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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 42m

The Democrats refuse to operate outside of their own machine.

Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 47m

This is what they do.

They won’t let you in the club of you don’t do it their way

and the and people are not only truly sick of it they hold old guard way responsible for the current disaster

Enough.

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 12h

The Dem establishment appears to be putting its thumb hard on the scales against Graham Platner:

The DSCC (Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee) has formed a joint fundraising committee with the campaign of Janet Mills.

It’s called “Maine Senate Victory 2026”:

docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/form...

FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION
HOME / CAMPAIGN FINANCE DATA / COMMITTEE DETAILS / HTML VIEWER
FEC FORM 1
STATEMENT OF ORGANIZATION
FILING FEC-1919061
1. Maine Senate Victory 2026
120 Maryland Ave NE
Washington, DC 20002
Email: compliance@dscc.org;anderson@dscc.org
2. Date: 10/14/2025
3. FEC Committee ID #: C00923177
This committee collects contributions, pays fundraising expenses and disburses net proceeds for two or more political
committees/organizations, at least one of which is an authorized committee of a federal candidate.
Committees Participating in Joint Fundraiser
Joint Fund Participant(s)
1. Mills for Maine,
Committee Id: C00923144
Committee Type: Senate
2. DSCC,
Committee Id: C00042366
Committee Type: Unauthorized
Affiliated Committees/Organizations
NONE
Custodian of Records:
Connor Reilly
120 Maryland Ave NE
Washington, DC 20002
Title: Custodian of Records
Treasurer:
Evan Clary
120 Maryland Ave NE
Washington, DC 20002
Phone # (202) 224-2447
Designated Agent(s):
Tristan Anderson
120 Maryland Ave NE
Washington, DC 20002
Title: Assistant Treasurer
Banks or Depositories
Amalgamated Bank
1825 K St NW
Washington, DC 20006
Signed: Evan Clary
Date Signed: 10/14/2025
(End FEC FORM 1)

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h

a real water is wet scenario here

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 3h

FOR THE LOVE OF PETE

HE IS A WHITE WORKING CLASS MILITARY VET

with a stunningly sharp media package

They can’t update their website with a plan but they can kick the knees out fo somebody whose making waves form someone older than my momma !

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 12h

The Dem establishment appears to be putting its thumb hard on the scales against Graham Platner:

The DSCC (Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee) has formed a joint fundraising committee with the campaign of Janet Mills.

It’s called “Maine Senate Victory 2026”:

docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/form...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1h

People experiencing miscarriages in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves.

We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position 👇

(Published Dec. 2024)

If You’re Pregnant, Here’s What You Should Know About the Medical Procedures That Could Save Your Life

Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselv...

www.propublica.org

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rionchama 🖤💛 @rionchama.bsky.social · 2h

We’ve gone 3 ??? weeks without a CYFD outrage?

Santa Fe New Mexican @thenewmexican.bsky.social · 10h

A Santa Fe foster father has been charged with child abuse after being accused of punching and pulling the hair of a 7-year-old girl in his care, according to a criminal complaint filed Thursday in Santa Fe County Magistrate Court. sfnm.co/3W6S96l

Santa Fe man accused of hitting, pulling hair of foster child

A 7-year-old girl told a teacher the man pulled her hair and punched her elbow to discipline her for hitting another child.

sfnm.co

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3h

Tish James lit up the room last night — and her words echoed far beyond the walls of The United Palace. This is a fight for the future.

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Kaz @kazlefay.bsky.social · 4h

ICE is randomly targeting peaceful protesters because the point is to terrorize the public into accepting martial law.

Indiscriminate attacks send the message that there’s nothing you can do to stay safe.

The regime wants you to cower at home and cede the streets of your city to their control.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3h

The official government account for DHS appears to be run by far-right trolls deliberately trying to provoke a response by using a term openly associated with ethnic cleansing. They will attack anyone who points this out and express faux outrage at the suggestion. They know what they are doing.

Remigration Wikipedia Page.

Not to be confused with Return migration.
Remigration is an originally European far-right proposal of ethnic cleansing via the mass deportation of non-white immigrants and their descendants, sometimes including those born in Europe, to their place of racial ancestry.
It is popular especially within the Identitarian movement. Some proponents of remigration suggest excluding some persons with non-European background from such a mass deportation, based on a varyingly defined degree of assimilation into European culture.

