The Man Who Saved The World. May his memory be a blessing.

Ed Maibach@maibached.bsky.social · 4d ago

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social

This made me spit up my tea

750,000 Texas Voters Disenfranchised Up to 750,000 Texans registered through the DPS online portal are missing from County Voting Rolls. Talarico “the government failed to do its job.” Registration deadline: Oct. 5. 🧵 www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Texas election workers scramble after registration snafu leaves thousands of voters off rolls

“I don’t know if they feel confident. Some counties are more confident than others,” Chris McGinn, executive director of the Texas Association of County Elections Officials, said. “Right now what we’r...

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Wordle #1,925 ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections #1203 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 NAME O' THE DAY* #Tajikistan airline exec Rustam Rustamov *From The (Madisonville #Kentucky) Messenger, Dec. 16, 1997

Trumpism is a cult.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

OMG -- under questioning from Hassan, Trump's FDA nominee Heidi Overton refuses to acknowledge that Trump can ever be wrong about anything even after she's confronted with a specific example of something Trump is clearly wrong about

Pretty good rate if you can get it

Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social · 5d ago

Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.

More than 83 tons of meat are being recalled across the country because the products were not properly inspected by federal authorities and were shipped out with false inspection stickers.

More than 160,000 pounds of meat bearing false USDA inspection labels recalled

More than 83 tons of meat are being recalled across the country because the products were not properly inspected by federal authorities and were shipped out with false inspection stickers.

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This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

Wordle 1,924 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟨🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections 1202 🟨🟪🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟪🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟨🟪🟨 🟨🟪🟨🟪 --- NAME O' THE DAY* Dr. Electron Kebebew, co-author of a medical study on unnecessary diagnostic imaging *From the #Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Jan. 21, 2019

"House Republicans will continue to hold Hunter Biden’s feet to the fire until we have his testimony...no one – not even the president’s son – is above the law.” - Tom Emmer, 1.17.24 "Don Jr is a private citizen and businessman so this unwarranted attack will go nowhere," Tom Emmer, 9.23.26

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.

Education experts and advocates on Tuesday urged Congress to repeal an incoming national school voucher program over concerns that it will divert critical funds away from public schools to private institutions ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/09/23/r...

Democrats, experts call for revocation of school voucher program under adoption by states • Ohio Capital Journal

Education experts and advocates on Tuesday urged Congress to repeal an incoming national school voucher program over concerns that it will divert critical funds away from public schools to private…

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Election offices across Texas’s 254 counties are facing a backlog of online voter-registration applications due to a state error that could affect competitive midterm elections, including the races for U.S. Senate and governor, officials said.

Texas voter-registration backlog could affect midterms

County officials are suddenly facing a high volume of online applications, some nearly a year old, linked to a state error.

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Marco Rubio: “Iranians are radical religious lunatics.” Also: Have you met Paula White, the White House faith advisor?

This is an absolute disaster from a national security perspective. Obviously, a lot on F-35s is classified, but a weapons-bay door and a canopy with radar-absorbing material are some of the most sensitive. Hard to describe how bad this is.

Seven Chicago-area residents died after swallowing Tylenol capsules laced with potassium cyanide in September 1982.

Idaho authorities say they have a new lead on the Tylenol murders. Illinois investigators are skeptical.

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Wordle 1,923 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections 1201 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 --- NAME O' THE DAY* #FBI counterintelligence agent Carol Covert *From the Albuquerque Journal, Jan. 8, 2000

Nearly 75 Haitians living in Ohio have been detained at one of four Ohio detention facilities that contract with ICE since President Trump took away their legal protected status on July 27 — a 142.3% increase, according to a new report ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/09/22/i...

Ohio ICE detentions of Haitians have more than doubled after Trump ended protected status • Ohio Capital Journal

Nearly 75 Haitians living in Ohio have been detained at one of four Ohio detention facilities that contract with ICE since President Trump took away their protected status on July 27 —  a 142.3%…

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@deadder.bsky.social 😢😢😢

At her 22-week ultrasound, Amanda Jablonski learned their daughter had developed without a skull or a brain. There was no chance for survival, and every day Amanda stayed pregnant was a threat to her health and life. Under TN law, she was denied an abortion. www.wbir.com/article/news...

Wordle #1,922 ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟨⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections #1200 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 NAME O' THE DAY* Victory Winner, one of the parties involved in a Newport News, #Virginia, real estate transaction *From the Daily Press, May 24, 1999

Five corporations control 90% of the US media. Airlines have merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

Wordle #1,921 🟩🟩🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 -- Connections #1199 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 -- NAME O' THE DAY* TRIFECTA!!! Newspaper editor/columnist Terry Bradshaw gives a mention to Ben and Eileen Dover, who are friends of hers (sic) *From the Niles #Michigan Daily Star, Dec. 3, 1979

There is a hidden part of Russia’s war against Ukraine: recruiting young people to attack their own country. Many of the recruited children are impoverished and are lured into betraying Ukraine with relatively small offers of money, authorities said.

Russia recruited Ukrainian kids to carry out attacks. They got caught.

Across Ukraine, at least 13 minors are imprisoned after being paid by Russia to attack their own country.

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give @candicequestions.com a follow folks, she is on the ground in Austin

Candice Bernd@candicequestions.com · last wk.

NOW: Just arrived at the intersection of Research Blvd and Anderson Lane—near where ICE shot & wounded 29-yr-old Wilber Rafael Garces Perez earlier today. Between 300-500 people still holding intersection here. ICE is reportedly not letting Garces Perez’s family access him at the hospital.

A billionaire dictator who'll lose everything if the opposition replaces him on Jan. 20, 2029 is stockpiling killer drones and high-powered rifles on towering monuments and ballroom roofs I'm sure it's nothing to worry about

Nick Kodama@nickkodama.bsky.social · last wk.

lol what

Wordle 1,920 ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections #1198 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟪🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟪🟩 🟩🟪🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟪🟩 NAME O' THE DAY* W.C. "Digger" Graves, owner and operator of Hillside Memorial Gardens in Snyder #Texas. Friends said he was the last person to let you down. *From the Abilene Reporter-News, July 21, 1987

Wordle 1,919 🟩⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟨⬜⬜🟩 🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #1197 🟪🟩🟨🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 NAME O' THE DAY* Paris Singer, “the iron-fisted social dictator of #PalmBeach” and among the youngest of sewing machine magnate I.M. Singer’s 24 [26] children -The Orlando #Florida Sentinel, Feb 13, 1966

Mark Carney: “I would now like to inform you that the teleprompter has ceased to function. Unlike a certain world leader, I do not view this as a conspiracy.”

Save the date! No Kings is October 17th. And don’t forget to vote early! 🗳️