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She, her, #justice #SWRL #GasIsPast #NNFFI “Do not obey in advance.” Timothy Snyder
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Teressa found herself raging at what she labeled the insurance company’s “weaponized incompetence.”

Fax numbers were wrong.

Key records were no longer available online.

The insurer wouldn’t even give her access to her husband’s medical records.

(Published Sept. 2025)
“Just Let Me Die”: After Insurance Repeatedly Denied a Couple’s Claims, One Psychiatrist Was Their Last Hope
After a North Carolina man attempted suicide twice, his wife tried to get him help at an inpatient clinic. But their insurance provider refused to cover the treatment, deeming it “not medically necess...
www.propublica.org
December 5, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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AI needs to regulated so that it can not falsely represent people in any way without clearly indicating its AI. People should not have to research to figure what is AI or not.
December 3, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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The harm caused by bias in AI isn't some far off idea. It's happening right now, and Black, brown, and working-class communities are feeling the impact.
December 2, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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That’s why today, I’m proud to stand with @markey.senate.gov, @repyvetteclarke.bsky.social, @repsummerlee.bsky.social, and @pressley.house.gov to introduce the AI Civil Rights Act.
December 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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This looks amazing (& SO NEEDED) and I’d like to find out more about it so I can contact all my representatives.

Thank you @markey.senate.gov !!

#AIcivilrights #Legislation
The harm caused by bias in AI isn't some far off idea. It's happening right now, and Black, brown, and working-class communities are feeling the impact.
December 3, 2025 at 11:43 PM
This is an excellent question @andreadoremus.bsky.social
Dear @repsummerlee.bsky.social
@markey.senate.gov, @repyvetteclarke.bsky.social, @jayapal.house.gov, @pressley.house.gov

🙏 YES! To this legislation🙌🏼

Question: If an AI customer service bot answers questions on a HELP-line, does the “AI Civil Rights Act” require it self-identify as a computer?
The harm caused by bias in AI isn't some far off idea. It's happening right now, and Black, brown, and working-class communities are feeling the impact.
December 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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“An FBI official says the arrest happened Thursday morning. A news conference will take place at the Justice Department on Thursday to officially announce the arrest.”
December 4, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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BREAKING: FBI arrests a suspect in the investigation into pipe bombs planted near the RNC and DNC headquarters on Jan. 5, 2021.
Suspect arrested in January 2021 D.C. pipe bomb case
The bombs were planted outside the Republican and Democratic national party headquarters in Washington, D.C, on the eve of the January 6 siege on the Capitol.
nbcnews.to
December 4, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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"Two Florida migrant detention centers may have violated international standards by imposing conditions that could amount to torture of detainees, a human rights organization claimed in a report released early Thursday morning." www.newsfromthestates.com/article/copy...
‘Copy of Guantánamo’: Human rights group alleges torture, inhumanity at ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ Krome
Two Florida migrant detention centers may have violated international standards by imposing conditions that could amount to torture of detainees, a human rights organization claimed in a report…
www.newsfromthestates.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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President Trump on Tuesday delivered blatantly xenophobic public remarks, which included attacking Somali immigrants in Minnesota and calling them “garbage.”

Listen to "The Daily."
Trump Rants: ‘Let Them Go Back to Where They Came From’
President Trump has attacked Somalis with increasingly inflammatory rhetoric in recent days.
nyti.ms
December 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Poor dumb young people; indoctrinated by the evidence of their eyes and ears; living in a bubble of what is actually happening instead of here in the real world of billionaire donor events and funder dinners.
Hillary Clinton blames TikTok and “totally made up” videos for young people’s views on Israel and Palestine.

She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
December 4, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Playing the "if this were a Democrat" game is tired I know but my God if this were a Democrat it would be the only story we'd hear until 2042. www.thedailybeast.com/don-jrs-fund...
Don Jr.’s Fund to Cash In on $620M Magnet Deal With Pentagon
Never mind that his father views magnets as an almost existential source of confusion, Trump Jr. is on track to benefit from them with the latest contract handed to a company he backs.
www.thedailybeast.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Not wrong to say that MAGA is a cult, but it's also not wrong to observe that people fall into cults because they find them seductively attractive—which suggests that those who fell into a white supremacist cult like MAGA did so because they already found white supremacy seductively attractive.
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 4, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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While everyone was focusing on Trump sleeping during the cabinet meeting, they seemed to miss his heavily bandaged right hand. 👇 You know, the same one he has regularly appeared with bruises and bandages on since 2019 👇 and the media just shrugs. 😒 bsky.app/profile/maud...
December 4, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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It's a very hard issue to sum up quickly, but here's an interview with one of the scientists who's been working to uncover the problems, which have come from multiple labs working independently of each other and have set the field back by decades: beingpatient.com/fraud-alzhei...
How Bad Is Fraud in Alzheimer’s Research? Q&A With Neurologist-Sleuth Matthew Schrag
Dr. Matthew Schrag discusses spotting misconduct in Alzheimer's clinical research — and why this problem is taking so long to fix.
beingpatient.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Trump worked hard to conceal the back of his right hand today but Chip Somodevilla of Getty got a shot of it
December 3, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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December 4, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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BREAKING-The IG report about Pete Hegseth’s Signal chat is out

And it’s damning

“The information Hegseth shared included the precise times..fighter pilots would attack their targets. If Houthi militants had learned those details in advance, they might have been able to shoot down American planes”
December 3, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Around 90% of Somalis in Minnesota are US citizens. Republicans call them "illegals" because they aren't white.
December 3, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Only Democrats to have cast < 10 votes aligned with Trump this year

Merkley: 7
Murphy: 5
Sanders: 5
Warren: 4
Markey: 2

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Tracking Senate Votes 2025
docs.google.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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11 Senate Democrats just voted to advance the nomination of a Federal Society judge who used to defend banks and payday lenders:

Durbin
Gallego
Hassan
Hirono
Kaine
Kelly
King
Klobuchar
Reed
Rosen
Whitehouse
December 4, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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What a sick joke. Will they put photos of the murders in the Caribbean Sea in the lobby? How about a photo of Trump clapping as the murderer Putin arrives in Alaska? Or Trump having the time of his life with the murdering Saudi Prince MBS?

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
Trump Renames Institute of Peace for Himself
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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The anti-feminist grift going back to Phyllis Schlafly is to travel the country, run a well-funded nonprofit, and ignore their own children in order to focus on telling *other* women that they belong in the kitchen.
Erika Kirk claims liberal women don’t get married, bc they rely on the gov to provide for them.

Lady.. who told you that?

If we somehow end up with JD/Erika ticket…
December 4, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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This is the Witch Trials theory of war: If they try not to drown at sea, they're terrorists.
December 4, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.

This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!

Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
December 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM