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@bvaello.bsky.social

Pediatrician that believes in science and human rights. Doing my best to survive in my beloved Texas, ruined by 30 yrs of GOP rule.

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AN ANGRY CAT FACE WITH THE 
WORDS:
HOW DO YOU KNOW WHEN
YOU’VE LOST YOUR SOUL?
WHEN YOU HEAR “THEY 
ZIP-TIED CHILDREN” AND 
IT’S NOT A DEAL BREAKER 
FOR YOU.

AN ANGRY CAT FACE WITH THE WORDS: HOW DO YOU KNOW WHEN YOU’VE LOST YOUR SOUL? WHEN YOU HEAR “THEY ZIP-TIED CHILDREN” AND IT’S NOT A DEAL BREAKER FOR YOU.

06.10.2025 18:28 — 👍 125    🔁 32    💬 5    📌 0

Turning the military on citizens.

Attempting to rig elections.

Toying with the idea of declaring martial law.

Attacking political enemies and punishing those who speak out.

If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?

06.10.2025 17:45 — 👍 14667    🔁 4377    💬 904    📌 249

If you're not following Charles Gaba you really should be!

06.10.2025 21:16 — 👍 50    🔁 19    💬 0    📌 0
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“.. The referrals did not come from the OIG,” one of these people said, using shorthand for the office of the inspector general. “It took people there by surprise.”

@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

07.10.2025 11:41 — 👍 530    🔁 184    💬 19    📌 10

I posted this one week after the election in 2024. Holds up.

06.10.2025 18:35 — 👍 12350    🔁 3839    💬 295    📌 91

We’re in a moment now where it would be worth people taking three hours to watch Gandhi, particularly the scene of the salt march. There is value to making the brutality of your opponent so plain as day that no one can argue with it. The clarity of that brought down an empire

07.10.2025 03:54 — 👍 10316    🔁 2819    💬 515    📌 332
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Oh look the party that screams “family values” every five minutes is silent when one of their megachurch darlings pleads guilty to child sex abuse. But they’ll trip over themselves to ban books and attack drag shows. Tells you everything you need to know.

07.10.2025 02:40 — 👍 15063    🔁 6136    💬 672    📌 323

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

06.10.2025 17:01 — 👍 21537    🔁 6636    💬 379    📌 216
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Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

"U.S. citizens, immigrants with legal status and children have been among those detained in increasingly brazen and aggressive encounters..."

apnews.com/article/chic...

06.10.2025 17:29 — 👍 5908    🔁 2818    💬 444    📌 162
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Healthcare should be guaranteed as a human right #MedicareForAll @salaambhattiva.bsky.social

07.10.2025 04:03 — 👍 19181    🔁 4635    💬 498    📌 167
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John Oliver: "If ICE can bother some guys at a roofing job, bystanders can bother ICE at their state-sanctioned kidnapping job."

06.10.2025 20:03 — 👍 13380    🔁 4604    💬 214    📌 212
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Gallup has been surveying Americans' trust in legacy media since 1972. This year, a mere 28 percent of the public have "a great deal" or "a fair amount" of trust in legacy media, its lowest level in more than five decades of tracking.

news.gallup.com/poll/695762/...

07.10.2025 11:41 — 👍 676    🔁 218    💬 56    📌 40

mayo-ass ICE agents think yellow mustard on our hot dogs is too spicy

06.10.2025 16:10 — 👍 417    🔁 74    💬 21    📌 0

This is great. The absurdity of this moment captured. Make it go viral.

07.10.2025 10:44 — 👍 5903    🔁 2761    💬 257    📌 123

Oregon's stubborn resistance to Texas National Guard troops invading reflects the elitist and closed-minded belief that the people of Portland have nothing to learn from the people of Texas

--Ezra Klein, tomorrow in the New York Times

07.10.2025 01:03 — 👍 3604    🔁 431    💬 132    📌 33

Trump’s order to deploy Texas National Guard troops to Chicago is illegal, immoral, and must be stopped by the courts. ICE is already wreaking havoc in our communities. Let’s call this what it is: an invasion by out-of-state troops coming here only with the purpose of tormenting Chicagoans.

07.10.2025 01:51 — 👍 19257    🔁 4690    💬 541    📌 140

Someone should start asking why we’re hearing and seeing Stephen Miller so much all of a sudden.

