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Christina Sahhar

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Unapologetic progressive. 🍉🍉🍉

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 31/07/2026
The Michigan Senate primary is the next biggest test for the direction of the Democratic Party. @abdulelsayed.bsky.social joined @akelalacy.bsky.social to talk about the state of the race: youtube.com/shorts/FRzTC...
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Dr. Abdul El-Sayed On AIPAC Money In Politics
YouTube video by The Intercept
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The godmother of punk Patti Smith met Pope Leo XIV this morning.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 04/12/2025
#ACIP Let's talk about the presenters we've had so far: Dr. Cynthia Nevison, a climate researcher, and Mr. Mark Blaxill (Harvard MBA, no scientific or medical expertise) are both known for authoring a retracted paper on the "costs of autism." Blaxill holds and Nevison has ties to anti-vax beliefs
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Controversial ‘cost of autism’ paper retracted
The journal’s decision comes two years after Spectrum covered backlash from researchers over the study.
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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Journalists! If you’re covering the #ACIP meeting this week, this report is super helpful, with tons of info and stats on the birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine
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Scott Krugman @drscottk.medsky.social · 03/12/2025
Given what’s about to go down at the #ACIP sham meeting this week, this article is a must read and actual science.
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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Here is Jason Goldman's beautiful, amazing takedown of the whole sham #ACIP meeting today. (2 parts) So glad he said what every expert in the field is feeling today (and all year).
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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
The incompetence is staggering. To have 4 votes and not even legal experts can figure out what the recommendations are is wild (I’m not positive either- the meeting was profoundly incoherent)
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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment. Jared Polis has failed Colorado.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Governor Polis Orders Flags to Half-Staff to Honor the Anniversary of September 11th and the Passing of Charlie Kirk
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
This was just last month and we have already memoryholed it. A cop killed by an antivaxxer.
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Ted Leo 🍉 @tedleo.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Getting sick of the term “political violence” when a public figure closely aligned w/one ideology or other is a victim. ICE is also political violence. Armies are also political violence. Not sure of my point - just wish for a term that doesn’t immediately wall an act like this off from all the rest
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
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AxisPHX @lazosferns.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 04/09/2025
In a marathon hearing on Thursday before the Senate Finance Committee, RFK Jr. faced a barrage of questions from senators who were outraged by his recent actions. In some cases, Kennedy appeared to promote flat-out lies.
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RFK Jr. is living in a pretend anti-vax world
Unfortunately, he is wreaking havoc in the real one.
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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 06/09/2025
Mens rea.
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
I pissed off a bunch of people being mad at Chuck Schumer this morning so I suppose I should share what I wrote about Hakeem Jeffries in today's newsletter. That and, of course, all the usual baseball and other bullshit. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...
We're absolutely leaderless
Yesterday Hakeem Jeffries, the House Minority Leader and, by default, the leader of the Democratic opposition to the Trump regime, said this:

"Donald Trump promised that he would lower housing costs on day one. Here's a suggestion for the Trump administration: try to legislate, and maybe we can find common ground in order to get something done for the American people."
For the past several months Trump and the Republicans have been shredding the Constitution in unprecedented ways, building concentration camps, and sending out a literal secret police force to disappear people without cause or hearing. In just the past few days Trump stated, as if it's unassailable fact, that he is a dictator and that anything he does is, by default, legal. Not an hour before Jeffries said what he said above, Trump said that he is going to send more troops into cities all over America, ratcheting up the fascism afoot to even greater degrees. That has been confirmed by Illinois governor JB Pritzker, who announced that Trump has sent the Texas National Guard to Great Lakes Naval Base outside Chicago, where they will soon be deployed to target Mexican Independence Day celebrations on September 16.

