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Shireen

@sheermean.bsky.social
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Wartime Consigliere~EVP: @Reproaction.bsky.social ~NY born & big on DC Statehood, Repro Justice, all the good stuff ~ 🇮🇷+🇮🇹 ~ still figuring this app out ~ She/Her

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 28/09/2026
NEW: The signs are everywhere that FBI and DOJ are gearing up investigate distributors of abortion pills. While Anti-abortion zealot Andrew Bailey may be leaving, Todd Blanche is Comstock-curious and FBI Director Kash Patel recently told Josh Hawley he's open to criminal probes. @autonomynews.co
autonomynews.co
What Was This Anti-Abortion Zealot Doing at the FBI?
Andrew Bailey has always been hellbent on eradicating abortion access. As the FBI’s No. 2, he may have set the stage for investigations into abortion pill providers.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the horrific cornell gang rape case has me thinking about emma sulkowicz who alleged she was raped as a student at columbia in 2014 and never got any justice. it has me thinking about the physical and mental weight young women are forced to carry while their safety is subsumed by male potential.
Emma Sulkowicz carrying around a mattress on the Columbia campus in 2014 to raise awareness of her alleged rape and the university's inaction.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
MAJOR NEW SCOOP: The Untold Origins of Trump’s Plan to Sharply Restrict Mail-In Voting, by @jenafifield.bsky.social @peterelkind.bsky.social
propublica.org
The Untold Origins of Trump’s Plan to Sharply Restrict Mail-In Voting
ProPublica’s reporting reveals for the first time the extent of the White House’s role in trying to dictate how mail-in ballots are processed, spurring behind-the-scenes drama that played out for near...
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NPR @npr.org · 28/09/2026
D.C.'s Rat Rangers take anyone who is interested on night time safaris through some of the Capitol's filthiest back alleys to learn the way of the rats, and to be better humans. n.pr/4hMjTst
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How to limit the rat numbers? Train the humans
D.C.'s Rat Rangers take anyone who is interested on night time safaris through some of the Capitol's filthiest back alleys to learn the way of the rats, and to be better humans.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
makes sense since marshall actually lives in florida:
kansasreflector.com
US Sen. Roger Marshall leaves paper trail in Florida while calling Kansas home • Kansas Reflector
U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall established deeper roots than previously disclosed in Sarasota, Florida, where he had a vacation home that he traveled to on official business and said he used for visiting fa...
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 27/09/2026
Amplify Legal sued over Arkansas' abortion ban on a similar right-to-life claim, and advocates in Wisconsin and Oklahoma are challenging abortion laws under the framework. "It is so critical to the future of the movement...to talk about ‘what does the right to life’ mean?” @greerdonley.bsky.social
autonomynews.co
New Lawsuits Argue That Pregnant People Also Have a Right to Life
Lawyers are fighting abortion bans in state court by establishing that pregnant people have a right to life and liberty—or at least self-defense.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
People sleep on CUNY but it is one of the absolute JEWELS of U.S. Higher Ed and has been for decades. And what's the thanks the system gets??? It has to fight for its life every single year because it has been systematically defunded.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
New York Times confirms reports that, days before Oct. 7, UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed warned Netanyahu that Hamas was planning a major attack. According to five former senior Israeli officials, Netanyahu never passed the warning to Israel.
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New York Times sources back Haaretz report that UAE president warned Netanyahu before 7 October
Five former senior Israeli officials told the Times the warning never reached Israel's security chiefs. Netanyahu denies the call and has ordered lawyers to sue Haaretz.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Once again, one of the primary reasons we have arrived at this point (completely out-of-control & unconstitutional abuse of executive power to conduct wildly illegal foreign policy) is that no one, including the most senior people involved, went to jail for the rest of their lives for Iran-Contra.
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 24/09/2026
Heidi Overton just started her opening statement at her confirmation hearing by thanking her lord and savior Jesus Christ
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
JD Vance was one of the anonymous sources cited in an article the White House used to justify its press ban against Politico, along with CNN and MS NOW, according to a report
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JD Vance Was Anonymous Source In Politico Story WH Blames For Press Ban: Report
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doom boy @doomboy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
hilarious and insane article. full of the sorts of people you meet all the time in left activism, who combine neuroticism and narcissism to bring down any institution they're allowed into.
bostonglobe.com
A Western Mass. lesbian bar required KN-95 masks. When it changed the rules, all hell broke loose. - The Boston Globe
Last Ditch Bar in Greenfield wanted to build community. They got a firestorm instead.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Holy crap. Susan Collins is finished. What a corrupt POS. I hope she goes to prison for this. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
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Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The official social media accounts of Iran's new Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei have for the second time since March published an image of him that appears to have been manipulated with Google AI. He has not been seen in public since being appointed Iran's head of state in March.
