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Not in the mood for any of this. You can find me under a blanket with some cheese and a cat (or 3).

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Cats and Cheese @cgeoffroyi.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
CA is also losing 2000 or so public health jobs from one single line item (SNAP-Ed) cut by H.R. 1, along with deep tires to community programs and ultimately ripple effects in agriculture, food retail, and other industries. Other states, too, I just can't speak to their numbers.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
“‘They’re blowing right through separation of church & state,’ said Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate & Extremism. ‘They have no respect for other faiths. And in fact, that includes a lot of Christians who don’t agree w/ this far-right version of Christianity.’” 9/7/25 …1/
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Texas attorney general wants students to pray in school – unless they’re Muslim
Ken Paxton, who is running for US Senate, is urging schools to say the Lord’s Prayer as a Republican law goes into effect
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 06/09/2025
🚨 UPDATE on the current COVID vaccine access situation in the US. Please note that this is based on state laws but different things may be happening on the ground, and some pharmacies are defaulting to federal guidelines instead of state laws.
Map of COVID vaccine availability by state
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
The Rosegarden CLUB? He turned the People's House into a private CLUB? He literally privatized a public good. He stole our house. Do you understand? This is no different than if he seized the Grand Canyon & put it behind a velvet rope, for members only. He's a fucking thief & a vandal to boot.
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Alex Aronson @alexaronson.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
White Christian Taliban shit right here. Time to stop tiptoeing around it. These people are fanatics pursuing a Holy War. It’s a critical piece of the threat assessment that should inform our strategies. (Psst. They’re not just going to hand back power.)
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Remember when one of the wealthiest humans on Earth and proud South African colonizer helped get Trump elected; then was appointed to a made-up White House position; then stole all of our personal and banking information; then quit and returned to the private sector? That really happened.
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Cats and Cheese @cgeoffroyi.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
I'm so proud of these SNAP-Ed partners for their dedication and hard work to create healthy environments for children across California. Fantastic job! 🍎⛹🏻‍♀️🎖️
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
“Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
ICYMI ICE Poster Boy Dean Cain only made it one week And unlike hard-working Brown People, he will get short-term disability until Republicans eliminate that ICE must be stopped and investigated Call Your Representatives 202 224-3121
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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Goose chasing meme. Goose squinting and saying "Helping people do what, OpenAI?" And then running after a guy yelling "HELPING PEOPLE DO WHAT?"
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Placer County Democrats @placerdems.org · 24/08/2025
Placer County, this is our moment. Prop. 50 is how California fights back. While MAGA Republicans in Texas redraw maps to rig the 2026 election, Prop. 50 gives California the power to respond. It’s temporary. It’s targeted. And it’s how we protect democracy when others try to dismantle it.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Tell me the president doesn’t understand the economy without telling me the president doesn’t understand the economy.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump administration says grants for Hispanic-serving colleges are unconstitutional and it won't defend them in court.
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Food Research & Action Center @fracposts.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
SNAP helps families get back on their feet and keeps dollars flowing to grocery stores, corner markets, and farmers' markets. Cutting it hurts everyone. #SNAPmatters
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
"We sign this declaration in our own personal capacities, on our personal time, and without the use of government equipment, as protected by our First Amendment rights..." www.savehhs.org
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Insider Wire @insiderwire.com · 17/08/2025
BREAKING: Indiana Gov. Mike Braun said Loving v. Virginia—legalizing interracial marriage—should have been left to individual states. That’s not misunderstanding, it’s blatant racism. Now he’s “walking it back.” We see your game, Gov. Watch this space, don’t let anyone forget.
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Tens of millions of people have found the reservoirs of hope dangerously low in recent weeks, and they can't seem to shake the profound sense of dread hovering always in the periphery of their daily life. Yes, this is our collective Great Depression. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/how-to-men...
