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PuppyGrandma Semmelweis

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Brand new on bluesky; on the bird one: puppygma @i_must_sing Looking forward to finding each other here too. 💕🐶🎶💚🫂😷

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Be the iceberg you want to see in the world.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026
Amazon's own balance sheet presents the most compelling evidence that we are stuck in the Enshittocene, the era in which everything is turning into a pile of shit, because the worst ideas of the worst people now make the most money. 1/
Hieronymus Bosch's 'The Conjuror,' a painting depicting a medieval con artist playing a shell game for an audience of astonished peasant rubes. The image has been altered: the conman now has Jeff Bezos's grinning head, and the mouths of all the peasants have been replaced with inverted Amazon 'Smile' logos, so they are now frowning.

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Steve Jurvestson (modified)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jeff_Bezos%27_iconic_laugh_crop.jpg

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Tero Kuittinen @teroterotero.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The air in Manhattan tastes of copper and ashes. There may be glass in bread rolls and parasites in blueberries. Dogs are making curious noises. A woman is weeping on front of Sakura Market. In few hours, a deranged attack on election integrity will be broadcast on all channels.
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 16/07/2026
I think one reason data center outrage is so pronounced is people spent decades recycling and composting and otherwise scrimping to offset energy use and protect clean water, and the second we hit an inflection point for cheap electricity the banking industry said we’re taking all of it, fuck you
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Staying away from fresh fruit and veg to avoid the super diarrhea? Try some glass-filled crescent rolls.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 16/07/2026
Blanche is only meeting with Epstein survivors to get Tillis' vote. He doesn't give a shit about the Epstein survivors. If he did, the proper thing to do would be to release the Epstein files, investigate, and jail Epstein's co-conspirators.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Reuters: US JUDGE ORDERS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO REINSTALL SIGNS, EXHIBITS IT REMOVED FROM NATIONAL PARKS DISCUSSING TOPICS LIKE SLAVERY, CLIMATE CHANGE
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Brian Lovett @lovettbr.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
When the USDA was functional, I was worried-but optimistic-about the future of American citrus. Now people look at me funny when I tell them to enjoy orange juice while it’s available. 😅
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
History will look at how a small number of rapacious and malicious plutocrats, with the full complicity of a thoroughly corrupt and intellectually bankrupt political party, caused the epic collapse of the greatest nation on the planet.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
My latest. I hope you read and share. Despite the will of the voters, Republicans have turned to the courts to overturn the election and discard the results. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/in-v...
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In Virginia, Republicans attack the map and the right to vote
Despite the will of the voters, Republicans have turned to the courts to overturn the election and discard the results.
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Delegate Elizabeth Guzman @guzman4virginia.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
I’m an immigrant, mom, union member, and social worker running in the new VA-07. We don’t just need more Democrats - we need Democrats with a backbone. I’m ready to bring the fight to Congress.  Join me: GuzmanforVirginia.com
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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
When you add it all up, the collapse in immigration looks like this: a decline of roughly 50K for illegal (even including the people arrested and not released) and a decline of about 132K for legal. Over 70% of the cut in immigration has come from LEGAL immigration.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/04/2026
can’t say what i want to happen to these people for legal reasons
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
ICYMI: The Trump administration is reportedly receiving millions of immigration applications, pocketing the hefty fees, and never processing the applications. It’s collected over $1 billion in fees so far. Where is the outcry over this fraud and abuse?
commondreams.org
Trump State Dept. Accused of ‘Largest Fee Fraud in History’ of US Immigration System | Common Dreams
An immigration researcher at the Cato Institute found that the Trump administration is "raking in billions of dollars in
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
It could be worse. It could be Melania Coin.
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Sue Carr @scarr54.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
This is what trump does with everything he says he’s done. He takes what other presidents did, destroys it & when he puts it back he says it was all his idea. He’s done this his entire life. The republicans think their voters are so gullible that they’ll believe it when they tell them the same lie.