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John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NEW @pewresearch.org survey (n=10,548) shows increasingly negative views about data centers in the US. Just since January, there have been big attitudinal shifts across the demographic and political spectrum. Full analysis: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
Bar chart showing that a growing share of Americans think data centers are mostly bad for the environment, home energy costs, local quality of life, local jobs and local tax revenue. The chart is based on two Pew Research Center surveys of U.S. adults, one conducted in January 2026 and the other in August 2026.Chart showing that views of data centers' impact on the environment have become more negative among Americans in a range of demographic and political subgroups. The chart is based on two Pew Research Center surveys of U.S. adults, one conducted in January 2026 and the other in August 2026.
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
EJ Dickson's reporting here is incredible. www.wired.com/story/burner...
wired.com
A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work
Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back.
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 21/09/2026
I just received a notification of another death in ICE custody – the 57th death during Trump’s second term. It’s time to shut down these private, for-profit detention centers.
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
im confused how was propublica able to do journalism without having daily access to donald trump in the oval office where he calls everyone stupid
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/09/2026
The Army awarded an artillery shell project to General Dynamics in a rushed process without the typical vetting. The result: a fiasco in a Texas factory with robots in flames and half a billion dollars in taxpayer funds that yielded no usable shells.
propublica.org
The Costly Blunders in the Army’s $533 Million Fiasco
ProPublica revealed how a rushed effort to arm Ukraine with artillery shells wasted half a billion dollars in taxpayer funding. Here are the biggest takeaways from that reporting.
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
You fundamentally just cannot fight and win a war like this. There isn’t a military on earth that could effectively operate when your leadership is waffling back and forth on decisions on a daily basis for months on end. It’s not sustainable. None of this is sustainable.
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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Do you ever read a series of words
Includes exclusive Hanks for our troops pumpkin brulee
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 20/09/2026
Apparently things are so bad for Flock with contracts getting cancelled that the company has put together a voluntary severance program for its employees. Giddy thinking about detrimental Flock headlines when we get major corporate contracts dropped! www.wired.com/story/flock-...
wired.com
Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee
As dozens of cities end contracts for its controversial license plate readers, Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program, WIRED has learned.
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Public universities have led the way in creating popular ethnic & gender studies programs, which are now being destroyed by aggressively regressive politicians & administrators, not because students aren't interested in these subjects, but because they are. www.texastribune.org/2026/09/17/u...
texastribune.org
Majors related to race, gender cut at University of Texas
The University of Texas at Austin rejected a department’s plan to keep the majors, a decision that came without public knowledge, an interim department chair told faculty.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
25 years ago today, George W. Bush signed the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force into law. Barbara Lee was the only member of Congress to vote against it, warning it would be a blank check for forever wars. History has proven her lonely and courageous vote right.
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Shireen @sheermean.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"Conservative media romanticizing traditional gender roles is not new. But what scares me is how it’s being repackaged not as an old-fashioned ideal, but as a rebellion and a “return to what’s real” in a world that feels unstable." msmagazine.com/2026/09/14/m...
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Marry Young, Skip the Career Ladder: Conservatives' Pitch to Gen Z Women
Live Action Young Leaders Summit, Turning Point USA Young Women’s Leadership Summit, Conservative Political Action Conference Women Warriors Summit
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 15/09/2026
Still, the Trump administration likely has at least three SCOTUS justices who would side with a push to implement its mail-in ballot rules for the 2028 elections and beyond.
motherjones.com
Supreme Court blocks Trump’s mail ballot scheme
The decision prevents massive disenfranchisement and chaos in November.
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Brian Barrett @brbarrett.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
WIRED sent four different bodega peptide samples to a lab. Not a single peptide was found. from @sophiekleeman.bsky.social and @knibbs.bsky.social
wired.com
Those Viral Bodega Peptides Aren’t Actually Peptides
WIRED tested samples of four types of peptides. The results show how lightly regulated the industry is, even as popularity surges.
