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greytmama.bsky.social @greytmama.bsky.social · 1h
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🦝 Pepper Raccoon: Trash Priestess 🦝 @pepperraccoon.com · 28/09/2026
I was extremely stoked to be included in @dftbarecords.bsky.social’s Pizzamas fundraiser this year, bringing the @hankgreen.bsky.social Mola Cult vibes with this retro tee design! Head to pizzamas.com and get the goods, the offering this year is INSANE and you’re gonna want everything! 🍕🐟🤠
A beautiful Native American model with traditional hair ties and a western hat, wearing a blue Mola Pizza tee.Pepper modeling the Mola Pizza tee in her studio.The Mola Pizza design, featuring a pepperoni and mushroom pizza shaped like a Mola Mola with John Green’s face.
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I never thought in a million years that the president and First Lady of the United States would be targeting me personally and trying to hurt me and my kids. jojofromjerz.substack.com/p/be-best-be...
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Be Best. Be Quiet. Or Be Bankrupted.
Melania Trump is selling a story about lifting women up. I’m the mother of two she tried to frighten into submission.
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🇨🇦Demondawg’s minion 🇪🇸 @demondawg2021.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
7hrs!!!!!!🤬 #shameonyou
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DaughterOfDefiance @z-buck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I really, really hate this timeline... Also, why the hell was this NOT reported on when it happened (Mar 2026)???
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020 — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 26/09/2026
If Tennessee executes Christa Pike next week, she'd be the first woman executed by the state in more than 200 years — for a crime she committed when she was 18 nearly three decades ago. Governor Lee must spare her life before it's too late.
truthout.org
Tennessee Is Days Away From Executing a Sexual Assault Victim
Christa Pike’s lethal injection is booked for September 30. She may be the first woman Tennessee executes in 200 years.
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Alt-NIHscience4ALL @alt-nihscience4all.altgov.info · 25/09/2026
Let’s do our best to honor Dolly Parton’s memory today!
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/09/2026
Many of the babies’ autopsy reports were clear: Vitamin K deficiency was the immediate cause of death, or contributed to it. The reports also included details about parents refusing the vitamin K shot, a long-standard injection, for their newborns. (Published May)
propublica.org
What I Can’t Forget About the Babies Who Died After Not Receiving a Vitamin K Shot
Babies have died after not receiving the vitamin K shot at birth. Their autopsy records underscore how preventable their deaths could have been.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Have you ever tried to read a scientific journal article and been told “you don’t have access, pay to download this article?” Did you know that the author of that article gets $0 if you pay? Instead, you can email the author and ask for a free copy! I’d be delighted to help and answer questions!
Screenshot of a scientific journal paywall
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Ariaa® @ariaa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What started as one teenager’s idea is now pulling millions of kilograms of plastic out of the world’s oceans. I've been donating to this amazing org. since it's inception. Hope you will too. theoceancleanup.com/donate/ #Innovation #PlasticPlanet #OceanCleanUp #EnvironmentalSolutions
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Aunt Jules @japulver.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
1. Fuck Cornell 2. Fuck the Tompkins County District Attorney 3. It’s open season on women & no one gives a fuck. 4. Women are no where near angry enough. #AmericaHatesWomen www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
cbsnews.com
Former Cornell University student sues school, 7 fraternity members over rape allegations
Cornell University and seven Chi Phi fraternity members are facing a lawsuit over rape allegations.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 25/09/2026
Apparently $12M was moved from HHS's Office of Minority Health to help fund RFK Jr's security, while grants supporting preventive care for low income communities were canceled. Waste, fraud, abuse, and a spectacularly bad use of public health dollars 😒
wsj.com
Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 25/09/2026
A ruling to halt deportations of people to countries other than their own threw a core immigration policy of the Trump administration into question, at least temporarily, and prompted a desperate appeal to the Supreme Court on Thursday. to.pbs.org/3TneNte
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Trump administration appeals to Supreme Court as 3rd-country deportations are thrown into question
A ruling to halt deportations of people to countries other than their own threw a core immigration policy of the Trump administration into question, at least temporarily, and prompted a desperate appe...
