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Andrea González-Ramírez @andreagonram.bsky.social · 12h
"My assailant was found responsible for my sexual assault ... His punishment? He received a 'written reprimand,' was ordered to write a 'reflection paper,' and was placed on behavioral probation until he graduated two months later." Must-read by a Cornell grad: www.thecut.com/article/i-wa...
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I’m Not the Only Cornell Student Title IX Failed
When I was raped in 2023, my attacker, too, only had to write an essay. Now, I see I’m not alone.
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uniongal.bsky.social @uniongal.bsky.social · 8h
That’s the area hardest hit with the latest strain of Ebola, too. Along the border with Rwanda.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 21h
And because I ran out of characters again, she is also a South African of Indian descent who witnessed the imposition of apartheid and represented Nelson Mandela and anti-apartheid activists, specifically getting a Harvard law degree to learn how to use international law to dismantle segregation
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 21h
Because I ran out of characters, she was also the chair of the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, which determined that Israel had committed genocide during the Gaza war. www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...
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UN commission of inquiry accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza and urges global action
The Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel has issued a report that calls on countries to end the genocide and take steps to punish those responsible for it.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 21h
The Norwegian Nobel Committee is sending a message to Trump by awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to the former President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, judge of the International Criminal Court, and the Commissioner of the International Commission Against the Death Penalty
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Pew's poll is particularly notable because of its massive sample size; an N of just over 5,000 survey respondents. One particularly interesting finding on immigration is that the issue has slightly lost salience for Republicans and gained significant salience for Democrats since the 2022 midterms.
Table: Compared with 2022, Republican and Democratic voters priorities in 2026 have shifted in different directions on many issues, including the economy.

On immigration, 76% of Republican Registered Voters (RVs) in 2022 rated the issue as "very important for their vote for Congress." That has now dropped to 72% in 2026. By contrast, it was at 36% for Democrats in 2022, and is now up to 53%, a net 17 percent increase.

The biggest issue, however, continues to be the economy. 92% of Republicans rated the economy as important in 2022, but that's now dropped to 82%. The next highest issue for Republicans is immigration at 72%, followed by the future of democracy at 69%, then violent crime at 64%.

For Democrats, 65% rated the economy as very important in 2022, and that's now 88%, the highest issue, beating out the future of democracy (85%), healthcare (82%), and education (74%).
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
When a politician promises to make something cheaper, ask "the second question". Where's the extra supply coming from? ⁣ ⁣ This diesel executive order doesn't make any sense newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
El-Sayed: "This is guy who has not been serious about providing people healthcare his entire career. What he has been serious about is making sure he can monetize his time in office. $14, two yachts, a McMansion in Florida."
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Mac It Look Like An Accident @macrogers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Okay so we have a number now: the Onion is officially 6 months ahead of reality.
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Q: You have been supportive of Trump's immigration strategy. Name 1 circumstance where the administration went too far Michigan Republican Mike Rogers: I... uhhh... think the public... uh, efforts in Minnesota probably... uhh... went too far
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Joshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Yes, Medicare for All will increase your taxes...but not as much as you pay in insurance Yes, Medicare for All will likely mean you jettison your private insurance...but your private insurance sucks...and you KNOW IT DOES 👇
Medicare for All will cost LESS than our current system.

A recent study by Yale epidemiologists found that Medicare for All would save around 68,000 lives a year while reducing U.S. health care spending by around 13%, or $450 billion a year.
Medicare for All spending would be approximately $37.8 trillion between 2017 and 2026, according to a study by the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. That amounts to about $5 trillion in savings over that time. These savings would come from reducing administrative costs and allowing the government to negotiate prescription drug prices.
Other studies by think tanks and government agencies have analyzed single-payer proposals at the state and federal levels. Most found Medicare for All would reduce our total health care spending.
Even a study by the Koch-funded Mercatus Center found that Medicare for All would save around $2 trillion over a 10-year period.
With Medicare for All, most families would spend less on health care than they do now on premiums, copays and deductibles.

