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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026
New in PN: Retire in peace "McConnell would never be allowed to drive a car, babysit young children, or file his own taxes. Why, then, should a cognitively incapacitated 82-year-old retain one of the most important positions of power within the national government?"
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Retire in peace
McConnell is the latest example of an incapacitated politician refusing to let go.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 10/09/2026
40% more kids are eating breakfast and 15% more are eating lunch since we launched free school meals in Minnesota. Now we’re making sure 100% of kids eat their broccoli.
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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Call it the MITCH Act. If a U.S. Senator can disappear from the job for months and still collect a full paycheck, working Americans shouldn’t have to choose between getting well, caring for family, and paying the bills. Paid leave for ALL. 🇺🇸 #USDemocracy #RisingBlue
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/07/2026
"There is a huge amount of animosity, every single day, thrown at trans kids,” Joseph Pollard replied, voice rising. “The whole fucking country. The whole fucking administration, every single fucking day.”
BOISE, Idaho — After May Pollard died on a late-January morning, a detective asked her parents a question: Had anyone wanted to hurt her?

“A lot of America,” her mother answered.

Less than an hour earlier, Elyse Thorpe had found her daughter’s body inside their home, called 911 and sobbed as she tried to revive her. May, an avid poet and gamer, had been struggling and increasingly withdrawn.

Now, at 16, she was gone. And the detective, from the Boise Police Department, wanted to know what Elyse meant.

May’s father answered instead.

“There is a huge amount of animosity, every single day, thrown at trans kids,” Joseph Pollard replied, voice rising. “The whole f-----g country. The whole f-----g administration, every single f-----g day.”
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
ABSOFUCKINGLUTELY THIS HERE,WAS,FOR MANY OF US, THE CELEBRATION WE NEEDED,AND A REMINDER, NOT TO GIVE UP HOPE ! THANK YOU, MICHELLE, AND PRESIDENT OBAMA...🎊🎉✨️ 👇👇👇
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
This is amazing - @kevinolearytv 🤡 is fearmongering about Chinese agents opposing his giant Utah data center… but it’s 2 young local girls in Utah who hilariously call him (and his “dumbass hat”) out👇🏽 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DYU074V...
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
My friend who used to say the final stage of corporate greed was demanding to be loved is never, ever proved wrong.
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Bruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
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C @thingswithfeathers.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
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Search - Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees - ProPublica
Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their de...
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
The Guardian had a rundown of Trump's late night Truth Social binge, which included "an AI generated visual of himself planting the US flag on Greenland." www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Attacked the UK, mockingly calling it a “brilliant” ally, for “shocking” plan to hand over sovereignity of the Chagos islands to Mauritius (despite previous US support), saying it’s among a “long line” of reasons why Greenland “has to be acquired”

Leaked private text messages from France’s Emmanuel Macron and Nato’s Mark Rutte discussing his latest policy moves

Threatened France with 200% tariffs on French wine and champagne over Macron’s refusal to join the Gaza “board of peace”, said of Macron that “nobody wants him because he’s going to be out of office very soon”

Reiterated his intention of taking over Greenland as “imperative for national and world security,” saying “there can be no going back”

Posted an AI generated visual of himself planting the US flag on Greenland, saying it’s “US territory, est. 2026,” days after the US delegation agreed with Danish foreign minister for talks to be conducted behind closed doors, and not through threatening messages on social media.

