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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 07/06/2024

me: time to do some laundry, let me close this door so the cat doesn't come in after me tarragon, the cat: i am bereft; mother has passed from my sight. where is she. where is she. if i am not permitted to see mother, i shall scream.

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Rep. Ro Khanna @khanna.house.gov · 22/04/2025

The average age of a first-time homebuyer is at a record high of 38 years old. Housing is a basic human and economic right that’s now out of reach for most Americans. We need to pass my Stop Wall Street Landlords Act and do more to stop corporate landlords from inflating the housing market.

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HawthornFM #🟦 🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @hawthornfm.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

I’m in the hospital and when I refused to take the drug ivermectin, I asked to have it removed from my medicine list. They failed, and added it back to my drug list in the middle of the night. Good thing I noticed it had been returned in the middle of the night.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

You gotta remember that for centuries men have stolen from women. They stole their labor, they stole their ideas and passed them off as their own, they stole their potential, they stole their freedom and autonomy. The past few decades have upended the historical precedent and they want blood over it

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

A lot of conservative men would burn the entire world down if it meant getting women out of the workforce because their entire sense of self is based on the idea that they were born superior to women

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HawthornFM #🟦 🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @hawthornfm.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I’m having massive nosebleed for sunny dinner that anyone could have.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

An insane response. Don’t let up on this story.

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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Imagine thinking a guy who charges around $100K for a vehicle with glued on metal panels that just fall off is the one to be trusted anywhere near our government.

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Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

It seems like when you write a decision giving the President king-like powers, you shouldn't be indignant when he acts like a king.

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sylviashrawder.bsky.social @sylviashrawder.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

One of the dumbest and unforgivable decision ever made

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought: - 1.65 million deaths from AIDS - 500,000 from lack of vaccines - 550,000 from lack of food aid - 290,000 from malaria - 310,000 from TB

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tmel1219.bsky.social @tmel1219.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

#ProudBlue #Voices4Victory “If trump gets rid of Medicaid or reduces its benefits, it would be a death sentence for my son.” This is just ONE story out of Colorado. #SaveMedicaid

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

On Friday, we broke the news that the VA would stop treating trans vets with dignity in facilities. VA press secretary Pete Kasperowicz demanded a retraction multiple times. We stood by the story. Today, the VA announced it's stopping care for transgender vets. www.advocate.com/news/va-stop...

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Mjkwho @mjkwho.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

How many signs of democratic collapse do we need? A push to impeach judges not for misconduct but defying Trump? Refusal to honor a court order to turn around planes? Trump invoking the Alien Enemies Act outside wartime? A budget clearing him to ignore Congress? Jailing students? The list goes on.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Everyone must understand where this is headed. Martial law. Black-bagging. Firing on protesters. Curtailing freedom of assembly. Trump ignoring Congress and judges. Any politician who doesn't understand that these fascists won't stop, and their destination is predetermined, shouldn't be in office.

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

"People who have been to prison just once experience homelessness at a rate nearly 7 times higher than the general public. But people who have been incarcerated more than once have rates 13 times higher than the general public ... [They] are unnecessarily funneled back through the 'revolving door.'"

prisonpolicy.org

Nowhere to Go: Homelessness among formerly incarcerated people

Report calculating homelessness among formerly incarcerated people by race and gender.

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

“When we look at Auschwitz we see the end… It's important to remember that the Holocaust actually did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed from words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanisation & escalating violence.” - @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social

A poster with a b/w picture of Auschwitz, with the text ‘Auschwitz: Not long ago. Not far away’

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foglightmj.bsky.social @foglightmj.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

bsky.app/profile/meid...

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Stephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

…of Ukraine. For years, Putin repeatedly called Ukraine an “artificial” country, and in 2021, infamously wrote a 5,000-word essay entitled "On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians" which foreshadowed the Kremlin’s intellectual justification for its invasion of Ukraine less than…

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Stephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Trump’s schemes for world domination include the invasion and annexation of Canada. This is not a drill. This is not a joke. This is an evil, megalomaniacal plot. Trump’s insistence that Canada is not a real country is eerily similar to Vladimir Putin’s arguments in the run-up to his invasion…

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

The FBI is trying to criminalize Habitat for Humanity for receiving climate grants from the EPA. Yes, the nonprofit that builds houses for low-income people. This clearly demonstrates just how absurd and extreme the Trump regime has become. It's targeted harassment.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Enraging

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1stBascombe @1stbascombe.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

@schumer.senate.gov needs to be primaried!

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HawthornFM #🟦 🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @hawthornfm.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I need to learn how to use a tens unit to gently cause some of my pain to go away.

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Zinnia Jones 🐍🗡️ @zinniajones.com · 10/03/2025

This led into several fascinating discussions about categorizing knife and blade types as well as defining things in law, including "zombie knives", what is and isn't a karambit, in what jurisdictions a person actually "can have" the Spyderco Harpy, and whether it is "little" enough to own and carry

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 10/03/2025

"just asking questions"

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

“If the federal government can disappear a legal US permanent resident without reason or warrant, then they can disappear US citizens too.” newrepublic.com/post/192558/...

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AOC Rips “Tyrannical and Un-American” Arrest of Mahmoud Khalil

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had a serious warning about the ICE arrest of Palestinian activist (and U.S. green card holder) Mahmoud Khalil.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 10/03/2025

Trump is fucking up US corporate branding across the board right now. Folks overseas who have loved Levis or Jack Daniels or whatever are gonna start opting out... and stay opted out. Massive cultural cache being flushed down the toilet for the pride of kings.

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

“Zelenskyy flew to Washington, but he walked into the Kremlin.” Rep. Jake Auchincloss

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serena-spencer-esq.bsky.social @serena-spencer-esq.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

The outbreak he is NOT fighting. He is not advising Americans on the vaccine that initially eradicated measles, in America. Can ANYONE explain that?

