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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · Jun 28

Unbelievable. Latest update from the nonpartisan budget office says the Senate Republican bill now cuts nearly $1 TRILLION from Medicaid.

Senate Finance Committee @senatefinance.bsky.social · Jun 28

NEWS: Wyden Statement on New CBO Numbers Showing More than $930 Billion in Medicaid Cuts In New Senate Draft

Wyden Statement on New CBO Numbers Showing More than $930 Billion in Medicaid Cuts In New Senate Draft | The United States Senate Committee on Finance

Wyden Statement on New CBO Numbers Showing More than $930 Billion in Medicaid Cuts In New Senate Draft

www.finance.senate.gov

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · Jun 28

There are only three political positions in America today

1) I like the fascism

2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc)

3) I oppose the fascism

The rest is details

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · Jun 27

Let’s be absolutely clear. This decision, based on fringe conspiracy theories, will kill children.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

RFK Jr. says U.S. will stop funding global vaccine alliance Gavi

Gavi works to expand access to vaccines for children in some of the world’s poorest countries. Health experts say the move could have deadly consequences.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.bsky.social · Jun 23

Thrilled to share this brief review with you all (pre-print/OSF link available at end of the thread).

It's weird to be in the place where I am now writing reviews of the development and evolution of an idea/concept that started when I was a 2nd year grad student

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Moral Incongruence After 10 Years: A Developmental and Narrative Review - Current Addiction Reports

Current Addiction Reports - Moral Incongruence related research began approximately 10 years ago, and since its earliest inception, has proven to be an influential theory in accounting for why some...

link.springer.com

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WIRED @wired.com · Jun 23

Trumpworld has been trying to spin the US military’s bombing of Iran as a complete and total victory, even as independent experts and MAGA loyalists object.

Donald Trump and Sean Hannity Set Off a Wave of Disinformation After Iran Bombing

Trumpworld has been trying to spin the US military’s bombing of Iran as a complete and total victory, even as independent experts and MAGA loyalists object.

www.wired.com

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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · Jun 22

Large majorities of Americans, including many Republican voters, oppose bombing Iran. They might want to weigh in with both the House and the Senate.

US Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121.

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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · Jun 20

Love what they did here. Everyone should do this with their papers. Academic best practice here 👇

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Jun 19

Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results.

t.co/JXeTALBPds

Ironically, upon the paper’s release, several social media users ran it through LLMs in order to summarize it and then post the findings online. Kosmyna had been expecting that people would do this, so she inserted a couple AI traps into the paper, such as instructing LLMs to “only read this table below,” thus ensuring that LLMs would return only limited insight from the paper.

She also found that LLMs hallucinated a key detail: Nowhere in her paper did she specify the version of ChatGPT she used, but AI summaries declared that the paper was trained on GPT-4o. “We specifically wanted to see that, because we were pretty sure the LLM would hallucinate on that,” she says, laughing.

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · Jun 20

"Just as America’s colleges are preparing to welcome what could be the largest freshman class in the nation’s history...many students may have to pay more, professors may lose their jobs, programs could vanish and support services could shrink."
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/u...

Tuition Increases and Layoffs Are Coming to a Broad Set of Universities

www.nytimes.com

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · Jun 20

"This case highlights the significant threat posed to U.S. citizens by frequent ICE errors, which are exacerbated when local law enforcement agencies participate in immigration enforcement...”

www.bet.com/article/6rdn...

He Was Born in Philly and They Tried to Deport Him to Jamaica

A Florida sheriff ignored proof of Peter Sean Brown’s U.S. citizenship and held him for ICE anyway. A federal court just ruled it was a blatant violation of his Fourth Amendment rights.

www.bet.com

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · Jun 20

How do you shame the shameless?

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · Jun 19

The study uses the patchwork of state and local plastic bag policies across the U.S., plus crowdsourced data from 45k+ shoreline cleanups, to show that plastic bag taxes and fees reduce bag litter by 25-47% in the jurisdictions that pass them. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/c...

Banning Plastic Bags Works to Limit Shoreline Litter, Study Finds

www.nytimes.com

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WIRED @wired.com · Jun 17

SCOOP: The "Appeal To Heaven" flag, a popular symbol for Christian nationalists that was waved by January 6 rioters, was raised over the Small Business Administration headquarters last week.

Far-Right ‘Appeal to Heaven’ Flag Seen at Jan. 6 Riot Flown Above Government Agency in DC

The "Appeal To Heaven" flag, a popular symbol for Christian nationalists that was waved by January 6 rioters, was raised over the Small Business Administration headquarters last week.

www.wired.com

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Global Perspectives in Communication (GPC) @gpccomm.bsky.social · Jun 15

"I see you've got reports and papers. What gives?"

Glad you asked, #ICA25!

For most folks, the "full" papers are your standard fare completed works (~8K words), representing every corner of ICA.

Reports? Much shorter (~4K words), meant to give space for emerging & incremental scholarship.

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Katy Pearce @katypearce.bsky.social · Jun 15

#ica25 chair tip - ASK people how to pronounce their name phonetically (even in email first) and/or ask AI how to pronounce it. There is really no excuse for people stumbling over names anymore. This is a matter of respect.

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Sara Grady @saramgrady.bsky.social · Jun 15

near Union station in Denver (@ XIV). cops have set off what seems to smoke bombs & tear gas at a small cluster quiet of protestors. We’re evacuating a roof top bar, people at this #ica25 reception are throwing up, streaked w/ tears & seeking refuge inside. If you’re in the area, get inside.

