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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 20h
Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.
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🌊🧩Perpetua🪭☔️ @barrylarkin06.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The country really needs & wants TALARICO not just Texas. He's a spiritual, kind ethical person, but understands what #SeparationofChurchAndState means. Enough of these'GOP brained' 🇷🇺fauxChristians, NationalistChristofascists Nat-Cs, who are the OPPOSITE of Christianity. REMOVE FatSenileHairHitler.
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Andrew Levesque @andrewlevesque.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
www.npr.org/2026/10/01/n... Historically, the federal government and states have evenly split the food aid program's operational costs, such as paying for state workers and training staff. But starting on Thursday, states will need to cover 75% of that tab while federal funding shrinks by half….
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SNAP's funding model is starting to change. Here's what that means for the program
States will start to pay a larger share of the bill to run the food assistance program, as federal funding for operational costs shrinks.
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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Staff cutbacks also resulted in the agency reducing weather balloons used to gather data fishermen rely on." One of the most important functions across all Govt agencies is the NWS and launching weather balloons. Critical for transportation: trains, trucks, aviation, commercial boats and commerce.
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Trump tried to make allies of fishermen. Some are turning on him
Some commercial fishermen have come to question whether Trump is meeting the needs of an industry he has long leaned on for support.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Bellingcat's won 3 awards at the Online Journalism Award, two for Agents of Chaos, our collaboration with @calmatters.org and @evidentmedia.org calmatters.org/investigatio...
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Agents of Chaos: Border Patrol’s year of unchecked force
A visual investigation shows how five agents moved from city to city, with their tactics becoming more brazen at each stop.
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VTDigger @vtdigger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🍁 The brightest colors of the year have arrived in the mountains and the Northeast Kingdom. Expect it to get cold early next week. We might even see some snowflakes across northern Vermont on Tuesday morning. ❄
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Peak foliage arrives in Vermont, and next week could bring year’s first flakes - VTDigger
The brightest colors of the year have arrived in the mountains and the Northeast Kingdom. Expect it to get cold early next week.
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Ken Bazinet @kenbazinet.bsky.social · 23h
“We have incredibly wealthy, powerful companies coming into these rural communities in South Carolina, dangling a few carrots, and then the communities are getting steamrolled,” said South Carolina Democratic Senate candidate Annie Andrews, backing a two-year ban, WRDW/WAGT reported. #DataCenters
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S.C. Senate candidate Dr. Annie Andrews calls for moratorium on data centers
South Carolina Democratic Senate candidate Dr. Annie Andrews is calling for a two-year moratorium on new data center projects in the state.
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 23h
Annie Leibovitz was born #OTD in 1949. + Rolling Stone’s chief photographer for 10 yrs w/142 covers + Living Legend designation, Library of Congress, for her original contributions to America's cultural heritage + 1st woman to have an exhibition at Washington's Nat'l Portrait Gallery #photography
A color photograph of the iconic American portrait photographer Annie Leibovitz (born October 2, 1949), celebrated for her era-defining celebrity portraits and her designation as a Library of Congress Living Legend. Facing forward, she maintains a serene, knowing expression with a slight, subtle smile, looking directly at the camera through rectangular, black-rimmed eyeglasses. Her long, silver-gray hair is loosely styled, swept slightly to one side. She is dressed in her signature utilitarian style, wearing a dark gray, long-sleeved button-down collared shirt with the sleeves relaxed and rolled up past her forearms. Her right hand rests confidently on her hip, while her left hand grips the top of a professional, medium-format Hasselblad film camera mounted securely on a tripod directly in front of her chest. The composition places her centrally within a weathered setting featuring textured, dark green wooden doors and a rough concrete wall to the right. In the upper left background, a large, circular studio light ring glows with a warm, ambient golden luminosity, functioning as a halo-like visual anchor that contrasts with the dark, moody environment. The overall atmosphere is intimate and authoritative, symbolizing a legendary artist standing alongside the essential tools of her historic craft.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/10/2026
NEW: Oregon’s top housing official failed to report her husband’s involvement with projects that her agency funds. She disclosed this only after we asked. “In a perfect world, we wouldn’t need ProPublica for this kind of thing,” a former official said.
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Oregon Housing Director Failed to Report Husband’s Related Business Interests
Andrea Bell, executive director of Oregon Housing and Community Services, filed amended state ethics paperwork after ProPublica asked about her husband’s work at a firm that’s consulted on projects re...
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Massive crowd outside Palantir’s HQ in central London. Throw this evil corporation out of our public services." via Global Justice Now
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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 21h
Landlord attorney is trying to kill Mamdani's rent freeze by forcing the release of SHOCKING Texts Like 'Appreciate the Appointment' and 'Honored to Serve.'
