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Tracy Baim

@tracybaim.bsky.social
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lgbtq+ \ journalist \ advocate \ chicago lesbian \ feminist\ she\her 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🦄 Windy City Times cofounder 1985 \ author Skeets my own.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h
“.. Each hour, Muse updates its dossiers on you and the people you’ve mentioned in chats, messages, and emails that Muse has read. .. Even people who don’t use Muse are subject to this mapping process by other people’s Muse agents.” @time.com $META time.com/article/2026...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10h
Pregnancy is the only condition where Florida courts have ruled that a mentally competent patient can be forced to undergo unwanted treatment, such as a C-section. (Published March)
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They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth.
Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care. As their state pushes to expand some types of medical freedom, it has a...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h
Wow — “the Republican Party has abandoned its base and principles… entanglement with corporations…” Tennessee Stands founder Gary Humble, a prominent right wing conservative voice, joins Sen. Janice Bowling in announcing he does NOT support @MarshaBlackburn for governor 👇🏽👀
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 16h
Dr Norma Bowe, 69, is a nurse and grandmother who was working at her mobile medical clinic outside Delaney Hall immigration center when protests broke out there in May. An ICE officer flung her to the ground while she was still wearing her stethoscope.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h
Hallie Shoffner, the Democratic candidate running against Tom Cotton, on Morning Joe: "I'll tell you -- over the 450 days that I've been on the campaign trail, not once have I been asked about daylight savings time. Arkansas are talking about gas prices and grocery prices and healthcare."
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 4h
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 5h
Congrats again to Anthony Kennedy
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Citizens United, Explained
The 2010 Supreme Court decision further tilted political influence toward wealthy donors and corporations.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 10h
Thank you for coming forward. We need more voices from inside the uniform standing shoulder-to-shoulder with us to reject this extremism, protect our democratic norms, and demand accountability.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10h
Democrats surge. Senate map shifts. Trump’s Latino collapse. GOP panic in Kansas and South Carolina. Trump’s LA/SD disaster. Measles spreads. Trade deficit explodes. Russia’s mysterious lab scare. And a whole lot more in today’s Bulletin.
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Today in Politics, Bulletin 475. 10/6/26
… A new Gallup poll shows that more Americans now identify as Democrats than at any point since 2009.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10h
Remember: Wealth cannot be separated from power. We're seeing in real time how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people. Taxing the rich isn't just an economic issue, it's a defense of our democracy.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h
I'm not sure if @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social have issued a statement on this yet, but they should publicly announce that if Russ Vought tries to fuck with the election in any way they will fire him out of a cannon when they take power.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8h
who knows if jackson can win this thing but i am glad that he is making clear that susan collins's whole scam is to do everything she can to make life worse for mainers and then take credit for mitigating it in the slightest way possible
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 10h
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 9h
I'm voting YES on Prop 40, the California billionaire tax. Here's why.
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Why I Support The California Billionaire Tax
Billionaires are crying foul about California's proposed wealth tax.Don't fall for their fearmongering.A one-time, 5% ta
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 12h
Police violently drag Hispanic grandmother across rough ground-injuring both arms. Witnesses yell she has a serious heart condition & was just released from hospital. Cops kneel on her chest anyway. "They dragged her like a doll," brother said. Incident occurred in Batesville, Texas
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h
No better case for the billionaire tax than how hard they’re working to defeat it
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h
"What will it take for you to admit you are ever wrong?" -- Troy Jackson nails Susan Collins on her vote to confirm Kavanaugh, 8 years to the day after Collins cast the vote that doomed Roe v Wade
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Dan Wentzel @danwentzel.bsky.social · 6h
I am so sorry to hear of the passing of Michael Kearns. I had the privilege of meeting and working with him in an independent film I did called, Behind The Red Motel Door. He was out as a gay man back when so many actors chose to remain closeted. I hope he knew how many people he inspired.
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Michael Kearns heads home for a farewell performance at the Missouri History Museum
In commemoration of World AIDS Day, observed annually on December 1, the Missouri History Museum is welcoming St. Louis native Michael Kearns for an evening of performances, storytelling, and more. “A...
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 14h
The Trump administration’s actions resulted in the destruction of the largest ancient Cottonwood tree on Indigenous territory in Arizona. This tree, known as the “Grandmother Tree,” was 250 years old.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 21h
Absolutely 👇
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12h
Wrongly indicted, charges dropped, and now we learn prosecutors allegedly knew the Reflecting Pool renovation was failing and they charged David Hearn anyway. I hope he sues their asses off.
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Paulette Donahue @9kittens.bsky.social · 21h
Use the 25th Amendment Now
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Angie Nixon is exactly who we need in the United States Senate.
Angie Nixon
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h
And Putin is pleased. Probably a coincidence!
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 13h
Cornell University has retained former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Sally Q. Yates to lead a "comprehensive independent review" into how the school "prevents and responds to sexual harassment, sexual assault and related misconduct on campus.” abcnews.com/US/cornell-t...
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Cornell taps former deputy AG Sally Yates to lead independent review
Cornell University has retained former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates to lead an independent review of how Cornell responds to sexual assault cases.
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💫✨🌟Mare🌟✨💫 @utexas-96.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Asking for a friend
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 15h
A 911 call from Salem, Oregon, describes a disturbing encounter in which a woman was screaming that she was a U.S. citizen as ICE goons broke her vehicle window and forcibly pulled her out. According to reporting on the call, the woman suffered a concussion, torn rotator cuff and bruised ribs.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 13h
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 16h
can’t think of a better example of AI being mostly a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist also it can’t help when this is your user base
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this is about me and i'm not sorry! i don't have time
to autistically read forums and random team news
or whatever.
i'm sure spending hours and hours running your
fantasy team is a good ROI if you're unemployed but
some of us have jobs
also my team is stacked so that's another point in
the Al columnAndrew Weiner • @DickeyNate • 18h
What's the point if playing fantasy football if
you're just going to automate it

