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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Senate Republicans are trying to force their budget through this weekend. The bill cuts healthcare to give tax breaks to the rich. They had no public hearings. Last-minute changes mean very few will have read the full bill. It will likely pass in the dead of night. Scam.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Not just shingles vaccine, but also RSV vaccine reduces the risk of dementia, which highlights the benefit of revving up the immune system in older individuals www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Lower risk of dementia with AS01-adjuvanted vaccination against shingles and respiratory syncytial virus infections - npj Vaccines
npj Vaccines - Lower risk of dementia with AS01-adjuvanted vaccination against shingles and respiratory syncytial virus infections
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Common Cause @commoncause.org · 27/06/2025
🏛️ This morning, the Supreme Court will decide 6 major cases, including cases that will impact our right to citizenship and our right to vote. Stay with us for updates.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Justice Jackson did not come to play today (Birthright citizenship/nationwide injunctions)
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Just like a woman in California has a right to an abortion twhile a woman in Missouri does not. That was the entire point of state’s rights. Some state have rights for their citizens and others do not.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 27/06/2025
Stripping birthright citizenship from people born in this country goes against rights guaranteed in the Constitution. We must stand against unconstitutional actions and stand up for the fundamental rights granted to people in the United States of America.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 25/06/2025
The abrupt exit of the presidents of two of the nation’s largest labor unions from the DNC's top leadership board has exposed simmering tensions over the party’s direction.
theguardian.com
Union leaders’ exit from DNC exposes ‘mind-boggling’ tensions inside Democratic party
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Alt-IRS @alt-irs.altgov.info · 26/06/2025
Hey, if you're a nerd like me, check out this report from the Taxpayer Advocate to Congress. It explains how the IRS does so much with so little, and now we will have to do it with 22% fewer personnel. #irsstrong
taxpayeradvocate.irs.gov
2026 Objectives Report to Congress
Read the 2026 Objectives Report to Congress (JRC) from the National Taxpayer Advocate (NTA) Erin M. Collins.
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 26/06/2025
Over 11,000 people were either fired or took buyouts at the IRS. And roughly $500 billion in revenue will be lost just this year because of the cuts. Remind us again how that improves government efficiency?
the-independent.com
DOGE cuts to the IRS will cost $500 billion in lost revenue, watchdog finds
DOGE ‘destroyed, diminished or jeopardized’ billions of dollars in returns on government investments, CREW discovered
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
The best time to stop an ICE agent is before they can grab an individual, once a person is in their hands and you de-arrest them or help them flee, that person is going to be hit with federal charges on top of their deportation. This will make their legal woes far more troublesome. Know when to act.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 25/06/2025
Wait a second…. Thimerisol is safe. The summary of evidence in the ACIP background materials said just that. But….who removed that from the ACIP website? If you’re trying to “restore public trust,” hiding the scientific body of evidence is NOT the way. www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa...
Photo of the broken link to the thimerisol summary of evidence. Instead, it says “the page you’re looking for was not found”
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Nothing to see here…just the Missouri Secretary of State who ran on “porn in public libraries” and “teachers grooming students with books” taking off his shirt and flexing a bit on stage while speaking to teenage boys at Boys State in St Charles.
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Brandon Johnson @bjeromy.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Among all of the other reasons to criticize Medina, it makes clear that Dobbs was never just about returning abortion decisions to the states. It was always (as @profmmurray.bsky.social and others have been saying all along) an intentional step making it harder to protect abortion rights everywhere.
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UNI Global Union @uniglobalunion.org · 26/06/2025
Amazon just ghosted the European Parliament AGAIN. No-shows at official hearings. Secret lobbying behind closed doors. Worker rights ignored. Enough is enough. It’s time to demand accountability. It’s time to #MakeAmazonPay.
euronews.com
EU Parliament snubs Amazon from hearing over representative dispute
Amazon was not represented at a hearing of the European Parliament after a row with the employment committee over which personnel should appear before it.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
A foundation model of 10 million ECGs shows how much is encoded in these recordings that cardiologists would not be able to detect ai.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...
