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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 30/04/2025

I could be wrong about this but I really think most Americans do not want to be forced to “do their own research” about food & drug & product safety and would rather that the government agencies that have been sorting that all out for them for decades not be obliterated in the name of “efficiency.”

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Seth Trueger @mdaware.org · 30/04/2025

incidentally the whole point of stuff like having a federal dept of health and human services is instead of each of us all figuring it out on our own, we all chip and and hire the best scientists in the world to do our research

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Can confirm. Absolutely awful.

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secondlina // Lord of Crows @secondlina.com · 17/04/2025

Murder Mystery Podcast

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Gosh, very difficult legal question, is it "facilitating" someone's return when you're paying another country to detain them?

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Lux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 15/04/2025

Just got really choked up and rambly while leaving Schumer and Gillibrand voicemails about the need to gum up the works in DC until all the wrongfully deported migrants are returned from El Salvador

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Let me say this again: If a president can illegally deport someone, conspire with that country’s leader to abandon them to human rights abuses, and face no consequences, we are in a hellish authoritarian moment. What a fucking evil, illiberal government this is.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

We are at a dangerous, dangerous moment in US history, where the President of the United States is threatening to send US citizens to be imprisoned by a foreign ally, and the foreign ally is saying it won't respect an US court orders to release people that it's holding.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

How we responded to DEI and attacks on Black Americans and Indigenous Americans and immigrants was our ligmjs test We failed, GOP didn’t And everyone else is too busy pretending it’s different and “new” rather than an escalation Because they hope they can keep the old racism

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie). Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development

cbsnews.com

CDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffs

The CDC rejected a request for help "due to the complete loss" of their lead poisoning experts.

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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 10/04/2025

Minnesota has launched a new tool to track federal funding cuts that affect services ranging from heating assistance and flood mitigation to tracking diseases.

startribune.com

Track Trump administration cuts in real time with new Minnesota tool

Gov. Tim Walz announced the state dashboard on Wednesday. It will be updated every weekday.

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 09/04/2025

You can feel this with every minute of The Pitt and my appreciation for that fact runs deep. They’ve managed to thread that needle of being incredibly compelling while still highlighting these vital tenets in a way that feels ambient, it’s remarkable. From this: variety.com/2025/tv/news...

"These people sacrifice so much in the service of others that I find it absolutely infuriating that their expertise is being called into question," he says, leavening his irritation with a chuckle, his voice never growing louder than his usual calming timbre. "I find it infuriating that we still can't
come to a consensus that masks cut down on transmission of disease. I find it infuriating
that we still won't acknowledge that vaccines are an important way of eradicating disease. I find it all infuriating that we are where we are right now. So I wanted to make a show that brings back into sharp focus what an objective medical fact is."

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Gen Z and Millennials: In ten years when we’re still without a cure and you’re caring for your parents, remember what he did.

The image is a screenshot of a tweet from Neil Stone (@DrNeilStone
). The tweet reads: "RFK Jr has cut Alzheimers research. ALZHEIMERS. One of the most devastating, urgent and increasing health problems we face today. He’s not interested. He’s a nasty piece of work."

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 03/04/2025

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

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Katherine Eban @katherineeban.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

NEW @vanityfair.com: When Americans died, were blinded, had eyeballs removed from tainted eye drops, @fda.gov relied on Dr Timothy Pohlhaus, among its few top sterile drug manufacturing experts. He, thousands more, were fired from US health agencies yesterday. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

vanityfair.com

The Expert Who Kept Eye Drops From Blinding You Was Fired Yesterday

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency terminated thousands of experienced public health professionals in an April Fools’ Day massacre. We’re all about to pay the ...

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

it's been years upon years of labored "campus culture" op-eds from salaried writers hectoring students about free speech, and now the state is kidnapping students for their speech in broad daylight

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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

ICE kidnapped another student. This time a grad student at Tufts, Rumeysa Ozturk. Turkish national, in the United States on a student visa. Her lawyer does not know where she is being held. Rumeysa wrote op-eds criticizing the university's response to student demands on Gaza.

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Tufts says federal authorities detained graduate student

The university received reports that an international graduate student was taken into custody from an off-campus apartment Tuesday night, President Sunil Kumar wrote in a letter to the school communit...

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Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

fucking catastrophic & murderous

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Shane Harris @shaneharris.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans

U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

April 25 1933: With astonishing speed just 1 month after passage of the Enabling Act, the German government issues the "Law against Overcrowding in Schools and Higher Education." Though the law's title was ambiguous, its aim was to remove all foreign and Jewish students. Institutions fell into line.

After the takeover of Austria, Nazi officials block the entrances of the University of Vienna in 1938.

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

ICE deported Jerce Reyes Barrios, a Venezuelan soccer player who was tortured by Maduro’s dictatorship. He had applied for asylum in the U.S. No evidence he committed any crime. No gang membership. Then ICE sent him to a prison in El Salvador. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Honestly getting new appreciation for Charlie Chaplin making The Great Dictator in 1940. Man didn’t let the near apocalypse of the world from madmen stop him from goofing on their ass.

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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated

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David Bering-Porter @atg-dbp.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

"The reality became clear: Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. These facilities are privately owned and run for profit. Companies like CoreCivic and GEO Group receive government funding based on the number of people they detain..."

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I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped

I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

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Hampus Flink 🐷💢 @hampus.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Finally it's 34 minutes before bedtime, I can start drawing now

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

I think it's worth repeating plainly that a federal judge halted Musk's federal funding freeze nearly two weeks ago but funds are still very much being frozen in violation of the court order.

