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Cindy Carlson💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @ccarlson.bsky.social · 3h

If I lived in the US I’d be terrified now. But this is also a danger to the rest of the world, as US science will no longer inform global disease prevention and Americans travelling overseas could start being vectors for undiagnosed/untreated infectious diseases.

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 17h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Cindy Carlson💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @ccarlson.bsky.social · 3h

🦋🕊️🦋GinLy47 @ginly47.bsky.social · 18h

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Cindy Carlson💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @ccarlson.bsky.social · 1d

Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 1d

A ceasefire in Gaza is necessary. But we cannot stop here. We need immediate aid, accountability for those who committed genocide & more crimes, and yes—Palestinian statehood.

Sign the global petition to demand the US Government recognize the state of Palestine:
www.qasimrashid.com/p/peace-for-...

Peace For Palestine (And Israel) Demands Palestinian Statehood

A Ceasefire Is Necessary But Alone Insufficient — Recognition, Aid, & Accountability Must Follow. Sign the petition to demand the United States recognize Palestinian statehood.

www.qasimrashid.com

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

www.nytimes.com

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Cindy Carlson💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @ccarlson.bsky.social · 1d

billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 1d

Cindy Carlson💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @ccarlson.bsky.social · 1d

Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 1d

We’re eight days away from #NoKings Day, and over 2,500 protests planned in all 50 states and across the world.

October 18 is going to be the biggest day of nonviolent protest in US history — because Courage is contagious.

social.demcast.com/s/V02Ivg21

Cindy Carlson💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @ccarlson.bsky.social · 1d

Democrats @democrats.org · 1d

Just about sums it up.

Two panel graphic featuring the chair of the Nobel Committee.

First panel: Reporter, 'Why didn't Trump win the Nobel Peace Prize?'

Second Panel: Chair, 'All laureates have both courage and integrity.'

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Cindy Carlson💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @ccarlson.bsky.social · 1d

Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 1d

You know what fascism looks like? Attorney General Letitia James getting criminally indicted on literal trumped-up charges by the criminal who she fought to hold accountable for the actual crimes he committed and is now using the full power of the US govt to seek vengeance.

Cindy Carlson💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @ccarlson.bsky.social · 1d

KevTheRev (FHL Ministries) @kevtherev.bsky.social · 1d

The GOP got into bed with Jerry Falwell's "Moral Majority" in the 70s. Child abuse is and has been RAMPANT in churches and religious institutions of every stripe, creed and denomination for literal generations.

Do the math.

Cindy Carlson💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @ccarlson.bsky.social · 1d

Trump to heed this if he wants the Nobel Peace Prize: "democracy is an important precondition for peace,"director of the Peace Research Institute Oslo"… when authoritarianism is on the rise across the world, this award highlights the courage of those who defend freedom with ballots, not bullets."

Tom Walsh @tewalsh340.bsky.social · 1d

Shout the truth. Don’t back down. Resist fascism. PS And no, they aren’t eating the dogs and the cats 🐈 🙄

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Cindy Carlson💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @ccarlson.bsky.social · 1d

Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 1d

There are lessons to be learned here.

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Cindy Carlson💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @ccarlson.bsky.social · 1d

Michael Fletcher @mefletcher54.bsky.social · 1d

We could still have some semblance of global ecosystems and human systems surviving by radically changing our worldviews and behaviors with a complete redesign of human civilization and its goals, both collectively and as individuals. /5

Cindy Carlson💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @ccarlson.bsky.social · 1d

JonBowzerBauman.bsky.social @jonbowzerbauman.bsky.social · 1d

Time for America to get serious & plan general strikes, boycotts, & millions on top of millions of people PEACEFULLY in the streets to confront The Dictator’s madness.

Got to step it up.

Cindy Carlson💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @ccarlson.bsky.social · 1d

Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 1d

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JonBowzerBauman.bsky.social @jonbowzerbauman.bsky.social · 1d

Time for America to get serious & plan general strikes, boycotts, & millions on top of millions of people PEACEFULLY in the streets to confront The Dictator’s madness.

Got to step it up.

