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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 5h

Epidurals are rare in Japan, where some believe that women who endure childbirth without pain-relief enjoy closer bonds with their children. Hoping to nudge up the number of babies being born, Tokyo govt has begun rolling out subsidies to help women pay for epidurals and chip away at that stigma

To Tackle a Baby Shortage, Tokyo Tries Easing the Pain of Childbirth

The Japanese capital is rolling out subsidies for epidurals in a country where cost is a barrier and women are often encouraged to endure the pain of delivery.

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ingemarknows.bsky.social @ingemarknows.bsky.social · 1h

The gop does not intend to help regular Americans.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 9h

U.S. Department of Education fired nearly everyone in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in a wave of new layoffs that began Friday, according to the union representing the agency's employees. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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NPR @npr.org · 8h

Multiple sources tell NPR that, as part of the Trump administration's latest reduction-in-force, the U.S. Department of Education has gutted the office that handles special education. n.pr/48stHUo

Amid shutdown, Trump administration guts department overseeing special education

Multiple sources tell NPR that, as part of the Trump administration's latest reduction-in-force, the U.S. Department of Education has gutted the office that handles special education.

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 6h

NEW: More fuel to the Epstein fire

Questions about how responders handled the scene .. when Jeffrey Epstein died

youtube.com/shorts/hGDr7...

THE DAY AHEAD: Mounting questions about how responders handled the scene when Jeffrey Epstein died

YouTube video by Scott MacFarlane CBS

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ingemarknows.bsky.social @ingemarknows.bsky.social · 1h

The US President is an international disgrace. His behavior at the signing ceremony is ridiculous.

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Melissa Mallou @melissamallou.bsky.social · 12h

No surprise. I figured the promise was a scam to get undocumented immigrants to identify themselves. And instead of the promised chance to return legally, they will be banned from the USA for life.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 16h

Trump promised free plane tickets and $1,000 “exit bonuses” to immigrants who opted to self-deport.

ProPublica spoke to a dozen Venezuelan immigrants who said they followed the president’s instructions, yet never received the promised assistance.

“I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore”: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in Trump’s America

Venezuelan immigrants signed up for a Trump-promoted app called CBP Home, which promised a safe and easy way to leave the country, and prepared to leave on their given departure dates. Those dates hav...

www.propublica.org

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ingemarknows.bsky.social @ingemarknows.bsky.social · 15h

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 19h

"The U.S. is two economies. There's an enormous AI boom going on, huge investments, particularly in data centers. If you took that out of the numbers and you just looked at the non-AI parts of the economy, it's basically flatlining. We're on the cusp of a non-AI recession."
-- Me

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NPR @npr.org · 19h

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.

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.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 22h

The amount of money we are giving to Argentina amounts to $450 per resident of that country. But we're not even giving it to people there who need it, we're giving it to prop up Elon's pal, the corrupt President of that country, who'll then shovel some of it into the pockets of Trump's friends here.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22h

“America First.”

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 22h

Can’t believe all these people are running a marathon through "war torn" Chicago today

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 22h

The unstated purpose of AI is to allow capital to acquire skill while taking away the ability of those with skills to acquire capital.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 22h

Trump's Argentina Bailout

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22h

“America First.”

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Justin Elliott @justinelliott.bsky.social · 1d

Here is our full story that Vance is dismissing, with primary source documents showing Trump cabinet members with multiple primary-residence mortgages

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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ingemarknows.bsky.social @ingemarknows.bsky.social · 22h

a white and brown cat is sitting on a table and looking at the camera with the words `` no way ! ''

Alt: a white and brown cat is sitting on a table and looking at the camera with the words `` no way ! ''

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ingemarknows.bsky.social @ingemarknows.bsky.social · 22h

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

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ingemarknows.bsky.social @ingemarknows.bsky.social · 22h

The loss of empathy is the start of barbarism

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ingemarknows.bsky.social @ingemarknows.bsky.social · 22h

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1d

"The shortest path to authoritarian regime is a mass deportation regime."

@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social explains why this is the case, and how it's happening.

www.youtube.com/live/GkUobvl...

The Trump Administration's Plan to Crush Dissent (w/ Tom Joscelyn)

YouTube video by The Bulwark

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Pritzker: "If the Constitution means anything -- and I guess we all are questioning that right now -- the Insurrection Act cannot be invoked ... they just want troops on the ground because they want to militarize especially blue cities in blue states."

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ingemarknows.bsky.social @ingemarknows.bsky.social · 1d

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ingemarknows.bsky.social @ingemarknows.bsky.social · 1d

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1d

In Chicago, a federal government that is supposed to protect us has decided to terrorize us instead with an armed force of masked thugs.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Border Patrol is terrorizing Gage Park this morning (video from Facebook, 55th & California reportedly 9:40am). SWRR reports agents are highly active and were also seen at the Pulaski orange line again: instagram.com/p/DPtwEY7DhTy

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