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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.
nytimes.com
National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
No one can fill this void left by the theft of basic research funding.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 06/10/2026
Hot news for the sea lion in my comments bothering everyone about how training data is fair use www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-...
courthousenews.com
AI training of copyrighted material not fair use: Third Circuit
Using someone else's "creative spark" to start a competing business runs afoul of copyright law, the panel found.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"De-Trumpification" has to be one of the top agenda items if Dems win power. All the lawlessness and every last one of his efforts to turn DC into an imperial capital should be undone.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026
A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
theatlantic.com
A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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👺💀The Masque of the Reding Death 💀 👺 @jayreding.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Nuremberg 2.0 is a moral and legal necessity. None of the monsters capable of this shit deserve to exist freely in a civil society.
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Sarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Y'all I just caught the Kennedy Center claiming it isn't closing while telling vendors it's closing and now they're selling all of their Steinway pianos www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...
alternet.org
Kennedy Center moves to sell all of its Steinway pianos
Photos show piano movers rolling massive Steinway grand pianos through the red-carpeted halls of the Kennedy Center this week.
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 02/10/2026
We’ve got the inside story of how Trump’s displeasure with seeing homeless people in D.C. became the first domino in a series of actions that culminated in the administration’s stunning decision to weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans to live in their homes and communities.
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How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights
After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When you have no concept of how people engage with music
nicksaraev ~
@nicksaraev
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I am not joking when I say this.
Spotify, Apple Music, and streaming in general is over.
Al music is now very, very good. You just don't know yet because all Al music circulating today is from ~2-3 generations ago.
Suno v6 pro et al has solved infinite personalized music.
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Island of Reil @islandofreil.northsky.social · 27/09/2026
Also, I'm so fucking tired of hearing autism used as an excuse for sexual predation. You know who never get the benefit of the doubt? Autistic women, who are at elevated risk of SA. We're still charged with performing all the emotional labor for men.
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Politics and Health 🗳️ 🩺 @politicshealth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So fuc*ing infuriating and sad. The CDC used to be the crown jewel of the world's scientific firmament. Other countries came to us for help fighting deadly diseases. Its disease detectives learned what caused illness and helped change practices to prevent them. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
nytimes.com
‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
sciencebasedmedicine.org
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on Measles: “I Think I’ve Done My Best.”
As football coach Bill Parcells famously said, “you are what your record says you are”.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026
this is a genuinely crazy story
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Indivisible Dallas ❌👑 @indivisibledallas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
CALL TO ACTION

DEMAND JUSTICE FOR WILBER RAFAEL
GARCES PEREZ!

Call Dell Seton Medical Center at UT
(512) 324-7000, the hospital that released Wilber to ICE and lodge a complaint for the negligence in care as well as the treatment of his wife and his attorney. Both were kicked off the property twice.

Call Pearsall Detention Center
(830)334-2939 and demand that Wilber Rafael Garcés Perez be immediately taken to the hospital for proper care of his gunshot wounds.
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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robert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It is worth noting that in the background of these numbers, Abbott has pretty much taken a sledgehammer to public schools. The voucher bill is especially cruel to rural districts. Kids literally don't have desks, let alone teachers. People are mad.
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is bad and should be called out. I push back against accusing everyone that breathes for wanting to throw us under the bus, so it is credible when we call it out when it unambiguously occurs. This is an unambiguous occurrence.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“AI will kill us all” is how the tech industry, especially rich people in it, avoid talking about real world problems—ones they’re causing, exacerbating, or neglecting—while still thinking themselves good. “I’m better than all that,” they say. “I got high with my friends and BSed about the future.”
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thousands of immigrants did the hard, dirty work of clearing rubble and toxic dust and debris from Ground Zero. Many were undocumented laborers sent to work every day with no special PPE, and got cancer as a result. Now some of those same people are living in fear of ICE. www.npr.org/2026/09/11/n...
