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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1h
Babies who don’t get the vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop severe bleeding. In many cases, oxygen can’t reach their brains and blood pools around their skulls. Yet driven by misinformation, more parents are refusing the injection. (Published May)
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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
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Melisa @melisa23.bsky.social · 3h
Lovely!
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Jayne Miller @jemillerbalt.bsky.social · 4h
Hegseth is eliminating experience, knowledge, and diversity from the military. To the detriment of its ability.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 4h
Let this sink in. Cornell University refused to refund Jane Doe's tuition the semester she was raped. Without this money, she could not transfer to another school. Essentially, she was forced to stay on campus where she saw those seven rapists frequently. Eventually she dropped out of college.
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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 16/09/2026
For the first time in 50 years, the Convention is making a comeback to help combat the attack on Black history and civil rights.
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The first Colored Convention was held in Philadelphia in 1830. Mother Bethel AME Church will revive it this weekend.
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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 4h
Thomas Potato pupdate : He’s more than doubled in weight since we brought him home, really trying to grow into those paws (but a long way to go still).
Fawn boxer puppy lays on a black dog bed and side eyes the camera
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Melisa @melisa23.bsky.social · 3h
Means you're doing something right ❤️
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thegladerunner.bsky.social @thegladerunner.bsky.social · 12h
Five years ago, when a Seattle burger chain raised employee wages & benefits the Reicht wing lost their minds, screaming the result would be $20 burgers & the company would end in bankruptcy. Today, the chain is even more popular than ever. Never let them try to tell you a living wage can’t work.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
The ICE agent who shot Araujo in a Houston is named GREGORY FEATHERS. Make sure everyone knows.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 4h
I started writing a newsletter post about the third-country removals case and had to stop—I was too mad. Maybe tomorrow.
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The USA Singers @theusasingers.bsky.social · 16h
Mf’er is like Batman.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 6h
God, I had so much fun putting together this 20 min. video on Eric Schmitt and the most embarrassing moment in a congressional hearing I’ve ever seen. Yes, 20 minutes. Full video on Instagram: www.instagram.com/reel/Dd4wvOY...
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 4h
u can not convince me these are not orange popsicles left in the freezer for three years
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seosamh.bsky.social @seosamh.bsky.social · 4h
I wonder how many of Eric Schmitts staffers believe they can beat Serena Williams in a tennis match.
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Melisa @melisa23.bsky.social · 4h
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 16h
Can we underscore that diversity is America’s strength, indeed it makes America stronger?
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 12h
Free newsletter: When will the AI bubble burst? When the money runs out. Raising debt for AI data centers is becoming untenable, infrastructure break-even points keep getting further away, and many of VC's AI investments look like dead money. www.wheresyoured.at/dead-money/
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DevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · 5h
Private school that costs $40k per year.
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Melisa @melisa23.bsky.social · 4h
Effective at what? Making our children dumb (with a B!) as fuck? Or worse! As dumb as Linda McMahon the pedo enabler
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Melisa @melisa23.bsky.social · 4h
Omg for years on 🐦 I saw Matt Gertz explain, over and over, with humor and patience and sometimes a little salt, that he is not the shame of Florida gangster who is so odious that even Trump said bye boy. This is sooo delicious! Matt. Gertz and Jack Smith are American heroes 🫡
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scaryletter.bsky.social @scaryletter.bsky.social · 5h
This was helpful because I don't know sports
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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 5h
BELLA IS MISSING IN BROOKLYN: last seen at 49th and 5th, she's 11 pounds and chipped: 985113010684452. If you've seen or found her please call 888-466-3242 and PLEASE RT BELLA!
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Melisa @melisa23.bsky.social · 4h
It's a tough call
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's kind of crazy that the Natalie Harp news cycle raised some extremely valid questions about the extent of her influence on our octogenarian narcoleptic, none were answered and the press just stopped wondering.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 6h
THIS WAS MONEY FOR CHILDREN’S HEALTHCARE. A Florida grand jury found $10 MILLION meant to help provide health insurance for poor children was misappropriated for political purposes. Moody & DeSantis took money meant for kids. #GOPWarOnHealthcare
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Pam Mandel @nerdseyeview.bsky.social · 5h
i'm a dog walker and this is my friend Maisie. she was in a real, "NO THE WALK IS NOT OVER YET" kinda mood today.
Little scruffy wire haired doggo with a black nose. Chin on paws, her eyes are very much saying DO NOT GO HOME STAY HERE WITH ME.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 9h
In 2018, Annalinda Martinez and her daughters became homeless. She went to Georgia's child welfare agency looking for help finding housing. Instead, the state took her children. Then DFCS began charging her for their foster care. Those bills eventually left her $13,000 in debt.
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Georgia removed her kids because she was homeless. The state is charging her $13,000 for foster care
Georgia is among several states that have moved away from charging parents for their kids' time in foster care. But parents who already owe money for past cases are still on the hook.
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Melisa @melisa23.bsky.social · 7h
