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Such awful reporting--the Smithsonian charter, which dates to the 1840s, is designed to prevent the sort of political meddling that Trump is now attempting.
September 13, 2026 at 12:07 AM
Such awful reporting--the Smithsonian charter, which dates to the 1840s, is designed to prevent the sort of political meddling that Trump is now attempting.
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The crowd erupts in chants of "Shame on you!" as Roger Marshall tries to explain why he sued 700 of his patients, leading to 81 arrests:
September 13, 2026 at 2:31 AM
The crowd erupts in chants of "Shame on you!" as Roger Marshall tries to explain why he sued 700 of his patients, leading to 81 arrests:
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JUST IN: A federal judge concludes that DHS leaders arbitrarily decided to cut FEMA staff by 50% even though it damaged the agency's ability to fulfill its mission — and leaders hid their comms about it on auto-delete Signal chains. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
September 12, 2026 at 1:57 AM
JUST IN: A federal judge concludes that DHS leaders arbitrarily decided to cut FEMA staff by 50% even though it damaged the agency's ability to fulfill its mission — and leaders hid their comms about it on auto-delete Signal chains. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Last month, the Pentagon fired the publisher and editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes. Two opposite headlines this morning show the results were swift.
September 11, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Last month, the Pentagon fired the publisher and editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes. Two opposite headlines this morning show the results were swift.
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This ICE removal flight has landed in Laos. Passengers onboard have been shackled for at least 28 hours.
September 10, 2026 at 4:32 AM
This ICE removal flight has landed in Laos. Passengers onboard have been shackled for at least 28 hours.
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Quite literally, Vanderbilt’s president just became chair of the board of the Nashville Chamber of Commerce 🤷♂️🤦♂️
September 7, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Quite literally, Vanderbilt’s president just became chair of the board of the Nashville Chamber of Commerce 🤷♂️🤦♂️
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This seems like a very good question
Hi @gavinnewsom.bsky.social! Do you really want your legacy to be taking money away from school kids for air conditioning during heat waves to hand it to a fossil fuel company that made $1.8 billion in profit last year?
Extend CalSHAPE. Cool the schools. It’s really not that complicated.
Extend CalSHAPE. Cool the schools. It’s really not that complicated.
August 30, 2026 at 10:17 PM
This seems like a very good question
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Adam Kalkstein spent 17 years at West Point as its only climate scientist. He's a conservative Republican.
He says he was ordered to cut climate science from his courses. He filed suit Monday.
www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/no-thanks-...
He says he was ordered to cut climate science from his courses. He filed suit Monday.
www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/no-thanks-...
August 28, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Adam Kalkstein spent 17 years at West Point as its only climate scientist. He's a conservative Republican.
He says he was ordered to cut climate science from his courses. He filed suit Monday.
www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/no-thanks-...
He says he was ordered to cut climate science from his courses. He filed suit Monday.
www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/no-thanks-...
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Wake up, babe. The Prime Minister just dropped “hydronym”.
August 27, 2026 at 9:39 PM
Wake up, babe. The Prime Minister just dropped “hydronym”.
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More for the archive on the history of Republicans calling it the "Democrat Party." I missed this source--from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in Sep 1952--when, several years ago, I wrote a history of this "hanky panky with a suffix."
August 27, 2026 at 5:56 PM
More for the archive on the history of Republicans calling it the "Democrat Party." I missed this source--from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in Sep 1952--when, several years ago, I wrote a history of this "hanky panky with a suffix."
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"I was not shocked that he helped somebody. My shock is that he was murdered. And no one has given us the complete truth or anyone has been held accountable. And it's been 7 months! ... there was more effort in vilifying him than pursuing justice" -- Alex Pretti's parents
August 25, 2026 at 3:51 PM
"I was not shocked that he helped somebody. My shock is that he was murdered. And no one has given us the complete truth or anyone has been held accountable. And it's been 7 months! ... there was more effort in vilifying him than pursuing justice" -- Alex Pretti's parents
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From @blakewexler.bsky.social : “United Health Care wrote a letter TO OUR BABIES denying coverage for our twins stay in the NICU…” 🤔 😳
#MedicareforAllNOW
#MedicareforAllNOW
August 23, 2026 at 5:16 PM
From @blakewexler.bsky.social : “United Health Care wrote a letter TO OUR BABIES denying coverage for our twins stay in the NICU…” 🤔 😳
#MedicareforAllNOW
#MedicareforAllNOW
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As you can tell from this short thread, Korte is a pro, and some national MSM outlet ought to pick her up and get her back in print, pronto. You'd get a lot of great stories, and you'd drive Hegseth bananas.
August 22, 2026 at 1:06 AM
As you can tell from this short thread, Korte is a pro, and some national MSM outlet ought to pick her up and get her back in print, pronto. You'd get a lot of great stories, and you'd drive Hegseth bananas.
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Gorsuch, Thomas, Alito in oral argument or their dissents claim there was no immigration enforcement before the birthright citizenship clause. Trump claims birthright citizenship was only for "the babies of slaves." The claims are ahistorical, ignoring the 100+ years of state migration laws. 1/
This is my lane. I went through the 194 Trump v Barbara opinion from yesterday section by section, noting what they got right about US migration and citizenship history, and what the dissents get wrong.
Please share if you think it is helpful to others.
Please share if you think it is helpful to others.