It’s not even 10am in Europe.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Nasra Ahmed was shoved to the ground and detained by ICE agents, suffering cuts and bruises to her face and legs Ahmed, a U.S. citizen born in Minnesota, spent two days in jail before being released without charges
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St. Paul woman, a U.S. citizen, recounts her two days in detention
During her two days in immigration detention, a St. Paul woman who was born in Minnesota said she “put her faith in God” and prayed after suffering what appeared to be a stress-induced seizure and bei...
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Stephen Colbert on the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good: “The message from this administration is clear. Only they determine the truth. And when their forces come to your city: obey or die. And if you die, you clearly didn’t obey. This should be an alarm bell for the entire country.”
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 20/12/2025
This is mob shit and they could try to use it on any other kind of medical care they don’t like. Abortion, birth control, childhood vaccines
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Let me understand you correctly, governments can care that people are being murdered?
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Reuters @reuters.com · 19/11/2025
US federal workers would lose whistleblower safeguards under Trump rule reut.rs/446m2YM
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US federal workers would lose whistleblower safeguards under Trump rule
President Donald Trump's administration is close to implementing a rule that would end long-standing legal protections for whistleblowers among senior federal employees, according to documents reviewed by Reuters, prompting backlash from lawyers representing government workers.
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America Is Divided @petrep.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
The moment when 30 million American's received healthcare (2010) The moment when insurance companies had to start covering preexisting conditions, young adults could stay on their family's policy and I could trust that the small print couldn't screw me if I needed serious medical assistance. 🇺🇸
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Rep. April McClain Delaney @repaprildelaney.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
The Open Enrollment period has officially begun in every state, shining a light on the enormous hike in health care costs families will face without ACA tax credits.  www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
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ACA open enrollment 2026 begins: What to know as insurance premiums rise
Premiums for people who get their insurance through Healthcare.gov are rising about 30% on average. Without the enhanced subsidies, many could pay far more than that.
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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Until now, Social Security disability benefits have been easier to qualify for as a person reaches 50+. Trump's new rules would end that. Under the new plan, millions, many in red states, could find it more difficult to qualify. Important story from Eli Hager: www.propublica.org/article/soci...
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Kristi Noem is flat-out lying when she claims no U.S. citizen has been arrested in her violent crackdown. Do a web search on “immigration citizen arrested” and you’ll see. Here’s one of the many documented reports we found.
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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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OrangeSage @orangesage.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
#NoKings Miami!
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 18/10/2025
😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
25% of Drs in US are foreign grads. Many are on an H1B visa. This will hit health systems hard especially rural hospitals and hospitals in underserved areas that sponsor these visas through waiver programs. The old cost was about 5000$ a year. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump signs proclamation imposing annual $100,000 fee on H-1B visas
Move deals potentially major blow to US tech industry, which relies heavily on workers from India and China
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
This story feels like it’s going to have huge repercussions
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn't a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
The 16-year-old boy accused of shooting two classmates at Evergreen High School embraced conspiratorial, antisemitic and white supremacist social media content
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Evergreen High School shooter embraced Columbine, antisemitism and white supremacy online
Review shows that Desmond Holly also posted online about Columbine shooting and a picture of a revolver
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NPR @npr.org · 12/09/2025
“There are risks to having these large natural gas storage facilities close to major urban populations,” said Michael Jerrett, principal investigator of the UCLA Aliso Canyon Disaster Health Research Study team. via @laist.com
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Low birth weight rates rose nearly 50% around Aliso Canyon gas leak, UCLA study finds
A UCLA study in the journal Science Advances also found a likely increase in miscarriages around the methane leak in the northern San Fernando Valley in 2015.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Pretty clear that a lot of people jumped the gun on the motive behind Kirk’s assassination. The shooter: 1. Grew up in a Republican family 2. Donated to Donald Trump 3. Loved guns 4. Was steeped in Groyper culture This isn’t a simple “raging leftist hated Kirk” scenario.
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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Affordable and high-quality child care should not be a privilege reserved for the ultra-rich. New Mexico’s universal child care policy is a groundbreaking investment in our children’s future—and will save New Mexico families over $12,000 per child annually.
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This state will become 1st to offer free, universal child care
New Mexico has become the first state in the country to guarantee free child care to families residing in the state.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 07/09/2025
Something folks are missing here: this raid wasn’t about “illegals taking American jobs.” It was about ICE storming the Hyundai–LG battery plant in Georgia, part of a $7.6B Metaplant project that isn’t even operational yet. 🧵
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Center for Reproductive Rights @reprorights.org · 30/08/2025
The evidence proving that abortion bans are deadly is irrefutable, and it cannot be ignored. We MUST listen to our medical experts who are telling us over and over in no uncertain terms: ABORTION BANS KILL. bit.ly/4nr5jXB.
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The States Where It's Riskier to Have a Baby
In places with significant abortion restrictions, many pregnant women experience delays, confusion, and other substandard care.
