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Retired from most everything. If you're curious about what kidney donation is like, I can help you learn more.

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Jim Brooks @jimthedarling.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
It feels icky to even smile at his crusade against the golem he's built, but dayum. I'm with you 10/10.
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Jim Brooks @jimthedarling.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Agreed, but then what vehicle is left to move Conservative views forward? The Republican party is pretty much useless for that purpose now
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Just about every Republican/Trumpist complaint about public transportation is a poorly disguised version of “there are too many black people.”
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Jim Brooks @jimthedarling.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
We are not obligated to play with Ms Owens' imaginary friend
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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
OJ!
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Bryn Donovan @bryndonovan.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Becoming an altruistic kidney donor was a wonderful experience, and the National Kidney Registry supported me through every step. If you or someone you know needs a kidney transplant, they could help it happen faster. Check out their video! youtu.be/os8Kugxo4-U?... #health #medicine #healthcare #nkr
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Why Choose the National Kidney Registry for Your Kidney Transplant?
YouTube video by National Kidney Registry
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Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) @autisticadvocacy.org · 17/04/2025
ASAN, Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network, the Autistic People of Color Fund, Autism Society of America, Autism Speaks, The Arc, and others stand united: Autistic people deserve respect, support, and science-based policy, not dangerous disinformation. autisticadvocacy.org/2025/04/lead...
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Leading Autism Organizations Release Joint Statement on Upholding Scientific Integrity and Supporting the Autism Community - Autistic Self Advocacy Network
April 17, 2025, Washington, D.C. – As national organizations dedicated to advancing the well-being of Autistic individuals, the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, Autism Society of America, Autism…
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
WATCH: “The Chinese told the 3 largest 🇺🇸 soybean distributors in China they can no longer do business there.” Tennessee’s #1 cash crop. Another Trump trade war farmer bailout won’t be far behind.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
NEW: @motherjones.com reports that one of the men renditioned to El Salvador is Neri Alvarado, who was working in Dallas as a baker. An ICE agent told him they were questioning all men with tattoos. Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.
A picture of Neri Alvarado, a young man, standing next to his brother, who is a young teenager. Both are smiling for the camera and wearing matching shirts. Neri has his arm around his brother.A picture of Neri's tattoo, which is an autism ribbon in rainbow colors with his brother's name "Neryelson" written on it.
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
America was given a choice between a lawless, amoral monster and a qualified, intelligent, joyful woman of color—and it chose the monster. We need to reckon with the reality of what that says about so many of us here. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/america-ch...
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America Chose the Monster
We all make mistakes.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
It’s unreal - the DOD deleted its page for Charles Calvin Rodgers, a Medal of Honor recipient who was wounded three times while defending against three assaults on his base in Vietnam. Now the URL includes “DEI Medal of Honor.” There’s something about Rodgers I don’t even have to tell you
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
By cutting funding for USAID Elon Musk and Donald Trump are probably condemning one million children to die of starvation 200,000 to be paralyzed because they’ll likely contract polio And up to 18 million cases of malaria per year Which could cause another 166,000 deaths Pure unadulterated evil
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/02/2025
Hegseth says firing of top military lawyers was about making sure "they don't exist to be roadblocks to anything that happens."
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
U.S. Marshals Service deputized Elon Musk’s private security, granting them federal law enforcement protections. The beginning of the American SS. Watch it grow exponentially.
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Elon Musk’s private security detail gets deputized by US Marshals Service | CNN Politics
The US Marshals Service has deputized members of Elon Musk’s private security detail, giving them certain rights and protections of federal law enforcement agents, three law enforcement officials fami...
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Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @disavowtrump20.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/02/2025
ATTN HHS EMPLOYEES: Firing notices are going out. I am in receipt of an email saying they will revoke your access as soon as you read the email that you've been fired. Please download everything you need before you open that email. SHARE FAR & WIDE. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/attn-hhs-e...
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ATTN: HHS EMPLOYEES
If you work for HHS, read this BEFORE you open certain emails
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Jim Brooks @jimthedarling.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
My favorite www.candinas.com/collections/...
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Jim Brooks @jimthedarling.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
I got one pretty close to that last night
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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Incredible: Russ Vought’s daughter has cystic fibrosis and benefits from a “miracle drug” made possible by the National Institutes of Health—an agency Vought now aims to gut as part of the Project 2025 attack www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Scoop from @motherjones.com’s @metrauxjulia.bsky.social
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Project 2025 is gutting medical funding that helped Russell Vought's own kid
Its architect's daughter has cystic fibrosis—and benefits from a "miracle drug" backed by an agency he's attacking.
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Jim Brooks @jimthedarling.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Tommy knows www.yahoo.com/news/want-ch...
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Want cheaper, more reliable power? Pass right of first refusal legislation. | Opinion
Wisconsin needs to pass a Right of First Refusal Act to ensure that the state's power grid doesn't suffer from federal bureaucrats.
