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CapableofEmpathy

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Pro civil rights science education and democracy 🇺🇸 💛🖤Go Hawkeyes 🖤💛 Iowa City ‘87-‘96 Broncos Nuggets Avs and (sigh) Rockies Love Colorado and Denver F MAGAts Atheist Ally ✊🏾🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Today would’ve been my father’s 95th birthday. In search of a better life, he came to America with only $2.43 and a Korean-English dictionary. He had no friends or family here. Like many immigrants, he dreamt of the promise of what this country could offer. Each day I work to honor his memory.
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🫶🏻Layla🫶🏻 @laylabelle3.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It’s not 1950 and I hope you get your ass beat. Beyond beat!!!
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 07/08/2026
BREAKING: Notorious anti-Muslim bigot and fascist Rep Andy Ogles, pictured here with an absurd number of guns to overcompensate, has lost his primary election to Charlie Hatcher. This despite having Trump’s full throated endorsement. Next term, Ogles will NOT be a member of the US Congress.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Private prison company GEO Group, which runs Delaney Hall, gave $1M+ to Trump's Super PAC in 2024 and his inauguration in 2025. Not only has Trump since rewarded GEO with billions in ICE contracts, but a top former GEO executive has now been named acting ICE director. Cashing in on cruelty.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
UPDATE: The Colorado Democratic Party's central committee is now considering a measure to censure or otherwise punish Gov Jared Polis (D) for giving clemency to Tina Peters. I'll thread details here.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Disgraceful. Absolutely disgraceful. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Colorado governor grants election denier Tina Peters clemency, reduces sentence
Peters was convicted in 2024 after prosecutors showed she facilitated unauthorized access to voting equipment and helped expose sensitive data, actions driven by false claims that the 2020 election wa...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/05/2026
Inflation is at a three-year high. Everything costs more — groceries, gas, healthcare, a plane ticket. The math is simple. Every American dollar spent overseas on war is a dollar that could’ve been spent here at home to pay for a dignified life. It's time we change the equation.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
It’s staggering How swiftly states in the South can still move to stymie Black voters And how ready they were to do so
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 27/01/2026
Lady Gaga performing "Won't you be my neighbor" for Rocket Mortgage Super Bowl commercial. www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3o5...
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Won’t You Be My Neighbor? | Lady Gaga
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Haven’t seen many athletes comment on the news in Minneapolis outside of Haliburton, but here’s two time All/Pro Broncos guard Quinn Meinerz, who takes the field in an hour:
Quinn Meinerz sharing a critical post about ICE
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
“Heartbroken but also very angry… sickening lies by the administration… reprehensible and disgusting… Alex is clearly not holding a gun… please get the truth out about our son, he was a good man…”
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/01/2026
NEW VIDEO: this appears to be the footage from the woman in the pink coat.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
We’re supposed to believe this is a domestic terrorist attacking ICE with a gun
A photo of the man murdered by ICE today, just before the shooting. He’s standing and holding a phone in his right hand and holding his empty left hand to the sky and looking behind him at a woman running away while an ICE agent closes in on him from the front. On the ground behind the man is a woman that the victim will soon try to help, leading several ICE agents to attack him and pin him to the ground, before shooting him several times.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/01/2026
ANOTHER ANGLE: the original video was deleted but I screen capped it. Here it is.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 22/01/2026
Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
NEW: House Speaker Mike Johnson – after two years of deflecting questions on the matter – is now arguing that the legally-required January 6 plaque must be re-considered (more)
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Morgan Fairchild @morgfair.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
The GOP is taking away your health care. Here's how it's also working to make you sicker www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...
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The GOP is taking away your health care. Here's how it's also working to make you sicker
Given how the Republicans who run Congress let health insurance premiums for over 24 million Americans explode by not acting last week before going on vacation, it appears former Congressman Alan Gray...
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas. It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...
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CANCELLED 60 MINUTES CECOT DOC
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/12/2025
Looking for the truth about what it was like inside CECOT? Earlier this year, we spoke to the men the Trump administration deported to El Salvador. Hear about what they endured, in their own words: www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8INs141xeQ
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 18/12/2025
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
We are failing our kids
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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/12/2025
White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross
White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
🎵 “Join Ice” - @wellesmusic on Colbert
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 21/11/2025
Statement from Rep. Crockett on Threat at D.C. Office
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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment. Jared Polis has failed Colorado.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Governor Polis Orders Flags to Half-Staff to Honor the Anniversary of September 11th and the Passing of Charlie Kirk
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Declan McKelvy @springwatch2000.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/tru...
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Exclusive | Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump.
The leather-bound book was compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell. The president says the letter ‘is a fake thing.’
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Happening now, they’re blaring this mix at ICE in LA. I added captions.
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CapableofEmpathy @fdonthacon.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Goldfinch on an Iowa prairie. Iowa’s state bird:) 🪶 #birds
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CapableofEmpathy @fdonthacon.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Iowa dickcissel at Neal Smith refuge 🪶 sound up :)
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Serendipity @serendipityinfl.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Kyle Clark has the best commentaries in the business!!!!.. Would love to see him get a Meet the Press-like show one day..he is the type of journalist who will ask those "hard" questions on both sides of the political spectrum!
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CapableofEmpathy @fdonthacon.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
House Finches warming up in the Colorado sun. #Birds 🪶
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Last year, when I was at MSNBC, I did a 10-minute deep-dive into RFK Jr's anti-vaxxer role in the measles outbreak that killed dozens and dozens of kids in Samoa. I hope every Senator voting in his confirmation process for HHS knows about this crucial and awful story:
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RFK Jr., anti-vaxxers, and a measles outbreak: Mehdi’s deep dive
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Anyone who is anti-vax is pro-death. Period. The science and data do not lie. And they don’t care about your podcast.
Post showing precipitous decline of share of deaths in Massachusetts from diseases for which vaccines are now available, from 70% in 1840 to low digits % by 1950-60 where it is stayed. 

