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Gardenthor

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Nerd 🤓 | Gamer ⚔️ | Vinyl Collector 🎧 | Retro Tech 💾 |Gardener 👨‍🌾 | Space Markets 🚀📈 Finally permitted to make Dad jokes, not that it stopped me before. He/Him.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 8h
🚨BREAKING: Trump was hit with a second lawsuit over taxpayer-funded propaganda ads promoting him ahead of the midterms. The new case says DHS diverted $20 million meant for border-security commemorations to pay for the spots.
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Trump hit with second lawsuit over taxpayer-funded political propaganda ads
The lawsuit came the same day the Democratic National Committee (DNC) filed a separate challenge seeking to stop the administration from using federal funds for the ad campaign.
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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 7h
This bullshit is extremely common. I walked away from a project doing sound design for AT&T in the 1990s rather than sign a clause like this. In 2023 I refused to sign this type of language for Harbor Picture Company. They said "But everyone signs this!" I refused, had to work as a subcontractor.
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Katherine Eban @katherineeban.bsky.social · 8h
SCOOP in @rollingstone.com 👇 CDC has set aside new $1.6M for controversial hepatitis B vax clinical trial in Guinea-Bissau, halted earlier amid uproar over medical ethics. CDC director's office resurrected it, taking $$ from global health security funds: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study
“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 7h
The media's dilemma: should we cover that a guy contemplating how to dispose of Jews is cited by the VP as an intellectual influence or write another piece about vague connections between Democrats and Hassan Piker? 🤔
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 7h
Recently unearthed records show that, in one set of trials carried out by the US Army, the electric shock gloves caused “overwhelmingly immediate” pain to soldiers in a mock forced cell extraction scenario, who then reported that “just seeing the glove” frightened them into obedience.
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Study: Shock gloves traumatized Army volunteers
After tests, military personnel said "just seeing the glove" that ICE plans to adopt scared them into obedience.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 11h
This is just a relentlessly horrific story. It’s hard to adequately contextualize the moral desolation of this unfolding in the midst of a midterms against a ruling party helmed by inveterate rapists and rape apologists. www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/congres...
phoenixnewtimes.com
Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. A Phoenix New Times exclusive.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 7h
Kimberly Guilfoyle has always pushed her luck in Trump world — this may have pushed things over the edge. And before you say this is how they all are — Trump doesn’t like finding out about this stuff from others. When he knows about it — he’s ok with it.
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 7h
LOL that incredibly tortured NYT article trying to claim that Trump wasn't actually talking about nuking San Diego and LA is right up there with the "Elon Musk's politics are a mysterious enigma nobody will ever be able to comprehend" thing
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 7h
"172 Billionaire Families Have Spent Record $1.7 Billion on 2026 Midterms So Far: Analysis." “With each passing election since the Citizens United decision, billionaires have systematically bought up our democracy.” www.commondreams.org/news/billion...
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172 Billionaire Families Have Spent Record $1.7 Billion on 2026 Midterms So Far: Analysis | Common Dreams
"With each passing election since the Citizens United decision, billionaires have systematically bought up our democracy."
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Micah @rincewind.run · 7h
Trump: *says horrible thing* the media: he didn’t actually mean it Trump: no I definitely one hundred percent meant it
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 6h
Today we got access to a smoking gun document from ICE that shows how it is weaponized against progressive groups registering voters while building a voter suppression database.
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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 11h
Very sad to hear that Margaret Hamilton has passed away. Here's a short thread about her role in the Apollo mission, and her lesser-known work on the simulations that led to the discovery of Chaos Theory. 🧪 👩‍🔬 ⚛️
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Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 6h
It’s just criminals all the way down.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 12h
Good news: in this case the newly elected House can meet at a convenient location of their choosing and vote on whether to expel Johnson as one of its first orders of business
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 7h
The Trump administration keeps punting, but no one should be under any illusion that the status quo on access will hold after the midterms. We’ve explained on @autonomynews.co
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FDA Lawyer Leaves Door Wide Open for Mifepristone Restrictions at Appeals Court Hearing
Louisiana made misleading claims about the safety of medication abortion, while the Justice Department sidestepped questions about whether the drug should remain available via telehealth.
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Silly B Man @lawnerd.bsky.social · 7h
She was sentenced to execution and they did the execution, twice. She served her sentence, let her out.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 7h
More than ten years after he promised to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act with better, cheaper health insurance After he promised countless times that he would release a plan "in two weeks" After he took over $1 trillion from Medicaid And $500 billion from Medicare HE STILL HAS NO PLAN
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 11h
Just another day in the Presidency as directed by Fellini.
