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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 17h

“Abortion providers say Missouri’s attorney general is trying to get patient records” 10/7/25 … 1/ apnews.com/article/abor...

Abortion providers say Missouri's attorney general is trying to get patient records

Planned Parenthood officials say in court filings that Missouri's Republican attorney general is trying to get the medical records of patients who’ve had abortions.

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NPR @npr.org · 20h

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down. n.pr/3KIfcSn

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 5d

I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’

I have been forced to move my classes online.

If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 16h

How quickly some ICE GOONS get triggered when you remind them they are children of immigrants

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 16h

This is brilliant.

Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 22h

Jimmy Kimmel returns with unfinished business over Trump’s birthday letter to Epstein

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 15h

NEW: The developers whose ICE-related apps were removed from the Apple App Store say they're preparing to fight back. @thiccreese.bsky.social and @lhn.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/apple-...

Apple Took Down ICE-Tracking Apps. Their Developers Aren't Giving Up

“We are going to do everything in our power to fight this,” says ICEBlock developer Joshua Aaron after Apple removed his app from the App Store.

www.wired.com

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Hi, it's Abby. Yep. @itsabbyyep.bsky.social · 18h

The Watergate Hearings were wild. Not only did lawmakers hold Republicans accountable for lying and breaking laws. Republicans exhibited shame and remorse

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Jordon Nardino @jnardino.bsky.social · 4d

They are called writers

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d

we need a word for a type of person who spends all their time working to live in a city so they can be near cool things, but they don't actually like going out

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 15h

This happened to a US Citizen. So it can happen to any of us. And oh so perfect that his name was "Miranda." I hope it goes to the Supreme Corpse so we can see if they still believe in Miranda rights.

Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 1d

We've all seen that movie scene. It's usually written that way to indicate who the antagonists are.

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 14h

Imagine children in front of their school, waiting to be picked up. Then this happens to their mother before their eyes. Imagine their terror. What will happen to them? Who will make sure they're safe? Heartbreaking. I'm ashamed of my country.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18h

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 8h

Despite Alligator Alcatraz’s shocking conditions and rampant “psychological warfare,” copycats are popping up around the country—everything from the “Cornhusker Clink” to the “Speedway Slammer”

Inside the hell of Alligator Alcatraz

Despite shocking conditions and rampant “psychological warfare,” copycats are popping up around the country.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 9h

Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

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JanetB MAintelligentA @janetb49.bsky.social · 6h

The stupid never ends.

Tom Walsh @tewalsh340.bsky.social · 23h

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 4h

🔥 🚨🔥 Meet Randy Erwin. Randy is the president of the National Federation of Federal Employees — a union representing ~ 150k employees across the country. We need more RANDY ERWIN ENERGY in this country! Sound ⬆️ & Share. 1/2

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 7h

America is not building enough housing and Americans are facing sky-high housing costs as a result.

Today, the Senate took a historic step to change that.

The ROAD to Housing Act will help communities – urban, suburban, and rural – build more housing and bring down costs.

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Jennїe Jonzen🖖LLAP🤟😈 🍀 ⭐️🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻💙💛☘️✴️✳️✡️🌟🧿유 @astartiel.substack.com · 4h

I guess it’s old movie night.

Topper, one of the best old movies ever made, is free on YouTube.

youtu.be/Jcm9038iAdI?...

Topper (1937) Cary Grant in an all-time favorite comedy!

YouTube video by The Sprocket Vault

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Georgia DiPirro 📎 @georgiadipirro.bsky.social · 8h

🍂Fall in Paris🍂

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Zach Montague @zjmontague.bsky.social · 6h

Tonight: Judge Zia Faruqui rejects attempts by prosecutors to forge ahead after failing to secure an indictment against a man swept up in Trump’s DC law enforcement surge

Earlier today, he similarly expunged the record of a man arrested at Trader Joe’s for fiddling with his backpack.

Judge Rejects ‘Unprecedented’ Indictment Amid Trump’s D.C. Clampdown

www.nytimes.com

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Georgia DiPirro 📎 @georgiadipirro.bsky.social · 18d

Dear America, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933
Do That Now!

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 3h

Queen of Hearts, 1909, by Margaret Macdonald, one of the defining artists of the Scottish Arts and Crafts Movement #womensart

Painted artwork of a stylised female figure, a white woman as a queen with a crown and golden robes holding a red rose and surrounded by heart motifs, organic lines and a dashed border

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 3h

peculiarly this era’s most successful protest tactic appears to be “become sillier,” and I can get behind that

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 5h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Danielle Solzman 🗽🇺🇲🎗️✡️🕎🟦🎥 @solzyatthemovies.com · 19h

Oscar-winning filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow is back in awards contention with a tense and stressful new Netflix thriller, A House of Dynamite.

A House of Dynamite Is Stressful and Full of Tension - Solzy at the Movies

Oscar-winning filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow is back in awards contention with a tense and stressful new Netflix thriller, A House of Dynamite.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 14h

I feel like a broken record, but I have to keep saying it over and over again: a farmer bailout won’t do much of anything because the market is gone. There will be no incentive to plant next year.

The bailout will help payoff farmer debt to the banks. That’s all.

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Glen Dunlap @glendunlap.bsky.social · 3h

Found this photo on Ben Hauck's FB page. Not sure who took it. Pretty rad though!

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 5h

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 5h

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

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