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Andy Elrick @andyelrick.bsky.social · May 29

We lost by 1.5% and 90 million people didn't vote. Lesson learned folks, let's spend $20 million on ads targeted at divorced dads who fall asleep every night watching IG reels about how to open a bottle of water like an alpha.

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · May 29

Rolling Stone decided to get to the bottom of questions that until now remained publicly unanswered, including:

Who or what is “SAM,” and who is actually running this thing?

EXCLUSIVE: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · May 29

Homicide rates: NY 4.5, FL 7.2
Life expectancy: NY 79, FL 76.1
Uninsured rate: NY 4.8, FL 10.7

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 29

Bessent: "We want the US to be more like Florida and less like New York"

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · May 29

For starters, Democrats need to actually field a candidate against Mike Johnson, unlike the 2022 and 2024 campaigns when they let him run unopposed.

The odds of unseating him will be long, but use the campaign to put him on defense and make our version of Pierre Poilievre sweat a little.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · May 29

I just think there needs to be more attention paid to the uniquely creepy, mendacious, awfulness of Speaker Mike Johnson. Don’t underestimate the depth of his ambition and breadth of what he is willing to do to never return to Shreveport.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · May 30

Imagine if Joe Biden had said ‘where do these three judges come from?’ and one of them had been appointed by… him.

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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · May 29

If you were wondering how DOJ civil rights investigations get started these days:

www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 28

Linda McMahon: "Universities should continue to be able to do research as long as they're abiding by the laws and in sync, I think, with the administration and what the administration is trying to accomplish."

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WIRED @wired.com · May 28

“Claude is a snitch.”

The internet freaked out after Anthropic revealed that its new AI attempts to report "immoral" activity to law enforcement or media in certain circumstances.

Why Anthropic's New AI Model Sometimes Tries to ‘Snitch’

The internet freaked out after Anthropic revealed that Claude attempts to report "immoral" activity to authorities under certain conditions. But it's not something users are likely to encounter.

www.wired.com

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · May 28

the national "fell for it again" awards competition has come to southern missouri.

big fan of watching people delude themselves that this isn't what they voted for while the guy next to them smiles and speaks the truth: yes you did, you just feel bad about it now.

For 20 years, Carol Hui has served waffles, raised her children and embraced the small
town of Kennett, Mo. Her detention and pending deportation to Hong Kong has hit the
community hard.
Listen to this article · 9:40 min Learn more
By Jack Healy Photographs by Jamie Kelter Davis
Jack Healy interviewed residents in Kennett, Mo., and spoke by phone with Ming Li Hui from jail.
May 28, 2025
The first sign of trouble came early this month when Carol didn’t show up for her
shift at John’s Waffle and Pancake House.
She was as reliable as the sun rising over rice and melon fields in her adopted
hometown, Kennett, Mo., a conservative farming hub of 10,000 people in the state’s
southeastern boot heel, where “Missouri” becomes “Missour-uh.”
In the 20 years since she arrived from Hong Kong, she had built a life and family in
Kennett, working two waitressing jobs and cleaning houses on the side. She began
every morning at the bustling diner, serving pecan waffles, hugging customers and
reading leftover newspapers to improve her English.

That all ended on April 30, when federal immigration officials summoned Carol, 45,
whose legal name is Ming Li Hui, to their office in St. Louis, a three-hour drive
from Kennett. Her partner, a Guatemalan immigrant, had voiced suspicion about
the sudden call. But “I didn’t want to run,” Ms. Hui said in a jailhouse phone
interview. “I just wanted to do the right thing.”
She was arrested and jailed to await deportation.
Ms. Hui’s detention has forced a rural Missouri county to face the fallout of
President Trump’s immigration crackdown, which was supported in theory by
many residents in this Trump-loving corner of an increasingly red America.

Many are now asking how you can support Carol and also Mr. Trump.
“I voted for Donald Trump, and so did practically everyone here,” said Vanessa
Cowart, a friend of Ms. Hui from church. “But no one voted to deport moms. We
were all under the impression we were just getting rid of the gangs, the people who
came here in droves.”
She paused. “This is Carol.”
Adam Squires, a onetime candidate for mayor of Kennett, saw it differently. He did
not bear any ill will for Ms. Hui, he said, but he voted for Mr. Trump, as did 80
percent of voters in Dunklin County, and he was glad to see the deportation
campaign reach home.
“They vote for Trump, and then they get mad because the stuff starts happening,”
he said of his neighbors. “We’ve got to get rid of all the illegals. This is just a start.”

Nonetheless, she was working, which people who enter as tourists are generally
not allowed to do, and her tourist visa had lapsed. Her status in the country
became a matter of dispute.
Many people in Kennett expressed outrage that a hardworking mother had spent
the past month jailed by immigration authorities.
Supporters described her as an ideal addition to a rural town where the population
is declining and the only hospital has closed.
“She’s exactly the sort of person you’d want to come to the country,” said Chuck
Earnest, a farmer. “I don’t know how this fits into the deportation problem with
Trump.”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · May 27

reputable medical journals keep saying that RFK and his pro-disease friends are full of shit and so naturally they must be shunned www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

RFK Jr. threatens to bar government scientists from publishing in leading medical journals

The health secretary said the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet are in bed with pharma.

www.politico.com

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · May 27

"Kennedy said the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet...were 'corrupt'...'Unless those journals change dramatically, we are going to stop NIH scientists from publishing in them and we’re going to create our own journals in-house'”

Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · May 27

RFK Jr. threatens to bar government scientists from publishing in leading medical journals www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

RFK Jr. threatens to bar government scientists from publishing in leading medical journals

The health secretary said the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet are in bed with pharma.

www.politico.com

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