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Pass the Gummies

@passthegummies.bsky.social
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Keep calm and and fight on! Historian | Author | Small Business Owner | GenX All-American Antifascist | Climate Responder | #MeToo

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Pass the Gummies @passthegummies.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
I'm so up for a getaway to Chicago!
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Pass the Gummies @passthegummies.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
How fitting. This administration is on a mission to destroy all things FDR.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13/10/2025
Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment. Here’s what experts say you need to know.
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How to Fight Your Health Insurance Denial with an External Appeal
When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...
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Pass the Gummies @passthegummies.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Rehearsal? No it's not.
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Pass the Gummies @passthegummies.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Once upon a time the US had three branches of government that provided checks on a president's fantasies of being a cruel dictator. In those days, this post would have triggered impeachment and/or 25thA proceedings and the would-be dictator & his enablers would be held to account.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 30/08/2025
My reporting uncovered the existence of DoJ training videos instructing FBI personnel on how to flag Trump’s name in the Epstein files. I’m suing to get the videos under FOIA. substack.com/@muellershew...
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I Am Suing the Department of Justice for the Epstein Files Training Videos
On July 20th, I was the first to report the existence of training videos instructing FBI personnel how to flag mentions of Trump and others in the Epstein files. Today, I'm suing for those videos.
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Pass the Gummies @passthegummies.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Thoughts and prayers to all those kids and their grieving parents! #🧠🙏
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Pass the Gummies @passthegummies.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
AAAAAAAAGGHHHH!!!
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Pass the Gummies @passthegummies.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
This is the key to the whole thing: "if you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression."
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Pass the Gummies @passthegummies.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
And maybe a manicurist? Just sayin'.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
This is the way.
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Pass the Gummies @passthegummies.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
An absolute masterpiece.
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Pass the Gummies @passthegummies.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Keep 'em coming.
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Pass the Gummies @passthegummies.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Billboards, please!
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Dr. Fröhlich (prefers not to) @edgarallandoh.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
youtu.be/OjGHf7OvglM
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Join Ice
YouTube video by Jesse Welles
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
🔥 “How much does it cost for fascism? How much does taxpayers have to pay for a fascist country?” Nebraska Republican @USRepMikeFlood gets the raucous reception he deserves at a town hall.
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Linda Childers @chilwriter.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell gets moved to a minimum security prison, while the majority of detainees at “Alligator Alcatraz” have no criminal charges and are living in inhumane conditions. Are we great yet? 🙁 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Hundreds of detainees with no criminal charges sent to Trump’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
Authorities have refused to release list of people sent there as Democratic lawmakers decry ‘inhumane’ conditions
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Pass the Gummies @passthegummies.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Right, because what has Trump ever paid for in his life? Serious question.
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Zachary Pleat @zpleat.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
New: After Steve Bannon called for “a MAGA Republican” to run the BLS, Trump fired its commissioner www.mediamatters.org/steve-bannon... Trump took this action following a weak jobs report with major downward revisions. Economists say this move will create mistrust about economic data.
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After Steve Bannon called for “a MAGA Republican” to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Trump fired its commissioner
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Just hours before Trump announced he was firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, VP JD Vance was celebrating some cherry-picked numbers from the latest jobs report. The point was to say only immigrants are losing jobs, and Americans are doing great. newrepublic.com/post/198737/...
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JD Vance Praised Jobs Report That Trump Now Says Was a Hoax
The vice president applauded a report that Donald Trump baselessly claimed was made up to make him look bad.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
The 17 experts who were ousted from an HHS vaccine committee have published a commentary on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, saying that Robert Kennedy, Jr., and his self-picked panel are abandoning rigorous scientific review and open deliberation.  www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 01/08/2025
This is how democracies die.
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Pass the Gummies @passthegummies.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Listen. youtu.be/mI4h4zbkNMU?...
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WATCH: Episcopal bishop asks Trump 'to have mercy' on LGBTQ+ communities and immigrants
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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God @thegodshow.com · 01/08/2025
Thou shalt not starve children.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Worth remembering: The Constitution explicitly gives the power to set tariffs to Congress. They could stop this nonsense by the end of the day.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
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Pass the Gummies @passthegummies.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Also, acting to curb genocide shouldn't be a stand-up-and-cheer-for-moral-courage moment. I, for one, still have standards.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
I can’t stress this enough These rates are the result of magic “math” And they’re being done on the whim of a guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.
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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Republicans are trying to charge taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars to needlessly transfer a space shuttle from a museum in Virginia to Texas. Where’s their care and concern for stewarding taxpayer dollars now?
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 04/07/2025
Some thoughts on the depraved bill and what it means.
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Rep. Gabe Vasquez @repgabevasquez.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
I asked New Mexicans what they would say to someone trying to sell off our public lands. Swipe to see what they said. Their message is loud and clear, keep public lands public. I’m making sure it’s heard in Washington.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
This is one of those times where it really behooves us all to ground ourselves by reading legal experts who know what they're talking about, like @stevevladeck.bsky.social @joycewhitevance.bsky.social @rgoodlaw.bsky.social @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
In light of today’s recommendation on COVID vaccines for pregnant women, this 2022 piece by @deldeib.bsky.social is newly relevant. COVID-Related Stillbirths Didn’t Have to Happen
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“God, No, Not Another Case.” COVID-Related Stillbirths Didn’t Have to Happen.
A lack of testing data and government guidance led many to avoid the COVID-19 vaccine during pregnancy, unwittingly increasing their chances of a stillbirth.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 27/05/2025
“It is up to all of us to fix this. It’s not going to be because somebody comes and saves you.”
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 26/05/2025
(next to an image of President Obama) “It is up to all of us to fix this. It's not going to be because somebody comes and saves you.

