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Rocket scientist w keen interest in public policy & social justice. 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🌈 #CleanTheAir #Resist #MEcfs #SaveTheNHS #KamalaHarris2024 🌊 #VoteBlue (USA)

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 11h
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ExxonMobil's own scientists doubted climate fixes the company hyped
Court filings reveal new details about Exxon's decades of internal climate deliberations.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6h
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $8 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of American households is worth just $4.27 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/10/2026
This picture will always be iconic. RIP Margaret Hamilton who wrote the software that successfully guided NASA’s Apollo missions through the moon.
Margaret Hamilton with printed computer code in 1969. Credit: NASA/Alamy
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The MAGA regime recently killed the largest ancient 250 year old “Grandmother” Cottonwood tree in Arizona’s indigenous territory just to expand the orange felon’s fucking wall. I’ll never forgive anyone who chose this evil.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
25 years ago today, the U.S. launched its war in Afghanistan. Weeks earlier, Barbara Lee was the only member of Congress to vote against the 2001 Authorization of Military Force, warning it would be a blank check for forever wars. History has proven her lonely and courageous vote right.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Trump’s sons have recently invested in dozens of defense companies. Those companies have now raked in a staggering $6 BILLION in current or future government contracts. Corruption? Or coincidence? You be the judge.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Trump said he would start paying for the political TV ads himself, but the White House clarified that he won’t pay back the federal government for what’s already been spent. About $11.5 million had already been spent airing the ads as of midday Tuesday, October 6th.
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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Censored on TikTok in <30 seconds. Appeal filed. They will allow California residents to know after the COVlD wave has subsided.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
BREAKING: ICE over the past year investigated hundreds of nonprofits across the U.S. that help people register to vote. The internal documents, obtained by the Democracy Forward, showed that ICE's investigative arm also contemplated sending undercover agents to investigate the organizations.
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ICE  probed hundreds of voter registration groups across the U.S.
The agency also contemplated deploying undercover agents to "initiate prosecutions" against the groups and "dismantle" them.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Teaching is my love, my calling, my joy. Even though I’ve officially retired from it, I still continue my work as an educator. I'll be discussing my love of teaching and why I'm inspired by younger generations tomorrow during a special conversation. More details here: bit.ly/4AU7kTw
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
What a comically out of touch response. Maine, please vote this idiot out.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 06/10/2026
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Drone strikes, likely Russian, sink ships in NATO countries’ economic zones
Two cargo ships have sunk, one ship was afire, and sailors are dead or missing.
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The Sick Times @thesicktimes.org · 06/10/2026
COVID-19 trends continue to diverge by region. The Northwest seems to be the latest hotspot, and Western states overall are seeing an early start to flu season. thesicktimes.org/2026/10/06/n...
Graphic from The Sick Times sharing the latest COVID-19 trends for October 6, 2026. The graphic presents trends for three metrics: WastewaterSCAN category for SARS-CoV-2, which is "high" (represented with red) and slightly decreasing (represented with a diagonal down arrow); CDC wastewater viral activity level for SARS-Cov-2, which is "very low*" (lighter yellow) and significantly decreasing (directly down arrow); and CDC COVID-19 test positivity, which is moderate (darker yellow) and stable (side to side arrow). Text below these metrics reads: "*CDC wastewater viral activity levels are calculated based on measurements in the last two years only. They do not account for the lower spread that could be possible with more widespread precautions." 

COVID-19 trends continue to diverge by region, as some parts of the country are seeing a summer wave taper off and others are seeing cases rise with the onset of colder weather. The Northwest seems to be the latest hotspot, and Western states overall are seeing an early start to flu season.Cases continue to decline in the South, with wastewater data from the CDC, WastewaterSCAN, and Biobot Analytics as well as test positivity and emergency department visits all showing multiple weeks of decreases for this region. However, COVID-19 levels are still higher in these states, as outbreaks from the summer wave have not yet concluded.
