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The Taffinator

@thetaffinator.bsky.social
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Wife; mama; daughter; sister; feminist; former elem. teacher; constant reader; amateur art director, copywriter, & copy editor; fashion enthusiast; music junkie

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
That would be great 👇
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Rachel Fairbank @sweetsciencewriter.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage.” No words. I am speechless. This violates all ethical boundaries.
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Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Before you cast your midterm ballot, look at this graph and think about what Republicans are letting Trump get away with.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 11/10/2026
The police said she lied about being raped. Then she hit record.
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Police didn’t believe a 12-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record.
“If I didn’t find the evidence for them, I wasn’t too sure they would find it.”
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Isabel, booonyavirus wonk @isabelott.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Hey, this is that “study” that was previously cancelled after outcry at how monstrously unethical it was. It’s sentencing the poorest kids on earth to die of completely preventable liver cancer for white antivaxxers’ curiosity. How a medical doctor could co-sign this atrocity is beyond me.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is sadistic personality disorder, writ large (it's also a government-sanctioned snuff film). And sadism never exists in isolation, it's always accompanied by psychopathy-sociopathy (APD) and narcissistic personality disorder. This must be stopped.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I’m so confused. Why are there so many empty seats? I thought Texas was red meat MAGA-Land???
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There is no way to reduce deportations without a substantial defunding of law enforcement in rural areas, who have long operated like a baronial class unto themselves.
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Stephanie Mencimer @smencimer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
One teen told ICE officers he lived with his dad down the block, but that his dad was deaf. They didn’t try to contact the father before deeming the boy “unaccompanied” and detaining him. “They’re kidnapping people’s kids,” a former Biden official told us. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 05/10/2026
Media outlets exposed that the Pentagon was hiding how many Americans have died in Trump’s war with Iran. That very same day, Trump banned CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House. Coincidence? I don't think so.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
11-yo Andrés lived with his dad in Texas—but was deemed “unaccompanied” by ICE and sent to foster care. “They’re kidnapping people’s kids and keeping them in government custody,” a former Biden official told us. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A pedophile wrote this headline
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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You have to use the power to reform the institutions, or it all happens over & over again. The platform must be institutional reform: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 05/10/2026
ICYMI: the court records show more than ICE's announcement did. Before ICE arrested Julian Curo-Churata in Maryland, he had an asylum case in court and had gone to his June hearing. austinkocher.substack.com/p/julian-cur... @immigrantjustice.bsky.social
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Julian Curo-Churata Is the 37th Person to Die in ICE Custody This Fiscal Year, Capping Off the Agency’s Deadliest Year on Record
According to ICE, 47-year-old Peruvian national Julian Curo-Churata died in Louisiana on Tuesday, September 29.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 04/10/2026
Does Jared Kushner know what a conflict of interest is? In Israel and elsewhere, the line between his diplomacy and quest for wealth is fuzzy at best.
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Does Jared Kushner know what a conflict of interest is?
In Israel and elsewhere, the line between his diplomacy and quest for wealth is fuzzy at best.
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💙Matthew U.💙 @match74.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just a reminder that these Haitian immigrants in Springfield -- who came here legally, did everything they were asked to do and more -- became a target of federal crackdowns because the white nationalist vice president shamelessly spread racist lies about them.
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J.D. Vance Defends False Claims Against Haitians: 'If I Have to Create Stories… That's What I'm Going to Do'
J.D. Vance defended his debunked claims that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
His vocabulary is so limited it’s like reading a transcript of Koko, the gorilla who knew sign language, if Koko were a white nationalist
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Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is just awful. Abuse of power. Read what @jojofromjerz.bsky.social has been going through. Absolutely terrible.
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Brian O @proudcanadaveteran.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia “Unites States”
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Google and Apple immediately update their maps.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
For just a moment, the world saw their true nature. This is a real photo. F*cking chilling.
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Miss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is heartbreaking. Once again…there’s not a single good thing that came out of not electing Kamala Harris as POTUS. IDGAF if it makes you mad because the truth is ALL of this could have been avoided. The world is a dumpster fire & anyone that didn’t vote, voted 3rd party, or for GOP did this.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Please remember this when Trump or anyone else from his regime talks about "waste, fraud, and abuse."
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 23/09/2026
Since Trump took office, the richest 0.1% of Americans have gained more than 8,000 TIMES as much wealth as the bottom 50% of households.
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The Bear Jieux @thebearjieux.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Look at his body language and nonverbals. He doesn’t want to be there. He isn’t actively listening. He’s just waiting for her to finish.
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 23/09/2026
this administration illegally shut down federal agencies, impounded money from Congress, set up for-profit concentration camps and sent children there. They dismantled our public health infrastructure and children died of measles. Doing accountability for crimes against our Constitution is the work.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The pentagon ships sensitive military components over the ocean by UPS?
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Trump called 18 deaths “small potatoes”. 8 suicide attempts won’t even register with him 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hiding bruises or afraid of germs?
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hey Hegseth, this is 100% on you. Resign.
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Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Tyranny does not begin when the press is silenced. It begins when the government decides which press deserves to speak. That decision has already been made. You do not get to call it anything else.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Call me crazy but, seven months in, that we're still not reporting, "HOLY SHIT why won't Trump appoint real experts to negotiate with Iran instead of his family and his crypto business partner" is part of why we're here.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This didnt happen by magic: This weapon was designed This weapon was tested This weapon was mass produced This weapon was transported This weapon was aimed This weapon was fired This was appeased This was excused This was permitted This was normalised
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Sean Brodrick @seanbrodrick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
U.S. has worse wealth distribution than pre-revolutionary France did. #EconSky
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
👇🎯 Don't. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Walter Cronkite: After liberating execution camps… Germans (who cried) they didn’t know…were as as guilty as Nazis…because they applauded when Hitler shut down (media) and said, ‘We don’t need to know. We trust our government...’ It’s our duty to know.
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The Taffinator @thetaffinator.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
More like far-right disinformation and flat-out lies. 🤨
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I can’t wait to see Hannity & all the others on the right lose their shit when the next Democratic president bans Fox News, Newsmax, etc from the White House and says, “If you are going to engage in what’s effectively far-right propaganda, why would a Democratic White House give you special access?”
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