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wisco-disco.bsky.social
Someone from fucking Yale posted a study they did that said that not only would Medicare for all work, but it would actually save a half a billion dollars and he just blocked them
December 25, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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December 28, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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70sbachchan.bsky.social
The governments in Mexico and South America have a very straightforward demand for the US to change its domestic policy to reduce violence abroad:
1 Stop selling the Guns made in the US and sold to cartels
2 Stop enormous cocaine demand that fuels cartels bsky.app/profile/ronf...
October 25, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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doctop.bsky.social
December 27, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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blanchekolaczek.bsky.social
Chicago people! They organize. They help each other. They understand the long haul. They don’t give up.
mskellymhayes.bsky.social Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d
What gave you courage in 2025?
December 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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shabazzstuart.bsky.social
Always insane to remember that cities like NYC/Philly/Boston could improve transit practically overnight by implementing citywide BRT, and just don't.
December 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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proptermalone.bsky.social
drunk driving is extremely bad and we should try to design social patterns and travel norms in ways that reduce it
ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social AccidentalInsightRepeater @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 17h
I have a bunch of intersecting thoughts here but basically 1) excessive alcohol consumption is an urban activity, 2) we shouldn’t legalize drunk driving and 3) we should more heavily penalize parents whose kids abuse alcohol in such a drastic fashion.
December 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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harmscommitted.com
"The pain in my eyes is unbearable."

"[S]ince October 2023, more than 1,500 people were added to the 10,000 people who are blind or with limited vision in Gaza."

"Israel still prevents the entry of eye drops and treatments."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide #Healthcare
Israel blocks entry of eye drops for blind people in Gaza
Despite the October ceasefire, thousands could develop conditions affecting their vision.
electronicintifada.net
December 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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kendrawrites.com
My point is that especially when it comes to the flu the US is not a bellwether. The way that virus transmits means we are lucky enough to get warnings from other countries first.

And because of our shitty HHS we fucked up a preventative response. We should be outraged.
December 27, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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kendrawrites.com
I'm sharing this because sharing an NYT story about this outweighs my dislike of the publication.

We have known for months because of data outside of Japan that this year's flu season was going to be bad but we have an HHS secretary that hates vaccination and so voila.
bachynski.bsky.social Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 1d
“New York City’s syndromic surveillance system, which collects information about every patient who visits an emergency room, reported 9,857 visits for “influenza-like illness” last week. That was higher than in the worst weeks of the 2017-18 or 2024-25 flu seasons, both ranked as “high severity”
Flu Cases Climb to Highest Levels in New York City in a Decade
www.nytimes.com
December 27, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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badtoss.bsky.social
And she is pushing Christian nationalism, like all good Russian-funded influencers.
annamerlan.bsky.social Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 2d
Tenet Media founder Lauren Chen, who secretly took money from two people with ties to Russian state media to involve conservative influencers in an unwitting propaganda scheme, is back in the US after being deported to Canada under President Biden. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
December 25, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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abigaildombey.bsky.social
And (took me AGES to find this), have a read of this excellent piece by @rebleber.bsky.social on the history of cooking with gas.

bsky.app/profile/rebl...
rebleber.bsky.social Rebecca Leber @rebleber.bsky.social · Nov 4
NEW STORY

How did the gas stove become the icon of the kitchen?

Well newly uncovered documents show how natural gas industry paid Julia Child and Hollywood for promotion , at a time the health risks of gas emissions were becoming clear

www.vox.com/23941889/jul...
Julia Child, the natural gas industry’s most famous influencer
Documents reveal the untold story of how the natural gas industry infiltrated American’s kitchens through the beloved chef.
www.vox.com
December 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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freeroo.blacksky.app
I hope Danita is having a great holiday season!
December 22, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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senorincognito69.bsky.social
racists 🤝 transphobes

