Elaine
@miscelaineous.bsky.social
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Elaine
@miscelaineous.bsky.social
· Jul 3
US contractors say their colleagues are firing live ammo as Palestinians seek food in Gaza
American contractors guarding aid distribution sites in Gaza are using live ammunition and stun grenades as hungry Palestinians scramble for food, according to accounts and videos obtained by The Asso...
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“We have come here to get food for our families. We have nothing,” he recounted Palestinians telling him. “Why does the (Israeli) army shoot at us? Why do you shoot at us?”
apnews.com/article/pale...
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“When you make that kind of sensational claim, I think it’s incumbent upon you to provide evidence that supports that claim. He didn’t supply any evidence," @pauloffit.bsky.social said.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Never seen anything like this’: alarm at memo from top US vaccine official
Vinay Prasad memo said at least 10 children had died from Covid vaccination – but offered scant evidence for claim
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:42 PM
“When you make that kind of sensational claim, I think it’s incumbent upon you to provide evidence that supports that claim. He didn’t supply any evidence," @pauloffit.bsky.social said.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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While the new rules present challenges for all respiratory vaccines, updated flu and Covid shots especially “cannot be delayed,” @doritreiss.bsky.social said.
“I don’t know if we will have influenza vaccines next year in the US.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
“I don’t know if we will have influenza vaccines next year in the US.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Never seen anything like this’: alarm at memo from top US vaccine official
Vinay Prasad memo said at least 10 children had died from Covid vaccination – but offered scant evidence for claim
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM
While the new rules present challenges for all respiratory vaccines, updated flu and Covid shots especially “cannot be delayed,” @doritreiss.bsky.social said.
“I don’t know if we will have influenza vaccines next year in the US.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
“I don’t know if we will have influenza vaccines next year in the US.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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🚨 SCOOP: Trump's admin is sabotaging a critical program that provides legal defense for unaccompanied migrant children.
An internal letter signed by dozens of legal aid groups warns that the program may soon be contracted out to an ICE technology vendor (and Angelina Jolie's nonprofit).
An internal letter signed by dozens of legal aid groups warns that the program may soon be contracted out to an ICE technology vendor (and Angelina Jolie's nonprofit).
December 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM
🚨 SCOOP: Trump's admin is sabotaging a critical program that provides legal defense for unaccompanied migrant children.
An internal letter signed by dozens of legal aid groups warns that the program may soon be contracted out to an ICE technology vendor (and Angelina Jolie's nonprofit).
An internal letter signed by dozens of legal aid groups warns that the program may soon be contracted out to an ICE technology vendor (and Angelina Jolie's nonprofit).
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Real wages (after inflation) were growing at 2.0% last year. Now it’s 0.8% — “clearly playing into what the majority of American households would define as an affordability crisis.”
@joebrusuelas.bsky.social
@joebrusuelas.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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We cannot allow this to become normalized.
NEW: Federal agents wearing tactical gear and wielding assault rifles busted into an apartment in Jackson Heights Thursday morning as a helicopter hovered overhead, according to eyewitnesses and video obtained by THE CITY.
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Feds Bust into Jackson Heights Apartment Building In Pre-Dawn Raid
Dozens of agents wielding assault rifles took two middle-aged, Spanish-speaking people away in cuffs early Thursday morning as a helicopter hovered overhead.
www.thecity.nyc
December 4, 2025 at 9:15 PM
We cannot allow this to become normalized.
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boosting as a Public Service announcement but definitely take care if reading
The October 2025 edition of Police Predators is live! Content warning for CSA
October 2025
Welcome to Police Predators, a side project that documents child sexual abuse by law enforcement officers. Every month, I’ll be doing a roundup of all the stories I could find about cops that were cha...
blackbanner.ghost.io
December 4, 2025 at 8:58 PM
boosting as a Public Service announcement but definitely take care if reading
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The cited reasoning? "Women will just go and have babies and quit being doctors anyway, so why let them in and waste our time/resources?"
Which I find fucking HILARIOUS, considering Japan's dumpster-tier birthrate.
I wouldn't want to have a baby in that climate, either.
Which I find fucking HILARIOUS, considering Japan's dumpster-tier birthrate.
I wouldn't want to have a baby in that climate, either.
December 4, 2025 at 9:10 PM
The cited reasoning? "Women will just go and have babies and quit being doctors anyway, so why let them in and waste our time/resources?"
Which I find fucking HILARIOUS, considering Japan's dumpster-tier birthrate.
I wouldn't want to have a baby in that climate, either.
Which I find fucking HILARIOUS, considering Japan's dumpster-tier birthrate.
I wouldn't want to have a baby in that climate, either.