Caption: There are not many places on earth where we have detailed cause-of-death data from before the era of widespread vaccination.

Massachusetts is one of those places.

From 1842-1877, 70% of all deaths were from diseases which we today have vaccines to prevent.
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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 24/11/2024
If you are in Oklahoma or know others that are with school age children, please pass this along to them. Defense of Democracy created opt-out forms for Ryan Walter’s forced bible instruction. Let’s keep getting in good trouble! #EduSky #Resist kfor.com/news/oklahom...
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Non-profit creates opt out forms against State Superintendent Ryan Walters
A non-profit called Defense of Democracy has created opt-out forms for parents who want their child to have no interaction with Ryan Walters in any capacity, which includes the recent prayer video.
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RedditCFB @redditcfb.com · 22/11/2024
Iowa QB Cade McNamara states he has not been cleared after a concussion against Northwestern (10/26) and therefore did not travel for this weekend's game at Maryland.
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John Steppe @jsteppe1.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Kirk Ferentz on his radio show regarding the #Hawkeyes' QB1 against Maryland: "We're not playing yet, but Jackson (Stratton) looks like the guy that will be going, and he'll get the start. Confident that he'll do a great job. ... If he's our guy, we'll go with him and see what we can do."
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The Onion @theonion.com · 19/11/2024
Trump Locks Bathroom Door So Elon Musk Can’t Follow Him In theonion.com/trump-locks-...
Trump Locks Bathroom Door So Elon Musk Can’t Follow Him In

-The Onion
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FWC Indivisible @fwcindivisible.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
This is our country, not your church. The Bill of Rights guarantees our right to freedom of speech & religion & to be free from others imposing their religious views on us. Protect our civil rights & freedoms. Stand up against White Christian Nationalism. bit.ly/3ZaXLPc
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HawaiiDelilah™ 🌊 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇧 @hawaiidelilah.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Just ordered my free Covid tests (thanks Mr. Octopus). You should too. covidtests.gov
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ASPR COVID-19 Testing NAVIGATION
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Chad Leistikow @chadleistikow.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Cade McNamara is QB1 again for the Hawkeyes. The latest on Iowa's QB room here. www.hawkcentral.com/story/sports...
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Leistikow: Cade McNamara is back again, prepares to lead Iowa football into Maryland
Cade McNamara's underwhelming Iowa football career gets one final breath of life after Hawkeyes' Brendan Sullivan is sidelined with an ankle injury.
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Hawkeyes Mic @hawkeyesmic.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Good news for #Hawkeyes MBB. Fran McCaffery has signed a top-100 big man...
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Thanks for noticing.
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Denver Broncos @denver-broncos.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
🧹🧹🧹
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NPR @npr.org · 17/11/2024
President-elect Trump won landslide support in much of farm country, but his embrace of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his plan for a tariff fight with China alarms many farmers and agriculture experts.
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Some in the U.S. farm industry are alarmed by Trump's embrace of RFK Jr. and tariffs
President-elect Trump won landslide support in much of farm country, but his embrace of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his plan for a tariff fight with China alarms many farmers and agriculture experts.
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Had Enough Yet? @catwoman71.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
“Trump criticized immigration policies that overall target essential farm workers, many of whom come from outside the U.S. Our dairy and meat industries rely heavily on these workers and sending them home or restricting immigration threatens to collapse Wisconsin’s agricultural economy.”
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Wisconsin Farmer Calls Election Results a Disaster for Agriculture
Lincoln County Farmer Hans Breitenmoser sounds an alarm about the new administration’s pending impact on agriculture and rural communities.
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CapableofEmpathy @fdonthacon.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Former Hawkeye Riley Moss is killing it with the Broncos! Couldn’t love it more. 🧡💙 youtube.com/shorts/l4784...
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Riley Moss Gets the 1st Pasty INT in 22 Years!
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CapableofEmpathy @fdonthacon.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
NBA:Nuggets NFL: Broncos NHL: Avs NCAA: IOWA HAWKEYES MLB: Rockies WNBA: Fever Soccer: Rapids Def need more sports on this app!
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