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Call me Pi @jpiperlee.bsky.social · Jan 5
2025 Reading List

1- What’s Next by Mary McDonald and Melissa Fitzgerald
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 5d
DEI is bad but nepotism is good
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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 5d
Meritocracy www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...
Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job
US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board
www.telegraph.co.uk
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 5d
“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 5d
The shadow of a hawk fell over them.

Frog and Toad jumped under a rock.

The hawk flew away.

“We are not afraid!” screamed Frog and Toad at the same time.
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Call me Pi @jpiperlee.bsky.social · 4d
Hey! That looks like me in barre class! 😂
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 4d
The Trump administration has promoted the anti-vax, anti-science movement which has now produced an epidemic www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks
At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.
www.nbcnews.com
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 4d
The regime gets more deranged every day. A rightwing conspiracy theorist assassinated a Democratic lawmaker - which the attorney general presents as an example of leftwing political violence in order to justify an authoritarian crackdown on the opposition…

We’re in incredibly dangerous territory.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d
Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5d
Trump just used the shutdown to wipe out the special ed department. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5d
The cruelty is the point
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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 5d
In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 5d
WATCH: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4odsKnn
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 5d
Unprecedented grift & corruption, happening daily right in front of us
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Daniel A Collier, PhD @dcollier74.bsky.social · 5d
Man what a lucky guess.........
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d
‼️ CHATTANOOGA - Public school kids outperform voucher kids AGAIN

As @GovBillLee steers more and more taxpayer funds away from public schools to private (mostly Christian) schools for wealthy families who are already there.

More: www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/oc...
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Jason S @jasonswritings.bsky.social · 6d
"Don't blame the government shutdown on us but also we control EVERYTHING and we are refusing to seat a new congresswoman to hide the epstein files and we refuse to negotiate and we lie to the media and your faces and yippee it's time for some REDUCTIONS IN FORCE TO START! But yeah, don't blame us!"
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d
Save this graph for the next time @MarshaBlackburn @SpeakerJohnson @JDVance try to hold $50 Billion for rural hospitals out as a of win for the 🇺🇸 people

We’re bad at math but $1.1 TRILLION in cuts (for tax cuts for the rich) > $50 BILLION

They think we are all morons
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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 5d
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 5d
Ah yes, cutting teen pregnancy prevention while ending federal right to an abortion…
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 5d
An HHS source says admin also RIFed entire Office of Population Affairs last night.
“Not a single staff person to run our nation's family planning program or the evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention program. The Office of Adolescent Health which nested within OPA functionally ceases to exist”
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · Jun 22
ice’s illegitimacy grows with every passing day
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · Jun 21
"ICE" beating man during arrest in Santa Ana California.
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 4d
ice: all crime, all the time
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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 5d
ICE tactics in Chicago are escalating.

Crashing into a woman’s car so they can grab her is unconscionable!
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 4d
The deportation order derives from the crime of which he has now been exonerated.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him
Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.
www.miamiherald.com
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 5d
Illinois law requires all registered vehicles to display front and back license plates, without exception. But to evade accountability, masked federal immigration agents are driving around in unmarked cars without plates.
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...?
Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates
The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.
chicago.suntimes.com
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Ain’t Complicit 🇺🇸 @charlene411.bsky.social · 5d
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 5d
This MAGA propaganda is deeply sinister. Stephen Miller has been lying about Portland/Chicago relentlessly. It's core to his project: He's trying to establish quasi-absolute power for Trump to simply invent pretexts by fiat to justify whatever abuses he launches. 5/

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4d
Epstein files giving House Republicans over two months paid vacation and counting.
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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 10d
Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her
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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 10d
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 5d
He got the COVID and flu Vaccines like every 79 year old should this is a good thing.
"Cardiovascular age validated by by ECG and found to be 14 years younger than chronological age" is a nonsensical phrase.
I am an internist this is not something we do or write in medical reports.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4d
The people who want violent protests to happen are Trump, Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, Pete Hegseth, Tom Homan, and other senior appointees in his admin. They are doing everything they possibly can to provoke people to violence and it is obvious that is what they hope for daily.
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