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Bad Buddhist, decent cook, gamer, nerd, public health advocate, politically further left than you think.

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 3h
U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents shot a person in New York City on Thursday afternoon, according to police. The shooting took place around 4 p.m. in Manhattan’s Marble Hill neighborhood, according to a statement from the NYPD. buff.ly/oRHWwxP
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 13h
NEW: Footage from Thursdays shooting shows an ICE agent in a construction vest brandishing a rifle. His name is Brenden Cuni. Federal judges have found multiple arrests involving Cuni unlawful. He has been accused of repeatedly Tasing a handcuffed man and tackling a pregnant woman in Minneapolis.
wired.com
ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests
Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.
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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 2h
This is exactly why government meetings shouldn't begin with prayer. Religious freedom means accepting that others have beliefs you don't share, not demanding special treatment whenever Christianity isn't the center of attention.
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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 2h
If Christianity were actually proven true, most atheists would change their minds. But acknowledging that a god exists is very different from deciding that god deserves worship. Belief and submission are two very different things.
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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 14h
“Our research suggests that Trump was not necessarily attracting male supporters who are as confidently masculine as the former president presented himself to be. Rather, our findings suggest that Trump appeared to appeal more to men who may be insecure about their manhood.” — Knowles & DiMuccio
psychologytoday.com
Why Do Some Men Support Aggressive Policies and Politicians?
Does the idea of "precarious manhood" contribute to aggressive politics?
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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 12h
Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.
Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 3h
Translation: We disappeared him.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 2h
must-read reporting. yet another case of unprecedented, lawless corruption under trump & rfk jr. also a good reminder that what makes it into the news is just the tip of the iceberg...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has not formally announced the chat room through federal regulatory channels, though CMS officials have talked about it at industry conferences. Legal experts said the chat room resembles a federal advisory panel, which
would be required to operate in public view. KFF Health News reviewed thousands of Slack messages, meeting transcripts, and video recordings that reveal how the Trump administration has granted the industry a direct line to top government officials - including former head of the Department of
Government Efficiency Amy Gleason.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I’m increasingly convinced, watching his politics, that what motivates Carney the most isn’t brutally ~pragmatic~ economics. The pipeline shows he’s willing to make moves with no economic case, seemingly to be popular in Alberta. I think he’s motivated by his own legacy.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 08/10/2026
SC Dem Senate nominee Annie Andrews released an ad calling trans women "biological men." She embraces sports and surgery bans for youth. Her campaign even says she won't work to overturn the HRT/blocker trans youth ban. She once argued against capitulation. Subscribe to support our journalism.
erininthemorning.com
SC Dem Senate Candidate Annie Andrews Releases Ad Calling Trans Women “Biological Men”
She also said she would not change the youth HRT and puberty blocker ban in South Carolina.
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Marianne Dhenin @mariannedhe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Please join me and some historian friends to talk about one of my favorite films, The Battle of Algiers. This is a free one-hour webinar later this month. Hope to see you there! Register: luma.com/h8fb00s9
A mostly black-and-white poster with images from the film and color headshots of the speakers. It reads "Film Talk: Battle of Algiers with historians Tamara Maatouk, Lacy Murphy, and Marianne Dhenin. Online, 27 Oct 2026. 9 am PDT Los Angeles; 12 pm EDT New York; 5 pm CET Algiers; 7 pm EEST Cairo"
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 08/10/2026
The Trump admin refused to invite international election observers for the first time in over 20 years. As concerns about the Trump admin undermining election integrity escalate and the midterms quickly approach, this is a troubling decision.
ms.now
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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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 08/10/2026
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Oct Just days after Trump attacked her as "Annie Tr*nnie," Dem Senate candidate and pediatrician Annie Andrews [So Carolina] releases anti-trans ad declaring “No men in women’s sports.” Sad -- and not going to win you a single Rep vote, Annie. wapo.st/4zpOaDy
wapo.st
Democrat called slur by Trump airs ad urging ‘No men in women’s sports’
Senate candidate Annie Andrews, a Senate candidate in South Carolina, released a transgender issues ad days after the president called her an anti-transgender slur.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
John Ioannidis has no comment on this.
nytimes.com
Agency Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
TPUSA "described the event as a private event that was open to the public" and where some media outlets could cover it, but other reporters could not. Does that make sense? This is at a public university subject to first amendment requirements.