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🦋MOM🦋 @momcjl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 25/09/2026
Respiratory virus season has entered the chat 🦠 😷 Don’t let it ruin your plans! Get your flu and COVID vaccines (& RSV if you’re eligible) Vaccines help to prevent infection and significantly reduce the risk of severe illness & hospitalization, plus help protect those who can’t be vaccinated. 💉💪💚
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Doctor Octopus @furiousplatypus007.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We must remember that sometimes all it takes to be a hero is to say no www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Not set in stone: teachers are defying mandates to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms
Some educators are pushing back in class and in court against the display of the religious code in public schools
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Liz Ahern 🌈🇲🇽🏳️‍⚧️☮️ @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“It is clear Wilber needs to be in a hospital.” They gave him a pain injection for the first time 1 hour before Rep Casar was scheduled to visit. No matter if you’re native born or immigrant, you deserve appropriate medical care. www.kxan.com/news/texas/c...
kxan.com
Congressmen Casar says bullet still inside Garcés Pérez, man shot by ICE
Texas Democratic U.S. Representatives Greg Casar and Joaquin Castro on Wednesday met with a man shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent on Sept. 20.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"About five million people in the country have already lost SNAP benefits — the government’s primary anti-hunger tool — because of the Trump/GOP bill... One retiree in Ohio described SNAP benefits as a 'lifeline.' Her benefits dropped in March from $250 to $44" www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/u...
nytimes.com
Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Is Starting to Bite Before the Midterm Elections
The tax cuts in President Trump’s signature achievement were the Republicans’ answer to voters’ economic struggles, but its health care and food assistance cuts are taking a toll.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23/09/2026
Y’all have seen the viral short clip. Here’s the full original. The energy we need when somebody tries to push disinformation down our throats.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ICE brutally detain woman's gardener-right in front of her house. 4 goons drag and violently pull man out of truck head-first. Kneel on his back after pinned down to pavement. "I can't breathe! I can't breathe!" he cries out. Incident occurred in Everett, Washington.
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🦋MOM🦋 @momcjl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“Inexplicably diverted” How does that happen? What the hell does that mean?
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A federal judge has ordered Texas to air condition all of the state’s prisons by the end of 2029 High temperatures violate the Constitution’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment, the judge ruled.
texastribune.org
Texas ordered to air condition all prisons by the end of 2029
High temperatures violate the Constitution’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment, the judge ruled. Just over a third of Texas prisons are fully air conditioned.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Through the end of August 2026, the House was in session for roughly 383 hours total. That’s an average of about 48 hours per month. Their average monthly floor time is well below the 80-hour monthly threshold the same Congress imposed on Medicaid recipients.
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Ms. Magazine @msmagazine.com · 23/09/2026
As doctors stopped prescribing hormone replacement during menopause, an uptick in fatal UTIs began. Why did FDA warnings against estrogen persist for decades? #MsReads via @usatoday.com
usatoday.com
Exclusive: FDA warnings persisted as UTIs turned deadly in menopause
Menopause increases the risk of UTIs which can lead to sepsis and death in older women. For years, the FDA discouraged the one drug that could help.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 20/09/2026
ICE Detention Claims 25th Life Since the Start of the Year Carlos Josué Marchena at Louisiana and Lianyong Wei in Saipan are the 25th and 24th people to die in ICE custody. Story by Spanish-language media, slow to hit English-language media. austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-detent...
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ICE Detention Claims 25th Life Since the Start of the Year
Carlos Josué Marchena at Louisiana and Lianyong Wei in Saipan are the 25th and 24th people to die in ICE custody. Story by Spanish-language media, slow to hit English-language media.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 22/09/2026
For more than 25 years, mifepristone has been approved for abortion in the U.S. But mifepristone and a similar drug have also been proven to treat conditions like uterine fibroids and endometriosis. to.pbs.org/4Aq5F7N
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How abortion drug restrictions make it harder to treat other conditions
For more than 25 years, mifepristone has been approved for abortion in the U.S. But mifepristone and a similar drug have also been proven to treat conditions like uterine fibroids and endometriosis. A...
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Deborah Lynn @mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
www.reuters.com/business/env... European Commission proposed rules on Monday requiring data centres in Europe to disclose how efficiently they use energy ​and water, as concerns grow over their consumption of resources.
reuters.com
EU to require data centres to disclose energy and water efficiency
The European Commission proposed rules on Monday requiring data centres in Europe to disclose how efficiently they use energy ​and water, as concerns grow over their consumption of resources.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NYT did a solid story with real reporting. (Lots more details than I've seen in local reporting so far.) Lauren McGaughy spent a lot of time with Elizdar, the wife of Wilber Rafael Garces Perez. (Last name withheld.) The wife told the reporter that he called right after he was shot.
Lauren McGaughy &
@Imcgaughy

A Venezuelan man was shot by ICE today in Austin, TX. I spent
hours outside the hospital with his wife, who told me he called
just after he was shot.

She didn't see him before he was discharged into federal
custody. More with @Christina_M18 @nytimes:
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Two women sit a huge granite block being used as a traffic separator. The blonde woman, Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch, the lawyer, is looking at her phone. She has her arm around Elizdar who is holding both hands over her own face. Obviously, crying and or in despair.

caption: The immigration lawyer Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch, left, sits with the wife of Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, who was shot by ICE agents and taken into custody.Credit...Lauren McGaughy/The New York Times
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Update from Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch, the immigration lawyer for Wilber Rafael Garces Perez who was shot by ICE on Sunday in Austin, Texas. ICE is giving his lawyer no information about him. And, the lawyer says she's seen a photo of a "gunshot wound below his neck."
