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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 6h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4h

"If they're going to be sending us stupid policies, Communist policies, which has proven for thousands of years doesn't work..."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Trump and Bessent clarify that they will only help out Argentina as long as Milei is in power. Trump adds that the same thing goes with NYC, where the White House will hold up funds if Mamdani wins.

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 4h

It is to the shame of all the male reporters in the room that they do not immediately leave

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 4h

BREAKING: Major clashes in southeast Chicago this pm.

DHS agents who crashed a car had eggs thrown at them. According to ABC7, they then fired pepper balls at local residents. It’s now a scene of flying rocks & tear gas.

Chicago was never a war zone. But Trump’s militia is turning it into one.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 4h

Right there in the Declaration of Independence:

“He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.”

“He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun…”

Right. There.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Trump: "I had a very wealthy person who called -- a donor, a great gentleman -- and he said, 'if there's any money necessary, shortfall, for the paying of the troops, then I will pay it.' Meaning he will pay it. How about that?"

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 22h

"You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you."

- Miss Major, 2023 💔

One of the things I hear with some younger trans people I know is they feel, "I'm gonna get this surgery, and I'm gonna learn that way of speaking, and I'm gonna be done." You're never done. If you're a straight, cisgender person, you're never done. Things are always happening that have the potential to change you. So all I am today is not who I'm gonna be tomorrow, because of the things that happened to me today and later tonight. People forget that. "Oh, after I transition, I'm gonna be through." Well, good luck with that. 'Cause if you're through, then it's time to leave, you know, and I don't wanna go anywhere yet.
I'm in my seventies. Why didn't I stop? Number one is community. My gurls. I've had moments of thinking about stopping, but I didn't. I made sure I would step back, reju- venate myself, and then got back out there, and that's how you make a way. Our stories are not all the same, but the destination is: to get some place where we have some peace and harmony, and we can be at ease with ourselves and the people around us. You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 5h

This looks like America under Trump.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 5h

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Look Both Ways with David & Wes @lookbothwayspod.bsky.social · 6h

Why do new transit buses cost 2-3x more in the US than in other rich countries?

@davidzipper.bsky.social: "US transit agencies customize *everything*."

Full episode here (or on your fave podcast app):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5yd...

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 7h

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act.

I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

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Alain Noël @alainnoel.bsky.social · 7h

New column, on federalism and redistribution
policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/10/fede...

Federalism: obstacle or engine of redistribution?

Federalism is often accused of hindering redistribution. Yet data shows it can also enhance it, depending on political choices.

policyoptions.irpp.org

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Sam Vimes' Boot Salesman @bam5.bsky.social · 8h

You see Vance and other would-be successors get tripped up by this all the time. It takes a special sort of skill to whine constantly in a way that your followers find endearing. Most don’t have it!

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NicolasRobiodux.bsky.social @nicolasrobiodux.bsky.social · 8h

Trump is an enabler

elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 8h

this was an eye-opening revelation for me. the fact that he performs machismo and yet is a giant whiny baby about everything — these are features, not bugs. it allows whiny people, especially men, to imagine they're still macho even as they bitch and moan about every little slight.

elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 8h

please do not fool yourselves: trump whining about the photo for the TIME cover is the kind of thing that ppl who hate him cannot imagine anyone enjoying but people who like him genuinely love about him. they think "I'd feel the same way! I'd say the same thing! He's just like me!"

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 9h

“America’s Voice highlighted some 15 cases of citizens who have been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), some violently, despite having identification,” writes Maribel Hastings: www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...

Citizenship Is No Protection Against Trump's Deportation Machine | Common Dreams

It seems that those who do not fit the racial profile of a "true" American, even if they are citizens of this country, are also considered "enemy within," judging by the way they trample on their righ...

www.commondreams.org

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Mathieu C @oursmathieu.bsky.social · 9h

Je viens de lire dans le journal que «les problèmes d’itinérance et de santé mentale nuisent à l’expérience de magasinage».

Ça va être assez de média d'information pour la journée.

« L’enjeu numéro un de l’itinérance, c’est le sentiment d’insécurité et je dirais même – ce n’est pas politically correct –, l’effet repoussoir d’avoir des gens qui dérangent », lance sans détour Paul-André Goulet, propriétaire d’une dizaine de magasins Sports Experts, dont deux sont situés rue Sainte-Catherine, à Montréal.

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Robert (Bob) Kubinec @rmkubinec.bsky.social · 10h

Why do immigrants need to be in solitary confinement?

As in, ever?

