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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 30/09/2025
As public health federal workers we support a shut down as a negotiating tool to keep Americans on their health insurance. We are prepping to go without pay. We are readying our documents in case Vought uses a shut down to illegally fires us. Dems, hold the line.
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Pete Hegseth accidentally flipping a skateboard into his nuts on live TV
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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
need a sitcom about some janitor at some random AI company who keeps getting headhunted to more and more senior positions
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Yep. Hundreds of thousands of people in this country live normal lives, but lives in limbo; here due to administrative grace, which can legally be taken away with the stroke of a pen.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Timeline: - Came 1978 - Fraudulent green card marriage in the early '80s, a permanent bar. - Applied for asylum. - Met current husband in late '80s. - Lost final appeal in 1998, but was granted a stay of removal. - Checked in without trouble from 1998-2025 - Grabbed by ICE with no warning in 2025
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Aaron Black @aaronblack.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
The Senate bill aims to effectively end all civil rights lawsuits against the federal government except by entities rich enough to potentially pay million/billions in fees. I am not making this up.
SEC. l203. RESTRICTION ON ENFORCEMENT.
No court of the United States may issue a preliminary injunction or temporary restraining order against the Federal Government (other than a preliminary injunction or temporary restraining order issued in a case proceeding under title 11, United States Code) if no security is given, in an amount proper to pay the costs and damages sustained by the Federal Government, when the injunction or order is issued pursuant to rule 65(c) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure after the date of enactment of this Act. No court may consider any factor other than the value of the costs and damages sustained when making
its determination of the proper value of such security, and that determination shall be appealable upon issuance of the preliminary injunction or temporary restraining order under an abuse of discretion standard.
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elina2.bsky.social @elina2.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
I'm honestly not sure what to feel about National Guard troops being treated as dismally as immigrants being held in detention centers. www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...
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National Guard troops in Los Angeles seen sleeping on floors
State troops sent to Los Angeles by the Trump administration, without the approval of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, were expected to sleep on floors or outdoors, a source told the Chronicle.
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
What a great day for the UK govt to announce it is spending hundreds of millions of pounds on AI www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Advanced AI suffers ‘complete accuracy collapse’ in face of complex problems, study finds
‘Pretty devastating’ Apple paper raises doubts about race to reach stage of AI at which it matches human intelligence
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elina2.bsky.social @elina2.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
I guess there are more subversive ways for the US to annex Canada.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 31/05/2025
Heavily armed paramilitary forces stormed a local San Diego restaurant today, deployed stun grenades against a crowd of onlookers, and kidnapped a handful of kitchen workers.
Heavily armed DHS HSI agents clad in full desert camo tactical gear including plate carriers and Kevlar helmets stand in the middle of the street like soldiersHeavily armed DHS HSI agents clad in full desert camo tactical gear including plate carriers and Kevlar helmets stand in the middle of the street like soldiers.
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elina2.bsky.social @elina2.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
No one is better at recruiting and motivating Hamas fighters than the Israeli military. This should not come as a surprise to anyone. Simply imagine what your next move would be after your family has been blown up.
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Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
"Former 18F director Lindsay Young ... is concerned that Doge’s cuts will have long-lasting effects on government functions. 'In government, it’s just so much easier to tear things down than it is to build things up,' Young said." @not-young.bsky.social
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The chaos Elon Musk and Doge are leaving behind in Washington
Though Musk promised modernization and efficiency, what’s left is a trail of uncertainty and reduced functionality
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elina2.bsky.social @elina2.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
May the law succeed where congress has failed.
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elina2.bsky.social @elina2.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
UCP's survey questions are outrageous. I hope research scientists from far and wide go to town on this shit show. "What do you think appropriate sexual content should mean in the context of new standards for school library materials."
