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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/10/2026
“There was zero plan, except causing pain,” said one U.N. official about the Trump administration’s decision to stop funding the group with no notice or communication. “And that is not forgivable.” (Published Dec. 2025)
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After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Not only did Aaron cover the El-Sayed and Ossoff debates, he also gave us Trump trying to tweet us into a race war, Kimberly Guilfoyle’s corruption, Mutterin’ Markwayne Mullin-and more Plus he STILL gave us incredibly astute political analysis If you haven’t signed up yet what are you waiting for
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Trending Finance @trending-finance.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
400 hoard more than half #econsky
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JD @sublim8.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Pentagon Will Livestream the Fort Hood Shooter’s Execution. That’s Bad for the United States.
YouTube video by Cody Harnish, Esq.
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Drew FitzGerald @drewfitzgerald.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Rocket company buys spectrum: www.wsj.com/business/tel...
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SpaceX Makes Big Play to Become a Wireless Carrier
Elon Musk’s space company is buying spectrum licenses to help build a mobile network to compete with telecom giants.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
NEW EPISODE: ICE never wanted you to see these: internal government documents that show Homeland Security Investigations has been probing nonpartisan groups that help register citizens to vote They even went so far as to outline a plan to use undercover agents. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJoZ...
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ICE Voter Plot EXPOSED in Smoking Gun Documents
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Of course the Trump Savings Accounts for kids turns out to be scam. In effect, "our president is helping rich donors offload overvalued stocks onto children, who are forced to hold the stocks for five years whether they want to or not." www.rawstory.com/trump-accoun...
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Trump rigs kids’ piggy banks so billionaires can dump falling stock on them: analyst
A quiet change to President Donald Trump's namesake savings program for children amounts to a gift for billionaires, according to an economic analyst.In an article for The Bulwark on Thursday, economi...
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NEW: As Colorado’s Tina Peters reportedly meets with President Trump to discuss an election “plan,” her attorney says the plan involves seizing ballots nationwide and discusses strategy for a potential civil war
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Trending Finance @trending-finance.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Cheaper without supply? Diesel delusion. #econsky
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump voters are looking my way because I'm not bought off. I want money out of politics, money in your pocket, and Medicare for All.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Endlessly corrupt. He does nothing that doesn’t benefit him personally. Ever.
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Trump purchased up to $5 million of SpaceX bonds days before major space order | CNN Business
Right before launching an effort to slash red tape for commercial space transportation, Trump last month purchased up to $5 million of bonds issued by SpaceX.
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Judge Sorokin orders vindictive-selective prosecution discovery & disclosure of grand jury minutes for Ksenia Petrova, the frog embryo researcher. "Credible showing [she] was prosecuted due to her status as Harvard-affiliated researcher & J1 visa holder." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
They, in turn, reproduce under-oath statements made by a longtime customs
attorney in Petrova's federal habeas proceedings, which also concerned the events at issue in this
case. Doc. No. 45 at 13. The attorney had provided a sworn declaration attesting that, during his thirty-five-year career, he was not aware of any person having been prosecuted for smuggling without having been processed by customs officers for a "failure to declare" violation, nor could
he recall ever seeing smuggling charges brought for failing to declare a research sample
regardless of the traveler's willfulness. Id.; Doc. No. 67 at 22 (quoting same declaration). In the
circumstances presented, the foregoing suffices to satisfy Petrova's burden of supplying "some
evidence" of discriminatory effect as the relevant caselaw requires. The cited declaration
comprises a credible showing that Petrova was prosecuted due to her status as a Harvard-affiliated researcher and J-1 visa holder-
facts which "some evidence" before the Court also
shows placed her in the crosshairs of those presently controlling the Executive Branch. E.g., Doc. No. 67-2 (referencing visa and "educated individuals with a pedigree"); Doc. No. 67-4 at 5 (responding to "fake news" and mentioning Petrova's affiliation with Harvard); see also Doc.
No. 67 at 9-10 (describing context in which Petrova's case arose and actions targeting Harvard
and higher-education-related visa holders). The same declaration also credibly shows that other
travelers who have willfully failed to declare research samples or similar items but were not
Harvard-affiliated visa holders were not treated the same way.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A functioning press would be pointing this out non-stop, and making them defend it in every interview.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Any fool can see the absurdity of culling an animal that lives for 400 years and only reaches sexual maturity at 150.
