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Anthropic's IPO filing yesterday revealed at least* $550bn in off-balance sheet debt, for a company with $16B in annual revenue. Paying its bills will require Anthropic to sustain implausible revenue growth given the pressures that are squeezing their--and the whole AI ecosystem's--margins. A 🧵

US judge blocks Trump rule cutting the time refugees have to contest end of status reut.rs/4igOY6I

Student Walkout and protest against gun violence Bend Oregon.

HHS wants a new Medicare code that pays doctors extra only when they attribute a patient’s symptoms to a vaccine. Vaccine critics say doctors are paid to push vaccines. We aren’t. Under this code, we’d be paid to blame them. My new piece in @cidrap.bsky.social: www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

This should be an open and shut violation of the Fourth Amendment, but the Patriot Act blew that door wide open and we haven’t had a congress with the integrity to shut it since.

Oh hell no. Are you supporting this @govwesmoore.bsky.social?

Maryland is beginning to accept applications for a program to bolster solar, wind and battery storage projects with state grant funding under a $200 million program, called Megawatts for Maryland, established this year by the General Assembly. marylandmatters.org/2026/10/26/m...

In case you prefer reading longer articles, rather than Bluesky threads.

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My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Incredibly sad news. This is going to sound snarky but I swear it isn’t: we’ll always have “nuclear wessels”. Thanks, Walter. 🖖🏻

Brighter streetlights may help reduce nighttime violence, according to a new study. stateline.org/2026/10/26/b...

Third government to fall to a GenZ protest so far. Nepal and Madagascar also culminated in a change of government. The kids are not taking it anymore.

Trump must be punished for his consistent pattern of lying about elections. The impunity has to end. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/u...

U.S. citizen Ricardo Gonzalez was brutally detained by ICE in Long Beach while he yelled for help and said his arm was broken. This is a pattern of abuse and violence from ICE. No one is safe and our communities are being terrorized. We need ICE out.

Juana Rodriguez, a U.S. citizen, took her 3-year-old son to a horse race in Wilder, Idaho when hundreds of law enforcement officers raided the event, zip-tying children at gunpoint and denying Juana and her son food and water. We're exposing these atrocities in a new short documentary.

Early voting complete with passive aggressive clothing to express my feelings about our current political situation. (And repping an awesome team)

Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

"Ahmed elaborated with the Guardian on Friday, saying the Qu’ran verse declaring that “whoever saves a life, it will be as if they saved all of humanity” also entered his mind at the moment he decided to intervene on Monday." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Dr. Amy Acton testified before a Grand Jury at 12 years old about the horrific conditions and abuse her mother and stepfather inflicted on her and her brother. She had more courage at 12 years of age than ALL the Republicans combined had during both of Trump's Impeachments. #VetsAgainstGOP

This is 👀 “Kushner’s counsel, however, said Kushner did not make any agreements or arrangements with leaders or officials in foreign countries that were not agreed to by the President of the United States and in the best interests of the United States.”

A new NPR podcast explores how viruses that lie dormant in our bodies can wake up when our immune systems are stressed, and what that might mean for long COVID. www.npr.org/2026/10/23/n...

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In the MAGA mind, Trump's vicious abuse of female reporters is simply of a piece with the rape ad itself: It's all a bet that MAGA misogyny and depravity are still political winners. Flagged by @atrupar.com:

The CDC reports only three measles deaths nationally this year, despite Pennsylvania reporting five confirmed deaths. It has switched to a less timely reporting system and declined to identify the state where a newly recorded death occurred, citing privacy laws that lega... TAT: [Attacking science]

In February, Rolling Stone reported on irregularities in Guinea-Bissau’s ethics review of the grant. The CDC’s former chief medical officer, Dr. Debra Houry, told us it’s “unfathomable that the CDC’s name is even implicated in this.” More ↓ www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Here's our team's "election rumor rundown" for yesterday. It was a busy day with reports of machine glitches and mail-in ballot concerns. These (mostly real) issues were spun into false rumors that suggested they were intentional efforts to tilt election results. uwcip.substack.com/p/fa68f983-1...

The Amazon driver who cuts his leg open and is fired for going to the hospital. The driver assaulted on the job and docked pay for staying home to recover. The driver forced to work in such intense heat that he vomits, and is forced to keep driving. Amazon takes responsibility for *none of it*

Norwegian People’s Aid, a leading NGO doing land mine removal and disarmament work around the world, announced it will decline U.S. funding due to new restrictions related to DEI.

MINNESOTA: “I don’t think about myself. The youth are the most innocent. Anything you can do to save them is worth it.” ♥️ Endless stories attack the MN Somali-American community— but Ebro Ahmed🦸🏽‍♂️saves a bus 🚌 full of kids and stories mostly leave out that he’s Somali? 🤔

Exciting news!! I'm chairing the search in my department @lsubiosci.bsky.social for an **Endowed Chair in Lichenology**! The candidate should be tenured (or equivalent), and have a documented track record in excellent in collections-based lichen research. lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/jo...

RFK Jr’s unethical experiment on African babies is officially canned, thanks to public backlash driven by Stand Up For Science 🎉 ✊️ 🧵 🧪

Brett Meiselas: This is why you don’t put a criminal into office in the first place. This is why we arrest criminals. This is why they go to prison, so that they can’t commit more crimes. Instead, we put a fraudster into office. What do you think he’s going to do? He’s going to commit fraud.

Ahhh yes white men getting credit for the work of POC and/or women. This tracks. No wonder tech bros love generative and agentic AI.

Bwahahahaha at the rate we are going, we’ll have wiped out most of the human race through climate change and infectious diseases. But sure, it’s fine. Everything is fine.

the governing philosophy of trump, rfk jr., and their loyal CDC director is there are no cases when you don’t test for and count them

@meidastouch.com How they started. Reading the WTF book. youtu.be/8811RaS6Qok?...

I have refused to use the term “Somali gangs” despite tremendous pressure. Why? It’s a political narrative, not an accurate descriptor of gun violence, even if it was committed by a Somali youth. Who is driving this narrative? Republicans, the Strib, and police. Brilliant reporting below.

“Oh man, there’s nothing better than when you feel that first nip in the air and get to throw on your heavy bull-hide cloak.” — Fográith of the Mountains, local druid

Possibility is doing ALL the lifting in this sentence.

Holy shit, police have seized the hep B vaccines that the RFK Jr-funded Danes wanted to use in their highly controversial trial.

*goes to update lecture notes* (Seriously this is WILD.)

Bird watchers flock to Maine for sighting of rare Gray Heron https://www.mainepublic.org/environment-and-outdoors/2026-10-20/bird-watchers-flock-to-maine-for-sighting-of-rare-gray-heron