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Manda

@theweathermanda.bsky.social
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Ph.D. Atmospheric Scientist. Stay-at-home cat servant. Enjoyer of alpine lakes, thrift stores, cold brew, & Moscow mules.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And so it continues... Our economic debates seem utterly disconnected from the reality. That reality: This is an economy mostly creating healthcare jobs, and it does so month after month, and everything else is just noise.
Line chart titled "Effectively all of the net job creation has been in healthcare and social assistance, and jobs are shrinking in the rest of the economy" showing change in non-farm payrolls since January 2025 through September 2026. Healthcare and social assistance added 998,000 jobs with consistent growth throughout the period, while the rest of the economy lost 222,000 jobs, meaning all net job creation came from healthcare. The rest of the economy showed particular weakness from May through August 2025 when losses reached 218,000 jobs. This striking divergence reveals an unusual concentration where one sector's growth of roughly 48,000 jobs per month has offset persistent contraction across all other industries combined.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NEW: GOP Gov nominee Victor Marx says he'll respond today to domestic violence allegations - video/audio where he describes slamming his wife into a door and throwing his toddler across a room. Voters/reporters new to Marx may not realize he has a long history of justifying violence.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 01/10/2026
TSA says it is removing chairs at document checks in airports, requiring staff to stand for their shift. TSA explained the reason as twofold: to ensure its employees meet its fitness standards and to create an amiable environment for travelers.
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TSA officers must now stand up on the job
The agency is removing chairs from document-checking stations.
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Manda @theweathermanda.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Cost of living (17%) vs immigration (39%) & border security (48%) When you’re too racist to care that you’re broke 😑
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Manda @theweathermanda.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Addressing the most pressing issues as per usual
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Matthew Gardner @mindthegaap.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
3.6% is the effective federal income tax rate my org has estimated Meta paid in 2025. They booked $79 billion of profits in the US. By paying 3.6% instead of the 21% the law prescribes, they saved $13.7 billion in taxes. The R&D credit alone was $3.9 billion of that. itep.org/meta-tax-bre...
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Meta’s Federal Tax Rate Hits an All-Time Low Due to Breaks Expanded by Trump Tax Law
The company paid an effective federal income tax rate of just over 3.5% in 2025, the lowest it has recorded since the company went public as Facebook in 2012.
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Under President Trump, the wealth of the top 1% has grown more than twice as fast as the bottom half of Americans.
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Colorado Newsline @coloradonewsline.com · 01/10/2026
A historic drought, climate change and a tiny beetle put 600,000 acres of pine in Colorado at risk. Already, their gray skeletons line the highways. From @capitalandmain.bsky.social
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In Colorado, the majestic ponderosa pines are dying | Colorado Newsline
This year, the breadth of the pine beetle’s footprint in Colorado and the intensity of its attack is expected to expand exponentially.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 30/09/2026
The Million Dollar Highway, prone to rockfall and avalanches, is the site of horrific crashes and courageous rescues. Why doesn’t anyone want to fix it? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Why Doesn’t Anyone Want to Fix One of America’s Scariest Roads?
The Million Dollar Highway, prone to rockfall and avalanches, is the site of horrific crashes and courageous rescues. Why doesn’t anyone want to fix it?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Hegseth: "Project Meridian will be co-led by three of our nation's best minds: Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and Newt Gingrich"
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Manda @theweathermanda.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Fire the generals, nominate Elon Meritocracy af
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Climate Risk Economics @climateeconomics.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Inside the anti-climate campaign against researchers "the latest strategy in a decades-long campaign by right-leaning groups to discredit scholars whose work could persuade judges and juries in the high-stakes climate cases"... www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Inside the anti-climate campaign against researchers
A POLITICO investigation reveals more than 100 open records requests demanding documents from climate scientists nationwide.
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Israel is treating an incident aboard flydubai FZ1073 (Dubai to Tel Aviv) as a terror incident. Officials say the Omani copilot stabbed the Emirati captain over Jordan and tried to take control. The captain signaled a possible hijacking and the jet dropped about 14,000 ft in a minute.
