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Dr T

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Clinical Psychologist, CBT for Anxiety/OCD; Professor Emeritus, Sacred Heart U, Books, Nature, Birds, Cats, Politics. Movies, Theater.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/08/2026
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: An attorney says his client suffered a brain bleed and traumatic brain injury after a violent ICE apprehension, then woke up in a hospital with no memory of what happened. His family didn't know where he was for days. Now his lawyer is demanding answers.
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Lawyer Says ICE Detainee Suffered Brain Bleed After Violent Apprehension, Was Guarded by Agents Instead of Given Private Medical Care
MeidasTouch has obtained a detailed narrative from the attorney representing Jose Mejia Hernandez, describing a violent apprehension by immigration
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🦋 Still Standing 🦋 @imstillstanding.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Well…isn’t this a little gem. @jenpsaki.bsky.social did you know about this?
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 18/07/2026
The Interior Department has canceled a rule meant to protect plants and animals that are determined to be threatened with extinction, the latest step by the Trump administration to dismantle key provisions of the landmark Endangered Species Act at the behest of industry. to.pbs.org/4f5A17a
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U.S. cancels automatic protections for imperiled animals as critics warn of extinctions
Instead of receiving automatic protections, imperiled species will need individualized protection plans once they are added to the threatened species list.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
J.D. VANCE: “Manufacturing jobs are increasing at a large number.” REALITY: They’ve declined since Trump took office, largely because of his tariffs. (Nobody pushed back on this)
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/05/2026
BREAKING: A federal judge has temporarily blocked any further action involving Trump’s $1.776 billion fund for fraudsters and insurrectionists, preserving the status quo while litigation moves forward.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/05/2026
Scientists are wary of glyphosate. MAHA loathes it. And our yearlong investigation shows California is spraying it everywhere.
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We are bombarding America’s forests with Roundup
Scientists are wary of glyphosate. MAHA loathes it. And our investigation shows California is spraying it everywhere.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 23/05/2026
The Sacramento Mountains checkerspot butterfly hasn’t been seen in the wild since 2022. The caterpillar was the last individual in human care.
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A Very Lonely Caterpillar, Possibly the Last of Its Kind, Has Died
The Sacramento Mountains checkerspot butterfly hasn’t been seen in the wild since 2022. The caterpillar was the last individual in human care.
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George The Station Cat @george-station-cat.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Good morning & welcome to #Caturday 🧡 Sometimes bad moods come from a hundred tiny things piling up, not one big thing. Be gentle with yourself today. A little kindness, laughter, rest, or comfort can help things feel lighter again 🐾
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 23/05/2026
The American-led negotiations in Ukraine prolonged the war by encouraging Putin. The Russians dangled ludicrous business"deals" in front of Witkoff and Kushner who were too gullible to understand that they were being manipulated. Good to hear the US has abandoned this failed policy.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
These stories are just going to keep coming.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Ex congressman Jim Cooper chief of staff Lisa Quigley and data analyst david manasco👇🏽are both among those saying the new map stripping Memphis of representation actually has potentially put 4-5 TN districts within range… if Dems really turn out and vote. 👀
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Trump authorized more than $8.6 billion in emergency arms sales to partners in the Middle East. Yet we don't have the money to fund medicare& Medicaid www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/w...
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U.S. Fast-Tracks Arms Deals Valued at $8.6 Billion to Mideast Partners
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 03/04/2026
The U.S. Forest Service is closing 57 of its 77 research facilities in 31 states under a reorganization plan announced this week, threatening science that looked at how wildfires, drought, pests and global warming are putting pressure on forests.
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Forest Service Will Close Research Stations That Study Wildfire Risk
Scientists say their work on fires and climate change could be lost as the agency moves its headquarters to Utah from Washington and shuts 57 research stations.
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Herman Lambers @herman61.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Think about that..
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
“[Pete Hegseth’s Chief of Staff] Buria told [Army Secretary] Driscoll that President Trump would not want to stand next to a Black female officer at military events.” Not shocked, not surprised. The racism is a feature, not a bug, with these lowlifes. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...
