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Caroline V

@carolinecaroline.bsky.social
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Voracious reader, socially awkward, vegan, animal lover, fan of human rights, voting rights, and disrupting the status quo.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 9h
Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12h
Multiple things are true here. This is a fascist, authoritarian administration. It has not yet fully consolidated power. Some of its efforts to do so have been frustrated. Trump is a doddering, confused egomaniac who started an unpopular war that's costing everyday people a lot of money.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 15h
Take action at: act.seiu.org/a/heatdeathh... 2/2 #CALOR #WeFeedYou
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Tell your Rep to stop AB6213 which would block national heat regs
Heat killed a 24 yr old farm worker in Mississippi in Sept. Republican-backed AB6213 would block national heat regs. We must stop this bill. Email your US Rep today. We must stop these heat deaths. Tw...
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 15h
Heat killed a 24 yr old farm worker in Mississippi in Sept. Republican-backed AB6213 would block all national heat regs. We must stop this bill. Email your US Rep today. We must stop these heat deaths. Two minutes of your time can save lives. 1/2
A photo of farm workers laboring on what looks like a very hot background with the text overlay: 

Obed Azahel Hernandez Perez

Farm worker, 24, dies of heat exposure in North MississippiFarm workers working on a very hot background with the text overlay: 

Perez had barely started working for the season.

Mississippi has some of the most dangerous working conditions in the country.

Second highest worker death rate in the country.

The state is one of the five states that doesn't have its own labor enforcement agency.Farm workers working on a very hot backgrounds with the text overlay: 

"If heat regulations became a standard and the employer was in full compliance with that standard, that worker would likely be alive today."

