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Alex @mplsalex.bsky.social · 19h

Petition for Jamelle Bouie to replace all headline writers in the US.

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I cannot emphasize enough that the president has pudding for brains

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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 13h

Absolutely amazing piece by Nithya

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Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · 23h

For months Gabriela Soto has relentlessly advocated for her husband Martin, unlawfully detained by ICE while buying diapers for their baby. Martin played a key role in the Delaney Hall hunger strike this summer. Last night we was RELEASED from ICE custody. ALWAYS FIGHT BACK.

Beautiful young family outside a detention center.

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Stephen Baines @stephenbaines.bsky.social · 20h

They honestly believe the American electorate are idiots that can be led by the nose.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Something unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2026

I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically.

The Trump administration says none of this is happening.

"DHS is NOT arresting U.S. citizens by mistake." "There are no 'indiscriminate' stops." Allegations of "racial profiling are disgusting, reckless and categorically FALSE." "The pattern is NOT of law enforcement using force." "ICE does not zip tie or restrain children."

But that is precisely what is happening, and at a far larger scale than previously reported.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026

4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Most people might be surprised to learn that global ocean biogeochemical models don’t agree on the answer. 🌊 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/s...

26. Will climate change increase or reduce the oceans biological productivity?

Daniel Sigman, geoscientist, Princeton University

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

One thing Climate Week convinced me of is that Volts is creating a lot of value for a lot of people, not least the people who appear on it, and I am receiving very little of that value myself. I'm tired of being the only poor guy in these rooms.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 05/10/2026

Today, on World Teachers’ Day, we celebrate the teachers, educators, and child care providers who care for the future of New York and invest in our children every day. New York City doesn’t move without our teachers. We are grateful for their work today and every day.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

"A series of deadly heat waves from May to August overwhelmed Germany’s healthcare and emergency response systems and led to an estimated 16,000 heat-related deaths during the summer, the most heat mortalities ever recorded in the highly developed country."

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Mass Heat Wave Deaths in Europe Show Climate Extremes Are Outpacing Adaptation Efforts - Inside Climate News

As preparedness lags, many regions around the world could be overwhelmed by rising temperatures, climate experts warn.

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Stephen Baines @stephenbaines.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Even as a kid I thought HR Pufinstuf was over the top. Sesame Street for acid heads.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 04/10/2026

I really don't get it. Trump polls at like single digits across the world but then every country is like, but our right wing populist is different!

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Stephen Baines @stephenbaines.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Tells them they are downright evil and stupid, both subhuman and supervillains at the same time.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This line by @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com might be the best short description of "originalism" I've read yet.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 03/10/2026

NYC is opening 160 car-free (but treat-filled) streets and plazas to enjoy fun and safe fall festivities this spooky season. Find one near you at nyc.gov/trickorstreets.

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#ResistanceEarth In Florida, you supposedly get lots of "freedom," except the freedom to learn real science. Florida has proposed new K-12 science standards that omit evolution and climate change. Yeah, that's going to prepare the state's kids for the future. www.wusf.org/education/20...

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Evolution and climate change are missing from Florida's proposed K-12 science standards

The Florida Department of Education held its first listening session at Armwood High School. Some teachers brought up their concerns about missing topics, such as evolution.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There are a lot of Trump officials who need to be impeached, but Russell Vought -- the quarterback of all the Project 2025 fuckery and a central player in the administration's overreach -- really needs to be at the top of the list.

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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 01/10/2026

‘Just hours after Paramount Skydance issued $52B of debt to fund the biggest Hollywood buyout ever, investors were nursing hundreds of millions in losses, triggering a flurry of angry calls from money managers to Wall Street banks that underwrote the debt.’ www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Angry Bondholders Flood Wall Street With Complaints on Paramount Losses

Just hours after Paramount Skydance Corp. issued $52 billion of debt to fund the biggest Hollywood buyout ever, investors were nursing hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, triggering a flurry of...

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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Good news: Wilber Garces Perez finally had surgery to remove the bullet that was in his back for 11 days. It took far too long, and it's more proof of ICE cruelty. But we kept up the pressure, and Wilber got the care he needed. Speaking up for our neighbors works.

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Stephen Baines @stephenbaines.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hard to rank. He presses against the extreme boundaries of stupidity pretty much all the time.

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

To everyone who's stood by my friend Davey Hearn: he's so grateful & so are we Davey says if it can happen to him, it can happen to anybody, & you showed up like you knew it @democracydefendersfund.org, @washlitgroup.bsky.social & Steptoe are proud to stand w/ him & w/ you Davey on GMA👇 -TN

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Good end-of-FY coverage by the Times. The amount of unspent funds has wiggled but it was pretty clear for some time now that NSF was simply not going to spend a substantial portion of its congressional appropriation this year.

nytimes.com

National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress

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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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Kansas has 4 former, living GOP governors. Two have now endorsed Adam Hamilton, the Dem, for Senate. Mike Hayden just penned this oped in the Kansas City Star this morning; Adam Graves had done the same last month.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I went to the grand reopening of the African American Civil War museum this week and the timing is just right — its mission to preserve Black history is more relevant now than ever

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The African American Civil War Museum Reopens To Honor The Black Soldiers Who Changed History

The museum recently held its grand reopening in Washington’s historic U Street Corridor.

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Stephen Baines @stephenbaines.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Creeping along the desert floor in the blistering midday sun… : …if Biden… if Biden…

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/10/2026

New York's economy grew by 4% in Q2 — more than any other state. Want to get your business off the ground? Hire only the best? There's one place to do it: New York. www.newsweek.com/new-york-lea...

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Map shows which state economies are growing and shrinking ahead of midterms

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

WASHINGTON (AP) — DC judge permanently dismisses case charging ex-Olympian with vandalizing Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Manchester City cheated Premier League rules, the Commission found. Did it also cheat HMRC? We've examined the decision and leaked Mancini documents. We think City likely failed to pay £12m in tax. There should be a criminal investigation. Thread:

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It was the sadistic murder of mariners at sea that compelled me to write this for the Hill: To rebuild trust in maritime policy, the US must ratify the Law of the Sea thehill.com/opinion/nati...

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The other thing that Gov. Cox “expanded” is the Utah Supreme Court, adding two seats after his political party lost a big redistricting case.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 30/09/2026

To recap: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to strike down abortion protections in blue states

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“Any mention of civil rights, feminism or social reform [topics that are central to Woolf’s work] are usually classified as ‘social topics’ by [Facebook's] automatic system” and are filtered out." Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminism

Theatre told that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or feminism

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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Bizarre framing to not note in the hed / dek that the bill includes voter ID requirements

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

When it comes to RFK Jr and "unsettled science," the only thing that's unsettled is the *exact* body count resulting from his anti-science, anti-vaccine, conspiracy theory-based policies

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.

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