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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm in love.
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2026: Time for the Midterms
YouTube video by Hamilton
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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mcsadler.bsky.social @mcsadler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Thinking about Danny Thomas’ legacy vs what Elon Musk’s legacy will be.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The excesses of the Woke 1 era mostly amount to cringe public statements, harmless vocabulary updates and loss of prestige for public figures. The backlash to Woke 1, on the other hand, is imprisoning dissidents, dismantling public education and eroding democracy. That's what needs reckoning
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
“Pope Leo made a plea on Wednesday for countries to offer their ​citizens universal healthcare, calling it a ‘moral imperative’ that ‌people have access to the health services they need.” www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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Pope Leo calls universal healthcare a 'moral imperative'
Pope Leo made a plea on Wednesday for countries to offer their ​citizens universal healthcare, calling it a "moral imperative" that ‌people have access to the health services they need.
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mcsadler.bsky.social @mcsadler.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Now we get to watch Trump award Spain, a country he inexplicably hates, the World Cup while a bunch of people in NJ mercilessly boo him.
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mcsadler.bsky.social @mcsadler.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Cape Verde! What a game. Hold your heads high.
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Thos. @sizzlechest5.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
We are a nation of immigrants and we should welcome anyone who wants to come here to make a better life for themselves. If you reject that idea you reject the very idea of America.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 22/06/2026
Families in Tennessee with critically ill or severely disabled children who are undocumented are being asked to leave the state program that pays for lifesaving medication and treatment or stay and have their child reported to immigration authorities.
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Tennessee to restrict medical aid for critically ill undocumented children
Families have been notified that a Tennessee law aimed at cutting undocumented immigrants off from public benefits will also be applied to ill children.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
trump and republicans very busy making america healthy again: "for breastfeeding mothers, the bill would reduce monthly fruit and vegetable benefits from $52 to $13..." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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House bill rolls back food aid for pregnant women, children
Millions of WIC recipients would have less money for fruits and vegetables under the legislation, which funds the Agriculture Department and other agencies.
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Jacob Redman @jacob-redman.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
“War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.” — President Jimmy Carter, Nobel Peace Prize Lecture, December 10, 2002
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
“Shah Alam’s death comes just 15 months after his arrival in Buffalo in December 2024. He is survived by his wife and two sons.” Border Patrol leaves nearly blind, non-English-speaking refugee to die in the winter cold a few miles from his home
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I had a moment this morning when I realized that all these evil men would just have been depraved internet trolls if we actually taxed the rich.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/02/2026
NEW: This isn't about "training." The two agents who murdered Alex Pretti - Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez - have been with Border Patrol for 8 and 12 years respectively. You can't reform CBP. Abolish ICE/CBP. www.propublica.org/article/alex...
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Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
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mcsadler.bsky.social @mcsadler.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
@michellegoldberg.bsky.social was going to say something about a World Cup boycott on @chrislhayes.bsky.social show. Would like to hear it.
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Half a billion on terrorizing citizens but we can’t have universal healthcare or basic income or affordable housing or public transit or
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
My org @immcouncil.org represents those two gay men. They had been arrested on charges of sodomy by Iranian moral police, and fled the country seeking asylum. They face the death penalty if returned, yet the Trump admin denied their asylum claims in a kangaroo court process. They are terrified.
Two Iranian men, who are gay, told their lawyer Bekah Wolf with the American Immigration Council that they were set to be deported on the Sunday flight. Homosexuality is illegal and punishable by death in Iran, which executed two gay men in 2022 and is considered one of the world's most repressive countries for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
"They're terrified," Wolf told MS NOW. One of her clients "calls every 45 minutes begging me to save his life."
"We need a court of some sort to fully hear their claims before they're sent back to a country where being gay is punishable by death," said Wolf.
She said her two clients have no criminal convictions and entered the U.S. in early 2025 on asylum claims. Both were in the middle of appeals though did not have stays of removal, Wolf said.
Ultimately, Wolf said, "they did not have full hearings of their asylum claims in any meaningful way."
