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Searingly Aaron

@searinglyaaron.bsky.social
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Emphatic generalist. Politics, Cyclones, Sci-fi are today’s top 3. Don’t mistake humor for naïveté

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5h
25th Amendment? We can’t even get network news to air it or even mention it. It’s a massive national media coverup to hide the fact the we have an addled president.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1h
As Trump administration officials express skepticism about some childhood vaccines, nearly 7 in 10 Americans do not believe that childhood vaccines cause autism, according to a new poll.
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Most Americans do not believe childhood vaccines cause autism, poll finds
Around 68 percent of respondents to a poll by the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Public Policy Center said it is false that “vaccines given to children for diseases like measles, mumps, and ru...
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 1h
Taxpayer dollars are funding a new government-sponsored ad.
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Trump Splashes National Security Cash on Propaganda Ads
Taxpayer dollars are funding a new government-sponsored ad.
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Searingly Aaron @searinglyaaron.bsky.social · 3h
Wordle 1,929 6/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #Wordle So I was being stubborn
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Searingly Aaron @searinglyaaron.bsky.social · 3h
Connections Puzzle #1207 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 #Connections
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Blue Meme @bluememe.bsky.social · 3h
They are denied dignity. They are denied security. They are denied life.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 3h
House lawmakers spent $6.7 million of taxpayer money on meals and lodging last year — a 21 percent increase over 2024 — under a reimbursement program that doesn’t require them to provide receipts, a Post analysis found. See who spent the most:
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The House reimburses lawmakers for D.C. expenses. See who spent the most.
Taxpayers spent 21 percent more last year on the program, which helps cover the costs of food and lodging in Washington, a Post analysis found.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 3h
Solar panels are so popular in Pakistan they’re being used as wedding dowries. That boom is now challenging a power sector that owes billions to China, and exposing snarls in Beijing's drive to dominate the global energy transition.
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China’s Coal Past and Solar Present Are Colliding in Pakistan
A wave of clean technology imports is challenging a power sector that owes billions to Beijing, exposing snarls in the No. 2 economy’s drive to dominate the global energy transition.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 3h
Here's a list of 64 previous botched executions in the United States. Christa Pike will make 65.
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Botched Executions | Death Penalty Information Center
The Death Penalty Information Center (DPI) is a national non-profit organization whose mission is to serve the media, policymakers, and the general public…
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 20h
In the "Unites States" of "Super Intelligence," "Issues Are Remediated" emptywheel.net/2026/09/30/i...
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In the "Unites States" of "Super Intelligence," "Issues Are Remediated" - emptywheel
Once you realize Trump's morally binding AI code doesn't even spell "United States" properly, the whole sham looks even more ominous.
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I printed this and posted it above my desk. I'd change only the last line to "I am the FUCK YOUR FEELINGS - EVERYONE'S RIGHTS ARE ON THE LINE left".
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14h
🚨BREAKING: Key federal agencies failed to provide any records to back up President Donald Trump’s allegations that tens of thousands of noncitizens are registered to vote in various blue states, a nonpartisan government watchdog said in a new lawsuit. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DHS has failed to provide records to prove Trump’s allegations of noncitizen voting, watchdog says
Key federal agencies failed to provide any records to back up President Donald Trump’s allegations that 278,000 noncitizens are improperly registered to vote, a nonpartisan government watchdog said in...
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Je Hyeon | ABOLISH the polICE @naptime.theolive.garden · 18h
stop saying grape. say rape. say murder. say killed. say the violence people have endured with the full force of what has happened
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The service academies aren't the only institutions in the US being destroyed as universities. But they're the only federal public universities in the US at all, and they play an important role in training the armed forces' leadership, which ultimately means... www.stripes.com/branches/arm...
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West Point professor fired after pushing back on limitations to teaching climate change, lawsuit says
Adam Kalkstein pushed back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change, the lawsuit says.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
OTD in 2015 Russia began bombing Syria. -we denied we'd do it -we then did it -we bombed lots of hospitals, shopping centers & schools to create refugees -we said it would be WW3 if NATO got involved -when NATO helped throw us out, we just ran away Sound familiar?
