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Allison Blackburn

@allisonbburn.bsky.social
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Psychologist*, dog lover, and believer that all humans deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. Ready to fight. *Views expressed here are my own

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
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Dr. Amy Acton @amyactonoh.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
As governor, I promise to have Republicans in my cabinet —because the best solutions come from working together.
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Michael D. Green, PhD @michaeldgreen.phd · 28/05/2026
President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...
So let me say it as clearly as I can: Without basic scientific research, supported by the kind of farsighted public investment that allows large-scale, undirected, curiosity-driven inquiry, the scientific pipeline will run dry.
In daily life, people may not feel the effects right away, or even in 10 years. But we will feel it. And when someone we love needs therapies that could have emerged but didn't or when other countries now
investing in science can launch new science-based industries or run their societies on vast resources of fusion energy or reap the benefits of quantum computing power or advanced medical breakthroughs, America will wish it sustained its leadership in scientific research here and now.
Sally Kornbluth is the president of MIT.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
It’s staggering How swiftly states in the South can still move to stymie Black voters And how ready they were to do so
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Today, we honor and remember Virginia Roberts Giuffre on the one-year anniversary of her passing. Her courage has allowed countless survivors to be seen, heard, and to be believed. Sending love to her family on this difficult day—and to all the survivors out there still on this journey for justice.❤️
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 28/03/2026
🚨 THIS JUST IN: With over 100 protests still to come, we can already estimate that at least 8 million people participated in No Kings protests today. That makes No Kings 3 the largest single day of protest in American history. #NoKings
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
BREAKING: Millions of files related to Jeffrey Epstein suggest the existence of a 'global criminal enterprise' that carried out acts meeting the legal threshold of crimes against humanity, a panel of independent experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council says
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L S D @lsdaif.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Unlike the GOP, today I will not be at church pretending to be a follower of Christ while simultaneously cheering for Nazis terrorizing immigrants and U.S. communities nor will I be sitting in the pews doubling down on my blind faith to a kid raping, narcopathic president.
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Feral Maui Hermit @mauigreg.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
"I don't do politics" is just a cheat-code for supporting fascism without having to say that you support fascism.
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Congressman Greg Landsman @repgreglandsman.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Five years ago, a violent mob attacked the U.S. Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power.  A new House Judiciary Committee report looks at what happened after January 6.  6 things to know. 🧵👇🏼
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Robert Ellingsworth @by1959.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
#EpsteinTrumpCoverUp
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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
This is good news. "The New England Journal of Medicine and the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy will begin publishing “public health alerts” in the coming month, CIDRAP Director Michael Osterholm announced at the IDWeek conference on Sunday." www.statnews.com/2025/10/21/c...
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NEJM and public health group are launching rival to CDC’s MMWR publication
Two institutions are coming together to create an alternative to the CDC’s vaunted Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
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Allison Blackburn @allisonbburn.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
My favorite moment of the #nokings rally in Cincinnati today - former Children’s chaplain and wrongfully detained Ayman Soliman speaks to the masses!
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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?
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IndivisiblePHL ❌👑 @indivisiblephl.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Are you bringing a sign to next Saturday’s (10.18.25) event? Hosting a sign making party? We’d love to see photos or video (time lapse is great) of Your sign making process. Remember these helpful tips
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2025
Children's hospital chaplain Ayman Soliman, whose detention sparked a community uproar and became a test of counterterrorism powers in immigration court, was released from an Ohio jail Friday as DHS abruptly withdrew its case against him. “This is beyond my dreams,” he told ProPublica.
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Ohio Chaplain Freed From Jail as DHS Drops Deportation Case
“This is beyond my dreams,” Ayman Soliman told ProPublica on his release from an Ohio jail. In a case marked by errors and inconsistencies, DHS had accused the children’s hospital chaplain of…
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/09/2025
📽️ WATCH: Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past 20 years studying how parents’ exposure to toxic chemicals affects the chances that they will have an autistic child. RFK Jr. cut her entire division — yet promises to identify the causes of autism by September: propub.li/4nhXQua
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/09/2025
NEW: Ohio Chaplain Freed From Jail as DHS Drops Deportation Case “This is beyond my dreams,” Ayman Soliman told ProPublica in a call just after his release. In a case marked by errors and inconsistencies, DHS had accused the children’s hospital chaplain of providing material support to terrorists.
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Ohio Chaplain Freed From Jail as DHS Drops Deportation Case
“This is beyond my dreams,” Ayman Soliman told ProPublica on his release from an Ohio jail. In a case marked by errors and inconsistencies, DHS had accused the children’s hospital chaplain of providin...
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Allison Blackburn @allisonbburn.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/09/2025
The U.S. government is trying to deport Ohio children’s hospital chaplain Ayman Soliman, alleging tenuous connections to terrorism. If DHS succeeds, experts say it could hand the Trump admin. a “sledgehammer” to use on mass deportations. ➡️ Read the full story: www.propublica.org/article/ayma...
Screenshot of article excerpt, with the last paragraph highlighted in blue. Text reads: The idea of Soliman as a secret militant has outraged residents who know him locally as “the interfaith imam” and the first Muslim on the pastoral care team at Cincinnati Children’s, a top-ranked pediatric hospital. Colleagues described a popular chaplain with nicknames for the tiny patients and soothing words for their bleary-eyed parents.

Judy Ragsdale, the former pastoral care director who hired Soliman in 2021 shortly before retiring, said she wrote a letter to hospital leaders imploring them to speak out against the allegations that could return him to certain persecution in Egypt. He lost authorization to work in June, when his asylum was terminated.

