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Patrick Corcoran

@eastsacpatrick.bsky.social
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Dad, scientist, teacher, Sacramento fan. Friend to dogs, democracy, and Ukraine. Formerly, CSU Sacramento public health. 🐕‍🦺🚊💉🗳️🇺🇦

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Patrick Corcoran @eastsacpatrick.bsky.social · 4h
Our government is chaining little girls and deporting them, apparently alone.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
2/ Federal agents have detained at least 70 children and teens who are American citizens. Some were handcuffed or zip-tied. 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.
At least 70 U.S. citizen children detained, some of whom were handcuffed
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 13/09/2026
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger has called the state’s current system of felony disenfranchisement “a shameful relic of our Jim Crow past” and expressed support for a ballot measure this November that would end it.
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Virginia Governor Restores Voting Rights for Thousands With Past Felony Convictions - Bolts
This is the only state that was banning people convicted of any felony from voting for life. Virginians have an opportunity to end that system for good in November.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 10/09/2026
Multiple US military aircraft suffered damage in overnight strikes on Jordan air base, CBS says reut.rs/4xSnWJA
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Multiple US military aircraft suffered damage in overnight strikes on Jordan air base, CBS says
Multiple American military aircraft ​suffered damage in ‌strikes overnight on the ​Muwaffaq Salti ​Air Base in Jordan, ⁠CBS reporter ​Jennifer Jacobs said ​on Wednesday on X.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/07/2026
Mamdani: "As we mark 250 years ... we see the wealthiest country -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more ... we see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans"
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Patrick Corcoran @eastsacpatrick.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Happy Independence Day, USA! 🇺🇸 Bringing the blessing of liberty to ALL of our people, and seeking to create a “more perfect union” is the essence of patriotism.
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Andrew Gardiner @ajgardineresq.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
During a photo session with a young fan, Egyptian staff are assaulted by cops in Dallas. Egypt is Australia's opponent tomorrow morning. Aus squad include six players of African heritage plus another from Sri Lanka. This could easily have been us ... #Profiling #WorldCup #AustraliaEgypt #Socceroos
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Best Twitter riposte of the day.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 29/06/2026
When billionaires preach "abundance," remember that the richest man in the world killed the poorest children in the world just for the LOLs. And if these AI fascists get their way, most of us will join the starvation class. www.thenerdreich.com/a-silicon-va...
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Elon Musk's USAID Cuts: A Silicon Valley Genocide
World's First Trillionaire is Killing the World's Poorest Children
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
One year ago.
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Fabrizio Romano (MIRROR) @fabrizioromano.yopro20.com · 22/06/2026
🌎🇪🇬 OFFICIAL: Mo Salah wins Man of the Match Award for Egypt against New Zealand.
Image uploaded from tweet
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Retro Game Books 📚 @retrogamebooks.com · 03/06/2026
We used to have physical tickets for concerts. Now we simply just have to order online, get email, download obscure app, make an account, verify email, verify phone, agree to terms and service, complete tutorial, unsubscribe from emails, unsubscribe from texts, and delete the app. Simple!
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Patrick Corcoran @eastsacpatrick.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Cal is 4-1, time to rev up the #Calgorithm!
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
This ought to be engraved somewhere.
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Patrick Corcoran @eastsacpatrick.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
We are all clear on opsec
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 20/09/2025
Border Czar Tom Homan was caught by the FBI accepting bribes - on camera - to deliver government contracts in exchange for $50,000 in cash. Pam Bondi knew. Kash Patel knew. Emil Bove knew. And they made the investigation go away. A corrupt attempt to conceal brazen graft.
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Patrick Corcoran @eastsacpatrick.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Cuyahoga Valley National Park was amazing. Everything was very green in late summer, disorienting but gorgeous for this California Central Valley dweller. #Ohio
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Murder. He’s calling for the murder of people, a significant percentage of whom are veterans who served in our country’s military.
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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 02/09/2024
Happy Labor Day 🙂
2 shots from tv show Frasier. One shows Frasier holding a sign, "You're Fired." The other shows the producer of his radio show, Roz, holding a sign that says, "I'm union".
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 17/08/2025
I think the fact that the president can make up a bullshit pretext about crime, activate various states' national guard units and invade a major city with basically minimal pushback of any kind reflects very poorly on Americans generally
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 16/08/2025
The Trump-Putin Alaska summit went from what seemed to be an empty nothing-burger to a grotesque betrayal. @timmiller.bsky.social takes it on right here: www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-sha...
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Patrick Corcoran @eastsacpatrick.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
It’s a good time to bump up your Capitol Public Radio and KVIE donations, #Sacramento. Louisville Public Media is crowdfunding to make up their losses in the recission bill. They made it >90% there in two days! @npr.org @pbs.org
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Patrick Corcoran @eastsacpatrick.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
The kids are alright. #M4A
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Patrick Corcoran @eastsacpatrick.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Spent part of last weekend looking for Sandhill Cranes. A view from the Sierra Valley Preserve near Beckwourth.
Looking West from a viewing platform in the Sierra Valley Preserve. Headwaters of the Feather River.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
How was Joe Biden forced out of a presidential race for a disastrous debate and for looking frail and for confusing names, but this man, one of the most ignorant men to ever be elected to any office, allowed to continue on as president and treated as a normal, serious leader??
