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Writer, editor, reader, rabbit-hole diver. 📍North Carolina.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 3h
I attended a seminar by freshly minted Nobel Laureate Francis Halzen many years ago and something he said stuck with me, but it takes some explaining, so this will be a (short) thread. The talk was about neutrino telescopes, and he started by explaining how rarely neutrinos interact with anything.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 5h
📮 Your mail ballot could be postmarked too late to count, even if you mailed it on time. New USPS cost-cutting changes put tens of thousands of mail voters at risk of having their mail ballots rejected. Make a plan and check to see if your zip code is affected: demdock.com/4rMi8Ps
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word-working @wordworking.bsky.social · 18h
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 20h
NEW: A federal court struck down a California rule that required voters to return mail ballots by paper and without assistance from others, a victory for voters with disabilities. The decision likely won’t impact how voters return their ballots in the midterms. Here's why:
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In win for voters with disabilities, court strikes down California mail ballot rule
The court found the requirement unlawful under the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation Act and California state law.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21h
This starts with her aggressively trying to link him to the Muslim Brotherhood. I'd like to see someone turn the tables on this. "You're Christian, right? Did you support Timothy McVeigh? Did you agree with Dylann Roof? Or Eric Rudolph? Robert Lewis Dear? No? Even though you share their religion?"
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 22h
We allow monsters to rule us
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22h
Ah yes, the pneumonia plague. Just inject bleach - probably knock it right out.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 23h
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 23h
BREAKING: The Trump White House has blocked Politico from accessing Air Force One on Monday to carry out its pool responsibilities.
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White House blocks Politico from Air Force One
The news outlet was supposed to travel with the president to Nebraska on Monday.
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 23h
The announcement follows reports that Meta’s new general-purpose AI agent has been snooping on users' iMessages, calendars, and emails without permission: arstechnica.visitlink.me/5s02-A
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Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents
Meta says FDA isn't sufficient to Muse reading messages. Apple begs to differ.
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Zelensky condemns 'horrific' Russian strike on boat carrying corn in Black Sea www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Zelensky condemns 'horrific' Russian strike on boat carrying corn in Black Sea
The vessel's captain was killed and 11 crew members were rescued after the attack on the Turkish-owned ship, Ukraine's leader says.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 23h
ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
RIP Marjoe Gortner, an American original - child preacher who once he grew up, revealed all the tricks of the evangelist trade in an Oscar winning documentary and then transitioned into acting and was ubiquitous in the 1970s... MARJOE the documentary is on Tubi!
Marjoe Gortner
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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Leaked audio of Ken Paxton complaining about the Trump team controlling his flailing campaign: "I’ve never been in a race where I felt less control over the campaign. It’s all coming, you know, from DC. I don’t control message or what we’re doing ... I just have to live with whatever I've got"
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
youtu.be
Neo-Nazi Pulls Off Surprise Victory In Long-Held KKK District | Onion News Network
YouTube video by The Onion
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The thing is when you come behind me to explain to me what *I* just said but in your own words, I’m not sure what to do with that.
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David Lebo @leboism.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
For those not following NJ politics, please know that the Lt Gov resigned a few days ago because a report came out saying he did serial harassment, and yesterday he went on TV to say "i put that report through multiple AIs and they told me it wasn't sexual harassment." Former university president
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Sameer Ashar @sameer-ashar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is my nephew, please forward to your networks, esp any University of Maryland students.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Among the more notable documents is a redacted version of a report produced by Cornell’s disciplinary hearing panel. It sheds additional light on the university’s investigation and summarizes the panel’s findings. Here’s a link to the doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
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John Doe v Cornell University Hearing Panel Decision and Report
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I got really annoyed that so many stories about the "Cornell 7" case don't link to the underlying court documents. So I compiled the key filings from Jane Doe's civil suit and from a separate suit brought by one of the accused. Read them here: annabower.substack.com/p/read-the-c...
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Read the “Cornell 7” Documents
I compiled key court filings from Jane Doe’s civil suit and a separate suit brought by one of the accused. Read them on Slip Opinion.
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Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hard to think of anything less abstract and more materially consequential than being pregnant
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A 10K contribution and a $900 million return. The scale of the graft in Homeland Security is a) off the charts and b) possible because no-one believes they will face any accountability
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
NEW OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the world should accept “some bad things happening,” in exchange for the enormous benefits of AI. Via Decoded from Politico
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 05/10/2026
He was banned from flying—but got a job as a pilot. He was on a manifest—but it wasn't checked. The security misses ahead of the FlyDubai attack.
