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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 11h
Re-wetting drained peatlands is a powerful and underappreciated climate solution.
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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 15h
Why did fashion photographer Annie Leibovitz make Democratic congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier look like she's in the Backrooms in a Vanity Fair photoshoot? We can't say for certain—but it sure is part of a bigger pattern. hellgatenyc.com/annie-leibov...
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LawNewsIndex.com @thelawmap.bsky.social · 16h
Maricarmen Abascal, 87, the #Spanish pensioner whose eviction sparked nationwide protests dies, union says www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Spanish pensioner whose eviction sparked nationwide protests dies, union says
Maricarmen Abascal, 87, was forcibly removed on a stretcher from her apartment of more than 70 years in September.
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 16h
If I ran a website that gave teens advice on how to commit suicide I would go to jail
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Maya Kaufman @mayakaufman.bsky.social · 17h
Bronx residents will be exempted from new Medicaid work requirements due to the county's high unemployment rate. New York notified CMS that it intends to implement this hardship exemption. The threshold = 8% unemployment rate or 1.5x the national average (whichever is less).
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 22h
me when we close a lane of traffic
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 23h
ironically enough a NC man was also once at the center of the Napster case that, in many ways, set us on the course for today’s techno infrastructure Also, it’s wild to punish one man and it’s this guy and not, like, Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 20h
This is what it looks like when you understand that the role of an elected official is that of a servant and not a ruler. A concept that far too many in the United States fail to understand.
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Rebecca Tushnet @rtushnet.bsky.social · 22h
“UChicago’s national ranking for selectivity, currently No. 4, depends crucially on its rejecting so many women. Its selectivity of men alone would drop it out of the top 10. By contrast, Chicago’s selectivity for women alone would place it in the first position in the country.”
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 21h
44 days between these headlines
Banner Press August 24 2026: Brenham Police Department secures grant to expand license plate reader tech
KBXT3 October 6 2026: Brenham police confirm internal investigation into officer following alleged Flock camera misuse
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 20h
A crowdsourced map of Flock cameras throughout the country has identified 44 license-plate-reader cameras in Jefferson County, a sparsely-populated rural community in Florida. That makes it one of the densest networks of this technology in the U.S.
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A Rural Florida County Quietly Built a Flock Camera Network. Now It's Dismantling It. - Bolts
The local sheriff ended his county’s Flock partnership, just hours after Governor Ron DeSantis ditched the technology. They’re part of a growing group of GOP leaders turning against Flock.
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grimm 🎃 @mugrimm.bsky.social · 20h
The fact Kara Swisher is now monetizing her critiques of Elon Musk after literally being foundational to his work and actively ignoring all the insane gross shit he was doing and saying for years to give the tech press the inspiration slop they wanted is part of why we're here.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Shouldn't the Democrats have something like an Elon Donations Tracker posted on all of their websites and social media? Make this SALIENT? Might it make sense to point out repeatedly that he is a white supremacist and ask the public why he would be backing the GOP?
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
"It didn’t even occur to us we could go to a doctor because, you know, it wasn’t an emergency (The American healthcare system damages your *thinking,* not just the public health)." www.welcometohellworld.com/the-american...
A Japanese friend was diagnosed with cancer. The best cancer hospital in California told her to go back to Japan for treatment because it would bankrupt her here. Complete treatment was $0, out of pocket, and $250 USD for ‘cosmetic’ breast implants. I believe her insurance even offset her flights. She literally flew to/from the U.S. to Japan for her treatments and surgery, stayed with family (or hospital) while there and spent less than it would cost for one day in a U.S. hospital.
This was over a decade ago, but I was mountain biking in Cape Town South Africa a few years after college and flipped over my handlebars, gashed my chin, got taken to the ER at a private hospital, and needed stitches. I was freaking out about how many thousands of dollars I was going to owe and was charged $125 total. Stitch removal was free. I was absolutely shocked.