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They cleaned up ground zero. Now many are hiding from ICE
After 9/11, thousands of rescue and cleanup crews went to work at ground zero. They were exposed to toxic debris and experienced psychological trauma. Today, many say they live in fear of deportation.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 11/09/2026
inshallah
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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Anyway you should read Steve Kandell’s beautiful piece www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stev...
buzzfeednews.com
The Worst Day Of My Life Is Now New York’s Hottest Tourist Attraction
Nearly 13 years after my sister’s death, a reluctant Sunday visit to the 9/11 Memorial Museum, where public spectacle and private grief have a permanent home together.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Texas is delaying the release of the state’s maternal mortality statistics until after the midterms. www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...
houstonchronicle.com
Texas' first post-Roe look at maternal deaths won't be ready by midterms
Democrats say the timing is suspicious, given the Dec. 1 deadline is after Gov. Greg Abbott and other Republicans who supported the state’s abortion ban are up for reelection.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 10/09/2026
I'd sure like to see this happen.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 08/09/2026
I feel very confident that a core Elon Musk belief is that he’d better kill off as many Africans as he can while they’re still helpless children.
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is somehow still going, and it’s not just a few random families now; it’s also a former mayor of NYC and governor of New York. There is, again, no way to reason to argue Mamdani shouldn’t attend this commemoration that isn’t fundamentally bigoted
abcnews.com
Mayor Mamdani says he'll attend 9/11 ceremony despite growing criticism
Mayor Mamdani says he will attend New York City's annual 9/11 remembrance ceremony Friday despite mounting criticism from some family members of victims.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Having some of the most thoroughly redacted thoughts of my life.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Vaccine conspiracism is overwhelmingly clustered among the religious, white and affluent. It’s a function of conservative ideology and bad faith media. Being nicer to MAHA types will not ‘bring them into the fold,’ it will only increase their sense of entitlement.
Objective: Strengthening of antivaccination movements in recent decades has coincided with unprecedented increases in the incidence of some communicable diseases. Many intervention programs work from a deficit model of science communication, presuming that vaccination skeptics lack the ability to access or understand evidence. However, interventions focusing on evidence and the debunking of vaccine-related myths have proven to be either nonproductive or counterproductive. Working from a motivated reasoning perspective, we examine the psychological factors that might motivate people to reject scientific consensus around vaccination. To assist with international generalizability, we examine this question in 24 countries. Methods: We sampled 5,323 participants in 24 countries, and measured their antivaccination attitudes. We also measured their belief in conspiracy theories, reactance (the tendency for people to have a low tolerance for impingements on their freedoms), disgust sensitivity toward blood and needles, and individualistic/hierarchical worldviews (i.e., people's beliefs about how much control soci hould have over individuals, and whether hierarchies are desirable). Results: In
order of magnitude,
antivaccination attitudes were highest among those who (a) were high in conspir-
atorial thinking, (b) were high in reactance, (c) reported high levels of disgust toward blood and needles, and (d) had strong individualistic/hierarchical worldviews
. In contrast, demographic variables (including
education) accounted for nonsignificant or trivial lev
f variance. Conclusions: These data help
identify the "attitude roots" that may motivate and sustain vaccine skepticism. In so doing, they help shed light on why repetition of evidence can be nonproductive, and suggest communication solutions to that problem.
Keywords: vaccination, conspiracy beliefs, health communication,
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I know this is a common belief, but it’s not true. If people went anti-vaxx/MAHA because they were excluded from the medical establishment, we would see sky-high rates among poor people, minorities and the uninsured. We don’t.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 02/09/2026
it's a very old rule of moderated digital spaces that you need an "i know it when i see it" clause for harassment or else bad actors will aggressively toe the line without ever technically going over. that's why i don't think the "why cant you give me an exact definition" replies will go anywhere
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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Just from an amoral perspective, it’s hard to imagine a more simply idiotic policy than throwing up artificial barriers for talented, ambitious people trying to contribute to the strength and prosperity of your society.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Elon Musk is a world historical mass murderer whose actions will lead to the preventable death of millions and the implications of that are horrifying so Very Serious People make a huge performance of scoffing at the suggestion but it is the dry spreadsheet reality of what he did.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
In terms of people who would otherwise have lived dying there’s a case for it being the worst thing any leader has done this century, easily one of the worst, but people usually on about Amerikkka are often silent because it is something good the US was doing that stopped in the worst possible way
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Kane (Minkmoding) @kanexan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
It is significantly better to live in a world where the US’ soft power and influence is spent on giving vaccines and blood plasma to other countries to build good will, instead of what is essentially violent harassment and exploitation of everyone who has ever even remotely trusted us for anything.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
in terms of simple math, the destruction of USAID represents a category of evil that i think even many ostensibly liberal and progressive folks hesitate to name because of where it slots us in the list of history’s greatest monsters.
