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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 13h

In a KFF poll, 65% of Americans said the Trump administration's warning about autism risk with acetaminophen (Tylenol) use in pregnancy was probably or definitely false, and 59% said they disapprove of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s job performance as HHS secretary.

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 1d

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 1d

Narcissist In Chief.

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 1d

Missouri's Republican attorney general is trying to get the medical records of Planned Parenthood patients who've had abortions, officials who oversee clinics in Kansas City and St. Louis said in legal filings.

Abortion Providers Say Missouri's Attorney General Is Trying to Get Patient Records

The fight over subpoenas is playing out in a lawsuit filed last year

www.medpagetoday.com

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 1d

AG Pam Bondi strutted into Tuesday’s congressional oversight hearing as if she were auditioning for a reboot of The Apprentice. Once again, Bondi made it clear that her loyalty begins and ends with Trump — the law, the Constitution, and basic ethics be damned
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 1d

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 1d

Genius... what a genius...

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 1d

Although he had an annual physical 6 months ago, President Trump will get his "routine yearly check up" on Friday, the White House announced.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

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cleyes.bsky.social @cleyes.bsky.social · 2d

BRILLIANT....This should be a nationwide movement! Everyone living in the invaded areas should only go outside in costume!

Brad Batt for TN State Sanity ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾 @bradbatt.bsky.social · 3d

Shoutout to my comrades in “war-ravaged” Portland

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 1d

AG Pam Bondi strutted into Tuesday’s congressional oversight hearing as if she were auditioning for a reboot of The Apprentice. Once again, Bondi made it clear that her loyalty beginsand ends with Donald Trump — the law, the Constitution, and basic ethics be damned.
open.substack.com/pub/beinglib...

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 1d

This is a test of the Nobel Prize Committee's integrity. If he wins the prize will become a joke worldwide!

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 1d

Human ingenuity...🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏼 “In settings of severe poverty, it’s a cheap method of getting high (...) You’re basically getting two doses for the price of one.”
The idea of sharing drug-laced blood is so unthinkably dangerous that experts have questioned how common it is.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/w...

‘Bluetoothing’: Blood-Sharing Drug Trend Fuels Alarming Global H.I.V. Surge

The practice, in which users inject the blood of already intoxicated individuals, has fueled one of the fastest-growing H.I.V. epidemics in the Pacific and grown widespread in South Africa.

www.nytimes.com

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 2d

“I co-wrote Trump’s first anti-terrorism plan in 2017-18. He’s not trying to stop ‘left-wing’ terrorism. He is staging it,” Taylor wrote. “His troop deployments are a false flag — meant to provoke a response in order to justify harsh crackdowns. This is now very obvious.”

Former Trump Official: Trump Isn’t Stopping Terrorism, He’s ‘Staging It’

Trump's military incursion into American cities is designed to provoke a reaction.

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 2d

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 2d

Composed almost entirely of footage filmed by police, The Perfect Neighbor is a harrowing documentary about a black woman shot by her white neighbour in Florida
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 2d

Don't let anyone tell you that the problem is Democrats as out n Fairbanks, Alaska, for the first time in almost a decade a Democrat will become Mayor defeating the GOP Incumbent by 54% to 45.7%.

www.aol.com/articles/dem...

Democrats Flip Mayoral Seat Held By Republicans For Almost A Decade

A one-off or a sign to come? In a shocking election outcome, Democrat Mindy O’Neall flipped the Fairbanks, Alaska, mayoral seat Tuesday night for the first time in a decade, ousting the incumbent, conservative David Pruhs. O’Neall received 1,808 votes (54%) and Pruhs received 1,528 votes (45.

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 2d

“I co-wrote Trump’s first anti-terrorism plan in 2017-18. He’s not trying to stop ‘left-wing’ terrorism. He is staging it,” Taylor wrote. “His troop deployments are a false flag — meant to provoke a response..."

open.substack.com/pub/beinglib...

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 2d

Hegseth’s dream soldier.

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 2d

There is only one source of violence and unrest in Portland - it's the Trump's goons force disrupting normal life.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 2d

My city is under siege. Troops are arriving in the suburbs. Federal agents are storming apartment buildings, pulling people out of cars and beds, shooting people in the street, robbing children of their parents, and we can barely track the damage, let alone get in the way. L

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

organizingmythoughts.org

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 2d

Mainstream media sold out democracy for ratings, and now we’re all paying the price.
www.newsletter.samuel-warde.com/p/is-mainstr...

Is Mainstream Media Trying To Kill Us? Absolutely!

Profit-Driven Betrayal of Democratic Ideals

www.newsletter.samuel-warde.com

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 3d

'Fyodor Dostoevsky’s dissection of power’s corruption: dominance dehumanizes the oppressor first. Cruelty isn’t just an act—it’s a degenerative disease of the soul. True strength protects; only weakness delights in degradation.' - Daily Stoic

#DostoevskyWarning #PowerCorrupts #SoulCost

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 3d

Avoid anyone in the media who claims the problem in the United States is “polarization.” People can make friends on every side by pretending polarization is the problem, rather than fascism; these are at best useful idiots. The two following basic facts are critical right now...

There is massive incentive to play down the problem and no incentive to tell the truth

How bad could it become in the United States?

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 3d

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