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there's no point to fantasy football, it's grown ass
men pretending to draft NFL players

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Then just don't do it?

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social obligation
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h
JON STEWART: “So in the FUTURE we WILL use A.I. to cure diseases… but right now it’s mostly murder, surveillance, and surge pricing for the McRib — What a trade! I’m getting the sense you guys might be full of shit.”
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 15h
I’m loving the “well akshually he didn’t REALLY mean let Iran take out Los Angeles and San Diego” excuses today. Cool. Explain the assholes in the crowd who thought it was fucking hilarious. Deplorables wasn’t strong enough.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22h
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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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 15h
Yes, Pete Hegseth is so incompetent that our troops go without necessary medical care, but at least they are called "warriors" now while they go untreated. So it all evens out . . .
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Soldiers seriously wounded in Iranian drone strike tell AP the military's medical system failed them
Some U.S. soldiers gravely wounded in the deadliest Iran strike on American troops say the military medical system failed them.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15h
The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Paramount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood merger
The merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22h
White supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask?
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 05/10/2026
Rahm Emanuel represents the last vestiges of dying, corporate do-nothing foolishness. He’s not a Democrat. He’s a wealthy, status quo strongly-worded letter in a suit. Anyone who listens to him is digging their own political grave.
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A historic 96-mile protest march is underway, as faith leaders make the multi-day journey from the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in the Mojave Desert, to the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fUo...
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Faith leaders make HISTORIC 96-mile pilgrimage to protest ‘EXTREME CONDITIONS’ in ICE detention
YouTube video by MS NOW
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The breast cancer center appealed thousands of Blue Cross reimbursements for being too low. At trial, the insurer revealed that it had never considered any of the appeals — and that they were pointless: “An appeal is not available to review an underpayment.” (Published April 2025)
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“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over Doctors
Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As the Trump admin is calling in thousands of people here for years who are protected from persecution in their home country, Tom Homan is on TV saying people who want to avoid being sent to Africa can just "self-deport." So it's accept persecution or be deported to a third country.

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Tom Homan, President Trump’s border czar, said people in the U.S. illegally can avoid being sent to “third countries” in Africa and other places around the world by self-deporting to their home countries.

“There’s your quick answer. If you self-deport … you're 100% likely to go to your home country,” Homan told CBS News’ 
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This past week, the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to continue its third-country deportation effort.

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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
AOC and Bernie Sanders take the stage to address the crowd before introducing The Strokes! All credit to happystrokes on YT for capturing a great moment. Video by Phillip Hawkins
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ICE has disclosed another detainee who died We know: -After 17yrs, he'd only ever been busted for... *an expired car tag.* He was in a camp run by for-profit w/ history medical neglect An American died at one of its jails *after strep-throat.* austinkocher.substack.com/p/julian-cur...
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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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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Introducing the President of the United States... Yes, you heard right! He just offered up Los Angeles & San Diego for annihilation! Insanity! Approximately 60% of the U.S. Pacific Fleet is based out of the San Diego! California accounts for approximately 15% of the total U.S. economy! Vote blue!
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
WATCH — Dr. @abdulelsayed.bsky.social on Fox: “Obama had contained the Iranian nuclear threat. Trump came in and tore the JCPOA agreement up… and started a war people in the state of Michigan are now paying for.” (Piker: “and never wanted”)
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The corrupt gangsters running this government violate the law daily and use government funds for partisan politics to bribe voters in violation of the law. Trump has been emboldened by a rogue Supreme Court which has given him immunity and taken a blowtorch to the Constitution.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
CALL ARIZONA U.S. Senators! Let them know they are attacking community members who are protecting their land. Demand federal agents leave tribal land.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🔥 @anandwrites.bsky.social on Bill Maher: “Cities are unfairly labeled. A large % of (LGBTQ youth) homeless who end up in cities were failed in other parts of 🇺🇸 . Many families choose a verse in a Book over their child… cities are holding a lot of people you failed to love & take care of.”
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Starting to look like this is just the norm for Republicans now.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thousands of Cornell students have taken over the main plaza on campus to demand the Cornell 7 be held accountable for their crimes. 21% of undergraduate women are raped or sexual assaulted during their time on campus.
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Megyn Kelly: "...this is probably a first for her. She's probably thrilled to be so admired because she clearly didn't grow up the incredibly beautiful one."
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Megyn Kelly on Cornell's Jane Doe: "I'm just going to be honest, she's not the most attractive gal. She's extremely beefy in her arms and her legs."
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