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An Electrocardiogram Foundation Model Built on over 10 Million Recordings
Artificial intelligence (AI) has demonstrated significant potential in electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis and cardiovascular disease assessment. Recently, foundation models have played a remarkable r...
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 26/06/2025
When political power silences science, we all lose. From climate to health, anti‑science agendas erode progress. Scientists, institutions, and leaders must speak up - or risk letting ideology undermine academic freedom and evidence-based discovery. zurl.co/OrCHk #StandUpForScience
nature.com
In the face of anti-science politics, silence is not without cost
More scientific leaders need to speak out about anti-science agendas and threats to academic freedom across the world. More scientific leaders need to speak out about anti-science agendas and threats to academic freedom across the world.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
What the Supreme Court Knew in 1803 and Why it Matters Today open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
open.substack.com
What the Supreme Court Knew in 1803
And Why it Matters Today
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Bibi Netanyahu being boycotted by UN diplomats. It’s time for this criminal to face the consequences of his atrocities.
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Angela Ferrell-Zabala (she/her) @ferrellzabala.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Today, Rhode Island became the TENTH state to ban assault weapons thanks to the tireless advocacy and organizing of @momsdemand.bsky.social and @studentsdemand.bsky.social volunteers and survivors. 💪🏾
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Katherine Denkinson @kdenkwrites.com · 26/06/2025
Since Oct last yr I’ve been attending the tribunal hearing of anti-vax doctor David Cartland for harassment of other professionals & “attempting to flout the [vaccine] exemption procedure”. This morning they determined “his misconduct was fundamentally incompatible with continued registration”.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
After getting blocked the first time, Sen. Mike Lee is revising his land grab plan and trying to sneak it back into the “Big 💩 Bill.” The new proposal would force the sale of up to 1.2 million acres of public land managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
So the Iran Nuclear Deal, a sophisticated multilateral agreement reached by hundreds of adults over a two-year period—which kept us safe for years—has been replaced by a pathetic, obviously false bedtime story about a supposedly obliterated nuclear program being told to us by a known con man Got it
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AltSSA @altssa.altgov.info · 26/06/2025
Ummmmmmmm excuse me but what the whole entire fuck?????? 😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/06/2025
Incredibly embarrassing
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 26/06/2025
🔔🌧4️⃣ Premeditated decisions For all his talk of following the evidence, Levi used fatherhood to explain why he didn't think a new drug for respiratory syncytial virus should be recommended for healthy infants
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/06/2025
Translation: We’re gonna make shit up, blast it out fast, and by the time the press catches on, it won’t matter. The lie will be everywhere, swallowed and weaponized by the right, locked in before the truth even gets a chance.
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Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 26/06/2025
www.404media.co/flock-remove... This is all because of 404 Media’s relentless reporting.
404media.co
Flock Removes States From National Lookup Tool After ICE and Abortion Searches Revealed
Following 404 Media’s reporting and in light of new legislation, automatic license plate reader (ALPR) company Flock has stopped agencies reaching into cameras in California, Illinois, and Virginia.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Time to pick a side, America. Is this the future you want for us?
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 25/06/2025
I think that the outcome in the NY Mayoral race and the Wisconsin Supreme Court race both show that people power CAN beat the political money machine. That should give us all hope, and the motivation to work for the government we want.
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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 26/06/2025
At this point we can say with confidence. ICE agents are cowards. Heavily armed masked and afraid to identify themselves they're going after people with no violent criminal history. Soft targets And seem to really enjoy beating the crap out of them. Cowards www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT6D...
