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Lus Adler @lusadler.bsky.social · 1h

“Germany …About half of the time, the mother goes back to the facility to pick up the child”

Betty C. Jung @bettycjung.bsky.social · 2h

Why Baby Boxes Are Suddenly Everywhere
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Leaving babies in boxes. How sad that denying women's reproductive rights has come to this.

Why Baby Boxes Are Suddenly Everywhere

Devices to help parents anonymously surrender an infant are spreading across the U.S., stirring emotions and debate.

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Harlow’s Musings @harlowsmusings.bsky.social · 4h

🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Rep-Elect Adelita Grijalva announces her election results will be OFFICIALLY certified tomorrow, destroying Mike Johnson’s last excuse to delay her swearing in.

“Mike Johnson needs to do his job so I can do mine.”

No more lies.
No more delays.
Swear her in!

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 9h

On Saturday, we wear yellow. ❌👑

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 13h

The Middle East is being conned just like America has been conned.

None of what Trump is saying about the Israel-Gaza war being over is true.

None of the agreements he claims have been made have been made, besides a single hostage deal.

He’s lying to the world, and much of the world believes him.

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Candyce 🌊🦋🌈💙🩵 @candycemv1.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible and sad for California

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 1d

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Lus Adler @lusadler.bsky.social · 2d

“Subu’s legal team has filed a motion to reopen the immigration case and a petition for a stay of deportation while the motion is pending. The government has until Oct. 24 to respond.”

Read more at: www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 3d

Donald Trump just got a COVID booster at Walter Reed, per the White House physician.

Let’s be clear this is the same guy who downplayed the virus, mocked masks, and turned lifesaving vaccines into a political wedge that cost hundreds of thousands of lives.

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Lus Adler @lusadler.bsky.social · 2d

“Patricia Kadgien, 60, in the seaside town of Mar del Plata in Buenos Aires province, where “Portrait of a Lady” had been hanging prominently in her living room”

Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

The quiet Dutchman whose dogged search led to a Nazi-looted painting in Argentina reut.rs/46Xqbio

The quiet Dutchman whose dogged search led to a Nazi-looted painting in Argentina

Dutch systems specialist Paul Post had glimpsed the notebooks that contained his father’s Nazi-era diaries before, but when he rediscovered them in an attic 15 years ago, the recent retiree finally had time to closely examine them.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 3d

So not for cause, or to address fraud, waste & abuse.

For partisan political pain.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 3d

You break it, you own it. Kudos to @akalhan.bsky.social.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 3d

Lawyers have been publicizing a new term to describe ICE's racially targeted detainments: a “Kavanaugh stop.”

Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video:

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Lus Adler @lusadler.bsky.social · 3d

Was it homemade, fast food or one of those fancy $15 burgers?

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🦋 Carmen G., PhD (🪖"Prima" to One)🌻 @tcrg2012.bsky.social · 3d

✊🏾

#ONEV1
#Pinks 🌸
#Voices4Victory

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 3d

This is disastrous.

Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 4d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 4d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

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CNN @cnn.com · 3d

Thousands of Palestinians began the long, dusty walk from the south of Gaza toward Gaza City after a ceasefire came into effect in the enclave on Friday. They found their city lying in ruins – yet were relieved to be returning home.
https://cnn.it/3W1PsD3

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 3d

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Lus Adler @lusadler.bsky.social · 3d

So, the bureau of prisons is not paying their employees, due to Trump’s shutdown. Imagine working in a prison for free, safeguarding the inmates and the rest of us. What am I missing here? How can we get people to staff the prisons if we don’t pay them?

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Lus Adler @lusadler.bsky.social · 3d

“Machado and her colleagues trained more than 1 million volunteers to protect the election itself, … monitor the polling stations, report irregularities using a secure app, collect the tally sheets produced by each voting machine “

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 3d

Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela

Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.

www.theatlantic.com

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 4d

Why?

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bird-fanatic.bsky.social @bird-fanatic.bsky.social · 4d

Fetterman was the lone democrat to vote to allow random bombing of the Caribbean.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 5d

President Gustavo Petro of Colombia said his government believed one of the boats recently bombed by the United States in its campaign against alleged drug traffickers had been carrying Colombian citizens, not drug traffickers.

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 5d

The Oregon National Guard general says if they were to be deployed, they would be instructed under his leadership to protect the protesters and not ICE

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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 5d

We are now taking donations of blowup costumes to Portland. These blowup costumes are desperately needed by protesters who are continuing to fight the good fight. Please note that we already have too many T-Rexs, so please, no more T-Rexs.

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Lus Adler @lusadler.bsky.social · 5d

“Black voters sued…the state was required under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act to create a second majority-Black district…Louisiana state Legislature reluctantly drew a new map creating that district while also protecting many Republican incumbents (including Speaker of the House Mike Johnson).”

Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 5d

My New One at MSNBC Opinion on How the Supreme Court Seems Poised to Kill Off What Remains of the Voting Rights Act While Few Pay Attention–With Implications for 2026 Redistricting www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... @msnbc.com

How the Supreme Court could aid the GOP's redistricting games

If the court rules quickly enough in a key voting rights case, it could allow yet another round of partisan redistricting before the 2026 midterms.

www.msnbc.com

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