I went to Husavík, Iceland for vacation and got a bad upper respiratory infection that settled in my ear, making me dizzy and nauseous. Vomiting, the whole deal. It didn’t even occur to us we could go to a doctor because, you know, it wasn’t an emergency (The American healthcare system damages your *thinking,* not just the public health). The guy running our guesthouse had to tell us we could go to a clinic. So we go. They *apologize* to us(!) because they have to charge us (about $25) to see a doctor. We were in and out in 30 minutes, prescriptions in hand. Total cost for antibiotics and Tylenol with codeine: $20.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
lol no one talks about the white kids who don't abide by merit. The conversation is ALWAYS about the Black and Brown kids who do.
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Study finds 43 percent of Harvard's white students are legacy, athletes, related to donors or staff
The number drops dramatically for black, Latino and Asian American students with less than 16 percent each coming from those categories, the study said.
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 07/10/2026
a narrative journey. Matt, Kim, and Robin guide a 31-minute walkinng tour of our Doan Brook Restoration at Horseshoe Park project site. Enjoy the sounds of nature and Matt's calming vocal cadence. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYwR...
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Walking tour: Doan Brook Restoration at Horseshoe Park
YouTube video by Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 07/10/2026
vibes. 1 full hour of live-cam footage of our churning sludge-cake bin set to lo-fi beats www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4RO...
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1 HOUR of sewer sludge cake bin live cam with lo-fi beats
YouTube video by Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District
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Rakesh Khanna @blaftrakesh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Did not realize that Red Bull was named for a US-backed Thai Nazi gang
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The Lever @levernews.com · 06/10/2026
Your water bill could be 67% higher simply because a corporation owns your water system. A new analysis found households served by for-profit providers paid about $823 a year for drinking water in 2025. Public-system households paid just $494.
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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 06/10/2026
my AAUP chapter had signed on to support SB 895 and i confess that this other thing going on had slipped by me, but here's a writeup. (additionally confusing, the $$ amounts are similar) calmatters.org/politics/ele...
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Is this proposition a $4 billion giveaway to a billionaire’s LA research center?
Proposition 38 will award $4 billion to one unnamed research center. Under the very specific criteria, only one center seemingly qualifies.
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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
You can buy a huge media conglomerate with money you don't have using leveraged debt you'll never pay off and then immediately start firing its workers, but people will still say that capitalism is compatible with democracy and is capable of "reform" or "regulation"
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Amina @ayasinvan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Due to the disproportionate use of violence from the police, the Saint-Denis Mayor Bally Bagayoko placed himself between the police and youth, and was tear gassed for it. Bravery, a rare act from a politician! Everytime the French rise up it reminds me just how propagandized and meek Canadians are.
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Tina-Desiree Berg @tinadesireeberg.com · 06/10/2026
The LAPD union is spending millions to defeat a half cent sales tax that would fund firefighters www.latimes.com/california/s...
The Los Angeles Police Department's officer union said Tuesday it will oppose Measure FD, the half-cent sales tax measure on the Nov. 3 ballot pushed by the city firefighters' union - setting up a bitter and expensive clash between two of the city's most powerful unions.
The Police Protective League said it plans to spend several million dollars on broadcast and digital advertising as well as mailers to oppose Measure FD, which if approved by voters would direct hundreds of millions of dollars annually to the Fire Department to build new stations, hire firefighters and upgrade
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 06/10/2026
*clears throat* *taps the sign* *the sign scurries off* bookshop.org/p/books/wick...
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Wickhills
In the dangerous magical city of Wickhills, a streetwise secret agent is tasked with protecting a foreign defector from his pursuers... even at the threat of war.Looking after a defecting scientist sh...
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404 Media @404media.co · 06/10/2026
Senator Bernie Sanders, Representative Ocasio-Cortez, and Senator Jeff Merkley introduced the Ban Flock Act on Friday, which would stop federal agencies from using automatic license plate readers.
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Lawmakers Introduce Multiple Laws to Curb Flock After 404 Media Coverage
Senator Bernie Sanders, Representative Ocasio-Cortez, and Senator Jeff Merkley introduced the Ban Flock Act on Friday, which would stop federal agencies from using automatic license plate readers.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 06/10/2026
For the first time, we’re partnering with labor unions to speed up and modernize hiring for city jobs. It should be easy, fast, and fair to find a good-paying job serving the city we call home — and after 100 years, we’re due for an update.
