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Sasha Stewart

@sashastewart.bsky.social
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One Girl. Three kidneys. All the jokes. WGAE Councilmember. Writer: Dying for Sex (FX), Amend: The Fight for America (Netflix), The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore (Comedy Central), New Yorker, McSweeneys, other stuff.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This administration appears intent on making the entire country hate it. Now, they are kicking 750,000 people off their health insurance. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/h...
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Trump Officials Eject 750,000 From Obamacare Markets, Claiming Fraud
Vice President JD Vance said the measure would save the government $2.2 billion.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 21/09/2026
for your future voting knowledge, Gavin Newsom was central in pressuring the AGs to settle their antitrust lawsuit against Paramount:
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Done! Paramount Settles Antitrust Suit, Set To Seal Deal For Warner Bros. Discovery
Paramount agreed to settle an antitrust suit by a dozen State Attorneys General led by California's Rob Bonta, the last obstacle to its merger with WBD.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
By the time this merger ruins HBO, destroys WB, gets 5,000 people fired, moves production overseas, and guts the quality of the movies the new studio makes, most people will have forgotten how fast the AGs caved and how little they got in this deal. Writers will not.
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Alvaro M. Bedoya @bedoyausa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Today, billionaires yet again bribed, censored, and bullied their way to the top. As a result, a billionaire media company closely allied with the president will soon own one of its closest rivals, including some of the nation’s critical news outlets. Saudi Arabia will co-own those outlets, too.
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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us in the back www.wsj.com/business/med...
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Exclusive | Newsom Expresses Concerns About State Antitrust Suit Against Paramount
The California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It gets worse: Dem FCC member: “The FCC just let some of the most repressive governments in the world indirectly control nearly all of a combined Paramount-Warner Bros.” An investment of this size “doesn’t just buy equity, it secures influence over what gets said & made.” apnews.com/article/para...
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FCC grants Paramount's indirect ownership request for Gulf funds in Warner Bros. Discovery buyout
As Paramount looks to take over Warner Bros. Discovery, it’s racked up billions of dollars in financial backing from three Gulf countries.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"This settlement is not a vote of support for this merger," says Bonta in his presser. I cannot actually see Newsom holding a gun to his head, but... The "enforceable" terms: 30 movies a year for 2 years, inc. 4 indies per year, then 32/yr for 3 more years, w/ 20-30% domestic production. >
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This will be a catastrophe for both filmed entertainment and news, and it's a great shame that the California AG caved. Trump and his people will celebrate this news today. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/b...
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Paramount to Resolve Antitrust Lawsuit, Clearing the Way for Warner Bros. Acquisition (Gift Article)
The deal would remove the last significant hurdle the media mogul David Ellison faced to create a news and entertainment empire, home to movie studios, HBO, CBS and CNN.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Sure, giving in to corporate blackmail is *usually* a bad idea. But maybe this time it will work!!!!!!!!!! 🤮
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 21/09/2026
And there it is: Rob Bonta is a coward who wilted under pressure
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Paramount to Resolve Antitrust Lawsuit, Clearing the Way for Warner Bros. Acquisition
The deal would remove the last significant hurdle the media mogul David Ellison faced to create a news and entertainment empire, home to movie studios, HBO, CBS and CNN.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 18/09/2026
Voters do not just want to hear that Democrats understand the affordability crisis. They need to believe Democrats are willing to fight the people and interests standing in the way of solving it.
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Democrats need to win. Here’s the message our research says works
Candidates must focus on two issues: affordability and accountability. They are not competing priorities
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
“California lawmakers have passed AB 1661, which would steer $5 million collected from penalized oil wells in Inglewood into direct cash aid for 1,000 nearby households with qualifying respiratory or reproductive health impacts.” capitalbnews.org/california-o...
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In LA, Some Black Residents May Soon Receive Environmental Reparations
California could put money directly into the hands of families harmed by oil drilling, testing an approach advocates hope will spread nationwide.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The EPA will test America's drinking water for abortion medication & birth control—caving to a years-long pressure campaign from anti-abortion extremists.
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BREAKING: EPA Will Test Drinking Water for Abortion Pills & Contraception
The federal agency just caved to years of anti-abortion pressure
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
In blue states, red states, and purple states, with Americans of every ideological stripe, we aren’t just going to use our voice to declare No Kings. We’re going to use our vote, and our constitutional rights to protect the results. #NoKings
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
36 days until the next #NoKings, and 53 days until we flip Congress. ❌👑
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Movement Voter Project @movementvoter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Set a reminder 📅 Our founder Billy Wimsatt is going live with Jess Craven ❌👑 this Monday, 9/14 at 7pm ET. They'll dig into what it really takes to protect democracy heading into November — and what you can do right now. open.substack.com/live-stream/356708
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LIVE SOON: Live with Jess Craven and Billy Wimsatt of Movement Voter Project
Starting Sep 14 at 7:00 PM EDT
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/09/2026
ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:
Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 03/09/2026
ok I had to force down a tear with this one reskeeting with alt text
Image of a page in a book with text reading as follows


THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO:

Dr. John Sharpe of London, who in 1957. a decade before physicians in England could legally perform an abortion for any reason other than the health of the woman, took the considerable risk of referring for an abortion a twenty-two-year-old American on her way to India.

Knowing only that she had broken an engagement at home to seek an unknown fate, he said, "You must promise me two things. First, you will not tell anyone my name. Second, you will do what you want to do with your life."

Dear Dr. Sharpe, I believe you, who knew the law was unjust, would not mind if I say this so long after your death:

I've done the best I could with my life.

This book is for you.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.
Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
13 When ballots are submitted to USPS in large-volume
batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,
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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 24/08/2026
To mark one year since our layoff, we’re looking to score 300 new paid subscribers in 30 days — join us, and help the raven soar. buff.ly/AarIF1r
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https://www.weareravenous.com/feed-the-bird-subscription-drive-2026
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Writers Guild of America East @wgaeast.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"The 'take it or leave it' power of these studios is already enormous, and writers have borne the brunt of it. A combined Paramount-Warner Bros. will only make it worse." - Screenwriter Mike Schur for The Hollywood Reporter www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
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Mike Schur: The Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Is Existential for Writers
“A market ceases to function when competition disappears. And it’s disappearing,” contends the comedy writer whose credits include 'Saturday Night Live,' 'The Office,' 'Parks and Recreation,'…
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
NEW AD: 14 years ago today, Ken Paxton stole someone's $1,000 pen. Today, Ken Paxton’s pen victim is endorsing James Talarico.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
people will look back on this era and recognize the destruction of USAID among the most profound stains on America's conscience, and the architects of its destruction as white supremacist perpetrators of mass infant death
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I spoke with 10 CNNers about David Ellison's essay in The NYT, in which he tried to convince the public he'll be a good steward of CNN. Suffice to say, no one at the network is buying what he's selling. “We all have eyes and ears and see what’s happening at CBS." www.status.news/p/david-elli...
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The Ellison Credibility Crisis
The Paramount boss tried to convince the public he can be trusted with CNN. But staffers inside the network torched his Times essay in brutal comments to Status, pointing to his disastrous record at C...
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Erik Adams @erikadams.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"No amount of spin can sugarcoat the utter disaster of layoffs, creative consolidation, and sheer mediocrity that awaits if Richie Rich runs roughshod over the industry he claims to love so much." Get 'im, @mcastimovies.bsky.social!
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Not only is David Ellison lying about his film plan, it's not even a good lie
Paramount Skydance CEO and heir apparent David Ellison is very upset that the media landscape can see right through him.
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Vulture @vulture.com · 24/07/2026
In a new court filing, Paramount-Skydance has agreed to slow its roll acquiring Warner Bros. Discovery. The merger won’t happen until an antitrust lawsuit ends, or June 2027, whichever comes first.
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Paramount Agrees to Put WBD Acquisition on Pause
In a new court filing, Paramount-Skydance has agreed to slow its roll acquiring Warner Bros. Discovery. The merger won’t happen until an antitrust lawsuit ends, or June 2027, whichever comes first.
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Max Blau @maxblau.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
So if you’re not an investigative reporter, how can you know if the people picking your fruit are being mistreated? I spoke with experts who said the gold standard for preventing worker abuse is the Fair Food Program: www.propublica.org/article/h-2a...
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Employers Have Exploited and Abused H-2A Farmworkers for Years. It Doesn’t Have to Be That Way.
The seasonal visa program has failed to protect migrant farmworkers from wage theft, forced labor, violence and death. Experts, lawyers and advocates say there are ways to reduce and even stop the har...
