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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 3h

Today, Senator Kaine and I will force the Senate to vote on the administration’s decision to blow up ships in the Caribbean.

If a president can unilaterally put people or groups on a list and kill them, there is no meaningful limit to his use of force.

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Cora Dean @c-anemone-d.bsky.social · 6h

Probably will need to make sure every surface is deep cleaned with the most powerful antibacterial and antiviral cleaners available on earth. The people who spend time in there now are objectively and literally disgusting.

Cora Dean @c-anemone-d.bsky.social · 6h

Wallpaper made out of the faces of people who have been disappeared, injured or killed by this regime.

Cora Dean @c-anemone-d.bsky.social · 6h

It’s go time

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 17h

Did Air Traffic Controllers just start the general strike?!?? 🤝

“…Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy claimed that many air traffic control workers were calling out sick.”

Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...

#GeneralStrike #ShutItDown #AirTrafficControllers #50501movement

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Cora Dean @c-anemone-d.bsky.social · 7h

There’s no waiting. There’s no let’s see in 4 years. Every day this continues people are dying horrific, unnecessary deaths and being tortured in concentration camps on American soil. The people fighting back against this with every breath need to be supported and held up and joined by everyone.

Study: 14 million lives could be lost due to Trump aid cuts

A new study looks at lives saved by USAID in the past and what the future without the agency will look like.

www.npr.org

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Cora Dean @c-anemone-d.bsky.social · 6h

The Terror is Upon Us

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h

#WarRavagedPortland

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 7h

they don’t want you to know how they treat prisoners because it will grieve you to know it, which is natural and human, and because of your normal human reaction you will want the system changed. It’s important to them that your natural aversion to how the system works not be engaged.

The News & Observer @newsobserver.com · 7h

A 2023 records request to get the Durham County Jail policy manual has spurred a years-long legal dispute.

NC nonprofit still pushing for Durham County sheriff to release jail policies

A 2023 records request to get the Durham County Jail policy manual has spurred a years-long legal dispute.

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Cora Dean @c-anemone-d.bsky.social · 7h

There’s no waiting. There’s no let’s see in 4 years. Every day this continues people are dying horrific, unnecessary deaths and being tortured in concentration camps on American soil. The people fighting back against this with every breath need to be supported and held up and joined by everyone.

Study: 14 million lives could be lost due to Trump aid cuts

A new study looks at lives saved by USAID in the past and what the future without the agency will look like.

www.npr.org

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Cora Dean @c-anemone-d.bsky.social · 7h

And what a lesson for us. We’ve already reached thousands if not hundreds of thousands counting the impact of cuts to usaid, set to reach 14 million by 2030.

175,484 known deaths was from June, and tracking research cut, so it could easily be a million by now.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13h

📌 Historic fascists with plenary authority:
• Hitler
• Mussolini
• Stalin

Plenary authority or plenary powers: Absolute and without limitations.

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Cora Dean @c-anemone-d.bsky.social · 7h

I don’t think you see things so differently.

In fact the only weird thinking pattern I see in the US is so many people thinking they are thinking these rational thoughts alone.

Most people do have common sense—you all just have to realise that you definitely are not on your own and act on it.

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Cora Dean @c-anemone-d.bsky.social · 7h

I don’t think you see things so differently.

In fact the only weird thinking pattern I see in the US is so many people thinking they are thinking these rational thoughts alone.

Most people do have common sense—you all just have to realise that you definitely are not on your own and act on it.

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Joseph D. Ortiz @earthsciinfo.bsky.social · 8h

EMBER-ENERGY's "Global Electricity Mid-Year Insights 2025" report shows that in the H1 2025 renewables (wind and solar) have outpaced global demand, leading to a reduction in fossil fuel emissions. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 Source: ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

Global Wind and Solar power generation exceeded global demand for electricity in H1 2025, leading to a reduction in fossil fuel generation and thus emissions.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 18h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 19h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 1d

I dunno if I'm the last one to hear about this? But the reason the president is sending the *National Guard* to Portland is because the city mailed the government's landlord...a zoning violation notice?

They are sending in the troops to avoid "a monthly code enforcement fee"??

Notice of Zoning Violation on official City of Portland letterhead

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

INBOX: The Chicago News Guild joined others in suing ICE for attacking journalists at the Broadview facility.

“Our members have a right, protected by the First Amendment, to do their jobs and report the news. They should not be targeted, injured or arrested for doing their jobs.”

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.

or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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♎ jentrification @jentrification.com · 1d

Psychiatrists call for RFK Jr. to be replaced as health secretary

Two groups are calling for new leadership at HHS after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s actions on substance abuse treatment and mental health medications, among other issues.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 22h

This is the Epstein files shutdown.

A screenshot of an X.com post by @AdelitaForAZ
, Adelita Grijalva, stating, "The people of Southern Arizona deserve representation and I'm ready to get to work. Swear me in NOW! @SpeakerJohnson
!" followed by a reply from @GavinNewsom
, Gavin Newsom, saying, "It's not even November and the GOP are already rigging elections." Below, a news headline from McClatchy by Nikki McCann Ramirez dated September 30, 2025, reads, "DEM SAYS MIKE JOHNSON IS DELAYING HER SWEARING-IN TO PREVENT EPSTEIN VOTE," with a photo of Adelita Grijalva smiling at an event in Tucson, Arizona, on Tuesday, September 23, 2025.

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Cora Dean @c-anemone-d.bsky.social · 19h

So, yes. “That happened.”

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Cora Dean @c-anemone-d.bsky.social · 1d

If this is not a wake up call to everyone to at least occasionally take genuine technology breaks for our health I don’t know is.

Jerry Coyne @evolutionistrue.bsky.social · 1d

Fred Ramsdell, who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine yesterday for work on immunology, hasn't been informed of his win as he's "off the grid" hiking, and can't be contacted.

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Well, yeah, we're suing ICE.

This wasn't really a hard decision. As little faith as we have in institutions, we recognize the value of drawing visible lines in the sand. We drew ours personally a while ago, but better late than never.

May every protester be freed and may this occupation end.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

John Oliver: "If ICE can bother some guys at a roofing job, bystanders can bother ICE at their state-sanctioned kidnapping job."

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