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Tarah

@taralee1980.bsky.social
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Mom. Dog lady. Apologetically American. Bookworm. Advocate. Scientist. Cancer Researcher. Predoctoral student. Eternal Optimist. Zoe.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
good morning mr secretary, heres your daily report on your coworkers erections that you asked for, also we had to push back the iran strategy session to make time for your laser tag outing with podcasters
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Tarah @taralee1980.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Dear media - most dems have never even heard of Hassan piker stop letting republicans make this a thing. Signed - an exhausted American
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Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 18/09/2026
FBI Warns ICE Agents Not to Trust Any Woman Willing to Date Them
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FBI Warns ICE Agents Not to Trust Any Woman Willing to Date Them
ICE officers on dating apps should be wary of tradwives, an FBI memo suggested, as well as any woman whose profile would "appeal" to them.
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Tarah @taralee1980.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The day where people will pretend they never supported that asshole is quickly approaching
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loves2write.bsky.social @loves2write.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Every county election official should read this & submit their envelope & ballot designs to the USPS NOW so they can obtain a waiver, especially election officials in blue states/counties. #VoteBlue #VoteByMail #USPS #2026election #midterms newrepublic.com/post/215342/...
newrepublic.com
USPS Tries Rejecting Entire County’s Ballot Over Spacing Issue
The postal service tried to reject an entire ballot over an issue with the envelope—a dark sign of the chaos that could unfold before November’s elections.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Senate Republicans refused to convict Trump after Jan 6. Republican SCOTUS appointees gave him immunity. Republicans in Congress today stand idly by as he unleashes death and destruction across the globe. We are now at the whims of a mad king because GOP leaders have refused to constrain him.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
JUST IN: A federal judge concludes that DHS leaders arbitrarily decided to cut FEMA staff by 50% even though it damaged the agency's ability to fulfill its mission — and leaders hid their comms about it on auto-delete Signal chains. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Tarah @taralee1980.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Unbelievable how far the US has fallen
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Letter from 130 bioethicists condemns the “unwarranted, ill-advised, & frankly bizarre vendetta against a scientist, Dr. Anthony Fauci, rather than making a sincere effort to learn from the painful experiences of the pandemic to improve national preparedness” bioethicstoday.org/blog/an-open...
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Blog - An Open Letter of Support for Anthony Fauci from the Bioethics Community - Bioethics Today
As individuals concerned with ethics in science, medicine, and public health, we wish to express our dismay at the approach taken by Senate leaders to
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Trump is escalating a trade war with Canada for his own vanity. Even before this new round, Canadian tariffs were costing Michigan families an additional $3,200 a year. It’s going to get much worse.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Our tax dollars are funding efforts to defy a court order and prevent voters from casting ballots in the November election. 
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🐈‍⬛🌙 @lune.monster · 13/08/2026
Stole this from the comments because this shit shouldn't be behind a paywall.
Crucially, the GLOVE has limitations, chief among them that for the device to work effectively and deliver its restraining pain shock, it must come into contact with the subject's bare skin. According to Compliant Technologies, the gloves won't work through dry clothing or thick hair. The gloves will work, however, if the subject is wearing thin, wet clothing, such as soaked T-shirts or blouses. The GLOVE also does not like being dunked in water and will likely be rendered inoperable if this happens.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This is really the best argument on why the Israeli intel that caused the Great Catering Truck Escape was probably bogus.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/08/2026
Peggy Flanagan: "We need to rip ICE apart and stop from them from terrorizing our communities"
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John Pontoon, dissident revenant @johnpontoon.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I'm sick of "heat map" discourse from Republicans. Congratulations, jackass, you're popular in places where people don't live. Real shame you're talking about the government, a body that serves PEOPLE.
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 04/08/2026
Holy shit. www.wired.com/story/a-civi...
This past May, a twin-engine Beechcraft King Air medevac plane took off from Roswell, New Mexico, and headed west to the town of Ruidoso to pick up a patient. It shouldn’t have been a challenging flight for the two pilots and two nurses aboard. The temperature was 69 degrees; the sky was clear. The 60-mile journey normally takes a half hour, at most.

But once airborne, the plane ran into trouble. At the White Sands Missile Range that night, US military personnel were conducting a GPS jamming exercise that left the King Air pilots—and anyone else within hundreds of miles—unable to use modern navigation systems. Forced to revert to older technology, ones that they rarely if ever use, the medevac pilots got disoriented and crashed into the side of a mountain. There were no survivors.
