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Laurie

@seattleishgrandma.bsky.social
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Never watching/reading US corporate media again. Love books — especially well-written mysteries — plus Sounders, USWNT, decent people, funny videos, and my perfect grandkids.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Ducklings learning to chase bugs. You’re welcome.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/05/2025
lol
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —*Arrested* at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them
Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Two headlines in the New York Times today.
Two NYT headlines stating the WH wants to promote more childbearing and the EPA is ending testing for chemicals that hurt children.
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
How it started // how it's going
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
If the White House is insisting that there was no classified or secret information in the Signal chat, does that mean Jeffrey Goldberg can publish it all?
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 25/03/2025
I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.
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SNL Scribe @snlwriter.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Imagine if Venezuela, Mexico, Panama, Canada or some other popular resettlement destinations (Costa Rica, The Cayman Islands, The Bahamas) started "deporting" United States ex-pats into foreign prisons. What would the blowback be for that?
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
"The reality became clear: Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. These facilities are privately owned and run for profit." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
When there is uncertainty, lenders get persnickety about lending money. And yes that’s an #econsky official term
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
When you erase the history of the code talkers, you are erasing the history of the Second World War. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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Amid ‘DEI’ purge, Pentagon removes webpage on Iwo Jima flag-raiser
Pages celebrating Navajo code talkers and other minority service members were also erased.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
They claim they can snatch people up, put them on planes, and deport them to a country run by an authoritarian, where those people will be forced to work slave labor at an inhumane prison. All without due process, and in defiance of federal courts. The hypotheticals are over. This is the nightmare.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
BREAKING: The Supreme Court takes up a case challenging Colorado's ban on conversion therapy for minors, after having previously turned down many other similar challenges. The law, which protects against efforts to change a minor's sexual orientation or gender identity, was upheld below.
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ceej @ceej.online · 09/03/2025
you actually get a free cop with every purchase
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Liz Highleyman @lizhighleyman.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
This is what I personally fear most from the Trump administration. I'm self-employed & a "pre-retiree" in my early 60s. Without the ACA subsidy, my premium will go from $600/month for me + spouse to $2800.😬
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Who Might Lose Eligibility for Affordable Care Act Marketplace Subsidies if Enhanced Tax Credits Are Not Extended? | KFF
This analysis looks at the individual market enrollees who make at least four times the federal poverty level who would no longer be eligible for any tax credits if the current ACA Marketplace enhance...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 27/02/2025
Erik Prince - Trump’s proxy to open a backchannel to Putin in 2016 and wanted to guard the nuclear reactors Trump was gonna give to the Saudis - wants to build concentration camps.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Not seeing a ton of concerned op-eds about canceled events, the harbinger of woke totalitarianism www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
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Art Museum of Americas cancels shows of Black, LGBTQ artists following Trump orders
Participants said the museum, run by the Organization of American States, shut down two upcoming shows to comply with Trump’s orders targeting “DEI.”
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 27/02/2025
Every news outlet reporting Elon Musk's comment about accidentally canceling Ebola prevention efforts and quickly restoring them should also say they haven't been restored, they're still canceled, the outbreak-fighting teams are dismantled, the money is gone www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Musk says DOGE ‘restored’ Ebola prevention effort. Officials say that’s not true.
USAID’s initiatives to fight Ebola and other diseases have been gutted, current and former agency officials said.
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Just heard from a friend who is a true hero veteran. His company was destroyed in 30 days by the VA when they canceled 5 contracts without notice. 23 Americans mostly veterans out of work and a veteran owned small business destroyed. For nothing. They're dismantling the VA not "reforming" it.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/02/2025
Just an FYI: Medicaid fraud is rarely perpetrated by beneficiaries. The fraudsters are almost always the doctors and CEO's that administer Medicaid. For example: when a doctor charges the government $600 for an $8 breast pump and pockets the cash and the third party administrator takes a cut.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
This is evil. Pure evil.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 25/02/2025
MSNBC left casual racism behind and went competitive.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
He nails it.
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Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @disavowtrump20.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Per @phildstewart.bsky.social: “U.S. negotiators pressing Kyiv for access to Ukraine's critical minerals have raised the possibility of cutting the country's access to Elon Musk's vital Starlink satellite internet system, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.”
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Trump pardoned the sentence of arguably the single biggest drug trafficker in American history on his second day in office!
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Pass it on.
And most of all, if you know someone being attacked, targeted because because of who they are, or told they don't belong,

STOP.

Tell them they belong here.
Tell them they are loved.If you are lost or confused or overwhelmed,

REST.

Then get up and get back at it. Even if you can only say,
"This is wrong.
I don't support this."

Say it quietly to people.
Start conversations.If you are not in a position to fight back, contact 3 people you see fighting & say,
I see you.
Thank you.
Keep going.If you are in a position to fight back, 
fight back.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
How it started. How it’s going
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21/02/2025
ProPublica has released another study related to the effects of abortion bans in the U.S., this time showing a spike in sepsis cases in Texas following the implementation of that state's "heartbeat" abortion ban in 2021.
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Sepsis Rates Soared in Texas After Abortion Ban: Report
Women in Texas are forced to wait with dangerous infections due to extremist anti-choice laws
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
The constant dynamic in Trump 1.0 was people in the admin telling Trump “you shouldn’t do that;” sometimes that was because it would be politically dicey, or illegal or violate vital norms. But sometimes it was just because it was a very very stupid idea that would blow up in everyone’s face.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/02/2025
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I follow French politics a lot, as many of you know. Any effort for mass layoffs of public sector employees there would create such huge strikes and marches, the level of disruption and paralysis would be biblical.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Math is hard
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
"working to swiftly rectify the situation..." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
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USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them
In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
A story in 3 images
Nassim Taleb in 2016 says don’t worry about trumpAn asteroid has 3.1% chance of hitting water in 203210% of nasa is being fired
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
He’s not making up: news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/... Is this really what y’all voted for? 🫤 💰
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
I like that he posted a picture of a print-out of the email.
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 15/02/2025
👇🏻👇🏻
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges. This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.
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Sayray @silentsara.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
SECDEF said the beatings will stop when morale improves ✅ ending “paid days off” on 4-day weekends ✅ floating a change in the retirement system where you don’t get disability AND retirement
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
This is absolutely insane. Musk’s DOGE crew just straight up *took* $80 million from an NYC bank account!
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Really good article on why Elon Musk is vulnerable to a sustained boycott of Tesla. They worked against apartheid. Surely they could work against one South African. slate.com/business/202...
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Americans Are Actually in a Position to Make Elon Musk Feel Our Rage
His car company is in a precarious spot.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
We only know this man is in Gitmo because Noem tweeted a propaganda photo that included him and his sister saw it. He has no criminal record. He entered the US in January and immediately made an appointment with CBP to claim asylum. They sent him to a concentration camp bc of his basketball tattoo.
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Venezuelan Migrant Sent to Guantánamo Bay Is ‘Not a Criminal,’ Family Pleads (Gift Article)
Luis Alberto Castillo arrived in the United States so that he could “give everything to his son,” said his sister. Then, while scrolling on TikTok, she found out he was headed to Guantánamo.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/02/2025
it is genuinely incredible that all you have to do is scratch the surface and it becomes clear that each of these guys is a huge piece of shit
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Laurie @seattleishgrandma.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Peter Thiel is going to take him out within the year, isn’t he?
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Laurie @seattleishgrandma.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
“Errors.”
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