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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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WatchYourRepsTN&SC @watchyourrepssc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Every state should #BanShockGloves.
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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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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith made it crystal clear that his investigation was sound and lawful, that the president had committed crimes and that the GOP attacks on him were the actual weaponization of our justice system. He showed courage and moral clarity and continues to be one of the heroes of this moment.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump's new student loans rule sets new standards for federal student loan eligibility: namely, by denying loans to students pursuing degrees that lead to careers that “don’t make enough money,” with programs for art, music and social work being “hit the hardest.” www.rawstory.com/trump-educat...
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'I'm speechless, my God!' Dismay as Trump admin rolls out 'worthy' student rule
The Trump administration issued updated guidance on the rollout of a new rule that could shape the future of higher education in the United States — leaving critics dismayed about the potential ramifi...
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Taj Mahal @tajmahalblues.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
More sights from the TajMo tour this month, it was great seeing everyone on the road! 🪕 📸: Grateful Web
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 28/09/2026
Russell Vought is upset his ideas are overwhelmingly unpopular, but he won’t stop until he is the evil henchman for all NIH grants. 🧵
The graphic displays a photo of Russell Vought and the red Stand Up for Science logo. The graphic reads: "Update: Russell Vought joins the war on cancer, on the side of cancer."
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Obviously none of this is true, but incidentally: It is wild to talk about tax revenue as “profits.”
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seasailor.bsky.social @seasailor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/dyn... More raw theft of taxpayer millions.
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Sale of detention center was both legal and shady
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Darrell @dgddavis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Bell @pocono.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🎁 share.inquirer.com/crcdeY
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We need to find the words for Trump’s madness before things blow up | Will Bunch
The media and politicians haven’t pinned down anything resembling a suitable description for a president’s downward spiral or the looming battle for U.S. democracy.
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New Weather West post out this evening! I discuss the hyperactive East and Central Pacific hurricane season, as well as the upcoming heatwave across CA--and also why even a dry & warm autumn tells us essentially nothing about the El Niño winter to come.
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A parade of East Pacific hurricanes will miss CA (but soak the interior Southwest) before major, long-duration autumn heatwave builds - Weather West
September 27, 2026 - Daniel Swain - A hyperactive tropical East Pacific slings hurricanes toward Hawaii and Baja California, with indirect effects (modest moisture & potentially damaging ocean waves) in SoCal It has already been a remarkable, and arguably historic, East Pacific hurricane season. Three hurricanes (Lala, Lowell, Nolo) have now directly impacted the Hawaiian Islands (though none made formal landfall), with #
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Here's how we get Medicare for All done: Make Medicare whole (no one can keep all the parts straight!) Include vision, dental, and hearing. Begin extending to more people, starting with children. We arrive at Medicare for All, which means great Medicare for everyone.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 26/09/2026
⚠️ Tens of thousands of Texas voters are missing from the voter rolls after the state failed to process their voter registration applications properly. But it doesn’t mean they won’t be able to vote in the midterms: demdock.com/46PkXFM
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Anyone trying to get their country to withdraw from the ICC is almost certainly involved in organised crime. It's a no brainer.
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Clay Bennett @claybennett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
9/26/2026- SCOTUS www.timesfreepress.com/news/2026/se...
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I've seen it myself at 201 Varick Street where, at Miller’s directive, young children are separated from their families, denied lawyers, and pushed toward deportation. Next Congress, we must — we will — hold Miller and his cronies accountable for these illegal, barbaric acts of cruelty.
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Update:
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 23/09/2026
Of course one of the best science fiction directors of all time understands the science of airborne virus transmission! Steven Spielberg is wearing a high quality mask during the California COVID surge.
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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is a complex graph we post periodically that has implications for understanding an unusual time period in the pandemic. See Alt text for analysis.
This is a special graph we only post periodically. It shows 2 things that have considerable implications. 

