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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 8h

Nothing to see here

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🦄)))🕊️🎗️✡️🐇 #VoteYesOnCAProp50 @melisandra01.bsky.social · 8h

And he’s not even right. Israel has established the lowest civilian to combat death ratio in history. They literally are writing the book on ethical dense urban combat. Too many people swallowing propaganda and it’s all lies.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 8h

Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.

Here’s what experts say you need to know.

How to Fight Your Health Insurance Denial with an External Appeal

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...

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Christos Argyropoulos MD, PhD, FASN 🇺🇸 0kale/acc @christosargyrop.bsky.social · 7h

All six posters we are presenting at the #Kidneywk about associations between COVID19 infection or vaccination & various kidney related conditions: Acute Kidney Injury, egfr slope in the general population and kidney transplant recipients, IgA , C3GN and vascular access interventions were finished!

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 8h

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 21h

The WHO has verified the elimination of both measles & rubella in all Pacific Island countries, alongside rubella elimination in Japan. The achievement follows 2 decades of coordinated immunisation campaigns, regional surveillance, and high routine vaccine coverage. buff.ly/EpFb7HK
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Rubella elimination verified in Japan, and measles and rubella elimination verified in Pacific island countries and areas

The World Health Organization (WHO) today announced that the 21 Pacific island countries and areas that are part of the WHO Western Pacific Region have collectively been verified as having eliminated…

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 10h

The search on Mar-a-Lago happened in August 2022. Jack Smith was appointed Special Counsel in November 2022.

Time, how does it work

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Eric Trump: "Sure enough, we find out that Jack Smith is planting manilla folders on the office of my father ... "

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Linda Krause @misspunklesmom.bsky.social · 6d

re Portlanders ICE fishing with donuts- @jbf1755.bsky.social, professor of history at Yale, says laughtivism is really effective. It was first used successfully in ousting Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic. The movement was founded by Srdja Popovic who gave the following TED Talk on the subject.

The Power of Laughtivism: Srdja Popovic at TEDxBG

YouTube video by TEDx Talks

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freedom-fighter0.bsky.social @freedom-fighter0.bsky.social · 13h

This is Trump

Angela Merkel's Memoirs: A candid critique of Trump
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Angela Merkel's Memoirs: A candid critique of Trump

was treating him as if he were “completely normal”, but she quickly learned of his “emotional” nature and soft spot for authoritarians and tyrants.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump on Ukraine: "They'd like to have Tomahawks. We talked about that. We'll see. I might have to speak to Russia, to be honest with you, about Tomahawks. Do they want to have Tomahawks going in their direction? I don't think so."

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Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 12h

“There are children all over this place, my kids are right over there and they threw tear gas, they were throwing people to the ground," one resident said. "And then they just sped off. … This is making nobody safer. If we don’t stand up now, we’re not going to get a chance later.”

Feds deploy tear gas in another Chicago neighborhood: 'We chased federal agents out of Albany Park today'

A federal judge’s temporary restraining order requires federal agents to issue two warnings before using riot control weapons such as tear gas. Witnesses says they didn't get any warning.

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Uncertainty Principle @luckypetie.medsky.social · 10h

Big surprise.

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Aunt "Baba Yaga" Masha @mashamasha.bsky.social · 12h

Y'all, I was just recently charged $80 for an alterations shop to replace a zipper in a jacket, and to replace the worn-out elastic waistband in a skirt.

This worker would've been paid ten cents for this with. WTH do you even do with ten cents?

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14h

I interviewed one of these factory workers in Los Angeles. She gets paid three cents to sew a zipper, five cents for a collar, and seven cents to prepare the top part of a skirt.

This is how fast fashion brands like Fashion Nova can put "Made in USA" tags on dress shirts that retail for only $25

"Every day at 6 am, Bilma boards a bus that shuttles her to downtown Los Angeles’s Fashion District. When she reaches the garment factory an hour later, she starts working immediately, without punching in. Like thousands of other garment workers in the United States, Bilma’s wages aren’t tethered to the clock but rather to the quantity of operations she executes. Three cents for a zipper or sleeve, five cents for a collar, and seven cents to prepare the top part of a skirt before she passes it onto the next sewing operator in line. Assembling an entire dress earns her a mere 15 cents. Bilma toils away on garments primarily for fast-fashion labels such as Fashion Nova, Lulus, and Lucy in the Sky, who prioritize quickly stocking on-trend items over the quality of materials. These companies peddle things like $80 maxi dresses, $25 poplin dress shirts, and $5 crop tops, all modeled by beautiful people and bedecked with the tantalizing promise of low-cost glamor."

