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Friend, ally, therapist, & mother, just catching up on yesterday's news. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MSW, former therapist & case manager for ppl with mental illness in the criminal justice system Mother of autistic young adult, chronic pain sufferer

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/09/2025
You heard— the West Coast is forming a health alliance to defend vaccines and save lives. Florida’s big move? Eliminating vaccine mandates and calling it “freedom.” 📌 NOTE TO ALL: Deadly viruses don’t care about state lines.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
So it is the guns then? 🤔 www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/p...
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Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting @pcgvr.org · 09/07/2025
"American youth were 15 times more likely to die from firearms than children in other wealthy countries... The rise in firearm deaths — which became the leading cause of death among American children and youth in 2020 — reflects policy failures around gun safety."
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Why Are More American Kids Dying Than Peers Abroad? CHOP Study Reveals Stark Reality
A major new JAMA study reveals that American children are dying at rates up to 80% higher than kids in other wealthy countries, with chronic illness, gun deaths, and mental health issues driving the c...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
NEW: MyPillowGuy Mike Lindell found liable for defamation for his statements about Dominion Voting Systems executive Eric Coomer. Federal jury orders Lindell to pay $2.3M, far less than the $62.7M requested by Coomer’s attorneys.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Mike Lindell lost. And he’s thrilled. A final report on the MyPillow Guy’s election rigging defamation trial in Denver.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Jurors are deliberating in MyPillowGuy Mike Lindell's election rigging defamation trial. They deliberated 2-3 hrs Friday then returned at 7am today. A reminder from last month on why I believe many in media and politics aren't talking about the trial, despite its stakes ⬇️
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/06/2025
This will be on the history books as the start of a dictatorship backed by the military.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
WATCH: Terry Vo speaks out against the ICE raids terrorizing Nashville immigrants
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 03/06/2025
I’m officially running to be the Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee. These are not normal times—and this cannot be a business-as-usual moment. Read my full letter to my colleagues here: crockett.house.gov/media/press-...
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett Officially Announces Candidacy for Ranking Member of House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett officially announced that she is running to serve as Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
COLORADO… My Pillow Guy Mike Lindell admitting in court he has no evidence the 2020 election was rigged…
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 03/06/2025
42,500 deaths annually. That's the number projected by a Yale study on the loss of Medicaid coverage due to Trump's disgusting abomination bill.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
PRO PUBLICA: Of the 238 men sent to an El Salvador mega prison, only 6 had prior violent crime convictions. 0 were on the gang member list. 130 had no criminal history. 32 had minor offenses. All 238 thought they were being sent back to Venezuela. www.instagram.com/p/DKcjM7FPhz...
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Of course, it does. Trump Administration Cancels Scores of Grants to Study Online Misinformation www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/b...
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Trump Administration Cancels Scores of Grants to Study Online Misinformation
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Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Joshua Lee Atwood, who was pardoned by Donald Trump, was in court last week for a "status hearing on charges connected with a stabbing at a Chester restaurant in April 2023." Atwood is now the 9th pardoned Capitol Rioter to be arrested or face additional criminal charges since Trump's pardons. ⬇️
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Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
The DOD is gutting Minerva. "Dozens of researchers with grants under the Minerva Research Initiative—studying violent extremism, disinformation, and threats from climate change, for example—have had their grants terminated" www.science.org/content/arti...
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Pentagon guts national security program that harnessed social science
Dozens of U.S. academics lose grants from Minerva program for studies related to terrorism, drug trafficking, and other threats
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Dr. Christine Sarteschi, LCSW @drsarteschi.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Neo-Nazi group plots rebuild as Trump’s FBI chief takes helm, audio reveals Exclusive: Terrorist group the Base appears defiant as new administration aims to deprioritize threat from far right: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Neo-Nazi group plots rebuild as Trump’s FBI chief takes helm, audio reveals
Exclusive: Terrorist group the Base appears defiant as new administration aims to deprioritize threat from far right
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Ooo this is a good one ☺️
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Ik Reads the News @ikreadsthenews.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Some believe the AntiChrist was installed yesterday. All I know is that today, hell is in the process of freezing over here in Florida.
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Dr. Christine Sarteschi, LCSW @drsarteschi.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Tina Peters gives an update from prison. She says: -she has no freedom; she's in a small cell -she can't connect with the other ladies because they did something to deserve their incarceration (presumably she did not)
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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
FACT SHEET: Vice President Harris Announces Final Rule Removing Medical Debt from All Credit Reports www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...
