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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Remember how RFK Jr said covid vaccines would be available to families who want them? Well, there still are no vaccines available for kids under 12
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New, from me: Once memory-holed, DOGE is now the subject of revisionism. To better understand why DOGE failed, I talked to people in the civic tech movement that DOGE displaced, who continue to offer the alternative model for how to modernize govt. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-vs-ci...
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DOGE vs. Civic Tech
As DOGE revisionism picks up, a contrast with the civic tech movement it displaced illuminates its failure
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When you fool yourself into thinking that speaking directly to the people who are angry with your regime will calm things down bsky.app/profile/ship...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026
NEW: Food banks across America are being overwhelmed by surging demand. Scott MacFarlane went inside to see the crisis firsthand. Here’s what he found:
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“They don’t understand the scale of the hunger!”- An unfolding crisis at the nation’s food banks
Weeks before the midterm elections, the cost crisis is hammering food pantries in red and blue states
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Hey, Americans! Here’s a dark, ominous black-and-white advertisement showing your wildly unpopular president slowly waking along a hallway while scowling at you. It says nothing about the problems you’re facing. And you paid for the ad! Please definitely go vote Republican. You’re welcome!!
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Democrats are well positioned to inherit power thanks to disgust with Trump, but ultimately none of this is about what Dems did in response to Trump. They mostly capitulated and are benefiting from being the other party in a two party system, I don’t have any positive expectations for them.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ICE abducted a WBB player while she was traveling with her Kentucky State team in early August at Louisville airport. She has been imprisoned for 1.5 months and denied care for a serious ACL injury. It is the responsibility of universities and the NCAA to protect their players. They have failed.
Aminata Seck, 26, a student-athlete at Kentucky State University, was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport while traveling with her school's basketball team Aug. 7, said Sadiqa Reynolds, a lawyer helping coordinate Seck's case.

Seck's team was headed to New York for a tournament, and she was taken into custody after going through airport security, said Reynolds, former president and CEO of the Louisville Urban League.
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
NICU babies are the most vulnerable a human can be, and it seems almost quaint to say it now, but we are supposed to build societies where the most vulnerable can count on others to not let this happen
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Maybe the most important political story of our time. People just want the bullshit to stop.
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71% of Americans Say They're Completely Exhausted
A CDC report shows that people are not feeling relaxed and restful in the United States.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
* EXCLUSIVE -- PENNSYLVANIA SEEKS CDC HELP IN MEASLES OUTBREAK ON CONDITION FEDERAL GOVERNMENT RECOGNIZES MEASLES-RELATED DEATHS - DOCUMENT @reuters.com
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 16/09/2026
The American age of global dominance that followed World War II was bound to end eventually, Phillips Payson O’Brien writes—“What’s shocking is how suddenly that moment has arrived”:
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The American Age Is Over
A period of global dominance has ended in plain sight.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is APPALLING. The Trump administration is detaining multiple random Somali immigrants with no criminal record at Guantanamo Bay, seemingly because the White House ordered ICE specifically to detain Somalis at Gitmo as part of its effort to punish an ethnic group Trump has attacked.
According to Mohamed, guards at Guantanamo have said they are being held there because that's what officials in Washington, DC, want. "There's no other nation, only Somali people in Guantanamo Bay, in the prison," he told me. "And when we ask them why we are here, they tell us... Washington...ordered to keep Somali people in the Guantanamo Bay."
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Imagine a job where, faced with a difficult decision, you could just stop going to work www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
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House to leave early, punting Hegseth impeachment vote until after November elections
House Republican leaders cancelled votes planned for Thursday. Members won’t return to Washington until Nov. 9.
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Bill McCarthy @billmccarthy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: A Russian disinformation operation has turned its attention to the US midterm elections, unleashing a series of deepfake videos that depict celebrities attacking Democrats, researchers said. www.france24.com/en/live-news...
france24.com
Russian disinformation campaign sets sights on US midterms
A Russian disinformation operation has turned its attention to the US midterm elections, unleashing a series of deepfake videos that depict celebrities attacking Democrats, researchers said, with more...
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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
buckle up. gas and diesel look set for a spike over the next 48 hours, hardest in parts of the nation's interior. i track this for a living and i'll be sharing real-time updates as it unfolds powered by GasBuddy data, looking at many different angles. ready to share w/ you all.
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CoachN @coachn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“One of the teens, Luis Ochoa, told the agent he was a US citizen and the ICE agent’s response was, ‘I don’t give a damn. Your parents can’t help you now.’”
