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Sandy

@sandyshaye.bsky.social
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Gen X, so, so old. Animal lover, mother, wife, pal. Anxious about climate change and democracy. Never Trumper. Crazy cat lady.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 7h
Holy shit.
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Sandy @sandyshaye.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Most American Children Are Being Auto-Enrolled in Trump Accounts. What to Know. (Gift Article)
The Trump administration may have just signed up your child — and more than 60 million others — for a 530A savings account (if you haven’t already done so).
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 03/10/2026
Killed. NSF’s SBE was killed, in violation of law. The President does not have the power to choose to kill programs at a whim by defunding them. The imperial presidency was a mistake and we are in a separation of powers constitutional crisis.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.
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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“To the ICE agent who took away my mother: I hope it was worth it,” wrote Samuel Gonzalez Terrones before taking his own life. This is the reality of what mass deportation looks like. Not only impacting those who are detained but also leaving a path of destruction for the family they leave behind.
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His mom was detained by ICE. Two months later, he died by suicide
Samuel Gonzalez Terrones, 21, struggled with depression and schizophrenia. His mom's arrest by ICE became too much to bear.
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Sue Carr @scarr54.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
He doesn’t care about anything historical or agricultural, people, air, nothing but himself and anything that enriches him. You realize he’s getting money off all these things he’s doing. People are paying him to do this stuff and bypass laws in place to protect all these things he’s destroying.
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
💥Ok I see other platforms are blocking this. I met Alex Gibney moons ago at ABCNY (the Association of the Bar for the City of New York). He’s the real deal. Here’s the trailer for Alex Gibney’s documentary about Musk. Let’s Streisand Effect this: www.firstshowing.net/2026/must-se... 👋🎥
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Must See Full Trailer for Alex Gibney's 'Musk' Doc About a Fraudster | FirstShowing.net
"Do we even know this man at all?" Bleecker Street has launched their main official trailer for the must see new documentary film titled simply Musk, about the uber-wealthy tech giant megalomaniac Elo...
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So apparently money can't buy happiness...
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Without due process, you'll have no way of showing ICE that you're a citizen" is pretty effective messaging for normies! Do I wish everyone cared about undocumented migrants as much as they care about themselves? Sure. But they don't, and it's fine to have different messages for different audiences
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Meanwhile the real miraculous future tech is solar & mRNA vaccines: preserving the planet and curing cancer. But we’re supposed to hand everything over to malevolent peeping toms and resource oubliettes for an ill defined ‘pay no attention to the man behind the curtain’ progress. It isn’t rational.
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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I've Never Been So Tired
Alt: I've Never Been So Tired in my life
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A billionaire dictator who'll lose everything if the opposition replaces him on Jan. 20, 2029 is stockpiling killer drones and high-powered rifles on towering monuments and ballroom roofs I'm sure it's nothing to worry about
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Look at the community notes on this one. 👇
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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
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Shana @shanamd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I am SORRY for sharing something that was posted on the other place, but this is too good.
The future pope at a party with a caption “they don’t know I’m the future pope”
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Sworn testimony from yesterday about the Kennedy Center: “Afterward, I saw a forklift carrying what appeared to be a more permanent form of fencing drive over to the north side of the building. I saw the forklift run into and hit the pillars on the building several times.”
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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 16/09/2026
Since returning to the White House, Donald Trump has traded more stocks and other investments than every Member of Congress combined. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Ryan C. Smith @rcsmitheco.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This specific conceit is simply fraud by definition. If you are trying to leverage money through threatening all life on Earth, then you've got some straight-up extortion already. I mean, we've made movies about exactly this. What takes it to the level of fraud is the promise & threat are false.
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Dr. Evil Demands One Billion Dollars
ALT: Dr. Evil Demands One Billion Dollars
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/09/2026
Kremlev’s previously unreported relationship with Trump Jr. represents an extraordinary development: a member of Putin’s circle financially supporting the president’s son and gaining intimate access to the Trump family.
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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thatgirlinsb @34thparallel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Protesters at the Irish Open. shitler’s international golf links and hotel Doonbeg, Ireland. Thank you, Doonbeg!
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 13/09/2026
Read the whole thread. Dr. Bender is one of the OG AI skeptics (which is to say, she speaks accurately about the research), and her book with @alexhanna.bsky.social is great at giving you language to talk about “AI” without anthropomorphizing of it. bsky.app/profile/emil...
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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
With gasoline prices inching up and diesel well above $6/gal and climbing, Americans will pay $418 million more on gasoline and $310 million more on diesel today vs one year ago, or nearly ~$730 million combined.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
There have to be so many prosecutions. This all can’t just be forgotten or papered over.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“My son died unnecessarily.” A GOLD STAR FAMILY calls on the Trump regime to release the findings of their internal probe, after Capt. Cody Khork was among 6 🇺🇸 troops killed when an Iranian drone struck them in Kuwait during Trump’s pointless war. www.cbsnews.com/news/cody-kh...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/09/2026
AN URGENT EXCLUSIVE: Ahmed Soliman, the 30-year-old gay man ICE expelled in April to Equatorial Guinea, a country he has no ties to, was arrested this morning and cannot be located, his attorneys say. They fear he may be in one of EG's torture prisons. prospect.org/2026/09/11/i...
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Immigrant Trump Sent to African Hotel Prison Arrested After Speaking With Media, Lawyers Say - The American Prospect
Ahmed Soliman’s attorneys fear he may have been sent to one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious torture prisons.
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
NEW: The NIH is quietly restricting funding for research that evaluates how public policy impacts human health. According to internal documents I obtained, the agency no longer considers policymakers "mission relevant" — a massive shift for the biomedical funder. My latest for @nature.com:
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NIH limits funding for research on the health effects of public policy
US biomedical agency no longer considers policymakers as ‘mission relevant’, leaving dozens of grants in limbo.