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FACT SHEET: Vice President Harris Announces Final Rule Removing Medical Debt from All Credit Reports | The White House
Today’s final rule will remove $49 billion in unpaid medical bills from the credit reports of 15 million Americans. In addition, the Vice President is
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Cynthia Miller-Idriss @milleridriss.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
In the two days since this segment, I’ve gotten at least a dozen messages & emails from parents or teachers telling about the awful things their girls have been experiencing or asking for copies of the resource for schools etc- and a handful of messages, all from men, asking to “talk” with me 1/
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
"For three years, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office produced its own crack cocaine, so it could sell it to people that deputies would then arrest for buying crack cocaine."
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Broward Co. to vacate convictions for people who bought crack made by the Sheriff's Office
For three years, the Broward County Sheriff's Office produced its own crack cocaine, so it could sell it to people that deputies would then arrest.
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Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
"Bad as the status quo might be, stranger times lie ahead that may make us long for today’s echo chambers. Soon, our bubbles will shrink further and further, until our digital worlds involve only ourselves."
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AI Will Turn Our Lives into The Truman Show
Large language models can create muddled, misinformed multiverses
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I’m still not watching or listening to the news. It’s been great to be honest. So much room for activities!
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 02/12/2024
Nice work everyone. They have been playing this game for a while
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
The way the same incel Magaidiots who’ve been telling me to “cry harder” since the election are melting the fuck down right now over Hunter’s pardon… 😂😂
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Team Trump’s spend on the election: $1.9 billion The amount of debt he saddled us with the last time he was in office: $7.8 trillion Watching “cry harder” MAGA bros melting the fuck down over Joe Biden pardoning his son Hunter: Priceless.
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I Smoked Kirkmas @dknight10k.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
So does Hunter get an Ambassadorship too or are pardons only bad when Biden does it
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Another banger from @betsyphillips.bsky.social of @nashvillescene.com on Tennessee schools banning hundreds of books thanks to a new Republican law, where she says what we often say: “The law they’re following should obviously remove the Bible. And yet...” www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithint...
Another banger from Betsy Phillips of the @nashvillescene on Tennessee schools banning hundreds of books thanks to the new Republican law, where she says what we often say: 

“The law they’re following should obviously remove the Bible. And yet...”
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Where’s the lie?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Last year, Trump’s FBI Director was selling magic pills which would supposedly cleanse your body of the Covid vaccine to “reverse the vaxx” if you ever had one. A complete scam.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
To those criticizing Biden for pardoning Hunter, holding him to the highest standards while Trump is held to no standard at all, is why we’re in this mess.
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
If you think for a single second that Trump isn’t currently asking everyone he knows for a way to go after Hunter DESPITE his pardon, then I have a bridge for sale in Brooklyn that I’d like you to take a look at.
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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Shocked, I tell you.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Quite a list. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
Quite a list.
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Prez @prezlives2024.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
The day has arrived when oligarchs have become too big to fail. Thanks Republicans. Your greed has now been squashed by bigger greed.
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Prez @prezlives2024.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Republican politicians worked so hard to get money into politics and now that money is being used to blackmail them to do as they are told. Elon tells Republicans he will politically oppose anyone who refuses to vote for Kash Patel for the FBI.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 02/12/2024
AOC just became the first user to hit a million followers on here!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/12/2024
"The nomination of Kash Patel is Trump’s most brazen bid to criminalize resistance and crush dissent. He's manifestly unfit. In a sane world, senators would laugh him out of the room. But sanity is now in the rearview mirror and receding from view."
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Kash Patel's nomination signals how bad things can get
The worst timeline comes into view.
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I Smoked Kirkmas @dknight10k.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I sure wish the media had covered Trump pardoning his co-conspirators and family members the way they're covering Hunter Biden today. They could even do it today. But they won't.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 02/12/2024
The weak little boy had promised payback. My latest: adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/revenge-to...
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Revenge Tour 2024: Trump’s Plan for Payback
How a second Trump presidency could weaponize power against his critics and opponents
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 02/12/2024
THIS NEW YORKER PIECE IS STUNNING! Pete Hegseth has no business being in charge of defense when the military is dealing with an ongoing issue of sexual assault against women. This is some next level shit. PETE HEGSETH’S SECRET HISTORY… (1 of 2)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/12/2024
nightmare rotation
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Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Trump's pick to lead the FBI is a man who actually chose to release this photo of himself
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
didn’t see quite the same level of outrage about these pardons
didn’t see quite the same level of outrage about these pardons
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Donald Trump pardoned his buddies Roger Stone and Mike Flynn. Spare me the fake outrage about Biden pardoning his son. 🙄
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
One year ago, Kash Patel, while sniffling repeatedly as he does in every interview (he just can’t shake that cold) promised to prosecute Hunter for new crimes. Then Trump names him FBI Director. He told you ahead of time he’s going after Hunter. So tired of the pearl clutchers.
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Middle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
"No one is above the law." - supporters of a convicted felon and rapist who hasn't been punished for his crimes
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