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 23/07/2026
Alarming stuff happening. Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee know they have the power to block Todd Blanche from becoming Attorney General permanently—he can't lose a single vote. Several Senators are now extorting Blanche into tackling an anti-abortion wish list to get their approval 🧵
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
NEW: It's not something you see everyday nowadays: A state run by Republicans has expanded voting rights. Missouri adopted a law last week that rolls back felony disenfranchisement, restoring voting rights to tens of thousands of people who are currently on probation and parole. Learn more:
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GOP-Run Missouri Becomes Latest State to Roll Back Felony Disenfranchisement - Bolts
A new law will restore voting rights for tens of thousands of people on probation and parole. It’s a departure from other GOP bills this session to restrict democracy.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 20/07/2026
ARE YOU READING @autonomynews.co YET?????
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Hillary Busis @busis.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Did you know that The Odyssey is sort of about how Elon Musk specifically sucks www.vanityfair.com/story/the-od...
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Christopher Nolan’s ‘Odyssey’ Is Going to Drive the Right Wing Completely Insane
The Oscar winner’s latest is a Trojan horse of a film: a rip-roaring blockbuster secretly carrying a sober meditation on civility and intolerance. And Elon Musk is going to despise it.
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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
California AG Rob Bonta is holding a press conference now about his lawsuit challenging Paramount-WBD. The twelve states bringing the suit say the combination is the "largest in Hollywood history" and just plain too big
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 12/07/2026
114 days — that’s how long we’ve got left to do the organizing it will take to win the midterms. Because we’re not backed by billionaires or corporations, grassroots donors like you power our nationwide work. Please pitch in so we can do more to defeat the fascists and protect the election results.
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Donate to Indivisible Action
Help power the grassroots organizing that will defeat the MAGA agenda!
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 11/07/2026
After the Civil War, Congress conditioned the reentry of southern states to conditions listed in the Readmission Acts. But the Readmission Acts were “intentionally forgotten to history,” says an expert.
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A Voting Rights Promise, Betrayed for 156 Years - Bolts
After the Civil War, Congress readmitted Southern states on the condition they not expand felony disenfranchisement—but they quickly ignored the restriction. It has finally caught up with one state, with a federal court ruling against Virginia and reviving the Reconstruction-era promise.
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Static Media Union @staticmediaunion.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Bluesky, we'd like to introduce ourselves. The staff of Static Media would like to announce that we have formed a union with @wgaeast.bsky.social. Much like Jalopnik has already unionized and been recognized, we would like to request a voluntary recognition for all the Static Media sites.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 08/07/2026
This is bigger than one incident. At events across Texas today, Indivisible groups are standing with immigrant communities and demanding accountability from DHS and ICE.
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ICE agent fatally shoots motorist during traffic stop in Houston
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was killed by immigration enforcement as he was looking to hire workers, his son says
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Ken Paxton vowed to crack down on "illegal voting." He may have violated Texas election law. Paxton appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite warning that "it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records."
texastribune.org
Ken Paxton’s voter registration may violate Texas election law - The Texas Tribune
The Texas attorney general appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite his warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent yo...
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 04/07/2026
Evergreen piece from 2022: "flag cakes have been done to death, but America has really outdone herself this year, and she deserves a cake—an unprecedented cake, a flag cake flambé."
lifehacker.com