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Landlord Attorney Trying to Kill Mamdani's Rent Freeze Forces Release of SHOCKING Texts Like 'Appreciate the Appointment' and 'Honored to Serve'
Randy Mastro is asking the judge for an evidentiary hearing where he can depose City officials.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22h
Today's jobs report is a reminder that tax cuts for corporations and the rich don’t create jobs or grow the economy. What's required is investment in working people — and better wages. When workers have money to spend, the economy grows and businesses create more jobs. Remember this.
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Bucks County Beacon @buckscountybeacon.com · 01/10/2026
Human Rights Groups Ask UN Panel to Help End ICE’s ‘Enforced Disappearances’ of Noncitizens | “Disappearing people into a network of remote detention sites, hiding their whereabouts, and cutting off their access to outside help is the definition of an enforced disappearance.”
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Human Rights Groups Ask UN Panel to Help End ICE's 'Enforced Disappearances' of Noncitizens - Bucks County Beacon
The practice involves withholding the whereabouts of thousands of detainees facing deportation from families and lawyers.
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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
- 30yrs after the crime she committed, Tennessee scheduled a woman's execution - a court stopped it - the Supreme Court allowed it one hour before the execution was to start - the woman received two lethal injections - both failed - she was taken away by ambulance That's not justice, but torture.
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Tennessee Unable To Carry Out The Execution By Lethal Injection Of Christa Gail Pike, Witnesses Say
Pike had been scheduled for execution after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned an appeals court ruling that stopped the lethal injection just an hour before it was to start.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/10/2026
As most states move away from the death penalty, Florida is executing more prisoners than ever before. Last year, 19 people were put to death — shattering the state’s previous annual record of 11, first set in 1936. (Published June w/ @nytimes.com)
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Florida Is Executing Prisoners at a Record Pace, Even as Most of the U.S. Abandons the Death Penalty
Early last year, Gov. Ron DeSantis began signing death warrants at a faster rate than ever before. What followed was the most intense period of executions the state has carried out in more than eight ...
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Fifth unvaccinated person dies of measles; CDC still not counting all deaths arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
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Fifth unvaccinated person dies of measles; CDC still not counting all deaths
State health officials race to vaccinate residents by giving over 8,500 doses.
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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Free book excerpt! From THEY KNEW, on paywalls, the loss of the public sphere, and the abandonment of accountability. Written in 2021, it explains much of the present political information crisis: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/a-public-f...
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A Public Flat Earth
How paywalls killed the public sphere.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I hope everyone reads this, thinks about it and then shares it. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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A few hundred noncitizen votes are a national scandal. But when states reject hundreds of thousands of ballots from eligible voters, it’s business as usual
One state rejected ballots because some voters failed to include their mother’s maiden name on the back of the return envelope.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Key federal agencies failed to provide any records to back up President Donald Trump’s allegations that tens of thousands of noncitizens are registered to vote in various blue states, a nonpartisan government watchdog said in a new lawsuit. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DHS has failed to provide records to prove Trump’s allegations of noncitizen voting, watchdog says
Key federal agencies failed to provide any records to back up President Donald Trump’s allegations that 278,000 noncitizens are improperly registered to vote, a nonpartisan government watchdog said in...
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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 30/09/2026
The US Senate on Wednesday appeared set to block legislation requiring state utility regulators to consider whether data centers and other large electricity users should bear the incremental costs of power infrastructure built to serve them, as voting continued.
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US Senate set to block bill to address data center costs
The ​US Senate ‌on Wednesday appeared set ​to block legislation ​requiring state utility ⁠regulators ​to consider whether ​data centers and other large ​electricity ​users should bear ‌the ⁠incremental costs of power infrastructure ​built ​to ⁠serve them, ​as voting ​continued.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 30/09/2026
Man Confident He Would’ve Been Brave Enough To Send Thumbs Down Emoji In Cornell Group Chat
Man Confident He Would’ve Been Brave Enough To Send Thumbs Down Emoji In Cornell Group Chat
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Karen Starr @ravenbadger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This will not end well.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 30/09/2026
ICE briefly posted eight of its 2025 death reviews online. Most of them raised issues of substandard and “inappropriate” care of ill detainees. theintercept.com/2026/09/30/i...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🇺🇸 US TRAVEL ASSOCIATION: “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation. It’s mind-boggling.” The Trump effect. 🤷🏼 www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 30/09/2026
Award-winning Danish Afghan journalist and filmmaker Nagieb Khaja’s documentary "Winning Heart and Minds" looks at on how Western forces made the Afghan people vulnerable to physical and sexual violence during the war in Afghanistan.
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Afghans “Have Been the Victims” of U.S. Military, Taliban, Cartels & More for Decades: Nagieb Khaja
Award-winning Danish Afghan journalist and filmmaker Nagieb Khaja’s most recent documentary, Winning Heart and Minds, is an investigation into what went wrong in the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan. In th...
