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Sam Broughton, Ph.D.

@smbrghtn.bsky.social

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Retired behavior analyst/psychologist, researcher/professor/practitioner. Science, evidence-based 🧪Career serving children & people with disabilities, e.g. not a Republican📎 Where did the time go? https://www.fmarion.edu/psychology/psych-facultyandstaff/

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 11h

Remember when Texas Dems broke quorum & in response TX AG Paxton & Gov Abbot demanded their arrest & removal from office?

Under Speaker Johnson, Congress has been in session only 12 of last 100 days, absent since Sept 19, & he still won't swear in Rep-elect Grijalva.

Rules for thee but not for me.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 7h

🚨BREAKING: Democrats won a major legal victory Friday as a federal district court permanently enjoined the U.S. Election Assistance Commission from implementing the provision in Donald Trump’s executive order demanding a proof-of-citizenship requirement on the federal voter registration form.

In Big Win for Voters and Democrats, Court Blocks Trump’s Demand for Voter ID on Registration Form

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Sue Poncin @sueponcin.com · 7h

Dr. James C. Jackson of Vanderbilt University takeaway from today’s IACC Expert Panel on Long Covid and other chronic conditions:

Brain fog is not an accurate term. It needs to be referred to as brain damage.

Yup.

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Sam Broughton, Ph.D. @smbrghtn.bsky.social · 5h

And 198 million Americans just 🤮 at these pictures.

Sam Broughton, Ph.D. @smbrghtn.bsky.social · 6h

Friday night at the Stateline bar
Where the waterfront people dwell
I better watch my step if the floor caves in
I'll go right straight to hell
There were pinball machines and cajun queens
Men with knives and scars…”

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Leslie McNevin @lmc514.bsky.social · 7h

For those who don't believe that a knee in the back of a person on unyielding ground, can restrict the ability to breathe? I heartedly suggest you find someone to use you as a demo while showing you that it does.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 7h

NEW: More than 100 federal judges have now rejected the Trump administration’s new policy to lock up nearly everyone facing deportation — including 12 judges appointed by Trump, according to a POLITICO analysis.

Only 2 judges have sided with ICE.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

More than 100 judges have ruled against the Trump admin’s mandatory detention policy

A POLITICO review of the rulings shows judges appointed by every president since Ronald Reagan have rebuked the administration’s new interpretation of immigration law.

www.politico.com

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Scarlet Hood @scarlethood.bsky.social · 7d

I am from UK - even to me this is the equivalent of Farage becoming PM & closing Parliament then bulldozing half of Buckingham Palace to build a Stringfellows. Did he even move the fixtures and fittings? Where did he move the chandeliers & paintings? Given them away as gifts to donors? Horrifying

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11h

🚨BREAKING: Virginia is one step closer to helping counter the GOP’s gerrymander after the Senate passed a proposed constitutional amendment Friday that would allow the state to redraw its congressional map.

The Senate voted 21-16 for the amendment, after the House took action this week.

Virginia Completes Step 1 of Plan to Counter Trump Gerrymander

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

On October 30, 2025, in Chicago, Illinois, ICE GOONS Backs into a U.S. citizen’s car and subsequently arrests her for documenting their actions.

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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 11h

This is why I am so proud to be a Democrat. We are NOT the same as Republicans. We are just fundamentally different people and the corporate media is WORTHLESS. Well done Rep. Joe Neguse!

Abbi Lichtenstein @abbij1961.bsky.social · 13h

@neguse.house.gov gives a lesson on how to reframe a journalist’s stupid question about #SNAP! 💪🏼

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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 16h

Donald Trump’s MAGA takeover of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is having a disastrous effect on ticket sales.

Trump Takeover Dooms Kennedy Center Shows as Audiences Stay Away

The MAGA takeover of the venue has damaged its reputation.

trib.al

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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 11h

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putawomanincharge.bsky.social @putawomanincharge.bsky.social · 16h

I have had many disappointments regarding politics.
The one that hit me the hardest was Merrick Garland. I wanted him.
I believed in him.
He was afraid / unwilling to do his job.

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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not about SNAP.
It’s not about Epstein.
It’s not about healthcare.

IT’S A FUCKING COUP.

That’s why he’s ordering National Guard rapid response teams in all states. It’s to put down resistance.

This is a disaster of EPIC proportions.
Who will save the USA?
YOU.
#ProudBlue #Pinks #IneV1

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DrH @drhaup.bsky.social · 16h

Harrison Ford calls out the POS would-be-king tRumpty-dumpty:
"I don’t know of a greater criminal in history... It scares the shit out of me. The ignorance, the hubris, the lies, the perfidy."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Harrison Ford says Trump’s assault on climate policy ‘scares the shit out of me’

Indiana Jones star calls US president one history’s greatest criminals for attacks on science and boosting of fossil fuels

www.theguardian.com

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MS Kohut @mskohut.bsky.social · 15h

If the top 1% was representative of the rest of us, they wouldn’t be the 1%. THIS is who makes laws & government. They own BOTH parties who have ALWAYS worked for them. But in 2010, Citizens United injected STEROIDS into oligarchy rule with unlimited campaign donations. In 2025 - authoritarianism.

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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 1d

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 16h

Go find an open window and learn to fly.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 1d

From 2018-2022, individuals and orgs from blue states contributed ~60% of all federal taxes. Red states contributed only 40%.

That’s $4300 per capita from blue to red states—who are then undermining democracy with blue state money. It is time for Soft Secession.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/blue-state...