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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 9d

Q30 has sold thousands of Q-Collars, a medical device cleared by the FDA to address football’s brain injury crisis, to athletes.

But FDA documents show some of the agency’s reviewers doubted Q-Collars offered meaningful protection against brain injury.

Device claims to protect athletes’ brains, but records reveal doubts at FDA

NFL players wear it. Some coaches and parents swear by it. But does the Q-Collar actually work?

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onion person @junlper.beer · 9d

the part about that “i love hitler” groupchat is that it’s not surprising that all young republicans are nazis, this is just the average rightwinger these days. they’re all extremists who love every extreme position possible and everyone needs to realize that

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14d

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Erika Wood @aeryka.bsky.social · 14d

We just took a nice long walk and she is totally pooped
#yorkie #yorkshireterrier

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 14d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Krista D. Ball: Canada's Snarky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 14d

Baby Jersey was both wee and determined.

Puppy trying to get up on the sofa, but is too small.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 15d

Thoughts and prayers for Donald J Trump

Reuters @reuters.com · 15d

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Benjamin Husstad-Nedberg @factforce.bsky.social · 16d

This👇

Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 17d

The most frustrating thing about this war is that the US could step in forcefully now with harsh sanctions against Russia and a large military package for Ukraine with ranged weapons as the centrepiece, and the war would end soon with a Russian defeat.

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Erika Wood @aeryka.bsky.social · 17d

When you come home and wonder what the hell your pets were up to while you were gone
#yorkie #yorkshireterrier #dog #cat

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Erika Wood @aeryka.bsky.social · 17d

After walks and play time she is happy to cuddle in your lap!

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Erika Wood @aeryka.bsky.social · 18d

#terrierTuesday #TiltyHead
Willow says "I'm starving over here, I need treats"

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Erika Wood @aeryka.bsky.social · 18d

#terrierTuesday #TiltyHead
Freshly groomed Willow having a sit in my lap

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Erika Wood @aeryka.bsky.social · 20d

I am sure she has more tilty heads coming at me in the coming days! She is so expressive!

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Erika Wood @aeryka.bsky.social · 20d

This is Willow saying, "why no treats mommy"

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 20d

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

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socdoneleft @socdoneleft.bsky.social · 20d

Preliminary graph on deaths by political terrorist killers, 2000-2025

As should be obvious, right-wing ideologies dominate mass death in the United States

If you'd like to help with this dataset (which fixes & extends that flawed Cato dataset), send me a DM!

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Erika Wood @aeryka.bsky.social · 21d

Awww Henry is ADORABLE. My Willow says HI!!

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 24d

*Sees the most Catholic person in the world doing the most Catholic thing there imaginable*: goddamn Pagans!

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 24d

Far-right Catholics freaking out about the Pope doing normal Pope things will always be entertaining.

The Pope blessed some water? Can you even imagine?

Matt Walsh: Horrific. The whole thing. Pope Leo blesses a block of ice and then stands there while these communist freaks do some kind of weird pagan Earth worshipping hippy ritual. The leader of the Catholic Church shouldn’t be anywhere near this nonsense. What the hell are we doing here

@CatholicSat: The Blessing of the Waters by Pope Leo XIV, at today’s ‘Raising Hope for Climate Justice’ International Conference at Castel Gandolfo.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 24d

A bus of Bronx middle schoolers pulled up to the Capitol this morning for a long-planned field trip just a few hours after the government shut down.

All Capitol tours were cancelled as the guides can’t work in shutdown.

So I escorted them in myself and gave them a personal tour. They were great!

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 24d

1. Vehemently anti-LGBTQ+ Oklahoma education superintendent is finally out as of yesterday.

He appointed Libs of TikTok to the library board, and constantly worked against LGBTQ+ students.

Now, local businesses are literally throwing parties that he is gone.

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We Are Finally Free of Oklahoma’s Anti-Trans Superintendent Ryan Walters

From his culture war casualties to financial impropriety, Ryan Walters was a menace. Thank God he’s gone—for now, at least.

www.erininthemorning.com

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 27d

Fr David Gierlach

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 27d

So far today, Chuck Schumer has said his strategy for preventing Trump sending troops into blue cities is to win over Republican senators (!) while Hakeem Jeffries praised Eric Adams's courage and authenticity (!!) while refusing to endorse Mamdani. Again.

These two gotta go.

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🧛‍♀️🎃~Bindi~🎃🧛‍♀️ @bindiatthebeach.bsky.social · 27d

#fixedit

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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 27d

A MAGA nutjob owns CNN and CBS and is getting control of TikTok. Twitter and Facebook are controlled by wingnuts, as are the WaPo and LAT and a majority of local tv and radio stations. And yet this reality rarely comes up in discussions of the Dems’ messaging problems or lack of popularity.

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Erika Wood @aeryka.bsky.social · 28d