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MFordTheRiver

@prynnford.bsky.social
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👀 of politics and news, veterinarian and educator. She/her

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MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’m very on the fence on the false flag conspiracy versions of the former “attacks” and “near misses” on tRump’s life but this version supports them since, in response to a possible threat, he FOR THE FIRST TIME in all of them, turns quickly and acts panicked 🤣
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Just a reminder that the few remaining experts at the CDC's food-borne illness division identified Taylor Farms as the source of the cyclospora outbreak very early on, but because the owner of Taylor Farms is a big Trump donor, he was able to prevent a recall for weeks as thousands fell ill.
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Cyclospora found at Mexican farm linked to lettuce outbreak, FDA says
Announcement from US officials comes after CDC declared end to outbreak that infected nearly 13,000 people
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...
thecut.com
What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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💠𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒛𝒊𝒆𝑷𝒊𝒆💠 @schultziepie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Amnesty International calls for disbanding ICE, the first time in its history it has directed such a conclusion toward the United States government. The human rights organization investigated immigration enforcement operations in Washington, Chicago, Minneapolis-St. Paul, and New Orleans. Listen!👇🏼
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In 2018, Annalinda Martinez and her daughters became homeless. She went to Georgia's child welfare agency looking for help finding housing. Instead, the state took her children. Then DFCS began charging her for their foster care. Those bills eventually left her $13,000 in debt.
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Georgia removed her kids because she was homeless. The state is charging her $13,000 for foster care
Georgia is among several states that have moved away from charging parents for their kids' time in foster care. But parents who already owe money for past cases are still on the hook.
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 30/09/2026
The core appeal of reactionary politics is hatred of competent and smart people who follow evidence rather than use it to support conclusions. A million incidents like this happen daily in academia and legal settings, and they're behind almost all right-wing "liberal bias" accusations.
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
1/ 760,000 people lost ACA health coverage this week. Not because they broke a rule. Because an algorithm flagged them for not using their insurance enough. Cancel now, sort it out later, that is the new Republican plan for your health care. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
what if they were just mad that a lot of people don’t know what Rolling Stone is anymore
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Ben McKenzie @benmckenzie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is literally a plot point in “It Can’t Happen Here” by Sinclair Lewis. Written in 1935, it predicts the rise of a fascist populist who promises each family $5,000 per year if he’s elected.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’m sorry, what? This piece was not a joint publication/ reporting job (as some are). It was @propublica’s alone and the Times followed with a summary. This is so indicative of NYT. If they don’t ignore proper credit, they just go for stolen valor.
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is a book about how completely unprincipled attention hounds will always make their way to the right because they know the right will have them. The NYMag piece? I guess that’s a story about how unprincipled attention hounds deserve attention as long as they’re shitting on democrats.
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Claire @baseball-broad.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Same in Seattle. We are in a “shadow surge”, which means activity is ramping up, but we are not seeing it in the same way we did earlier in this administration.
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 24/09/2026
Heads up, Baltimore: at least 8 unmarked vehicles matching makes/models used by ICE seen heading south on Bel Air Road.
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MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We know they’re defying court orders all the time related to all things ICE- it’s like whackamole- but THIS constitutional crisis may be treated as the crisis it is because its affecting the media directly, so they will a) consistently take it more seriously and b) report on it a lot.
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Kathy Gori @kathygori.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What you get when ignorant crooks aren’t running a government : www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Solar and wind generation meet record 80% of power demand on Australia’s national grid
Rooftop solar alone generates more than half of all power used, as clear sunny days and low demand drive record-breaking surge
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
While ICE agents were shooting Wilber Rafael Garces Perez in Austin on Sunday, their colleagues were violently detaining a US citizen in Evanston, IL who "resembled" a person they were seeking. The victim reported "injuries to his head, neck and teeth":
evanstonnow.com
Federal agents detained U.S. citizen Sunday morning - Evanston Now
Police chief says officers responded to a man with injuries to head, neck and teeth on Howard and made contact with agents involved.
