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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 2d

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.

Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

Map: Governors Public Health Alliance
* Guam is also a member of the alliance
Updated October 15, 2025
Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper

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TrickOrTreat Smell My Feet👹 @lepetitoiseau.bsky.social · 2d

Don’t be someone’s second choice or forgotten afterthought when there is love out there waiting to cheerfully make you their world.

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING from PP

We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*

The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:

Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer

More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 3d

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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TrickOrTreat Smell My Feet👹 @lepetitoiseau.bsky.social · 3d

God damn, I love being queer. 🥰

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Alicia Andrzejewski (she/her) @aliciaandrz.bsky.social · 6d

today someone said “you’re wrong to be upset with me. it must be hard being so over sensitive” &, condescension aside, I am so tired of “over sensitivity” being used as an insult. I think it’s OK, & might even be a good thing, to be deeply affected by what people do & say.

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Forbes @forbes.com · 8d

James said the charges against her were “baseless” and added, “The president's own public statements make clear that his only goal is political retribution at any cost.”

‘President’s Desperate Weaponization Of…Justice System: Letitia James On Her Indictment

James said the charges against her were “baseless” and added, “The president's own public statements make clear that his only goal is political retribution at any cost.”

www.forbes.com

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Theo @teddysoftpaws.bsky.social · 9d

Hell yeah! From another trying to do the same thing, congratulations! 🥹👏

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Liz W(erewolf not swearwolf) Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · 11d

Remember to love the people around you, deeply and unironically. That’s going to get us a lot further than spite.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 12d

It's okay to admit you fucked up. We all do it. Learn from it, grow, spend hours ruminating about it and beating yourself up about it if you're me, and then don't do it again and be better.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 12d

I dunno man, try listening to marginalized people *before* shit goes wrong, and maybe it won't keep being like that

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Mighty Mog @mightymog.bsky.social · 15d

If you can’t stand to see people love a thing you don’t?
That’s not taste. That’s rot.

Celebrate the fire, even if it’s not your fire.
Because tearing down happiness doesn’t make you sharp…
it just makes you small 🫡

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TrickOrTreat Smell My Feet👹 @lepetitoiseau.bsky.social · 16d

Hell fucking yeah. Go Dawgs. 🐺

Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social · 16d

Wow, the University of Washington's Psych 201 class does *not* play

go fuckin Huskies

Nazi UW students fuck off

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Mallorie Malcontent ✨ @sweetbeanscomix.bsky.social · 17d

Being proud, not just of who you are, but the fact they hate us and we don’t fit into their hollow world view, is more important than ever. My mantra in these trying times has come from Rick and Morty of all places.

“Every breath I take without your permission raises my self-esteem.”

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Theo @teddysoftpaws.bsky.social · 16d

No matter how many times I see this video I smile so big every time.

🦋 kris🌻⋆⋆⋆ @eviebauer727.bsky.social · 17d

Something to make you smile. This is the sweetest thing I’ve ever seen. 😊

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Theo @teddysoftpaws.bsky.social · 16d

Migraines been saying hello all day today and I am about ready to yeet my brain. Forehead wusses are needed please 🥺

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TrickOrTreat Smell My Feet👹 @lepetitoiseau.bsky.social · 17d

Can’t begin to explain what a huge middle finger, yet again, this is for the most vulnerable of us.

Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 17d

Medicare, as of today, will no longer cover telehealth visits.

I can’t imagine a bigger slap in the face to our patients.

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Veda Scott @vedascott.bsky.social · 18d

PSA: you don’t “deserve a little treat”

The world is endless horrors.
You deserve endless treats of all sizes.

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The Voice of J Kulcha. 77✨ @jkulcha.bsky.social · 20d

If you avoid difficult conversations your relationship will decay.

People drift apart not from anger but from avoidance, from not building the trust & resilience through the intimacy of difficult conversations had healthily.

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ᑕ ᕼ ᓰ ᗷ 〇 ᒪ 乇 @chibole.bsky.social · 20d

This !

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🦌 The Deer Whisperer 🦌 @thedeerwhisperer.bsky.social · 20d

Good morning, Bluesky!

A Great Blue Heron greets the sunrise on Puget Sound, Washington.
📸Marguerite Gerontis

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Wallygator @wallygatorz.bsky.social · 21d

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ksrnow @ksrnow.bsky.social · 21d

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JustSayin @justsayin-fromx.bsky.social · 21d

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TJDallas7 @tjdallas7.bsky.social · 22d

🔥 SALE! SALE! SALE! 🔥

Six #sapphic #erotica books, only 99¢ each.

With books 7 & 8 in the Cardinal Series dropping Oct 31st, I'm offering books 1-6 for less than $6 for a limited time only!

If you haven't read them yet, now's the time! Links in comments 👇

PS-Please share and repost!!

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