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Mary E. Costello

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Founder & CEO of MoreFor4, Inc. -- a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit that supports the Stage IV cancer community. Social Worker/disability advocate living with de novo Metastatic Breast Cancer. Political/social justice views are my own. morefor4.org 🌈

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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 3h
For context on this report, here's contemporaneous reporting from KNKX in 2024. The two records uploaded to ICE's FOIA database today are longer versions of the detainee death report cited in this article. The reports were conducted by ICE's compliance contractor, Creative Corrections LLC.
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Medical examiner rules Tacoma ICE detainee died of natural causes
The Pierce County Medical Examiner determined Charles Leo Daniel, who spent extensive time in solitary confinement, died of natural causes in March.
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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 5h
“We will see thousands of additional medical clinic visits" caused by immune amnesia, said Michael Mina, MD. “If your child gets measles, you have to be looking over your shoulder” for years. “We’re on the cusp of finding out just how significant immune problems may be," Dr. C. Mary Healy told me.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 5h
Mamdani holds Sliwa's hand so he doesn't faint getting a flu shot. No wonder the right wing media has stopped talking about our Scary Radical Mayor.
A doctor gives former Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa a flu shot on camera while the mayor, who already got his, holds his hand. Everyone is laughing.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 5h
Obsessed with this photo of the Republican senate candidate in North Carolina
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 5h
The world must stop equating wealth with knowledge, wealth with wisdom, wealth with sainthood, or to any other redeeming quality.
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 9h
Two weeks ago, Trump campaigned in North Carolina. Today Republicans pulled all their campaign funding from the Senate race. Let's hope this trend continues everywhere Trump goes!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 9h
We’re living through a time when far too many men — including privileged young men at a frat house in an Ivy League university — feel impunity when it comes to attacking women. I don’t think it unrelated to the impunity felt by the man now occupying the highest office in the land.
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Cornell, Rape, and Misogyny in the Age of Trump
Friends,
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h
just catching up on JD Vance telling Hannity that Jeffrey Epstein is actually "a great character reference" for Donald Trump 😳
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 9h
We need this number in the high 90s to achieve herd immunity from misinformation and idiocy. Link: buff.ly/gJQBmjI
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 9h
And right on cue, Bari Weiss and her team are there to defend the Cornell frat boys... and the entire institution of rape on college campuses... because "boys will be boys," apparently.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9h
Technologically very impressive but this stuff scares the crap out of me from a societal perspective. Just the sheer amount of fraud alone that these models will enable is chilling, let alone all the other harms.
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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 9h
Measles doesn't stop harming people when the rash goes away. Measles can damage the immune system, causing "immune amnesia" for up to five years. Measles outbreaks this year and last could leave thousands vulnerable to other infectious diseases. www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles-outb...
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Measles outbreaks could leave thousands vulnerable to infectious diseases for years
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 13h
🏛️ LOSS: A challenge to a Florida voter registration policy has been dismissed by a Trump-appointed judge. Civil rights groups say the “exact match” policy unlawfully disenfranchises eligible applicants due to minor errors — disproportionately burdening voters of color: demdock.com/3TysEgC
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 13h
Sen Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on jobs report: “Trump’s economy has only added 33,000 jobs a month on average, far below the 120,000-a-month average in 2024. At the same time, paychecks are growing at their slowest rate in nearly 7 years”
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ACLU @aclu.org · 13h
We need just one more member of Congress to call for a vote on the Dream and Promise Act — 217 of them have already done so. If passed, this legislation would provide a pathway to citizenship that Dreamers have been fighting for since 2012. Demand action to protect our communities from ICE.
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Pathway to Citizenship Now
ICE has shot and killed people in our streets. Dozens have died in ICE custody. These aren’t isolated events. We need solutions today and the Dream and Promise Act is a critical piece of that. Take action now
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13h
Exit polls showed that 75% of truckers voted for Trump in 2024. Now they are struggling to survive.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 13h
"Killing women can't fail, it can only be failed"
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Denying that affordability is an issue is worse than blaming Joe Biden for the economy.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Sir that’s your approval rating
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
-Trump Airlines -Trump Beverages -Trump Casinos -Trump Magazine -Trump Mortgage -Trump Steaks -Trump's Travel Site -Trumpnet -Trump Tower Tampa -Trump University -Trump Vodka -Trump Fragrances -Trump Mattress -Trump Mobile All massive financial failures led by Trump. Now this...
