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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
In case anyone is wondering
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
The hypocrisy is off the charts.
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NPR @npr.org · 08/03/2025
Mental health professionals with the Veterans Health Administration say the stress caused by Elon Musk's "What did you do last week?" emails is hurting veterans' care.
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'A blitz attack': VA mental health experts liken Elon Musk's emails to warfare
Mental health professionals with the Veterans Health Administration say the stress caused by Elon Musk's "What did you do last week?" emails is hurting veterans' care.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 07/03/2025
Any time you see an article frame something as "took action against transgender sports," do more digging. 75% of the time, whatever they are talking about also bans trans people from bathrooms/medical care/targets trans adults. Sports is just a way to frame it as morally acceptable.
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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
“It’s just introducing another unregulated security into the housing market as though 2008, 2009 didn’t happen,” a HUD staffer said, referencing the mortgage crisis. “I don’t see any way this will help anything. I see a lot of ways this could hurt.” New @propublica.org @jessecoburn.bsky.social
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U.S. Housing Agency Considers Launching Crypto Experiment
The Department of Housing and Urban Development, which oversees billions in aid and insures more than a trillion dollars in mortgages, is pondering using the blockchain and a stablecoin. One HUD offic...
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Pretty much, yes.
A two-panel political cartoon shared by the Twitter account "Right Wing Cope." In the first panel, a man in a suit wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat says, "You better stand up and cheer for a kid with brain cancer." In the second panel, a small child says, "I have brain cancer, please don’t cut my funding," to which the MAGA-hat-wearing man responds, "fuck off." The comic critiques perceived hypocrisy in political support for children with illnesses versus policy actions.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 07/03/2025
1. A new CMS directive from HHS has gone out to hospitals demanding they stop gender affirming care, despite a court order saying care can continue. The memo openly cites anti-LGBTQ+ hate groups. The latest from writer Mira Lazine. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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New HHS Directive Cites Anti-LGBTQ+ Hate Groups, Demands Hospitals Stop Trans Youth Care
The memo went out on Wednesday from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services at HHS, and threatens to pull funding from hospitals that do not comply.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 07/03/2025
Many Democratic politicians have forgotten that leaders can shape public opinion, rather than just always follow it. Republicans learned this lesson over a decade ago. Elected officials should not be a moving polling average. They should be humans with values and willing to stand up for them.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Please listen and share—this is a very serious situation. This is extremely alarming! The Trump administration, across two agencies, is considering bringing criminal charges against employees simply for doing their jobs.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
The putrid connections between great wealth and great power are now on display for all to see. www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2…
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Three billionaires: America’s oligarchy is now fully exposed | Robert Reich
As Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk alter US media, the connections between wealth and power are in plain sight
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Cartoon by Benjamin Slyngstad
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Maus @profkilljoy7z.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
"Generation Rescue" the beginning of the antivax movement started in 2005 by bigot, dumbfuck Jenny McCarthy. Until that point, Measles had been literally eradicated from existence in the US since 1963. 40 years of safety erased by blatant stupidity and bigotry against autistic people. Thanks Jenny.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Elon Musk has no authority to send emails to federal workers asking them to justify their jobs (days after he wields a chainsaw on a stage...hello?) He has no authority to fire or threaten anyone. Call your reps and tell them Elon Musk must be fired. 202-224-3121
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Elon has a track record of using people as human shields.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 26/02/2025
1. Today, the NYT has reported that 100 members of an ERG-adjacent LGBTQ+ chat in the intelligence community have been fired. This is a new McCarthyism, a new lavender scare meant to remove LGBTQ+ in government, and the way this was done should shake us all. Subscribe to support my journalism.
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The New McCarthyism: LGBTQ+ Purges In Government Begin
After Chris Rufo leaked LGBTQ+ chatlogs from the intelligence community, Gabbard has announced that all those who participated in the chats will be fired.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 26/02/2025
And this is why it's so important to support independent journalism. Institutional journalism has become a plaything for the rich. Independent journalists are breaking the biggest news every day, beholden to nobody but their readers.
