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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 18h

1. A new journal report in the prestigious Medical Journal of Australia eviscerates the Cass review, saying it is filled with fallacies and launders anti-trans disinformation.

It methodically goes through each problem in the review.

The latest from S. Baum.

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New Journal Report: Cass Review “Echoes Fallacies Promoted By Anti-Trans Disinformation”

While American lawyers pushed the anti-trans Cass Review this week, Australia’s top scholars rebuked it.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Meghan Bartels @meghanbartels.bsky.social · 1d

The science is in: COVID boosters are worth it, even if you've been vaccinated and/or infected before. Stay safe out there, friends!: 🧪 🛟 www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

www.scientificamerican.com

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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 2d

Those influencing Trump education policy aren't shy about wanting to eradicate public schools.

Asked what % of kids she imagines should be in public schools, Tiffany Justice -- Moms for Liberty cofounder, now with Heritage Foundation -- told @propublica.org

“I hope zero. I hope to get to zero.”

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

organizingmythoughts.org

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks, New Yorker

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Liz Roemer @lizroemer.bsky.social · 3d

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The Zionist consensus among US Jews has collapsed. Something new is emerging | Shaul Magid

Two years after the 7 October massacre and the onset of Israel’s slaughter in Gaza, American Jewry has been profoundly transformed

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 9d

If you live in:

South Dakota
Louisiana
West Virginia
Wyoming
Tennessee
Mississippi
Alaska

Call your right wing Senator and ask them why they're pushing to increase their constituents healthcare prices so much.

Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 9d

If you live in these states, your ACA premiums are about to jump:

SD - Up 235% LA - Up 150% WV - Up 387% WY - Up 382% TN - Up 320% MS - Up 314% AK - Up 346%

Republicans are fighting to make sure this happens to their own constituents.

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Liz Roemer @lizroemer.bsky.social · 5d

Today is a good day to practice mindfully connecting to #nature This @psychologytoday.com post gives some suggestions for mindfulness practices that incorporate nature. #psychology #therapistsky

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind...

Mindfully Connecting With Nature

Connecting to nature improves your mood, attention, and interconnection—and you don’t need hours or days to gain these benefits! Try these brief practices and see the impact.

www.psychologytoday.com

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EROCY @erocy.world · 4d

this is a good write up imo

Jay Graber Confuses the Gas and Brake Pedals

As your new Head of Comms I advise you to please stop posting this shit.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 4d

There are a lot of great things about being married to a lawyer/in-house counsel and one of them is that he insisted that I truly understand that the law is whatever the people in power say it is.

He trained as a critical race theorist & this actually one of the legit reasons these people hate CRT

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 4d

Every Trump speech now produces approximately two dozen 30-second clips peppering the feed that each alone should trigger impeachment or 25th amendment proceedings and are indistinguishable from what your worst uncle would produce if he had any idea how to make ai-generated videos

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CNN @cnn.com · 8d

A CNN review has found two dozen incidents of people posing as ICE officers in 2025 – more incidents than during the prior four presidential terms combined.

ICE impersonator incidents rise during Trump’s second term | CNN

A CNN review has found two dozen incidents of people posing as ICE officers in 2025 – more incidents than during the prior four presidential terms combined.

www.cnn.com

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Liz Roemer @lizroemer.bsky.social · 5d

Today is a good day to practice mindfully connecting to #nature This @psychologytoday.com post gives some suggestions for mindfulness practices that incorporate nature. #psychology #therapistsky

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind...

Mindfully Connecting With Nature

Connecting to nature improves your mood, attention, and interconnection—and you don’t need hours or days to gain these benefits! Try these brief practices and see the impact.

www.psychologytoday.com

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 5d

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

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The Marshall Project @themarshallproject.org · 5d

The administration is shifting tens of thousands of personnel from other federal agencies to help ICE, raising concerns that other law enforcement priorities are being neglected.

“It’s a good time to be an American-born criminal,” said one expert.

For Trump Administration, Fighting Crime Takes a Backseat to Immigration Arrests

“It’s a good time to be an American-born criminal,” said one expert, as ICE’s dragnet now includes thousands of agents from other federal law enforcement.

www.themarshallproject.org

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 7d

“Fuck them kids.”

That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other.

abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

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"They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'"

Watson said trucks and military-style vans were used to separate parents from their children. Other neighbors said agents destroyed property to get in the building.

"They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down," said witness Darrell Ballard. "We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military."

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AAUP @aaup.org · 7d

The Trump admin’s offer to give preferential treatment to institutions that toe the party line reeks of bribery in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda.

This is corruption.

Adherence to ‘loyalty oaths’ would usher in a new era of thought policing in American higher education.

Universities Must Reject Trump Admin 'Loyalty Oath' Compacts

The AAUP and AFT warn that the Trump administration’s offer to give preferential treatment to colleges and universities that court government favor in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological...

www.aaup.org

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 7d

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report

Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

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Liz Roemer @lizroemer.bsky.social · 8d

Some images from my walk to the office this morning. See @joshbartok.bsky.social ‘s blog (link above) for suggestions for a mindful 📷 practice above. #therapysky

Cement tiles with a green stalk growing between them and part of a brick wall on the top of the frame

A trunk with peeling bark and green grass around it.

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 8d

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’”

It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground

ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

abc7chicago.com

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 10d

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 9d

What a perfect formulation:

“This is, in many ways, the dynamic that defines reactionary centrism: the right must be understood, but never blamed. The left can be blamed, but need not be understood.” www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...

What is a reactionary centrist, and does the UK have them?

A term favoured by US progressives can help us understand Britain’s drift to the right

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 9d

BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 9d

NEW | Israel has hired Clock Tower X LLC, a conservative-aligned firm led by former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale, on a $6M contract to flood Gen Z platforms with pro-Israel content. At least 80% of the output will target TikTok…

@nick_clevelands (on X) reports for Responsible Statecraft ⬇️

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Abu Aardvark’s Ghost @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 9d

Amazing victory for the actual law

CNN @cnn.com · 9d

A federal judge delivered an extraordinary 161-page rebuke of President Trump, ruling that the administration impermissibly chilled the protected political speech of university professors and students by targeting non-citizens on college campuses who have spoken out in support of Palestine.

‘Full-throated assault on the First Amendment’: Judge rips into Trump over attempts to deport pro-Palestinian academics | CNN Politics

A federal judge on Tuesday delivered an extraordinary 161-page rebuke of President Donald Trump, ruling that the administration impermissibly chilled the protected political speech of university profe...

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Tricia Ghoulish 👻📚💻🇵🇭🇺🇲 @trishgreen.bsky.social · 10d

"By gently attending to, and then engaging in, actions that are possible, even when they don’t feel possible, you can counter the overwhelming sense of helplessness that can easily descend...This is the compassionate practice of doing what you can, when you can, in the amount you can."

Liz Roemer @lizroemer.bsky.social · 10d

So grateful to everyone managing to do meaningful, kind, just things amid so much pain and cruelty. For folks feeling understandably stuck, here are some suggestions. #therapysky #psychology #academicsky

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind...

What We Do Matters, Especially When Things Are Hardest

Four ways to tap into meaning and get yourself unstuck—even when things are hardest.

www.psychologytoday.com

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