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Ricardo Ismach

@rockerdoc.bsky.social
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College dropout, audio engineer, one-time Parasitologist, free clinic/street medicine/ER doc, guitarist, documentary filmmaker, Dad. Oh, and vigilant defender of everyone's rights (women, Black/ brown people, LGBTQ, the neurospicy, punks), and democracy.

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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For Vladimir Putin, who delights in projecting his unyielding military power, the striking photograph is a direct blow to Moscow’s carefully cultivated image of invincibility.
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Single Photo Exposes Putin’s Ultimate Battlefield Humiliation
A photograph has shattered Moscow’s carefully cultivated image of invincibility.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 26/09/2026
‘Let’s tell the truth’: Smithsonian head given standing ovation as he hits back at Trump attacks
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‘Let’s tell the truth’: Smithsonian head given standing ovation as he hits back at Trump attacks
Outgoing secretary Lonnie Bunch rejects claims the institution is unpatriotic, telling audience ‘You cannot understand all without illuminating the dark corners’
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. (Published Feb. 2025)
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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 26/09/2026
The University of Maine is debunking a central lie in Collins’s story after the damning report on her pay-to-play scheme with a top donor. trib.al/qmS0m5K
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Susan Collins’s Flimsy Corruption Defense Collapses
The University of Maine is debunking a central lie in Collins’s story after the damning report on her pay-to-play scheme with a top donor.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 26/09/2026
Instead of standing up to Trump’s deportation and death machine that has brutalized their workers, DoorDash is lobbying for the regime’s legislative priorities — including a bill to weaken DC home rule. Delete your account and app until DoorDash speaks out against ICE’s brutality and violence.
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Delete DoorDash: our demands
Our demands for DoorDash on ICE raids, H.R. 9720, and the DC task force. How to close your account until it answers.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens — the latest snafu in the department’s attempts to uncover illegal voters across the country. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DHS noncitizen voter claims unravel in Nevada as state confirms flagged voters are citizens
Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
By rebutting (sort of) Sheri Mecklenburg's claim that Andrew Boutros ordered her to pursue of a felony against the Broadview 6, DOJ may have waived privilege claims that are central to their fight against more discovery. emptywheel.net/2026/09/25/a...
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Andrew Boutros' Hot-and-Cold Privilege Claims - emptywheel
In a bid to debunk Sheri Mecklenburg's claims about charging deliberations in the Broadview 6 case, the Chicago US Attorney's Office just waived the privilege that was a core part of their defense.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/08/2026
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Five months ago, we learned that ICE seized drawings and letters from children in the Dilley ICE concentration camp. I sued under the Freedom of Information Act. Today, I got responsive documents. www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...
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BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: ICE Seized Drawings from Children in Detention. I Sued, and Today I Got Them.
Five months ago, I filed a Freedom of Information Act Request for papers seized from children at the Dilley ICE Detention Center. Today, I got a heartbreaking response.
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 24/09/2026
We're drawing down our print copies of The Reconstruction Papers; definitely recommend redeeming our current deal to get one plus reserve next year's issue (among other subscriber benefits) www.liberalcurrents.com/less-than-35...
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Less Than 350 Copies of The Reconstruction Papers Remain. Get Yours Today and Reserve Next Year's Issue
Support a publication that is really committed to liberal values and to triumphing over fascism.
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Ricardo Ismach @rockerdoc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Trigger warning: #Science. It’s insane that oligarchs and the MAGA right wing are pushing for this esrth-ending calamity. Are they all deluded ‘Christian’ extremists, trying to bring about the end times? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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James Hansen: Fossil fuel addiction could trigger runaway global warming | Nafeez Ahmed
Nafeez Ahmed: Without full decarbonisation by 2030, our global emissions pathway guarantees new era of catastrophic climate change
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Llewelyn Pritchard @llewelynpritchard.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
LP-045 www.theguardian.com/environment/... Dr.James Hansen: Fossil fuel addiction could trigger runaway global warming. Without full decarbonisation by 2030, our global emissions pathway guarantees new era of catastrophic climate change. Nafeez Ahmed 10 Jul 2013
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James Hansen: Fossil fuel addiction could trigger runaway global warming | Nafeez Ahmed
Nafeez Ahmed: Without full decarbonisation by 2030, our global emissions pathway guarantees new era of catastrophic climate change
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
🔥Jewish Actor Mandy Patinkin (brillant in Homeland) gets really passionate about Gaza and the child killer Benjamin Netanyahu. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/09/2026
Just gonna share this again.
