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Craig F @cfoh.bsky.social · 17h

This administration is totally fine with more Americans getting cancer from water contaminants if it means corporations and their wealthy friends might keep a penny or two more. Insane.

The #EPA is now the Exploitation & Profiteering Agency.

www.newsweek.com/epa-drinking...

EPA moves to roll back drinking water standards

The Environmental Protection Agency is looking to roll back regulatory standards for three types of PFAS chemicals in drinking water systems.

www.newsweek.com

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LauraFT @lauraft27.bsky.social · 3h

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NEVER TRUMPER @jennyfmtheblock.bsky.social · 5h

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Time to make it weird,Austin🇺🇸
October 18th
NO KINGS 2.0

Krassenstein (@krassenstein)

BREAKING: Trump says he’s going to try and do something to try and stop a “No Kings Protest” in Austin, Texas. In other words, let’s make it huge!

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LauraFT @lauraft27.bsky.social · 5h

Let’s hope it’s a head (inside & out) to toe checkup.

LauraFT @lauraft27.bsky.social · 5h

And on govt web pages

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Julie Zebrak @juliezebrak.bsky.social · 10h

That is not their job or the mission of the FBI and shifting resources from violent crime, national security, and corruption and fraud is dangerous for our long term safety. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

A quarter of FBI agents are assigned to immigration enforcement, per FBI data

Nearly a quarter of FBI agents are currently assigned to immigration enforcement, with the number climbing above 40 percent in the bureau’s largest field offices.

www.washingtonpost.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h

WEST VIRGINIAN: “If the subsidies go away I won’t have health insurance. I won’t go to the doctor. This really is a life or death situation.” #TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax

(This shutdown is making the case for #MedicareForAll better than we ever could)

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Harry Underwood @blackgaynerd.com · 13h

Do not sleep on this election in Georgia!

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 13h

Today on Volts: hey listen up! The most important election of the year is happening in Georgia next month. Two seats on the (currently all-GOP) Public Service Commission are up & rising electricity prices are on everyone's mind. This is a bellwether for next year's governor & midterm elections!

Pay attention to the most important political race of 2025

With energy affordability set to dominate national politics, Peter Hubbard and Brionté McCorkle explain why a down-ballot Georgia race is ground zero for the fight.

www.volts.wtf

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LauraFT @lauraft27.bsky.social · 5h

Get this to @abigailspanberger.com They debate tomorrow night.

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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 10h

🚨🚨 political violence alert!!! 👇👇👇

Unearthed audio of Virginia GOP candidate Winsome Earle-Sears on abortion:

"Murder is murder, and one day it's gonna be your turn"

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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks to RFK, parents are encountering all sorts of obstacles when trying to find pediatric covid shots, inc. for infants and toddlers younger than 2, who are at higher risk - we knew this would happen.

Some of the problems:

🔹️Many pediatricians and...

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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/w...

Seeking Covid Shots for Their Children, Some Parents Hit a Wall

www.nytimes.com

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LauraFT @lauraft27.bsky.social · 5h

Well, she dressed for the occasion. But what exactly will she be briefing him on?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

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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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 10h

How is this making America safer? If anything, we're now more vulnerable and exposed!

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

A quarter of FBI agents are assigned to immigration enforcement, per FBI data

Nearly a quarter of FBI agents are currently assigned to immigration enforcement, with the number climbing above 40 percent in the bureau’s largest field offices.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 11h

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LauraFT @lauraft27.bsky.social · 5h

She won 2 weeks ago. She should have been sworn in the next day.

LauraFT @lauraft27.bsky.social · 6h

They won’t do that b/c then the truth would be revealed.

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 13h

Ironic: just yesterday MAGA AG made false statements to Senate Judiciary and gave no cover to MAGA Patel’s false statements to Senate Judiciary.

Comey pleads not guilty in false statements case

James B. Comey pleaded not guilty in a case that has become a focus of concern about pressure by President Trump to prosecute opponents. Government attorneys have been concerned that evidence in the c...

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11h

Jeffries: This is the second time it's been shut down under Donald Trump, and he's nowhere to be found. He's got time to be on the golf course, but apparently doesn't have time to sit down with Democrats to reopen the government.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 6h

"The Supreme Court’s Dark Money Man Is Trying to Make It Harder to Vote"

Leonard Leo’s network is bankrolling the main donor behind a ballot initiative in Maine to limit absentee voting & impose voter ID requirements.

Important reporting from Zeteo's new political reporter @andrewperez.bsky.social

The Supreme Court’s Dark Money Man Is Trying to Make It Harder to Vote

Leonard Leo’s network is bankrolling the main donor behind a ballot initiative in Maine that would limit absentee voting and impose voter ID requirements.

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 15h

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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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 6h

Mike Johnson is lying. Swear-in Rep elect Adelita Grijalva. Release the Epstein files.

Congresswoman-elect calls out Mike Johnson for REFUSING to swear her in

YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen

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putawomanincharge.bsky.social @putawomanincharge.bsky.social · 7h

FYI ..
EPSTEIN used young boys too.
Yes. He. Did.
Another HUGE reason they are fighting this.

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StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 10h

The Oregon National Guard general says if they were to be deployed, they would be instructed under his leadership to protect the protesters and not ICE

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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 1d

Bob Ross art from his 1983-94 TV show will be auctioned to support PBS.

30 paintings will be sold. Two were auctioned for a combined $210K earlier this year.

"I can’t think of a more meaningful way to share his works of art than by supporting public television"

apnews.com/article/bob-... #PBS

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal funding cuts

Thirty paintings by Bob Ross are set to be auctioned to support public television stations. The Bonhams auction is to begin Nov. 11 in Los Angeles with three of the paintings.

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