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✅ TAKE ACTION NOW: Tell Congress, “Give Americans the choice of whether to get the COVID vaccine.”

Click below for more information and to email Congress. Follow us, “Like,” & share. #COVID #Vaccine
TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress to restore access to the COVID-19 vaccine to those who want it
Give Americans a choice
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📌 While not all 10-13 releases are confirmed, the list includes 24 nurses, 7 doctors, and 2 paramedics.

There are at least 115 more Gazan healthcare workers still being held in Israeli #detention. These include at least 20 doctors, including 15 irreplaceable specialists. #Gaza #ceasefire #Israel
Israel Is Still Holding at Least 115 Health Care Workers Hostage, Org Says
Israel has reportedly disappeared over 400 health care workers from Gaza and the West Bank in the last two years.
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🎯 The Gaza catastrophe is (also? mainly?) about natural gas.

The Gaza Marine field was discovered in 2000, and expected to develop revenue of $4 billion. It represented a lifeline to the #Palestinians and a great opportunity to overcome chronic #energy shortages in #Gaza. #Israel
The Israeli Scramble for Palestine's Energy Reserves (Pt. 1)
For 25 years, Israel’s Gaza policies have been motivated not just by security concerns, but by efforts to exploit the Palestinians’ energy reserves. With the smokescreen of the ceasefire, these behind...
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🎯 Oh, those kids!

By scanning public records and media reports, Mother Jones @motherjones.com determined that the ages of 8 of the 11 participants in the chat appeared to range from 24 to 35. The ages of three other participants weren't publicly available. #Vance #Hitlergate #YoungRepublicans
'Sorry, JD Vance': VP's claim 'Hitlergate' chat was just 'kids' promptly smacked down
A new analysis shredded Vice President JD Vance's dismissal of outrage over a leaked Young Republicans group chat containing racist and Hitler‑admiring messages, in which he referred to the participan...
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📌 From Christopher Weyant @christopherweyant1.bsky.social for The New Yorker @newyorker.com some years ago. "It doesn't actually travel back in time. It just registers you as a Republican." #Republican #cartoon #NewYorker. #ChristopherWeyant
It doesn't actually travel back in time. It just registers you as a Republican.
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✅ TAKE ACTION NOW: Tell Congress, “Give Americans the choice of whether to get the COVID vaccine.”

Click below for more information and to email Congress. Follow us, “Like,” & share. #COVID #Vaccine
TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress to restore access to the COVID-19 vaccine to those who want it
Give Americans a choice
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🎯 This is what Dems are trying to avoid

If the tax credits expire, marketplace enrollees’ premium payments will rise by an estimated 114%, on average—with increases of more than 300% in Wyoming and parts of Montana, Oregon, California, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona and California. #ACA #healthcare
The rural West’s increasing health care costs haunt the shutdown - High Country News
Health insurance costs are skyrocketing, and federal tax credits that make it more affordable are expiring.
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From the artist, Liberal Jane Illustration
@liberaljane.bsky.social "If your voice had no power they wouldn't try so hard to silence you."
Digital illustration of a vintage nokia phone. text reads, 'if your voice had no power they wouldn't try so hard to silence you'
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🎯 An independent Israeli negotiator blows the lid off Trump and Netanyahu's scheme to prolong the conflict. #Gaza #Israelis #Biden #Palestinians #ceasefire
The Israelis were waiting for a change of administration in Washington.
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📌Scientists Warn Planet Has Passed “Tipping Point” as Warm-Water Coral #Reefs Die

“We’re no longer talking about future tipping points — there’s one happening right now. Although our governments are used to planning for incremental, slow change, things do seem to be speeding up.” #tippingpoint
Scientists Warn Planet Has Passed “Tipping Point” as Warm-Water Coral Reefs Die
Coral ecosystems support a quarter of marine species. Scientists say a clean energy transition can save remaining reefs.
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📌 From artist/cartoonist Clay Jones, @claytoonz.bsky.social #shutdown
Mike Johnson to Republicans: "If the shutdown is the Democrats' fault ... then why are we lying?"
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📌 Anyone taking bets on whether Trump will try to send checks to everyone just before next year's election ... with or without Congressional approval? #tariffs #election
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🎯 Twenty-six years and his memory lives on.

From the 2009 article: "Matthew did what hadn't really been done before. He shone a light on hate crimes against the LGBT community." #MatthewShepard #LGBTQIA+
Matthew Shepard Died Today*
*originally posted October 12, 2009 ... Shepard died in 1998 He was just a kid. A slight kid, a sweet kid. A gay. But it wasn't the kid wh...
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🎯 “Anti-science has already caused serious illness and mass casualties in the near term. Unmitigated, it will ... take millions more lives, produce misguided national policies, & have long-lasting catastrophic consequences, including potentially, the destabilization of our civilization.” #science
Two top scientists tackle Trump's idiocracy
In a new book, Michael Mann and Peter Hotez examine the risks posed by entrenched beliefs, corporate greed, and regressive governments.
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📌 Allowing foreign nationals to train as #pilots in the USA worked so well in 2001.

