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Kristin K @kjkrathwohl.bsky.social · 3h

Yes, Stephen Miller Said Trump Had 'Plenary Authority' In A CNN Interview

A bizarre moment during a cable news interview saw one of the president's closest advisers make a wild assertion.

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Anthony Jones @hipecsurvivor.bsky.social · 18h

Study: Individuals with SARS-CoV-2 infection had significantly higher risks of developing HPV-related cancers: a 67% increase in cervical cancer, 131% in vaginal cancer, 98% in vulvar cancer, 92% in anal cancer, and 78% in oropharyngeal (throat) cancer.
#covid
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40813533/

SARS-CoV-2 infection heightens the risk of developing HPV-related carcinoma in situ and cancer - PubMed

SARS-CoV-2 infection is associated with elevated risks of HPV-related carcinoma in situ and cancer, irrespective of age or race. The findings underscore the importance of understanding the interplay b...

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Liz Highleyman @lizhighleyman.bsky.social · 4h

Is there some sort of revolt going on? First MTG opposes cutting off ACA subsidies, now Hawley is sounding like Bernie Sanders.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11h

A window into how policy is made in this White House

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Q: Are you going to work with your administration to designate antifa a foreign terror organization?

TRUMP: You mean anti-terror?

Q: Antifa

TRUMP: Antifa?

Q: A foreign terror organization

TRUMP: Would you like to see it done? I'd be glad to do it. Does everybody agree? It sounds good to me

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Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 6h

I did not know this. Did you?

The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 6h

With the MLB playoffs on Fox Sports 1 and promos being run for Tubi it’s a good to remind folks that #Tubi is Lachlan & Rupert Murdoch's/FOX's streaming media platform.

#TubiFundsFox

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tiny.cc/TubiFundsFOX

WARNING: Watching Tubi funds Fox News

Tubi is Rupert Murdoch's latest scheme to use entertainment — and especially the Super Bowl — to fund his right-wing agenda and assault on American minds.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 8h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 8h

Today, Trump said: “We took the freedom of speech away.”

The political ground has shifted so dramatically for the worse that this isn’t a major scandal.

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Trump says 'we took the freedom of speech away' with flag burning order

Trump says 'we took the freedom of speech away' with flag burning orderSource: Reuters

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bethbramble.bsky.social @bethbramble.bsky.social · 9h

Nice to see Sen. Gallego and Kelly going to bat for Adelita Grijalva, as they and everyone else should be.
Speaker Johnson is stalling her swearing-in because her vote would help finally reveal the Epstein files.

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 15h

"A copy of the arrangement I reviewed shows that the United States has agreed to pay Eswatini $5.1 million to take in up to 160 so-called 'third country nationals'" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

ICE is sending people to a prison in Africa’s only absolute monarchy

Inside the “legal black hole” in Eswatini where Trump is sending detainees.

www.motherjones.com

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 12h

Flagging Trump this afternoon:

"We took the freedom of speech away. Because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech — but what has happened is, when they burn a flag it, agitates and irritates crowds."

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 11h

The president of the United States thinks there are no stores in Portland, OR.
The president of the United States is mentally unhinged – and dangerous.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

🏆 How does a comedy show have the best news research team? @thedailyshow.com

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Marisa Demarco @papermarisa.bsky.social · 17h

Cervical cancer could be eradicated, experts say. But not with Medicaid cuts and anti-vax politics.

Part 3 in our series on repro health care. From @kelciemmorris.bsky.social / @statesnewsroom.com:

www.newsfromthestates.com/article/cerv...

Cervical cancer could be eradicated, experts say. But not with Medicaid cuts and anti-vax politics.

Third in a five-part series.It had been a decade since Jess Deis’ last women’s wellness exam when Kentucky expanded Medicaid and she finally qualified for the state insurance program.

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 18h

Here we see Stephen Miller (left) explaining to a woman that she'll never get his Lucky Charms

Image of a very short Miller talking to a blond woman as they walk on grass

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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 1d

We've found a new low in individualizing climate responsibility.

Coach Jerry (referee 🔵) @gopher33j.bsky.social · 2d

As somebody with asthma who uses inhalers - SHUT THE FUCK UP. THIS ARTICLE IS SHAMING PEOPLE WITH A CHRONIC CONDITION.

"Significantly" My ass. You know what else does? AI Data centers - corporations - cows - asphalt - THOUSANDS OF OTHERS THINGS THAT ARE NOT MEDICINE.

Fuck you - fuck you again.

Inhalers contribute significantly to global warming, study finds

Millions of Americans using inhalers for chronic lung diseases like asthma may be unknowingly contributing to global warming, according to new research.

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 19h

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 18h

"Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk. He has rejected science, misled the public and compromised the health of Americans. The nation deserves a health and human services secretary who is committed to scientific integrity…”

Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.

We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

You can’t talk seriously about gun violence in Chicago without talking about where the guns come from. www.pbump.net/o/the-red-st...

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 20h

Here’s Trump calling for the jailing of the mayor of Chicago and the governor of Illinois.

Totally normal. Just an ordinary day in the Trump regime.

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Chicago Collections @chicollections.bsky.social · 19h

Remember when we did protection instead of deportation?
Midwest Committee for Protection of Foreign Born records, 1947-1963, bulk 1950-1958
explore.chicagocollections.org/ead/chicagoh...

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Indivisible DuPage @indivisibledupage.bsky.social · 18h

Chicago is nice, actually.

Chicago voted Best Big City for 9th year in a row by travel magazine

CHICAGO — Chicago has been voted the “Best Big City” for the 9th year in a row by readers of the travel magazine Condé Nast Traveler. Over 750,000 votes were cast for this year’s reader…

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Indivisible DuPage @indivisibledupage.bsky.social · 18h

We have become something we thought was unimaginable 8 years ago. There's a wrongheaded cynical take that says we were always like this, but nope. We really weren't like this. And we don't have to stay like this.

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

Remember when the Boston Globe ran this supposedly over-the-top front page to attack the idea of Trump ever being president, and now this is just the news every day? We've fallen so, so far because of this man

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 21h

good morning to the intern doing @schumer.senate.gov’s clips

Every time Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York-the Democrat with the most power in a shutdown because his withholding of seven senators toward a procedural vote keeps Republicans from proceeding-says that Democrats are looking to open the government through a negotiation around and deal on Affordable Care Act subsidies, he is acquiescing to the idea that a government in which Border Patrol agents paid with our tax dollars can shoot real bullets at protesters in Chicago after screaming "Do something, bitch!" can and should be deemed legitimate.
The truth is that Democrats can pay a million consultants to come up with a million different talking points on health care subsidies. They can keep holding press conferences in the Senate studio like every other press conference before it, talking to the same reporters, pretending like we live in a redeemable timeline where if they just keep on acting like it's 2007, we might fall through a time portal that makes it so. But we live here in a country with a co-opted executive branch led by racist, xenophobic idiots who do not believe in law, empowered by a slavishly devoted Supreme Court that has decided shoveling unlimited power to said executive is more important than the law it disregards, and where the president thinks he can send national guardsmen from red states to blue states just because people of color live here and Fox News hosts hate that.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 21h

The defining factor of all of these folks across the entire administration is how much they despise all of us.

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 1d

Excuse me? www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...

MEDPAGETODAY®
Public Health & Policy > Health Policy
Many With Obesity 'Don't Respect the Temple of Their
Soul,' Dr. Oz Says
— "The only thing they think they control in their life is the fork at the end of their arm"
by Joyce Frieden, Washington Editor, MedPage Today
October 7, 2025 • 5 min read

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 1d

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 1d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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