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Only tangentially related, but FUN FACT, gang: At least 9 Japanese medical schools, including the illustrious Tokyo Medical University, have been caught CHANGING THE SCORES on admission exams to exclude female applicants for the last 20 YEARS.
This is real! It happened!
www.bbc.com/news/world-a...
This is real! It happened!
www.bbc.com/news/world-a...
December 4, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Only tangentially related, but FUN FACT, gang: At least 9 Japanese medical schools, including the illustrious Tokyo Medical University, have been caught CHANGING THE SCORES on admission exams to exclude female applicants for the last 20 YEARS.
This is real! It happened!
www.bbc.com/news/world-a...
This is real! It happened!
www.bbc.com/news/world-a...
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4/ Related thread about Scott Yenor, Claremont, Heritage, and contraception. bsky.app/profile/jenn...
The Heritage Foundation & the Claremont Institute often seem to operate in lockstep. Both of them, for example, recently published articles by Scott Yenor that take aim at contraception, specifically, birth control pills. Here’s the Heritage piece from 10/29/25... 1/ www.heritage.org/life/comment...
RFK Should Grill the Pill
No drug is as sacrosanct in today’s sexually “liberated” culture as oral contraceptives. But the proliferation of the birth control pill since the 1960s has fostered a number of grave consequences for...
www.heritage.org
December 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM
4/ Related thread about Scott Yenor, Claremont, Heritage, and contraception. bsky.app/profile/jenn...
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When I learned about WWII as a kid I wondered how people could be so void of empathy & humanity to do what they did to millions of innocent people.
It didn't start as concentration or death camps. It began as "they don't belong here" with gov propaganda to normalize stripping people of citizenship.
It didn't start as concentration or death camps. It began as "they don't belong here" with gov propaganda to normalize stripping people of citizenship.
December 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
When I learned about WWII as a kid I wondered how people could be so void of empathy & humanity to do what they did to millions of innocent people.
It didn't start as concentration or death camps. It began as "they don't belong here" with gov propaganda to normalize stripping people of citizenship.
It didn't start as concentration or death camps. It began as "they don't belong here" with gov propaganda to normalize stripping people of citizenship.
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"Fat, illiterate, and violent is no way to go through life, son."
@radiofreetom.bsky.social @kenwhite.bsky.social
@radiofreetom.bsky.social @kenwhite.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
"Fat, illiterate, and violent is no way to go through life, son."
@radiofreetom.bsky.social @kenwhite.bsky.social
@radiofreetom.bsky.social @kenwhite.bsky.social
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I looked up the bill because I wanted to know if I was just knee-jerk accepting a narrative in which Newsom sucks because I already think he sucks.
Turns out, no, the dude just sucks.
1/
Turns out, no, the dude just sucks.
1/
"...Newsom has vetoed our menopause bill, not one but two years in a row. But that's OK, because he's not going to be governor forever. And with the way he's overlooked women, half the population, by devaluing us in midlife, he probably should not be our next president either."
youtu.be/603NmGNkfqY
youtu.be/603NmGNkfqY
December 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I looked up the bill because I wanted to know if I was just knee-jerk accepting a narrative in which Newsom sucks because I already think he sucks.
Turns out, no, the dude just sucks.
1/
Turns out, no, the dude just sucks.
1/
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The bill mandates medical continuing education include credit hours in menopause diagnosis and treatment.
And that insurance actually cover diagnosis and treatment as determined by the physician.
Which Newsom vetoed explicitly because it doesn’t let insurance companies try to screw patients.
2/2
And that insurance actually cover diagnosis and treatment as determined by the physician.
Which Newsom vetoed explicitly because it doesn’t let insurance companies try to screw patients.
2/2
December 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The bill mandates medical continuing education include credit hours in menopause diagnosis and treatment.
And that insurance actually cover diagnosis and treatment as determined by the physician.
Which Newsom vetoed explicitly because it doesn’t let insurance companies try to screw patients.
2/2
And that insurance actually cover diagnosis and treatment as determined by the physician.
Which Newsom vetoed explicitly because it doesn’t let insurance companies try to screw patients.
2/2
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Drawing gasps because she's right and people aren't used to this level of honesty
My queen ~Halle Berry Draws Gasps for Saying Gavin Newsom Is 'Devaluing' Women and 'Shouldn't Be Our Next President' Moments Before He Comes on Stage
people.com/halle-berry-...
people.com/halle-berry-...
Halle Berry Draws Gasps for Saying Gavin Newsom Is 'Devaluing' Women and 'Shouldn't Be Our Next President' Moments Before He Comes on Stage
Halle Berry criticized Gavin Newsom for 'devaluing' women and said he 'shouldn't be our next president' moments before he took the stage at 'The New York Times' DealBook Summit.
people.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Drawing gasps because she's right and people aren't used to this level of honesty
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Look I've been suicidal & not only that I've come to terms with the fact I'll always struggle with suicidal ideation. Those feelings crest & peak & people commit the act opportunistically at a low, when if they'd stuck around they'd see they felt better just a bit later. So yes ChatGPT is killing.
