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@byjess.bsky.social
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“We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed.”

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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We have enough food, technology, and money to save the planet. We just have a system where destroying it is more profitable. That's not a climate problem. That's a greed problem. #ClimateJustice
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Charlotte Wainwright restoring and saving old/ancient books. www.wainwrightbookbinding.com
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
NEW: The NIH is quietly restricting funding for research that evaluates how public policy impacts human health. According to internal documents I obtained, the agency no longer considers policymakers "mission relevant" — a massive shift for the biomedical funder. My latest for @nature.com:
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NIH limits funding for research on the health effects of public policy
US biomedical agency no longer considers policymakers as ‘mission relevant’, leaving dozens of grants in limbo.
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Jess @byjess.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
So wait did we Make America Healthy Again yet
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Jess @byjess.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Photo of the Argonath on the Anduin with three boats visible between them
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Ward Sutton @wardsutton.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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Jess @byjess.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
A few weeks ago, we were getting on the ferry to see the Statue of Liberty. Our kid, watching the linesman on the dock catch the stern line, marveled, “Wow, he’s really skilled.” “He sure is!,” I said, “and he works hard too, all day in hot sun.” It was midday amid a heat advisory in NYC. (1/5)
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/06/2026
NEW: This church teaches that once an abuser is forgiven, anyone who speaks about the wrongdoing can be accused of having an unforgiving heart. The burden of sin would shift from the person who committed the act to the person who won’t let the matter rest. W/ @startribune.com
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In This Church, Child Sexual Abuse Has Gone Unchecked for So Long That It Spans Generations
The church's culture of forgiving and forgetting sins has absolved abusers and silenced victims across the country.
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Jess @byjess.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
This.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
This is Ken Paxton's mugshot. He was indicted on 3 felony counts for investment fraud. He was reported to the FBI by his own staff for bribery. He was impeached by his own party for corruption. Now he’s the Republican nominee for US Senate in Texas. Together we will stop him.
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Jordan Ellenberg @jsellenberg.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
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Memorial Day
Tomorrow is Memorial Day. William James, in 1897, dedicating the monument to Col. Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th regiment, a monument which still stands in Boston Common today: “And when Sout…
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/05/2026
The DOJ has dropped 23,000 criminal cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in just the first six months of Trump’s second term. (Published March)
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Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration
Under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the DOJ abandoned a record number of cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — in just the first six months of Presi...
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Jess @byjess.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
A short term (but not actually that short) course of high dose steroids means I have not really been able to sleep for an entire week. However, despite this pervasive wired-and-also-tired feeling, it’s been remarkably productive? 🤔
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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Among Neighbors is as timely and important as it is a remarkable piece of filmmaking. At a time when autocrats are trying to erase history and peddle lies, @yoavpotash.bsky.social has lifted up the truth. For that, the far right government in Poland wants this film banned. You can now watch it.
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Jess @byjess.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
In the midst of everything, our decades-old gardenia bushes are blooming luxuriously this spring. Each one is a wonder.
A small bouquet of seven white gardenia mid-bloom.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Marx dreamed of a world where you wouldn't be pigeonholed by your job. As he put it, a man could hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, and critique ideas at dinner without ever being a hunter, fisherman, or critic.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
The oxygen that keeps us alive comes from natural ecosystems: half on land, half at sea. It's not complicated: we are TOTALLY dependent on the living world. Yet it's still treated as nothing but 'resources', to exploit and destroy for profit.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/05/2026
On May 2, agents followed Leonardo Garcia Venegas back to his home because they didn’t believe his claims of citizenship or that the REAL ID he showed them was legitimate. It was familiar territory: He’d already been detained twice. 🔗 Read more: propub.li/3Ppaufa
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 17/05/2026
Thomas Massie pushed for the release of the Epstein files, and the response has been tens of millions in outside spending, smear campaigns, and coordinated attacks. If this is what they do to a sitting member of Congress, imagine what Epstein survivors face when considering whether to come forward.
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TRAstonDrs @castltrastondrs.medsky.network · 15/05/2026
#Medsky🧪 #publichealth 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙍𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙀𝙦𝙪𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 uncovers the racist myths that led to today’s lung-function testing @nejm.org www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Meet the Equation | NEJM
Many clinical algorithms, including the eGFR test for kidney function, have actually had race baked into them and produce different results for Black patients. Most of us assume these algorithms ar...
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
President Obama: “We pulled it off without firing a missile. We got 97% of their enriched uranium out. There’s no dispute that it worked and we didn’t have to kill a whole bunch of people or shut down the Strait of Hormuz.”
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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 07/05/2026
Extremism expert Alexander Ritzmann warns about the Active Clubs popping up around the world. “This is not just a nationalist sports club. It’s the strategy to build a neo-Nazi militia.” You can watch my entire interview at the link below. www.hatecomestomainstreet.com/p/extremism-...
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Extremism Expert Warns of Plan to 'Build a Neo-Nazi Militia'
Alexander Ritzmann warns about the Active Clubs popping up around the world. “This is not just a nationalist sports club. It’s the strategy to build a neo-Nazi militia.”
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Yes again. Last week CDC. Now FDA. Blocking evidence of vaccine safety. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...
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F.D.A. Blocked Publication of Research Finding Covid and Shingles Vaccines Were Safe
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Jess @byjess.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
My favorite scene from the Bible
Scene from Lord of the Rings: Frodo says, “I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.”

