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Vet 🩺, mama 👶🦮🐈🐈‍⬛, foster parent. Loves bugs🪲, appreciates spiders that respect social distancing.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Make clear on November 3rd that this must not be who we are.👇
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Thank you, Dana, for courageously sharing what you and your husband went through to get the abortion care you needed later in pregnancy. Your story has stayed with me. You helped so many people understand why these deeply personal decisions belong with a patient and their doctor...
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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"Political scientists have found that nonviolent rebellion is the most reliable path from dictatorship to democracy. Decades of research point to four steps that successful rebellions follow."
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/10/2026
“There was zero plan, except causing pain,” said one U.N. official about the Trump administration’s decision to stop funding the group with no notice or communication. “And that is not forgivable.” (Published Dec. 2025)
propublica.org
After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
🚨"We want ICE the f*ck out of our neighborhood! I am pissed off, I am outraged, ICE does not belong in the Bronx or anywhere in this city!" -Vanessa Gibson, Bronx Borough President, after ICE shot man in the Bronx with his 5-year-old in the back seat. WE'RE LIVE NOW🔽
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: ICE vehicle RAMS through NYC protesters attempting to block it from leaving after ICE agents SHOT a man in NYC—the man’s young son was in the back seat. WE’RE LIVE ON SCENE ⬇️
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
New, from me: Kimberly Guilfoyle was caught soliciting money for government favors. Normally we call that a bribe. If she is corrupt, it is only because she has adapted to Trump's corrupt environment, where everything is for sale. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/stop-paper...
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“Stop Papering Things”: Corruption in Trump's America
Kimberly Guilfoyle is one more symptom of endemic graft under Trump
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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The Citizens @the-citizens.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
“The genius of this film is that it takes an inherently invisible problem and makes it visible.” Rebel Tech Alliance on why Molly vs The Machines is the most important film you'll see this year ⬇️ blog.rebeltechalliance.org/molly-vs-the...
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Molly vs The Machines
The film that ALL parents should see
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
On Sep 11 in Alamo, Texas, Luis Ochoa and another teen stopped to film ICE agents during a vehicle stop near a school. Agents pulled one from their car, struck him, used pepper spray, and detained them for 8 hrs even after they proved their citizenship, one ICE agent stating, 'I don’t give a damn.'
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Mother of teen detained in viral Alamo ICE arrest video deported
The mother of a 17-year-old detained by ICE in a viral Alamo, Texas incident has been deported to Mexico, raising concerns among legal experts about potential retaliation for speaking out.
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Now more than ever
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Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Video of the end of this incident as agents drove off near Dodge and Howard, posted on Facebook:
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The man ICE shot in Austin today is named Wilber Rafael Garces Perez. Per his lawyer, she and Perez’s family were run off of hospital property where he’s being treated and won’t even confirm he’s there because he’s “in ICE custody.” Actual criminals.
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Federal immigration agent shoots and injures man in Austin, Texas
The person shot is in serious but stable condition, Austin Mayor Kirk Watson said in a press conference.
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Dr. L., 🌊 🦋 @bluekentucky.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
How President Trump Broke the Kennedy Center www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...
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How President Trump Broke the Kennedy Center (Gift Article)
Internal emails and documents demonstrate the political capture of the institution, including how officials once pursued a plan to unload much of the art collection.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 20/09/2026
Families are still trying to recover from the trauma of Trump's aggression on our streets. Children are trying to forget the images of armed, masked agents in their neighborhoods and childcare centers. The cruelty and depravity are real and ongoing.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Providing for people’s basic needs works and it’s really not that hard. Almost like we’ve seen this exact result a thousand times before.
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Lisa Prebenda @lisalig.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
For the love of DOGS!! Watch, share, support & donate! 🐶
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Dennis "dejay" Koch @dennisjkoch.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Jim Acosta Investigates: AI Uncontrollable By End Of 2027? | An Insider's Warning @jimacosta.bsky.social the dangers of AI, after an Anthropic researcher warned the technology may move beyond human control by the end of next year. #USA #Trump #uspoli #AI youtu.be/gHaQj6kUAYU
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Jim Acosta Investigates: AI Uncontrollable By End Of 2027? | An Insider's Warning
YouTube video by Jim Acosta
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/09/2026
Okay everyone. Here’s the YouTube interview with @jimmykimmel.com and @jamestalarico.bsky.social You know what to do. Watch it. Share it. Donate. Bury them. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...