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Hegseth Strikes Two Black and Two Female Officers From Promotion List
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Joe "I'm a Zeppo Marxist" Bacon @josephebacon.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
My son was killed in Dumbya's illegal and immoral war. Seeing this perverted pedophile cashing in using pictures of what he calls "suckers and losers" makes me 🤮. This is why I threw that useless gold star in the trash the night that traitor was elected in 2016.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Like clockwork.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 01/03/2026
Reminder: The commerce secretary apparently still hasn’t come clean on his connection with Epstein.
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New details from Epstein files reveal Lutnick had years-long business tie with sex offender
The commerce secretary apparently still hasn't come clean on his connection with Epstein.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/02/2026
The Trump administration announced on Wednesday that the federal government would withhold $259 million in Medicaid funds to Minnesota, the latest effort by the federal government to pull funding from Democratic-led states as President Trump rails against a major welfare fraud scandal there.
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Trump Administration Withholds $259 Million in Medicaid Funds From Minnesota
Vice President JD Vance said that the Trump administration had been forced to “turn the screws on” Minnesota so the state would respond to allegations of fraud.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 26/02/2026
Leaked documents show Meta cracking down on access to abortion information
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Leaked documents show Meta cracking down on access to abortion information
Its AI chatbot won't discuss the subject with teens—even as Meta fights claims it exposed kids to actual harm.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/02/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Under President Trump, the FTC and FCC are “engaged in a hostile takeover of the marketplace of ideas,” writes the editorial board.
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Opinion | Trump Is Turning the F.C.C. and F.T.C. Against Free Expression
Trump appointees have transformed the F.T.C. and F.C.C. into instruments of ideological enforcement.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 24/02/2026
The episode deepened questions about Kash Patel's personal travels, a persistent storyline from the first year of his tenure not only because of their frequency but also because he had chastised his predecessor, Chris Wray, for his use of the FBI plane. to.pbs.org/4u7tY7E
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Patel's appearance at U.S. men's hockey celebration renews scrutiny of FBI director's travels
The episode deepened questions about Patel's personal travels, a persistent storyline from the first year of his tenure not only because of their frequency but also because he had chastised his predec...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
"In the first year of Trump’s second term, economic growth fell to a 9-year low, and domestic job growth fell to a 16-year low..." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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New GDP data falls far short, shows 2025 ended with weak economic growth
In the first year of Trump’s second term, economic growth fell to a nine-year low, and domestic job growth fell to a 16-year low. It’s worth asking why.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/02/2026
“What I was feeling was death. And that moment changed the book certainly, changed my life, but changed the way I view the violence that I had been writing about."
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How being Black in America almost killed me
On this week’s “More To The Story,” Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Trymaine Lee discusses how a near-death experience forced him to reexamine the cost of violence on Black lives in America.
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Lil A 🐴💙 @lilatheofficial.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Elon's racist little post made me mad enough to write about it at CAMPAIGN TRAILS.
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Diversity Is Our Strength
This morning, Elon Musk – the world's richest man and a key ally to the president of the United States – posted the content below to the white nationalist chat room and CSAM emporium he owns There's ...
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Lil A 🐴💙 @lilatheofficial.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12/02/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “President Trump is unrivaled in American history in one respect: None of his predecessors ever cashed in on the presidency as he has,” our columnist @nickkristof.bsky.social writes.
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Opinion | Trump Is Best at Cashing In on the Presidency
New disclosures underscore that the White House is enveloped in a culture of corruption with no precedent in American history.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 08/02/2026
When a deer was stranded in the middle of a frozen lake in Washington state, firefighter Gavyn Gallagher held onto it from behind and both were pulled across the ice by a rescue team.
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Firefighter bear-hugs terrified deer on icy lake in daring rescue
“She was obviously very frightened and didn’t want anything to do with me,” said firefighter Gavyn Gallagher.
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JR Walt @jrwalt.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Extraordinary piece by @joycewhitevance.bsky.social.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 22/01/2026
A sign detailing the climate change risks facing Fort Sumter, the historical Civil War site on an island in South Carolina, has been removed following an executive order from President Trump. The directive to review plaques, films and other materials affects more than 400 other sites around the U.S.
