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Deborah

@dlowry.bsky.social
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Retired midwife, women's health proponent. Peace, justice, cooking, gardening.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h
Zelensky on bombing the Russian data centers: “It’s pretty clear where the bots were coming from.”
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 8h
Place: Dubai Date: New Year’s Eve 2024 Noteworthy because: Ken Paxton was partying “with two fugitives from U.S. justice and a woman who wasn’t his wife.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Exclusive | Ken Paxton Partied in Dubai With Fugitives Ahead of High-Stakes Texas Senate Race
Trump backed the scandal-plagued Paxton in one of the riskiest bets of the midterms
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Chicken WingDings 🇵🇸 @ebridget.bsky.social · 8h
Ms Rachel from the top ropes
From Ms Rachel's account on Threads, she writes, "CORECIVIC, a company that makes hundreds of millions locking up KIDS in immigration detention
has a PAC that's sending campaign checks to Senator Susan Collins of Maine.
Susan Collins chairs the Senate committee that writes ICE's budget.
ICE is CoreCivic's customer.
The company gets paid out of a budget she controls, and it pays into her campaign."
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 22h
Thank you 👏👇
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 10h
This morning, the federal government turned the full force of the Department of Homeland Security against a sitting member of Congress for the offense of disagreeing with the White House.

The path to citizenship should not be weaponized against anyone, including Rep. Ilhan Omar, a naturalized American who swore an oath to this country — the same one that I took.

The promise of citizenship should not be contingent on someone agreeing with the federal government.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20h
An important bit of immigration law which is relevant here; there is already a waiver process — Section 212(k) of the INA — by which immigrants who obtain status through fraud that they didn't know about can avoid consequences like losing a green card. So this is *even weaker* than it already seems.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h
“Political intimidation” We are very far off the cliff 🇺🇸
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20h
POLITICAL RETRIBUTION Federal agents raided Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s DC home this morning. A sitting member of Congress who has repeatedly been targeted by Trump, now facing a federal investigation over immigration paperwork her father completed when she was a child. A CHILD.
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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Secret prisons. ✔️
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The world the tech bros are building. A Virginia data center ran backup diesel generators full blast for 24 hours, creating a giant cloud of toxic smoke that choked its human neighbors. The government claimed there was nothing they could do. www.gadgetreview.com/virginia-dat...
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Virginia Data Center Ran Diesel Generators for 24 Hours. Residents Fled Their Homes
Virginia data center diesel generators ran nearly 24 hours during a Code Red alert, leaving neighbors with no regulatory recourse under current state permits.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026
Way too many people are responding to this saying that it would involve paying musk money, when the option of seizing all his assets after prosecuting him for fraud and election interference and his many many other alleged and sometimes almost seemingly admitted crimes is like… right there.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Pete needs to be removed without hesitation.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In case you hadn't been following this disturbing sequence of events, here's a recap: RFK Jr wanted to fund a randomized trial, run by Danes, involving newborn babies in Guinea-Bissau Ethicists across the world, including in Nigeria, Cameroon, & Ethiopia, were horrified: it's an unethical study
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Stephen "Miller did not want the facilities that were comfortable. He did not want facilities that were humane. We were told point-blank that that was not what the administration wanted." www.npr.org/2026/10/08/n...
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ICE has quietly used this warehouse as a detention facility all summer, neighbors say
Throughout the summer, rumors have been bubbling in North New Jersey that ICE has quietly been using a warehouse as a detention center. NPR investigated.
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CUDDY @ptcontagion.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Because of federal rules…Children covered by Medicaid won't be able to access vaccines…No longer recommended by the federal government…Even as children with private insurance will… RFK Jr's Relentless Anti-Vax Push Will Disproportionately Hurt Children on Medicaid.
Photo of RFKJR with the following statement: 

