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opinionhaver.bsky.social
I am going to be a massive humorless asshole about woo-woo shit, no matter how seemingly harmless, for the rest of my life due to this. astrology, homeopathic medicine, etc etc it's all bullshit and it's not fucking harmless. there are people who will die due to this who would have otherwise lived.
jbendery.bsky.social Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · Aug 5
"The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities...."

cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy
August 6, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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atrupar.com
Pritzker: "It's cheating. Donald Trump is a cheater. He cheats on his wives. He cheats at golf. And now he's trying to cheat the American people out of their votes."
August 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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goldengateblond.bsky.social
see this is all we’ve been asking of the dems — we obviously know we’re not in the majority right now but ffs we should be using every chance we get to throw sand in the gears like this
fritschner.bsky.social Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · Jul 23
With floor action ground to a halt by Speaker Johnson over Dem amendments on the Epstein files, House Democrats are now using them to jam up committees.

Includes Appropriations, Energy & Commerce, Financial Services, and Education & Workforce, which just shut down as Rs try to figure what to do:
Punchbowl’s Samantha Handler: New: Epstein drama is leading into the Education and Workforce panel. Republicans pulled a human trafficking related bill and the panel is now in recess. Dem Reps. Bonamici and Ansari had planned to intro amendments on releasing the Epstein files. CNN’s Sarah Ferris: Interesting - Dem Rep. @MarcVeasey is trying to bring up this Epstein-related amendment in E&C hearing right now, tying it to student athletes bill Guthrie ruled it not germane (aka not relevant) but full committee is voting now on whether to overrule that Politico: news - House Dems are prepping more Epstein-related amendment votes ahead of the Thursday CJS Approps [Commerce Justice Science Appropriations subcommittee] markup, per two aides Semafor’s Eleanor Mueller: New: Tlaib just offered an amendment at House Financial Services Committee's markup that would force the Treasury Department to release a report on Epstein's financial transactions. "To this date, we only have a partial picture of Epstein's financial transactions."
July 23, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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fleerultra.bsky.social
the big questions for american democracy going forward seem to be (1) can the GOP actually build the federal police state they just funded, (2) in time to finish before democratic checks can be established, and (3) whether dems gaining power would actually try to stop/dismantle it
July 4, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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evanurquhart.bsky.social
A screenshot of a now-deleted post by Jamelle Bouie. Text says "I think you should tell readers if your source is a nazi" Image is the meme of the white guy in flannel and a leather jacket standing up with a folded document in his pocket, representing speaking an unpopular truth.
July 4, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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hulkhoquinn.bsky.social
Needed this reminder today.
Fox Mulder from X-Files saying “Hey, you got to stay alive if you want to stick it to the government” “If you die, you let them off the hook.”
July 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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panasonicdx4500.bsky.social
“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”
July 4, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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joolia.bsky.social
This framing is beneath contempt. The Christian right and MAGA launched an unprecedented assault on the civil rights of a tiny minority and successfully weaponized the pseudoliberal establishment - led by the NYT - to provide it with a medical controversy pretext that doesn’t actually exist.
NYT headline: How the Transgender Rights Movement Bet on the Supreme Court and Lost Here's the inside story of the case that could set the movement back a generation.
June 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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May 9, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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emandras.bsky.social
For every doll you deny me I will push another jet off an aircraft carrier
May 7, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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profgabrielle.bsky.social
To save runaways from slavery who were trying to make lives in the North “illegally,” local Vigilance Committees formed. They kept watch for slave catchers, secreted away those in danger, and posted placards that outed slave catchers, sometimes hounding them till they left town.
boltsmag.org Bolts @boltsmag.org · May 4
A group in San Diego is patrolling neighborhoods to identify potential ICE presence. They keep watch for vehicles that may belong to federal agencies, and use livestreams, radios, and social media to keep communities informed.

Learn more: boltsmag.org/how-vol...
May 5, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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jamellebouie.net
yeah i am pretty much on the side of primary everyone
davidnir.com David Nir @davidnir.com · Apr 30
Stephen Lynch, aiming to be top Dem on the Oversight Cmte, blew up at a constituent who asked him to oppose the GOP.

"I get to decide that. I get to decide that. I get to decide that. I'm elected. I get to decide that. You wanna decide that? You need to run for Congress, okay? I get to decide that"
April 30, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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blandphilosophy.bsky.social
"ICE is a rogue federal agency operating with impunity-destabilizing families, terrorizing neighborhoods, and eroding the very principles of justice it claims to defend. What happened yesterday ... is not an accident-it is the deliberate outcome of a system sliding deeper into authoritarianism."
nkalamb.bsky.social Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Apr 26
Providence City Councilor Justin Roias: “Yesterday, ICE tased & detained a Providence resident with a pregnant U.S. citizen wife & a green card interview that same day.”
April 27, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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joshuaerlich.bsky.social
so, arresting judges should be more than enough reason for complete obstruction at in the house and senate. complete obstruction. anything you can do. interrupt proceedings, deny consent, holds on nominations.

everything.
April 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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ositanwanevu.com
I think we should raise the salience of this.
April 26, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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juliusgoat.bsky.social
The FBI just arrested a Wisconsin circuit court judge for failing to assist ICE to its satisfaction in their kidnapping of a human being out of court custody and into a death camp.