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The Daily Beans Podcast @dailybeanspod.com · 04/08/2026
This is NOT getting enough attention. The Trump Crime Family is involved with unbelieveable amounts of money laundering. And now the world knows. Learn more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv93... #USPolitics #Trump #capitalone
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Chicago teen shares his experience in ICE detention centers: I am 18 years old and I just graduated from high school in Chicago. I was in ICE detention for 2 months and 10 days. They kept me in solitary for 2 days for no reason, alone in a room with just a toilet. They never let us go outside.
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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 25/07/2026
This is literally what public health already does
There are fights that are strongly supported by both sides, including air quality in neighborhoods sharing zip codes with industrial facilities, lead and toxins in the water kids are drinking, and the poor quality of the food Americans eat and its clear negative impact on our health. These are issues where public health can stand next to communities, name what is harming them, and fight like it means something.
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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 26/07/2026
I want to add one more point. You can argue that some MAHA supporters aren't anti-vax. But their leader, RFK Jr, has been anti-vax for decades. He is the movement! It was founded on him! It is intrinsically and inseparably anti-vaccine.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
There is simply no ambiguity in what Elon Musk is arguing and endorsing here.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
What Trump Should Be Impeached For First
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What Trump Should Be Impeached For First
The disaster aid numbers are the clearest proof of what this presidency is—and what it threatens to become.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Representatives for Taylor Farms called the White House to try to delay a recall tied to one of the largest foodborne illness outbreaks in U.S. history www.wsj.com/health/taylo...
Representatives for produce giant Taylor Farms contacted the White House with an urgent plea: the company wanted to delay announcing a recall tied to one of the largest foodborne illness outbreaks in U.S. history.
The call, during which the company asked for more proof and more time before being linked to the outbreak, illustrates how one of the country’s largest produce suppliers sought to limit its exposure to a public-relations nightmare, while grappling with a costly and complicated recall. Over the past several weeks, health officials have been scrambling to contain the outbreak of cyclospora, which can cause explosive diarrhea. Some current and former government officials have criticized the handling of the outbreak, both by the administration and Taylor Farms.Federal health authorities were preparing late last week to link Taylor Farms to a multistate parasitic infection that has sickened thousands. The company wanted to see more evidence, according to people familiar with the matter.
The White House asked officials from the Food and Drug Administration, which has been investigating growing cases of cyclosporiasis, to join the call with Taylor Farms, which the government maintains is the source of the multistate outbreak. During the discussion, Taylor Farms raised concerns that the government had no positive laboratory tests linking its product to the outbreak and that it was overstating the company’s culpability, according to one of the people who was on the call.
Taylor Farms sought out the White House after company executives felt they hadn’t gotten enough clarity from the FDA on the evidence behind a potential recall and the scope of it, according to a person familiar with the situation.
Health and Human Services Department spokeswoman Emily Hilliard said the FDA presented Taylor Farms with substantial evidence connecting its products to the outbreak and engaged in extensive discussions with the company.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Every “journalist” at this dinner should hang their heads in shame.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
News outlets that covered the US-Saudi nuclear deal without mentioning that Jared Kushner, Trump’s top foreign policy advisor, is getting paid by the Saudi government: WSJ NYT AP Reuters CNN NBC ABC CBS The Guardian Semafor Washington Post Fox News New York Post BBC Newsweek MS NOW
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A nuclear deal for the Saudis. A media blackout for Kushner’s corruption.
On Wednesday, the Trump administration signed a 30-year nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia that paves the way for the kingdom to enrich its own uranium.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Susan Collins accepted campaign donations from known Jeffrey Epstein associates, while taking legislative action to block the release of the Epstein files.
meidasnews.com
More Donations from Epstein Contacts to Susan Collins Uncovered
Collins took money from men on the Epstein list before voting against releasing the files
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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
"the farming conglomerate missed a regulator-imposed deadline to take action. At some point Taylor Farms directly spoke to the White House, and later the FDA and [CDC] were asked to defend their evidence. The back-and-forth ultimately kept the public in the dark an additional 60 hours"
bloomberg.com
As Parasite Spawned Chaos, Taylor Farms Slow-Walked Its Response
The US Food and Drug Administration had apologized, Taylor Farms said in a post on X. An agency lab test linking its produce to the country’s worst cyclosporiasis outbreak in decades was a false posit...
