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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 28/09/2025

It's white supremacy and rugged individualism and patriarchy and guns. That's why we have mass shootings. We live in a dystopia of our own creation and call it freedom.

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 29/05/2025

And the sad part is, people will let it happen because being addicted to having fun is more important than caring about the rights of others

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Elsie Smith @elsiesmithwrites.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Feeling angry today & looking for a way to help? I’m raising money to cover some costs related to my chronic pain & to donate to #MutualAid for others w/ disabilities. As part of that, you can get some cool (at least I think so) merch to build solidarity for the #disabled community that so needs it.

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Elsie Smith @elsiesmithwrites.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Please remember that your money will be much better spent right now giving to mutual aid than donating to any politician.

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Anne Caprara @annecaprara.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

The fight going on in the Democratic Party right now is not between hard left, left and moderate. It’s between those who want to fight and those who want to cave. And Team Fight stretches across all ideological aspects of the Party. Misread this at your own peril.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

NEW: Family of Mahmoud Khalil just released footage of his arrest “Stop resisting” “He’s not resisting” Agents seen continuing to ignore Mahmoud’s wife as she asks basic questions

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jenna ruddock @ruddock.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

New Yorkers and DC residents trying to talk with @schumer.senate.gov are having to push notes through a locked door with police posted outside.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 12/03/2025

If you don't trust a Palestinian account, you could just block or mute them, or ignore them. Unless you know for a fact they're not who they claim to be, reporting them is a really shitty thing to do and makes you a horrible person.

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 12/03/2025

I love 😡 how tautological this is. Schumer is a "Bad Jew" and thus Schumer is a Palestinian and thus he has lost personhood and rights. Because that is what it means to be Palestinian. And no one bats an eye at this.

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Once again the most antisemitic presidency in generations, an administration with *actual Nazis* on staff, is determining which Jews are Jewish and which are degenerates (hint: the latter = the vast majority of American Jews)—with the added bonus of using "Palestinian" as a slur.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 12/03/2025

Wait I'm sorry terroristic what now

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Elsie Smith @elsiesmithwrites.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I’m not even joking when I say I’m one more bad week and a dare away from quitting my job & starting a kickstarter to open a bookstore. I might have already looked at properties and there might be a couple spaces available in a complex that would be a great fit and is super close to my house.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

If we can "avoid a government shutdown" by voting for this CR, then why is the entire Department of Education closed today? Why is USAID closed? Why are hundreds of billions in grant contracts frozen? We are already in the shutdown. And your votes DON'T stop it. In fact, they allow it to expand.

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Shannon Hale @shannonhale.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

On a planet where a child dies of malnutrition every 10 seconds, what reasonable person has $900,000,000 and says, "Not enough! I need more!" Being a billionaire should be a malignant disorder. (btw if you have $900M, you can spend $31,000 every single day for 80 years and not run out)

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Fromthemixedupdesk @fromthemixedupdesk.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Follow this group of Indigenous authors, bookshops, content creators and then share this list. Support Indigenous folks in publishingn go.bsky.app/ALbjGXE

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 12/03/2025

all that commitment to patriarchy, including a critical vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, just for conservatives to still call Amy Coney Barrett a DEI hire lol I wrote about Barrett playing sexist games and--wouldn't ya know it--winning sexist prizes ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

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Outraged Conservatives Declare Amy Coney Barrett a “DEI Justice”

Amy Coney Barrett's years of service to the conservative legal movement couldn't protect her from its anger.

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Elsie Smith @elsiesmithwrites.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I joked about making a “fight fascism, wear a mask” shirt & I finally did! As a highly empathetic disabled woman, it’s been hard the last few months seeing so many struggling w/ everything going on & not be able to help as much as I want. So much of the #resistance needed is entirely inaccessible 🧵

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Fight fascism, wear a mask

Graphic of several hands putting hearts into a collection jar

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 14/02/2025

This was one of RFK Jr.’s first orders after being sworn in. Just an astonishing denial of science and will cause so much pain to the 45 million Americans facing mental health challenges.

The White House: (iii) assess the prevalence of and threat posed by the prescription of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, stimulants, and weight-loss drugs;

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Katee Robert @kateerobert.com · 15/02/2025

For no reason in particular, did you know the shelf life on Plan B is 4 years? So, like, if someone wanted to I dunno stock up for reasons, those meds would be good for years.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 15/02/2025

CISA – a federal agency that helps secure elections from foreign threats and disinformation – has placed its employees on administrative leave. The move puts the security and integrity of elections in the U.S. at risk.

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CISA Puts Election Staff on Administrative Leave

Read more here.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Awful: Internal USAID memo instructs employees to refrain from talking to the media about cuts in assistance to the most vulnerable or they may get fired, WaPo reports. Trumpworld knows this is a big political problem for them. Keep the focus on it. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1915...

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Trump-Musk Scandal at USAID Takes Unnerving Turn With Vile Leaked Memo

Can Trump and his top advisers really just act with total impunity? Or is there, just maybe, a price to be paid for starving poor people and un-indicting a corrupt mayor?

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/02/2025

ATTN HHS EMPLOYEES: Firing notices are going out. I am in receipt of an email saying they will revoke your access as soon as you read the email that you've been fired. Please download everything you need before you open that email. SHARE FAR & WIDE. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/attn-hhs-e...

