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Rekha Murthy

@rekha6.bsky.social
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Podcast strategist + story editor. I help people make good podcasts for good reasons. Passions include: Storytelling, journalism, climate, and ways for media makers to thrive. www.rmurthy.com

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Rekha Murthy @rekha6.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"[T]he most underappreciated factor in the rise of precision is stability." Outstanding essay by Spencer Glendon of Probable Futures. probablefutures.org/perspective/... #climate
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Equinox greetings: accuracy vs. precision · Probable Futures
Spencer Glendon argues that what’s more important than how precisely you hit a target is what targets, goals, values you choose to aim for.
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Rekha Murthy @rekha6.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
#heroine // As Midterms Rage, a Top Democrat Wants Congress to Talk Menopause www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/u...
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As Midterms Rage, Gillibrand Wants Congress to Talk Menopause
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York is devoting a hearing to a topic that affects millions but is poorly understood and widely ignored, including when it comes to federal research money.
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Rekha Murthy @rekha6.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I've long trusted Thorne. But now, who knows. www.worseonpurpose.com/p/who-actual... #enshittification
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Who Actually Makes Your Supplements?
A few factories make supplements for hundreds of brands. What lab tests found in gummy vitamins, and what the USP and NSF seals actually mean.
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Rekha Murthy @rekha6.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Why does every book get a 3.9 on Goodreads.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
"she asked for it"
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Rekha Murthy @rekha6.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Today, my town has a "Gas Leaks Safari". 🙏🏽 "The Town of Arlington's Gas Leaks Task Force will lead a two-hour tour of National Grid's gas leaks in town. We will field test the company's gas leak repairs and we will demonstrate that more action is urgently needed." www.arlingtonma.gov/Home/Compone...
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Rekha Murthy @rekha6.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
"As data and information is getting purposefully disappeared from the internet... archiving becomes increasingly necessary, or else, the public cannot bear witness to itself." conversationalist.org/2026/04/10/g...
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On Guerrilla Archives in the Disinformation Age
How the archival work of librarians and other activists helps preserve more than just history.
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Rekha Murthy @rekha6.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
"Minnesota governor Tim Walz commented: 'Found an imaginary problem, said only they could fix it, didn’t listen to experts, hired buddies who grifted millions, failed miserably, bragged how great it went. The entire Trump presidency in a nutshell.'” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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June 20, 2026
The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has become a metaphor for the Trump presidency.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 15/06/2026
"Either way, the concentration of wealth at the very top is much higher now than it ever was during the Gilded Age. And these are numbers from last year, before the SpaceX IPO. The robber barons were pikers compared with today’s oligarchs." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/meet-the-n...
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Meet the New Bosses, Worse Than the Old Bosses
The second Gilded Age is much uglier than the first
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Rekha Murthy @rekha6.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Very glad to see this. Thank you @massgovernor.bsky.social and team. www.wwlp.com/news/massach...
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Massachusetts joins global conservation network IUCN
The Healey-Driscoll Administration announced that Massachusetts is now an official member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, a global network of more than 1,400 governments and …
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
One of my students is at the TPUGA event with JD Vance and Erica Kirk. They say it is only 1/8 full! 😂
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Rekha Murthy @rekha6.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
For those who hope this war will save Iranians from an oppressive regime... it might sicken and kill them instead.
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Denying climate change and it's causes is no different than denying gravity. It is an argument made by idiots. It does not change the laws of nature, but when used to change the laws of the country, people will die. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...
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Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change
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Rekha Murthy @rekha6.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
There are 8.3 billion people in the world. Let this sink in: "In the 12 months to April [2025], 91 people became billionaires through inheritance" www.reuters.com/business/fin...
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Billionaires are inheriting record levels of wealth, UBS report finds
The spouses and children of billionaires inherited more wealth in 2025 than in any previous year since reporting began in 2015, according to UBS's Billionaire Ambitions Report published on Thursday.
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Handmaid @handmaid.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Everytime I think I couldn't love her more, she proves me wrong. Muy linda, Mayor Wu.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
And if you don’t think that was explicitly political you were maybe not watching things like… the sugar cane fields? Electric poles? The men grinding on each other? The little boy? The americas shout out? What moooore do you want?
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Amy W. Ando @awando.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Holding us accountable for the shameful failure to restore power to PR
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Joel D. Anderson @joelanderson.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
trump almost certainly trying to figure out if he can deport people back to puerto rico right now lol
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 09/02/2026
I think one of the best things about Bad Bunny’s performance is that it was so *specific*. It so clearly had a point of view coming from real lived experience and actual emotion, actual heart, not cynical calculation. Just beautiful.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
It doesn’t seem like Epstein is a hoax after all.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I thought this was fake, but apparently, they've arrested Don Lemon for reporting from Minneapolis. I'm not a huge Don Lemon fan, but this is totalitarian nonsense meant to threaten anyone who reports on the regime's horrors.