- Jordan Barab, Former OSHA Deputy Assistant Secretary

Heat regulations save lives.
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Rachel Pinnelas 💭 @racheaissance.com · 23h
“Women wearing short shorts to the gym does not make them whores. It makes the men calling them ‘whores’ misogynists.”
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Dan Levy Calls Out Shane Gillis’ ‘SNL’ Monologue and Says ‘More Men Need to Be Standing Up’: ‘Speechless That Something Like That Can Exist on Live National Television’
"Schitt's Creek" star Dan Levy is calling out Shane Gillis' "Saturday Night Live" monologue, saying that "more men need to be standing up."
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 23h
off the fucking rails. a rogue government.
apnews.com
Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say
Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That's according to people familiar with the matter.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I keep reading that there have been no public executions in the United States for decades. Not true.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 12/10/2026
There is one digger in all of Gaza available for use to help locate bodies buried under rubble. Israel refuses to allow in more "for security reasons." Incredible photo feature—cn for mention and photos of human remains.
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Skeletons in their clothing: Recovering bodies from the rubble in Gaza
It was one of the deadliest Israeli strikes of the Gaza war, devastating one extended family. A year and a half later, the survivors find their loved ones' remains.
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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Well this is fucking terrible
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Caroline V @carolinecaroline.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Notice he said this when his background is entirely women. He's so comfortable in his misogyny.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/10/2026
Since the start of Trump’s second term, federal agents have detained at least 70 American children. In one instance, a 15-year-old with disabilities was handcuffed outside a school in Los Angeles when agents mistook him for an alleged gang member.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
El-Sayed: "Under Trump and Hegseth, you're seeing extremes that you never would have imagined. The idea that you want to livestream somebody's death for children to watch is truly extreme ... I don't want that to be politics as usual."
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 08/10/2026
Recently unearthed records show that, in one set of trials carried out by the US Army, the electric shock gloves caused “overwhelmingly immediate” pain to soldiers in a mock forced cell extraction scenario, who then reported that “just seeing the glove” frightened them into obedience.
motherjones.com
Study: Shock gloves traumatized Army volunteers
After tests, military personnel said "just seeing the glove" that ICE plans to adopt scared them into obedience.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 07/10/2026
reading this, recalling how quickly the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman slipped out of the news
phoenixnewtimes.com
Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Ryan Stauffer @ryanswx.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Haha, this fucking sucks.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 07/10/2026
Pierre Damas Bel died by suicide a month after immigration authorities required him to wear an ankle monitor. to.pbs.org/4hK67W9
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Haitian student's suicide reveals human toll of immigration crackdown
Over the weekend, the family of Pierre Damas Bel laid him to rest. The 20-year-old Haitian student lost his legal immigration status in July after the Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump admin...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
25 kids in one Texas courtroom. 15 with no lawyer. The youngest was 3. One of them, 13-year-old Angel, broke down crying: "I have no one. I have nothing." And it's happening to kids in immigration courts across the country. It's evil.
cnn.com
Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 04/10/2026
I keep coming back to this amazing feature by @tinavasquez.bsky.social for @prismreports.org. Fantastic reporting on heat illness in farmworkers, which is only getting worse.
prismreports.org
Despite farmworker death and another disabled by heat stroke, employer keeps sending people to fields
Florida Orange Gold has exposed workers on H-2A visas to extreme heat, but continues to bring hundreds of migrants to North Carolina
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 04/10/2026
Slow motion pelican coasting above the coast bliss. 🪶
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Cats with Jobs ⚒️ @catworkers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Caroline V @carolinecaroline.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It's too hot. How is this October?
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Holy fuck. SCOTUS overturned the circuit court ruling, sending Christa Pike to her death, and then the state of Tennessee botched the execution and she’s still alive. There are no fucking words.
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After SCOTUS allowed Tennessee execution to go ahead, Tennessee botched the execution
SCOTUS, over the liberals’ dissent, cleared the way for Tennessee to kill Christa Pike. The alarming order from DC was followed by even more disturbing developments in Tennessee.
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Caroline V @carolinecaroline.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
No one is safe. And, frankly, none of us deserve to be safe until we make sure EVERYONE is!
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026
At the height of the ICE raids earlier this year, agents in armored military vehicles rolled through residential neighborhoods. Masked agents patrolled public parks and stationed themselves outside elementary schools; squadrons of ICE agents snatched pedestrians off the streets. 🧵
Federal agents line up in front of community members at the scene where federal agents fatally shot a man while trying to detain him, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S., January 24, 2026.

