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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 01/05/2025

TODAY: We’re taking to the streets on May Day. Over 1,000 events are planned to remind Trump and the oligarchs controlling our government of working people’s power. Join organized labor, immigrants’ rights groups, and Hands Off! allies for our national day of action: maydaystrong.org?utm_source=i...

A map of May Day events planned across the country.

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EveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Support libraries and literacy! Take action at buff.ly/41eAGMI

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Black history is American history, and the attack on Black history is an attack on American history. It's right out of the fascist playbook - rewriting and erasing the past so they can control the future. We stand together to reaffirm #HandOffOurHistory.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 01/05/2025

The Department of Health and Human Services just released its garbage report on gender affirming care. They left the authors anonymous because they're cowards and want to limit criticisms of bias. That said, it's clear this was authored by SEGM members. opa.hhs.gov/gender-dysph...

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Gender Dysphoria Report

Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria: Review of Evidence and Best Practices is a report by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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M.S.K 🇵🇸 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ writer😷C0VID is the new TABOO @msk-the-writer.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Anonymous authors. In other words, less trustworthy than even a random reddit post (you can check out user profiles there)

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Killer Buni @killerbuni.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

./sigh Time to fire up the ol' FOIA so we can find out who the authors are ... in a few years after the legal fight is over.

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MarshZ @marshz.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Right…a lot of misinformation in this stupid “report”.

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LSW @ltrip.altgov.info · 01/05/2025

#MayDay & #InternationalWorkersDay Thank you for all you do! We stand with workers everywhere. We recognize the power of unions to advance democracy at home & abroad, secure a living wage & safe working conditions. Join, support or create a union. Together we are stronger.

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Heather Randell @heatherrandell.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

And meanwhile on the other side of the pond…

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Today's the day!!! We'll be out in the streets today to stop the billionaire takeover and stand with workers and our immigrant friends and neighbors for justice. Will we see you there? maydaystrong.org

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National Day of Action

They want to erase labor rights, break our unions, and silence immigrant voices. This May Day we are fighting back. Stand with us.

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Champaign County Indivisible 📎 @cc-indivisible.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

In Champaign County, IL, we will be out bit quieter, in a candlelight vigil for hope connecting communities.

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Q. McLamore @ghawinriver.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I'm not kidding. That's the fucking argument. "Kids will be harmed by the policy we rammed through once they grow up, so do conversion therapy on them."

Instead it becomes a major, permanent social problem for those young
people, since their future lives and freedoms will be seriously curtailed by being legally barred from
using the other sex’s spaces while appearing anomalous in those for their own sex.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Every review of youth gender medicine is just, "there's evidence that this helps and no evidence that this causes harm, but here's why that doesn't count."

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Glenn Kirschner @glennkirschner.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Let's do this, my friends. Hope to see you at the May Day rally in Berryville, Virginia today at 4 pm.

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AltCityHall @altcityhall.altgov.info · 01/05/2025

#MayDay Here at #AltGov we honor to contributions of the working class. We believe in livable wages, safe working conditions, that one job should be enough to live comfortably, and the right for all workers to unionize. #WeSeeYou and we (some of us) ARE you. ✊🏼🫶🏼

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 25/04/2025

As we leave you tonight, we are energized to see pushback working. We will remain vigilant. The power of the people is stronger than the people in power.

statnews.com

No new autism registry, HHS says, walking back NIH director's claim

The federal health department is not creating a new registry of Americans with autism, an HHS official said Thursday.

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The Sound of Rain ❌👑 @amenokoe.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Oh thank God... That shit was terrifying. But also, how can we say they'll not just do it in secret? I don't trust RFK as far as I can spit. 😕

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Librate @librate.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

We don't. I am fairly sure the idea is to make people once again be too afraid to seek a diagnosis, thereby making it appear as though RFKJoker's antivaxer conspiracy nut nonsense actually works. Manipulation of numbers through fear is not new to this administration.

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Desert29Girl 👊🔥🇺🇸 @desert29girl.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

You know that he is going to continue to build this registry behind our backs!

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Lynn Tramonte @lynntramonte.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Watching the livestream outside of the federal courthouse in Milwaukee right now and it's beautiful. So many people standing up to fascism, intimidation of our own government officials, and Trump admin myopic focus on abducting immigrants at all costs. www.facebook.com/VocesdelaFro... #JudgeDugan

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🚨Live at Federal Courthouse in Milwaukee to demand Justice for Judge Dugan! Make your plan to march with us May 1st #mayDay — 🚨En Vivo en el Tribunal... | By Voces de la Frontera | Facebook

🚨Live at Federal Courthouse in Milwaukee to demand Justice for Judge Dugan! Make your plan to march with us May 1st #mayDay — 🚨En Vivo en el Tribunal...