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 29/09/2026
America.gov for now functions like a chatbot comparable to ChatGPT or Claude, pointing users to official gov't websites.
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Trump unveils new site to simplify access to government services
America.gov for now functions like a chatbot comparable to ChatGPT or Claude, pointing users to official gov't websites.
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Wonkette @wonkettemedia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We Found The Voter Fraud — It Was In The Moms For Liberty All Along www.wonkette.com/p/we-found-t... By Robyn Pennacchia @robynelyse.bsky.social
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We Found The Voter Fraud — It Was In The Moms For Liberty All Along
Former Republican mayoral candidate Gaea Powell found guilty on eight counts related to voter fraud.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I got one of those. Do not get into their greedy maw. Just sorting out my Anthropic settlement stuff now. (It's complicated, at least if you're me.)
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This ad gives no quarter which is as it should be.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 29/09/2026
In a letter sent to the company this week, US Rep. Jamie Raskin accused Apple of “working with the government to violate its customers’ First Amendment rights to record and report on the activities of their own government." arstechnica.visitlink.me/zit76N
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Apple pressured to explain Trump role in ICE-tracking app removals
Lawmaker rejects Apple excuse for banning ICE-tracking apps as unconstitutional.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 29/09/2026
Huge win for government transparency and accountability! CA Senate Bill 423 was signed into law today, requiring release of 911 calls from ICE detention centers. This critical info will cast light on how ICE is treating people it holds. Congrats to coalition of advocates who made this possible.
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Data from 911 calls at ICE detention centers must be disclosed under new California law
Gov. Newsom signed a law compelling disclosure of emergency calls from ICE detention centers. It followed CalMatters' reporting about alleged rapes at one site.
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Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @sheldricktrust.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
After seeing Wamata's ambitious entrance into the coveted browsing quadrant, many of you wondered whether she managed the dismount with equal determination. For a moment, it looks as though she might vault right over little Daba, before thinking better of it and tucking back into the browsing.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
UNREAL!!! Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students. The goal of Trump regime to erase the LGBTQ community from existence thehill.com/homenews/edu...
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Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students
The Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati…
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Vermont Public @vermontpublic.org · 27/09/2026
As many as 120 white South African refugees will have arrived in Vermont by the end of September, the Boston Globe's Paul Heintz reported. Watch Vermont This Week: sbrew.link/JhbgvEqO
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The empathetic folks at Mar-a-Lago react to hearing you lost your healthcare, your child has measles, and you can't afford to gas up your truck:
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Campus rape is really widespread; statistics suggest a significant percent of women who go to college will be raped there; feminism opened up a good conversation about it around 2012-13; it's weird when people treated Cornell like an isolated rather than dramatic example of a pervasive problem.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 27/09/2026
Children are being held for months at ICE’s Dilley detention center despite posing no security threat. @monacharen.bsky.social and Casey Revkin discuss the conditions inside, and the father whose son asked him, “Why are we here if we didn’t do anything wrong?”
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The Onion @theonion.com · 27/09/2026
Xi Jinping Impressed With How Much Trump’s English Has Improved Since Last Visit
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Xi Jinping Impressed With How Much Trump’s English Has Improved Since Last Visit
WASHINGTON—Marveling at how his American counterpart’s grasp of the difficult language had progressed, Chinese leader Xi Jinping told reporters Thursday that he was deeply impressed with how much Pres...
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This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
64 years ago, on the 27th of September 1962, Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring was published. It handled the environmental harm caused by the pesticide DDT and the disinformation spread by the chemical industry. Carson managed to sway public opinion and even policy. #otd #history 🗃️
Rachel Carson photo credit: Science History Images / Alamy
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I've never liked ICE. Even back when they used to call themselves the Klan.
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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The capitalist injustice system has created incredibly powerful men who will never see the inside of jails or prisons. Sad truth.
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Happy213 @happy213.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Los Angeles 👇👇
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Incarcerated Women Are Pushing for Decarceration, Not “Trauma-Informed” Prisons
Organizers discuss how they are fighting new women’s prisons in Vermont, Massachusetts, and Illinois.
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Lady Liberty Fights Back @vstewart2465.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
More than 167,000 pounds of meat were recalled. What to know about the state of food safety in the U.S. | PBS News www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...
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More than 167,000 pounds of meat were recalled. What to know about the state of food safety in the U.S.
More than 167,000 pounds of beef, pork and goat meat are being recalled after they were produced without the required federal inspection and labeled with a false inspection sticker, according to the D...
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Thank you student journalists/editors.
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#tdih 1962, "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson published, exposed impact of pesticides on environment. Carson was vilified: called a Communist, disloyal, unscientific, and hysterical. Sound familiar? Attacks on truth tellers, with media complicity. See⬇️🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/si...
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Sept. 27, 1962: Silent Spring Published
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson was published.
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