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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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Dennis "dejay" Koch @dennisjkoch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Meidas Canada reads the allegations in the FBI files (now scrubbed from the internet by the Justice Department) as well as the allegations in New York court of the rape and beating of 13-year-old girls. @charlieangus104.bsky.social #USA #FBI #Trump #uspoli #News #UK #EU youtu.be/jLhNWrmEn_Q
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TRUMP NAMED IN FBI FILES
YouTube video by Charlie Angus
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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Oh my gosh, the best political video on YouTube just got updated after a decade and a half and it's still just perfect! It visualizes something that I've talked about a lot since the first video came out: The real problem is the billionaire class. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Gxl...
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Wealth Inequality in America (Updated 2026)
YouTube video by politizane
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/09/2026
Perspective.
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Ahem
America's To-Do List
End electoral college
Ratify the ERA
Protect voting rights
Reproductive freedom
End gerrymandering
DC statehood
Immigration reform
Congress term limits
Congress age limits
End Citizens United
Medicare for all
End corporate welfare
Sensible gun laws
Rich pay #FairShare Money out of politics
Religion out of politics
Limits on lobbying
Protect Social Security
Climate sanity
Reform SCOTUS
Ranked choice voting
Fair minimum wage
End Comstock Act
No stock trades for gov't officials
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A heartbreaking conversation between a little Ukrainian boy and his mom about the war. "What am I feeling right now? Anger. Anger about everything. That I can’t go to McDonald’s. That our people are dying. That we spend so much time sitting in the basement," little Lev cries.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/08/2026
It's hard to fathom that anyone thinks ICE can be reformed or retrained. ICE needs to be dismantled and then cauterized so it can't grow back. #AbolishICE
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
American heroes. They exposed plainclothes ICE agents, condemned them, and filmed them. All legal. Criticism is not obstruction. Recording is not a crime. PAXIS.app helps you know rights and record safely. Free: GoFundMe.com/PAXIS Demand badges, warrants, reports, accountability.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 22/08/2026
PLS READ: How America Went From Paying Down Its Debt to $40 Trillion This article is part of ONEST’s Financial & Geopolitical Literacy Series, made possible by generous donors who support independent ONEST journalism and allow us to keep this reporting public. www.onestnetwork.com/how-america-...
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How America Went From Paying Down Its Debt to $40 Trillion
This article is part of ONEST’s Financial & Geopolitical Literacy Series, made possible by generous donors who support independent ONEST journalism and allow us to keep this reporting public.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Blerim Skoro risked his life undercover for U.S. intelligence, infiltrating al-Qaeda-linked networks. ICE arrested him outside a NJ immigration office while he was renewing paperwork. This is Trump’s cruelty machine. Know your rights: PAXIS.app Help keep it free: GoFundMe.com/PAXIS
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
ICE just arrested a 5-year-old on his way to a soccer game in Austin. His name is Liam, just like the little boy from Minnesota. He should be in kindergarten this week. Instead he's in a trailer prison in the desert. Release Liam. Release these kids. Close the Dilley children’s prison.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/08/2026
Autopsies show how hard doctors tried to save babies who died after not getting a vitamin K shot: tubes inserted in their airways, blood transfusions. They’re excruciating to read because they underscore how preventable these deaths could have been. (Published May)
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What I Can’t Forget About the Babies Who Died After Not Receiving a Vitamin K Shot
Babies have died after not receiving the vitamin K shot at birth. Their autopsy records underscore how preventable their deaths could have been.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Abolish ICE. www.thebulwark.com/p/a-7-year-o...
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A 7-Year-Old Trapped in Hell Is Begging Senator Katie Britt for Help
Tim Miller shares the story of a Venezuelan family — a pregnant mother, father, and their 7-year-old daughter — who have spent weeks detained at the Dilley detention facility in Texas, despite doing e...
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 17/08/2026
US child vaccination rates have plunged since before the pandemic, with kindergarten classrooms in more than 70% of counties now lacking herd immunity against measles.
