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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Like, by the time you are on week 6 and doing Bessent and treasury related bribery impeachment, you want John Q. Voter to be screaming "is *anyone* in this administration not a scumbag?" because the answer is 'no' and that's the lesson you want to impart, one impeachment at a time.
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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
From 2022 to spring 2025, American PhD-granting universities posted an average of 289 openings in departments of chemistry and biochemistry. Starting in the fall of 2025, that number fell to 185 openings.
a graph of the normal growth rate of the Chemistry Faculty Jobs List, showing two deviations, the year during COVID (fall 2020-spring 2021) and the first year of the second Trump Administration (fall 25-spring 26)
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/08/2026
And here's the kicker: turning America's trillions into Canada's billions, moving fast and breaking America's tech-kings, fixing the defects in America's extractive tech exports? It's all *good for Americans*. 66/
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
And really, lied in a way that I've not seen in my lifetime. Not a case of, "Bush really, truly thought there were WMDs, even though there weren't" or a case of smudging something over. They knew this was insane, knew this guy was nuts, knew the danger and lied about it anyway.
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
This is how the CDC honored Officer David Rose, killed a year ago in the domestic terror attack by a shooter who believed he'd been injured by a vaccine. Truly one of the most appalling things I have ever seen.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I can’t bring myself to be too celebratory. This should have been a 9-0 slam dunk. My main takeaway is that there are currently 4 votes to undo a longstanding constitutional guarantee that 15 years ago seemed beyond any serious question.
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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Also worth sharing the top comment because this is 🎯
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump are re-segregating the American military by race and sex Secret Vetting and Blocked Promotions: Inside Hegseth’s War on Diversity www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/u...
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Secret Vetting and Blocked Promotions: Inside Hegseth’s War on Diversity
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transitionstate.bsky.social @transitionstate.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
God damn it if the handedness weren't wrong I would buy this duncraft.com/collections/...
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Cascade DNA 32-Port Hummingbird Feeder | 23.5 oz Nectar Capacity
Attract more hummingbirds with the Cascade DNA feeder. Features 32 feeding ports, a natural helical design, flip-top filling, and 23.5 oz nectar capacity.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The Secretary of Defense is… A - afraid of answering questions B - incompetent and unqualified C - a blowhard and an empty suit D - deeply damaging to this democracy Choose 4
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
A fellow of the Royal Society slashed funding for disease prevention, leading directly to the deaths of uncounted children. He promotes white supremacy and is actively encouraging racist violence in the UK. But he's Elon Musk, a billionaire. So the Royal Society does nothing. @royalsociety.org
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The US will almost certainly lose its measles-elimination status this year or next www.wired.com/story/anguis...
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Anguished Parents, Crying Doctors: Life Amid Utah’s Measles Outbreak
The state’s outbreak means adapting to America’s new reality, in which vaccine-preventable diseases become common again.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 04/06/2026
Dozens of children torn from their parents at the border have now been separated from their families a second time despite legal protections, an AP investigation finds.
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Trump administration has separated dozens of children from their parents for a second time, AP finds
An Associated Press investigation reveals that dozens of children who were separated under the first Trump administration have been re-separated, despite a judge's order to reunite them.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
2 million fewer children were enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP as of April 2026, as compared to January 2025 when President Trump took office. ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/05/28/t...
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Two Million Fewer Children are Enrolled in Medicaid Since Trump Took Office
Child uninsured rate likely on the rise Our state-by-state Medicaid/CHIP enrollment tracker now indicates that 2 million fewer children were enrolled in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Pr...
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Clay Copper @claycopper.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
One element to this I think is worth mentioning - and the one that has caused me the most general anger toward my colleagues at the DoD - is that this dishonor of women and servicemembers of color may have started with Hegseth, but it is maintained principally by active duty and civil servants. /
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marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
The chair of US Commission of Fine Arts, in approving the proposed triumphal arch in DC, claimed that opposition to it was "due to a lack of understand<ing> about the history of such triumphal arches" Bit of an insult to those of us who really do know about triumphal arches!
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transitionstate.bsky.social @transitionstate.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
It is straight up miserable that the Miles Davis centennial, which should be a national holiday, occurs during an administration where I could imagine it possible that not a single high ranking official gives a crap.
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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The contrast between the number of media requests I got when rich people on a cruise were facing a deadly, but contained outbreak versus now that some of the poorest people in the world are facing a deadly and devastating epidemic is just so so stark and it just really annoys the hell out of me.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
VA conducted internal investigations into employees who attended vigil for Alex Pretti www.cnn.com/2026/05/05/p...
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VA conducted internal investigations into employees who attended vigil for Alex Pretti | CNN Politics
Becky Halioua, who was investigated after attending a vigil for Pretti shortly after his death, feels the VA probe is a “scare tactic” and an attempt to silence those “with the loudest voices.”
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tnyfrontrow.bsky.social @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Extraordinary, instantly canonical new albums of previously unreleased live recordings by Cecil Taylor, Ahmad Jamal, and Joe Henderson, now available thanks to Zev Feldman, Resonance Records, and Elemental Music: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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The History of Jazz Has Instantly Expanded
Newly released archival live performances by Ahmad Jamal, Joe Henderson, and Cecil Taylor illuminate their legacies and the art form at large.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
This is real It’s being done in our name Congressional Republicans are okay with this
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transitionstate.bsky.social @transitionstate.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
SO, here's a screenshot of the Washington Post online right now and under the "politcs" section -- WTF? three of the featured stories are ssentially the same article, and then two of the remaining stories are also the same? Even stupid basic stuff is going to hell.