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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 29/03/2026
They fucking what
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Alan Dershowitz appears not to know that only two members of the Trump family fought in World War II, and both of them were loyal card-carrying members of the NSDAP who fought for the Wehrmacht.
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PuppyGrandma Semmelweis @puppygma.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Oof.
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Lisa Reyna Loe @lisaloe.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Yesterday was our Bexar County Dem Convention, and enthusiasm was off the charts! (🧵) We heard from district candidates throughout the San Antonio area, and it’s always fab seeing my friend and TX Dem Chair, @kendallscudder.bsky.social, who spoke passionately about a progressive Texas in 2026! 1/3
Woman (Lisa Loe) with long dark curly hair wearing a sunflower headband, yellow VOTE tee, and holding an Adrian Reyna campaign sign, smiles alongside a tall man (Kendall Scudder) who’s wearing a blue suit and light blue button down shirt.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
whats happened in the last 24 hours is a scarcely believable region-wide catastrophe set off by Netanyahu & Trump. The suffering will cascade everywhere. The US and Israels interests are not the same. At some point, Trump will have to coerce Netanyahu, no one knows when
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Its Day 19. We have entered a new, more dangerous phase. Israeli attack on Iran's gas field "combined with the US bombing Iran’s coastline on Tuesday night is likely making traders realise the conflict can last for longer "the risk of damage to infrastructure is growing"
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 21/03/2026
Democrats have offered to pay the salaries — fully fund, no conditions — for TSA. It’s Republicans who keep blocking that.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 21/03/2026
Elon Musk offers to pay TSA salaries amid budget battle, airport lineups reut.rs/4bFJcbk
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Elon Musk offers to pay TSA salaries amid budget battle, airport lineups
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, said on Saturday he would cover the paychecks of U.S. Transportation Security Administration ​officers during their second unpaid work stoppage in six months ‌amid a protracted federal funding lapse.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Right after he solves the flint Water crisis…. Oh wait
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
so if i have this correctly: we've substantially increased the value of Iran's primary export we've made it legal to buy that export for the first time in 30 years and we've made it such that only safe way through the strait is to make a deal with iran masterful gambit
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 21/03/2026
Damn really who could’ve seen that coming
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Donald Trump celebrates the death of Robert Mueller at age 81. Where are all of those cancel culture MAGA who were screeching about what folks said after Charlie Kirk died?
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Fetterman lied.
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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Can’t say I’ve ever seen this many monthly records fall in a day. ~80 and that’s a conservative count. It’s gonna be even hotter tomorrow. #heatwave Map via CoolWx
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
The divider in chief.
Tweet by PoliticsGirl criticizing anti-Democrat rhetoric and defending Democratic voters’ values, alongside a quoted Trump statement calling Democrats “terrible” and “very sick people.” The image shows Trump seated at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office speaking to reporters.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
If the war costs $1b a day and Trump is asking for $200 billion, let’s do the math. How long will this war last?
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Fair to say that the Western U.S. heatwave has reached record-shattering status, with dozens of locations breaking all-time March monthly heat records & some now approaching *April* records. Swath of record heat extends clear from Pacific to Great Plains, & from Canada to Mexico.
Map of U.S., from coolwx.com, showing locations currently experiencing record-breaking temperatures. There are countless such locations in the Western U.S., with hundreds of red dots (locations breaking daily record highs) and dozens of pink dots (locations breaking March monthly record highs). The region of record heat extends from the Pacific Coast to the Great Plains, and from Canada to Mexico.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
In 2024, Israel’s Finance Minister Smotrich told a journalist Israel’s borders should be expanded “beyond the river in the next stage,” “Okay, bit by bit”, he said with a smile, before adding: “It is written that the future of Jerusalem is to expand to Damascus. Only Jerusalem, until Damascus.”
