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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13h

An artificial heart for children with congenital heart defects was almost finished. Families had waited for years it.

Then, Trump canceled billions in grants for universities — including the grant for this device.

The cruelty is endless. www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

www.npr.org

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 7h

“The Founders would never believe that it would ever come to pass that one state militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution”

THAT PART!

Thank you, Judge Perry.

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RCJr @appalled30.bsky.social · 7h

Brilliant.

This should become such a big viral sensation that it drowns her out.

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 11h

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

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 10h

Leticia James’ statement.

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RCJr @appalled30.bsky.social · 7h

We could use so many more like her!

Integrity.

A rare—-nonexistent?—- trait in the administration.

Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 10h

Leticia James’ statement.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11h

News from the Authoritarians Club: the US Treasury has finalised a $20 billion currency swap with Argentina and directly bought Argentine pesos to help stabilise the country’s economy.

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Aussie Girl @kanga38.bsky.social · 1d

Christ I just fell off my couch sideways and almost broke my hip getting up to punch the air at this! Yes! Sit this one out you thundering apricot landwhale.

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

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 1d

If we are taking in “trillion” of dollars in tariffs:

1. Why haven’t we paid down a cent of the debt?

2. Why can’t we afford to not fuck millions of people over with expiring insurance subsidies?

3. Why is none of it being used to help the abysmal job market?

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 1d

Kristi Noem was unaware that the suspension of habeas corpus was under Article I of the Constitution and even if the fate of the most basic liberty right were delegated one would hope that it would be to the President and not the Secretary of Homeland Security

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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RCJr @appalled30.bsky.social · 1d

Followed!

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Mickey Kuhns @mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 1d

Michael Louis Pfleger is an American Catholic priest and social activist located in Chicago. Since 1981, he has been pastor of St. Sabina Catholic Church, a Black parish in Chicago's Auburn Gresham neighborhood.

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RCJr @appalled30.bsky.social · 1d

The Labor Dept confirms that Americans don’t want & can’t do agricultural jobs, putting the lie to immigrants stealing jobs. AND a new bill seeks to REDUCE WAGES, which we all know are dismal & inhumane.

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RCJr @appalled30.bsky.social · 1d

Too bad they won’t show this on Fox.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland

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tweety @bluskypolitics.bsky.social · 1d

🔴 Because Canks has her

under lock , and key 💯 🔐 🐥

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RCJr @appalled30.bsky.social · 1d

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Elizabeth R @elizaabethlawmom.bsky.social · 2d

THIS is Donald Trump's America.
#RESIST
#RESIST
#RESIST

👣COCA👣 🇺🇦 @nortygirl.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago October 2025.......

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RCJr @appalled30.bsky.social · 2d

I’m letting DTJr help me post today’s demand for The Files.

Democracy Watchdog ❌ 👑🌮🐔 @pingl.bsky.social · 2d

"Show us all the Epstein client list now!!!! Why would anyone protect those scum bags?
Ask yourselves this question every day and the answer becomes very apparent!!"
- Donald Trump Jr

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@gloria🕊️🟧 @gloriaprosperi.bsky.social · 4d

👇🏼🤷🏻‍♀️

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4d

A veteran protester, standing at the edge of the road, is shoved backward by a DHS GOON.

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Paulley Ticks @tomadelsbach.bsky.social · 11d

This is a crystal clear image of the scumbag Nazi ICE agent that brutally assaulted a mother at a NYC immigration office, while her young daughter watched - and a new photo showing him grabbing her hair before he slammed her to the ground.

Make him even MORE famous.

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 12d

Listen and re-post, ad infinitum.

RAOK @evolvingempathy.bsky.social · 12d

A message and a Lesson from Norway 🇳🇴 💙💙

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RCJr @appalled30.bsky.social · 4d

We’re not distracted.

We’re smart people.

We can attend to several important things at once.

auntmeme @auntmeme.bsky.social · 4d

Let's get something straight. #47 is creating distractions, so we will not continue to talk about Epstein. Ice zip tying kids, arresting members of Congress and raiding apartment buildings via helicopter. #wtpBLUE #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #VoteBlueforOurFuture

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RCJr @appalled30.bsky.social · 5d

True, true and true.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 5d

Mike Johnson swore in newly elected Republicans earlier this year when the House wasn’t fully in session.

But now he’s refusing to do the same for Democratic representative-elect Adelita Grijalva.

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

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