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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 2h

VACCINES ROCK

www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

Study finds mRNA coronavirus vaccines prolonged life of cancer patients

A study found that covid-19 vaccines appeared to awaken the immune system in lung and skin cancer patients, helping them live longer than those not vaccinated.

www.washingtonpost.com

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 16h

Surprise!

Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 1d

Oh

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Live Updates: White House Changes Course and Will Demolish Entire
East Wing

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Katharine Klabusich @kattyautistic.bsky.social · 5h

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 6h

Tapping the sign

Why Underachievers Dominate Secret Police Organizations: Evidence from Autocratic Argentina
Adam Scharpf and Christian Gläßel

Autocrats depend on a capable secret police. Anecdotal evidence, however, often characterizes agents as surprisingly mediocre in skill and intellect. To explain this puzzle, this article focuses on the career incentives underachieving individuals face in the regular security apparatus. Low-performing officials in hierarchical organizations have little chance of being promoted or filling lucrative positions. To salvage their careers, these officials are willing to undertake burdensome secret police work. Using data on all 4,287 officers who served in autocratic Argentina (1975-83), we study biographic differences between secret police agents and the entire recruitment pool. We find that low-achieving officers were stuck within the regime hierarchy, threatened with discharge, and thus more likely to join the secret police for future benefits. The study demonstrates how state bureaucracies breed mundane career concerns that produce willing enforcers and cement violent regimes. This has implications for the understanding of autocratic consolidation and democratic breakdown.

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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 24d

I'm honored to share the winners of the 5th Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize, given in memory of my sister. Both essays this year reflect on the stark, inherent violence of prison, and convey a key message for our time: Where there is injustice, there is resistance. truthout.org/articles/ann...

Announcing the Winners of the 5th Annual Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize

The prize honors the work of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated authors who are writing toward a more just world.

truthout.org

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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 7h

“Major never abandoned the struggle against fascism, which is to say, the fight to free us all… the way to honor Major is to keep hammering holes in the walls that confine us, and to expand the trans and queer spaces she built.”

- Toshio Meronek & Eric A Stanley

truthout.org/articles/to-...

To Honor Miss Major, We Fight for the Trans and Queer Spaces She Built

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy embraced the messiness of revolt with magnetic optimism.

truthout.org

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Katharine Klabusich @kattyautistic.bsky.social · 7h

Ughhhh. Every dollar put into food assistance results in $1.40-$1.70 in local economic output. Feeding people creates jobs. Farms, stores, etc.
This has been studied over and over and over and over. And we still can’t convince elected officials. #SaveSNAP

povertycenter.columbia.edu/sites/povert...

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Lock Down Your Life @lockdownyourlife.com · 1d

We're at $350/$500 on this request. Would love to wrap it up soon. Please RT for reach! Thank you. 🙂
C: $Lockdownyourlife
V: lockdownyourlife
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Lock Down Your Life @lockdownyourlife.com · 6d

It's Funding Friday. Want to feel better? I promise you will. Helping with immediate medical bills for a DV family recently displaced. We're currently at $300/$500 if you'd like to support. Please RT for reach! Thanks. 🙂
C: $Lockdownyourlife
V: lockdownyourlife
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Russ Frankenstein (no relation) @russ41.bsky.social · 15h

Let's try something new.

If you donate to a food bank and tell me how much and which one, I'll match your donation.

If it's less than $50, I'll round up.

Tag me, reply here, or DM if you prefer.

Why food banks? Because if we want to survive a general strike, we need to keep people fed.

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 17h

Now is a really good time to donate to food banks, and do food runs for mutual aid groups. Also, do menstrual product runs.

Matt @swirlyball.bsky.social · 17h

I wonder how much food theft spikes with desperate people just trying to feed their families. I'm sure there will be a media panic about it.

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🎃 blayne 🎃 @ewhag.com · 8h

the job market is an actual joke right now, so if you need a website or an addition, please reach out!

🎃 blayne 🎃 @ewhag.com · Jul 1

🖤 got my freelance life together 🖤

looking for a new website or a refresh? i got you. and a decade of experience.

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Katharine Klabusich @kattyautistic.bsky.social · 9h

You have hungry neighbors no matter where you live. There are a bunch of ways to participate. And most food banks offer boxes to volunteers — organizers understand that those of us who need these resources are often the most likely to pitch in.

www.feedingamerica.org/take-action/...

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Katharine Klabusich @kattyautistic.bsky.social · 1d

Go to @feedingamerica.org to donate time AND money! They reach into every US county and lead advocacy efforts to improve access to #SNAP, school meals, etc. Volunteering is easy & rewarding.
With tariffs spiking prices, families are already supplementing insufficient SNAP funds; plz give if you can!