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Z Samudzi @zsamudzi.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

For all the critiques made about Jill Stein parachuting into presidential elections & being absent otherwise, the behavior of the actually ELECTED Democrats, the literal opposition party, is almost indistinguishable. Fumbling elections, begging for money, crying it’s scary outside: jobless behavior.

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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 11/02/2025

I feel like there's never been a Torment Nexus warned more about in fiction than this one

headline: AI can now predict crime before it happens [from Wired by Nadine Kahil]

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Jenner @jenneraustin.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Knowing as the lawyer for an international company that our backstop is the FCPA so “we cannot pay your customs agents to get our stuff out of your country” is pretty important for international business.

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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

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Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Spending some time considering the mettle of your average senator versus, say, Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

if AI has done anything ever it's made me appreciate how much humanity is in the beautiful artful design of everyday things I think this is my new favourite account

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Jezebel @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

House Democrats "need to stand united against Elon Musk” and refuse to help the GOP pass budget bills until “Musk is held accountable for his crimes,” Casar told Jezebel. “Democrats actually have a lot of power to start righting the ship.” www.jezebel.com/greg-casar-i...

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Democrats Have Power and It’s Time to Act Like It, Says Congressman Greg Casar

Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.

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Jezebel @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

"It’s been frustrating to see this has been reduced to a talking point against emergency contraception," Reproaction told Jezebel of new research that suggests the active ingredient of a prescription-only Plan B medication can help end a pregnancy. www.jezebel.com/new-study-on...

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Anti-Abortion Activists Are Hijacking a New Study to Go After Birth Control

Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.

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kat @katbamkapow.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

it happened to me!! i knew it would!! my own paper!!! ahhh!!!!!!

Screenshot of a paper, showing a citation that leads to npin.cdc.gov/pages/cdcs-hivaids-timeline

The paper's text reads:
and semen. Although the virus has been extant in humans as early as the 1900s, the onset of an HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States was marked by a spate of rare cancer diagnoses in otherwise healthy, young, gay men in 1981 and would become “the number one cause of death among men aged 25-44” in 1992 (CDC HIV and AIDS Timeline Citation2020; CDC Citation1993). Despite the fact that people of all genders and identities could be exposed to HIV, gay and bisexual men continued to be disproportionately affected throughout this early portion of the epidemic’s timeline in the United States. An association with homosexuality compounded an already potent stigmatization of disease and illness, distilled even further through AIDS’ spread in communities of color, people who injected drugs, and sex workers. During this time, HIV/AIDS quickly surpassed its status as a biomedical event and became a cultural one. HIV/AIDS culture is marked by its silences and stigmas as much as its mass cultural production and fierce activist efforts, as many scholars have discussed

A screenshot of the National Prevention Information Network CDC website that is meant to display a timeline of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. It now reads: "CDC's website is being modified to comply with President Trump's Executive Orders. You are not authorized to access this page."

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Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 @lizzielizliz.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists will now host the important medical data the CDC no longer provides, on their website. Link below: 👇🏼 www.acog.org

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The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists is the premier professional membership organization for obstetrician–gynecologists. The College’s activities include producing practice guidelin...

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

This guy is a quisling in every sense, went to India on an official visit and immediately did a podcast with the Fuentes of India and tried to mainstream him in the West, has ties with hindu nationalist extremists of the worst sort, just an absolute scumbag of the first water

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Erasure, from threads… 💔

Threads screenshot, Rose Luna = “Well, my bio just got removed from the NASA site because of an order that went out to remove stuff about women in STEM.

I've only been on Threads for a full year, so a lot of people here never heard of a feature that NASA did on me talking about my love of the Moon, how I grew up in poverty, then my homelessness in the US, and then me being at NASA itself.

That's how easy it is to erase you as a person, and everything you've done. I'm not even sure how I feel right now.”

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

My latest. As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality. I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI. Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

washingtonpost.com

Opinion | The assault on DEI? It’s aimed at resegregation.

The GOP leaders attacking inclusion programs want to go back to an era when White men ran everything

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

the human cost www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

Asanda Zondi received a startling phone call last Thursday, with orders to make her way to a health clinic in Vulindlela, South Africa, where she was participating in a research study that was testing a new device to prevent pregnancy and H.IV. infection.

The trial was shutting down, a nurse told her. The device, a silicone ring inserted into her vagina, needed to be removed right away.

When Ms. Zondi, 22, arrived at the clinic, she learned why: The U.S. Agency for International Development, which funded the study, had withdrawn financial support and had issued a stop-work order to all organizations around the globe that receive its money. The abrupt move followed an executive order by President Trump freezing all foreign aid for at least 90 days. Since then, the Trump administration has taken steps to dismantle the agency entirely.

Ms. Zondi’s trial is one of dozens that have been abruptly frozen, leaving people around the world with experimental drugs and medical products in their bodies, cut off from the researchers who were monitoring them, and generating waves of suspicion and fear.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

NEW: President Trump's hiring freeze has stopped the onboarding of seasonal federal firefighters, including those who work for agencies called on to help battle the devastating L.A. fires, creating a potential shortfall ahead of the next fire season. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

nbcnews.com

Trump's freeze stalls federal firefighter hiring

Crews helped battle the deadly Los Angeles-area wildfires, and now some worry a shortfall will weaken response capabilities as fire season approaches.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

it needs to be said that while democratic elected officials are trying to get into the USAID building which was shut down by musk, CNN and MSNBC are showing the entirety of a trump press conference.

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