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Tori @toti66.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
substack.com/@alyssajmila...
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An Open Letter To Megyn Kelly
From, Alyssa Milano
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yapierberg.bsky.social @yapierberg.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
We're asked to mind AI's feelings while AI-enabled harms to humans go unaddressed. If models aren't sentient, why regulate their 'distress'? If they are, that deserves real debate. But the priority should be to protect people first.
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Don't Be 'Cruel' to Claude: Anthropic's New Abuse Policy Tests AI Personhood - CNET
Anthropic wants to stop “sustained and needless" cruelty toward its chatbot. But that implies AI has feelings.
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yapierberg.bsky.social @yapierberg.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I’ve been talking with friends about a Blue Wave Party playlist. I’d love to hear your thoughts. We’ve come up with some great songs, but we all agreed it starts with this: Oh Donny boy, Donny boy, Donny boy
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Chumbawamba - Tubthumping
YouTube video by ChumbawambaVEVO
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yapierberg.bsky.social @yapierberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Nothing says “winning” more than using taxpayer dollars to run a recycled black and white, slo-mo commercial about your greatness.
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Taxpayers have funded nearly $1.5M in pro-Trump ads. Criticism is mounting, including from the GOP — The Associated Press
AdImpact says three taxpayer-funded ads promoting President Donald Trump are nearing a cost of at least $1.5 million.
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yapierberg.bsky.social @yapierberg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The Guardian runs an article about a Woman falsely ID'd by AI recognition software for bank fraud, imprisoned for months, and then released in freezing cold on Christmas Eve with no way to get home, runs an ad for finance AI in the middle of the article. Did they use AI to determine ad placement ?
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yapierberg.bsky.social @yapierberg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Are you listening Ed?
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
Hey, Ed Sheeran, Palestine Is Dying In White Silence Like Yours.
Hey Ed Sheeran,
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yapierberg.bsky.social @yapierberg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
If you want to talk about an “anal” of history I’m here for it. Otherwise, shut up loser.
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Trump slams the Supreme Court for rejecting his push to restrict mail ballots — The Associated Press
Trump is assailing the Supreme Court after it rejected his push to restrict mail-in voting in this year’s midterms.
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yapierberg.bsky.social @yapierberg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Remember when Mike Johnson waited 36 days before swearing in & seating Adelita Grijalva? If Democrats win in November, a compliant Congress could refuse to seat them or reconvene. No court could force them. DoJ would be complicit. That's a constitutional crisis & Trump would love it. I’m worried.
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yapierberg.bsky.social @yapierberg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
So the guy who tried to give himself a bunch of our money, and a free pass on audits for life, did to others what he claimed was illegally done to him? Is anyone surprised?
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IRS under Trump unlawfully shared taxpayer info with immigration authorities, court rules — Reuters
A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday upheld an injunction blocking an Internal Revenue ‌Service policy that allowed it to share thousands of taxpayers' addresses with immigration authorities, saying the Tr...
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yapierberg.bsky.social @yapierberg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Four Home Alone 2 cast members died this year. Kevin was the one actually lost in New York, yet the Plaza Hotel cameo guy is still roaming free. If only the paint cans had better aim. 💀
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Fans sound the alarm after 4 'Home Alone 2' actors die in 2026 — USA TODAY
Fans are noticing a string of deaths among the "Home Alone 2" cast in 2026, sparking talk of a movie curse.
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yapierberg.bsky.social @yapierberg.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
That’s right. Don’t tax the wealthy or corporations. Just make things more expensive for seniors and people on fixed incomes. SMH
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Trump Administration to End Medicare Drug Plan Subsidy — The Wall Street Journal
Program that held down premiums not renewed for 2027, resulting in higher costs for some seniors
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Ismael S Rodriguez (Bulletproof Poet) @ismaelrod.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
⚾✨ Women’s baseball doesn’t take anything away from the game—it makes baseball bigger, stronger, and more exciting! Every swing, steal, and home run adds another chapter to the sport we love. More players. More stories. More baseball! 💪⚾ #WomensBaseball #WPBL #BaseballForEveryone #GrowTheGame
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yapierberg.bsky.social @yapierberg.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
How gullible or stupid do you have to be to continue believing that the lottery is helping schools? It’s created decades of gambling addicts, and schools still host bake sales to pay for the basics. But thank goodness the prediction markets came along. I’ll bet things are going to be just fine. 🙄
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 20/01/2026
Next week, Democrats can freeze out funding for ICE — but only if they work together as a unified opposition. That means we must flood Dems’ offices with calls to demand ICE Out For Good. Call your senators: indivisible.org/ice-out-sena... And your representative: indivisible.org/ice-out-hous...