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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
EXCLUSIVE: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & I have spent the last year collecting school+county-level vaccination data from across the US and found that only about 28% of counties now have herd immunity for kindergartners from measles—that leaves about 5.2mn kids unprotected. Gift link: wapo.st/49zDc43
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U.S. vaccination rates are plunging. Look up where your school stands.
Take a look to see what the kindergarten measles vaccination rates are in your area.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
"Now that I've hit everyone with ruinous taxes, I'll dole some of it back out to my political supporters as welfare payments."
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
“If the West Wing is the mind of the nation, then the East Wing is the heart.” - former First Lady Betty Ford The East Wing is gone. Over a century of American history, reduced to rubble. All to appease the vanity of a corrupt authoritarian.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
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mcsadler.bsky.social @mcsadler.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
I was listening to @alfranken.bsky.social interview @jonathanalter.bsky.social - Alter seemed to argue that it’s not a big deal if Texas gerrymanders to get 5 more seats because historically Dems will likely pick up a lot more seats. But does he really think Trump will stop at Texas?
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
NEW: The death shadow cast by Musk. “When U.S.-supported soup kitchens were forced to close, babies starved quietly, their mothers said, while older siblings died begging for food.” The world’s richest man did this to the world’s poorest children. Don’t ever forget.
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In Sudan, where children clung to life, doctors say USAID cuts have been fatal
The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID had an immediate and deadly impact in war-ravaged Sudan, according to civilians, doctors and aid officials.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
So am I reading this court decision correctly? We now have 50 micronations with their own laws interpreting the U.S. Constitution wholly separate from one another? But there's one guy with private law enforcement who is immune from all punishment who can do whatever he wants in those 50 states?
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 27/06/2025
if constitutional rights only apply to individuals or states that have sued for relief, you don't actually have constitutional _rights_, you have _privileges_ that can sometimes (but not always) be secured for you by your lawyer
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
“ICE in just a few weeks has transformed itself into the closest thing that the US has ever had to a ‘secret police,’ with more seemingly culturally in common with the Klan nightriders of Reconstruction than their federal agency brethren like the FBI or ATF.” @garrettgraff.bsky.social
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Andrea Chalupa @andreachalupa.com · 20/06/2025
Beloved Ohio high school soccer star kidnapped by ICE and deported www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
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ICE deports teen soccer star with no record after graduation, shocking community
Emerson Colindres’ soccer coach says his case is an example of how those getting taken by ICE “are your friends and neighbors ... and then one day they're just gone.”
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20/06/2025
Member of the Little Lobbyists, a group of children with disabilities and their parents who rely on Medicaid, took to Capitol Hill this week to warn that the proposed reductions to the health insurance program could be devastating.
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‘Little Lobbyists’ Urge Senators to Oppose Trump’s Bill Cutting Medicaid
Children with disabilities and their parents who rely on the health insurance program took to Capitol Hill this week to warn that the proposed reductions could be ‘devastating.’
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mcsadler.bsky.social @mcsadler.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
#NoKings #Baltimore
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#NoKings #Baltimore
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mcsadler.bsky.social @mcsadler.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
#NoKings #Baltimore
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mcsadler.bsky.social @mcsadler.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Let’s go!!
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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
SCOOP @motherjones.com: Republicans want to ban pets from domestic violence shelters through a proposal in the budget Advocates say the program is small but critical: “Survivors won’t leave, they can’t leave [abusers], if they’re going to leave their pets behind" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Republicans want to ban pets from domestic violence shelters
The budget proposal is the Trump administration's latest attack on services supporting abuse survivors.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Trump has deported a four-year-old US citizen with a rare form of metastatic cancer without medication or consultation with their doctor.
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Trump Has Now Deported Multiple U.S. Citizen Children With Cancer
Two families who had lived in the United States for years, including a child with cancer and a pregnant mother, were deported by ICE on Friday.
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Lorena O’Neil @lorenaoneil.com · 26/04/2025
BREAKING: @aclu.org says Trump deported a child (U.S. citizen) with metastatic cancer without medication or consultation with physicians. This is the second child with cancer he's deported. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... @rollingstone.com
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Trump Has Now Deported Multiple U.S. Citizen Children With Cancer
Two families who had lived in the United States for years, including a child with cancer and a pregnant mother, were deported by ICE on Friday.
