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Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.

“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states

Outbreak Investigation of Infant Botulism: Infant Formula Do not use certain lots of ByHeart Whole Nutrition Infant Formula. FDA’s Investigation is ongoing.

NEWS — FDA announces 13 cases of infant botulism across 10 states after babies were given ByHeart powder formula from two specific lots.

I want to thank a generation for bringing the expression “cringe” into the mainstream

Dang, I wish I had a sandwich shop.

I just did that last week. Congrats! Feels so good.

ICYMI: The 2026 #DisabledInSTEM Mentorship applications are now open!

I look forward to seeing your applications soon! 💜

Judge orders White House to restore sign language interpreters at briefings by Trump, Leavitt U.S. District Judge Amir Ali said the White House’s decision to end ASL interpretation illegally excluded deaf Americans from crucial updates from the government.

NEW: A federal judge said the decision by Trump WH to end sign language interpretation at briefings by Trump and Leavitt likely violated the Rehabilitation Act and harmed deaf people who communicate in ASL.

www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Australian households to get free electricity three hours a day Saying there is enough solar power for everyone in the daytime, the federal government will direct retailers to provide three hours of free power every day to consumers.

Australia has so much clean energy they're literally giving it away. Meanwhile, GOP is in all-out war to stamp out solar

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers

This man gives me hope. And that’s a lot right now.

A SSRS/CNN poll showing 61% people think Trump has gone too far using the power of the presidency and 57% think he's gone too far deporting immigrants.

People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.

Watch my supercut of things Mike Johnson doesn’t know. You can see the whole show here: www.youtube.com/live/Ams4OLn...

*11/3/2025 noncooperation thread*

Providing resources for those they want to beat into submission is revolutionary.

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We’re building a movement in NYC that’s strong enough to push back against Trump’s fascist takeover and attacks on U.S. cities.

Across each borough and on every block, we’re organizing to protect NYC and our communities—but it’s going to take all of us.

Learn how you can help:
www.HandsOffNYC.com.

"the President has tried as hard as he can to make it as un-painless as possible" is such a perfect accidental summary of the chaos, the cowardice, and the perfidy

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(also I can't wait to say "this is un-painless" the next time I stub my toe)

Food Safety: Timeline — Unbreaking How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

We have a new timeline up today on our Food Safety page, documenting how individual events continue to chip away at the personnel, regulations, and oversight mechanisms that make up our food safety systems:
unbreaking.org/issues/food-...

Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social

Trump Admin Spends Millions on ICE Ads as SNAP Runs Out of Money—Report

Research showed close to $10 million was spent in three weeks, while federal agents went without pay.

Sometimes I believe that we will get through this for something better because we are yearning to take care of each other.

From now on, when anyone asks how we’re going to pay for it, the answer should be we’ll take it out of the teargas budget.

A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Illinois National Guard member says she would "definitely say no" to Chicago deployment Nicole Sganga sat down with Staff Sergeant Demi Palecek of the Illinois National Guard, who is running for local office. She said she fears retribution, but added it's too important not to speak up.

My friend, National Guard Staff Sergeant, and Illinois House District-13 candidate, @demiforillinois.bsky.social has gone on record with CBS News saying she will refuse to deploy to Chicago if ordered.

www.cbsnews.com/video/illino...

2 Illinois National Guard members speak out: "I won't turn against my neighbors" Staff Sgt. Demi Palecek and Capt. Dylan Blaha say they'll defy federal orders regarding Trump's immigration enforcement operation in Chicago.

"It's disheartening to be forced to go against your community members and your neighbors."

"It feels illegal. This is not what we signed up to do."

- Staff Sgt. Demi Palecek

2 Illinois National Guard members speak out: "I won't turn against my neighbors"

If you travel around your city using public transit, why not print out copies of Megan's "How to Report ICE" in your city and hand those out? It's a simple way to inform people. drive.google.com/drive/folder... - I distributed some to folks on the bus today and they were all grateful to receive them

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Heyyyy we desperately need more archaeologists to volunteer to answer questions from students via video chat through @skypeascientist.bsky.social.

We have 80 unmatched teams. We’ve already matched 650 😵‍💫

If you know any archaeologists, please send them here www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

A Bard College student was kidnapped by ICE and Bard’s administration is advocating for his release and has created a website to assist the rest of the community in joining them.

That’s what academic leaders should be doing for their students right now. www.instagram.com/p/DQKSTDJkeF...

It is impossible to imagine people allowing this to go on (or even participating in it within the government) if he was ordering the murder without any process of French citizens or Brits or Australians on boats no matter what they were alleged to be doing.