Trump nodding, Susan Dell emoting.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 9h
Former @bardcollege.bsky.social President and friend of Jeffrey Epstein, Leon Botstein, has finally resigned all his college positions after emails emerge in which he asked Epstein if a trafficked woman was “for me.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u...
nytimes.com
Leon Botstein, Former Bard President With Epstein Ties, Resigns From College Positions
Leon Botstein had already retired from the presidency of the liberal arts college this spring, after emails showed he had maintained a longtime friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 7h
BREAKING: A Trump-appointed judge has ruled DHS violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment when it removed Ahmed Soliman to Equatorial Guinea and must facilitate his return to the US. prospect.org/2026/10/07/f...
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Federal Judge Rules DHS Must Bring Back Gay Arizona Man Imprisoned in Africa - The American Prospect
A Trump-apppointed judge ordered Ahmed Soliman must be returned to the United States.
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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 7h
When's the last time a Trump rally was interrupted by protesters this many times? And for it to happen in red Texas right before an election, no less. I wonder if fed up Americans will take this as a challenge to similarly interrupt the rest of his rallies over the next month.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10h
This was one of the more diabolical Trump admin moves on immigration; ordering ICE to stop taking biometrics for detained immigrants seeking immigration benefits from USCIS, which meant that the agency would deny their applications by default.
In December 2025, USCIS announced that DHS would stop collecting biometrics related
to USCIS immigration applications for people in its custody. ECF No. 14-2; ECF No. 14-3 at 2-
3. In its press release, USCIS said that going forward DHS "generally will not take biometrics of detained aliens unless they are in removal proceedings and have a pending application or petition filed with the Executive Office for Immigration Review." ECF No. 14-2. That means DHS would continue to collect biometrics only for certain applications for relief, including those that can be made to immigration courts (which fall within the Executive Office for Immigration Review), but not for applications for many kinds of immigration status, including the plaintiffs' applications
(which must be submitted to and determined by USCIS). See 8 C.F.R. § 245.2(a)(1) (adjustment
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 12h
Keep 'em coming "It asks the court to declare the ads illegal and stop the use of federal funds to pay for them."
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Tom Cartwright @tomcartwright.bsky.social · 15h
👀✈️ NEW! September 2026. Monthly ICE Air report including the tracking, analysis, and reporting of 66,000+ ICE flights since January 2020. In September: 324 deportations plus 1,258 domestic flights shuffling people to and between detention and staging centers.
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Chuck the Vampire Slayer 🧛🏻 @sazeracla.bsky.social · 14h
And my staunch Republican (and gay) former high school classmate who I saw for the first time in 47 years last summer went on and on about how "Donald Trump doesn't hate gay people, he's been to gay weddings" which is why I never want to see or speak to him again.
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Joe Roberts 🔥💙🔥🐸 @robbyjoe.bsky.social · 14h
#OverturnCitizensUnited
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Javi Ibarrondo @jibarrondo.bsky.social · 14h
‘Complete devastation’: How NSF gutted its social sciences research | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
science.org
‘Complete devastation’: How NSF gutted its social sciences research
Agency body that funds sociology, linguistics, and archaeology studies in U.S. gave 90% fewer new grants this year
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 15h
"I can do whatever I want, if I want." The Constitution was created to prevent exactly this type of man from holding power.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 14h
THIS!!
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Don’t Dismiss Trump’s Los Angeles-San Diego Comment as a ‘Joke’
No normal American would say those words. A president shouldn’t even think them.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 15h
In the presidential immunity case, the court considered a hypothetical of a president ordering Navy Seals to assassinate an American political rival. Trump's lawyer argued unambiguously yes, since it'd be an "official act." The Roberts Court ruled in his favor, 6-3. Why wouldn't Trump believe this?
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alex pasternack @pasternack.bsky.social · 14h
New: USA Today Co.'s CEO tells me why the nation's largest newspaper chain tapped Palantir to help it mine reader data and more ("We're actually an intelligence organization now"), how it's responding to a newsroom revolt, and what it hopes to get from all the AI: www.fastcompany.com/91608398/usa...
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'We're actually an intelligence organization now': Inside USA Today's AI-fueled Palantir deal
The newspaper giant's leaders on saving journalism with AI and the furor over Palantir, which is helping target readers, speed up publishing, and more.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 15h
Fox News’ role as a GOP propaganda machine is clear to anyone who has bothered to peruse its programming — Donald Trump knows it, Rupert Murdoch knows it, disgraced Roger Ailes knew it, and longtime viewers like me certainly know it. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...
