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@JanelleAnthro

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Applied medical anthropologist. #GlobalPublicHealth #SociologyofLaw. Supporting research in gerontology & geriatric medicine. Disaster preparedness mindset.

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@JanelleAnthro @janelleanthro.bsky.social · Mar 30

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SilenceDogood 2.0 @silencedogood2.bsky.social · 10h

P E O P L E P O W E R

Keep fighting & take A C T I O N 🥊🥊

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@JanelleAnthro @janelleanthro.bsky.social · 6h

Oh, those were a pain.

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 8h

The fundamental narrative challenge the fascist faces is proving there is some "enemy among us" AND he is eliminating said enemy. He requires the scapegoat to have someone to blame but must eliminate the scapegoat to prove his efficacy. So, he must keep adding to enemy list.

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DemCast USA @demcast.com · 7h

It's time for Speaker Johnson to quit stalling and swear in Democrat Adelita Grijalva to secure the final vote on releasing the Epstein files.

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 12h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 7h

I visited a community health center in Oak Harbor today, hearing directly from doctors about the need to extend the ACA tax credits.

Patients can't afford premiums that more than double—neither can providers.

It's past time to reopen government and SAVE the ACA tax credits!

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Muz @muz.blacksky.app · 8h

I love Evanston 😄💜

Sign in store window that says

ADVICE FOR ICE:
1 QUIT JOB
2 GET THERAPY

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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmileusaid.bsky.social · 1d

Do your youngsters need a custom Freedom Frogs costume? Because nothing says “protecting democracy” like a frog suit, a cape, and a wild sense of civic duty. Perfect for hopping over disinformation and ribbiting loudly for freedom.

Photo shows a knock-off Spirit Halloween costume bag labeled Violent Antifa Terrorist. The “terrorist” costume is… an inflatable frog suit with a blue scarf, like a mascot who lost a bet. The package promises an “air pump” and “a thirst for the blood of the innocent,” which sounds like a metal album, not a Halloween accessory. Batteries and Molotov cocktails “not included,” because apparently even imaginary anarchy has budget constraints.

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The Independent @the-independent.com · 7h

IN FOCUS | What do Musk, Microsoft’s CEO and the head of Zoom all have in common? The H-1B visa that is now in Trump’s crosshairs

What do Musk, Microsoft’s CEO and the head of Zoom all have in common? The H-1B visa

www.independent.co.uk

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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 6h

There were 18 shootings in Chicago this weekend, while under federal occupation.

It’s clear they are deploying into these cities to make drama not to decrease violence.

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 9h

"Graham Platner is generating so much excitement because many voters, both right and left, are tired of conventional wisdom inevitably delivering poor results for Mainers."

A headline from an op-ed article on CentralMaine.com: Graham Platner is the best choice to replace Sen. Collins | Letter, Platner may not be the conventional choice, but that's a good thing.

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Harlow’s Musings @harlowsmusings.bsky.social · 1d

SWEAR IN ADELITA GRIJALVA TOMORROW!

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 14h

It is, quite literally, *his job* to know whether the executive branch is implementing the programs and spending Congress authorized. This isn't pretending he doesn't know what awful thing Trump said. This is his Constitutional obligation that he is now derelict from fulfilling.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 11h

"Following public outcry, the U.S. Department of Education has restored funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, about a month after cutting it..."

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Get Funding Back Despite Trump’s Anti-DEI Campaign

Following public outcry, the Department of Education has reversed its decision to cut funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, opting instead to reroute grants to an organization th...

www.propublica.org

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90for90.bsky.social @90for90.bsky.social · 9h

“…you mentioned that for the first time, Democrats have candidates in all 100 House of Delegates districts, and how important it is to run everywhere.” @charlesgaba.com @kaine.senate.gov
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

An Open letter to a U.S. Senator

Dear Va. U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, We Daily Kos people love you. You’re a down to earth guy and you’ve put in real work for your state; as a mayor, a Governor, and now a U.S. Senator. (You would’ve been...

www.dailykos.com

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Stephen Caruso @stephenjcaruso.bsky.social · 12h

Commonwealth Partners, who created the misleading gerrymandering mailer, continue to lean into the "convince liberals to vote against retention" messaging per this mailer shared with me over the weekend.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 13h

Remarkable effort to note where DC neighbors are being grabbed by ICE

CM Janeese Lewis George @cmlewisgeorgew4.bsky.social · 2d

Every sign in DC marks the loss of someone’s neighbor, someone’s loved one, someone’s friend.

Every sign marks yet another step in the march toward authoritarianism.

Signs popping up around D.C. note: ‘ICE kidnapping happened here’

The signs range in style and mark numerous locations where people have been taken by federal agents.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 13h

Photos coming out of Western AK are devastating.

Hardest hit are indigenous villages off road system, many miles by air from supplies. Most built on river deltas w/ no high ground to which to escape.

Cuts to NASA/NOAA mean worse weather data. Cuts to EPA mean no grants for erosion control. Etc.

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 14h

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.

The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!

Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.

FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

Flooding seen with water up to the crash barriers of local roads

Sheds and debris lie scattered in the storm

A small blue house has been blown onto its roof

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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 19h

ICE goons have detained the parents of a Marine serving his country as they tried to visit their pregnant daughter on the Camp Pendleton base.

ICE Barbie’s Goons Detain and Deport Dad of Marine

Family says stop at Camp Pendleton gate led to their father’s deportation.

trib.al

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 20h

My quote of the day

Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.

Linus Pauling

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Claude Taylor @realclaudetaylor.bsky.social · 13h

We are Mad Dog Pac. We do anti Trump billboards and fund them by selling Union Made in the USA tee shirts and other merch. Get a tee. Fund a billboard. Piss off a Fascist.
t.co/NrHYKVmNPl

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 15h

Special education isn't a "nice thing to have." It isn't "charity" or doing something to make us feel better. It is a right. The right to a Free Appropriate Public Education is codified in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, signed by a Republican president.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 21h

U.S. Department of Education fired nearly everyone in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in a wave of new layoffs that began Friday, according to the union representing the agency's employees. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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@JanelleAnthro @janelleanthro.bsky.social · 13h

Serious protestors? These ICE guys are itching to shoot. The silly response is protective and shows what liars they are about left-wing aggression. Why does this concern troll want us to be in danger?

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 14h

The human costs of Trump's war on government

For many disabled workers, federal jobs were decent, human, and accommodating: everything the president hates.

www.motherjones.com

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The Borowitz Report @borowitzreport.bsky.social · 1d

Trump’s rhetoric about people attacking law enforcement officers rings a little hollow from someone who pardoned the criminals who killed police on Jan 6

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