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Disgruntled American @chiefjoeflow.bsky.social · 4h
"It is the sinking feeling of a societal race toward a future that feels bloodless, hastily conceived, and shruggingly accepted. Are we really doing this? Who thought this was a good idea?"
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.
www.theatlantic.com
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 1d
The Central Yukon Resource Management Plan has been rescinded.

“The Senate just plunged northern Alaska into chaos, ripping up a balanced land management plan that Alaskans spent years collaborating on,” said Cooper Freeman, our AK director. 🧵

More of our Public Lands work ➡️ bit.ly/3KIdNeK
Two adult caribou and two baby caribou stand together on a foggy plain covered in patchy snow. The adults look towards the camera.
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Disgruntled American @chiefjoeflow.bsky.social · 1d
Our schools are not churches www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Five Ways the Department of Education Is Upending Public Schools
The Trump administration has made a rapid succession of hires and decisions at the Department of Education that could spur profound changes in how schools operate and children learn. Here’s what to kn...
www.propublica.org
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Disgruntled American @chiefjoeflow.bsky.social · 1d
Geothermal good news youtube.com/watch?v=sAxe...
Unlikely alliance builds cleaner geothermal energy network in Massachusetts community
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 1d
There it is: $20 billion for Argentina at the same time they’re taking markets away from our farmers.

But no $ for health insurance for Americans?
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Disgruntled American @chiefjoeflow.bsky.social · 4d
These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department www.propublica.org/article/educ...
These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.
Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...
www.propublica.org
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Disgruntled American @chiefjoeflow.bsky.social · 5d
ACTION: Let's ban surveillance pricing! Consumer Reports - action.consumerreports.org/nb-20251002-...
You shouldn’t be charged more based on who you are
ACTION: Let's ban surveillance pricing!
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Senator Tim Kaine @kaine.senate.gov · 5d
Undocumented people are not eligible to enroll in Medicare and Medicaid. Republicans are pushing this lie to distract Americans from the fact that they refuse to vote to keep marketplace health care premiums from skyrocketing. Don't fall for it.
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Disgruntled American @chiefjoeflow.bsky.social · 7d
Diverse selection of cars and trucks here in Scarborough.
Go @rivianofficial.bsky.social for offering rides!
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National Drive Electric Month • Sustainable Scarborough Day - Electric Truck Ride & Drive • Scarborough, ME • Oct 05 2025
National Drive Electric Month events feature plug-in electric vehicle owners sharing their experience with others interested in driving electric. #NDEW2025
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 7d
It is truly dire how much more willing progressive donors are to fund paid ads than to try to invest in making good content.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 7d
“why do all the Trump billionaires spent all their time buying media outlets” say rich liberals

“oh well! probably nothing to see here, now to take a big sip of coffee and donate 50 million dollars to a Dem superPAC”
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NPR @npr.org · 7d
At a time when President Trump is going after foreign laborers in the U.S, and saying unflattering accounts of U.S. history should be removed, Rock Springs, Wyoming has put up a new monument to ethnic violence there.
New monument commemorates tragic anti-immigrant chapter in Wyoming history
At a time when President Trump is going after foreign laborers in the U.S, and saying unflattering accounts of U.S. history should be removed, Rock Springs, Wyoming has put up a new monument to ethnic violence there.
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Disgruntled American @chiefjoeflow.bsky.social · 7d
Where can I get vote no signs?
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The Maine Dems @mainedems.bsky.social · Aug 20
Absentee voting works for Maine. Over 350,000 of us used it in 2024. Don’t let Trump and extremists dismantle it. Visit mainedems.org/protectabsentee to take the pledge to Vote No On Question 1.
#NoOnQuestion1
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Environmental Voter Project @environmentalvoter.bsky.social · 8d
China is laughing at us...all the way to the bank.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump officials cut nearly $8bn in clean energy projects in Democratic states
Democrats and environmental groups slam move as ‘sick political game’ and say it will drive up energy bills
www.theguardian.com
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Environmental Voter Project @environmentalvoter.bsky.social · 9d
"'Edible forests' are popping up in Boston. Scattered across the city, once-empty lots have been overtaken by fruit trees and berry-filled bushes. Open to the public, they are forage-friendly pockets in the urban grid."

