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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 11h
Would anyone who still has their game be willing to give me/my kid oranges, hyacinths, roses, tulips, or pansies later this evening? I’ll open up my airport after I do their bedtimes.
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ACLU of Washington @acluwa.bsky.social · 11h
Starting tomorrow, at least 11,000 immigrants in Washington will lose health care coverage because of federal cuts made by Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill."
Light blue graphic with image of stethoscope, cloth heart, and calculator. Red text below the image reads "Immigrants deserve health care. We're calling on the governor to ensure immigrant communities can continue receiving health care after the "One Big Beautiful Bill" cut essential funding." ACLU-WA logo at the bottom.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 14h
This is truly amazing—RFK Jr openly, gladly, joyfully telling people that under his leadership of the US health system, actual public health expertise, training, & experience is no longer needed. All that’s needed to lead the US health agencies is a past history of being a right wing blogger!
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 16h
I love the tech industry and their cool new product: fraud
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The Olympian @theolympian.com · 22h
The recalled products can sicken people as well as dogs and cats.
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Pet products, food recalled in Washington state for bacteria. What to know
The recalled products can sicken people as well as dogs and cats.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 22h
Reuters spoke to more than a dozen sailors serving on board a warship in active combat with Iran — offering an unprecedented look at a side of this war the world rarely sees. Watch the full documentary: reut.rs/4rBdfsh
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Firestorm Books @firestorm.coop · 29/09/2026
NPR giving fascism the neutral journalism gloss, exhibit #98765
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Can parents opt their children out of a transgender teacher’s class? Here’s what courts say
Parents who want to take their children out of a transgender teacher's class at a Wake County elementary school say they weren't given the option — and they're arguing it's their right. They cite rece...
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...
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• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
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• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.
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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 28/09/2026
Be careful, friends—this scam is everywhere writerbeware.blog/2026/03/27/w...
writerbeware.blog
Watch Out For This Scam Impersonating Editors at Major Publishing Houses - Writer Beware
I’ve recently gotten a slew of reports of emails purporting to be from editors at Big 5 and other large publishers, in which the supposed editor expresses interest in the writer’s work and asks whethe...
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Denise 🪷 @bluedotinok.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Helped Black people during the Tulsa (Black Wallstreet) massacre. I will not entertain the thought of turning my back on our Jewish brothers and sisters.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/09/2026
Texas peeps You may have recently registered and think it’s a done deal. Read the below. Urgently double check that you’re actually registered to vote. 👉🏾 Iwillvote.com 
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 27/09/2026
I’d rather be annoying than oblivious. These days, neutrality looks more like surrender.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Morgan Johnson @poormojo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
There’s a really great podcast called “sold a story” that investigates the literacy crisis almost like a true crime story. They find a culprit ultimately and also do actual activist work with state education departments to address the problem. It’s wonderful
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 26/09/2026
Voters should ask candidates: Speeches about democracy are nice, but what are you actually going to do to take on big money? And then hold them to their promises. bit.ly/4d1GYVr
brennancenter.org
$1 Billion in Secret Cash Is Reshaping the Midterms
We may never know where most of the money came from.
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Santa Monica College @smcedu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Share your STEM research with your peers, faculty, staff, and the broader Santa Monica College community at the STEM Research Symposium! Let’s celebrate your hard work together! 💙 🔗 More details: www.smc.edu/student-supp... #SMCStem #ProudToBeSMC
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why2cake.bsky.social @why2cake.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’m afraid to ask
Screenshot of product:
Levi’s Optical Illusion Boxer Briefs

Huh?🤔 😛
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why2cake.bsky.social @why2cake.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There should be online support groups for perimenopause, and the zoom meetings should be at 3am.
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Rose❤️🇨🇦Part owner of Canada.🇨🇦❤️ @scotfreeme.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So we wonder why the cops are aiding ICE in some cases... Here's why. Many work for them on a contract basis. But the police departments don't want us be able to see who is involved, nor the city mayor. In this case = LAPD. Scumbags. More criminal than those taken off the streets, to soul crush.
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why2cake.bsky.social @why2cake.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Guess ya gotta cancel me, too, then, ya kooky antisemites!
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Jesse Berney, LGPC @jesseberney.com · 19/09/2026
I don't know, if I were a WH reporter banned from the WH, I'd probably want to take that as an opportunity to report on all the shit I know about but have been worried about reporting on because it might restrict my access.
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
GOOD NEWS! Calling your reps work! Recall that Russ Vought was to to draft an executive order creating a board of political appointees that would have the final say in what science grants get funded. It appears that the administration is backing off. 🧪 www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
semafor.com
Exclusive: Trump administration backing off NIH grant order amid pushback
The proposal, which would have given President Donald Trump greater influence over health grant decisionmaking, could still advance in a new form.
