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🌱Behavioral ecologist, chemistry witch🧙🧪 and 📚 former educator. #Arkansas. CPTSD/neuro🌶. 🏳️🌈/NB. #Exvangelical and #ChurchAbuseSurvivors. My mother has a Cluster B personality disorder. Brown Ajah. 👁
Five of Ohio’s biggest data center companies have announced major donations to a program helping people cover their utility bills.
Data center developers donate millions to Ohio utility assistance program as national backlash grows • Ohio Capital Journal
Five of Ohio’s biggest data center companies have announced major donations to a program helping people cover their utility bills. Meta’s contribution alone — $10 million over the next five years —…
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It is under-appreciated just how catastrophically bad this number is. Biden bottomed out at 32 among registered voters in 2022 when inflation was 9%. Gallup had Bush at 28% in Sept 2008 wavepolling.com/results/2026...
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Aug After forcing trans service menbers out, the Pentagon is now stiffing many for tens of thousands of dollars in severance pay they were promised, leaving many of them destitute and on the street. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
A trans veteran became homeless after the military didn’t pay her severance
Chloe Shapiro is one of a dozen former service members identified by The Washington Post who have waited months for full payments.
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"Natural" is an arbitrary category, especially in MAHA. They claim they love natural remedies but they're happy to push exogenous testosterone injections on the troops. They've made it easier to sell untested synthetic peptides.
Betty C. Jung@bettycjung.bsky.social · 10h ago“Natural” is the new “pathogenic” rasmussenretorts.substack.com/i/212269982/... Shapiro reported that Kennedy👺 advocated for a return to “natural measles.” Kennedy did not confirm that, but he didn’t deny it either, and it comports with many of his previous statements on the matter.
3000 people now missing in the Nepal flood. The number is expected to rise.
Ukrainian drones hit one of Russia’s largest oil refineries, in Kirishi, Leningrad Oblast, overnight. #explodey
The Mecca Alliance of Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan will hold the first Strategic Political and Defence Committee meeting in Istanbul tomorrow. It will focus on military interoperability, defence industry cooperation, counterterrorism, and setting up the alliance secretariat.
Especially moving and upsetting that the three people named as having died in ICE detention in Indiana were born in Vietnam, Cambodia, Afghanistan. All were here because the US military had been there. Man from Vietnam was child of American soldier. We just go on breaking and hurting them.
Rebecca Spang@rlspang.bsky.social · yesterday200 or so in attendance, which for a Friday evening event with neither food, drink, or competition is (I think) a good showing. Especially because there are 60 more events in the state this weekend calling for attention to/closure of the ICE concentration camps in the state and beyond
In the midst of an awful lot of ever-so-sophisticated equivocating and oh-so-thoughtful-chin-stroking and too-clever-by-half-over-thinking, I just want to say, simply and unequivocally and for the record: The Resistance Libs Were Right.
After firefighting deaths, advocates alarmed by ‘deepening wildfire crisis,’ agencies’ strategies arkansasadvocate.com/2026/08/29/r...
After firefighting deaths, advocates alarmed by ‘deepening wildfire crisis,’ agencies’ strategies | Arkansas Advocate
Advocates for wildland firefighters point out that this year’s dangerous season is marked by heat, drought and a change in strategy.
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After decades of overhunting, black bears are slowly recolonizing the lower Mississippi River basin arkansasadvocate.com/2026/08/29/r...
After decades of overhunting, black bears are slowly recolonizing the lower Mississippi River basin | Arkansas Advocate
Officials with the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency say black bears are slowly recolonizing Middle and West Tennessee.
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Let's be clear: this isn't a win. This is proof Trump put our service members at risk to get Venezuelan oil for his billionaire buddies. Putting our soldiers’ lives on the line for private profit is a gross dereliction of his constitutional duty. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/b...
