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Joseph Schafer (1867–1941) was the first academically trained historian in the U.S. state of Oregon. He studied with Frederick Jackson Turner, and chaired the history department at the University of Oregon from 1900 to 1920. He authored A History of the Pacific Northwest in 1905 and revised it in 1918; the book was considered the standard history of the region into the 1950s. .. more

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The Onion @theonion.com · 5h
AI Chatbot That Only Responds ‘Huh’ Valued At $200 Billion
AI Chatbot That Only Responds ‘Huh’ Valued At $200 Billion
PALO ALTO, CA—Hailing the new product as a “game changer” in the development of large language models, Silicon Valley insiders confirmed Tuesday that an AI chatbot that only responds “huh” had been va...
theonion.com

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 5h
It’s, well, interesting that Epstein might cost the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom his job but….

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VT Commons @vtcommons.bsky.social · 17h
That should clear things up.

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 18h
So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 18h
Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...
The end of DOE’s grid work in Puerto Rico
The Trump administration has canceled all eight of the remaining awards devoted to distributed energy on the island.
www.latitudemedia.com

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 18h
If you didn’t catch the significance of the exploding transformers in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I gotcha. Here’s one of a bunch of pieces I wrote from/on Puerto Rico about the crisis—and Trump’s role in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Washington’s Corruption Has Created Another Humanitarian Crisis in Puerto Rico
The island’s earthquakes are its latest man-made disaster.
slate.com

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 18h
Ocasio gang rise up 🙌🏽🇵🇷
Bad Bunny wearing an OCASIO 64 jersey

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d
Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.

He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 2d
I know this no longer means anything anymore but I just want to casually state the obvious fact that the Tulsi Gabbard "Hidden Treason" scandal few are talking about is easily much worse than Watergate

I mean who cares, but just worth tossing it out there casually

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 2d
Not sure how to read this as anything other than Trump's handpicked Director of National Intelligence betraying the United States and doing so to protect him from revelation of the fact that his regime is secretly working with a hostile foreign intelligence agency
NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump
Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff
www.theguardian.com

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2d
Like his Confederate forebears, Ted Cruz talked a big game, started a fight, got absolutely dog walked, then cried about how unfair it all was. A story in four images.
Ted Cruz Newsroom Press Releases Published:11.25.2025 Sens. Cruz, Cornyn File Amicus Brief Backing Texas’ Emergency Application to Implement New Congressional Map WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights, and John Cornyn (R-Texas) filed an amicus brief in support of the State of Texas’ emergency application to the U.S. Supreme Court for a stay of the district court injunction that barred Texas from implementing its new congressional district map. The Senators did so in part on the basis of the Purcell principle, which holds that courts should not change election rules shortly before an election. Sen. Cruz said, “The Constitution entrusts redistricting matters to the states and to state legislators. The federal district court’s preliminary injunction was not made on the merits of the case, runs counter to precedent and to principles of federalism, and undermines the prerogatives of Texas lawmakers and the will of Texas voters. The Supreme Court should stay that preliminary injunction, and do so expeditiously in order to provide certainty in our election maps and rules as we approach deadlines for the 2026 election.” Newsweek: Ted Cruz has proposed that Texas extend the state's Republican advantage in the U.S. House of Representatives to a full Democratic wipeout if Gavin Newsom goes ahead with a proposal to redraft congressional maps in his state in response to a similar plan by Republicans in Texas. @tedcruz on X: A brazen abuse of power & an insult to democracy. 47% of VA voted Trump. They will now get just 9% of the seats. 52% of VA voters voted Harris. Now they get 91% of the seats. (By comparison, in TX, 56% voted Trump; GOP gets 79% of the seats.) @SenLouiseLucas on X: You all started it and we fucking finished it. @tedcruz on X: A brazen abuse of power & an insult to democracy. 47% of VA voted Trump. They will now get just 9% of the seats. 52% of VA voters voted Harris. Now they get 91% of the seats. (By comparison, in TX, 56% voted Trump; GOP gets 79% of the seats.) 06 Feb 26

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 2d
NBC editing out the booing of JD Vance is a disgrace. It’s an international event. Americans have the right to know what the world is saying. NBC has bowed down to Trump.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 2d
By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3d
So, first of all, of course it was Trump.

But even if they were telling the truth, "We give staffers who post videos of the Obamas as apes access to the agenda-setting, decree-sending, market-moving account of the president of the United States" is not the exculpatory statement they think it is.

