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Donna Dale

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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
NEW: After an 8th Circuit panel rules private individuals don't have the right to sue to enforce the Voting Rights Act's Section 2 in 7 states, Georgia’s Houston County cites the ruling as part of a request to dismiss Black voters' claim that an at-large voting system dilutes their collective power
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US v Houston County - 2025-05-19 Notice of Supplemental Authority by Houston County Board of Elections
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Call your senators. This bill is heading to them next and they can stop it if the people speak out. (202) 224-3121
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Worth noting Heritage / Project 2025 have especially had it in for STI research, tracking, and treatment spending, on the grounds that sexually transmitted diseases are 100% due to irresponsible personal choices and govt shouldn't subsidize fornication
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Margaret Sullivan @sulliview.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
When you write a weekly column, you don’t love most of them. 😑 But I’m pretty good with this one and hope you’ll read it www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2…
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Yes, the media’s Biden coverage was flawed. But its reporting on Trump was far worse | Margaret Sullivan
A new book has fueled controversy over press handling of the ex-president’s decline. But that distracts from a bigger problem
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Eric Deggans @edeggans.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Well, the point is, you gotta support the reporters who are NOT sycophants so they can stay in place. They are not all sycophants now. And the ones who are not, need public support now more than ever.
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
I probably should do more to let people here know about free posts on Substack. So here's today's: paulkrugman.substack.com/p/attack-of-...
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Attack of the Sadistic Zombies
The GOP budget is incredibly cruel — and that’s the point
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RappCatsAdopt @rappcats.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
✨Sparky's looking mighty dapper today! We've got several kitties with the most gorgeous green eyes right now. "Yeah, but I'm the only one with white gloves," Sparky says. 😸 #cat #cats #pets #va #nova #virginia #washingtondc #maryland #GoodVibes #sundayvibes #sunday #kitty #adoptdontshop #adoptme
Striped tabby cat with green eyes and white bib and paws.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Sen. Chris Murphy to NBC on Democratic opposition to the GOP mega-bill: "What we're standing in the way of is the most massive transfer of wealth from the poor and the middle class to the rich in the history of the country."
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 17/05/2025
I checked. It’s real.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
For over half a century, the National Weather Service has operated 24/7. But after the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency pushed to shrink the federal workforce, that’s no longer possible in parts of the country.
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Stephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
•••MEASLES ALERT••• A traveler with measles was at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey for several hours while infectious this week. Anyone who was in Newark Airport's Terminal B on Monday between 12:30 and 4:00 p.m. may have been exposed to measles — considered by health…
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Rep. George Latimer @repglatimer.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
The Library of Congress is the world’s largest library and a symbol of our commitment to free thought. Now, even the Library of Congress is not off limits from intervention. While personnel were recently fired, this is about power: who controls what Americans read, learn, and dream.
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Rita Hamad @ritahamad.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Same. Our NIH research includes (or included, past tense) research on place-based risk factors for dementia, impacts of school segregation on heart disease, and health impacts of pandemic policies. The last is notably ironic: one study assesses how COVID school closures worsened kids' mental health!
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Next week's cover of @newyorker.com, out this morning.
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Brady | United Against Gun Violence @bradyunited.org · 16/05/2025
Calling all Pittsburgh activists: You’re invited to join us for our upcoming “Building A Future Without Gun Violence” summit in Pittsburgh. Together, we’ll learn about ways to address the supply of guns into our communities to reduce gun violence and save lives. Want to join? RSVP Now!
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BUILDING A FUTURE WITHOUT GUN VIOLENCE: PITTSBURGH
June 26, 2025 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. ET The Pittsburgh Foundation
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Donna Dale @awoaca.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Delighted to hear @dsorennie.bsky.social on 1A this morning. Always a pleasure to hear your voice, David.
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elsievoteblue.bsky.social @elsievoteblue.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
People 💙This dad said it best, about the voting against DEI in a Virginia school district! 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #DemsUnited
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I just created a quick map depicting which portions of the United States are now (as of today) or will imminently be (by early June) without 24/7 local National Weather Service coverage (per Washington Post reporting). #CAwx #CAfire #CAwater #ORwx #AKwx #WYwx #KSwx
Map of local National Weather Service office "areas of responsibility" modified (using polygons with black outlines and red fill) to indicate where recent/expanding cuts to NOAA/NWS have resulting in understaffing so extreme that some offices can not longer operate on a 24/7 basis.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
"This entire debate has been one attempt after another by Republicans to present Medicaid cuts as something other than Medicaid cuts." On the pod, @citizencohn.bsky.social is so illuminating on how bad the GOP bill's Medicaid cuts truly are: newrepublic.com/article/1952...
