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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
NEW: A South Carolina woman has been arrested for “desecration of human remains” after losing her pregnancy and placing fetal remains in the trash. The 31-year-old is facing up to ten years in prison for the felony charge. For her pregnancy.
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Another Woman Arrested For Her Pregnancy Loss
A South Carolina woman has been charged for “desecration of human remains”
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john freiler @johnfreiler.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
the epstein footage is missing a minute because jeffrey started singing hey jude in his cell. justice dept doesn’t want to pay for the licensing. somewhat understandable
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
September 30, 2023
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Elon Musk crosses the border to Nazi
He's blown past blatant antisemitism and is now aligning with Jew-hating, right wing Germans. What else would you call that?
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 09/07/2025
The Trump administration is afraid of highly trained, professional, impartial law enforcement officers and agencies. And you should be afraid that they're afraid of those things.
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The American Police State Is Here
ICE is about to eclipse the FBI as America's most important law enforcement agency. That's bad. Super-duper bad.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
if you work through the demographics here you're food with soon be harvested by 9 year olds and people living in assisted living facilities
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
One of those stories that will go viral in a few years like all those pandemic prep stories from 2018
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Lack of new US power capacity could double blackouts by 2030, says Energy Department
U.S. power outages could double in five years if suppliers fail to add capacity during peak demand, the Department of Energy said on Monday.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
That sentence is so insane
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Aaron Black @aaronblack.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid
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Kate Aronoff @katearonoff.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Especially if you're on the fence about it, protest today. Fascism is isolating and lonely. Its very goal is to make you feel like you're the only person unwilling to accept a cult of personality. On days like today you fully realize there are more of us than there are them. You will feel better.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
There it is. Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) says Republicans’ next goal is to kick seniors off Social Security: “Get off of Social Security. Get back into the workforce.”
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Pretty clearly setting the stage to use the Insurrection Act to crack down on domestic protests within the US.
Tweet from Stephen Miller: "An insurrection against the laws and sovereignty of the United States."
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 07/06/2025
They’re not behaving as if they’re in a four-year term. They’re behaving as if they’re in an everlasting dictatorship. Are we all clear on this?
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
One thing is for certain after this week: Local cops in sanctuary cities—Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York—are working in lock step with DHS and ICE.
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Here are some texts I got from an immigration lawyer friend of mine. Shared with permission. Some of the bleakest shit I’ve ever heard.
Text reading: I had to come down to Los Angeles for Work and ended up trying to help with the raid last night. As a Bernie usefully. Waited by the entrance for detainees 
We were repeatedly denied access of any kind, and eventually LAPD force removed attorneys ice. Also tear gassed a baby under age two. Today they told us to come back at eight to see the clients, but they ever refused entry to us as well as politicians, including Jimmy, Gomez, and right now. They’re releasing some kind of gas, so the Attorneys can’t breatheText reading: Post it so everyone knows. When we were trying to chant their rights ice honked so no one could hear.
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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
EVERYBODY WATCH. ICE IS OUT OF CONTROL. Video of SEIU California’s President David Huerta getting assaulted & arrested during an ICE raid in the warehouse district of Downtown Los Angeles today. He’s an LA native, American citizen and labor leader. Don’t turn away.
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects - A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects
A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
its crazy how dominant germany was in science (especially chemistry) in the 19th century, it was basically the international language for scientists, people came from all over the world to train at heidelberg etc, and then....
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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
SecState Rubio claims that no on has died because of USAID cuts and suggested that I had lied in my reporting. So here I show him photos of specific children who have died because of the Trump administration's reckless cancelation of aid: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Plane ain’t fee. Going to cost us hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 17/05/2025
According to a study by Penn Wharton, Trump's "big, beautiful bill" that pays for tax breaks for the rich by cutting Medicaid leads to a $700 LOSS in income for the working class, a $1,000 LOSS in income for the poor & a $389,000 INCREASE for the top 0.1%. We must defeat it.
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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Democrats just flipped the Omaha mayor's office with ads like this. The right-wing obsession with genitals is starting to backfire.
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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 16/05/2025
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first.

One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish.

Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points.

We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are.

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Freshman, Yarmouth High School
Yarmouth
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Brutal account of what it’s like to teach at the University of Florida right now in the NYT—extraordinary climate of fear. People afraid to say intersectional and talk about lynchings. Fake students trying to entrap Muslim faculty or just making things up altogether. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/o...
In the three years since Ron DeSantis set out to rid Florida’s universities of woke ideology, my campus changed significantly. Professors suddenly worried about what they could say and teach. Some started avoiding terms like “racism.” One student recently told me that when someone used “intersectional” in class, the instructor told her not to use that word.

One colleague told me that he stopped assigning an article about lynching and white evangelicalism for fear that those terms could raise red flags. Another said she was censoring her language not just in class and on campus but also on personal social media.

