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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 13h
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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 13h
From @asfried.bsky.social: The Empathy Gap in the First Maine Senate Debate Jackson showed concern for Mainers, Collins for her reputation amyfried.substack.com/p/empathy-ga...
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The Empathy Gap in the First Maine Senate Debate
Jackson showed concern for Mainers, Collins for her reputation
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 13h
A new statue titled “The Orange Plague”, also known as “King of Injustice”, by Danish artist Jens Galschiøt has been unveiled inside the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, where it will remain through 8 October. Remember to stop by for a selfie if you have a chance. 😏📸
This sculpture is a satirical piece titled "[The Orange Plague] created by Danish artist Jens Galschiøt.

The Imagery: The 2.6-meter-tall, gold-plated bronze sculpture depicts a naked, oversized Donald Trump riding on the back of a smaller man. He is holding a golf club in one hand and a pair of scales in the other. 

The Meaning: According to Galschiøt, the piece is a satirical commentary on modern political power, climate policy, and the subversion of the rules-based international order. 

Recent Exhibition: In October 2026, the statue drew global headlines when it went on public display inside the European Parliament building in Strasbourg, France, organized by Danish MEP Per Clausen.
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 13h
Weird how Republicans aren’t asked to disavow the political views of their largest donor while Democrats have to answer about a Twitch streamer
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 11h
The Trump family runs the government, and the government pays the Trump family. This is not a coincidence – it's deep corruption that never would have been tolerated before a convicted felon took over the White House. Vote against all Republicans.
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Trump sons' investments have won billions in Pentagon contracts since his election
The contract for a new plant in Baltimore is the latest linked to the brothers.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 13h
Video shows the damage left behind after Border Patrol toppling four 200-year-old cottonwood trees in Lochiel, Arizona.
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Trump administration gave a high level security clearance and unprecedented access to your sensitive PII and financials to a kid who ran foreign CSAM boards, was fired from his only prior real job for stealing company data, and was linked to a Russian cybercrime ring.
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 13h
Apparently this kid, Ed 'Big Balls' Coristine, with a screaming red flag criminal background is *still* in a sensitive federal job, head of engineering for the national design studio, which builds high profile public facing govt websites www.wired.com/story/myster...
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A Mysterious Nonprofit Run by SpaceXAI’s Top Lawyer Is Paying the Salaries of Government Workers
The National Design Studio has been something of a successor agency to DOGE. A WIRED investigation finds some of its members are on loan from a nonprofit run by SpaceXAI’s general counsel.
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 13h
❤️‍🩹 "Life forced him to become brave much sooner." A Ukrainian boy celebrating his seventh birthday has survived a Russian missile strike that destroyed his home after previously losing both of his parents.
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The French police are so militarized they blew up a 15-yr-old’s hand and took the eye of another one. Why are grenades being used to quell student protestors who are unarmed? Now the labour unions are stepping in to protect the students
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 13h
Pryluky. One more child’s life taken by Russia. 📷: State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Chernihiv Region
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 13h
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Radio Free America @handle.invalid · 23h
Democratic nominee for Governor of Georgia, Keisha Lance Bottoms: Georgia's teachers are underpaid. I want to raise teacher pay to a $60,000 average starting salary and eliminate income taxes for all teachers.
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Democratic nominee for Governor of Georgia, Keisha Lance Bottoms: Georgia's teachers are underpaid. I want to raise teacher pay to a $60,000 average starting salary and eliminate income taxes for all teachers.
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Free Press @freepress.bsky.social · 23h
"Changing this limit requires congressional action, but Carr doesn't care. He'll do whatever it takes to clear the way for Trump-aligned billionaires to swallow up stations wherever and whenever they please."- Free Press' @mattfieldwood.bsky.social via @arstechnica.com
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Cable lobby to sue Trump FCC over repeal of national TV ownership cap
Cable industry to sue, says FCC can't repeal TV ownership limit set by Congress.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump stole millions of dollars from us to buy those campaign ads. Of course he won't pay us back. He's a criminal who should be in prison right now.
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Trump Does Not Plan to Reimburse Taxpayers for Promotional Ads
A day after the president said his super PAC would pay for the ads, which had drawn bipartisan backlash, officials said that he meant moving forward. A new taxpayer-funded ad aired Tuesday.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Paul Macdonald @paulmac.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
CAUSED AND/OR AMPLIFIED/INTENSIFIED BY HUMANS BURNING FOSSIL FUELS #Oil #Coal #Gas #FossilFuelPollution bsky.app/profile/extr... x.com/edgarrmcgreg... #ExtremeHeat #RecordHeat #ExtremeWeather #FossilFuelPollution #AnthropogenicGlobalWarming
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Edgar McGregor (@edgarrmcgregor) on X
Pasadena is trending towards an average low temperature for week 1 of October of around 76°F, a value 10°F above the previous record holder and *25°F* warmer than the average at the start of the 1900s...