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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
1/ Welcome to our first edition of YLE Northeast! This is a regional public health roundup, meaning we’ll look at issues defined not by borders, but by shared concerns across the Northeast. This week, we're looking at fall respiratory season, measles in New York and well water in Connecticut.👇
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The headline and lede for this story have been updated and fixed. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
Election deniers Cleta Mitchell and Tina Peters want Trump’s commerce secretary to regulate voting machines
The problem? No federal official can seize control of election administration from the states and counties, who hold the power run elections under the U.S. Constitution.
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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 08/10/2026
Hats off to SEIU Texas hospital workers at Las Palmas Medical Center and Del Sol Medical Center who are demanding higher wages and safe staffing levels! Some employees make as little as $13.50 an hour, and better pay means better recruitment and retention.
seiu.co
Las Palmas, Del Sol workers seek higher pay as contract talks continue
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — Employees from Las Palmas Medical Center and Del Sol Medical Center called for higher wages and raised concerns about staffing and reduced hours during a news conference out…
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
oops!
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 07/10/2026
reading this, recalling how quickly the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman slipped out of the news
phoenixnewtimes.com
Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Carney has a chance to show us there’s actually still a difference between his government and the one we’d have if Poilievre had won the election. Will he take it? Federal funding to help LGBTQ rights groups survive the attacks on their humanity is about to expire. He can do something about it:
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Rep. Justin J. Pearson @justinjpearson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Memphis City Council failed the people in delaying the data center moratorium vote. But we are not deterred. The fight for clean air continues. Big money has no place in politics. I’m running for Congress to level the playing field & stop toxic data centers nationwide. Votejustinj.com
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NEW: RFK is planning a major vaccine injury initiative, including more research, a clinic at NIH, and a new billing code so doctors can be reimbursed for filing reports of side effects. Experts say more research is needed. But they're wary. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u...
nytimes.com
RFK Jr. Plans Vaccine Injury Initiative, Drawing Wary Eye From Experts (Gift Article)
Vaccine safety experts say more research into the side effects would be welcome yet question whether the health secretary’s effort will be grounded in science.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 08/10/2026
Recently unearthed records show that, in one set of trials carried out by the US Army, the electric shock gloves caused “overwhelmingly immediate” pain to soldiers in a mock forced cell extraction scenario, who then reported that “just seeing the glove” frightened them into obedience.
motherjones.com
Study: Shock gloves traumatized Army volunteers
After tests, military personnel said "just seeing the glove" that ICE plans to adopt scared them into obedience.
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Diane Ademu-John @junkyardmessiah.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
not now rabid raccoon apple.news/AMneOa0xOT7y...
apple.news
LA officials document first case of a rabid raccoon in more than 50 years — Guardian US
Four people and a dog may have been exposed to rabies from the animal, Los Angeles public health officials say
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Texas executed Jamaal Howard by lethal injection exactly one week after Tennessee tried and failed to do the same to Christa Pike. Howard’s lawyers tried to use Pike’s horrific experience as a reason for a stay, but the courts said no. Beyond comprehension.
theguardian.com
Texas kills man in first US execution since botched lethal injection of Christa Pike
Jamaal Howard, 46, executed by fatal dose of pentobarbital after lawyers’ bid for stay had been denied
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Not beating the eugenics accusations
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 08/10/2026
Immigrants are avoiding medical care as fears of deportation weigh heavily on their day-to-day lives.
motherjones.com
Fear kept immigrants away from Medicaid. Now many can't come back.
Funding cuts have locked hundreds of thousands of patients who hesitated to renew amid ICE raids out of California's Medicaid program.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 08/10/2026
In one set of trials of shock gloves carried out by the US Army in 2024, the electric gloves caused “overwhelmingly immediate” pain to soldiers. They then reported that “just seeing the glove” frightened them into obedience.
motherjones.com
Study: Shock gloves traumatized Army volunteers
After tests, military personnel said "just seeing the glove" that ICE plans to adopt scared them into obedience.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 08/10/2026
Death penalty states are incredibly secretive about every step of the lethal injection process. Why?
motherjones.com
Everything you've been told about lethal injection is a lie
Death by drugs is brutal—and designed for political optics. Christa Pike's failed execution pulled back the curtain.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Here's what happened to the students arrested: www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia...
cbsnews.com
5 Quakertown students arrested during ICE protest will enter diversionary programs, DA says
The Quakertown Community High School students accused of assaulting Police Chief Scott McElree and other officers have entered diversion programs.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Here's what happens to high school students in the U.S. protesting ICE: whyy.org/articles/qua... - most people barely batted an eye.
whyy.org
Quakertown police chief on leave after clash with student protesters
Scott McElree was seen on video placing a student in a chokehold during a protest against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
ALSO...
