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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This seems like a pretty big deal: donors made illegal contributions to Susan Collins and then were awarded lucrative contracts after her office intervened with the Navy. An FBI investigation was dropped under Trump. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...

To skirt campaign finance laws and conceal the source of the funds, Navatek planned to funnel the donation through a shell company. The CEO wanted assurance that Collins would know where
the money came from. Reed confirmed that she would, the executive said - and that Navatek would get its government contracts.
After the Corner Bakery meeting, Navatek's CEO, Martin Kao, sent an initial $150,000 to the Collins super PAC using the shell company. Two months later, he told Navatek executives that Collins committed to getting the company $32 million in naval contracts, according to an internal company email reviewed by ProPublica.

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I hope y’all see that this will mean the imminent closure of a number of graduate programs.

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

amazing stuff

"This government hates us and wants us dead," Kathleen Hanna remarked during Bikini
Kill's set. "They don't give a shit about anybody's healthcare. They don't care if we're dying in parking lots of curable illnesses.
They don't give a shit. They don't care if our rights are taken away. They're ripping people off the streets. I'm not gonna tell you all the bad things! But I am gonna say it makes it hard for me in my body sometimes to have a good time. 'Cause it's hard to turn it off. And I was thinking that on the way here. I was like,
'What a gift.' What a gift we have to be able to play for you. What a gift Olivia has given all of us to do this festival.

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Mike Feigin 🥯 @mikefeigin.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I’ve been making more local political content on Instagram and TikTok. Check it out! Episode 2 is with NY Assembly candidate Ryan Taughrin. @ryantaughrin.bsky.social www.tiktok.com/t/ZTD9eXHUd/ www.instagram.com/reel/DcXVlnr...

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Episode 2 of FYP Too Buffalocal! Today our guest is local political candidate, Ryan Taughrin! Please share with your friends around Western NY! #politics #WNY #newyork #democrats For more info: Facebo...

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WIRED @wired.com · 19/08/2026

Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plates. www.wired.com/story/flock-...

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Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Elon Musk’s DOGE project cut tens of thousands of jobs between FDA and USDA and rescinded several rules related to food contamination, so this was all anticipated. And the baseline for food inspection in the US was already pretty weak.

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

So thrilled that my future state assembly member was endorsed by Run for Something. Yeah @ryantaughrin.bsky.social!

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 02/08/2026

New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo

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She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.

Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Upwards of 200,00 people may have lost their jobs today; or will in the upcoming days. There is a palpable sense of fear among the Haitian community right now. They need your support.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Representatives for Taylor Farms called the White House to try to delay a recall tied to one of the largest foodborne illness outbreaks in U.S. history www.wsj.com/health/taylo...

Representatives for produce giant Taylor Farms contacted the White House with an urgent plea: the company wanted to delay announcing a recall tied to one of the largest foodborne illness outbreaks in U.S. history.
The call, during which the company asked for more proof and more time before being linked to the outbreak, illustrates how one of the country’s largest produce suppliers sought to limit its exposure to a public-relations nightmare, while grappling with a costly and complicated recall. Over the past several weeks, health officials have been scrambling to contain the outbreak of cyclospora, which can cause explosive diarrhea. Some current and former government officials have criticized the handling of the outbreak, both by the administration and Taylor Farms.

Federal health authorities were preparing late last week to link Taylor Farms to a multistate parasitic infection that has sickened thousands. The company wanted to see more evidence, according to people familiar with the matter.
The White House asked officials from the Food and Drug Administration, which has been investigating growing cases of cyclosporiasis, to join the call with Taylor Farms, which the government maintains is the source of the multistate outbreak. During the discussion, Taylor Farms raised concerns that the government had no positive laboratory tests linking its product to the outbreak and that it was overstating the company’s culpability, according to one of the people who was on the call.
Taylor Farms sought out the White House after company executives felt they hadn’t gotten enough clarity from the FDA on the evidence behind a potential recall and the scope of it, according to a person familiar with the situation.
Health and Human Services Department spokeswoman Emily Hilliard said the FDA presented Taylor Farms with substantial evidence connecting its products to the outbreak and engaged in extensive discussions with the company.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

the degree to which they want to destroy one of the jewels of the American republic—our exceptional research universities—is just gobsmacking

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Ryan Taughrin @ryantaughrin.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Rosie’s (they have 2 locations) and Big Papas Creamery (suburbs, in Lancaster).