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 22/05/2025
“President Drake became irate and yelled at the faculty member, who remained quiet. As the faculty member exited the Administration Building in the procession line, two men in suits with police badge lapel pins followed him and asked him to step out of the line.“
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Statement condemning faculty member removal from commencement
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
if dems want messaging help, stop telling people you're "fighting back." it sounds like you're being mugged. call off the podcaster search, take your ridiculous money pile and try opening some food banks and free clinics. hurricanes are coming and the feds have no plan. looks like an opening to me.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 22/05/2025
You have one more day to comment, here, if you haven't already. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 21/05/2025
You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).
regulations.gov
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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Important to remember this is medical care ordered by one’s doctor now being denied because the government doesn’t agree with your doctor. From the Freedom Party.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
@warren.senate.gov: "They're fighting over how many children should go hungry so that Mark Zuckerberg can buy another Hawaiian island."
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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
I’ve been begging Dem reps to adopt criminal framing for Trump and GOP actions. Because it’s clear, memorable, and has the benefit of being true. The president is a convicted criminal. He is out on bail. His EO’s are illegal. DOGE’s actions are illegal. ICE is kidnapping people.
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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
UnitedHealth secretly pressured nurses to change patients' records to include DNRs (Do Not Resuscitate) without their consent, so those patients would die instead of being saved with medical interventions that could cost UnitedHealth money. This is murder. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Cost-cutting tactics

The secret bonuses were just one of many maneuvers UnitedHealth devised to track and cut expenses in its nursing home initiative.

Internal emails show, for example, that UnitedHealth supervisors gave their teams “budgets” showing how many hospital admissions they had “left” to use up on nursing home patients.

The company also monitored nursing homes that had smaller numbers of patients with “do not resuscitate” – or DNR – and “do not intubate” orders in their files. Without such orders, patients are in line for certain life-saving treatments that might lead to costly hospital stays.

Two current and three former UnitedHealth nurse practitioners told the Guardian that UnitedHealth managers pressed nurse practitioners to persuade Medicare Advantage members to change their “code status” to DNR even when patients had clearly expressed a desire that all available treatments be used to keep them alive.
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elina2.bsky.social @elina2.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
A lesson to other elder Dems -- do not make this your legacy. Do not be a Biden, RBG, or a Connolly. Mentor young Dems, support your successors, step down while you are still capable of taking steps. No one beats death.
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
“These are the plans of an authoritarian regime. They want to spend likely billions of taxpayer dollars to send asylum-seekers into war zones or to countries rife with human rights abuses,” @chrismurphyct.bsky.social told @theintercept.com
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elina2.bsky.social @elina2.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
"…property taxes [directly tied to property value] give homeowners a financial stake in keeping local housing prices under control. It gives them skin in the game for ongoing affordability." Californians, please pay attention --
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Ian Wallis @gajido.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
"...the money you can make in AI isn’t limited to the paltry market sizes of previous technology waves. You can replace the world’s workers – which means you can capture their salaries. All of them." | Rich Tech-Veteran www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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For Silicon Valley, AI isn’t just about replacing some jobs. It’s about replacing all of them | Ed Newton-Rex
AI will do the thinking, robots will do the doing. What place do humans have in this arrangement – and do tech CEOs care? says Ed Newton-Rex, founder of Fairly Trained
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elina2.bsky.social @elina2.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Do not make me unsubscribe, @propublica.org .
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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 15/05/2025
1/4 UPDATE: This week, @propublica.org management informed a third bargaining unit member that they will be placed on a performance improvement plan and denied steward representation at the meeting where it is discussed. Our full statement 👇
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Defector @defector.com · 16/05/2025
The New York Times really asked Ms. Rachel if she’s paid by Hamas: defector.com/the-new-york...
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The New York Times Really Asked Ms. Rachel If She's Paid By Hamas | Defector
The house style of the New York Times is severely outdated. Depending on the topic, the newspaper’s purportedly impartial tone instead reads as smug, self-amused, and deeply lazy. The results are…
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 16/05/2025
Good sign. Do it in a sequence of transfers to build pressure; say, $20 billion a month to Ukraine. That might get the gangster showing up at meetings.
reuters.com
Germany's Merz says we will confiscate frozen Russian assets if legally possible
Germany and its allies will move to confiscate frozen Russian assets if legally possible, Chancellor Friedrich Merz said in an interview with the Zeit newspaper published on Thursday.