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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
For more than a year, the National Park Service has been quietly working to fulfill an unprecedented directive from Trump officials: Parcel off a corner of Yosemite National Park to give to a private developer. www.notus.org/agencies/tru...
notus.org
Trump’s Quietly Working to Give Part of Yosemite to a Private Developer
The National Park Service is under pressure to make an unprecedented deal that cedes a quarter-mile strip of the park.
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Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
In June, DoJ announced they were withdrawing from Olmstead enforcement. Earlier this month, they took one of their first actions in Florida, withdrawing from an ongoing case to protect medically fragile children. My latest.
19thnews.org
For families of medically fragile children, a policy change threatens the care they need at home
“We have worked so hard to keep him alive, and here we are talking about potentially having to put him into a facility, but there is no facility to keep him alive and safe.”
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 26/08/2026
The FDA just approved daraxonrasib, a breakthrough drug for advanced pancreatic cancer that doubles survival time. This is huge: pancreatic cancer was once thought untreatable. The researchers received a standing ovation when they presented the trial results, unheard of at scientific conferences.
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Mark Jones @markjonesmotion.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Fun fact: Dolly Parton spent decades quietly funding band uniforms and instruments at Black high schools across the South - never once putting her name on it. No headlines, no fanfare — just help, given because it was needed. Wonderful Heart ♥️ RIP Dolly ❤️
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 25/08/2026
i think this is probably both the path of least resistance and provides actual real benefits and utility
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silent al❌👑 @silental.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
It’s a huge demerit against ASAN, an organization I generally agree with and recommend in my clinical work, that they’re willing to indulge this nonsense.
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jenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“In a recent Gallup poll, Americans’ increased familiarity w/ generative AI coincides w/ negative attitudes about the technology. This is esp true for young ppl btwn 18 and 29, where almost half see generative AI as doing more harm than good.”🧪 @thiccreese.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/the-ai...
wired.com
The AI Slop Backlash Is Actually Having an Impact
Platforms are finally recognizing that people don’t want to consume AI slop. A growing number of sites and apps now have tools and policies to flag, label, and ban AI-generated content.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Wondering why data centers are as unpopular as nuclear waste? It's not the data centers. The problem is both more obvious and more fundamental: The daily lived experience of the AI boom sucks. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ai-is-maki...
doomsdayscenario.co
AI is making everything worse
The political problem isn't the data centers — it's that AI is a turd mountain looming over daily life.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19/08/2026
reminded once again about how most people have *no* idea how much Trump 2.0’s sudden withdrawal of US funding has completely devastated the global aid and “attempting to do something about war crimes” sector.
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 19/08/2026
"The extent to which it is possible to get back on that neighborly track, given the internal politics in the US and the massive power and wealth disparity between the US and the next-largest economies in the hemisphere, is an open question." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-western-...
The Western Hemisphere After Trump

The aim of neighborly and mutual integration with the Western Hemisphere, including free trade and the free movement of people, is a noble one.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Here’s the thing: Second-wave feminism missed a LOT, and was often racist, didn’t include trans women, etc. and also, I think it’s easy to not grasp just how many battles it had to fight, many of which were around shit we now take for granted, like “rape is wrong” and “women’s experiences matter”
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Owen Dennis: Infinity Train/Among Us Show creator @owendennis.com · 29/07/2026
It's so disappointing. It makes me question all kinds of things about how people value art that I'm not fully able to put into words, but it scars something deep inside my soul. And SO many places do this now. It's like seeing a sign on every corner that just says "I hate you" over and over again.
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Owen Dennis: Infinity Train/Among Us Show creator @owendennis.com · 29/07/2026
Seeing every small business, be it a local restaurant, a moving company, whatever, all having AI logos and AI ads, really puts into perspective just how many artists are out of jobs now. All those little sustaining jobs where someone just needed a quick thing for $50 to $200 are just gone.
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Ruth Graham @ruthgraham.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New from me and the NYT's Texas team, reporting across the state: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/u...
nytimes.com
Islamophobia’s Rise in Texas: ‘I Won’t Rest Until Every Muslim Is Gone’
Muslim communities have been growing for decades, particularly around Dallas. Now, conservatives want to roll up the welcome mat.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The USAID thing will eventually be talked about like a genocide
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