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Talking Points Memo 
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Because of federal rules, children covered by Medicaid won't be able to access vaccines that are no longer recommended by the federal government, even as children with private insurance will.
RFK Jr's Relentless Anti-Vax Push Will Disproportionately Hurt Children on Medicaid
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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 05/10/2026
If you’re arresting a Jewish 94-year-old human rights lawyer for peacefully protesting, you’re on the wrong side of history. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10...
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‘I’m rather proud’: Barrister, 94, arrested for supporting Palestine Action
Margaret Owen OBE, a celebrated human rights lawyer and friend of Ed Miliband’s late mother, talks to Al Jazeera.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over two decades The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.
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Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over 2 decades
The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.
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Brett Shaw @brettshaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Nothing to see here, just a national *news* station airing a segment where they do open anti-Muslim racism and laugh about beating the shit out of a Democratic senate candidate
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 02/10/2026
By connecting the dots between the airlines and their investors, and by looking for more ways to leverage local government’s monetary powers, maybe the public can ground ICE flights one plane at a time, up until the day they can be abolished altogether. buff.ly/HeP2y4l
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The City That Brought Down an ICE Airline - The American Prospect
In Chicago, progressive alderpeople held up a city contract until a private equity firm was forced to dispatch Omni Air International, protecting thousands of immigrants from deportation.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 04/10/2026
There are new and specific numbers in this story, so it’s worth reading. I continue to resent the lack of credit to Nick Schwellenbach at @pogo.org, Dan Friedman at @motherjones.com, and me, who have previously reported every other aspect of this story, including that the sale prices were very high.
Kristi Noem's Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She
Left
The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Endless corruption.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
All these people gleefully smiling and clapping like he just declared it was national cake and ice cream day or something. Fuck every one of these sadistic sacks of shit. I wish them nothing but abject misery for the rest of their lives.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
From the article: “The thing we don't hear about enough, in my opinion, is the lives and humanity of pregnant people.” 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 In Judaism, the fetus is regarded as a part of the pregnant person's body until birth. Because whose life matters most is the one already born.
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Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 27/09/2026
If you read the Slutcon website, it features a lot of workshops that are simply PUA shit with a gloss of respectability over it by gleen of the money involved and the fact women are teaching it.
Screenshot of three text boxes in a row.

The first says: Starting Out

No idea what's going on? Bad with ladies? Want basic practice? This track assumes nothing.

    Flirting fundamentals
    Low-stakes practice rounds
    Approaching without panicking
    Zero assumed experience

The second: Leveling Up

You know your way around and you've got some experience - now you want to get a lot better.

    Sharpening conversation and escalation
    Practice with real-time feedback
    Calibration and timing
    Fixing your sticking points

The Third: Gain Mastery

You're sexually fluent but looking for the finishing touch. Get the niche knowledge and rare feedback required for true expertise.

