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Gannet Seas @gannetseas.bsky.social · May 12

F the felon, F musk, F the nazi youth & doge, F vought, F rfk jr, F vance, F the entire rest of administration, and F the GOP.

They all have blood, misery, death, and despair on their hands. Those things should also be on their consciences, but they have no consciences.

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · May 11

"In the few months since the second Trump administration began, the federal government’s efforts to control silicosis have been destroyed," David Michaels and Gregory Wagner write:

DOGE Is Bringing Back a Deadly Disease

Cuts to agencies that protect workers’ lungs are going to result in the resurgence of a preventable illness.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

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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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

New in PN: Trump is the insurrection

"It’s a wild assault on state sovereignty, bringing us ever closer to the brink of civil war. This is despotism, & whatever chaos & violence is about to be unleashed lies squarely on the robed shoulders of Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, & Barrett."

Trump is the insurrection

And the Supreme Court's conservatives are his shock troops.

www.publicnotice.co

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

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Here’s the video again: www.instagram.com/reel/DPi9m_2...

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Gannet Seas @gannetseas.bsky.social · 2d

👉“And the rest of us, whether we’re elected officials or ordinary citizens, should do everything we can to let our fellow Americans in uniform know that if they risk their careers and even their freedom to protect the Constitution, we will stand with them.” ✅

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 3d

“America’s senior military officers, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan Caine, must approach Trump now and make clear to him that they will not obey illegal orders to act against American citizens or disrupt the American political process.”

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here

The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.

www.theatlantic.com

Gannet Seas @gannetseas.bsky.social · 2d

“Underfoot” is a new podcast by Flatbush Cats (of Brooklyn, New York City), exploring the hidden cat crisis in NYC, and how we can solve it. @flatbushcats.bsky.social 🐈🐈‍⬛❤️

5.1K views · 377 reactions | Underfoot is a new podcast by Flatbush Cats exploring the hidden cat crisis in NYC, and how we can solve it. Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. 🐾 | Flatbush Cats

Underfoot is a new podcast by Flatbush Cats exploring the hidden cat crisis in NYC, and how we can solve it. Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. 🐾.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Tommy Tuberville on the 2020 census: "The Democrats were letting illegals come in for a different count. They obviously had a census going that was all rigged. The 2020 election basically was rigged."

(Believe it or not, Donald Trump was president in 2020.)

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 4d

Looking for one thing you can do right now to help protect the right to vote? It will only take a few minutes, and you can share it with all of your friends. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-thing-yo...

A Thing You Can Do Right Now To Help Protect The Right To Vote

The U.S.

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BCWR @bcwr-kittens.co.uk · 5d

Valiant, Brave & Hope Update - Valiant, Brave & Hope Update The 3 kittens dumped in a box left for dead are still fighting on. We have named them Valiant, Brave and Hope. Here you can see them eating a little kitten food in their new emergency ICU that our lovely supporters have funded .

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OPB @opb.org · 6d

Judge Karin Immergut’s ruling capped a dramatic weekend that included President Trump sending California National Guard members to Oregon and ordering others from Texas.

Federal judge blocks federalized guard from deploying to Oregon

Gov. Tina Kotek said Oregon is “not a military target,” and said federal officials are trying to antagonize and provoke conflict outside the ICE facility.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 6d

The new term of Court starts today. Here’s what I am paying attention to. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

The Week Ahead

October 5, 2025

open.substack.com

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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 9d

Trump and Republicans shut down the government to gut health care for working Americans.

In my district alone, Republican cuts to Medicaid and the ACA would lead to 43,000 people losing coverage.

They’re wrecking health care just so billionaires can get tax cuts.

How Much More Would People Pay in Premiums if the ACA's Enhanced Premium Tax Credits Expire? | KFF

The ACA's enhanced premium tax credits arre set to expire at the end of 2025. This calculator estimates how much out-of-pocket premiums would increase for families if Congress does not extend the cred...

