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Trump has had a decades-long obsession with eugenics. Here's a timeline of the president’s thoughts on “good genes,” IQ, and which disabled people should “just die.”

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Donald Trump's decades-long obsession with eugenics

A timeline of the president's thoughts on "good genes," IQ, and which disabled people should "just die."

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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 30/09/2026

Making common cause in slowness. Operating actively against the industrialized clock of never-ending productivity is part of disability justice. It’s also a way to protect the time and space necessary to reconsider and reconfigure relations. medium.com/@biancawylie...

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tech isn’t the future it’s just capitalism faster

responding with slowness in relations

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Nearly all the Extras in this iconic scene were French expatriates. Their tears during the stirring rendition of La Marseillaise were genuine— filmed at a time when the fate of France was still uncertain. CASABLANCA (1942)

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Our response to the State Department using Smokey last night.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The models for ‘American Gothic’ pose in front of the iconic painting, 1942.

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Arthur Durkee @phoenixdragon1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Cadfael novels are superb reading. I think the BBC films are also excellent, and faithful to the books. The novels are ones I go back to periodically, they’re that good.

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biologist077.bsky.social @biologist077.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm amazed by new CRISPR findings for aggressive blood cancers (AML/MDS)! Doctors can edit donor stem cells to remove CD33, letting therapies target cancer without hitting healthy cells. In a trial, 19 of 30 patients maintained blood counts. Incredible protection!

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CRISPR could help doctors attack blood cancer without destroying healthy cells

A new Phase 1/2 clinical trial involving 30 patients demonstrates that genetically modifying donor stem cells with CRISPR to remove the CD33 protein can allow targeted cancer therapies to attack aggre

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

On this day in 1994, the Clinton administration's heathcare reform plan was declared "dead" by Congress. Over 30 years later, the US is still the only industrialized country without universal healthcare. This should be a national outrage.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

PAUL NEWMAN — who left us 18yrs ago today, aged 83 — took life seriously but never himself. Legend.

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migas7.bsky.social @migas7.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Real Stories - not the GOP’s.

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Arthur Durkee @phoenixdragon1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A good night after an absolute shite day. On the laser engraver to burn a version of my Sarong drawing, the 3rd iteration of this piece. Also, gathered art supplies for future use, including printmaking paper, and materials to be used in making handmade hand-bound books.

A much better night after an absolute shite of a day.

I got on the laser engraver to burn a version of my Sarong drawing. This is the third iteration of this artwork, including the watercolor, ink, and pencil version to be dropped at a gallery tomorrow for the October WRAP show. I am very happy with the laser engraved version.

Also tonight, gathered art supplies for future use, including printmaking paper, and caseboard and various fine papers to be used in making handmade hand-bound books. Raw materials for future artist book projects I have planned. Also large-format handmade sketchbooks and journals, including future volumes of my art journal.

This was a great evening, and helped make up for the day being so awful.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

On Dolly Parton Day, I'm remember how she... -Gifted millions of free books to kids -Ensured musicians she worked with got union benefits -Helped fund medical research and the COVID vaccine -Donated millions to communities hit by natural disasters -Funded high school band programs She is missed!

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Arthur Durkee @phoenixdragon1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My favorite bassists? Well, as a bassist myself, that list overlaps with the list of bassists who have influenced me. In random order: Tony Levin Dave Allen Charlie Haden Bill Laswell Jah Wobble Bootsy Collins Richard Davis Jimmy Garrison Dave Holland Jaco Pastorius Eddie Gomez

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

33yrs ago the New York Times published an article criticising Federico Fellini and other foreign language films — calling them "hard work". MARTIN SCORSESE sent this in response.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

After banning CNN, MS NOW & Politico from the White House, he installs State-Run television, just like they have in so many other countries... Sieg Heil, ya'll. #38Days 🌊

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Trump TV? Everything Donald slaps his name on fails.

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Arthur Durkee @phoenixdragon1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

That moment when you’re browsing through a sheaf of illustration art and recognize that the reason some illustrators depict domestic scenes with everyone wearing socks is because they can’t draw feet. 😏 Well, feet are hard. So are hands.

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Leyton Jay @leytonjay.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

RIP Gerrit Graham who played Q(uinn) on #StarTrek Voyager. He died age 77.

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Arthur Durkee @phoenixdragon1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Moving last year sucked. I still can’t find everything. So today it was nice to find my drum bag, with various beaters and sticks and tabuh-tabuh, and my rosewood claves.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

By moving to the “center,” Democrats have failed to fight the forces that led us to Donald Trump: widening inequality, economic insecurity, and the unchecked political power of corporations and the rich. Political centrism is nonsense. There is no middle ground between democracy and oligarchy.

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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 18/09/2026

The one and only Lynda Carter — Wonder Woman herself — is here at the Kennedy Center. WATCH: open.substack.com/live-stream/...

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Arthur Durkee @phoenixdragon1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I feel no sympathy for Mitch, he was always about power, so if they wheel out his decrepit near-corpse in order to keep power I suspect he’d likely complicitly approve of doing so. The lack of empathy they show for Mitch by putting him on display is no worse than than his own career lack of empathy.

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Blue Turn Indivisible @blueturnindivisible.org · 15/09/2026

Our Signs of Fascism visibility event in Mountain View, partial photo. (Faces obscured. See signs for explanation.)

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A fundamental tenet of MAGA and all the other "populist" parties (Reform UK, RN, AfD, etc) is that global warming is a hoax and we must not believe the climate scientists. But the evidence is unequivocal.

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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Liatris ligulistylis, also known as meadow blazingstar, is irresistible to Monarch butterflies. They flock to the purple flower for the August/September monarch migration: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s...

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Arthur Durkee @phoenixdragon1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I read circa 100+ books a year. (Some is re-reading.) It’s true I watch less TV than most, but that’s because with few exceptions TV is a vast wasteland. It usually has been. Also I read fast and retain most of it. I cannot comprehend why that should be a bad thing. Oh wait: anti-intellectualism.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Publishers: “Short stories don’t sell and are impossible to market so we are not going to take the risk of publishing them.” Also publishers: “What can we publish to fit this era of reduced attention spans when people are reading fewer novels?”

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Arthur Durkee @phoenixdragon1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I’m reaching the point where I see some of us destroying our planet, our home, for selfish reasons, and the majority standing by either not caring or distracted by bread and circuses, and a night of anxious insomnia makes me feel: maybe we really do deserve to fail as a species.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 15/09/2026

Two-thirds of Utah voters support restoring the boundaries of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments to the previous boundaries they had before President Donald Trump reduced them to less than a quarter of their original size, recent polling shows.