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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, we remember the six million Jewish people murdered by the Nazis, as well as countless other victims. We honor their lives by rejecting the evils of antisemitism, dehumanization, and authoritarian violence wherever they appear. Never again means never again for anyone.

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 22/02/2025

Came here for snow geese, had the best marsh wren shoot of my life. A half a dozen birds who didn't get the memo they aren't suppose to perch up and scream at my car 15 feet away. Giving up on the snow geese to find some short eared owls. It's a bad idea, but it's not the worst idea I've ever had 🪶

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Just a reminder that Germany was the center of scientific progress until the Nazis suppressed, drove away, or killed all the non-Nazi scientists.

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Atlas Shvitzed @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Like, for inspiration?

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Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Thank you, DOGE, for clearly visualizing what incredible value the American people get from their national parks. 17,700 permanent employees making an average of $81,000 a year serving 325 million visitors annually. Is there a better value in the entire federal government?

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

This is a room where we turn very modest salaries and budgets (and lots of coffee) into new knowledge, life-saving innovations, and technology that feeds business growth. It's literally the loom that spins hay into gold but these numpties are suddenly worried about the cost of hay.

A research lab from Northwestern, chosen because it's generic and sort of zoomed out. Three scientists are visible in lab coats, and there are benches and shelving, with glass along one wall showing another high-rise building nearby. Overhead fluorescents provide light.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Not to get too intense about everything going on but it is really an ideology of death run by evil skeleton people who drink from a dread altar of blood

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Margot Zarin-Pass @doctorz.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Good things today Banana pancakes w the kids I learned some cool things today that will help me take better care of patients Babysitter cleaned because “I could tell you needed it” 😂 I saw this comic which made me smile.

4 pane comic strip by Mr Lovenstein dot com that shows a scene at a bug high school reunion. “I became a moth!” WOW! “I became a butterfly!” WOW! What about you, worm? “I accepted myself for who I am” which is greeted w equal enthusiasm. So sweet.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 05/02/2025

Guy On Doomed Planet Mostly Concerned With Skin Color Of People In Movies theonion.com/guy-on-...

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🔫🎃Scott Martian Invaders 🎃🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 05/02/2025

Oh so everyone who works for the Nazi Propaganda Factory is a Nazi?

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

One day of real protests outside and the people who were like "fuck you peasants we owe you no explanations" are now out there with (probably false) cya clarifications. Pressure works. Keep it up. They answer to the people, it is never ever the other way around. www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/p...

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Treasury says Musk’s DOGE has not rejected payments in first attempt to clarify access granted to critical system | CNN Politics

The Treasury Department said Elon Musk aides detailed to the agency have “read-only” access to its sensitive $5 trillion US payments system and that no payments have been suspended or rejected as part...

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Margot Zarin-Pass @doctorz.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

My new state senator is doing exactly what he said he would prioritize. Love it, @doronclark.bsky.social

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

The first thing Trump & Musk did was attempt to freeze payments to woke trans marxist grants which turned out to be Medicaid, Meals on Wheels, and police departments. So, no, this isn't Genius Musk figuring out something nobody understood, it's a bratty child pulling wires in a server room.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

“As Henry Ford Attacks Judeo-Bolshevism, Some Detect A Slight Tinge of Antisemitism”

Headline: “As Trump Attacks Diversity, A Racist Undercurrent Surfaces”

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Margot Zarin-Pass @doctorz.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Good things: A mentee who comes from a background under represented in medicine got accepted to med school! A great night w one of my kids at a live show of his favorite podcast Walking the dog listening to headspace meditations This sunrise seen at work from parking garage.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

“DEI” is a capacious term that is meant to evoke tedious and ineffectual sexual harassment trainings but in practice is code for women or people of color having any dignity or prestige in public life.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Kennedy objecting to Elizabeth Warren's questions about the payments he's taken from lawsuits against drug companies. Wants him to commit to not taking those payments during his time at HHS. "You're making me sound like a shill." Well. Well!!!

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Margot Zarin-Pass @doctorz.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

This is the thing I find most maddening.

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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Messaging advice from @navigatorsurvey.bsky.social. TLDR: talk about things people depend on being taken away and how this benefits the billionaires, don't talk about spending or a pause or separation of powers.

When communicating on the Administration’s actions, it’s critically important that messengers clearly outline the human impacts of their latest move to enrich billionaires. Focus on the true victims of this decision - people who depend on programs - not on the process of “spending freezes/pauses.” This isn’t a “spending freeze,” this is a “cut to programs that people depend on.” Do not let this be a conversation about spending – make this about programs and their impact on real people.

DO: Call the Trump Administration Orders a cut to popular, impactful programs that people depend on.

don't: call the cuts a “spending pause” or “freeze”

Do: Make this about taking away things people depend on.

Don't: take this about refusing to fund programs.

DO: talk about the people impacted (e.g., seniors, long-term care, or families with disabled kids) by these programs (e.g., Medicaid).

Don't use technical jargon like “Federal grant freeze” or “OMB spending pause.” These are permanent spending cuts until proven otherwise.

Focus on real stories and impacts on real people as a result of this sweeping cut to key programs. Tangibility for voters is key.

Don't make the spending, alone, the virtue that you’re protecting.

Lay out the WHY. Trump is pulling your taxpayer dollars from the most vulnerable people in the country to give Billions to his billionaire friends through tax cuts.

Don't neglect to link these cuts back to a plan to redistribute taxpayer funds to Trump's billionaire friends.

When linking this to Trump, it's important to remind Americans that this is confirmation of the Project 2025 playbook that Trump promised he wouldn’t enact - he’s betraying people.

Don't highlight the cuts to “spend” instead of focusing on the real impact on people's lives.

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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I was to give a talk at a big US Attorney's Office next week abt the complicity of German lawyers in the creation of the Nazi state. Yesterday the Justice Department cancelled it. Irony is dead. I've got an op/ed on this I'm looking to place. Help appreciated. #LawSky #Skystorians #Holocaust

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Jennings: This salute trutherism is outrageous. Rampell: Do it right now on TV! If you think it’s a normal way to greet people, do it right now on TV. Why won’t you?!

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I've been analyzing the news, and I think several things are bad.

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Amber Ying 應緣 @amberying.com · 21/01/2025

Actions you can do that aren't protesting or organizing.

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geri katz @gerikatz.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

4+ years after the murder of George Floyd, continued patterns of discrimination and abuse by MPD, and a mayor who is unwilling to do anything about it = time for a new mayor. Fantastic op-ed by Jim Davnie (no paywall) www.startribune.com/doj-consent-...

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DOJ consent decree will not save us

The fundamentals of the policing situation in Minneapolis are that the mayor has the ultimate authority and that we need a new mayor.

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Personally, as both a Jewish person and as a journalist I feel duty bound to acknowledge that Israel is clearly engaged in ethnic cleansing in Gaza. We would not be quibbling over that if a country less allied with America was engaged in the same conduct.

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

May we rage when we must and rest when we can. May we make the peace we so desperately need. May we turn our hands, in all things, to the justice that peace requires. The only liberation is a shared liberation. May we have courage sufficient to build it. Shabbat shalom & Hanukkah sameach ❤️

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Margot Zarin-Pass @doctorz.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

I got to meet w Sen Dziedzic a few times and I really admired the questions she asked on issues outside her expertise. Incisive and pragmatic.

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Margot Zarin-Pass @doctorz.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

It’s sunny and suddenly I do not hate everything

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Margot Zarin-Pass @doctorz.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

I am a pediatrician. I served as one of the medical directors for this camp. I LOVE that HIV in kids is rare. But that does not make this a feel good story. This camp had started weeks dedicated to LGBTQ kids. These were LIFE SAVING sessions. Camp is closing because of $. It’s a huge loss.

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Margot Zarin-Pass @doctorz.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

That is NOT why this camp is closing. Please stop spreading this ridiculous story. HIV in youth is low, which IS great. But there was 1 week per year for housing insecure kids and 4 weeks per year for LGBTQ kids. There just isn’t enough $ to support a camp that mostly served queer kids.

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Margot Zarin-Pass @doctorz.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

At some point I followed a whole starter pack of bird photographers (I am not really into birds or photography) and it’s so great to get these little bursts of joy on my feed.

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Adam H Johnson @ahjohnson.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

In addition to other sinister motives, attacks on USPS are because it’s a pillar of the black middle class and black labor. As of 2020 postal workers have the highest avg annual wage ($52K) and the highest hourly wage ($25) among the 10 occupations with the heaviest representation of Black workers.

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Sunsette / Cynthia Skye @sunderedmarches.com · 19/12/2024

I think scientists could spend an eternity working out the ultimate cause of why Musk is such a loser. Me, I think he's actually a paranormal spirit forged of all the shards of teenage nerd psyches that were discarded as we underwent character growth, coalesced into one preternaturally pathetic dick

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Colin @yesitscolin.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

*The mourners gather around the makeshift memorial, dabbing their eyes and choking back sobs* “He had so much more coverage to refuse. So many more claims to deny. All those exorbitant premiums he’ll… he’ll never get to charge again! 😭😭😭

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