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Angry Donkey News @angrydonkeynews.bsky.social · 6d

Rep. Greg Casar showed up at Ted Cruz’s office in Texas and read a constituent’s letter straight into his ring camera. Ted Cruz, however, was nowhere inside.

www.reddit.com/r/CringeTikT...

From the CringeTikToks community on Reddit: Rep. Greg Casar showed up at Ted Cruz’s office in Texas and read a constituent’s letter straight into his ring camera. Ted Cruz, however, was nowhere inside...

Explore this post and more from the CringeTikToks community

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 6d

This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States.

America is on the brink of martial law.

Do not be silent.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 6d

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

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Gannet Seas @gannetseas.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you to General Bonta, to all the people in California and Oregon working for both of our states in this fight, and to the judge for this righteous result.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 6d

Bonta: Just minutes before the hearing, we got word that the Texas National Guard has been federalized.

We asked the judge to issue a broad order — one that applies to every National Guard unit in every state — stating that none of them can be deployed to Oregon.

She issued that order

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 6d

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror."

( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

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Prof Steven Lee @stevethechemist.bsky.social · 10d

Our work on visualising protein aggregates in human brain tissue in Parkinson's disease was published today in Nature Biomedical Engineering, well done to Becs, Bin and Christina for their hardwork!
www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

Parkinson’s ‘trigger’ directly observed in human brain tissue for the first time

Scientists have, for the first time, directly visualised and quantified the protein clusters believed to trigger Parkinson’s, marking a major advance in the

www.cam.ac.uk

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Gannet Seas @gannetseas.bsky.social · 10d

🚨 Over-stretched Bradford Cat Watch Rescue & Sanctuary (in UK) has emergency need for donations to cover a £1500 surgery to repair a one-year-old cat's broken femur. The cat was injured in a road traffic accident, and will have to be put to sleep if BCWR cannot raise the funds for the surgery today.

BCWR @bcwr-kittens.co.uk · 11d

Emergency! - Emergency! EMERGENCY SITUATION @ BCWR TONIGHT. We started today with a crisis, and unfortunately ending with another…..

Gannet Seas @gannetseas.bsky.social · 11d

With rulings such as this, the right-wing SCOTUS majority has proved the speciousness of their claims that their rulings are based on constitutional originalism. Here they prove they care nothing about what the Constitution says or means. Instead they rule to implement whatever outcome they desire.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12d

The Supreme Court ruled that Trump can unilaterally withhold $4 billion in foreign aid already approved by Congress that his regime deemed “wasteful.”

Meanwhile, he’s happy to bail out his authoritarian pal in Argentina to the tune of $20 billion.

Talk about wasteful.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 12d

Court-watchers confirm this cruel ICE agent has been reinstated.

Last week, in the briefest moment of decency, violently throwing a woman to the floor was “beneath the men and women of ICE.”

This week, it’s back to business as usual. The cruelty, after all, is the point.

Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 16d

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 12d

NEWS: The country is barreling toward a government shutdown in 24 hours, YouTube agrees to pay Trump $24.5 million, Pete Hegseth exhibits erratic behavior in the Pentagon, and much more.

All the news you missed: open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

BREAKING: Government Shutdown Appears Likely as No Deal Reached at White House

The country is barreling toward a government shutdown in 24 hours, YouTube agrees to pay Trump $24.5 million, Pete Hegseth exhibits erratic behavior in the Pentagon, and much more.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 12d

The top 10% now hold 67.4% of all the wealth in the US.

The bottom 50% hold 2.5%.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 12d

A very efficient, distilled and to me pretty persuasive version of the bear case against AI economics.

JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 12d

No surprise, this is very good. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Gannet Seas @gannetseas.bsky.social · 12d

Only if he means how the felon has cheapened & tarnished the Oval Office & other rooms with tasteless, pointless, gaudy gewgaws & wall appliqués.

The ”freaking out” the felon is referring to is people trying to mask their horror & choking noises upon seeing “what he’s done with” the White House.

It Looks Like Some Of The "Gold" In Trump's Oval Office Is 60 Bucks From Home Depot

"Best Oval Office ever, in terms of success and look!!!"

www.buzzfeed.com

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 12d

www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

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