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“Jesus doesn’t hear the prayers of those who wage war.” — Pope Leo XIV
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Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
BREAKING: Evanston police confirm a U.S. citizen was briefly detained by federal agents Sunday morning near Howard and Dodge before being released The man was taken to the hospital for injuries to his head, neck and teeth after agents drove off
evanstonnow.com
Federal agents detained U.S. citizen Sunday morning - Evanston Now
Police chief says officers responded to a man with injuries to head, neck and teeth on Howard and made contact with agents involved.
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Bruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The atmosphere just hit a new water-vapour record: 27.35 kg of water vapour per m2 in August 2026, ~20 trillion litres more water than the previous record. Warmer air holds ~7% more moisture per °C. More water vapour means more energy to fuel extreme weather.
theguardian.com
El Niño and global heating pushes water vapour in Earth’s atmosphere to record levels in August
Global heating contributes to record, with a warmer atmosphere able to hold more water, scientists say
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JustSayin @justsayin-fromx.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
FANTASTIC 🙏💙🙏
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Mike MacFerrin @icesheetmike.myatproto.social · 17/09/2026
We blew up a school full of children on the first day of the war and then did a double-tap on it to kill responders + family members. The “mistake” was blamed on a Palantir-built AI model telling us where to shoot missiles. 100% war crimes. Multiple people must be tried at The Hague.
truthout.org
Iranian Girls’ Elementary School Massacre Was a Double-Tap Strike, Medics Say
The tactic involves bombing a target and then launching a second strike meant to kill survivors and first responders.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Midwife in Lancaster, PA is seeing women with measles. (Pregnant people can't get measles vax.) "In her daily prenatal checkups, she is seeing moms who have the infection’s signature bumpy, red rash and fever, and families who have watched the sickness move through one family member to the next."
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 17/09/2026
🧵 1/ Women should not be dying from ectopic pregnancies. With timely diagnosis and treatment, these deaths should be extraordinarily rare. Yet a new ProPublica analysis found nearly 200 deaths from 2020–2025 almost double the previous six years. www.propublica.org/article/ecto...
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, raises questions about the role of abortion bans.
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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Oracle chairman Larry Ellison and CEO Mike Sicilia have been served with subpoenas to testify before lawmakers about a $17 billion increase in its projected costs to modernize the VA's medical records network. From Stars and Stripes' Linda F. Hersey:
stripes.com
Oracle executives subpoenaed to testify over price spike in VA medical records contract
Oracle executives face congressional subpoenas over a VA medical records project whose cost rose from $10 billion to $27 billion by 2031.
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Levi Anthony Luckenbach @lluck002.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Join tomorrow if you’re free! We hope to see you there! 💚✊ Hands Around the Kennedy Center Friday, September 18, 2026 at 6:30 PM ET The Kennedy Center 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Texans are angry at the Railroad Commission, which regulates oil and gas operations, for shutting them out of public comment and serving the industry instead of the public. This @saulelbein.bsky.social story forcefully shows why it's so important to elect @jon-rosenthaltx.bsky.social to the RRC.
expressnews.com
Texas' oil and gas regulator cuts out the public from its meetings
Last month the Railroad Commission of Texas — which oversees oil and gas, not railroads — ended guaranteed public comment at its monthly open meetings.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Kennedy Center was locked & fenced off today, because a court told Trump he can't put his name on it He'd rather shut the doors on the American people than follow the law @democracydefendersaction.org & WLG fight on w/ Rep.Beatty, & we'll get into it w/ @allinwithchris.bsky.social at 8:30👇 -TN
washingtonpost.com
Lawmaker requests emergency hearing as Kennedy Center remains closed
Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio), a Kennedy Center trustee, filed a motion requesting an emergency hearing so center officials can explain the closure despite a federal judge’s instructions hours earlier th...
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 17/09/2026
Massie's resolution to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the war in Iran and his bipartisan effort to force the release of more files in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation are all being left behind, blocked from votes. to.pbs.org/3USoIaQ
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Speaker Johnson recesses House early, blocking Massie's push to impeach Hegseth
Massie’s resolution to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the war in Iran and his bipartisan effort to force the release of more files in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation are all being left ...
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Ms. Magazine @msmagazine.com · 16/09/2026
As children around the world begin a new school year, 2.6 million Afghan girls remain barred from secondary education—and the Taliban is reshaping what boys learn, too.
msmagazine.com
Five Years Without a Classroom: Afghan Girls Cannot Wait Any Longer
Five years after the Taliban banned girls from secondary school, 2.6 million Afghan girls remain excluded from education.
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Our health care system in America is disgusting. A clear indication that our government doesn't give a fuck if we live or die.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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