ICIJ @icij.org · 10h

The United States maintains the world’s largest immigration detention system, with over 60,000 people in immigration detention this August — a record high. Solitary confinement has been used across administrations, increasingly more often.

Solitary confinement in ICE detention spiked during early months of the Trump administration, report finds - ICIJ

Six years after ICIJ’s Solitary Voices investigation, Physicians for Human Rights found over 10,000 people were placed in solitary confinement over a 14-month period.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10h

one response to this (correct) observation is to say “well, the cops will attack you no matter how you dress and behave.” that’s right. images of cops and ICE beating grandmas and kids in inflatable frog costumes is a win for the opposition.

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 11h

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

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MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 9h

Alito, joined by Thomas and Gorsuch, suggest that public schools violate the Constitution when they help a student transition (by acknowledging them as trans) without their parents' knowledge or consent.

Would force schools to out trans kids to their parents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
JONATHAN LEE, ET AL. v. POUDRE
SCHOOL DISTRICT R–1
ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED
STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT
No. 25–89. Decided October 14, 2025
The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.
Statement of JUSTICE ALITO, with whom JUSTICE
THOMAS and JUSTICE GORSUCH join, respecting the denial
of certiorari.
I concur in the denial of certiorari because petitioners do
not challenge the ground for the ruling below. But I remain
concerned that some federal courts are “tempt[ed]” to avoid
confronting a “particularly contentious constitutional questio[n]”: whether a school district violates parents’ fundamental rights “when, without parental knowledge or consent, it encourages a student to transition to a new gender
or assists in that process.” Parents Protecting Our Children, UA v. Eau Claire Area School Dist., 604 U. S. ___,
___–___ (2024) (ALITO, J., dissenting from denial of certiorari) (slip op., at 1–2) (citing Troxel v. Granville, 530 U. S.
57, 70 (2000) (plurality opinion)). Petitioners tell us that
nearly 6,000 public schools have policies—as respondent allegedly does—that purposefully interfere with parents’ access to critical information about their children’s genderidentity choices and school personnel’s involvement in and
influence on those choices. Pet. for Cert. 24. The troubling—and tragic—allegations in this case underscore the
“great and growing national importance” of the question
that these parent petitioners present. Parents Protecting
Our Children, 604 U. S., at ___ (slip op., at 1).

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 1d

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 10h

Very bad: OSU unilaterally cancelled the registration of grad students attending the joint conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. And OSU won't fund recruiting at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.

Ohio State changes policy on group conferences after Trump administration threats

A federal investigation into potentially discriminatory practices at Ohio State prompted the university to change its policies regarding conferences.

www.dispatch.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10h

So glad that @tanvi.bsky.social followed up on this group of people; those who were in Border Patrol detention centers on the days Trump took office, people from countries where deportation wasn't easy for the Trump admin, who ended up dumped in Panama to send a message to other migrants.

Tanvi Misra @tanvi.bsky.social · 10h

his summer, I went to Panama and met Jharana, a 33-year-old from Nepal who had been deported there in a group of 300 others — the 1st group to be sent to a third country. I wrote about what happened to her and others over the year for
@nymag.com -->

nymag.com/intelligence...

What Happened to The Migrants The U.S. Dumped In Panama?

Nearly 300 people were sent to a country they’d never lived in. The journey didn’t end there.

nymag.com

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mïku smeets🥯🦝🚈 @mikusmeets.bsky.social · 10h

one of the MANY problems due to the canada post strike:
haven't received my municipal voting card 🗳️

so went online to check

with both the montréal and the québec provincial govt websites, it claimed over and over again that i am not registered to vote this year at this address

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Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 14h

Against Publishing: universonline.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Preprints are read, shared, and cited, yet still dismissed as incomplete until blessed by a publisher. I argue that the true measure of scholarship lies in open exchange, not in the industry’s gatekeeping of what counts as published.

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 10h

the message for high info voters should be about health care costs and resisting trump’s tyranny; the message for low info folks should be about health care costs and releasing the epstein files.

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barefootwriter @bfwriter.bsky.social · 11h

I know I'm on a wild tangent, but I think that this goes hand-in-hand with people stripping Buddhism et al. of its ethical and philosophical frameworks and calling it mindfulness. these traditions grapple with attachment, death, and impermanence.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 11h

So do White people in the west just believe it’s okay to resurrect the dead to make them dance and perform for your pleasure?
Is this a cultural difference?
Because where I come from, disturbing the dead usually comes with consequences.
Bad ones.

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