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Pamela Majteles

@pjmaj.bsky.social
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“Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor never the victim.” Elie Weisel On the side of Women, BLM, LGBTQ and Democracy.

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Anne S Kim @anne-s-kim.bsky.social · 12m
The "revolving door" becomes a golden escalator. Excellent investigation from @washingtonpost.com about grifty DOGE veterans becoming fat cat government contractors. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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They came to Washington to dismantle government. Now, they’re profiting from it.
DOGE alumni have leveraged their government experience, raising at least half a billion dollars for firms spanning cyberwarfare, AI and data centers, a Post analysis found.
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 18m
Meanwhile META allows people to post hateful BS and threats on our Arab America comedy Festival's page. When we report it they do nothing. But META is happy to prevent Arab Americans from advertising on IG. META needs to broken up. It's a Big tech monopoly that is bad for our nation!
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 52m
We also got a story today about how people who worked on DOGE are making money off the data they stole. It's a self-reinforcing corruption machine they got going www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...
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Inside Elon Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans (Gift Article)
The world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 13h
The more combative Dems get, the more of this they will run into. It will be a coordinated wave of elite opinion, scolding them, tamping them down. The fight strategy *only* works if they are willing to bull their way through it, blow it off, mock it. (Their history does not raise one's hopes.)
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Uzza @uzzamodea.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
David Brooks thinks it's more of a disgrace to call out a bigot than to be one
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 13h
“Where’s James Talarico?” they screamed when he took 12 days off the campaign trail due to the flu. Yet they remained silent when Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-NJ) was absent for four months and Mitch McConnell (R-KY) missed more than three months.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14h
This is not a trick: spooky season is taking over parks and rec centers across our city this month, from free haunted houses and pumpkin patches to Mad Science demonstrations and arts and crafts. We're building a city where every New Yorker can access joy and play.
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NYC Parks just released its 2026 fall festival lineup: Free pumpkin patches, harvest fairs, Halloween events & more
NYC’s 2026 fall festival schedule is here, with free pumpkin patches, harvest festivals, Halloween events and more.
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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 16h
We ride at dawn for Ms. Rachel. #NotAllHeroesWearCapes
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18h
David Brooks doesn't even know what they do at a goddamn Applebee's. He can kindly shut the fuck up about "what we do here in America."
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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 16h
Check out the music video we put together from clips from "Musk," to celebrate DAvid Byrne's song, "Let Me Sell You a Dream," written by David and Daniel Pemberton. theplaylist.net/musk-david-b...
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‘Musk’ Music Video: David Byrne Turns Elon Musk’s Own Words Against Him In New Song For Alex Gibney Documentary
David Byrne and Daniel Pemberton release the music video for 'Let Me Sell You a Dream,' a new song using Elon Musk's own words.
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 19h
It's not good for you. It's really not.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 19h
Read this thread & weep In our bioethics classes, we’re all going to be teaching our students about this grotesque RFK Jr-funded trial for decades to come White Danes flying in to Guinea-Bissau to withhold a proven intervention—the new Tuskegee And it’s happening in the year of our Lord 2026 🤯
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*it* is happening here @realworldrj.bsky.social · 20h
“Prop. 42, funded and placed on the ballot by billionaire and Google co-founder Sergey Brin to defeat the billionaire tax, also would go further, by banning any new taxes on personal property” How is this even a thing
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 20h
This thread is everything. Trust me.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 20h
🧵🧵🧵 I was going to write a simple sentence about the madness of the moment, but I got distracted by the U.S. president’s complaint that he was screwed out of the Nobel Peace Prize after bombing multiple countries, and then he bolstered his case with a plan to execute a guy in a wheelchair and ...
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Tim Hannan @timhannan.bsky.social · 20h
I hereby declare that The Great Pacific Garbage Patch has now officially been renamed The Great Trump Garbage Patch. Thank you for your attention to this matter. —TJH
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Mike the Mad Biologist and Trump's Press Corps Approver @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 21h
>1,100 tortoises per square km. That's a lotta tortoise.
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Scientists discover 180,000 giant tortoises on one Seychelles island
Free-roaming Aldabra population far exceeds human population of Seychelles after decades-long recovery programme
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 22h
It sounds like a wild conspiracy theory, but here is a notable example of how fighting for democracy anywhere is fighting for democracy everywhere: Ukraine hits Russian data centers...and election related misinformation, Trump trolls, and bots drop off social media in the US.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 22h
Russian bot traffic has dropped to nearly 0 after Ukraine struck a Yandex data center in Vladimir, Russia
• Source Network: AS13238 YANDEX – Yandex LLC (Russian Federation)
• Traffic Breakdown: Prior to the drop, bot traffic accounted for roughly 99.6% of requests compared to 0.4% human traffic.
• Event Cause: The sudden plunge to zero on October 11, 2026, corresponds to a reported military/drone attack on Yandex's data center facility in Vladimir, Russia—marking the third reported attack on Yandex data infrastructure since October 8.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h
Chris Murphy: "Donald Trump was so fundamentally unprepared for this war that within days of the war starting, our billion dollar air bases and naval bases in the region were obliterated by the Iranians. Every single American should be furious about that."
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22h
After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
In other professors’ syllabi, the bot flagged the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, essays by the Mexican American MacArthur genius grant recipient Sandra Cisneros, and materials related to a class about the Holocaust (that professor was told to drop material regarding Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people).