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Multiple Security Failures Allowed FlyDubai Pilot Into Cockpit
Authorities in three countries missed opportunities across the board; “there wasn’t proper vetting.”
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This language will be crucial to protect NIH science from being politicized. Thanks to @murray.senate.gov and Sen Collins for leading this. Kennedy is opposed, so especially if you are in Louisiana, time to flood phone lines. rollcall.com/2026/10/01/l...
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Lame-duck effort brewing to protect NIH grantmaking
​Senate appropriators from both parties are workshopping language that could be added to a spending bill to prevent the White House from exerting political influence on medical research grants. The pr...
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Heartbreak in Springfield, Ohio. Please read this important reporting. It all begins with big lies and it ends with ethnic cleansing and deaths for which we must not only mourn but feel ashamed. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Because it's buried at the bottom of the article and CNN is presenting it in a misleading way: before people worry, the "unknown" part is how the worker was exposed, the pathogen is good old fashioned Y. pestis which we understand extremely well and can treat just fine if caught early
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The Spirit of Lorenzo the Cat @lorenzothecat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Artist Shepard Fairey designed the Power to the People Festival poster and he also designed this cat. We love him!
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026
A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 04/10/2026
It’s a federal crime to send armed federal agents to the polls. So why does the Trump administration keep suggesting it? “The answer is … Donald Trump wants to, to use his words, cheat like hell,” Marc Elias says. This isn't over. Stay close: demdock.com/3T3Owjg
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smulford.bsky.social @smulford.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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USPS pushes back measures that ensure mail ballots arrive on time
“The shorter timeframe is noteworthy and I don’t know why they’re doing this,” Steve Hutkins, who writes for Save the Post Office, told Democracy Docket.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/n...
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How Cornell Punished Each of the 7 Men Accused of Sexual Assault (Gift Article)
Summaries obtained by The New York Times offer a detailed look at the discipline meted out to the men accused of sexually assaulting a fellow student at Cornell University.
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This was wild to see. My first time writing for the screen. My thanks to Zoe Kazan for inviting me on this journey back in 2023, and my agent Jason Richman and everyone at @unitedtalentagency.bsky.social for their work on my behalf.
“Written for Television by ZOE KAZAN & ALEXANDER CHEE” in white letters against the black tv screen.A tv still of Mike Faist, Christopher Abbott and Florence Pugh. White text in a San serif font reads “This East of Eden, adapted primarily by Zoe Kazan-Alexander Chee co-wrote a key midseason episode-with Garth Davis directing, is rich, morally complex and packed with memorable performances."
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The Hollywood Reporter
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 04/10/2026
Do we ever really learn the art of risk-taking? Oscar-winning filmmaker and elite mountaineer, Jimmy Chin, shares how high achievers find courage in his new book.The answer, in part: Learn to live bravely. 5 principles from Chin’s book on how to live more by fearing less: on.wsj.com/4zbTs5d
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 04/10/2026
Proof x1 Also timeline cleanse for a very good dog!
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
These guys gave cheered for the maddest, most incoherent sentences this evening, and he still can’t sell them data centres. You can literally hear Trump’s freeform-speech brain tacking away from a toxic issue.
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Breezy Babe @grrrin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Cornell 57” The 50 who weren’t actively raping her had SEVEN HOURS to call police/911/campus security and they did nothing.
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 02/10/2026
the long shadow of the war on terror
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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 03/10/2026
This is absolutely horrible. (Read this letter). And apparently very little has changed for university administrators.
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word-working @wordworking.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🤬🤬🤬
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AMPTsuper @amptsuper.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@lastweektonight.com -- John Oliver -- This voucher business really needs your special treatment. Start a private school with taxpayer dollars and earn $7000 per kid in Arkansas. Cost $45 to start (saying that they weren't teachers)...🙈 @propublica.org
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Old enough to remember when Trump did this to Lindsey Graham in 2015 www.politico.com/story/2015/0...
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Donald Trump gives out Lindsey Graham's cellphone number
"When it comes to the Donald, nothing surprises me anymore," Graham says.
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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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word-working @wordworking.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 02/10/2026
Scoop: At a secret meeting this summer, an aide to Stephen Miller laid out Trump administration's plan to make it easier for states to round up and institutionalize mentally ill homeless people — by pushing a drastic policy change that would weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans.
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How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights
After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.
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The Handsome Hobo🇨🇦 @thehobo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Zaire @zeestermeester.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Hey, about three months later I am still looking for work. I have done senior level work, I’m comfortable owning zones, writing cutscenes, and environmental narrative. Open to working in other mediums as well.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What awful, awful news.
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