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Nancy @plaintanjane.bsky.social · 3h

In case anyone in DC wants to attend: Sean Dunn‘s trial is Nov. 3rd.
His defense attorney, Sabrina Shroff said Dunn requested a jury trial. Both Dunn
and Shroff declined to answer reporters' questions outside court.

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 4h

it’s… the saddest story i can think of

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 6h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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David Sacerdote @davidsacerdote.bsky.social · 6h

Spent my day canvassing for Prop 50. Knocked on a lot of doors. Met a few people who had no idea what was on the ballot, and hopefully got a bunch of low-propensity voters to return their ballots. Lots asks for yard signs.

Anybody near Palo Alto have extra Yes on 50 signs?

Selfie of a man delivering a yes on fifty yard sign by bicycle

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T&E @transportenvironment.org · 3d

NEW: Biofuels globally emit more than the fossil fuels they replace, our latest study shows.

The first-of-a-kind study looks at global biofuels production today and the potential impacts of government biofuel targets.
🧵⤵️

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 7h

Remember when Mike Bloomberg installed "free speech zones" at the RNC?

Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 7h

“Free speech curfew” is one of the most authoritarian and dystopian terms I think I have ever heard.

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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 19h

Among the winners of this year’s MacArthur “genius grants” are climate experts Kristina Douglass and Ángel Adames-Corraliza. We talked to them about their research and why winning $800,000 is a particular lifeline right now. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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David Sacerdote @davidsacerdote.bsky.social · 7h

If you're in California, please do more than just vote Yes on 50; turn out to knock on your neighbors' doors and ask them to do the same.

Spent most of my day going door to door, and definitely got a few people to vote yes who otherwise wouldn't have voted at all.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

a russ vought special

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 15h

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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RL Miller @rlmiller.bsky.social · 14h

also, proper credit: WaPo is re-reporting, on Saturday, news broken by The American Prospect last Wednesday. Great work @ddayen.bsky.social! prospect.org/politics/tru...

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 15h

Genuine question: for those enthusiastically pushing AI tools into every part of our education system—what checks/guardrails are there around algorithmic biases like this?

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 19h

The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”

OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT

GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.

www.theverge.com

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Maxine Joselow @maxinejoselow.bsky.social · 16h

In Georgia, Trump’s cancellation of $7 billion in solar energy funding is hurting some of his own voters. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/c...

In Georgia, Trump’s Cuts to Solar Projects Hit Some of His Voters

www.nytimes.com

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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 20h

It’s also interesting that I haven’t heard about these videos being taken down—are they being removed? Because the /actual/ video report that sparked this swell of slop was.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 18h

Curious whether the judge would say this violates the consent decree…

The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 18h

"Just grabbing people, checking IDs. They arrested like, what I seen, a bunch of people. They had vans and stuff like that.”

Immigration enforcement agents interrogate, detain rideshare drivers at O'Hare Airport

Federal agents detained several rideshare drivers on Friday at a parking lot at O'Hare International Airport, the latest target in immigration enforcement across Chicago.

www.cbsnews.com

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 19h

The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”

OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT

GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.

www.theverge.com

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 18h

This article explains that what happened to the Esmeralda seven projects: “the proponents and BLM agreed to change their approach for the Esmeralda 7 Solar Project in Nevada,” instead of programmatic review, developers can review individually. 🔌💡
www.reviewjournal.com/business/ene...

Feds cancel review of Vegas-sized solar farm in Nevada desert

Esmeralda 7 in Nevada would have been among the nation’s largest solar projects. The Bureau of Land Management has listed the Nevada project as canceled since Thursday.

www.reviewjournal.com

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LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · 18h

We’re one week away from one of the largest peaceful protests in our country’s history, with 2,500+ events happening nationwide.

On Oct. 18, join millions coming together to defend our communities, our democracy, and our freedoms. Let Trump know there are #NoKings in America.

lcv.org/nokings

Find an event near you

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power belongs to the people.

lcv.org

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Json Momoa @jotatx.bsky.social · 18h

this is how you condemn thousands to death with a single strike of a pen.

this is death, nothing more than that.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Ken Caldeira @kencaldeira.com · 18h

We could get rid of half of the radiative forcing of climate caused by aviation if we could get airlines to stop making contrails, mostly by flying a few thousand feet higher or lower.

New open-access paper from a climate physics perspective.

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

A Stylized Study of the Climate Response to Longwave and Shortwave Forcing at the Altitude of Aviation‐Induced Cirrus

For the same magnitude of LW and SW forcing at the altitude of aviation-induced cirrus, climate sensitivity is larger when the forcing is imposed at high latitudes For the same change in concentr...

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 1d

So, for all those who love the Finger Lakes: a b*tcoin miner plans to turn the old retired coal plant on Cayuga Lake (just north of Ithaca) into a hyperscale data center.

A bunch of us worked for years to shut down that coal plant—and won in 2019.

sustainablefingerlakes.org/2025/10/08/c...

Coal plant in the far bank across a lake

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Mark Sumner 🇺🇦 @devilstower.bsky.social · 1d

Donald Trump lives in a carefully curated media bubble—half Fox News, half AI deepfakes—where everyone thinks he’s brilliant and America’s biggest concern is the White House ballroom.

Donald Trump, Bubble Boy

The President of the United States exists in a dream world, where he regularly declares things that are not just untrue, but ridiculous. This is patently obvious to the most casual observer … so long...

www.unchartedblue.com

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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 1d

Who needs disease detectives, it’s not like there are any novel viruses we’d want to understand

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

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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Lisa Morrison ❌👑 @lisamorrison.bsky.social · 1d

Tonight the O gets 5 out of 5 Lady Libertys for interviews with real people living their real lives in Portland. 🗽🗽🗽🗽🗽 #RCTID

‘Hell hole’? ‘Burning’? ‘War-torn’? 11 Portlanders on what the city is really like

What's life really like here, according to Portlanders?

www.oregonlive.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 1d

Journalist here

I’m interested in talking to a federal agency scientist who was fired, then rehired. I can keep you anonymous. I’m on Signal ginnyg.04

Reposts are appreciated!

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 1d

"After a few moments of laughter, the No Kings Coalition issued the following statement"

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