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Portland Mercury @portlandmercury.com · 06/01/2026
“We’re seeing the same buildup of lies about Venezuela that we saw in the ramp-up of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan... the same, tired old lies being bandied about like we’ve never heard them before,” a member of About Face PDX said to the crowd. Full story >> www.portlandmercury.com/news/2026/01...
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Northwest Progressive Institute @nwprogressive.org · 06/01/2026
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19thnews @19thnews.org · 10/11/2025
Hormone therapy to treat the symptoms of menopause and perimenopause will no longer carry the strongest safety warning, the head of the Food and Drug Administration announced Monday.
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The black box warning on menopause treatments is changing. Here’s why.
The FDA chief has indicated he’s interested in altering the warning on hormone therapies with estrogen. Experts say it’s complicated.
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Aozora @aozorasf.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
This is who is paying for the destruction of the White House East Wing, per @wsj.com Altria Group Inc. Amazon Apple Inc. Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp. Caterpillar Inc. Coinbase Global Comcast Corp. Hard Rock International Google HP Inc. Lockheed Martin Corp. Meta Platforms Inc. 1/3
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 31/10/2025
A mysterious protein from tardigrades – Earth's most resilient animal – is showing promise in early studies as a potential treatment for cancer, cardiovascular disease and radiation exposure in space exploration. buff.ly/CwdG49D 🛰️🩺🧪
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Water bears survive cosmic radiation with one DNA-protecting protein – learning how could boost human resilience, too
Tardigrades make a unique damage suppressor protein that researchers are working to harness for medicine, space, agriculture, data storage and more.
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Grist @grist.org · 31/10/2025
Heat pumps are expensive. What if billionaires bought them for everyone? It would cost more than $1 trillion, but the savings from lower bills and cleaner air would be just as high. grist.org/energy/heat-... #HeatPumps #Energy #Taxes
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Heat pumps are expensive. What if billionaires bought them for everyone?
Rewiring America ran the numbers and found that a big investment in heat pumps would end up paying for itself.
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Howard A. Rodman @rodman.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
www.nytimes.com/1939/01/10/a...
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HITLER DEDICATES NEW CHANCELLERY; Mammoth Building Required Nine Months' Work by 8,000 Men for Its Completion LABORERS PUT IN HOTELS Chancellor Explains That He Remains Simple at Home but Must Have Pu...
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Northwest Progressive Institute @nwprogressive.org · 20/05/2025
DONE! Governor Bob Ferguson signs two right to repair bills into law that will benefit all Washingtonians Soon, it will be easier for people in Washington to get more of their devices repaired. A new Right to Repair Act will make it easier for people to get their digital electronics fixed at…
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DONE! Governor Bob Ferguson signs two right to repair bills into law that will benefit all Washingtonians
Soon, it will be easier for people in Washington to get more of their devices repaired. A new Right to Repair Act will make it easier for people to get their digital electronics fixed at independent repair ships, while wheelchair owners will be protected by a new law ensuring they and independent repair shops have access to parts, tools, and information needed to keep their equipment working.
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NPR @npr.org · 19/05/2025
U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell ruled the USIP president and board members were unlawfully fired by President Trump and should be reinstated.
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Federal judge blocks Trump's takeover of U.S. Institute of Peace
U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell ruled the USIP president and board members were unlawfully fired by President Trump and should be reinstated.
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COURIER @couriernewsroom.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
A new guerilla ad campaign in D.C. calls on Americans to ‘topple the trolligarchy’ and take on America’s ‘CEO dictators.’
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justneedtosay.bsky.social @justneedtosay.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Remember this!👇 This is exactly what these emboldened #Republican criminals deserve. Post everywhere. #Resist @idahocapitalsun.com @idahostatesman.com #TownHall
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 07/04/2025
A 60 Minutes investigation confirmed what anyone who’s been paying attention already suspected: An overwhelming majority of the Venezuelan men that Trump deported to a Salvadoran mega-prison have no criminal record whatsoever.
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60 Minutes Exposes Truth of Who Exactly Trump Deported to El Salvador
Turns out Trump lied about those immigrants he deported to El Salvador’s megaprison.
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Shelah A Johnson @shelahajohnson.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
It was never a one off.
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Waltz team set up 20 Signal chats on global issues, Politico reports
The team led by U.S. President Donald Trump's national security adviser, Mike Waltz, set up at least 20 group chats on the commercial Signal app to coordinate official work on issues involving China, Gaza, Middle East policy, Africa and Europe, Politico reported on Wednesday.
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Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 31/03/2025
While the role and actions of the Elon Musk-headed Department of Government Efficiency remain somewhat murky, data privacy experts have been tracking the group’s moves and documenting potential violations of federal privacy protections. kentuckylantern.com/2025/03/31/r...
