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Susan VanPelt

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
This video from Minnesota shows an ICE agent drag a female detainee into a porta potty with him He’s not helping her to the bathroom He’s taking her somewhere private where there are no cameras Ask yourselves why These men sexually abuse, rape & kill They’re never held responsible
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functional moron @fiveburger.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
cannot stress enough that they are abducting legal observers left and right and people are hearing about this happening to other people and still immediately going “alright where can i go to help now”
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
hi, political philosopher here! this is not funny, central banks only do this when they're in extreme distress
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I think there's a point where you are so angry that you run out of mental space for fear, and I think a lot of Minneapolis and St. Paul were there, today.
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 18/12/2025
Breaking: New bipartisan bill would make 2026 the year online protest organizing dies. Dems and R’s alike have just indicated they plan to end the first amendment of the Internet next year. Our statement: fightforthefuture.org/news/2025-12...
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Statement: With 230 repeal bill, Dems target 2026 as year online protest organizing and reproductive healthcare info dies
A bipartisan group of lawmakers has just reintroduced a bill in the Senate and the House to sunset Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, aka the Internet’s First Amendment, by the end of 2026...
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
If your politics don’t include an understanding and critique of US imperialism under both Democratic and Republican administrations it’s impossible to formulate any meaningful opposition or movement that gets us out of this mess
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 18/06/2025
Wow. Lenacapavir, a twice-yearly shot that prevents HIV spread was just approved by the FDA. The problem? Due to government cuts to Medicaid, PEPFAR, and Global Fund, it's unlikely this game-changing drug will reach the many people who need it most in the US and globally.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/06/2025
yep. food deserts are a mechanical consequence of how the private grocery store market has evolved. they simply will not be fixed without state action of some kind
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Whenever you hear conservative politicians preach from the gospel of "fiscal responsibility," remember that one of the biggest drivers of deficits lately are the Bush and Trump tax cuts, which have added nearly $10 trillion to the national debt.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 26/06/2025
The American Academy of Pediatricians bluntly telling us the current CDC can't be trusted, and of course they are absolutely correct publications.aap.org/aapnews/news...
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AAP will continue to publish its own vaccine recommendations after CDC advisers sow distrust
The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices plans to form a work group to review child and adolescent immunization schedules despite them undergoing constant review in real time.
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Leah B. Gilliam, MD @drgruralmd.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Wild to me that the folks who wouldn’t take Covid vaccines because they feared they were being microchipped for tracking purposes has no problem with RFK suggesting that everyone should wear monitoring devices “for their health”.
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bmcarthur17 @bmcarthur17.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
People asked why Luigi Mangione became a type of folk hero for millions. This is why... #Resist
"UnitedHealthcare has DROPPED Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center from its network, leaving 20,000 cancer patients (including me) without access to our doctors and life-saving treatment starting July 1.

Cancer patients CANNOT simply
'go elsewhere.' Finding new specialists takes time many of us don't have. This reckless decision will overload other hospitals, delay care, and endanger lives.

What kind of company knowingly disrupts cancer treatment for thousands of people?

