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Will🇺🇸📎✌️🌲 @econaturalist.bsky.social · 1d

My Mom came home yesterday for Hospice comfort care. She’s on oral morphine every hour.

I’m am scared & furious because I am almost out of morphine & her Doc & nurses are busy looking for more. Not one pharmacy in my town has any right now & they don’t know when they will be getting more in.

The DEA’s 2025 quotas for opioids will leave seriously ill patients in pain

Palliative care physician Rebecca Rodin writes that DEA opioid medication production limits — which are set to be even lower in 2025 — don’t address the opioid crisis. They just leave her patients in ...

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ShordeeDoWhop @netta.bsky.social · 4h

Sitting in history and us govt classes, I really wondered how all of this shit made sense.

Now as an adult I see it literally doesn’t. 🙃

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 5h

Kavanaugh, stop!

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 5h

Kavanaugh: "I want to note some common ground bc I think it's important in disputes like this one to identify common ground. Justice Jackson said the goal is equal opportunity for all Americans & I think we all agree on that, completely"

man shut your bitchass up with this conscience assuaging bs

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ShordeeDoWhop @netta.bsky.social · 5h

We are living through moments where people will read later and ask “how did they let this happen”

And all I got is “they were comfortable psychopaths”.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 5h

The Flytrap uses a company called Acta for this. For $2 you can access the one article you want to read that day.

alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 5h

NEWS OUTLETS
could you please offer an opportunity for me to buy an article a la carte

many times i don't want to subscribe because i don't want you to keep sending me shit. i do not want a continued relationship. but i would absolutely spend a nominal amount to read an article Right Now

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 10h

a skull full of soup.

cinesthetic. @TheCinesth.... 13h
Teaser trailer for 'AMADEUS' starring Will Sharpe and Paul Bettany has been released.

Graham Linehan @Glinner 7h
How would you like to see Amadeus again, except this time Mozart is black?
Me neither! Yet here it is!

Clara @Americana Mama79 6h
That guy is black?

Graham Linehan @Glinner 6h
Apparently not but the point rrrremains!

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Ren "No More Bombs" Jender @renjender.bsky.social · 6h

Boston Globe endorsed noted racist Erin Murphy. I mean we knew the Globe is trash, but still...

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Ren "No More Bombs" Jender @renjender.bsky.social · 7h

I mask indoors pretty much 100% of the time, because I'm nearly certain I got COVID the first and only time from brief indoor exposure. I'm sure a lot of people think I'm unhinged, but I know how much having COVID just once affected me–for months. Never again!

Ren "No More Bombs" Jender @renjender.bsky.social · 7h

One time in New York I was accidentally walking in the middle of a 9/11 memorial crowd and someone shouted, "Take off your mask!" I looked around and shouted, "Who said that?" They didn't answer. The only other time someone has told me this was going through TSA (when I had to briefly comply).

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 7h

I wear a mask and luckily, it's not zero in NYC, but I've been told more than once I didn't need to or to take it off and the people who were telling me weren't raging MAGA.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 9h

There are lots of people concerned about Ed Markey's age who wanted him to get primaried. Yet the universal reaction this morning to Seth Moulton running seems to be, "Yeah, I'll stick with Markey."

That's how much Moulton sucks.

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pilot @pilotv.bsky.social · 7h

any donation is helpful, recurring donations especially help AFP remain consistent with twice weekly food distros—something that would be great to expand as the neighborhood need increases (and as we lose community fridges)

givebutter.com/AFP2025

Astoria Food Pantry End of Year Fundraiser

Help us keep grocery bags full in 2025

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Ren "No More Bombs" Jender @renjender.bsky.social · 7h

I mean the first No Kings protest was even less effective than the first Women's March, which is really saying something.

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Ren "No More Bombs" Jender @renjender.bsky.social · 7h

Early '90s queer and AIDS activism had a huge misogyny problem (even though women were doing essential work in it) so actually this is not surprising at all.

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Ren "No More Bombs" Jender @renjender.bsky.social · 7h

I love how one prominent ACT UP activist from the '90s doesn't notice how much No Kings is like the completely ineffective Women's March from 2017. It's almost like he never pays attention to anything women do!

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Ren "No More Bombs" Jender @renjender.bsky.social · 7h

Taking down the Natalie Portman repost since it seems like this person mixed up Keira Knightley with her (how?).

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 8h

I would rather get a daily push notification from whoever it is you think is the most annoying person making you feel the worst about not masking than ever having to deal with long Covid, which I’m still recovering from.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 8h

If you gave up masking long ago, you can start anytime. “But none of my friends do.” Think back: did some of your friends “just disappear” in 2021 and stop planning hang outs with you?

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 18h

JD Vance can dismiss the Young Republicans as a college group chat.

But let's be clear: the group chat includes a State Senator, a Trump Admin official, and multiple Republican staffers — and some of the worst comments came from folks associated with Mike Johnson, Elise Stefanik, and Mike Lawler.

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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 8h

To be fair, I haven't seen any promo for this.

But, I'm going through J. Lo fatigue and I know I'm not the only one.

demotivational speaker. 💕 @heysita.bsky.social · 3d

‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’ earned $840,000 in its opening weekend.

The film had a $34 million dollar budget.

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Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 8h

This is evil

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18h

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 8h

This is nuts -- "Each week the calls juxtapose a haphazard group of celebrities with real power — and show just how professionalized the MAHA movement has become."

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 9h

“On any given week, the administrator of CMS could speak for a few minutes before a shirtless Russell Brand calls in from what appears to be a bathtub, or a former member of The Pussycat Dolls argues that the COVID-19 vaccine destroyed her ability to dance.”

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'Fluoride Disconnects One from God': Inside the Weekly Call With RFK Jr.'s MAHA Hype Squad

A growing weekly call gives insight into RFK Jr.'s biggest allies, showcasing how a fringe movement now holds legitimate power.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 8h

All I can add to the “we reject universal masking” discourse is that it’s not about masks. You aren’t rejecting universal masking, which never happened; you’re rejecting having to think about wearing a mask, and maybe feeling badly about thinking about masks. Can’t help you there.

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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 1d

If able, please consider donating to help care for baby Asiah: fundly.com/missmajor

Please at least share this post if unable to contribute! 🫂

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 18h

Tish James lit up the room last night — and her words echoed far beyond the walls of The United Palace. This is a fight for the future.

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Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 1d

really enjoyed this. tackles my issues with the film and unearths a couple others. I wrote in my review that the depiction of this character is racist, and I'm surprised more critics have not mentioned that in their praise of the film!

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One Fetish After Another: PTA Exploits Black Women and Averts Revolution

Paul Thomas Anderson's action flick leaves much to be desired.

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