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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13/10/2026
Rather than cover the cost of gender affirming care for trans youth under medicaid, Colorado is voluntarily enacting the republican "taper and detransition" policy for youth on medicaid and dropping coverage. WTF.
Ironically, the first known violation of that law is now coming from the state itself. On September 18th, the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF) informed providers that “certain Physician-Administered Drug (PAD) services for the purposes of gender-affirming care will no longer be covered benefits for members under 18 years of age.” Two weeks later, HCPF released its full policy surrounding its updated coverage, and it somehow manages to be worse than the policies enacted by Arizona and Virginia. As Transitics reported last week, the federal rule allows for a 6-month ‘tapering’ period for youth currently receiving gender-affirming care where federal funds can still be used. And although HCPF does mention that stipulation in its policy, it also introduced a strange exception:

“Effective October 13, 2026, claims payment for GnRH/LHRH agents prescribed for gender-affirming care therapy for members under the age of 18 will not be allowed… Prior authorization for testosterone, estrogen, progesterone or medroxyprogesterone therapy for members under the age of 18,” the policy reads, “who are receiving and stabilized on therapy for gender-affirming care prior to October 13, 2026, may receive approval to allow for tapering and discontinuation of therapy.”

The exclusion of puberty blockers in the tapering policy isn’t accidental. The state’s prior authorization guidance that was updated the same day mirrors the policy and once again does not allow for a tapering period for trans kids receiving puberty blockers. And like Arizona and Virginia, Colorado has provided no indication that it has notified patients and their families. In doing so, Colorado is going far beyond what even the Trump administration intended—immediately cutting many trans kids’ care and leaving them scrambling for options.
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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
If and when Dems are able to take back power, I cannot tell you how much any question about the debt or deficit needs to be met with loud mockery and extreme derision. Just an aggressive, ‘Oh NOW you care about the debt? GTFOH.’ Over and over and over again.
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
"I'm a pro-choice Republican," Minnesota GOP Senate nominee Michele Tafoya claims in a new ad... ...except she's hailed the demise of Roe v. Wade, vowed to confirm conservative judges, routinely backed a 12-week abortion ban and gaslighting anyone, what? www.huffpost.com/entry/michel...
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'I’m A Pro-Choice Republican,' Says Minnesota Senate Nominee Who Backs Abortion Bans
Michele Tafoya, who called herself a “first trimester gal” and hailed Roe v. Wade’s demise, seems to be gaslighting voters on her abortion stance.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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Andy Operandi 🫠 @andyoperandi.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
"There have no doubt been more dangerous times in the United States, but it’s hard to imagine there was any time more stupid." - @marisakabas.bsky.social as usual has a way with words. This is worth the read.
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Sen. Danica Roem @pwcdanica.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
“Roem (said) NextEra wants to acquire Dominion b/c of the high number of DCs in its service area. “‘They are doing this to create the world’s largest-ever electric monopoly, so they can make money. ... who then also makes a ton of money? The data centers.” www.loudountimes.com/news/busines...
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Northern Virginians weigh in on proposed Dominion-NextEra merger
Virginia’s utility regulator has until Jan. 11 to decide whether to approve a massive merger between Virginia-based Dominion Energy and Florida-based NextEra Energy.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13/10/2026
Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Richmond Times-Dispatch @richmond.com · 12/10/2026
Elected local government officials would no longer be allowed to sign agreements to keep what they're doing secret under sweeping new language in a bill sponsored by state Sen. Mike Jones, D-Richmond.
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Sen. Mike Jones proposes sweeping ban on NDAs in local government
Elected local government officials would no longer be allowed to sign agreements to keep what they're doing secret under sweeping new language in a bill sponsored by state Sen. Mike Jones, D-Richmond.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
They are quite literally automating their bigotry. AI as fascist tech.
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 13/10/2026
I love that this might be the thing that tanks Paxton, and not the biblical divorce or letting a child rapist out early.
