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Grace R @candidkitten.bsky.social · Nov 10

Since everyone’s finding old and new friends, take a moment to read my story, I’m a 32yo polio survivor because I was not vaccinated. Pass on my story, repeat it, tell it to any vaccine hesitate parent. No kid deserves vaccine preventable diseases

www.voicesforvaccines.org/as-a-polio-s...

I’m a Polio Survivor. I Don’t Want You to Get It.

Polio is once again a public health threat in the United States. Grace is disappointed, though not surprised.

www.voicesforvaccines.org

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 6d

Add Cincinnati to the rapidly expanding list of cities where homeless students sleep in parking lots because their families can't afford a place to live.

www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2...

Headline: "Cincinnati Public Schools' homeless student sleep lot is first in Ohio, says coalition"
By Grace Tucker and Elizabeth B. Kim
Cincinnati Enquirer

"There are now so many families living out of their cars in Cincinnati that the city's school district is opening a parking lot for them to have a safe place to stay overnight."

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 8d

“What kind of police go around without license plates?” www.propublica.org/article/trum... @davidmcswane.bsky.social @hannahallam.bsky.social

How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force

Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challeng...

www.propublica.org

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 8d

About 7.5 million children ages 3 to 21 are served under the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act. The Trump administration has laid off almost every staffer responsible for enforcing it.

talkingpointsmemo.com/news/the-tru...

The Trump Administration Is Leveraging the Shutdown to Gut the Office of Special Education Programs

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 10d

An astonishingly large crowd!
Chicago

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 10d

Dallas didn’t disappoint. #NoKings

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 10d

A Chicago-style No Kings Day. #NoKings

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Blue Texas @turntexasblue.bsky.social · 10d

No Kings-Chicago, IL

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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 10d

Albuquerque, New Mexico SHOWED UP TODAY! #NOKINGS

(h/t VisionBroadcast Media LLC)

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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 27d

Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

In one of the battles with an enemy tribe of Conjurers, the Cherokee captured one whose name was

Image is line paper with writing showing an English word followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled and pronounced. The word is dragon and pronounced oogahtaynah

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · Sep 24

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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Sarah W @sazbean.bsky.social · Sep 23

Friend of mine sent me this article by @bnwoods.bsky.social and HOLY FUCKING SHIT is this right on. I have lost track of the number of times I have had to parade out my degrees and experience just to have a seat at the conversation and it is EXHAUSTING. www.brittanynwoods.com/blog/technic...

Brittany Woods: Transforming Tech Through DevOps and Platform Engineering

www.brittanynwoods.com

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Brian in Detroit @brian.delightfullyweird.blog · Sep 15

This is what Korean newspapers are writing about America right now.

To understand what’s at the core of this situation, we must revisit the “Make America Great Again” movement championed by US President Donald Trump. MAGA represents a reactionary movement by white evangelical forces seeking to revert America to a time before the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Its core supporters are low-income, poorly educated white Americans and evangelical Protestants. Trump has become a voice amplifying the anxieties of these groups, whose societal status has been shaken by job losses due to globalization, deepening economic polarization, and a surge in immigration. Trump has incited them to channel their anger toward the established elite and “outsiders,” such as people of color, undocumented immigrants, and Muslims.

Trump is fundamentally a populist and white supremacist. His slogan of “Make America Great Again” would be phrased more accurately as “Make White America Great Again.” His insistence on imposing a 50% tariff specifically on steel and aluminum stems from the fact that white, Protestant populations are concentrated in the American Rust Belt.

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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · Sep 9

Looking over the Epstein book messages, I'm struck by how comfortable everyone was with compiling something like this, contributing to it, and receiving it. Something most people with common sense would avoid like the plague.

But the super-rich and powerful know how insulated they are.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Sep 9

"We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent." —Justice Sonia Sotomayor

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Sep 8

Next year, Americans will see the biggest jump in health insurance costs in 15 years.

Meanwhile, the six largest health insurers raked in more than $31 billion in net income last year.

Still not sure if we need Medicare for All?

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · Sep 5

Nothing says, "Hey international companies, bring your manufacturing to the US" like arresting 475 workers at a Hyundai (70% of whom are South Korean).

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · Sep 6

Two new papers find renewables are good insurance (they stabilize electricity price volatility in welfare improving ways)

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Power price stability and the insurance value of renewable technologies - Nature Energy

Increasing solar photovoltaic and wind generation capacity beyond European 2030 targets could make electricity prices more stable, with reductions in sensitivity to fluctuations in the price of natura...

www.nature.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Sep 5

Remember: The recipe for economic growth isn’t tax cuts for the rich. It’s investment in our people — in health care, infrastructure and education — to build a strong middle class.

You don't grow the economy through trickle-down nonsense.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · Aug 19

More and more of those Banksy-style posters of the Sandwich Guy are popping up in DC.

Just had these (and dozens of other photos) shared with me.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Jul 28

We are living in an age of bullies. Those with power are less constrained today than they have ever been in my lifetime.

The question is: how do we lead moral lives in this era? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/28/bullies-moral-lives-robert-reich

How do we lead moral lives in an age of bullies? | Robert Reich

In my lifetime, I have witnessed a shift from support of decency to tolerance of cruelty. Where do we go from here?

www.theguardian.com

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · Jul 28

Just so’s we’re all clear, almost 3/4 of everything we buy from Europe is now 15% more expensive.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · Jul 28

Kilmeade getting a reality check from Fox’s own expert on tariffs.

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NPR @npr.org · Jul 28

Congress eliminated public media funding, and the president signed it into law. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together.

Help keep it strong. Join our monthly donors today: n.pr/458sOhq

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God @thegodpodcast.com · Jun 22

He illegally started a war and nothing will happen because everyone in Congress is a spineless coward.

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