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CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 1d

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Bronco @thebroncobill.bsky.social · 2d

From 2022, this piece.
www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health...

A safer way to diagnose coronary artery disease? - Harvard Health

Cardiac CT angiography, a noninvasive test to check for clogged heart arteries, is now considered a first-line test for people with suspected heart disease. It appears to be just as effective as tr...

www.health.harvard.edu

Bronco @thebroncobill.bsky.social · 2d

🎁Link
wapo.st/42tsOaj

How to stop the No. 1 killer of Americans long before any symptoms

Cardiovascular disease experts propose a new approach to treating heart disease, focusing on atherosclerosis prevention and early detection

wapo.st

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Bronco @thebroncobill.bsky.social · 2d

In 2023, 919,032 people died from cardiovascular disease. That's the equivalent of 1 in every 3 deaths.
#CardiovascularDisease
Healthcare in Deep Red States (no pun intended) is about to get much worse. See map below. We deserve a Big Beautiful Universal Health Insurance Bill.

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Bronco @thebroncobill.bsky.social · 2d

Meanwhile...🤬
#SaveUkraine 🎁Link
www.wsj.com/world/russia...

Russian Drones Turn the Streets of Kherson Into a Civilian Kill Zone

The attacks on Kherson are part of Russia’s growing strategy to terrorize civilians in an effort to sap Ukrainians’ strength to resist in the fourth year of war.

www.wsj.com

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Bronco @thebroncobill.bsky.social · 2d

"career prosecutors in the office not only determined that the vast amount of evidence they collected in their investigation would be insufficient to convince a jury to convict him at a trial, but would also fail to meet a lower standard of reaching probable cause."

abcnews.go.com/US/central-w...

Central witness undermines case against James Comey, prosecutors concluded: Sources

Ex-FBI Director James Comey faces federal charges, but prosecutors investigating him determined that a central witness in the case would prove "problematic," sources say.

abcnews.go.com

Bronco @thebroncobill.bsky.social · 5d

Perhaps ultra-masculine Pete Hegseth should go over and apologize to them. Trump's abandonment of the Kurds in 2019 was a horrible betrayal. The Kurds have sought autonomy for over 100 years, with only a trail of tears, death and misery to show for it. #Kurds 🎁Link

www.wsj.com/world/middle...

The Women Who Helped Defeat ISIS Are Fighting for Their Place in the New Syria

Kurdish forces that have elevated women are wary of the Islamist values of Syria’s new governors.

www.wsj.com

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Bronco @thebroncobill.bsky.social · 13d

Thanks Mr. President... for being on the wrong side of history again. 🎁Link
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The Fastest-Selling Cars in America Are Used EVs

There’s arguably never been a better time to buy a slightly worn electric car or truck.

www.bloomberg.com

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 18d

Certiorari "before judgment" is how #SCOTUS takes up a full appeal *before* the intermediate federal courts have heard it.

It used to be exceedingly rare. For instance, there wasn't a *single* grant of such expedited review b/w August 2004 & February 2019.

This is the *23rd* such grant since then.

Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 18d

#BREAKING: Over dissents from Justices Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the Slaughter case (allowing President Trump to remove the last Dem member of the FTC), *and* grants certiorari "before judgment" to decide whether to formally overrule its 1935 ruling in Humphrey's Executor.

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Bronco @thebroncobill.bsky.social · 18d

🎁Link "Hostile to cars"
But the wave of cancellations issued Sept. 9 by the DOT demonstrates just how determined the administration is to promote the use of single-occupancy vehicles in cities and towns.: Stopping local gov. to find other ways to get around.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump Cancels Trail, Bike-Lane Grants Deemed ‘Hostile’ to Cars

The Trump administration canceled grants for street safety measures, pedestrian trails and bike lanes in communities around the country this month, each time offering a simple rationale for yanking ba...

www.bloomberg.com

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JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 18d

That's a conservative panel for the Second Circuit. Judge Bianco, a Trump appointee, wrote the opinion. No chance the court rehears it.

Jake Charles @jacobdcharles.bsky.social · 18d

NEW: The 2d Cir upholds NY's public carrying licensing law against Second Amendment challenge, incl. the gun ban in Times Square & on subways, & the prohibition on carrying guns openly. In so doing, it clarifies that silence alone isn't enough to doom today's laws.

cases.justia.com/federal/appe...

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 21d

The H1-B visa thing is, like everything else in the Trump administration, set up to carve up exceptions for friends and punish enemies. It’s the authoritarian thru-line that stitches everything together.

