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Schoollluminati

@schoollluminati.bsky.social
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Used to love living in Texas, not so much anymore...(she/her). So moved to Charlotte, NC.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 5h
⚠️ Aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee covered up Israeli killings of nine Americans
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How a U.S. Diplomat Suppressed and Altered Reports Critical of Israel (Gift Article)
A top aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee skewed information to portray the Netanyahu government in a favorable light, according to multiple officials and documents obtained by The Times.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 6h
Stephen "Miller did not want the facilities that were comfortable. He did not want facilities that were humane. We were told point-blank that that was not what the administration wanted." www.npr.org/2026/10/08/n...
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ICE has quietly used this warehouse as a detention facility all summer, neighbors say
Throughout the summer, rumors have been bubbling in North New Jersey that ICE has quietly been using a warehouse as a detention center. NPR investigated.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 18h
just post a list of who is paying for early access your honor
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h
The ultimate NIMBY. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Scott Stedman @scottstedman.bsky.social · 21h
A company owned by a cyber analyst who examined Hunter Biden's laptop claimed that Benjamin Netanyahu's office was a customer. Full investigation at the link below
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
EIA’s latest short-term energy outlook predicts gas prices next year will be 21 cents higher than forecasts from a month ago, and oil $10 per barrel higher than a month ago. www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It’s not like Republicans ever had an issue with the President’s son exploiting the proximity to power before or anything.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
NYFed: By February 2026, Trump's tariffs had contributed 2.9 percentage points to consumer goods price inflation; without tariffs, goods prices would have fallen slightly. The tariffs raised the cost of imported goods AND their domestically-produced competitors.
libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org
How Fast Do Tariffs Pass Through into Consumer Prices? - Liberty Street Economics
A look at how much of U.S. tariffs reach consumers and how quickly, tracing tariffs through import, domestic producer, and retail prices.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Soaring Instrument Prices Could Stop the Music at Many Schools www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/b...
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Soaring Instrument Prices Could Stop the Music at Many Schools
When a single cello can cost $1,000 and a tuba $9,000, tariffs are straining meager band and orchestra budgets.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Trump admin's new rule adding prohibitively expensive new fees for "OPT"—temporary work authorization program for international students and new grads in the United States—is out. Would require colleges to pay $70,000 for year one. $30,000 for years two and three combined for STEM fields.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
An authoritarian government forcing people to use new politically-driven language in their speech -- call it "newspeak," if you will
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Yep.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Cornell does, after all, have a distinguished tradition of producing leaders: governors, members of Congress, CEOs, Nobel laureates, people entrusted with decisions affecting millions of lives. Perhaps leadership could begin with one. Before teaching young men how to run the world, teach them what to do when the world is one room, one woman, one terrible thing happening, and nobody wants to be the first man to ruin the evening.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
1. Contacted for comment by Popular Information, V-PAC, the billionaire-funded super PAC supporting Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign for Ohio governor, admitted that a political mailer it sent to Ohio voters about opponent Amy Acton contained misinformation. When is the last time that happened?
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
just…wow
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Christa Pike is conscious and speaking after botched execution attempt, lawyers say
The prisoner received two doses of pentobarbital last Wednesday as authorities tried to put her to death
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Perceptions of press freedom in the U.S. hit a record low, and are now below the average among developed nations. news.gallup.com/poll/715025/...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“.. days after co-founder Palmer Luckey was named to a Pentagon future weapons task force.” @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2026/10/06/a...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We used to have a federal agency devoted to investigating and prosecuting abuses by law enforcement, but Americans voted for the "let cops do crimes" candidate instead bsky.app/profile/kevi...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“.. There aren’t any more inventories to drain in the West,” Russell Hardy, chief executive officer of Vitol Group, said at the Energy Intelligence Forum in London on Tuesday. “We drained the available inventory.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Niall Harbison @niallharbison.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Rod Stewart was all alone tied up eating from the bins and covered in wounds. He also had heart worm. Hard to believe how well he looks now ❤️
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Just comparing the stenographic account of fantasizing about catastrophic mass casualties with the one shot full of drama and high stakes of an obvious gaffe.
