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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: As Trump’s White House and influencers keep touting the unproven benefits of raw milk, hundreds across the country are falling ill from outbreaks. Some people get severe indigestion. And some nearly die. Here's the story of one toddler who drank it. 🧵👇 www.propublica.org/article/cali...
propublica.org
A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
the sad part is that survivors fought like hell to even get expulsion for rapists on the table. when I was an activist > 10 years ago, administrators were *shocked* that we wanted expulsion as a disciplinary option.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
As someone with AuDHD, this can mean the difference between life or suicide. And they just decided people can wait *at least* 2 years. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
theguardian.com
NHS bodies in England impose two-year minimum wait for ADHD and autism assessments
Patient groups decry ‘scandalous’ delays as four integrated care boards take step due to soaring demand for diagnoses
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/09/2026
“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Drivers passing school buses occasionally makes the news, but it's worth remembering that it is incredibly common. One school bus camera pilot in Peabody back in 2023-2024 caught an average of 20 illegal bus passes *per day* in that city. mass.streetsblog.org/2024/05/30/t...
In this pilot, BusPatrol installed cameras on 10 school buses used across the district. From September 2023 to May 2024, BusPatrol reported 3,412 instances where those driving cars did not stop for the school buses, amounting to 2.3 illegal passes per bus per day, or 20.3 total illegal passes per day.
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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Like, you know there's an internal refugee crisis facing the US with trans people fleeing their home states, right? Can you understand why trans people might be more than a little on edge, stressed, angry because of the way we're treated? Perhaps extend a little understanding and empathy.
advocate.com
Transgender Americans are fleeing hostile red states. Seattle says it’s overwhelmed
Seattle officials say anti-trans laws in red states are driving a queer migration crisis in the Pacific Northwest.
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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Please sign today. Time is up.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: DHS's Inspector General releases a scathing report about the Everglades detention camp known as "Alligator Alcatraz." The OIG finds that the now-closed camp, violated multiple ICE standards. The OIG also confirms detainees were punished with placement in a metal cage in the Florida heat.🧵
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Staff also reported that time spent in the small metal enclosures is closely monitored, and
detainees are not locked in, even though we observed locking mechanisms on the enclosures.
Figures 11 and 12. Small Metal Enclosures; Observed January 21, 2026

Underneath is a picture of a metal cage that is 4 feet 3 inches wide by 4 feet 3 inches long, and 7 feet 9 inches high. The cage itself is placed on a tiny spot of fake turf, and then surrounded by another chainlink fence with razor wire on top. The cage is covered by a roof, but it's entirely exposed to the outside otherwise, meaning mosquitos and no air conditioning.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
10 House Dems voted the other day with Republicans for a bill that would effectively kill off the North American right whale: Costa Cuellar Davis (NC) Golden Gonzalez Goodlander Gray Pappas Perez Pingree
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A man and woman embrace as ICE and FHP detain her during an immigration stop in Fort Myers this morning.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A 76-year-old green card holder with stage 4 cancer was arrested at his citizenship application interview and has been held by ICE for two months. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Loreto Javar, a green card holder who’s lived in the United States for over three decades and is being treated for Stage 4 prostate cancer, has been held at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma for more than two months. 

