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Jersey Girl. Feminist. Humanist. Skeptic. Curious Nerd. Jesuit Educated Fallen Catholic. Scientist. Doctor. Anonymous for safety and freedom.

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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Do yourself a favor. Read these 7 pages by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social right now. It is the most concise explanation of the current situation in U.S. politics I've seen and it captures why calls to reduce "polarization" can ultimately worsen the problem 🧵 www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/pol...
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Polarization Is Not the Problem | Journal of Democracy
Americans have never been angrier with one another. But polarization is not the disease—it is the response to a revanchist movement seeking to roll back sixty years of social progress.
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AIPAC Tracker @trackaipac.com · 03/10/2026
"At the same time Jared Kushner has acted as a key negotiator in the war in Gaza, his private equity company, Affinity Partners, has held the largest stake in an Israeli firm backing businesses involved in Israel’s military campaigns," www.cnn.com/2026/10/01/u...
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Justin Levitt @justinlevitt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
As usual, @stevevladeck.bsky.social explains the reasons why the latest order in Missouri will have the lifespan of an adult mayfly. But if those aren't enough, I've got some others for you...
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Missouri gerrymandering: you'll get whiplash from the speed of the SCOTUS reprimand #ELB
Missouri is currently holding a general election using its 2022 congressional map. It’s going to continue holding its general election using its 2022 congressional map. But the Supreme Court is going ...
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The affordability crisis is quite literally destroying kids' dreams.
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government health official (US) @rastawolf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Talk about affordability.
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Federalist Society is setting up a University of Austin law school?!?! www.reuters.com/legal/legali...
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Federalist Society and University of Austin team up for new law program
The University of Austin — a five-year-old Texas institution that bills itself as an oasis of free speech and academic freedom in U.S. higher education — is working with the conservative Federalist So...
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Sophie Fullerton @sophiefullerton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Search for Austin Tice A podcast series by Sophie Fullerton and Rena Netjes, produced by Hayan Imadi renanetjes.substack.com/p/the-search...
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The Search for Austin Tice
A podcast series by Sophie Fullerton and Rena Netjes, produced by Hayan Imadi
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North West Bylines @northwestbylines.co.uk · 05/09/2026
Molly Crabapple’s book “Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund”, tells of a Jewish, Socialist, Anti-Zionist Party | Michael Hindley
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A History of the Jewish Labour Bund
Molly Crabapple’s book “Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund”, tells of a Jewish, Socialist, Anti-Zionist Party
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 06/09/2026
Tupac trial spotlights decades of US police failures in solving the case
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Tupac trial spotlights decades of US police failures in solving the case
Police received information nearly immediately after the killing. It took Las Vegas police 27 years to make an arrest
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Jasper Rolls 🪄 Magical VGM Rips @jasperrolls.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
“i can’t leave twitter, i need it, it’s where my audience is”
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Ms. Magazine @msmagazine.com · 28/08/2026
"If feminism means each of us finding our unique power, and helping other women do the same, Dolly Parton certainly has done both," wrote Gloria Steinem in 1987.
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Dolly Parton’s Unique Feminist Power, as Told by Gloria Steinem (January 1987)
Woman of the Year Dolly Parton’s Unique Feminist Power, as Told by Gloria Steinem (From the January 1987 issue of Ms. Magazine)
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 04/09/2026
the extraction class (and the brunchlord trust fund editors they seed at outlets like The Atlantic) are positively desperate to redirect attention away from the popularity and real-world potential of progressive reform
Atlantic headline: "The Hasan Piker Question"
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Raf Ziemba🔒 ᛒᚱᚯᚱᚲᛟᚾᛇᚾ 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇵🇱🇺🇦🇮🇱 @broerkonijn67.eurosky.social · 05/01/2026
Sasha Baron Cohen. Wizjoner.
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The Dictator - Final Speech
YouTube video by Movies Verse
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Cat O' Bob Tails @gundamcat.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.” - Mark Twain
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026
We’re not changing it.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Peter Thiel is getting a very cold reception outside his new mansion in the exclusive Barrio Parque neighborhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Argentinians are chanting: “Out, out, Peter out.”