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John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
@pkrugman.bsky.social on AI's crowding out effect: All that money going into building data centers and purchasing foreign produced semiconductors is coming at the expense of investment in everything else.
Change in private construction spending since December 2023
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Great work on oil and gas industry lies about "routine" flaring. “It’s a deliberate greenwash that establishes a target that’s meaningless,” says Richard Ward, a former Shell sustainability manager.... "Those loopholes are so big that they don’t have to do anything.” Gift link. Please read.
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Living Next Door to the Oil Sector’s Toxic Flames
Routine gas flaring continues globally, despite pledges by major companies to curb the practice.
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 05/10/2026
I often see people argue that clean energy is not reducing emissions, because it just adds to rather than replaces fossil fuels. This argument is deeply misguided – clean energy built since 2005 has displaced 23 billion tons. I dive in over at The Climate Brink:
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What if the world hadn't built wind and solar?
Clean energy does not simply “add to” global energy use; it displaces fossil sources that would otherwise get built.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 05/10/2026
With the help of Republican officials, ICE has quietly arrested hundreds of people in Florida per day. Watch the latest dispatch from journalist Amanda Moore (@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social) out of southwest Florida:
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Rob @robertferry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This local news hit piece on solar has a single source of misinformation: Virginia state senator Glen Sturtevant, whose largest private donor is Dominion Energy ($304,748).
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Spanberger recommends a quarter million acres of new solar panels on farms and forests
Last week, Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger unveiled her energy plan as required by state law. This comes at a crucial time, as hundreds more data centers a
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WaterBluSky 🇺🇸 🌻 🇺🇦 @waterblusky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I have a coworker who’s an immigrant and they’re incredulous this is happening. This tells me the news and social media eco-system they’re in is cursed. I’m going to show this to them. Show this to people you know who are in denial about the Trump admin violently violating Americans’ civil rights.🧵
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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It is reported that last night, the "Volodarska" oil depot - the largest in the Moscow region - was attacked. The facility notably supplies fuel to key airports in the Russian terrorists' capital - Vnukovo, Domodedovo, and Sheremetyevo.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Justice Alito devotes an entire chapter of his new book to the emergency docket—and to responding to people like me (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”). As I explain over at “One First,” it … didn’t go well: www.stevevladeck.com/p/256-so-une...
In the pre-publication galleys to his new book, So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country, Justice Alito spelled my last name inconsistently. This is, I suspect, the pettiest possible point on which to open in discussing a Supreme Court justice’s new memoir, and I would never have mentioned it except for the fact that inconsistency turns out to be the organizing feature of the chapter in which I (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”) repeatedly appear.The central inconsistency of Chapter 8, which is devoted to the emergency docket, is structural: Rather than tackle the subject holistically (as one might expect in a book), Alito mashed together the speech he gave five years ago at Notre Dame Law School with a “postscript.” The former was deeply flawed even at the time (among lots of other things, Alito repeatedly insisted that there was “nothing new” about the Court’s behavior on emergency applications during the first Trump administration and COVID); and the latter tries to move the goalposts away from the specific phenomena to which critics like me have actually objected.The result is to leave readers with a disjointed, inaccurate, and misleading sense of what the debate is even about—to say nothing of how the Court’s own behavior since September 2021 (including Alito’s) has only further undermined the already-flawed claims Alito made back then. Somewhere between the galleys of Alito’s book and the final product (which hits bookstores today), someone apparently figured out that my last name should be spelled the same way (and correctly!) throughout. The other, more significant inconsistencies were, apparently, harder to fix.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The federal government is lying to you. And we have the receipts. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Chevron donated $150,000 to the Bay Area Council, which led a campaign against electrification rules requiring homeowners to replace gas water heaters with electric heat pumps. The Council hired a software company to send thousands of opposition emails, some without the consent of the signers.
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Chevron Gave $150K to Bay Area Group Accused of Using AI to Fight Heat Pump Rule
The group claimed victory after regulators recommended delaying landmark rules that would eventually phase out gas water heaters in 2.8 million homes.
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migas7.bsky.social @migas7.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
These are the results of Republican control.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
GARY OLDMAN and how the iconic “Everyone!” line came to be. LEON: THE PROFESSIONAL (1994)
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migas7.bsky.social @migas7.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 06/10/2026
Samuel Alito is insulted by claims that he's MAGA, which he told the AP while promoting his book. He has consistently voted Trump's way and refuses to retire. Call it whatever you want, Sam. The voting record doesn't care about your branding.
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Trumpy Justice Takes Offense at Being Called MAGA
Samuel Alito has consistently voted in favor of the president.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
2/ Federal agents have detained at least 70 children and teens who are American citizens. Some were handcuffed or zip-tied. In one instance, a 15-year-old with disabilities was handcuffed outside a school in Los Angeles when agents mistook him for an alleged gang member.