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yapierberg.bsky.social @yapierberg.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
When people say “boys will be boys” do they ever wonder if those boys will turn into men who emulate Epstein and his cohorts? When will girls begin to matter? Just asking for a friend who has a daughter.
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High school defends staying silent while boys made AI nudes of 59 classmates — Ars Technica
Gaps in laws may help Pennsylvania high school escape AI nudes scandal.
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Josh Turek @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Great game, Mr. President. 🏀 Iowa, you heard President Obama. The ball is in your court. Join our campaign and help us Push For Change: Turek4Iowa.com
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yapierberg.bsky.social @yapierberg.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
While they’re at it, put them in front of the White House and Supreme Court too.
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Trump orders signage warning visitors of ‘inaccurate information’ at Smithsonian — NBC News
The order comes after the White House released a scathing report against the Smithsonian Institution’s leadership on July 4.
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yapierberg.bsky.social @yapierberg.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
"Under President Trump's leadership, we are restoring accountability across our public programs and protecting taxpayer dollars." Accountability from blue states only. All while he pardons donors found guilty of actually defrauding Medicare and Medicaid. Liars all. Harming people just for fun.
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Trump admin. halts $1 billion in Medicaid payments to California, Minnesota — CBS News
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said his agency is pausing $867.5 million in Medicaid payments to California and $199 million to Minnesota.
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yapierberg.bsky.social @yapierberg.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
King Midas cursed himself with golden touch. Trump’s reverse: everything turns to shit- for everyone else. While he cashes out the rest of us lose endangered species so his donors can profit. We’re not his kingdom; we’re his collateral damage.
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Trump administration allows killing of species threatened with extinction — The Washington Post
Regulatory changes to reinterpret the Endangered Species Act also demand that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service consider the economic toll of habitat protection.
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yapierberg.bsky.social @yapierberg.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I love that the story is always 2020 was rigged, but miraculously, under the very same conditions Republicans took the White House, Senate, and House of Representatives in 2024. The point of all of this is to RIG THE ELECTIONS in 2026 and 2028 using a manufactured narrative. Trump lies all the time.
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‘Death by a thousand cuts’: Inside Trump’s remaking of American elections — POLITICO
The president remains laser-focused on an electoral system he claims is rigged — and his administration is uprooting entire chunks of the current structure ahead of the midterms.
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Rep. Emanuel Cleaver @cleaver.house.gov · 13/07/2026
We should have learned that you can’t manage a public health crisis by ignoring it. Politicizing science and weakening disease surveillance doesn’t make threats disappear, it only makes us less prepared to respond.
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yapierberg.bsky.social @yapierberg.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Sudden loss of Sen. Graham at 71. Politics aside, condolences for his family. Rest in peace, Senator. May your successors remember what loyalty to country, not to any one man, actually looks like. Legacy matters. Choose yours wisely.
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Lindsey Graham, longtime senator from South Carolina, dies at 71 — The Washington Post
Graham, a staunch Trump ally and key GOP foreign policy voice, was running for reelection this year. He died of a “brief and sudden illness,” his office said.
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Stardust 🌏🎬 @stardustbluepr.com · 12/07/2026
"Fusion energy is the holy grail of energy. It's clean, abundant, cheap, it doesn't create long lived radioactive waste and it's high baseload. So, you can operate it when the sun is shining, when the wind is blowing." Co-founder and Chief Scientist Dr. Annie Kritcher.
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World's 1st fusion factory in Livermore aims to be clean energy source for commercial use
Fusion energy moved from theory to reality at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and now Livermore-based Inertia is working to scale the technology for commercial use. The company is developing t...
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious. Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal.
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A Terrible Thing Happened to My Family
Even in today's climate, there should be one fundamental principle everyone respects: whatever you think about someone in politics, you leave their kids alone.
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yapierberg.bsky.social @yapierberg.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Absolutely ironic and delicious. They hyped AI as the ultimate capitalist tool, only for it to absorb ALL human knowledge and spit back empathy, fairness, and reality-based answers. Turns out data isn’t right-wing. It’s WOKE. Their own “savior” exposes their bias.
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Are ChatGPT and other AI chatbots politically biased? We tested them. — The Washington Post
The Post tested ChatGPT, Gemini and other chatbots with political questions, and the results show that the AI tools have different political leanings.
