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Vinny Eng

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Agnes Caruso @agnescaruso.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is very important reminder how bad disease measles really is.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Civil war in Ethiopi bubbling up again. Deathtoll hard to verify--but probat least 600 k, last half decade or so. Imperial fuckery in that land--Soviet, then U.S., up to the recent present--runs deep. This isn't separate from you. Read my pal @annneumann.bsky.social harpers.org/archive/2023...
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Falling Like Leaves, by Ann Neumann
The war in Ethiopia and its crimes against civilians
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C.S. Lang @cslpoetry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Lost Descendants of Thomas Jefferson www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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The Lost Descendants of Thomas Jefferson
Scientists have new proof that Thomas Jefferson had children with his enslaved chambermaid Sally Hemings—and that their bloodline endures across the country.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This should be considered a massive civic failure.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 20/09/2026
CNN: US is preparing a large-scale military operation against Yemen's Houthis in retaliation for their strikes on Saudi Arabia, with the Camp David meeting held to review Yemen strike options, shortly before Trump left for the White House.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
but again, genuinely hilarious (derogatory) for a guy whose father was a klansman to say "the presence of nazis in the republican party is because black people wouldn't shut up." oh, is that why nazis immediately began organizing in the wake of donald trump's 2016 victory too?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
90 percent of my writing is about american law, history, constitutionalism and the overall political system. but dreher and the people like him (and frankly quite a few others) are basically incapable of seeing that.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Florida has at least four Senators at the moment, which seems vaguely unconstitutional. www.npr.org/2026/06/13/n...
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U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville faces a residency challenge to run for Alabama governor
Senator Tommy Tuberville is facing a residency challenge that could prevent him from running for governor of Alabama.
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Claudia Sahm @claudia-sahm.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
'To preserve its independence, the Fed should play politics' is a terrible strategy. Also, when has appeasement Trump ever worked? The best thing for the Fed is to pursue good monetary policy.
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Claudia Sahm @claudia-sahm.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
My new @opinion.bloomberg.com piece, “… credibility lives in what people believe the central bank will do under pressure. It is precisely when the pressure is greatest that the Fed’s credibility is won or lost.”
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Toss @stevenspoints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing
Instagram post from the official Muppets account: Few humans have earned the title of honorary Muppet more than the legendary Tim Curry. As a performer he was unparalleled - witty, charming, unnerving, and deeply funny. We will always consider it one of our greatest treasures to have been part of Long John Silver’s crew. Thank you for everything, Tim.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The Supreme Court is not being obtuse. They're being evil. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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The Supreme Court Is Helping Trump Rig the Midterms
Trump’s order limiting mail-in voting is patently unconstitutional—but that didn’t stop the court from giving it the green light.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
For the last seven months straight, the U.S. government has refused to process immigrant visas for nationals of 75 countries around the world; including visas for spouses of U.S. citizens. Today, a federal judge ruled the policy flagrantly illegal.
Map of the world, with the 75 countries impacted highlighted in yellow. They include countries in South America like Brazil and Venezuela, about half of all African countries, and most Middle Eastern countries.
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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
BREAKING: In unusual 9PM Friday Federal Register filing, Postal Service finalizes regulation to deny delivery of mail-in ballots not matching addresses in database BUT says won't implement 'til court orders are lifted. #SCOTUS still quiet. Doc: public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-17238.pdf
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
“Foreign exporters absorbed only 4% of last year’s U.S. tariff increases by lowering prices, while American consumers & importers absorbed 96%. Rather than acting as a tax on foreign producers, the tariffs functioned as a consumption tax on Americans.” BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY. Keep sharing this please.
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Americans Are the Ones Paying for Tariffs, Study Finds
New research contradicts President Trump’s claim that foreigners are footing the bill.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
We are unquestionably sending people to their deaths, all because the President and his appointees are making policy based on pure racism and bigotry.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 18/08/2026
Via @kathrynpost.bsky.social: As ICE closes in, Ohio churches line up families to care for Haitian kids left behind religionnews.com/2026/08/17/a...
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As ICE closes in, Ohio churches line up families to care for Haitian kids left behind
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (RNS) — In Springfield, Ohio, ICE shifts tactics to stealth raids and ankle monitors. Churches are responding by helping Haitian parents line up temporary caregivers, preparing for t...
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
An ICE agent directed Emilio, a Venezuelan Deaf man, to get onto a bus. He asked for an interpreter and didn’t get one. When he saw a Mexican flag, he realized he was being deported to Mexico, sans passport. My latest for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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How Trump’s deportation machine deprives Deaf people of their humanity
An extra layer of cruelty is added by limiting communication access for Deaf people.