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Lisa @ireland1973lisa.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Check your voter registration then wish the lady Happy birthday 🎂
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Over 1,000 strong in Biddeford tonight. Together, we will stand up to Trump and retire Susan Collins once and for all.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
CLERGY BECOME A POLL CHAPLAIN HELP SUPPORT PEOPLE TRYING TO VOTE AND KEEP THINGS CALM AT VOTING LOCATIONS BE THE ADULT ON SITE IF PEOPLE SHOW UP TO MAKE TROUBLE YES THERE IS A TRAINING YES I'M SHOUTING COME ON TRAINING OCT 15th www.turnoutsunday.com/poll-chaplain
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
And yet, every single Democratic member of Congress and every progressive organization (except @indivisible.org) still uses X as their primary method of breaking news. The pro-democracy movement really needs to boycott X.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Always read @espiers.bsky.social but especially this: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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My Rape, the Cornell Case—and Why We Need Better Approaches to Teaching How Consent Works
I tried to process the experience of being raped by disassociating. We have to show our kids a better way.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Newsletter time. Alito is on the ballot in the midterms, in case creeping fascism wasn’t enough of a reason to vote. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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This November, Vote Like Alito Is on the Ballot
In this week’s Elie v. U.S., our justice correspondent gives Democrats another reason to vote in November. Plus: How Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s Medicaid unmasked the racists.
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 12/10/2026
If it’s one thing France gone do, it’s be Islamophobic than a motherfucker. They just banned airline staff from much of the Muslim world for not having diplomatic relations with Israel. @fayza.eurosky.social
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Hard to keep up but important to do so to remember why you fight but also to remember to fight--the temptation to think, "oh, he's gonna be toothless" because of bad polls or infirmity is too strong. He may be personally failing but he's still a wrecking ball.
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Worth noting here that Andrew Kolvet, spokesman for TPUSA, also endorses state-murder-as-spectacle, after defenders of Charlie Kirk insisted *his* call for such executions as mandatory viewing for kids was just banter (there's video; it wasn't) & that saying otherwise was defaming his memory.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Despite the Machismo of Prison, These Men Collaborated on a Quilt
A quilting workshop united men at Vermont’s Southern State Correctional Facility. The result? A museum-quality piece of art.
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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Students made their first minicomics in my intro making course - mostly standard format but this student, a first time maker(!), did something so off the charts I’m still reeling from it! & he made like 12 of them for his classmates! A paper engineering feat of flipbookery as well as killer drawing!
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They’re calling this guy a terrorist btw bsky.app/profile/cwar...
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Please don't give the DA reopening the Cornell case any cookies. District Attorney Matthew Van Houten all but called Jane Doe a liar today. He said that in Doe's initial statement, she described "her participation in drug use and sexual conduct as voluntary, conscious, and consensual.” CONSENSUAL
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
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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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Whenever you see a pollster or consultant give a take like this, it’s always worth following the money. In this case, Emanuel has paid Anzalone’s firm nearly $300k (maybe more but that’s what I found so far). A consultant class is devouring the Dem Party www.elections.il.gov/CampaignDisc...
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Underestimate @RahmEmanuel at your own risk.
He knows how to win. He knows how to fight.
And he knows how to message.
And no one will out work him. Regardless of whether he wins the Democratic nomination in 2028 he will make an impact on the race. You can be sure of that. Don't take your eyes off of him. At the minimum, learn from him.
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 28/09/2026
It has been eight days since Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez was shot by ICE while making a DoorDash delivery in Austin, Texas. He is currently facing a severe medical emergency. The bullet remains lodged in his back, and he is being held at the South Texas ICE Processing Center in Pearsall.
DOORDASH IS ABANDONING ITS DRIVERS
URGENT UPDATE:
8 days after ICE shot Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez in the back while he was making a DoorDash delivery, the bullet remains in his body. Wilber is in agonizing pain inside a TX concentration camp, and the silence from DoorDash is deafening. A photo of Wilber smiling, before ICE shot him, is shown.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"This laughably insane thing I am saying is *not* a conspiracy theory."
