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Grandmom to 3 energetc children, mother of 2 wonderful humans, and their partners, and I'm a long-time feminist. I will keep fighting for our democracy. Let's keep thinking and sharing ways to resist!

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Doctors concerned after WV lawmakers change newborn care standard that prevents blindness in babies โ€ข West Virginia Watch West Virginia law mandates that medical professionals treat newbornsโ€™ eyes with an ointment meant to prevent potentially blindness.

Newborns in West Virginia automatically receive eye ointment after birth to prevent medical pink eye, which can cause blindness. A bill approved by the Senate and House of Delegates repeals that medical mandate, reports @amelianews.bsky.social.

10.04.2025 20:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 17    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8
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"House Republicans, in the middle of a financial crisis, when Donald Trump is ruining our alliances...the thing that the House Republicans spent time on is to try to disenfranchise millions of voters."

Watch more from @marcelias.bsky.social here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS8a...

10.04.2025 20:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 690    ๐Ÿ” 200    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 17    ๐Ÿ“Œ 10
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Mike Johnson Reveals How Heโ€™ll Fund Trumpโ€™s Budget Cuts The House speaker has a cruel plan now that heโ€™s passed the budget.

House Republicans have approved the budget which extends Trumpโ€™s 2017 tax cuts for corporations and billionaires, adding an estimated $6.8 trillion to the deficit.

Mike Johnson's solution is "returning work requirements" which could strip upwards of 36 million Americans of their health coverage.

10.04.2025 20:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 79    ๐Ÿ” 52    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9
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New Social Security rules will create hurdles for millions of seniors, report finds A new report from a left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities finds that upcoming changes to Social Security will amount to a "45-mile trip for some 6 million seniors."

Americans seeking retirement or survivor benefits from the Social Security Administration will no longer be able to apply over the phone, starting next week.

08.04.2025 23:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2572    ๐Ÿ” 1359    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 179    ๐Ÿ“Œ 188
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South Sudan cholera patients died walking to clinic after US cut aid, charity says Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after U.S. aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said on Wednesday.

Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after US aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said reut.rs/3E9kB27

09.04.2025 05:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8939    ๐Ÿ” 4815    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 495    ๐Ÿ“Œ 566
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Sen. Jim Banks told a laid off U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) employee who approached him that they โ€œprobably deserved itโ€ and they โ€œseem like a clown.โ€

01.04.2025 21:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2963    ๐Ÿ” 1770    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 819    ๐Ÿ“Œ 846
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The CDC Has Been Gutted Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.

NEW: Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.

01.04.2025 15:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5284    ๐Ÿ” 2616    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 247    ๐Ÿ“Œ 327
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Exclusive: Democrats ask SEC to preserve records related to Trumpโ€™s crypto business, probing conflicts A pair of top Democratic lawmakers asked the U.S. securities regulator on Wednesday to preserve records related to President Donald Trumpโ€™s crypto venture World Liberty Financial and posed questions about potential conflicts of interest.

Exclusive: A pair of top Democratic lawmakers asked the US securities regulator to preserve records related to President Trumpโ€™s crypto venture World Liberty Financial and posed questions about potential conflicts of interest reut.rs/41TonWn

02.04.2025 15:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 387    ๐Ÿ” 110    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
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Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinsonโ€™s Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH Leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health, the USโ€™s leading medical research agency, were swept up Tuesday in the Trump administration's latest firing blitz.

NEW: The doctor behind breakthrough Parkinsonโ€™s research was among the scientists purged from the National Institutes of Health, the USโ€™s leading medical research agency. www.wired.com/story/doctor...

02.04.2025 00:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3500    ๐Ÿ” 1941    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 138    ๐Ÿ“Œ 199
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Sen. Cory Booker Breaks Segregationist Strom Thurmond's Record U.S. Sen. Cory Booker broke a record set 68 years ago by then-Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, a segregationist, in 1957.

In a 25-hour speech decrying what he described as Trump's "grave" threats to democracy, U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, a Black man from New Jersey, gave the longest U.S. Senate floor speech in U.S. historyโ€”smashing the record Dixiecrat Sen. Strom Thurmond set with his 1957 anti-civil rights filibuster.