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Kara Kane @karakane.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

"Langworthy and the local Republican Party...capitalize on that same ugly strain that has continued to exist throughout our country’s 250-year history...especially during times when Americans are hurting economically and grow desperate for answers to their pain." open.substack.com/pub/deesethe...

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They wouldn’t have torn down the Irish flag in 2026. But in 1856, they sure would have.

Reflections on our shared American experiment 250 years in the making in light of recent anti-Somalian, anti-immigrant, and anti-American vandalism in Buffalo’s Niagara Square.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The most important divide in the Democratic Party today is between those who think Trump is a temporary aberration within the GOP and those who understand that Trump is the best version of what the GOP will be for the rest of our lives and into the foreseeable future.

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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Only 102 public comments so far on the biggest threat to publicly funded science in my lifetime. Please comment if you can. I know this sounds like "vote harder" but we have to keep fighting www.regulations.gov/document/OMB...

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

A true fact about Trump's stock trading- I ran the numbers and Trump traded up to ~$700 million in stock in Q1 of 2026. All 535 Members of Congress made a total of ~$635 million worth of trades in 2025. So Trump bought and sold more stock in 3 months than all of Congress put together did last year

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Trump doesn't care about the economic plight of the average American because he's too busy calling his broker His stunning 3,700 trades in just 3 months in firms like Palantir, Nvidia and Boeing should be another Watergate. Here's how to make it one My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

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The E-Trade presidency: Trump trades stocks while America burns | Will Bunch

The tangled web between Trump’s stock purchases, his policies, and blatant promotion is a new low for a corrupt regime.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

What’s so brazen is that the subhead literally spells out the travesty. It says that tech industry lobbyists have convinced congress to pay for their products to be made a compulsory part of public education so that when the industry wreaks havoc on American workers it can be blamed on educators.

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Ryan Taughrin @ryantaughrin.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Here's your must read (and support) for the day. Also, someone please make a "Dogs Have to be Dogs" shirt ASAP. Take my money.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

"the colleges that dominate the headlines are not the colleges that most Americans attend their core mission: to serve students from all backgrounds, at a price families can actually afford, prepare graduates for real careers and meaningful lives." www.geneseo.edu/enrollment-m...

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The College Affordability Crisis is Real, but the Media is Looking at the Wrong Schools

Sturges Hall (Photo by Keith Walters ’11) Opinion By Costas Solomou, Vice President, Enrollment Management Published by the Office of Enrollment Management When Yale University released its Committee ...

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Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · 15/04/2026

If you paid taxes for 2025, you likely paid: $124 — school lunch & nutrition programs $49 — diplomacy to prevent wars $19 — USPS $19 — Federal Aviation Administration $18 — national parks and $4,049 — weapons and war. These priorities are hurting us all. We need change. #TaxDay

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onion person @junlper.beer · 12/04/2026

this is why there’s been mass revolt and opposition to data centers being built in communities. it is genuinely a health hazard to live this close to something emitting this much sound. these need to stop being built

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The media told us, based on the amount of coverage they devoted to it, that the number one military-related issue of the 2024 campaign was whether Tim Walz retiring from the National Guard after 21 years was too soon or not.

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

NEW: The President once again called to eliminate federal library funding in his federal budget proposal. We have been here before. And when we make our voices heard, we can overcome this again. Tell your Senators to reject the cuts & #FundLibraries in next year's federal budget: ala.org/showup

POTUS Proposes Elimination of Federal Library Funding. The President again requested that Congress eliminate the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the Innovative Approaches to Literacy (IAL) program. We've seen this before, and we're not going away. Fund Libraries, ALA 150, American Library Association.

"We are not surprised that the White House FY27 budget zeroes out funding for IMLS and IAL. The president’s intentions for IMLS were clear last year with the executive order to dismantle IMLS and cut off its funding [...] ALA members have a solid track record of defeating the president’s threats, but we do not underestimate the lengths to which he will go to undercut support for America’s libraries. ALA is working to make sure decisionmakers continue to hear from library advocates.” - ALA President Sam Helmick

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 02/04/2026

WATCH: The White House took down this video, but we still have it. Trump: We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.

