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Rachael Sparks
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Anti-Nazis, pro-choice, pro-vax. 💙 NC Democrat, ex Texan. Past microbiologist & transplant specialist, now marketer and pharma tech startup co-founder.
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pbump.com
This is part of what Trump said at Charlie Kirk's memorial service.
December 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
sparkytheauthor.bsky.social
RFK just killing it* at preserving health in the US. Measles will definitely get those kids off their screens and couches!

*Kids.
govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov Governor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 1d
Really hope the Trump Admin gets back to following science & data…
December 15, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
Two victims of previous school shootings — Mia Tretta, who was shot in the stomach in 2019 at Saugus High School, and Zoe Weissman, who survived the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — are now at Brown. Gun violence is out of control in this country.
December 14, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
If you want to do something like this, why not buy a $150k home in a small town in Italy, France, Spain, or Mexico, instead of having nine people share one bathroom after they eat at a restaurant called "Stinky's?"
Someone on twitter writes: "You could move to Aplington, Iowa and get a job at the post office making $25 an hour to start, meet a nice girl at the First Reformed Church and take her on a date to Stinky's Bar and Grill, and get married and raise up seven children in this house but you will not do it." There's a screenshot of a Zillow listing showing a rundown 8 bedroom, 1 bathroom home for $95,000.
December 13, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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megaholt.medsky.social
If that gravel-voiced, steroid-abusing, roadkill-munching, worm-brained fuckmuppet fucks this up, I will ensure that he will not know a single moment of peace in this life or the next.
theintellectualist.bsky.social The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 4d
A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
December 13, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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jamellebouie.net
my everyday speech is still sprinkled with lines from chappelle’s show, tbh
roryblank.bsky.social Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 3d
the 6-7 phenomenon is in no way different from any other catchphrase that kids have yelled out at any point in the last hundred years, there's no daylight between that and when i was in high school, the year straight where every guy kept yelling "i'm rick james bitch"
December 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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pbump.com
An underappreciated method for survey research.
alexmears.bsky.social alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 4d
we asked people that like us whether they like us
December 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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jamellebouie.net
shoutout to the crowd that insisted it was a political loser to stand up for abrego garcia’s rights
bill-of-lefts.bsky.social No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 4d
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an ordinary man, has defeated the great might of the US Government
merovingians.bsky.social the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 4d
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free. every bit of cruelty, boasting, slander, and persecution was for absolutely fucking nothing.
December 12, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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waldo.net
Musk still has two weeks to meet his deadline to sell a new Roadster that is part rocket, so advanced that it’s “not really a car.” Next year will be the tenth year that this car is supposedly coming out!
waldo.net Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · Mar 19
Never give an interview when you’re tripping balls electrek.co/2024/03/18/t...
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has made new comments about the upcoming next-gen roadster and went as far as saying that it's "not even really a car." The prototype for the next-generation was first unveiled in 2017 and it was supposed to come to production in 2020, but it was delayed every year since then. In his update, the CEO said that a new prototype should be unveiled at the end of this year, and Tesla plans to bring the vehicle to production in 2025. Musk also doubled down on the plan to make it a partnership with SpaceX as he previously said that the vehicle would be equipped with cold air thrusters to make it faster. He added that the new Roadster is going to accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in less than a second - making it the quickest vehicle in the world. The CEO reiterated that the new Roadster will be a collaboration between SpaceX and Tesla. "You can expect some rocketry stuff there," said Musk. When Lemon asked if it's going to be a flying car, Musk answered, "maybe" and then added: “It's going to have some rocket technology in it. I think the only way to do something cooler than Cybertruck is to combine Tesla and SpaceX technology to create something that's not even really a car. [.] Something that's never existed before.”
December 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?