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why2cake.bsky.social @why2cake.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
WHEN IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS…
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why2cake.bsky.social @why2cake.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is ominous as fuck
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why2cake.bsky.social @why2cake.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Doesn’t he remember how that story ended? With hot metal inside a bunker? Is it that he needs a “blaze of glory*” to offset his fears of simply dying? *sic/sick
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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Re This case: Most media are focusing on their own states, but this was a multi-state trip. The person took the whole route of the Southwest Chief, so Illinois through the midwest, then across S. Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona before LA. Then up the coast, and back across on California Zephyr.
yahoo.com
Person with measles rode Amtrak trains and buses across CA, health officials say
The California Department of Public Health said the unvaccinated passenger stopped at six California stations, including downtown Sacramento.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.
opb.org
Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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Tom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I honestly try not to judge people for infectious disease but holy fucking shit do I hate whoever did this. You unvaccinated murderous asshole.
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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time.  I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker. 
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why2cake.bsky.social @why2cake.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The dog waited eight years before starting to get into the trash. We’re calling “dognitive decline.”
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
217-206: House passed legislation requiring states to share info requested by the AG w/DOJ on individuals involved in federally-funded programs like Medicaid, SNAP, TANF & unemployment insurance to detect, investigate & prosecute fraud. Massie only Republican to vote. clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/rol...
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Someone on the inside of these tense Republican House meetings is recording stuff and leaking it. 😂 www.washingtonsun.com/congress/hou...
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 16/09/2026
You know what other dystopian abyss we really need to stare more resolutely into right now? We are not doing anywhere near enough to protect civilians from drones.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Not sure if people know Wakefield was trying to sell a competing measles vaccine when he made up his fraudulent study about the MMR. It was only after that failed (because he is a complete fraud) that he started grifting off opposing all vaccines. It’s all just a grift. Antivaxxers are their marks.
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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 16/09/2026
An old friend who works as an animal therapist with disabled kids and adults with a whole gentle menagerie that he cares for. He now needs help for his own service dog (who is an amazing therapy program assistant and doggie emcee)
gofund.me
Donate to Buck The Therapy and Service Dog Needs Help, organized by Brian Dallas Field
My name is Brian and this is a Go Fund Me page for my Service and Thera… Brian Dallas Field needs your support for Buck The Therapy and Service Dog Needs Help
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
They can self-regulate, says the guy who shares a porn accountability app with his son.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
These people found a baby goat trapped in a pit. They took him home and cared for him overnite. The next day they tried to find the owner but had no luck. While looking - they found a group of goats with the same white fur. Then this happened. Original post
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
KAEPERNICK: The part that I hope people take away in this moment is what Robert Kraft and what they’re saying by denying Macklemore is they are openly colluding. They also want people to know that if you take an action that they don’t agree with, they will come for you.
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AltSSA @altssa.altgov.info · 15/09/2026
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026
Further, Apple is fully in lockstep with this administration. Check the map. That their new suite of tools is offering a persistent wiretap should be met with a great deal of suspicion.
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Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I just learned that reporter Luis Galeano has been detained in Miami by ICE. This is part of wider trend by the US govt to target immigrant reporters, violating core US press freedom principles. Galeano is from Nicaragua & is believed to have a pending asylum case in the US. I will report more ASAP.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Important: the USPS rule that SCOTUS blocked tonight was Trump’s big plan to control and restrict mail voting. But a separate policy remains in place: USPS is no longer postmarking mail as soon it gets it, which is hugely important for deadlines. So people must mail back with plenty of time.
boltsmag.org
In an Intense Election Year, New Post Office Rules Could Trip Up Voter Registration - Bolts
A change in how mail is postmarked could lead some voters to miss key deadlines, including voter registration. Advocates worry the people most affected will be those already facing voting barriers.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This behavior is not going to change until a cop is DENIED their pension and they are fired and banned from working as a cop elsewhere. *This cop has a history. www.motorbiscuit.com/arkansas-tro...
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“ICE agents were caught on video pulling one teen from the car and punching him repeatedly in the face while he lay on the ground. The other teen, Luis Ochoa, said he informed the ICE agents he was a citizen but was told, ‘I don’t give a damn.… Your parents can’t help you now.’”
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why2cake.bsky.social @why2cake.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Every woman nominated in these first Emmy Awards categories so far has blown it out of the water. I don’t even know how I could try to vote between them! Their performances enervate my soul.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
For these guys, it was never about illegal immigration, it was never about cultural assimilation. You can be born in America, drinking beer as you cheer on the Longhorns, but its not enough if you are not white.
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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Real smart analysis from @jmiers230.bsky.social
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why2cake.bsky.social @why2cake.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Good question! I need to get it on the books this coming week, and likely so do you… 💉💪🏽 Here’s a helpful thread if access (CO$T) is a challenge: bsky.app/profile/matt...
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026
This is a tax guy. His advice could be the difference between someone having their assets seized & maybe going to jail, or not. Now imagine having to worry about racist shit in every interaction you have with any person in authority. Every doctor & nurse, every cop, every lawyer & judge, every boss
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