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Manda @theweathermanda.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Oh.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jesse Watters: You were never on Jeffrey Epstein's jet were you? RFK Jr: I was on it two times. My wife had some kind of relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
holy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong."
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Manda @theweathermanda.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
They went from Dollar Menu to this. A New Golden Age, indeed.
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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Republican closing argument: "we crashed the economy to start an unending war, re-elect us please"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/09/2026
Trump on his conversations with Iranian leaders: "They are crazy. They are very crazy people. I tell them that all the time. I said, 'you're crazy, man.'"
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Manda @theweathermanda.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When your cat is such a devout democracy-hating MAGA that she literally starts ripping up the voter blue book (and the Amendment about law enforcement cooperating with ICE, no less)
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Manda @theweathermanda.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Just what the people want, especially when gas prices are high 🙄
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TrumpReposter @trumpreposter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.” -- Vladimir Lenin
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CBS News @cbsnews.com · 28/09/2026
Georgia park mass shooting wounds 11 teens at birthday party
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Georgia park mass shooting wounds 11 teens at birthday party
The wounded victims were identified as four 18-year-old men, five 17-year-old boys and two 18-year-old women, according to the sheriff's office.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
absolutely demented. like a scene from a horror movie
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Matt Sebastian @mattsebastian.com · 27/09/2026
To understand what it's like inside ICE's Aurora detention center, @lizzy-hernandez.bsky.social and @sethklamann.bsky.social spoke to current + former detainees and reviewed 911 records and audio recordings from emergency calls. “They treat you as if we’re animals, basically,” a Venezuelan told them
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Pepper spray, health crises and rotten food: Inside Colorado’s only immigrant detention center
In interviews with The Denver Post, current and former detainees described frequent fights and feelings of hopelessness. They say they’re often served inedible or rotten food that frequently gives the...
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Manda @theweathermanda.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Seems worth mentioning that Busch Stadium is literally half a mile from a national park right now. But, I get it… the Arch’s proximity just doesn’t bring the same deep level of satisfaction as destroying one of the most beautiful parts of the country for 💰💰💰
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 27/09/2026
Ask anyone in the tiny desert town of Palisade, Colo. and they will tell you they produce the world’s most perfect peach. Yet this town is facing the greatest Colorado River crisis in recent memory, forcing farmers to scramble for ways to keep peach trees alive.
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Peaches put this town on the map. The Colorado River drought could wipe it all away.
Like much of the Southwest, the home of the “perfect peach” is facing the greatest Colorado River crisis in recent memory.
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Matt Sebastian @mattsebastian.com · 27/09/2026
"Major League Baseball has approached the Trump administration about hosting a game at a national park, officials from the White House and MLB confirmed Saturday. The administration has scouted locations in Grand Teton National Park to build a baseball park to host an MLB game..."
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Trump administration considers building baseball park in Grand Teton National Park
Major League Baseball contacted the administration about hosting a game in a national park, with an agency official scouting Grand Teton as a possible location.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/09/2026
Trump: "I'm rejecting their deal. They want to make a deal where they open the strait immediately ... we're winning tremendously. We have total control of the Hormuz Strait ... that deal would not be acceptable. They want to immediately open the Hormuz Strait."
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Manda @theweathermanda.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Jeff Merkley @jeff-merkley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A pocket rescission is an illegal line item veto. It’s the president canceling the lines of spending he doesn't like. Republicans said they would never let this happen. Well here it is. If they have any integrity they’ll join us in ending this practice.
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Trump cancels nearly $1 billion in spending approved by Congress, a move some lawmakers called illegal
President Trump moved to cancel almost $1 billion in spending that was approved by Congress, marking the second time his administration has employed a rarely used tactic that some lawmakers in both pa...
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janebxt.bsky.social @janebxt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The attempted clawback represents the second time in as many years that the White House has sought to cancel funding approved by lawmakers. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/u...