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Skyla Dawn Cameron @skyladawn.ca · 4h

I just want to add that for people on immunosuppressants, catching covid (or many other things) means they're often directed to stop taking their medication so they can fight off the virus. This risks a relapse of their condition and introduces a host of complications in addition to the covid ones.

The Real McCoy @rippermd41.bsky.social · 12h

To you, getting covid may be no big deal.

But thanks to a failure in public health you have no idea who or what you’re risking.

Repeat covid infections are really bad for those with Long Covid.

Did you know that Black, Latino and Native American communities are at highest risk for Long Covid?

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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 4h

Masking at ublic transit, hospitals, pharmacies, and the grocery store would be absolutely fantastic for public health tbh.

Improved ventilation could mitigate the need for even that much but at this rate, we will never know for sure.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19h

yeah, i think a commitment to public health obligates you to get vaccinated and, when you are sick, do what you can to avoid spreading that to other people. the demand that one mask at all times in public spaces is, i think, unreasonable.

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Osaka: None/bun - A sack of nuns @osakanone.bsky.social · 5h

remigrate is not a dog whistle, and is open nazi language

Remigration

Not to be confused with Return migration.
Remigration is an originally European far-right proposal of ethnic cleansing[1] via the mass deportation of non-white immigrants and their descendants, sometimes including those born in Europe, to their place of racial ancestry.[2][3] It is popular especially within the Identitarian movement.[4][5] Some proponents of remigration suggest excluding some persons with non-European background from such a mass deportation, based on a varyingly defined degree of assimilation into European culture.[6][7][8]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remigration

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AjiWings @ajijaakwe.bsky.social · 4h

Killing people and planet to line the pockets of billionaires for something that doesn't even work

Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 4h

👀 WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE FOLKS

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 3d

And this:
92% of the growth in the entire country this year has been data centers. And some of that is "circular deals" that dont involve actual money

fortune.com/2025/10/07/d...

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 7h

I am a birthright and an enrolled Quaker but I don’t attend regularly at all since leaving NYC.

The meetings I’ve encountered outside the city are too white for my comfort

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 7h

Howdy Friend-like person!

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 7h

I have my own version of this lamentation

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 7h

lamented to my partner today that I have known about Peter Thiel and Bari Weiss as threats to the media industry and culture writ large for nearly a decade and despite raising alarms about them in any number of capacities—as a student, a journalist, etc—now they are more powerful than ever

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 7h

This is obvious to almost all therapists.

⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 8h

and they're not even near addressing the mental health problem

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 8h

i don't have the words to emphasise how seriously bad things are gonna get

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 8h

I don't think people realize what an immediate impact this is going to have on outbreak response and containment.

Ferric Fang, MD @fangferric.bsky.social · 8h

According to a state epidemiologist, "CDC personnel who normally share information with state officials during outbreaks have been eliminated."

Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 1d

“One veteran researcher who still has his job (and, like other public-health workers I spoke with for this story, requested anonymity for fear of losing it) told me he believes that Kennedy’s ultimate goal is to “silence the scientific voice of career CDC scientists.””

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 8h

Yeah ok actually this has really gotten to me - I’m going to sign off for a bit. Patrons can message in app, email info is on my website, Bsky DMs are open

Fuck it really sucks to see people with huge megaphones be like ‘u disableds are irrational fearful of the thing you have direct experience of‘

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 8h

people who have absolutely no idea, not the first clue, about how debilitating the brain fog is. And saying “oh, it’s okay, you can get SSDI” was *insulting* before, now during Trump II it’s straight up sadistic

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 8h

It’s really disheartening to see people who admit this regime is doing eugenics fail to understand the ways in which chronically ill, disabled, and immunocompromised people are just absolutely fucked by Long Covid

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 8h

I’ll just say that for me, no, it doesn’t stem from some irrational fear, it’s based on a sophisticated understand of a bunch of stuff - if you’re open to talking to a public health professional who is immunocompromised, my DMs are open

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 8h

Hence: whiteness requires any other/stranger to function as sin-eater.

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 9h

They (we) have no systems for processing healthy guilt.

Guilt is only experienced as implosion/psychological annihilation.

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