I understand that politicians of Jeffries' ilk spend about 95% of their time listening to colleagues and consultants who decided, in 1997 or something, that the word "bipartisan" is some sort of talisman that ensures political success. But to say such a thing, now, when the wheels are coming off, the engine is on fire, and hostile troops are being used to subdue American cities for authoritarian ends is about the most out-of-touch and tone deaf thing imaginable.Jeffries and others who want to pretend that what is happening right now is completely normal have absolutely no credibility. Jeffries himself has, in the past, called Trump a "wannabe king" who is "attacking the American people." Just three days ago he said "Republicans are psychotically consumed by revenge" and that "these extremists are unfit to govern and dangerous to the American way of life." But now he wants to find common ground with him and with them? Via legislation despite the fact that Trump has quite clearly decided that Congress doesn't matter anymore and that he has no interest in dealing with it? We cannot believe people like Hakeem Jeffries when they say they understand the gravity of this moment, because regardless of their occasional lip service to it, they don't act like anything particularly bad is happening. Because, I suppose, nothing bad is happening to them, personally.

This is why Democratic politicians poll so terribly. This is why people are so despondent. We are in an existential battle for the Constitutional order, and we're currently losing it, badly. Yet the general putatively in charge of that battle uses the exceedingly little amount of time the national media affords him to talk about how we need to find common ground and resume business-as-usual with the hostile force he himself admits are dangerous and unfit to govern.

