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imsospice.bsky.social @imsospice.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Best meme I’ve seen this week.
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Matt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
In just one week: A GOP president deployed Marines in a U.S. city, called for a Democratic governor’s arrest, the GOP Speaker called for him to be tarred and feathered, a Democratic senator was handcuffed, and two Democratic legislators were shot in their homes.
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Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
#booksky
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 31/05/2025
RFK Jr. says the CDC will no longer recommend COVID vaccines for healthy pregnant women. Yet doctors have found that stillbirths can result from COVID directly infiltrating the placenta — even for people whose COVID symptoms were mild or nonexistent. @deldeib.bsky.social‬'s story from 2022:
propublica.org
“God, No, Not Another Case.” COVID-Related Stillbirths Didn’t Have to Happen.
A lack of testing data and government guidance led many to avoid the COVID-19 vaccine during pregnancy, unwittingly increasing their chances of a stillbirth.
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The Economist @economist.com · 29/05/2025
Donald Trump’s war on universities could drive away America’s brightest import. New data suggest that prospective students are already looking elsewhere econ.trib.al/rqGGkOg
econ.trib.al
Demand for American degrees has already hit covid-era lows
Trump’s war on universities could drive away America’s brightest import
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/05/2025
NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
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Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, Where a Woman Lives Can Determine Her Risk of Developing Sepsis
While the rates of dangerous infections spiked across the state after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind ana...
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
He’s weakening our country. He’s weakening our economy. He’s weakening our alliances. He’s weakening the free world. He’s weakening our influence around the world. And Putin keeps smiling every single day.
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
We love Bluesky don’t we?
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imsospice.bsky.social @imsospice.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
All the neigh sayers were convinced the senator going would be a waste of time. Good job Sen Van Hollen.
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imsospice.bsky.social @imsospice.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
All the neigh sayers were convinced the senator going would be a waste of time. Good job Sen Van Hollen.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 18/04/2025
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
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imsospice.bsky.social @imsospice.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Amen to that.
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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 17/04/2025
The Only Illustrated Manuscript of Homer’s Iliad from Antiquity www.openculture.com/2025/04/the-... The Iliad at PG www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc... #books #literature
Scene from the Iliad by Michael Martin Drölling
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/04/2025
“The Trump administration has ordered State Department employees to report on any instances of coworkers displaying ‘anti-Christian bias’ as part of its effort to implement a sweeping new order on supporting employees of Christian faith.”
politico.com
State tells employees to report on one another for ‘anti-Christian bias’
“It’s very ‘Handmaid’s Tale’-esque,” one official said.
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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Can confirm. I know more than one NOAA researcher who is bringing their own toilet paper to the office. Because the facilities contracts have not been renewed.
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imsospice.bsky.social @imsospice.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I believe it. So many think life coaches are all knowing. While they don’t need any education credentials.
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imsospice.bsky.social @imsospice.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Disgusting. George Washington is the best president we’ve had. We wouldn’t have won the American revolution if he had not lead our military. Plus he stepped away from power even though they wanted him to be president until his death. I’m appalled they would say Reagan is even in the same league.
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 18/03/2025
Ozymandias
Ozymandias

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Over 100,000 seats are up for grabs in 2025 — governors, mayors, city councils, state representatives, judges, school boards, and more. Taking back our power starts now.
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J. Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
NEW: After nearly a month it appears the CDC is back at it, deleting data from their site. Today they removed 8 items involving Quitline data. Of course, I've got it backed up on our site. www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...
Line chart showing the deletion of data over time. Most of it was deleted around Jan 18, but on Mar 13 8 items were deleted.Deleted items: Quitline – Services Available – Counseling - 2010 To Present
Quitline – 7-Month Follow-Up (Not Comparable Across States) – 2010-2011
Quitline – Service Utilization - 2010 To Present
Quitline Glossary and Methodology
"Table for STATE System Quitline Service Utilization - Callers Who Received Counseling and/or Medications per 1,000 Callers (NQDW OSH) Interactive Map"
Quitline – Services Available – Medications - 2010 To Present
"Table for STATE System Quitline Service Utilization - Incoming Calls per 10,000 State Population (NQDW OSH) Interactive Map"
Quitline – Services Available – Hours Of Operation And Available Languages - 2010 To Present
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ABC4 Utah @abc4utah.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Debate over whether the Sundance Film Festival will stay in Utah is heating up after a new report claimed the festival is in jeopardy of leaving over a recent pride flag bill.
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'Bye Felicia?': SLC not elaborating on reports that Sundance may leave Utah over pride flag bill
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — Debate over whether the Sundance Film Festival will stay in Utah is heating up after a new report from Deadline claimed that the festival is in jeopardy of leaving Uta…
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill. Do not let anyone play games with you.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
AOC: It is almost unthinkable why Senate Democrats would vote to to hand the few pieces of leverage that we have away for free when we've been sent here to protect social security, protect medicaid, and protect medicare.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/03/2025
holy shit this question at the Rep. Chuck Edwards town hall 🔥🔥🔥
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Epic idea
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 08/03/2025
There are times when you must speak, not because you are going to change the opposing side, but because if you do not speak, they have changed you.
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imsospice.bsky.social @imsospice.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Cite your sources
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imsospice.bsky.social @imsospice.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
It’s almost like Trump is terrible for farmers and yet they keep voting for him. 🤷
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imsospice.bsky.social @imsospice.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Finally, people have been pushing for this for years. Good news.
