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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's almost like putting a quack anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist in charge of the nation's health policy has consequences. "The United States has now had more measles deaths in the past two years than we have had in the previous three decades combined...": www.ms.now/news/pennsyl...

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Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the U.S.

The state has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, health officials said Monday, making it the largest outbreak in the U.S. in more than three decades.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

lol, if you know my history as a teen Watergate geek, you know I never miss a chance to write about Nixon! But team Trump's obsession with rewriting the 1970s past is really about controlling the future, and killing off the concept of accountability My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

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Trump’s fixation on Nixon is also a warning | Will Bunch Newsletter

Plus, what Texas Senate ads during an Eagles game really mean.

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Valerie Russ @vruss.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

WaPo on TJ fathering Sally Hemings children mentions 1802 journalist slinging 'dirt' but ignores work of 2 Black American women: the 1979 novel by Barbara Chase-Riboud ( won Kafka fiction prize) & the 2008 'Hemingses' history by @agordonreed.bsky.social, 2009 Pulitzer for history wapo.st/4ytiUTW

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Jefferson’s link to Sally Hemings’s children may have been settled by a hair

A strand stuck in glue that Thomas Jefferson used to make a Bible is further confirmation for historians and descendants of the third president and the enslaved woman.

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A great man who was always very kind and gracious to me. I always looked forward to talking to him and his wife at events around the City. The City Leader Who Revived Central Park Dies at 85 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/a...

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The City Leader Who Revived Central Park Dies at 85 (Gift Article)

Gordon J. Davis was New York City’s first Black parks commissioner and one of the most effective. He also led Lincoln Center.

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

New this week from the MIT Press. Congratulations authors! 📚👇

Eight book covers on a blue background: "Algorithmic Realism," "Neuroevolution," "Neo-Documentation and the End of Information," "Machine Voices," and "A Mother's Brain," "Why Is the World So Beautiful?," "Multiplicity," and "True World Skate."

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2026

I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically.

The Trump administration says none of this is happening.

"DHS is NOT arresting U.S. citizens by mistake." "There are no 'indiscriminate' stops." Allegations of "racial profiling are disgusting, reckless and categorically FALSE." "The pattern is NOT of law enforcement using force." "ICE does not zip tie or restrain children."

But that is precisely what is happening, and at a far larger scale than previously reported.

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Folks have insulted: My Southern drawl. My loc’d hair. My clothes. My shoes. My intelligence. I’ve been called a ghetto Black b!t€h. Now @JDVance says I don’t belong and should leave the very country my ancestors helped build. This is a lot y’all. It is. #AngieForFlorida

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Global Project Against Hate and Extremism @globalextremism.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Project 2025 called for weakening protections for public lands and wildlife. Now wild horses are being sold for as little as $25, Bears Ears has been cut by 91%, and endangered-species protections have been rewritten. A policy blueprint is becoming a transformation of America’s protected lands.

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No Accident: Project 2025 Comes for Public Lands

Project 2025’s vision for public lands is becoming policy. Wild horses are being sold into a slaughter pipeline, national monuments have been drastically reduced, endangered species protections weaken...

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I went to the grand reopening of the African American Civil War museum this week and the timing is just right — its mission to preserve Black history is more relevant now than ever

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The African American Civil War Museum Reopens To Honor The Black Soldiers Who Changed History

The museum recently held its grand reopening in Washington’s historic U Street Corridor.

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"When faced with skyrocketing pesticide and nitrate levels in its drinking water supply, the city of Munich, Germany bypassed expensive chemical treatment plans and chose a radical path: they tackled the contamination at its very root." via Thefarmacyreal www.facebook.com/permalink.ph...

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Jenn @jennburrill.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social from becoming @mayor.nyc.gov This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why Organized people can beat organized money ✏️ @theintercept.com

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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mamdani.

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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

New contracts for Canadian suppliers. Good jobs for Canadian workers. Paycheques staying in Canadian communities. For the first time in four decades, VIA Rail passenger cars will be built in Canada.

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Alicia Bannon @aliciabannon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

NEW: I wrote about a Texas lawsuit filed by the family of Tierra Walker, who allegedly died after being denied a medically necessary abortion. The complaint describes a “medical, legal, and political morass,” with patients like Walker paying the price. statecourtreport.org/our-work/ana...

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Who is Accountable When Someone Dies After Being Denied an Abortion?

Texas woman Tierra Walker died after she was denied a medically necessary abortion, her family claims in a new law suit.

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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Nations are strongest when they build together. At the 81st Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Canada is choosing to step forward. To lead. To shape what comes next.

Prime Minister Carney at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, United States of America.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The premise isn’t even right. I just looked at the longlist. It’s five women, four men, and one nonbinary author. Two of the four men at least present as white.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The U.S. military swung into action to intercept a Chinese ship after an “entirely false” AI-generated intelligence report inaccurately identified what the vessel was carrying It also “almost started a war,” a source told CNN.

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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics

The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 16/09/2026

Ashamed to admit that I didn't know about Meta when I wrote about Barbara Chase-Riboud and it's gonna bother me for at least another hour before I forgive myself 😵‍💫

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Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, 1877 – 1968 | Reid Hall

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Layla A. Jones @laylaayanna.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Did you know you've been helping to pay for tariff refunds for foreign companies? Even as prices remain elevated for U.S. shoppers, at least 17 publicly-listed Chinese companies have netted about $160 million talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chinese...

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Foreign Companies Have Netted Millions in Tariff Refunds. Taxpayers Foot Part of the Bill

International companies are getting tariff refunds — with added, taxpayer-funded interest. People...