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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
"We estimate that SNAP participation nationwide fell by more than 4.5 million people (11 percent) between the law’s July 2025 enactment and April 2026....It’s very likely that nationwide, the number of children receiving SNAP has dropped by more than 1.5 million since July 2025."
cbpp.org
SNAP Tracker: People Are Losing Food Assistance as the Harmful 2025 Republican Reconciliation Law Is Implemented
SNAP participation nationwide fell by more than 4.5 million people (nearly 11 percent) between the law’s July 2025 enactment and April 2026, based on the latest month of data.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
"The National Institutes of Health admitted to using an internal search tool to flag UC grants that mentioned 'health equity,' 'work force diversity,' 'structural racism,' and 'sexual orientation.' " apnews.com/article/cali... 1/3
apnews.com
White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants
Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COV...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
In response to questions about the staggering number of homicides perpetrated by ICE and other DHS agents, Markwayne suggests that this is part of the plan. File for future reference.
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Top 0.01% of all Todds @toddadam.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Because, Republicans.
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Tarah @taralee1980.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
What the fuck is he even in talking about?
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
To be fair, he doesn't have his usual teleprompter guy because of, well, reasons.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
It’s really a great question because it immediately reveals whether someone is unfit for public service. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Tarah @taralee1980.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This is really hard to watch but Americans need to see what ICE is doing with impunity
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Jeff Timmer: Fun Fact: The President of the goddam United States paid nearly $6 million in damages today to a woman he raped. Once upon a time, this would have been the only news you heard.
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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Is the sun real or fake? This is your daily reminder to check! @skylerhigley.bsky.social
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
EXECUTED BY ICE IN COLD BLOOD IN FRONT OF HIS 3-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER.
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Larry Mitchell @drlarrymitchell.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The two ICE agents who murdered a civilian in Biddeford, Maine today. Let's make them famous.
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michaeledward @michaeledward.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
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Another Bob 🇺🇸🫶🇨🇦🫶🇲🇽🫶🇺🇦 @anotherbob.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Multiple studies of voters have shown that the most significant correlation with support for Trump is racial resentment. People like to hide it behind respectable sounding false rationales like "economic anxiety", but it's really about racism. So I don't buy these kind of excuses.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Murray: Is it true that people making under $184,000 pay a 12.4% Social Security tax rate? Dahl: Yes. Murray: And what is the rate for someone making $1,000,000? Dahl: 2.2%.
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Rachel Hall-Clifford, PhD, MPH, MSc @rahallclifford.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Hi. We're in the Age of Diarrhea. I'm a global health expert on helping children survive diarrhea. Here's what to do if you might have picked up cyclospora. 🧵 1. Call your primary care if possible. 2. Take oral rehydration therapy, which isn't just drinking fluids. 1/
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.
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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
remember, be careful what you post on a day like this. If you do it right, you can get illegally fired for being disrespectful to Lindsay Graham and then win a massive lawsuit about 10 months from now and retire with 2 million in your pocket
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 10/07/2026
After a months-long occupation, Minnesota is still recovering from a retribution campaign waged by the federal government. Now, Minnesota stands with Houston in demanding accountability for the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. This bloodshed cannot be normalized.
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Watchdog Progressive @watchdogprg.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Mexico says it will pursue legal action against US after deadly ICE shooting in Houston. abc13.com/post/mexico-...
abc13.com
Mexico says it will pursue legal action against US after deadly ICE shooting in Houston
"Unfortunately, there has been another death of a Mexican national in the United States," President Claudia Sheinbaum said after Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot and killed by an ICE agent.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10/07/2026
And DHS has been desperately trying to get these three witnesses to self deport. ICE has been using the “weaponized vehicle” excuse to murder people for a decade plus. It’s all coming out now with the microscope on them. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
washingtonpost.com
Migrants who saw man killed by ICE in Houston say he did not ram officers
Three men who were in the vehicle alongside Lorenzo Salgado Araujo are contesting the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the fatal shooting.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
DOGE officially ended over the weekend. One of its crowning achievements was cutting $15M from the federal government’s screwworm monitoring program. Now, the Trump administration is preparing to spend $1B to combat the screwworm outbreak. "Efficiency."
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