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Mom of 3 • Pharmacist disgusted by for-profit healthcare • I want to hear both sides of any argument

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🦋marciebp Be a Dolly 🇨🇦 @marciebp.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich" Jean-Jacques Rousseau~ Our next assignment is getting money out of politics. Put the billionaires behind bars. Tax them into oblivion.
Billionaires behind bars.
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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
I don’t recall this framing for Tea Party protests
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WIRED @wired.com · 25/03/2026
The US senator said on Tuesday that a moratorium would give lawmakers time to "ensure that AI is safe." Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will introduce a similar bill in the House in the weeks ahead. www.wired.com/story/new-be...
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New Bernie Sanders AI Safety Bill Would Halt Data Center Construction
The US senator said on Tuesday that a moratorium would give lawmakers time to "ensure that AI is safe." Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will introduce a similar bill in the House in the weeks ahead.
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 25/03/2026
"We need a halt to the explosive growth of new AI data center construction now."
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With First-of-Its-Kind Bill, Sanders and AOC Propose Moratorium on New AI Data Centers
"These massive facilities are sucking up precious water resources, paving over farmland, driving climate change, and disrupting the fabric of communities," said one supporter of the new legislation.
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Jane Voter @janevoter2018.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Montanans will have the opportunity to decide whether corporations and other artificial entities should be able to spend money influencing elections in Montana. It could stop Citizen’s United. They are in the process of collecting roughly 30,000 signatures to make it law. Go Montana!
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'Montana Plan' to prohibit corporate spending in politics green lit for signature gathering • Daily Montanan
After constitutional measure was found legally deficient, group submitted statutory initiative instead
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James Hughes @dystopian-fashion.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
"Over the last few years, American tech oligarchs have become the greatest argument against their own existence. The sheer scale of their erratic behavior and political interference proves that extreme wealth concentration is a structural threat to society." -Joni Askola
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
There's something vaguely familiar about this story ...🤔
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
“The academic..liked the billionaire glitz. Middle-class rightwingers at Edge functions..former New York Times columnist David Brooks and neuroscientist Sam Harris, now consorted with the likes of tech monopolists Jeff Bezos and Sergey Brin” Time/money galore & they land on the ideas of Mein Kampf.
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The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading. Now we’ve got mumps rolling up. Expect more. This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.
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Maryland health officials warn providers about an upsurge in mumps cases
Maryland health officials are warning about an uptick in cases of mumps.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
For those unaware, a quick primer on perhaps the most dangerous of the oligarchs. Peter Thiel.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Amazon just announced another round of 16,000 layoffs, months after it laid off 14,000 workers. Reminder that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy raked in over $40M in 2024. And Amazon is spending at least $75 million producing and promoting the Melania documentary. The system is rigged.
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arcturus3.bsky.social @arcturus3.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
This is an EXCELLENT read about the broken poverty line. Thanks @profplum99.bsky.social. I wish "financial bluesky" was more a thing. “An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.” — Plutarch Part 1: My Life Is a Lie www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
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Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
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arcturus3.bsky.social @arcturus3.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Speak up @governor.ca.gov! "Newsom–positioning himself as a hero of the resistance—has little to say about tech’s role in MAGA fascism. The governor of California could play a powerful role in naming and shaming the wealthy interests underwriting Trump’s attack on democracy, but he remains silent."
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 18/11/2025
A former Palantir exec just published an extortion letter in the Washington Post: Democrats must fund tech oligarchs, abandon antitrust, and create 15 deregulated corporate zones—or “lose.” When I challenged her, she blocked me. Tech’s moral rot, exposed: www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...
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Silicon Valley’s Extortion Letter to Democrats
Ex-Palantir Exec Warns Democrats to Bow Down or Lose the Future
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
The AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Most Americans agree we need to get money out of politics. If that takes a constitutional amendment, then that's what we have to do. And if that's going to take years, then it's all the more reason to begin pushing now.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Everyday Americans get nickel and dimed while the rich dodge taxes. They struggle to get by while the wealth of the 1% skyrockets. They see their voices drowned out while the well-connected avoid accountability. There are two sets of rules in America: One for the rich. Another for everyone else.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