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Ground News @groundnews.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Canadians, the largest group of foreign tourists to the U.S., spent $20.5B last year, but travel is slowing. Hotel bookings near the border are down year over year, with an 8% drop in Niagara Falls, NY, and Bellingham, WA, down 12%. A 10% decline could mean a $2.1B loss. ground.news/article/cana...
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imsospice.bsky.social @imsospice.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Almost like our elected representatives don’t actually care what we want.
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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 04/03/2025
We created a hub for federal workers about what they need to know and do to protect themselves amid attacks on their livelihoods from the Trump Administration. Bookmark and share widely: 🔗 protdem.org/federal-work...
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What federal workers can do to protect themselves - Protect Democracy
A list of resources for civil servants navigating attacks on the federal workforce, including actions to take ASAP, knowing your rights, and where to find legal or other support.
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Axios @axios.com · 03/03/2025
NEW: The Trump administration has informed NOAA that two pivotal centers for weather forecasting will soon have their leases canceled, sources told Axios.
axios.com
DOGE moves to cancel NOAA leases at critical forecasting centers
NOAA's nerve center of national weather forecasting is on a lease cancellation list.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Of course Speaker Mike Johnson is living in the $3.7 million DC home of an election-denying, policy-driving “evangelical pastor who has attacked the separation of church and state as ‘a delusional lie’ and called multinational institutions ‘demonic’”… www.propublica.org/article/mike...
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Speaker Mike Johnson Is Living in a D.C. House That Is the Center of a Pastor’s Secretive Influence Campaign
The Capitol Hill townhouse is owned by a major Republican donor. It’s the headquarters of a little-known political influence project that has reached a number of powerful Republican politicians.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
NOTE: The opponents of DEI are purging anyone who is not a white man from military leadership This is not about merit; it’s about normalizing racism and misogyny
military.com
No More Female 4-Stars: Franchetti Firing Leaves Top Ranks Filled by Men
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the Navy's first female chief, last week without any clear explanation -- part of a purge of top uniformed leadership that included the Joint...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/03/2025
ProPublica identified 95 Facebook pages that regularly post made-up headlines designed to draw engagement — and, often, stoke political divisions. The pages, most of which are managed by people overseas, have a total of more than 7.7M followers. By @craigsilverman.bsky.social
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As Facebook Abandons Fact-Checking, It’s Also Offering Bonuses for Viral Content
Meta decided to stop working with U.S. fact-checkers at the same time as it’s revamping a program to pay bonuses to creators with high engagement numbers, potentially pouring accelerant on the kind…
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imsospice.bsky.social @imsospice.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
What a DOUBLE STANDARD. Why doesn’t Elon Musk wear a suit in the same office?
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imsospice.bsky.social @imsospice.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
What a DOUBLE STANDARD. Why doesn’t Elon Musk wear a suit in the same office?
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imsospice.bsky.social @imsospice.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
What a DOUBLE STANDARD. Why doesn’t Elon Musk wear a suit in the office at “highest level in this country?”
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KUER @kuer.org · 25/02/2025
Zion NP hasn't commented on the number fired. Springdale Mayor Barbara Bruno said about a dozen rangers are out.
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‘I feel for them’: After Zion firings, Springdale is anxious about tourism season
The February mass firing of National Park Service employees has hit parks in southern Utah, including Zion and Bryce Canyon. That’s spurring worries about long lines and crowds as the parks’ busy…
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Axios @axios.com · 24/02/2025
Screens at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) building in D.C. on Monday showed a fake video showing President Trump rubbing and kissing Elon Musk's feet, accompanied by the words: "Long Live the Real King."
axios.com
Fake video of Trump kissing Musk's feet blasts in HUD building: "LONG LIVE THE REAL KING"
It's unclear who was responsible for the videos at HUD.
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
NEW: Google used to warn you when you were seeing low-quality search results. Then, in the weeks leading up to the 2024 election, the company quietly turned that warning off www.platformer.news/google-data-...
The researchers collected their first data in October 2023 and March 2024. Initially, they were struck by how inconsistently Google showed its warnings. A deep learning model they built to analyze the queries suggested that the warnings should have appeared between 29 and 58 times as often as they did in practice. For motivated conspiracy peddlers, they were easy to evade: just adding quotation marks or a single letter to a query was typically enough to make the banner disappear.

The researchers were beginning to collect additional data last September when they discovered something unexpected: Google had stopped showing low-quality banners entirely, weeks before early voting began, without disclosing it.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/02/2025
A small group of protesters hung an inverted American flag — historically used as a sign of distress in Yosemite National Park — on Saturday. The protest came just over a week after the Trump administration abruptly fired at least 1,000 National Park Service employees. nyti.ms/4ka2zwF
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imsospice.bsky.social @imsospice.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Why is this your last show?
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The ReidOut with Joy Reid @thereidout.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
TONIGHT: Please join @joyannreid.bsky.social for the final edition of #TheReidOut at 7 pm ET on MSNBC. See you then, #reiders!
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imsospice.bsky.social @imsospice.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Terrible news for all those in rural counties or that live in food deserts and the only place to get food is your corner gas station or genera dollar. Many eat processed foods because it’s all they can access.
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imsospice.bsky.social @imsospice.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Don’t forget that the so called democrat Sen Stephanie Pitcher supported this and was the one to help republicans pass this. Shame on her!!
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imsospice.bsky.social @imsospice.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
It Can’t Happen Here (1935) by Sinclair Lewis is honestly chilling right now. In the book, they promised $5,000 checks to citizens but guess what? They never got sent. And the amount? Exactly $5,000. Just like the empty promises we see happening with Trump’s presidency.
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