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 16/05/2025
Today is Endangered Species Day. Instead of upholding the Endangered Species Act, Trump's @USFWS wants to delete the word "harm” from the regulation, meaning no penalties for destroying critical habitat needed for survival & recovery-the largest rollback of ESA protections ever.
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elina2.bsky.social @elina2.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
To the people with excess wealth and treasures, More of this please!
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Larry Hochman @larryhochman.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
I will stack up Carl Sagan or Neil deGrasse Tyson against any - and I mean ANY - religious figure for wisdom, perspective and compassion.
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elina2.bsky.social @elina2.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Getting married at a former plantation is like getting married at Auschwitz. I cannot believe how many people want to integrate such places into what ought to be one of their happiest days.
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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
"You are not a tech bro, you are a modern day factory worker" Seen in Oakland, California
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Drew @dschnoeb.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Ice Agents in Worcester, MA RIGHT NOW attempting to take 2 women and a baby. City Council Member @etelhaxhiaj.bsky.social attempting to help her. Please share far and wide ASAP!
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elina2.bsky.social @elina2.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
“…you allowed Chris to speak from his heart as you saw it,” [Judge] Lang said. Yikes. There is no such thing as "AI-generated evidence". Evidence, by its nature, needs to be real. This is an insane failure in judgement by the judge and a dangerous precedent to set.
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Roxy Szal @roxyszal.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
"Arrest the Midwife," a new documentary that debuted at @sxsw.com this year, follows a criminalized midwife, the Mennonite women who rallied behind her, and the political battle to legalize life-saving care. msmagazine.com/2025/05/04/a...
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Midwifery Is as Old as Birth Itself. Why Are We Still Fighting for It?
As long as women have been giving birth, people have assisted mothers and newborns up to and through childbirth—making midwifery one of the world’s oldest occupations. The International Day of the Mid...
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
This isn't hypothetical. The coming days are bringing higher prices and disrupted supply chains, this time not because of a pandemic or a war, but self-inflicted by our country's government under this president.
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Ms. Magazine @msmagazine.com · 05/05/2025
Her refusal to compromise the integrity of the Social Security Administration protected millions—at the cost of her own career. From our new 'Profiles in Courage' series:
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Profiles in Courage: Michelle King Refused to Hand Over Your Data to DOGE. Then She Lost Her Job.
Profiles in Courage is a new series honoring the extraordinary women and men who have transformed American institutions through principled public service. At a time when trust in government is fragile...
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Andrew Sheeler @andrewsheeler.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Everything Robin says in this op-ed is 100% correct.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
You are now required to have a cellphone to citizen. That should not be allowed. You should not be required to have a cellphone to work. But many employers make a cellphone a de facto requirement. It’s anti-poor. But it’s also anti-democratic.
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P. Gabrielle Foreman @profgabrielle.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
To save runaways from slavery who were trying to make lives in the North “illegally,” local Vigilance Committees formed. They kept watch for slave catchers, secreted away those in danger, and posted placards that outed slave catchers, sometimes hounding them till they left town.
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 04/05/2025
A group in San Diego is patrolling neighborhoods to identify potential ICE presence. They keep watch for vehicles that may belong to federal agencies, and use livestreams, radios, and social media to keep communities informed. Learn more: boltsmag.org/how-vol...
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 05/05/2025
This is an absolute crock of shit from state Sen. Bryan Hughes. He's the guy who wrote the bounty hunter abortion ban that nullified Roe v. Wade in Texas in 2021
screenshot from Dallas News:
Sen. Bryan Hughes, R-Mineola, the author of the Texas wastewater bill, **said the proposed bill is about environmental monitoring rather than abortion.**
“We want to know what’s in the water, wherever it’s coming from,” Hughes told the Dallas Morning News in a phone interview. “It’s hard to be against gathering information and finding out what chemicals are in the water.”
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Henry Grabar @henrygrabar.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
one more SUV tidbit from @davidzipper.bsky.social. people ask me about this constantly, so i'm very happy that someone has done some research! www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Men are not constantly being told “you’re bad,” they are constantly being told “LEFT WING SJWS THINK YOU’RE BAD” by conservative propaganda. There’s a huge difference.
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