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Took the road less traveled... JD Tech & Health, MA SS Blocking: MAGA doomers disinfo/ "satire" w/o clear labels AI Slop putting me on a list/pack w/o my/asking DMs/Crypto/Req for $ Trolls get mocked & blocked I vet before following Don't be a lowbar�

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Granuailynn @granuailynn.bsky.social · Jul 27

Folks - in this age of disinfo, if you're going to do "satire" or double-fakes, don't bury the "see, it's not real!" deep in the alt

Or if you do, don't cry like a baby when someone id's it as fake & accuse them of "not being able to take a joke"🙄esp when you liked others' reposting it as real😒

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Adam Pascale @seislologist.bsky.social · 29m

It’s #earthscienceweek so I thought I’d go into a bit more detail on how educators can use to our Quick Quake tool to demonstrate how @earthquakes.au seismologists quickly calculate the location and magnitude of an earthquake. It works on macOS machines with Apple Silicon too.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 5h

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek has ordered state agencies to take “any and all steps necessary” to fast-track solar and wind permits that must break ground by next year or likely miss out on a federal tax credit Congress is ending.

With @opb.org

Oregon Fast-Tracks Renewable Energy Projects as Trump Bill Ends Tax Incentives

Gov. Tina Kotek ordered the move, which follows reporting by Oregon Public Broadcasting and ProPublica that highlighted impediments green energy advocates blame for the state’s poor ranking when it co...

www.propublica.org

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Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 40m

Turns out it was a middle aged white man. Awks.

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Tim Edwards @timzero4.bsky.social · 17h

Billionaires and religion

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 6h

Their complaints that Dems oppose the “rural hospital fund” are so hilarious.

Kind of like: “I’m going to burn down your house and give you a chocolate chip cookie instead.”

“That sounds terrible.”

“What you don’t like chocolate chip cookies!?”

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1h

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit."

Someone named Manny replies: "@grok
why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

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DJ "Jo" NoneYa 🟧 @djnoneya.bsky.social · 10m

finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-t...

Tesla’s top-compensated executives & directors besides Elon Musk

Quick facts: Tesla has helped make Elon Musk the world’s richest person, but the EV maker’s other executives and directors are rewarded for their work, too. Among the Tesla executives who make the mos...

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1h

🚨BREAKING: A federal appeals court temporarily allowed the Trump administration to keep the National Guard under federal command in Illinois — but blocked its use for active deployment. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Appeals Court Allows Trump to Keep Control of Illinois National Guard but Bars Deployment

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Rep. Dan Goldman @repdangoldman.bsky.social · 2h

No “clean CR” exists when Trump defies Congress and unilaterally guts programs—from law enforcement to pediatric cancer research to clean energy projects.

Republicans want Democratic cover to keep breaking the law. Democrats won’t play along.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 46m

👇👇

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 5h

Stay strong, stay beautiful, Chicago. c

Tweet from Fred Wellman: “Weird. I was told it’s a war zone.”
Below is a Time Out Chicago post showing a scenic city skyline at sunset with the text: “Chicago has been voted the Best Big City in the U.S. for the ninth consecutive year.”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

a russ vought special

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 4h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 4h

No shit, Sherlock.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 4h

They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.

I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 2h

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 1h

incomplete list of media outlets that typed up "snubbed" covering Donny's "losing" an award for which he was not in contention #NobelPrize

- @nbcnews.com
- @aljazeera.com
- @timesofindianews.bsky.social

NBC, Al Jazeera & Times of India all ran "snubbed"

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 43m

1,000 TROOPS: TN National Guard vet, who is protesting the Trump-@GovBillLee military/police takeover in Memphis, says deployment order is for a year. Takes us to the November election…

Commercial Appeal reported the same troop number. www.tiktok.com/@itsrachelda...

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 18h

You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live.

And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 19h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1h

Justice Department lawyers reposted President Trump’s statements and may have inadvertently endangered their prosecution of Luigi Mangione, violating the judge’s explicit orders that DOJ employees refrain from public comment about the case. trib.al/mZts17M

DOJ in Trouble After Lawyers Reposted Trump Rants on Luigi Mangione

The Justice Department’s case against Luigi Mangione just hit a major obstacle.

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Sara Emery @saraemery.bsky.social · 3h

in this study from @arachnologynerd.bsky.social and a team of other great folks, the authors find that though "the field of arachnology is becoming more collaborative, it is not necessarily more equitable" 🌍🕷️🦂 🌐🧪 👩‍🔬 academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...

If history is written by the victors, who describes the spiders? Species author trends reflect gender and geopolitical disparities in biodiversity science

Abstract. Gathering data on species description authorship is one way to track who has had access to a career in taxonomy. Via data from the World Spider C

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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admirablewomen.bsky.social @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 3h

#OTD in 1984, Kathryn Sullivan--geologist & NASA astronaut--became the first American women to walk in space. #WomenInSTEM #AstronautEnvy 🚀

kathysullivanastronaut.com/about/

Official portrait of Kathryn Sullivan in her spacesuit in front of the US and NASA flags.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 56m

In the case over Trump's National Guard deployment in and to Illinois, the Seventh Circuit grants a similar partial administrative stay while it considers DOJ's stay pending appeal:

The court stays the TRO's coverage of the federalization but denies the stay as to the TRO blocking deployment.

The following are before the court:
1. EMERGENCY MOTION FOR STAY PENDING APPEAL AND IMMEDIATE
ADMINISTRATIVE STAY, filed on October 10, 2025, by counsel for the appellants.
2. RESPONSE TO EMERGENCY MOTION FOR STAY PENDING APPEAL AND
IMMEDIATE ADMINISTRATIVE STAY, filed on October 11, 2025, by counsel for the
appellees.
IT IS ORDERED that appellants’ request for an administrative stay is GRANTED as to the
federalization of the National Guard and DENIED as to the deployment of the National Guard.
Pending a decision on the request for a stay pending appeal, the district court’s October 9, 2025,
order is temporarily STAYED only to the extent it enjoined the federalization of the National
Guard of the United States within Illinois. Members of the National Gu

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 4h

We have a judicial crisis in the US.

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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