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Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2h ago

Whenever one of these freaks goes off on a tangent about their trans conspiracy of the day, the proper response -- from an interviewer or anyone else -- is "well, it seems like you're having some sort of mental breakdown here, so we'll wrap it up"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2h ago

Royce White is now ranting about "transgender sex dolls" during a forum that is supposed to be about agricultural issues. This guy is a serious Republican in Minnesota who had the party's nomination for a Senate seat two years ago. Insanity.

Alt CDC (they/them)@altcdc.altgov.info · 2d ago

Michigan just reported two cyclosporaisis deaths related to the Taylor Farms outbreak. A note on underlying health conditions- they’re very common, and >60% of people have at least one. So don’t fall for the “but they had underlying conditions” argument to downplay risk. Most of us do.

Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox.com · 2d ago

From a Fox Poll out 7/31: Talarico-Paxton is the marquee race down here but check out the dead heat btw Abbott and Hinojosa for governor. This contest isn't even on the radar for the national Dems, AFAIK. She's has $3m cash on hand--Abbott has *$67m*. Some more highlights from the poll... /1

Polling results showing Greg Abbott leading Gina Hinojosa by only 50-49 percent.
@daciar.bsky.social · 2d ago

And yet our rates will still go up. And we're still losing water. This tells me, they're planning to put them in every county otherwise this would be too expensive to build across the state vs them...building their own solar or such for each building. But that would require them paying for it

Meanwhile in Indiana…@robertlandrumjr.bsky.social · 2d ago

Rural Northwest Indiana has given the nod to what some think may be a solution to the power generation problem associated with data centers; a dedicated utility provider.

PBS News@pbsnews.org · 2d ago

Head Start, established in the 1960s to help fight poverty, has long been considered by experts to be a gold standard early learning program. https://to.pbs.org/457Vzdx

Trump administration weighs proposal to gut Head Start preschool standards, leaving states to set the rules

Two people familiar with the deliberations tell The Associated Press the Republican administration's proposed changes could significantly reduce the preschool program's quality standards.

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Rachel Maddow@maddow.bsky.social · 2d ago

as millions of americans this year have had to give up their health insurance **specifically because** trump and republicans made the decision to send premiums skyrocketing, the administration now says everyone who's lost coverage must have been committing fraud: www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...

RFK Jr., Oz claim fraud crackdown drove ACA enrollment drop, but analysts cite rising costs

Rising premiums forced many people in Affordable Care Act plans to give up their coverage. But the Trump administration claims a huge drop in enrollment is almost entirely due to its fraud crackdown.

cbsnews.com

Meanwhile in Indiana…@robertlandrumjr.bsky.social · 2d ago

The state of Indiana spends $28 million on Medicaid benefits for Walmart employees. Throughout this country, the U.S. taxpayers are forced to spend over a billion dollars on Medicaid for Walmart workers because they’re unable to afford to buy health insurance on their own.

Taxpayers spend about $2 billion annually on Medicaid for Amazon and Walmart employees

American taxpayers are spending billions every year providing Medicaid benefits to hundreds of thousands of employees of Amazon and Walmart, a new analysis by Popular Information reveals.

popular.info

Bleeding Cool@bleedingcool.com · 3d ago

Our heroes are back! Check out our updated preview for tonight's Season 2 return of TNT and Showrunner/EP Dean Devlin's The Librarians: The Next Chapter, S02E01: "And the Burning Heart." / #TheLibrarians

Our heroes are back! Check out our updated preview for tonight's Season 2 return of TNT and Showrunner/EP Dean Devlin's The Librarians: The Next Chapter, S02E01: "And the Burning Heart." / #TheLibrarians

Check out our updated preview for TNT and Showrunner Dean Devlin's The Librarians: The Next Chapter S02E01: "And the Burning Heart."

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Christl@christl.bsky.social · 4d ago

In a secretive agreement with #EquatorialGuinea, the U.S. agreed to pay the central African nation $7.5 million in exchange for the country receiving deportees from #USA. At least 32 people, with no ties to the country, have been deported there under the deal & are indefinite imprisoned in a hotel.

Equatorial Guinea is among dozens of countries that have signed often-opaque "third-country removal" agreements with the Trump administration to accept U.S. deportees who can't be deported to their home countries. But too often, those third countries send the deportees back home anyway, a violation of international law, immigration attorneys say. Soliman said ICE told him shortly before he was forcibly put onto an airplane that he was being deported to Equatorial Guinea, where rights advocates say homosexuality is de facto criminalized.ICE spokesman Fernando Burgos did not respond to the Star's questions about the conditions in which Soliman and other deportees are being held in Equatorial Guinea. "Once an alien leaves the United States, ICE is no longer responsible for tracking their location or activities outside the country, " Burgos said in an emailed statement.
Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 4d ago

Great reporting from @emilybregel.bsky.social about a gay man who’s been in the US since he was four, imprisoned in a “hotel” in Equatorial Guinea since April. He says he’s being denied soap and toilet paper in retaliation for filing a complaint w African Commission. 1/ tucson.com/news/local/b...

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 4d ago

🚨 NEWS: In a new court filing, Capital One says Donald Trump’s accounts were closed in 2021 after months of analysis by its anti-money laundering (AML) professionals, not because of politics, as Trump has long claimed. 1/

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Jemele Hill@jemelehill.bsky.social · 3d ago

The WNBA has never had a trans woman play in the league’s 30-year history and now the right and other anti-trans activists are hammering the league over something that has never been an issue, proving once again it isn’t about protection but exhibiting cruelty toward trans people.

Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA@michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 3d ago

Starting tomorrow, you will be able to scroll over each county for county-level prevalence estimates.

Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA@michael-hoerger.bsky.social · last wk.

US COVlD Update, PMC, July 27, 2026 ▪️10 hot spots (see Alt text) ▪️Persistent high/very high levels in TX ▪️FL, AK, HI, & the continental northwest picking up ▪️1 in 198 people estimated actively infectious nationally ▪️1.57 million estimated weekly infections & rising (1/2)

The US has 10 hot spots. There are major outbreaks across much of Texas (high/very high). Houston, denoted by the light blue county in the southeast (Harris) has 1-3-week reporting lags at most sites so may be worse than noted. Hardin county, two counties over to the east/northeast, continues to experience BA.1 Omicron-level transmission. The Texas surge is bleeding into estimates for western Louisiana. There are 9 other outbreaks: southeast Alaska (Juneau, high), Hawai’i (Honolulu and Kauai, high), north central Oregon through the Washington coast (high), western Nevada (Carson City, high), the Utah-Idaho border region (very high), southwestern Colorado (high/very high), southern Florida (high/v high), Atlantic City, New Jersey (high), and Grafton County, New Hampshire (high). The outbreaks in the Bay Area and Guam declined since last week. Note that the CDC state-level map shows no state median in the high/very high range, which is atypical. Higher levels tend to be more widespread.