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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Should be a huge story. 18 year old died in a police precinct after an arrest on the Fourth of July. So far, family and friends say police explanations aren't credible. Monday, NYT does basic story. ⬇️ Yesterday, community rallied at precinct. (Very sad.) Local TV was there. Why no NYT follow-up?

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 07/07/2025

Now is not the time to politicize a natural disaster because it might hurt Republicans. If it hurts Democrats there's no waiting period.

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Heather Irobunda, MD, FACOG @heatherirobundamd.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

This was my flight approximately 2 weeks ago heading back to NYC from London. It was less than half empty when they told us that boarding was complete. I guess people really aren’t coming to the US like they used to… Of note: I’ve taken this flight before and I’ve never seen it this empty!

Very empty flight heading from London to NYC. Have never seen it this empty before. Probably due to the US being a dumpster fire.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Your regular reminder that most people in this country can't afford to move to another state and the inclination to say they're getting what they voted for in the devastation of a hurricane or flood or whatever the hell is a failure of common sense and empathy on multiple levels.

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Heather Irobunda, MD, FACOG @heatherirobundamd.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

People are showing their whole entire asses. I hope you’re not suggesting that children deserve to drown in floods because of how their state voted in an election.

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IYKYK 🌮 @nisslbody.blacksky.app · 05/07/2025

Anybody I see espousing the "FAFO" sentiment about those poor kids drowning is going on my block list. No exceptions. I don't associate with shitty people who take grisly delight in the notion that there's any justice in children dying because of how some of the adults in their region voted.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 05/07/2025

Just look at the food deserts in DC where you have one grocery store for thousands of people. They don't care that there's a lack of access to food for poor Black people at all. If it comes down to it, they will indeed just close, leave people starving, & keep it pushing.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/07/2025

The fact we have secret police whisking people off the streets doesn’t get enough attention. It ain’t normal and we’re further down the road to authoritarianism than you think.

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Heather Irobunda, MD, FACOG @heatherirobundamd.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Between the rebrand of trickle down economics and weapons of mass destruction, I’m truly not enjoying this timeline as an elder millennial.

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The Last Jedi @bbkayaker.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I remember during undergrad talking with a professor from the USSR re their politics and its societal disadvantages, i.e. "At least we in the US are free since unlike USSR we don't have to carry passports all the time just to cross into different parts of the country." - good times

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Heather Irobunda, MD, FACOG @heatherirobundamd.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I have seen so many folks with their passports peaking out of their pockets while walking around NYC lately (including the guy standing in front of me on the train this morning). This is giving police state.

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Stephanie Nolen @stephanienolen.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

This was supposed to be a breakthrough year in the 44-year-long struggle against H.I.V. It's turned into something very different. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/h...

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Promise of Victory Over H.I.V. Fades as U.S. Withdraws Support

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

It brings me no joy to report this, but it’s been almost a full day of the Mamdani candidacy, I walked from Midtown all the way to Greenwich and back, and the city is in SHAMBLES. I saw a man doing pull-up sets on scaffolding. There was a *jazz band* playing in the park, in front of CHILDREN!

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

"Mamdani’s victory needn’t be a death knell for a winning Democratic party. It should be a death knell for an ossified Democratic establishment. And it should be a wake up call for non-socialist Democrats to show some of the audacity and the ability of Mamdani." www.thebulwark.com/p/wake-up-ca...

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A Wake-Up Call for the Dem Establishment

What Zohran Mamdani’s shock win in last night’s NYC mayoral primary means.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done. My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it. I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

Zohran looking out on a victory night crowd.

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Heather Irobunda, MD, FACOG @heatherirobundamd.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Ahhh so the weeks of telling everyone around us not to rank Cuomo worked. That’s how community works, folks!

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Heather Irobunda, MD, FACOG @heatherirobundamd.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

I woke up hopeful this morning. What a lovely feeling!

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Pay attention, @democrats.org: Democratic voters haven’t become more conservative. We’ve became disengaged. Ignore that at your peril.

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Heather Irobunda, MD, FACOG @heatherirobundamd.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Considering I was born and raised in NYC and lived through tougher times here, you can’t convince us of this….

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Sending thoughts and prayers tonight to Matt Yglesias, Jonathan Chait, Ritchie Torres, Charlie Kirk, Libs of TikTok, and many more.

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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

"In a party divided over how to push back against Trump and what fights to pick, Mamdani offered a clear sense of direction." Read @timothypmurphy.bsky.social's initial reaction to tonight's stunning New York mayoral primary vote: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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“He won”: Andrew Cuomo acknowledges Zohran Mamdani’s stunning primary victory

New Yorkers chose the guy who was everywhere—not the guy who saw danger everywhere.

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

“If international medical graduates can’t start their medical residencies on time on July 1, the ramifications are so far-reaching that it is really unconscionable,” said Kimberly Pierce Burke, executive director of the Alliance of Independent Academic Medical Centers.”

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Trump Travel Restrictions Bar Residents Needed at U.S. Hospitals

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Heather Irobunda, MD, FACOG @heatherirobundamd.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

To do this during Pride Month shows that CRUELTY is the point. We will still continue to support our LGBTQ+ community despite what the government says because WE are the only ones who can save US. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/w...

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Trump Administration Will End L.G.B.T.Q. Suicide Prevention Service

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Heather Irobunda, MD, FACOG @heatherirobundamd.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I find myself really struggling with the news of Ananda Lewis’ passing. Everyone has the right to live their lives on their own terms, but it still can make it hard for the friends and family they leave behind. 1/ people.com/ananda-lewis...

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Ananda Lewis, Former MTV VJ and Talk Show Host, Dies at 52

Ananda Lewis has died at the age of 52. She became known in the '90s as a BET host and MTV VJ before launching her own TV talk show. In 2020, she revealed she had been diagnosed with breast cancer.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Salvadoran restaurant workers rendering aid to an LA sheriff's officer who got pepper-sprayed. 🤔

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

It’s immigration today, but it’ll be something else another day. Trump’s deployment of the US military to Los Angeles constitutes a threat of potential military occupation for any large-scale expression of political dissent. That’s what’s happening.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

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Heather Irobunda, MD, FACOG @heatherirobundamd.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Try as they might to make vaccines out of vogue, the research shows that they should always be in

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Rep. LaMonica McIver @replamonica.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

This indictment is no more justified than the original charges. I will not be intimidated. My full statement:

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Jay Bhattacharya lacks integrity, seems to have no moral compass at all, & is classless, clueless, out of his depth, a right wing ideologue, & a MAGA/MAHA bro. His censorship of, & political interference in, US science to push Trump's extreme right wing agenda are grotesque, damaging, & dangerous.

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Heather Irobunda, MD, FACOG @heatherirobundamd.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

This will have deleterious effects for generations

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

I like this Gavin more than podcast Gavin.

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Heather Irobunda, MD, FACOG @heatherirobundamd.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

It’s because it’s about control and not actually about caring about children

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 10/06/2025

No matter what a peaceful protestor may intend, it’s police who are deciding when to use violence and whom to use it against—and nothing we saw this weekend indicates their violence was confined to those who were not “peaceful.”

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The Los Angeles Protests Are an Act of Self-Defense

Residents of L.A. aren’t merely protesting ICE; they’re attempting to protect their communities from ICE’s raids.

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Anonymous @youranonjd.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

The regime occupation of California is framed as restoring order, but protest is not rebellion. Peaceful dissent is a right. Rebranding protest as insurrection is state propaganda. We are witnessing militarized suppression, not enforcement of justice. This is power without consent #3E

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