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Andrew Weissmann @weissmann.substack.com · 20/04/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...
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Hegseth Said to Have Shared Attack Details in Second Signal Chat (Gift Article)
The defense secretary sent sensitive information about strikes in Yemen to an encrypted group chat that included his wife and brother, people familiar with the matter said.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Well worth reading. The obvious point here is that some presented "woke" as an existential risk to speech and academic freedom, and some people warned about govt censorship as a bigger threat. The former were not just wrong but paved the way for govt censorship. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...
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Opinion | Naval Academy Censors Ryan Holiday’s Lecture on Censorship (Gift Article)
How a lecture to the U.S. Naval Academy on censorship was censored.
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mcsadler.bsky.social @mcsadler.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
These people asked what they could do for their country and their country told them to get lost. apnews.com/article/amer...
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AmeriCorps members who respond to disasters and help nonprofits are let go in DOGE cuts
Young volunteers who respond to natural disasters and help with community projects across the U.S. have been discharged.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
This, from the Holocaust Memorial Museum.
There are three key facts in the Holocaust Encyclopedia produced by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. This is the second key fact:

What distinguishes a concentration camp from a prison (in the modern sense) is that it functions outside of a judicial system. The prisoners are not indicted or convicted of any crime by judicial process.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
AOC: How can anyone possibly make an objective vote on healthcare, energy, or war when their personal wealth is tied up in pharmaceutical, oil and gas, or defense company stock?
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
We have the most anti-free speech government in modern American history. (And yet, in true Orwellian fashion, they claim to be champions of free speech.)
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Eoin Brodie @elbrodie.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
US students. Looking to apply to graduate school? Had an offer rescinded recently? The University of British Columbia in Canada will re-open the application portal in some departments for US students from April 14-18. Details: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant... #ubc #AcademicSky #PhDSky #ScienceSky
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US Applicant Week
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The 10% tariff alone is a $2500 per household annual tax hike!
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
SCOOP: The Trump administration has dismissed all health officials who oversaw care for some of the world’s most vulnerable people: more than 500,000 children and more than 600,000 pregnant women with HIV in low-income countries. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/h...
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Who Will Care for Infants With H.I.V. Overseas? (Gift Article)
The consequences of mother-to-child transmission can be enormous, a new study suggests. But the U.S. has dismissed experts working to solve the problem.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
"Trump administration orders half of national forests open for logging... "An emergency order removes protections covering more than half the land managed by the U.S. Forest Service..." www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Trump administration orders half of national forests open for logging
An emergency order removes protections covering over half the land managed by the U.S. Forest Service as the president aims to boost timber production.
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mcsadler.bsky.social @mcsadler.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
@booker.senate.gov well done, Senator.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/03/2025
remember what i said about RFK Jr. being a eugenicist first and foremost? www.marketwatch.com/story/agency...
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Agency for older adults, people with disabilities to be shuttered under HHS cuts
In 2022, the Administration for Community Living provided more than 261 million meals to older adults, assistance such as respite care to more than 1.5 million family caregivers, and independent-livin...
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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
“Eviscerating the federal government and subjugating Congress; defying court orders and delegitimising judges; deporting immigrants and arresting protesters without due process; chilling free speech at universities and cultural institutions; cowing news outlets .. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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The Trump administration is descending into authoritarianism
From media to culture and the arts to the refusal to abide by court orders, we’re nearing ‘Defcon 1 for our democracy’, experts say
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dilettante.bsky.social @dilettante.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Breaking News: Johns Hopkins University, a leader in scientific research, said it would eliminate more than 2,000 workers because of federal budget cuts.
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mcsadler.bsky.social @mcsadler.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Team Ireland 🇮🇪 www.rte.ie/news/us/2025...
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Ireland 'of course' taking advantage of US, says Trump
US President Donald Trump has said that Ireland is "of course" taking advantage of the US in this afternoon's bilateral meeting with Taoiseach Micheál Martin, who highlighted a "two-way street" of inv...
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