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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 1h

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.

Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

Map: Governors Public Health Alliance
* Guam is also a member of the alliance
Updated October 15, 2025
Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3h

Q: “Most hospitals + people who will lose insurance are in rural areas. If Trump & Republicans are so intent on sticking it to their own voters, why not let them?”

@aoc.bsky.social : “That’s the difference between us & Trump. I don’t care if you voted for me, I want you to have health care.”

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Jasper 🐦‍⬛ TTRPG artist @jaspermillerart.com · 19h

Did a photo study and made it Scout Harding because we all need to appreciate her more thanks

[ #jasperdraws #veilguard #laceharding #artstudy ]

Illustration of Lace Harding (dwarf woman, pale freckled skin, red hair). She wears green underwear and sits on a wooden chest, doing up her hair.

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Umbire @umbire.blacksky.app · 3h

Solidarity is a verb, as in it's not just a noun, as in it's not just dance parties.

It's about understanding what's at risk and putting skin in the game according to what you can offer.

Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 4h

The biggest lesson I’ve learned from my time in the labor movement is this: solidarity is a *verb*—and that action takes many forms. Can’t hit the picket line? Pick up the phone and get a member off the couch. Can’t make the time to phone tree but have a half hour on the weekend? Help make signs.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5h

Andrew, we're voting you off the island and back to the suburbs.

Our new ad just aired during Survivor.

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Ken Reid @kennethwreid.bsky.social · 18h

ICE agents, who have no jurisdiction or legal right to TOUCH a U.S. Citizen, violently assaulting and kidnapping U.S. citizens, with no Miranda rights, and taking them over state lines.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 19h

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 6h

it's wild how confusing it is to watch a politician who thinks we should like, all get human rights and be able to afford to live, but also is inviting us (generic, not me sob) to do joyful things with each other too

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 14h

We’re kicking the politics of the past aside and scoring a new generation of leadership — and we want you on our team.

Join us for The Cost of Living Classic, a free citywide soccer tournament in Coney Island this Sunday, co-hosted by NYC Footy.

Details + register at zohranfornyc.com/colclassic ⚽

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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 7h

There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)

Reuters @reuters.com · 12h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

reut.rs

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 4h

they should let humans run through the car wash like one day a week

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

the extent to which media elites treat liberal americans as if they do not count in the body politic is a real problem

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 9h

I read the piece. You shouldn't. He dismisses the "No Kings" protests as liberals in blue cities. He invokes Rosa Parks, as if rural white people in the 60s loved everything that the movement then was doing. "We need a movement but not this one" is a core centrist tact these days.

Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 9h

Is this a joke. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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furblescout.bsky.social @furblescout.bsky.social · 11h

I saw Docusign is now trying to "helpfully" "summarize this agreement" for me before I SIGN A LEGAL CONTRACT and my eyes glazed over and I might have channeled @edzitron.com to an empty room for a full two and a half minutes.

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John Picacio @johnpicacio.bsky.social · 12h

Pan de muerto — Oranges, anise, vanilla + butter. And cinnamon. Because churros. And lots of copal. Because how else are the spirits gonna get here by November 1st?

Cover by John Picacio for THE INVISIBLE PARADE by Leigh Bardugo and John Picacio.

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furblescout.bsky.social @furblescout.bsky.social · 13h

If you remove a quarter of a car, does the other three-quarters still function as a car?

Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 1d

The CDC's union estimates that a quarter of the agency been gutted under the Trump administration. Here's our story at @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/cdc-te...

A Quarter of the CDC Is Gone

Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workforce by about 3,000 people since January.

www.wired.com

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Rum 🔞🫟 Commune Whore @rumrumaart.bsky.social · Apr 7

Taps the sign

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Alex Tomlinson @alextomlinson.com · 15h

Flat, graphic illustrated poster entitled "Red-Eyed Birds of North America" featuring shadowy gray-blue silhouetted birds punctuated by bright red eyes. 23 birds are depicted in total, some highlights being the Snail Kite, Roseate Spoonbill, Common Loon, and Wood Duck.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 23h

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 1d

I firmly believe that Stephen Miller and his ilk at ICE will never give up power without violence. That is why I think violence will be, at some stage, necessary.

But it needs to be violence that has state authority behind it, or it just deepens conflict.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 1d

People advocating against peace without strategy or tactics do not want you to *win*. They want you to be delegitimized.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

On Sunday, I visited DEAR NEW YORK, Brandon Stanton's "love letter" to the city he's been documenting for years as "Humans of New York" for their family reception with student artists.

It's a gorgeous exhibit that's transformed Grand Central Station. See it before 10/19!

Zohran and Brandon standing in Grand Central Station. Brandon has his arm around Zohran's shoulder showing him the exhibit.

A group photo with Zohran and Brandon sitting on the floor with a dozens of students around them.

Zohran and a student artist admiring a photographer.

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Matinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social · 1d

Take a few minutes to appreciate Drew Struzan creating the original artwork for THE PHANTOM MENACE. Truly a master at work.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 1d

Them: need help doing things?

Me: yes

Them: we have a doing things medication

Me: ooh

Them: hahahahaha guess what you have to do to get it?

Me: oh no

Them: things.

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furblescout.bsky.social @furblescout.bsky.social · 1d

I long ago came to the conclusion that I cannot say if the ends justify the means.

But I 100% know deep in my bones that the means will shape the ends.

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 1d

6. There is no such thing as free violence. All violence harms the wielder.

Every time someone tries to sell you on the idea that there is something we can do, without cost, that harms other people, realize that they are lying to you.

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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 1d

YOU CANNOT GRIND THE BONES OF YOUR ENEMIES INTO DUST TOMORROW IF YOU DO NOT TAKE YOUR MEDICATIONS.

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Kaylee's Boyfriend @megsyv.bsky.social · 1d

Here is a comic from the late 2010s that got a lot of #adhd tags on tumblr years before I was diagnosed with adhd.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 1d

8. We are living in a world that was formed by violence, and more violence, and yet more violence, and those echoes are still reverberating.

We will not achieve real peace by refusing to recognize active fault lines.

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