@lynmb.bsky.social
I’m here in solidarity with those fighting for democracy, for human rights, for human kindness and decency. It’s heartening to know that there are so many good people out there.
I don’t post much but I see you and hear you.
I don’t post much but I see you and hear you.
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A manager writes in another reply: “when we say ‘release’ we mean quietly load it onto the LeadSmart website and not tell anyone”.
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Environment watchdog buried report on lead in children’s blood to placate mining companies, emails show
Documents tabled in parliament show NSW agency took four years to publish report and told miners it would be put online ‘quietly’ but EPA says it was released to community earlier
www.theguardian.com
September 4, 2025 at 9:21 PM
A manager writes in another reply: “when we say ‘release’ we mean quietly load it onto the LeadSmart website and not tell anyone”.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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@rokhanna.bsky.social: “Only 3% of the documents given to the [House] Oversight Committee are new. The rest are already in the public domain. Less than 1% of files have been released. DOJ is stonewalling.”
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khanna.house.gov/media/press-...
RELEASE: REP. RO KHANNA SLAMS DOJ FOR “STONEWALLING,” CALLS FOR THE FULL RELEASE OF THE EPSTEIN FILES
Washington, DC — Representative Ro Khanna (CA-17), member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released the following statement on the files received by the committee yesterday from th...
khanna.house.gov
August 23, 2025 at 9:02 PM
@rokhanna.bsky.social: “Only 3% of the documents given to the [House] Oversight Committee are new. The rest are already in the public domain. Less than 1% of files have been released. DOJ is stonewalling.”
khanna.house.gov/media/press-...
khanna.house.gov/media/press-...
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I’m shocked I tell you! Shocked 😳
August 2, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I’m shocked I tell you! Shocked 😳
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BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: A higher up at the Bureau of Prisons WAIVED Ghislaine Maxwell's sex offender status in order to transfer her to a minimum security camp in Texas, per source. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
EXCLUSIVE: Someone Waived Ghislaine Maxwell's Sex Offender Status to Move Her to a Minimum Security Camp in Texas
According to sources, you can't move someone with a Public Safety Factor (PSF) designation - which Maxwell had - without waiving it. That's what happened here.
www.muellershewrote.com
August 1, 2025 at 5:20 PM
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: A higher up at the Bureau of Prisons WAIVED Ghislaine Maxwell's sex offender status in order to transfer her to a minimum security camp in Texas, per source. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
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Just a year ago, the U.S. was better at predicting storms’ tracks than it had ever been. But now, @zoeschlanger.bsky.social reports, the country is rapidly losing state-of-the-art forecasting, just in time for hurricane season’s busiest months:
Hurricane Science Was Great While It Lasted
The U.S. is hacking away at support for state-of-the-art forecasting.
bit.ly
July 6, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Just a year ago, the U.S. was better at predicting storms’ tracks than it had ever been. But now, @zoeschlanger.bsky.social reports, the country is rapidly losing state-of-the-art forecasting, just in time for hurricane season’s busiest months:
Tragic
UNAids chief ‘shaken and disgusted’ by US cuts that will mean millions more deaths
UNAids chief ‘shaken and disgusted’ by US cuts that will mean millions more deaths
Winnie Byanyima tells the Guardian she considered resigning when Donald Trump cancelled Pepfar funding
www.theguardian.com
July 4, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Tragic
Unbelievable
Damn‼️ Federal agents blew a door off for this?
Federal agents blasted their way into an LA home where Jenny Ramirez lives with her boyfriend and two kids.
She heard the blast while checking on her 6-year-old, with her 1-year-old in her arms.
Ramirez says everyone in the home is a U.S. citizen.
🧵
Federal agents blasted their way into an LA home where Jenny Ramirez lives with her boyfriend and two kids.
She heard the blast while checking on her 6-year-old, with her 1-year-old in her arms.
Ramirez says everyone in the home is a U.S. citizen.
🧵
June 28, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Unbelievable
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Damn‼️ Federal agents blew a door off for this?
Federal agents blasted their way into an LA home where Jenny Ramirez lives with her boyfriend and two kids.
She heard the blast while checking on her 6-year-old, with her 1-year-old in her arms.
Ramirez says everyone in the home is a U.S. citizen.
🧵
Federal agents blasted their way into an LA home where Jenny Ramirez lives with her boyfriend and two kids.
She heard the blast while checking on her 6-year-old, with her 1-year-old in her arms.
Ramirez says everyone in the home is a U.S. citizen.
🧵
June 27, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Damn‼️ Federal agents blew a door off for this?
Federal agents blasted their way into an LA home where Jenny Ramirez lives with her boyfriend and two kids.
She heard the blast while checking on her 6-year-old, with her 1-year-old in her arms.
Ramirez says everyone in the home is a U.S. citizen.
🧵
Federal agents blasted their way into an LA home where Jenny Ramirez lives with her boyfriend and two kids.
She heard the blast while checking on her 6-year-old, with her 1-year-old in her arms.
Ramirez says everyone in the home is a U.S. citizen.
🧵
Another tragedy.
A dedicated volunteer who taught Sunday school and loved dogs. A lawyer who served as a Girl Scout leader and worked at her dad’s auto parts store.
Minnesota State Rep. Melissa Hortman was more than just the state House’s top Democrat, according to those who knew her.
Minnesota State Rep. Melissa Hortman was more than just the state House’s top Democrat, according to those who knew her.