REUTERS/Tim Evans
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026
NEW: Food banks across America are being overwhelmed by surging demand. Scott MacFarlane went inside to see the crisis firsthand. Here’s what he found:
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“They don’t understand the scale of the hunger!”- An unfolding crisis at the nation’s food banks
Weeks before the midterm elections, the cost crisis is hammering food pantries in red and blue states
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Austin, Texas
COWARD ICE
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 23/09/2026
EIon Musk’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $984B Jeff Bezos’s Wealth 2009: $6B 2026: $370B Mark Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $256B Federal Minimum Wage 2009: $7.25 2023: $7.25 Billionaire tax rate: 8.2% Worker tax rate: 13% Pay workers. Tax & Abolish Billionaires. Save our economy & country.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Related, but not mentioned in the NYT article linked above: people aged 50 and older are now the fastest-growing group experiencing homelessness in America.
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Seniors Are The Fastest-Growing Group Experiencing Homelessness. Why? : 1A
People aged 50 and older have grown from about 10 percent of the homeless population to half. That's according to the most recent federal data.The increase is being driven by a number of factors inclu...
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There is something so unbelievably bleak about an article that calmly walks readers through how to navigate being laid off after 50, losing your health insurance, and somehow surviving the years until Medicare. What a broken country.
nytimes.com
Laid Off After 50, and No Health Insurance? Here’s What to Consider. (Gift Article)
At best, older workers will struggle to find health insurance that bridges the years before they qualify for Medicare at age 65.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Damning new reporting on the breadth of Trump's deportation operation that follows up on two scoops from The Handbasket last year: the State Department's creation of the Office of Remigration and monetary agreements with "third countries" to accept refugees from elsewhere.
washingtonpost.com
How Trump turned a refugee bureau into a $410 million deportation operation
Inside the secret deals powering the president’s push to deport migrants to countries not their own.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 21/09/2026
This is a devastating read on what it was like to work in an ER in Palestine in November 2023.
conversationalist.org
24 Hours in the Emergency Room at Al-Shifa Hospital
A Palestinian nurse recounts an average shift at Gaza’s largest hospital in November 2023.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Christ, these people are monsters. Just monsters. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 21/09/2026
I've been feeling like everything is speeding up around us, and this is a really interesting look at the overwhelming chaos of modern children's media, which really does feel like it's acculturating kids to our larger fragmented, fast-paced, everything in bursts culture.
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It’s not just screen time: kids are bombarded by hectic media | Aeon Essays
It’s not just screen time: the problem with children’s media is that it has become relentlessly hectic, loud and bright
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
In the days of yore…
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Caroline V @carolinecaroline.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Great news, guys! We aren't actually poor. We just FEEL poor due to our lack of money, housing, food, and gas. Trump's Census Bureau says we're cool. www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/09/...
cnbc.com
Americans' incomes rose and poverty fell in 2025, Census Bureau says
The data comes as the Federal Reserve is considering interest-rate increases that could slow economic growth.
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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
States with strong unions have median household incomes $12,000 higher than weak-union states. Not union workers. All workers. Every household. This is what solidarity brings us.
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👻🕯️ Human Depleted Big Natural Resources🕯️👻 @dagnificent.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
people are quitting a tour in support of Palestine. it is pretty fucking important that this is framed properly: nobody is quitting a tour for Macklemore.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
HOLY SHIT - Tapper plays Johnson footage of GOP candidate Brandon Herrera describing moms as "cum trophies," mentions he called Nazi machine guns "the original ghetto blasters," & asks Johnson how he can support him. Mike says "he has run a very effective campaign ... that was his persona online"
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treekisser @treekisser.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.
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Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect
New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The ultra-wealthy keep trying to pit the rest of us against each other with scare tactics ("communists!" "men in the ladies room!!" "brown people!!!" "drag queens!!!!") to keep us from noticing that our real problem is THEM. They want us to fight *any* war—except a class war. Happy Labor Day.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I read this in horror: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
newyorker.com
The MAHA Custody Battle
A father wanted to vaccinate his children. Their mother didn’t. Then the kids got sick.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
Possibly the most American news of all time
local12.com
Prison inmates donate more than $4,000 to pay children's school lunch debt
Residents at the prison contributed $3,810 of their own money, while Kansas Department of Corrections employees added another $457.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie
Donald Trump posts an image on his Truth Social account. It shows a new uniform for US Space Force members, comprising of an all-black outfit with knee-high black leather boots, black cap, and minimalist looking suit.
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 15/10/2024
Image of a crow and a cat, the crow looking playful, the cat looking like it has had it with that clown:

animestump

they are a witch's two familiars and have never gotten along but one day the witch disappears and so they must go on a cross-country search in order to bring her home. along the way, the cat learns to loosen up while the crow gains worldly experience, and they both become better friends
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Shani 🫧 (Bluesky hates Palestinians) @mom4medicare4all.blacksky.app · 06/09/2026
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My Typical Day as a Teenager in the Box on Rikers Island
A magazine of Black politics and culture
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/09/2026
right now, the best hegseth can hope for is to be remembered as a staggeringly incompetent defense secretary who gutted military leadership, tried to reimpose segregation in the highest ranks, and led the military to its worst strategic defeat in at least a generation.
nytimes.com
The Battle to Save General Donahue From Hegseth’s Army Purge
Gen. Christopher T. Donahue’s vision for fighting future wars won him powerful supporters around the world. Could they save his career?
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