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Jess @deltajess.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Just some inspiration because the government is purging important data. Archive while you can. www.messynessychic.com/2024/03/26/t...
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The Artful Spy who Stopped Hitler from Emptying the Louvre
Rose Valland © Archives des Musées nationaux At first glance she looks like just another bookish art historian in matronly 1940s garb – a most unlikely superhero. But Rose Antonia Maria Valland was...
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Manda @fayequeenofswords.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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Here’s how many billions Elon Musk’s companies are making from U.S. taxpayers
While their boss takes a sledgehammer to federal agencies, SpaceX and Tesla are earning big money from government contracts, writes Io Dodds
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Manda @fayequeenofswords.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
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The GOP Taliban to Women: Shut Up, Sit Down, and Stay Home on Election Days
The SAVE Act is the most dangerous voter suppression bill in modern history…
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Manda @fayequeenofswords.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
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White House bars AP reporter from Oval Office because of AP style policy on 'Gulf of America'
The White House blocked an Associated Press reporter from attending an event in the Oval Office after demanding the news agency alter its style on the Gulf of Mexico, which President Donald Trump has ...
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eastownlewis.bsky.social @eastownlewis.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
So so true. I still say something wonky happened with the #s and both him and Elonia verbalized that the rigged the election... so my 2 cents = never should have been allowed to take the oath.
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eastownlewis.bsky.social @eastownlewis.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2S3CD1H/
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Call your senators!!!! #saveact #womensvotingrights #votingrights #project2025 #shennaigans
TikTok video by Shennaigans
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2025
Conservative state legislators aim to put a new amendment on the ballot that would ban abortion except for in emergencies, when a fetus has abnormalities, or in cases of rape or incest, but only if a police report is filed and within a 12-week limit. By @jeremykohler.bsky.social
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Three Months After Missouri Voted to Make Abortion Legal, Access Is Still Being Blocked
Reproductive rights are now enshrined in the state constitution, but Missouri’s main abortion provider is fighting legal hurdles to resume offering the procedure. Meanwhile, anti-abortion lawmakers…
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Muskrat 8647 @muskratjohn.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
“Kill Sone Nazis” Munchkin card
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ACLU @aclu.org · 04/02/2025
BREAKING: We’re suing the Trump administration to block its executive order attempting to restrict access to gender-affirming care for transgender people under the age of 19 nationwide.
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Inequality Media Civic Action @imcivicaction.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Halting spending approved by Congress. Firing independent inspectors general. Replacing civil servants with loyalists. Dismantling key federal agencies. All plans pulled from Project 2025. Remember when Trump denied knowing about the playbook and the media gave him a pass?
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
starting to think that “securing the canadian border” is at least as much about keeping us trapped in as it is keeping drugs out
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NPR @npr.org · 04/02/2025
As Trump surrounds himself with tech billionaires, NPR's @steveinskeep.bsky.social speaks with journalist David Hoffman about Russia's history, in which a few wealthy men grew very close to political power.
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What Americans can learn from the story of Russia's oligarchs
As Trump surrounds himself with tech billionaires, NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with journalist David Hoffman about Russia's history, in which a few wealthy men grew very close to political power.
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NPR @npr.org · 04/02/2025
Swedish police said that about 10 people, including the gunman, were killed during a shooting Tuesday at an adult education center.
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About 10 people are dead in a shooting at an adult education center in Sweden
Swedish police said that about 10 people, including the gunman, were killed during a shooting Tuesday at an adult education center.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
This is the way they do it in Budapest and Moscow.