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yapierberg.bsky.social @yapierberg.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
When a “deal” is this bad, it makes me wonder if somewhere in the fine print it says Trump gets to build a couple of hotels and a golf course in Iran.
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Senate Republicans raise alarm over Trump’s deal with Iran — The Hill
President Trump’s deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for lifting sanctions on Iran is getting strong pushback from Senate Republicans on Capitol Hill who warn that giving Iran’s theocrati...
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The urgent crisis of MAGA masculinity isn’t revealed by a performative clown like Josh Hokit; it’s revealed in the guys who are defending him in comment sections right now... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/josh-hokit...
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Josh Hokit, Joe Rogan, Donald Trump, And The MAGA Male Identity Crisis.
At the close of the Trump Administration’s garish, bloated, masturbatory performance art on the White House lawn, UFC fighter Josh Hokit proceeded to punctuate his match by offering a monstrous verbal...
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
If sexual abuse was really considered a terrible thing, the world's richest and most powerful people wouldn't be abusers. The most valued technology wouldn't produce sexual abuse on demand. And allegations of abuse wouldn't be framed as positive depictions of masculinity. Our culture rewards abuse.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Friends, this breaks my heart. The Supreme Court just sided with the people who try to "convert" queer kids out of being who they are. Let me be clear: so-called "conversion therapy" is not therapy. It is abuse. You should not get to tell a frightened child the truest part of themselves is broken.
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Sign Petition: Conversion Therapy for Children Is Abuse. US States Must Continue to Fight This Nonscientific Practi
Conversion therapy is not real therapy. It is pseudoscience teaching kids to hate themselves, leading to high rates of depression and suicidality. (32485 signatures on petition)
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/05/2026
BREAKING: I'm suing Todd Blanche and the DOJ to STOP the $1.8B slush fund. The Justice Department violated the Administrative Procedures Act when it established the fund, and it must be set aside. You can read my complaint here: www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-i...
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BREAKING: I’m Suing Todd Blanche and the DOJ to stop the $1.8B Slush Fund
In establishing the “anti-weaponization” fund, the government failed to follow the Administrative Procedures Act (APA), so I'm suing to set the fund aside.
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yapierberg.bsky.social @yapierberg.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
@gene4va.bsky.social I’m so disappointed in your vote against transgender people. You will not see another donation from me. Using YOUR power to harm people with NO power is detestable. You’re on the wrong side of this argument, and I hope you rethink your premises.
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yapierberg.bsky.social @yapierberg.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Mail a handgun to yourself “in care of” a friend? Legal. Mail Mifepristone? Still under attack. One protects violence. One controls bodies. And they wonder why we see exactly what’s coming? They’re planning for things to get very ugly in America. This isn’t frightening, it’s terrifying.
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People might soon be able to ship handguns through the mail. Here’s why it matters. — The Trace
USPS is set to lift a century-old ban — and experts warn the consequences could be significant.
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Uncle David, Fella of Oz (🇺🇸) @dosnoe.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
They cannot censor us all so they try to intimidate us into censoring ourselves. Fascism is a fear & violence based system of government that must always be condemned. Trans rights are human rights. I won’t abandon these principles to secure my own comfort. this is worth the cost of being on a list.
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yapierberg.bsky.social @yapierberg.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I think it’s fairly obvious at this point that money is being spent on ICE, DHS, and now Secret Service in order to ensure that when they lose elections we literally cannot take them out. He’s fortifying a bunker folks and the MAGA congress is just trying to make sure they can get in.
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GOP offers $1B for White House security, sparking dispute over ballroom — The Washington Post
Senate Republicans maintain their budget reconciliation proposal would authorize security construction, but not Trump’s ballroom. The White House disagrees.
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yapierberg.bsky.social @yapierberg.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
What made you say, “Jesus Christ,”out loud today?
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Attack on French nun in Jerusalem draws widespread condemnation — Guardian US
Israeli foreign ministry denounces ‘shameful act’ after video shows man pushing woman to ground and kicking her
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yapierberg.bsky.social @yapierberg.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Shout it from the rooftops:
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yapierberg.bsky.social @yapierberg.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
The “all life is sacred” folks are at it again. Studies have shown that the “deterrent” effect on crime is inconclusive at best. The barbarity is the point. Killing in the name of…
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DOJ reinstates firing squads, pentobarbital for federal executions — CBS News
The Justice Department announced Friday it would readopt the death penalty protocols for lethal injection and firing squads.
