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patricia7777.bsky.social @patricia7777.bsky.social · 1d

...Lesbian, gay and bisexual people who have undergone conversion therapy are nearly 2x as likely to attempt suicide. Transgender and nonbinary youth who have been subject to it are >2x as likely to attempt suicide (NBC News, 9/11/19). Media implies it's just free speech. fair.org/home/nyt-sid...

NYT Sidelines LGBTQ Youth Again in Conversion Therapy Case

Coverage of the conversion therapy case left out scientific and legal information necessary to understand what’s at stake for LGBTQ youth.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 13d

"The Trump administration will launch a program to find out how much money an artificial intelligence algorithm could save the federal government by denying care to Medicare patients...

"It will affect patients in AZ, OH, OK, NJ, TX, and WA starting January 1..."

www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Private health insurers use AI to approve or deny care. Soon Medicare will, too.

A pilot program testing the use of artificial intelligence to expand prior authorization decisions in Medicare has providers, politicians and researchers asking questions.

www.nbcnews.com

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ILIAS 🇺🇸🇬🇷🇫🇷🇪🇺✡️🏳️‍🌈 @iliasnyc.bsky.social · 13d

Sunday thanks

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@abbarsha.bsky.social
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and shoutout to some friends I have not run into recently

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 13d

Portland not backing down.

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 13d

Arturo Gómez-Pompa believed tropical forests were “landscapes of memory,” shaped for millennia by Indigenous hands.

Long before “biodiversity” became a rallying cry, he documented how local communities enriched and tended the jungle, and argued that conservation should do the same.

Arturo Gómez-Pompa, biologist who revealed the human history in “virgin” forests, has died, aged 90

In the steaming lowlands of Veracruz and the Yucatán, where strangler figs knot the canopy and howler monkeys bellow at dawn, a man with a field notebook kept noticing what others overlooked. Arturo…

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Rob Shum @robshum.bsky.social · Sep 10

Real-time experiment: what happens when the world’s leading economy reallocates its law enforcement resources to liquidation of its own labor force?

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · Sep 9

New numbers show ICE is devouring US law enforcement: 1 in 5 US marshals, 1 in 5 FBI agents, half of all DEA agents, and over two-thirds of all ATF agents are now assigned to ICE enforcement. These are agencies with critical jobs they're now NOT doing.

www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-is-eat...

ICE is Eating the Soul of America

Four things that show ICE increasingly considers itself outside the law

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 16d

Great reporting by @propublica.org on ICE's human rights abuses.

Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 16d

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse.

Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.

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patricia7777.bsky.social @patricia7777.bsky.social · 15d

Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

patricia7777.bsky.social @patricia7777.bsky.social · 23d

What Jimmy Kimmel said, by the way, was not "insensitive" -- just accurate. He said that Republicans are weaponizing Kirk's death, which was demonstrated by ABC's response of suspending Kimmel's show. The oligarchs are in charge!
The Guardian has the story: www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Jimmy Kimmel Live! suspended indefinitely after host’s Charlie Kirk comments

ABC says late-night show will not air for foreseeable future after Kimmel accused Republicans of ‘doing everything they can to score political points’ from Kirk’s killing

www.theguardian.com

patricia7777.bsky.social @patricia7777.bsky.social · 24d

When truth-telling & jokes get you fired by the corporate oligarchy, it's more important than ever to support honest journalism wherever you find it.

Free speech is no longer protected, it's punished.

Pls, call on your Senators to NOT confirm Trump's judges.
Don’t hand him control of the courts!

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patricia7777.bsky.social @patricia7777.bsky.social · 24d

CBS canceled Colbert; now ABC suspends Jimmy Kimmel's show because he dared comment on Charlie Kirk's death.

Trump demands endless empathy for Kirk, denouncing 'the radical left' while threatening judges & journalists, and ignoring MAGAs who kill Democratic politicians. apnews.com/article/jimm...

ABC suspends Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show indefinitely over his remarks about Charlie Kirk’s death

ABC has suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show indefinitely following comments he made about Charlie Kirk’s killing.

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 27d

Charlie Kirk hated this country
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If you're sad that this happened, fine, but don't try to pretend he was someone he wasn't.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 27d

Elon Musk is very, very upset at Grok for correcting his false statements about the Kirk assassin and other recent high profile political assassinations.