A tweet from the account "U.S. Attorney DC". The tweet includes a statement from Edward R. Martin Jr., the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. The statement is presented in a quote box and reads: "Our initial review of the evidence presented to us indicates that certain individuals and/or groups have committed acts that appear to violate the law in targeting DOGE employees" said Edward R. Martin Jr., U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. "We are in contact with FBI and other law-enforcement partners to proceed rapidly. We also have our prosecutors preparing." Below the quote, there is a section with the name "Edward R. Martin Jr." and the title "United States Attorney District of Columbia" along with the seal of the Department of Justice.
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NPR @npr.org · 04/02/2025
The lawsuit alleges that Gaiman coerced sexual services from his former live-in nanny, and that Palmer "knowingly benefited" from Gaiman's actions.
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Neil Gaiman's former nanny files rape, human trafficking lawsuit
The lawsuit alleges that Gaiman coerced sexual services from his former live-in nanny, and that Palmer "knowingly benefited" from Gaiman's actions.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Trump and the GOP are trying to repeal a Biden admin rule that requires lead water pipes to be replaced. Tens of millions of people, including children, would continue to have contaminated drinking water if the rules are revoked. So the GOP is the party of lead poisoning now?
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Republicans move to repeal lead limits imposed by Biden-era rules
US government would be prohibited from ever mandating lead pipe replacement or lowering lead limits in water
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ACLU @aclu.org · 04/02/2025
The Alien Enemies Act was last invoked during World War II to justify the internment of thousands of Americans of Japanese ancestry. Resurrecting this 18th century law to carry out the president's mass deportation agenda would be unlawful.
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Trump plans to invoke obscure 18th century wartime law in bid for mass deportations
Trump is set to test the limits of his immigration crackdown by invoking a wartime law to deport immigrants alleged to be gang members without court hearings.
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Oscar&Felix @oscar-felix.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
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The Kreisau Circle @thekreisaucircle.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Concrete barricades are reportedly being built around the White House as Elon Musk's privately owned DOGE team illegally starts taking control of Treasury payments and federal agencies. Musk is seizing massive troves of government and private data, and we don't know how far reaching his access goes.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
“Musk’s DOGE crew lacked high-enough security clearance to access that information, so the two USAID security officials — John Vorhees and deputy Brian McGill — were legally obligated to deny access.”
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USAID security leaders on leave after trying to keep Musk's DOGE from classified info, officials say
The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they refused to turn over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Mu...
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ACLU @aclu.org · 02/02/2025
Sanctioning the International Criminal Court would have dangerous implications for the First Amendment and human rights accountability.
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Why Sanctioning the ICC Would Be Terrible for Civil Liberties | ACLU
Sanctions would endanger the investigation of war crimes across the globe and prove a grave blow to human rights.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 01/02/2025
For those unaware, in 1933, the first major Nazi book burning was of the first 30 years of research into trans and queer people, far before the concentration camps. Now, Trump has digitally burned the government's research on the same. hmd.org.uk/resource/6-m...
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Holocaust Memorial Day Trust | 6 May 1933: Looting of the Institute of Sexology
On 6 May 1933, the Institute of Sexology, an academic foundation devoted to sexological research and the advocacy of homosexual rights, was broken into and occupied by Nazi-supporting youth. Several d...
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Manda @fayequeenofswords.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
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Opinion | How Trump’s Deportation Plans Could Blow Up the Food System and Increase Migrant Labor
Instead of cutting back on undocumented immigrants, the new administration will be forced to provide more visas to keep food flowing to stores.
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Michael Squires @mgsquires.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
At least 40 Native residents of Phoenix-area sober living and treatment facilities died between spring 2022 and summer 2024, amid a Medicaid fraud crisis. Most of their families have received little explanation of how loved ones were preyed on. Via @maryhudetz.bsky.social @hannahbassett.bsky.social
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Dozens of People Died in Arizona Sober Living Homes as State Officials Fumbled Medicaid Fraud Response
Arizona officials acknowledged that a fraud scheme targeting Indigenous people with addictions cost taxpayers $2.5 billion. But they haven’t accounted publicly for the number of deaths tied to the sch...
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