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LowFlutin

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Local Public health warrior by day- Musician by night (go low!). Girl mom and navy wife.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/10/2026
Look at the shabby state and increasingly authoritarian trajectory of the country and ask yourself if we can endure 2 more years of a lawless Trump administration wreaking havoc with no check from Congress, then vote accordingly. This is not the time for a protest vote or purity politics.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
For the first time on record, a majority of Americans have not much/no confidence in the government to ensure food safety. news.gallup.com/poll/715430/...
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 05/10/2026
"They buried Pierre Damas Bel on Saturday. That night, Donald Trump came to town to take a victory lap on the policies that killed him." Powerful piece: www.thebulwark.com/p/a-death-a-...
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A Death. A Funeral. And the Trump Rally Down the Block.
On the day Springfield held a funeral for Pierre Damas Bel, the president held a rally 25 miles away. We went to both.
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Sue Stone @knittingknots.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Soldiers seriously wounded in Iranian drone strike tell AP the military's medical system failed them www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
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Soldiers seriously wounded in Iranian drone strike tell AP the military's medical system failed them
Arturo Lincón's body like shattered glass. One chunk of metal lodged into the left side of his jaw.
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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lucaswaldron.bsky.social @lucaswaldron.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New analysis from @propublica.org: Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans. www.propublica.org/article/ecto...
A chart showing the rate of deaths after an ectopic pregnancy, comparing states that banned abortion after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022 with those that did not. At the start of the chart, in 2014, the rate is higher in states with abortion bans, but the rates in the two groups of states are not far apart. The rate increases in both groups of states, but the climb is much steeper in states that banned abortion.
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Benjamin Slyngstad @slyngstad.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
He’s telling you exactly what he thinks of their sacrifice.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The Trump administration promised to make America healthy again. It was just another lie as federal health data shows foodborne illness outbreaks are up 400% this year. They’re making Americans sicker due to budget cuts and easing regulations.😢🤬🤬🤬
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IDSA @idsainfo.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
At a time when measles outbreaks are already threatening communities across the country, making vaccination more complicated and burdensome risks leaving more children vulnerable. Our response to the vaccine executive order: www.idsociety.org/news--public...
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Lowering teen pregnancy rates has been a major public health win, and Republicans want to undo that. newrepublic.com/post/213391/...
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Trump Orders Schools to Make Chilling Change to Sex Ed Programs
Donald Trump has gutted programs aimed at preventing teen pregnancy.
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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Part of the reason we end up with periodic outbreaks of food-borne illness is because the people who harvest, process, and prepare food are some of the lowest-paid workers with the fewest labor protections and most miserable working conditions in America
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Forbes @forbes.com · 17/07/2026
Taylor Farms, which supplies major fast food and grocery chains, was identified as the possible source of the cyclosporiasis outbreak Thursday.
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Taylor Farms Recalls Iceberg Lettuce Traced To Farm In Mexico Amid Cyclosporiasis Outbreak
Taylor Farms, which supplies major fast food and grocery chains, was identified as the possible source of the cyclosporiasis outbreak Thursday.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15/07/2026
If the head of US intelligence isn't able to say who won the election in 2020, then maybe he shouldn't be head of US intelligence.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
When Republicans dismantle food safety and disease prevention infrastructure, there's an inevitable outcome. prospect.org/2026/07/16/h...
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How Donald Trump Created the Worst Diarrhea Outbreak This Century - The American Prospect
The ‘MAHA Trots’ are what happens when Republicans implement their anti-government agenda.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I can't breathe the air, I can't eat lettuce, I can't afford gas, and my kids have measles. But at least now our soldiers will have enough testosterone.