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Federal Agents Arrest Don Lemon Over Minnesota Church Protest
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Rekha Murthy @rekha6.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Actually, since we're well before the Nuremberg/accountability phase, this is important information. Sure, she's deflecting blame... but intentionally or not she's also reminding everyone that this is coming from the top. That firing Bovino and possibly her will not change the fascist reality.
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Rekha Murthy @rekha6.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I am thrilled that @mprnews.org is doing a live call-in. But the rightwing guy who was just on made me feel physically ill. ICE is saving abandoned children, people confronting ICE are to blame for their own hurt, MPR is telling lies, etc. I forgot to breathe. Such hate and gaslighting.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
It's not quite the most pressing issue at the moment, but the American people absolutely have a right to know the names of the federal officials who shot and killed a man peacefully protesting, who was on his knees, prone in the street when they shot him in the back.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis
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Rekha Murthy @rekha6.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Ha! Well, that was fast.
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Rekha Murthy @rekha6.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Get this guy a rage room and maybe he'll leave us alone.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/01/2026
Wow! This read-along of the NYT moment-by-moment leading to the murder of Alex Pretti should shake everyone awake. He was a Good Samaritan. Agents fired at least ten shots in roughly five seconds. DHS and Pam Bondi claim Pretti approached them armed and intent on a “massacre.”
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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/01/2026
Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 24/01/2026
I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026
There is video circulating on social media of a group of ICE agents beating a man near 26th and Nicollet in south Minneapolis, then one of the ICE agents shoots the man while he's on the ground numerous times. A witness can be heard yelling that the victim is dead.
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Rekha Murthy @rekha6.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Gas leaks are so dangerous. We are losing the game of Whack-a-Mole and paying a lot for the privilege. 😬 commonwealthbeacon.org/energy/new-r...
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New report: Gas utilities spent record amount replacing leaky pipes in 2024 - CommonWealth Beacon
The latest data on utilities’ work to replace leaky pipes paints an even more damning picture of GSEP as costs balloon with few additional results — driving up ratepayer bills — and places recent refo...
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
NEW: It appears billionaire Bill Ackman has donated $10k to a GoFundMe for Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who killed Renee Good. Ackman has reposted the fundraiser but hasn’t posted about his own donation.
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Rekha Murthy @rekha6.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Very glad to hear @pauloffit.bsky.social on CSPAN this morning. The new vaccine schedule is terrifying. As is the occasional conspiracy theorist caller.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 09/01/2026
I invite all Americans to join Minnesota in a day of unity tomorrow.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.
Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting
"They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head."
An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries.
"We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.
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Rekha Murthy @rekha6.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
ICE and the monsters directing them are now lying. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Live updates: Noem says ICE agent justified in killing woman
Renee Good, 37, was identified as the woman shot and killed Wednesday morning by an ICE agent in south Minneapolis. ICE said Good was shot while trying to run over agents with her car. Mayor Jacob Fre...
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Rekha Murthy @rekha6.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
They murdered a mother. They yelled conflicting things at her and when she tried to comply, they murdered her. Then they denied her immediate medical care. My rage is deep and broad.
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Rekha Murthy @rekha6.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
The United States killed at least 80 people in Venezuela last week. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
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Venezuela’s New Leader Softens Tone as Trump Threatens Colombia
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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
here is some Northern Hemisphere good news. today, the day I started to feel "this is ridiculous, this is just TOO DARK NOW" is precisely the day that it is starting, slowly slowly slowly, to get lighter
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Rekha Murthy @rekha6.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
I have identified the least charismatic video with the most views. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PmV...
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WHO: How to handwash? With soap and water
YouTube video by World Health Organization (WHO)
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☀️ @vamospeat.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
good morning to vanity fair and vanity fair only today
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Rekha Murthy @rekha6.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Castro podcast app blocks Inception Point AI audio slop from appearing in search results and charts. Good. castro.fm/blog/hiding-... #podcasts #AIslop
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Hiding Inception Point AI
Improving your charts and search results
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Rekha Murthy @rekha6.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
My efforts to compartmentalize bad news have vaporized this morning. I can't stop crying for the Brown University community.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Footage from inside Brown University 🇺🇸🇺🇸‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
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Your wish is our command, Andrew. Just sunk another narco boat.
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Every new attack aimed at Pete Hegseth makes me want another narco drug boat blown up and sent to the bottom of the ocean. x.com/SenSchumer/sta...
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