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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 13d

The scenes out of Chicago should outrage us all. These federal agents are out of control, committing senseless acts of violence & putting everyone at risk.

American citizens are being detained & brutalized.

This kind of immigration "enforcement" shouldn't be acceptable to anyone.

Immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 13d

Cosplay for Losers

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 13d

Pete Hegseth put on his military fatigues for a new photo op a week after yelling at top brass about grooming and DEI.

Pentagon Pete Cosplays After Bizarre General Pep Talk

The Defense Secretary suited up for a new photo op with the troops.

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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 13d

“If you view this as a hyper-partisan court engaged in hyper-partisan activity for a hyper-partisan president, that’s what’s happening,” @thelisagraves.bsky.social says https://contrarian.substack.com/p/can-our-courts-be-reformed-with-lisa

Watch Lisa's interview on the Supreme Court’s legitimacy.

Can our courts be reformed? With Lisa Graves

"This court is inventing facts!"

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 13d

"So, Democrats have three words for this: no fucking way. It's literally life or death. We will not let Republicans blow up our health care system."

This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good.

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Tania J. Spencer @taniaspencer.bsky.social · 13d

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I expect to see this study soon shredded by #LongCOVID researchers & #COVIDAware advocates -

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Dutch study finds long COVID risk has sharply fallen since pandemic’s early years

The risk of developing long-term symptoms after a COVID-19 infection has dropped sharply in the Netherlands, according to new research by the RIVM. The study shows that people infected with SARS-CoV-2...

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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 14d

This means the risk of long COVID after 2023 infections was very small, and it’s expected to stay that way. Still, RIVM notes it’s not zero — some may develop lingering symptoms, but the chance is much lower than people think.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14d

The FAA is delaying flights at Newark and Denver airports because they haven’t got enough air traffic control. Burbank has zero ATC from 4.30-10pm.

Lots of controllers who aren’t being paid during the government shutdown are calling in sick.

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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 14d

“Living with his own depression, Lincoln understood intimately that what is true of the spirit of a person is true of the spirit of a people — our undoing always serves an invitation to learn new modes of making: making beauty, making meaning, making the life we want to live…”

Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 14d

Undoing as remaking – how Lincoln drew poetry and power from his suicidal depression www.themarginalian.org/2020/12/03/l...

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Punchbowl News @punchbowlnews.bsky.social · 15d

News: A majority of Calif. voters, 54%, back Prop 50, the mid-decade redistricting initiative backed by Gov. Gavin Newsom and former President Obama, per a new co/efficient poll shared first with Punchbowl News.
punchbowl.news/article/camp...

Majority of Calif. voters back Prop 50 in new poll

News: We’ve got some fresh polling on California’s redistricting ballot initiative ahead of the Nov. 4 election.

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 14d

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 14d

The fact that a vast majority of Americans agree on a wide array of issues and yet our political leaders advance none of them illustrates just how broken our system is. Power has shifted from the majority to a monied-few. How do we win it back? I have some thoughts. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

A Word About the Most Important Voting Bloc in America

Meet the self-interested majority (who know "a man is not a piece of fruit")

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻🚫👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 14d

Greta Thunberg speaks to the press after being released from illegal detainment in Israel: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.”

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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 14d

Also, when it is published, I will make an announcement here on this platform.

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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 15d

Capital doesn’t need labor much anymore to make a profit.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15d

Still waiting for it to trickle down...

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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 15d

I do not know of one, but if you check my Kindle page on Amazon from time to time, you will find it. I’m guessing that I will get it published sometime in November.

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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 15d

Baby on board!

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16d

“There’s a baby!”

Guns drawn. Windows smashed. With a 1 month old in the car. (They did this as he was coming home from an immigration court appointment— which is illegal in Colorado: coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...)

David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 15d

You have already seen some of those infographics. Getting them all organized into a single book should prove to be a useful reference for front line physicians and medical educators.

David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 15d

If you have been following me for my Covid related content, please note that I will be back at that public education project in a week or two. My goal there is to create a book of 91 infographics that tell the story of how Covid impacts the 10 organ systems of the human body.

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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 15d

If you have been following me for my Covid related content, please note that I will be back at that public education project in a week or two. My goal there is to create a book of 91 infographics that tell the story of how Covid impacts the 10 organ systems of the human body.

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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 15d

What many of us are feeling now is not a personal disorder. It’s a rational response to a nation that’s becoming ever more disordered.

This is not a sickness or individual distress. It’s a sensible reaction to a society becoming sicker and more stressed.
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

Sunday thought: A national trauma

We need to talk about it openly

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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 15d

This essay describes the steps that I took with Gemini to produce the first draft of the deep research report Longitudinal Trajectories of Cognitive Decline of SARS-CoV-2 Survivors. researcher?r=1etq2&utm_medium=ios

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 16d

The actual issue before us — which is very simple & clear — is that you are masterminding a police state for your overlord & classifying opponents as “terrorists” & in the process destroying the Constitution & a free society.

Jew to Jew, Stephen, you’re a complete piece of shit.

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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 16d

Trump and his predators are the enemy within. Governors: call out your national guards. Do what you were elected to do. Protect your citizens from these criminals.

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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 16d

These fascists count on you, not knowing the difference between socialism and Stalinism. The difference is enormous.

Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social · 16d

Not only does this story get a number of basic facts wrong, it doesn’t take time to actually explore why Portlanders elected these folks. Coming in with a pre-baked PDX story to fit a NYT narrative about NYC is harmful, especially at this moment.

What Happens When Socialists Are in Charge? Portland Offers a Glimpse.

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Sandi Bachom 📹🎥🎬 @sandibachom.bsky.social · 16d

Why was there no other video of this? This was produced with music and editing and drone shots the same way the El Salvador prison.

Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 16d

DHS released a glossy ICE raid video straight out of an authoritarian playbook: helicopters over Chicago, 900 people swept up, children separated, citizens detained. They call it “Operation Midway Blitz.” I call it despicable state propaganda masking terrorist constitutional crimes.

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David Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 16d

Unless our state governors take forceful action, this kind of violence will continue to escalate.

Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 16d

DHS released a glossy ICE raid video straight out of an authoritarian playbook: helicopters over Chicago, 900 people swept up, children separated, citizens detained. They call it “Operation Midway Blitz.” I call it despicable state propaganda masking terrorist constitutional crimes.

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