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Fox News at 30: Even the pretense of impartiality is all but gone
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 14h
This is sexual violence as a form of terrorism. It is political violence and it is chilling and horrific, and AOC was absolutely right to be terrified that the goons (now pardoned) laying siege to the capital would rape her if they found her. Small changes won't fix this. FLIP THE TABLE NOW
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 14h
“Finish every day and be done with it.” Ralph Waldo Emerson writes to his daughter in 1854.
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 14h
Trump v. United States, 603 U.S. 593 (2024).
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Mike @half-witt.bsky.social · 15h
"Despite the administration’s economic policies which have jacked up the tariff-related costs of many imported goods, America is just as dependent as ever on foreign-produced goods." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/b...
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U.S. Trade Deficit Hits 17-Month High Despite Trump’s Tariffs (Gift Article)
Imports and the trade deficit have ballooned in recent months, defying the Trump administration’s efforts to reduce it through tariffs.
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Elizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social · 15h
Flock = "indiscriminate mass surveillance" says a federal court reason.com/2026/10/07/j...
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Judge says warrantless Flock search violated driver's Fourth Amendment rights
This is the second federal court decision in a little over a week to suggest that driver surveillance systems can go too far.
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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 15h
lights out for sleepy joe at the resolute desk again
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 15h
The Trump-installed Board opposed the unsealing of the report.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 20h
Nevada Republican politician Michele Fiore, nicknamed “Lady Trump,” collected money for a memorial to 2 fallen police officers but spent it on plastic surgery, rent and her daughter’s wedding. A jury convicted her of fraud. Trump pardoned her because he’s pro-criminal. Vote against all Republicans.
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‘Lady Trump’ was convicted for fraud and then pardoned by the president. The White House didn’t say why.
“Justice Interrupted”: The latest installment in MS NOW’s series examining the clemencies and pardons by Donald Trump — and the fallout from them.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 06/10/2026
“The age of accountability for the fossil fuel industry has just begun and has a bright future,” Jeff Goodell writes. “The reason for that is the emergence of a powerful field of climate science known as attribution science.”
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Opinion | The Science That Has Oil Companies Running Scared
However the U.S. Supreme Court rules, the work of holding oil companies accountable for climate change has a bright future.
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DTwyman @dtwyman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
In a sane world, this would be the number one priority of every government.
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Do Not Obey. We are Democracy. @zangerliberia.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The entire DHS must be dissolved and reimagined. Fuck ICE #iceOutforGood #iceOut Gifted wapo.st/4yA4G3T #usDemocracy #dv1 #voices4Victory
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Emails show how ICE trimmed training for deputized officers
Police officers helping ICE arrest unauthorized immigrants were given a shortened training course that scaled back instruction on the nation’s immigration laws.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“.. the latest example of Trump advisers profiting from far-right politicians abroad who have sought favor from the U.S. president ..” @kenvogel.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...
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Benjamin S. Weiss @benjaminweiss.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
NEWS: I spoke w/ the director of a food bank in Livingston, MT, across the street from where the Daily Wire is filming a pro-ICE movie dramatizing the Renee Good killing. She told me set closures & security have blocked people from getting crucial food aid. More ⤵️ www.huffpost.com/entry/ben-sh...
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A Pro-ICE Movie Recreating Renee Good’s Killing Is Disrupting A Montana Food Pantry
Clients of Livingston, Montana’s only food pantry had to walk past a dramatization of ICE killing Renee Good — when they could get in at all.
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Ivan the K ™ @ivanthek.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is nuts. @murray.senate.gov: “Tying funding for transit projects to marriage rates and how many babies a woman has is the sort of bizarre and dystopian idea you’d expect in a TV show, not actual policy put forth by the U.S. government — yet here we are."
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Trump administration unveils plan to tie high birth and marriage rates to transit funding
The federal government is seeking to revamp a national program that supports rail and bus rapid transit.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
SUSAN COLLINS: I was successful in getting road salt removed from the Canada tariff list TROY JACKSON: What about everything else? We can't eat road salt
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The Sgt Joker @thesgtjoker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Someone is apparently padding their resume to try to get a job at the FBI to prevent their extradition.
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ljconrad @ljconrad.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🎁🔗: Trump Does Not Plan to Reimburse Taxpayers for Promotional Ads www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...
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Trump Does Not Plan to Reimburse Taxpayers for Promotional Ads (Gift Article)
A day after the president said his super PAC would pay for the ads, which had drawn bipartisan backlash, officials said that he meant moving forward. A new taxpayer-funded ad aired Tuesday.
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