thinking about how i get anxious writing emails because i don't want to sound like a moron while larry summers is apparently typing emails like this: u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
What did they do?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
The American people need protection from those who seek to exploit the workers for every last penny. Some decry this view as "socialism." I call it fair.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Meanwhile, CEOs make 280 times the typical worker today. The system is rigged.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose. Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 07/11/2025
In 2008, a blogger named Curtis Yarvin called for a future president to kill foreign aid programs as part of a plan to replace democracy with dictatorship. Now 600,000 people are dead—and 14 million will die by 2030, according to the Lancet. This is the running death toll of tech fascism.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/11/2025
NEW: Foreign food safety inspections have hit a historic low after Trump staffing cuts. The dramatic shift in oversight comes as the U.S. has never been more reliant on foreign food. “It’s only a matter of time before people die,” one expert said.
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Foreign Food Safety Inspections Hit Historic Low After Trump Cuts
The dramatic shift in oversight comes at a time when the U.S. has never been more reliant on foreign food, which accounts for the vast majority of the nation’s seafood and more than half its fresh fruit.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 07/11/2025
Curtis Yarvin is planning flee the country. Steve Bannon is worried about returning to prison. Don't listen to anyone who says the fascists have already won. The future is not yet written.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 05/11/2025
Venture capitalists want to eat the world. The playbook: identify a target, flood it with capital, capture the system, cash out. Today, their target is American democracy—and they're betting big on Trump. My conversation with @catherinebracy.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw_W...
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'Fentanyl Capitalism': How Tech Venture Capital Is Eating the World | Catherine Bracy x Gil Duran
YouTube video by The Nerd Reich with Gil Duran
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Dr. Carlie Trott @carlietrott.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
"Democracy ... [is] being systematically hollowed out and replaced. The question now is whether democratic societies can recognize this formation for what it is—and build alternatives before the infrastructure of control becomes too deeply embedded to dislodge."
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Inside the Hermitage, the winter palace where Tsar Nicholas II and his family lived before they were executed—in a country where Russians were starving.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 22/10/2025
🚨BIG NEWS: @gavinnewsom.bsky.social just signed legislation putting public financing of elections on the 2026 ballot of the largest state in America. Public financing of campaigns was - by far - the most significant factor in @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's ascent. Nothing else even comes close.
The Lever: How Zohran Mamdani Fought The Master Plan
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 21/10/2025
🚨NEW: The key reason @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is likely to win is the factor nobody in media mentions because it's too threatening to power: Public financing that gave Mamdani enough cash to compete. This system can be replicated everywhere, which is why oligarchs dont want you to know about it
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The Real Lesson From Zohran Mamdani’s Ascent
The decisive factor isn’t his ads or charisma. It is the public financing of election campaigns, and it should be replicated across the United States.
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 14/10/2025
NEW: Justice Anthony Kennedy authored the Citizens United decision & today released a memoir still defending his ruling that lets oligarchs buy elections - yet he's also saying he worries democracy may not survive. And none of the media he's granting interviews has asked him about Citizens United.
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Anthony Kennedy Is Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This
The retired Supreme Court Justice who authored Citizens United is suddenly worried about the future of democracy.
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 13/10/2025
This is some of the best political news I've seen in a very long time. There's a clear a way to end the Citizens United precedent by changing state incorporation laws - and now luminaries in both parties are forcing a vote on it in the 2026 election.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 24/09/2025
According to the numbers, these are the 26 most vulnerable MAGA House representatives. They've spent more time defending “Dear Leader” than the Constitution, and they can be beat. We're pledging to target them all in the 2026 midterms. See anybody missing? Let us know here: t.co/geQUe7ptY6
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
“At one point, a microphone caught someone in the meeting muttering “idiot” as Levi was talking. It was not clear who the speaker was.”
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
If you want to relive the insanity that was the ACIP meeting, see below Big picture: -Deeply inexperienced people -Many egregious false claims -Dr Levi has no business on panel -Ditto Dr Malone -Status quo on COVID mostly same -Dodged bullet on prescription (6/6 vote) -CDC director gets final say
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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 19/09/2025
Here's the full text of the HHS announcement on today's ACIP votes
ACIP Recommends COVID-19 Immunization Based on Individual Decision-making 