A 76-year-old retired hotel worker who lives in Fife with his wife and daughter, Javar was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials June 23 during an interview for his U.S. citizenship application in Tukwila. He was receiving ongoing cancer treatment when he was taken into ICE custody, his family said, and has missed several medical appointments since his arrest.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 28/08/2026
Looks like we’re using Gitmo to imprison immigrants again. This is an ICE charter airline owned by ICE’s flight broker using the callsign they use for all their ICE flights.
An FR24 map showing N411ZW going from Miami to Gitmo.
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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Democrats have spent 3 days attacking a streamer btw
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BREAKING: ICE arrests jumped to nearly 50,000 in July, the highest monthly total of President Trump's second term.
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Sarah Primate @langurlover.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
😧🪶
theguardian.com
Mood-boosting benefits of birdsong drowned out by traffic noise, study finds
Even low levels of traffic noise can negate the benefits of listening to natural sounds, researchers say
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This study is a good reminder that building cities where children can thrive means reducing car dependency and designing streets centered around people
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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 19/08/2026
Almost every form of discourse on here that's not "how are we going to get land stewardship back into the hands of Indigenous peoples so we don't all die in the climate crisis" is an exercise in colonial dissociation from reality
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The ag lobby really, really, really, really, really, really, really wants you to think AI is the reason reservoirs are going empty. It's not. It's agriculture.
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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This is one of those arguments that sounds like slopulism but is actually, if anything, understated. 56% of Colorado river water goes to GROWING FEED FOR LIVESTOCK IN THE DESERT.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.
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"In today's society, you know, everybody's filming everything, everybody has a cell phone," Glueck said. If an officer punches someone on camera, that can go viral in an instant; even a standard taser leaves puncture wounds. But "the glove is low optic, and it looks better on camera, and it looks better to those witnesses. With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars."But local police across the country are still eagerly buying the gloves—in large part so that they can harm people and avoid being sued for it. It's been successful "from the patrolmen to the jailers," Lumpkin County Sheriff Stacy Jarrard said in a Compliant Technologies promotional video. "It's been a great tool as far as mitigating liability," according to Nelson County Jailer Justin Hall.
Bob Couey of the Floyd County Sheriff's Department sung the GLOVE's praises, too: "I highly recommend these gloves to anybody that's looking for a utility they can use that is conducive to not leading to lawsuits."
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: two raccoons are sitting at a table with a bunch of podcast recording equipment. Raccoon one says into the microphone, “you gotta cut the negativity out of your life.” Panel 2: raccoon replies, “facts” Panel 3: raccoon 1 continues with his hands clasped together to capture the sincerity of his monologue, “that way you have more time to eat garbage.” Raccoon 2 contributes, “that’s facts”
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🐈‍⬛🌙 @lune.monster · 13/08/2026
Stole this from the comments because this shit shouldn't be behind a paywall.
Crucially, the GLOVE has limitations, chief among them that for the device to work effectively and deliver its restraining pain shock, it must come into contact with the subject's bare skin. According to Compliant Technologies, the gloves won't work through dry clothing or thick hair. The gloves will work, however, if the subject is wearing thin, wet clothing, such as soaked T-shirts or blouses. The GLOVE also does not like being dunked in water and will likely be rendered inoperable if this happens.
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Appealing to our better angels just isn't enough, apparently.
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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
What if someone told you there's MORE than one horse? Have you ever considered that?
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 23/07/2026
1. The new Trump / Kratsios plan for US science appears explicitly designed to destroy US universities. Diverting money to tech donors is probably just a bonus. Gift link.
nytimes.com
Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities (Gift Article)
Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
This is peak both sides bullshit, because bike lane opponents don't care about "creating safe streets for everyone." They care about parking and being able to speed. And they draw false equivalences between drivers and bikers that car-brained pundits like Joan Venocchi lap up eagerly. Such garbage.
What should not be lost in the emotion of the moment is the need for balance and openness to different points of view when it comes to creating safe streets for everyone. The perception that both were lacking under Wu gave Kraft an opportunity on the bike lane issue. While he was never able to capitalize on it beyond the loud cheers he got for mentioning it at his announcement, he did force Wu to acknowledge there is more than one side to the bicycle lane debate. It’s the side of businesses that say they lose customer parking spaces to bike lanes as well as the side of pedestrians who dodge people on bicycles, e-bikes, and scooters who ignore red lights and other rules of the road.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 21/07/2026
1. In an incredible new landmark review, the Health Council of the Netherlands has declared that gender-affirming care for trans youth works, reducing wait times is "morally urgent," and regret is rare. It is the latest of many Euro countries to advance care. Subscribe to support our journalism.
erininthemorning.com
Landmark Official Dutch Review Recommends Trans Youth Care, Call For Expanding Treatment
The review finds that wait times must be shortened, that few people detransition, and that trans youth care has enormous benefits.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 21/07/2026
Ooh I know this one. It's by BANNING THE PERVERT GLASSES
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LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · 18/07/2026
Trump just rolled back a major Endangered Species Act protection that had been in place for 50 years. The new rule opens up lands designated as critical wildlife habitat to oil and gas drilling, mining, and logging.
azcentral.com
Trump rule would allow drilling, mining on critical species habitat
The Interior Department adopted a new rule that would allow oil and gas drilling and other activities on species habitat.
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Oh my.
But today, Prelogar is just one of several former Biden officials arguing on behalf of crypto and its younger brother, the prediction market industry. Sean Patrick Maloney, Biden’s representative to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), is the head of the Coalition for Prediction Markets, violating a pledge he made to get confirmed to not take compensation from any crypto company or organization for four years after his tenure. Former Biden deputy chief of staff Curtis Doster is a Kalshi lobbyist. Former Biden White House liaison John Bivona became Kalshi’s first-ever head of government relations this year, and Stephanie Cutter joined Kalshi as a “strategic partner,” the same position Donald Trump Jr. holds with the company.

Prelogar isn’t even the only former Democratic solicitor general representing Kalshi in court. Neal Katyal, Barack Obama’s acting solicitor general who infamously defended Nestlé from liability for child slavery profiteering, represents Kalshi directly in the litigation. He previously represented Kalshi against the Utah, Nevada, Ohio, Maryland, and Connecticut gaming commissions, and is representing them in a concurrent Tennessee case on similar issues.