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New: Police arrested human rights lawyer Noura Erakat during a Palm Beach County budget hearing. Over 100 residents were giving comments against the county’s $1 billion investment in Israel bonds. One commissioner insulted a protesting veteran, saying he was an embarrassment to his uniform.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Even more when you start out mostly evil. wapo.st/4h3hdVH
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‘Musk’ film is almost four hours long, engrossing and terrifying. What to know.
The documentary paints the tech trillionaire as a power-hungry megalomaniacal conman with a god complex. Musk accuses filmmaker Alex Gibney of compiling "hit list" against him.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
underrated part of El-Sayed’s messaging strategy seems to be shaming journalists who ask dumb questions that play into right-wing frames. you can’t answer these in a way that satisfies them, but you can make it embarrassing enough that you impose a toll on asking.
Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
games industry peeps check in
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 13/09/2026
You might ask: How can ICE levy a tax? What law gives legal authority for that? No law does; it is an illegal action. That is why the forthcoming proposed rule calls it a 'fee', which it certainly is not. I explain why on pages 5 and A-10, here—> www.rfberlin.com/network-pape...
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Taxes on High-Skill Immigration: Demand and Supply Response in the International Student-OPT-Work Visa Pipeline
ROCKWOOL Foundation
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/09/2026
This new, shocking action by the US Administration just one part of a portfolio of severe taxes and restrictions on high-skill immigration to the United States. The resulting blow to our ability to attract global talent, and thus for the US economy to innovate & grow, will be terrible & permanent.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
If you see nothing else, see this. Wait for it. Few moments hit harder. m.youtube.com/watch?v=U3nf...
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Opening titles of 25th HOUR (2002)
YouTube video by Ambrose Heron
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
KANSAS — sadly it doesn’t get much more American than this headline. Quite the dystopian nightmare we’re living in.😕🇺🇸
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Prison inmates help to pay down school lunch debt
A school district's unsettled lunch debt was substantially paid down by a group of inmates.
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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
wow, it seems like the threat of sanctions and contempt proceedings can actually get results. I'm sure there are no lessons to draw from this.
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Jasper Jackson @jasperjackson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
As @jamesrball.com wrote for us recently, the tech to do all this crazy surveillance stuff already exists, and will be used if we let it. www.transformernews.ai/p/ai-surveil...
transformernews.ai
We’re sleepwalking into an AI surveillance dystopia
The technology needed for industrial-scale observation exists — and is already in widespread use
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A Philadelphia nun named Sister Rose Kuhn drives to a Texas immigration court weekly to sit next to unaccompanied children as young as 4 who are facing deportation hearings alone without relatives or an attorney so that they won’t have to face the judge by themselves. Heartbreaking and horrific.
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The Mighty Jungle💙💛 @ocanannain.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Georgia woman files class action suit against Flock Safety An Atlanta-headquartered technology company is facing a sweeping federal class-action lawsuit alleging its nationwide vehicle surveillance network violates the privacy rights of millions of everyday drivers.
atlantanewsfirst.com
Georgia woman files class action suit against Flock Safety
Lawsuit claims automated database exposes innocent drivers to illegal stalking, tracking.
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Tommy Tomlinson @tommytomlinson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
So here's a quote from @pablo.show that applies to not only his Clippers investigation but the best of what journalism can be: www.nytimes.com/athletic/756...
"I think that we have the ability to do something that the rest of our culture is yearning for, which is make people who are too rich to care about anything resembling the public interest worry that maybe they need to tell us the truth."
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/09/2026
Trump continues to disperse disaster recovery funds based on how states vote, which for any other president or public official, in any other time, in any other country, in any other context would be a morally horrific scandal that would dominate headlines for months.
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POLITICO Pro: Trump rejects disaster appeals by four Democratic governors
New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Rhode Island will have to pay the entire cost of recovery from a major February snowstorm.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Trump protected by Putin, Kim Jong Un, and Netanyahu
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/09/2026
When Pete Hegseth polled top commanders about cutting a program designed to protect civilians during military operations, he bet they’d back his view that the program was “woke” and out of step with “maximum lethality,” officials told ProPublica. Instead, every commander rebuffed the idea.
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Top Commanders Told Hegseth Not to Cut Civilian Protection Program, Poll Showed. He Did It Anyway.
The U.S. military has killed hundreds of noncombatants since gutting its Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response mission last year. After significant blowback, the Defense Department is considering part...
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“wE CarE abOUt tHe tRooPS” shut up no you fucking don’t, they’re just cannon fodder for your bloodlust
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Widow of Epic Fury airman denied death benefits as Iran conflict is 'not a war'
The widow of an Alabama airman has revealed she and her children are not eligible for some benefits because the Iran war has not officially been declared a war
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Aaron Gleeman @aarongleeman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Pablo Torre can obviously fight his own battles, but I can't get over how many prominent people in media downplayed, refuted, and even mocked his Clippers reporting and are now just silent on the whole thing. Massive outlets ran cover for the Clippers and now just ... move on.
