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Danielle Ryan (Lestat Era) @danirat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I think another lesson to take from the loss of both Dolly and Tim Curry is that neither of them took themselves seriously but they took the work dead serious that's the most important thing pour all of yourself into the craft but have fun and don't get an ego.
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
New from @science.org - a study of ~73,000 adults age 60+ found the shingles vaccine Shingrix was linked to a 9% lower cardiovascular disease burden over 7 yrs, adding to growing evidence it may help protect against heart disease and dementia as well as shingles
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"shingles vaccine linked to reduced heart risks" and a photo of a pair of hands in blue medical gloves inserting a vaccine syringe into a vial
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
You misspelled "grifted" www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
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News Wrap: Trump takes first trip on Air Force One gifted by Qatar
In our news wrap Wednesday, President Trump took his maiden voyage on the Air Force One donated by Qatar, negotiators from both the U.S. and Iran held more indirect talks in Qatar, a pair of masked cl...
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.
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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 19/05/2026
We need a landslide victory and those victorious need to have the courage to prosecute the current crop of criminals. We need to fight for it And the worlds needs to see us fight 168 days.
Bison having a dust bath.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 11/04/2026
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote a lone dissent, and she took the extraordinary step of reading her dissent from the bench, a gesture reserved for rare, vehement disagreement with the majority. trib.al/doo2LOp
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Hooray for Brown Jackson’s Brave Dissent in the Colorado Trans Case
The associate justice was alone in seeing that the case was about regulation of medical practice, not free speech.
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The UnPopulist @theunpopulist.net · 10/04/2026
Kennedy canceled $500 million in mRNA research and announced no new mRNA projects will ever be initiated—killing the technology that produced the fastest vaccine rollout in human history.
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RFK Jr. Lied His Way Into Office and American Health Is the Victim
He is pushing quackery as science as health secretary
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/04/2026
Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 05/04/2026
Jeff Bezos has $222 billion. If he paid my wealth tax this year, we could fund insulin in America for everyone who needs it plus free school lunch for every kid in Texas—and have plenty of money left over. And Bezos would still have $215 billion dollars to spare.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
People who experience addiction aren’t failing morally, broken, bad, weak, criminals, or inferior.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
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yolanda7712.bsky.social @yolanda7712.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
kind of amazing that everything trump does can be understood through the lens of narcissism and it's related needs (e.g., self aggrandizement, revenge, domination, grievance validation). i don't think any character has been so one-dimensional, not even wile e coyote or scrooge mcduck
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🖤💋SammieSam💋🖤 @sammiestsam.sheshed.rocks · 23/03/2026
News I definitely know I missed from the last week. Check it out👇🏽👇🏽 #SheShed
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
It feels like we are entering the “inject bleach into your veins” phase of Trump’s handling of the Iran war.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Where can I get these?
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I wrote about Kat.
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Kat.
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 16/03/2026
@jakescottmd.bsky.social #medsky
Jake Scott MD-nobody needs to be told Twinkies are bad. Anti-junk food awareness campaigns don’t move population-level diet.  Food environment, pricing, school nutrition, labeling, and access do.  All being defunded or ignored, but he gets to take his shirts off again.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/03/2026
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
The American people have sacrificed enough. Stop the war. Tax the billionaires.
Screenshot of an X post by Really American claiming Republican Congressman Mark Alford said Americans must “sacrifice” by accepting higher gas prices to support Trump’s war with Iran. Below is a split-screen TV news segment with a female anchor on the left, a male reporter in the middle, and Congressman Alford on the right. A banner reads “BREAKING NEWS: CRUDE OIL PRICES HIT NEW HIGHS AMID WAR.”
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WTTW - Chicago PBS @wttw.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
A push to name one of Chicago’s snowplows “Abolish ICE,” clearly linking the humorous pun to efforts to oppose President Donald Trump’s mass deportation effort, won the city’s annual snowplow naming contest, officials announced. to.wttw.com/4rZGMLg
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‘Abolish ICE’, ‘Caleb Chilliams’ Among Winners of Annual Snowplow Naming Contest
The other winners of the fourth annual contest were Stephen Coldbert, Pope Frío XIV, The Blizzard of Oz, Svencoolie and Caleb Chilliams, Chicago officials announced.
