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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
And 175 years later, remains one of the most powerful forces in modern American politics.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It’s simply unimaginable that CDC Director Dr. Erica Schwartz has just bowed to RFK Jr. and approved funding for an utterly unethical clinical trial that will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine in Guinea Bissau. It is to be conducted by researchers accused of academic misconduct.
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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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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
How do I know Hegseth’s order to deny access to bases to members of Congress is about a cover up, not about safety? Because I asked for a military briefing at the embassy as a substitute and was told the policy prohibited military leaders in the region from even talking to me.
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Urgent Penguin @urgent-penguin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I learned so much in this episode. Great story. Another Pulitzer in the works.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
NEW: The Trump administration keeps denying and downplaying that immigration agents have been detaining Americans. It’s wrong. We’ve found more than 500 U.S. citizens have been held against their will, including handcuffed or held at gunpoint.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Then she says, "I used to make you silver dollar pancakes, do you remember?" And he says...
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Today the largest public school district in Tucson held a 5k where flu vaccinations were offered and that’s like 3 of my favorite things all at once.
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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I want to believe that someone at the Times knew what they were doing here.
New York Times homepage link reading: 
FRANK BRUNI AND BRET STEPHENS:
Behold the Paragons of Rank Incompetence
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Rep. Aftyn Behn @aftynbehn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Rep. Behn is calling on Governor Lee to issue an immediate reprieve for Gary Sutton and every scheduled execution following tonight’s botched execution of Christa Pike. aftynbehnfortnpress.substack.com/p/rep-behn-c...
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Nashville Scene @nashvillescene.com · 28/09/2026
Scene staff reporter Eli Motycka was removed from the guest list for Peter Thiel's Nashville Antichrist lectures — and he's not the only journalist who was. 🧵
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 30/09/2026
Reminder that Schmitt was responsible for rehabilitating Nate Hochman’s career after he got fired for posting a Neo-Nazi video for the DeSantis campaign www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Republican senator employs aide fired by DeSantis over neo-Nazi imagery
Nate Hochman, staffer for Eric Schmitt, also peddled far-right conspiracy theories as experts decry rise in extremism
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Dario Speedwagon Anthropic's sexy CEO has enough curly hair to be in an 80s band, but I heard it from a friend who heard it from a friend that he can't fight this feeling we're all gonna take it on the run if we can't pull the AI ship into the shore. by Maureen Dowd
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Pablo Torre @pablo.show · 26/09/2026
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Two Minnesota solar farms turned the ground beneath their panels into habitat, and native bee abundance rose more than 20-fold www.ecoticias.com/en/two-minne...
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Two Minnesota solar farms turned the ground beneath their panels into habitat, and native bee abundance rose more than 20-fold
Minnesota solar farms planted with native flowers saw native bees rise 20-fold, with bees also pollinating nearby soybean fields.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 19/09/2026
"Could the Shit Machine END WORLD HUNGER? It’s NOT IMPOSSIBLE in the most LITERAL SENSE, which is all the justification we need to invest an AMOUNT OF MONEY that would OTHERWISE BY ITSELF END ACTUAL WORLD HUNGER." buff.ly/K5t1rGh
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We Must Create the Shit Machine
“For as long as humans have created SHIT with our BODIES AND BUTTS, we have been asking this FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION: What if there was a COMPUTER that could AL...
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Rep. Aftyn Behn @aftynbehn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
World, meet Haystack Hazel, the critter that lives in Marsha Blackburn’s hair. She plans to send me updates from the campaign trail (when she can). Drop in the comments what tea you want her to spill. 🍵 Thank you to @angelagim and @jayquallshass for bringing this political theater project to life.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🚨 THE KAPOW HANDBOOK IS FINALLY DONE!!! 🚨 6 months, 5 authors, and 60 pages later, we’ve written a guide on how to integrate mutual aid and direct action into electoral politics. And we’re not gatekeeping this info either. Get a free digital copy on 9/21 at kapow.works/handbook !!!