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Mamdani Enlists Unions in Push to Overhaul NYC Hiring
A new mayoral task force will study the dysfunctional 143-year-old civil service system and propose changes in Albany.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 06/10/2026
Hot news for the sea lion in my comments bothering everyone about how training data is fair use www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-...
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AI training of copyrighted material not fair use: Third Circuit
Using someone else's "creative spark" to start a competing business runs afoul of copyright law, the panel found.
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the moon report 🌘 @seachanger.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I’d rather build collective power via solidarity but guess what, solidarity requires social skills like empathy, clear communication, and practicing mutual respect even when you’re annoyed or mad
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Philadelphia held its first parallel parking championship over the weekend www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“Intimidation and threats from the current administration have led funders who once saw themselves as allies to our movement to reassess political risk and pull back funding.” www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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WA immigrant support organization gutted by mass layoffs
The nonprofit laid off more than half its staff amid a unionization effort. Leadership blamed poor fundraising and a depleted budget.
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026
Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
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The Oaklandside @oaklandside.org · 06/10/2026
The corner of 17th Street and Lakeside Drive, where the fatality took place, had been redesigned with pedestrian and cyclist protections. But construction was postponed.
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Pedestrian is killed in hit-and-run by Lake Merritt after postponed road improvements
The corner of 17th Street and Lakeside Drive, where the fatality took place, had been redesigned with pedestrian and cyclist protections. But construction was postponed. 
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I'm on the edge of my seat over here. a journalist in South Africa is digging into the subject of my absolute favorite series of episodes of weird little guys -- the South African pro-apartheid terrorist who married an American klansman.
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The pipeline between US white supremacists and the SA right
Decades before Ernst Roets lobbied the US, a little-known Kempton Park woman linked the AWB to global neo-Nazis – a story that sheds light on international support for the farm murder cause.…
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Poor Zaz will only get a golden parachute of more than a half-billion dollars, after he spent the past few years cutting Warner Bros to the bone so it could get gobbled up by another company (and retire with a massive pay package). variety.com/2026/film/ne...
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David Zaslav Bids Farewell to Warner Bros. Employees in Video on Eve of Skydance Merger Close: ‘It’s Been a Great Honor to Be Alongside All of You’
David Zaslav, who will be departing as CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery with Paramount's takeover to form Skydance, shared a farewell message to employees.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 05/10/2026
Pacific island nation's leader says 2007 video showing him saying 'Heil Hitler' does not reflect his beliefs aje.news/y5u90z
Pacific island nation's leader says 2007 video showing him saying 'Heil Hitler' does not reflect his beliefs
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Jennifer X. Pumpkins 🎃 @jenyetagain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
the Corinthian, a serial killer with silver hair, mouths for eyes and three winning smiles
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Kevin Burke @burke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Affordable housing" income limits are tied to area median income, but if you don't build enough housing and your market rate units gentrify, the income limits for BMR also go up... www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...
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Real estate investors are profiting off a California tax break
The welfare exemption has become a strategy for landlords to save money on taxes without necessarily giving tenants a discount on rent, a Chronicle investigation found.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
NEW: October 17 marks a global event called “Origin,” focused on Earth regeneration. Rather than a movement to directly influence climate policy or polluting companies, Origin promises change through synchronized prayer and body movement. Behind it? A fossil fuel heiress and an anti-vaccine doctor
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Exxon Heiress Aims to Regenerate the Earth With Spirituality
The great-granddaughter of one of America’s wealthiest oilmen has teamed up with an anti-vax doctor.
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Rebecca Saltzman @rebeccaforec.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Today 33 East Bay elected officials called on AC Transit Board to censure Director Joel Young for substantiated gender-based harassment. AC Transit faces challenges that require a rider focus. That's not possible while Young's misconduct goes unaddressed. Letter: drive.google.com/file/d/1CUpO...
