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@auntphoebee.bsky.social
Very💙,🇺🇦🇵🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🏳️‍🌈,climate change,environmental justice, ALL rights,animal,woman’s, LGBTQIA, Stroke survivor,chronic pain warrior,atheist empath.Handmaids Tale/ Atwood fan
Trying to survive the climates in Texas.

"Nolite te bastardes carborundorum."😈
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“The new recommendations and many of the arguments about U.S.vaccination strategies overlook vast bodies of data that show shots are safe and effective,”
RFK Jr.’s vaccine panel is laying the groundwork for more scrutiny of childhood shots — STAT
WASHINGTON — Federal vaccine advisers, through a freewheeling, and at times combative two-day meeting, recommended a major change to childhood vaccinations that runs counter to the medical consensus —...
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December 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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By delaying by two months could lead to more than 1,400 babies becoming chronically infected with hepatitis B in the first year of the change, which could result in 304 cases of liver cancer and 482 hepatitis B-related deaths among those children as they age.

Idiots
CDC vaccine advisers appear likely to recommend delaying hepatitis B vaccine birth dose — STAT
This is a developing story. It will be updated.
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December 4, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Holy shit. So Elon decides it would be nice to know what region of the world people are posting from. So they add that little feature.
2 hours later they figure out that many Trump supporters with millions of followers are posting from other countries. Surprise!
That "feature" is now gone.
November 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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November 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Iconic photo from the DC rally yesterday. A lone soldier steps forward, draped in duty and defiance, carrying a flag that’s weathered, but not defeated.
We are the Resistance, we will not go quietly, we will not obey, we will not bow down to a dictator.

📸 @johnnypalmadessa
November 24, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. temporarily cleared the way Friday for a new Texas congressional map that would give Republicans an edge in winning five additional House seats.

#backwardsintexas
Supreme Court allows Texas congressional map favoring GOP, for now — The Washington Post
The brief pause on a lower court order will give the high court time to consider an appeal by Texas.
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November 22, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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“There is no justification to kidnap him, torture him, to kill him and to cut him to pieces," Hanan Elatr Khashoggi said Friday during an emotional news conference. "This is a terrorist act."
Kashoggi's widow and Democrats demand release of a call transcript with Trump and Saudi crown prince
The widow of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi is calling for the release of the transcript of a 2019 phone call President Donald Trump had with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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New meme format just dropped:
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Today, on Transgender Day of Remembrance, we remember the transgender lives lost to violence.

The Green Party stands shoulder to shoulder with transgender people in the face of increasing transphobic rhetoric in our society and politics.
November 20, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Bending the knee.

The regents' decision is being framed as an effort to restore public trust 😂 in higher education and ensure the responsible use of taxpayer funds.

#backwardsintexas
Texas A&M University Professors Now Must Have Permission Before Covering Race, Gender
The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents approved significant policy changes Thursday aimed at strengthening academic oversight and ensuring all coursework across the system's 12 universities ...
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November 21, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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How Fossil-Fuel Companies Are Driving Plastic Production and Pollution | Scientific American www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
How the Fossil-Fuel Industry’s Pivot to Plastic Is Polluting Our Planet
To keep profits rolling in, oil and gas companies want to turn fossil fuels into a mounting pile of packaging and other plastic products
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November 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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“By utilizing idle land such as parking lots, we can maximize land use efficiency. In addition, installing canopy-type solar panels can provide shade underneath, offering noticeable comfort to people using parking lots during hot weather.”

South Korea,ahead of Texas.
New national law will turn large parking lots into solar power farms
Starting this month, parking lots in South Korea with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar canopies and carports.
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November 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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“In my 37 years on the federal bench, this is the most outrageous conduct by a judge that I have ever encountered in a case in which I have been involved,”

#backwardsintexas
‘Nobel prize for fiction’: judge excoriates colleague in Texas redistricting case — Guardian US
Jerry Smith condemns opinion written by Jeffrey Brown and mentions Soros name 17 times in 104-page dissent
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November 20, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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“Walker expressed that she didn’t want to take that risk, her family says. She had a vibrant life, a husband and son whom she loved.
Under Texas’ abortion law, though, that didn’t matter.”

#womansrights #backwardsintexas
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas. — ProPublica
ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions. Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emerg...
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November 20, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Oh gawd. Our media has really fucked this country up. He was fucking convicted of 34 felonies and found liable for rape! The fact that wasn’t the lead every item his stupid fucking name was mentioned, is absolute media malpractice.
November 18, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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There is an over abundance of racist sociopaths here

Out: “enslaved people.” In: “slave.” Unacceptable: “Indigenous people.” Acceptable: “Native people.” Verboten: “Colony, colonists, colonizer.” Instead, “settlement” and “settler.”

#whitewashhistory #backwardsintexas
How a Dan Patrick Political Operative Is Literally Rewriting the Story of the Alamo — Texas Monthly
The lieutenant governor is behind changes to the new museum’s narration of slavery, Native Americans, and colonialism.
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November 19, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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Y’all know what to do. Bankrupt these MFs! #notofascism
November 16, 2025 at 7:55 PM
November 18, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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[Infectious disease modeler] Brooke Nichols has led a team that has estimated 600,000 people have died already so far, 400,000 of them children.
Trump Destroyed 60 Years of Global Goodwill (w/ Atul Gawande)
YouTube video by The Bulwark
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November 16, 2025 at 2:45 PM