1) Transmission has been lower than anticipated since December, and *only* since December. It's a recent phenomenon, not a long-term trend. WastewaterSCAN has poor longitudinal standardization so sometimes people mistakenly believe waves are getting smaller and smaller (or they say this because their listserv subscribers like to hear it). CDC and Biobot make very long-term data difficult to find. On the PMC 13-wave graph (which integrates long-term CDC and Biobot data, some of which is measured weekly by hand!), wave height gets smaller, but the waves are wider (hard to perceive visually). The take-home is we're in a very weird place in the pandemic, not a trend, but either an aberration or shift. 

2) Cumulative levels for the current year (Y7) closely resemble that of Year 2. This is where the debate of aberration vs shift gets interesting. If we are in an aberration of lower than typical transmission, that means many people are walking around with limited short-term infection-derived immunity, and most people are not recently boosted. That would be a tinder box for a saltation variant (MANY variants are circulating), and put us on that scary Y2 path. The alternative is that this is not an aberration but a more meaningful shift, some population-level immunity building through a combination of boosters, infection history, and the most vulnerable dying (social murder), meaning time between infection starting to increase. These divergent hypotheses are the difference between 150 million vs 325 million infections for Y7. If I were a gambler, I'd bet about 200 million. However, you can see the uncertainty. This is a time like no other to monitor the data closely. 

The good news is that wastewater monitoring is not going away. Keep watching.
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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My thoughts on why this is bad: gaspriceguy.substack.com/p/why-a-dies...
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Why a Diesel Export Ban Won't Fix Expensive U.S. Diesel Prices
With gasoline and especially diesel prices skyrocketing as of late, politicians in certain quarters are eager to shift the narrative around record-setting diesel prices ahead of elections.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/09/2026
Our lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft argues that the companies built their immensely valuable product via “the largest theft of labor in human history.” Actually, those aren’t our words. They came from Microsoft’s director of applied science, Brent Hecht.
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AI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”
Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.
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ProTip (AKA alt_localgov) @protip.altgov.info · 22/09/2026
Your tax dollars hard at work making you worse off by making others miserable for no gd reason and except racism. It’s not law enforcement It’s ethnic cleansing They’re just starting with the ones who are hardest to protect
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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
this is not paywalls, fyi - this chart looks roughly the same for sites that have had paywalls since long before 2022. this is all former SEO traffic that has now vanished in exchange for ai search summaries
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Cleta Mitchell: disenfranchising college students is essential if the GOP is to win elections in the future.
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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In 31 years, the dearly beloved Dolly Parton gifted approximately 332,411,218 books to kids all over the world with her Imagination Library true heroes 🦋📖 We get to honor Dolly. We get to give like Dolly. We get to support literacy like Dolly. We love you, Dolly Parton! Our Queen of Book Joy 🌈 ✨
Mychal smiles and holds up a Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library tote bag
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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Read this! ⬇️
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Futurism @futurism.com · 23/09/2026
"One word: hallucination."
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Former Air Traffic Controller Terrified New AI System Will Hallucinate and Cause Catastrophe
The federal government's new SMART AI-air traffic control system is raising eyebrows from one veteran controller.
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Jan Kirsch, M.D., M.P.H. @drjanicekirsch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Techno-fascist Vought wants to cut NIH by 40%, In the immediate crosshairs is research supporting minority, gay, and transgender communities, as well as funding for women's health. arstechnica.com/science/2026...
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Russel Vought will reportedly be given veto power over all NIH grants
Pending move comes over the objections of the NIH director.
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Bruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
By moving to the “center,” Democrats have failed to fight the forces that led us to Donald Trump: widening inequality, economic insecurity, and the unchecked political power of corporations and the rich. Political centrism is nonsense. There is no middle ground between democracy and oligarchy.
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 19/09/2026
One expert asserted that "the tax breaks are a windfall rewarding Big Tech companies for building what they would build anyway."
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Trump Pushes Data Centers on Public Lands as Big Tech Reaps Billions in Tax Breaks for AI Boom
One expert asserted that "the tax breaks are a windfall rewarding Big Tech companies for building what they would build anyway."
