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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Goodbye Charlie Kirk.
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
The Charlie Kirk shooting happened essentially as another school shooting happened a state away
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👣Coco👣 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @nortygirl.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Some words from the late Charlie Kirk.....
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Charlie Kirk wasn't killed by political violence. Charlie Kirk was killed by *gun* violence.
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Lisa Song @lisalsong.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Adrian Klenz, who works with deafblind adults in Wisconsin, said he was told the grant was apparently flagged bc of the words "transition" (as in, transitioning from childhood to adulthood) and "privilege" (one parent said it was a privilege to work with the program's staff). ...
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
There is violence all around us. Each day is a struggle to remain non-violent, as the poet Muriel Ruskeyser says here in "Waking This Morning." It is a way of life, a way forward. end/
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“I say across the waves of the air to you:
today once more
I will try to be non-violent
one more day
this morning, waking the world away
in the violent day.”
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
And many think of non-violence as passive submission. It's not what it is. Here the great Gene Sharp explains. 10/
Black text on a white background shows a quote from Gene Sharp about nonviolent action. The passage explains that nonviolent action is a form of combat requiring strategy, courage, and sacrifice, not passive submission. It emphasizes that nonviolent action is active protest, noncooperation, and intervention, typically carried out through group or mass action.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I'm surprised how many people are quick to make a defense of violence in my replies. For them it's necessary, foreclosing on its use is a privilege. For me, non-violence is a powerful tool. It is the lesson of one of my heroes, Bayard Rustin. 1/ wagingnonviolence.org/2022/08/reme...
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Remembering the genius of Bayard Rustin
Thirty-five years after his death, the man who mentored Martin Luther King Jr. still has much to teach movements.
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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
"The closed-door gathering of 34 army chiefs, including NATO alliance and EU members as well as Japan and Australia, was a rare - and possibly unprecedented - convening without the U.S." www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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In rare meeting without U.S. ally, Western army chiefs meet to show Ukraine unity
More than 30 army chiefs among Washington's closest allies met in Paris on Tuesday without their U.S. counterparts, seeking to take on more responsibility over the Ukraine war given President Donald Trump's unpredictability and rapprochement with Moscow.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Grift
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
More reasons from @drjudystone.bsky.social why Dave Weldon should be nowhere near CDC. www.forbes.com/sites/judyst...
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CDC Pick Dave Weldon’s Views On Reproduction And End-Of-Life Raise Alarm
Weldon will be overseeing some reproductive care. His strong beliefs on abstinence, abortion, and end-of life care raises issues that should be discussed.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Oh man, his cronies are trying to make fetch happen.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Curious that all the places Trump wants to annex would be geographically convenient for a Russian partner in annexation.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
As the subject of this twisted bullying (the once bullied becomes the bully), it sucks, but you cannot back down. That is the goal. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Elon Musk ridiculed a blind person on X. Then a mob went to work.
Musk’s unparalleled online reach on X has given him a powerful tool to attack individuals who criticize DOGE.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/02/2025
The United States is reckoning with a mental health crisis. Yet ProPublica found that health insurers have created barriers for people trying to access this critical care at every step of the process. 🗓️ Join us Thursday, Feb. 20 for a virtual discussion.
Text on graphic: Barriers to Care: Navigating the U.S. Mental Health Crisis. A discussion about the systemic barriers to accessing mental health care, which leave many without critical treatment. Thursday, Feb. 20. 4 p.m. Eastern time. Register at propublica dot org slash events. Image: A woman in a floral blazer stepping through the entryway of a therapist office.
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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
The people who were terminated at HHS & its agencies over the weekend did jobs aimed at improving the lives of Americans and helping to keep them safe from disease threats. These cuts will impact those efforts. www.statnews.com/2025/02/17/t...
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Drug inspectors, AI experts, maternal health workers: Trump’s health agency cuts are far-reaching
ead this email immediately” That was the subject line of emails that landed in the inboxes of thousands of workers at federal health agencies across the
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 17/02/2025
This ended poorly for Buster Bluth "Police are baffled by the appearance of a loose seal in downtown New Haven Sunday afternoon." www.wtnh.com/news/connect...
A seal sits on the wet street in front of a New Haven police SUV.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Do you care if the food you eat is safe? Whether a measles outbreak is headed for your kid's school? Do you want to enroll in a study of a new cancer drug? #ElonMusk #DonaldTrump are playing deadly games with US health agencies. Call your members of Congress now. www.statnews.com/2025/02/17/t...
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Drug inspectors, AI experts, maternal health workers: Trump’s health agency cuts are far-reaching
In interview after interview with STAT, those who were fired from federal health and science agencies, along with officials who remain, argued the cuts would be deeply felt.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/02/2025
Federal workers, we recognize that this is an unpredictable time. Our team is actively pairing your tips with reporters on this list and across our newsroom to make sure you're speaking to someone with the right expertise. How to get in touch:
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What ProPublica’s Reporters Will Be Covering During Donald Trump’s Second Presidency — and How to Contact Them
From Trump’s relationships with billionaires to immigration, here are some of the issues and topics our reporters will be keeping an eye on as his second presidency begins.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
It’s about having red hair and freckles FFS and how to be cool with that when other kids make fun of it. By that twisted logic, you’d have to ban pretty much every children’s book, old and new www.cnn.com/2025/02/17/e...