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JustSayin @justsayin-fromx.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
THAT IS CORRECT ✅
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Searingly Aaron @searinglyaaron.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wordle 1,928 5/6 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨 🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Final by @babsbeaty.bsky.social #Wordle
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CNN @cnn.com · 30/09/2026
Millions of taxpayer dollars have already been spent on President Donald Trump’s hagiographic ads, according to estimates by a leading political ad-tracking firm. And a total of $20 million has been allocated for the effort, which watchdog groups have deemed illegal. cnn.it/4z9Lt96
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/09/2026
Here's footage of Jack Smith at the Iowa vs. Maryland game on February 3rd, 2024 btw
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
The ICE agent who shot Araujo in a Houston is named GREGORY FEATHERS. Make sure everyone knows.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 29/09/2026
The Las Playas Intaglio, a giant fish carved into the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, is now considered the oldest example in the Americas of a geoglyphic, the ancient art form that is carved into or drawn on the ground.
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Trump’s border wall construction cut into an ancient ground carving older than Stonehenge
The Las Playas Intaglio carving of a huge fish is at least 2,000 years older than the first Egyptian pyramid, according to researchers’ estimations.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 29/09/2026
A group of local investors is making a play to save Pearson’s Candy, a beloved Minnesota confectioner slated to halt production this week.
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Local investors make a play for Pearson’s Candy, famed for the Salted Nut Roll
A group including former co-owner Larry Hassler is trying to convince the confectioner’s private equity owner to sell.
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Miami Herald @miamiherald.com · 29/09/2026
Major pork, beef, and goat recall issued in highest-risk alert
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Major pork, beef, and goat recall issued in highest-risk alert
Nearly 168,000 pounds of raw meat are being recalled nationwide over inspection violations.
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Pocket News 📰 @jeanpocket.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today before Senate.
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SCOTUSblog @scotusblog.com · 29/09/2026
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in December in a challenge by immigrants to the government’s practice of deporting them to countries that are not identified in their removal orders – a procedure known as “third-country removals.”
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Supreme Court to hear argument on Trump administration’s deportation of immigrants to third-party countries
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
GOP Sen. Eric Schmitt accused Jack Smith of perjury, claiming he had evidence Smith secretly went to an Atlanta Hawks game. Then it all backfired in real-time.
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GOP Senator’s Jack Smith ‘Gotcha’ Blows Up in His Face
Eric Schmitt accused Jack Smith of perjury over supposed evidence placing him at an Atlanta Hawks game. There was just one problem: It was the Iowa Hawkeyes.
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Black folks don’t hang themselves from trees.
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Searingly Aaron @searinglyaaron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And the counter truths to support the cover ups continue
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Truthout @truthout.org · 29/09/2026
For the past two months, hundreds of Haitians in Springfield have been targeted by immigration authorities and forced to wear ankle monitors, as the Trump administration metes out collective punishment to appeal to its far right base.
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ICE Is Still Targeting the Haitian Community in Springfield
Hundreds of Haitians in Springfield are being forced to wear ankle monitors while they await immigration hearings.
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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So Trump personally picked a soundtrack of a choir singing “LOVE ME!”? That is the most hilarious thing I’ve ever heard.
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Hedy Lamarr @chudonew.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I guess they wanted a running mate worse than Vance! Contact Dirt Bag Sen Schmitt 201 W Capitol Ave., Rm. 320 Jefferson City, MO 573-751-2853 eschmitt@senate.mo.gov DC: 202-224-5721 Schmitt:"America is a country for white people descended from European settlers" share.google/HpZQtpoB8xUh...
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Commentary: Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt openly promoted white supremacism in a public speech • Missouri Independent
Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt suggested true Americans are “the sons and daughters of the Christian pilgrims that poured out from Europe’s shores.”