It's always been harder to maintain democracy than it is to impose authoritarianism, but it's impossible to do so when those charged with defending democracy don't seem to fucking care.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Virginia Giuffre's family: "The content of these transcripts is in direct contradiction with felon Ghislaine Maxwell's conviction for child sex trafficking. During DAG Todd Blanche's bizarre interview, she is never challenged about her court-proven lies, providing her a platform to rewrite history."
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Bernie's Correct! ! RepubliKKKans Don't care about Ordinary People !
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Dems should swap out Hakeem Jeffries with Jasmine Crockett. They need that kind of fire.
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
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Christina Sahhar @babblesd.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Cardinal Zuppi leads seven-hour prayer, naming every child killed in Holy Land war www.ncronline.org/news/cardina...
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Cardinal Zuppi leads seven-hour prayer, naming every child killed in Holy Land war
The head of the Italian Bishops’ Conference took turns with dozens of other members of his diocese reading the names and ages of the 16 Israeli children and the 12,211 Palestinian children who have be...
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Stan Americana @americanastan.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
www.newsweek.com/zohran-mamda...
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Zohran Mamdani beats out all NYC mayoral candidates combined—New poll
Mamdani is leading his major opponents beyond the margin of error in what is the largest NYC mayoral polling sample size to date.
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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Some hopeful news ... The decision to proscribe Palestine Action was a shameful one by the UK Parliament novaramedia.com/2025/07/30/h...
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High Court Grants Judicial Review of Palestine Action Ban | Novara Media
A judge has sided with Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori, over home secretary Yvette Cooper. A full legal challenge will now go ahead.
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Christina Sahhar @babblesd.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Mainstream Dems yelling at people, telling us we MUST vote for the Democratic candidate next time when party approval rating is historically low and they're ACTIVELY UNDERMINING the most popular Democratic candidate we've seen in over a decade is the most fascist, blue MAGA shit I have ever seen.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Disgusting.
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
They're literally trying to kill 2 million people and @senatorwong.bsky.social is breaking down the parts of a death plane into lethal and non-lethal. That's the West in a nutshell. Silo everything. No accountability. Nothing is connected to anything else. Detachment to exist with barbarism.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 29/07/2025
Governments should not bail out speculative development models but invest in non-market housing, preserve affordability and ensure public subsidies serve long-term public outcomes, write noted B.C. experts in this open letter. 🏘 #canpoli
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Memo to Carney and Robertson on Fixing Housing | The Tyee
Noted BC urban experts pen an open letter with six musts for making homes affordable in Canada.
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💢Marx Was Right.🕊 @paulwalker44.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
This is horrifying. A U.S. citizen violently taken down by federal agents in a grocery store parking lot — despite telling them he had an ID, a Social Security card, and a birth certificate. His family says #AngelPina was hospitalized and suffered a a concussion. x.com/AttorneyCrum...
This is horrifying. A U.S. citizen violently taken down by federal agents in a grocery store parking lot — despite telling them he had an ID, a Social Security card, and a birth certificate. His family says Angel Pina was hospitalized and suffered a a concussion.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
A spokesperson for the Freedom Flotilla Coalition tells me: “Chris Smalls is still in Givon Prison and despite repeated requests to meet with the U.S. Embassy has been ignored by his country after being abducted by the IOF in international waters.”
A photo of labor activist Chris Smalls, talking into a mic
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Christina Sahhar @babblesd.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
This picture was taken July 10th. Every one of these ghouls is personally responsible for what is happening in Gaza. Do not let them off the hook! These people are monsters.
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Christy Wagner @com1ty.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
"The Director of National Intelligence of the United States stood at the White House today...and read information that came from Russian Intelligence...without ever telling people that that's where that information came from." www.youtube.com/live/YN5nyjg...
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Tulsi Gabbard Is Quoting Russian Intelligence Sources | Explainer
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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🏳️‍🌈 🍉 Chuck Hamilton (he/him/his) 🏴‍☠️ @natty4bumpo.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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‘We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza
For months Israel kept food shipments to Gaza far below starvation rations. Now the death toll is rising rapidly
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Conspiracy theorists used to believe themselves to be a small group possessed of secret knowledge. A little over a decade ago many started to see themselves as vox populi. In the age of social media it tilts in that direction because of majority illusion. arstechnica.com/science/2025...
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Conspiracy theorists don’t realize they’re on the fringe
Gordon Pennycook: “It might be one of the biggest false consensus effects that’s been observed.”…
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Palestinians dying from want of food and water is unacceptable, says Erdogan - www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/liv…
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Palestinians dying from want of food and water is unacceptable, says Erdogan
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 10/07/2025
Rep. Sara Jacobs is one of the top 15 wealthiest members of Congress. She is set to introduce legislation today that would—if enacted—work against her own self-interest by increasing her own taxes. “I think of it as taxing trust-fund kids, to create a trust fund for all American kids.”
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This wealthy member of Congress just proposed increasing her own taxes
“I think of it as taxing trust-fund kids, to create a trust fund for all American kids.”
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Here's @ronnisalt.bsky.social. 'Israel: silencing dissent everywhere'
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Israel: silencing dissent everywhere - The Shot
The pro-Israel lobby isn’t designed to balance debate nor to enrich it – it is designed to silence it.
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
UK Home Office rejects Hamas application to overturn terror list ban - www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-home-…
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UK Home Office rejects Hamas application to overturn terror list ban
The Palestinian group, which was banned in 2021, can now appeal against proscribed status
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Associate Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson will end up being one of the heroes of this era if ever there are historians in the future who write about the fall of the United States She will almost never be in the majority on a major ruling, but she will have been the conscience of America
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 09/07/2025
“There is no clear precedent for what DeSantis and the president are doing." Experts question the legality of deploying National Guard officials as immigration judges.
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Experts question the legality of deploying National Guard officials as immigration judges
"The use of military courts to hear civilian cases is the essential component of martial law."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/07/2025
New in PN: The worst chief justice of all time "American history has no shortage of legendarily bad chief justices and disgraceful decisions. But John Roberts has overseen the wholesale corruption and capture of the Supreme Court, and history should look back on his tenure with revulsion."
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The worst chief justice of all time
Move over, Roger Taney and Melville Fuller.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
LL Cool J said that he will not perform at Wawa Welcome America in Philadelphia on July 4th because of union strike “There is absolutely no way I can perform across a picket line”
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LL COOL J drops out of Wawa Welcome America concert because of union strike
LL COOL J said that he is not going to perform at Wawa Welcome America on July 4th in light of the AFSCME District Council 33 strike in Philadelphia.
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
pretty weird how there's always billion dollars just lying around whenever ICE needs concentration camps but there's never any money when children need healthcare or a simple school lunch. oh well just one of those things I guess
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
How and where we won.
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What we won on Election Day
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Mural of Statue of Liberty in shame unveiled in France the day before 4th of July
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/07/2025
It is now my mission to flip these seats and take back the house. You can help defeat them, too.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Why would any tourist come to the US Olympics or World Cup if there's even a 5 percent chance they can be detained by ICE for not having their passport or papers on them?
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
AOC: They’re giving people crumbs and they are taking away the whole loaf.
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