Gandalf replies,”So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”
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Micah @rincewind.run · 12/04/2026
Viktor Orban accomplished so much of what the Trump movement wants to accomplish here he ruled for 16 years and rewrote the rules in his favor and still, they threw him out and you know what? they did it by voting don’t let anyone tell you voting doesn’t matter
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Jess @byjess.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Are we watching the Artemis return while listening to Drops of Jupiter? Why, yes.
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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Those of us, @protectdemocracy.org included, who warned of what Trump would do and were called alarmist for it have largely been correct and our critics have largely been wrong. I wish we were wrong. But it's an important lesson to take the warnings of democracy advocates more seriously.
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Jess @byjess.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
A Hawai'i state Senate bill takes a novel approach that could make the controversial Citizens United irrelevant in the islands. @civilbeat.bsky.social article:
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Jess @byjess.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
And if you look around and notice that joy, international teamwork and diversity really seem to stick it to you………
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Jess @byjess.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
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An open hand beneath a branch of cherry blossoms
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
A recent Spanish study estimated health care associated infections caused >3x as many deaths as car accidents each year We've normalized seatbelts. So why aren't N95 masks & infection control in healthcare non-negotiable? shorturl.at/EydJC
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Report underscores death toll of health care-related infections
Infections acquired in health care settings kill 3 times more people than car accidents each year.
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Jess @byjess.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Screenshot of excerpt: “MAHA, were it a serious movement, would criticize capitalism, or at least the bloated “health sector” of the American economy. And that would be the right target. But MAHA is not a social movement but a capitalist faction, or an ad campaign, seeking to divert profits from one set of businesses to another. MAHA leadership criticizes the pharmaceutical industry’s profit motives in order to promote the wellness industry, which of course also operates according to the profit motive.

By directing its energies against a competitor, MAHA worsens the problem. By dodging the basic issue – that instead of a strong public health system we have commercial medicine – it only strengthens and consolidates the status quo it claims to be critiquing. Then, to make matters worse, it undermines belief in practices that do in fact work, in the present flawed system, to prevent suffering and save lives. And so it creates a situation in which reform is less likely and epidemics are more so.”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/02/2026
ProPublica received eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves.
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“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...
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ACLU @aclu.org · 15/02/2026
As a proud U.S. citizen, Juana never thought she'd be zip-tied and detained by ICE for hours with her 3-year-old son, especially while attending a family-friendly event. They’re two of hundreds of people we’re defending in court for being targeted in an unlawful militarized immigration raid.
Black graphic with a quote attributed to Juana Rodriguez, ACLU client challenging an unlawful immigration raid in Wilder, Idaho: "My toddler was forced to witness an incredible amount of violence against people he loves and hear racial slurs about Latinos, experiences that no child should ever be exposed to. I'll never forget hearing his little voice pleading with me to give him food and water for hours on end."
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Jess @byjess.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
How odd that no one is asking questions like - Was he here legally from UK/Europe? - Where/when was he radicalized? - Does his religion promote honor killings? Are they spreading this radicalism here in TX? - Why is his culture so violent? 🤔
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 09/02/2026
Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.)  If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.
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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
If the test of a theory is its predictive power, then Trump-Russia is the most robust theory in all contemporary political science.
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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
For decades, nativists have sold America this narrative that immigrant welfare is behind our deficits and debt. This figure shows how absurd that is. This is all government expenditures, federal, state, and local, for the last 3 decades. Immigrants are not to blame:
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 01/02/2026
a woman reached out to donate 500,000 delta skymiles to get people home to MN as they are released from custody in TX. we're getting flights booked today. it should be enough to get at least 15 people home. delta should be doing for free since they take ICE money.
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Jess @byjess.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Poet to Bigot I have done so little For you, And you have done so little For me, That we have good reason Never to agree.
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Jess @byjess.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
My kid is really cheering me through COVID 🥹
Hand drawn celebratory sign saying “Your’e better” [sic], decorated with balloons and exclamations of “Woo!” and “Yay!”
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 24/01/2026
NEW: I was one of 3 reporters granted access to the convening of 600+ clergy in Minneapolis this week. It was a striking show of solidarity with MN clergy resisting ICE, but heralded something else: the emergence of a vast, faith-based network trained to resist ICE. religionnews.com/2026/01/23/i...
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Inside the effort to organize clergy nationwide to resist ICE
(RNS)— Hundreds of clergy from around the country gathered in Minneapolis to learn from Minnesota faith leaders how to protest against ICE enforcement. Then they took to the streets and helped block t...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
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Vanity Fair @vanityfair.com · 08/01/2026
Close analysis of video footage shows Renee Nicole Good attempting to drive away from ICE agents before one of them shoots her. But that doesn’t fit Trump, Kristi Noem, and JD Vance’s narrative.
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MAGA’s Response to Minnesota ICE Killing: Don’t Believe Your Eyes
Close analysis of video footage shows Renee Nicole Good attempting to drive away from ICE agents before one of them shoots her. But that doesn’t fit Trump, Kristi Noem, and JD Vance’s narrative.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
The US is sanctioning judges among whose assignments is the legal reckoning with genocide. www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
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‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily life
Canadian judge Kimberly Prost is unable to use credit cards, transfer money or book everyday services in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciary
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LunchCounterPunch @theultrasecret.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Failure to recognize this moment as part of the centuries long battle against white supremacist oppression is a dangerous denial, and a gift to the American fascist project. @sifill.bsky.social is right on.
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Jess @byjess.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
A cartoon image of Santa arriving via chimney to a Christmas-decorated living room. In front of him is a plate of cookies on a table and a glass of milk. Above the cookies is a website-style pop-up that reads "Cookies! We use cookies to ensure you get the best experience in our house." and represents two buttons, "Accept Cookies" and "Manage Settings."
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