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ATTN: HHS EMPLOYEES

If you work for HHS, read this BEFORE you open certain emails

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/02/2025

NEW: The CDC is currently removing all the influenza resources from their website during the worst flu season in decades.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/02/2025

NEW: Taxpayers and charities helped develop Zolgensma. Then it debuted at a record price, ushering in a new class of wildly expensive drugs. Its story upends the widely held conception that high prices reflect huge industry investments in innovation.

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What a $2 Million Per Dose Gene Therapy Reveals About Drug Pricing

Taxpayers and charities helped develop Zolgensma. Then it debuted at a record price, ushering in a new class of wildly expensive drugs. Its story upends the widely held conception that high prices reflect huge industry investments in innovation.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 12/02/2025

The needs of racialized people are more important than the feelings of white people. The needs of trans people are more important than the feelings of cis people. The needs of disabled people are more important than the feelings of abled people.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 12/02/2025

People who are telling you that there's a lot of fraud in Medicaid are lying to you in order to try to convince you to support taking healthcare away from children on dialysis. Because the only way to convince enough normal people to harm disabled children is by lying.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

What a remarkable self-own. It’s like watching a bunch of firefighters stand around looking at a burning house, annoyed because people keep calling them about it. “What do you want us to do? We didn’t set the fire! Call the arsonist.”

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Molly Coleman @mollycoleman.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I have absolutely no time for politicians who don’t respect organizing. This is, quite literally, what democracy looks like. You don’t have to agree with everything the people are demanding, but if you’re going to disparage the people doing whatever they can to fight fascism, you should resign.

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Scoop: Dems "pissed" at liberal groups MoveOn, Indivisible

"I reject and resent the implication that congressional Democrats are simply standing by passively."

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 12/02/2025

Also, a big thing people leave out of all of these discussions is that inequality is a driver of unhappiness. Regardless of whether living conditions are improving in general since hundreds of years ago, if inequality increases that impacts happiness and conflict

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 12/02/2025

Trump’s executive orders are not law. This doctor knows it. Many hospital systems know it. Those that comply with something not passed by congress and with power not constitutionally granted to the president are cowardly.

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scare-cadus (is this anything) 🎃 @birdapp.rip · 10/02/2025

cops get so much money that they spend tons of it on gear they don’t need, like tanks and grenade launchers. cops should have to hold bake sales for funds while teachers should get the equivalent of tank & grenade launcher money

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Kelly @kellimims.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Good resource www.youtube.com/@americanmed...

AMA resource for daily updates since CDC cannot publicly disclose

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Elsie Smith @elsiesmithwrites.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

I got a letter from my cardiologist. He’s one of 2 dysautonomia specialists in my state & has been booking appts 2 years out. He’s now closed to new patients to care for the ones he has. I assume the other dr’s waitlist is just as long. My heart hurts for all the people stuck waiting for answers.

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P. Andrew Torrez @andrewtorrez.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

The American Bar Association has just called upon every attorney, regardless of their political views, to join them & stand up for the rule of law & at minimum insist that our government "follow the law." Every lawyer has an ethical responsibility to do so. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

We call upon our elected representatives to stand with us and to insist upon adherence to the rule of law and the legal processes and procedures that ensure orderly change. The administration cannot choose which law it will follow or ignore. These are not partisan or political issues. These are rule of law and process issues. We cannot afford to remain silent. We must stand up for the values we hold dear. The ABA will do its part and act to protect the rule of law.

We urge every attorney to join us and insist that our government, a government of the people, follow the law. It is part of the oath we took when we became lawyers. Whatever your political party or your views, change must be made in the right way. Americans expect no less.

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Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I had an unexpected vet bill that's going to take out my savings-- which I was going to live on until I get paid next month. I live on a disability pension which doesn't cover everything. I could really use any help you can give. ko-fi.com/soniasulaiman

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Buy SoniaSulaiman a Coffee. ko-fi.com/soniasulaiman

Sonia is writing speculative fiction inspired by Palestinian folklore. Leave her a tip to support her work!

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Sierra 📚👽🏳️‍🌈 @reading-w-sierra.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Reposting this again! Pls pls pls I beg you, use alt text. It helps everyone, not just our low vision/blind friends. You can change your settings to require it before posting! And don’t forget about alt-text for GIFs!

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

So, in conclusion, stop blaming autism for sexual assault, racism, and being a fuckin Nazi. It’s ableist and real gullible of you. Signed, The vast, overwhelming majority of autistic people PS. Nazis killed us too. Maybe quit posting swastkas everywhere.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

It’s quite easy not to be a Nazi. You just think of other people as people and don’t want to kill them over differences. That’s all. Some of you allistics (that’s “people without autism” for you beginners) need to work on that, tbh.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Rich men claiming autism to excuse Naziism are playing ableists right now. They are exploiting the fact that you know nothing about autistic people and do not respect us to utilize stereotypes about our lack of social understanding. Uh, we understand you don’t do that shit.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Hello, I’m an autistic person and I’m here to tell you that is is very easy for autistic people to just not be Nazis. Millions of us manage to do it every day. In fact, the vast majority of us have a well-defined sense of justice that does not mesh with Naziism. We just don’t roll with that shit.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

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God @thegodshow.com · 10/02/2025

Thou shalt not spend millions on Super Bowl ads about Jesus when you could’ve used it to feed the hungry.

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