Hunchmaxxing
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In March, Washington State passed a tax on millionaires to fund public education, childcare, and expand its earned income tax credit. Now, special interest groups backed by the rich are trying to trick voters into repealing the tax by claiming it will apply to non-millionaires. Don't fall for it.
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Washington Taxed Its Millionaires. Now the Rich Want It Repealed.
Washington State voters will get a chance to accept or reject the 9.9 percent income tax on millionaires approved by the Legislature, which broke the state’s taboo against levying income taxes.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/09/2026
To the people complaining these sex abuse cases have created a world where men now have to think 10 times before they touch a woman. Yes, that's the point. It's called consent. Welcome to human decency.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 23h
The dog who supported his best friend in his first steps. Original post
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 13h
The Governor just signed my bill to allow people to sue ICE, Border Patrol, and other federal agents for violating people’s constitutional rights. Starting immediately, people can sue federal agents retroactive to abuse occurring in March 2025.
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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 22h
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 11h
New: We obtained witness videos and surveillance footage showing ICE parking their cars, arresting an observer, and transferring detainees in parking lots across 4 of Chicago's police districts. Local officials have tried banning ICE from city property. But incidents in the lots keep stacking up:
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In plain sight: a year of ICE using Chicago police parking lots for its operations
Videos and witness testimony show immigration agents continue using Chicago police station parking lots despite a ban on their access to city property. Records obtained from the Civilian Office of Pol...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h
> @variety.com variety.com/2026/digital...
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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 22h
The Chehalis tribe of Washington State just south of Olympia have retaken possession of land along the I-5 corridor. This is how they repurposed the billboard facing the freeway.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 14h
This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 12h
Jack Smith: “it’s inconceivable to me how you can pardon people who beat police officers… and then vilify the officers”
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Pocket News 📰 @jeanpocket.bsky.social · 12h
Today before Senate.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10h
Two Schmitt staffers realizing this might be their last day.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 13h
“When food prices go up because farm workers go missing, that’s the ICE Tax. When construction grinds to a halt because no one is left to build homes, that’s the ICE Tax. When our elders can’t get the care they deserve because their caretakers and nurses are gone, that’s the ICE Tax.” #EndtheICETax
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CHC Chair: ‘ICE Is Not Just Busting The Budget, It’s Wrecking Our Economy’
Congressional Hispanic Caucus members joined America’s Voice to call for an end to the ICE Tax that’s making the lives of all working families more expensive.
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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 11h
Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18h
I guess the point is that Roger Marshall wants to keep this story in the news cycle as long as possible. Nice work.
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 29/09/2026
☠️☠️☠️
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 29/09/2026
This is Michael Kotlikoff. He became Cornell’s interim president in July 2024. The assault was reported to Cornell police Nov 8, 2024. He was president while this unfolded. We need to know how some accused students were allowed to remain. Kotlikoff needs to address publicly, or go.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 17h
Tho I actually like this post better. IMO, one smart response to these ads is to taunt GOP MoCs that Trump is still sitting on mountains of $$ and instead using taxpayer dollars to remind voters what a corrupt asshole he is.
The inept White House political propagandists are using our money on government-sponsored campaign TV ads for the sinking GOP. The latest commercial tries to rally the dwindling MAGA base by reminding them that Trump once posed as a fighter against warmongers and a corrupt political establishment, but the recycled ad just sharply reminds everyone that the lying Trump is the war-maker-in-chief and presides over the most corrupt presidential administration in U.S. history. You can’t use our tax dollars to fool us.
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NEW: The Trump admin is airing *another* taxpayer-funded political ad, & this time, it's from his 2024 campaign.

Trump says in the ad: "We will demolish the deep state, expel the warmongers from our government... We will rout the fake news media..."

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 17h
Jamie Raskin calls out the shitty ads as a crime (this was cited by CNN and other stories). This is the kind of Xitter post that I beg of @raskin.house.gov or other MoCs to cross-post over here -- not least bc more people over here are likely to magnify it.
Rep. Jamie Raskin

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This may be felony criminal theft and conversion of government property for political campaign purposes. 18 U.S.C. § 1641. It is a Hatch Act violation for any government employees who worked on it or used government resources to make it. It is blatantly unethical under numerous federal ethics provisions proscribing the use of government resources for political campaigns.
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The White House is currently airing this video as an ad during commercial breaks on Fox News. 

It looks and sounds like a political spot and includes a disclaimer stating that it is paid for by the U.S. government.

The soundtrack: as images of Trump flash across the screen,

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 17h
JUST FILED: Jack Smith gets the opportunity to share his story -- and his findings in criminal probe of Trump -- at public hearing today Democrats are watching Senate race in Mississippi Another probe is launched into Trump's taxpayer-funded TV ads macfarlanenews.substack.com/p/day-ahead-...
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