It also results in less soil loss and water pollution.

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The link between Iowa corn and the dead zone in the Gulf » Yale Climate Connections

The Mississippi River carries fertilizer runoff from the Midwest to the Gulf – and increasingly extreme rain is making the problem more urgent.

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Marlene Robertson🍁🇨🇦 @marlenerobertson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Trump “Rancher and farmers have always been a number one priority for me. I am authorizing legal documents to be drawn in order to allow farmers and ranchers the right to process their own food. This should move quickly.” What could possibly go wrong?

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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 26/08/2026

Goodbye, Dolly. You were larger than life, a bright light of hope, and an advocate for many. You will be missed.

Photo showing sunlight streaming down on the Blue Ridge Mountains in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Text over the image, a quote by Dolly Parton with her birth and death dates below, reads "We should pay more attention. We’re just mistreating Mother Nature — that’s like being ugly to your mama. We need to take better care of the things that God gave us freely. And that we’re so freely messing up."

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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

“Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” ~Dolly Parton. Image: RCA Records.

This black and white photo shows a blonde woman, Dolly Parton, wearing large hoop earrings and a denim shirt. She looks off to her left.

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Wisconsin Bike Fed @wibikefed.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Today Gov. Tony Evers & WisDOT announced over $32 million in federal Transportation Alternatives (TAP) grants for 49 projects in communities across the state. Read on for a message from Executive Director Kirsten Finn with a link to the award list: wisconsinbikefed.org/advocacy/wis...

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WisDOT Announces 2026-2030 TAP Awards - Wisconsin Bike Fed

On August 21, 2026, Gov. Tony Evers and the Wisconsin Department of... 1 Read more about WisDOT Announces 2026-2030 TAP Awards

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drew hanson @pedview.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Village of Shorewood Hills could simplify this by following the lead of the Village of Fair Oak and annex into Madison. See page 9 at sasyna.org/wp-content/u...

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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This is one of those arguments that sounds like slopulism but is actually, if anything, understated. 56% of Colorado river water goes to GROWING FEED FOR LIVESTOCK IN THE DESERT.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/07/2026

NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

a chart showing google's rising energy consumption - huge, and rising faster than ever before

Google's total energy consumption more than new zealand

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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Silicon Valley Dreams of Authoritarianism Gil Durán’s new book, The Nerd Reich, catalogs how tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel took over America. slate.com/culture/2026...

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Tech Oligarchs Have a Certain Future in Mind. It Completely Misunderstands How the World Works.

A new book thoroughly catalogs the insane things that tech moguls like Peter Thiel have advocated for.

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Great Lakes Now @greatlakesnow.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Some lake sturgeon swimming in the Great Lakes today may have been alive for centuries, according to new research that suggests scientists have significantly underestimated the fish’s lifespan. Story by @bridgemi.com: www.greatlakesnow.org/2026/08/13/t...

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Think you’re getting old? New study says Michigan sturgeon may live to 400 - Great Lakes Now

Some lake sturgeon swimming in the Great Lakes today may have been alive for centuries, according to new research that suggests scientists have significantly underestimated the fish’s lifespan.

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Jim Witkins @jimwitkins.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

WI voter here. Crowley wasn't my first choice, but happy to support in general vs Tom Tiffany, trump's hand picked puppet. 8 years of Scott Walker was a disaster we're still digging out of. Gerrymandering has kept repubs in the control of Assembly/Senate. Evers just blocking their BS. Must win!

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 14/08/2026

Shakespeare's plays were popular entertainment in Elizabethan London, but just as popular was the unpleasant blood sport of bear baiting. Down the road from the Globe and Rose theatres were several bear baiting arenas, known as 'bear gardens' 2/2 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Map of Bankside, London, on the bank of the River Thames. Two theatres (the Rose and Globe) are marked, as are four bear baiting arenas.

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Interested Milwaukee Citizen @citizenmke.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

If Hong supporters can get over their reflexive anti-establishment disdain, Crowley has an incredible story of overcoming hardships to succeed where none seemed possible. Unfortunately for them, his win is another example of it, but to me it means he has a pretty high ceiling

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Jeff Ash @jeffash26.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Tom Tiffany, who wants to be Wisconsin's governor, is chairman of the House Subcommittee on Federal Lands, responsible for all matters related to the National Park System. He's down with this. Vote accordingly tomorrow, Wisconsin.

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drew hanson @pedview.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Guessing Sayed never posted anything as politically stupid as “Abolish Thanksgiving”

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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The American Dream has become an American Nightmare. It’s too expensive to buy a home. It’s too expensive to get married and have kids. It’s too expensive to retire comfortably. The top 1% put the American Dream behind a paywall.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/08/2026

Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment. (Published April 2025)

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“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over Doctors

Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Leaked memo shows Republicans privately see Francesca Hong as "uniquely dangerous" in the general election & that “more moderate and establishment Democratic alternatives would likely produce lower base motivation and depressed turnout": www.kenklippenstein.com/p/will-franc...

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Will Francesca Hong and Abdul El-Sayed Get Elected?

Washington's plan to block them

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