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Think about how intolerable ICE arrests are right now Then nearly double it
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Armed Border Agents Arrest Protesters, Bulldoze 200-Year-Old Tree to Build Border Wall theintercept.com/2026/10/08/b...
theintercept.com
Armed Border Agents Arrest Protesters, Bulldoze 200-Year-Old Tree to Build Border Wall
Armed Border Patrol agents arrested 10 demonstrators and destroyed the cottonwood “grandmother” tree on the Arizona–Mexico border.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Here is a link to the CourtListener page. I've purchased all of the relevant documents to make them available to anyone here: www.courtlistener.com/docket/74798...
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 08/10/2026
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Oct Advocate Human Rights Campaign president Kelley Robinson tells Dems caving on trans rights: "You’re doing too much and getting too little. You don’t have to sacrifice any member of our community to win.” www.advocate.com/politics/ele...
advocate.com
Human Rights Campaign president to Dems caving on trans rights: ‘You’re doing too much and getting too little’
“You don’t have to sacrifice any member of our community to win,” Kelley Robinson told reporters as she outlined HRC’s $15 million midterm investment.
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Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
About 6.5 million voting age Americans live abroad, and only a sliver vote. In the UK, 3.8% of nearly 300,000 eligible voters cast ballots in the last midterms, per the federal voting program. Democrats Abroad says engagement is higher than ever this year.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Russia murdered 25 innocent people overnight in Ukraine, 5 were children; the missiles and drones targeted them while they slept to maximize the casualty count. Trump will call Putin immediately, to wish him a happy birthday.
This image appears to show a Ukrainian State Emergency Service worker carrying a rescued animal wrapped in a patterned blanket at the site of a deadly missile strike in Pryluky, Chernihiv Oblast.According to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, the image shows emergency responders fighting a fire at a garage cooperative in the Darnytskyi district of Kyiv following a Russian aerial attack on October 6, 2026.
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
In a scathing 28-page ruling, the judge, Gary R. Brown, condemned the agency’s tactics when it mistakenly arrested two Hispanic men, including a US citizen, in the Bronx in May, finding that ICE had “falsified official records trying to conceal” its “illegal actions.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/n...
nytimes.com
Trump-Appointed Judge Accuses ICE of Lying and Fabricating Records (Gift Article)
Two men were mistakenly arrested in the Bronx by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Gary R. Brown, a federal judge, condemned the agency’s actions.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
Cannot emphasize enough that the morass we find ourselves in everywhere is a result of this commitment to white supremacy. The eugenic health policy, the belief and desire for US autarky, meddling & murder in Latin America, the half-cocked belief that the US could bully Iran- it really is.
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The French police are so militarized they blew up a 15-yr-old’s hand and took the eye of another one. Why are grenades being used to quell student protestors who are unarmed? Now the labour unions are stepping in to protect the students
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
France halts use of stun grenades after boy's hand blown off in student protests
The step comes after several groups complained of police using disproportionate force towards teenagers.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There is a suspected outbreak of the plague in Russia. Yes, you read that right. And we cannot trust RFK Jr. and the Trump administration to be prepared to deal with this. We need a Democratic public health doctor in the US Senate.
axios.com
Scoop: White House monitors suspected plague outbreak in Russia
Administration is "aware, monitoring the outbreak, and assessing options," an official told Axios.
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 07/10/2026
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Oct ErinReed ADF files emergency SCOTUS request asking it to enjoin all states incl. blue ones from allowing trans girls to compete and asserting a "parental right" to be notified if a daughter would be competing against a trans girl.
erininthemorning.com
ADF Files SCOTUS Shadow-Docket Request Claiming "Parental Right" To Stop Trans Kids From Playing Against Cis Ones
The filing uses Title IX and “parental rights” to target trans children who may compete against their cis ones.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
just catching up on JD Vance telling Hannity that Jeffrey Epstein is actually "a great character reference" for Donald Trump 😳
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Scientists Destroy 99% of Cancer Cells in the Lab Using a Chemo-Free "Molecular Jackhammer" Activated by light, these tiny molecules vibrate 40 trillion times per second, tearing apart cancer cell membranes and destroying them without relying on chemotherapy.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Read this thread & also the NYT story (which will, be warned, make you physically sick and very distressed indeed, so keep that in mind). The campus police DID NOT TELL THE PROSECUTOR all that Jane Doe said. The campus police *omitted* her most important statements about what those men did to her.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026
not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.
talkingpointsmemo.com
Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Listening to Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit wave away the sexual assault charges against DeShaun Watson — even saying “winning is the best deodorant” — was pretty jarring, especially this week.
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