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Trump Proposes $810 Million in Education and Health Cuts, Defying Congress (Gift Article)
The attempted clawback represents the second time in as many years that the White House has sought to cancel funding approved by lawmakers.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/09/2026
The Justice Department said on Thursday it had ended its watchdog role in more than 50 cases enforcing racial desegregation in schools, mostly in the South. The changes are the latest in the Trump administration’s bid to overhaul civil rights enforcement in the U.S.
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Justice Department Scraps Dozens of School Desegregation Cases
Critics said the changes, mostly in the South, moved the nation “back toward the Jim Crow era.” Justice Department officials said the decrees were outdated.
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Manda @theweathermanda.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Why Emily Cooper? Lily Collins asks
ALT: Why Emily Cooper? Lily Collins asks
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/09/2026
tell me the summit accomplished jack shit without telling me the summit accomplished jack shit
Very productive meeting with President Xi for both the U.S.A. and China. Tremendous things will be happening. Like almost everyone else, he seemed to like calling the poorly and inaccurately named Artificial Intelligence to a far more accurate and important name, SUPER INTELLIGENCE. That would be “SUPER!” Everyone last night agreed, also. President DJT
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Kim Wood @drkimwood.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Remarkable evolution of Hurricane Polo over the past 48 hours as it fluctuated between category 4 and 5 intensity during an eyewall replacement cycle (ERC) and subsequently re-strengthened to 180 mph (155 kt) as of the latest NHC advisory.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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Manda @theweathermanda.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You mean the National Security Bunker Ballroom???
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Washington Post Data Team @wpdatateam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NEW: Megadonors have now pumped more than $1.7 billion into the midterms. The figure includes a newly disclosed $10M from the crypto billionaire Winklevoss twins, who gave MAGA Inc while crypto regulation was on the Hill. Meet all 50 of the top donors here: www.washingtonpost.com/elections/in...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
Sen. Mike Lee: "I won't be a bit surprised if President Trump decides at one point to say, 'You know, President Xi, let's go visit Panda Express and see what you think of their broccoli beef.' I'd love to see that happen. That's the kind of thing President Trump likes to do."
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada said that he had prepared over the past year for the ‘extreme tail risk’ that President Trump might order military action against Canada ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/w...
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Mark Carney Interview: Canada’s Leader Lays Out Vision for Breaking Reliance on U.S.
In a wide-ranging interview, the Canadian leader laid out a detailed vision for breaking his country’s dependency on the United States.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
* U.S. 10-Year Treasury Yield Rises to 5.148%, Highest Since 2007 -- Tradeweb Data * U.S. 30-Year Treasury Yield Rises to 5.444%, Highest Since 2004 -- Tradeweb Data (via DJ)
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 24/09/2026
The judge also rejected the administration’s national-security justification at this stage, writing that the record contains little factual support showing the credential revocations would protect national security. 3/3
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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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Manda @theweathermanda.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sounds like they should ban JD Vance from the White House instead.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 23/09/2026
Exclusive: In the weeks leading up to his resignation last year, the first architect on the White House ballroom clashed with President Trump over design features that the architect believed violated building safety codes. “I am the code,” Trump said.
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‘I am the code’: Trump clashed with ballroom architect over safety issues
James McCrery II resigned in October after warning that the president was insisting on designs that violated fire and safety codes.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 23/09/2026
The owners of Camp Mystic, the Texas camp where 28 people died in catastrophic flooding last year, face a state homicide investigation, according to court documents released this week.
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Camp Mystic owners face homicide investigation over flooding deaths
State investigators are pursuing potential evidence of manslaughter and negligent homicide in the disaster that killed 28, search warrants show.
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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
SCOOP: Justifying its ban of Politico, the White House said the news outlet used anonymous quotes from a "senior administration official." But those quotes were provided to Politico and other outlets by the White House during a background briefing. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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The White House cited anonymous quotes in Politico ban. It was the source.
In a letter defending its ban of Politico, the White House critiqued a report based on a press call it conducted, where reporters were told not to name the speaker
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