In the West, there seems to be a split between North and South: test positivity rates and ED visits are starting to decline in the Southwest but increasing in the Northwest.Two line charts showing test positivity rates for SARS-CoV-2 and influenza, from the CDC's National Respiratory and Enteric Virus Surveillance System (NREVSS). The top chart shows trends for health region 9, including Arizona, California, Nevada, Hawaii, Guam, and other island territories; the bottom chart shows trends for health region 10, including Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington state. On both charts, the X axis represents time, going from September 2025 to September 2026, and the Y axis represents the percent of tests reporting positive results each week, going from 0% to 30%. Influenza is represented by a blue line and triangles and SARS-CoV-2 is represented by a red line and circles. Both regions have recently reported higher COVID-19 levels and are starting to report higher flu levels. In the latest data, region 9 is showing a potential decline in COVID-19 and more rapid increase in flu, while region 10 is showing a continued increase in COVID-19 and more muted (but still significant) increase in flu.

The test positivity rate for health region 10, which includes Northwest states, has been over 10% for the last three weeks.
Flu cases are also starting to increase on the West coast. Test positivity data for flu, from the same CDC system where I find these data for COVID-19, show recent increases for both health region 10 and region 9, the Southwest.I’m watching to see if COVID-19 levels go up further in the Northeast and Midwest, as these regions saw fewer cases this summer and often experience bigger outbreaks with colder weather.
There’s some good news for ongoing data availability: the CDC has awarded a new wastewater testing contract to Verily covering about 200 sites in the CDC's network. As Verily also had the prior contract for these sites, there will be a shorter gap in data than if the CDC was switching to a different contractor. It’s still unclear how long we may see a reporting break, though — the latest note on the CDC dashboard simply says “there will be a brief gap.”
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Andrew Levesque @andrewlevesque.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
truthout.org/articles/act... … In Vermont, activists are planning a week of action to shut down a major ICE surveillance center hidden away in an office park. …
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Activists Target What They Call a Major “Spy Center” for ICE in Rural Vermont
As ICE widens its surveillance dragnet, activists plan a week of action to disrupt a major data network.
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EveryDoctor @everydoctor.org.uk · 07/10/2026
While no one was looking, private equity firms have been quietly moving in to profit off our healthcare system. Our MPs need to feel the pressure from their constituents before it's too late. Take 60 seconds to send our letter to your MP: everydoctor.eaction.org.uk/stop-private...
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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I'm voting YES on Prop 40, the California billionaire tax. Here's why.
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Why I Support The California Billionaire Tax
Billionaires are crying foul about California's proposed wealth tax.Don't fall for their fearmongering.A one-time, 5% ta
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Just Treatment @justtreatment.org · 06/10/2026
🚨The government is looking for UK alternatives to Palantir to run the NHS data platform, the FT reports. This follows a week of protests in 40+ places across England and a rally of hundreds at Palantir's London HQ. Help keep the pressue up: nopalantirinthenhs.com
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A day after Trump said his super PAC would pay for those propaganda ads that had been funded by taxpayers, White House officials said the group did *not* plan to reimburse the government for the more than $10 million it had already spent on the ads.
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Trump Does Not Plan to Reimburse Taxpayers for Promotional Ads
A day after the president said his super PAC would pay for the ads, which had drawn bipartisan backlash, officials said that he meant moving forward. A new taxpayer-funded ad aired Tuesday.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We didn’t learn anything from Covid. People are already confidently calling the plague a nothingburger. Sure, we have cipro and doxycycline. The obvious concern here is that this strain was modified to be antibiotic resistant or spread more easily. We simply don’t know yet.
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🦋🐕‍🦺🌺LadyWillow💚🐾🦋 @ladywillow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Remember: Wealth cannot be separated from power. We're seeing in real time how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people. Taxing the rich isn't just an economic issue, it's a defense of our democracy.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Police violently drag Hispanic grandmother across rough ground-injuring both arms. Witnesses yell she has a serious heart condition & was just released from hospital. Cops kneel on her chest anyway. "They dragged her like a doll," brother said. Incident occurred in Batesville, Texas
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yes, Pete Hegseth is so incompetent that our troops go without necessary medical care, but at least they are called "warriors" now while they go untreated. So it all evens out . . .
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Soldiers seriously wounded in Iranian drone strike tell AP the military's medical system failed them
Some U.S. soldiers gravely wounded in the deadliest Iran strike on American troops say the military medical system failed them.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
New whistleblower complaint: The Trump admin pushed the FBI to investigate Los Angeles protesters in violation of their constitutional rights and the bureau's policies, a former FBI supervisor alleges in a new whistleblower complaint.