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MAGA Senator’s Stunning Admission: GOP Is Badly Screwing Trump Voters
As a staunch Trump ally openly acknowledges the truth about the House GOP’s “big, beautiful bill,” a leading health care reporter explains all the ways it will seriously hurt the Trump-MAGA working-cl...
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Connor Dupree-Sood @trailofatraveler.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
You can also use the link below to sign a comment in opposition to the proposed change act.defenders.org/page/82866/a...
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Act Now: Oppose the Trump Administration’s attempt to roll back ESA habitat protections!
Urge the Department of the Interior not to rescind the regulatory definition of “harm” under the ESA!
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Connor Dupree-Sood @trailofatraveler.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Urgent!!! The Endangered Species Act (ESA) protects both near extinct animals and their habitat. Trump administration is pushing to REMOVE habitat protection from the ESA to expand logging, mining, and drilling. Public comment ends May 19!!! Please RESIST by using the link below and repost!
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Regulations.gov
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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
PSSSST @leejohnsonforsc.com is going to unseat Lindsey Graham. Pass it on.
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STAT @statnews.com · 14/05/2025
Ex-FDA chief Robert Califf about HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — “My primary worry is not the FDA, my worry is the American public.” #STATBreakthrough
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Former FDA head Robert Califf says RFK Jr.’s vaccine rhetoric is ‘doing harm’ to Americans
Ex-FDA chief Robert Califf about HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — “My primary worry is not the FDA, my worry is the American public.”
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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
The mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives during the pandemic and offer opportunities to create other lifesaving vaccines. The NIH grants to one of its originators, a Nobel laureate, have been canceled by the Kennedy/Trump HHS department. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u...
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Scientists Hail This Medical Breakthrough. A Political Storm Could Cripple It.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Trump Cut Deal To Let *Sinaloa Cartel Members* Into US apnews.com/article/el-c...
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Mexican security chief confirms cartel family members entered US in a deal with Trump administration
Mexico’s government has confirmed reports that 17 family members of the son of a former cartel leader crossed into the United States.
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Devastating NIH cuts to infectious disease research, eviscerating our nation’s capacity to fight emerging infections and pandemic threats. From @sanders.senate.gov report out yesterday www.sanders.senate.gov/wp-content/u...
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
We study fascism, and Mom, could you come pick me up?
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Historian Julian Zelizer: Trump's corruption is the worst ever seen in the White House! My interview of Princeton Professor Julian Zelizer on Trump's corruption and more: deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/historian-...
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Historian Julian Zelizer: Trump's corruption is the worst ever seen in the White House!
A recording from Dean Obeidallah and Julian Zelizer's live video
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Nicky Schwenzer @nickyschwenzer.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
“In my country, we are fighting like hell for the democracy we once took for granted... Art is the crucible that brings people together. Art looks for truth. Art embraces diversity. That’s why art is a threat. That’s why we are a threat to autocrats & fascists.” Robert De Niro • Cannes 🎬 1/3🧵
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Since 2022, my colleagues and I have been targeted by political attacks. Early on, we worried that political actors would specifically target our projects & universities for defunding. But in the end, they came after everyone. The strategy of keeping heads down was never the right one.
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🌺🌺 Cynbad 🌺🌺 @cyynbadd.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Please Repost BlueSky!! 💕💘💕💘💕💘💕💘💕💘 As this may help other people like it has me & supports our bsky friend🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 @cancerblog.bsky.social @cancerresearchuk.org @naturecancer.bsky.social @cancerjack.bsky.social @cancer.astrolis.com
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
A man checked out 100 books on Jewish history, Black history, and LGBTQ+ education from a library only to burn them
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Man burns 100 Beachwood Public Library books on Jewish, African American, LGBTQ+ education: report
“I condemn this act, not only because it is a crime against our institutions and community, but also because it is fundamentally un-American. This nation was founded on the right to free speech and op...
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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Massive, gigantic nope to this. Dems. Come on. Even almost half of TRUMP VOTERS think crypto is a complete scam. This is a terrible own goal in progress.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
🚨HIT THE PHONES TO SAVE MEDICAID - PLEASE AMPLIFY & ACT 🚨 TODAY the House will be marking up deeply unpopular massive Medicaid cuts. MANY GOP on the committee are in tight districts. Calls and pressure ARE effective here. Call today. Type your zip to get a script ⬇️ OcasioCortez.com/savemedicaid
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Save Medicaid
Please call your Representative right now and leave a voicemail, or first thing on Monday morning before the mark up session begins.