insideclimatenews.org/news/0310202...
Boston’s Food Forests Take Root as a Climate Equity Strategy - Inside Climate News
A decade of organizing has turned trash-strewn lots into edible parks. Now Boston is expanding food forests as part of its climate action plan.
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Disgruntled American @chiefjoeflow.bsky.social · 9d
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies www.propublica.org/article/elon...
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies
The newly unsealed testimony marks the first time direct Chinese investment in the company has been disclosed, raising new questions about foreign ownership interests in one of America’s most importan...
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 10d
“How many billions of dollars do you need to have a spine?” the philosopher Sam Harris asks. On the latest episode of “The David Frum Show,” he speaks with @davidfrum.bsky.social about Silicon Valley’s turn toward authoritarian politics.
The Rise of Technofascists
Sam Harris on Silicon Valley’s turn toward authoritarian politics and the collapse of the information commons. Plus: Donald Trump’s politicization of prosecutions and Robert Proctor’s The Nazi War on Cancer.
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Disgruntled American @chiefjoeflow.bsky.social · 11d
Keep it up Maine. Hold these big oil companies to account.
www.mainepublic.org/climate/2025...
Maine climate lawsuit to remain in state court
Federal judge rejects attempts by big oil companies to fight charges they hid climate damage of their products in U.S. court.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11d
The president said, in a televised speech, that he's sending his new, less restrained, more violent military into US cities to practice their brutality on immigrants and minorities, to better train them to apply that brutality to other countries.

He said this out loud.
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Disgruntled American @chiefjoeflow.bsky.social · 13d
We need to know what this government of ours is doing with our lands (and of course, the money) www.opb.org/article/2025...
BLM timber sales in Oregon and Washington are now closed to the public
An environmental advocate in Southern Oregon said a new policy excluding the public from federal timber auctions hurts accountability and transparency.
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 13d
Documented rise in Americans’ inability to concentrate

www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...
Rising Cognitive Disability as a Public Health Concern Among US Adults | Neurology
Background and ObjectivesCognitive disability—defined by the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) as serious difficulty concentrating, remembering, or making decisions because of a physi...
www.neurology.org
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Disgruntled American @chiefjoeflow.bsky.social · 14d
Stop the park service from closing this pnw office www.opb.org/article/2025...
Time is running out to weigh in on Forest Service overhaul that would close Pacific Northwest headquarters
The U.S. Forest Service could close its Pacific Northwest headquarters in Portland, which oversees Oregon and Washington national forests, as part of restructuring plan.
www.opb.org
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Disgruntled American @chiefjoeflow.bsky.social · 17d
Follow the money and waste www.propublica.org/article/geor...
Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement Program Spent Twice as Much on Administrative Costs as on Health Care, GAO Says
Republican lawmakers cite Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage as a national model for federal Medicaid work requirements that are set to take effect in 2027. A new report shows the program has spent at lea...
www.propublica.org
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Disgruntled American @chiefjoeflow.bsky.social · 18d
We should be able to keep track of living human beings in our custody www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
www.miamiherald.com
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 18d
Donald Trump wants to lend $20 billion of our money to bail out a political ally and his global investors before an election.

Oh, and Argentina just struck a major deal with China that crushes American soybean farmers already suffering from Trump's tariffs.

“America First.”
Bessent Says US in Talks With Argentina Over $20 Billion Lifeline
The US plans to extend a $20 billion swap line to Argentina and is ready to buy the country’s foreign bonds, providing much-needed financial support to President Javier Milei as he tries to regain inv...
www.bloomberg.com
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