    Rapid-iteration practice reps
    Detailed feedback from flirt partners
    Advanced reads and edge cases
    Live analysis of what you're doing
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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
like it's disturbing the degree to which so much of our news and politics is formed by whatever is happening on X and yet you have women openly being like "you can not get ahead in Silicon Valley if you are not willing to be sexually assaulted" and no one in power seems to think it's a big deal?
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Can’t believe our tax dollars are being used for political ads. The White House is now airing a taxpayer-funded ad during commercial breaks on Fox News. The 30-second spot has all the markings of a campaign ad, except the disclaimer at the bottom says: “Paid for by the U.S. Government.”
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"The speakers described the last moments of their loved ones. They also spoke to what they called 'dual assassinations' – how, after the killings, [DHS] and the Trump administration worked to smear the victims ... Democratic oversight of the agency[ ]will not be sufficient to rein in ICE."
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/09/2026
Idea: no corporate welfare, subsidies, or government contracts for corporations whose employees need to rely on government assistance because of low wages.
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McKMango - 🔵 @mckmango.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As I watched this, I was taken aback by the semantic game that Galloway plays as some kind of 'get out of jail card' for Netanyahu & the whole blood thirsty Likud party. This legal parsing doesn't do a damn thing to me except buttress the point made by Sayed. Not genocide but genocidal? Ok then. 🫤
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Copper Sturgeon 🇺🇸🇵🇹🪶🇵🇭 🏴‍☠️🎨💾🗿🫚 @tantzu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
There is obvious corruption in these!
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 21/09/2026
Our new poll of 683 Democratic voters asked to what extent they agree or disagree with the statement "The United States would be a better country if it accepted more immigrants from many different backgrounds." Strongly agree or somewhat agree: 68% Strongly disagree or somewhat disagree: 8%
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What Are Democrats Thinking?
Democratic voters want to end the filibuster, nationalize artificial intelligence, and prosecute every Trump toady.
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Is this fool actually announcing to the world, the location of America’s munitions and drones? He may as well just put a target on the damn thing.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Netanyahu is a war criminal and his government has committed genocide in Gaza. Why the hell is Trump trying to send him $2.8 billion worth of bombs?
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Everyone should watch this from @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social.
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How modern fascism works | End Times Fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
YouTube video by Naomi Klein
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"My department has also dispatched three of our finest schooners to explore the part of our maps that say 'here be dragons.' We vow to get to the bottom of this mystery."
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🚨 Warning: South Carolina removed 1.2M voters from the rolls for the Nov. Elections! Check your voter’s registration NOW: scvotes.gov www.aclusc.org/press-releas...
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New analysis: South Carolina removed 1.2 million voters from the rolls since 2022 - ACLU of South Carolina
Steepest declines hit counties with the largest Black and Brown populations. Weeks remain before the state's Oct. 2 registration deadline.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I was asked how I would protect Michigan communities from data centers. Here’s my plan:
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Tom Jones @earl2.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Texas landowners sue federal government over border wall plans www.npr.org/2026/09/14/n...
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Texas landowners sue federal government over border wall plans
A lawsuit filed Monday takes aim at federal agencies' use of waivers to expedite construction of a wall along the border with Mexico and claims that landowner's constitutional rights are being violate...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A data center in New Jersey spilled 5,000 gallons of diesel fuel into a local creek, putting the area’s entire river system at risk. Is it any wonder nearly 70 percent of Americans don’t want a data center in their community?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A minor detail is missing from the headline.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Samuel Alito flew flags used by insurrectionists. Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election. Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the Jan 6 plot. Both ruled in favor of Trump's mail-in ballot sabotage. I don't think I'll ever get over this.
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Deborah @dlowry.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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US ‘super-emitters’ of planet heating methane identified by satellite analysis
Energy Transfer, whose CEO is a major Trump donor, named as biggest single methane producer in new rankings
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/09/2026
Mamdani: "New York City is leading a coalition of city and counties to sue the federal government for the gross illegality of their new public charge rule, and the irreparable damage that it will cause."
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Congressman Greg Landsman @repgreglandsman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Haitians living legally in Ohio have built families, careers, and churches here. Ending their protections and treating them like criminals serves neither justice nor humanity.
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Don't send Ohio's Haitian neighbors 'back to hell' | Opinion
Opinion: Haitians found safety in Ohio. America shouldn't send them back.
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Such a great group of friends 🤣 giving each other the ugly pants prank Hilarious 😂 and Fun
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The War on Terror began 25 years ago today, when Congress passed the post-9/11 Authorization for Use of Military Force. Only one member of Congress had the courage and foresight to oppose this blank check for forever wars: Barbara Lee.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
May I remind everyone that there is currently NO cure for rabies. May I also remind everyone there is absolutely NO scientific proof connecting ANY vaccine that we produce today with autism. This is true regarding vaccination in both humans AND in dogs. Vaccinate your pets please.
Worries about vaccination rates in dogs
As rabies seems to be spreading more in wildlife, veterinarians are especially worried about vaccine hesitancy spreading among pet owners, a dangerous trend that could lead to more dogs - and their owners
- becoming infected. A 2023 study published in the journal Vaccine found in nationally representative
sample of Americans that nearly 40% believed canine vaccines were unsafe and 37% believed that vaccines could lead their dogs to develop cognitive issues, such as autism.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 15/09/2026
🚨IT BEGINS: Costco is now rationing Kirkland motor oil. A 10-quart pack that once cost as little as $30 is now nearly $58, and members are limited to two every seven days due to the impacts of the Iran War.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is a big deal and it deserves a lot more attention. A federal whistleblower is sounding the alarm about a nationwide DHS operation called the “Unlawful Voter Initiative.” According to the disclosure, hundreds of employees at U.S. Citizenship and
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