NOEM: We haven't deported veterans

MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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fredolives.bsky.social
Many Americans are far more scared of imaginary vaccine complications than they are of real disease complications.
December 11, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
When the winner of the Nobel peace prize smuggled herself over the water and out of Venezuela to attend the ceremony in Oslo this week, her allies called the Pentagon to ask them not to arbitrarily murder her. www.wsj.com/world/americ...
December 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Brett Kavanaugh's "minor inconvience" now includes beating people up and cutting off their wedding rings for [checks notes] "observing ICE from a distance."
December 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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onestpress.onestnetwork.com
Reuters: Trump's administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate Trump and his top officials, administration official said, threatening new U.S. sanctions on the court if it did not.
December 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
sparkytheauthor.bsky.social
My grandfather had Alzheimer's and thought with complete conviction and detailed recollection that he was the first human to have hip surgery. He, too, "aced it with perfect marks."
onestpress.onestnetwork.com Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 6d
POTUS: “I do these Tests because I owe it to our Country. In addition to the Medical, I have done something that no other President has done, on three separate occasions, the last one being recently, by taking what is known as a Cognitive Examination”
There has never been a President that has worked as hard as me! My hours are the longest, and my results are among the best. I've stopped Eight Wars, saving many millions of lives in the process, created the Greatest Economy in the History of our Country, brought Business back into the United States at levels never seen before, rebuilt our Military, created the Largest Tax Cuts and Regulation Cuts, EVER, closed our open and very dangerous Southern Border, when previous Administrations were unable to do so, and created an "aura" around the United States of America that has led every Country in the World to respect us more than ever before. In addition to all of that, I go out of my way to do long, thorough, and very boring Medical Examinations at the Great Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, seen and supervised by top doctors, all of whom have given me PERFECT Marks - Some have even said they have never seen such Strong Results. I do these Tests because I owe it to our Country. In addition to the Medical, I have done something that no other President has done, on three separate occasions, the last one being recently, by taking what is known as a Cognitive Examination, something which few people would be able to do very well, including those working at The New York Times, and I ACED all three of them in front of large numbers of doctors and experts, most of whom I do not know. I have been told that few people have been able to "ace" this Examination and, in fact, most do very poorly, which is why many other Presidents have decided not to take it at all. Despite all of this, the time and work involved, The New York Times, and some others, like to pretend that I am "slowing up," am maybe not as sharp as I once was, or am in poor physical health, knowing that it is not true, and knowing that I work very hard, probably harder than I have ever worked before. I will know when I am "slowing up," but it's not now! After all of the work I have done with Medical Exams…
December 10, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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kylegriffin1.bsky.social
It's official: Rep. Jasmine Crockett has announced she's running for U.S. Senate in Texas.
December 8, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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onestpress.onestnetwork.com
Bond prices rise when investors anticipate an economic slowdown or recession. They "flee to safety," increasing demand for secure assets like U.S. Treasuries, which drives prices up and yields down.
Treasury Department & @USTreasury X.com U.S. Treasuries are having their best year since 2020, and the investors who had confidence and faith in President Trump's economic policies have been richly rewarded. Never bet against @POTUS or America! E
December 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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onestpress.onestnetwork.com Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 10d
They have a permanent sign now. (Kaitlan Collins)
December 6, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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jamellebouie.net
worth saying that some portion of the freed slaves were themselves illegal aliens having been brought illegally into the united states by smugglers. if the birthright clause applies to them, it applies to undocumented immigrants
mjsdc.bsky.social Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 10d
Here is the question presented. It's a relatively clean vehicle for the Supreme Court to finally decide whether it is lawful for the president to deny birthright citizenship to the children of immigrants. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
QUESTION PRESENTED The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment provides that those “born * * * in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,” are U.S. citizens. U.S. Const. Amend. XIV, § 1. The Clause was adopted to confer citizenship on the newly freed slaves and their children, not on the children of aliens temporarily visiting the United States or of illegal aliens. On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order No. 14,160, Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship, which restores the original meaning of the Citizenship Clause and provides, on a prospective basis only, that children of temporary visitors and illegal aliens are not U.S. citizens by birth. The Citizenship Order directs federal agencies not to issue or accept citizenship documents for such children born more than 30 days after the Order’s effective date. The question presented is whether the Executive Order complies on its face with the Citizenship Clause and with 8 U.S.C. 1401(a), which codifies that Clause.
December 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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waldo.net
This is no different than refusing to allow Obama to appoint Garland to the Supreme Court because a new president would take office in ten months, and then confirming Barrett eight days before the 2020 election. There are no laws, no rules, no norms, only Calvinball.
joshtpm.bsky.social Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11d
The word "eve" is doing a lot of work here in the Court's 'decision'
December 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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atrupar.com
This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream
UPDATE: Trump Jr.-backed startup receives $620 million Pentagon loan
In October, Popular Information reported that the Pentagon awarded a contract to Unusual Machines, an obscure drone company that President Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., joined as an advisor in Novemb...
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December 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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marktsneed.bsky.social
Good morning Bluesky. Here is a simple question for us all living in this country. Do we live in a fascist dictatorship where refusal to show your papers immediately results in you being thrown to ground and arrested?
December 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
sparkytheauthor.bsky.social
5th FDA drug approval head in 11 months. No other president or HHS secretary in history has overseen such a level of turnover.

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FDA appoints Tracy Beth Høeg as fifth CDER head this year
Høeg’s appointment to director of CDER follows a turbulent period for the department, which recently saw the retirement of former head, Richard Padzur.
yahoo.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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BIRD FLU MAY BE WIND-BORNE
The time to vaccinate poultry is now, before we see human-to-human spread.
propublica.org ProPublica @propublica.org · 12d
Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air.

After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed.

Vaccines could help, but the USDA hasn’t approved them.
What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic
Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vacci...
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December 4, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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scoutsmom.bsky.social
Who’d have thought that the party that abhors women would treat their female members so poorly?
December 4, 2025 at 2:58 AM