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 2d

With Trump and his cronies using the shutdown as cover to shut off the food stamp program, food banks will soon be flooded with demand from the 42 million Americans--including 16 million kids--who rely on the program. Which means the rest of us will need to step up and give whatever we can.

Thanks to Trump's Shutdown, Food Stamps Funding is About to Run Out.

Republicans have just days to reopen the government before the crucial program is forced to halt.

Article in the New Republic by Edith Olmstead, with a cover photo of Trump with his mouth open, looking like he's either yelling or just swallowed a fly.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23h

Example of media self-censorship:
"Earlier this year, the chief content officer for our parent company, e.Republic, stated in a meeting that we should not run articles that could draw the attention of the Trump White House and have them try to shut us down."
www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Opinion | My Bosses Were Afraid of Crossing Trump. So, I Quit.

A veteran journalist opens up on the censorship that he says led to his resignation.

www.politico.com

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 8h

Investigators hunting the gang behind the Louvre jewel heist have found traces of DNA samples in a helmet and gloves and are aware of new video showing the thieves escaping the museum, prosecutors confirm to NBC News.

Police probe new video showing Louvre jewel thieves escaping

Investigators hunting the gang behind the heist have also found traces of DNA samples in a helmet and gloves, prosecutors confirmed to NBC News Thursday.

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 8h

I keep seeing Dems blamed for this guy's candidacy and I just want to point out that less than a week ago the complaint was that Dems weren't backing him. This is a case study in how easy it is to manipulate recent history.

Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 23h

“Betcha not a single downvoter is a real combat vet. Feel free to back it up with facts, fags,” Graham Platner wrote on a 2018 Reddit thread. There are half a dozen more antigay comments attributable to him.

www.advocate.com/news/graham-...

Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner admits using ‘indefensible’ antigay slurs in unearthed Reddit posts

"Today I find that stuff abhorrent," Platner told The Advocate. "And I am sorry that I ever used it.”

www.advocate.com

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Katharine Klabusich @kattyautistic.bsky.social · 8h

My personal fav: “Why isn’t anybody doing anything about xyz??!!”

Response: Have you looked into existing local groups?

Also [crickets]

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 8h

We should do this... x, y, z.

Me: What's the strategy?

[crickets]

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 8h

A trillion dollars was stolen by this administration.

Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 20h

Our debt went up a TRILLION DOLLARS in the last two months

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 8h

Since the “ceasefire,” Netanyahu has killed 100+ Palestinians, has continued to restrict aid into Gaza, banned all UN investigators, & still enforces an international media blackout.

And billionaire owned Washington Post runs this pro genocide editorial. Why do you still have a Wash Post sub?

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💜Ms. Luci/Plush🧸 (Freb Whomsterly) @anplushie.bsky.social · 9h

Trying to raise $300 for groceries since snap isn't re upping due to shutdown
Please help: unemployed disabled trans and desperate
Amz: shorturl.at/FaojU
Kofi: shorturl.at/Z3mfJ
CA: $LuciNevins
Vnmo: @ Harland-Nevins
PP: shorturl.at/S694j

Amazon.com

shorturl.at

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 8h

If you know anyone in Georgia, please tell them to vote! This election is extremely important 😭

Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 9d

hey georgia, early voting is happening now -- please vote out the shitty republicans who keep increasing our electricity bills for no reason and show them we can kick them to the curb if they don't work for the people!!!!!!

find your early voting precincts here:

mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/

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ct @cteeze-nuts.bsky.social · 2d

I like how the NYT tried to do a “some experts say” framing, and the expert was like, you do not need an expert opinion to see this is bad.

Quote text from article:

Lawyers said the nature of the claims posed undeniable ethics challenges.
"What a travesty," said Bennett L.
Gershman, an ethics professor at Pace University. "The ethical conflict is just so basic and fundamental, you don't need a law professor to explain it."

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Katharine Klabusich @kattyautistic.bsky.social · 9h

You have hungry neighbors no matter where you live. There are a bunch of ways to participate. And most food banks offer boxes to volunteers — organizers understand that those of us who need these resources are often the most likely to pitch in.

www.feedingamerica.org/take-action/...

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Katharine Klabusich @kattyautistic.bsky.social · 9h

Fantastic! People wanting to give directly to their area’s food bank can enter their ZIP here: www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...
@feedingamerica.org has FAQs, ways to lobby your local and federal legislators, and more!
#FoodJustice #SaveSNAP

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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 10h

www.change.org/p/rfk-jr-mus...

Sign the Petition

RFK Jr. Must Be Removed—Before More Damage is Done, Before More Lives are Lost

www.change.org

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