“This is a ‘Schindler’s List’ moment,” Ragsdale said she told hospital leaders. “And if you don’t stand up for Ayman, you’re complicit in what’s happening to him.”
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Cara Jackson @carajackson.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Dems have a real opportunity to push a gun violence prevention act in Charlie Kirk's name.
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Forbes @forbes.com · 20/08/2025
The big box retailer has struggled with slumping sales recently amid a backlash over its retreat from diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
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Target CEO Brian Cornell Will Step Down As Sales Continue To Fall
The big box retailer has struggled with slumping sales recently amid a backlash over its retreat from diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
This former model, with no background in history, has been put in charge of curating what is "appropriate" at the National Museum of African American History.
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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 10/08/2025
Days 101-200: Every Anti-LGBTQ Move the Trump Administration Has Made www.unclosetedmedia.... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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Days 101-200: Every Anti-LGBTQ Move the Trump Administration Has Made
In his second 100 days, Trump’s relentless attack against the community has intensified.
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Congressman Greg Landsman @repgreglandsman.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Two Planned Parenthood centers are closing in SW Ohio after Trump’s budget cut nearly $1T from healthcare to fund tax breaks for the super-wealthy. Women will lose access to care immediately.  How we’re fighting back 🧵👇🏻
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
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Delthia Ricks @dricks.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Experts are calling for an independent vaccine panel. Since RFK Jr fired CDC’s esteemed advisory panel, medical experts—pediatrcians, pharmacists & others—have called for an alternative. The Univ of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy is forming the Vaccine Integrity Project.
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Outside groups organize to form unbiased, independent vaccine panel
Since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired the members of the CDC’s esteemed vaccine advisory panel, medical organizations and experts are looking for alternatives.
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👣Coco👣 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @nortygirl.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Kamala Harris in October: “[Trump] considers any American who doesn’t support him or bend to his will to be an enemy to our country, and further, he says that as commander-in-chief, he would use our military to go after them.”
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UzamakiJ @uzamakij.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Nothin but the facts
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Masshole57✌🏼 @masshole55.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
There's no evidence that prayer in school improves grades, but one study found kids who ate breakfast at school had 17.5% higher scores on math tests. Food for thought.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 03/06/2025
Death Spiral: Republicans' Medicaid cuts threaten the health care of all Americans-even people on private insurance.

1) Medicaid cuts cause millions to lose health care

2) People without coverage can't pay for the care they need

3) Rural hospitals lose significant revenue

4) Health care workers are laid off, rural hospitals close

5) Entire communities lose health care services
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Research shows that movements with just 3.5% of the population engaging in sustained nonviolent resistance have been historically successful in achieving major goals such as the removal of an authoritarian in power. This is our goal, and our movement must be disciplined in nonviolence to achieve it.
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@Boom-WhatsGoingOn.bsky.social @boom-whatsgoingon.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Great example of why we all need to get more friendly’s elected, and oust Republicans… Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoes anti-trans bills, and tells lawmakers to 'focus on real issues that matter'. www.advocate.com/politics/kat...
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Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoes anti-trans bills, and tells lawmakers to 'focus on real issues that matter'
Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed a birth certificate update ban as well as two DEI bans that explicitly included transgender people.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Many political science faculty perceive declines in academic freedom since January, especially on Israel/Palestine (43%) & DEI (42%). Self-censorship reported in extramural speech (55%), communicating with students (40%), teaching (33%), and research (20%).
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Thank you to everyone who showed up, good news, the judge has been released!
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
I want a president who is tougher on Putin than he is on Harvard.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
I really do think we’re well beyond this point. If you pretend that your differences with friends and coworkers and family are about “politics” when in fact they’re about right versus wrong and fascism versus the rule of law, you’re doing your country a grave disservice.
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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
This speaks volumes: Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada. leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03... munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...
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Stanley from Yale to Toronto
Jason Stanley (philosophy of language, epistemology, political philosophy), Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, has accepted a senior offer from the University of Toronto, where he will be thr...
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Stephanie M. Lee @stephaniemlee.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...
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Opinion | What Autocrats Want From Academics: Servility
In 1931, Italian scholars were made to take loyalty oaths. Will that happen to us?
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Guy who claims that some of Biden’s pardons are void because they were signed by “autopen” says that he didn’t sign a proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act, a statute that specifically requires a proclamation BY THE PRESIDENT
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Senate Democrats, At the end of today, you're either going to own the shutdown or you're going own Trump's agenda of chaos and destruction. Choose wisely.
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TommasinaResist⚜️🦋🐈‍⬛ @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
If you have MAGA friends/relatives: Some now see that they're victims of the man they supported & believed,but are unable to move forward, b/c it is an actual cult. People can't easily just leave. Share this link quietly. Leave it open where they see it. #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory LeavingMaga.org
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Leaving MAGA - Leaving MAGA
MISSION STATEMENT Empower others to leave MAGA and tell their stories. Foster reconciliation with their friends and family. Develop movement leaders to help others leave. Dear MAGA Americans, I was a ...
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Jessica Tarlov @jessicatarlov.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Elon Musk is making on average $8 million per day from government contracts. The average Medicaid recipient makes $65 per day. Someone who is making millions per day wants to cut your Medicaid. It's wrong.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Welcome to the RFK Jr Era of Public Health.
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Quit your BS @quityourbs.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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🦋🕊️🦋GinLy47 @ginly47.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/02/2025
NEW: A letter from an anonymous federal worker. Please read and share: www.muellershewrote.com/p/letter-fro...
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Letter From a Federal Worker
This is a heartbreaking letter that a federal worker has asked me to share with the public.
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Blue Wave 🌊 2026•2028🗽 @jmzmuda.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Breaking: National Cancer Institute canceled Feb 12 Advisory Board Meeting.Second level reviews of grants decided here. Next meeting is not until May! #NCI #NIH #cancer #research #science #funding #educationsky #academicresearch #highereducation #EduSky #PhDSky #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky
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