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FBI whistleblower says White House pushed unconstitutional probe of protesters
The former analyst says supervisors were told not to put things in writing, so many of the directives came in face-to-face meetings.
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hawaii: Influenza and COVID-19 activity rising • Flu positivity increased to 20.3% during Sept 23–30 • COVID-19 positivity 7.5% • Health officials urge precautions to reduce spread and protect vulnerable people.
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Flu, COVID spreading in Hawaii: simple steps to stay healthy
Health officials encourage residents to take precautions against respiratory viruses, which include influenza and COVID-19, as cases remain active.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
More than 500 U.S. citizens have been detained by ICE, according to ProPublica. 70% of ICE detainees have no criminal conviction. Trump’s promise to go after the “worst of the worst” was always a lie. It was always a pretext to terrorize Black and brown communities. Remember this.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more th
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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
California's COVlD outbreak now surpasses 3 months. PMC estimates 1 in 29 residents are actively infectious statewide. Mask up and get boosted.💉💪😷 On a computer, go to pmc19.com/map and click on individual counties for more info, including a graph of recent levels. Summary in ALT text.
County, Level, and PMC estimate of the proportion of the population actively infectious

Alameda | Very High | 1 in 26
Alpine | High | 1 in 34
Amador | High | 1 in 36
Butte | Very High | 1 in 22
Calaveras | High | 1 in 30
Colusa | Very High | 1 in 25
Contra Costa | High | 1 in 36
Del Norte | Very High | 1 in 23
El Dorado | High | 1 in 40
Fresno | Very High | 1 in 23
Glenn | Very High | 1 in 23
Humboldt | High | 1 in 32
Imperial | High | 1 in 31
Inyo | Very High | 1 in 20
Kern | Very High | At least 1 in 20
Kings | Very High | At least 1 in 20
Lake | Very High | 1 in 23
Lassen | Very High | At least 1 in 20
Los Angeles | High | 1 in 34
Madera | Very High | 1 in 24
Marin | Very High | At least 1 in 20
Mariposa | High | 1 in 29
Mendocino | Very High | 1 in 24
Merced | Moderate | 1 in 43
Modoc | Very High | 1 in 21
Mono | Very High | 1 in 25
Monterey | Very High | 1 in 28
Napa | High | 1 in 33
Nevada | Very High | 1 in 28
Orange | High | 1 in 38
Placer | High | 1 in 29
Plumas | Very High | At least 1 in 20
Riverside | Very High | 1 in 26
Sacramento | High | 1 in 29
San Benito | High | 1 in 30
San Bernardino | Very High | At least 1 in 20
San Diego | Moderate | 1 in 48
San Francisco | High | 1 in 34
San Joaquin | Very High | 1 in 22
San Luis Obispo | High | 1 in 29
San Mateo | High | 1 in 37
Santa Barbara | Very High | At least 1 in 20
Santa Clara | High | 1 in 40
Santa Cruz | Very High | 1 in 26
Shasta | Very High | 1 in 26
Sierra | Very High | 1 in 23
Siskiyou | High | 1 in 31
Solano | High | 1 in 34
Sonoma | Very High | 1 in 25
Stanislaus | Very High | At least 1 in 20
Sutter | High | 1 in 31
Tehama | Very High | 1 in 23
Trinity | High | 1 in 30
Tulare | Very High | 1 in 20
Tuolumne | High | 1 in 29
Ventura | High | 1 in 34
Yolo | Very High | 1 in 24
Yuba | Very High | 1 in 28
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Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The pandemic isn't over and Covid isn't "endemic". It's still a pandemic disease with waves across the globe. It can still make you sick, kill you, hospitalize you
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We are staring down the barrel of a defining chapter in American history. Authoritarian leaders often enter government through legitimate doors and then begin dismantling the locks. The locks are coming off. The question now is whether enough of us are awake to stop it. -Michael Jochum
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Miles W. Griffis @mileswgriffis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"These Long COVID Superheroes may not be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, but they’re showing us a world where listening to your body, standing up for your needs, resting, and leaning on others is true bravery" 📝: @heatherhogan.bsky.social thesicktimes.org/2026/10/05/k...