​​​​​​​Some additional taxes would be needed to pay for Medicare for All, but most Americans would spend less on health care than they do right now.
Overall, working families that make around $60,000 a year would pay up to 14% lessen their annual health care costs.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I posted about Montana having one of the nation’s most important Supreme Court races earlier today. This is probably the other.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026
a livestreamed execution is just a lynching
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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The Wall Street Journal reports that, while preparing for her confirmation hearing last year, Guilfoyle told a Trump donor she needed $100,000 from him—and did not want to leave a paper trail.
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‘Honey please’: Guilfoyle reportedly pushed MAGA donor to pay $100k Amex bill
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Umm, *I was the “somebody”! www.c-span.org/clip/house-c...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...
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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
*checks the news* Fucking hell, here we are. It only gets worse until we make it stop. Re: livestream: these people are depraved fascists & imposing moral harm is part of the governmentality schtick & also fucking these these fuckers are depraved & inhumane.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Q: Many feel you have not addressed the fact your son in law is a white supremacist influencer. What have you said to your family? COLLINS: That's my family OSSOFF: Imagine running for Senate while neo-Nazi propaganda is disseminated to an audience of millions from your home. That's Mike Collins.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We’re sick of ICE terrorizing our neighbors. Sick of it. Like the brave people of Minneapolis, we have zero tolerance for federal agents lawlessly unleashing violence on our streets.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
New: We got body camera footage of the Flock search and traffic stop a judge ruled unconstitutional and "indiscriminate mass surveillance" www.404media.co/watch-footag...
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Watch Footage of the Flock Search a Judge Ruled Unconstitutional
"I saw her go by, and I just started running her info on Flock."
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uniongal.bsky.social @uniongal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
So, just some new pinkertons i guess
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NEW: A new attack ad by Rep. Brad Finstad (R-Minn.) uses a photo of MN small biz owner Beth Benike -- who says he's ignored her pleas for help with Trump's tariffs -- except he erased her + subbed in a fake image of Gov. Tim Walz. "You've got to be kidding me." www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-re...
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GOP Rep. Brad Finstad Runs Attack Ad That Erases Critical Voter From Photo
“What a poor decision,” Beth Benike said of her congressman altering her photo with Democrat Jake Johnson to make a fake image of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 07/10/2026
Remember that “national infertility training center” the Trump administration announced last year? The $4M grant is going to an organization with ties to the Heritage Foundation and an anti-abortion doctor group that sued the FDA 👇🏼
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SharkusG @sharkusg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Thirty years of Fox News is the timeline of American decline.
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uniongal.bsky.social @uniongal.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Weird, they haven’t posted in 7months over here.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A bonanza for the Trump family.
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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Christa is the first person in the U.S. to survive a lethal injection. The outcome is unprecedented but what went wrong isn’t — and shows how easily another botched execution could occur. www.propublica.org/article/chri...
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Why Tennessee’s Botched Death Row Execution Could Happen Anywhere
The complications behind Tennessee’s failed execution of Christa Pike aren’t uncommon — and show how easily another botched execution could occur, even as others are planned soon in Texas and Florida.
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Abolish ICE.
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ashley (birthday month) 🕸️ @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
cook him. continue cooking him
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uniongal.bsky.social @uniongal.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Holy SHIZNIT!
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Seán Ferrick @seanferrick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I was tempted to pirate HP, curiosity and all that. But @jessiegender.bsky.social is right - think of the amount of times HBO commented on GOT leaks and downloads, just as an example. They DO track these things, and even that drives interest. Let this show die. Trans people deserve better.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
NYFed: By February 2026, Trump's tariffs had contributed 2.9 percentage points to consumer goods price inflation; without tariffs, goods prices would have fallen slightly. The tariffs raised the cost of imported goods AND their domestically-produced competitors.
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How Fast Do Tariffs Pass Through into Consumer Prices? - Liberty Street Economics
A look at how much of U.S. tariffs reach consumers and how quickly, tracing tariffs through import, domestic producer, and retail prices.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
And, if you are unaware of my longstanding and repeatedly expressed views here …
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Emil Bove, thumbing his nose at America, is making a mockery of the rule of law