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
SHOUT-OUT to Political Cartoonist extraordinaire & Member of the Order of Canada Michael de Adder, who routinely does a far better job of holding this administration accountable than the corporate media. Thank you for your attention to his brilliant satirical wit! 🙏 (also: 🤣)
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government health official (US) @rastawolf.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Six of the current nine Supreme Court justices are members or affiliated with the Federalist Society - John Roberts (Chief Justice), Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Amy Coney Barrett. This one s America yaledailynews.com/articles/how...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Cuban: I've given money to end Citizens United. I know my next dollar isn't going to change my life. But it can sure change a lot of other people's lives, and that's the way I try to live
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government health official (US) @rastawolf.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Called the Iroquois Confederacy by the French…is properly called the Haudenosaunee Confederacy…known as longest lasting participatory democracies in the world…made up of the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, and Senecas www.haudenosauneeconfederacy.com/who-we-are/
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Who We Are - Haudenosaunee Confederacy
ABOUT THE HAUDENOSAUNEE CONFEDERACY Called the Iroquois Confederacy by the French, and the League of Five Nations by the English, the confederacy is properly called the Haudenosaunee Confederacy ...
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
NEW: Daniel Siad, the primary modeling scout and recruiter for Jeffrey Epstein, has been discovered dead in his home in Paris. Siad, himself, was also accused of raping young women. I’m gathering the latest and will report on my YouTube channel, Katie Phang News.
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James Aura @jamesaura.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Inside the Rise of America’s Oligarch Class: The Impact of Decades of Widening Wealth Inequality on American Politics #booksky lithub.com/inside-the-r...?
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Inside the Rise of America’s Oligarch Class—And What It Means For All of Us
In early 2014, a pair of political scientists published a striking study on the health, or lack thereof, of American democracy. Authored by Princeton University’s Martin Gilens and Northwestern Uni…
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government health official (US) @rastawolf.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Our corporately funded (Citizens United) two-party system is exploiting single-issue voters (“their base”) to distract from wealth inequality, which allows both parties to serve the interests of the wealthy while the majority struggle over limited resources (88% of US households make < $200k)
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The only time Hakeem Jeffries should've come face-to-face with jared kushner is when kushner is under oath before Congress
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Jared Kushner couldn’t even get a security clearance in Trump’s first term. What was he privately discussing with Hakeem Jeffries that couldn’t have been discussed with someone else?
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Trump has a positive approval rating in precisely 3 out of 50 U.S. states: www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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Graeme MacKay @mackaycartoons.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Delighted to see my Trump Tariff Fire cartoon is part of this week’s Politico Cartoon Carousel. Have a look: www.politico.com/gallery/2026...
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The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics
Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in th...
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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Max D. Lederer Jr., the longtime publisher of Stars and Stripes, announced his retirement, ending a three-decade career at the organization amid Pentagon efforts to expand oversight over its operations and content. He was the second full-time civilian to hold the position of publisher. #Flashes
Stars and Stripes publisher Max D. Lederer Jr. speaks at a gala honoring 80 years of the newspaper’s Pacific edition on Sept. 12, 2025, at the New Sanno Hotel in Tokyo. (Stars and Stripes)
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Honolulu Civil Beat @civilbeat.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Even as the hurricane settled into a tropical storm, it bared down across the island chain, hitting rural Big Island harder than other areas.
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‘Utter Devastation’: Lala Turns Hawaiʻi Upside Down, Spares Some
Even as the hurricane settled into a tropical storm, it bared down across the island chain, hitting rural Big Island harder than other areas.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026
Here's Amazon's two new planned fossil-fuelled AI data centres next to the ENTIRE POWER GRIDS OF SEVERAL LARGE COUNTRIES Together, the two gas-burning data centres will emit more than Spain's entire grid, if built
Bar chart comparing 2025 national grid CO2e emissions (grey bars) with two Amazon fossil‑fuelled AI data centres (red bars), showing the Amazon sites at about 33 and 17.5 megatonnes CO2e—higher than many countries' entire power grids.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 14/08/2026
US ambassador to Israel has issued a rare condemnation of a violent siege on families in the West Bank village of Qusra.
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Huckabee calls Israeli settlers ‘terrorists': Can US push end Qusra siege?
US ambassador to Israel has issued a rare condemnation of a violent siege on families in the West Bank village of Qusra.
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government health official (US) @rastawolf.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Everything is fine…
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 11/08/2026
A fire broke out at an oil refinery over 6,000 kilometers (4,000 miles) from Ukraine in Russia's Far East, as a Voronezh Oblast logistics hub belonging to major Russian online retailer Wildberries was targeted overnight on Aug. 11, monitoring channels reported.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 08/08/2026
Fears increase for life of Hussam Abu Safia detained by Israel amid reports of torture and lack of medical care.
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Gaza health chief urges action to ‘save' Dr Abu Safia before it's too late
Fears increase for life of Hussam Abu Safia detained by Israel amid reports of torture and lack of medical care.
