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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 9h

Dr. Jennifer Caputo-Seidler “began noticing many doctors asking how to treat polio.
"Today, the people who are training to be pediatricians, they're not taught how to recognize a case of acute polio when it comes in… the doctors practicing today have never managed it." @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

Florida's plan to end vaccine mandates elicits concerns about diagnosing polio

Health experts worry the policy change could lower vaccination rates and lead to a rise in preventable diseases — like polio, which most U.S. doctors have little experience spotting or treating.

www.wusf.org

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Wig Powder 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇨🇦 @wigpowder.bsky.social · 12h

Dems need to line up behind him full stop

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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Wig Powder 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇨🇦 @wigpowder.bsky.social · 12h

Pritzker is the standard bearer of "come at me bro" right now, and it's emboldening other Dems, I think

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Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social · 1d

Let’s get biblical, biblical…

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Wig Powder 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇨🇦 @wigpowder.bsky.social · 12h

The date on this is old?

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Wig Powder 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇨🇦 @wigpowder.bsky.social · 20h

Someone should ask what cream blush he uses

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Wig Powder 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇨🇦 @wigpowder.bsky.social · 20h

Things are rough when they bring him out

Wig Powder 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇨🇦 @wigpowder.bsky.social · 22h

Odious.

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Wig Powder 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇨🇦 @wigpowder.bsky.social · 22h

When Democrats end up folding to reopen government, they better take the gloves off when they explain to people why their ACA premiums go through the roof.

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 1d

This is some of the best political news I've seen in a very long time.

There's a clear a way to end the Citizens United precedent by changing state incorporation laws - and now luminaries in both parties are forcing a vote on it in the 2026 election.

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Wig Powder 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇨🇦 @wigpowder.bsky.social · 1d

It's all fun and games until his crypto scheme decimates the economy

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Wig Powder 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇨🇦 @wigpowder.bsky.social · 2d

Stick to the costumes guys

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

I really wouldn’t be shining lasers at helicopters if I were you. It’s illegal and could cause an aircraft to crash - and that could kill a LOT of people, in the air and on the ground.

And the ICE goons appear to be *salivating* at the chance to claim people that they arrest were doing this:

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Wig Powder 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇨🇦 @wigpowder.bsky.social · 2d

The rampant war zone of Portland

Kaia Sand @mkaiasand.bsky.social · 2d

Really sweet resistance scene outside ICE in Portland of coffee, donuts and morning.

Person in bunny costume carries donuts outside ICE in Portland

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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · Jul 18

Note also that the lawsuit alleges that because race and class are correlated, providing free tuition to lower income students is also racial preference.

They just want a pure aristocracy of inherited wealth

Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · Jul 18

“Johns Hopkins has not merely preserved its discriminatory DEI framework — it has entrenched, expanded and openly celebrated it as a cornerstone of its institutional identity,”

www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...

Conservative group files complaint against Hopkins medical school

America First Legal is asking the U.S. Department of Justice to launch a formal investigation into diversity policies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

www.thebaltimorebanner.com

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 4d

It is a fascinating thing that the Philistines refer to God in the plural, in 1 Samuel 4:8 – Philistines use plural agreements for God. In other passages they use the singular, but not there!

One might posit that this is an older poetic fragment that preserves Israelite polytheism.

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Wig Powder 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇨🇦 @wigpowder.bsky.social · 2d

Activists can learn from ACT UP

Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 2d

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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Wig Powder 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇨🇦 @wigpowder.bsky.social · 2d

I love it

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 3d

It's incredible the extent to which Congress just utterly refuses to defend itself. You'd think for entirely self-interested reasons you would stridently oppose having the power of the purse arbitrarily ripped from you, ya know?

Why would you allow yourself to become the Roman Senate circa 27 BC.

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 3d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Wig Powder 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇨🇦 @wigpowder.bsky.social · 3d

Piggybacking on this: a lot of federal employees are having a hard time getting payment deferrals on car payments, credit cards, and utilities. You guys need to address this to companies and creditors, this isn't our fault.

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Wig Powder 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇨🇦 @wigpowder.bsky.social · 3d

They'll learn when they need to take out loans they can't afford

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Wig Powder 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇨🇦 @wigpowder.bsky.social · 3d

The democrats played friends with them too long.

Wig Powder 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇨🇦 @wigpowder.bsky.social · 4d

And they think who they vote for isn't part of the "government"

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Wig Powder 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇨🇦 @wigpowder.bsky.social · 5d

That's what happens when you actually take a stand on something

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5d

The internet HATES happy women. Just despises them, lol.

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