Melissa Hortman: Who was the Minnesota state representative assassinated in her home? | CNN
A dedicated volunteer who taught Sunday school and loved dogs. A lawyer who served as a Girl Scout Leader and worked at her dad’s auto parts store. A mother and wife whose husband was killed alongside...
cnn.it
June 15, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Another tragedy.
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Delaney Detention Center at midnight.
Protesters BLOCK ICE van from departing, then are mass pepper sprayed and thrown around in response outside the ICE Delaney Detention Center in New Jersey via Jon Farina
June 13, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Delaney Detention Center at midnight.
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LA Mayor Karen Bass: "It's a feeling here of intentional chaos [...] it is as though troops were rolled out in a provocative manner, and I do not see how that is helpful to Los Angeles right now."
June 8, 2025 at 10:52 PM
LA Mayor Karen Bass: "It's a feeling here of intentional chaos [...] it is as though troops were rolled out in a provocative manner, and I do not see how that is helpful to Los Angeles right now."
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This is an important reminder: even the LAPD acknowledged yesterday that everything was peaceful.
Then Trump brought the chaos.
He is responsible.
Then Trump brought the chaos.
He is responsible.
June 9, 2025 at 2:14 AM
This is an important reminder: even the LAPD acknowledged yesterday that everything was peaceful.
Then Trump brought the chaos.
He is responsible.
Then Trump brought the chaos.
He is responsible.
Appalling action by ABC.
Breaking: ABC News says senior national correspondent Terry Moran "has been suspended pending further evaluation." This since-deleted tweet is the reason for the suspension:
June 9, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Appalling action by ABC.
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This is a welcoming account. 🏳️⚧️
June 3, 2025 at 2:40 AM
This is a welcoming account. 🏳️⚧️
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May 31, 2025
May 31, 2025
“I would like to speak briefly and simply about a serious national condition,” Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine told her colleagues on June 1, 1950.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
June 1, 2025 at 6:13 AM
May 31, 2025
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Now Australia has decisively elected a progressive government can all legacy MSM please stop parroting LNP hate about ‘woke’, ‘ gender wars’ because we have made ourselves clear. Kindness and inclusion for the win. Now let’s get on with helping all get a fair go, building not bullying .
#auspol
#auspol
May 4, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Now Australia has decisively elected a progressive government can all legacy MSM please stop parroting LNP hate about ‘woke’, ‘ gender wars’ because we have made ourselves clear. Kindness and inclusion for the win. Now let’s get on with helping all get a fair go, building not bullying .
#auspol
#auspol
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Anthony Albanese claims a piece of history as scale of Labor victory stuns raucous crowd | Josh Butler
Australian election: Anthony Albanese claims a piece of history as scale of Labor victory stuns raucous crowd | Josh Butler
The Australian prime minister is the first to be re-elected since John Howard – and becomes one of Labor’s biggest heroes
www.theguardian.com
May 3, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Anthony Albanese claims a piece of history as scale of Labor victory stuns raucous crowd | Josh Butler
They choose not to learn.
“I’d argue we didn’t do enough of a culture war,” Credlin said. 🥴
Andrew Bolt says it was the voters who were wrong as Sky News commentators grieve Dutton election loss | Amanda Meade
May 4, 2025 at 5:05 AM
They choose not to learn.
Just amazing.
Australian federal election 2025 live: Coalition licks wounds after Peter Dutton loses seat in Labor election thrashing – latest Australia news and updates
Australian federal election 2025 live: Coalition licks wounds after Peter Dutton loses seat in Labor election thrashing – latest Australia news and updates
Labor is set to govern with a huge majority after the Coalition vote collapsed and Peter Dutton lost his seat of Dickson. Follow today’s news and the latest results
* Election 2025 results LIVE: Australia votes tracker and federal seat counts
* Anthony Albanese secures ‘win for the ages’ for Labor at federal election
* Glum and glummer: Liberal faithful reel as Peter Dutton loses seat of Dickson after 24 years
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Good morning and welcome to today’s live blog, the day after Anthony Albanese led Labor to a thumping victory, returning to power with an increased majority.
As of 10.30pm last night, the ABC had Labor on 87 seats – an increase of nine – while the Coalition were on 39 seats, a massive 18-seat collapse. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
May 4, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Just amazing.
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Here's where things are at today with seats. There likely won't be many updates today as the AEC usually spends Sunday sorting and transporting ballot papers for fresh counts.
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May 4, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Here's where things are at today with seats. There likely won't be many updates today as the AEC usually spends Sunday sorting and transporting ballot papers for fresh counts.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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I spoke with UN Secretary-General António Guterres today. In this time of rising conflict, Canada is ready to lead.
We will build coalitions, defend democracy, and stand up for our values on the world stage. As others step back from global leadership, Canada is stepping up.
We will build coalitions, defend democracy, and stand up for our values on the world stage. As others step back from global leadership, Canada is stepping up.
May 1, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I spoke with UN Secretary-General António Guterres today. In this time of rising conflict, Canada is ready to lead.
We will build coalitions, defend democracy, and stand up for our values on the world stage. As others step back from global leadership, Canada is stepping up.
We will build coalitions, defend democracy, and stand up for our values on the world stage. As others step back from global leadership, Canada is stepping up.
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“It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant… Don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth… and hope.” @jimacosta.bsky.social
January 29, 2025 at 7:11 AM
“It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant… Don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth… and hope.” @jimacosta.bsky.social
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The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach.
Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM
Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM
April 26, 2025 at 12:07 PM
The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach.
Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM
Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM