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Gail Waldby ❌👑
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Gail Waldby ❌👑 @gailwaldby.bsky.social · May 7
The Rural Lie: How Trump 2.0 Turned America’s Heartland into a Sacrifice Zone
They don’t want rural America to die. They want it to kneel.
www.blueamp.co/p/the-rural-...
The Rural Lie: How Trump 2.0 Turned America’s Heartland into a Sacrifice Zone
They don’t want rural America to die. They want it to kneel.
www.blueamp.co
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foghornleghorn1357.bsky.social @foghornleghorn1357.bsky.social · 3h
Remember when during Trump's last term, he thought about dropping a nuclear bomb on Mexico, or shooting one up into a hurricane or injecting bleach into your veins to fight off Covid? Ah good times! Now consider that he's even crazier than then.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 3h
New study shows COVID vaccines:
💉Reduced people’s risk of ER by 29%
💉Reduced risk of hospitalizations by 39%
💉Reduced the risk of death by 64%
💉Vaccination was effective in all age groups and “in persons with or without major chronic conditions.”
www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...
Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows
A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination
www.scientificamerican.com
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IveyJanetteMcClelland @iveyjanette.bsky.social · 4h
Just across the state line from Chicago. abc7chicago.com/post/ice-ham...
Hammond city officials shut down ICE staging at police department, mayor says: 'Deeply concerning'
"It is deeply concerning that federal agents would enter and use Hammond's property without permission," the Hammond mayor said.
abc7chicago.com
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Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 13h
“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...
Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago
www.nytimes.com
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Wunpini F. Mohammed, PhD @wunpini.bsky.social · 4h
US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport
Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled
www.theguardian.com
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Audrey of the Phoenix City @audreyphoenixcity.bsky.social · 4h
According to Sen Patty Murray, the 10 states seeing the largest increases to premiums if the current budget bill passes are:
WV-387% increase
WY-382% increase
AK-346% increase
TN-320% increase
MS-314% increase
TX-289% increase
SC-285% increase
AL-284% increase
SD-235% increase
ND-234% increase
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 5h
The Senate has just passed the military NDAA containing 2 anti-trans provisions: a surgery ban using federal funds (dependents too), and a sports ban on military academy spaces.

This will be the STARTING point for negotiations with the House, which has even worse provisions.

Only 20 Dems opposed.
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Matt Peterson @mattpeterson.bsky.social · 10h
Anyway we're bailing out Argentina
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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 5h
Mike Johnson refusing to seat a Latina Congresswoman in a Latino/a district, apparently to help his white man friend in the files of an international sex trafficker, is racism & sexism at work & if we had a more diverse legacy media they’d be saying this.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 5h
I voted NO on the annual defense policy bill.

Trump is lying about chaos on our streets to deploy the military against our own citizens.

I support our troops always, but I DON'T support a President who says Democratic cities should be used as "training grounds" for the military.
Senator Murray Statement on Opposing National Defense Authorization Act - Senator Patty Murray
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, voted against final passage of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 202...
www.murray.senate.gov
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CNN @cnn.com · 5h
JUST IN: Russia is carrying out a “massive attack” on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, top Ukrainian officials said, with parts of the capital Kyiv left without power.
Ukraine says ‘massive’ Russian attack underway targeting energy infrastructure | CNN
Russia is carrying out a “massive attack” on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, top Ukrainian officials said early Friday, with parts of the capital Kyiv left without power.
www.cnn.com
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5h
"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room. Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.
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Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 5h
US soybean farmers finding out the hard way that "America First" was a lie
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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5h
I donated some copies of Let This Radicalize You for distribution at an ICE watch training for folks who want to join school patrols in a nearby neighborhood. Not everyone got a copy, because 120 people showed up for that training tonight. I am endlessly proud of Chicago.
A display of copies of Let This Radicalize You on a table in front of a sign that reads: "Let This Radicalize You offers stories, strategy and heart for the kind of collective care and resistance we're building together today. It helps us move from reacting to organizing. Showing how ordinary people protect each other, build power, and keep hope alive. Take a copy. Read it. Stay connected."
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AuntBunny @auntbunny.bsky.social · 5h
"Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes... Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared... " Anne Franke
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 6h
ICE racially profiles an elderly man and takes him into custody. They realize their mistake and release him. They also intimidate witnesses. This incident occurred in Long Beach, California.
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NewsCurrentNow @newscurrentnow.com · 8h
Gavin Newsom: “Masked men. Jumping out of unmarked vehicles. People disappearing. No due process. No oversight. No accountability. People say I’m being hyperbolic. Bullshit. This is happening in America today.”
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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 16h
The Slow Death Facing The Comey Prosecution
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
The Slow Death Facing The Comey Prosecution
This morning at 10 a.m., former FBI Director Jim Comey was arraigned in federal court.
open.substack.com
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 10h
1/ Listen: the people who can’t afford ACA hikes or are getting kicked off Medicare are the priority. But…last year my company saw a 17% increase in healthcare costs. This year we are projecting 20%.

Every year for idk a decade has been at least 10%
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 19h
This is the way

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...
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Just Lori @lorischweigert.bsky.social · 19h
Once any National Park is violated, others will surely follow.
John Muir said, “The battle for conservation must go on endlessly. It is part of the universal warfare between right and wrong.” #nationalparks #gatesoftheartic

www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/10/trum...
Trump Approves Industrial Road To Cut Through Gates Of The Arctic National Park And Preserve
President Donald Trump has issued an executive order approving the Ambler Road Project, a controversial 211-mile industrial road proposed to run through National Park System units from the Dalton High...
www.nationalparkstraveler.org
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Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility @peer.org · 15h
Federal agencies are drawing up plans to fire employees who would typically be furloughed during a shutdown. For the National Park Service, the proposed layoffs would be devastating.

🔗 https://ow.ly/AeLE50X9fnL

#shutdown #NationalParks
COMMENTARY | Shutdown Could Provide Glimpse into the Future of Public Lands
The Department of Interior is gearing up to slash its workforce, and as past shutdowns indicate, this means danger ahead for our parks and public lands.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 13h
I also think a lot of people are confused about what the Farm Bureau is. It’s an insurance company.

They don’t represent small farmers. They represent wealthy interests.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 13h
I bet no one told you that the Missouri Farm Bureau endorsed the Republican politicians who support Trump’s tariffs and trade war…the two things decimating Missouri soybean farmers.

Did you know that the Farm Bureau sends out a list of “farmer-friendly” politicians to each Farm Bureau member?
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12h
MOODY’S: Twenty-two states are either in a recession or on the precipice of a downturn. 👀

@axios.com 🇺🇸
www.axios.com/newsletters/...
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