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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6h

I was born in 1972. The replacement rate he's panicked about has been below 2.1% for almost every year of my life.

If you're really worried about the population falling, giving immigrants a path to citizenship is an obvious and easy solution.

Unless there's ... something about them you don't like?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

RFK Jr: "When my uncle was president, the fertility rate in this country was 3.5%. Today it is 1.6%. The replacement rate -- in other words the amount of fertility you need to keep your population even -- is 2.1%. We are below replacement. That is a national security threat to our country."

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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 1d

Senators Kelly & Gallego are out of give of fucks for Johnson’s excuses for delaying Adelita’s swearing in.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

I am sounding the alarm that the GOP is engaged in an all out attack voting rights and free and fair elections. Voter suppression, gerrymandering, and troops in blue cities are just some of the ways they are using to try to rig the rules to keep power in 2026 and beyond.

Pay attention and act!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6h

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 10h

#Smallpox was globally eradicated as a disease, through mass vaccination by 1980. If smallpox returned today would you accept the vaccine for yourself and your child(ren)? Are there people in your community who wouldn't? Could we eradicate the disease again?

BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · Dec 9

Vaccines work and do not cause autism. I will die on this hill.
These two boys had been exposed to the same smallpox source. The boy without a rash had been vaccinated, the one covered in rash hadn't been vaccinated.
A global vaccination campaign led to eradication of smallpox globally by 1980.

Picture of two children exposed to same source of smallpox. One (unvaccinated) is covered in rash the other (vaccinated) has no rash. This is a genuine photograph that was taken in the early 1900s by Dr. Allan Warner of the Isolation Hospital at Leicester in the UK. Warner photographed a number of smallpox patients in order to study the disease.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13h

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

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Jud @judmarc.com · 2d

Granddad’s recollection *was* - he’s long gone.

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Jud @judmarc.com · 2d

Yes, I recall that now. Thanks for the correction. I’m remembering all the post Ellis Island records, and as I said, Granddad’s recollection is he got off the boat with a u, came out of Ellis Island with an i, and there was nothing he did to cause that. 🙂

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Jud @judmarc.com · 2d

So either 125 year old documents were fabricated and Granddad was lying, or there was a case of misspelling. I’d say the latter is a far more simple explanation, wouldn’t you? 2/2

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Jud @judmarc.com · 2d

You have looked at records from Ellis Island, right? (I have.) Did they just make those up later? The records also track with my granddad’s memory. He said he came into Ellis Island with (name spelled with u) and came out with (name spelled with i). 1/2

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 2d

Awesome public health news:
Maldives becomes the first country to achieve ‘triple elimination’ of
1. mother-to-child transmission of HIV,
2. Syphilis and
3. Hepatitis B
www.who.int/news/item/13...

Maldives becomes the first country to achieve ‘triple elimination’ of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B

In a landmark public health achievement, WHO has validated the Maldives for eliminating mother-to-child transmission (EMTCT) of hepatitis B, while maintaining its earlier validation (in 2019) for EMTCT of HIV and syphilis. This makes the Maldives the first country in the world to achieve ‘triple elimination’.

www.who.int

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Jud @judmarc.com · 2d

He was a 20 year old bachelor who spoke no English traveling alone, so there’s nothing about a family decision or “Americanizing” involved.

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Jud @judmarc.com · 2d

No reason for Granddad to change a u to an i in the middle of a one syllable name. His first language was Yiddish, so he would likely have pronounced the u umlauted, making it sound like i. Or u and i are next to each other on the keyboard, but I don’t know if they were using typewriters at Ellis.

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Jud @judmarc.com · 3d

I was told the same thing by a docent at the National Museum of American Jewish History. Except I have documentation - ship manifest with one last name, Ellis Island record with our current family name that differs by one letter. The misspelling could easily be and likely was mis-hearing.

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Atti 17.11 @atti1711.bsky.social · 3d

This is Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY). He wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Over 63,000 of his constituents to lose health insurance, if the ACA was repealed.

RETWEET to let New York know that RepMikeLawler wants to take away their health care!
👇👇👇👇

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 4d

Attacks on the federal workforce are also attacks on Black workers, who are overrepresented in the public sector.

Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.

www.nytimes.com

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Jud @judmarc.com · 5d

"Police mistook stroke for drug impairment" - the hell they did.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5d

a russ vought special

Sara Partridge, PhD @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 5d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Drew T @morningdewd.bsky.social · 6d

Don't forget about the time he was literally schlonged

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Ruth Ann Crystal @drruth.bsky.social · 6d

The CDC and ACIP quietly updated their recommendations and now specifically include pregnant individuals among those eligible for COVID vaccination.

Under the new policy, insurers are required to cover the vaccine for pregnant people without cost sharing. buff.ly/Id2vJbe

#medsky #obgynsky 🛟😷🧪

Pregnant woman with lovely smile and dark skin, brown hair wearing a burgandy top and jeans and has a bandaid from vaccination. "The CDC and ACIP updated guidance: Pregnant patients are eligible for COVID vaccination."

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 5d

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 5d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 6d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 5d

Are you fucking kidding me.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 7d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 9d

This is the Epstein files shutdown.

A screenshot of an X.com post by @AdelitaForAZ
, Adelita Grijalva, stating, "The people of Southern Arizona deserve representation and I'm ready to get to work. Swear me in NOW! @SpeakerJohnson
!" followed by a reply from @GavinNewsom
, Gavin Newsom, saying, "It's not even November and the GOP are already rigging elections." Below, a news headline from McClatchy by Nikki McCann Ramirez dated September 30, 2025, reads, "DEM SAYS MIKE JOHNSON IS DELAYING HER SWEARING-IN TO PREVENT EPSTEIN VOTE," with a photo of Adelita Grijalva smiling at an event in Tucson, Arizona, on Tuesday, September 23, 2025.

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