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Angie @angiemitchell.bsky.social · 9h

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 13h

Tens of millions of people have died from Covid.

Every country should have responded with record investments in public health infrastructure.

Instead the US government is putting us all at greater risk of more catastrophes by firing hundreds of top scientists whose job is to prevent outbreaks.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 21h

This seems like a good time to remind everyone that Donald Trump’s first appearance in the New York Times was when the Nixon Justice Dept. sued him and his father for refusing to rent apartments to black people.

◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 22h

HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

HUD Issues Layoff Notices, Targeting Fair Housing Staff With Deep Cuts

Fair housing staffers who investigate claims of housing discrimination at field offices nationwide were among the hundreds of HUD staffers who received layoff notices.

www.bloomberg.com

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 1d

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 13h

Extinguishing MLK's Eternal Flame is both outrageous and a hell of a metaphor for right now www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

www.wsbtv.com

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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 1d

Guess who just got both the updated COVID vaccine and flu shots today? Your dear Leader Trump. Maybe you should get them too.

Sincerely, An Epidemiologist Who Told You Trump Would Get COVID Booster.

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 1d

Trump gets boosted.
His followers get buried.

If you haven’t gotten your updated COVID or flu shot yet go do it. Science doesn’t care about politics, but politics sure cost us a lot of lives.

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 1d

Donald Trump just got a COVID booster at Walter Reed, per the White House physician.

Let’s be clear this is the same guy who downplayed the virus, mocked masks, and turned lifesaving vaccines into a political wedge that cost hundreds of thousands of lives.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Reps. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Rob Wittman, R-Va., and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, all voted for cuts to the CFPB.

Yet collectively, they routed more than 1,000 constituent complaints to the agency, ProPublica found.

(Published August)
By @joeljacobs.bsky.social

These GOP Lawmakers Referred Constituents to the CFPB for Help. Then They Voted to Gut the Agency.

Many of the same Republican lawmakers who have targeted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for cuts have collectively directed thousands of constituents’ complaints about banks, credit cards, lo...

www.propublica.org

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Angie @angiemitchell.bsky.social · 1d

newsone.com/6524682/when...

When Humbling Black Women Is A Political Game

Donald Trump, a real estate mogul who overvalued his assets by hundreds of millions of dollars, is now watching his allies prosecute Black women over line items on loan forms.

newsone.com

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Senator Dick Durbin @durbin.senate.gov · 1d

We were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE facility in Illinois.

WHAT is the Trump Administration hiding?

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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 1d

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

These guys hogtied a journalist who is probably their mom’s age for nothing.

Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 1d

WGN, this woman’s employer, is now reporting she was not charged with any crimes and was released.

DHS said earlier she was arrested for assault for throwing objects at agents.

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 1d

Report on Soros Cited by Justice Dept. Does Not Show Funding for Terrorism ... you don't say www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Report on Soros Cited by Justice Dept. Does Not Show Funding for Terrorism

www.nytimes.com

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The 51st @51st.news · 1d

"Every day I wake up, I feel like I am in a mental obstacle course."

New data shows evictions in D.C. have surged past pre-pandemic levels, fueled by shrinking aid, high rents, and weakened tenant protections.

In partnership with @streetsensedc.bsky.social and the Investigative Reporting Workshop:

Evictions rising in DC as housing costs increase

New data shows evictions have surged past pre-pandemic levels, fueled by shrinking aid, high rents, and weakened tenant protections.

51st.news

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Bob Dobalina @bobdabalina.bsky.social · 1d

Trump turned the DOJ into the Dept of Revenge while Peter Thiel is building phase 2, a Christo-Fascist-Oligarchy.

Gee wiz, I just thought they would stop illegals from eating my pet.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

The Education Department has hired at least 9 people from the America First Policy Institute, co-founded by Secretary Linda McMahon.

The think tank’s listed goals include ending the separation of church and state and “plant[ing] Jesus in every space.”

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2d

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge Thursday froze President Donald Trump’s attempt to deploy hundreds of National Guard troops in and around Chicago, saying the president lacked the authority to do so. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Federal Judge Halts Trump’s Chicago Military Deployment

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 2d

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.

Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

Insurance companies can often be aggressive with their denials because “they don’t expect people to come back,” one health care advocate said.

The lesson is simple, another expert told us: “Appeal, appeal, appeal, appeal. That’s all you have.”

By @deldeib.bsky.social

This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It.

When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...

www.propublica.org

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 3d

We would like to thank Kristi Noem for bringing cameras with her everywhere and collecting evidence for her future trial at The Hague.

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Angie @angiemitchell.bsky.social · 3d

Mine too! A rarity.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Angie @angiemitchell.bsky.social · 5d

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