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yapierberg.bsky.social @yapierberg.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
They did it!!! Congratulations! Girl power. 💙💛💪🏻
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UCLA crushes South Carolina to win NCAA women's basketball national championship — Los Angeles Times
Behind standout efforts from Lauren Betts and Gabriela Jaquez, the UCLA women's basketball team defeats South Carolina 79-51 for its first national title since 1978.
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yapierberg.bsky.social @yapierberg.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Look who finally finished hiking the Appalachian Trail.
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Mark Sanford launches his comeback bid to Congress — POLITICO
The former GOP representative wants to retake his House seat in South Carolina’s Charleston area after losing to a Trump-backed challenger in 2018.
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Joshua Cherniss @jcherniss.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
In the unlikely event that anyone on here would like to pay good money to hear me talk about Isaiah Berlin, Hannah Arendt, Judith Shklar, and ideas about freedom (or knows anyone who might): roundtable.org/live-courses...
roundtable.org
Ideas of Liberty: From Founding Framers to Refugee Philosophers
“We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing”—Abraham Lincoln. Few ideas have inspired and divided Americans as liberty has. In this class we explore stark...
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yapierberg.bsky.social @yapierberg.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Nicole Russell loves CA’s beauty but blames Dems for its problems. Her solution? The same GOP playbook from Reagan to Trump: tax cuts for the rich & deregulation. Newsom grew our economy from #5 to #4 worldwide. They just want the Golden State tap for themselves. Don’t like it? Try Florida.
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Opinion | Democrats destroyed California. Could a Republican save it? | Opinion — USA TODAY
I know conservatives are imperfect, but a Democratic supermajority hasn't worked so well for California.
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yapierberg.bsky.social @yapierberg.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Bye-bye Bondi 👋💃 I’m dancing on the grave of your career. Don’t let the door hit you in the rear.
apple.news
Trump Ousts Attorney General Pam Bondi — The Wall Street Journal
At the Justice Department, Bondi tried to deliver on president’s priorities but ultimately failed to appease him
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yapierberg.bsky.social @yapierberg.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
JD trying to get in on the right wing groups buying crap no one wants to juice sales racket. See… the Melania movie helped at least one person.
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JD Vance’s New Book Cover Just Dropped, And People Immediately Spotted A Big Problem — BuzzFeed
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yapierberg.bsky.social @yapierberg.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
On #TransDayofVisibility, we celebrate trans joy & resilience - while governments ban trans people from sports, bathrooms, & healthcare. Visibility alone isn’t enough. Solidarity is survival. #TransRightsAreHumanRights
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Ways and Means Committee Democrats @waysmeanscmte.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
More on this: www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
politico.com
It's 3 times harder for blue states to get disaster funding under Trump
The president has approved just 23 percent of blue state requests for disaster aid, compared to 89 percent for red states.
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Ways and Means Committee Democrats @waysmeanscmte.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Under Trump, it’s 3x harder for blue states to get disaster relief than red states. Ranking Member @neal.house.gov called it out in front of Republicans earlier this week:
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Yesterday won’t magically rewind the clock pre-election and let us have a do-over. It doesn’t suddenly erase the unprecedented damage to our systems and safeguards. It alone can’t bend the arc of the moral universe away from authoritarianism.... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/no-kings-d...
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No Kings Day Helped Me Find Some Things I'd Lost
Sometimes you don’t notice attrition when it happens.
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yapierberg.bsky.social @yapierberg.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
We all watched Cocaine Bear and thought, "Ha, ridiculous, that would never happen." Mother Nature said "hold my beer" and gave us Cocaine Shark. Let’s just hope the pigeons don’t get ideas.
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Sharks test positive for cocaine and caffiene in Bahamas study - Dexerto
Sharks in the Bahamas tested positive for cocaine, caffeine, and painkillers, raising concerns about ocean pollution and its impact on marine life.
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yapierberg.bsky.social @yapierberg.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Tell him to check the “tariff shelf”.
apple.news
Trump orders TSA officers paid as Congress remains stalemated — The Washington Post
The president is claiming emergency powers to act, sidestepping Congress.
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yapierberg.bsky.social @yapierberg.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Because that’s what sexual predators deserve… erasure.
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From streets to murals, the erasure of Cesar Chavez is fast underway in California — Los Angeles Times
With unprecedented speed, California is eliminating Cesar Chavez's name and likeness from public spaces in the wake of sexual abuse allegations.
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