Several professors have been subjected to efforts at entrapment. Last year a man posing as a student tried to encourage Muslim faculty members to criticize Mr. DeSantis and Israel. A similar incident happened to me. In October 2024 my department chair called me into his office to tell me that someone claiming to be a student in my Religion and Science class had complained that I spent 20 minutes talking about specific candidates, including who I was voting for and why. I was stunned. That never happened in that class or any other; it is antithetical to the way I teach. Fortunately
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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Oh dear God!
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Page One must have been crowded. So NYT puts it on Page 13. 🤡 @schooley.bsky.social
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NPR @npr.org · 06/05/2025
Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.
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Most Americans use federal science information on a weekly basis, a new poll finds
Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.
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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
The “seniority matters” mindset within the Democratic caucus is shameful and will be our downfall, and is why we should absolutely encourage primaries along generational lines. No one is entitled to power.
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Dr. Glaucomflecken @glaucomflecken.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Just passing along some friendly advice on how to approach potential changes to the Australian health care system @drruthmitchell.bsky.social
PowerPoint slide that says: “does America do it, if yes, then no”
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
This is an astoundingly good interview. The LA Port Director explains very clearly how profoundly trade is coming to a screeching halt. This summer will be tough.
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
this is why, in my humble opinion, pledges mean next to nothing- call me when the check’s already cleared.
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Meg Reid 🦦 @megireid.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Really hard to say what the worst part of this NEA grant termination letter is (sent at 10pm on a Friday!) but I think it's finding out the federal government's priority for arts funds is now "fostering AI competency" rather than funding literature.

This is to inform you that the above referenced National Endowment for the Arts award has been terminated, effective May 31, 2025.

The NEA is updating its grantmaking policy priorities to focus funding on projects that reflect the nation's rich artistic heritage and creativity as prioritized by the President. Consequently, we are terminating awards that fall outside these new priorities. The NEA will now prioritize projects that elevate the Nation’s HBCUs and Hispanic Serving Institutions, celebrate the 250th anniversary of American independence, foster AI competency, empower houses of worship to serve communities, assist with disaster recovery, foster skilled trade jobs, make America healthy again, support the military and veterans, support Tribal communities, make the District of Columbia safe and beautiful, and support the economic development of Asian American communities. Funding is being allocated in a new direction in furtherance of the Administration’s agenda.Your project, as noted below, unfortunately does not align with these priorities:
	Purpose: To support the publication and promotion of books of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Hey guys- White nationalists have helped a white woman in Minnesota raise $300k after she was filmed calling a five-year-old Black child the n-word. The local NAACP chapter is fundraising for the boy and his family to get legal help. The least we could do is out-fundraise the nazis. Donate here:
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Donate to Help Us Seek Justice for a 5-Year-Old Facing Racial Hate, organized by Rochester Branch NAACP
On April 30, 2025, in a City of Rochester public park, a whit… Rochester Branch NAACP needs your support for Help Us Seek Justice for a 5-Year-Old Facing Racial Hate
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
This guy has just gotten a $1 billion increase, in a NASA budget slashed by $6 billion, for Mars projects www.cnbc.com/2025/05/02/n... Track record: Was "highly confident" in 2020 that his SpaceX would be *LANDING PEOPLE on Mars* by next year. (2026). What a grifter www.cnbc.com/2020/12/01/e...
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Elon Musk is 'highly confident' SpaceX will land humans on Mars by 2026
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said he is "highly confident" that the company will land humans on Mars in "about six years from now."
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
“Why do colleges have legacy admissions? It started as a way to keep out Jews” and to “ensure their students were predominantly Protestant.” 7/28/23 www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...
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Why do colleges have legacy admissions? It started as a way to keep out Jews.
Standardized tests. Interviews. Extracurricular activities. In the early 20th century, universities used these tactics to ensure their students were predominantly Protestant.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 01/05/2025
Q: “The president signed an executive order…threatening to defund sanctuary cities for their policies. Why not just arrest the leaders who are harboring and shielding illegal aliens from deportation?” Tom Homan: “Wait to see what's coming.”
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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
If you know who this guy is, this is quite the shift in the press pool under Trump.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
“High-impact local police forces”
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
On becoming an autocracy @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
MAJOR SCOOP: The local detective who first accused Mr. Abrego Garcia of being a member of MS-31 was suspended from the police force and indicted merely WEEKS LATER for providing confidential information to a sex worker who he was paying in exchange for sexual acts.
MAJOR SCOOP: The local detective who first accused Mr. Abrego Garcia of being a member of MS-31 was suspended from the police force and indicted merely WEEKS LATER for providing confidential information to a sex worker who he was paying in exchange for sexual acts.
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Just a reminder that Germany led the world in science until the Nazis came to power and fired, exiled, and/or killed all the non-Nazi scientists, which was most of the scientists 🧪 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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Documents reveal Trump’s plan to gut funding for Nasa and climate science
Critics say Nasa faces ‘extinction-level event’ with budget plan, with climate research funding also to be slashed
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
1) Do something autocratic 2) Wait to see how people react 3) If they don't push back hard enough, carry on 4) If they do push back hard enough, "pause" it 5) Illegally consolidate more power 6) Repeat
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
It’s worth stating this simply: For literally anyone in the US Govt from 1945 to 2025, Signalgate would require an instant resignation—and a criminal investigation. It would be a matter of personal *honor* to resign. The fact Mike Waltz & Pete Hegseth are choosing to fight it out is a terrible omen.
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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
teaching my beautiful daughters Oakley, Oaklee, Oakleigh, and Oaklynn that Trump is God-Emperor
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