youtube.com
93% of people detained by ICE have no violent criminal conviction, data shows | NBC 7 San Diego
YouTube video by NBC 7 San Diego
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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
I’ve heard it said that something cannot truly be considered a tradition until it happens for a third time, and so let us hope that the 22nd century does not make a pandemic followed by rising fascism followed by a world at war into a genuine tradition.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
WTF is up with this regime?! Less than three weeks after Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was brought back from a wrongful deportation to El Salvador to face bogus charges in the U.S., the Trump administration now plans to deport him again, this time to a completely different country.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Sotomayor’s dissent is flabbergasted that the government had been blatantly violating the court’s order up until that point, and then had been misrepresenting to the court who was responsible for it (saying it was DOD, not DHS) 2/
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Everyone is focusing on Bove’s “f*** you” comment but not enough attention being given to the other bombshell in the WB, which is the premeditated violation of the Mass. district court injunction and subsequent cover up, the same injunction which SCOTUS stayed on Monday 1/
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/06/2025
MERKLEY: How do you feel about being responsible for hundreds of thousands of kids dying because of your sudden interruption in these key programs? VOUGHT: I reject the assertion MERKLEY: I find your response both ignorant & callous. Few Americans have had a more devastating & disastrous impact
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/06/2025
“ICE” bounty hunters made this possible. By making it easy to cosplay as federal agents: masked faces, no visible ID, no official vehicles, and gear that any yahoo can buy on Amazon. They look like criminals! 🚨 Man arrested who pretended to be an ICE agent while committing a robbery in Houston.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
The Senate parliamentarian is already under fire, for doing her job. After fairly ruling that most of the “big 💩 bill” doesn’t qualify for budget reconciliation, MAGA world is already calling for her to be fired.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
In case you missed it, Trump's CFPB has quietly dropped 18 lawsuits against banks, mortgage firms, and subprime lenders accused of offering predatory loans to millions of vulnerable consumers. Trump is making his corporate backers even richer by letting them swindle you.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Most of this “press conference” is this lunatic yelling at the media. This guy is so obsessed with his press coverage that he can’t even function.
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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
I saw an article with a headline reading “Yellow fever has broken out of Brazil. The U.S. isn’t prepared,” and though the article was certainly concerning it was hardly a surprise after all “The U.S. isn’t prepared” for anything these days.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
This headline is wildly misleading. Childhood vaccines ARE closely scrutinized. The real story- as outlined in the piece- is that this group of Kennedy quacks is attacking safe & effective vaccines that keep children safe from life threatening diseases.
Kennedy’s New Advisers Promise Closer Scrutiny of Childhood Vaccines

The reconstituted C.D.C. panel will revisit the standard vaccination schedule. The former head of an anti-vaccine group is now a special federal employee.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 26/06/2025
Federal and local law enforcement wearing masks is just plain unamerican. It’s a cowards move, and shows the fact that the kinds of deportations happening and the methods are, shameful and unpopular. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/why-are-fe...
adamkinzinger.substack.com
Why Are Federal Agents Wearing Masks? It’s a Threat to American Democracy
Masked Federal Agents Are Undermining Trust—and Democracy
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Mr. Howard @mrhoward.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Amazing, the strategist that Eric Adams hired to launch his independent campaign is an RFK Jr guy who strangled his girlfriend and punched her in the face. Our opponents are truly evil people.
gothamist.com
Mayor Adams hired campaign consultant accused of strangling girlfriend in SoHo hotel
Trent Pool runs Public Appeal, a Wyoming-based company that helped Adams gather petitions.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 26/06/2025
The American Academy of Pediatricians bluntly telling us the current CDC can't be trusted, and of course they are absolutely correct publications.aap.org/aapnews/news...
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AAP will continue to publish its own vaccine recommendations after CDC advisers sow distrust
The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices plans to form a work group to review child and adolescent immunization schedules despite them undergoing constant review in real time.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 26/06/2025
When you lie about your credentials, your drinking, and your leaking of classified war plans, why would anyone trust you about the air strikes?
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
The cover of this week's @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
If even a fraction of what this letter says is true, Emil Bove should be prosecuted for criminal contempt and disbarred. In no way should he be confirmed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
NOT A SINGLE DEMOCRATIC SENATOR should confirm Emil Bove for the 3d Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
A 49 year old Canadian has died while in ICE custody.
ICE press release:

Johnny Noviello, a 49 year old Canadian, has died in the custody of ICE. The cause of death is under investigation.
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