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
A federal judge in California, in a damning 90-page decision, rules the government cannot revoke the F-1 visas of international student journalists because it doesn't like their reporting and such retaliation violates their First and Fifth Amendment rights. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Memorandum & Opinion – #108 in Stanford Daily Publishing Corporation v. Rubio (N.D. Cal., 5:25-cv-06618) – CourtListener.com
MEMORANDUM OF DECISION PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(1) signed by Judge Noël Wise on 8/28/2026. (akw, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 8/28/2026)
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Ricardo Ismach @rockerdoc.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
How's this for the epitome of abhorrent, #CapitalistPig behavior from #HeWhoShallNotBeCombed: trying to give away Yosemite! Unbelievable gall... www.nytimes.com/live/2026/08...
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Trump Live Updates: Administration Proposes Giving Part of Yosemite Park to Developer (Gift Article)
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Ricardo Ismach @rockerdoc.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
File under “Even a #Fascist stopped clock is right once or twice each day.” Go ICE. I vote for deportation to Haiti for him, but open to alternatives. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/u...
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Milo Yiannopoulos, a Right-Wing Provocateur, Is Arrested by ICE (Gift Article)
Mr. Yiannopoulos, a prominent early supporter of President Trump, was detained at the New Orleans airport. The Trump administration publicized his arrest and shared a mug shot.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Cartoon by @mackinnonart.bsky.social.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 27/08/2026
Americans have declared war on Flock cameras. They’ve protested them, damaged them, and destroyed them. Flock camera destruction isn’t just popular — in some cases, it has also proven highly effective at getting rid of them. Read more from @janus.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/tech/985155/...
Verge headline: Americans are cheering for vigilantes who take down Flock cameras

Illustration of a Flock camera flanked at the sides by instruments of destruction and/or vandalism
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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Matt 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🤔 @yupitsmatt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
How’s that foot tasting, Elon? #Musk #Twitter #Blues
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The most racist, bigoted person you've seen on your timeline who regularly calls for the government to slash funding for charitable causes: "Genuine tears for Dolly Parton passing. She stood for so much."
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ACLU @aclu.org · 25/08/2026
The Trump administration's latest boat strike, which killed 2 more civilians, is just as patently illegal as the last 66.
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U.S. Military Kills 2 People in Attack on Boat in Pacific
The United States has killed at least 223 people since its campaign of boat strikes began nearly a year ago.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/08/2026
BREAKING: In my Epstein Files training video law suit: Judge Beryl Howell has DENIED the Justice Department's request for an additional 90 days, and has GRANTED my request for the government to file it's motion for summary judgment in 30 days.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/08/2026
Blanche really, really doesn't want to hand over these Epstein documents. Can't imagine why </s>
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PapaGoose @papagoose24.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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The Supreme Court allows Trump to move ahead with his plan to eliminate Democratic votes
Shame on the high court’s majority
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Ricardo Ismach @rockerdoc.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
An outrageous #Fascist power grab, aimed at hindering people’s right to vote. Shame on our corrupt Supreme Court - Roberts will live in infamy. Know who votes by mail? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/u...
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Supreme Court Allows Trump Plan to Restrict Mail-In Voting, for Now (Gift Article)
The administration asked the court to clear the way for President Trump’s order that creates “state citizenship lists” and directs the Postal Service to decide who gets a mail-in ballot.
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
📌The so-called leadership of the Democratic Party are not fighters, they are appeasers, stunningly out of touch with their voters, and ignorant of world history. I suggest they google "Neville Chamberlain" to see what happens when you chum up violent, fascist regimes. This is really grotesque.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“Representative Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, met privately in recent weeks with Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and top outside adviser, and discussed potential areas of common ground, according to five people with knowledge of the meeting.” BRUH.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"Almost Two Dozen Young People..." DL Hughley Sounds the Alarm Something is seriously wrong. DL Hughley asks the question nobody wants to answer.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Elon Musk is planning to spend up to $200 million to help Republicans in this year’s midterms. That’s just 0.024% of his total net worth. Oligarchs can rig the system at the expense of everyone else, and only spend pennies doing so. We must get Big Money out of politics.
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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
“WSJ editorial page says that Trump and family are totally crooked. Trump’s 2025 disclosures are ‘an unseemly display of using the Presidency for family profit… Trump boys [corrupt] deals [aided by] GOP corruption…’” @robertscotthorton.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/robe... Archive: archive.is/9r6a7
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Opinion | The Trump Family and ‘Honest Graft’
They are profiting off the Presidency in ways that demean the office.
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NOLA.com @nolanews.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
He participated in picket lines, sit-ins and Freedom Rides, endured jailings and beatings and stood up to U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy.
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Jerome ‘Big Duck’ Smith, longtime New Orleans civil rights activist, dies at 87
He participated in picket lines, sit-ins and Freedom Rides, endured jailings and beatings and stood up to U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy.
