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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/10/2026
The government doesn’t track how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve tallied more than 500 Americans held against their will in warrantless arrests and detentions during President Trump’s second term.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Why have so many people fallen behind? It's not because of immigrants, trans people, or any other bogeyman trotted out by the GOP. It's because corporations and billionaires rigged the system in their favor — and a bought-off political establishment let it happen. It's time to fix the system.
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WIRED @wired.com · 08/10/2026
You clearly need to be more ambitious, so let’s try and buy “rich people stuff.” We’ve tried with race horses, lawyers, Boeing 737s and almost 7 times the aircraft carriers the US military has. It still left us with more than $12 billion. www.wired.com/story/spend-...
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Reuters @reuters.com · 24/09/2026
A federal judge ordered President Trump to restore White House access for journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico, saying his ban on the three media outlets was likely unconstitutional reut.rs/4iGBhjl
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Judge lifts Trump's White House ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico
A federal judge ordered US President Donald Trump ​on Thursday to restore White ‌House access for journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico, ​saying his ban on ​the three media outlets was likely ⁠unc...
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The Verge @theverge.com · 21/09/2026
As revealed in recently unsealed court documents, Microsoft’s Director of Applied Science calls ChatGPT and Copilot’s harvesting of data the “largest theft of labor in human history” and says that Microsoft’s defense makes a “complete mockery of the idea of ‘fair use.’”
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OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web
OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were driving us toward Google Zero, and they did it anyway.
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Douglas Ogg @dougogg.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
A lot of truth in this new cartoon from Nova Scotia's Bruce MacKinnon. BTW, King Dumbass is claiming (as usual, with no evidence) that Dolly Parton was a "huge fan" of him. Yeah, right.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 25/08/2026
This is truly heartbreaking. Dolly Parton was an extraordinary person and an irreplaceable champion of the working class. We are a better country because of her.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Arizona’s kindergarten vaccination coverage for MMR continues to plummet. And measles is just the bellwether. As vaccination rates fall, other vaccine-preventable diseases will also emerge. RFK Jr. is the absolute GOAT when it comes to putting kids in harm’s way.
Figure showing that Arizona’s kindergartners dropped below herd immunity threshold for measles vaccination in 2011 and has now fallen below 90%
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WIRED @wired.com · 03/08/2026
Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now, the genetic information of hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime–including children–are held in an FBI criminal database forever.
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ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children
Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 18/07/2026
"As smoke events happen more often, we need more data, not less."
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Trump Decimated a Satellite Program That Would've Vastly Improved Wildfire Smoke Monitoring
Donald Trump gutted a satellite program that would have given millions of people the data they need to avoid exposure to wildfire smoke.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 17/07/2026
"Tonight's speech is intended to add the predicate that he needs to declare an emergency at or about the time of the elections," says former White House attorney Ty Cobb. to.pbs.org/4fEBoK5
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Trump setting stage to declare emergency around midterms, former White House attorney says
For perspective on what President Trump is trying to achieve with Thursday night's speech, the limits of his authority and the potential consequences for future elections, Geoff Bennett spoke with Ty ...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Given the history of similar audits, and the fact that DHS’s systems are riddled with errors, we should expect that these numbers are very likely false and have not been properly verified yet. Multiple previous state audits produced splashy numbers that evaporated on further investigation.
The draft press release states that "reviews of the four states' records" found 190,832 noncitizens registered in California; 35,152 in New Jersey;
15,903 in Nevada; and 14,576 in Pennsylvania. It does not indicate that DHS found evidence that non-citizens cast ballots or explain how it reached a number that appears to be higher than previous reviews have found.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/07/2026
NEW: A woman who sexually abused a minor. Boxer Mike Tyson, who served time for rape. Both of these people successfully launched private schools that collected public money. As the voucher system grows more popular, few states have guardrails in place.
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Public Money Is Fueling an Explosion of Private Schools. States Often Don’t Care How They’re Run.
As private schools proliferate, states are choosing a hands-off approach to regulating them. The backgrounds of school founders — sometimes with criminal histories — often don’t matter
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The Lever @levernews.com · 14/07/2026
An “explosive-diarrhea parasite” is sickening thousands of Americans. Last year, the Trump administration scaled back the system designed to track infections like this. Now officials still don’t know exactly what food is spreading it.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 13/07/2026
""This contract is not being renewed because of serious concerns around civil liberties and civil rights issues."
