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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 14h

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 6h

"You put a sombrero on a Black man who's the leader of the House."
More of this in your face direct confrontation from Democrats, please.

Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 1d

Mike Johnson gets another public dressing-down from Rep. Madeleine Dean

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 10h

@greene.haus

Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 12h

Basically the study cited by 51 Republican Senators has as much scientific validity as RFK Jr claiming autism is tied to circumcision.

Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 12h

The study cited in the Republican Senate letter about mifepristone is not scientifically valid. www.kff.org/health-infor...

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 11h

@glennkessler.bsky.social Since 51 GOP Senators cited this study in a letter to HHS today, might need to re-up this: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | Digging into the math of a study attacking the safety of the abortion pill

The Ethics and Public Policy Center report on mifepristone has earned headlines on the right, but what does the data show?

www.washingtonpost.com

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 11h

American College of Obstetrician Gynecologists + numerous medical organizations:
www.acog.org/news/news-re...

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 12h

Basically the study cited by 51 Republican Senators has as much scientific validity as RFK Jr claiming autism is tied to circumcision.

Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 12h

The study cited in the Republican Senate letter about mifepristone is not scientifically valid. www.kff.org/health-infor...

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 12h

factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 12h

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 15h

NEW: 51 Senators urge RFK Jr. and Marty Makary to end telemedicine prescriptions of the abortion drug mifepristone— and to suspend its distribution as an "imminent hazard" under Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Collins and Murkowski only GOP members not to sign
justthenews.com/sites/defaul...

screenshot of letter dated 10/9/25
Today, your agencies have all the information they need to bring an end to previous Democrat-administrations’ abortion drug regulations while a comprehensive review is conducted. As a starting point,
we recommend the following:
1. Suspend the approval of any new generic versions of mifepristone pending the outcome of the REMS safety review;
2. Commit to ensuring that all generic versions of mifepristone are included in the ongoing reevaluation of prior REMS approvals;
3. Reinstate the in-person dispensing requirement for mifepristone and all its generic versions;
4. Suspend the distribution of mifepristone and all generic versions as an “imminent hazard” under Section 505(e) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA); and
5. Withdraw FDA guidance permitting pharmacy distribution of mifepristone and all its generic versions.

We are committed to continuing to work together to give a voice to the voiceless and protect women from the dangerous effects of unregulated access to chemical abortion drugs. The life, safety, freedom, and health of millions of Americans, born and unborn, depend on it.

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 12h

The study cited in the Republican Senate letter about mifepristone is not scientifically valid. www.kff.org/health-infor...

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 12h

Original poster blocked me for pointing out they were full of shit.
Probably a bot, suggest others block them.

Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 12h

I am so tired of this trolling nonsense. First of all, Democrats didn't have the votes to 'codify Roe'. Here in Colorado, a state without gestational limits, doing that would be worse than what we have.
And the Dobbs decision would have superceded any such law anyway. Constitution > statute.

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 12h

I am so tired of this trolling nonsense. First of all, Democrats didn't have the votes to 'codify Roe'. Here in Colorado, a state without gestational limits, doing that would be worse than what we have.
And the Dobbs decision would have superceded any such law anyway. Constitution > statute.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 15h

NEW: 51 Senators urge RFK Jr. and Marty Makary to end telemedicine prescriptions of the abortion drug mifepristone— and to suspend its distribution as an "imminent hazard" under Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Collins and Murkowski only GOP members not to sign
justthenews.com/sites/defaul...

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 16h

I feel like a broken record, but I have to keep saying it over and over again: a farmer bailout won’t do much of anything because the market is gone. There will be no incentive to plant next year.

The bailout will help payoff farmer debt to the banks. That’s all.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 14h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 13h

Yep, my great-great grandmother Mamie Peeples Morrow, her husband William, and their daughters Louise (age 12) and Laura Ella (my namesake, age 8) all somehow survived the great Galveston hurricane. He was a ticket agent for the Katy Railroad & they took refuge at a 'sea captain's house'.

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 14h

Kevin Stitt, the GOP gov of Oklahoma and the chair of the National Govs Association, on Texas sending its National Guard to Illinois:

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 14h

Finally accumulated a critical mass of pro-abortion & reproductive rights t-shirts so shipping them off to be made into a quilt.
Hope they like the 'Don't Fuck With Us, Don't Fuck Without Us' shirt from Planned Parenthood I put on top.

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 14h

Challengers to Connecticut's assault weapons ban are now asking SCOTUS to take up their case and declare all assault weapons bans unconstitutional.

www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 15h

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 15d

One beautiful morning, Chicago!

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Ted Hesson @tedhesson.bsky.social · 15h

A woman who was shot multiple times by border agents did not ram them with her car and had her weapon stored in her purse at the time, according to her lawyer, contradicting accounts by DHS that described the shooting as self-defense. @reneehickman.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/bod...

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 17h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 16h

Pope Leo going to run for Mayor of New York.

Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 21h

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 16h

Ben Bradlee just yelled WHAT THE FUCK from the grave.

Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 18h

conservatives used to call it "the washington compost" and now under jeff bezos, they were right

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