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Brian Smith - Healthcare for Everyone @quicklitning.bsky.social · 13d

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Feds find gold, sex videos and cash while investigating church 'apostle' David Taylor

www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

Raid of church leader’s Florida mansion reveals 57 forced laborers, feds say

The victims, called “armor bearers” by the church, are threatened with damnation if they fail to meet their quotas, federal officials say.

www.miamiherald.com

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 21h

Sadly spot on cartoon from Mike Luckovich.

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Brian Smith - Healthcare for Everyone @quicklitning.bsky.social · 21h

It was only a matter of time

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Brian Smith - Healthcare for Everyone @quicklitning.bsky.social · 3d

"We're seeing it more and more."
GoFundMe CEO Tim Cadogan shared that groceries are becoming a hotter topic for fundraising
ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/gofundm...

GoFundMe CEO says economy is so challenged people are raising money to buy food

GoFundThis: Some surprising items have begun to make the list for crowdfunding lately, according to this CEO.

ca.finance.yahoo.com

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Brian Smith - Healthcare for Everyone @quicklitning.bsky.social · 4d

SNL host Amy Poehler and fellow ex-SNL cast member Tina Fey parodied AG Pam Bondi and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem during a congressional hearing,

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'SNL' Cold Open: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler Team Up as Drama Queens Kristi Noem, Pam Bondi

SNL alumni Tina Fey and Amy Poehler parody Trump officials Kristi Noem and Pam Bondi during a congressional hearing

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Brian Smith - Healthcare for Everyone @quicklitning.bsky.social · 4d

Trump's cuts to research funding and attacks on universities' academic freedoms will lead to a brain drain.

Duflo, a dual US-French national, herself co-signed an editorial in Le Monde newspaper back in March denouncing "unprecedented attacks" on US science.

Nobel winners Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo to leave US for Zurich

The University of Zurich announced that the married couple, who currently work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will join its economics faculty.

www.hindustantimes.com

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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 5d

Guess who just got both the updated COVID vaccine and flu shots today? Your dear Leader Trump. Maybe you should get them too.

Sincerely, An Epidemiologist Who Told You Trump Would Get COVID Booster.

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Brian Smith - Healthcare for Everyone @quicklitning.bsky.social · 5d

American media...... afraid of getting sued

Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 5d

How come I haven't seen any reporting on this?

Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸
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BREAKING: Federal judge rules federal agents must wear visible identification, can’t use riot weapons against peaceful protestors. Ruling follows agents pepper spraying and tear gassing journalists and a priest in Chicago.

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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 5d

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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 5d

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 5d

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

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Brian Smith - Healthcare for Everyone @quicklitning.bsky.social · 6d

In this case, it may be Bitcoin!!!

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Brian Smith - Healthcare for Everyone @quicklitning.bsky.social · 6d

So the "I'll end the war in 24 hours" guy is deeply hurt and sad that he's not getting the Nobel peace prize.
The Obama envy continues.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

White House slams Trump’s perceived Nobel peace prize snub as ‘politics over peace’

President has ‘heart of humanitarian’, spokesperson says after unsuccessful bid for prize amid Gaza ceasefire deal

www.theguardian.com

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Brian Smith - Healthcare for Everyone @quicklitning.bsky.social · 6d

Crime and politics pay very well in America.... obviously.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 6d

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

www.propublica.org

Brian Smith - Healthcare for Everyone @quicklitning.bsky.social · 7d

What could go wrong?

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7d

have said this before but i am very skeptical about weiss’s vaunted charisma

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 8d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8d

The original version of the book said that Epstein was involved in introducing Melania to her beloved husband.

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Brian Smith - Healthcare for Everyone @quicklitning.bsky.social · 8d

Game 3 - Blue Jays vs Yankees

‘Let’s go Blue Jays’ chants erupt in New York

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NPR @npr.org · 10d

Two groups are calling for new leadership at HHS after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s actions on substance abuse treatment and mental health medications, among other issues.

Psychiatrists call for RFK Jr. to be replaced as health secretary

Two groups are calling for new leadership at HHS after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s actions on substance abuse treatment and mental health medications, among other issues.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 10d

This is Trump's America.

Authorities Investigating After Home Of South Carolina Judge Who Ruled Against Trump's DOJ Is Destroyed In Explosion

www.comicsands.com

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10d

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10d

NEWS: U.S. manufacturing contracted in September for the seventh straight month, as factories felt the devastating impact of Donald Trump’s tariffs.

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 13d

JUST IN: Sean "Diddy" Combs is sentenced to 50 months in federal prison.

The judge to Combs: “You will have a chance to show your children and the world what real accountability, change, and healing" can look like.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13d

Odd, how MAGA couldn't draw enough attention to imaginary children being molested in #Pizzagate, but when it comes to *real* children being molested in #Epsteingate, they desperately want our attention to be elsewhere.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 13d

🚨BREAKING: In a major blow to President Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda, the First Circuit Court of Appeals flatly rejected the administration’s attempt to enforce his executive order ending birthright citizenship. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

First Circuit Rebukes Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order as Unconstitutional