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Eric Michael Garcia
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Washington Bureau chief at The Independent, MSNBC Columnist. Author: We’re Not Broken. Tar Heel. He/Him [email protected]
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 10d
If you work for HHS and focus on autism, I would love to talk to you about how your job or research has been affected by RFK Jr. Message me on Signal at emgarcia.85.
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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 3h
SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

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Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says
It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h
“The United States is sending about 200 troops to Israel to help support and monitor the ceasefire deal in Gaza…”
US sending about 200 troops to Israel to help support and monitor ceasefire deal in Gaza
The United States is sending about 200 troops to Israel to help support and monitor the ceasefire deal in Gaza as part of a team that includes partner nations, nongovernmental organizations and privat...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 14h
As Pope Leo begins to reveal some of his views on divisive issues, some conservative critics of his predecessor are rejecting the possible rise of another “liberal pope.”
As Pope Leo riles conservatives, some say ‘just focus on the church’
Conservatives who hoped that Leo, the first U.S.-born pope, would be more of a traditionalist instead hear echoes of his predecessor, Francis, in his public statements.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 5h
The Jay Jones stuff has tightened the race but still, by a big margin
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 5h
My alma mater UNC going all-in on AI feels very similar to colleges betting on MOOCs and computer science in the 2010s when I was a student.
www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...
UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’
SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.
www.dailytarheel.com
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 5h
The UNC School of Data Science and Society and the School of Information and Library Science will be consolidating into a new school focused on artificial intelligence.
www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...
UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’
SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.
www.dailytarheel.com
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 5h
Eswatini is Africa’s last remaining absolute monarchy.

In other words, it's just the kind of country—small, untroubled by democracy, and presumably eager to avoid a superpower’s wrath—with which the Trump administration has been eager to do business.
ICE is sending people to a prison in Africa’s only absolute monarchy
Inside the “legal black hole” in Eswatini, where Trump is sending detainees.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 6h
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Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest. There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day. What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid. It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20h
The @wsj.com draws a line between tariffs/trade uncertainty to the bankruptcies at Tricolor, FirstBrands and others.

www.wsj.com/finance/how-...
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 1d
Pope Leo tells US bishops to address Trump's immigration crackdown

www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 6h
Pope Leo XIV sent a separate message Thursday to Catholic Charities USA, praising its work with migrants and urging members to keep serving as "agents of hope" despite a federal funding freeze.
www.axios.com/2025/10/09/p...
Pope Leo's first encyclical: Faith means defending migrants
Leo XIV puts Vatican at odds with the White House.
www.axios.com
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 6h
Pope Leo's first encyclical emphasizes defense of immigrants.

"The Church, like a mother, accompanies those who are walking...She knows that in every rejected migrant, it is Christ himself who knocks at the door of the community."
www.axios.com/2025/10/09/p...
Pope Leo's first encyclical: Faith means defending migrants
Leo XIV puts Vatican at odds with the White House.
www.axios.com
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 6h
On Bill Belichick being sacked, Thom Tillis, who helped recruit Belichick to UNC, says "I'll leave that to the alumni." #NCPol
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 6h
Good point! It took decades for Carter to rehabilitate his image
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 7h
Important discovery fight taking shape in Kilmar Abrego Garcia's criminal case.

The question: Can the government assert privilege to avoid handing over documents that may be relevant to a defendant's vindictive prosecution claim?

Abrego's counsel says no.

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 6h
In the past, Republicans have been more brutal to losers and unpopular presidents than their the GOP. They basically erased the Bush legacy after W. left unpopular as a failed president.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 6h
His polling among African American voters in Texas is... Buttigieg levels of bad.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 6h
Democrats will implicitly and subtly rebuke him. You see it already with how Obama, not Biden, is the main former Democratic president denouncing Trump. And do you think those anecdotes about Biden in those dishy campaign books just fell out of a coconut tree?
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Frances Larina @franceslarina.bsky.social · 6h
It would be interesting to see if the DNC veers off in this direction and throws Biden under the bus. No chance in the Xian Hell it will happen, but it would be interesting.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 7h
We talk a lot about AIPAC and “the Israel lobby” but when it came to Israel, Biden had a genuine ideological commitment to the “hug Bibi” strategy even as others in his party didn’t like it.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 6h
Probably not explicitly but definitely implicitly and policywise.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 6h
See also, his opposition to legalizing marijuana as the former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

By contrast, he pivoted on gay marriage, transgender rights, abortion and immigration.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 6h
Yep! Youth comes in handy there. Obama also became more ideologically committed on guns. Bob Casey changed on guns too.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 6h
A few have missed votes or cycled in and out to get pizza
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 6h
Which is rooted in age
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 7h
Totally because of his age. He used to talk about meeting Golda Meir, which is funny because Golda Meir left in disgrace
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 7h
Biden’s ideological commitments helped him on Ukraine (though he sort of tied one arm behind Zelensky’s back at first)
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