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LAPD Abandons Flock Contract After Making a Horrifying Discovery
The notoriously tech-obsessed Los Angeles Police Department is abandoning its contract with Flock Safety over civil liberty concerns.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/07/2026
In 2019, Detroit made a land-swap deal with a billionaire-owned company — and gave it first dibs on purchasing other lots. By 2026, this is what the area had become: propub.li/44kf6al
Two satellite images of the same section of Cadillac Heights, a Detroit neighborhood. The first image is labeled December 2002 and shows houses and businesses. The second is labeled March 2026 and highlights the Kronos Concrete plant among many barren lots.
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MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com · 11/07/2026
ASML’s new chipmaking machine is powering the future of AI—and unsettling governments along the way.
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The $400 million machine powering the future of chipmaking
The AI era needs ever faster chips. ASML has a monopoly on the expensive contraptions needed to pattern them. Can anyone catch up?
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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 06/07/2026
“If you want to understand what life is, you need to first build life.” — Job Boekhoven, systems chemist
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For the First Time, a Cell Built From Scratch Grows and Divides | Quanta Magazine
Scientists built a synthetic cell that combines more lifelike properties than ever before — proof of concept that it’s possible to bring nonliving materials to life, or something close to it, in the…
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The Verge @theverge.com · 04/07/2026
White House deletes thousands of web pages about energy conservation as heatwave slams US
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White House deletes thousands of web pages about energy conservation as heatwave slams US
It follows Republican outrage over Mamdani offering the same heatwave advice as everyone else.
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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 28/06/2026
We know how photosynthesis works in incredible molecular detail, but how this vital process evolved is far less clear. It seems the road to photosynthesis was far longer and stranger than anyone expected. www.quantamagazine.org/an-early-ste...
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An Early Step on the Long, Strange Road to Photosynthesis | Quanta Magazine
An ancient lineage of cyanobacteria is helping biologists uncover an early evolutionary stage of the mind-boggling process that turns light into life.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
A win for the resistance! We’re glad he won. The District of Columbia has settled a lawsuit brought by a protester who was detained and handcuffed after following National Guard troops through the city while playing Darth Vader’s theme from Star Wars.
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Demonstrator Sues after Being Handcuffed and Detained for Playing the Star Wars “Imperial March” Theme to Protest National Guard Members in D.C.   - ACLU of DC
Complaint details how the man was tightly handcuffed and prevented from exercising his First Amendment rights
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 13/06/2026
Once again, AI proves to be an unreliable source of information about AI.
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KPMG pulls report on AI usage due to apparent hallucinations | TechCrunch
Once again, AI proves to be an unreliable source of information about AI.
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Trask @tcrane5.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
If police are brazen enough to steal journalist’s property, it begs the question of what the police want to hide from the public
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New Jersey police sergeant charged with stealing journalist's camera bag at immigration protest
A New Jersey police sergeant has been charged with stealing $10,000 worth of camera equipment from a photojournalist.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 31/05/2026
"This is it. We're dead. We're going to die right here in the Waymo."
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Waymo Pulled Its Cars From the Freeway After One Fled Police With Horrified Couple on Board
A couple was looking to get home in the Mission District only for their Waymo cab to veer off a highway and accelerate to highway speeds.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Samsung just averted a strike by granting chip workers an average bonus of about $340,000. The union made a credible strike threat that would have threatened the global chip supply, and Samsung, predicted to be the 2nd most profitable company on Earth this year, caved to worker demands. /1
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
The DOJ’s website used to have hundreds of press releases documenting every arrest, conviction, and sentencing from January 6th. Those records are gone now. The Trump administration confirmed it removed the pages and called the documentation “partisan propaganda.”
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 22/05/2026
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Doctors outraged after RFK Jr. fires leaders of key preventive medicine panel
Doctors are angry and alarmed that preventive care could go the way of vaccines.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Private equity firms now own 1 in 8 American apartments — according to a new report from @pestakeholder.bsky.social. pestakeholder.org/reports/priv...
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Private Equity Multi-Family Housing Tracker
PESP’s analysis of private equity buyouts in apartment housing reveals that PE firms own 10% of all US apartment units
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The Senate confirmed Steve Pearce as director of the Bureau of Land Management. Pearce spent years in Congress arguing the federal government owns more land than it needs. He co-sponsored legislation to speed up public land sales.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/05/2026
Some counterterrorism objectives conflict with Trump’s own actions, analysts say. How can federal agencies step up efforts to thwart terror plots after Trump slashed the national security workforce and diverted resources to his deportation campaign?