"This worker payment system, known as “piecework” in the garment industry, is how US-based manufacturers can sidestep labor laws that require companies to pay at least the minimum wage. Rather than compensating Bilma for the exhausting 12-hour shifts—a regimen that, according to LA County’s minimum wage requirement, should yield $202.80—her pay is determined by the individual tasks she performs, which can fluctuate daily. Despite her adept handling of hundreds of garments a day, Bilma’s earnings typically linger around $50 per day. That’s $300 weekly for the standard six-day grind and $350 if she opts for Sunday labor. Doing what she can with this modest income, Bilma spends $400 a month to live in a two-bedroom apartment with six other people, some of whom are day laborers. In this crowded arrangement, two occupants squeeze into each bedroom, while two more lay claim to the living room. Bilma sleeps in the corner of the bustling kitchen."

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Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 12h

The Trump Administration is kidnapping children without telling their parents; this is literally torture

RFK Jr keeps saying that he wants to make children healthy; his silence on Team Trump’s kidnapping & torture of kids is complicity

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 13h

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
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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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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JM 📎🟦🪬🎗️🥯🥡🥠🦀 @jmdc88.bsky.social · 14h

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Via @bringthemhome23

"Re'em holds the suitcase tightly, because it's "full of Dad's things." Elkana's things, a father Re'em hasn't seen in two years. Exactly two years. Tomorrow they'll finally meet.

Elkana will return. Re'em will rise."

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 18h

ICE GOONS arrested a father and mother in front of their child.
Chicago, Illinois

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🦄)))🕊️🎗️✡️🐇 #VoteYesOnCAProp50 @melisandra01.bsky.social · 13h

The Jewish people told you this would happen
Your majority did not want to hear it
Your majority moved too slow for too long
Now look who is paying
If this is the world’s ”love” I’ll stick with being Jewish, thanks.

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VirusSucks.com @virussucks.com · 13h

Long COVID is Now the Number One Chronic Illness in Children

Repeatedly mass infecting kids with COVID is not a public health strategy. It's a fast pass to declining population health.

www.thegauntlet.news/p/long-covid...

Long COVID is Now the Number One Chronic Illness in Children

Repeatedly mass infecting kids with COVID is not a public health strategy. It's a fast pass to declining population health

www.thegauntlet.news

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VirusSucks.com @virussucks.com · 13h

Children are sicker than ever, struggling in school, experiencing developmental delays, and suffering from immune system dysregulation. #LongCovid is now the number 1 chronic illness in children.

Many peer-reviewed science and legions of experts have called for clean air in public schools.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13h

In a wide-ranging and remarkable interview with Die Welt, Gen David Petraeus says that Russia has never been more vulnerable than right at this moment. He believes that firm NATO support for Ukraine would lead not simply to Ukrainian victory on the battlefield, but to the collapse of Putin.

David Petraeus: „Dann wird Putin erkennen, dass er sich eine Fortsetzung des Krieges nicht leisten kann“ - WELT

Ex-General David Petraeus hat den amerikanischen Auslandsgeheimdienst CIA geleitet und war Kommandeur in zwei Kriegen. Im exklusiven Interview erklärt er, wo Putins Schwachstellen liegen – und rät zu ...

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 13h

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...

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 13h

"The U.S. is two economies. There's an enormous AI boom going on, huge investments, particularly in data centers. If you took that out of the numbers and you just looked at the non-AI parts of the economy, it's basically flatlining. We're on the cusp of a non-AI recession."
-- Me

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🏳️‍🌈TEAM TISH🏳️‍🌈 @rebelpussy.bsky.social · 22h

Thank you so much for posting this. I'm so sick of this white washing of sex crimes against women and children.

And THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS CHILD PORNOGRAPHY.
It's called Child Sexual Abuse Material.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 18h

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 13h

This is a terrific round-up of JD Vance's terrible, no good Sunday Show spin today from @rollingstone.com:

"J.D. Vance struggled to defend the Trump administration’s decisions when journalists asked him basic questions during a round of TV appearances"

Dodge, Duck, Dip, Dive, Dodge
J.D. Vance Tried to Evade Journalists’ Questions. It Did Not Go Well
The vice president could not give a straight answer to inquiries about Tom Homan's alleged acceptance of a bribe, Trump's claim that J.B. Pritzker is a criminal, and layoffs at the CDC
October 12, 2025

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