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Mara Nightingale

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2025
After a college student finally found a treatment that worked for his ulcerative colitis, UnitedHealthcare decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims. (Published Feb. 2023)
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UnitedHealthcare Tried to Deny Coverage to a Chronically Ill Patient. He Fought Back, Exposing the Insurer’s Inner Workings.
After a college student finally found a treatment that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for r...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
"Beckwith reminded him of the federal court order [restricting CBP operations]... "At 10:57, she emailed him to reiterate she expected 'compliance with court orders and the Constitution.' "Hours later, her work cellphone went dark. Then her computer did, too." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
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Trump Fired a U.S. Attorney Who Insisted on Following a Court Order
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Kamala Harris: He had no plan for actually bringing down costs and prices for the American people. He had very few plans for what he would actually do that was about the American people, and not his vengeance on his enemies.
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Mara Nightingale @maranightingale.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
We are more alike than divided: all people need love, safety, dignity, and hope. Beyond politics, we share laughter, grief, meals, dreams, and the wish to belong. Remembering our common humanity is the first step to healing.
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𝐉𝐞𝐫𝐢 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐭 🩷 @jastuart68.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
The state of America: Cyndi Lauper changes the lyrics to Girls Just Want to Have Fun to Girls Just Want Fundamental Rights.....
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Mara Nightingale @maranightingale.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Neither party truly prioritizes regular people. Democrats offer limited social protections, while Republicans push corporate-first agendas. In both cases, donor and corporate interests set the boundaries of what becomes law.
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Mara Nightingale @maranightingale.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
From empires to corporations, humanity's story is not progress but repackaged corruption. The titles change — pharaoh, lord, king, president, CEO — yet the design endures: a small elite thrives, the majority suffer and endure, and the earth pays the price.
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Mara Nightingale @maranightingale.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Religion succeeds not because it is true, but because it is a necessary anesthesia for most people. It soothes despair, masks doom, and provides the illusion of meaning where otherwise there would be too much weight to carry.
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Mara Nightingale @maranightingale.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
The world was not built for fairness, dignity, or care. It was built for profit, hierarchy, and control. Those who suffer the most remain invisible, while those who exploit thrive behind curated myths of success.
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Mara Nightingale @maranightingale.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Social hierarchies are constructed illusions, but they have real, crushing consequences for those trapped at the bottom.
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Mara Nightingale @maranightingale.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
The “free market” is a lie. Fossil fuels, weapons, and industrial agriculture are propped up by hidden subsidies while alternatives are quietly suppressed.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Masked immigration raids don’t protect us. They hide abuse and strip away our dignity. Stand with me in demanding transparency and accountability by adding your name to this petition.
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Sign Petition: Stop Masked Immigration Raids. This Is Not How a Democracy Operates.
These agents are using masks to shield themselves from accountability for their willingness to participate in dangerous overreach. (48941 signatures on petition)
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
We can't allow ourselves to become numb to mass shootings. What happened today in Minneapolis is heartbreaking, and Michelle and I are praying for the parents who have lost a child or will be sitting at their hospital bedside after yet another act of unspeakable, unnecessary violence.
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Mara Nightingale @maranightingale.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Scarcity is manufactured. Wealth is extracted. Fear is weaponized.
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Mara Nightingale @maranightingale.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
The taught histories are always about inevitability, progress, and benevolence. The truths are about systems of control — deliberate, engineered, hidden. And once you see the pattern, you start spotting it everywhere: in school lessons, news cycles, even the way museums and movies tell stories.
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Mara Nightingale @maranightingale.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Victors rewrite history to frame their dominance as progress.
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Mara Nightingale @maranightingale.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
People admire billionaires and want to be like them, instead of seeing them as parasites.
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Mara Nightingale @maranightingale.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Kings claimed divine right. Today’s elites claim “expertise” or “meritocracy.” Both are staged myths.
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Mara Nightingale @maranightingale.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Scarcity is deliberately engineered through hoarding, price manipulation, patents, and artificial limits to keep people desperate and dependent.
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Mara Nightingale @maranightingale.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Empires, monopolies, and corporations didn't/don't create wealth — they extract it through slavery, colonization, and exploitation.
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Mara Nightingale @maranightingale.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Ordinary people’s interests align far more than they conflict.
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Philip Rosedale @philiprosedale.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Who else is pondering this? What will you do with your newly-discovered free time? philiprosedale.substack.com/p/ultraviole...
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Ultraviolet Catastrophe
AI is about to make the public internet useless
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CC🇨🇦🍁 @collycee.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
I’m watching a live stream
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MS NOW @ms.now · 07/08/2025
BREAKING: A White House meeting took place last night to discuss the Jeffrey Epstein case, sources tell NBC News. It's unclear if the president attended, but AG Bondi and FBI Director Patel were present. The president and vice president had previously denied reports of a planned meeting.
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Mara Nightingale @maranightingale.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
1/3 I see how deeply the patriarchal construct still grips people. Not just in what it controls, but in what it hides.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/08/2025
Stephen Colbert is going SCORCHED EARTH right now. To RFK Jr: “Fuck you, you roid-addled nepo carnie! Fuck you, you roadkill-munching Luddite human slim jim!”
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Mara Nightingale @maranightingale.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Part 1: What we were taught to believe We were told the world works like this: - Work hard. Obey. Compete. - Don’t question power. - Don’t feel too much. - Stay busy, stay quiet. But deep down, we know: Something’s wrong. Something’s missing. We are meant for more. #PatriarchalConstruct
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Mara Nightingale @maranightingale.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
They’re destroying humanity—poisoning the Earth, silencing wisdom, and scapegoating the vulnerable. And some still cheer them on. Still vote for them. This isn’t ignorance. It’s allegiance. And it’s costing us everything. #CollapseByDesign #AncestralRage #ReclaimTheFuture
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 06/08/2025
Two months after the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade, in June 2022, Idaho’s trigger ban outlawing most abortions—one of the strictest nationwide—took effect. According to a new peer-reviewed paper study, Idaho lost more than a third of its OBs—94 of 268 total—afterwards.