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Kids with Long COVID co-created their own superhero comic book - The Sick Times
Long Covid Superheroes showcases the bravery of asking for help, resting, and being compassionate with yourself and others.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Paramount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood merger
The merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's almost like putting a quack anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist in charge of the nation's health policy has consequences. "The United States has now had more measles deaths in the past two years than we have had in the previous three decades combined...": www.ms.now/news/pennsyl...
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Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the U.S.
The state has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, health officials said Monday, making it the largest outbreak in the U.S. in more than three decades.
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betsy ladyzhets 😷 @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Today @thesicktimes.org: @heatherhogan.bsky.social reviews a new comic book developed by children with Long COVID. "These superheroes showcase bravery by asking for help, resting, and being compassionate with themselves and others."
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Kids with Long COVID co-created their own superhero comic book - The Sick Times
Long Covid Superheroes showcases the bravery of asking for help, resting, and being compassionate with yourself and others.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A 911 call from Salem, Oregon, describes a disturbing encounter in which a woman was screaming that she was a U.S. citizen as ICE goons broke her vehicle window and forcibly pulled her out. According to reporting on the call, the woman suffered a concussion, torn rotator cuff and bruised ribs.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
NEW: The Trump administration keeps denying and downplaying that immigration agents have been detaining Americans. It’s wrong. We’ve found more than 500 U.S. citizens have been held against their will, including handcuffed or held at gunpoint.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Tatiana Trifan #FBLC @tatianatrifan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oopsie for the 6th year in a row. Because why do serious prevention when you can overwhelm health care each year. "The figures show there were 950 hospital admissions for Covid in August and the total jumped to 4,939 in September, up by around 420 per cent." www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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What is the XFG Covid variant? UK hospitalisations up more than 400% in a month
More than half of the positive tests were found to be a variant of XFG
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Not that anyone needs a reminder but this man has the nuclear codes. Far too many people will just shrug this off or find some way to justify it. But Trump is unwell, incoherent, and a danger to us all.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 06/10/2026
Breaking News! Code UFB!!! For the first time in recorded history, the Niño 3.4 sea-surface temperature (SST) is above 30.0°C, reaching a preliminary SST of 30.06°C on October 5th. The Niño 3.4 SST anomaly is now 3.41°C above the 1991-2020 baseline. Everything is not fine.
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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is obviously a worrying development, especially considering the fact that air travel was involved. I am considerably more concerned by the ongoing outbreak of Ebola in this region than I am by current events in Russia. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Kenya confirms first case of Ebola Bundibugyo virus
The patient had been living in DR Congo, where more than 4,000 people have died from the disease this year.
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Jim Hawkins @jimallthetime.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Why far‑right protesters target non‑political groups like lifeboat volunteers theconversation.com/why-far-righ...
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Why far-right protesters target non-political groups like lifeboat volunteers
It goes further than just briefly disrupting services.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“We’re not going to just put our hands up and say, ‘Oh well, we tried.' When it opens, it’ll be even more important to pressure to close it. At that point, people are being harmed. We’re just going to keep making a stink of it. "We'll never go away until it’s closed." www.nola.com/gambit/news/...
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‘Shrouded in secrecy’: Louisiana's new ICE facility raises more questions than answers
Under the Trump administration's deportation blitz, ICE's new 'staging center' in Alexandria, Louisiana is run by the operators of Lasalle Corrections, a private, for-profit company with a history of ...
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Jim Hawkins @jimallthetime.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
After rape allegations at Cornell University, why are women again being urged to talk to their sons? Why not men? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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After rape allegations at Cornell University, why are women again being urged to talk to their sons? Why not men? | Gaby Hinsliff
Boys learn by watching how the men they respect treat their partners, female colleagues, women on the street. Now is the time for those men to step up, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Can we reverse the power shift that began four decades ago? This is the biggest question lurking behind the midterm campaigns. Some thoughts. ⬇️ robertreich.substack.com/p/the-cent…
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
BC researchers released an analysis in the Canadian Medical Association Journal today: Multiple studies back permanent standard time over permanent DST, warning DST could harm health, economic productivity & students’ well-being 🔗 www.cmaj.ca/content/198/... cheknews.ca/clocks-stay-...
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Clocks stay in daylight saving, but analysis backs permanent standard time
Researchers from British Columbia have released an analysis warning of the potential risks to health, the economy and students' well-being with the darker mornings on the way.
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