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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 8h
This is major! I wrote about the community's efforts to stop pollution from half-burned medical waste: magazine.publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/communi...
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Community vs. Coal: Reclaiming Health in Curtis Bay | Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health Magazine
Protesting coal dust and half-burned medical waste, South Baltimore residents lead the way on environmental health research.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h
America today is a country where regulators won't allow private companies to air interviews of the opposition on TV, but declare that taxpayer funded propaganda is fine.
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 8h
Your job as a parent is to keep your child alive
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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 8h
And they used the euphemism "passes away."
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randy r. potts @thephatic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
thinking a lot rn about how Europe has insanely great third spaces, it's walkable, it has a good education system, it reallllly teaches WWII history, they have good social programs, etc, and none of that has seemed to help in preventing the rise of the far right
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 19h
just like the Fugitive Slave Act, conservatives demand that they can impose their evil systems upon liberal states, democracy be damned, but if liberal states so much as offer a mild disincentive for evil to make conservative state maybe Suck Less then it's unconstitutional tyrannical overreach
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
See it’s cool because now every delivery driver can also be part of your neighborhood watch and cops will be able to jack in to live feeds from driver glasses. /s
bloomberg.com
Amazon Drivers’ Smart Glasses Are Going to Be an Image Problem
Coming soon up a garden path near you: an Amazon.com Inc. driver wearing smart glasses, almost constantly taking pictures and sending them back to the company to be analyzed by humans and fed into an ...
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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Extremely disturbing article that once again puts the lie to any kinds of data protection that flock or local government pretends exist
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Smith chose to stay away from Willis because he's smart and she's an idiot. He was managing the unusually sensitive optics. But it's not a rule. There's nothing wrong as such with state and federal prosecutors talking to each other about related cases. It wouldn't be scandalous even if he had.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you’re not from Missouri, you may not know that Eric Schmitt got his start in MAGA politics by suing public schools for mask mandates while their teachers died during a pandemic. The really strange thing? He never sued his own kids’ school for their mask mandate. He’s a piece of Schitt.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
rural health folks have been hearing nonsense and hype about how AI and medtech will fix everything for YEARS. if these coastal elites had bothered to talk to anyone instead of imposing their corrupt deals on everyone...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Per @adamschiff.com: “Donald Trump promised to let Elon Musk self-police his conflicts of interest. The result? Those investigating his companies have been fired. Cases against his companies have been dismissed. “The corrupt self-dealing is staggering.”
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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
‘Beyond priceless’: how a halt to dredging saved the seas of Scotland’s Summer Isles Fish and shellfish populations were falling rapidly as scallop dredgers devastated the seabed, but local activists and small-scale fishers battled hard to protect their coastline www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Beyond priceless’: how a halt to dredging saved the seas of Scotland’s Summer Isles
Fish and shellfish populations were falling rapidly as scallop dredgers devastated the seabed, but local activists and small-scale fishers battled hard to protect their coastline
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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: As Trump’s White House and influencers keep touting the unproven benefits of raw milk, hundreds across the country are falling ill from outbreaks. Some people get severe indigestion. And some nearly die. Here's the story of one toddler who drank it. 🧵👇 www.propublica.org/article/cali...
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When the “censorship industrial complex” myth was just getting started, in Fall 2022, I got a public records request from the AG’s office of Missouri looking for all my emails related to my team’s election rumor research. The Missouri AG at that time? Eric Schmitt. What a tool.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Data centers are gonna be very popular”🤔 Trump again makes it clear his loyalty is to the tech oligarchs (who enrich him and his family), not to regular Americans
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Micah @rincewind.run · 30/09/2026
seriously: every western regime should deny any and all relief and sabotage this administration as hard as possible
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NACDL @nacdl.org · 29/09/2026
🧵A surveillance vendor is telling police it can add facial recognition to Flock camera data. Flock says it never will. Someone else is ready to jump in. New reporting from @404media.co: www.404media.co/surveillance...
404media.co
Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras
A surveillance company wants to "close the gap" that Flock won't do, by pitching facial recognition on its cameras.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 30/09/2026
Buried away and completely hidden out of sight in a dense forest, more than 1,600 immigrants are imprisoned here on any given day in what is the largest immigration detention center in the Northeast.
motherjones.com
Trump’s mass detention machine in Pennsylvania
"ICE is just churning bodies into the detention system."
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/09/2026
just another day in a country too corrupt to pass a privacy law, regulate data brokers, or adequately fund its regulators things are going to get wild
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
speaking of closing tax loopholes, if the IRS was able to collect all taxes owed since 2000 it could mean today's national debt would be $8 trillion lighter some new fiscal analysis from yours truly, link below
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“In the 20 years I have been in this field," said Lauren Fisher Flores, legal director at ProBar, “I have never seen the immigration court strip children of their right to seek safety and protection under the law.” #AbuseofPowerWatch
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
1. Democrats win control of the House and Senate. 2. Investigations and prosecutions begin. 3. Impeachment and removal proceedings. 4. Take back the billions of taxpayer money corruptly taken by the Trump family and their accomplices. 5. Rinse and repeat.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Republicans know the key to their power is getting people to disengage from participation in democracy.