For political purposes, the mere presence of a former Biden official’s name matters far more than anything else. The Prelogar brief allowed Kalshi’s head of legal counsel Robert DeNault to tweet that gambling law immunity “is not a D versus R issue.” Plausible claims to bipartisanship are the oil that D.C. runs on. Hiring out of the revolving door is a key way to supply it.

Yet all of these hires come out of minor diplomatic posts, the White House’s political office, or the Department of Justice’s litigation desks. In the Tennessee case, Gary Gensler, Biden’s chair of the SEC, wrote an amicus brief coming to the exact opposite conclusion as Prelogar, arguing strenuously that sports gambling is not a commodity swap, and that the Dodd-Frank Act surely did not intend …
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Wow. The ICE shooter in Maine asked his ex-wife to "to lie for him and to cover for his character." She said he was abusive and had previously reported concerns about him to his military superiors. He was also a volunteer firefighter, but was removed after several spats with department leadership.
pressherald.com
ICE agent who killed man in Biddeford identified as former Maine law enforcement officer
An ex-wife told the Press Herald that David Brouillette called her and admitted he was the ICE agent who shot Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
A whole lot of people with otherwise progressive views suddenly get real mad when you talk about doing anything at all to address the scourge of speeding drivers killing people
The Garfield, "You are not immune to propaganda" meme but instead it says car brain
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Don’t take the bait. Whether ICE planted drugs or there were drugs DOES NOT MATTER. It’s irrelevant to the murder. Feds want us to debate drugs in a story that’s about murder. Stay focused on the murder. It’s not about the victim’s virtue or lack thereof. It’s about ICE murdering people.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Remember when police murdered Philando Castile a four year old was in the car. Remember children watched George Floyd be suffocated. Remember 7 year old Aiyana Stanley-Jones murdered by police in her sleep. Sonya Massey’s son and daughter. This is the same cookbook, the same evil. I hope folks see.
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Miami Herald @miamiherald.com · 14/07/2026
NEW: A 28-year-old man died Tuesday morning following an encounter with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security Investigations agents in St. Augustine, marking the third death involving ICE in a week.
miamiherald.com
Man dies during immigration encounter in Florida, the third ICE-involved death in a week
Third ICE-involved death in a week confirmed after fatal St. Augustine crash during joint agency operation. National outrage grows over enforcement and deaths
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lizard @lizzzard.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
ICE shot someone in the fucking face in Biddeford, Maine this morning fuck ICE forever my heart goes out to their friends and family. maine is like a big small town and i’m from that area. there’s a nonzero chance that someone i know was affected by this. i’m just so mad. ACAB and FUCK ICE
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Wait, what?! @whyisthat.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
apnews.com/article/memp... Tyrin Johnson. Say his name. He was shot by the National Guard. According to Posse Comitatus, they are not allowed to act as police. Another law broken.
apnews.com
The family of a man shot by the Tennessee National Guard demands release of video
The grandfather of a man shot and killed by two members of the Tennessee National Guard in Memphis says he wants answers.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 11/07/2026
what they learned from minneapolis was not “don’t do this again” but “keep it quiet next time”
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Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org · 11/07/2026
Today, the federal government finalized a major change to the Endangered Species Act (ESA) to remove vital habitat protections for endangered species.
Closeup of a snowy plover sitting in the sand
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
this fuckin pos
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti
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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The brutal and entirely intentional effects of such policies:
From Seattle: Allen, who also works for a youth homeless shelter, said his organization is turning away at least 10 young trans people a night from the shelter because it doesn’t have space.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Between this and the national guard in Memphis it’s kind of disturbing me (yes I know I’m a member of the media) the degree to which these killings aren’t really breaking thru rn
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 07/07/2026
Yesterday, 20-year-old Tyrin Johnson was shot and killed by two members of the National Guard in Memphis.
THE US MILITARY KILLED A US CITIZEN ON AMERICAN
SOIL YESTERDAY.
Read that again.
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Jörg Spengler 🇪🇺 @joergspengler.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Autos verstärken den Hitzeeffekt, Bäume lindern ihn. Deswegen: weniger parkendes Blech, mehr grüne Schattenspender.🌳🌳🌳 #Hitzewelle #Klimaanpassung
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I especially love this diagram.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
helpful coverage from @elpais.com english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-...
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In the heart of the Miccosukee, the Native American tribe that shut down Alligator Alcatraz
The community found refuge from white persecution deep in the Everglades swamps centuries ago. Together with environmental groups, they succeeded in forcing the closure of the immigration detention ce...
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eek @eke.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
this is so insane
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Schera Wyss 💀 SLUG HUMAN @scherawyss.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines
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