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bvaello.bsky.social

@bvaello.bsky.social
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Pediatrician that believes in science and human rights. Doing my best to survive in my beloved Texas, ruined by 30 yrs of GOP rule.

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Susan Gross @pricklyeater.bsky.social · 5h
Wow. Just coming right out there and admitting to the world how completely useless they all are.
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Market @marketdf.bsky.social · 4h
If AI were a woman's bodily autonomy, they could do it.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 4h
Republicans have a real can't-do spirit.
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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 4h
Hegseth, for example, can get a separate murder indictment for each boat strike. We should also encourage other countries to charge them as well where justified, and be open to extradition.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19h
This is the book corporate America does not want you to read — which is exactly why you should pick up a copy.
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CLE @leecle.bsky.social · 14h
It is glaringly clear that Jack Smith is a competent & honest man working in service to his country & fellow Americans. It is also just as clear that Republican Senator Schmidt is an incompetent fool & liar working in service to felon President Trump.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3h
🔥 @shawnryan762.bsky.social: "Israel is the one thing since 9/11 I've seen EVERYBODY rally around- we're tired of paying for your universal health care, education, missiles, fighting/dying for your wars... We're just a cow pasture full of cattle to send 🇮🇱 tax money + fight their wars."
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 4h
These ads go in the same category as brazen, easily disproven lies after ICE killings. It’s not about persuasion. It’s a display of power. They could have passed them off as PAC-funded. They added “paid for by the U.S. government” because they want us to know they can break the law with impunity.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4h
Nomen est omen. "Kremlëv" means "of or pertaining to the Kremlin." And it's not really his name. And that explains what his whole relationship with Trump Jr is really about. It's not that complicated. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h
* FRANCE'S MACRON: IF THE BRITISH PM WANTS BRITAIN TO RETURN TO THE EU THAT WOULD BE EXCELLENT NEWS AND A GOOD DECISION @reuters.com
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PhillipUSA @phillipusa.bsky.social · 5h
Duh…🙄
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5h
36 minutes before the hearing started.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5h
The RNC Chair’s brilliant midterm “Trumpapalooza” convention idea featuring a president with an approval rating in the 30s dragging the party’s candidates down like an anchor.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 5h
NEW: California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But that’s not what happened.
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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Reuters @reuters.com · 6h
Viruses run rampant across Havana as water, power fails reut.rs/3VaLvPk
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Viruses run rampant across Havana as water, power fails
Cuban housewife Yuamilka Hechavarria was asleep last Tuesday when water rushed into the cistern of the crumbling tenement where she lives in old Havana.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 6h
Burundi to take third-country deportees from US reut.rs/4rFrRag
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Burundi to take third-country deportees from US
Burundi has agreed to join a clutch of other African nations in receiving migrants from other ​countries deported from the US under President Donald ‌Trump's hardline immigration policy.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5h
"White House staff fully appreciate the warning of economists and industry experts that an export ban will actually be counterproductive. This is all about simply doing something during an election cycle so as to appear to be on top of the problem that we created." www.ft.com/content/562f...
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White House holds crunch talks on diesel export ban as midterms near
Trump at centre of lobbying fight between Big Oil and top Republicans warning of voter anger at high fuel prices
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 5h
In court filing, man accused of setting Jan 6 Capitol Hill pipe bombs asks court to suppress his "confession" Defense says agents conducted a "methodical dismantling of a man whose autism spectrum disorder left him unable to withstand the psychologically coercive tactics deployed against him"
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 6h
Something remarkable is happening: James Talarico is running an expansively pro-immigrant campaign in Texas, a state Trump won by 14 points, speaking in Biblical terms about our duty to "the stranger." And it's resonating. That's seismic. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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In Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s Fault
Thanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state.
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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 5h
My own (probably naive) take is that the immigration views/attacks as envisioned by Trump and far-right diehards have very little resonance beyond the right-wing base. That they are now a layer of our atmosphere reflects the disproportionate power those folks have in politics and media.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 6h
The most notable thing of the last so hours and the Schmitt-Hawkeye screw up of epic proportions, is how Trumpites are primed to pump out any narrative handed to them without thought or reflection. It’s Putinesque.
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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 5h
Republicans act like regulations are made-up busywork that sprung forth from the minds of clueless bureaucrats, when every regulation has actually been written in someone's lost blood or treasure.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h
GATES: “.. I almost can’t believe you’re asking that.” @ezraklein.bsky.social @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h
“.. Mr. Paxton responds: ‘So to be honest with you, the numbers — when we did that convention — it dropped our numbers. Everybody’s numbers dropped. Right now, yeah, not good.’” @nytimes.com #TXsen www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 4h
They're moving on from trans youth towards advocating banning care for trans adults, just like we said they would.
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Nikki DuCoté @raisedbyvalaya.bsky.social · 4h
It was never about girls' sports It's Orwellian to talk of "reclaiming the Hippocratic oath" when it's a tortured euphemism for taking away bodily autonomy They're too preoccupied trying to tell the world how it's supposed to act, rather than how to treat individual people deserving of love
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A Snarky Grandpa (Bruce) @asnarkygrandpa.bsky.social · 16h
Don’t be distracted, we now live in a country where more than 400 women have been arrested since Roe v Wade was overturned and yet not a single man has been arrested due to Epstein.
