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Anodyne
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · Nov 15
In case anyone's interested, here is a feed that only includes posts with pictures of Cassie, Eeyore, and/or Winnie.

(Since the feed excludes reposts, as well as posts about other topics, I imagine that some might prefer to use the feed rather than following me.)
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 1d
"There are ways for ... everybody to do something, and we have to do it because no one else is going to do it."
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My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."
They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.
Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 1d
"We need help deciding what to look for, [etc.] ... [I]f you are a librarian, teacher, educator, parent, local politician, or activist who is aware of systemic efforts to ban books, censor curricula, defund libraries, or otherwise attack educational freedom, please let us know."
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 5d
Some exciting news: 404 Media just won a grant via Muckrock to investigate book bans and educational censorship in the U.S. The plan is to file hundreds of public records requests around the country and to report on and archive all the documents for public use:

www.404media.co/help-us-inve...
Help Us Investigate Book Bans and Educational Censorship Around America
404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S.
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 21h
"With no check against racial gerrymandering, a system in which voters ostensibly pick their elected officials would become one in which elected officials are freer than ever to pick their voters, leaving Black voters with even fewer legal avenues to secure fair representation."
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 21h
Wednesday is gonna be a rough day:

The Supreme Court will be hearing oral argument in a pair of cases that threaten what little remains of the federal government’s ability to protect voters from racial gerrymandering under the Voting Rights Act

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Louisiana v Callais: The Republicans Justices Are Getting Ready to Finish Off the Voting Rights Act
In Louisiana v Callais, John Roberts will have the chance to finish his decades-long war on. voting rights.
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 19h
"The department started funding state-level programs to help deafblind students ... in response to the rubella epidemic in the late 1960s. Nationally, there are about 10,000 children and young adults, from infants to 21-year-olds, who are deafblind and more than 1,000 in the eight affected states."
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Truthout @truthout.org · 19h
“It is still a disruption to families. It creates this mistrust, that you are gone and back and gone and back," said Lisa McConachie of the Oregon DeafBlind Project.
Ed Dept Restores Funding for Students With Hearing and Vision Loss After Outcry
The Trump administration targeted the programs in its attacks on diversity…
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 19h
"[Dr. Hussam] Abu Safiya is one of more than 9,600 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons."
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Truthout @truthout.org · 20h
Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya was the director of the last major functioning health facility in northern Gaza when it was attacked by Israel.
Advocates Call for Israel to Release Palestinian Doctor Abu Safiya
Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya was seized by the Israeli military in December 2024 after it raided Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza.
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 18h
"In 2024, a large study of more than 18,000 cases of women undergoing surgery for meningiomas found that ... use of Depo-Provera was associated with a more than five-fold heightened risk of developing a meningioma that required surgery."
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Truthout @truthout.org · 21h
According to more than 1,200 lawsuits, Pfizer has failed to properly warn the public about long-established links between Depo-Provera and meningiomas.
Lawsuits Claim Pfizer Failed to Warn of Brain Tumor Risk From Birth Control Shot
If Pfizer is successful, consumers may find it harder to hold drug makers accountable for inadequate warning labels.
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 18h
"[T]he antiquated 72-year-old Line 5 pipeline, which originates and ends in Canada but travels across Wisconsin and Michigan, and crucially, through the Great Lakes ... has spilled oil multiple times along its 645 miles, sometimes in [Native American] treaty territory."
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Truthout @truthout.org · 22h
Every passing day without a spill in the Straits of Mackinac is a tenuous miracle defying increasingly losing odds.
Oil Pipeline Threatens Catastrophe for Tribes in Michigan – Again
In 2010, an Enbridge pipeline burst. Tribes are concerned about another one built without their permission 72 years ago.
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 18h
"[N]early 400 tribes in the United States lack federal recognition, which means they do not share the same nation-to-nation relationship that federally recognized tribes have with the U.S. government. ... [T]he lack of recognition means they exist in a legal limbo when federal policy turns hostile."
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Truthout @truthout.org · 23h
Indigenous Peoples’ Day has never been just a celebration. It is a call to action against the ongoing assault on our sovereignty and existence.
Native Survival Depends on Protecting Both Tribal and US Citizenship Rights
Trump’s attacks on Native sovereignty and citizenship are a deliberate effort to undermine the rights of tribal nations.
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Dani Welch @daniwelch.bsky.social · 2d
My friend Tareq and his family all survived to see a ceasefire, which feels like a miracle.

