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anndvm.bsky.social @anndvm.bsky.social · 10h

Very proud of everyone who showed up. Trump isn’t looking so good these days.

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Jason Steele @filmcow.bsky.social · 11h

Me and my partner's "Bronze" health insurance plan with Florida Blue is increasing from $511.22 a month to $1,711.75 a month next year. Not quite sure how to fit "$20,541 a year in health insurance premiums" into the budget.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 12h

Federal workers aren’t getting paid, but of course Kristi Noem gets two private jets costing taxpayers $172 million.

Nothing new from the people who are also sending $40 billion to Argentina while refusing to fund our own government. Shameful.

Coast Guard Buys Two Private Jets for Noem, Costing $172 Million

www.nytimes.com

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anndvm.bsky.social @anndvm.bsky.social · 10h

Can she hear herself speaking? Does she realize how stupid she sounds?

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 18h

While we spectate on The East Wing being torn down, it isn’t just another hallway, it’s where Eleanor Roosevelt built the modern Office of the First Lady, where WWII bunkers were hidden, and where the public enters the People’s House. Erasing it is rewriting history.

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anndvm.bsky.social @anndvm.bsky.social · 10h

Insanity

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 11h

Just another normal HHS week: CDC researchers cannot present work at an annual Infectious Disease conference in (checks notes) Atlanta. As a CDC researcher put it:

“It appears to me that HHS’s goal is to prevent the dissemination of scientific information. It’s insane.”

apnews.com/article/infe...

Government shutdown means many CDC experts are skipping a pivotal meeting on infectious disease

An annual conference about infectious diseases is seeing a dramatic attendance decline, in part because Centers for Disease Control and Prevention experts can’t participate.

apnews.com

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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 1d

If people think the attack on scientific advances is going to stop with #mRNA vaccines, they should think again, a co-founder of Moderna warned last week at the #STATSummit. This is going to make it harder to treat a raft of common diseases, Noubar Afeyan warned. www.statnews.com/2025/10/20/m...

Moderna co-founder Noubar Afeyan issues warning: Assault on science ‘isn’t going to stop at mRNA’

Noubar Afeyan tells the STAT Summit that political moves to replace facts with opinions won't stop with mRNA vaccines. "It’s going to go to every medicine."

www.statnews.com

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 1d

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 23h

Donald Trump is trying to fire nearly every federal worker who supports special needs education.

It’s kids with disabilities who will suffer.

The cruelty is the point.

Donald Trump is trying to fire nearly every federal worker who supports special needs education.

YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren

youtube.com

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22h

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Tim De Chant @dechant.bsky.social · 19h

The DOE has confirmed that it is canceling $720 million worth of contracts that support American manufacturing. techcrunch.com/2025/10/20/t...

Trump DOE confirms it’s canceling over $700M in manufacturing grants | TechCrunch

The Department of Energy said it was canceling grants to build new factories in places like Alabama and Kentucky. Three startups are affected.

techcrunch.com

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Miranda 🖤🤍💜 @doomscroling.bsky.social · 22h

Wisconsin Gop lawmakers have proposed bill 546, a bill that would grant fetal personhood and allow only c-sections or inductions to treat ectopic, anembryonic, or molar pregnancies "so long as the physician conducting them makes reasonable medical efforts to save both parent and unborn child"
#Pinks

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 19h

As some No Kings protests were ongoing, Trump Saturday posted an AI-generated video of himself wearing a crown and dropping payloads of excrement on protesters from a “King Trump” fighter jet. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

After Massive No Kings Protests, Trump Insults Americans and Asserts ‘Unquestioned Power’ to Deploy Troops Domestically

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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anndvm.bsky.social @anndvm.bsky.social · 19h

I’m glad it was there to help you. ACA saved my life when I was going to be uninsured for six months for changing jobs and I’m diabetic.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 20h

Hey, so gather round and let me tell you the story of how I got saddled with $75k of medical debt and why, despite its inadequacy, I will fight ACA haters.

Driving through the middle of absolute nowhere Nevada on our way home from seeing my parents, my tire found a patch of black ice.

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 1d

two binturongs don’t make a binturight. because that doesn’t exist

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 20h

Cancer stem cells (CSC) are elusive and one of the reasons for resistance to treatment. Machine learning led to discovery of a way to promote their self-destruction (apoptosis)
cell.com/cell-reports...

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20h

Moskowitz: We need $30 billion to extend, obviously, these healthcare subsidies, which allow Americans—Americans, not illegal—Americans, citizens, to afford healthcare.

And the president’s like, “We don’t have $30 billion, but I am going to send $40 billion to my dear friend in Argentina.”

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

law is a social construct

Josh Crowley (sp?)
@jdcrowley
If I built a big robot that consumed 33% of my state's electricity so it could go around stealing people's art I would be arrested, and that's how you know law is a social construct.

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Layla & Piglet @era-now.bsky.social · 22h

Today is Piglet’s gotcha day! It’s hard to believe it’s been a year already!
Expect more Piglet content later today! 😸

#cats #catsofbluesky #gato #cute

Piglets Adoption photo, what a cutie!
A grey and brown tabby cat relaxes and looks past the camera.

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Michael Rx @mre.bsky.social · 1d

excuse me while I slip into something a little more comfortable.

–me, changing from my morning pajamas into my afternoon pajamas.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 22h

Little joy update: I am exhausted because my little orange cat jumped into bed at 2 AM and purred so loud she woke me up.

This is not the first time it’s happened and I will never be mad about it.

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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 22h

WHEN I TESTIFIED FOR THE HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE, REP. CHIP ROY WOULD NOT EVEN LOOK AT ME OR ACKNOWLEDGE MY HEALTH OR TESTIMONY FOR MILLIONS. IF A PICTURE SAYS 1K WORDS THIS SAYS 1M! WHAT A DISGRACE & SO IS JIM JORDAN!

Peter Morley, Patient Advocate Testifying for Elijah Cummings sharing Patient Stories before Congress on 7/10/19 before the House Oversight Committee. Rep. Chip Roy wouldn't acknowledge my presence and Rep. Jim Jordan made fun of me & cackled in the background, but it DID NOT stop me! NEVER FORGET!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h

“It looked like a nuclear bomb went off.”
“So, was it a genocide?”
“No.”

HIGHLIGHTS — Kushner & Witkoff on 60 Minutes downplaying Bibi’s crimes and pretending the Witkoff/Trump families aren’t about to make mountains of money profiting from a Gaza rebuild.

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