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C @thingswithfeathers.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
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Change in OB/GYN Physicians Practicing Obstetrics After the Dobbs Decision
This cohort study evaluates changes in the number of obstetrics and gynecology physicians practicing in Idaho after the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization Supreme Court decision.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
As I wrote yesterday, It's when you assemble the whole picture that you have to raise the question if the intention is to destroy this country and whether this country is in fact being destroyed. Here's some more destruction.
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M 🐈‍⬛ @blackcatonline.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Cis people have always been the main consumers of gender affirming care, surgeries, treatment. They just don't see it as such because they feel entitled to it, they are barely even cognizant of their own genders.
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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo @originalist.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
"Nearly half of white students admitted to Harvard between 2009 and 2014 were legacy students or Dean’s Interest List—a list of applicants whose relatives have donated to Harvard, the existence of which only became public knowledge in 2018" 75% of them would not have been admitted otherwise
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A new statistic reveals the startling privilege of white kids admitted to Harvard
Harvard University is a notoriously tough school to get into, with an acceptance rate of just 4.5% in the most recent admissions cycle for the class of 2023. But it’s significantly easier to land a sp...
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The Great Pumpkinsquatch - Scott Kelley Ernest 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @mxscottkernest.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
ICE handcuffs 71-year-old grandmother, a U.S. citizen, at San Diego immigration court www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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ICE handcuffs 71-year-old grandmother, a U.S. citizen, at San Diego immigration court
Barbara Stone was handcuffed and held by federal agents for hours, according to her family; she was accused of pushing an ICE officer, which she denies.
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 11/07/2025
@ashishkjha.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/h...
US Preventative Services Task Force, created by the Reagan administration, enjoys widespread respect among doctors and nurses across America. Its recommendations keep mammograms, colon cancer screening, etc free for patients with health insurance and Secretary Kennedy just canceled it.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/07/2025
Federal kindergarten vaccination data shows national rates for four major vaccines, which had held steady before the COVID-19 pandemic, have fallen significantly since. In fact, measles vaccination rates were below herd immunity in most states in 2023. ➡️ Read more: propub.li/40KnM8n
A U.S. tile map that depicts the measles vaccination rate for kindergarteners (according to CDC data) in each state from 2013 to 2023. A key explains that for each state, a gray dotted line represents the benchmark for herd immunity: a 95% vaccination rate. Vaccination rates above 95% are shown in blue, while vaccination rates below 95% are shown in orange. Looking at the full map, the trend lines lean much more orange than blue. Measles vaccination rates in most states were below herd immunity in school year 2023-2024.
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Gander Social @gandersocial.ca · 24/06/2025
Busy day for our Early Access Program yesterday. Lots of sign-ups (thank you!) and also some error messages (sorry). We've fixed the issue. If you didn’t get through yesterday, please give it another try by following this link: gandersocial.ca#early-access More details below 👇
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Gander: The Social Media You Want, Built for Canada
Fun, private, and ethical. We're changing the way social media is done around here, all without your personal data taking an unexpected trip down south.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Healthcare is a basic human right. The US is one of the only countries in the developed world not to guarantee healthcare to all. The budget they just gave to ICE could easily cover universal healthcare. They would rather fund a militia than provide food, medicine and vaccines.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Mural of Statue of Liberty in shame unveiled in France the day before 4th of July
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
25 dead so far across Texas from flooding. Local authorities are blaming poor forecasting. It’s all so tragically predictable and criminally negligent.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
This, in a nutshell, is what most stands out to me about the last three years since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade: Conservatives desperate to codify a worldview that women actively oppose.
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Aaron Black @aaronblack.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
“I promise you, it would have been a war crime.” that’s what Alejandro Barranco told me what would have happened if he treated a detainee when he was deployed to Afghanistan with the Marines like federal agents treated his father.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/06/2025
Amber Thurman. Candi Miller. Josseli Barnica. Nevaeh Crain. Porsha Ngumezi. On the third anniversary of the overturning of Roe v. Wade, revisit our reporting about the women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans:
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Life of the Mother
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, doctors warned that women would die, but lawmakers who passed state abortion bans didn’t listen. The worst consequences are now becoming clear.
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 24/06/2025
Wracked with guilt because I accidentally tossed a plastic jar in the trash and not the recycling bin 🫤
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A staggering 96 private jets are expected to fly in for Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez’s wedding – Supercar Blondie
Almost 100 private jets are expected to touchdown in Venice, Italy, this week for the wedding of billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez
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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
At some point, Republicans are going to learn what the Department of Energy does, right? Like... they have to learn at some point that it runs nuclear reactors and doesn't operate oil fields or whatever.
Donald Trump via Truth Social:
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114732948019406900
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114732938285152785

To The Department of Energy: DRILL, BABY, DRILL!!!  And I mean NOW!!!

EVERYONE, KEEP OIL PRICES DOWN. I’M WATCHING! YOU’RE PLAYING RIGHT INTO THE HANDS OF THE ENEMY. DON’T DO IT!
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