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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 11/02/2026
Jeanine Pirro tried to jail six Democratic Congress members for accurately stating the Uniform Code of Military Justice. She will forever be a person who has done that and must always be viewed through that prism.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
The Trump era exposed how badly Congress erred over decades by granting the president emergency powers in certain situations while also making the president the one who decides when we’re in those situations. ICE can’t mask except when ICE’s boss says it’s necessary? Repeating that same mistake.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
> @johncusack.bsky.social
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 02/02/2026
Anne Frank died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
There is no reason any of these men need any of this gear. This entire situation is not only dangerous and illegal. It is absurd and stupid. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
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Video: How Battlefield Tech Was Used in Minneapolis
Our reporter Thomas Gibbons-Neff, who deployed twice to Afghanistan as a Marine and later was our Kabul bureau chief, looks at the battlefield technology used for an immigration arrest at a home in Mi...
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
When he says "in theater," does he mean "acting like they're something more than a bunch of masked goons terrorizing innocent people"? Because they're not nailing that at all.
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Jon Wiener @jonwiener.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
The Nation nominates Minneapolis for the Nobel Peace Prize www.thenation.com/article/acti...
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“The Nation” Nominates Minneapolis for the Nobel Peace Prize
With their resistance to violent authoritarianism, the people of Minneapolis have renewed the spirit of Dr. King’s call for “the positive affirmation of peace.”
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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Point blank. 10-shots. Execution. A US citizen, a VA ICU Nurse. Then lying. Blocking a real investigation.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026
Walz: "I call on all Americans to see the decency this state is exhibiting, and the horrific cruelty, unprofessional, absolute abomination that is passing for what these f--- ICE agents are doing on our streets."
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God @thegodshow.com · 24/01/2026
Fred Trump had dementia and his family set up a fake office so he could think he was in charge while other people made the decisions. Mentioning this for no particular reason at all. Not even sure what made me think of it.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
CNN: DHS officials have come to FEMA staff and told them to limit the use of the word ice…they are worried that by posting something like, watch out for the ice, that it's going to become a meme….
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Americans: gosh, a living wage, healthcare, affordable groceries, 1A rights, and childcare that doesn’t cost $2k a month would be so nice. Trump and the GOP: best we can do is start world war 3 because Donny didn’t get a trophy! HOPE THAT HELPS!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
We must continue the work to abolish ICE. But right now, Congress can stop ICE’s violent reign of terror. Tell them to do it today: (202) 224-3121
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 10/01/2026
The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred. It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 05/01/2026
It’s official: RFK Jr has officially reduced recommended childhood vaccines from 17 to 11, removing universal vaccine recommendations for RSV, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, dengue and two types of bacterial meningitis. This reckless contravention of science is going to kill people.
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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Five years ago tomorrow, thousands of the president's supporters stormed the Capitol. Trump has since dubbed Jan. 6 a "day of love." Scroll through @propublica.org's massive trove of parler videos -- organized by time and location -- from that day and judge for yourself:
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What Parler Saw During the Attack on the Capitol
ProPublica sifted through thousands of videos taken by Parler users to create an immersive, first-person view of the Capitol riot as experienced by those who were there.
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Cassidy could impose Congressional oversight, if he could only convince the Chair of the Senate HELP committee...
US Senate Committee on HELP, Chairman, Bill Cassidy, M.D. (Republican - LA)
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), run by Oz and his boss, RFK Jr., will no longer require physicians to report vaccination rates. Instead, they plan to start having doctors report if they’ve discussed “alternative” vaccine schedules.
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CMS to stop requiring states to report childhood vaccination levels
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Reminder: Only a few weeks away until California’s mask ban for law enforcement officers goes into effect— Beginning January 1st, #ICE & other agencies operating in the state will no longer be allowed to use face coverings that hide an officer’s identity
Masked federal agents walk down the middle of the street
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
ICYMI: Last night @jeremyfaust.bsky.social revealed that Drs. Makary and Prasad of the FDA have lied to all of us with their claims that COVID19 vaccines “killed 10 children”. The scientists that did the work found that there were ZERO deaths that they could be certain were caused by the vaccines.
insidemedicine.substack.com
Scoop: FDA vaccine chief’s memo cited 10 pediatric Covid-19 vaccine deaths—but the agency’s own analysis found 0–7.
Dr. Vinay Prasad circulated a memo before FDA scientists finished their work. His conclusions overshot what the agency’s own analysts ultimately found.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Police Chief Brian O’Hara has delivered a blunt message to his department: If an officer witnesses ICE agents using illegal force and fails to step in, they will be fired. 👏 👏 👏
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Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 02/12/2025
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is definitely coming for your vaccines, part 5: VAERS and a useful idiot at the FDA
In the sadly continuing story of how Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr. is working to eliminate vaccines, we look at a useful idiot, Dr. Vinay Prasad, and how he is weaponizing dead children
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Trump continually overturns the decisions of American citizen juries. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
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The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/11/2025
When he’s gone, I know there will be a lot to do, but can we make sure the living rose garden gets restored? Started. Going.
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