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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 14h

The hush money payoff to Stormy Daniels cost more than house Leticia James bought for her grand niece.

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JSant @jmsantiago.bsky.social · 11h

MMWR is so important to public health officials in tracking emerging threats. This is NOT good.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 1d

The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.

The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.

We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 16h

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

www.youtube.com

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JSant @jmsantiago.bsky.social · 15h

I keep thinking about the rumor that when he named Roberts Chief Justice, GWB said they won’t know what I’ve done for decades.

Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 16h

Roberts is presiding over, and driving, a stunning collapse in faith in the U.S. Supreme Court, not just among the public, but among federal judges.

What a failure. The Titanic captain of chief justices.

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 16h

“More than three dozen federal judges have told The New York Times that the Supreme Court’s flurry of brief, opaque emergency orders in cases related to the Trump administration have left them confused about how to proceed in those matters and are hurting the judiciary’s image with the public.”

JSant @jmsantiago.bsky.social · 16h

And I still had free AC and free electricity for my car in summer and early fall.

JSant @jmsantiago.bsky.social · 16h

This is what we need.

We must stand up for all of us.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 16h

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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JSant @jmsantiago.bsky.social · 1d

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 1d

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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adam - i'm an elephant @a.falk.wtf · 1d

I'm joining the war on Ms Rachel on the side of Ms Rachel

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 1d

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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JSant @jmsantiago.bsky.social · 1d

This garbage is not just going on in the US.

I have had heat pumps for 10 years.

I knew they existed because my grandfather got one 25 years ago.

This is NOT newfangled technology.

Saint Vice @savic.bsky.social · 1d

BBC decided to cancel a podcast on heat pumps deeming the topic "controversial" because it presented that the technology could contribute to net zero reducing carbon emmissions.

In 2025 an anti-science posture is not only valid, but required in any debate to be considered "balanced" 😬

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Franken-Pattern @franken-pattern.bsky.social · 2d

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 1d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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JSant @jmsantiago.bsky.social · 1d

😂😂😂😂

Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 1d

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 2d

regardless of its other politics, any actual movement intended to make america great again would have “build stuff like the hoover dam” at the very top of its list

Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 2d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 2d

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

@heatmap.news

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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 3d

In celebration of World Octopus Day, we wanted to revisit one of our favorite cephalopod sightings, the glass octopus — Vitreledonella richardi filmed during a month-long #PhoenixIslandsCoral expedition in 2021.

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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 2d

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.

Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 2d

ACA open enrollment starts Nov. 1. Rates should have been published in August. Mike Johnson hopes you don’t know that. But my mom is an independent insurance agent. Has been for 20+ years. So she does know that.

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JSant @jmsantiago.bsky.social · 2d

His bio says he’s 5’10”. Hers says she’s 5’6”, and she’s wearing boots with 4” heels.

Reader, something does not add up here.

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 2d

Important news for my fellow staunch #3A boosters. Our time has come!

Peel @rhpeel.bsky.social · 2d

cc @epicciuto.bsky.social

Tweet about the third amendment allowing businesses to refuse to grant ICE access to bathrooms

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Miles Whitney @milesew.bsky.social · 2d

"Almost every person who answered The News’ survey said they’d had more trouble sleeping and felt less safe in public spaces since November. Over two-thirds said they’d been thinking more about suicide."

ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 2d

My dope friend Adrian, who is trans, interviewed 90 transgender Texans. His project is finally out: www.dallasnews.com/news/politic...

We surveyed 90 trans Texans. Most said they’re living in fear and weighing a move

Respondents said anti-trans policies have complicated their sense of home in Texas and pushed them to consider leaving the state.

www.dallasnews.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 3d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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JSant @jmsantiago.bsky.social · 3d

Mine won’t because I have heat pumps and an EV. But over the summer my panels returned enough energy to the grid to build up a $700 credit, which should cover heat for the coldest month of the year,

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🎃 Fiona "Fi" Webster 🎃 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 3d

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