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Sam Stein @samsteindc.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Hi. if you work at a university and are privvy to how much money has been cut from research budgets by the federal government—ideally if you have internal documents to share—we have a tipline for you thebulwark.com/tips
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
www.politico.com/live-updates... Understand what is at stake Someone you know depends on Medicaid Call Your Congressional Representatives 202 224-3121 No cuts to Medicaid
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CBO: 7.6 million would go uninsured under GOP Medicaid bill
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that many of the major Medicaid policies would account for $625 billion in savings, though the CBO didn’t calculate the impacts of all provisions.
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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 13/05/2025
🧵The graphics in this thread could save a life. ICE, HSI, & CBP are detaining people without cause aka kidnapping, refusing to ID themselves, and violating constitutional rights. We must protect our people. Share these graphics. Help our communities know their rights—and use them. #OnYourSide
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS:
ICE NEEDS A
JUDICIAL WARRANT
No Warrant from a Judge?
No Entry. No Arrest.
ICE administrative warrants (Form I-200/I-205) are NOT signed by a judge.
Only a judicial warrant allows ICE to enter your home without permission.
You do NOT have to open the door.
Ask to see the warrant-have them slide it under the door.
If it's not signed by a judge, you can legally refuse entry.
Protect your rights. Share this.
#OnYourSide
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Good thread on the GOP mega donor funded pink slime media. The Uihlein's (you remember them)! are big funders of this fake news effort that keeps showing up in your mailbox or on line.
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Sheryl with an S @beachblond52.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
#ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited If DonOLD gets his way about having this jet, how long before American citizen who he doesn’t like get chopped up with bone saws?
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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org · 13/05/2025
Well, this is a hell of a metaphor for generative AI
A final note. Directly put, Plaintiff’s use of AI affirmatively misled me.
I read their brief, was persuaded (or at least intrigued) by the authorities that
they cited, and looked up the decisions to learn more about them – only to find
that they didn’t exist. That’s scary. It almost led to the scarier outcome (from
my perspective) of including those bogus materials in a judicial order. Strong
deterrence is needed to make sure that attorneys don’t succumb to this easy
shortcut.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
If the Trump admin's allegations of gang activity and terrorism against Abrego Garcia were true, it would have no trouble prosecuting or deporting him legally. So why don't they? One reason might be that none of the evidence offered so far would hold up in court www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Due Process Is a Right, Not a Privilege You Get for Being Good
If Kilmar Abrego Garcia is guilty of the crimes he is accused of, then the Trump administration could simply follow the law. Why won’t it?
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louhi🌱 @louhi.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
My foster cat Fern, the teen-mom is up for adoption in Michigan 🥰 www.petfinder.com/cat/fern-763... if you are looking for a sweetheart cat with a highly meme-able face she’s your girl @catsofyore.bsky.social @missybbbobtail.bsky.social 💕
A brown and white cat looking sideways at the camera with a very sly expression
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U.S. Press Freedom Tracker @pressfreedomtracker.us · 13/05/2025
In break with tradition, President Donald Trump left for Middle East on May 12 without any wire services in Air Force One press pool. WHCA says it’s “disturbed” by continued retaliation for @apnews.com referring to “Gulf of Mexico”:
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White House wrests control of presidential press pool from correspondents
In a break with more than a century of practice, the White House Correspondents’ Association will no longer control the …
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ilovelibraries.bsky.social @ilovelibraries.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Libraries play a critical and often overlooked role in helping their patrons and communities address mental health challenges. One library in Texas is taking this responsibility to heart with help from the American Library Association. #MentalHealthAwareness ilovelibraries.org/article/texa...
Texas Libraries Provide a Lifeline to Mental Health "During the pandemic, I knew a lot of people were struggling, especially with their mental health. And not a lot of people can articulate that. Photo of two librarians in front of Hewitt Public Library.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 13/05/2025
There are only three attorneys left in the DOJ’s voting section, a watchdog group estimated, as the department pivots from protecting voting rights to investigating voter fraud. One former DOJ attorney calls it a “decimation” of civil rights enforcement. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DOJ Voting Section Has Just Three Lawyers Left, Watchdog Estimates
Read more here.
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NPR @npr.org · 13/05/2025
While Big Pharma seems ready to weather the tariff storm, independent pharmacists and makers of generic drugs — which account for 90% of U.S. prescriptions — see trouble ahead for patients.
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Pharmacists stockpile most common drugs on chance of targeted Trump tariffs
While Big Pharma seems ready to weather the tariff storm, independent pharmacists and makers of generic drugs — which account for 90% of U.S. prescriptions — see trouble ahead for patients.
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