I Read Trump v Barbara So You Don’t Have To — Anna O. Law
As someone who took 16 years to research and write a new book, Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship , a policy and legal history, I paid keen attention to the oral arguments (April 1) ...
www.annaolaw.com
August 21, 2026 at 11:23 AM
Gorsuch, Thomas, Alito in oral argument or their dissents claim there was no immigration enforcement before the birthright citizenship clause. Trump claims birthright citizenship was only for "the babies of slaves." The claims are ahistorical, ignoring the 100+ years of state migration laws. 1/
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this is the second federal judge i've seen in the past few weeks issue an order like 'i agree with you that this is racist but the Supreme Court said racism is legal now ☹️' and i need them to get it together
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/feder...
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/feder...
August 19, 2026 at 5:12 PM
this is the second federal judge i've seen in the past few weeks issue an order like 'i agree with you that this is racist but the Supreme Court said racism is legal now ☹️' and i need them to get it together
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/feder...
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/feder...
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Former CIA analyst @juliacurlee.bsky.social tells @timmiller.bsky.social how the Trump White House fired her for being transgender: “I just tried to do the work, and it still wasn’t enough… I just was simply the wrong kind of American to continue working.”
August 20, 2026 at 2:55 AM
Former CIA analyst @juliacurlee.bsky.social tells @timmiller.bsky.social how the Trump White House fired her for being transgender: “I just tried to do the work, and it still wasn’t enough… I just was simply the wrong kind of American to continue working.”
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"The team found that the greater the proportion of enslaved people in a county in 1860, the bigger the mortality gap between Black & white people in the 2010s, even after controlling for common factors tied to health inequalities, such as rurality or pop. density"
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Slavery linked to mortality gap between Black and white Americans today
New study is among the first to quantify and explain slavery’s influence in contemporary U.S. health disparities
www.science.org
August 18, 2026 at 12:47 AM
"The team found that the greater the proportion of enslaved people in a county in 1860, the bigger the mortality gap between Black & white people in the 2010s, even after controlling for common factors tied to health inequalities, such as rurality or pop. density"
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI.
We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
www.404media.co
August 17, 2026 at 1:23 PM
New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI.
We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
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Ossoff on why he invoked Natalie Harp during his speech: "We're in wartime. The commander in chief has mired us in this geopolitical disaster. People have lost their lives ... and he retreats into this bubble of West Wing aides who are his security blanket to make him feel good about himself"
August 18, 2026 at 1:16 AM
Ossoff on why he invoked Natalie Harp during his speech: "We're in wartime. The commander in chief has mired us in this geopolitical disaster. People have lost their lives ... and he retreats into this bubble of West Wing aides who are his security blanket to make him feel good about himself"
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“What an absolute crook” — Ossoff on Trump
August 16, 2026 at 11:57 PM
“What an absolute crook” — Ossoff on Trump
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#ResistanceRoots
Katharine Lee Bates was born on this day in 1859 in Falmouth, Mass. Best known for penning the words to “America the Beautiful,” she was an educator, poet and social reformer. Her anthem includes a mandate for social justice, begging America’s wealthy to care for the vulnerable. /1
Katharine Lee Bates was born on this day in 1859 in Falmouth, Mass. Best known for penning the words to “America the Beautiful,” she was an educator, poet and social reformer. Her anthem includes a mandate for social justice, begging America’s wealthy to care for the vulnerable. /1
August 13, 2026 at 12:42 AM
#ResistanceRoots
Katharine Lee Bates was born on this day in 1859 in Falmouth, Mass. Best known for penning the words to “America the Beautiful,” she was an educator, poet and social reformer. Her anthem includes a mandate for social justice, begging America’s wealthy to care for the vulnerable. /1
Katharine Lee Bates was born on this day in 1859 in Falmouth, Mass. Best known for penning the words to “America the Beautiful,” she was an educator, poet and social reformer. Her anthem includes a mandate for social justice, begging America’s wealthy to care for the vulnerable. /1
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Normally I just appreciatively read @jamellebouie.net 's columns-sharable video content just isn't my bag. But this is a very, very, very trenchant piece of commentary that captures a lot of how I increasingly understand the disjunction between the commentary environment and on-the-ground politics.
The pundits have completely lost the plot
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
www.youtube.com
August 13, 2026 at 12:22 AM
Normally I just appreciatively read @jamellebouie.net 's columns-sharable video content just isn't my bag. But this is a very, very, very trenchant piece of commentary that captures a lot of how I increasingly understand the disjunction between the commentary environment and on-the-ground politics.
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1. Mitch McConnell suffered a fall on June 14 and has not been in the Senate for two months. But he's continued to get paid his salary of 174K/year.
Since he entered the Senate in 1985, McConnell has voted against creating or expanding medical leave — paid and unpaid — at least 23 times.
Since he entered the Senate in 1985, McConnell has voted against creating or expanding medical leave — paid and unpaid — at least 23 times.
August 13, 2026 at 1:39 PM
1. Mitch McConnell suffered a fall on June 14 and has not been in the Senate for two months. But he's continued to get paid his salary of 174K/year.
Since he entered the Senate in 1985, McConnell has voted against creating or expanding medical leave — paid and unpaid — at least 23 times.
Since he entered the Senate in 1985, McConnell has voted against creating or expanding medical leave — paid and unpaid — at least 23 times.
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New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
August 12, 2026 at 4:42 AM
New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Three years after police raid on Kansas newspaper, reporter settles lawsuit for $850K | via @journalist-sherman.bsky.social #ksleg
Three years after police raid on Kansas newspaper, reporter settles lawsuit for $850K • Kansas Reflector
Phyllis Zorn, the reporter whose acts of journalism served as an excuse for the August 2023 police raid of the Marion County Record, will get $850,000 from the city of Marion to settle her federal law...
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August 12, 2026 at 12:07 AM
Three years after police raid on Kansas newspaper, reporter settles lawsuit for $850K | via @journalist-sherman.bsky.social #ksleg