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After justifying the Iran war as necessary for "keeping the world safe," Trump suggested there could be strikes on the United States, including certain cities in California.
"They could take out a city," he said. "Let them take-Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego."coin-toss election, where any small shift theoretically could be decisive, Mr. Biden has twice caused headaches for his vice president with ill-timed gaffes. His latest, during a video call with Latino supporters on Tuesday night, forced Ms. Harris to spend part of the last Wednesday of her campaign distancing herself.
Mr. Biden was denouncing racist comments made by a speaker at a recent Donald J. Trump rally when he appeared to call supporters of Mr.
Trump "garbage." He later explained that he meant that "the hateful rhetoric" from the Trump surrogate was
"garbage," not his supporters generally.
But Republicans, expressing umbrage, quickly pounced on what they hoped
wo be olio mc
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ed Martin says that Tina Peters met with Trump in the Oval Office today to discuss election integrity and “the plans” for the upcoming midterms elections.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
⚠️ Some voices I respect are voicing serious concerns about the “plague” in Russia. There are apparently indications it might be an engineered pathogen. (I hadn’t been worried before, other than in a joking way.)
Ashish K. Jha @ashishkjha
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Kevin co-chairs our scientific advisory board
Kevin is at @MIT and one of the smartest people in the world on issues of engineered pathogens
Kevin's tweets are worth your time

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Russia's five-hospital quarantine, FSB involvement, and reported hazmat use in response to the death of a single researcher at a weapons-lineage Irkutsk lab are inconsistent with a lab-acquire...

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Russia's five-hospital quarantine, FSB involvement, and reported hazmat use in response to the death of a single researcher at a weapons-lineage Irkutsk lab are inconsistent with a lab-acquired plague infection, which would have been treated with prophylactic antibiotics.
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Russian authorities have surely sequenced the Irkutsk pathogen, but refuse to identify it.
Physical lockdown indicates it cannot be controlled with
prophylactic antibiotics, implying engineered pan-resistance or that it isn't plague at all.

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None of this means the Irkutsk pathogen will cause a pandemic.
But the response clearly indicates that Russia believes an epidemic is possible - and that the responsible agent is likely a pandemic weapon or otherwise embarrassing for the government.
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Kevin Esvelt @ @kesvelt •2h
Vaccines will be ineffective against competently designed pandemic weapons. Russia may not be competent yet, but future Al will democratize competence.
We should stockpile pandemic-proof PPE and install germicidal far-UV and glycol misters in public spaces.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This starts with her aggressively trying to link him to the Muslim Brotherhood. I'd like to see someone turn the tables on this. "You're Christian, right? Did you support Timothy McVeigh? Did you agree with Dylann Roof? Or Eric Rudolph? Robert Lewis Dear? No? Even though you share their religion?"
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Openly bragging about ethnic cleansing. That's how you know they're the Good Guys.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Corporations and billionaires don’t want you to know what political messages they are funding. That’s why they make the info so difficult to find. PaidForBy.info changes the game. It’s 100% free to use. Please check it out and spread the word!
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I love when White House reporters assure us that Karoline Leavitt was an entirely different person off the record as if that's not key to the whole Trump regime's press manipulation strategy.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
One month was about enough time with the fam.
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Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s ‘Machine Gun,’ Has a New Gig at Fox News
A fierce and nimble speaker, Ms. Leavitt is the second of Mr. Trump’s former press secretaries to join the cable news network.
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WIRED @wired.com · 05/10/2026
As prediction markets surge in popularity, a new platform called Verifact Markets is pushing the concept even further, letting users trade on “disputed facts.” www.wired.com/story/a-pred...
wired.com
A Prediction Market About the Past? Sure, Why Not!
As prediction markets surge in popularity, a new platform called Verifact Markets is pushing the concept even further, letting users trade on “disputed facts.”