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Counterterrorism Czar’s Blueprint Targets Leftists, Ignores Far-Right Violence and Heaps Praise on Trump
Sebastian Gorka’s anti-terror plan makes no mention of long-established threats posed by far-right militants and instead villainizes the president’s political enemies. “This administration is not payi...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Trump is still painting the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, racing to finish before a court can stop him. He skipped every legally required environmental and historic preservation review to get here.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The Tennessee Speaker of the House will remove all Democratic Caucus members from standing committees and subcommittees as punishment for their redistricting protests. Democracy dies in Nashville.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
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Big Bird's Horse Buggy Ride: We Ride at Dawn!
ALT: Big Bird's Horse Buggy Ride: We Ride at Dawn!
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Americans’ wages are no longer outpacing inflation. Prices are now rising at an annual rate of 3.8%, the highest rate since May 2023. That means inflation is now outpacing wage increases.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 11/05/2026
Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it.
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Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be
The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake.
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Trask @tcrane5.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Ignorance kills
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UW–Madison @uwmadison.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
A newly released study estimates that UW–Madison and its affiliates and spin-offs have a combined annual impact of $38.9 B on Wisconsin’s economy. The Wisconsin Idea, our commitment to benefit lives in the state and beyond, has a powerful impact. Learn more: go.wisc.edu/impactnews
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
It’s interesting that RFK Jr. is so busy denying that he is to blame for vaccination rates plummeting. Given his anti-vaccine rhetoric over the past two decades, it seems he should be quite proud of his accomplishments.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Look at this chart. Tax cuts for the rich are a policy choice. Cutting the social safety net in exchange for them is a policy choice. States like New York have an opportunity to help undo this trickle down nonsense by raising taxes on the rich (who will still be rich). I hope Gov. Hochul does.
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Christos Argyropoulos MD, PhD, FASN 🇺🇸 0kale/acc @christosargyrop.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
#oopsie Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthrop...
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Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop — That Privacy Guy!
Anthropic's Claude Desktop silently installs a Native Messaging bridge into seven Chromium browsers, including browsers Anthropic's own documentation says it does not support, and browsers the user ha...
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WIRED @wired.com · 15/04/2026
A new study examines the impact of the rise of AI-generated websites on the internet—and found some surprising results. www.wired.com/story/ai-slo...
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AI Slop Is Making the Internet Fake-Happy
A new study examines the impact of the rise of AI-generated websites on the internet—and found some surprising results.
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Nature @nature.com · 04/04/2026
For the second year in a row, US President Donald Trump has proposed significant cuts to the budgets of major US science agencies. go.nature.com/4sWP07S
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Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration
Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.
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Trask @tcrane5.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
SCOTUS decided forced, non medical facilities, can now trap minors against their will and expose them to harm…
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Often overshadowed in the attention around Trump’s pardons is the emotional and financial devastation left behind. Few decisions illustrate that more clearly than the case of Joseph Schwartz, who paid himself millions from his nursing homes while diverting money owed to taxpayers and employees.
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A Nursing Home Owner Got a Trump Pardon. The Families of His Patients Got Nothing.
At least three families won multimillion-dollar wrongful death suits against former Skyline Healthcare owner Joseph Schwartz. They haven’t collected a cent.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 25/03/2026
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Trump staffs science and technology panel with non-scientists
Appointee list is in keeping with the administration's hostility toward science.
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
if you were actively trying to sabotage ICE, this is how you would do it. pack citizens into an environment that causes their cortisol levels to blow through the roof and then make these dickheads loiter around in the center of the room doing absolutely nothing to help.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/03/2026
In 2024, federal cybersecurity evaluators rendered a troubling verdict on one of Microsoft’s biggest cloud computing offerings, questioning the “lack of proper detailed security documentation.” As one reviewer put it, “The package is a pile of shit.”
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Federal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft’s Cloud Was “a Pile of Shit.” They Approved It Anyway.
A federal program created to protect the government against cyber threats authorized a sprawling Microsoft cloud product, despite the company’s inability to fully explain how it protects sensitive dat...
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 19/03/2026
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RFK Jr.’s war on scientific expertise destroyed 27% of agency's advisor panels
Under Kennedy, the health dept. has wiped out 75 advisory boards, corrupted others.
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Jay @jaystovall.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
line cartoon sketch of a couple in a living room. one in a chair looking exhausted and the other on a sofa looking over to the other. the exhausted one states, "I'm so tired of knowing things."
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
A federal judge in Massachusetts blocked RFK Jr.’s overhaul of the childhood vaccine schedule. The American Academy of Pediatrics and other medical groups sued the Department of Health and Human Services arguing Kennedy’s changes violated federal law. The judge agreed.
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Federal judge blocks RFK Jr.'s changes to childhood vaccine schedule
The ruling stems from a lawsuit brought by major medical organizations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics.
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