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Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈 @dataandpolitics.net · 18h

Three years after my husband died, I’m still trying to prove our life together was worth losing his family.

What I live with isn’t forgetting — it’s the blurring of memory.

On the third anniversary, I wrote about grief, memory, and continuing without answers.
www.dataandpolitics.net/the-blurring/

The Blurring

What I live with isn't forgetting, it's the blurring. A meditation on grief, memory, and continuing without answers three years after loss.

www.dataandpolitics.net

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Emily Badger @emmbadger.bsky.social · 19h

If Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act falls, Democrats might need to win the national popular vote by 5 to 6 points to take control of the House, via Nate Cohn
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 14h

This is quickly morphing from a conspiracy theory into... obviously what's happening.

He keeps referencing seeing "videos" of things that don't exist, and the most plausible explanation is that they're sitting Grandpa down at night and Ludovicoing him AI videos of Antifa burning cities down.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14h

You have to wonder if White House staffers are simply showing him AI videos at this point and he thinks it's reality.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Trump: "The people of Chicago are walking around with MAGA hats. You have women, beautiful Black women, walking around with MAGA hats. 'Please let the president in and we don't care how he does it ... bring in the Marines.'"

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 14h

Quite a day.

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Dr. Katherine Haenschen @drkath.bsky.social · 14h

TL,DR: old-school Dem leadership is shouting “have you no decency?” at a GOP who proudly says “NOPE” while gleefully dismantling government, lying to their supporters and the press, and inciting political violence.

They feel no shame.

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 14h

From the people who brought you, “Hey, we just invented the bus!” comes “Hey, we just invented PR!”

Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 15h

this is the dumbest shit i have ever read

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14h

This whole interview with @lindseyboylan.bsky.social is amazing, but we need to shout this from the rooftops.

There's this message that abusive men like to send that's something like "yeah, I'm an abuser, but I'm a strong man who can get things done."

And no, he isn't.

LINDSEY BOYLAN: People who abuse women abuse every kind of power they have.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 15h

tl;dr THIS MF JUST TALKIN

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 15h

Gotta hand it to USA Today. They know how to do a Trump livestream.

"THESE STATEMENTS HAVE NOT BEEN VERIFIED BY USA TODAY"

www.youtube.com/live/0YgOdHx...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Mamdani: "I just want to speak directly to the president. I will not be a mayor like Mayor Adams who will call you to stay out of jail. I won't be a disgraced governor like Andrew Cuomo who will call you to ask how to win this election. I can do those things on my own."

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 15h

tfw your 1,000-word tweets aren't working

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Candice Frederick @candicefrederick.bsky.social · 16h

Ten Classic D’Angelo Deep Cuts, From Prince Covers to Duets With Erykah Badu and Lauryn Hill variety.com/2025/music/n...

Ten Classic D’Angelo Deep Cuts, From Prince Covers to Duets With Erykah Badu and Lauryn Hill

D'Angelo, who died Tuesday, did not leave many albums behind, but there are plenty of deep cuts lurking in the crates — here are 10 of the best.

variety.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19h

“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 19h

Griem goes there, arguing in response to Justice Jackson that there can be no race-conscious remedy absent a finding of intentional discrimination.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 19h

Weird seeing people get defensive about this guy already. Just important to keep your eyes open and take in all the info. I don't think Mills is a good option. But we've gotten screwed before (by more than just Fetterman) and it's important to know who these candidates are outside of good comms

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 21h

If I were Disgraced Governor Sex Pest, I probably wouldn’t highlight my opponent’s belief that women should be in control of their own bodies. Gift link:

Cuomo Tries to Make Prostitution an Issue in Mayor’s Race

www.nytimes.com

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 22h

We need to talk about how social media algorithms push moms down a slippery slope of distrust.

From "Are my kids getting enough support in school?" To "Maybe I should homeschool." To "Maybe modern medicine is bad."

I've seen this first-hand in research I'm doing on parenting apps. 1/🧵

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Months before catastrophic floods swept through an Alaska Native village on Sunday, the Trump administration canceled a $20 million grant meant to protect the community from extreme flooding. At the time, the EPA administrator said he was eliminating "wasteful DEI and Environmental Justice grants."

E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant to Alaska, Parts of Which Just Flooded

The remote village of Kipnuk planned to use the money to protect against flooding. On Sunday, it was inundated.

nyti.ms

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 1d

I just want you all to know that when we told you that they wanted to destroy everything and you thought Black women were exaggerating? This was the "ironic" racism you said we were overreacting to 10 years ago. Racism has never had generational limits

Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘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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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

On Sunday, I visited DEAR NEW YORK, Brandon Stanton's "love letter" to the city he's been documenting for years as "Humans of New York" for their family reception with student artists.

It's a gorgeous exhibit that's transformed Grand Central Station. See it before 10/19!

Zohran and Brandon standing in Grand Central Station. Brandon has his arm around Zohran's shoulder showing him the exhibit.

A group photo with Zohran and Brandon sitting on the floor with a dozens of students around them.

Zohran and a student artist admiring a photographer.

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 1d

Chuck Schumer should be focused on fighting Donald Trump and protecting healthcare for millions of Americans, not meddling in a Maine primary.

DC's choice has lost to Susan Collins five times in a row. We can't afford a sixth.

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 1d

explains some things

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 1d

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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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part

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Priya @priyamatta.bsky.social · 1d

Zohran’s is so NYC Bodega coded. Not easily translated to other markets.

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Dee Phunk @deephunk.bsky.social · 1d

He deserved to grow old. He deserved the space to be more creative and share more art w/ the world. He deserved to be adorned in praise while he was still able to receive it in the physical. Luckily, music and spirit is eternal.

RIP Michael Eugene Archer aka D'ANGELO. 🕊️

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

D'Angelo has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer, his former manager says. He was 51

D'Angelo Dead at 51

Grammy-winning R&B soul singer D'Angelo is dead from pancreatic cancer ... TMZ has learned.

www.tmz.com

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