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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“They’re kids! They’re kids!” Monstrous. Abolish ICE.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/10/2026

ICE can’t be reformed. It must be eliminated. #AbolishICE *

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“RFK, Jr.’s time at HHS gives us an unfortunate opportunity to see what happens when such expansive denialism acquires power to make policy” “Denialists in positions of power notoriously assemble advisory panels to support decisions they have already made”. RFK Jr. must be impeached and removed.

skeptic.org.uk

Denialism as health policy: case study of US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr - The Skeptic

RFK Jr, the most senior figure in US health, has spent decades undermining vaccines, denying the reality of AIDS, and endangering Americans.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026

“The Afrikaner policy is illuminating, because it proves the catch-22 facing nonwhite immigrants: If you are poor, you are a moocher, and if you are gainfully employed, you are taking a job from a hardworking American. The only way to be a good immigrant is to be white and Christian.”

theatlantic.com

The GOP’s Message to Immigrants

Be white and Christian, or America doesn’t want you.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“RFK Jr. has once again created a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. It's more window dressing to advance his anti-vaccine agenda and will only serve to create more confusion and doubt in public health”. My impression of RFK Jr.’s announcement about his new “vaccine injury” initiative.

medpagetoday.com

HHS Touts New Vaccine-Injury Initiatives

Proposed changes will only undermine confidence in vaccines, health groups say

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In her statement on the ICE shooting in New York, AOC specifically calls out Target. The congresswoman demands that the mega-corporation stop allowing ICE to stage paramilitary raids from its parking lots. migrantinsider.com/p/aoc-to-tar...

migrantinsider.com

AOC to Target: Stop Lending Your Bronx Parking Lots to ICE

After federal agents fired into a car with a 5-year-old in the back seat, Ocasio-Cortez names the retailer that lawmakers say gave ICE a place to wait.

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This study was unethical when it was announced last year and it remains unethical today. The birth dose of the hepatitis b vaccine prevents perinatal acquisition of the infection. You cannot randomize a group of newborns to not receive it while giving it to others. www.linkedin.com/safety/go/?u...

linkedin.com

Hepatitis B vaccine study condemned as unethical wins approval from Danish university

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"Democrats aren't abandoning trans people! Maybe just one or two..." Here's every Democrat who's either voted to strip human rights away from trans people and/or has campaigned on anti-trans propaganda in the last year.

Amy Acton
Jamie Ager
Colin Allred
Angela Alsobrooks
Tammy Baldwin
Beau Bayh
Xavier Becerra
Richard Blumenthal
Lisa Blunt Rochester
Sherrod Brown
Chris Coons
Catherine Cortez Masto
Henry Cuellar
Don Davis
Dick Durbin
John Fetterman
Cleo Fields
Shomari Figures
Aaron Ford
Ruben Gallego
Sarah Trone Garriott
Blake Gendebien
Lauren Gillen
Kirsten Gillibrand
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
Vicente Gonzalez
Adam Gray
Maggie Hassan
Martin Heinrich
John Hickenlooper
Mazie Hirono
Jeffrey Hulum III
Ben Ray Lujan
Tim Kaine
Marcy Kaptur
Mark Kelly
Angus King
Amy Klobuchar
Susie Lee
John Mannion
Seth Moulton
Gavin Newsom
Jon Ossoff
Mary Peltolta
Gary Peters
Bobby Pulido
Jack Reed
Jacky Rosen
Rob Sand
Kim Schrier
Chuck Schumer
Terri Sewell
Jeanne Shaheen
Elissa Slotkin
Tom Suozzi
James Talarico
Josh Turek
Eugene Vindman
Mark Warner
Raphael Warnock
Sheldon Whitehouse

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If the Hepatitis B vaccine trial RFK Jr. has funded in Guinea-Bissau were ethical, he’d be doing it in the U.S. Instead, he’s preying on infants in one of the poorest countries in the world, which also happens to have a high prevalence of Hep B. Infants will suffer b/c RFK Jr. is anti-vax.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Stephen "Miller did not want the facilities that were comfortable. He did not want facilities that were humane. We were told point-blank that that was not what the administration wanted." www.npr.org/2026/10/08/n...

npr.org

ICE has quietly used this warehouse as a detention facility all summer, neighbors say

Throughout the summer, rumors have been bubbling in North New Jersey that ICE has quietly been using a warehouse as a detention center. NPR investigated.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Devastating 💔 Abolish ice www.instagram.com/reel/DePkMcN...

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is what I said before about RFK Jr. wanting to use our tax money for the unethical study in Guinea-Bissau, in which they will experiment on infants from one of the poorest countries in the world by withholding the HepB birth dose. My opinion hasn’t changed. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The US canceled much of its global aid and research earlier this year, Jacobs said.
"In the face of the US canceling all this funding for vulnerable countries, and then it's still going to pay for this research to be done - that is really worrying" she said. "It seems to say we don't value your lives enough to continue to provide support overall, but we won't hesitate to experiment with your population."

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It’s simply unimaginable that CDC Director Dr. Erica Schwartz has just bowed to RFK Jr. and approved funding for an utterly unethical clinical trial that will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine in Guinea Bissau. It is to be conducted by researchers accused of academic misconduct.

rollingstone.com

CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study

“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is horrifying Tuskegee-level shit.

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Carmen M, PhD @trublu923.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Better off Ted! I was just thinking that this is something Veridian Dynamics would create.