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patricia7777.bsky.social @patricia7777.bsky.social · Sep 8

H.R. 3486 will raise mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent offenses like unauthorized entry into the U.S. It will worsen mass incarceration and racial disparities, sending mainly people of color into private prisons with extreme sentences. Sign, & call your Rep! action.aclu.org/send-message...

Tell Congress: No Life Sentences for Immigration

Congress is poised to vote on a bill that would further dehumanize immigrants, fuel mass incarceration, and lead to even more government-led attacks, raids, and violence. Urge your representatives to ...

action.aclu.org

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · Jul 27

One reason so many American hospitals are struggling? Investors buy them up, then suck them dry, charging such high rents that services are gutted.
Reveal explores what happened to one Louisiana hospital when Medical Properties Trust came to town. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The landlord gutting America’s hospitals

Medical Properties Trust buys up hospitals and then leases them back to health care systems. Dozens of its hospitals have gone belly up.

www.motherjones.com

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patricia7777.bsky.social @patricia7777.bsky.social · Jul 19

One of my favorite writers, Franklin Veaux, answered a Quora question earlier this month. I just had to share it -- please don't bother to comment unless you read it (it's short, but very pointed): www.quora.com/What-do-you-...

What do you think about people receiving welfare?

Franklin Veaux's answer: Hate them. H-A-T-E them. Look at Dave Calhoun, the largest welfare recipient in the US. He’s worth over $43,000,000. His company, Boeing, received $15,598,202,422 in corporat...

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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · Jul 17

Trump undefeated at being very funny. Writing to your pedophile bestie "may every day be another ~~wonderful secret~~" and then going on the news and constantly saying "Jeffrey likes em young. Real young! And he's horny for em too. In fact, just like me!" for several years is an all timer gag.

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Julia Ioffe @juliaioffe.bsky.social · Jul 18

One of the first things Vladimir Putin did on becoming president was take over NTV, the TV channel that hosted a satirical puppet show because he didn't like the Putin doll and how he was portrayed. He arrested NTV's owner and only released him when he signed the channel over. #Colbert

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Jul 17

They mean to be as insulting to Black people, as dismissive of our lives, as resistance to our status as full citizens in this country as they can be.

There is no common ground to be had at the expense of our sisters & daughters’ lives and our dignity as a people.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...

Justice Dept. Asks for 1-Day Sentence for Ex-Officer Convicted in Breonna Taylor Raid

www.nytimes.com

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Politico @politico.com · Jul 17

EXCLUSIVE: Fired DOJ prosecutor Maurene Comey sends message to former colleagues, warning that ‘Fear is the tool of the tyrant.’

Maurene Comey warns her former colleagues: ‘Fear is the tool of the tyrant’

“If a career prosecutor can be fired without reason, fear may seep into the decisions of those who remain. Do not let that happen,” she wrote.

www.politico.com

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · Jul 17

“They don’t want anyone to see how they treat people. They want to be doing this”—their deportations—”with no witnesses.”

ICE agents are harassing the courthouse volunteers who assist besieged immigrants

"They want to be doing this with no witnesses."

www.motherjones.com

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Kelly Roumas @kkjadams.bsky.social · Jul 18

AP News: “The most recent ratings from Nielsen show Colbert as winning his timeslot, with about 2.417 million viewers across 41 new episodes. It also said his late night show was the only one to gain viewers so far this year.”

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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · Jul 18

PAY ATTENTION: Stephen Colbert dragged Paramount for cutting a $16M check to Trump—and THREE DAYS LATER, CBS canceled The Late Show.

You’re telling me that’s a coincidence?

This smells like corporate bribery and media censorship in real time.

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patricia7777.bsky.social @patricia7777.bsky.social · Jul 3

The Big Beautiful Bill(!) that was just passed will raise energy costs, as energy demand continues to increase, by repealing clean-energy tax credits. Yes, nearly all of our new energy supply is coming from solar and wind...but that's about to cost a LOT more.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The Most Perverse Part of the ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’

The Republican megabill could be setting America up for the worst energy-affordability crisis since the 1970s.

www.theatlantic.com

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Paul Bierman @paul-bierman.bsky.social · Jul 3

This is sickening in so many ways. EPA is supposed to protect us. These people stood up for science. We will all pay eventually.

Such a small man and such a small administration - they can't handle criticism.

#Standupforscience 🧪

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/c...

E.P.A. Suspends 144 Employees After They Signed a Letter Criticizing Trump

www.nytimes.com

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