Putting aside the ideological slant of the new rules, the bot, like many large language models, seems to “hallucinate,” or make mistakes. The AAUP lawsuit lists texts banned for their “sex-based ecofeminist framework” and “gendered ecofeminist frameworks.” These phrases might sound persuasively like academese, but the academics behind the lawsuit had never heard of them; these concepts “do not exist,” the complaint says. Matthew Pehl, a history professor at Tech, told me that he knew several people who’d received reports from the system that were “plainly written by an AI that had hallucinated content or confused content from one class to another.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h
Mamdani: "What you could see in the videos is bystanders outside unsure as to what they were even seeing. Because in that imagery, it feels as if you’re almost looking at a mass shooter as opposed to seeing someone who’s purportedly representing a federal agency."
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Cats with Jobs ⚒️ @catworkers.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
They tried baking you a cake.
Two orange cats rolling in a pile of dropped flour on a wood floor.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 21h
This is an appalling and chilling state of affairs and though this article never states explicitly how Trump is the catalyst of the escalation of incessant domestic terror in public life it leaves zero doubt about it. America’s Elected Officials Are Living in Fear www.nytimes.com/2026/10/11/u...
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Threats of Political Violence Have America’s Elected Officials Living in Fear (Gift Article)
A Times investigation has found that violent threats have become a new normal among public officials, reshaped private lives, cost millions in security and pushed people out of office.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Yep, no question. Let's recall that those arguing that 2024 heralded a multiracial working class realignment were expressly using that to argue that Dems had become too liberal on cultural issues and immigration. There will never be any reckoning for any of it.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Holy shit FOUR members of the ethics committee in Denmark that gave the green light to allow the widely-condemned RFK Jr-funded trial to proceed in Guinea-Bissau have now resigned in protest This quote is 🔥 Great reporting by @melodyschreiber.com www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Stig Børsen Hansen, a founding member who was one of two reviewers who presented the study to the Danish committee, resigned from the group in protest on Friday, citing major ethical issues with the study.

“You are now enrolling newborns in a lottery to test a hypothesis,” Hansen said. The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage. “They contract hepatitis B in the context of being part of a research project,” Hansen said, which made their infection happen, in effect, “by design”.