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Bronco @thebroncobill.bsky.social · 20d

;"A strawberry delivery driver was arrested by Border Patrol near Gov. Newsom’s Little Tokyo news conference, becoming “collateral damage.”
Angel Minguela Palacios endured six weeks of harsh detention conditions, watching fellow detainees give up and self-deport"

www.latimes.com/california/s...

His cell-mates self-deported. He fought to get back to his family

Angel Minguela Palacios was arrested in Little Tokyo last month. He spent weeks in immigration detention, hoping to get home to the love of his life and their three children.

www.latimes.com

Bronco @thebroncobill.bsky.social · 20d

www.justice.gov/usao-sc/pr/c...

Charleston County Magistrate Charged with Possessing Child Sexual Abuse Material

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Federal agents have arrested James Benjamin Gosnell, Jr., 68, of Charleston, on a criminal complaint charging him with possession of child sexual abuse material.*

www.justice.gov

Bronco @thebroncobill.bsky.social · 20d

"Gosnell is the judge who presided over the bond hearing for Charleston church shooting suspect Dylann Roof,..."We have victims, nine of them," he said from the bench. ' But we also have victims on the other side.'

Sick just sick #DylanRoof

www.live5news.com/2025/09/16/c...

Charleston Co. magistrate judge charged with possessing child sex abuse material

A Charleston County magistrate judge has been suspended from his judicial duties by the Supreme Court of South Carolina after he was charged with child sexual abuse material possession.

www.live5news.com

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Bronco @thebroncobill.bsky.social · 22d

She's💪 turning off the tap and grabbing them by the crypto.
Good 🧵 #Russia'sContempt

Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 22d

Russia is showing the full extent of its contempt for diplomacy and international law.

So we're increasing the pressure.

With our 19th package of sanctions covering energy, financial services and trade restrictions.

→ link.europa.eu/WYYwh3

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22d

The VA is down 600 doctors and about 1,900 nurses so far this year, the first time the agency has seen net losses in years.

At several facilities, more than a third of the positions for doctors are unfilled.

By @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social @vernalcoleman.bsky.social @ericumansky.bsky.social

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...

www.propublica.org

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 22d

A poll from Virginia today: Spanberger up by 12% for governor (52/40). Dems also lead in the elections for lieutenant governor (48/37) and attorney general (48/41).

69% of Dems are "very enthused" to vote, compared to 56% of Republicans and 42% of independents. mcusercontent.com/0a86688a0d7c...

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Bronco @thebroncobill.bsky.social · 23d

What @lawrencehurley.bsky.social omitted below is, that this was Obama's first comments he publicly made live about Charlie Kirk. In front of a sold-out crowd of 8,000 people in Erie, Pa.

Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 24d

Obama on Charlie Kirk:

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Bronco @thebroncobill.bsky.social · 23d

Re: Dylan Roof and the year 2015
Kash Patel was a mid-level contributor handling backend legal logistics on the Benghazi case in 2015, for the Justice Department. Patel inflates everything except his memory.
🎁Link #OfCourseHeKnewWhoDylanRoofWas.

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/u...

Patel Distorts Justice Dept. Benghazi Inquiry, Inflating His Role

www.nytimes.com

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Bronco @thebroncobill.bsky.social · 23d

"President Donald Trump is back in power, a trade war with top soybean buyer China is raging, and growers are coping with prices that are near the lowest levels in years. Huge crops ahead are only going to make matters worse."

The US has not sold one cargo.
🎁Link

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

US Farmers Facing Double Whammy of Trade War and Bumper Crops

For American farmers traveling through the Heartland scouting corn and soybean fields, it feels like 2019 all over again.

www.bloomberg.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23d

Monarez: "He did not have any data or science to point to. In fact, we got into an exchange where I suggested I would be open to changing childhood vaccine schedules if the evidence or science were supportive. He responded there was no science or evidence associated w/the childhood vaccine schedule"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23d

Ashley Moody, DeSantis's pick to replace Rubio in the Senate, is such a hack that even Republican Sen. Cassidy felt compelled to call out her line of questioning as BS

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23d

Massie grills Kash Patel on his attempted coverup of Epstein files that detail additional people, including "one high profile government official," implicated in Epstein's crimes

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Bronco @thebroncobill.bsky.social · 24d

🎁Link:
"Mr. Patel did so after being told that the terminations were unlawful and that pushing out Mr. Giardina, who was caring for his dying wife, would be 'inexcusably cruel,' according to a lawsuit filed by three F.B.I. supervisors also dismissed by Mr. Patel."
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/u...

A ‘Broken’ Trust: F.B.I. Agents Fired by Patel Speak Out

www.nytimes.com

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