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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
😱Trump officials sending undocumented children to Texas sparks fears of mass deportation Nearly 90% of children in federal custody being directed to GOP-controlled state that has unlicensed facilities and low legal representation rates www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump officials sending undocumented children to Texas sparks fears of mass deportation
Exclusive: Nearly 90% of children in federal custody being directed to GOP-controlled state that has unlicensed facilities and low legal representation rates
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 18/09/2026
ICE’s ERO ONE is official. The agency is looking for 140+ intel analysts to work nationwide to locate immigrants, map their social networks, and help plan arrest operations.
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ICE plans intel units in every field office to research immigrants, map who they know
ERO ONE would task them with researching individuals and charting their associates for the agents who carry out arrests and deportations.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
One aspect of living in a personalist form of government is that people no longer expect the laws or norms to protect them. If the king is rumored to be thinking of demolishing a believed institution, people assume they must defend it in person
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 19/09/2026
> It begins hallucinate at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, April 29th. In a panic, they shit their pants.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 19/09/2026
Looks like a fun party
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Everyone involved in this, including the Palantir employees who built the software and the executives that sold it, need to be tried for warcrimes
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A senior Department of Justice (DOJ) official warned federal prosecutors that they could be fired if they refused to pursue voter fraud cases brought to them by the FBI or Department of Homeland Security (DHS), according to an MS NOW report. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Report: Top DOJ official threatens to fire prosecutors who refuse to pursue voter fraud cases
The reported threat comes as federal agencies devote increasing resources to investigations of possible noncitizen voting, which is exceptionally rare.
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Kathryn McGowan @caelfinn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A fabulous get out the vote message from the cast of Hamilton!
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@dennis74.bsky.social @dennis74.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This would be great, if the democrats held daily briefing!
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 16/09/2026
A whistleblower alleged DHS officers used Social Security numbers to illegally access voters' registration files ahead of the midterms. Trump’s DOJ just confirmed part of it in a new court filing — but still won’t say what they’re doing with the data.
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DOJ partially confirms DHS whistleblower allegations in new notice to federal court
The whistleblower claimed that DHS officers used personal data to illegally access people’s voter registration files.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Note that in two articles today, WaPo describes a "sale" of bombs to Israel. This is extremely misleading. The reported $2.bn package is 100% funded by US taxpayers via the Foreign Military Financing grants for Israel to buy US weapons.
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 16/09/2026
Prognosticating a bit, but here’s how this will likely play out. If Clearfield County votes to extend the contract, then ICE is already postured to award top dollar to GEO Group. If they vote no, ICE has signaled they will buy the site directly from GEO Group, cutting out the county entirely.
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Amendment to detention contract notice drops detainee-transport reporting requirement
The agency also asked bidders to price a version of each facility in which the government owns the building.
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Dr. Michael MacKay @michaelmackay.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Russian terrorists attacked Lithuania with a drone, fired a flare gun at a Danish helicopter and sabotaged railway tracks in the Netherlands. European governments must stop calling these attacks “hybrid” and recognize the state of war they’re in with the russian terrorist state.
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The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell @lastwordmsnow.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
TONIGHT: @gilduran.com talks to @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social on The #LastWord at 10pm ET.
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Capitol agenda: Trump’s AI demands jam Republicans
Party meetings Tuesday may spotlight the mismatch between the growing sense of urgency among some rank-and-file Republicans and President Donald Trump’s stark demands against any regulation.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 16/09/2026
U.S. had to expend 70 or more Patriots and Thaads to blunt a recent attack on Jordan www.wsj.com/world/middle...
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The U.S. Is Burning Through Its Supply of Interceptors to Counter Iran’s Attacks
The U.S. had to expend 70 or more Patriots and Thaads to blunt an attack on Jordan.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 15/09/2026
Donald Trump made nearly 29,000 securities trades in 17 months — more than every member of Congress combined. The stock-purchasing ban he’s pushing would leave him exempt
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Trump Made 29,000 Securities Trades, More Than All of Congress
Donald Trump made nearly 29,000 securities trades in 17 months — more than every member of Congress combined. The stock-purchasing ban he’s pushing would leave him exempt
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 16/09/2026
Chief Oil Analyst for Gulf Oil:
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