The most important office in this democracy is the citizen—the ordinary person who says, no, that's not right."

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
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Pass the Gummies @passthegummies.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
If the bill in unconstitutional it shouldn't be dangerous. It should be null and void. We have to get back to running the government as if the Constitution was mandatory, instead of optional based on what one can expect of Trump.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
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Pass the Gummies @passthegummies.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
It would help if they wore a uniform, looked like professionals, and showed their faces. The best way to avoid being mistaken for a Proud Boy or January 6th Insurrectionist is to refrain from dressing and behaving like one.
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Dream for America @dreamforamerica.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
"War is never inevitable. Weapons must fall silent, for they never solve problems but only intensify them. Those who sow peace will endure throughout history, not those who reap victims. Others are not enemies to hate, but human beings with whom to speak." -- Pope Leo XIV
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Pass the Gummies @passthegummies.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Absolutely. But instead, they'll get to learn the hard way, just like the characters in Sinclair's novels. No one should have to be Jurgis Rudkis in 2025, but here we are.
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Pass the Gummies @passthegummies.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
T-shirt: "I don't work for you, sir."
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Pass the Gummies @passthegummies.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Okay I know we don't know details and it's early to say this but I'm feeling that someone is complete shit at his job.
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Pass the Gummies @passthegummies.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
It's a hand-me-down plane. www.forbes.com/sites/jeremy...
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Why The Qataris Are Happy To Dump Their 747 On Trump
The president may be thirsting for a new four-engine jumbo jet, but many governments and royal families are unloading their fuel-guzzling palaces in the sky.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 17/05/2025
It’s not just Newark: Nearly all air traffic control facilities in the U.S. are understaffed.
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Newark Airport's Crisis Puts Spotlight on U.S. Air Traffic Controller Shortage
As of May 7, all but two of the 313 air traffic control facilities in the United States were understaffed, a New York Times analysis found.
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Pass the Gummies @passthegummies.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Attorneys in the room: Is forced detransition a violation of the Eighth Amendment?
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Pass the Gummies @passthegummies.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
The question was about the fate of truckers and dockworkers and Trump didn't even hear it. Welker asked him about small businesses and Trump asked "who cares?" So we're done with the "Trump speaks to the working class" line of nonsense, right?
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Pass the Gummies @passthegummies.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
So consumer choice is not a thing now? I can't keep track of which version of "free market principles" we're working with.
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