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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 3d
Trump flack Leavitt brushed off anger over Trump racist post as "fake outrage," now a staffer is blamed for it and it's been taken down.
WHITE HOUSE OFFICIAL AFTER TRUMP SHARES RACIST VIDEO ON OBAMAS: A WHITE HOUSE STAFFER ERRONEOUSLY MADE THE POST, IT HAS BEEN TAKEN DOWN

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 3d
Props to NPR for leading the newscast w/ the president's racist post. But, c'mon...they're not false narratives. They're lies. Words matter (Once again, don't give me the 'but we don't know what he knows or is thinking.')

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 3d
Oh, were there other, less racist things, senator?

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 3d
"Donald Trump posts a lot of election conspiracy theories online, and he posts a lot of racist memes, too. But it’s not every day that he makes an elections-conspiracy-theory post that is also insanely racist."

open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Trump at the Pearly Gates
Why the president thinks he’s going to Heaven.
open.substack.com

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 3d
NYT: “The depiction of Mr. and Mrs. Obama as apes perpetuates a racist trope promoted by slave traders and segregationists,” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...
Trump Posts Video Portraying the Obamas as Apes
www.nytimes.com

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Joseph Schafer @joseph-schafer.bsky.social · 3d
Ghoulish inhumanity.

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Andrea Thompson @andreatweather.bsky.social · 3d
So snakes keep turning up in places they should not be in India and it turns out they may be accidentally hoping a ride on trains. (And yes, I am pretty proud of this headline.) 🧪
Snakes on a train? King cobras may be riding the rails in India
A new study suggests king cobras may be accidentally boarding trains across India
www.scientificamerican.com

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jennifer uncoolidge @histoftech.bsky.social · 3d
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com

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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 3d
TRIGGER WARNING, because here is a US Marshal from Trump‘s Gestapo Force in Memphis kicking a puppy today in the Whitehaven neighborhood and breaking its rib. They were serving a warrant and I guess BIG MAN got scared of the schnauzer.

(I didn’t take the video, the dog’s person did)

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3d
Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.”

Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 3d
JUST IN: A federal judge has barred ICE and DHS from using taxpayer information provided by the IRS.

Judge Talwani says that DHS' view that noncitizens lack 4th amendment rights — combined with ICE use of administrative warrants — is a recipe for abuse.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 3d
This chart seems to suggest a striking pattern: Kevin Warsh's speeches are consistently hawkish, except when Trump is President and about to appoint a new Fed Chair.
www.economist.com/finance-and-...

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 3d
I want to reiterate that this shit is nuts. A federal invasion of state-run elections, an intelligence community invasion of federal law enforcement, a White House invasion of a criminal investigation, and a president’s insane treasonable sore loser obsession all rolled up and muddled together.
Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins President Trump now says it was Attorney General Pam Bondi who insisted DNI Tulsi Gabbard attend the FBI raid in Georgia. Last night, he told NBC he didn't know why she was there. And Gabbard said in a letter to Congress that "the president specifically directed my observance of the execution of the Fulton County search warrant."

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3d
The Justice Dept. unit responsible for prosecuting potential wrongdoing by law enforcement — including during the crackdown in Minneapolis — has lost two-thirds of its prosecutors and is under orders to scale back its investigations of excessive force, people familiar with its work told Reuters.
Exclusive: Justice Department unit on police misconduct sees staffing plunge and probes scaled back, sources say
The U.S. Justice Department unit responsible for prosecuting potential wrongdoing by law enforcement, including during the crackdown on illegal immigration in Minneapolis, has lost two-thirds of its p...
www.reuters.com

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 3d
BREAKING: Over 680 members of the National Academy of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering have endorsed articles of impeachment against RFK Jr.
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Top of the photo in white text reads: "BREAKING OVER 680 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES MEMBERS, INCLUDING 10 NOBEL PRIZE LAUREATES, ENDORSE IMPEACHING RFK JR." Below that in black text is a statement reading: "We, the undersigned Members of the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering, writing in our private capacities, endorse the Articles of Impeachment introduced in the House of Representatives on Dec 10, 2025 by Representative Haley Stevens." Below that is the red "STAND UP FOR SCIENCE " logo. Below that is a link in white text reading: "standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr".

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
Trump: "I went over to Davos. They invited me. And when I left they said, 'That may have been the stupidest invitation we ever gave to somebody.'"