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The Kennedy Center was solvent when Trump took over. Then its finances collapsed.
The Post examined 15 years of the institution’s financial records to see why it went south after the president took over
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
😳 Trump's hand as photographed moments ago (Kent Nishimura/AFP via Getty)
close up pic of Trump's hand showing disgusting discoloration and skin ailments from his fingers to his wrist
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
At least 56 people have died in ICE custody during Trump’s second term. According to ICE’s internal reviews, detention staff did not provide sufficient medical care to at least six of those detainees. ICE has now taken down those reviews from its website. What other cruelty is ICE trying to hide?
theintercept.com
ICE Deleted Reviews for Deaths in Custody That Cited Shoddy Medical Care
Three-quarters of ICE’s own 2025 death reviews, briefly posted online, raised substandard and “inappropriate” care of il
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Winnable Democratic Races 💙 @winnabledemraces.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
💙 TOSS-UP NEWS: WI-03 Derrick Van Orden (R) has been releasing deepfake AI videos to discredit his challenger Rebecca Cooke (D). Cooke lost to Van Orden in 2024 by only 11,000 votes. WI-03 is ranked Toss-Up by @cookpolitical.com thehill.com/homenews/cam...
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Van Orden hit with cease and desist letter from Democratic opponent over AI deepfake ads
Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wis.) was hit with a cease and desist letter from his Democratic opponent, Rebecca Cooke, after the lawmaker aired AI deepfake campaign advertisements about her. “Not only…
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 01/10/2026
For the typical worker, more than half of every dollar of income growth is going right back out the door in debt payments. This new report from @tcfdotorg.bsky.social and @protectborrowers.bsky.social makes it clear: the economy is rigged against working families.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 01/10/2026
Lake Mead and Lake Powell, the two giant reservoirs that make the system work, are at historic lows -- with Lake Mead at its lowest level since it was filled nearly 90 years ago. “If it’s not a crisis, it’s crisis-adjacent," one official said of conditions on the Colorado River
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The Colorado River is shrinking. What happens next?
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 01/10/2026
🚨Trump & Republicans' shameful cuts to food assistance are taking effect TODAY. That means states now have less resources to feed families facing food insecurity. In MA, over 188,000 SNAP beneficiaries have already been impacted. I'll keep fighting to expand SNAP & end hunger once and for all.
An NPR article titled: SNAP's funding model is starting to change. Here's what that means for the program
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Finally, the Footlose/Flashdance crossover we were promised
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 01/10/2026
NEW: A Department of Defense official wrote in a letter there are no plans to deploy active-duty troops to the polls or "interfere" with election-related materials. But the response brings little comfort as top Trump administration officials have refused to rule out the option for the fall.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 01/10/2026
Christa Pike is alive and receiving life-saving medical care, her attorney said, hours after Pike ‌survived two lethal injection attempts at a Nashville prison and was taken to a hospital reut.rs/46UAswc
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Elizabeth West @limeylizzie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
That poor woman complained about her arm blowing up, as the state of Tennessee tried to murder her.
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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 01/10/2026
A Trump administration rule to cut hospital drug prices for Medicare patients may apply to as few as four drugmakers after exempting companies that signed separate "most favored nation" pricing agreements with the administration, according to the finalized rule.
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Trump Medicare drug pricing model may apply to only four companies after exemptions
A Trump administration rule to cut hospital drug prices for Medicare patients may apply ​to as few as four drugmakers after exempting ‌companies that signed separate "most favored nation" pricing agreements with the administration, according to the finalized rule.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
great that he's maintaining the advantage of tactical surprise over the Iranians
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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 01/10/2026
California Attorney General Rob Bonta has issued an investigative subpoena to OpenAI, starting a probe into the startup as part of a broader inquiry into potential cybersecurity vulnerabilities and incidents related to its AI models, his office said on Thursday.