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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Strange situation where we await a statement from Iran to check whether there's any truth to what US president is saying.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Sorry what? They won’t deport US citizens is a concession? What the actual F
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Pretty staggering that the FT Trump interview opens with ‘if NATO doesn’t help us sort this mess, there’ll be problems’ and ends with ‘Russia might be helping target American soldiers, but really that’s sort of fair enough - we started it’. www.ft.com/content/1ca6...
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Preparing for a Maryland blitz? ICE has been stockpiling vehicles and detention meals in Baltimore
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ICE is stockpiling supplies in Baltimore: food, vehicles
Federal procurement records show ICE’s Baltimore Field Office is requesting almost three times as many meals as its last order in September.
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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
DHS was taking criticism yesterday for holding a sick two-month-old baby. Today (after plenty of time to check into it), the dept is responding (multiple times, identical to the one below) not denying any of the facts, but just blaming the mother.
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 13/02/2026
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.”

A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees.

The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Speaking just for myself, by now I've had my fill of efforts to "understand" people who have stuck with Trump. We know who they are. There are more of us than of them. Just have to make sure that diff keeps showing up in election results. (As it has in virtually all special elections so far.)
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
The federal government is just disappearing children.
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transitionstate.bsky.social @transitionstate.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0... Oh, smooth fucking move, Mr. Rubio.
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Removal of flags for fallen Danish soldiers at U.S. Embassy sparks backlash
There was no malicious intent in removing the flags, said a State Department spokesperson, who added that the flags had been replaced.
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Eileen Ridge @eileen4ever.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases
Cumulative US measles cases
As of January 27, there have been more cases than there were by the same week last year.
Fairly horizontal lines for 2023 and 2024, a steep diagonal line for 2025, and a vertical line for ytd 2026. 
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478 cases
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2253 cases
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283 cases
2023
63 cases
Note: Data updated on January 27, 2026, at 3 p.m. ET.
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Johns Hopkins University, Center for Outbreak Response Innovation Graphic: Alex Leeds Matthews and Matt Stiles, CNN
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The guy genuinely gave a shit. And the empathy vampires murdered him for it.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
That tech oligarchs are noisy and incensed about the remote possibility of a wealth tax and utterly silent about the murder of a man who was only using the phone they invented to chronicle the thuggish government goon squads should tell you everything about these desiccated souls.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
This is courage. Looking a masked, government fascist dead in the eye, face to face, knowing full well that your life is on the line. If elected officials had 1/10th of Alex Pretti's resolve, we would have far fewer troubles.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
As JD Vance starts trying to play "nice Gestapo" to Steven Miller's "mean Gestapo," it's worth emphasizing that what's happening in Minnesota is a direct descendant of Vance's knowingly false racist demagoguery during the campaign. "Somalis are low-IQ thieves" is "Haitians are eating your pets." 1/
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 24/01/2026
Just staggered by the complete moral void of not even *pretending* to wait for more information before pivoting to “the opponent of the state deserved it.” It is so insanely depraved. Soulless.
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transitionstate.bsky.social @transitionstate.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0... Refrigerator clipping article
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Column | The abhorrent power of the photograph of a 5-year-old held by ICE
An image like this could once change history. Can one still?
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
He means white kids.
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Where are Obama, Bush, Biden, Clinton, the CEOs of the companies that helped talked Trump down from Greenland, ANYONE with authority or market power who can command a microphone and back up the brave citizens of Minneapolis, and say this is morally wrong and an existential threat to the republic?
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
A five-year-old boy seized on his way home in Minnesota and now locked up in Texas. His family didn't know where he was for 24 hours.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask: "If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"
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transitionstate.bsky.social @transitionstate.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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Medical examiner believes death of man in ICE custody was homicide, recording says
A fellow detainee says he witnessed Geraldo Lunas Campos being choked to death by guards at the ICE detention center in Texas on Jan. 3.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 25/12/2025
Kennedy Center Christmas Eve jazz concert canceled after Trump's name added reut.rs/3NfgBky
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Kennedy Center Christmas Eve jazz concert canceled after Trump's name added
A planned Christmas Eve jazz concert at the Kennedy Center was canceled, with the host of the longtime annual performance attributing the decision to the addition of Republican U.S. President Donald Trump's name to the institution in Washington.
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
This is an amazingly thoughtful, information-rich thread. By a sitting member of Congress! How about that.
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transitionstate.bsky.social @transitionstate.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
What's striking of course is they went ahead with it _after_ the Post broke the story a couple weeks back and they seemed to climb down.
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Coast Guard enacts policy calling swastikas, nooses ‘potentially divisive’
The Coast Guard’s workplace harassment manual that downgrades the definition of swastikas and nooses quietly went into effect this week.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
The number of ways this is disgraceful behavior from the Secretary of Defense is...a lot. Service members do have a duty to refuse illegal orders All Americans have a 1st Amendment right to say that out loud.
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