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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
As a 14-year military doc, I measured every policy by one question: Will it keep more service members healthy and mission-ready? Routine flu vaccination passed that test. Mandatory testosterone screening for everyone does not. Culture-war medicine isn’t real medicine
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 14/07/2026
The number of Democrats who posted bullshit about Lindsey Graham is astonishing given the givings. It cannot be that the GOP is an existential threat but also you really liked how Graham negotiated with humor and wit. It cannot be that Trump is a fascist but also you're confirming his nominees
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/07/2026
Mamdani: "As we mark 250 years ... we see the wealthiest country -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more ... we see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans"
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NPR @npr.org · 02/07/2026
Former White House ethics lawyer Richard Painter says President Trump "stands alone" in having substantial financial conflicts of interest and that, "for every other executive branch official, it would be a violation." n.pr/4gQq3ro
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Former ethics lawyer says Trump's crypto poses 'clear conflict of interest'
Former White House ethics lawyer Richard Painter says President Trump "stands alone" in having substantial financial conflicts of interest and that, "for every other executive branch official, it would be a violation."
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The Supreme Court’s Corruption Must Be Broken talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s...
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The Supreme Court’s Corruption Must Be Broken
This likely goes without saying. But I’ll say it anyway and add...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
"I run the protection program. We’ll take care of you." The clear point is that Republicans have turned Congress into an body that does not engage in oversight, that operates to protect the president's family, the cabinet, his donors, friends.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
In a real society, in a real country where laws were applied to everyone and consequences were a thing, saying "I will protect the pedophiles and crooks in this room from justice" would be the end of this guy's career and he'd be in jail
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 18/06/2026
This isn't an exaggeration: Republicans literally kicked KIDS off of food assistance so they could give billionaires more tax breaks. This wasn't an accident this was a deliberate Republican policy CHOICE.
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More Than 770,000 Children Are No Longer Receiving SNAP Benefits After Trump Changes Federal Food Program
Republican backers of Trump’s signature domestic policy bill repeatedly claimed that revisions to the food benefits program wouldn’t affect the most vulnerable. But reports from a dozen states show ch...
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
1/ Iran has reportedly assessed that Donald Trump is "mentally incompetent" and has incorporated psychologists into its negotiating team to adapt the wording of the proposed agreement "as if the recipient were a [mental] patient ... whose capacity is limited." ⬇️
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 15/06/2026
ngl, the space x IPO being largely successful immediately after elon musk spent a week fomenting racist pogroms in northern ireland is one of the more blackpilling events of the year for me
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
The 28th annual bi-partisan wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, to honor fallen servicewomen, was cancelled after several branches of the military would not participate due to White House and Pentagon policies. The DWC honored our servicewomen who have served our nation. 🇺🇸
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Wouldn’t it be nice if the world’s first trillionaire wasn’t responsible for policies that led to the deaths of several hundred thousand people worldwide?
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
War Crimes Seem To Be Official US Policy Now open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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War Crimes Seem To Be Official US Policy Now
We Will Rue The Day
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
"I think Democrats stole the election in Los Angeles. Do I have any proof? No." "Well, I think you molested animals at a petting zoo. Do I have any proof? No."
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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I've spent months speaking to current & retired Black service members about being part of the military in this political moment. What I found were officers and soldiers despondent at the resurgence of racism, yet often insistent that they were fighting for what this country could be, not what it is.
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The Betrayal of Black Patriots
They devoted their lives to serving the United States. Now the nation’s top military leader is sending the message that they’re not welcome.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/06/2026
wonderful piece from @clintsmithiii.bsky.social that, among other things, makes abundantly clear that pete hegseth and the trump administration are engaged in a racist purge of black officers under the belief that being black and having "merit" are mutually exclusive.
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The Betrayal of Black Patriots
They devoted their lives to serving the United States. Now the nation’s top military leader is sending the message that they’re not welcome.
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
This @clintsmithiii.bsky.social article is so good. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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Being Black in Pete Hegseth’s Military
The secretary of defense is sending the message that Black service members are not welcome.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/06/2026
NEW: Regulators have linked Mark McAfee’s raw dairy farm to more than a dozen recalls and outbreaks that left hundreds of people ill. “I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital,” McAfee said. “But here’s the thing: I’m a pioneer.”
