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Michele Quinn, MD, FACOG she/her @drquinngyn.medsky.social · 8h

Here you go

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 10h

Korol is a US citizen. Her family hasn’t heard from her since she was taken, public charges haven’t been released—what crime did she even commit? 2nd-Degree Woodwinding?—and there has been no explanation for her “renditioning” across state lines.

We’ve moved into a new phase of Trump lawlessness.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 10h

A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Michele Quinn, MD, FACOG she/her @drquinngyn.medsky.social · 8h

It was absolutely delightful

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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 1d

A few PSAs from your friendly neighborhood pediatric shematologist

🩸vitamin k in newborns is lifesaving
🩸vaccines save lives
🩸no kid should drink more than 20 ounces of milk a day
🩸babies don’t need chiropractors
🩸home births can go south super quickly even in the very best of circumstances

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

9. Mamdani’s unapologetic embrace of marginalized communities shows what real leadership looks like: a politics that doesn’t ask whom to abandon to win, but whom to lift up to build something worth winning for.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 3d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Michele Quinn, MD, FACOG she/her @drquinngyn.medsky.social · 2d

I saw I’m With Her at Revolution Hall. They were soooooo good!!

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Sara Watkins, Sara Jarosz, and Aiofe O’Donovan singing their hearts out on stage at Rev Hall

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Memento (Spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 3d

Whether it is taking away vaccines or defunding programs, this administration wants to see kids suffer.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3d

The Department of Education reportedly fired nearly everyone in the office that focuses on the nation’s children with disabilities in a wave of new layoffs

Special education staff decimated after Trump administration shutdown firings: Sources

The nation’s special education services have been significantly damaged after Fridays’s mass layoffs within the Department of Education, sources told ABC News.

abcnews.go.com

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Michele Quinn, MD, FACOG she/her @drquinngyn.medsky.social · 4d

He yearns for a serious burly opponent who will justify his posturing. Instead he gets epic trolling from some nerds who spent $36 on Temu

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Michele Quinn, MD, FACOG she/her @drquinngyn.medsky.social · 4d

It is somehow perfectly fitting that in the age of Trump’s fascist hijacking of this country, the inflatable frog costume is the standout symbol of resistance

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 5d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Justin Lehmiller @justinlehmiller.bsky.social · 4d

Research finds a link between a sense of shared power in a marriage and better sexual outcomes for both men and women. Those who report more shared power report more sexual passion, and shared power predicts increases in passion over time. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02654075251350075

Power and passion: An exploration of the relationship between marital power processes and sexual passion styles - Ashley Forbush, Dean Busby, Jeremy Yorgason, Erin Holmes, 2025

Limited research has explored the connections between relational power and sexual motivations in couple relationships. Self-determination theory provides a fram...

journals.sagepub.com

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Michele Quinn, MD, FACOG she/her @drquinngyn.medsky.social · 4d

This is one of the best things I’ve ever read

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Michele Quinn, MD, FACOG she/her @drquinngyn.medsky.social · 4d

I particularly enjoyed her and Bethany’s crossover about dogs getting high from meth (or was it fentanyl) in human shit in parks. She was a veritable gold mine of cringe

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Michele Quinn, MD, FACOG she/her @drquinngyn.medsky.social · 4d

In this context I’m not a surgeon

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 5d

congrats to Nobel Peace Prize winner Portland Frog

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Michele Quinn, MD, FACOG she/her @drquinngyn.medsky.social · 5d

Yes I have received death threats because I do circumcisions

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Michele Quinn, MD, FACOG she/her @drquinngyn.medsky.social · 5d

The anti-circumcision people are more fanatical and unhinged than Libs of TikTok’s army of transphobes and that is really saying something

Dan Collen @dancollen.bsky.social · 5d

For the normal people in the room, you should probably know this shit is a hit with neo-Nazis. The 14-year old Groyper you know has more space in his head for circumcision conspiracies (all of which blame the Jews) than you have space in your head for your cousins' first names.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 5d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 5d

WIC provides healthy food, nutrition counseling & breastfeeding support to millions of pregnant people, infants & children. Because it is 100% federally funded, within days families could quickly lose access to essential food & formula, & service disruptions. nwica.salsalabs.org/publicfundth...

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Thomas [redacted] DO @tom.medsky.social · 5d

I can't believe I have to address this but here is a map of circumcision rates by state (left) and a map of diagnosed autism rates by state (right). The western US has the fewest circs and moderate frequency of autism. West Virginia has the most circumcisions and one of the lowest rates of autism.

A US map showing circumcision rate by state in general the lowest rates are in florida and western states and the highest rates are in the midwest and west virginia. Green represents low rates and red represents higher rates.

A map of the US showing autism rates by state. West virginia which has the most circumcisions is relatively low. White represents low rates and blue represents higher rates.

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Zach Halper @zanath.bsky.social · 6d

"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Michele Quinn, MD, FACOG she/her @drquinngyn.medsky.social · 6d

All the rest of us are living in tents or cardboard boxes and foraging for food in Forest Park

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Michele Quinn, MD, FACOG she/her @drquinngyn.medsky.social · 6d

Apparently Trump thinks the only structure in Portland is the ICE building

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Michele Quinn, MD, FACOG she/her @drquinngyn.medsky.social · 10d

This was a subskeet Tim but yes nice breakfast pastry

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