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Mike Nelson, Digital Policy Wonk @michaelrnelson.bsky.social · 4h

www.microsoft.com/en-us/securi...
Putin and the Russians think they are fighting a War with the West. Maybe we should realize that. #CyberWar #HybridWar

Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2025

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Eos @eos.org · 6h

Chicago’s industrial history means that many residents could be living with elevated blood lead levels.

Chicago Soil Maps Childhood Lead Exposure Risk - Eos

Researchers combined soil measurements and public health data to identify areas where children may be exposed to unsafe levels of lead in the dirt.

eos.org

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 18h

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.

Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

Map: Governors Public Health Alliance
* Guam is also a member of the alliance
Updated October 15, 2025
Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Reminder that any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone.

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Mike Nelson, Digital Policy Wonk @michaelrnelson.bsky.social · 1d

What's next? Bagpipes?
When Trump's thugs hit you with absurdity and cruelity, fight back with surreality and non-violence. People Power and inflatable frogs WILL WIN!!!!

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Mike Nelson, Digital Policy Wonk @michaelrnelson.bsky.social · 1d

How to be a blogging/social media superpower!

Stephanie Booth @stephtara.bsky.social · 1d

overcast.fm/+ABJSkl2tbDI @scripting.com hadn’t heard this one! Ok, I’m sold on the checkboxes. True that when I post links (something I do now in Openvibe or FB/LI) I could do it from my blog and have it dispatch (deal with char limits elegantly?) + editable summary of day links on blog?

WordLand, the timeline and checkboxes — Scripting News podcast — Overcast

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Mike Nelson, Digital Policy Wonk @michaelrnelson.bsky.social · 1d

In contrast, over at the Justice Department, they talk tough about crime but: bsky.app/profile/karl... (and refuse to investigate Epstein's friends)

Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 1d

Hey. Hi. Tom Homan is on camera taking a $50k bribe and no one knows where the money went. If this was any other administration, this would be non-stop on the news. Why are we normalizing this stuff?

Mike Nelson, Digital Policy Wonk @michaelrnelson.bsky.social · 1d

Seems logical--because some political leaders REALLY believe in Law and Order.
It's more than a talking point.

Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 1d

"JB Pritzker Looking at Prosecuting ICE Agents in Chicago" www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 1d

Over the past two decades, Western state security services have increasingly purchased information products from commercial organisations. Since the start of the Russian-Ukrainian war in 2014, a similar trend can be observed in Russia’s political warfare against the West. buff.ly/vrOC2b0

The Kremlin’s New Contractors

Inside Russia’s Market for Political Warfare

shekhovtsov.substack.com

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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 1d

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

AZ AG Mayes: If I have to, I’ll take Speaker Johnson to court. There's no legitimate reason for him to refuse to swear her in right now. And it's not fair for Mike Johnson to be holding the state of Arizona hostage because he doesn't want to release the Epstein files.

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Bjørn Ihler @bjornih.bsky.social · 2d

Actions and consequences!

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

4chan fined $26K for refusing to assess risks under UK Online Safety Act

4chan fine may test if US will intervene to block UK’s Online Safety Act.

arstechnica.com

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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 3d

Mozilla has started the development of a free VPN feature for Firefox users.

This will be a separate product from Mozilla VPN, the company's commercial OS-level VPN.

connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussio...

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Mike Nelson, Digital Policy Wonk @michaelrnelson.bsky.social · 2d

"Trump's been good for only one thing--podcasting." -- Anthony Scaramucci
#CrisisOfLeadership
m.youtube.com/watch?v=bBDL...

Anthony Scaramucci on Trump and the Threat to American Democracy

YouTube video by Intelligence Squared

m.youtube.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Obama: "When you see an administration suggest that ordinary street crime is an insurrection or a terrorist act, that is a genuine effort to weaken how we have understood democracy."

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3d

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3d

There is absolutely zero chance that a man who took $50,000 in cash in a paper bag from an FBI agent on camera would have been appointed to any position by any other president.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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Mike Nelson, Digital Policy Wonk @michaelrnelson.bsky.social · 4d

I like this Pope.
No nonsense. No jargon.

Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 4d

"Pope Leo XIV encouraged international news agencies on Thursday to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation, as he strongly backed a free, independent and objective press." apnews.com/article/pope...

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

apnews.com

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Mike Nelson, Digital Policy Wonk @michaelrnelson.bsky.social · 4d

It's unlikely that Trump wrote this--but whoever did should have called the FBI to fact-check.

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 4d

Dumbest gaslighting ever. Who was president on January 6?

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Mike Nelson, Digital Policy Wonk @michaelrnelson.bsky.social · 4d

I used to think @mbenioff.bsky.social was one of the few sane abd moral tech CEOs left. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Mike Nelson, Digital Policy Wonk @michaelrnelson.bsky.social · 4d

fortune.com/2025/10/07/d... If you aren't already worrying, now might be a good time to start. #Trumpcession

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says | Fortune

Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?

fortune.com

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 5d

Hey, you idiotic propagandists at the New York Post:

God Bless America isn't the national anthem. It's a SHOW TUNE written by Irving Berlin.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4d

The mainstream media loves making it seam like dysfunction in Washington is coming from both parties.

Hello?

Much of the GOP no longer accepts the rule of law, or the norms of democracy, or the legitimacy of the opposing party.

Enough of the false equivalence.

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