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He Profits Off Raw Milk That's Making People Sick. The Government Isn't Stopping Him.
With Raw Farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, Mark McAfee has capitalized on a once-fringe product that's been thrust into the mainstream in recent years and backed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 06/06/2026
Senior researchers at a meeting of the American Diabetes Association were handing out copies of an editorial, published in the association's journal, condemning Trump administration cuts to diabetes research. Police came to arrest them. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/w...
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Police Remove Diabetes Experts From Conference for Distributing Critique of Trump Administration
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 05/06/2026
i know no one cares, nothing matters, it’s all blasé to the median voter and pundit, but a sitting AG (even just acting) making these kinds of boldly partisan remarks would have been seen, in the past, as grounds for removal on a bipartisan basis
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
With its recent rulings, the Roberts Court has now entirely perverted the purpose of the 15th Amendment, turning an outright ban on racial discrimination in voting into a right to discriminate against black voters. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The Supreme Court Has Invented a Right to Discriminate
Alabama gambled on the Court’s partisanship, and won.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Trump just said his new Director of National Intelligence "may find out some things about the rigged elections." What??? How did no one ask what Trump wants his DNI to "find out" about the elections, what he wants his DNI to do to them, and why he thinks that's the DNI's job?
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The Heritage Was Always the Hate #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
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The Heritage Was Always the Hate
A 1963 letter on Confederate letterhead shows exactly what the Sons of Confederate Veterans were fighting for—and it wasn't history.
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 03/06/2026
Imagine how much less worse things would be if the supreme court weren't corrupt.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Trump's pick of Bill Pulte as DNI is worse than you think. It hands the "vast powers" of our "national security apparatus" to the guy who's working to jail Trump's enemies, says @leahlitman.bsky.social, and that's "terrifying." On the pod, Litman pulls no punches: newrepublic.com/article/2112...
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Trump Push to Jail Foes Takes Darker Turn—and GOP Senators Are Rattled
As Trump picks the guy who worked to jail his enemies as his new Director of National Intelligence, a legal observer explains why this could lead to a true nightmare scenario.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
This may be @jamellebouie.net 's best column ever, which is really saying something. Here's a gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/o...
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Opinion | America Broke Something When It Gave Trump a Second Chance
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Wolf Hour @wolfhour.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
(cartoon Clay Bennett) #politics
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
The “we don’t have the votes” excuse for refusing to force a vote on impeachment is conceding the point and saying even the opposition party doesn’t think this high crime merits removal from office. It’s not being politically astute and pragmatic, it’s self-defeating in its cowardice.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
This is a deeply reported story that is not just about vapes, but about how powerful corporations and wealthy people get their way by using access and methods that simply aren’t available to the rest of the country.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Women’s risk of maternal death in Texas was 155% higher than in California Have you ever heard that before? I wanted to check my thesis: Texas is our best example of hating women. There were arguments that the bump in maternal mortality was an aberration. But it's gotten even worse under the ban.
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Maternal Mortality in the United States After Abortion Bans - Gender Equity Policy Institute (GEPI)
Mothers Living in Abortion Ban States at Significantly Higher Risk of Death During Pregnancy and Childbirth
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
There is no clearer case for the necessity of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 than how quickly southern states moved to eliminate Black-majority districts and dilute Black power after SCOTUS eroded Section 2. SCOTUS’s reasoning was immediately disproven by reality.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 08/05/2026
One side is like “can we disenfranchise all the Black voters by this weekend” and the other is like gotta follow the rules that govern the rules that control the rulebook
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
its true that i dont understand how the supreme court operates. for example do you get the free RV and house for your mom before or after issuing favorable rulings? is it a *wink wink* deal or more explicit? these are the things the general public doesnt understand
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
This dropped around the same time as this interview - Neil Gorsuch on Megyn Kelly’s show. He was talking about how “young conservatives must have courage to stand by their beliefs.” Sounds apolitical to me!
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