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Carmen M, PhD @trublu923.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Reminds me of “Better Off Ted” where their giant corporation Veridian Dynamics tried to make synthetic meat and it ended up tasting like despair.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“I’m trying to use that anger and channel it in a more positive way,” Ronaldo said. “I feel right now that I can’t slow down … to shine a light as to what happened, to who my dad was, and the injustices that my dad experienced—that we’re still experiencing to this day.” #HispanicHeritageMonth

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

It’s bananas, the National Guard has at least two carriers worth of troops posted at the local park I pass for coffee and where kids play on the swing.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

NEW EPISODE: ICE never wanted you to see these: internal government documents that show Homeland Security Investigations has been probing nonpartisan groups that help register citizens to vote They even went so far as to outline a plan to use undercover agents. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJoZ...

youtube.com

ICE Voter Plot EXPOSED in Smoking Gun Documents

YouTube video by Democracy Docket

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

🚨BREAKING: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over the past year investigated hundreds of nonprofits across the U.S. that help people register to vote, according to new records analyzed by Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

democracydocket.com

ICE probed hundreds of voter registration groups across the U.S.

The agency also contemplated deploying undercover agents to "initiate prosecutions" against the groups and "dismantle" them.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

FUCK YES. This is the energy, morality, and courage that I expect from leaders. Unbelievably brave.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 07/10/2026

The anniversary of terrorist attacks is actually EXACTLY when we should talk about the material conditions that turn people into terrorists. Terrorists aren't born. They are made by the conditions of the world they inhabit. Happy, free, well cared for people don't become terrorists.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The alarmists have yet to be wrong 😕🇺🇸

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026

They’re going to keep making it impossible to ignore how half measures to address state violence simply aren’t up to the task.

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Carmen M, PhD @trublu923.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Also highly recommend “The Reformatory” by Tananarive Due.

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NPR @npr.org · 07/10/2026

Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried. n.pr/4zauALa

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Over 1,000 children are buried at juvenile detention centers nationwide

Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

DHS reportedly collected data about anti-ICE protestors in Maine, uploading their photos and license plate numbers into a database. That database was built by Palantir — which may be the most dangerous corporation in America. Watch.

youtube.com

The Most Dangerous Corporation in America?

The AI surveillance state is real — and it's being built by Palantir.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Pennsylvania has now reported: -At least 1004 measles cases -198 hospitalizations -Five deaths Only four of the cases had been vaccinated. Sure, we’ve got some numbers here, but the damage from RFK Jr.’s malicious treachery is actually incalculable.

wbaltv.com

Pennsylvania measles cases reach more than 1,000. Track outbreaks in your state

Measles cases have surged in 2026, and Pennsylvania reported more than a thousand cases as of Monday.

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Piper @the-pied-piper.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Not to put too fine a point on it, but the reason Dolly Parton wasn’t a billionaire is because she was the de facto state government for her home region of TN via Dolly World, as well as her many other wider-reaching philanthropic endeavors. She fixed too many problems to ever have $1B on hand.

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The mysterious death of a scientist at a plague institute in Siberia has sparked “next pandemic” panic. I wrote about what we know, what we don’t, why plague is not the Black Death in 2026 and the real outbreaks we ignore while worrying about hypothetical ones. bktitanji.substack.com/p/plague-is-...

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Plague is Scary but That Doesn’t Make It the Next Pandemic.

Why a mysterious death in Siberia has captured our attention while far more consequential outbreaks struggle to do the same

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Early voting is already underway in some states. From now until Nov 3, I urge you all to... 1) Help get out the vote 2) Protect our electoral machinery from interference 3) Not succumb to complacency, defeatism, or cynicism We are the only ones who can end this nightmare.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

RFK Jr. thinks that getting measles is no big deal, and points to the low death rate to support this asinine opinion. Besides the fact that these deaths are preventable, he ignores hospitalizations and immune amnesia, which can erase immunity to other pathogens that people have already built up.

cidrap.umn.edu

Measles outbreaks could leave thousands vulnerable to infectious diseases for years

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026

All of these people fear death and want to reign over us from the grave because they won’t grapple with the inevitable.

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

At age 7, Alan Alda contracted polio before there was a vaccine. He recalls his parents “had to administer the treatment, which was almost-scalding hot packs of wool on every limb. So, they were practically torturing their kid. I remember thinking it was hard on them” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

cbsnews.com

Alan Alda on fighting Parkinson's with laughter

Alan Alda, now 90, best-known for his role as "Hawkeye" Pierce on the classic TV series "M*A*S*H," talks about living with Parkinson's disease, which he refuses to let define him.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Getting real tired of waking up and reading about what premise we’re living in today

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026

It’s genuinely remarkable how complete the consensus around anti-Black racism as an unremarkable feature of public and political life has become.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Because they are eugenicists. Back in the day when we still had to go to the library to make copies of scientific papers from peer-reviewed journals, I always made a point to grab an issue of an old Eugenics journal and copy a random article as a reminder of the dangers of malicious intent.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/10/2026

this for RFK Jr. is mission accomplished

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I went to the grand reopening of the African American Civil War museum this week and the timing is just right — its mission to preserve Black history is more relevant now than ever

huffpost.com

The African American Civil War Museum Reopens To Honor The Black Soldiers Who Changed History

The museum recently held its grand reopening in Washington’s historic U Street Corridor.

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DrawPlayDave @thedrawplay.com · 02/10/2026

Holding every NFL commentator at gunpoint until they specify what that adversity was that Watson went through

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026

The thing about the “no, you don’t understand AI could be used for good people” is that they're constantly yelling at the people pointing out the harm happening now, and I don’t see a ton being done to make this hypothetical good come to fruition.

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