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Tom Brady announces football games with the charisma of a groomsman.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
The “stop the hate” commercial featuring two celebrities who support the President who began his career by calling Mexicans rapists and whose biggest campaign donor recently gave a Hitler salute and rehired the “I was racist before it was cool” guy was….a choice.
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Jim Brooks @jimthedarling.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Hey, guys. While we've been watching the predation in DC, our hospitals are overflowing again. ER has a 24 hour wait to be admitted. Covid and Noro have got the system swamped and now TB is coming back. We are so screwed
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
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Malcolm Nance, Leading Resister @malcolmnance.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
West Point- White Supremacy is now the official policy of the USMA
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Jim Brooks @jimthedarling.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Sending you strength. The physical demands of ESRD can be managed, but the mind games that go along with trying to get beyond it are draining. Last meeting, I called them cruel to their faces. It may have gotten through
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Jack Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
An important aspect of fascism is always the swaggering, tittering arrogance of spotty, hormonal, semi-clever little nerdlingers who think they are Hobbes multiplied by Einstein because their balls just dropped. At least the unpleasant specimens below have the excuse of actually being very young.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Musk is saying he is unilaterally cutting *legal* payments to nonprofits that conspiracy nuts and white nationalists disapprove of.
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Jim Brooks @jimthedarling.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
To Hell with waiting, Senator. What are you doing to stop him?
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Warren is the ranking member on the Senate Banking Committee. Wyden is the same on the Senate Finance Committee. They need to go to the Treasury building with crews from CNN and NBC and demand to be let in. As soon as they're not, hold a press conference right there and explain what DOGE is doing.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
To continue this thread, note this WSJ piece from December that says Trump may abolish FDIC and instead have deposits insured by…the Treasury Dept. Meaning if there’s a run on the banks and you want your funds covered, you’ll need to go through Elon www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
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Exclusive | Trump Advisers Seek to Shrink or Eliminate Bank Regulators
The advisers have asked potential nominees whether Trump could abolish the FDIC.
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Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
The FBI’s core values, including integrity, compassion, fairness, and allegiance to the Constitution - and oh, yeah, diversity, are being painted over at the FBI Academy. Source: NYT.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
A government that deliberately abandons the rule of law is not morally entitled to its protections.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Trump's Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy just sent out a memo directing staff to "give preference to communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average"
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 30/01/2025
I’m a goo-goo by temperament. I see this as clear-cut: No matter what gets learned, reasonable minds can agree that a new POTUS should not dissolve a nonpartisan aviation safety panel as part of some egotistic power trip. The WH needs to explain itself.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
With the terrible tragedy over the skies of D.C., it’s time to prioritize safety. Trump must end the hiring freeze on air traffic controllers and restore the aviation safety advisory committee he dismantled on Jan 22.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Intelligence officials are starting to leak to me now too. Here’s a memo Defense Intelligence Agency personnel received instructing them to suspend observances including: - Holocaust Remembrance Day - MLK Day - Juneteenth
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KitKat 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇫🇷🇦🇺🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦 @uk501.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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Angela Levine @angelahlevine.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
The administration took down the reproductive rights website that women need access to. So The Skimm bought a url and brought the content back. Pass this on! Go to reproductiverightsdotgov.com
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ReproductiveRights.Gov Vanished, So We Brought It Back
theSkimm makes it easier to live smarter. You're welcome. Get all the info you need from AM to PM, wherever you are.
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Jim Brooks @jimthedarling.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Damn, this is good. @questlove.bsky.social is a feckin genius
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Jim Brooks @jimthedarling.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
I still tell a story about a debate trophy I won in 1972,so...
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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Colombia: We're not taking shackled detainees returned on military flights. Transport them with dignity Trump: Trade war! Colombia: OK Trump: Fine, no more shackled detainees returned on military flights Colombia: Good. Was that so hard? Trump: They gave in!
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Jim Brooks @jimthedarling.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Amazing performances, but I'm not sure we were fairly treated by the script.
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Rebecca Fachner @rebeccafachner.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Already read 31 books this year, I understand the assignment
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Jim Brooks @jimthedarling.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
How I arrived on BlueSky
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two men are standing next to each other and one of them is saying oh man
ALT: two men are standing next to each other and one of them is saying oh man
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
If you are a federal employee, it is advised to set your social media accounts to private to prevent outside viewership, as reports suggest that loyalty screenings have begun.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
these savage ghouls www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/u...
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State Dept. Halts Global Mine-Clearing Programs
Efforts to clear unexploded munitions in places like Iraq and Southeast Asia will stop for at least three months, according to a surprise announcement.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
The FDA has scrubbed from its website guidance on conducting medical trials with representative numbers of men/women and racial/ethnic minorities. these aren't symbolic issues. Drugs affect men/men, people with different genetic backgrounds differently. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/medic...
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Medical Trial Guidance Scrubbed
Another detail out of FDA. The agency has removed pages which provide...
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