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The TrumpRussiaGuide 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @trumprussiaties.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Elon Musk is no genius inventor — he’s a ‘stock pumper,’ filmmaker claims www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Elon Musk is no genius inventor — he’s a ‘stock pumper,’ filmmaker claims
Alex Gibney's new documentary “Musk” premieres this week at the Venice Film Festival
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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 06/09/2026
Trump promised “America First” but his administration is now secretly trying to steal money Congress legally obligated for cancer and other medical research to help cover the costs of his reckless and unnecessary war in Iran. It's wrong and illegal.
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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Small potatoes have also wounded hundreds of Americans, rendered a vast swathe of our bases unusable, emptied our stockpiles of high-end strike munitions and interceptors, and are shellacking our economy. What are the big potatoes?
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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 04/09/2026
Today is National Wildlife Day, serving as a reminder of the increasing strain on different species due to climate change. This reminder is especially needed now as the Trump Administration is destroying so much of the progress we've made to protect our endangered species.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I’m livid. zeteo.com/p/trump-spri...
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Inside Trump’s Nightmare for Haitians in Springfield: ‘We’re Following Our Orders’
The most urgent moral test in all of Trump’s America today is happening in a small Ohio city – and we as a country are failing it miserably.
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is what living next door to a 30 megawatt data center sounds like.
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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 02/09/2026
Donald Trump and Republicans' SNAP cuts are making it harder for families to afford groceries, but it could also mean kids losing access to meals at school. It's unconscionable. Every child deserves to be fed, regardless of what their parents can afford. stateline.org/2026/09/01/s...
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SNAP cuts could lead to kids losing free school breakfast and lunch • Stateline
Cuts to the nation’s largest food assistance program will likely spill over into schools, causing students to lose access to free breakfast and lunch. More than 1 million American children have lost a...
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I don’t think there’s really even a colorable argument that this isn’t mass murder. theintercept.com/2026/09/02/m...
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The U.S. Has Killed 227 Civilians in Boat Strikes During “A Year of Murders”
“The boat strikes are, perhaps, the most stark testament to the lawlessness of the Trump administration.”
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Pleased to speak with @nickturse.bsky.social about the Trump admin's yearlong killing spree. "There is no plausible legal justification for the strikes. They’re obviously not occurring in the context of an armed conflict and outside of armed conflict, the term for premeditated killing is murder."
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The pope prayed "for the conversion of many people, inside and outside of the church, who still do not recognize the urgency of caring for our common home." www.ncronline.org/news/pope-as...
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Pope asks Catholics to acknowledge 'unfaithful' attitudes for care of creation
Celebrating a new form of the Catholic Mass "for the care of creation," Pope Leo XIV urged Catholics to contemplate nature as well as the ways they have shirked their responsibility to care for it.
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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I think a lot about how there is apparently not a single GOP senator willing to put any kind of roadblock in Hegseth's way as he dismantles & weakens the military. They say nothing, do nothing, sit on their hands, & for all I know, are taking money from Putin or simply are too afraid or don't care.
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"These Generals Fought for Israel. Now They See ‘Jewish Terrorism’ as the Threat." -- www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/w...
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These Generals Fought for Israel. Now They See ‘Jewish Terrorism’ as the Threat.
A growing number of former Israeli generals, intelligence officials and prime ministers are accusing settlers in the West Bank of committing ethnic cleansing with government support. “Once a society b...
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Fun fact — and reminder: For all their focus on “officer safety” and arguments about aggressive tactics being necessary, no ICE officer has ever been killed in the line of duty. It is more deadly in the US to be an elementary school student than an ICE officer.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This report is totalitarian pseudo-science, aka corrupted science in the service of far-right authoritarianism. Who commits most of the political violence in this country has been clear for decades. It's not the left. It's not those of us who support trans rights and realities.
https://health.gov/hhs-releases-study-finding-individuals-who-associate-left-wing-authoritarian-beliefs-and-radical
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Are you worried that Elon Musk will alienate the independents you need to win? Elon Musk said [insanely bigoted thing, pick any recent one]. Do you agree? Are you rejecting his money? What do you say to voters concerned about Elon Musk spreading child porn? It isn't hard. They just don't want to.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
among many other things I would like to see dems campaigning on, it should be made clear to companies that profit from deals like this that any public lands or resources given to them by trump will be immediately nationalized with appropriate punitive fines
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 27/08/2026
This should be setting off alarm bells. Service members trying to leave the military on moral grounds have surged to SIX TIMES the normal rate since Trump’s war with Iran began in February.
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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
We're heading into a decade of unprecedented climate disasters and one of the many unfortunate outcomes of this current civic unraveling is that no one is going to sign up to serve in the National Guard after this administration.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This morning in Danbury, ICE was arresting parents at school bus stops. But it’s more sinister. ICE waited until the kids were on the bus so when they are dropped off at the end of the day, they are alone, scared to death they can’t find their parents. I’m heading to Danbury.
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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
W.W.D.D.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Terrible. "By the time the U.S. began attacking Iran, Central Command, which said it needed a minimum of nine of its 16 [civilian protection] staffers to function, was left with one person...A U.S. airstrike hit a school, killing more than 100 children." www.propublica.org/article/hegs...
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Top Commanders Told Hegseth Not to Cut Civilian Protection Program, Poll Showed. He Did It Anyway.
The U.S. military has killed hundreds of noncombatants since gutting its Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response mission last year. After significant blowback, the Defense Department is considering part...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/08/2026
A really excellent synthesis of the interconnected risks of climate change. Great resource to bookmark.
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Climate as a Threat to the Economy and Society in the Years and Decades Ahead
An interactive analytical report based on more than 200 scientific and institutional sources.
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