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Monica

@1smmonica.bsky.social
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I enjoy hiking, photography, and fighting fascism.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/12/2025
how do women not die of rage aneurysms every single day
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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Staying informed is one of the most important things you can do.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I went to the floor yesterday to ask the Senate to pass a simple bill - no ICE arrests at school bus stops. Let’s end this evil practice of purposely traumatizing kids. Republicans blocked the bill. And for insane reasons. Watch.
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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Know their names: Scott Kretzschmar, Scott Norris, Diego Sarabia, Gillio Lopes, Winston Lee, Johnathan Newell and Matthew Ingalls #Cornell7 But also, everyone in the group chat, the administrators, university, and DA. SHAME.
Cornell 7Disgusting chat
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/09/2026
Babies who don’t get the vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop severe bleeding. In many cases, oxygen can’t reach their brains and blood pools around their skulls. Yet driven by misinformation, more parents are refusing the injection. (Published May)
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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/09/2026
Here's footage of Jack Smith at the Iowa vs. Maryland game on February 3rd, 2024 btw
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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
God I love Angie Nixon. I hope she wins
Now @AshleyMoodyFL. Why would I want to abolish the police when I want you arrested and in jail for stealing $10 million from sick kids? BFFR
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2026
ProPublica obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing. From the archives:
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The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, ev...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This serves as advertisement for Alex Gibney’s documentary, Musk, opening October 9. Pass it on.
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.
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Steve Moskal @samoskal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Altman remained silent and did not answer four times when asked by this masthead what he would say to Australians about the breach, whether he should apologise or why it took months for OpenAI to detect and report it to the Australian government" Silent about the hacking from OpenAI #auspol
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OpenAI boss refuses to answer Medicare hack questions after Trump-Xi dinner
Sam Altman remained silent and did not answer four times when asked by this masthead what he would say to Australians about the breach or why it took so long to report.
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 25/09/2026
i want nathan fielder to do undecided voter focus groups
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/09/2026
Vaccines were once so uncontroversial that McDonald’s restaurants put the childhood immunization schedule on their tray liners. Now, as the U.S. government sows doubt, preventable diseases could come roaring back. (Published March)
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How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues
The health secretary is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back...
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
At some point somebody is going to have to study the depths of social media psychosis centrist and corporatist Dems are drowning in.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Here's some unsolicited advice for my Democratic friends - in office and running. Think twice before hiring consultants who are cozying up to private equity, signing up to defend prediction markets, or telling candidates to not say what they actually feel about the big AI companies.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A public backlash is growing against the predatory companies that try to erase our jobs and monetize everything not nailed down. They want leaders who are going to unapologetically fight back. Democrats should seize that humanist mantle. And it matters who we work with.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19/09/2026
Insurers sometimes deny coverage citing lack of progress, labeling patients’ conditions as chronic. Yet if they do make progress, insurers have also used that to argue patients no longer need treatment. Doctors are left to walk a tightrope. (Published Dec. 2024)
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Her Mental Health Treatment Was Helping. That’s Why Insurance Cut Off Her Coverage.
Providers, patients and even some federal judges say progress-based insurance denials harm patients at key moments of mental health treatment.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Team Angie 🤝 Team Abdul 👀  Great to meet @abdulelsayed.bsky.social  in D.C. last night. #angieforflorida #washingtongdc #cbc #alc55
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W. Kamau Bell @wkamaubell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
There is no such thing as “apolitical”. Pass it on.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Robert Kraft is in the Epstein Files.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thousands of immigrants did the hard, dirty work of clearing rubble and toxic dust and debris from Ground Zero. Many were undocumented laborers sent to work every day with no special PPE, and got cancer as a result. Now some of those same people are living in fear of ICE. www.npr.org/2026/09/11/n...
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They cleaned up ground zero. Now many are hiding from ICE
After 9/11, thousands of rescue and cleanup crews went to work at ground zero. They were exposed to toxic debris and experienced psychological trauma. Today, many say they live in fear of deportation.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 11/09/2026
In the months after 9/11, Congress hastily passed unconstitutional laws like the Patriot Act that supercharged the mass surveillance state we're fighting against today. 25 years later, it's time to rein in the government's out-of-control spying and reclaim our right to privacy.
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9/11 launched a new era of surveillance. 25 years later, AI is making it smarter
Flock cameras and other controversial policing technologies grew out of the post-9/11 shift toward mass data collection.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
How is ICE making record arrests? I found the answer in Pa. coal country, where cops lured by a promise of federal $$$ have embraced ICE's 287(g) and are throwing up checkpoints, raiding job sites, arresting 100s, and terrorizing their communities My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/penn...
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In Pa. coal country, local police join with ICE to bring arrests, fear | Will Bunch
Pa.'s Schuylkill County is the new face of Trump's mass deportation, as local cops lured by federal cash bust scores of migrants.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
There are already articles circulating trying to rewrite history and say America was great after 9/11 and united and thoughtful and just a reminder that that period was marked by intense and insanely racist hatred, paranoia, and a frothing desire for unhinged violence and oppression.
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Pablo Torre @pablo.show · 10/09/2026
I didn’t realize how central billionaire Bill Ackman is to this era of U.S. tennis. It explains… a lot. New PTFO: youtu.be/TONXvuiyxOQ?...