SHAME ON YOU UHC!"
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Jason Van Dyke has long been a key player in neo-Nazi, white nationalist + Proud Boy circles. A few years ago, he tried to join the white power terrorist group "the Base," but was rejected for being a “huge liability." Seems Patriot Front is hurting for members. www.vice.com/en/article/a...
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A Proud Boys Lawyer Wanted to Be a Nazi Terrorist
But the Base, a terror group that has been the recent recipient of a lot of FBI attention, turned him down.
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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 25/06/2025
We’re here now. The thing everyone said would never happen. The thing that contrarian journalists, political pundits, and Google doctors dismissed as hysteria. People who want vaccines may not be able to get them due to deliberate sabotage and erosion of public trust. 1/11
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
I will not forget or forgive all the blood of children this administration has on its hands by defunding USAID. I will not forget or forgive their destruction of freedom enabled by the Supreme Court or the lives of federal workers and academics they sought to destroy for fun
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
At a time when it is going to be much harder to recruit public employees, Congress is a) planning to pass a large de facto pay cut for federal employees b) force employees who want to keep civil service protections to pay even more www.govexec.com/pay-benefits...
But in their place is a more draconian iteration of the controversial plan to force future federal workers to choose between a more expensive defined benefit annuity and at-will employment, meaning they can be fired “for good cause, bad cause, or no cause at all.” Under the Senate plan, all new federal hires would pay more than double toward FERS compared to feds hired after 2014—9.4% of their basic pay—and those who elect to accrue civil service protections would pay an additional 5 percentage points on top of that, or 14.4% of basic pay.
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Maya NH @1mayanh.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
‘This isn’t whet I voted for. I thought they would just arrest people who are criminals’ No, this is what you voted for. You all even waved signs supporting it. Don’t let them pretend they didn’t know, they did.
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Susan VanPelt @svpwema.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Sad destruction and waste. A loss to youth and communities just to make the filthy rich even richer.
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Richard Carl Askins @richca.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Certainly close enough to the real truth!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Trump's FTC approving the $36B Mars-Kellanova merger will lead to less competition in a food industry already dominated by a few price-gouging corporations.  Reminder that Trump never actually cared about making groceries cheaper. youtu.be/9EXi6xyOXSk?si=-HI0Gt6EC9O…
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Trump Lied About Grocery Prices
Trump seems to have given up on making groceries cheaper. Wasn't that what the entire election was supposedly about?
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
There’s massive and increasing gender based violence against women. Preparing women, telling them the reality, and showing them statistics isn’t sexism. It’s fact that men are the main perpetrators of violence and not by a small percentage.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
All I keep thinking about is how Mamdani ran on a broad and populist message about affordability and when centrists hyperfocused on identity to try and divide his coalition, he took it as an opportunity to not only defend his values but persuade new voters
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/06/2025
this is why i am pretty confident there will not be a meaningful attempt to do an end run around mamdani. a lot of elite cuomo support seemed to be based on “well, he’s probably going to win and he’s a vindictive asshole and i don’t want to be on his bad side.”
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
We have enough for shared prosperity. But Republicans want forced pain so the billionaires like Zuck who is a 13% Meta shareholder can get richer
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
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Piyush Mittal @piyushmittal.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
I like Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s “Helpful or harmful” game
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heresiarch @heresiarch.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Feels like ranked choice was absolutely decisive in this race—not because of the vote count, but because of how it changed the incentives from zero-sum to cooperapetitive. It allowed a fractured left field to align organically through co-endorsements instead of falling into a circular firing squad.
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Maggie Serota @maggieserota.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Andrew Cuomo gets publicly humiliated. Bill Clinton learns his endorsement is worth less than dogshit. What a great time to be a hater. A golden age.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Just in the last 24 hours: -SCOTUS affirmed the administration’s right to kidnap people and ship them into slavery. Didn’t even pretend to offer a legal justification. -By a bipartisan vote, the House effectively gave the president a pass after he illegally usurped congressional war powers.
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