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How to Mentally Survive America's New Great Depression
This morning was a rude awakening.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Los Angeles school district police, staff and volunteers will form protective perimeters around at least 100 schools to help ensure safe passage of children — an announcement that came on a day that immigration agents drew their guns on a student with disabilities. www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Agents detain student at gunpoint near school; safe zones to be expanded around LAUSD campuses
Amid immigration enforcement, city and school officials will set up "safe zones" monitored by LAPD and community volunteers to protect undocumented families when school resumes at LAUSD.
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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Telling disabled people to formally complain every time they're faced with inaccessibility or ableism, is a pretty privileged and ignorant suggestion. We would constantly be complaining, and the processes are so inaccessible themselves, we don't have the energy or capacity.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 09/08/2025
Tonight, please spare a thought to all our scientists and public health workers who have dedicated their careers to saving millions of lives. Despite their amazing work they are constantly threatened due to politicization and the unfettered spread of misinformation. It should not be like this 💔
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abcdef 🕶️ @onecaliberal.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
The Supreme Court just said disabled people don’t have the right to get help voting. How many won’t be able to vote.
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
It’s impossible to make sense of mothers who’ve witnessed him being found liable for sexual assault, watched him gleefully take away women’s autonomy, and work tirelessly to prevent the release of the Epstein files—and who’ve chosen to double down. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/i-dont-und...
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I Don't Understand Women Who Support Donald Trump
Yesterday, a MAGA Republican mocked me online for demanding the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, laughing at me through condescending yellow emojis for being “desperate,” and assuring me that I a...
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 29/07/2025
It’s deliberate
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From fringe to federal: The rise of eugenicist thinking in US policy
Trump’s inner circle is mainstreaming ideas that threaten the disabled, the elderly and the poor.
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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Plain language is communication that your audience can understand the first time they hear or read it. This varies by audience, of course. What is common vocabulary for accountants won't necessarily be common for chemists, clergy, or engineers. Know your audience.
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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
HR: We want you to know that it's okay to struggle with a disability ME: Okay HR: But, like, don't.
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God @thegodshow.com · 27/07/2025
Why is it so hard for so many people to condemn pedophilia and/or genocide?
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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
July 26, 2025 Disability activists take over Trump Tower to demonstrate against the Trump administration’s cuts to Medicaid on the 35th anniversary of the Americans withdrawal Disabilities Act. We refuse to allow our rights to be taken away!
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25/07/2025
This is an executive order that lays the groundwork for sending homeless people and people with mental illness to concentration camps to be "civilly committed." It was never going to stop with immigrants. This is horrifying beyond words. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and
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Congresswoman Gwen Moore @repgwenmoore.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Found in House Republican conference: 219 able-bodied adults who refuse to work.
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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
If you have a hashtag with multiple words, write the hashtag in #PascalCase or #camelCase to help users of screen readers. That helps the screen reader to read out the words out individually, rather than trying to read them in one long word.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 22/07/2025
FDA held a “hearing” on antidepressants today. Here’s one of their slides. Link to the entire meeting is below. Remember RFKJ’S MAHA report where he said antidepressants are need to go? He wasn’t kidding. Call your electeds and demand RFKJs resignation before he causes even more damage. He must go.
Prof Joanna Moncrieff, University College London 

FDA hearing, 21st July 2024 

Antidepressants do not correct a chemical imbalance or any other underlying biologic abnormality 
Antidepressants do not work-are barely distinguishable from a placebo in clinical trials 
They disrupt normal brain chemistry causing a variety of harmful effects 
Fertility is impaired through sexual dysfunction (which can be persistent) and sperm impairment 
Other effects include: miscarriage, premature delivery, post-natal hemorrhage, feotal malformations, withdrawal symptoms in newborns (30%) and persistent pulmonary hypertension 
These effects are independent of the effects of depression (Su et al, 2023) 
Effects on post-natal development-increased incidence of autism and ADHDA in children (e.g. Dragioti etal, 2019) 
Conclusion: Antidepressants chemically disrupt our emotions, sexuality and reproductive health in ways that are poorly understood. Advice and research on these drugs is skewed by the pharmaceutical industry marketing and the professional interest to defend antidepressants
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
It’s not just the plane rides: - Trump and Epstein were close friends for many years - Epstein met some of his victims through Trump - Trump met Melania through Epstein - Trump threw at least one party for Epstein - At least one Epstein victim suggested the FBI investigate Trump
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 21/07/2025
Ahhhhhh the internet has not failed us this weekend. Thank you to all these greats meme wizards who bring our savage pettiness to life. *cackling We'll be back to our regularly scheduled adult-ing/science-ing tomorrow!