07.10.2025 10:51 — 👍 14832    🔁 3462    💬 1092    📌 303

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

06.10.2025 22:49 — 👍 27199    🔁 13003    💬 563    📌 534

The media isn’t just failing, they’re complicit. They cover for christian pastors who rape kids, ignore ICE handcuffing children and downplay MAGA’s cruelty as politics. This isn’t neglect, it’s collaboration and it makes them just as guilty. Power doesn’t fear lies. They fear clarity.

06.10.2025 20:50 — 👍 555    🔁 258    💬 29    📌 7

GOP could stop the shutdown on their own terms by eliminating the filibuster themselves.

But the GOP wants the political cover of "Democratic obstruction."

More importantly, they need Dems to eventually agree, so they'll be complicit in their ongoing crimes against Americans by funding fascism.

06.10.2025 23:50 — 👍 115    🔁 60    💬 9    📌 2

This really makes it sound like a Border Patrol agent tried to kill an anti-ICE activist in Chicago and DHS lied to cover for him

06.10.2025 22:45 — 👍 8393    🔁 2993    💬 174    📌 57
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Mike Johnson says he can't bring the House back to work until they get the lights back on.

There's a livestream of the Capitol in the link below. Do those look like lights to you?

www.senate.gov/general/capc...

07.10.2025 00:04 — 👍 95    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 2

Ms. Martinez’ lawyer says body cam footage shows the agent turned into HER car and yelled “do something bitch” before firing shots.

06.10.2025 23:00 — 👍 6442    🔁 2885    💬 273    📌 102
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UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 3: Earl Manigault

When he stepped onto the court, the world watched. No one dunked harder or jumped higher. But the GOAT never made it pro.

There are countless NYC stories like his. Brilliant talents lost to drugs or crime. It doesn’t have to be this way.

03.10.2025 14:35 — 👍 3620    🔁 726    💬 71    📌 90

This week, the Global Sumud Flotilla tried to deliver life-saving aid to Gaza.

Instead, 461 people—including New Yorkers—have been detained by the Israeli military.

They must be freed at once. And the deliberate starvation of Palestinians must end now.

03.10.2025 16:48 — 👍 6860    🔁 1781    💬 76    📌 36
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From Park Hill to the Wu-Wall, the creativity and resilience of Shaolin Island built a movement that changed culture. I felt that same spirit today with local artists, faith leaders, Liberian entrepreneurs, and the legendary Chef Shaw-Nae Dixon + Mitchell “Divine” Diggs.

04.10.2025 20:12 — 👍 1037    🔁 129    💬 11    📌 5
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Staten Island’s Albanian Muslim community has always been a force for entrepreneurship and service.

I’m grateful I got to meet with local leaders about how my administration plans to support small businesses and give every community a real seat at the table.

05.10.2025 23:35 — 👍 1389    🔁 150    💬 21    📌 6
Zohran posing for a group photo with ten people, including Palestinian New Yorkers.

Zohran posing for a group photo with ten people, including Palestinian New Yorkers.

This afternoon, I sat with Palestinian New Yorkers in Astoria and listened to what they and their families have endured as the genocide in Gaza continues, funded by our government.

In the face of immeasurable grief, they have showed unbreakable resilience.

06.10.2025 03:34 — 👍 4388    🔁 635    💬 29    📌 19
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New Yorkers deserve change they can measure in their own lives.

Our new Affordability Calculator shows exactly how much our plans would save your family on childcare, rent, and bus fare.

Check your savings → zohranfornyc.com/calculator

06.10.2025 14:48 — 👍 3814    🔁 869    💬 77    📌 56
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Proud of my Hindu Heritage Mamdani visits NYC temples to connect with supporters Explore how Mamdani celebrates his Hindu heritage by visiting temples in NYC and connecting with supporters. Discover the pride and connection he feels as he embraces his cultural roots.

“Outside the Ganesh Temple, [70 year old] Deepak Mehta said he was excited for Mamdani to become mayor due to his promise to freeze the rent.

‘I will vote for Mamdani because his policies will stop my landlord from causing problems for me,’ he said.”

www.newindiaabroad.com/english/news...

06.10.2025 15:42 — 👍 2767    🔁 419    💬 30    📌 5

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