Three other members of the committee have also resigned in protest.
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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 21h
People on social media have built this whole narrative of Fetterman as this guy who is chomping at the bit to flip to Rs the second he can in order to fuck over Dems, but in actuality everything we've seen paints a picture of a miserable, mentally unwell man who absolutely fucking hates the job
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 21h
Trump cuts a big-money oil deal with Putin, an indicted war criminal, & dumps Zelenskyy, a democratic ally. My new book, "HOW RUSSIA WON: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Fight for America," explains how this came to be as part of Putin's shadow war against the US. Check out HowRussiaWon.com
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 21h
i think it’s amazing the extent to which we are just doing subprime mortgages again
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 22h
Look at all these Pro-Lifers, cheering a Live-streamed killing.
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Evan May @gianttourtiere.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Do you want good tortoise news? I thought so. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Scientists discover 180,000 giant tortoises on one Seychelles island
Free-roaming Aldabra population far exceeds human population of Seychelles after decades-long recovery programme
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is just so fucked up
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Rachel Fairbank @sweetsciencewriter.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage.” No words. I am speechless. This violates all ethical boundaries.
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Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
No doubt this has occurred to other bystanders as well, but it would seem that a handful of billionaires dropping $150 million into a single state's election in an attempt to defeat a wealth-tax initiative just about makes the entire case for a wealth-tax initiative.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
As Putin fails on the battlefield and at home, Russia is now planning to assassinate European civilians, previously considered a step too far.
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Russia steps up bid to kill European defence chiefs, spy agencies warn
Companies increase personal security for top executives as Kremlin orders expansion of sabotage and ‘hybrid’ operations
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🌹WeegieFromWA 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The FDA is proposing to expand a loophole allowing some of the world’s most toxic chemicals such as hormone disruptors linked to brain damage and reproductive harm in children to be added directly to food without a safety review. MAHA IS RFK JR'S TOXIC LIE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review. Experts are alarmed
Regulator looks to expand loophole to allow dangerous compounds in food as long as they’re not carcinogenic
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Former UK Prime Minster Boris Johnson on traitor Trump buying Russian oil: "The Ukrainians are fighting for their lives. And yet the White House is apparently determined to force American drivers to bankroll Putin’s slaughter."
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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
So, the reason we mock horrible fascists is not to make fascists change their minds. It is to show they are mockable. It breaks the veneer of respectability and power. It gives others social permission to mock them. Satire is poisonous to power because it makes opposition both fun and collaborative.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
So it looks like Trump and Putin struck their diesel deal two weeks ago and waited until Putin's birthday to announce it. Which is important information to consider when trying to understand the true nature of their relationship. bsky.app/profile/chad...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Billionaire families have spent $1.7 BILLION on the 2026 midterms so far — a 5,200% increase since the 2010 midterms. Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day. Big Money is the root of our dysfunction.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“ABC pulling the story only made it a bigger story. Certainly not what Don Jr. or the WH were going for. And ABC doesn’t look great, either. All of which underscores the need for news that is neither owned nor leveraged by this White House— a commodity vanishingly rare in today’s media environment.”
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ABC News Hands Massive Gift to Trump Family
ABC pulled a critical story on Don Jr. without explanation. I think it’s clear why.
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review. Experts are alarmed www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review. Experts are alarmed
Regulator looks to expand loophole to allow dangerous compounds in food as long as they’re not carcinogenic
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
There's a reason Trump's FDA is pushing their review of the abortion pill into next year: The midterms. They don't want to tell women, before they vote in a few weeks, that they are about to lose their ability to obtain abortion medication. Vote blue, no matter who. www.cnn.com/2026/10/08/h...
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FDA says its safety review of abortion pill will continue into next year | CNN
The Food and Drug Administration says its ongoing safety review of the nation’s main abortion pill will continue into next year, a timeline that was quickly condemned by abortion opponents hoping to s...
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 10/10/2026
Correct. Vought and Bhattacharya want to do to NIH what they have gotten further with at NSF- turn it into a slush fund for their political preferences. But peer review is popular, and it is required by law. So they are slowly chipping away at peer review process in an effort to break it.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Morally fucked up how the rich get rewarded for making themselves richer and the world worse. You took out student loans and are still paying them off? You're financially irresponsible. Nearly run a multibillion dollar company into the ground? Here's your hundreds of millions in severance.
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli
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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Starting Monday morning every candidate who Elon Musk is spending against should hold an event where they tell everyone Elon Musk has their Social Security number & he’s funding their opponents’ campaign so he doesn’t have to give it back.
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 10/10/2026
"At 8:15 p.m., Greg Pirio heard the generators start. By dawn, the lung pain he described had pushed him out of his Sterling home.... Virginia DEQ Director Michael Rolband told local officials his agency had no authority to stop the generators under current regulations."
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