US choropleth map showing percentage change in MMR or overall vaccination rates since before the pandemic, by county. Decreases are shown in pink, increases in green.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 15/08/2026
BREAKING: Over 140 of our brave neighbors are on hunger strike inside the Northwest concentration camp. We stand with them and their families to demand an end to Trump’s cruel and deadly ICE agenda. FREE THEM ALL.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Donald Trump and Elon Musk killing women and babies in Nepal.
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USAID fallout: In Nepal, when the aid workers stopped coming, the women and babies started dying
The Associated Press has found that the decision by the United States to slash its foreign aid funding last year has increased pregnancy complications and deaths in Nepal.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.
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DevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Thanks, Aaron!
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Study (N=800) finds 47.7% rejected someone online & experienced aggressive responses - men were 93% of senders. Included entitlement to consent, contradictory insults & aggression triggered by even subtle rejection, like not responding or ghosting. www.uottawa.ca/faculty-soci...
uottawa.ca
Toxic masculinity: Women bear brunt of threatening online rejection | Faculty of Social Sciences
Name-calling, racialized insults, sexualised slurs, harassment, stalking and threats of physical violence, from rape to death; these are the aggressive retaliation and rejection tactics employed by sc...
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
𝐅𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐛𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝🚨 They were on the way to buy shoes for the children for back to school & they got stopped by #ICE! I hate to show images of children, but I also think it's very important for people to see the gut wrenching pain #ICELawlessness causes! I went back & forth on whether to post this.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/08/2026
After a college student finally found a treatment that worked for his ulcerative colitis, UnitedHealthcare decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims. (Published Feb. 2023)
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UnitedHealthcare Tried to Deny Coverage to a Chronically Ill Patient. He Fought Back, Exposing the Insurer’s Inner Workings.
After a college student finally found a treatment that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for r...
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
This New York Times article, which ran a week before Christmas last year, didn’t get the attention it deserved. It detailed Trump and Epstein's predatory behavior toward women – “a game of ego and dominance” in which “female bodies were currency.” Here’s a gift link and a thread. 1/6🧵
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‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women (Gift Article)
The president has tried to minimize their friendship, but documents and interviews reveal an intense and complicated relationship. Chasing women was a game of ego and dominance. Female bodies were cur...
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 29/07/2026
Overnight, a masked bandit broke into our kitchen. Armed with opposable thumbs, he proceeded to sample everything on offer. I’d just visited the farmers market, so the menu was extensive. I can now share a highly specific peer-reviewed list of what this particular raider did & did not enjoy. 🧵
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Raccoon's Evil Smile: 'Good, Good'
Alt: Raccoon's Evil Smile: 'Good, Good'
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Michele Fiore raised more than $70,000 for a memorial statue honoring Las Vegas police officer Alyn Beck, who was killed in the line of duty. She used the funds for cosmetic surgery, rent, and her daughter’s wedding. A jury convicted her in two hours. Trump pardoned her before she was sentenced.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Exclusive from me — Daniel Moraff, one of the political operatives behind Graham Platner's rise and fall, has been accused of sexual assault. Full story here:
thehandbasket.co
Exclusive: Political operative behind Graham Platner's rise accused of sexual assault
A spokesperson for Daniel Moraff said: “Any suggestion that he committed a criminal offence is false and without foundation."
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
A useful and disturbing article about Elon Musk's fascism, only slightly spoilt by the fact that, when you get to the bottom, you see that the first named author, the excellent @gregsargent.bsky.social, is still on X. We really need to walk the talk on this issue. newrepublic.com/article/2135...
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The Real Reason Elon Musk Keeps Insisting DOGE Cuts Killed “Zero” Kids
In his explosive interview with The Economist, the SpaceX billionaire inadvertently revealed something darker about his true vision for the future—and about his affinities with global fascism.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
‘This Place Is a Graveyard of Living People’... stunning, not to be missed report on human rights atrocities open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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‘This Place Is a Graveyard of Living People’
A harrowing human rights report details horrors at America’s largest concentration camp.
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Human Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
On press freedom, the United States now ranks 64th in the world. Below Botswana, Liberia, and Côte d'Ivoire. (Reporters Without Borders, 2026)
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