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🇺🇸 Pithy Packy 🇳🇱 @pithypacky.bsky.social · 1d

“…we are compelled to speak with one voice to say that the actions of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are endangering the health of the nation…the profound, immediate and unprecedented threat that Kennedy’s policies and positions pose to the nation’s health cannot be ignored.”

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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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Aunty-Fa @auntyfa.bsky.social · 18h

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IT AINT GONNA GO AWAY - ODE TO THE EPSTEIN FILES

YouTube video by Cathy Fink Marcy Marxer

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🇺🇸 Pithy Packy 🇳🇱 @pithypacky.bsky.social · 16h

Only 2 in 5 Republicans is a disgrace.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

One thing about American's widespread distrust and disapproval of the Supreme Court is that mainstream news coverage mostly doesn't dwell on stuff like standing, so people don't even begin to grasp how rigged the Court truly is www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Supreme Court Live Updates: Justices Seem Set to Rule Against Colorado’s Ban on Conversion Therapy

www.nytimes.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

SEN. HIRONO: “Did you approve shutting down the bribery investigation into Homan?”

BONDI: “Are you Antifa?” 🤡

(That’s a yes)

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🇺🇸 Pithy Packy 🇳🇱 @pithypacky.bsky.social · 1d

“…we are compelled to speak with one voice to say that the actions of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are endangering the health of the nation…the profound, immediate and unprecedented threat that Kennedy’s policies and positions pose to the nation’s health cannot be ignored.”

🎁 article 👇🏼

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.

wapo.st

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 2d

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 1d

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 1d

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d

In this Ohio diner, conversion therapy is what the Browns and Bengals need after going 7 for 23 on third downs this weekend. But they do know this: if a Christian minister can't make your kid straight, no one can.

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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 1d

It's always funny how many of these dorks love religion until it says to be a good person.

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🇺🇸 Pithy Packy 🇳🇱 @pithypacky.bsky.social · 1d

Founding Father James Madison: “A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence [against] foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.”

Prescient.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d

New on MSNBC: Trump's new acting U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan has recruited prosecutors from outside her office to take James Comey to trial, after being unable to find any federal prosecutors in her own office willing to pursue the charges, according to two people familiar with the selections.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Rayfield: When Trump learned that this was a judge who was appointed by him, he said he wasn’t served well.

To have any president or any politician in America say a judge is not serving them—words can’t even describe how backwards that is.

Phang: He’s not the king. He’s the court jester.

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🇺🇸 Pithy Packy 🇳🇱 @pithypacky.bsky.social · 2d

…Trump says, as he rubs his hands together with glee.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

71.5% of ICE detainees have no criminal convictions, according to government data.

Don’t fall for Trump’s lies about targeting the “worst of the worst.”

As Trump's regime terrorizes communities to fill up detention centers, remember that some of his biggest donors are private prison corporations.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

With the Opus Dei court, the sole question is: how much damage can we visit on America and its Constitution this term? How much progress can we make in building our signature authoritarian state with Trump at the helm? Don't underestimate them for a second. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The Supreme Court v. Democracy

The Nation’s justice correspondent previews the court’s coming term—and explains why it will never stand up to Trump.

www.thenation.com

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 2d

🚨THIS IS A BIG DEAL. Chicago journalists are suing the Trump administration for using excessive force against reporters & protestors in violation of the 1A.
The press here is doing astounding work documenting how ICE is out of control. The violence they face in doing so is obscene.

The protests at the Broadview ICE facility and the federal government’s violent
attempts to silence the protesters became a story of great interest to the local Chicago media and
was also covered in the national press. Much of the coverage described the federal officers’
abusive tactics. Defendants sought and are seeking to quash this coverage by attacking and
intimidating members of the Press on the ground there.
85. Federal immigration officers at the Broadview ICE facility have repeatedly and
intentionally singled out persons whom they know to be members of the Press for violence,
assault, and intimidation. These assaults are not incidental or unintentional. They are undertaken
by design to intimidate journalists on scene and to frustrate and suppress coverage of the federal
officers’ actions toward protesters and immigration detainees

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🇺🇸 Pithy Packy 🇳🇱 @pithypacky.bsky.social · 2d

Fox News should lose their FCC license to broadcast news over this kind of crap.

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Your social media team deserves a raise!!

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 2d

Leaked clip of House Republicans.

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 2d

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Swing Districts Speak: Support for Trump Is Collapsing

New Polls Show Trump’s Presidency Is Weakening

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🇺🇸 Pithy Packy 🇳🇱 @pithypacky.bsky.social · 2d

My kind of news organization with outstanding principles and values.

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Today is MSNBC’s first day apart from NBC. Here is its new code of principles. - Poynter

The new network’s 10 core principles emphasize fairness, accuracy, transparency and firm limits on AI

www.poynter.org

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3d

The Israeli government denies mistreating Greta Thunberg. Then Police Min Itamar Ben Gvir goes on TV to gleefully announcing that she was indeed tortured. He says he's proud of the fact. It's a great demonstration of how the Israeli government under Netanyahu works, unable to coordinate its lies

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