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Searingly Aaron @searinglyaaron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Sen Schmitt you just voted in favor of criminalizing a sandwich.” Schmitt; “No, no. I voted to invade Cuba.” “Sen the capital of Cuba is Havana. Not ‘El Cubano”. Schmitt: “I stand by my vote.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
this gaffe should follow Eric Schmitt around for the rest of his political life (Jack Smith was actually in Maryland at a HAWKEYES game, not in Atlanta colluding with Fani Willis as Schmitt alleged) (Win McNamee/Getty)
photo of Schmitt's team holding up a poster board that made false claims about Jack Smith's whereabouts in February 2024
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hey I'm teaching on Hoshana Rabba (this Thursday evening!) in honor of Reb Arthur Waskow z'l's memory-- and it'll be on bad theology, the climate emergency, and prayers for rain. 7:30pm ET. Join us! theshalomcenter.org/events/soak
1st Annual Reb Arthur Waskow Hoshanah Rabbah Torah Soak
Thursday, October 1, 2026
7:30 PM  9:00 PM
“Soak” in Reb Arthur-inspired Torah on what would have been his 93rd birthday.

A night of celebratory remembrance and learning, with teaching headlined by Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg. https://theshalomcenter.org/events/soak
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.
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Searingly Aaron @searinglyaaron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Surprise! MAGA Candidate Convicted of Election Fraud - The New Republic Apparently for Trumpublicans violating election laws is only a crime when you scream, w/out evidence, your opposition is doing it. apple.news/AZXzK12RYSv2...
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Surprise! MAGA Candidate Convicted of Election Fraud — The New Republic
Turns out there is election fraud, after all.
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Searingly Aaron @searinglyaaron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Immigration was revitalizing small-town Minnesota, but Republicans didn't care - MinnPost Reality for many rural communities: population declines & ages unless immigrants move in. When the new USians move in the community is rejuvenated & changed. apple.news/AxFJelOYDQd6...
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Immigration was revitalizing small-town Minnesota, but Republicans didn't care — MinnPost
Small, rural communities need immigrants to sustain their economies as the broader population ages.
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Searingly Aaron @searinglyaaron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wordle 1,927 4/6 ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #Wordle
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Searingly Aaron @searinglyaaron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Connections Puzzle #1205 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 #Connections
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How it started/how it’s going
Trevor Lee
@VoteTrevorLee
Thanks @nickshirleyy for hoodie.
We're cleaning up the fraud in UtahBREAKING: Utah state Rep. Trevor Lee has been charged with mortgage and communications fraud ksl.com/article/
516296... #utpol @KSLcom @KSL5TV
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“.. Very good one sentence summary of the economy.” - Kyra Scanlon
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 28/09/2026
Don't be fooled. This bill won’t force Big Tech companies to do anything. It's a political stunt to cover Republicans who have been the biggest data center cheerleaders. We need a bill with real teeth to hold these companies accountable.
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 28/09/2026
"The form, which is not typically public, was mistakenly released by the U.S. Attorney’s Office last month." expect this will be blamed on some "DEI hire" that somehow didn't get DOGE'd?
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Let the history books show that STUDENT reporters brought national attention to unchecked abuse. I hope that their cups and opportunities forever overfloweth.This is courage.
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District attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University 'gang rape'
Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the case of alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity.
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MonsterKing @cerromerussell.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Wow what bullshit. But this was the plan
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 28/09/2026
It has been eight days since Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez was shot by ICE while making a DoorDash delivery in Austin, Texas. He is currently facing a severe medical emergency. The bullet remains lodged in his back, and he is being held at the South Texas ICE Processing Center in Pearsall.
DOORDASH IS ABANDONING ITS DRIVERS
URGENT UPDATE:
8 days after ICE shot Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez in the back while he was making a DoorDash delivery, the bullet remains in his body. Wilber is in agonizing pain inside a TX concentration camp, and the silence from DoorDash is deafening. A photo of Wilber smiling, before ICE shot him, is shown.
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 28/09/2026
What does JD Vance’s anti-fraud task force have in common with Musk’s DOGE gambit? Both created online resources, ostensibly to show their purported successes, only to see their claims unravel under scrutiny. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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The embarrassing thing Vance’s fraud task force has in common with Musk’s DOGE gambit
Both initiatives created online resources that invited scrutiny. Both were unprepared for what happened next.
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ISAIAH @isaiahmn.org · 28/09/2026
🚨🏥 Minnesota clergy showed up at Allina HQ with a clear demand. We need a Community Benefits Agreement as Allina moves forward with its merger with Sutter Health. “We can't have hollow promises. We need transparency and accountability.” Learn more: SaveMNHealthcare.com
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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