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Lola Jane

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🇨🇦 Resistor. Human. Mom. Scientist.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 48m
UnitedHealth is the nation’s largest health insurance conglomerate. ProPublica obtained what is effectively the company’s internal playbook for limiting and cutting therapy costs. Here’s what we found. (Published Nov. 2024)
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How UnitedHealth’s Playbook for Limiting Mental Health Coverage Puts Countless Americans’ Treatment at Risk
United used an algorithm system to identify patients who it determined were getting too much therapy and then limited coverage. It was deemed illegal in three states, but similar practices persist due...
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 5h
This is worrying news. But anxiety is not a strategy. Join @indivisible.org's midterm election protection program to help make sure we're ready for whatever tricks Trump tries to hold on to power. indivisible.org/campaigns/ou...
MS NOW: Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over 2 decades
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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 22h
Surprising to find this intuition in myself (I never would have predicted I thought this), but the major discovery of the AI era for me is there's a huge group of things (art, scholarship, etc) that I literally only care about if a human being makes it
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 20h
there's a lot going on right now, but the ability to buy elections in order to stay out of prison is on the ballot whether you realize it or not
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 13h
Was this after he declared that Iran can “take out” San Diego? Home of the Pacific fleet? Has that really sunk in yet America?
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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Author Myron J. Clifton @deardean22.bsky.social · 23h
What do we do with our anger when they applaud and laugh when he says tens of millions of of Californians should be bombed
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LottesEnkelin @lottesenkelin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Every single one of us can do something about it. 2 minutes. Right now. 202 224 3121 Congressional Switchboard 202 456 1414 WH Switchboard resist.bot/petitions/PY...
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High Treason in Broad Daylight: Remove the Threat in the Oval Office
A President sworn to defend the United States has openly mused about foreign enemies attacking American soil. By casually suggesting that Iran "take out"…
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"The Trump Administration is proposing to repeal the Roadless Rule, opening 45 million acres of national forests to road construction, destructive timber harvest and energy development." Today is the last day for public comment. Weigh in: defenders.org/roadless-rule
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The Roadless Rule
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Jenn @jennburrill.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This morning a driver crashed onto the sidewalk exactly where my kids walk past on the way to school. This happened shortly before they came along. I have asked my local @brumgreens.bsky.social councillor to demand that this road be closed to cars until the current road works are complete.
A car crashed onto the pavement where pedestrians, including my children, pass every day.
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autumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“Gym for our minds” that’s a book you’re describing a book
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In Austin, a 9-year-old watched ICE detain and drive away with his mother, leaving community members to scramble to find him care. Senate Republicans just blocked a bill that would bar ICE from making arrests at school bus stops. Their cruelty is endless.
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'It Has to Stop': Community Members Condemn ICE Arrests at Bus Stops After GOP Blocks Bill to Protect Kids | Common Dreams
Republicans in the US Senate blocked a bill to protect school bus stops from ICE arrests, leading to outrage in Pennsylv
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PuahHope @puahhope.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
*due to a police stun grenade
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In one month from now Trump will be openly seeking to overturn the Nov 3 results. We all know that is coming. That is why Democratic AGs should announce now that if anyone tries to interfere in their election--including Trump-they will prosecute under state law. Trump can't pardon state crimes!
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The loss of living memory of the Second World War is absolutely catastrophic
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/10/2026
Despite having zero experience, ProPublica founded two private schools this year. You probably could, too! Take our quiz to find out just how easy it can be, then share your results with us by tagging @propublica.org.
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Quiz: Where Could You Open a Private School? — ProPublica
Private school requirements vary wildly across states. Take our quiz to find out just how easy starting one can be.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Show us the financial disclosures. The recusals. The independent military review. Explain why there's no conflict of interest here. This terrifying decision affects taxpayer billions—and service members’ lives. We deserve safeguards we can verify, not assurances we’re supposed to trust.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This scares the fuck out of me, and it should do the same to you. Elon Musk is helping reshape America’s future warfare while his company SpaceX holds billions in our U.S. defense contracts. Who keeps those recommendations from becoming a shopping list for his own company?