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Idaho lost one in three obstetricians after its abortion ban
New research confirms: Crackdowns on reproductive rights have harmful ripple effects across local health care.
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
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Mara Nightingale @maranightingale.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Patriarchy + church authority didn’t just suppress women—they severed humanity from land, body, and ancestral wisdom. We lost healers, midwives, fungal knowledge, and joy. But the revival is happening. We remember. We reclaim. 🌿 #ReclaimWisdom #RelationalPower #AncestralRage #EarthWisdom
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
"The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself."
"The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself."
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
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Trump Administration Deports 82-Year-Old Pennsylvania Grandfather to Guatemala
On June 20, 82-year-old Luis Leon, of Allentown, Pennsylvania, went to a Philadelphia immigration office with his wife to replace his lost green card.
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MS NOW @ms.now · 05/08/2025
MSNBC EXCLUSIVE: “The purge in the FBI’s leadership ranks is without precedent in its modern history.” READ MORE from @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social:
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Analysis | High-ranking FBI job losses disproportionately hurt women, people of color
Leaders are undertaking an unprecedented campaign to force senior officials off the job.
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Mara Nightingale @maranightingale.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
While others folded, these companies held the line: 🟢 Apple 🟢 Costco 🟢 Microsoft 🟢 Delta 🟢 Patagonia 🟢 Ben & Jerry’s 🟢 JPMorgan Chase They reaffirmed inclusion when it mattered. #DEI #StandForEquity #CorporateCourage #ResistAuthoritarianism #CapitulationWatch #WorkplaceEquity
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/08/2025
With IRS commissioner Billy Long saying the Direct File program is "gone," revisit our 2019 story about how TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free:
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Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free
Using lobbying, the revolving door and “dark pattern” customer tricks, Intuit fended off the government’s attempts to make tax filing free and easy, and created its multi-billion-dollar franchise.
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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Rachel @maddow.msnbc.com last night: "We do now live in a country that has an authoritarian leader in charge. We have a consolidating dictatorship in our country."
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Mara Nightingale @maranightingale.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
The attacks on LGBTQ+ people right now are brutal, especially on intersex, trans, and nonbinary folks. The regime is erasing identities, truths, and lives. I refuse to be silent. I stand for autonomy, dignity, and everybody who doesn’t fit in their box. #LGBTQRights #IntersexJustice #DefendAllBodies
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Mara Nightingale @maranightingale.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
They're not just deleting data. They're deleting our right to know. Climate, health, jobs—gone. Experts fired. Truth replaced with control. If we can’t see what’s real, how can we fight for what matters? #DataIsDemocracy #StopThePurge
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Liberal Warrior 🏳️‍🌈👬🌊💙🌊👭🏳️‍🌈 @liberalwarrior.eu · 03/08/2025
#ResistanceReborn #SuperSundayParties @democracyenjoyer.bsky.social ‪@jasondogwood.bsky.social @catbourgeois.bsky.social @demguardrails.bsky.social @donnie111.bsky.social @miamac88.bsky.social‬ @debbie156.bsky.social @musingsbykevin.com @loveshine204.bsky.social @zaphodb74.bsky.social
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
"While the budget changes bar health providers who perform abortions from being a part of Medicaid, the clinics being closed did not offer abortion services. Their services included tests for sexually transmitted diseases, birth control, cancer screenings..." ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/07/18/s...
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Southwest Ohio to lose two health clinics over federal, state budget Medicaid cuts • Ohio Capital Journal
Southwest Ohio is going to lose two reproductive health clinics due to the federal budget changes to Medicaid, a loss that could mean more abortions will happen, according to the leader of the clinics...
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Mara Nightingale @maranightingale.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
We’re all born with the same capacity to feel. So why are boys taught to hide it? Why call anger strength and tenderness weakness? That’s not nature—it’s a system. And we can unlearn it. #LetMenFeel #UnlearnPatriarchy #ToxicMasculinity #DeconstructingPower #RelationalRevolution @maddow.msnbc.com
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."
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The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit
Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women
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Mara Nightingale @maranightingale.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
I was exposed to religion growing up. Even then, I could see how much of it revolved around control, particularly over women. Cruelty is not sacred. Silence is not holy. Patriarchy disguised as faith is still just patriarchy. #DeconstructingFaith #UnlearnPatriarchy #SpiritualAbuse #HumanConstruct
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/08/2025
A DOJ investigation had determined that South Carolina officials illegally denied community-based services — required by federal law — to over 1,000 people diagnosed as seriously mentally ill. The lawsuit over these allegations is now on hold. By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social
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Trump Administration Halted Lawsuits Targeting Civil Rights Abuses of Prisoners and Mentally Ill People
The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division had brought lawsuits accusing Louisiana of confining prisoners longer than they should and South Carolina of keeping mentally ill people in unreasonably restrictive…
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
"She accompanied her mother, Rev. Kim, who is widely recognized as the first woman to be ordained as an Anglican priest in the Seoul Diocese of the Anglican Church of Korea..." www.koreatimes.co.kr/foreignaffai...
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US immigration authorities detain daughter of Korean Episcopal priest - The Korea Times
The daughter of a Korean Episcopal priest has been detained by U.S. immigration authorities in New York, despite holding what legal advocates say is valid immigration status — drawing strong condemnat...
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