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Data privacy experts call DOGE actions 'alarming' • Kentucky Lantern
Privacy experts have been documenting potential violations of federal privacy protections by the Elon Musk-headed Department of Government Efficiency.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 28/03/2025
The fall of an empire is supposed to be a dramatic thing. But the reality is far less exciting. It happens in the text of legislation nobody bothered reading, in local elections nobody followed, in a thousand tiny disasters that amounted to a thousand little cuts on the body politic.
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I'm a historian, and I studied the fall of Rome. Here's what life is like in a dying empire.
It's the little things.
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Jakeistheman 🇨🇦 @jakeistheman.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
@seattletimes-rss.bsky.social might want to include this in an article.
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pyewhakket.bsky.social @pyewhakket.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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Tenderheart.Treasures.Ky @tenderheartstrong.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
We knew this and no one listened www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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New analysis says Trump budget plan will take from poorest 40 percent to give to rich
Both Medicaid and SNAP would suffer hundreds of billions in cuts, according to the analysis
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 15/03/2025
Rather than bunker down, Sanders is in the arena, communicating that he is a fighter, that he’s not cowed, and that he’s willing to take on Trump and his kleptocratic regime.
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Bernie Sanders Is Showing Democrats How It’s Done
The Vermont senator is taking his anti-Trump tour to red America—and it’s a smash hit.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 16/03/2025
"One of the most alarming developments in the second Trump administration is agencies’ apparent defiance of court orders barring them from implementing illegal executive orders...Yet the prospect of holding executive branch officials in contempt threatens a fresh constitutional crisis."
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If the Marshals Go Rogue, Courts Have Other Ways to Enforce their Orders
Opinion | Even a rogue marshal’s service is not an insurmountable obstacle to courts enforcing the rule of law.
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Betsy McCall - There Are No "Good" Republican Politicians @betsymccall2.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Sen. Bernie Sanders fact checks Musk's lies about Social Security www.cnn.com/2025/03/11/b...
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Bernie Sanders responds to Musk’s controversial remark about entitlements | CNN Business
In an interview with Fox Business, Elon Musk said he is looking to cut waste and fraud from US entitlement programs. However, Musk’s estimate for the amount of waste and fraud is much higher than prev...
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Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Once the Deed Is Done by Rachel Seiffert review – mystery in the aftermath of the Third Reich
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Once the Deed Is Done by Rachel Seiffert review – mystery in the aftermath of the Third Reich
This fine novel investigates the fate of displaced people in the hazardous, dirty backwash of the second world war
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 12/03/2025
"By rejecting passivity, Sanders is also doing more to actually put Republicans—who’ve recently been ordered to abandon town halls in the wake of mounting anger from their own voters—under pressure."
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Bernie Sanders Is Showing Democrats How It’s Done
The Vermont senator is taking his anti-Trump tour to red America—and it’s a smash hit.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 12/03/2025
The ‘freedom railway’: China’s new plan to take on the US in Africa www.ft.com/content/23e56860-7115-41…
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The ‘freedom railway’: China’s new plan to take on the US in Africa
Tazara project showcases Beijing’s leaner approach to overseas development just as western aid appears to retreat
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 11/03/2025
The Constitution gives the power of the purse to Congress — not the President, and definitely not an unelected billionaire. This Republican spending bill hands over the keys to Trump and Musk, completely disregarding our Constitution.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 08/03/2025
Mormon church rocked by child sexual abuse allegations in California
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Mormon church rocked by child sexual abuse allegations in California
Look-back window results in nearly 100 allegations against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) in the US has been rocked by a slew of sexual abuse allegations launched against it in…
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avaraquel.bsky.social @avaraquel.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
This is embarrassing, but let’s keep this going. Our own Media is afraid to cover this. Are you listening @nytimes.com @abc7.bsky.social @wsj.com etc.
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Henry Leperlier-Healy 羅維文 @hleperlier.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Tony Soprano is a fictional character who ruled a relatively small patch while Trump was elected by a majority of US citizens. Does their vote make them accountable for all Trump's actions? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump compared to mobster Tony Soprano by former envoy to Panama
John Feeley launches stinging critique of US president’s bully-boy approach to Latin America
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William Snyder @profsnyder.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
In Trump’s Alternate Reality, Lies and Distortions Drive Change www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...
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Trump Uses Lies to Lay the Groundwork for Radical Change
Condoms for Gaza? Ukraine started the war with Russia? The president’s manipulations of the truth lay the groundwork for radical change.
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meangardener.bsky.social @meangardener.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
The ‘whisper-network’ readies a state-level resistance to Trump Source: POLITICO share.newsbreak.com/bp3972yl
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The ‘whisper-network’ readies a state-level resistance to Trump - NewsBreak
New Jersey and Virginia will be some of the first opportunities for Democrats to see if they can rely on an anti-Trump sentiment to notch some wins.
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Sunny @sunnyjm.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/w...
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Czech Dam Project Was Stalled by Bureaucracy. Beavers Built Their Own.
