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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 3h

The MMR vaccine is one of the most stunningly effective medical therapeutics in existence. It’s also safer than most of your everyday activities. This is simply an attempt to stop people from vaccinating.

HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 3h

The acting director of the CDC called for new, separate MMR shots. That would be "remarkably complicated, time-consuming, costly, but more importantly unnecessary," @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social told me:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Alarm as CDC calls for separate MMR vaccines despite measles outbreak

Concerns that three separate shots would be more costly and time-consuming, and keep kids from being vaccinated

www.theguardian.com

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 15h

Y'all told these motherfuckers it was OK to let trans people lose their rights. Now they're banking on people letting them abandon everyone who looks vaguely Latino as well as actual immigrants. Who are y'all advocating for moderation gonna abandon next?

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 19h

Durbin on whether Democrats can use reining in ICE in Chicago as a precondition to rein in the government says “can’t do that. It’s gotta be health care all the way.”

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 18h

More history from this Nazi adulated by the Trump team. These are explicit, proud Nazis who scream and cry and call every referee they can find when you quote their Nazism back to them.

Multiple tweets from Nazi Jack Posobiec in 2016 making "jokes" involving the Nazi code "1488."

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 18h

Oh this is not great

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Forticule @forticule.bsky.social · 1d

COVID-conscious people, do you also wonder what I wonder about how the increase in long covid and cognitive effects from it as well as mass trauma from the pandemic have increased AI usage to prop up people affected by brain fog, depression, and other symptoms in a world that ignores them?

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Zack Ford @zackford.bsky.social · 2d

These Supreme Court oral arguments on conversion therapy are going to be painful. No matter what is said, know that trying to force someone to be what they're not is psychological torture with measurable negative consequences, and anyone trying to defend such efforts is a bigoted monster.

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Forticule @forticule.bsky.social · 1d

“Oh no, my catalytic converter business wouldn’t be successful if I couldn’t steal all the catalytic converters off neighborhood cars instead of purchasing them!”

Boo-hoo, I hope the AI industry does perish if it’s built entirely off theft.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

thank you brett kavanaugh!

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

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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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 1d

Before his death, Rabbi Zusha said: “In the coming world, they will not ask me: Why were you not Moses? They will ask me: Why were you not Zusha?”

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

"Dear Sweet Blessed Little Baby Jesus, please watch over our armed thugs as they turn away the stranger, persecute the foreigner and harm the least of our brothers and sisters."

David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 1d

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem is in Portland meeting with ICE, Border Patrol and DHS officials; Nick Sortor posted video of Noem saying a prayer for the safety of their officers at the start of the meeting.

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 1d

He hasn't signed the other bills yet, but he still has days to do so
This headline is misleading for not mentioning that.

The gender education veto is bad, but far from the most important trans rights bill on his desk.

There's still time to contact Newsom for the rest!

www.gov.ca.gov/contact/

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 2d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

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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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 2d

The Trump Admin’s Mostly Unnoticed Move to Crack Down on the Opposition talkingpointsmemo.com/news/the-tru...

The Trump Admin’s Mostly Unnoticed Move to Crack Down on the Opposition

Last month, the White House issued two executive orders that direct federal...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

They literally just fought a Supreme Court case for the right to racially profile. It was in the news!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

DHS's Tricia McLaughlin: "It is a disgusting smear to say there is racial profiling going on."

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 3d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 5d

“He takes food and health care from the neediest and tries to, in his words, traumatize people—then he calls himself a Christian,” (Russell Vought's) neighbor said. "Pretty despicable."

Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 5d

Russell Vought, Trump's shutdown hero, lives in a neighborhood where "everyone knows someone who lost their jobs."

. @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social talked with a few of them about the shutdown

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Russ Vought is Trump’s shutdown hero. His neighbors think his work is "abhorrent."

The people living near Trump's "grim reaper" of government cuts have put up signs letting him know they stand with federal workers.

www.motherjones.com

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Michele Reeves @rethinkplaces.bsky.social · 5d

Such a great example of what happens when you have extreme placed-based income inequality. In the 1900s mansions were surrounded with duplexes and bricker apartments for business and rich house staffing. Now, those people live one county over, they drive long distances, and the kids don’t mix.

s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 5d

Hey so if you're wondering which state is the leader in school segregation in the United States right now I'm pretty sure it's not the one you think.

Deep-Blue California Is a National Leader in De Facto Public-School Segregation. Here’s Why…

The Golden State has surged past the South and other regions in reversing racial and ethnic integration among children.

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Russ Burlingame @russburlingame.com · 5d

These motherfuckers are going to kill us all

Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 5d

Meta is constructing its largest data center yet: a $10 billion facility in Louisiana, as big as 70 football fields, requiring more than twice as much electricity as the City of New Orleans.

Louisiana has had to greenlight $3 billion in new energy infrastructure to service Meta's facility.

New Meta Data Center Needs Twice as Much Energy as New Orleans

Meta is constructing its largest data center yet: a $10 billion facility in Louisiana requiring more than twice as much electricity as New Orleans.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6d

Yeah, man, look at how reluctant he is to hurt federal workers.

Here he is almost a year ago talking about how he wanted to
"put them in trauma," but he's wiping away the tears now.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 6d

really seems like @govpritzker.illinois.gov is talking out of both sides of his mouth. either step in or stop pretending.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov owns every arrest and act of violence against protesters this morning. He is aiding and abetting Operation Midway Blitz by allowing state cops to do this. He tells us to film ICE. His cops have shoved me around for filming this morning.

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Forticule @forticule.bsky.social · 6d

Would you mind sharing the source for this? I would love to add that to my list of evidence I’ve been compiling to help our families understand why my spouse and I are trying to plan very Covid consciously about our plans for children

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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 6d

Thinking about that Chicago apartment building. Everyone got their apartments tossed as well, and this is how you can become functionally undocumented.

How does somebody who lost their paperwork this time prove they're who they say next time?

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 6d

Before engineering the Trump administration's government shutdown response, Russ Vought spent years building Project 2025 strategy.

“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” he said in 2023. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work.”

(Pub. Oct. 2024)

“Put Them in Trauma”: Inside a Key MAGA Leader’s Plans for a New Trump Agenda

Private videos reveal Trump adviser Russ Vought’s “shadow” plans for using the military on protesters, defunding the EPA and villainizing civil servants.

www.propublica.org

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