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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Since 1994, immigrants have paid more in taxes than they receive in benefits every year. Do not believe the lies you hear about immigrants. They are good for society and the economy.

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ChaserBaybe 💙🌊🦋🇺🇸 @chaserbaybe.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

West Coast Peeps! I’m asking again… Dion only has 72 hours. She’s precious, please share so can get her a forever family.

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Anjiolina Nakaya @anjiolina.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Many scientists are humanists with backgrounds in arts, philosophy and activism. Many people in the Humanities have STEM backgrounds like cognitive science. The scientists in biological sciences really do appreciate Humanities. It is usually the tech people who are neither humanists nor scientists.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

When I had my hysterectomy, I was told recovery would be quick because I was young, fit & otherwise healthy. They were wrong. The surgeon made an error and despite signs of post op bleeding, discharged me & went on vacation. When I returned to the ER, I was ignored & gaslit 🧵

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/05/2025

The Education Department’s civil rights office once helped push a South Dakota school district to treat its Native students equally. Under Trump, that same office decided that helping Indigenous students would discriminate against white students: propub.li/3GIdTRr

Article excerpt: ...an investigation found that the district’s Native American students were disciplined far more harshly than white ones. They also were kept from enrolling in advanced courses.

The OCR said that when speaking with an investigator, the superintendent of schools at the time said that Native American students in her district had higher truancy rates because they operated on what she termed “Indian Time.” She said, too, that they don’t value education, according to the investigation’s findings.

The former superintendent, Nicole Swigart, denied saying any of that.

“I recognize those comments are horrendous,” Swigart said in an interview with ProPublica. She noted that the OCR investigation was opened in 2010 and that she first spoke to an investigator in 2022. “I’m not lying when I say I didn’t say it. I didn’t say it, and I don’t know where it came from.”

Article excerpt: In the agreement with the OCR, the district promised to examine its practices and make things right; the OCR would monitor its progress. The district also brought in a new superintendent.

But last month, the OCR abruptly terminated that agreement, based on its differing interpretation of civil rights law. The OCR’s new view is that equity and diversity efforts discriminate against white students. It was, in the view of agency attorneys, the most severe breach of the OCR’s mission and methods to date. There was no public announcement.

“Native students in Rapid City just lost a layer of protection,” the Lakota People’s Law Project announced on Facebook. “Native students are still being pushed out of classrooms and denied opportunities.”

Darren Thompson, who is Ojibwe, said the OCR’s decision to abandon the agreement was “another cycle of the federal government failing to uphold its promises.”

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

The Agriculture Department has axed two programs that gave schools and food banks money to buy food from local farms and ranchers, halting more than $1 billion in federal spending. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

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USDA cancels $1B in local food purchasing for schools, food banks

States have been notified that they will not receive 2025 funding for schools to buy food from nearby farms.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Aside from the obvious direct harm, what's so irritating is that a handful of spoiled ignorant assholes are breaking things that we all built together. They weren't content to own almost everything, they had to wreck what little they didn't own. It's vandalism on a mass scale and has to be punished

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/01/2025

Warren: "He can stand there, smile at you and say, 'anybody can vaccinate their kids who wants to,' but he literally could bankrupt the vaccines manufacturers with the power he will have. And since he's got a financial incentive to do that, we cannot trust him in that job."

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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is seeking help from the public as it investigates the killing last month of a federally listed endangered gray wolf in Morrow County. On November 8, a radio-collared male gray wolf known as OR 159 was found dead on private land.

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$10k reward offered for info on endangered gray wolf killed in eastern Oregon

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is offering a $10,000 reward for information about the November killing of an endangered gray wolf in Morrow County.

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Mercurial Dawn @mercurialdawn.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Goldman asks: 'Is curing patients a sustainable business model?'

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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

NEW: After reviewing leaked documents, we have found UnitedHealth is strategically limiting access to a treatment for thousands of children with autism across the country in order to cut costs. Advocates say the company’s strategy may be illegal. www.propublica.org/article/unit... 👇

propublica.org

UnitedHealth Is Strategically Limiting Access to Critical Treatment for Kids With Autism

Leaked internal documents show that the insurance giant is culling providers of applied behavior analysis from its network and scrutinizing the medical necessity of therapy. Advocates say the company’...

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Marie Enger @ LBX26 Table 409 @soengery.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

This ream of paper is our financial aid app for Rob’s cancer treatment. No, I am not joking. This is what cancer care as freelancers looks like. We had to add extra pages to it Friday night, because it wasn’t enough. It took more than 200 hours to compile this.

A photo of 700 pages of tax documents, invoices, letters from almost everyone I’ve worked with for the past two years, other cartoonists who wrote me letters explaining our job, and bank statements for every piece of cash that touched my hands.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 05/12/2024

Last year, my health insurance company stopped paying for my Humira. Humira is a type of immunosuppressive drug called a biologic, and I take a pretty high dose of it to control my severe Crohn's Disease. Without it, I will have a bowel obstruction, and then I will die. (Cont)

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