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Bradford Pearson @bradfordpearson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This ESPN story is 2,500 words long and somehow doesn't once find room for the four words "Pablo Torre Finds Out"
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NBA punishes Clippers after Kawhi investigation: Top questions
A $30M fine. Five first-round picks taken away. Steve Ballmer suspended for a year. ESPN's NBA insiders break down the harshest punishment in league history.
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Pablo Torre @pablo.show · 03/09/2026
Accountability for the wealthiest people on Earth is hard to come by. Thank you for believing in the power of independent journalism to accomplish it. (And, yes, more to come.) www.pablo.show/p/it-happened
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It Happened.
EPISODE 423: The biggest punishment in NBA history.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/09/2026
CNN: You're not going to trust mail voting if SCOTUS allows this? BLUMENTHAL: I won't. And I think most Americans will view mail voting as lacking credibility because the Postal Service is gonna be screening your ballot & sending them back if it finds a single discrepancy, & you may not know
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Well, that can't be good for LeTHaLitY
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The Fired Six, professors at Virginia State University, were wrongfully terminated last year. Five of them had tenure. All six of them were marched out by campus security. No one knows why. The faculty senate has now vindicated them but they remain unemployed. We’re proud to represent them.
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VSU ‘Fired Six’ still not reinstated even after Faculty Senate recommendation
Six former Virginia State University professors who said they were wrongfully terminated now have confirmation that the school violated its own policy. But four months later, they say the school st…
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
State election leaders say they’re largely in the dark on mail voting just weeks away from when many are set to send ballots out to voters. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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As election looms, states are stuck in wait-and-see mode on Trump mail voting order
“If we have to do this, we have to do this, but there’s no guidance yet so I think we’re all in the same boat,” a secretary of state spokesperson said Monday.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Media coverage of Trump’s armed robbery of Venezuela's oil shows “a news industry that has been laundered of a basic sense of right and wrong. Shockingly few people in the media are asking: Do we really want to be a country that blows people up and steals from them?” My Stop the Presses newsletter.
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Trump’s armed robbery in Venezuela draws values-free coverage
A “might is right” mentality consumes our government and infects the media
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
If Dems win a trifecta in 2028 and don't push forum-shopping reform (and related judicial reforms) as their first bill, they'll doom everything else they try to do. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/u...
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How Trump’s Policy Agenda Runs Through One Federal Court, in Texas (Gift Article)
For years, conservative litigants flocked to Judge Reed O’Connor’s district. Now, North Texas has become a favorite destination of the Justice Department.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives.
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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Are states really cutting Dolly Parton’s reading program?
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Here Are 19 - Yes, 19! - Ways Trump and Republicans Are Plotting to Rig and Steal the Midterm Elections
Attacking immigrants and Black voting power. Gutting election security. Voter purges. Threats of arrests and raids. And so much more. Trump’s assault on elections is truly unprecedented.
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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 26/08/2026
This l story about AI generated fake hotels in Vegas is depressing and wild. Story and video. www.instagram.com/reel/Db9ggU... www.independent.co.uk/travel/... Certainly a caution for DEF CON attendees and travelers in general!
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Jen G. on Instagram: "OYO Las Vegas has been my number one “worst hotel in Vegas” for ages. It’s dirty, smells bad, unsafe and things are always broken. Ariana Patiño knew that and was tricked into to staying there with a fake hotel under the name Palette using AI imagery, reputable travel sites & attractive affordable rates. This is a new low & is incredibly predatory. #vegas #lasvegas #vegasstarfish #travel #hotel"
40K likes, 1,290 comments - vegasstarfish on August 12, 2026: "OYO Las Vegas has been my number one “worst hotel in Vegas” for ages. It’s dirty, smells bad, unsafe and things are always broken. Ariana Patiño knew that and was tricked into to staying there with a fake hotel under the name Palette using AI imagery, reputable travel sites & attractive affordable rates. This is a new low & is incredibly predatory. #vegas #lasvegas #vegasstarfish #travel #hotel".
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/08/2026
Doug Ford: "Jobs number went down in the US last month while Ontario gained 52,000 jobs, more than the entire US combined ... I feel terrible for the people in the US"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/08/2026
"We watched it on TV. And it's like, 'That's our son. That's Alex. And they killed him' ... trying to help someone" -- Alex Pretti's dad
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