The dam project, drafted in 2018 and based on a former military training site south of Prague, had been delayed by land negotiations. Local beavers built several dams, saving the government more than ...
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Jackson @triage.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
How to Topple a Dictator (Peacefully) "Nothing breaks people’s fear and punctures a dictator’s aura of invincibility like mockery -- Otpor’s guiding spirit was Monty Python’s Flying Circus, a television show its members had grown up watching, and its actions were usually pranks."
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How to Topple a Dictator (Peacefully)
Two Serb activists who helped remove the Milosevic regime start by exploding common myths about nonviolent struggle.
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liannewildlife.bsky.social @liannewildlife.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Ahhh there it is @wsj.com @nytimes.com @thehill.com @sfchronicle.com @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social @chronicle.com
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
'Take the Israelis to Alaska’, Saudi official mocks Netanyahu and Trump - www.middleeasteye.net/news/saudi-of…
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'Take the Israelis to Alaska’, Saudi official mocks Netanyahu and Trump
A Saudi official mocked Trump, suggesting he relocate Israelis to Alaska and then Greenland if he truly seeks Middle East peace
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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 10/02/2025
You are not helpless We will prevail Protest Protest Protest Take breaks when you need to Fight when you can And always Resist
Moose in a small forest clearing looking back at the camera. Fall setting.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/02/2025
Elon—the richest man on Earth—is gutting the world’s largest provider of food aid. He could end world hunger single-handedly and still be the richest man alive. But he won’t. Instead, he spent 40 million on Super Bowl ads attacking USAID! Stand with USAID: share this counter-ad…
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 10/02/2025
Senate rules were explicitly designed to protect the minority. Democrats should exploit them mercilessly to slow Trump and Musk before they destroy the country.
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Here’s What Senate Democrats Should Be Doing to Fight Trump
Senate rules were explicitly designed to protect the minority. Democrats should exploit them mercilessly to slow Trump and Musk before they destroy the country.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
“...'the most consequential security breach' in American history." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/u...
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Musk Team’s Treasury Access Raises Security Fears, Despite Judge’s Ordered Halt
A judge ruled Saturday that the activities of Elon Musk’s government cost-cutting effort risk “the disclosure of sensitive and confidential information” and render them “more vulnerable than before to...
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The Colorado Sun ☀️ @coloradosun.com · 07/02/2025
An Idaho rancher lost zero cattle to wolves in a decade. Can he help Colorado ranchers do the same?
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An Idaho rancher lost zero cattle to wolves in a decade. Can he help Colorado ranchers do the same?
Glenn Elzinga has had zero wolf attacks on his cattle in a decade. He says his success lies in living with wolves "in a highly functioning ecosystem.”
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 07/02/2025
A dystopian drama. In Barry Blitt’s latest Kvetchbook, the illustrator reimagines Elon Musk and his cohorts at the Department of Government Efficiency as the antihero droogs in “A Clockwork Orange.” www.newyorker.com/cartoons/bli...
An illustration of Elon Musk and his cohorts at the Department of Government Efficiency dressed as the antihero droogs of Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation of Anthony Burgess’s novel “A Clockwork Orange.”
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Diane JM @karmakiddo.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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What Happened the Last Time a President Purged the Bureaucracy
The impact can linger not just for years but decades.
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COURIER @couriernewsroom.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
"To me, it’s clear that Trump-friendly coverage of the MAGA’s assault on democracy is neither a smart marketing tactic nor a legitimate journalistic approach. It’s a recipe for disaster for both CNN and our country," writes @markjacob.bsky.social.
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CNN is flailing between facts and fascism
Sucking up to right-wing disinformation is a foolish strategy.
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incorg.bsky.social @incorg.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
www.seattletimes.com/business/ont...
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Ontario premier says he’s ‘ripping up’ $100m contract with Musk’s Starlink in response to US tariffs
The leader of Canada’s most populous province of Ontario says he’s ripping up a contract with Elon Musk’s Starlink internet services in response to Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on Canada, as well as banning American companies from provincial contracts.
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Helio Fred Garcia @hfgarcia.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
From NYT: “The president has insisted that these tariffs will not increase prices for American consumers and that if anyone pays the cost, it will be foreign countries. But a simple review of how tariffs work suggests that is not the case.” Can’t call it a lie? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/b...
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Who Pays for Tariffs? Here’s What You Need to Know.
President Trump has insisted that his new tariffs on America’s largest trading partners will not increase prices for Americans. But a review of how they work suggests that is not the case.
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404 Media @404media.co · 29/01/2025
Declassified CIA guide to sabotaging fascism is suddenly viral 🔗 www.404media.co/declassified...
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
#NeverForget
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Good statement. Dems should make this about Trump’s ‘deranged’ views, ‘ego’ and attack on the constitution.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 29/01/2025
No president in history—not even Trump in his first term—ever logged so many illegal actions in so short a time.
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The Reason Why Donald Trump Shut Down His Government
Chaos isn’t a by-product; it’s the goal.
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