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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 1h

Researchers in France looked at more than 500,000 infants and found no connection between Covid vaccination in the first trimester and any of dozens of birth defects, adding to the body of evidence for the vaccines' safety during pregnancy.

Covid Vaccines in First Trimester Not Tied to Birth Defects, Study Finds

www.nytimes.com

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Virginia Scharff @vscharff.bsky.social · 1h

Seeing it as the top headline in the NYT, I asked myself the same question.

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 1h

A 3,000-pound, 17-foot-long "DEMOCRACY" ice sculpture is melting away on the National Mall today, a statement from activists and artists on the weakened state of American democracy under the Trump administration.
www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...

A 3,000-Pound Ice Sculpture Of 1 Word Is Melting In Front Of The U.S. Capitol

“It's time for all of us to resist, speak up and save our democracy before it's too late,” artist Marshall Reese said of his 17-by-5-foot installation.

www.huffpost.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1h

The plan to force taxpayers to cover emergency medical costs for non-citizens is a law called EMTALA: signed into law by the infamous democrat Ronald Reagan.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Lisa McClain: "Democrats' plan forces taxpayers to cover the majority of emergency medical costs for all non-citizens. Another $28 billion tab for who? You guessed it, the American people."

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Virginia Scharff @vscharff.bsky.social · 2h

The people who did this will be known for their actions in all the years to come.

J.M. Hardin @jmhardin.bsky.social · 3h

It got even worse. Now the print edition of the paper is no more.

Indiana University cuts IDS print entirely, hours after firing student media director

Indiana University's independent student newspaper.

www.idsnews.com

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J.M. Hardin @jmhardin.bsky.social · 3h

It got even worse. Now the print edition of the paper is no more.

Indiana University cuts IDS print entirely, hours after firing student media director

Indiana University's independent student newspaper.

www.idsnews.com

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Eric Deggans @edeggans.bsky.social · 3h

After years spent there learning the craft of journalism, I could not imagine a world where officials at the Indiana University Media School ordered the school newspaper, the Indiana Daily Student, not to print any news. Yet another sad development at a diminishing program. READ: loom.ly/kVhquyk

LETTER FROM THE EDITORS: IU fires student media director after he refused to censor the IDS

Indiana University directed the IDS to stop printing news.

loom.ly

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 8h

Pediatricians are facing an ethical dilemma: drop unvaccinated families to protect other patients or keep them and hope they change their minds. If we’re talking about free will, that goes both ways, doctors have the right and duty to protect their patients. Drop the families.

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 4h

ICE arrested comedian Robby Roadsteamer for singing a parody of Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” in a Jeffrey Epstein the Giraffe costume outside their facility.

He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.

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Virginia Scharff @vscharff.bsky.social · 3h

Note the new open mouth pose to try to disguise face droop.

Congresswoman Gwen Moore @repgwenmoore.bsky.social · 4h

TFW you have $20 billion to give to Argentina but not to keep health insurance premiums low for 20 million Americans.

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Congresswoman Gwen Moore @repgwenmoore.bsky.social · 4h

TFW you have $20 billion to give to Argentina but not to keep health insurance premiums low for 20 million Americans.

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Virginia Scharff @vscharff.bsky.social · 3h

Good

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 4h

This is good: Rep Eric Swalwell tells me House Dems are now discussing making an end to mask-wearing a precondition for ICE funding.

"When we are in the majority, the masks are coming off," he says.

This is the next frontier in anti-Trump resistance.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2018...

Trump ICE Raids Take Horrific Turn in Chicago, Handing Dems an Opening

There’s one simple pledge Democrats can make to voters about ICE that’s easy to understand and will have broad support.

newrepublic.com

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Virginia Scharff @vscharff.bsky.social · 3h

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 5h

Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”

• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked

Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc

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Virginia Scharff @vscharff.bsky.social · 3h

Cmon man

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 6h

It's somehow both wildly underreported and just out in the open that the vice president is either a neo-Nazi or, at a bare minimum, a neo-Nazi fellow traveler.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 7h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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Virginia Scharff @vscharff.bsky.social · 6h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 6h

With his baseless attack on No Kings, Scott Bessent has demonstrated himself to be unfit to sign these documents.

A picture of an old dollar bill, with Washington's picture.

A picture of an old $10 bill, with Alexander Hamilton's picture.

A picture of a newish $100 bill, with Ben Franklin's picture.

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Virginia Scharff @vscharff.bsky.social · 6h

Busy doing what? Writing another message to shut down the House?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Q: A judge in Florida issued a restraining order against Cory Mills for threatening and harassing his ex-girlfriend. Do you think this is an ethical violation?

MIKE JOHNSON: I have not heard or looked into the details of that. I've been a little busy.

Virginia Scharff @vscharff.bsky.social · 17h

Except that Trump said Argentina won’t get any money if Milei loses. If I was a voter there I know exactly what I’d do.

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Virginia Scharff @vscharff.bsky.social · 17h

Wait until they find out that Spirit Halloween stores disappear on November 1.

Virginia Scharff @vscharff.bsky.social · 17h

Indiana has long had an important journalism program. University leaders are betraying that legacy, squandering their credibility and forfeiting their claim to lead.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 21h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 21h

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 21h

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 21h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Virginia Scharff @vscharff.bsky.social · 19h

Dumber and dumber.

Virginia Scharff @vscharff.bsky.social · 22h

Also how can someone shut down something they don’t control?

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