Note: The U.S. has signed a “letter of acceptance” to build a Qatari Emiri Air Force facility at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho to host Qatari F‑15 jets and pilots for joint training.
'Where I draw the line': MAGA furious over Trump allowing foreign military base on US soil
Conservative hard‑liners erupted in outrage Friday after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth greenlit plans for a Qatari air force facility on U.S. soil, accusing the administration of “enabling foreign co...
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📌 The case for monuments is not only about what they hold; it’s also about what they exclude. No billboards No artificial lights to drown the dark sky. No new mining scars, paved roads cutting through mountains, subdivisions pushing into washes. #NationalMonuments #PublicLands
The case for national monuments - High Country News
National monuments across the West face unprecedented threats, making public voices and vigilance more crucial than ever.
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✅ TAKE ACTION NOW: Tell the Election Assistance Commission, “ Don’t disenfranchise eligible voters.” Not limited to U.S. citizens.

Click below for more info and to submit a comment. Follow us, “Like,” & share. DEADLINE: October 20, 2025 #VotingRights #VoterRegistration
SUBMIT YOUR COMMENT: Tell the EAC not to restrict voter registration
Stop this very risky rule change
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?? Why Hasn’t Trump’s #EPA Released the #Toxicity Report on This “Forever Chemical”?

#PFNA interferes with human development by causing lower birth weights and is also likely to cause damage to the liver and male reproductive system. #ForeverChemicals @foreverchemicals.bsky.social
Why Hasn’t Trump’s EPA Released the Toxicity Report on This “Forever Chemical”?
PFNA is in the drinking water systems of 26 million people and could cause developmental, liver, and reproductive harms.
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🎯 Warning! Warning! Warning!

If agents are continuing to work #immigration matters, as opposed to #counterterrorism, foreign #counterintelligence or #cybercrimes, that may end up biting us big time.

“The next 9/11 might happen if agents who were working on counterterrorism have been diverted.”
'May end up biting us big time': Ex-FBI official warns about threat of another 9/11
Reacting to a new report that the FBI under Director Kash Patel is shifting a massive amount of manpower to helping the Department of Homeland Security track down undocumented immigrants, two former b...
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🎯 When Trump wants to turn up the heat, he sends in Gregory Bovino.

Bovino combines Bull Connor’s aggression with Don King’s showmanship: a man willing to oversee violent, aggressive operations like Chicago’s “Midway Blitz” and to promote the fight to as many people as possible. #Insurrection
Greg Bovino Emerges as Trump’s Man For Conjuring Up a Blue-City Insurrection
Elected officials, activists, and at least one former high-ranking Department of Homeland...
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📌 Governor Newsom, @governor.ca.gov, didn't you forget to thank us for our attention to this matter? Manners, Governor, manners! 😆

And our sincere congratulations (well, as sincere as one can be under the circumstances 😉). #NobelPeacePrize
😂🤣 Newsom’s trolling is now at a whole new level 😂🏅
#NobelPeacePrize #Pinks 🌸
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🎯 We'll believe it when we see details.

From the article: "No matter who announces it, no thinking primate can be unhappy with a possible #ceasefire in #Gaza. But let’s all wait to see how things unfold before we sing our hosannas to El Caudillo del Mar-A-Lago..." #Israel #Palestinians #Netanyahu
I Need More Details Regarding the Gaza Ceasefire. Like, for Instance, How the Hell Will It Work?
The bare bones of the proposal seem fine, but the deal remains smoky.
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📌 We like Ron's comment. 😆

We also like Bill Kristol's: “Which is more alarming? That the Homeland Security secretary might actually believe that ‘Antifa’ is as dangerous as Hezbollah or Hamas? Or that she’s willing to engage in this level of lying and demagoguery? Neither is good!” #DHS #Antifa
The counterterrorism experts have arrived at the White House..
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🌟 And they’re all real, actual doctors!

“... we are compelled to speak with one voice to say that the actions of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are endangering the health of the nation.” #RFK_Jr. #DHHS
6 Former Surgeons General Say RFK Jr. Is Endangering the Health of the Nation
The bipartisan group of surgeons general included Democratic and Republican appointees dating back to the early 1990s.
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📌 We Must Fight for Our National Parks

The National Park System represents more than historic buildings, forests, mountains, & rivers. It includes spaces that hold our shared #history, #biodiversity, & the promise of a livable future. These spaces belong to all of us. #NationalParks #PublicLands
We Must Fight for Our National Parks
The national park system includes crucial spaces that hold our shared history and biodiversity and the promise of a livable future.
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