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Inside the Billionaire Shadow League Funding American Tennis | PTFO
YouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 09/09/2026
“GEO Group and the Trump administration right now are making a choice: to gain by making others suffer. But it is not their choice to make.” I’ve been back to Delaney Hall many times to check on the people inside. I wrote about what we must do to shut this detention center down for good.
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Opinion | The abhorrent conditions inside Delaney Hall are only part of the story
We are witnessing blatant disregard for human welfare, seemingly all to enrich Donald Trump’s corporate allies and sustain an inhumane agenda.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/09/2026
Perspective.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The overriding motivation of this administration is fear. Fear of questions, fear of transparency, fear of the American people.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
WATCH: “I’m a Dem because the other party doesn’t believe people like me deserve anything, but I want my party to be better… we lost the thread on working people’s issues.”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/09/2026
Pregnancy is the only condition where Florida courts have ruled that a mentally competent patient can be forced to undergo unwanted treatment, such as a C-section. (Published March)
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They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth.
Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care. As their state pushes to expand some types of medical freedom, it has a...
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Jeff Abbott @jeffabbott.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
i am about halfway through this book and it's genuinely shocking to see how marginal ideas went mainstream w/ some of our wealthiest people. what was supposed to be the engine of American innovation has become a means to enable authoritarianism @gilduran.com NERD REICH, an urgent warning indeed
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Your ever-regular reminder that Republicans in Congress fully support what Hegseth and the president are doing to the American military. It’s disgraceful and disqualifying
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
PabloReports: What do you make of Trump saying Americans who oppose data centers are backwards and poor? AOC: I mean, how about we put one in Mar-a-Lago? I love that. Let’s put a data center at Mar-a-Lago, and we’ll see how backwards and poor he is in response to that.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/08/2026
Historic opioid settlements were supposed to be a lifeline for underserved communities. But much of that money is flowing to law enforcement.
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Police are spending opioid settlement funds on Flock cameras
Historic opioid settlements were supposed to be a lifeline for underserved communities. But much of that money is flowing to law enforcement.
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
RFK Jr. Says SNAP Cuts Won’t Have “That Much Effect.” 5 Million Have Lost Aid. #TruthOut
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RFK Jr. Says SNAP Cuts Won’t Have “That Much Effect.” 5 Million Have Lost Aid.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
ICE is not in Danbury and other Connecticut cities to protect people. They are here to besiege our communities. To create chaos and act lawlessly. If they aren’t going to obey the law, they need to leave.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This. The pro-Israel hawks, which includes the Dem leadership, will GLADLY sink El-Sayed and lose Michigan to punch the left and retain control of the party. People aren't paying attention.
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 26/08/2026
“When JD Vance moves his mouth, Peter Thiel’s voice comes out.” @gilduran.com, author of ‘Nerd Reich’ argues that the power, money, and ideology behind Vance still point back to Peter Thiel. zeteo.com/p/nerd-reich...
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David at FOIAball @foiaball.com · 26/08/2026
Wanna know something I think would be crazy? It would be crazy if XX-XY Athletics, the apparel firm stoking outrage against the WNBA, had a secret, Koch brothers-aligned, oil rich family fortune behind it. But that would be crazy, right??? www.foiaball.com/p/xx-xy-athl...
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The oil money lurking behind the WNBA outrage
XX-XY Athletics has an interesting paper trail.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 26/08/2026
We can't just assume Democratic leadership will hold the regime accountable — we have to organize and demand it.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
When you appoint reality TV people to the most important positions of the government running massive federal agencies, don’t be surprised when they treat the job like a reality TV show starring themselves while we pay them and the expenses.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Jeffries and Kushner Meet Privately as Midterm Attacks Fly... WTF?! They do not work together.... I am exasperated www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/u...
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Jeffries and Kushner Meet Privately as Midterm Attacks Fly
President Trump’s son-in-law and the man in line to be speaker of a Democratic-led House discussed how Democrats and the administration could work together.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/08/2026
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: An attorney says his client suffered a brain bleed and traumatic brain injury after a violent ICE apprehension, then woke up in a hospital with no memory of what happened. His family didn't know where he was for days. Now his lawyer is demanding answers.
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Lawyer Says ICE Detainee Suffered Brain Bleed After Violent Apprehension, Was Guarded by Agents Instead of Given Private Medical Care
MeidasTouch has obtained a detailed narrative from the attorney representing Jose Mejia Hernandez, describing a violent apprehension by immigration
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Stop talking about reforming ICE. Stop mealy-mouthed performative “concern.” These people need to go to jail for their litany of crimes and human rights abuses and that should be the moderate position.
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
A Third Immigrant Detained at Delaney Hall Dies After Medical Emergency www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/n...
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A Third Immigrant Detained at Delaney Hall Dies After Medical Emergency
A Guatemalan migrant was transferred to a hospital when he experienced what appeared to be a seizure, federal officials said.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The fact that the same Taylor Farms products sold at Walmart are packaged under different names and sold at Whole Foods proves that Jeff Bezos is scamming you into thinking you get superior produce a his far more pricey Whole Foods.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
"The far right wants Nazism and ethnic cleansing. The far left wants Medicare for All." Me and @samseder.bsky.social discuss far left vs far right, among many other issues!, on this week's episode of 'We're Not Kidding,' the Zeteo flagship podcast. Full show: zeteo.com/p/sam-seder-...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/08/2026
El-Sayed: "Notice how they used my full name, in echoes to exactly what they did against President Obama. At the end of the day, it's not radical to believe people should be able to afford their groceries, they should have healthcare, that the president should not be able to deny elections ... "
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