But Tareq's family, like so many others, remains in survival mode. Not only was their home destroyed, their entire neighborhood was erased. Everything they had is gone. They are starting over & need help.
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 18h
"The earlier case asked the court to order the government to prepare and implement a plan to fix climate change. This time, plaintiffs are seeking a narrower remedy — an injunction to stop implementation of ... three specific executive orders."
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Truthout @truthout.org · 1d
They lost their case for a constitutional right to climate protection. Now they’re suing the government again.
Youth Climate Leaders Test New Legal Strategy to Counter Fossil Fuel Expansion
They lost their case for a constitutional right to climate protection. Now they’re suing the government again.
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 18h
"It's ... breathtakingly easy to destroy the things you don't value, let alone understand."
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Health officials and experts warn the layoffs leave the US dangerously unprepared to handle disease outbreaks.
Trump Administration Carries Out Mass Layoffs at CDC, Decimating the Agency
Health officials and experts warn the layoffs leave the US dangerously unprepared to handle disease outbreaks.
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 18h
"[O]ver 300,000 residential units have been destroyed in Gaza ... 200,000 [residential] units were partially destroyed."
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As Gazans attempt to rebuild, the effects of the genocide are still being felt amid heightened social unrest.
Palestinians in Gaza March North Again, Returning to Homes Turned to Rubble
As Gazans attempt to rebuild, the effects of the genocide are still being felt amid heightened social unrest.
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 17h
"The assertion that those experiencing pain or fever while pregnant should simply suffer through it — 'tough it out,' as the president suggested — aligns with patriarchal Christian beliefs that value potential fetal health outcomes over the pregnant person's ... health, autonomy, and safety."
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Truthout @truthout.org · 2d
Trump and RFK’s false claims about autism and Tylenol aren’t an aberration — they’re part of a consistent strategy.
Tylenol Claims Are a Microcosm of Trump and RFK’s Wider Attack on Public Health
Trump and RFK’s false claims about autism and Tylenol aren’t an aberration — they’re part of a consistent strategy.
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 17h
"[Larry] Ellison has openly celebrated AI's ability to surveil people ... Ellison is a staunch backer of Israel. He is one of the top donors to the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF), a U.S. nonprofit that effectively subsidizes the Israeli military."
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Truthout @truthout.org · 2d
One of Trump’s advisers once called megabillionaire Larry Ellison a “shadow president of the United States.”
From AI to TikTok to TV, This Pro-Israel Billionaire Is Expanding Power in US
One of Trump’s advisers once called megabillionaire Larry Ellison a “shadow president of the United States.”…
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 5d
"If you want to save what is still beautiful in this world, if you want to save the planet for the future generations, your grandchildren, their grandchildren, then think about the actions you take each day ... I want you to know that your life on planet Earth will make some difference."
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Cam Walker @walks30.bsky.social · 5d
Jane Goodall’s final wish: Blast Trump, Musk and Putin to space

