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Maine students, if able to vote, would send Democrat Hannah Pingree to the Blaine House, and would elect Troy Jackson, Chellie Pingree and Paul LePage to Congress, according to results from the mock election organized by the Secretary of State’s Office.

“We’re Documenting This Because the Government Isn’t”: ProPublica’s Nicole Foy, Ruth Talbot, and Cengiz Yar on Their Database of U.S. Citizens Detained by Immigration Agents austinkocher.substack.com/p/were-docum...

shorturl.at/aGzKO Centers for Disease Control & Prevention had recommended all newborns be vaccinated vs HBV within hrs of birth ‪AKA "universal birth-dose vaccination." But Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices advised ending this recommendation, and CDC accepted that advice.

Dolores Huerta has died www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

“You can’t expect that people will be fine if the next-closest children’s hospital is a flight away or an eight-hour drive,” said Elizabeth Mack, a pediatric critical care doctor. My latest for @kffhealthnews.org, @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy

A week before the midterms, Democratic senators are demanding that Dr. Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, disclose any communications with far-right groups promoting a baseless conspiracy theory that left-wing groups are stealing nursing home residents’ votes.

I know that Big Publishers are owned by corporations but there probably needs to be an understanding that in the future some products will be more valuable because they are not made by AI, the way that organic food is more expensive because it is not produced with that very useful tool, pesticides.

📍 𝐎𝐒𝐇𝐊𝐎𝐒𝐇, 𝐖𝐈: ICE detained Wendy Mendez, a middle school teacher who was named Employee of the Year by her school district. She was reportedly moved through six detention centers in eight days, forced to sleep on concrete floors, and deported to Costa Rica. #AbuseOfPowerWatch

‼️ 50 Year Record Broken in Ft Lauderdale! 🌊 Water levels reached 2.51 Ft above mean higher high water, breaking the record for highest water in Port Everglades. That beats #hurricane Dorian and Nicole. Palm Beach also set its highest level on record in 56+ years. (Palm Beach broke record too…

🌍 As sea level rise and a changing climate may lead coastal wetlands to face similar changes, new research from 'Ecosystems' sheds light on connections between environmental drivers and energy balances in the transitional wetlands of the Southeast Everglades. 🔗 bit.ly/4yP4ddl #ClimateChange

Y'all listen to Senator Oliver! She is spot on!

ICE Announces Third Detained Death in 8 Days, 60 Under the Trump II Administration austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-announ...

Talarico: "If you've seen an attack ad on your TV, that was Elon. If you've gotten lies in your mailbox, that was Elon. If you've received a text message saying scary things about me with scary black and white photos. That was Elon too."

“.. down more than 60% from a year earlier.” @bloomberg.com 🇺🇸 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

As @acalacino.bsky.social reminds me, in spring 2025 during our Brazil climate politics fieldwork he interviewed A Janones, the mastermind behind this social media campaign. AJ was v worried about climate change and the comms around it. This strategy works for democracy as much as climate policy btw

Attorneys for 15 Minnesota residents facing federal conspiracy charges have obtained evidence of a sweeping, possibly unconstitutional spying operation carried out by ICE against left-wing social movements in Minnesota and beyond.

This teacher understood the assignment! 🔥 Man, I bet I would’ve liked science a whole lot more!

For anyone interested in primary sources from Ireland, the Manuscripts Commission has many of its publications free to download. Not only can you find diaries, chronologies [Annals] & descriptions of townlands, there are the books of survey from the 17th C & censuses!

The Great Planetary Unraveling ...

We will not be able to adapt our way out of 3°C of global warming (4°C to 5°C in Europe). Economies will have crashed. Politics will be very different. Authority will have lost control. Violence will be everywhere. So wake up and halt climate change, now, whilst we still stand a chance.

The CA vote purge case just keeps getting weirder. Yesterday the DOJ filed supplemental declarations, including from a Shasta Co official named Clinton Curtis, who turns out to be a wackodoo who claimed he could tell fake ballots by smell. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

This release of Meta documents is a deeply shocking look at how tech tries to steer & control science. It's normal for crisis comms teams to ask how to counter scientists who criticize their employers. But here's what's especially shocking in these docs: cailinoconnor.substack.com/p/its-now-of...

Drug-resistant germs, including bacteria and fungi, cause an estimated 9.7 million infections and 50,800 deaths each year in the U.S.. "Antimicrobial resistance threatens modern medicine and puts millions of Americans at risk every year." abcnews.com/Health/drug-...

NEW: buried in anthropic's hefty ipo documents released yesterday is an interesting admission: the company's increasing reliance on dirty gas to power its data centers is actually exposing it to financial risk wrote about it for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/anthro...

There are not many things that 97% of Americans have in common. High school English is one of them.

As record heat interrupts work, overloads hospitals, and claims thousands of lives around the world, international experts are calling for climate change to be officially recognized as a global health emergency. www.sciencealert.com/heat-deaths-...

I don't understand why more roofs aren't white, let alone covered in radiative-cooling paint.

Amazing spiky hail fell in SE Queensland yesterday. It's like a ninja star made of ice. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

The day is finally upon us! THE FIST OF MEMORY is officially out NOW in the US and Canada. This near-future story of assassins, aliens, astrophysicists and ancestors that I started 15 years ago, is finally out in the world & it still feels a bit unreal. astrapublishinghouse.com/product/the-...

To better protect manatees, state wildlife officials want to downsize Seaquarium marina www.wlrn.org/environment/...

We are facing a crisis of impunity. That's why we built The Rule of Law Project — to investigate unlawful conduct by federal officials, and work with state and local prosecutors to hold them to account. Watch Mark Blumberg and Brad Adams launch this new initiative on MSNOW with Nicolle Wallace.

The ongoing severe oceanic heatwave off the western coast of the United States.

It's been 24 hours…Has even one Republican candidate been asked about their leader being newly accused of a brutal rape abetted by Jeffrey Epstein?

THIS!!! ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ 🦅 🌌 ☀️ 🌙 🫍

I rounded up 13 bone-chilling Indigenous horror reads that’ll crawl under your skin and into your dreams. Stephen Graham Jones is back with Off the Reservation, Never Whistle at Night returns for blood, and writers from Alaska to Aotearoa are bringing the scares. redpopnews.com/13-bone-chil...

A documentary series that tears down the myths of California history premieres Nov. 1 on FNX, the country’s only national TV network for Native programs. People of the West, from Pechanga Studios, tells 500 yrs of the state’s past through the eyes of its first people. redpopnews.com/fnx-opens-na...

What Kamala Harris proposes in not impeaching Trump is this the same reason why letting Jefferson Davis and the rest of the Confederate soldiers and leaders off the hook was a bad idea.. We've been paying for it ever since😡

There's a grim undercurrent to discourse about BAAJA, the permitting bill the Senate will likely vote on in a few weeks. Writing about this makes me kinda queasy, but I think it's important so here goes. What good stuff the bill might do would come at the cost of increased risk of illness and death

The climate crisis is an urgent threat to public health globally, and health impacts are escalating faster than climate action. New report published in @thelancet.com the world's premier medical journal. @lancetcountdown.bsky.social lancetcountdown.org/2026-report/

SCOOP: Former Biden senior climate advisor John Podesta said senators should renegotiate the bipartisan permitting deal & he believes the bill’s permit certainty language hands Trump a “loaded Howitzer” to go after public lands. For @heatmap.news