Attending Trump's rally on Tuesday, Judge Emil Bove let it be known that his DOJ actions were just the beginning. Bove must face accountability, and ultimately impeachment.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Small addendum: It's tricky to see what precisely SBE did fund in FY26 because almost everything was relabeled as 'cross-directorate activities'—a catch-all for directorate-wide funding. This plot, though, gives a sense of how many program areas (30+) SBE had previously funded and how they were cut.
Plot shows new grants in basically every area of SBE going to zero in 2026. Note that there is some double counting as some grants are in multiple areas. (e.g. Sociology and Economics)
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
How did this happen? Officially, proposals went through the same process as before: peer review, program officer recommendation, section head approval. Unofficially, the choice was taken out of SBE's hands, going above the directorate head, Christina Freyman and to NSF leadership.
In the past, panels of independent scientists vetted proposals; program officers recommended those found worthy, and section heads approved them. But a new, unofficial process has removed decision-making power from all directorate staff and leadership. Only a few proposals in administration priority areas, such as cognitive science and AI, were allowed to move ahead, according to the former staffers. Program officers sent them to Freyman, who met with Simon Malcomber, NSF’s chief science officer. “Then he would come back with some decision,” a former staffer explains. “So it wasn’t his decision-making. He was in consult with others.” If Malcomber said a proposal was acceptable, a program officer was given the green light to officially recommend it. “They were very, very careful in terms of never putting anything in writing about what the process was,” the former staffer says. NSF did not respond to questions about the process.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In addition to spending less money and making fewer new grants, SBE also dramatically narrowed where it made those new grants. Areas such as economics, sociology, and archaeology received few to no grants.
Grantmaking gutted
The National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) awarded far fewer new awards than typical in fiscal year 2026—just 91. (The fiscal year runs from 1 October to 30 September.) Most of the new grants focused on cognitive science and artificial intelligence, in alignment with White House priorities; offices that support fields such as economics, sociology, and research ethics, as well as postdoctoral fellowships, awarded no grants at all.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
But no part was hit as hard as SBE, which went from an average of 800 new grants to just 91, a precipitous, 90% decline. SBE spent just 95 million on new grants, far less than its average of 247 million.
Chart of SBE new grants by FY shows a massive decline in FY26Chart of obligations by SBE shows a 62% decline in FY26
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Agency-wide, NSF made far fewer new grants (~6,200, down from an average of ~11,000) and underspent its buget by 1.4 billion. See previous coverage:
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Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades
The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:
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‘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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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Impeach, convict, and remove — directly to prison.
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
FBI agents were circling Susan Collins and her operation. Then Donald Trump came back and dismantled the unit investigating. And now Susan Collins conveniently votes with him 96% of the time.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/10/2026
who knows if jackson can win this thing but i am glad that he is making clear that susan collins's whole scam is to do everything she can to make life worse for mainers and then take credit for mitigating it in the slightest way possible
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
As Democrats, we should say no to the corrupting influence of big money and yes to tight regulation of a worryingly volatile industry.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"The Archdiocese of St. Louis has filed a lawsuit ... claims that the Ste. Genevieve County Jail and ICE have violated the First Amendment rights of immigrant detainees by preventing Catholic priests from delivering communion, hearing confessions and celebrating Mass." fox2now.com/news/missour...
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Archdiocese of St. Louis sues ICE officials over blocked religious services
The Archdiocese of St. Louis has filed a lawsuit against Ste. Genevieve County officials and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) leadership over alleged restrictions on Catholic religiou…
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY.
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Semafor @semafor.com · 05/10/2026
🟡 SCOOP: The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has been visiting big banks to review their loans to private credit firms and understand their exposure to a financial industry that has unnerved investors and global policymakers. www.semafor.com/article/10/0...
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 05/10/2026
The SPEAKER implies. The LISTENER infers. The DUDE abides.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 05/10/2026
Early Monday in Ukraine's war-torn capital, Alina Biriuk waited for a bus to take her across the river -- a once-mundane commute on a bridge that has come under fire from Russian drones, forcing Kyiv's residents to constantly adapt how they get around their city 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 u.afp.com/S9V6
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uniongal.bsky.social @uniongal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is also my reading of this.
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