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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

I beg you to share this story because it's a travesty! Vivi, less than 3 months away from graduating, lost her commission to the military under President Trump's bigoted purge of our armed forces. Vivi was in my best friend's son's ROTC detachment & is his friend. www.laloyolan.com/news/she-wan...

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She wanted to be in the military. Trump’s executive order is stopping her.

Vivi Dallmer, a biochemistry major, knew she wanted to be in the military since middle school. After what she described as a fruitful career in ROTC, due to President Donald

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Lisa Reyna Loe @lisaloe.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

ESPECIALLY after the GOP came down on Jamie Raskin for wearing a scarf head covering last year for *cancer* treatments.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

The long term impact of Gamer Gate has been astounding. Shaping media and public discourse via the specter of omnipresent online harassment campaigns is now a standard part of the U.S. political landscape.

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LaResistance47 @laresistance47.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

When mild mannered medical researchers - who are happy to do work for the good of people with little fame or fortune - are pissed off enough to protest, you know shit is going off the rails www.denver7.com/news/front-r...

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Researchers say scientific discoveries are on the line as hundreds 'stand up for science' at State Capitol

The rally, one of several in Colorado, was part of nationwide Stand Up To Science rallies to advocate for continued government support for science.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 09/03/2025

“I didn’t want a transgender child. I’m so ashamed of myself now” Nothing but love for @alicemydaughter.bsky.social for this interview with the Sunday Times magazine for her book, "Her name is Alice"

Double page Sunday Times magazine spread - “I didn’t want a transgender child. I’m so ashamed of myself now”
When Caroline Litman discovered that her 16-year-old wanted to become a girl, she was heartbroken. She explains how she learnt to accept Alice as her daughter — but couldn’t save her life
INTERVIEW BY LAURA PULLMAN, PORTRAIT BY ANNA BATCHELOR

The shock set in the moment they found the GP’s letter, left open in the kitchen beside the kettle. It was an autumn morning in 2018 when Caroline Litman’s husband, Peter, rushed upstairs to confess to his wife that he’d glimpsed the letter to their 16-year-old. It raised the possibility that the anxiety their child had been suffering might stem from “gender dysphoria”. The couple were blindsided.

“It wasn’t a boy child that I longed for. It was a happy child. If transitioning could bring that happy child back out, I was all for it”

Shortly afterwards, there were moments of light. Alice asked if the family could get a new dog — their old dog had recently died — and within a week they had found Pippin, a one-eyed Romanian rescue dog who became a dependable friend. That summer Alice came downstairs from her bedroom wearing a dress for the first time — a floral item that seemed to make her giddy with happiness. “I was trying so hard to be loving and accepting,” Litman says, “but inside I was, like, ‘What’s she doing? She looks ridiculous.’ Oh God, bless her!” she says, laughing fondly. “I felt really uncomfortable.”

In the UK, Litman argues, trans healthcare is not fit for purpose. In March 2020, after Alice had turned 18, she was discharged from CAMHS psychiatric services as she was now a legal adult. Aged 19 she moved out of home to live with a friend in Brighton. The hope was that she would find a job or complete a course that could lead to a university place, but by her mental health was too fragile. In April 2022, using an e-consult form, Alice told a new GP in Brighton of her fears that she wasn’t taking the right medication. “I often feel hopeless, and helpless and that life is not worth living,” she wrote. An appointment was made for July.

She didn’t make it. On May 26, 2022, around 8.30am, a policeman knocked on Litman’s front door. She assumed that something had happened to her 95-year-old mother, who’d spent the night in hospital after a gardening accident. “My brain was protecting me,” she says, quietly remembering that morning.

The offcer suggested that the couple sit down in their living room before breaking the news. A body had been found by a passer-by earlier that morning on the Undercliff Walk between Brighton and Rottingdean. The first devastating task was telling Kate, who was studying for a history master’s at Leeds University, and Harvey, who was travelling with his girlfriend in Guatemala, before they heard the news somehow elsewhere.

Litman doesn’t like gentle euphemisms for death. “I just find it so offensive because Alice’s death wasn’t peaceful and calm and a slipping away,” she says. “It was cruel and brutal, harsh and horrible.”

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

After the 1st unverified reports that Russians used a defunct gas pipeline to infiltrate Sudzha,were subsequently crushed by Ukrainian forces,Z-bloggers are now openly criticizing the operation as another failure of the Russian military:⤵️ 📹Ukrainian forces spotting&neutralizing the pipeline attack

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

If moral panics were based on any truth whatsoever, they wouldn't be panics.

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Michelle Fowle @mmanire.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

It would be a real shame if y'all shared this online, printed out a few and hung up all around the Eastern Shore of Maryland. 😉

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I wonder if Big Balls and his boss Numb Nuts know that the one of the largest supervolcanic systems on the planet lies beneath the northwest corner of Wyoming and someday will explode with the force of over a million Hiroshima fission bombs and that maybe volcanos are worth studying?

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HawthornFM #🟦 🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @hawthornfm.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

New: A Canada goose has fought off a bald eagle that tried to attack it. After 20 minutes the eagle ran off.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 07/03/2025

Basically the entire women's history month proclamation by the White House is a list of transphobic actions.

A screenshot of a webpage from "The White House" displaying a statement about government policies on gender identity, women's rights, and sports. The statement claims that the administration is protecting women from "gender extremism," reinstating policies that recognize biological sex, and ensuring fairness in women's sports. It mentions an executive order prohibiting the "X" gender marker on government documents, reinforcing Title IX protections, and directing actions against schools that allow transgender athletes in women's sports. Additional topics include border security, the economy, and in vitro fertilization access.

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