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If blue collar work was inherently upwardly mobile, everyone would do it. But the world doesn’t work that way. Capitalism doesn’t work that way. And people who romanticize blue collar work as having a quiet dignity are being patronizing, even if they don’t intend to
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 03/10/2026
Seeing this just fills me with absolute despair at the climate situation. We are still at peak emissions. We haven't even begun decreasing emissions and even if we did, the warming that's baked from past emissions will last for centuries. We're cooked.
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Yep. Pretty much ...
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
CTRL + F "authoritarian" NO RESULTS CTRL + F "autocratic" NO RESULTS CTRL + F "tyrannical" NO RESULTS CTRL + F "fascist" NO RESULTS They couldn't even muster a "critics say this is a part of a pattern of..." At this point, this silence amounts to active suppression of expert opinion & context.
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Trump Threatens Defamation Suit Over National Guard Report, Aiming to Intimidate a Critic (Gift Article)
It was the latest example of President Trump’s bid to use the legal system against those who voice unflattering facts and opinions generally protected by the First Amendment.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Just made donations to three Ohio campaigns I care about. If you can, please pick some candidates in close races and do the same.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Data centers on the gubernatorial ballot in Ohio. Acton against, Ramaswamy for (and personally invested in). www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...
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Ramaswamy is in bed with data center owners. He'll get richer at your expense | Amy Acton
Amy Acton: Vivek Ramaswamy is bought and paid for by data center owners. He'll never get everyday Ohioans like I do.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Tim Snyder is correct: If Democrats want to regain working people, they must disavow Big Money and tackle our corrupt system. There’s no way the party can speak for or represent the working class in America if it's beholden to corporate interests.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
ICE just kidnapped a woman at LAX airport Saturday Oct 3, 12:50AM. A community member was able to record when several ICE goons who refused to identify themselves grabbed the woman, put her into a van and then drove off.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
The pending oil deal involves Russian Lukoil international assets (now sanctioned by the US) that would be acquired at a big discount by a Trump campaign donor, a UAE-based investor in Trump/Witkoff family crypto company, and Kushner/Ivanka's Qatari-based real estate partners.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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NPR @npr.org · 02/10/2026
Florida is updating its science standards with evolution and climate change almost entirely absent from a new proposal.  The state will now seek public input on the revision. (via @cfpublicmedia.bsky.social) n.pr/4iW2Kh4
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Florida’s proposed science standards sideline evolution and climate change
The Florida Department of Education released its first comprehensive rewrite of science learning standards in nearly two decades, with the last one adopted in 2008.
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Maudi63 @maudi63.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
There’s been a lot of 🥺 sh*t going on lately, so here’s a much needed timeline cleanse. ❤️ 🦫 🌺
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Anita @anita1956.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
White people, we really need to wake up to the painful truth that systemic racism in this country has ignored/covered/changed facts when it comes to Black lives and Black deaths from day one. Stop deferring to "official reports" and instead listen to and believe Black voices saying different.
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Nolan Wells’ autopsy found no water in lungs; data was deleted from his phone the day he disappeared, experts say
Shocking new details were revealed during a press conference sharing the results of the state’s autopsy and findings from Nolan Wells’ cellphone.
