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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 51m

Ahab answered—“Aye.”

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Ben Howell @howellben.bsky.social · 1d

Next time I’m on rounds in the hospital I’m closing w “Let’s do the fucking medicine!”

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 1d

BRB, putting up a post-it that says "LET'S DO THE FUCKING NEWS" over my desk.

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KFF @kff.org · 2d

⚡ A new analysis by KFF’s Jared Ortaliza finds that more than half of ACA Marketplace enrollees live in Republican congressional districts, concentrated in the South. #QuickTake https://on.kff.org/48bH774

KFF map titled “At Least 10% of the Population in All Congressional Districts in Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, and South Carolina Are Enrolled in the ACA Marketplaces.” The map shows the share of population that is enrolled in the Affordable Care Act Marketplaces in 2025 by congressional district, 119th Congress.

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Kay Whitlock @kwhitlock.bsky.social · 3d

Carceral control/confinement without due process. Expands the carceral state and ensures a indefinite, even lifetime confinement. Shame on the Dems who are supporting this.

NPR @npr.org · 3d

President Trump says one part of the answer to homelessness is civil commitment and forced medical care. Some Democrats agree.

Some Democrats share Trump's goal of forcing more homeless people into medical care

President Trump says one part of the answer to homelessness is civil commitment and forced medical care. Some Democrats agree.

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Larry Levitt @larrylevitt.bsky.social · 6d

The false idea that Democrats, in pushing to reverse Medicaid and ACA cuts, are advocating for an expansion of health care for undocumented immigrants is maybe the biggest health policy distortion since the supposed "death panels" in Obamacare.

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JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 9d

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 9d

Bad for science, bad for fairness

Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 9d

Several scientists have received letters from the NIH director disinviting them from their positions on advisory councils that make final decisions on grant funding, I'm told.

In July, I reported that NIH staff were told to select members aligned with Trump administration priorities.

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 11d

"Maryland groups targeting Avelo have collected more than 8,000 petition signatures, urging [Gov. Wes] Moore to cancel the state contract with the airline."

"Avelo operated about 20% of the deportation flights in the U.S. in August."
#Maryland #USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

Activists target low-cost airline Avelo for immigrant detention flights out of BWI - Maryland Matters

The Moore administration is facing increasing pressure from activists and the head of the Legislative Latino Caucus to boot a discount airline from BWI because it has been flying immigrants targeted…

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Dr. Tom Frieden @drtomfrieden.bsky.social · 12d

More kids died from flu last season than in any non-pandemic season since monitored began 20 years ago. Almost 90% were unvaccinated. Parents: talk to your doctor about getting your kids vaccinated. www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...

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Ben Howell @howellben.bsky.social · 14d

This is the analysis that I was hoping to find - people receiving H1B's absolutely are a core part of the US healthcare system (in training and beyond). Especially in rural areas. The US does not train enough people to meet the need of the number of physicians our country needs.

Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 14d

Over 14,000 physicians currently practicing in the United States, concentrated in underserved Midwestern+Southern states, are currently working on H-1B visas.

This is the high-skill visa program, lifeblood for critical sectors, that the US Administration is sledgehammering.

doi.org/10.1007/s116...

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Ben Howell @howellben.bsky.social · 17d

I mean I dislike 90s mall punk as much as the nice guy, but “the problem” that’s taking it too far

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 17d

“They should accept it because they looked a little Mexican. It’s the price of a free society.”

Kavanaugh, J., concurring.

Jacob Schriner-Briggs @jschrinerbriggs.bsky.social · 17d

In Naperville, IL on Wednesday, ICE surrounded a group of documented workers replacing a residential roof. ICE agents reportedly kicked over the ladders and forced the workers to jump. The episode involved a chase with guns drawn.

Group of workers reportedly detained while working on roof in Naperville, homeowner says

A Naperville homeowner was left with an unfinished roof and in disbelief after neighbors told his family they believe ICE agents came to his house and detained crew members working on his home.

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Ben Howell @howellben.bsky.social · 19d

This quote in that Mirror piece hit hard - Fairfield Dems (donors?) & their in with Lamont (who sees himself as one of them & more so than other parts of the state) killed this bill full stop.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 20d

The notion that a media outlet has to be nice to One Special Boy in order to exist is so fundamentally un-American it is almost beyond belief. The fact that ABC/Disney backed down is evidence that the corporate consolidation of the media is a huge problem.

USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 20d

BREAKING: President Donald Trump suggests FCC should revoke TV licenses for negative coverage on him.

Trump suggested the extraordinary actions as he defended FCC chairman Brendan Carr for pressuring ABC to pull comedian Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show off the airwaves.

Trump suggests FCC should consider revoking TV licenses over negative coverage of him

President Trump said overwhelming negative coverage about him by TV networks should be grounds for the FCC to revoke their broadcast licenses.

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Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social · 20d

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 24d

Former surgeon general Jerome Adams pulls no punches in his assessment of health secretary Kennedy and the risk he poses to vaccine policy. www.statnews.com/2025/09/15/j...

Why Trump’s former surgeon general wants Kennedy removed: ‘An absolute failure of leadership’

Jerome Adams on RFK Jr.: "An absolute failure of leadership."

www.statnews.com

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Shaheen Pasha @profpasha.bsky.social · 28d

Come learn more about the amazing work we do @prisonjournalism.bsky.social on Sept. 17 at our "Meeting the Moment" virtual Event. It's free to attend and you'll get a glimpse into our world & what's to come! RSVP now! www.eventbrite.com/e/prison-jou...

Prison Journalism Project: Meeting the Moment (Virtual Event)

Now more than ever, who tells the story matters. Learn how PJP is equipping incarcerated writers to reshape the narrative, Sept 17.

www.eventbrite.com

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 26d

the permission structure created for a bloodthirsty maga rampage the last two days by mainstream media, all before any facts were known at all, deserves some real introspection by the entire industry

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 26d

Honestly it seems to me that one of the most important tasks for modern parents is raising their kids to be mostly offline normies

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Ben Howell @howellben.bsky.social · 28d

Opal is another great late 80s US band in this vein, along with ones like the Dream Syndicate. Again not particularly slowcore but closer to G500.

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Ben Howell @howellben.bsky.social · 28d

Not sure if I’d have called Galaxie 500 slowcore & interestingly I remember reading an interview w them where they felt one of the bands w closest affinity to them aesthetically was Spacemen 3.

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Ben Howell @howellben.bsky.social · 28d

I’ll second Codeine - kind of quintessential slowcore IMHO even more than other bands listed here

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Nate Raymond @nateraymond.bsky.social · 28d

Breaking: A federal judge on in Rhode Island blocked the Trump administration from barring migrants living in the U.S. illegally from accessing numerous federally-funded services, including Head Start preschools, health clinics and food banks. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

US judge blocks Trump from cutting migrants off from Head Start, other programs

A federal judge on Wednesday blocked U.S. President Donald Trump's administration from barring migrants living in the U.S. illegally from accessing numerous federally-funded services, including Head Start preschools, health clinics and food banks.

www.reuters.com

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 29d

A top 50 US university yesterday fired an instructor, a department chair, and a dean because a course made some reference to transgender people without the brief official course description in the catalog saying “trigger warning: gender.”

In conclusion, those intolerant lefty kids, cancel culture.

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