Any attempt to soften the reality of that statement is fascist propaganda.
April 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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jamellebouie.net
my endorsement for any democratic presidential candidate who promises to send the entire DOGE team to prison
bartenderhemry.bsky.social Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · Apr 24
This is insane and everyone involved needs to be sued into oblivion and then go directly to jail
April 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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katmabu.bsky.social
If you take anything away from my post, I hope it's this:
I will scream this until my lungs collapse: Trans people aren’t the problem. Immigrants and refugees aren’t the problem. Progressives aren’t the problem. The problem is that the majority of Americans can’t afford a $1000 emergency expense. The problem is that most of our paycheck goes to rent and if we have appendicitis, we call an Uber instead of an ambulance. The problem is that we have leaders who see us, the voters, as abstract concepts and not as individuals with our own lives, families, traumas, passions, and priorities. We are all somebody’s child but when representatives forget that, when they start to only view their district from the window of their Capitol office, we become ants. Our votes become numbers in a game. And our struggles become hindrances to our representative’s job security. Removal from reality is most often an accident. It’s just a common side effect of our political culture. Congress should be a job like any other, but the pomp and circumstance gives our elected officials an excuse to detach. The ones who haven’t fallen into that trap have only managed to do so through purposeful planning and frequent trips home. They treat empathy like a muscle, flexing it as often as possible to ward off apathy. But this should be the norm, not the exception. If not for moral reasons, then for strategic ones.
April 25, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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jamellebouie.net
there really is no alternative to tearing up CBP and ICE root and branch
nycsouthpaw.bsky.social southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · Apr 23
A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...
Tricia McLaughlin & @TriciaOhio 0... The narrative being pushed about Jose Hermosillo is false. On April 8, Hermosillo approached Border Patrol in Tucson and stated he had entered the U.S. illegally through Nogales. He said he wanted to turn himself in and completed a sworn statement identifying as a Mexican citizen who had entered unlawfully. He was processed and appeared in court on April 11. Afterward, he was held by the U.S. Marshals in Florence, AZ. A few days later, his family presented documents showing U.S. citizenship. The charges were dismissed, and he was released to his family. This arrest was the direct result of Hermosillo's own actions and statements. In an interview with Popular Information, his first with any media outlet, Hermosillo said DHS'. 's account was false. According to Hermosillo, he was visiting his girlfriend's family in Tucson from his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Several hours before his arrest, Hermosillo was transported to a hospital in Tucson by ambulance after suffering from a seizure. He has a New Mexico state ID, but did not take it with him during the medical emergency. After being released from the hospital following treatment, Hermosillo did not know how to return to where he was staying. He approached the Border Patrol officer because he was looking for someone to help him. "I saw a car, and I askled] him for help," Hermosillo said. He told the officer that he was staying in Tucson. "You" re not from here. Do you have your papers?" the officer said, according to Hermosillo. When the officer asked where he was from, Hermosillo said he told the officer, "New Mexico." The officer then accused Hermosillo of lying. "Don't make me lout] like [I'm] stupid," the officer said. "I know you're from Mexico." After that, Hermosillo said, he was arrested. Hermosillo said that he never told the officer that he was born in Mexico, was a citizen of Mexico, or entered the country illegally. And he would not have said those things because they are not true. He signed the transcript released by DHS because the officer ordered him to "sign everything." But Hermosillo did not read it, because he cannot read. According to Hermosillo's girlfriend, Grace Hernandez, Hermosillo has learning disabilities and can only write his name. Hermosillo said he did not graduate from high school and dropped out after the 10th grade. The officer also signed the document, which said Hermosillo "read" the document or had it read to him. But Hermosillo said no one read him the document. Other documents created by the officer have inaccuracies. For example, the criminal complaint says that Hermosillo was detained "at or near Nogales, Arizona." But Hermosillo was detained in Tuscon, which is more than 70 miles from Nogales. John Mennell, a spokesperson for the U.S. Border Patrol, said that it was an "unintentional" error. Hermosillo said he was detained with about 15 other men in a cell at the Florence Correctional Center. He was served only cold food. He said he contracted the flu because "they have it cold in there and everybody's getting sick." Hermosillo said he requested medicine but was not provided with any.
April 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
Beyond parody headline in the NYT. Can't decide whether they're deliberately trolling us at this point, or whether they need to fire all their headline writers.
April 22, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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bencollins.bsky.social
I care less about Signal chats and more about the blacksite offshore concentration camps we're sending random people to without any semblance of a trial, so I'll be interested to see if the national media can rub their bellies and pat their heads at the same time this week. Historically they can't.
April 20, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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lolennui.bsky.social
Sorry to get political but I think we should pay people to check for poop in our food
April 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM