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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11m

One disabled Marine veteran has not had a primary care doctor assigned to him since his previous doctor left in the winter, his wife said. The VA “was never like this before. There’s a lack of staff, empty rooms, locked doors.”

(Published August)

Veterans’ Care at Risk Under Trump as Hundreds of Doctors and Nurses Reject Working at VA Hospitals

Amid concerns about the stability of the agency, records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of rejectio...

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Phoebe Lostroh @profphoebe.bsky.social · 9m

Now what now

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11m

LA Times now confirming our earlier reporting: www.latimes.com/california/s...

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Matt Gaetz Forehead @mattgaetz4head.bsky.social · 8h

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 8h

Ontario plans to launch a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign against US tariffs, targeted at Republican-held districts and using the words of late President Ronald Reagan

Ontario Targets GOP With Anti-Tariff Ad Using Old Reagan Speech

Ontario plans to launch a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign against US tariffs, targeted at Republican-held districts and using the words of late President Ronald Reagan.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 8h

Trump threatened to relocate World Cup matches set to be played next year in suburban Boston, after suggesting that parts of the city had been “taken over” by unrest. World Cup host sites aren’t up to him.

Trump threatens to yank World Cup games from Boston though it's up to FIFA to choose sites

President Donald Trump is threatening to relocate World Cup matches set to be played next year in suburban Boston.

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Phoebe Lostroh @profphoebe.bsky.social · 8h

MAGA termination of federal employees is a good racist strategy to hurt the many Black people in government in DC.

Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 8h

A US judge ordered the Trump administration to pause plans to fire federal workers during the government shutdown, shortly after White House Budget Director Russell Vought said he expects 10K+ layoffs.

“It’s a human cost that cannot be tolerated,” the judge said of the firings.
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White House Budget Chief Sees Federal Layoffs Exceeding 10,000

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to pause plans to fire thousands of federal workers during the government shutdown, just moments after White House Budget Director Russell Vought said…

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 8h

Hey American farmers, Trump just doubled Argentina's bailout from $20 billion to $40 billion.

That's the same Argentina that, because of Trump's tariffs, has now supplanted ALL of America's soybean sales to China.

Trump sold you out – then gave the guy who benefited an extra $40 billion gift.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 13h

I've met these two wonderful parents before. i was reporting on a roundtable discussion of trans parents held at the HRC HQ and then we all went out for dinner afterwards. after dinner Keisha and Sean insisted on walking me all the way to the metro stop to make sure i made it okay.

Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 16h

“Keisha and Sean became determined to fill this resource gap. They’re among a growing group of Black parents who are building a support network.”

No one was helping Black transgender youth. So these parents stepped in.

A new nonprofit provides resources to Black families of transgender and nonbinary youth at a moment of heightened political hostility.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 13h

Pediatricians are facing an ethical dilemma: drop unvaccinated families to protect other patients or keep them and hope they change their minds. If we’re talking about free will, that goes both ways, doctors have the right and duty to protect their patients. Drop the families.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 13h

"The rest of us are in a panic. I think I may have been fired and I don’t have a way to find out. They sent the RIF notices to our official government emails which we don’t have access to.”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Panic as US federal workers scramble to find out if they’ve been fired: ‘I don’t have email access’

Education department staff say they can’t access work emails amid the shutdown to check for layoff notices

www.theguardian.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h

They're the ones making our neighborhoods unsafe. They're the danger to our children. They're the threat to law and order.

Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 14h

Agent lobs a gas canister into a residential neighborhood in Illinois for no discernible reason, gassing dozens of neighbors including a baby. The comfort with which they deploy weapons of war is unreal.

Source: www.reddit.com/r/illinois/s...

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Phoebe Lostroh @profphoebe.bsky.social · 13h

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 14h

We need to talk about how social media algorithms push moms down a slippery slope of distrust.

From "Are my kids getting enough support in school?" To "Maybe I should homeschool." To "Maybe modern medicine is bad."

I've seen this first-hand in research I'm doing on parenting apps. 1/🧵

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Kim Eckert @kimeckert.bsky.social · 1d

"𝘼𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙣𝙤 𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧 𝙨𝙮𝙣𝙤𝙣𝙮𝙢𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙖𝙨𝙥𝙞𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙛𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙙𝙤𝙢, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙢 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙚𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙮"

"The Beacon of Democracy Goes Dark"
By Anne Applebaum

A gift article - a little inspiration for a #NoKings rally
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

The Beacon of Democracy Goes Dark

For nearly 250 years, America promoted freedom and equality abroad, even when it failed to live up to those ideals itself. Not anymore.

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 1d

Put a banner on every closed rural hospital

WE SAVED ARGENTINA INSTEAD

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1d

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act.

I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 1d

ICE targeted an apartment building near my home. Masked agents in unmarked cars. I've said this before. Democratic Governors & Mayors need to order their local police depts to arrest any & all unidentified & masked alleged ICE agents.

This anonymous denial of due process is deadly.

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Phoebe Lostroh @profphoebe.bsky.social · 1d

Or eyeglasses

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 1d

Transness is not bourgeois. This is a wedge idea dreamed up by some gleefully amoral think tank lobotomite to split trans people and make us fight each other. That we relay on modern medicine doesn't make us any more bourgeois than someone who needs antidepressants or cleft palate repair.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

I remember when Joe Biden traveled to 8 cities for 14 appearances in 9 days after the June debate and then did a 90 minute UN brief but the media still relentlessly hounded him. Where's that media? At a Jake Tapper book talk?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump had a lot of travel the last two days and he looked it today (Getty)

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re a man in the room and a public official says this about your female colleague, you don’t continue as if nothing happened.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 1d

It is to the shame of all the male reporters in the room that they do not immediately leave

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 1d

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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