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Phil Mandelbaum @philmandelbaum.bsky.social · 2d

All of these Instagram advertisers donate at least a portion of their proceeds to the cause(s) they support

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Phil Mandelbaum @philmandelbaum.bsky.social · 2d

Not one of these Instagram advertisers donates any of its proceeds to the cause it claims to support

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Jillian Hurley @jillianmhurley.bsky.social · 2d

I like the Trump dollar coin idea. It’ll be as worthless as he is by the time they strike it.

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Jillian Hurley @jillianmhurley.bsky.social · 5d

Jeffries is a diplomat leading an army at war. There is a time and a place for diplomacy, this is not it.

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Jillian Hurley @jillianmhurley.bsky.social · 5d

I cannot support Jeffries and Schumer because they don’t respect the voters.

Hakeem Jeffries heaping praise on Eric Adams.

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Jillian Hurley @jillianmhurley.bsky.social · 6d

Trump & Co.

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Jillian Hurley @jillianmhurley.bsky.social · 6d

It’s very important to billionaires to keep the culture wars at the forefront. That way people won’t notice billionaires collectively picking their pockets.

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Jillian Hurley @jillianmhurley.bsky.social · 6d

It’s very important to billionaires to keep the culture wars at the forefront. That way people won’t notice billionaires collectively picking their pockets.

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The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 6d

Without the subsidies, premiums will increase for more than 20 million people next year, and an estimated two million people are expected to lose coverage. But the magnitude of the change depends on where people live, how old they are, and what they earn.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

At Stake in the Shutdown Fight: Obamacare Prices That Could Rise by Thousands of Dollars

Here’s where Affordable Care Act premiums could increase the most.

www.nytimes.com

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 6d

It’s time to get a flu vaccine, and pediatricians are urging people to get them after last winter, when the U.S. saw the most flu-related child deaths in 15 years.

It’s time to get a flu vaccination. Here’s who needs one and why.

October is the ideal month to get a flu vaccine, experts say, because flu cases typically begin climbing in November.

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 7d

Pope Leo XIV denounced people who deny climate change today, arguing that they are contributing to the destruction of God's creation.

Pope Leo rebukes climate skeptics after Trump calls warming a ‘con job’

The Illinois native’s comments come a week after the U.S. president derided the fight against climate change.

www.politico.eu

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Jillian Hurley @jillianmhurley.bsky.social · 8d

Artwork featuring PBS children’s characters and vtge words.
‘PBS didn't
"become woke."
You grew up to be a bad person.’

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 13d

Hundreds of people who were once detained at “Alligator Alcatraz,” the troubled immigration jail in the Florida Everglades, have disappeared from government records.

We speak to a reporter and an advocate about what we know.

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CNN @cnn.com · 13d

Sometime before his nomination, Jeremy Carl deleted at least 5,000 tweets from his account on X, including posts expressing sympathy for rioters who stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 — whom he repeatedly described as “political prisoners.” https://cnn.it/4nwJgPi

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 13d

More than a dozen immigrants to the U.S. who were first deported to Ghana have since been sent back to their home countries despite their high risk of torture or persecution.

Legal experts say the process is part of the Trump administration's attempt "to evade court orders."

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 13d

Trump has unleashed a gold rush among private prison companies taking on immigration detention. In cash-strapped cities, residents aren’t sure the money is worth it.

“We don’t want to be known as a town with a concentration camp."

"Godsend" or "concentration camp"? A lucrative ICE deal divides a Colorado town.

Trump has unleashed a gold rush among private prison companies taking on immigration detention. In cash-strapped cities, residents aren’t sure the money is worth it.

www.motherjones.com

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Jillian Hurley @jillianmhurley.bsky.social · 13d

WE ARE ANTIFA😈

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 14d

Remember that new study?

Yeah we been knowing. 96% of BLM protests were peaceful; same for 99% of the pro-Palestine protests…

And while I saw lots of reports on the study, I can’t say the same for the bigger news:

That Trump scraped the study from all government websites — like it never existed!

US justice department removes study finding far-right extremists commit ‘far more’ violence

Report finding rightwing extremists have killed more Americans than other domestic terrorist groups vanished from DoJ website

www.theguardian.com

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Jillian Hurley @jillianmhurley.bsky.social · 19d

I was thinking about the sexually abused Ohio State Wrestlers & what a slap in the face it must have felt like to have him chairing the committee where the head of the FBI is being questioned about the #EpsteinFiles

Jordan has decades of willfully ignoring rape & sexual abuse.

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Jillian Hurley @jillianmhurley.bsky.social · 19d

It’s wonderfully done. I have been following this story since their brave exposure of the scandal.

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Jillian Hurley @jillianmhurley.bsky.social · 19d

I was thinking about the sexually abused Ohio State Wrestlers & what a slap in the face it must have felt like to have him chairing the committee where the head of the FBI is being questioned about the #EpsteinFiles

Jordan has decades of willfully ignoring rape & sexual abuse.