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Jennie Coughlin @jenniecoughlin.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

The medical examiner in Buffalo has ruled that the death of a nearly blind man left alone by Border Patrol agents on a frigid night was a homicide, a finding that could lead to criminal charges.

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Medical Examiner Rules That a Rohingya Refugee’s Death Was a Homicide

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 02/04/2026

The death of a nearly blind refugee from Myanmar who was found on a Buffalo street in February — five days after Border Patrol agents left him at a doughnut shop — has been ruled a homicide, authorities said Wednesday. to.pbs.org/3NZGHsz

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Death of a refugee left at a Buffalo doughnut shop by Border Patrol is ruled a homicide

The Erie County Medical Examiner's Office didn't reach any conclusions about responsibility for Nurul Amin Shah Alam's death.

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

HOLY SHIT UCONN

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

A 13-year-old girl tried to take her life by cutting her wrists with a plastic knife from the cafeteria after guards took away drawing materials, and was put into isolation without seeing a doctor. The teen was deported to Colombia after nearly two months in confinement

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Worms in food, poor medical care, lights on 24/7: Families tell of life in Texas detention center

When ICE officers in Minneapolis detained a 5-year-old boy and his father last month and sent them to a Texas detention center, many Americans were alarmed.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Inadvertently makes a case here for why we need to keep the humanities in school

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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

SCOOP: The writing software Grammarly will discontinue its AI “Expert Review” feature, which used the names of authors without their permission to suggest edits. But parent company Superhuman is still facing a class-action lawsuit over it, brought by journalist @juliaangwin.com.

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Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature

The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.

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Ryan Taughrin @ryantaughrin.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

As someone who just finished helping with an enrollment and budget presentation last week….preach.

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Ryan Taughrin @ryantaughrin.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Thank you to @mikefeigin.bsky.social for organizing today’s Stand Up for Science rally! Honored to speak and advocate for research and science funding!

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Ryan Taughrin @ryantaughrin.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Best of luck with everything! Sending good vibes your way as I’m also out on the doors all weekend while making edits to my chapter 2.

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Mike Feigin 🥯 @mikefeigin.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Ok, now we are ready to rally!

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Christopher Martell @chrismartell.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Social studies teachers (anywhere in the U.S.)! Want to participate in a Library of Congress workshop where you will create units on local history and get paid $2,500? APPLY HERE: iacp.berkeley.edu/node/67 #sschat #edusky

We are looking for middle and high school History, Social Studies, and Ethnic Studies teachers throughout the country to participate in a collaborative local history project for the 2026-27 school year.

Curriculum, instruction, and professional development will be supported throughout this program with funding from the Library of Congress.

Stipend for completing the program: $2,500 INTERESTED? APPLY HERE(link is external) by April 17, 2026
TEACHER OPPORTUNITY - LEARN MORE

Program Components - Teachers will:

Participate in a 3-Day summer institute June 29-July 1, 2026.

Participate in 3 Saturday planning workshops: 2026-2027 school year (dates tbd).

Develop and teach an approximately two-week long collaborative local history unit or lesson set.

Participate in planning sessions with your partner teacher as needed.

Participate in 2 coaching sessions during the 2026-27 school year.

Participate in one follow-up session to debrief and reflect upon work and plan for possible future collaboration.

Overall estimated time commitment beyond classroom teaching: approximately 35-40 hours.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics. "It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today. It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files. Just wow.

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Ryan Taughrin @ryantaughrin.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Taking on a new challenge this year, running for Assembly in the 143rd district, in Western New York. Would love for folks to signal boost my campaign to get the word out across Cheektowaga, Lancaster, and Buffalo. www.ryantaughrin.com

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Ryan Taughrin for NYS Assembly | Cheektowaga | Lancaster, New York, USA

All in with Taughrin. Running for Assembly in the 143rd District (Cheektowaga, Lancaster, Depew, Buffalo). Fighting for a Western New York where everyone can thrive.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

We’re just not a free country. Any American watching this play out between regime forces and journalists overseas would recognize it for what it is.

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Ryan Taughrin @ryantaughrin.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Long time follower, first time replier, and loved loved loved the book. Congrats!

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Daniel Harper @danielharper.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The fact that every right winger with influence screams "who is paying for all of this" tells you exactly how awash in cash they all are, and how much they rely on that to keep their movement afloat.

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