Cindy Carlson💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @ccarlson.bsky.social · 1d

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Post this everywhere‼️
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RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

Cindy Carlson💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @ccarlson.bsky.social · 1d

Morten 🇩🇰 @mortenc.bsky.social · 1d

Neil Young Pulling Music from Amazon, Calls for Boycott: “Support Your Community.”

"We all have to give up something to save America from the Corporate Control Age it is entering"

consequence.net/2025/10/neil...

Neil Young Pulling Music from Amazon, Calls for Boycott: "Support Your Community"

Neil Young has announced the impending removal of his music from Amazon, and is calling for a boycott of the massive online retailer.

consequence.net

Cindy Carlson💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @ccarlson.bsky.social · 1d

TommasinaResist⚜️🇨🇦🦋🐈‍⬛🇺🇦 @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 1d

Books are still being banned, but most remain on shelves thanks to heroes who refuse to bow to censorship.

Librarians, teachers, students, and readers everywhere are keeping the flame of free expression alive.
Stand with them.
Speak out.
#BannedBooksWeek
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

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Cindy Carlson💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @ccarlson.bsky.social · 1d

diana52.bsky.social @diana52.bsky.social · 1d

RFKjr is a lunatic and not a medical professional. No link to autism w Tylenol or circumcisions. He’s a crackpot.

open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

NEWS: RFK Jr. Makes Unverified Claim Linking Autism to Early Circumcisions

RFK Jr. makes unverified claim linking autism to early circumcisions, Trump says he will only cut "Democrat programs," Norway braces for Trump to not get Nobel Prize tomorrow, and more

open.substack.com

Cindy Carlson💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @ccarlson.bsky.social · 2d

✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 3d

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Cindy Carlson💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @ccarlson.bsky.social · 2d

Petrooka 🇨🇦 @petrooka.bsky.social · 3d

“When the American empire finally collapses,
historians won't be stunned by the greed of the elite;

They'll be stunned by the loyalty of the poor.”

Very interesting read👇

blog.ryanmerket.com/the-great-am...

The Great American Betrayal: How the Poor Worshipped Their Robbers and Rigged Their Own Democracy

When the American empire finally crumbles — and make no mistake, empires fall as surely as the sun sets — historians will sift through the…

blog.ryanmerket.com

Cindy Carlson💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @ccarlson.bsky.social · 3d

Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 3d

www.npr.org/sections/goa...

A bold doctor sent her kids away and helped beat one of the world's deadliest viruses

A year ago, Rwanda faced its first outbreak of Marburg virus. Dr. Tsion Firew remembers how scared she was — and how that didn't stop her from playing a key role in the remarkably effective response.

www.npr.org

Cindy Carlson💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @ccarlson.bsky.social · 4d

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4d

Cindy Carlson💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @ccarlson.bsky.social · 4d

Barbara Boxer @realbarbaraboxer.bsky.social · 4d

blah blah on Fox re how great it is to get real masculinity back in charge! huh? Real men who are so scared they wear masks, slam women to the
floor, break into apartments & tie up women & children. Then masculine Speaker gives
HOUSE a vacation out of deep fear of Epstein files.
Cowards all.

Cindy Carlson💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @ccarlson.bsky.social · 4d

𝐌𝐨𝐱𝐲 ♪♫~☯︎.¸💙¸.☯︎~♫♪ ɪꜰ ɪ'ᴍ ʙʀᴇᴀᴛʜɪɴɢ, ɪ'ᴍ ʀᴇꜱɪꜱᴛɪɴɢ. @mari-moxy.bsky.social · 4d

The 2025🎗 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to 3 scientists. For unraveling how our immune system protects us from 1000's of different microbes trying to invade our bodies. www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/s...

Nobel Prize in medicine goes to trio of scientists for discovering how the immune system is kept in check | CNN

The 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to a trio of scientists for unraveling how the immune system protects us from thousands of different microbes trying to invade our bodie...

www.cnn.com

Cindy Carlson💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @ccarlson.bsky.social · 4d

Congresswoman Suzan DelBene @repdelbene.bsky.social · 4d

Taking away enhanced Affordable Care Act insurance subsidies would spike monthly health care premiums. Here’s one example of what this could mean in Washington.

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