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Julianne Moore says her book about embracing differences was removed from Pentagon-run schools | CNN
Oscar winner Julianne Moore claims her children’s book “Freckleface Strawberry” was banned by the Department of Defense’s Education Activity, a global network of 160 schools serving military families.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
If you have zero education, but learn how to ask AI models the right questions , in many jobs you will be able to outperform someone with an advanced degree, but who is unwilling to use Large Language Models. Just takes a smartphone, curiosity to experiment and a mindset to learn.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
When I talk to kids today and they ask me what I would do if I were 12 today, my answer is always the same, read books and learn how to use AI in every way shape and form you can. It is a living library that gives you responses and can help no matter who you are or where you live.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 17/02/2025
NY City Council speaker Adrienne Adams: "With the resignation of deputy mayors, it has become clear that Mayor Adams has now lost the confidence and trust of his own staff, his colleagues in government, and New Yorkers. He now must prioritize New York City and New Yorkers, step aside and resign."
ADRIENNE ADAMS
NEW YORK CITY COUNCIL SPEAKER
CITY HALL, NY, NY
Statement from Speaker Adrienne Adams on the Resignation of 4 Deputy Mayors and Calling on Mayor Adams to Resign
Feb. 17, 2025
With the resignation of deputy mayors, it has become clear that Mayor Adams has now lost the confidence and trust of his own staff, his colleagues in government, and New Yorkers. He now must prioritize New York City and New Yorkers, step aside and resign. This administration no longer has the ability to effectively govern with Eric Adams as mayor.
These resignations are the culmination of the mayor's actions and decisions that have led to months of instability and now compromise the City's sovereignty, threaten chaos, and risk harm to our families. There is too much at stake for our city and New Yorkers to allow this to continue.
We have endured enough scandal, selfishness and embarrassment, all of which distract from the leadership that New Yorkers deserve. This is the opposite of public service. Our city needs a leader totally committed to protecting New Yorkers and improving their lives.
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Measles high infection rate is the reason we have not yet been able to eradicate it. That rate means you need a very high vaccination rate to prevent outbreaks. It is possible, but not with current levels of institutional distrust.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/02/2025
let me strongly recommend the flu shot to whoever hasn't gotten one for this season. i just had a *terrible* bout with the flu that almost certainly would have been WAY worse had i not been vaccinated
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Maybe I wasn’t clear about this. I wanted more egg and no plane crash, not many plane crash and no egg.
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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Belatedly noticed that #USDA updated cow herds today: +2 from California, and a Michigan herd that was confirmed on 1/21 but wasn't added then was put onto the list. Cumulative national total = 972 herds in 17 states. www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-po...
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Alistair @alistairaf.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
I was shocked to see Republicans leading this and appreciate the fact that they acknowledge their own party may block it.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/02/2025
Scott County, Tennessee, has revolutionized its approach to reducing domestic violence, in part by requiring people who are ordered to give up their guns to disclose who is receiving the firearms. Now, following ProPublica and @wpln.bsky.social reporting, the entire state could follow its lead.
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Tennessee Lawmakers Push to Change How the State Disarms Dangerous People to Better Protect Domestic Violence Victims
The GOP-sponsored bill would provide more transparency when a court orders someone to give up their firearms. The move follows WPLN and ProPublica reporting that found the state’s lax gun laws allow…
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Go ahead. Let the people see you for what you are.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/02/2025
so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Those who have to say they are so sexy are, you got it, not even slightly sexy www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/s...
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For These 20-Somethings, Trump ‘Is Making It Sexy’ to Be Republican
A “MAGA Youth” dinner in Manhattan gave young Trump supporters a place to socialize and celebrate the new administration.
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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
"The acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration left her job this weekend after a clash with billionaire Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service over its attempts to access sensitive government records..." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Top Social Security official exits after clash with Musk’s DOGE over data
Yet another top career staffer is leaving the administration amid a disagreement over a request by Elon Musk’s team for sensitive government information.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/02/2025
Several Department of Education employees told ProPublica they were directed not to contact students and schools about their pending civil rights cases. “We’ve been essentially muzzled,” an attorney said. By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social and @jodiscohen.bsky.social
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“We’ve Been Essentially Muzzled”: Department of Education Halts Thousands of Civil Rights Investigations Under Trump
Since Inauguration Day, the Office for Civil Rights has only opened about 20 investigations focused on Trump’s priorities, placing more than 10,000 student complaints related to disability access and…
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
As @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social said: Mike Johnson leads an NPC — Non Player Congress
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
@anandwrites.bsky.social speaks clearly and without evasion: "But in the main, we are proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that we are not the home of the brave. We are a country full of people smilingly capitulating to a tyrant." the.ink/p/essay-home...
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ESSAY: Home of the brave? Really?
Who will stand up for democracy?
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/02/2025
NEW: AquaBounty GMO salmon was going to be the future of fish — and the future for one Ohio village that offered incentives to make a new facility happen. But years after breaking ground, there are no fancy fish tanks. No designer fish. No new jobs.
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The One That Got Away: This Small Town Is Left in Limbo After Betting Big on GMO Salmon
AquaBounty GMO salmon was going to be the future of fish — and the future for one Ohio village that offered incentives to make a new facility happen. But years after breaking ground, there are no fancy fish tanks. No designer fish. No new jobs.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
I’m angry; you should be too. Call your member of Congress every day until they stop this hemorrhaging of scientific and clinical expertise. #Musk #Trump #Vought are making us less safer and making us sicker. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...
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Trump Cuts Target Next Generation of Scientists and Public Health Leaders
A core group of so-called disease detectives, who track outbreaks, was apparently spared. But other young researchers are out of jobs.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Every accusation is a confession with these dopes. In this case, calling someone obviously brilliant dumb.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I love this 1959 photo of my dad’s parents and my grandparents, Louis and Lorraine. True sweethearts. Behind them is the Morgantown, West Virginia school my dad went to as a kid (it’s now gone and the house itself is surrounded by the @westvirginiau.bsky.social campus, where my dad also went)
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