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David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · 17h
Fascinating transformation from denying that racial dog whistles were present to demanding that they be present
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Eric Schmitt is on The Charlie Kirk Show (yes it's still called that) -- and believe it or not, hosts are pretending he owned Smith with his embarrassingly botched gotcha "You caught him in this NBA game too in Atlanta" "Yeah," Schmitt says There's no mention that Schmitt had all his facts wrong
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Jamie Gangel @jamiegangel.bsky.social · 21h
Breaking - The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the Trump administration to restart its program of removing migrants to countries other than their homeland without giving them an opportunity to raise human rights concerns… will hear arguments later this year www.cnn.com/2026/09/29/p...
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Supreme Court allows Trump to restart controversial deportations to countries they have no connection to | CNN Politics
The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the Trump administration to restart its program of removing migrants to countries other than their homeland without giving them an opportunity to raise human right...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21h
NEW: Seems as though the full DC Circuit Court is poised to green-light Judge Boasberg's contempt investigation into the government for failing to turn the planes bound for CECOT around. Trump will then likely seek an emergency stay from SCOTUS. apnews.com/article/trum...
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Appeals court weighs fate of judge's contempt probe over Trump administration deportation flights
An appeals court is weighing whether a judge can continue investigating whether the Trump administration illegally flouted an order blocking the deportation of planeloads of Venezuelan migrants to El ...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21h
Holy shit, this ad! I cannot imagine the impetus for pardoning this guy. But I’m not even sure it matters. Kind of along the lines of that Roger Marshall ad. If you’re explaining you’re losing.
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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 18h
Have you checked out Vaughn’s phenomenal, evolving Pitchables page, full of places where you can submit your public scholarship? That & much more in today’s blog post for our website’s 1-year anniversary! 🗃️ @hcrichardson.bsky.social
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Marlene Green @marlenegreen.bsky.social · 20h
@hcrichardson.bsky.social & @pkrugman.bsky.social talk about oil, gas, diesel and how Americans are viewed around the globe... Listen, Share widely and Be sure to Vote Early.... youtu.be/1_-Hj8MNd4k?...
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Donald's Diesel Disaster | Lunch Money with Paul Krugman and Heather Cox
YouTube video by Paul Krugman
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HCR HQ @hcrhq.bsky.social · 20h
Scott Colom’s campaign for Senate is picking up momentum in Mississippi. He’s one of the folks redefining the Democratic Party. He’s great, and his opponent Cindy Hyde-Smith is just a rubber stamp for Trump. @scolom.bsky.social Colom joined @hcrichardson.bsky.social in April to chat: https:/
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21h
There really is this rash of very weird GOP defenses. Like when Paxton said the guy didn’t do one day in prison. That’s a lie! I put him in for a hard 60 days! Or Marshall saying he didnt get the pregnant woman arrested for late bill. It was for not showing up for the lawsuit over the late bill!
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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 16h
#AZ Trump's 300K metric ton beef import surge crashed Gila County cattle prices-ranchers rebuilding after drought now undercut by subsidized foreign beef timed for midterms. NCBA & USCA warn it sidelines US producers, threatens safety. Our ranchers deserve better than being campaign props. # Pinks
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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Trump has moved to significantly reduce automobile fuel efficiency standards, according to a Saturday rant he posted on Truth Social. In addition to the environmental impact, the government’s own analysis shows the decision will drastically increase gas prices. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
Gas pump | text: TRUMP JUST REVERSED CRITICAL BIDEN-ERA AUTOMOBILE FUEL EFFICIENCY STANDARDS
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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 18h
there is admittedly lots of material to work with but i don't get the sense D dark money is pulling any punches this year
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21h
The cleansing of the blood of the nation must continue, as it says in the constitution bsky.app/profile/stev...
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 18h
I just LOVE Angie Nixon. If I lived in Florida, she’d have my vote! #SheShed #AngieForFL💗
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 17h
I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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dmp2you.bsky.social @dmp2you.bsky.social · 16h
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 17h
NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES (sound ) DAY 29 SEPTEMBER 2O26 #ICELAWLESSNESS You may have seen sketches but please listen as this horrific tragedy unfolds I can't imagine a 13 years old sitting there, then he bursts into tears & says "I have no one, I have nothing " How does the judge sleep at night?
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𝐹𝑜𝓇 𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝐿𝑜𝓋𝑒 @forthelove143.bsky.social · 19h
Anybody else concerned that allowing Trump to have control of AI, also means Putin and Netanyahu also have some control over our AI?
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 21h
Another way of making this point: The wheels may be coming off the Trump administration and the authoritarian movement energizing it. But a large tractor-trailer barreling down a highway at full speed whose wheels come loose is very dangerous to innocent people in the vicinity.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h
Trump thinks that because he's changed the name of AI, now all concerns expressed about it previously are a hoax. The illogic is breathtaking. (Note that in this clip he's also lying about economic growth.)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h
Trump repeatedly says Kim Jong Un "is a friend of mine" and "likes Trump" and Trump says, "I like him"
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