"Greater Israel' Project - Smotrich Calls for Israel's Borders to Extend to Syria, Saudi Arabia
• October 14, 2024
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Israeli Minister Bezalel Smotrich. (Image: Palestine
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Netanyahu reveals the goal is to create Greater Israel and the return of the Jewish Messiah which in traditional Christian scripture is or is part the Anti-Christ and the beginning of Armageddon. “We will make it to the return of the Messiah … Israel has become stronger than ever”
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/03/2026
If you have not seen this, it is pretty hilarious.
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Afroman trial day 2 - officer testified about being impacted by a song Afroman released saying Afroman has slept with the officers wife.
TikTok video by Im Not A Lawyer But
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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Shout out to all the guys with charts who told me there was no way we were undercounting while I watched nursing homes and hospitals refuse to test and send my friends’ elderly relatives home to die of “respiratory illness” to keep their official numbers down.
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macbeestje @macbeestje.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
endlessurgency.com/p/breaking-d...
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Breaking Down Last Night’s Illinois Elections: AIPAC Meddling, Stratton's Upset, and More — with Mike Nellis and Adam Mockler
Mike Nellis LIVE — Weekdays at 2pm ET
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PuppyGrandma Semmelweis @puppygma.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/pres...
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Opinion | Is Epic Too Big to Fail?
The EHR company's expansion into AI raises questions about relying on a single vendor
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Tim McFarland @timmcfarland.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social Dr. Jacobs, I read this and think you and your followers would appreciate it. I found it to be informative and moving. Tim in Oregon
theatlantic.com
This Is How a Child Dies of Measles
When your family becomes a data point in an outbreak
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Rep. @aoc shining in Munich
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
I somehow missed this www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/...
Three years after Starr County district attorney Gocha Allen Ramirez’s office filed a murder charge against a woman who terminated her own pregnancy—and then dismissed the charges when he learned that state law forbids such prosecutions—the woman brought a lawsuit against him that included a sworn deposition from another woman, who claimed that years earlier Ramirez paid for an abortion while having extramarital affairs with her and her sister
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
I wasn’t planning on writing anything today, but since terrorist Russia doesn’t stop for even a minute, it was important to document what happened on Christmas Day with Russia murdering more civilians in Ukraine, nuclear-capable bombers flying near Britain & airspace provocations involving Poland
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Russia Escalates War on Christmas Day With Attacks on Ukraine and NATO Airspace
From drone strikes on Ukrainian homes to nuclear bombers near Britain and airspace provocations involving Poland, Moscow used Christmas Day to escalate on multiple fronts.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 26/12/2025
Kash Patel had long crusaded for the release of the Epstein files and victim lists—only now in office to reverse course, downplay the whole thing, and become one of the leaders of the effort to muzzle the release of further information.
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Kash Patel, the FBI's agent of chaos
The biggest little scandal in Washington right now is how bad Patel is at being FBI director.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
harvard medical school got bombed yesterday and it barely made news
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Revan @revan.eurosky.social · 02/11/2025
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
And in that pause between pitch and contact - longer than logic, shorter than hope - we remembered why baseball existed long before we judged a sport's value by viral moments and betting apps. It is the romance of failure. The mortal beauty of trying and missing seven times out of 10 and still being considered great. It is the only sport where patience is a weapon, and panic the surest death. You cannot simply run out the clock in baseball; you must face it, pitch by terrifying pitch, until it finally releases you.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
The simplest reason why the Trump administration is cutting off SNAP, despite adequate reserves, is that they hate the program and don't care about the people who depend upon it. They are breaking the law not to provide SNAP while also enforcing the "equal treatment rules" to hurt SNAP users.
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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
COVID isn’t over. Long COVID disability is real and more common than you think. Fascism benefits from denialism and ableism. If you’re leftist, liberal, &c, you should wear an n95 in public. As another creative who lost access to public life due to COVID denialism said: “Fix your hearts or die.”
maskbloc.org
Worldwide Mask Bloc Directory – Find your local Mask Bloc
MaskBloc.org lists active Mask Blocs around the world. Free high-quality masks, COVID-19 tests and other equipment for your community. Mutual Aid & We Keep Us Safe.
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