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Zach Patterson

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WashU Biology & Anthropology ‘24 - Former DIII Football Student-Athlete

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Between Sliwa and Brad Lander probably the best thing you can do as a public figure right now (even if you’re odious! like Curtis!) is lose gracefully being exactly who you are. People are desperate for dignity to make a comeback and they’ll reward you later.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Why do people buy pizza with EBT? Because cauliflower is five dollars a head and you can buy five pizzas with the same money. It’s not that folks don’t want to be healthy. They can’t afford to be healthy.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse. I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
first-mate prance @bocxtop
it's cool how the govt told us raising the minimum wage would make a burger be $20 and now a burger is $20. but min wage is the same
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year. UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year. Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice. This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
If you make 130% of the federal poverty level, you qualify for SNAP. A family of four, making $40,560, qualifies for SNAP benefits meaning thousands of Missouri teachers qualify. I’m tired of the bullshit. Most of the people who receive snap benefits work.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
When did making kids go hungry become a Christian value?
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
They don’t even pretend to care. This is the only story. You can’t open the government if the House refuses to show up.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 22/10/2025
For folks asking if they've made it *inside* a Home Depot yet as the business has clearly just continued letting agents do whatever they want in their lots, the answer is yes. This is from yesterday in Evanston.
Threads post from julieceye 

At my local Home Depot today in Evanston, IL. They abducted 5 people in my immediate area.
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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Some of these people have now been fired and rehired TWICE since January. The current state of dysfunction is mind boggling.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Writing something about ICE and sweet Jesus it is so incredibly dark what they are doing to these cities. We have all seen the videos, but when you wade into the details of their actions, it is extraordinarily bleak.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.
usatoday.com
Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says
The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Illinois law requires all registered vehicles to display front and back license plates, without exception. But to evade accountability, masked federal immigration agents are driving around in unmarked cars without plates. chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...?
chicago.suntimes.com
Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates
The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 12/10/2025
genuinely trumps funniest bit ever for him to admit that he knows he’s a grifting piece of shit who’s going to hell lol
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12/10/2025
The reason Mike Johnson is able to keep the House closed and not pass bills to pay the military or fund the government is because Trump is going to circumvent congress and illegally steal that money from other government programs. All to avoid releasing the Epstein files.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 12/10/2025
we need to abolish this shit
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
New Orwellianism just dropped
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10/10/2025
A restraining order was issued YESTERDAY by a federal judge barring detention of journalists in this district unless they refuse to reposition themselves and are given adequate time to do so, or there’s probable cause they’ve committed a crime.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
No money flowing to USAID and hardly any to PEPFAR despite their duly enacted funding; well north of twenty billion dollars being deployed for other weird hair autocrats. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
washingtonpost.com
The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, treasury secretary confirms
The U.S. Treasury has finalized a financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country’s central bank.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 09/10/2025
Adelita Grijalva won her election fair and square. Now House Speaker Mike Johnson is refusing to swear her in because she would be the final signature to release the Epstein files. Mr. Speaker, respect democracy. Obey the law. Swear Representative Grijalva in immediately.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
I’m horrified by Trump’s order to send 300 National Guard troops to Chicago. We’re only nine months into a four year term and already the president is trying to invade an American city. If you’re in the Guard, you can and should refuse these orders.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 04/10/2025
Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.
Tweet from the VP:
Joy Reid has had such a good life in this country. It's been
overwhelmingly kind and gracious to her. She is far wealthier than most.
Yet she oozes with contempt.
My honest, non-trolling advice to Joy Reid is that you'd be a much
happier person if you showed a little gratitude
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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 04/10/2025
Oh look, another White House Signal scandal. This time it was an aide to Stephen Miller who was using Signal so openly in a public space that a bystander captured images of the chat. Oh and the messages were about sending the *82nd Airborne* into Portland. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
theguardian.com
White House official inadvertently reveals plans to send elite army unit to Portland
Anthony Salisbury displayed chat about deployment of 82nd airborne division on cellphone while in Minnesota
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onion person @junlper.beer · 02/10/2025
i have to imagine everyone in this country has to be getting tired of how annoying and tiresome every single thing the trump administration does
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/10/2025
Don’t stop rubbing their noses in the teachings of Christ.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 02/10/2025
BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 29/09/2025
EMTALA requires universal care for “emergency medical conditions” regardless of a person’s insurance status. In the decades since its passage, some patients have died hours after failing to receive care they were legally entitled to. By @emcahan.bsky.social
propublica.org
Psychiatric Hospitals Turn Away Patients Who Need Urgent Care. The Facilities Face Few Consequences.
Discharging patients who are at risk of harming themselves or others is illegal. But dozens of psychiatric hospitals aren’t honoring the law — and the government isn’t following up.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens. Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
😕 💵
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Good point.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
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Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/09/2025
A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Michigan lawmakers have introduced a bill prohibiting the any "depiction or description" of trans people or trans existence online, including it in a bill banning "pornographic" material The bill would completely erase trans people online, equating them with porn.
fox2detroit.com
Total porn ban proposed by Michigan lawmakers
Some states have moved to require age verification to ensure only adults are watching porn, but no states have outright banned the viewing of pornographic material.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Just to be clear: Brian Kilmeade *did not* endorse euthanizing homeless people. He advocated MURDERING over 700,000 of them. And on a network that has been *beside itself* over the murder of just one man this week.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
On Wednesday, Brian Kilmeade went on national television and called for homeless people to be killed by lethal injection. "Just kill 'em," he said. There hasn't been one word about it in The New York Times or The Washington Post or USA Today.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 12/09/2025
going from "transgender ideology" to "look at the poor misguided white kid" without even taking a breath, unconscionable
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
💔 Fred Guttenberg whose daughter died in the 2018 Stoneman Douglas High School shooting
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
It is weird that the assassination of essentially a celebrity influencer is a bigger deal than the shooting of two top state legislators + their spouses
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 09/09/2025
This is what happens when justice serves power instead of people. Banksy’s latest piece shows a judge beating a protester. They rushed to throw up barriers to hide it. We need this here because it looks a lot like our own Supreme Court vs. the people.
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