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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 11h

A person I interviewed for this story told me her 8th grader recently read Night by Elie Wiesel in school and observed “it’s sort of like what’s happening here right now” in case you’re wondering how things are going for Chicago’s kids.

Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 11h

On the occasion of Halloween, @newrepublic.com asked me to write about what’s going on in Chicago and I wanted you all to know what randomized terror feels like. And also that as the federal government fails our kids, everyday Chicagoans are showing the courage of trying to protect them.

ICE Is Terrorizing Chicago for Halloween—and Parents Are Fighting Back

Fear and a whiff of tear gas hang over festivities this year. In response, even people who aren’t usually politically engaged are mobilizing.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4h

Medicare for All would save $450B a year.

Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.

Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.

It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.

It’s about priorities.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 23h

People should watch this. www.youtube.com/shorts/tKxBb...

'I’m so terrified': 40 million to lose food assistance amid shutdown

YouTube video by MSNBC

www.youtube.com

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therealfinancecharg 🏳️‍🌈✊🏿🇺🇦🇻🇪🇨🇺 @financecharg.bsky.social · 1d

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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 1d

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 1d

If you have a RING door system, ICE has the right to request that footage and use it against you or your neighbors.

RING is partnering with the Gestapo.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 1d

CBS went to a military food pantry (those words, in order) to interview moms. 13% of military families rely on SNAP/WIC. When a military spouse of a deployed soldier on enlisted salary was asked if people should be surprised: “No they shouldn’t. We live in poverty just like everybody else.”

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 1d

TACO is NOT building a ballroom.

He is building a bunker.

Booze Allen is not an architecture firm.

It’s a defense contractor.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 1d

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Unfkr @kittylitterbreath.bsky.social · 1d

Fucking ha!

Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 1d

📒 NEW STUDY: “Permanent Daylight Saving Time hinders the stability of circadian rhythms, posing public health risks, especially for adolescents and evening chronotypes.” 👉 Permanent Standard Time is needed instead!

Screenshot from study linked in our first reply.

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is a child rapist.

He is not just a pedophile.

He is not just a perv.

He spent years raping little children.

Just ask Prince Andrew.

Guarantee Charles did.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 1d

We should have punished the Confederates.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

I’m still shocked that stories like this which come out daily still get largely ignored. The most corrupt person to ever hold any public office in US history. I will keep posting them every day and try to amplify them, even when most media doesn’t care. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

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Jason Odell @luminescentphoto.com · 3d

A quick reminder that the House is not in session because Speaker Johnson CANCELED it, not because of the current shutdown.

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Unfkr @kittylitterbreath.bsky.social · 2d

Jesus, but I love that his house is this clean.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

i cannot believe that “mamdani calls a close adult relative an ‘aunt’ even if they are not literally their parent’s sister” is what counts as a “scandal” these days

Unfkr @kittylitterbreath.bsky.social · 2d

Don't forget, slavery is still legal in this country as long as the enslaved are incarcerated. A great way to increase prison populations is effectively starving a large portion of society into doing crimes to feed their families.

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Unfkr @kittylitterbreath.bsky.social · 2d

Oof.

Josh Richardson @schizosemia.bsky.social · 3d

From Understanding Media (1964) by Marshall McLuhan.

Rapidly, we approach the final phase of the extensions of man—the technological simulation of consciousness, when the creative process of knowing will be collectively and corporately extended to the whole of human society, muchoas we have already extended our senses and our nerves by the various media. Whether the extension of consciousness, so long sought by advertisers for specific products, will be "a good thing" is a question that admits of a wide solution.

Unfkr @kittylitterbreath.bsky.social · 2d

And was originally worth the monetary investment.

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Unfkr @kittylitterbreath.bsky.social · 4d

Diphteria is back too, y'all.

BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 4d

Excellent reporting by @stephanienolen.bsky.social on the resurgence of #Diphteria in displaced populations, with a focus on #Somalia. The resurgence of this infectious disease is happening globally due to declining vaccination rates.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/h...

Diphtheria, a Once Vanquished Killer of Children, Is Resurgent

www.nytimes.com

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Aunty-Fa @auntyfa.bsky.social · Sep 21

www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8AG...

IT AINT GONNA GO AWAY - ODE TO THE EPSTEIN FILES

YouTube video by Cathy Fink Marcy Marxer

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Unfkr @kittylitterbreath.bsky.social · 4d

NY, I love you.

Craig R. Brittain @craigbrittain.com · 4d

Kathy Hochul: Clap for my friends!
NYC: TAX THE RICH CHANT

Unfkr @kittylitterbreath.bsky.social · 6d

Men by Alex Garland

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 7d

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.

Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).

*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”

youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987

YouTube video by Reagan Library

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 6d

Finally read the paper and it's worth the buzz.
mRNA vaccines saved 20 million lives in a global pandemic and the technology is opening up new avenues for the treatment of deadly cancers. This is really one of the most impactful scientific developments of our time.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines sensitize tumours to immune checkpoint blockade - Nature

mRNA vaccines targeting SARS-CoV-2 also sensitize tumours to immune checkpoint inhibitors.

www.nature.com

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