This Year, You Should Flambé Your American Flag Cake
The char from the fire and bite of the rum tempers all that sugary sweetness and adds depth.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
This opening of the 1619 Project has long been the most ringing sentence for me about this country, its founding, and its founding document. Its truth could apply to everyone who sought to broaden and deepen equality and rights.
Our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written. lack mericans have fought to make them true. --essay by Nikole Hannah-Jones https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
They want to convince their followers that we are un-American, in the wrong country. But it’s them. THEY are in the wrong country. Their goals, plans, ideology are no less than an insurrection against the Second Founding - the constitutional framework for our country created after the Civil War.
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
New: Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship. Roberts writes for majority, joined by Barrett and the libs. Kavanaugh concurs in part and dissents in part. Jackson writes concurrence joined partially by Sotomayor. Alito, Gorsuch, Thomas all dissent (+ Gorsuch also signs on to Thomas' dissent)
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Jackson.
Such universalist appeals were a conscious choice. Yes,
Black Americans had suffered a singular wrong. And yes,
they had “‘fought and bled’” for the Union, paying a steep
price for their freedom.28 But the delegates did not rest on
these laurels. Rather, they drew upon the moral and political force of the universal principles that were already core
to the Nation’s identity.
That bears repeating: Freed Blacks did not advocate for
a unique set of rules that catered only to their situation.
Nor did they seek to advance their own position relative to,
or at the expense and exclusion of, other marginalized
groups.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
5-4 for what it explicitly says in the constitution is incredible. They were this close to undoing the civil war entirely. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...
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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The last year has proved that when Minnesotans stand together and speak loudly, we can make real change. Polls open TODAY for early voting — and I voted! Now is the time to use our loud and clear voices and demand the futures that we deserve.
Peggy Flanagan stands with an “I Voted” sticker! Peggy Flanagan seals her early vote ballot Peggy Flanagan speaks about the importance of voting early Peggy Flanagan stands with a first time voter and new citizen
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Jill Twiss @jilltwiss.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I had the best time writing with @sashastewart.bsky.social about how you should be ANTI-anti-aging. (And Ted Danson appears to be the nicest man in humanity, thank you for asking) vimeo.com/1158253191?f...
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Creative Aging: Ted Danson Embraces Aging
Would you like some tips on how to age well? Actor Ted Danson shares his 4 tips on aging and even tells us he is anti-anti-aging. Explore this short film to learn from Ted’s life experience ways to en...
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Here is Sotomayor, in dissent, explaining the dire consequences of today's decision in Otro Lado. The government may now circumvent a vast range of laws protecting asylum-seekers by simply blocking their entry at the border. An insane loophole to open up. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
The Court today holds that the Executive Branch may
circumvent all these mandatory procedures by having U. S.
immigration officers stand at the border and physically
block noncitizens from setting a foot onto U. S. soil. They
may do so even if the asylum seeker is at the threshold of a
port of entry designated to receive all noncitizens who seek
entrance into the country. Even if the port of entry has ample capacity to inspect that person, including an available
asylum officer trained to process asylum applications. Even
if the asylum seeker is certain to be persecuted, or killed, if
she is turned away.
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
More from Justice Sotomayor's dissent: "The consequences of today’s decision are predictable. More people will die. More people will attempt to cross the border illegally, and some will make it while others will not."
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
And Justice Sotomayor goes there in her Al Otro Lado dissent (where SCOTUS allows the Trump admin to nullify asylum guarantees if they stop people at/outside the border): "The current asylum system developed in response to the international moral reckoning that followed the Holocaust...."
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