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government health official (US) @rastawolf.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
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Venezuela Earthquake Relief - Charity Navigator
Support trusted nonprofits delivering lifesaving aid and helping communities recover after the Venezuela earthquake.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 31/07/2026
Talks to be led by former lawmaker Dinorah Figuera as opposition figure Maria Corina Machado left out of proceedings.
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Venezuela gov't and opposition to hold talks aimed at path to elections
Talks to be led by former lawmaker Dinorah Figuera as opposition figure Maria Corina Machado left out of proceedings.
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russiaSuX @denbelblack.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
That's exactly what it is. 👇 #Iran #Gaza #Israel #Russia #Ukraine #Syria #Lebanon #Yemen #Netanyahu #Epstein #Trump
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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
JUST IN: The U.S. launched new strikes against Iran on Wednesday night, marking a major escalation in tensions following what officials described as an attempted Iranian ballistic missile attack against American forces in the Middle East.
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US launches ‘powerful response’ against Iran after attempted missile attack on American forces
The U.S. launched the strikes against Iran a day after what officials described as an attempted Iranian ballistic missile attack against American forces.
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
More than 50,000 U.S. service members are currently deployed to the Middle East and remain highly vigilant, focused, lethal, and ready.
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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
U.S. troop casualties in Iran war surpass 600 as fighting pauses
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US troop casualties in Iran war surpass 600 as fighting pauses
The number of U.S. service members wounded in the war with Iran has surpassed 600, according to the latest figures posted by the Pentagon.
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Abigail Lemonparty @tee-argh.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
"The six House Democrats who voted for the NDAA are Reps. Henry Cuellar (Texas), Don Davis (N.C.), Jared Golden (Maine), Vicente Gonzalez (Texas), Adam Gray (Calif.) and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Wash.)" thehill-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/thehill....
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6 Democrats cross aisle, join GOP to back annual defense policy bill
Six Democratic House lawmakers crossed the aisle on Wednesday to join a majority of Republicans in passing a nearly $1.15 trillion annual defense policy bill.  The Democrats who backed the 202…
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Once again, we have passed a War Powers Resolution to END THIS ILLEGAL WAR! No more lives lost. No more taxpayer dollars wasted. No more laws broken. The House has spoken: 214-208. Now will our colleagues in the Senate across the aisle ACT to stand with us to end this war NOW!?
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government health official (US) @rastawolf.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
It’s going great…
I gave up sarcasm. it’s going great.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
“There will be Jewish settlements throughout Gaza. Gaza is ours.” Israel’s far right national security minister Ben Gvir again says their plan out loud
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 16/07/2026
JD Vance talks to Joe Rogan about Iran
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government health official (US) @rastawolf.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Over 100 economists ask US to lift sanctions on Venezuela to ease the impact of the earthquakes. english.elpais.com/economy-and-... Reported by Jesús Sérvulo González | El País vía @elpais.com
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Over 100 economists ask US to lift sanctions on Venezuela to ease the impact of the earthquakes
Academics call for a moratorium on Venezuelan debt, and urge the IMF to restore Caracas’ access to the Fund: ‘The emergency is human before it is political’
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thefawcette.bsky.social @thefawcette.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Richard Branson founder of Virgin Group: Despite receiving an est $8 Billion fm Venezuelan oil exports, U.S. has provided only ~ $386 million in vital earthquake relief & recovery funds. To show US is commited to democracy & freedom Trump should release political prisoners. Gift: wapo.st/4fm6lBw
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Opinion | Richard Branson: What earthquakes and prisons show about Venezuela under Trump
Getting political prisoners freed would demonstrate that Trump's end goals are freedom and democracy.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
JUST IN: 13th straight rejection of DOJ's legal effort to compel states to turn over their voter rolls. George W. Bush-appointed Judge Thomas Johnston wonders what DOJ is really driving at. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
SWAN: “There’s a scene in our book where senior Trump officials are sitting in the Situation Room discussing the allegation of nipple abuse (against Trump in the Epstein files) — not one person has denied one quote in our story. Vance said he thought we had tapes.”
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Don’t look away from Memphis. Don’t look away from Houston. Don’t look away at the nationwide ICE surge. The trump administration is counting on you losing interest and falling for its tweak in tactics. zeteo.com/p/trumps-vio...
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🆘 Trump’s Violent Crackdowns on U.S. Cities Are Still Happening. Don't Look Away
Horror in Minneapolis caused a reset of attacks on immigrants and liberals but the administration remains fascistic and lethal. In Maine, meanwhile, Graham Platner confirmed he'll withdraw Monday.
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