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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A guy negotiated with an AI Ghost that Meta made of a user and gave the guy the user's home address. Shut down this AI wave and break up Meta.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wow! Can we clone this man? Asking for every American City! 😍
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's good that we invented things like "government" and "the economy" but we can't meaningfully participate in them if the people in charge are constantly rubbing in our faces that these things are fake, and in fact you are a naive doofus if you think otherwise. That's a society on life support
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Josh Cowen @joshcowenmi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
From my book The Privateers: “if evidence meant anything to education policy, vouchers would have died a decade ago.”
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here's Trump saying tariff money is the Republicans' "income" and they can do what they want with it. The Republican Party is a Mafia-style gang, not a political organization.
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thesis: www.offmessage.net/p/donald-tru...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The rich would prefer you to believe that the "free market" is subject to the immutable law of supply and demand. But for years, the wealthy and powerful have manipulated the market for their own gain. There is nothing “free” about it. Watch.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 28/09/2026
“We came up with some very astounding numbers,” Wellinghoff said. “If you knock out nine total substations among those three grids, you can black out the entire United States.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/m...
nytimes.com
What if America Went Completely Dark?
The power grid relies on thousands of aging, hand-built transformers. If enough fail, the blackout could last years.
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More Perfect University @mpuniversity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@aoc.bsky.social: The best thing that we can do to rein in runaway costs at private institutions is by having tuition free public colleges and universities. “For anyone who wants to say that that’s pie in the sky and unrealistic… this is literally what baby boomers gave themselves.”
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
At this moment Elon Musk alone is worth $893,449,882,001
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“They don’t understand the scale of the hunger!”- An unfolding crisis at the nation’s food banks
Weeks before the midterm elections, the cost crisis is hammering food pantries in red and blue states
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I served in multiple authoritarian states, both communist and otherwise--Russia, Vietnam, Iraq, the Sultanate of Oman, and Ukraine before the Orange Revolution brought in democracy. One common thread among all of them is government spending on propaganda to glorify the dictator/sultan.
cnn.com
White House airs another government-funded ad, this time with Trump warning of ‘final battle’ | CNN Politics
The Trump administration is set to launch another overtly political campaign ad funded by taxpayer dollars, attacking the “fake news media” and “the sick political class that hates our country.”
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...
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Rachel Rothschild @profrrothschild.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There is a lot I could say about attacks on climate researchers, including what I personally faced over the past few years. Some of my thoughts made it into this excellent investigative report. Perhaps one day I'll put pen to paper and tell my whole story. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026...
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POLITICO Pro: 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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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026
The MAGA bromance is over… A new Cygnal poll finds Trump underwater with men 18–30, Republicans at -9 favorability, and among the young men most determined to vote, Democrats lead 57%–40%. Turns the cost of living hits harder than MAGA memes and culture wars.
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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Re-Elect Governor Hobbs! #Pinks #VoteAZ
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
ProPublica brakes more important stories about Trump than all of Corporate Media combined.
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Elon Musk is shutting down the Catholic Bishops in Brazil account on X to help the right-wing win the election there paydayreport.com/x-blocks-acc...
paydayreport.com
X Blocks Account of National Conference of Bishops of Brasil As Catholics Back Lula
Polls show Catholics backing Lula as the church denounces foreign interference.
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Bob Mann @robertmannbooks.com · 26/09/2026
I fervently pray that I can continue getting away with my fraud against State Farm by never using my homeowners insurance.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’d say a 10-hour book usually takes me about five full work days. And we get paid per finished hour, so even if I worked 35 hours on it, I only get paid for the 10.
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The article is about his government crimes, but before DOGE the kid ran "image hosting services based in Russia" that promised total anonymity, no logs to uploaders? If you know anything about the web you know *exactly* what that means and he probably should have been in prison for life already
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 26/09/2026
The SCOTUS decision increases the likelihood that eligible voters will be wrongly labeled as noncitizens due to faulty data and removed from the rolls.
motherjones.com
Supreme Court allows Trump to use flawed database to vet voter citizenship
While the impact on the midterms might be minimal, Justice Jackson warns some eligible voters could be disenfranchised.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026
I think it is very important that Big Balls, personally, goes to jail there are a lot of young goons who think they are invincible and it is important to make it clear that they are not
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026
An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.
disconnect.blog
The media has the AI threat all wrong
Generative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I think something to consider here is that Collins voted to confirm Russ Vought as OMB Director despite the fact that he said a billion times that he thought Trump had a constitutional right to illegally impound funds, and now she’s doing shocked Pikachu reactions.
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Without warning or consultation, Congress just received an $810 million package of pocket rescissions from the Administration. This is the most recent attempt by this Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to undermine Congress's Constitutional power of the purse.
This move shows that OMB intentionally withheld these funds for months to execute this unlawful cancellation of appropriations that were approved on a bipartisan basis and signed into law.Not only is the delay itself an impoundment that was not reported to Congress, but also it is a usurpation of Congress's appropriations powers.
OMB is an agency of the executive branch. It does not get to decide which programs are worth funding.
The independent Government Accountability Office has concluded that pocket rescissions are unlawful and not permitted by the Impoundment Control Act. Any effort to rescind appropriated funds without congressional approval is a clear violation of the law.
I will work with my colleagues to address these illegal actions.
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