Letter calling on the AC Transit Board to censure Director Joel Young.Letter signers
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This analysis of the far right in Brasil is spot on - and to me it also describes the politics of ressentiment in the UK and the US as well. It is just that in these two countries, it is targeted at migrants. www.equator.org/articles/bra...
Ever since Brexit and Trump, when the political weather changed so dramatically, the left has responded with two narratives: we either paint the far right as a revolt of the elites without a real popular base, or as a revolt of the left-behind, of a working-class betrayed by liberal elitism.

Neither of these narratives persuades me. Rather, I believe the contemporary far right is a cross-class phenomenon. One way to understand it is as a movement that brings together an underclass that has given up waiting on the promises of modernisation – formal work, accountable institutions, real equality before the law – and an elite who no longer even pretends those promises are on offer.

Between them lies the hardest core of true believers – not the largest group statistically, but the most passionate – which I call, borrowing a phrase from Orwell, the “lower-upper-middle class”. These are people who fall between two stools: they have a good standard of living but lack the assets or social capital of the true elite. They are not only haunted by the fear of downward social mobility, but also threatened by any minor upward mobility achieved by those below them, as during the Pink Tide in Latin America, when the poor became less poor – began attending university, travelling internationally and so forth. This generated a feeling of resentment that was easily instrumentalised.
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Gasoline-only cars fell below 50% of global new vehicle sales for the first time, as the Hormuz crisis and record fuel prices accelerated the shift toward EVs."
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Fuel Price Shock Pushes Global Gas Car Sales Below 50% for First Time | OilPrice.com
The share of gasoline cars in global vehicle sales fell below 50% for the first time ever as the Hormuz shock and the resulting record-high fuel prices accelerated the previously sluggish shift toward...
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"The state Department of Health says it will soon destroy its reserve of misoprostol pills, which is enough for 12,500 doses. That’s in contrast to California, which took steps to distribute its supply to providers, and Oregon, which reupped its stock at no cost." gothamist.com/news/new-yor...
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New York state stockpiled abortion pills. Now they're all expired.
The state Department of Health says it will soon destroy its reserve of misoprostol pills, which is enough for 12,500 doses.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
static.klipy.com
Sadhotgirl Huh: Dog's Confused Reaction
Alt: Gif of dog tilting head in shock with a little dismay mixed in
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 03/10/2026
"We think Cornell’s gentlemen will be very happy to find that Rape Essays 101 earns the same credits as any gender studies course, fulfilling requirements that would otherwise put them in less self-emboldening classes such as Feminist Theory or Body Politics." buff.ly/5na4oMY
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Announcing Cornell University’s Newest Writing Course: Rape Essays 101
“Can a rapist’s prose effectively elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect wh...
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Lucien Lazare, Jewish fighter in the French Resistance, has died at 101. After fighting the Nazis, he was rejected by his synagogue later in life for translating an article saying “Israel, today, is nothing but a formless mass of corruption, oppression and injustice.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w...
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Lucien Lazare, Jewish Resistance Fighter in Occupied France, Dies at 101 (Gift Article)
He and a small troop of French Jews worked with the Allies to distribute supplies and fight the Nazis, ambushing a German train and liberating a city in the south.
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
republicans: we are nazis media: do democrats have a Hasan Piker Bin Laden problem?
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Incredible how the editors at @nytimes.com still don't understand how embarrassing it is to do this, and how it undermines the credibility of the paper and its journalists. It's like a toddler covering their face to play hide and seek. We see you but it's not cute, you look like an asshole.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 04/10/2026
For years, mifepristone and similar drugs have been used to treat uterine fibroids and endometriosis. Now researchers are exploring whether these drugs could have other uses in women’s health, including preventing some cancers. to.pbs.org/4xCEOTm
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Researchers explore new uses for abortion-related drugs
For years, mifepristone and similar drugs have been used to treat uterine fibroids and endometriosis. Now researchers are exploring whether these drugs could have other uses in women’s health, includi...
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
People say they want "authentic" people as politicians. Interesting to me that she's not getting the resources she needs in this race.
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