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Shireen @sheermean.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Lows in the 50s... we're almost there baybee
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
well, now we know why they didn't want him on video
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Shireen @sheermean.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Yesterday was 5 years with my spouse. It was also the first day I used my own profile on his Netflix account instead of polluting his feed 🍿
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🌿🌞Sarah🌛🦋 @legndofphoenix.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This is how you answer these stupid questions without throwing a whole community under the bus
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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
If demanding support for trans people is purity test nonsense then the “they came for” poem is solipsistic drivel.
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Child sex abuse material, some created by Grok, continues to spread on X. An incredibly disturbing read. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/t...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Ted Cruz is aggressively booed in Austin, Texas: “Ted, you suck!”
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
At this point, I think we need to realize that a love of Hitler & Nazism is baked into the GOP JD Vance says that when young Republican leaders—up to the age of forty—express their Nazism, they’re just “young guys letting off steam” & we should give them grace 😳 www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
politico.com
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Police have arrested a man in the case of Tasia Fortune, the Black woman found hanging from a tree in Jackson, Mississippi
cnn.com
Mississippi police make arrest in Tasia Fortune case after medical examiner rules death a homicide | CNN
Police in Jackson, Mississippi, have arrested a man in the case of Tasia Fortune, the 29-year-old Black woman found hanging from a tree outside an abandoned house last month, following the state medic...
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Christopher Mathews @christophermathews.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
We had a light rain during the day in south Iceland, but the skies cleared for lights to rain at night. 11 Sept 2026.
A wooded area in south Iceland at night, with brilliant green streaks of northern lights in the skies above.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026
Big piece from me today about how Mississippi poisoned Black people's water and lied about it, and originalist judges aren't convinced that's a constitutional problem ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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Fifth Circuit: Unfortunately, Originalism Means the Government Is Allowed to Poison Your Drinking Water
By defining constitutional rights as narrowly as possible, conservative judges make it easy to conclude that those rights do not exist.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026
Trump: "Please right your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States. That loves us so much he can't even breath. That I will go out with my family, my friends, I'll do it any way - I don't care if I'm registered or not, I'm going to try to cheat like hell..."
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Unlike public schools, private ones generally aren’t required to educate students with disabilities. They often don’t. So families sometimes end up returning their vouchers/money to the state. @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
propublica.org
Vouchers Promise Students With Disabilities a Path to Private School. Parents Say That’s Not the Reality.
To give voucher programs a toehold in state legislatures, politicians touted how students with disabilities would gain access to private education. But those students’ families often have the hardest ...
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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Over the last two weeks @janeese4dc.bsky.social has been on a listening tour of D.C. But as people have tossed loads of ideas her way, she will have to find a way to meet their expectations without collapsing beneath them. In today's @washingtonsun.bsky.social: washingtonsun.com/metro/janees...
washingtonsun.com
D.C.’s To-Do List for Janeese Lewis George Keeps Getting Longer
The presumptive mayor-elect has asked D.C. voters to be “brutally honest.” Now comes the hard part.
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Shireen @sheermean.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Unfuckingreal. www.propublica.org/article/ecto...
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Amel Ahmed @amel.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Wrote and produced. Chief Justice Roberts, long celebrated as an institutionalist, was always a wolf in sheep’s clothing, hiding behind procedural moves and an unearned reputation even as he has radically expanded executive power while weakening Black political power.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/09/2026
“It is very frustrating, but it’s out of our control.”
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Trump's mindless rollback of offshore wind has screwed over thousands of workers
“It is very frustrating, but it’s out of our control."
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Shireen @sheermean.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Don't tell Harold Hill but DC really needs more pool halls
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"Rufino" is a father of 5. He's worked in Oxnard CA’s strawberry fields for 25 yrs. "I'm planting winter strawberries. We only work for 2 weeks at min. wage. Then there's a 1 month break while the plants begin to flower. It's very difficult to cover the rent then." #WeFeedYou
A worker sitting where he is planting strawberries during his break
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Christina Henderson @chenderson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I truly don’t believe Senators like Bill Cassidy have been shamed enough for voting for RFK Jr.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The Baltimore Banner is launching The News Chatbot That Values Journalism
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Reproaction @reproaction.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The anti-abortion Trump administration appears to have fired a federal prosecutor for doing her job: enforcing the FACE Act. Now, that former prosecutor is fighting back. 1/6
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