Angela Torres

Well now I have to follow you for apple reviews. I lived in Seattle for 3 years but other than that, I’ve never had local varieties of apples..

Civil Rights Groups Demand ICE Stop Jailing Pregnant Immigrants Amid Reports of Medical Neglect A group of civil and human rights organizations is calling on Immigration and Customs Enforcement to end the jailing of pregnant people and to immediately investigate reports of severe medical neglect...

Department of Homeland Security is funneling $10 billion through the Navy in order to construct a sprawling network of migrant detention centers in Louisiana, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Pennsylvania and Utah. A source tells CNN that facilities could hold as many as 10,000 people each.

OPINION: Alaska officials celebrate Trump’s disaster declaration while FEMA crumbles under his watch - The Alaska Current This story was originally published by Reporting From Alaska, Dermot Cole. The Wall Street Journal had this update Sept. 28 on how the Federal Emergency Management Agency is failing to respond to emer...

Sens. Murkowski, Sullivan, Rep. Nick Begich III and Gov. Dunleavy gushed w/praise for themselves & Trump after his social media post saying he had approved a disaster declaration for Western Alaska. We should withhold the hosannas until we see if FEMA delivers.
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This selfish, shallow Trump regime doesn't care about us.

It only cares about itself.

LIVE: Kotzebue issues evacuation order as Western Alaska braces for storm Bering Sea storm expected to gain strength as it takes aim at Western Alaska.

The wind is shaking the whole house here in Nome. #Alaska

Fairbanks is good. I was hoping it would be Wasilla but that will never happen 🙄

Part of the transition from conservatism to authoritarianism is the shift from lies with some veneer of plausibility (wink wink) to lies that are demonstrably, obviously lies, such that accepting them involves an almost total subjugation of individual discernment or judgment.

Marjorie Taylor Greene wants an English-only law passed before the Puerto Rican superstar performs at the Super Bowl.

If MTG is successful all operas performed in the United States will be sung in English.

YouTube video by The Korean Vegan A story about my father and his typewriter.

This is so eloquent and powerful. My father didn’t need me to write letters for him, but he had an accent all his life. Even as a US Army colonel, people viewed him, not as the intelligent man he was, but as something lesser. Because of his accent and last name. #immigrants #ice

In Western Alaska, a graphite mine races toward approval without the required tribal consultation The project is being fast-tracked in a process that has bypassed legally required consultations with Inupiaq communities.

Here we go. Destroying our lands for profit.

Why Hospital Policies Matter in States That Ban Abortion Our first-of-its-kind data analysis found that a seismic split emerged in how medical institutions in Texas' two largest metro areas, Houston and Dallas, treated miscarrying patients — and in their ou...

The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.

In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%.

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The image is an X post by @RealJakeBroe from 7 hours ago, featuring a two-panel comic. The top panel shows a scientist pointing to a chart with a general trend and an outlier, illustrating a rational argument. The bottom panel depicts a person labeled "ANTI VAX" pointing to a similar chart, labeling it "CONSPIRACY THEORY" with "Lies" and an outlier called "IRREFUTABLE PROOF!!!", satirizing irrational arguments. The caption reads, "It is difficult to win an argument with a smart person. It is impossible to win an argument with an idiot."

This captures much of the frustration of today.

A 100% tariff on some imported drugs is coming October 1, Trump says | CNN Business President Donald Trump announced Thursday that brand-name or patented pharmaceutical products will be subject to a 100% tariff starting October 1 – unless the drugmaker is building a manufacturing pla...

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"Free speech is not about whether someone else agrees or disagrees; it's about whether you are able to do it."

--Jasmine Crockett, just now to Chris Hayes.

dr Oz owns the generic company making the drug to now treat autism.

Who owns the company that makes the generic version of this drug? dr fucking Oz!

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How much do you think Trump has a say in the complaints? Is he sitting around telling the lawyers to put something in about The Apprentice? Or are the lawyers just that bad?

‘Americans should be alarmed’: Experts say loss of expertise at CDC will harm US health Top officials exited agency under RFK Jr’s leadership, and his anti-vax beliefs have dismayed medical community

This was part of the Project 2025. To strip government health agencies, that used to be run by experts, of the ability to issue vaccine guidance & end testing of new pathogens.

Again, we were shouting this last year. We are in a precarious position globally.

🧪 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The hearing is starting. Cassidy notes that doctors need to trust data coming out of the CDC. Notes that CDC Director requires Senate confirmation because it’s such an important role. 💪

Her firing points to a failure of either the Senate or the Admin. It’s both. Both put RFKJ in charge.

Monarez: "Kennedy demanded 2 things of me that were were inconsistent w/ my oath of office. He directed me to commit in advance to approving every ACIP recommendation regardless of the scientific evidence. He also directed me to dismiss career officials responsible for vaccine policy without cause"

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

I know that’s going to be me some day. After years of practicing medicine I just can’t anymore. I’ve asked that certain patients not be scheduled with me because of their stupid vax beliefs.

A screenshot of the "Impact Counter" linked in my post, showing the number of estimated deaths so far due to USAID cuts. It says: "Deaths caused by funding discontinuation: 158.746 adult deaths 330.152 child deaths Deaths per hour: 88 deaths"

The estimated number of deaths so far due to USAID cuts are truly mind-boggling. Musk will be complicit in the unnecessary deaths of millions of people.

(estimation below done by www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi... )

It's amazing that ICE can use the color of your skin to profile for your arrest, but universities can't use it to understand the background that you grew up in.

That’s for my BIL too.

I really want to send this to my BIL but will just repost here. He wouldn’t get the sarcasm anyway.

SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) (@sarscov2covid19) Just spoke with my CDC sources. They said that RFK Jr. has ordered officials to hide tuberculosis cases even as three active TB cases have just been reported in Maine. He’s also suppressing bird flu ...

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