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 02/10/2026
LOGGING ON
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"...intimidating protesters and observers. They did this, the filing says, by doing drive-bys of the observers’ homes and, in the case of at least one observer, requiring that she be referred to secondary inspection any time she tries to cross the border until at least January 2027"
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DrH @drhaup.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
John Lewis bled on the Edmund Pettus Bridge so Black Americans could vote without being blocked, tested, or humiliated. That is why barriers to voting should make us furious. Check your registration & protect the power people died to win. #LetsGetVoteReady social.demcast.com/s/IF3ydmAf
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Register to Vote
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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The meeting hosts used sympathetic language very capably, and affirmed our worries. But when we asked how we could get students to abide by individual syllabus policies disallowing AI while the university is investing $450 million in AI initiatives of dubious potential, next question please.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
last night at dinner we were talking about how much tracey sucks and the server overheard and was like are you talking about michael tracey? that guy fucking sucks, and it was very satisfying
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Melek Ortabasi @mortabasi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Are you a member of the #SFU community + a U.S. citizen? Did you know you can vote in the US elections regardless of where you live? Make a difference and vote! Please share this info with any US citizens you know. @demsabroad.bsky.social @demsabroadcanada.bsky.social @votefromabroad.bsky.social
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Elizabeth Sofia 💙🐈🐶🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @skippjon1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🎉🎉🎉
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Democrats Abroad Canada @demsabroadcanada.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Supreme Court just allowed states to use DHS’s expanded SAVE database to purge voter rolls. These outdated records can wrongly flag eligible voters, especially naturalized citizens. But as Dr Brendan Csaposs explains, if you are concerned, there are steps you can take. 🧵 @demsabroad.bsky.social
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It was hard, especially as a survivor, but I dug through the court documents and the right-wing reaction to the Cornell case. What I've learned is the backlash to #MeToo did its job, reinscribing hatred of survivors. We need more #MeToo, not less. www.salon.com/2026/10/02/c...
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Cornell assault case shows #MeToo didn’t go far enough
The backlash against the woman suing Chi Phi fraternity members is turning into a witch hunt
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Tod Maffin 🇨🇦 @todmaffin.com · 02/10/2026
Canadians build great technology. Some of them are sitting in your app store right now, waiting for a turn. From email to streaming to ride apps, each of these alternatives is Canadian-owned and operated. (A check mark means I use it myself!) ✅ Our full list is at unplug.todmaffin.com #BuyCanadian
A one-page guide titled "Unplug America" recommending Canadian alternatives to U.S. tech services, listing pairs like ChatGPT → Augure/CanadaGPT, Netflix → CBC Gem/APTN+, Uber/Lyft → Poparide/R-Hero.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 02/10/2026
Two brothers have been charged in connection with a long-running scheme to raise money for Hamas by disseminating propaganda and soliciting donations for “the poor and orphans in Gaza” via social media, court records show.
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Brothers arrested in long-running scheme to raise money for Hamas
The two are accused of falsely soliciting donations for “the poor and orphans in Gaza” via social media, court records show.
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
do actors in movies actually die? they at least behave as if they do
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uncledennyray.bsky.social @uncledennyray.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What is the middle when it comes to protecting the Epstein class? Is there a middle if a bill is offered in the Senate to tax the mega churches? Isn’t the middle to cutting Medicare is to only cut it half as much as suggested?
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026
The American Bar Association laid out the receipts. Big donors get appointments. Big money flows in, investigations disappear, pardons follow, regulations loosen and foreign governments get favorable treatment. The article calls it an “unprecedented pay-to-play culture.” #PayToPlayPresident
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
No God to save you in capitalism
This will lead to a fundamental change in how we think about work, income, and economic security. How will an economy that's been built around employment operate if fewer people are working, or if many people are working fewer hours?
In a capitalist society, employment is the way most people get the money they need to pay for the basics of life as well as being a key source of dignity and social connection.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/10/2026
We're continuing to report. To understand how apps like DraftKings and FanDuel respond to their users’ betting behavior, we need your help 👇
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Help ProPublica Report on Sports Betting by Sending Us Your App Data
If you’ve bet on sports with FanDuel or DraftKings, you can help ProPublica understand how these apps respond to their users’ betting behavior. Use our browser extension to download your betting…
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Chris and his farmily of forever farm friends @caenhillcc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thursday morning with sister cats Smudge & Potato
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