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Millie @thatmillie.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Well, he has a passport, so it’s a non-issue for him. It’s all the Americans with name changes without passports who could be disenfranchised by this disgusting bill.

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ShannonBear @shannonbear.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

They have passports, something poor people wouldn’t use and can’t afford. 😒

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Funny how the paperwork only matters when it’s a woman or minority voter.

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Dan Friedman @dfriedman.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

The passive attribution is a major sign of bullshit. And looking closer, it turned out the group used a dubious method, a text blast to ActBlue users, to claim many people said they didn’t remember making donations through the site. The group then exaggerated that into alleged “identity theft."

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Dark money group targets democratic donors

The "somewhat threatening" messages sent to ActBlue users are part of a campaign of baseless allegations against the fundraising platform.

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The Left Shrimp @theleftshrimp.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Join us. May be rainy. But fuck these fuckers, any and all of the regime. Elmo and his DOGE are still causing unrepairable chaos to our system. #teslatakedown #fuckmusk #reno #protest @teslatakedown.com

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The Sons of Liberty @sonsofliberty.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

The FBI has arrested Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge Hannah Dugan for allegedly hiding an immigrant evade ICE agents. The judge states ICE did not have a warrant, and ICE alleges that the immigrant was told to hide in a jury room, off-limits to anyone but jurors.

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 25/04/2025

Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:

Every April, we celebrate Independent Bookstore Day to remind us how vital indie bookstores are to our communities and society. It’s a day of joy and solidarity, and significant financial impact for these bookstores.

This year, Amazon is undercutting that with a “Book Sale” on the same day—a calculated move by a company that has already put half the bookstores in the country out of business, controls over 60% of the market and sells far more books than all indie bookstores combined. The people at Amazon responsible for the timing of their "Book Sale" should be ashamed, but they are shameless.

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 25/04/2025

“It feels like an intentional kick in the face to local bookstores [...] Independent bookstores generally have to charge full price because those margins are what help them survive. Amazon engages in predatory pricing.”

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Amazon's book sale crashes Independent Bookstore Day—and readers are pushing back

Indie bookstores planned a national celebration. Amazon planned a book sale. Now, the battle for readers' attention is on.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

OR JUST NOT FUCKING USE IT EVER

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Goddammit. An RCT for a vaccine is a foolish and wasteful and useless activity. Let’s be clear: this is the end run around vaccines. This is the anti-vax playbook. They want RCTs (which will necessarily cause harm since some people will get placebo and thus get sick) for all vaccines.

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

The article isn’t paywalled AFAICT, and it just proves Kennedy is too stupid* to be in this job, because he says that shots targeting a single antigen “have never worked” for respiratory illnesses. And that’s not true. RSV, Pneumonia, Covid mRNAs. *in the academic sense of stupidity, see here:

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Donald Trump’s policies are more than dumb — they’re stupid, according to stupidity researchers

The actions of the Trump administration on several fronts exhibit scientifically defined features of stupidity of many kinds.

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Dan Friedman @dfriedman.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Trump’s order Thursday telling DOJ to investigate ActBlue claims “press reports and...congressional committees” found "evidence that online fundraising platforms have been willing participants in schemes to launder excessive and prohibited contributions to political candidates and committees.”

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Dan Friedman @dfriedman.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Now we get the completion of a short disinfo loop: Musk secretly funds mostly-made up claims about donor fraud, which get exaggerated in a GOP echo chamber, then land in a Trump executive order as "evidence" used as a pretext for what is actually an effort to use DOJ to harm Democratic fundraising.

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RogueResistanceKnitter 🥄🐸 @rogueresistknitter.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

🚨👀👀🚨 Holy shit!! They're now going to start targeting journalists.

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Ross Macfarlane @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Our new doormat with a message especially for ICE and the FBI: "Come Back With A Warrant"

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Physghoul 👻 🎃 @physgal.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Come join us for online star gazing tonight! #SFU 🧪🎢 🔭 🍎 ⚛️ 🌃

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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 25/04/2025

"More than 200 protesters lined both sides of the street outside the Social Security Administration office in downtown Santa Barbara on Wednesday, joining a nationwide outcry over proposed federal changes they say threaten the future of Social Security services." @indivisiblesb.bsky.social

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Hundreds Rally in Santa Barbara Against Proposed Social Security Cuts

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — More than 200 protesters lined both sides of the street outside the Social Security Administration office in downtown Santa

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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

NEW: Statement from attorney for Judge Dugan. "Hannah C. Dugan has committed herself to the rule of law and the principles of due process for her entire career as a lawyer and a judge. Judge Dugan will defend herself vigorously, and looks forward to being exonerated."

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Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan charged with 2 felonies in ICE case

Brady McCarron, spokesman for U.S. Marshals Service in Washington, D.C., confirmed Dugan was arrested at about 8 a.m. at the Milwaukee County Courthouse and is in federal custody.

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