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Temporary Sanity

@suewhitcomb.bsky.social
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Crone. Reader. Trying to err on the side of compassion. Reminder: the most effective way to get what you need is to fight for everyone to get what they need.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h
As Trump and Republicans strip health coverage from millions (for tax cuts for the rich), Dems plan to expand Medicare. #MedicareForAllNOW www.newsweek.com/medicare-upd...
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 21h
This is not a dying planet. This is a planet being killed. There is a difference. And there are killers. #ClimateJustice
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
ABSOLUTE INSANITY GOING ON IN MIDDLE EAST Night Minimums up to 33C, world heat records for October smashed and re/smashed. And guess what ..it will get MUCH worse WEEKS of July-weather with Mins 30/35C and maxes >45C. BY FAR; THE MOST HEAT EXTREME EVENT THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Turns out we don’t have to invoke weapons of mass destruction when talking about ocean heat uptake. The ocean absorbed a record-breaking 23 zettajoules of heat last year, equivalent to 40 times the energy used by humanity. It’s not going to end well.
theguardian.com
World’s oceans absorbed record heat equal to 40 times annual global energy use
The injection of thermal energy comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidification
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Temporary Sanity @suewhitcomb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Sometimes the “little things” are big things…
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Temporary Sanity @suewhitcomb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Against all evidence to the contrary… "They're going to police themselves."
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’ve walked the fields at dawn for years. The air used to hum with bees. Now it’s quieter every season. What most people never see is the scale: over 3.7 million tonnes of pesticide active ingredients poured onto the planet every year — more than double what we used in 1990.
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Temporary Sanity @suewhitcomb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why do we care? “Centrism” is the refuge of those who want to hold on to power by changing nothing and expecting Americans to think nothing is all we deserve. Don’t buy it…
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
MacFarlane: The Second Harvest Food Bank of North Central Ohio has got the same issue. Last year, they paid $50,000 for diesel to transport their food. Now, they’re paying $150,000 for the diesel to transport their food.
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Temporary Sanity @suewhitcomb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
WA State is NOT anti-business; we just want business leaders to give back some of what Washingtonians have given them… “But just 25,000 households make enough to pay the new tax….Washington also hasn’t yet seen significant out-of-state movement after lawmakers created a capital-gains tax in 2021.”
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This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
64 years ago, on the 27th of September 1962, Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring was published. It handled the environmental harm caused by the pesticide DDT and the disinformation spread by the chemical industry. Carson managed to sway public opinion and even policy. #otd #history 🗃️
Rachel Carson photo credit: Science History Images / Alamy
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020 — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.
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Temporary Sanity @suewhitcomb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Why should we care? Because corruption benefits billionaires — including the Trump family — and nobody else on this planet.
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Temporary Sanity @suewhitcomb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Why should we care? Because free speech…
The unwillingness of platforms to accept even paid advertising is sure to raise concerns about free speech and the dwindling number of companies that control many of the platforms in this country — and ironically provide a proof-text for the very point the film is coming to make. Gibney’s doc is a four-hour look at a title character who attempts to control the conversation in various ways, including with alleged suppressions on X, which he bought in 2022.

Bleecker Street opens Musk in theaters on Oct. 9.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens — the latest snafu in the department’s attempts to uncover illegal voters across the country. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
DHS noncitizen voter claims unravel in Nevada as state confirms flagged voters are citizens
Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 26/09/2026
Amazingly, no one was responsible
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Medias 🇨🇦 @mediasca.skyfleet.blue · 24/09/2026
OpenAI’s agent hacked an Australian government website. What we know so far
globalnews.ca
OpenAI’s agent hacked an Australian government website. What we know so far - National | Globalnews.ca
The hack relates to the website for Medicare, Australia’s publicly funded universal health insurance plan, which was hacked in June.
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Temporary Sanity @suewhitcomb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is insane.
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Stevenof1 @stevenof1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just a Reminder...
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Temporary Sanity @suewhitcomb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If these combined headlines re: AI from today’s NY Times don’t give you significant pause, I’m not sure what will…
Headlines from today’s NY Times newsletter re: AI “developments”
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Ms. Magazine @msmagazine.com · 23/09/2026
In 2024, nearly 2,400 women were killed by men, according to the Violence Policy Center. Of these, 86.9 percent knew their killer—nearly nine out of 10.
msmagazine.com
A Restraining Order Is Not Enough When an Abuser Has a Gun
Nearly 2,400 women were killed by men in 2024, according to a recent Violence Policy Center report. Nearly nine out of 10 knew their killer, and firearms were used in 63.4 percent of these homicides. ...
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Temporary Sanity @suewhitcomb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is why politics has never mattered more. Because if we don’t elect leaders capable of acknowledging the URGENT threat and working together to address it, the epoch of humanity is effectively over. “Researchers have called it a 'postcard from our future'.”
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Fuse Washington @fusewashington.org · 22/09/2026
The AI company Virtix denied 53% of over 6,000 prior authorization decisions for people on Medicare in Washington, blocking those patients from receiving care for nerve pain and other services. Rep. Suzan DelBene has a bill to end this AI denials program.
seattletimes.com
Documents show ‘staggering’ denial rate for Medicare AI program in WA
Medicare's new AI-enabled program denied more claims than it approved during a rocky rollout, leaving patients who were in pain to wait out a long appeals process.
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In a particularly fitting hiring move, Trump's "grab ‘em by the p***y" hot mic co-star will be joining the president's favorite network.
variety.com
Billy Bush to Join Fox News as Contributor
Billy Bush to Join Fox News as Contributor
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 22/09/2026
MUST READ: The Daily: UNGA81, Day 1 of 5 This edition of The Daily is public. www.onestnetwork.com/the-daily-un...
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The Daily: UNGA81, Day 1 of 5
This edition of The Daily is public.
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Bob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Global health check goes not so well.
insideclimatenews.org
Breached Earth Boundaries Raise Risk of ‘Irreversible Change’ - Inside Climate News
A year of climate extremes offers the latest evidence that the planet is “out of balance.”
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NEW: In ‘24, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump eviscerated the FBI & DOJ public corruption teams. ProPublica unearthed the investigation and you can read it 👇 www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
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Temporary Sanity @suewhitcomb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Coal operators deny benefits. Even when laws are passed to protect miners, Republicans in Congress block funding and the MAGA Cult administration indicates they will not enforce regulations. Black lung cases at a 50-year high. Is this what Trump voters mean when the say “MAGA?”
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Temporary Sanity @suewhitcomb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NOT GOOD NEWS for anyone in this country interested in regaining a modicum of our democracy… Even the clueless farmers and ranchers — most of whom voted to put this nightmare MAGA Cult back in power to wreck our economy. Sorry Canada — but I know you’ll find better partners…
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 21/09/2026
The “jaw-dropping” El Niño currently heating up the planet has burst through the highest temperature ever recorded for the phenomenon, several months before its expected peak.
A line chart showing temperature anomalies in the Niño 3.4 region of the Pacific Ocean, compared to a 30-year rolling base period since 1982.