"we can (sometimes) always tell"
nkalamb.bsky.social Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 2d
This is a real tweet.
In college, as a progressive, I was told by a friend that race was socially constructed and had no genetic basis. This was obviously insane to me. I can classify people into races by sight with high (though not perfect) reliability. So race exists. No category is perfect. “Chair” is not perfect. Even “hydrogen” can become fuzzy in certain regimes. All reasoning is about inferring attractors, common patterns, regions of phase space occupied at much greater frequency than other regions. All thought is impossible without this concept. The exact same pattern of reasoning that opposes the reality of race could be used to oppose the reality of any concept at all.
December 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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maxberger.bsky.social
Trump sides with the AI billionaires who want to put everyone out of work, while blaming immigrants for stealing your job.
December 26, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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noupside.bsky.social
I have the “In Covid’s Wake” PDF and this section floored me. Here is some of the surrounding content — and citations. The professors cited laundered Twitter Files claims in their discussion of the Murthy v Missouri case — they stuck the *outcome of the case* in a footnote while centering the lies.
The Censorship of Critics Social media companies participated in suppressing debate concerning Covid. The extent of government involvement in the monitoring, de-platforming, and "de-boosting" of dissent around official Covid policy has become clearer thanks to the U.S. federal court case Missouri v. Biden, which we can discuss only briefly. Thanks to testimony and evidence obtained in that case, among other sources, we now know that White House officials were deeply involved in social media censorship activities, along with officials from the CDC, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and other federal agencies. Kulldorff and Bhattacharya were among the plaintiffs in the case originally known as Missouri v. Biden, decided by the U.S. Supreme Court on appeal as Murthy v. Missouri (referencing Surgeon General Vivek Murthy). Both the federal district court and a court of appeals determined that numerous federal officials coerced or "significantly en-couraged" social media platforms to censor disfavored social media con-tent, much of it dealing with the Covid pandemic, in violation of the First Amendment.® The record in the case establishes that federal officials were "in regular contact" with all the major American social media companies about the spread of "misinformation" on their platforms.63 Officials pressed the platforms to remove or "deboost" disfavored content on contentious topics, such as on the efficacy of pandemic lockdowns, Covid vaccines, and the possible lab-leak origin of the pandemic. Officials' "jaw- Meta (formerly Facebook) CEO Mark Zuckerberg has since confirmed and expressed regret about his company's involvement in censoring Covid dissenters: "Unfortunately, I think the establishment... kind of waffled on a bunch of facts and asked for a bunch of things to be censored that, in retrospect, ended up being more debatable or true."74 The communications taken down, according to an email from a Facebook employee to Andy Slavitt, President Biden's White House senior adviser for the Covid response, included known "true content"s that was judged to promote vaccine hesitancy. 6 The fight against Covid was held by many to be the moral equivalent of war, and as in past wars, government officials concluded that national unity was so imperative that achieving it justified censorship of dissenting viewpoints. YUUlUuSE, ICur WIC Ur vC дуии, 10о-у. 61. Johnson, "BBC 'Misrepresented' Covid Risk." 62. The Supreme Court in Murthy v. Missouri declined to rule on the merits of the case, holding that the plaintiffs lacked standing to bring suit. 63. Missouri v. Biden, 83 F. 4th 350, 359 (sth Cir. 2023). 64. Missouri v. Biden, 382. 65. Yoel Roth, "Getting the Facts Straight: Some Observations on the Fifth Circuit Ruling in Missouri v. Biden," Jawboning (blog), Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia Uni-versity, September 27, 2023, https://knightcolumbia.org/blog/getting-the-facts-straight-some -observations-on-the-fifth-circuit-ruling-in-missouri-v-biden-1. 66. Missouri v. Biden, 362. 67. Missouri v. Biden, 367. 68. Missouri v. Biden, 371-72. 324 NOTES TO CHAPTER 4 69. Missouri v. Biden, 366. 70. Missouri v. Biden, 372. 71. Cited in John H. Cochrane, "Atlas Agonistes," The Grumpy Economist, September 15, 2020, https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2020/09/altas-agonistes.html. 72. Woolhouse, Year the World Went Mad, 220. 73. Anderberg, The Herd, 185. 74. @unusual_whales, "Mark Zuckerberg of Meta on Covid censoring," X, June 11, 2023, 10:01 p.m., https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/1668075898539585537. 75. See Paul D. Thacker, "NEW EMAILS: Biden White House Behind Facebook Censorship of the BMJ's Pfizer Investigation," Disinformation Chronicle, January 17, 2023; see Paul D. Thacker, "NEW EMAILS," X, January 17, 2023, https://x.com/thackerpd/status/1615322067510886403 ?lang-en. 76. Missouri v. Biden, U.S. Dist. Ct., West. Dist. of La., Case 3:22-Cv-01213, 07/04/23, 129 fn. 655, https://ago.mo.gov/wp-content/uploads/missouri-v-biden-ruling.pdf.
December 24, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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goldengateblond.bsky.social
staffer: you talked to the little girls?
trump: sure did, real fuckin creepy just like you asked
staffer: what
acyn.bsky.social Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3d
Trump: I am fine. You sound beautiful and cute. How old are you?