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Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 21/09/2026
NOW: Just arrived at the intersection of Research Blvd and Anderson Lane—near where ICE shot & wounded 29-yr-old Wilber Rafael Garces Perez earlier today. Between 300-500 people still holding intersection here. ICE is reportedly not letting Garces Perez’s family access him at the hospital.
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shy guy who go to gym @coolideas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
eagles fans burning the rebel flag in nashville go birds
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What Trump has realized is that to really defend Washington from terrorists and antifa and other bad guys you need to concentrate the drones and machine gunners in one highly visible building that can be attacked line of sight from any direction or just blown up.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Trump banning media outlets from the WH over their coverage is unlikely to affect their reporting much, but it is yet another example of how the right wing definition of “free speech” is that they can say what they want and you can say what they want. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
theatlantic.com
Speak at Your Own Risk
Donald Trump’s attacks on the First Amendment
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It’s not “third-country deportation,” it’s an extraordinary rendition, complete with torture and enforced silence by the “host” country’s thugs. And it’s a direct consequence of never imposing punishment on the CIA for doing this during the War on Terror.
nytimes.com
A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees
Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Two ideas from this article resonate 1. The “rogue AI agent” hacking incidents are more failures of test design and oversight than examples of runaway AI. 2. Focus on existential risk helps distract from concrete harms happening now from government misuse to companies using AI against workers.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Alex Karp of Palantir says the AI industry must be nationalized to protect it from lawsuits if it accidentally destroys the world. More likely, he sees the bubble about to burst and he wants to be bought out with our tax dollars before that happens.
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MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Phew! Thank goodness they got this dangerous supply chain off the streets! I may or may not have been involved in a similar prank in college which the policeman stopping us called a “toilet paper caper,” a term I still use. Many capers can be labelled as toilet paper capers.
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Every news outlet shames itself by using the word “skeptic.” Skeptic implies someone waiting for evidence, not someone committed to ignoring it. Vaccine denialism does not deserve to be lent the prestige of critical thinking.
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Dave Against The Machine🏴 @johnbrownbread.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Yea so even if this is true, centrist liberals must acknowledge that they have to listen to the left as well and apologize for being vote scolds. They can’t believe in a schrodingers leftist who is not powerful enough to listen to and so powerful they can throw the election.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
BREAKING: SCOTUS denies the Trump administration’s request to enforce the new U.S. Postal Service rule for the 2026 elections. Justices Alito and Thomas dissent. More to come at Law Dork. www.lawdork.com
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 26A305
UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE, ET AL. U.
CALIFORNIA, ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
[September 14, 2026]
The application for stay presented to JUSTICE JACKSON and by her referred to the Court is denied. The Government is unlikely to succeed on the merits of its challenge to the District Court's preliminary injunction. And the equitable factors applicable for obtaining emergency relief from this Court do not favor a stay.
JUSTICE KAVANAUGH, concurring.
In my view, based on the briefing the Court has received at this interim stage, there is at least a fair prospect that the final rule falls within the Postal Service's statutory authority. See 39 U. S. C. §401(2). But applying the rule in the 2026 elections would be arbitrary and capricious in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act because state and local election officials do not have sufficient time to reasonably implement the rule before the elections. See 39
U. S. C. §3001(m); 5 U. S. C. §706(2)(A). For that reason, I concur in the denial of the application for stay.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A 40-year-old unvaccinated woman in Pennsylvania has just died from measles. There is no controversy. She needlessly died from a disease that is preventable with a vaccine. But HHS Secretary RFK Jr. thinks measles isn’t that bad. Nobody should die of measles in the United States.
washingtonpost.com
Pennsylvania woman dies of measles-related complications, local coroner says
The 40-year-old woman, who was from Jefferson County was unvaccinated, according to the coroner. The state health department is conducting a "thorough review" of the case.
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 13/09/2026
Former center-left Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson is on course to retake power in Sweden as exit polling suggests a right-wing alliance that includes the far right is falling short.
politico.eu
Sweden exit poll: Left on course for election win in blow to far right
Social Democrat leader Magdalena Andersson is heading for a comeback as prime minister in charge of a left-wing coalition, exit polling suggests. 