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Democracy Matters! @democracymatters.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#OnThisDay #ThePeoplesHistory SEPT. 15, 1963: 16TH STREET BAPTIST CHURCH BOMBING The 16th Street Baptist Church was bombed in an act of terrorism in Birmingham, Alabama.

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Sept. 15, 1963: 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing

The 16th Street Baptist Church was bombed in an act of terrorism in Birmingham, Alabama.

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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 15/09/2026

On this day in 1963, a white man detonated a bomb under the steps of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, with 400 congregants inside. Four Black children were killed in the blast.

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Sep. 15, 1963 | Four Black Girls Killed in Church Bombing in Birmingham, Alabama

Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 13/09/2026

This is amazing… They gave the Humanitarian Award to an entire state. At the 2026 Hispanic Heritage Awards, the people of Minnesota were honored for how they came together to support their neighbors during the federal immigration crackdown. Congratulations, Minnesota. 👏🏽 #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

In April 1946, Albert Einstein visited Lincoln University, a historically Black university, received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree and spoke against racial segregation in the United States. A refugee from Nazi Germany, he supported civil rights causes and corresponded with W.E.B. Du Bois.

Colorized historical photograph of an older white man with white hair gesturing beside a blackboard while a group of young Black men in suits watch from chairs and the back of a room.

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Uché Blackstock, MD @ucheblackstockmd.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The U.S. now has more measles cases than we’ve seen in 35+ years. Measles didn’t suddenly become harder to prevent. What changed is our relationship with vaccines, public health and expertise. Diseases we once had largely under control can come back.

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

“In what Joey Termini of Termini Brothers Bakery is calling the "most South Philadelphia thing ever," a Route 47 bus drove through wet concrete after two people reportedly hopped off to move street barricades so the bus could pass… only two minutes after city crews poured [concrete] into the road”

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SEPTA bus drives through wet concrete outside of Termini Bros. in what locals say is the ‘most South Philly thing ever’

A SEPTA Route 47 bus got stuck in freshly poured concrete on Thursday, only two minutes after city crews repaired the road outside of Termini Brothers in South Philadelphia.

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 04/09/2026

It takes you 20 paragraphs to get to the part of the article where they admit that Mamdani isn't paying the influencers and the reason they are posting videos of the stuff Mamdani is doing is because people are interested in watching it.

The mayor’s office says that it does not pay the influencers. Still, their proximity and access to a figure as popular as Mr. Mamdani can help increase their own social media following and, by extension, potentially put them in a position to attract paid content sponsorships from commercial brands. Some influencers said that when they feature Mr. Mamdani, the videos get more likes and viewers watch longer.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 02/09/2026

1 year ago, a FL judge tried to strip me of my law license for criticizing his ruling that kept a US citizen locked in jail for entering the state as an "unauthorized alien". The VA State Bar ruled in my favor. Twice. The attacks on my license haven't stopped. Read the full story.

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A Year After A Florida Judge Tried To Strip Me Of My Law License — The Attacks Continue

Why I need your courage now more than ever to combat injustice in our legal systems and protect due process of law for ALL people in the United States

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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Before losing her life in 1986 aboard Space Shuttle Challenger, Christa McAuliffe was set to be the first teacher in space with plans to teach a lesson to kids around the world from orbit. Today is her birthday, and even now, her courage and dedication to education continues to inspire.

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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Remembering Sister Rosetta Tharpe, born in 1915 in Cotton Plant, Arkansas. Here she's performing "Didn't It Rain" at a train depot in Manchester, England in 1964. She's often called the "Godmother of Rock & Roll" and influenced future music icons like Chuck Berry, Little Richard and Elvis Presley.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 29/08/2026

Zohran Mamdani won the democratic nomination & centrist Dems endorsed Cuomo anyway. Angie Nixon won the democratic nomination & centrist Dems are saying they would’ve spent millions on Vindman, but won’t on her. 1/2

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 27/08/2026

Zayden Leonard, a Black student at Mississippi State University, is alleging that law enforcement wrongfully handcuffed and arrested him and that he was falsely accused of making terroristic threats when he sought to resolve an issue with one of his academic scholarships. buff.ly/g4PZKwM

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Mississippi State Student Alleges Police Falsely Accused Him of Terroristic Threats

Zayden Leonard, a Black student at Mississippi State University, alleges he was falsely accused of making terrorist threats and wrongfully arrested.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Dolly Parton was they type of Christian that Christian Nationalists only *pretend* to be. Unlike Christian Nationalists, she didn't browbeat us with how CHRISTIAN she was. She just lived her life doing things that Jesus asked her to do, like heal the sick, help the children, and care for the poor.

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Valerie Russ @vruss.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

$900 million from a canceled wind deal will benefit a Trump donor

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A Florida grand jury found the DeSantis administration “misappropriated” $10 million meant to provide health insurance for poor children. Part of a “sophisticated scheme to fund political activities,” the money was funneled through multiple organizations before reaching two PACs and the Florida GOP.

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Grand jury finds DeSantis administration "misappropriated" $10 million in taxpayer money to Hope Florida

A Florida grand jury found the DeSantis administration misappropriated $10 million in taxpayer money for political purposes.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

So being pro-labor, pro-education for the poorest, pro-vaccine, and pro-LGBTQIA is a “neutral” position🤔

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton invested the royalties she earned for writing ‘I Will Always Love You’ in Nashville’s Black community www.washingtonpost.com/arts-enterta... "This is the house that Whitney built" - DP 🥺🙏

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