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’s confusing that @theatlantic.com described this man as a “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024” who when these are some of his very easily findable FB posts:
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh no the very popular president is going to spread his popularity around and make other Republicans as popular as he is oh no
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 03/10/2026
⚡️5 Russian missiles and drones exploded on Moldova's territory in overnight attack against Ukraine, Sandu says. "Moscow is putting lives at risk across Europe and must be stopped," Moldovan President Maia Sandu said on Oct. 3.
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5 Russian missiles and drones exploded on Moldova's territory in overnight attack against Ukraine, Sandu says
"Moscow is putting lives at risk across Europe and must be stopped," Moldovan President Maia Sandu said on Oct. 3.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Now he’s gone too far www.tpr.org/government-p...
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Trump tomato tariffs could spell the end of free chips, salsa at restaurants
The 17% tariff on Mexican tomato imports, combined with bad weather in Florida and Mexico, has caused the price of salsa ingredients to spike in recent months.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I have never heard of any newsrooms with alarming practices like those described in this thread. If you have, I’d like to hear from you. Contact in bio.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Judge Sara Hill, N.D. Oklahoma, issued this decision on Thursday —>
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WIRED @wired.com · 02/10/2026
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say. www.wired.com/story/ice-ha...
wired.com
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The FlyDubai co-pilot who stabbed his captain and sent Flight 1073 diving toward the ground had previously been banned from flying by Oman over concerns he had adopted radical ideological views, people familiar with the matter said www.wsj.com/world/middle...
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Exclusive | FlyDubai Attacker Had Been Banned From Flying by Oman for Radical Views
The U.A.E. airline later hired the co-pilot who stabbed the captain of Flight 1073 and nearly crashed the plane.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Idiots. They’re all idiots.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
phew glad that contentious issue was settled
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
trump going on an emergency 17 state media tour to support republican candidates before the midterms and he is going with “nobody knows that dumb has a b on the end”
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Under Secretary Hegseth’s new plan, servicemen with low blood alcohol levels will be required to undergo vodka replacement therapy.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Hill reviewed the texts from which Eric Schmitt invented his conspiracy. They never mentioned the Hawks OR the Hawkeyes. thehill.com/homenews/sen...
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Smith’s game-day texts reviewed by Schmitt never referenced basketball team names
Text messages obtained by The Hill show former special counsel Jack Smith’s staff didn’t reference any basketball team names, adding to the confusion around why Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) errantly a…
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
President Chutes N. Ladders
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Bet against me.” (via Macropaper) 🇺🇸
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I still can't get over how this dude looks like he's trying to sell me ketamine in a gas station restroom
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
As @joshgerstein.bsky.social noted, Judge Cannon has stricken an 18-page motion for clarification of its gag order by 5 subpoenaed former FBI agents, alleging that they failed to "confer" with DOJ. At left is what the former agents wrote about attempts to confer; at right Cannon's order.
Undersigned counsel have diligently engaged in a good faith effort to resolve this
issue without court intervention. In response to concerns raised by undersigned counsel, DOJ indicated it would not proactively seek clarification and instead asserted that its work "does not disturb" the Order. DOJ failed to provide any factual explanation or legal authority to support this
assertion. Nor did DOJ provide an explanation for how this position could be reconciled with its prior position, described below, that testimony by a former government employee in response to a subpoena about non-public information would violate the Order. DOJ instead advised undersigned counsel to "simply file [for] whatever relief you [] deem appropriate," adding that it "will answer accordingly." Upon a separate request for clarification of its position as to the relief sought by this. motion, DOJ indicated it "take[s] no position" on the relief sought "and will respond accordingly."PAPERLESS ORDER striking for lack of conferral 806 Motion to Intervene and Seek Clarification of Court Order. S.D. Fla. L.R. 88.9(a). Signed by Judge Aileen M. Cannon on 10/1/2026.
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If the argument for women should know better than to go into a rape den like a frat house, explain to me why a rape house like a fraternity is allowed to exist at all.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s still striking how shamelessly Musk went in and manipulated Grok when it diverged from his very specific deranged world view and the coverage of Ai scarcely ever even acknowledges that power as a real problem.
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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
End the war in Iran. Keep America's truckers on the road.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hello, old friend. 👀 #ARM @nytimes.com
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