Caller: I am eight
December 24, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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#ResistanceRoots

Rev. George Washington Lee was born on this day in 1903 in Edwards, Miss. He was a minister and civil rights leader who was assassinated in Belzoni, Miss., for his efforts to register Black voters. He is often recognized as the first martyr of the modern civil rights movement. /1
Rev. George Washington Lee.
December 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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swin24.bsky.social Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 3d
Is anyone aware of literally one fucking instance of an ICE agent this year quitting in protest
December 25, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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jodemocracy.bsky.social
Restoring liberalism after illiberalism is no easy task: Leaders face hard choices between acting quickly and effectively while maintaining a commitment to democratic procedure. Worse, their illiberal opponents stand to benefit either way.
Democracy After Illiberalism: A Warning from Poland | Journal of Democracy
Restoring liberalism after illiberalism is no easy task: Leaders face hard choices between acting quickly and effectively while maintaining a commitment to democratic procedure. Worse…
www.journalofdemocracy.org
December 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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lollardfish.bsky.social
I loved this. And I want to note the whole “there were no autistic people before …” discourse has an answer here: just the people were sent away in the incarceration (yes “care homes” like this), and if they fled, they were just abandoned by society, usually to die.
December 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
“.. His fingerprints are so evident on the GOP’s redistricting plan that some White House aides refer to it as ‘Blairymandering.’”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
December 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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democracydocket.com
NEW: Wading through nonstop redistricting news because 77 million people voted for a convicted felon who will happily demolish democracy to retain power was not on our 2025 moodboard.

But it happened, and we’re recounting all of the chaos below👇

✍️ @jenrice.bsky.social
Holly Jolly Gerrymander: Here’s How Trump Attempted to Rig Elections in 2025
Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.
www.democracydocket.com
December 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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bakerdphd.bsky.social
See, this is how I know I'm not built to have a proper "star" career, because if this had happened to me, I would've left. (Not a value statement.)
Screenshot of the article in the post I'm quoting which reads: I don’t go to very many faculty meetings at all — but I stopped going to Harvard Sociology meetings a long time ago. When I returned to Harvard in the 1980s, many in the Sociology Department made my life miserable, and the Government Department initially refused to accept me as a faculty member. I had no department, really. After years of that, I finally won the top award in political science for my book Protecting Soldiers and Mothers, and the Government Department voted to accept me on their faculty. I just said, okay, I’m going to be in a place where I’m not excluded and treated like a witch all the time, as I was then in Sociology.
December 24, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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colincarlson.bsky.social
Would you believe me if I told you Mark Cuban didn’t want a peer reviewed answer to his question from the top medical journal
colincarlson.bsky.social Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 3d
Mr. Cuban, I'm a professor at Yale School of Public Health. Here's a paper published by one of my colleagues in the top medical journal evaluating the Medicare for All Act, which would not only get us there, but would save $450B per year. Happy to discuss! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Improving the prognosis of health care in the USA
Although health care expenditure per capita is higher in the USA than in any other country, more than 37 million Americans do not have health insurance, and 41 million more have inadequate access to c...
www.thelancet.com
December 25, 2025 at 2:45 AM