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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 21/08/2026
Renowned climate scientist James Hansen says the developing super El Niño has already "blown past" previous events with months to go before it peaks
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'Off the charts' El Niño is already the strongest since records began | New Scientist
Renowned climate scientist James Hansen says the developing super El Niño has already "blown past" previous events with months to go before it peaks
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
One of many reasons that debates matter: They’re useful for finding out if politicians know basic stuff without a script
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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Also FYI, the majority of Colorado River water used for farms is actually for cattle feed (alfalfa and hay). The minority of the agricultural water use is for food people eat directly, like wheat or produce. science.nasa.gov/missions/lan...
Sankey diagram showing Colorado River Basin’s water availability, water consumption by basin, water consumption by sector (biggest by far is agriculture), and water consumption by crop (alfalfa plus other hay make up the majority).
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 18/08/2026
The thing about Polio wasn't the deaths it was the disabilities. Polio took healthy young men and permanently disabled them often in very visible ways and that scared the fuck out of people in a very ableist society. My friend's dad had polio, and it left him with one leg shorter than the other.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"The potential population displacement caused by sea-level rise is on the order of the displacement seen during World War II, except sustained over entire lifetimes... roughly 90% of people at risk live in low- to mid-income countries"
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Models of Glacial Collapse in Antarctica Improve Predictions of Sea-Level Rise
What we can learn from the acceleration of the Pine Island Glacier.
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Yale School of Public Health @yalesph.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
According to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health, a single-payer universal health care system could: ➡️ Cover every American ➡️ Save more than 100,000 lives a year ➡️ Cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace 1/
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
92% of Medicaid enrollees are already working or fall into an exemption category.
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
“One baby at a time, the world is marching toward a grim milestone: Because of global cuts to foreign aid, the Gates Foundation has predicted that 2025 will be the first year this century where child deaths will increase.” apnews.com/article/usai...
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USAID fallout: In Nepal, when the aid workers stopped coming, the women and babies started dying
The Associated Press has found that the decision by the United States to slash its foreign aid funding last year has increased pregnancy complications and deaths in Nepal.
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Peter du Toit @peterdutoit.com · 03/08/2026
The world at ~1.5°C of heating. In the next decade or heating will reach 2°C above preindustrial. What will heatwaves be like then?
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‘Stop all outdoor activities’: South Korea records its highest ever temperature
Authorities issue alert saying indoor spaces without airconditioning are ‘dangerous’ as temperatures pass 40C for fifth straight day
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The Economist @economist.com · 03/08/2026
In some respects, the wildfires have shown off effective crisis management. Yet the disaster has also exposed shortcomings in both countries
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France and Spain are suffering their biggest wildfires on record
Bordeaux is on alert, and worse is yet to come
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Loading the dice. The weather conditions driving the devastating fires in Spain were ~20× more likely because of human-caused climate change, and ~2× more likely in France. Of course, the spark matters...but the conditions decide the scale. www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...
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Climate change increases likelihood of compounding drivers of severe wildfire conditions in France and Spain – World Weather Attribution
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I remember seeing someone (very reasonably) complaining here a few days ago that there seems to be next to no visible thinking on left and center about how to join the dots on administration and democracy. This is the beginnings of an answer to that complaint donmoynihan.substack.com/p/rebuilding...
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Rebuilding Democracy Requires Rebalancing Power
What does a power-shifting agenda look like?
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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 29/07/2026
David Hirsch founded what became one of America’s most regarded Pinot Noir and Chardonnay vineyards at a time when the foggy Sonoma Coast was widely believed to be too extreme for viticulture.
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A pioneer of one of California’s most revered wine regions has died
David Hirsch founded what became one of America’s most regarded Pinot Noir and Chardonnay vineyards at a time when the foggy Sonoma Coast was widely believed to be too extreme for viticulture.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
As I've said many times, the revocation of TPS for Haitians is horrific on its face, but it's *also* going to have a devastating cascade of effects because Haitian workers are the backbone of health and human services supports for elderly and disabled folks, especially here in Massachusetts.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
You know all this but possibly like me despite knowing it you don't really know it, because if you did you might be asking different questions. I keep meaning to do so, myself. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...
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Opinion | 112 Degrees in Paris, Flames Near Bordeaux. France Can’t Go On Like This. (Gift Article)
The frightening heat and wildfires this summer should be an impetus to those in charge to reckon with how quickly the risks are changing.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 27/07/2026
The Imperial Valley has a pediatric asthma problem, and increasing industry without pollution controls is making it worse.
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Near the Salton Sea, Little League Players Struggle to Breathe
Pediatric asthma is common in Calipatria, where young athletes compete despite extreme heat and air pollution. Some worry a lithium boom could make things worse.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
ATLANTA (AP) — US surpasses 2025’s record-breaking tally for measles cases, with 2,318 cases and 5 more months left in the year.
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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 22/03/2026
john hoffman, MN state senator who survived an assassination attempt by vance boelter, who killed mark and melissa hortman, is here supporting omar fateh. he said fateh was his first visitor when he was in hospital. gave him a note saying “we’ll get that fucker” that is still on his fridge
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The effects of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act were pretty clear as it was been written. The law balanced tax cuts with safety net cuts, which came via new administrative burdens like error rates and work requirements donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-re...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Crucial from @ryanenos.bsky.social: If you doubt Trump might try to seize ballot boxes, recall that not long ago it seemed outlandish that armed government militias would be roving our streets, killing people. On the pod, Ryan is so good on the danger of this moment: newrepublic.com/article/2132...
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Trump’s Plot to Rig Midterms Gets So Unhinged that Even Fox Is Rattled
As Trump’s threats to corrupt the midterms grow more vile, a political scientist explains why his visible derangement shouldn’t distract us from the severe threat this moment poses.
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Susan Williams @susan-williams.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Great, great conversation. Especially important is the stuff at the end about what we need to do right now to inoculate the country against plans to steal the election, and to be prepared to act
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
It's happening, and not just in Georgia. There's no question about it:
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Baseless Allegations Drive Law Enforcement Seizures of Election Records
Seizures this year in multiple states have been based on faulty information and risk undermining trust in elections.
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Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
A Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy wrote transphobic comments in police stop reports. A review of the department's 2024 RIPA (Racial and Identity Profiling Act) data found 60 comments in reason for contact section saying cisgender doesn’t exist.
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no such thing as cisgender nor did i check to see if they were straight/gay. suspect made unsate lane chang wanted for a sex crime charge.what is a "cisgender"?
there is no such thing as a cisgender, Susp was a male, i do not know if he was gay or straight nor do i care. ‹ no such thing as cisgender, i do not know nor care if they are gay or straight. stopped for 22107 vc
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
“Paris has embarked on a grand transformation, planting 155k trees, adding hundreds of kms of bike lanes, pedestrianising 300 school streets and banning cars from the banks of the Seine. Parking has been turned into green space…Fewer parents fear their child being run over when they walk to school.”
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How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets
Under Anne Hidalgo – mayor for 12 years until last week – the French capital added bike lanes, cut traffic and reclaimed public space, but not without resistance
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/07/2026
you might also say that identity politics takes many forms, and isn’t simply a euphemism for “black people and women in politics”
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C.M. Lewis 🦬⚔️ @thehousered.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Need to be super clear to folks that there is a growing class of “progressive” political consultants with elite backgrounds that are cashing in on antiestablishment sentiment amongst voters, and their payday isn’t at all about your concerns. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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How Did We Get Graham Platner, Anyway? The Answer Is the Problem.
Democrats need to learn this lesson.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/07/2026
the biggest positive story on climate is that it doesn’t seem to matter how much of the world is run by reactionary fascists: the rise of solar is unstoppable
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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/07/2026
good news! india is installing a metric shitload of solar!
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A First Among Major Nations, India Is Industrializing With Solar
While China's push to modernize sparked a surge in burning coal, India is turning to increasingly cheap solar to meet its booming energy needs. Though it faces big hurdles, including a rickety grid, I...
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Roberto Baldwin @strngwys.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I grew up on Food Stamps, the stigma was fucking horrible. I have so much to say about this ghoulish piece of shit, Stitt and his desire to shame people. "making it so easy..." Fuck you dude. I'm vibrating with anger right now over this. Being poor is expensive, traumatizing, and anything but easy
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
NEW: @katemac.bsky.social & I: "Heat waves tend to attract less attention than the charismatic megafauna of climate disasters—floods, storms, wildfires—in part because they cause less property damage & thus less obviously financially costly" phenomenalworld.org/analysis/glo... Graphic @TheEconomist
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Alice Stollmeyer @stollmeyer.eurosky.social · 11/07/2026
“Climate breakdown is not a natural disaster. It is a business model that privatises profit and socialises cost.” #StopFossilFuelSubsidies #MakePollutersPay #ParisAgreement #ClimateCrisis #GreenDeal euobserver.com/226432/as-eu...
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As Europe swelters, Paris judges say consumers aren’t to blame — TotalEnergies is
A Paris judicial tribunal has just ruled on a case brought against TotalEnergies by environmental groups and the City of Paris. The judgment does not halt the company's fossil-fuel expansion. But it d...
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