A picture of Drump's kankles with Ronald McDonald saying "I did that"Stephen Colbert dressed as Obi Wan Kenobi saying "If you strike me down I will become more powerful than you could possible imagine"Drumpf says "Seeya later alligator" and a crocodile saying "at your trial, pedophile".
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Former Sports Illustrated model Stacey Williams says Donald Trump groped her at Trump Tower in front of Jeffrey Epstein: “I was dating Jeffery, he was always talking about Donald, he was his bestie…Trump’s hands were all over me. They were on my breast, on my butt…”
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God @thegodshow.com · 20/07/2025
MAGA: “You know Bill Clinton is on that list too!”

DEM: “hehehe yeah release the list!!!”
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Fired but Fighting (National Public Health Coalition) @firedbutfighting.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Our colleague created a Substack dedicated to stories of public health workers, The Public Health Workforce is Not OK. Go read a story or two and tell a friend about them. Maybe submit your own story! More stories coming. Subscribe here: phworkforceok.substack.com
An illustration of a laptop with emails and a newsletter. Above it, it says "Read stories from public health professionals."
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Jackie Kashian @jackiekashian.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Trump says 200 small countries will get the 10% tariff. There are only 195 countries in the entire world.🙄
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 16/07/2025
Don't forget, on Wednesdays we wear... GREEN! 🚨ATTENTION CDC + ALLIES🚨 We have power together. To see our strength and build community, please wear something 💚green💚 to work on WEDNESDAY to show solidarity and readiness to defend public health. Spread the word! #spreadcouragenotcooties #wearthecolor
A scene from Mean Girls of the Plastics wearing pink, but now the whole frame has a green tint. Overlaid text: On Wednesdays we wear green
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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 14/07/2025
The new week is upon us. We are 174 days into this presidency. We are 12% of the way in. We have survived some of the most absurd, ill conceived, criminal, & inhumane acts of any Presidential administration in US history. We have stood firm. We have no king. We have survived. We are the people.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Ex-farm worker here. We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing. Not true AT ALL. Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are. The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour. At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
UPDATE: he’s being booed now. Loudly. By so many people security and his goon squad can’t shut it down. Many, many fuck yous. Good.
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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
So there it is. They finally managed to kill someone in one of their Rambo cosplay events. Stephen Miller is responsible for this needless death. Theses thugs who in many cases were able to get legit police jobs think they’re doing a bin Laden compound raid or something.
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Save SNAP-Ed @savesnaped.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
PLEASE SHARE! The FY26 appropriations process is happening. It offers an opportunity to restore or fund SNAP-Ed programming, communicating with your Senators and Representatives still matters! The language is about Michigan but you can modify it www.votervoice.net/mobile/MFF/C... #SNAP-Ed #SNAP
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Last Minute Strategies to Save SNAP-Ed
Hello, There is an opportunity to restore SNAP-Ed funding through the FY 2026 appropriations process. It remains important that your Representatives and Senators hear how vital nutrition edu...
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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 10/07/2025
I know you’re new to Congress, Mr. Fine, but we don’t call our colleagues terrorists here. It just makes you look idiotic. At a time when MN Democrats have been targeted for assassination by a right-wing extremist, your rhetoric is seriously dangerous. Apologize now.
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