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
As I was standing by this gas pump filling up my truck with six dollar gas I couldn’t help but think that this was a small price to pay so that every child wanting to play sports in elementary school has to submit to mandatory genital inspections
My jeep with a gas pump in her fuel filler $94.59 at 5.999/gal
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/09/2026
the way to understand a piece like this from schmitz is that he lives in an urban, cosmopolitan millieu and the popularity of country music is a novelty to him. and so to explain it, he has to fit it into his volkish conception of america, whether or not that makes any actual sense.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Every day that major media fail to clearly declare that the president is out of his mind and is building a dictatorship is a day when they are betraying their duty to the American people.
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 13/09/2026
So they realized they're in the gutter, no revenue in sight, operating at a tremendous loss, and suddenly decided to slow down "to save the humanity."
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
'There has never been a war in history where 80% of the country has been destroyed, 100% of the population displaced, and 50% of the deaths children. Call it what it is, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: GENOCIDE.' @mhdksafa.bsky.social
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
BREAKING: Our banned interview with Kimmel generated 6 million views on YouTube.
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mcc @dryad.technology · 12/09/2026
This is my opinions on calls to "pause" research on "superintelligence"
I sincerely believe this is a hoax where companies with fake, non-functioning "AI" but a lot of market power want to create limits on AI research as a market barrier to entry, so they don't have to deal with competitors
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‪mcc‬
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Anthropic ate OpenAI/Copilot's lunch so quickly. Anthropic must be terrified the same thing is going to happen to them from some other (probably Chinese) startup. By lying about "superintelligence" and "self-improvement" they can rope useful idiots into passing legislation that protects them
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
AMODEI: “.. It’s easy to dismiss this [Hugging Face] incident because no one was hurt and the economic damage was minimal, but in my opinion, a swarm that possessed greater capabilities but a similar level of misalignment could have caused catastrophic damage.” darioamodei.com/post/we-must...
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 12/09/2026
Lol this made it to Fox News www.foxnews.com/outkick-spor...
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Ted Cruz got booed so loudly during 'College GameDay' interview you couldn't hear a thing he said
Ted Cruz was booed so loudly during his "College GameDay" appearance in Austin that his pitch for the "Save College Sports Act" was nearly drowned out.
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bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
my worry about ai isn’t that it will become sentient, it’s that the cognitive impact of outsourcing critical thinking to computers combined with the proliferation of slop making it increasingly challenging to validate information will dissolve society’s already-tenuous grasp on consensus reality
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
After booing him, the crowd breaks out in a loud, “Ted Cruz sucks!” chant.
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Halcyon Ember @halcyonember.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
The fact people didn’t pick up on trans sports bans being bullshit after the chess one makes me really disappointed in people
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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Today I'm honoring 9/11 Day by turning remembrance into action. 25 years later,,, we remember those we lost and honor the heroes who stepped up by continuing to do GOOD. If you a NYC school teacher,,, drop yo wish list and imma hook up the first 25. Join me and @911day and #UNITEFORGOOD.
Flavor Flav serving up meals at Bowery mission NYC
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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 09/09/2026
The biggest of LOLs
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 08/09/2026
This story is incredible. Haaretz is reporting not only that UAE President warned Netanyahu a week and a half before Oct 7 that a major Hamas attack was coming, but that he did so at the instance of SINWAR. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
haaretz.com
Netanyahu got an explicit warning before Oct. 7. He didn't brief security chiefs
In September '23, UAE President bin Zayed called Netanyahu to deliver a harsh warning. Netanyahu did nothing. An extensive investigation, conducted for a new book, reveals the PM's failures surroundin...
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
'Make Germany Great Again' Kinda gives away the game, doesn't it
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The past is also, genuinely, not the past.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I guess I always thought if we had an Administration full of Nazis who support traditionally Nazi shit it would at least be a pretty big story
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