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To cull or not to cull: Greenland debates fate of world’s slowest shark
As trawlers compete with Greenland sharks for halibut and cod, conservationists and fishers clash over what to do about misunderstood species
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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ⓘ 𝕆ligarch f*ckery detected @adelpreore.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Family Feud: Survey Says... Wrong Answer!
ALT: Family Feud: Survey Says... Wrong Answer!
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The alarmists have yet to be wrong 😕🇺🇸
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Rodriguez: It was at least 20 times more expensive than the average detention center. $1.4 billion paid for by Floridians to help the contributors of my opponent. He did the whole thing to get a pat on the head from the president. He got it and left us with the mess.
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Andrew S. MacDonald @profandrewmac.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Groundbreaking study from Alex Loukas and Paul Brindley reporting the generation and propagation of the first heritable transgenic #schistosome line! 🧪 🪱 #IDSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Heritable transgenic schistosomes as a living platform for SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody secretion - Nature Communications
A heritable CRISPR knock-in in Schistosoma mansonigenerated a transgenic line that secreted a functional anti–SARS-CoV-2 antibody into mouse circulation. Virus neutralization by infected mouse sera de...
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CMI Communications @cmicomms.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
📣 More evidence that less is probably more: During a global shortage of #bloodculture bottles, Japanese hospitals reduced the number of sets drawn per patient. Contamination rates went down, while detection rates of real pathogens did not. #IDSky #clinmicro www.cmi-comms.org/article/S295...
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Impact of blood culture bottle shortage on blood culture positivity rates in Japan: a nationwide hospital-based study
In July 2024, a global shortage of blood culture bottles forced healthcare institutions in Japan to modify blood culture collection practices. This nationwide observational study evaluated the impact ...
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Alicia Ault @aliciaault.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Vaccines.gov website is still non-functional as of today. #healthpolicy #IDSky #MedSky #vaccination #publichealth
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Looking for vaccines? Vaccines.gov won’t help
A CDC-run website for finding vaccines is not currently functioning.
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The Nevada Independent @thenvindy.com · 05/10/2026
Nevada’s backcountry could see increased off-road vehicle access, more road building and logging if the federal government enacts a slew of proposed changes to land management rules.
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Nevada backcountry vulnerable to more off-roading, logging under federal rule changes - The Nevada Independent
A proposed federal rule change could open millions of acres across some of Nevada's most pristine landscapes to road building and commercial logging, while another change could substantially expand…
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 05/10/2026
“Anthropic is hiring a Political Programs Lead to build and run the programs through which Anthropic, its political action committees, and its employees take part in the political process, including our engagement with candidates and causes at all levels of government.” What the heck is this?
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Political Programs Lead - Daybook.com
Anthropic seeks a Political Programs Lead to develop and manage its political engagement initiatives, focusing on AI policy education and candidate…
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I hope everyone involved ends up in cages at the Hague
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I AM SO LOVING THIS!
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 23/09/2026
ICE snatched up a Senegalese college basketball player with an ACL injury in a Kentucky airport. She’s “in so much pain” and needs surgery, but is being transferred from camp to camp with little more than ibuprofen. www.kentucky.com/news/state/k...
A picture of Amina Seck in her Kentucky State jersey on a basketball court.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/09/2026
This may end up being the most consequential story I’ve written, or one of them. “How many AI data centers are actually functional” is the most obvious question of the bubble - and the most important answer to understand what’s going on - yet answering it with any specificity has taken years.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/09/2026
JD Vance: "If you're gonna be a propaganda arm of the left, why would Donald Trump give you special access to his White House?" (It's not his!)
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 21/09/2026
The administration needs to hear from all of us that roadless areas deserve protection. Comments on the proposed rollback are open until midnight on Oct. 6. Submit your public comment on the #RoadlessRule here. ⬇️
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Protect the Roadless Wild
The Trump administration just released its plan to undo the landmark 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule and strip protections from nearly 45 million acres of wild, national forest and 70,000 miles o...
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JoseyRider @joseyrider.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Trump Plans to Redefine Informed Consent for Human Research Subjects
The Department of Health and Human Services has noticed a forthcoming rule on the OMB regulatory information site to redefine what undue influence means for vulnerable human research subjects
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
All these platforms were originally sold to us as being liberating tools of free speech and expression. Now they're being actively used by their owners to suppress it www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ECHEM. Hundreds of flights were canceled in the US Northeast on Monday due to technical problems at a key regional air traffic control center, halting operations at every major airport in the New York City area for several hours just as the UN assembly got underway. 👇🏻
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Betty C. Jung @bettycjung.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Why Seemingly Arcane Process Changes to the Decennial Census Would be Catastrophic for All Americans dataindex.us/newsletter/a...