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My colleague @crankstock.bsky.social reacts to the news that DC airports are apparently switching at least in part to AI air traffic control.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
So in addition to being a former clerk to SCOTUS Justice Neil Gorsuch, Mike Davis’ lobbying clients include Hewlett Packard and Walmart. Have the CEOs of those companies been asked to “disavow” and “sever their relationships” with Mike Davis?? He is a grotesque racist.
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Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Rep. Thomas Massie is one signature away from forcing a new Epstein files vote. He says DOJ continues to "unlawfully withhold over 3 million Epstein files that should be released to the public." Speaker Johnson canceled two House workweeks Massie says were meant to stop him.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/09/2026
ProPublica’s analysis of CDC data found that the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies has nearly doubled. The spike alarmed many experts. One said it should “be a never event.”
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ICE also assaulted a number of protesters in Austin with chemical agents.
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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Excellent point about @cnn.com - and about @cbsnews.com @nbcnews.com @abcnewsdesk.bsky.social @pbsnews.org @npr.org @apnews.com @bloomberg.com etc, etc. bluevirginia.us/2026/09/sund...
"So CNN, in your desperate bid to please the Trump administration, you’ve filled your primetime slots with those endless, obnoxious panels where everyone just shouts over each other. You’ve put insufferable MAGA pundits like Scott Jennings everywhere in the name of "balance." And what’s the result? The wannabe dictator has now banned your network from the White House, in no small part because fearless journalists like Kaitlan Collins are actually doing their jobs. Look where it’s gotten you!

Use this as a lesson and fight the ban, but remember that trying to appease a tyrant never works and that credible journalism should always come before a pathetic obsession with ratings." - jeremyrichler
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Jesus Christ, this article will enrage you like nothing else
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Tesla driver charged with murdering 2 in San Jose shows no remorse, prosecutors say
SAN JOSE, Calif. (KRON) — When Ivana Balistreri and her baby were trapped inside a “fireball,” a Tesla driver who had just crashed into the victims’ car on Highway 87 in San…
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The tragedy has been so knowable. This from seven years ago — and we’re still paying for so many Americans letting it happen.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The same fact pattern as in a slew of earlier attempted ICE homicides.
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?
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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is journalistic malpractice at its absolute worst. In no way/shape/form should the @nytimes.com have uncritically amplified this bullshit with a "Trump says" headline. Also, there is ZERO chance Trump Jr. is going to pay back the Russian blood money. UGH. bluevirginia.us/2026/09/sund...
“Trump says …” A full-grown adult whose full-time job it is to cover politics wrote this absurd piece of Republican propaganda for the NYT. - David Rothschild
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Treaty of Tripoli, which was negotiated and signed while George Washington was president: "Art. 11. The Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion." Q: How many times is Jesus mentioned in the Constitution? A: Zero.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
JUST NOW: A confused, clearly not-there McConnell votes “AYE” after almost voting NO with Dems but getting *corrected* by handlers around him
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My new book—"HOW RUSSIA WON: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Fight for America"—is out. It chronicles Putin's decade-long twilight war against the US & Trump's complicity. Get the big picture for Don Jr.'s Russian-financed wedding. Here are some great blurbs for the book. HowRussiaWon.com.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 17/09/2026
Amid growing concerns over food safety in the United States, President Donald Trump last month authorized the duty-free importation of 660 million pounds of cheap beef trimmings that will get mixed in with other cuts to make ground beef.
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“Fast Food Nation,” Mystery Meat & Trump’s Dismantling of U.S. Food Safety System: Eric Schlosser
Amid growing concerns over food safety in the United States, President Donald Trump last month authorized the duty-free importation of 660 million pounds of cheap beef trimmings that will get mixed in...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
One of the coolest things about people who don't have a lot of power taking a principled stand is it lays bare the complete cowardice of the ones who actually *do* have power when they fail to do even a fraction as much.
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Who are the ❄️❄️❄️ now? "As of June 29, Republican members of Congress had held just 39 in-person town halls this year... Democratic lawmakers, in contrast, had hosted 451 town halls during the same period." youtu.be/JxcxdCjr6rI?...
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Trump’s biggest midterm problem? He’s not listening to the people
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