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Persister @persister.bsky.social · May 10
*TW: DV*
Please help if you can. She tragically lost her young son & is disabled by severe Long COVID. 💔 She is in legit need. Any amount, no matter how small would be appreciated. 🙏🏻 #IPV #StopIPV #DV
#Covid #LongCovid
#CovidIsntOver #WomenInCrisis
#Filicide

www.gofundme.com/f/pk5y2t-sup...
Donate to Support Kate in Memory of Charlie, organized by Karen Hyckenberg
This fundraiser is in support of Kate Osburn (of Guelph), the mother of 8 year o… Karen Hyckenberg needs your support for Support Kate in Memory of Charlie
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 3h
Holy “parallel establishment”. “Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is sounding the alarm about the Trump administration’s approval of a new bank backed by two GOP megadonors, tech billionaires Peter Thiel and Palmer Luckey” … 1/ www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...
Trump administration gives initial approval to bank backed by GOP megadonors
Sen. Elizabeth Warren says the approval of Erebor Bank, which is linked to Peter Thiel and Palmer Luckey, is a classic example of crony capitalism.
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Coriolus Nimrod @coriolusn.bsky.social · 1h
It's meaningful that this is Santos. He has no friends. He has no power. He has no influence. This isn't the kind of corruption where Trump gets money or favors. This is a message: no matter how big an asshole you are or how much everyone hates you, the law does not bind you if you are a Republican.
filipecampante.bsky.social Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 3h
I think at this point it’s fair to say that we’re no longer under the rule of law.

Trump Orders Santos to Be Freed From Prison ‘Immediately’ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...
Trump Orders Santos to Be Freed From Prison ‘Immediately’
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 4h
I suspect the MAGA government decided to launch all these Bluesky accounts tonight to try to bait people in advance of No Kings.

These people have incurable 4chan brain and this is how they operate.

Block them. Do not engage. Do not give them what they want.
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 1d
New analysis of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first 100 days after the federal election show oil and gas, mining and other industrial groups made up about 60 per cent of lobbying records. Environmental groups couldn’t get a word in. thenarwhal.ca/carney-natur...
Carney welcomed industry lobby, ignored environmental groups: records | The Narwhal
Records show resource industry lobbyists had regular access to Prime Minister Mark Carney in his first 100 days, while environmental groups were shut out
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 2h
No matter where you live or if you’ve never protested before, there’s a local No Kings Day event for you. Join a peaceful protest to make it clear that We The People will never bow down to a wannabe king: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings
A map of the over 2,700 events planned across the US for No Kings Day on Saturday, October 18.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 1h
Remember when i said we're living in the scariest parts of a Gibson novel thanks to a bunch of dudes who misunderstand Gibson's novels?

Well now I want to discuss the verified govt accounts spewing rightwing propaganda— possibly via a bot-run troll farm— & why you should block them for your safety.
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Effie Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 3d
Wanna to go to a virtual No Kings rally that focuses on healthcare (with a side of "vaccines are good, actually" and "eugenics is bad, actually")?

Organized by disabled folks who can't go to an in-person event.

Join Saturday at 2:30pm Pacific time, zoom link: us06web.zoom.us/j/8467741742...
Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting
Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise cloud communications.
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skipfour.bsky.social @skipfour.bsky.social · 4h
List for blocking

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 4h
US Government accounts have arrived on Bluesky.

Block on sight.

Protect your digital space.

Be aware that the DHS account in particular is known to quote dunk on regular people to encourage their followers to harass them.

The detach quote function will come in very handy here…
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 11h
🧵I just called @govpritzker.illinois.gov's office again to express my horror & rage. I also called my State Senator @harmonil.bsky.social & State Rep Camille Lilly.

If you're in IL, please call.

Pritzker's offices:
217-782-6830
217-782-6831
312-814-2121
312-814-2122

Find your IL state electeds ⬇️
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Persister @persister.bsky.social · 13h
Golf courses are the height of privilege and a complete waste of land and water. They should be banned. Give the land for housing or public parks.

George Carlin had a magnificent rant about this.
Persister @persister.bsky.social · 13h
All highways should have one lane reserved for transport trucks. They can’t use any other lane.

Traffic jams solved.
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Denise Dewald, MD @denisedewald.bsky.social · 1d
I am seriously shocked by the amount of nativism that I see in comments in the Toronto Star.

My Canadian friends: I fear that you are just as vulnerable to Trumpism as the USA. Exceptionalism is a dangerous logical fault.
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Persister @persister.bsky.social · 13h
Well he’s pretty f’ing close. No one is stopping him.
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Kristen Stuppy, MD, FAAP @pediatricskc.medsky.social · 14h
Rolling Stone has another good article on long covid.
longcovidkids.bsky.social Long Covid Kids @longcovidkids.bsky.social · 20h
‘Long Covid Is Real - And It’s Changing An Entire Generation’

www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

#LongCovidKids #LongCovid #RollingStone
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 1d
Just so I have this straight: Vance thinks racist men in their 20s and 30s are “just kids,” but 12-year-old girls are grown enough for forced pregnancy?
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 1d
New: hackers just doxed hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ officials. I went through the data. In many cases does look legitimate, sometimes includes residential addresses.

“Mexican Cartels hmu [hit me up] we dropping all the doxes wheres my 1m [1 million].”

www.404media.co/hackers-dox-...
Hackers Dox Hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ Officials
Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters—one of the latest amalgamations of typically young, reckless, and English-speaking hackers—posted the apparent phone numbers and addresses of hundreds of government officials...
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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 14h
If you destroy certain quantities of your immune system by repeatedly getting infected with a pathogen that does this…

…it will cause the immune system to become “deficient”.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 1d
It costs ~$70 to produce a year’s supply of insulin.

Yet, the average annual cost of insulin went from $2,864 in 2012 to $5,705 in 2016 to $18,000 in 2025. A 25,714% markup. That isn’t inflation or supply chain—It’s corporate greed.

Now—California will sell insulin for $11. Make this nationwide!
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Ontario Health Coalition @onthealthcoalition.bsky.social · 14h
When asked if patients would have to pay anything if they had surgery at a private clinic, Ford said it would be “100 per cent” covered. “We’re never gonna waver from that,” he said. Those claims are completely untrue.

globalnews.ca/news/9056192...
Ontario’s Doug Ford says he believes in public health care but government to ‘get creative’ | Globalnews.ca
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he's a strong believer in public health care, but his government is going to ``get creative'' when looking at how it could be delivered
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Ontario Health Coalition @onthealthcoalition.bsky.social · 14h
Remember when Premier Ford promised that no patient would ever have to pay with their credit card, only their OHIP card?

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Ontario poised to give private for-profit clinics bigger role in surgeries | CBC News
Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government is preparing to significantly ramp up the number of surgeries done in privately run for-profit clinics.
www.cbc.ca
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Ontario Health Coalition @onthealthcoalition.bsky.social · 14h
The situation is extremely urgent. Pls fill the Public Galleries at the Legislature on Wed Oct 29, host a Legislature Watch event in your town, and spread the word. Do everything you can to pour on the pressure. Details below 👇

#onpoli #ontario #healthcare #dougford #toronto
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d
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Persister @persister.bsky.social · 16h
I will never understand why people think voting Conservative provincially is a good thing. They gut health care, education and housing, and give our money to corporations. They serve corporate profits, not the public good.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 17h
I have a friend who is a single mom who works full time and now spends her Sunday afternoons doing grocery runs for her undocumented neighbors. She's gone from 1 person to now 8 families in just a matter of weeks. Everyone can do something.
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