7/7 As global populations age, experts urge updated clinical guidelines and open conversations between seniors and their GPs. Preventative care is evolving. Source: Melissa Davey, The Guardian www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Statins can safely cut risk of heart attacks or strokes in healthy people aged over 70, world-first clinical trial shows
Australian-led trial finds low risk of side effects from common cholesterol-lowering medication for otherwise healthy older people
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In northwest suburban Northlake, the average homeowner would save more than $2,000 on their annual tax bill — a difference of almost 30% — if local data centers did not receive valuation reductions and incentives, according to the analysis.
Data centers near O’Hare win nearly $100M in local tax breaks, leaving suburban homeowners to cover the gap
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Just when you think you couldn’t love David Byrne more he goes to the Hollywood Bowl playing "Life During Wartime" projecting ICE raids 🔥
It’s no surprise that Carlson is aping Putin’s line on the war in Ukraine.
The Tucker Carlson–Kremlin bond just got stronger
Carlson used a recent appearance on RT to push Putin talking points.
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One reason why it’s so dangerous for state governments to replace actual people with automated phone systems and websites. You need to make services available to people in a way they can actually access them.
Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH@geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 17h agoIt’s INCREDIBLE people think “well everyone has social media.” My mother has never even had an email address. Never used an app. Never had streaming services. Doesn’t use banking apps. I have family who still have house phones. And they are NOT the only ones.
NEW: ICE did a major operation in Danbury and other Connecticut cities this week, reportedly arresting nearly 100 people — and sending one to the hospital after he was tased. Here’s what we know and what we don’t. My latest at @ctinsider.bsky.social — www.ctinsider.com/news/article... #nutmegsky
ICE reportedly arrested nearly 100 people across Connecticut this week: What we know and don't know
The agency has only released details on a few of the arrests in response to requests from CT Insider.
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This is money laundering, forcing everyone w/ a retirement account to be in fear of having investments in things they wouldn't touch w/ a 10 ft electrified barge poll (of their own accord) and the regime and cronies spreading their losses while broadening their options for manipulating the market.
ProPublica@propublica.org · 19h agoPresident Trump wants 401(k) plans to invest more in private equity, real estate and cryptocurrency. Here’s how a proposed rule change from the Labor Department could affect your 401(k) plan.
I think DoE might have killed off public ORPS access. www.energy.gov/ehss/occurre... If true then, in conjunction with DoE restricting DNFSB info releases, we have lost two critical sources of safety and accident information about USA defense nuclear activities. 1/n
This county jail in Florida is supposed to detain immigrants for only up to 72 hours, per DHS. One woman was rebooked 10 times, spending a cumulative 26 days in jail. Read the full story: https://propub.li/4y7RORJ
Very gross! If you're being paid by a political campaign, I think you should, you know, tell people that. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/29/u...
Influencers Have a Lot to Say About Politics. Many Are Quietly Paid for It. (Gift Article)
Their videos have proliferated on social media, but the payments are frequently hidden from viewers.
nytimes.com
“.. Rafael Ramírez, who was president of PDVSA from 2004 to 2014, .. said that the deal reached with Washington represented ‘the greatest looting in our country’s history.’” @financialtimes.com 🇻🇪 www.ft.com/content/b3c9...
“.. The decision to exclude individual reporters is the latest example of the Trump administration restricting access to certain journalists.” #G20 @nytimes.com @benmullin.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/08/29/b...
Liberals/centrists know the demographics. The large Black and Latino populations is the real reason they hate the South and Texas. They're also trying to make anti-rural sentiment acceptable in order to clear the way for AI data centers (which are disproportionately in rural areas, esp in Texas)
Nice 😊 Jon Batiste to narrate new PBS nature documentary. www.axios.com/local/new-or...
Jon Batiste to narrate new PBS nature documentary
Jon Batiste to narrate new PBS nature documentary
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Trump's tariffs have cost Michigan $5,619 per household — higher than every other state — just so Trump can play his little vanity games. Rogers will never call this out because he's corrupt and a coward.
Which states do Trump's tariffs hit the hardest
Local industries dictate how much cost a given state takes on from the executive tariffs
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