A gold line shows temperatures in 1997, a teal line in 2025, and a red line in 2026. The red line surpasses all others reaching 3.07ºC, and at an earlier point (September) than the previous El Niño that reached a comparable range in November 2015.
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Temporary Sanity @suewhitcomb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
@atg.wa.gov VERY DISAPPOINTING that this lawsuit, in which WA was involved, has been settled. You gotta know that this is an anti-trust violation and settling will just ensure that more of our corporate overlords will continue to feel emboldened to do the same. It’s a sham and a shame to cave.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Stay tuned for more on this from mainstream reporting hopefully later today, but Bob's got the gist of it; last week, it appears that ICE began disappearing people from the Online Detainee Locator System the moment they get a final order of removal. Yes, this is as deeply screwed up as it sounds.
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Stop calling it a climate problem. Call it what it is: organized greed. The planet isn’t dying. It’s being killed for profit. The killers have names. And boardrooms. #ClimateJustice #StopEcocide
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Through the end of August 2026, the House was in session for roughly 383 hours total. That’s an average of about 48 hours per month. Their average monthly floor time is well below the 80-hour monthly threshold the same Congress imposed on Medicaid recipients.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It really is striking how many authoritarian states have ended up in this exact same place, where the leader seizes control of scientific inquiry. Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union, Aryan Physics in the Third Reich, Great Leap Forward (also related to Lysenko) in China.
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Temporary Sanity @suewhitcomb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This seems regressive af
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is what a rigged economy looks like.
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Temporary Sanity @suewhitcomb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
More deranged nonsense that’s detrimental to CHILDREN’S health. Even if “covered” by insurance(public or private), the additional cost will be passed on to consumers one way or another. For no reason currently supported by the science.
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Temporary Sanity @suewhitcomb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This!
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Temporary Sanity @suewhitcomb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Why do we care?
Quote from the only Democrat-aligned FCC Commissioner expressing MAJOR concern.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We won our lawsuit against the USDA over its illegal attempt to cut off SNAP benefits for tens of thousands of lawful permanent residents. This victory will help ensure our most vulnerable residents can access the programs they rely on to put food on the table.
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Temporary Sanity @suewhitcomb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Any question that any family member, friend or neighbor that continues to support this regime is a fascist? Call them in…
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Temporary Sanity @suewhitcomb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Barbara Lee = hero for this vote.
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Temporary Sanity @suewhitcomb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
No elected leader should behave like Mitch McConnell is while ostensibly doing his job. And yes, BOTH parties have enabled these tragic travesties. It’s time for term limits and some kind of age limit or competency test to require retirement (while protecting individual dignity, of course.)
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Weeks Before the Midterms, Almost Everything Is Getting More Expensive The price of eating out, filling a gas tank and buying a house keeps rising, while higher interest rates add to borrowing costs - WSJ www.wsj.com/economy/week...
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Forbes @forbes.com · 18/09/2026
The alleged bid to carve Trump’s name onto the U.S. Institute of Peace building comes amid a legal fight over an effort to do the same at the Kennedy Center.
forbes.com
Court Urged To Block Carving Of Trump’s Name On Another D.C. Building—The Institute Of Peace
The alleged bid to carve Trump’s name onto the U.S. Institute of Peace building comes amid a legal fight over an effort to do the same at the Kennedy Center.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
You think this regime can't get any more cartoonishly evil, but then it finds a way. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/c...
nytimes.com
Trump Administration Moves to Gut a Core Endangered Species Protection
An internal memo reinterprets the law so that only the intentional killing of animals, not collateral harm, is illegal.
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Glenn Branch @glennbranch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"The Atmosphere Just Set a Water Vapor Record," writes Andrew Dessler (@andrewdessler.com) at The Climate Brink.
theclimatebrink.com
The Atmosphere Just Set a Water Vapor Record
More water vapor means more rocket fuel for extreme rain — so this record is not good news
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