Me, holding a spiral bound notebook that reads “how to KAPOW the system”Two pages of the book, one is an FAQ asking why campaigns haven’t been doing this the whole time. The other is a black intro page for PART 1: INFRASTRUCTURE that reads “Cynicism is for losers. We can build the world we want to see.”Two pages on how to make a mutual aid hub in your campaign office with loads of
Polaroids of our office and volunteers
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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Incredible headline here (among other things)
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Texas police department ordered closed for failing to provide any benefit to community
Disbanding of department in Trinidad comes after arrest of a resident for posting about issues with local water supply
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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 15/09/2026
Trump may be a terrible businessman who can't even build a reflecting pool - but he's a world class expert on corruption.
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Adam Zimmerman @profadamszimmerman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
1. Twenty-five years ago, I was clerking for Judge Weinstein, who once had a perfect, unobstructed view of the Towers. I arrived in the office early to deliver the keys to the office to his newest clerk, Kaimi Wenger. His deputy, June Lowe, came in to tell me a plane had hit the first tower.
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Urgent Penguin @urgent-penguin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Kurgman from Nov 25, 2001 is worth re-reading. www.nytimes.com/2001/11/25/o...
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Opinion | Reckonings; An Alternate Reality (Gift Article)
Paul Krugman Op-Ed column says television news always shows Americans behaving well in wake of terrorist attacks, but some Web sites and business sections of quality newspapers reveal a different pict...
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 10/09/2026
Louisiana argues in FDA case that the Comstock Act, a dormant 19th-century anti-obscenity law, prohibits shipping mifepristone. But if Comstock bans mailing abortion pills, it would also ban supplies sent to clinics—even in legal states. Activists are pressing the DOJ to embrace this interpretation
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‘A Big Deal’: Top Anti-Abortion Group Endorses Comstock Act As a Nationwide Ban
Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America had remained silent amid growing calls to enforce the 19th century anti-obscenity law as an abortion ban. That silence ended on Friday.
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Urgent Penguin @urgent-penguin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
He was also on @chrislhayes.bsky.social podcast recently. Excellent and terrifying.
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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
It is hard to overstate how the two people in this video did everything they could, for their entire careers, to bring us Trump.
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Long Lead @longlead.com · 06/09/2026
"I think we got almost everything wrong after 9/11" shares historian @vermontgmg.bsky.social who's studied 9/11 and its effects for decades. The world we're living in currently is one born from the United States' response to the terror attacks — but now we're experiencing a different kind of terror.
Graphic with DEPTH PERCEPTION branding and text: “This agency that was very much set up in the wake of 9/11 to respond to the fear of 9/11 and has been turned against ordinary Americans in streets of ordinary American cities, to repress political freedoms, to repress civil liberties, and to punish freedom of speech. This is an agency and a department that cannot be allowed to continue standing in the government of the United States.” —Garrett Graff, national security journalist and host of 'LONG SHADOW'
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 03/09/2026
BREAKING: Former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin arrested by Bourbon County Sheriff's Office
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Former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin arrested by Bourbon County Sheriff's Office
The Bourbon County Sheriff’s Office arrested former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin Thursday at a film set in Paris, Kentucky.
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
#ELB: BREAKING: The USPS rule is blocked again electionlawblog.org/2026/breaking-t…
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton turned down Trump’s Presidential Medal of Freedom. Twice.
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The saddest girl to ever hold a martini @lifeisterrible.bsky.social · 01/04/2024
DOLLY PARTON PET PEEVES
1. NOBODY NOTICES
I'VE GOT
GREAT ASS
TOO
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I mean, our media make choices every day. If Trump says he put the FEMA guy onboard oil tankers and he teleported them to a Waffle House would that be news? Or would the news orgs censor it like they did Trump saying he’d use the military on the bond market?
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Matt McNeil Show @mattmcneilshow.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Political Cartoon of the Year!
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
John Roberts is Natalie Harp in a robe. A cringeworthy handmaiden
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hannahwheel.bsky.social @hannahwheel.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
professional snake tries to weaponize state power to evade the most basic accountability
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Urgent Penguin @urgent-penguin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
A metaphor for this entire administration. Let it all burn. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Firefighters sound alarm as US faces critical staffing shortage: ‘We don’t have enough people’
Firefighters describe being pushed to limit by a brutal wildfire season, with key leadership roles going unfilled
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Bucks County Beacon @buckscountybeacon.com · 17/08/2026
Revenge of the White Supremacists: Trump’s DOJ Indicts Far Right Extremism Expert Heidi Beirich | Making this arrest on the anniversary of the Unite the Right Hate Riot in Charlottesville is a choice, intended to send a message, writes @melissaryan.bsky.social.