December 4, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Look I've been suicidal & not only that I've come to terms with the fact I'll always struggle with suicidal ideation. Those feelings crest & peak & people commit the act opportunistically at a low, when if they'd stuck around they'd see they felt better just a bit later. So yes ChatGPT is killing.
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Of course, pandering to a Nazi-sympathizing administration, white is the only choice.
Pantone’s 2026 color of the year is technically not a color at all — meet Cloud Dancer, the first-ever white shade to receive the designation from the world’s color authority.
Pantone makes a surprising choice for its 2026 color of the year
We did not see that coming.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Of course, pandering to a Nazi-sympathizing administration, white is the only choice.
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I am a suicide attempt survivor so I’m kind of selfishly interested in prevention and, again, while it may difficult to completely prevent IDEATION, what ChatGPT does (despite guardrails!) is *cheerlead and facilitate* completion. You can come back from ideation but not a chat-optimized completion.
This is not true. This is argument that pro-gun people use to discount red flag and waiting period laws. Ease of access and lethality (let alone cheerful instruction in the best method!) is the #1 predictor of attempts leading actual completion. The more barriers, the more people live.
I think it's fine Chat GPT is telling people how to kill themselves. They'll figure it out one way or another if they're serious.
December 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I am a suicide attempt survivor so I’m kind of selfishly interested in prevention and, again, while it may difficult to completely prevent IDEATION, what ChatGPT does (despite guardrails!) is *cheerlead and facilitate* completion. You can come back from ideation but not a chat-optimized completion.
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Tenants of the apartment building at 7500 S. South Shore were terrorized by ICE in October. Now, they’ve received eviction notices with two weeks to get out.
No heat.
No power.
No elevator.
This is unacceptable.
No heat.
No power.
No elevator.
This is unacceptable.
December 4, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Tenants of the apartment building at 7500 S. South Shore were terrorized by ICE in October. Now, they’ve received eviction notices with two weeks to get out.
No heat.
No power.
No elevator.
This is unacceptable.
No heat.
No power.
No elevator.
This is unacceptable.
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Cracking down on journalists is an expected thing. Online safety??
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 4, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Cracking down on journalists is an expected thing. Online safety??
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i wish i was followed by patton oswalt
I think it's fine Chat GPT is telling people how to kill themselves. They'll figure it out one way or another if they're serious.
December 4, 2025 at 5:51 PM
i wish i was followed by patton oswalt
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This is not true. Studies show that suicide attempts most often stem from brief ideations and impulses and, further, that only a small minority of those that attempt ever try again. This is why gun waiting periods reduce suicides whenever implemented.
December 4, 2025 at 4:50 PM
This is not true. Studies show that suicide attempts most often stem from brief ideations and impulses and, further, that only a small minority of those that attempt ever try again. This is why gun waiting periods reduce suicides whenever implemented.
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Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Procter & Gamble said it would raise prices on about a quarter of its products in the U.S. in part because of higher costs from President Donald Trump's tariffs.
www.foxla.com/news/procter...
www.foxla.com/news/procter...
Procter & Gamble announces price hikes, blaming tariffs
The consumer products giant manufactures products like Tide detergent and Charmin toilet paper.
www.foxla.com
July 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Procter & Gamble said it would raise prices on about a quarter of its products in the U.S. in part because of higher costs from President Donald Trump's tariffs.
www.foxla.com/news/procter...
www.foxla.com/news/procter...
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This is where we are now. Families are starving in the wealthiest nation in the world.
Meanwhile the president is intentionally trying to cut off food for hungry people who live in states that did not vote for him.
It's not just immoral — it's un-American.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
Meanwhile the president is intentionally trying to cut off food for hungry people who live in states that did not vote for him.
It's not just immoral — it's un-American.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
Agriculture Dept. Threatens to Withhold Food Stamps From Democratic States
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
This is where we are now. Families are starving in the wealthiest nation in the world.
Meanwhile the president is intentionally trying to cut off food for hungry people who live in states that did not vote for him.
It's not just immoral — it's un-American.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
Meanwhile the president is intentionally trying to cut off food for hungry people who live in states that did not vote for him.
It's not just immoral — it's un-American.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
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According to an email sent to employees, the Trump administration's Department of Labor says it's hosting the "inaugural Secretary’s Prayer Service on Wednesday, December 10th."
December 2, 2025 at 7:22 PM
According to an email sent to employees, the Trump administration's Department of Labor says it's hosting the "inaugural Secretary’s Prayer Service on Wednesday, December 10th."