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Sharon Buchbinder

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Award winning author, fiction & non-fiction. PhD, Public Health, RN (ret) Professor Emerita. She/her. Democrat 💙 Newsletter https://www.sharonbuchbinder.com/sign-up-for-my-mailing-list/ & Substack https://open.substack.com/pub/sharonbuchbinder

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Sharon Buchbinder @sharonbuchbinder.bsky.social · Mar 1

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1h

Mamdani up another two points on this alone

TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 1d

More incentive

EX NEW YORK POST

Andrew Cuomo says he 'will move to Florida' if Zohran Mamdani becomes NYC mayor

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

complete batshit insanity

Pregnant Women, DON’T USE TYLENOL UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY, DON’T GIVE TYLENOL TO YOUR YOUNG CHILD FOR VIRTUALLY ANY REASON, BREAK UP THE MMR SHOT INTO THREE TOTALLY SEPARATE SHOTS (NOT MIXED!), TAKE CHICKEN P SHOT SEPARATELY, TAKE HEPATITAS B SHOT AT 12 YEARS OLD, OR OLDER, AND, IMPORTANTLY, TAKE VACCINE IN 5 SEPARATE MEDICAL VISITS! President DJT https://dailycaller.com/2025/10/21/fda-stayed-silent-potential-tylenol-risks-internal-reports/

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4h

This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.

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KD📚🌎🌊🇺🇸 @kdnerak33.bsky.social · 1d

Timothy Mellon is the donor of the $130 million for the troops.

In case you’re wondering what he’s like, he said in his autobiography that Black people have become “even more belligerent” because of social programs, and people who receive government assistance are slaves.

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Ann Aguirre @annaguirre.bsky.social · 1d

Wait, Muskrat is building a robot army?! OMG.

Please for the love of Kevin Bacon, WATCH THE TERMINATOR MOVIES, you very stable geniuses!

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1d

The Pentagon accepted an anonymous $130 million donation to help pay troops' salaries.

Fiscal policy experts are questioning the legality of the move.

"In general, you may not spend money that has been donated because the Constitution and the Anti-Deficiency Act say that you can't."

Pentagon to use $130 million anonymous donation to help pay troops

The amount is less than a day’s worth of salaries. Fiscal policy experts say the move also raises legal questions.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 1d

This quote is originally from his self-published autobiography (2015). It can also be found on his Wikipedia page as well as in this WaPo article from 5 years ago.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/tim...

Timothy Mellon, top donor to Trump super PAC, used racial stereotypes to describe African Americans in his autobiography

Mellon, whose family fortune dates to the Gilded Age, gave $30 million in just five months to support Trump and Republicans.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 1d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...

Donor Who Gave $130 Million to Pay Troops Is Reclusive Heir to Mellon Fortune

www.nytimes.com

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 1d

Quote from Timothy Mellon, who donated $130 million to the U.S. military, so you know who we’re dealing with:

“Black people, in spite of heroic efforts by the "Establishment" to right the wrongs of the past, became even more belligerent and unwilling to pitch in to improve their own situations”.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

Reagan's approach to the world prominently featured two things:

1) Russian aggression bad, Western democratic alliance good
2) Free trade good, tariffs and other barriers to trade bad

Pretending it's the opposite is the sort of reality inversion only someone who rejects truth itself could buy.

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Sharon Buchbinder @sharonbuchbinder.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you ❤️

Sharon Buchbinder @sharonbuchbinder.bsky.social · 1d

A Model for Eugenics www.propublica.org/article/idah...

Idaho Banned Vaccine Mandates. Activists Want to Make It a Model for the Country.

The Idaho Medical Freedom Act makes it illegal to require anyone to take a vaccine or receive “medical intervention.” Leslie Manookian, the activist behind the law, hopes to make it a “societal norm” ...

www.propublica.org

Sharon Buchbinder @sharonbuchbinder.bsky.social · 1d

Thrilled to announce that RECIPE FOR LOVE has received 2nd place in the Romance category in the Fall 2025 The BookFest awards! I'm in great company! www.thebookfest.com/award-recipi... #bookfest #romancebooks #romancebookstagram

Book cover for Recipe for Love with young woman holding a loaf of bread and young man holding a camera.

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Enough @enuffsenuff.bsky.social · 1d

Is that really enough?

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Sharon Buchbinder @sharonbuchbinder.bsky.social · 2d

We know what will happen to women and girls under Project 2025 sharonbuchbinder.substack.com/p/pica #rape #maternaldeath #childbrides

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 3d

This is a take-one-for-the-team moment.

Our country is dying, and Jack Smith knows it.

He’s asking to testify publicly, so you know he’s got receipts.

Doing this paints an even larger target on his back, and he's saying, "Fuck it."

Go Jack!

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 3d

Did anyone spot moving vans outside the White House recently that could have been used to remove precious, historic furniture, mantel pieces, fixtures, chandeliers, lamps, and portraits from the East Wing to safety?

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d

SNAP benefits expire in one week.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3d

Leavitt: At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the president's main priority.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

This is such a great callout…

Does your Christian church have a plan to help the community when SNAP benefits don’t go out in November?

If not, you’re at the wrong church.

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Atticus Finch (of Georgia) @atticus59914029.bsky.social · 5d

They’re eating the White House.
@chrisgeidner.bsky.social

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Willa Blair @willablair.bsky.social · 4d

Today's #BookQW word: (Her)SELF

Halloween is coming and there's a ghost in the old manor. Or is there?
WAITING FOR THE LAIRD

bit.ly/3KGF7Ki

#Mustread #Bestselling #Highland #Halloween #Adventure
#romanticreads #swoonworthyromance #BookSky

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Rep. Adam Smith @adamsmith.house.gov · 4d

Yes, the shutdown fight is about the millions of people who could lose their health care and see their costs go up.

But it's also about democracy. It's about standing up to Trump. We need a government that lives up to the Constitution and stands for the American people.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 5d

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction

Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.

www.wsj.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5d

Incredible that his Mom personally lobbying Congress did not overturn the Nazi stuff.
This is a victory, but a small one. Expect Ingrassia to take the Ed Martin route: still a Trump employee, just not in a Senate confirmed role.

Best of luck to his female or POC colleagues:
bsky.app/profile/donm...

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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batgurl62.bsky.social @batgurl62.bsky.social · 5d

Holy shit! Looks like he's about ready to tear the whole place down. Thank you supremely corrupt Court

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