At least 70 U.S. citizen children detained, some of whom were handcuffed
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
3/ 100+ Americans have been held after agents questioned their citizenship. Nearly all of them were people of color. They say they were profiled — detained because of their skin color, accents or jobs. “ICE isn’t looking for criminals. They’re looking for Latinos,” one said.
100+ U.S. citizens held after agents questioned their citizenship
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
8/ Amanda Trebach, a nurse and member of an immigrant advocacy group, was detained in California while filming and protesting immigration enforcement operations. Trebach says she was held for almost 36 hours without access to a phone call or a lawyer.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
7/ Among the most jarring trends we found: 36 U.S. citizens were not allowed to contact their family or a lawyer.
36 U.S. citizens held for at least a day without being able to contact a lawyer or their family.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We live in a police state now
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Every news organization is reporting "Trump says his Super PAC will pay for those ads instead of taxpayers," but we should be very careful about taking his word on that until we see the proof. It's not like this is a guy who keeps his promises and pays his bills.
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Uprise RI @upriseri.com · 06/10/2026
Walmart's CEO promised in writing not to price shoppers by identity, income, history or urgency. Rhode Island lawmakers proposed making rules like that enforceable this year. Neither bill became law. upriseri.com/article/walmart-vows-n…
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Walmart Vows No Personalized Prices; RI Bills Stalled
Walmart's CEO pledged no personalized pricing, but Rhode Island's 2026 bills to ban surveillance pricing didn't become law. Here's what applies now.
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
and also remember this about Gorka (2017) forward.com/news/366181/...
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EXCLUSIVE: Nazi-Allied Group Claims Top Trump Aide Sebastian Gorka As Sworn Member
Sebastian Gorka, President Trump's aide, is reportedly a member of a Nazi-allied group.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ICE has disclosed another detainee who died We know: -After 17yrs, he'd only ever been busted for... *an expired car tag.* He was in a camp run by for-profit w/ history medical neglect An American died at one of its jails *after strep-throat.* austinkocher.substack.com/p/julian-cur...
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Julian Curo-Churata Is the 37th Person to Die in ICE Custody This Fiscal Year, Capping Off the Agency’s Deadliest Year on Record
According to ICE, 47-year-old Peruvian national Julian Curo-Churata died in Louisiana on Tuesday, September 29.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Really sophisticated look at what the loss of state capacity gets you. prospect.org/2026/10/05/a...
IN TECH TERMS, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT operates what an engineer would call a “sovereign stack,” the layered infrastructure of measurement, reporting, and verification that lets a state see itself. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) measures employment and wages. The Census Bureau counts people. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) tracks disease. Each agency is a sensor, and together they make up the instrument panel through which the state and the electorate read the consequences of policy.

What Trump is doing to these agencies is not deregulation, the marketing-savvy term conjured up by the modern right. It is something narrower and stranger. He is switching off the sensors. The law itself is left untouched, but the conditions the law was written to address can no longer be measured. The statute stays on the books, but the capacity to enforce it quietly disappears.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Trump has systematically dismantled the data collection capacity of the government, and its cost is the slow disabling of democratic accountability itself. Great piece from Kevin Schultz and Jason Oh. prospect.org/2026/10/05/a...
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An Architecture of Ignorance - The American Prospect
How the Trump regime is taking away our ability to know what’s going on.
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 05/10/2026
Noem blew $200 million on ads of herself on a horse, called shooting victims domestic terrorists, got fired, and now wants credit for being effective. Tillis is right that she never should have had that power. Envoy is a hell of a consolation prize.
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Kristi Noem pitches fit after being trashed on '60 Minutes': 'I was effective'
Fired Department of Homeland Security head Kristi Noem angrily lashed out late Sunday night after a Republican senator trashed her tenure during an interview on “60 Minutes.”Appearing on the troubled ...
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Charlie Richmond (Gyro Gearloose) 311.3ppm 🇨🇦🇬🇧☮️⚛️🇺🇦🌈🦋 @charlierichmond.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Renewable Energy Super PAC Targets 7 Republicans With $15 Million War Chest - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
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Renewable Energy Super PAC Targets 7 Republicans With $15 Million War Chest
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Both candidates in Alaska's Senate race support the oil industry because of the jobs it creates in the state. But 40% of the workforce are nonresidents, and only 2.5% of total employed people are in oil and gas. From Alaska's own @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social. prospect.org/2026/10/05/a...
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In Alaska, Senate Candidates Claim the Oil Industry Creates Local Jobs. It Doesn’t. - The American Prospect
The state’s own data shows an increasing number of oil and gas industry jobs have been going to nonresidents.
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