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
400 library workers begin their strike Monday after endless months of trying to negotiate with management. Already the anti-union propaganda machine is calling the library workers entitled. The LIBRARY workers. You don't staff the desk at the free stuff store because you're greedy.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026
here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/08/2026
In Wisconsin alone, there were 39 private schools where every student used tuition vouchers during the most recent school year. Together, these schools educated 7,923 children and took in roughly $87 million from the voucher program.
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At “Quasi-Public” Private Schools, 100% of Students Get Tuition Vouchers. There’s Almost No Accountability.
Private schools — even those that are heavily dependent on taxpayer funding — often operate without the scrutiny public schools are subject to. Following the money at one Milwaukee private school reve...
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Ricardo Ismach @rockerdoc.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Trump and his GOP practice the Streisand effect… Meanwhile - release the #Epstein files! www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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The White House Freak-Out Over Natalie Harp
The West Wing’s explosive response to a fleeting jab didn’t kill the story. It enabled days of coverage.
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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug... - 🇺🇸 The MAGAs travel back to when America was Great, the Fabulous Fifties! - Brought to you by the honored and revered Inner Hive, including long-time member Suite Lou and new member Mark Waid. get on it at bit.ly/theInnerHive 👊 READ IT RIGHT HERE, YOU MONSTERS👇
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/08/2026
A young mother of four was found hanging from a tree in Mississippi. Now a local council member is calling for a federal investigation into Tasia Fortune’s death. Her case comes as questions still surround the death of 18-year-old Nolan Wells. Suri Crowe reports.
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 19/08/2026
Disneyland hotel workers help make magic happen for millions of visitors every year. It’s time they got the fair pay they’ve earned and deserve. Solidarity with our @unitehere11.bsky.social union siblings!
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/08/2026
NEW: A judge has ordered the Justice Department to produce grand jury materials for review in camera (behind closed doors) in the case against Don Lemon et al to see whether there are grounds to dismiss based on alleged prosecutor misconduct. DoJ has until 8/25 s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
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Ricardo Ismach @rockerdoc.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I don't see a lot of difference between these #Fascist #ReligiousExtremist #Luddites and the Taliban, blowing up ancient treasures. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Trump 2.0 has deleted or altered nearly 400 US datasets, endangering public health, education and more
Health data appears to be most affected by administration’s attempt to wipe findings that don’t align with its priorities, tracker shows
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Ricardo Ismach @rockerdoc.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Trigger warning: contains #Science, plus #DeadBabies. This is where the GOP’s anti-intellectual fervor leads. www.propublica.org/article/more...
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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
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Frida @frida3rdact.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
#Justice Let's end the #Pedophiles cover up. We must keep pushing for #Accountability Don't allow them to bury the #EPSTEIN -trump story #EPSTEIN #EPSTEIN #EPSTEIN #EPSTEIN #EPSTEINfiles #EPSTEIN #EPSTEIN #EPSTEINfiles #EPSTEIN #EPSTEIN #GhislaineMaxwell Fight #Corruption #EPSTEIN #GhislaineMaxwell
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This is Very Exciting and Needed….
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A Dandelion @onedandelion.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
#Seattle '... residents are starting to see #detainments closer to home.'💥
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Arthur Malraux @unrapporteur1.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
A group of Herons is called; A Siege A group of Hawks is called; A Cast A group of Magpies is called; A Parliament A group of Ravens is called; An Unkindness A group of Crows is called; A Murder A group of Republicans is called; A Treason #ItsFuckingTreason
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Thanks to you, I reached my initial goal of 250 new Democracy Docket subscribers in 6 hours. So, now I am doubling it to 500! Democracy Docket won't send you spam or sell your email. It's not on Substack or ActBlue. Free and premium options available. Link and thanks! demdock.com/4w6emld
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David Combest @decombest.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Makes sense - they don't want to live like serfs and they'll never be rich. Income inequality, wealth inequality, tax cuts for the wealthy, and gutless politicians cashing in. Poll Demonstrates Nearly Half of Young Americans Back Democratic Socialism | Truthout truthout.org/articles/pol...
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Poll Demonstrates Nearly Half of Young Americans Back Democratic Socialism
Nearly 4 out of 5 young voters described the U.S. economy using negative terms.
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Forbes @forbes.com · 14/08/2026
Clark approached Epstein after he had already been convicted for soliciting prostitution.
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Who Is Cami Clark? Anthropic CEO’s Wife Asked Epstein To Invest In Porn Business
Clark approached Epstein after he had already been convicted for soliciting prostitution.
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Deborah Lynn @mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
www.reuters.com/legal/govern... US District Judge Lynn Winmill in Boise said ‌in an 81-page ruling issued late on Thursday that the right to a health-preserving abortion is protected by the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. #Abortion
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Idaho must allow abortions to preserve women's health, US judge rules
A U.S. judge has ruled that Idaho's near-total abortion ban is unconstitutional because it provides exceptions when abortions are ​life-saving and not for broader risks to pregnant women's health.
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