She was a nice lady and we should respect her wishes… 😋
Jane Goodall’s final wish: Blast Trump, Musk and Putin to space
In a Netflix interview aired posthumously, Jane Goodall, who died last week at 91, said she’d gladly send Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping and Benjamin Netanyahu off the planet.
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 2d
"The federal government must not infringe on what students can read, discuss, and learn in school ... It is a violation of their academic freedom."
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Truthout @truthout.org · 2d
Eight other schools have been invited to sign the pledge, which critics have called a funding “extortion” agreement.
MIT Becomes First School to Reject Trump’s “Loyalty Oath” for Higher Education
Eight other schools have been invited to sign the pledge, which critics have called a funding “extortion” agreement.
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 2d
"ICE is racially profiling and hunting down people in our streets ... Everyone is at risk as this racist and fascist regime uses its power to sow chaos and terrorize our families, friends, and neighbors. The way we stop them is by growing our community power."
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Truthout @truthout.org · 2d
Elected leaders are failing to protect immigrant workers. We must build community power, as only we can keep us safe.
ICE Is Targeting Day Labor Centers in LA That Hold Contracts With the City
Elected leaders are failing to protect immigrant workers. We must build community power, as only we can keep us safe.
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 2d
"The Israeli ministers' threats to defy the [ceasefire] agreement — which grants huge leeway and power over Gaza to Israel — could add fuel to fears that Israel will break the ceasefire agreement, as it has done for decades in conflicts with Palestinians and in surrounding countries."
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Truthout @truthout.org · 3d
Just before the first phase of a Gaza ceasefire agreement went into effect on Friday morning, Netanyahu vowed a return to Israel’s slaughter if Hamas isn’t disarmed, a provision not part of the current deal for a partial withdrawal and captive exchange.
Despite Ceasefire, Netanyahu Vows Return to “Hard Way” if Hamas Isn’t Disarmed
Netanyahu made his threat in an address just before the first phase of the ceasefire went into effect.
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 2d
"[H]istory is repeating itself ... Senate Democrats dropped key objections and allowed a vote to proceed on the bill — ultimately passing the Senate version of the bill, complete with anti-trans culture-war riders, an anti-DEI clause, and no limits on the domestic deployment of US troops."
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Truthout @truthout.org · 3d
Senate Democrats are blasting congressional Republicans for shutting down the US government to preserve devastating healthcare cuts, but over half of them voted with the GOP late Thursday to give nearly $1 trillion to the Pentagon, which has never passed an audit.
More Than Half of Senate Democrats Help GOP Pass $925 Billion Pentagon Bill
It also contains anti-trans riders and no limits on domestic deployment of US troops, points out journalist Erin Reed.
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 2d
"Trump reportedly assured Hamas negotiators that he would guarantee that Israel would not resume the genocide after the first [ceasefire] phase ... Israel has a long history of breaking ceasefire agreements, and Trump did not hold Israel accountable when it broke its earlier ceasefire agreement."
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Truthout @truthout.org · 3d
U.S. Central Command is reportedly establishing a “civil-military coordination center” in Israel, staffed with hundreds of troops, to monitor the newly implemented ceasefire in Gaza, U.S. officials have said.
US Sending 200 Troops to Israel, Establishing CENTCOM “Coordination Center”
The troops are reportedly in Israel to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid.
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 17h
The EPA is considering reversing those bans.
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 2d
"Kaiser Permanente has continued to grant CEO Gregory Adams millions of dollars in compensation per year ... [T]he company itself has also recently attained record multibillion-dollar profits. Nevertheless, Kaiser negotiators have not budged an inch on wages."
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Truthout @truthout.org · 3d
Overworked and understaffed, over 45,000 health care workers at Kaiser Permanente are poised to strike. For many of them, it’s becoming nearly impossible to ignore the sense that the incentives of profit and control are the prime reason behind too many changes.
23 Unions Plan to Strike Together If Kaiser Fails to Address Workplace Crises
Overworked and understaffed, over 45,000 health care workers at Kaiser Permanente are poised to strike.
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 2d
"[US District Judge April M. Perry] also recognized that federal agents were to blame for ... violence at protests, noting that, at an [ICE] facility in Broadview, a suburb of Chicago, federal agents were using chemical weapons against protesters in an 'arbitrary and indiscriminate' way."
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Truthout @truthout.org · 3d
An Illinois-based federal judge has ruled, for now, that the Trump administration cannot deploy the National Guard to Chicago, saying that the administration’s “perceptions of events are simply unreliable.” “I am very much struggling to figure out where this would ever stop.”
Federal Judge Blocks Trump From Sending National Guard Troops to Chicago
“I am very much struggling to figure out where this would ever stop,” Judge April M. Perry said during a hearing.
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 17h
"[Larry] Ellison has openly celebrated AI's ability to surveil people ... Ellison is a staunch backer of Israel. He is one of the top donors to the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF), a U.S. nonprofit that effectively subsidizes the Israeli military."
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Truthout @truthout.org · 2d
One of Trump’s advisers once called megabillionaire Larry Ellison a “shadow president of the United States.”
From AI to TikTok to TV, This Pro-Israel Billionaire Is Expanding Power in US
One of Trump’s advisers once called megabillionaire Larry Ellison a “shadow president of the United States.”…
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 2d
"María Corina Machado is a longtime U.S. ally, nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize last year by a number of Florida Republicans, including then-Senator Marco Rubio ... In 2002, Machado supported the coup that briefly overthrew Venezuela's democratically elected President Hugo Chávez."
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Truthout @truthout.org · 3d
Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado has voiced support for U.S. sanctions against Venezuela and other efforts to topple the government; she aims to privatize the country’s state oil industry and has praised right-wing Latin American leaders, such as Javier Milei and Nayib Bukele.
2025 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Is Aligned With US Imperialism, Says Historian
María Corina Machado has voiced support for sanctions against Venezuela and praised right-wing Latin American leaders.
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