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
NEW: The death shadow cast by Musk. “When U.S.-supported soup kitchens were forced to close, babies starved quietly, their mothers said, while older siblings died begging for food.” The world’s richest man did this to the world’s poorest children. Don’t ever forget.
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In Sudan, where children clung to life, doctors say USAID cuts have been fatal
The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID had an immediate and deadly impact in war-ravaged Sudan, according to civilians, doctors and aid officials.
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Patrick Corcoran @eastsacpatrick.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
I just can’t. 😡
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Chelsea Polis @cbpolis.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
“Interviews with grieving caregivers, health workers and government officials across these settlements all converged on one clear and near-universal conclusion: the funding cuts have led to the deaths of children.” allafrica.com/stories/2025...
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Mozambique: These Are the Children the United States Left to Die
Part one: How the Trump Administration abandoned orphans with HIV
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Patrick Corcoran @eastsacpatrick.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
My thoughts on ChatGTP: isn’t thinking for yourself the whole exercise?
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Patrick Corcoran @eastsacpatrick.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
The replies and quotes to this are just lovely.
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Patrick Corcoran @eastsacpatrick.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Just spitballing here, but what if every public school was awesome, teachers were talented and well paid, and we closed a couple of tax loopholes to do it?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/06/2025
DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas? LUTNICK: Generally 10% DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8% LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Historian here this is how abolitionists dealt with slave catchers in northern states. #Resist
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Patrick Corcoran @eastsacpatrick.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Um, everything is lovely here in Naples on Italy’s Republic Day. We are keeping a close eye on nearby Mt. Vesuvius. www.cnn.com/2025/06/02/t...
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Huge eruption on Italy’s Mt. Etna leaves tourists fleeing volcano | CNN
A massive eruption at Mt. Etna forced tourists to flee the volcano on Monday after a plume of high temperature gases, ash and rock “several kilometers high” billowed into the air above them, Italian a...
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.
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CalMatters @calmatters.org · 28/05/2025
The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives last week advanced a budget package that could have major effects on millions of low-income Californians enrolled in Medicaid. Here's how: cal.news/4dA7fJe 📸 Samuel Corum, AP
The U.S. Capitol Building viewed from the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on April 4, 2025. Photo by Samuel Corum, AP
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UC Berkeley Labor Center @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
@veenadubal.bsky.social: Studies show gig drivers are making less money than they did before Proposition 22 and “deserve every penny of the billions of dollars that are owed to them.” www.kqed.org/news/1203364...
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Uber, Lyft Withheld Billions in Pay, Drivers Say. California Settlement Talks Are Underway | KQED
Years after lawsuits alleging massive wage theft and worker misclassification, Uber and Lyft drivers want the state to take their demands into account during closed-door mediations.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
It is utterly fucking bonkers that the VP of the United States held a press conference on the soil of another country, declared his intent to take over that country, and implicitly threatened military force if that country didn’t comply.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Really good piece by Nitish. This piece by Ali Bianco about Radio Mambi, which is a staple of the Cuban-American media diet in Miami. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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Disinformation Transformed Miami Politics. This Radio Station Is One Reason Why.
Radio Mambí birthed Cuban politics in south Florida. Now it’s a platform for Trumpism — even though it’s owned by Democrats.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved
graph of NIH basisfor new drugs
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Patrick Corcoran @eastsacpatrick.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Millions of people will die from cuts to foreign assistance. Because of the PEPFAR funding freeze, an adult life will be lost every 3 minutes and a child will die every 31 minutes. Trump and Musk own it. pepfar.impactcounter.com
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PEPFAR Impact Tracker
Track the impact of PEPFAR funding halt
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Mary Anne Franks @maryannefranks.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
The United States government just disappeared a lawful US resident because it didn't like his speech. You should care about this because it shouldn't happen to anyone, but you should also care because it could happen to you. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/n...
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ICE Arrests Pro-Palestinian Activist at Columbia
Mahmoud Khalil, who recently completed a graduate program at Columbia, has legal permanent residency, his lawyer said.
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
The biggest known source of wasteful and semi-fraudulent health spending is Medicare Advantage upcoding schemes, and the top OMB health policy guy is a Medicare Advantage lobbyist. Foxes guarding the henhouse. www.slowboring.com/p/cutting-he...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
This is all a good reminder that, “no help, no votes until the criminal conduct stops” is neither a big ask nor a politically perilous one.
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Voices for Vaccines @voices4vaccines.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Want to watch an independent film about the anti-vaccine movement and the people working to push back against it? With Fauci, Peter Hotez, *cough* and us *cough.* You can now do so for free on PBS!!: www.pbs.org/show/shot-in...
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Shot in the Arm
SHOT IN THE ARM explores vaccine hesitancy historically and in the context of Covid-19.
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Patrick Corcoran @eastsacpatrick.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Is it populism to deregulate big banks?
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
I was previously told by Republicans that the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan was one of history’s greatest scandals. But the chaotic withdrawal of *all* USAID from the whole globe?! Crickets.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/02/2025
i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
UnitedHealthcare Threatens Legal Action Against Doctor Who Says They Interrupted Her in the Middle of Surgery In the aftermath of its CEO's stunning assassination, UnitedHealthcare is now threatening legal retaliation against those who criticize the insurance giant. futurism.com/neoscope/uni...
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UnitedHealthcare Threatens Legal Action Against Doctor Who Says They Interrupted Her in the Middle of Surgery
In the aftermath of its CEO's assassination, UnitedHealthcare is now threatening legal retaliation against those who criticize the company.
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