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California attorney general issues investigative subpoena to OpenAI
California Attorney General Rob Bonta has issued an ​investigative subpoena to OpenAI, starting a probe ‌into the startup as part of a broader inquiry into potential cybersecurity vulnerabilities and incidents related to its ​AI models, his office said on ​Thursday.
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NPR @npr.org · 01/10/2026
Disability rights advocates are angered by the latest reversal but are rallying behind proposed legislation and working with states to strengthen protections for community integration. trib.al/teEenpZ
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Trump administration reverses stance on integration of people with disabilities
Disability rights advocates are angered by the latest reversal but are rallying behind proposed legislation and working with states to strengthen protections for community integration.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“.. The ships, jet fighters, Marines and sailors will arrive in the region by the end of November, the officials said. Trump recently told aides that he expects to resume bombing Iran that same month ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/10/2026
The war has been going on for 7 months now btw
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 01/10/2026
⁨Arizona was hit hardest by SNAP cuts. A 52% reduction in recipients - that's 400,000 people, including hungry children, who have been kicked off assistance. Juan Ciscomani voted for this in the BBB and expects Arizonans to forgive him?⁩
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
who on Earth would vote for this cretin it is actually astonishing that he is even on the ballot
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Signs you might really have crossed a line: The torture guy is suggesting a firing squad as a more humane alternative
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Renee Good, Alex Pretti, and Keith Porter Jr. were murdered. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez was shot. Salah Sarsour was arrested and jailed. The next victim of ICE's cruelty could be you. We must all speak out and demand accountability.
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‘She was pure love’: Renee Good’s partner makes first public comments as family sues U.S. government, ICE officer over her killing
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot Good, 37, in the driver’s seat of her SUV during a Jan. 7 en
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Another new ruling from the Reich minister for propaganda and popular enlightenment. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
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FCC head says government-funded Trump ads are ‘normal’ and ‘don’t raise any red flags’
Brendan Carr said the ads are “normal-course public service announcements” and nothing that would “merit any sort of” review by the Federal Communications Commission.
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
President Trump in TIME Interview Doesn’t Rule Out Declaring National Emergency or Using Insurrection Act During Elections or Sending Ice Agents to the Polls, But Seems Mostly Unaware of the Issue electionlawblog.org/2026/preside...
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President Trump in TIME Interview Doesn’t Rule Out Declaring National Emergency or Using Insurrection Act During Elections or Sending Ice Agents to the Polls, But Seems Mostly Unaware of the Issue #EL...
What’s interesting from this TIME interview, despite all of the most fervent election denier conspiracists urging him to declare a national emergency and take over the running of elections (something ...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“.. We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” @semafor.com www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings
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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript
The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We are a failed country. www.tmz.com/2026/10/01/c...
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Christa Pike Said Arm Felt Like It Was About to Burst During Botched Execution
Christa Pike repeatedly pointed out a shooting pain in her arm during her horrifically failed execution attempt ... according to one eyewitness.
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Radio Free America @radiofreeflorida.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A little mid-day request from @yaquinalady.bsky.social ! #RadioFreeAmerica 🎧🎧🎧 youtu.be/7xGxQXmu7Os?...
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The Youngbloods - Get Together (Audio)
YouTube video by LegacyRecordingsVEVO
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 01/10/2026
Trump has had a decades-long obsession with eugenics. Here's a timeline of the president’s thoughts on “good genes,” IQ, and which disabled people should “just die.”
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Donald Trump's decades-long obsession with eugenics
A timeline of the president's thoughts on "good genes," IQ, and which disabled people should "just die."
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
😂 Trumpers now investigating whether Watergate investigation was also "weaponization"
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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 01/10/2026
Canada will fast track the approval process for a new proposed crude oil export pipeline to its west coast that could generate over C$20 billion ($14 billion) a year in GDP, Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Thursday.
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Canada to fast track oil pipeline designed to diversify economy away from US
Canada will fast track the approval process for a new proposed crude oil export pipeline to ​its west coast that could generate over C$20 billion ($14 billion) a year in ‌GDP, Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Thursday.
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