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Why Seemingly Arcane Process Changes to the Decennial Census Would be Catastrophic for All Americans | dataindex.us
by Meeta Anand, Beth Jarosz, and Chris Dick On September 10, 2026 the Census Bureau posted a notice in the Federal Register titled “ Decennial Census of the…
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Just a reminder that Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts once told university colleagues he killed a neighbor's dog with a shovel.
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Project 2025 mastermind allegedly told colleagues he killed a dog with a shovel
Revealed: former colleagues claim Kevin Roberts told them he killed a neighbor’s pit bull around 2004
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Trump gutting our national parks for his vanity projects. Officials pulled at least $67 million from park visitor fees and put it toward projects Trump favors in Washington. Hundreds of needed repairs in national parks could stall this year without funding. www.rawstory.com/trump-nation...
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'Catastrophic' cost of Trump's gluttonous gilding exposed in bombshell NYT report
President Donald Trump's gluttonous hunger to gild Washington, D.C has left America's national parks in dire turmoil, according to experts sounding the alarm.Trump has cut national park staff across t...
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Ellsworth Green @greenellsworth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I believe this is the best bird's eye view of the Kennedy Center. Trump is determined to destroy this beautiful building because a former President's name is on it. If you don't hold him accountable for his actions (and other actions), We will all suffer in the end.
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Trump's FCC just gave all of the funders from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates that Jared Kushner brought in to the Paramount Merger, an equity interest in the deal. apnews.com/article/para... I warned everyone about this nearly a year ago. shero.substack.com/p/jared-kush...
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Jared Kushner And Trump Family Could Benefit in Another Deal that Depends on Trump's Approval
A new buyout offer made to Warner Brothers Discovery shareholders to counter a recent offer by Netflix is being sold to shareholders as a lock due to Paramount's political positioning.
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Jan Kirsch, M.D., M.P.H. @drjanicekirsch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Enforce Quarantines for Cases A passenger with measles passed through at least six counties on Amtrak – Alameda, Butte, Kern, Los Angeles, Sacramento and San Joaquin – while making multiple transfers. www.ktvu.com/news/califor...
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California health department notifies of measles exposure from unvaccinated Amtrak passenger
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) is urging residents to get their measles vaccination after notifying the public of an exposure from an Amtrak passenger who traveled on the rail syste...
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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Tomas Ström @hapsis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Italian defence minister says Eurofighter Typhoon hit in overnight Houthi missile… defence-industry.eu/italian-defe... #MilitaryTech #Defense #SituationalAwareness
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Italian defence minister says Eurofighter Typhoon hit in overnight Houthi missile and drone strike on Saudi airbase near Mecca
An Italian Air Force Eurofighter Typhoon was hit during an overnight missile and drone attack on King Fahd Air Base in Saudi Arabia, Defence Minister Guido Crosetto said.
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Doug Aoki 青木定夫 @nantanreikan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I didn't know any of this. Of course, none of it matters to someone who supports Trump.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A cop in rural Texas pulls over a Latino. He demands papers; doesn’t get any. Arrests the guy, throws him in a local jail cell. Hours later, GardaWorld staff show up to put him on a bus with a dozen others. They drive him to the nearest ICE jail; a bus service for the machine of mass deportation.
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Faytuks Network @faytuksnetwork.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
REGION-WIDE ALERT: The US State Department is issuing security advisories through its STEP program in multiple Middle Eastern nations. We have seen alerts issued in 9 countries so far.
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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Cartoon by Nick Anderson
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Mr. Ron @mrrevron.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Speaker Mike Johnson gets brutally community noted.
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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
DHS is actually accusing hundreds of cruise line employees of possessing CSAM materials and revoking their visas without filing criminal charges. It's a way of bumping up their numbers without having to prove anything I wrote about it last year and NPR did this June www.npr.org/2026/06/06/n...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
25 years ago today, George W. Bush signed the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force into law. Barbara Lee was the only member of Congress to vote against it, warning it would be a blank check for forever wars. History has proven her lonely and courageous vote right.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The war has been over for months, and also, the jet-fuel depot at the airport in Riyadh just blew up. www.wsj.com/world/middle...
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Air Attack Sets Fuel Depot Ablaze at Airport in Saudi Capital
The assault came as the kingdom has been targeted by Yemen’s Houthi rebels and by drones from Iraq.
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