 

ATLANTA—SEPTEMBER 19, 2025—The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) today unanimously recommended that vaccination for COVID-19 be determined by individual decision-making.

 

ACIP’s recommendation applies to all individuals six months and older. It includes an emphasis that the risk-benefit of vaccination in individuals under age 65 is most favorable for those who are at an increased risk for severe COVID-19 and lowest for individuals who are not at an increased risk, according to the CDC list of COVID-19 risk factors.

 

Individual decision-making is referred to on the CDC’s adult and child immunization schedules as vaccination based on shared clinical decision-making, which references providers including physicians, nurses, and pharmacists. It allows for immunization coverage through all payment mechanisms including entitlement programs such as the Vaccines for Children Program, Children’s Health Insurance Program, Medicaid, and Medicare, as well as insurance plans through the federal Health Insurance Marketplace.

 

“I commend the committee for bringing overdue scientific debate on vaccination to the American people,” said Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services and CDC Acting Director Jim O’Neill. A recommendation from ACIP becomes part of the CDC immunization schedule if it is adopted by the CDC director.  

In addition to its recommendation for the CDC immunization schedules, ACIP voted to recommend that all pregnant women be tested for Hepatitis B. This test is covered across all insurance programs. The vote encourages providers and health systems to increase the rates of testing in pregnancy to assure that women with Hepatitis B and their newborns can be properly cared for to reduce transmission of the virus from the mother to the child.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
A worker making $50,000 a year contributes to Social Security on 100% of their income. A CEO making $20 million a year contributes to Social Security on less than 1% of their income. Instead of raising the retirement age, we should scrap the Social Security tax cap.
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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Next!
FCC chair puts ‘The View’ under the spotlight after Kimmel pressure
In a podcast appearance, Brendan Carr said the daytime show could be subject to the FCC’s equal time rule.
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arcturus3.bsky.social @arcturus3.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
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arcturus3.bsky.social @arcturus3.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
I would love to see a calculation of how much today’s idiotic deliberations cost taxpayers. As well as an estimate for how much the increased administrative and clinical confusion going forward will cost taxpayers for no reason at all. Is this government efficiency?
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arcturus3.bsky.social @arcturus3.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
RFK’s new ACIP just spent 8 hours today deciding that kids under 4 covered under programs administered by CMS will NOT be eligible to get MMRV covered by insurance (even if parents prefer to have the option of 1 fewer jab) but kids under 4 covered by VFC will get MMRV covered. Ummm…WHY?
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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Highly recommend everyone re-endumbify their homes, including appliances that don’t want to watch porn and lightbulbs that don’t send data to whoever and speakers that don’t listen to everything you say Don’t put this stuff in your house. Make it clear that’s why you aren’t buying it.
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BluesterB @bluesterb.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
1/ As you may know, on Thursday & Friday, ACIP—the external body that sets vaccine policy—will hold a special session. They are discussing three vaccines, one of which is the Hepatitis B (HepB) birth dose. Some false claims are likely to spread about this vaccine. Here’s what you should know 👇
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🦋 ~Bindi~ 🦋 @bindiatthebeach.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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Dr Elizabeth Murray @drelizabethmurray.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Important reminder: it is currently the recommendation to give the MMR and Varicella vaccines separately at the 12-15 month visit. The combo can be given if parents prefer, after a discussion about risks/benefits, but this whole discussion is performative. #ACIP
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