If you're a member of the Democratic gerontocracy, the chances of you catching a primary challenger just went up 1000%.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 24/06/2025
A reminder that last year immigrants killed 29 people and white US Citizen men killed 8842 people. Meaning, the harm caused by some immigrants in a full year (29), white US citizen men killed almost daily (24 people), every single day of the year. #WhereWereTheyRadicalized?
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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
“In Pasadena last week, a man stepped out of his unmarked vehicle at an intersection, unholstered his pistol and aimed it at a group of pedestrians before returning to his car… That incident left the police chief of Pasadena resigned to figure out whether it was a crime or part of a federal raid.”
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'Who are these people?' Masked immigration agents challenge local police, sow fear in L.A.
Local police have little or no insight into where the federal enforcement actions are taking place. In some cases, local cops have been mistaken for federal agents, eroding years of work to have immig...
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 24/06/2025
Justices Clarence Thomas and Amy Coney tsk-tsk'd a plaintiff for trying to change the question presented in a case—and ruled against them. Mississippi did this exact thing in Dobbs. But both justices were happy to ignore the issue then because they wanted to overturn Roe. Me in @ballsandstrikes.org
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Clarence Thomas Is Only Annoyed By Docket Manipulation When He Can’t End Your Right to Abortion Care
In a recent opinion joined by Amy Coney Barrett, Thomas expressed irritation at a party for trying to change the question presented in a case. For some reason, in Dobbs, he had no such concerns.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/06/2025
what’s funny is that if pro-cuomo centrist democrats were less myopic they might see that mamdani was running the kind of campaign that could help rebuild the party brand — accessible with an outsider persona and a focus on “kitchen table” issues.
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Letting it all fall apart into concentration camps and gestapo and forever war because America just wouldn't tax rich people enough is the dumbest shit
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Molly Coleman @mollycoleman.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Amy Coney Barrett: No due process for Brown people! No constraints on the President’s ability to tear families apart! Legal commentators: Is Amy Coney Barrett our moderate queen?
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
RESULT: Alexa Avilés has won reelection for NYC council. She was the only DSA-endorsed councilor facing a challenge this year. Opponent Ling Ye has targeted her for being too far to the left, e.g. on matters related to the NYPD budget.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida. If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Demand an affidavit ballot and submit it. Your vote will count.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Me: Don't rank Cuomo!!! Cashier: Sir this is a Wendy's in New Orleans, Louisiana
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Susan VanPelt @svpwema.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Don't rank Cuomo. At all.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 23/06/2025
ICE has imprisoned the wife of a Marine veteran who was still breastfeeding a 3-month-old baby because her *mother* failed to attend a hearing in 2018 apnews.com/article/ice-...
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ICE detains Marine Corps veteran's wife who was still breastfeeding their baby
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detained the wife of a Marine Corps veteran in Louisiana during a routine immigration appointment in New Orleans.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/06/2025
according to conservatives on the court, the constitution does not protect your right to your own body but does enable the government to ship you off to a foreign gulag without any hope of return
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/06/2025
one way to make sense of the position of the republicans on the supreme court is that they do not believe there is such a thing as a legitimate objection to the actions of a republican president, no matter how deranged, depraved, or anti-constitutional www.stevevladeck.com/p/161-the-co...
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161. The Court's Disastrous Ruling in the Third-Country Removal Case
The majority did not just greenlight an especially odious immigration policy without any explanation; it did so in a case in which the government defied the district court—twice—with no consequence.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
david hogg off the top rope on the other site
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The same establishment that is spending millions to destroy Zohran will say in a few months that we need to spend millions on polling and testing to win back young people. Open your god damn eyes- it's free.
Adam Carlson @admcrlsn •3h
The final three days of early voting were the youngest of the entire period.
47% of early voters are age 18-44. x.com/ gothamist/stat...
Early Voting By Age Group
(Raw Votes Cast)
Age Group
Days 1-4
Days 5-6
Days 7-9
Total (Days 1-9)
18-24
8,487
4,941
13,096
26,524
25-34
29,557
15,620
45,195
90,372
35-44
20,591
10,365
31,488
62,444
45-54
14,438
7,411
23,252
45,101
55-64
19,159
10,548
27,079
56,786
65-74
23,131
14,055
24,861
62,047
75+
16,071
10,346
15,483
41,900



Early Voting By Age Group (Share of Early Electorate)


Age Group
Days 1-4
Days 5-6
Days 7-9
Total (Days 1-9)
18-24
6.5%
6.7%
7.3%
6.9%
25-34
22.5%
21.3%
25.0%
23.5%
35-44
15.7%
14.1%
17.4%
16.2%
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