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Revenge of the White Supremacists: Trump's DOJ Indicts Far Right Extremism Expert Heidi Beirich - Bucks County Beacon
Making this arrest on the anniversary of the Unite the Right Hate Riot in Charlottesville is a choice, intended to send a message.
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“I was asked not to mention the Times at all. I’m choosing not to honor that norm, b/c silence abt how accountability journalism gets suppressed is itself a form of suppression.” Read the back story of how @nytimes.com and @thebulwark.com killed @adambonica.bsky.social’s piece. What a mf badass.
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With Fear and Favor
Institutions don’t have courage. They have incentives.
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Urgent Penguin @urgent-penguin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I could have lived my entire life happy and never know there was such a dreadful event as "national seersucker day".
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Urgent Penguin @urgent-penguin.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Jen Rubin is done with these m'fing snakes on this m'fing plane
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Day 2 of my weekend subscriber drive for Democracy Docket. Yesterday, we added 500. Going to try for that again today! Democracy Docket will never send you spam or sell your email address. It's not on Substack or ActBlue. Free and premium options available. Link and thanks! demdock.com/4w6emld
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Urgent Penguin @urgent-penguin.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Yourself and Kevin Kruse always remind me of the Myth of Sisyphus. Rolling boulders up hills eternally. I like to imagine, as Camus did, that you, Kevin and Sisyphus are happy. You make the rest of us very happy watching you roll the boulders
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
A lovely dive into the history of “Coyote Vs Acme,” one of the funniest things ever written by one of my favorite authors. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/s...
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Ian Frazier Wrote ‘Coyote v. Acme’ in 1990. Now It’s a Movie. (Gift Article)
With “Coyote vs. Acme,” Ian Frazier, a soft-spoken reporter and humorist, has finally gone Hollywood.
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Jerod MacDonald-Evoy @jerodmacevoy.com · 15/08/2026
Abuse victims ask Arizona high court to reconsider its clergy-shield ruling azmirror.com/2026/08/14/a...
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Abuse victims ask Arizona high court to reconsider its clergy-shield ruling
Abuse victims are appealing the Arizona clergy abuse ruling, saying it lets churches conceal child abuse
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Urgent Penguin @urgent-penguin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
It's the Arizona Republican party mantra. ABC. Always be cheating.
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Urgent Penguin @urgent-penguin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/au...
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‘A horrible nightmare’: the shocking story of the eBay harassment scandal
Jaw-dropping documentary Whatever It Takes details an aggressive stalking campaign targeted towards a couple whose reporting criticized the tech company
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Rachel Rothschild @profrrothschild.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Big news!!! After two long years of litigation, the Chief Judge of the Michigan Court of Claims has ruled against a fossil fuel funded group that sued the University of Michigan to obtain my personal communications with environmental groups. Coverage here: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/c...
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She Inspired Laws to Hold the Fossil Fuel Industry Accountable. Now She’s a Target. (Published 2025)
A conservative group is suing for emails of a law professor who helped create legislation to force oil, gas and coal companies to pay for climate damage.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
You can't predict the turns this sentence takes. Extreme heat is threatening Italy’s “cheese banks,” where hundreds of thousands of Parmigiano-Reggiano wheels are stored as loan collateral. fortune.com/2026/08/10/i...
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Italy's $4.7 billion cheese economy is feeling the heat as climate change threatens its cheese banks that hold Parmigiano wheels as loan collateral | Fortune
Extreme heat is straining the vaults that hold Parmigiano wheels as loan collateral, and economists say the damage runs wider than the vault
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
NEW: My open letter to David Ellison. You argued that the American people have misjudged you — that they are wrong about what is in your heart and mind. I want to be clear: I don’t care what you think or feel. What I care about is your actions. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...
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My open letter to David Ellison
You argued that the American people have misjudged you — that they are wrong about what is in your heart and mind. I want to be clear: I don't care what you think or feel. What I care about is your ac...
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Urgent Penguin @urgent-penguin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
If David Halberstam were alive today he would be working on the sequel: "The Worst and the Dimmest". I'd line up for a copy of that.
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David Bowie News @davidbowienews.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
David Bowie, Peninsula Hotel, Beverly Hills, 1993, by Michel Haddi for Interview magazine.
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