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National Park Service Removes Sign on Climate Change From Fort Sumter
The historic site, on an island in South Carolina, could be inundated by rising seas in decades to come. A display on the threat has been removed.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 22/01/2026
US law requires 2/3 Senate approval for international treaties
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
How Trump used the presidency to enrich himself Trump has pocketed $1,408, 500,000 The Editorial Board www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | How Trump Has Used the Presidency to Make at Least $1.4 Billion
The president took an oath to serve the American people. Instead, he’s focused his second term on enriching himself and his family.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 20/01/2026
Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio said it “would be morally acceptable” for U.S. troops to disobey orders that violate their conscience, adding that he is “worried” about the military personnel in his pastoral care. wapo.st/4bJvFBb
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
“Two members of Elon Musk’s DOGE team working at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with an advocacy group seeking to ‘overturn election results in certain states.’” (reporting by @kyledcheney.bsky.social) www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
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Trump administration concedes DOGE team may have misused Social Security data
Some DOGE personnel had more access to data than previously acknowledged, according to a court filing.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 20/01/2026
How to travel abroad as the world's most toxic brand: American
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How to travel abroad as the world's most toxic brand: American
Could travel get hostile? How to deal—and why the long tail of Covid might be an American’s saving grace.
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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Archbishop Timothy Broglio, head of the Archdiocese for the U.S. military services, says Trump’s threat to seize Greenland by force “tarnishes the image of the United States”; troops can refuse “immoral” orders. The former USCCB president is seen as a church conservative (Gift link) wapo.st/45kMRJz
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‘Morally acceptable’ for U.S. troops to disobey orders, archbishop says
Timothy P. Broglio, who heads the Archdiocese for the U.S. Military Services, expressed concern at President Donald Trump’s threats to seize Greenland by force.
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
🚨"Coward chickensh*t f*ck!" -ICE protester screams at Trump's Border Chief Greg Bovino as he leads a SWARM of ICE/DHS agents rushing at unarmed Minneapolis protesters as snow falls (for no apparent reason). FULL VIDEO ⬇️
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
FFS! Just Release the Epstein Files!
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
I genuinely don't understood how America took the emoluments clause -- the common-sense bar on a president using his powers to line his own pockets, a law children can understand -- and just said, nah, that doesn't apply for our Very Special Boy.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 15/01/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “The death of Renee Good can be the impetus for finally closing a gaping hole in our constitutional protections,” the legal scholars Erwin Chemerinsky and Burt Neuborne write in a guest essay.
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Opinion | Renee Good’s Family Should Be Able to Sue the Officer Who Killed Her
An ICE killing in Minneapolis can be the impetus for finally closing a gaping hole in our constitutional protections.
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars. ictnews.org/news/north-c...
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Four Oglala detainees located, three still in ICE custody - ICT
The four Lakota detainees were reportedly sent to a former concentration camp used during the Dakota Wars
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13/01/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com "Texas A&M seems to have concluded that the safest way to handle the ideas contained in a classic text is to bury them," Greg Lukianoff writes. "This is no way to run an institution of higher education."
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Opinion | If You Can’t Teach Plato in a Philosophy Class, What Can You Teach?
An ancient classic is canceled in Texas.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/01/2026
WELKER: Has the president crossed the line of impeachment? CHRIS MURPHY: I have common sense. I know this president has committed 10 times more impeachable offenses in his second term as he did in his first. He's stealing from the American people.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 10/01/2026
I’ve spent my career studying how regimes justify the unjustifiable. So when a civilian driver is labeled a “domestic terrorist,” I know what that language is doing — building a permission structure for violence. Minneapolis isn’t just a tragedy. It’s a warning. I break it down in my new essay.
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A Killing, a Cover‑Up, and the Country We’re Becoming
What we tolerate now will define us.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Trump will push crime as an election issue in 2026. Read about what the most recent statistics *actually* show & the gap between reported patterns & perceptions. In a truth-free presidency, knowing the facts matters more than ever. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan... open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Lobbyists close to Trump say his going rate for a pardon is $1 million www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon
Even some of the president’s closest advisers have been surprised by a number of the recent series of pardons.
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
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