02.04.2025 00:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 456    ๐Ÿ” 82    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8
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All previous presidents knew how to handle military operations... except these clowns. And mango mussolini wasn't even present, as commander in chief! Who's running this show!

28.03.2025 22:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The ReThugs want us dumbed down like them.

28.03.2025 18:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Measles Cases in Kansas May Be Linked to Texas Outbreak State health officials worry that declining vaccination rates have left many communities vulnerable nationwide.

Measles cases in Kansas more than doubled in the last week, bringing the tally to 20, while another outbreak in Ohio has sickened 10 people, local public health officials reported on Wednesday.

Health officials have worried that a Texas measles outbreak may be seeding others.

27.03.2025 02:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 610    ๐Ÿ” 238    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 69    ๐Ÿ“Œ 40
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When Your Threat Model Is Being a Moron No phone, no app, no encryption can protect you from yourself if you send the information youโ€™re trying to hide directly to someone you donโ€™t want to have it.

When your threat model is being a moron

No phone, no app, no encryption can protect you from yourself if you send the information youโ€™re trying to hide directly to someone you donโ€™t want to have it.

๐Ÿ”— www.404media.co/when-your-th...

26.03.2025 19:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2665    ๐Ÿ” 619    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 41    ๐Ÿ“Œ 46
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Annotated Text From Leaked Signal Group Chat With Top Trump Officials The chatโ€™s contents, which were obtained by The Atlantic after its editor in chief was added to the Signal group, provide a revealing look at private conversations between top Trump administration off...

Excerpts of a Signal chat published by The Atlantic provide a rare and revealing look at the private conversations of top Trump administration officials as they weighed plans for U.S. strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen.

Here are some excerpts from the chat.

26.03.2025 05:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 645    ๐Ÿ” 213    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 74    ๐Ÿ“Œ 39
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Mike Waltz Left His Venmo Friends List Public A WIRED review shows national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive information exposed via Venmoโ€”until WIRED asked about it.

SCOOP: A WIRED review of public data shows that national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive information exposed via Venmoโ€”until WIRED asked about it.

26.03.2025 20:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 24933    ๐Ÿ” 8703    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1037    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1189
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The inside story of how a journalist was sent White House war plans Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor of The Atlantic, said he was mistakenly added to a group chat with U.S. national security leaders about imminent military strikes on Yemen.

Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor of The Atlantic, said he was mistakenly added to a group chat with U.S. national security leaders about imminent military strikes on Yemen.

25.03.2025 02:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6240    ๐Ÿ” 1286    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 328    ๐Ÿ“Œ 134
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Walz: "The idea that the secretary of education would not know what IDEA is -- individuals with disability in education act -- that's like your mechanic not knowing how to put air in your tire. And she's in charge of this nation's education progress. It is catastrophic."

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SpaceX's Starship explodes in space, again raining debris over Caribbean The back-to-back mishaps indicate serious setbacks for a program Elon Musk has sought to speed up this year.

SpaceX's Starship spacecraft tumbled and exploded in space minutes after lifting off from Texas, ending an attempt to deploy mock satellites in the second consecutive failure this year for Elon Musk's Mars rocket program reut.rs/3DuE1xS

07.03.2025 02:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1063    ๐Ÿ” 286    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 146    ๐Ÿ“Œ 91
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Social Security Checks Could Stop Going Out by April, Ex-Head Warns The former Social Security commissioner said the system could โ€œcollapse,โ€ causing disruptions in payments within โ€œ30 to 90 days.โ€

They are coming for social security.

06.03.2025 03:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Shameless.

05.03.2025 19:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 22164    ๐Ÿ” 6847    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 706    ๐Ÿ“Œ 306
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โ€œGive me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, but only if they pay me 5 million dollars for my instant-citizenship Gold Card.๐Ÿ’ฐโ€ -Comrade Krasnov
#GrifterInChief

05.03.2025 21:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 52832    ๐Ÿ” 12260    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2013    ๐Ÿ“Œ 492
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DOGE's savings page fixed old mistakes โ€” and added new ones An NPR review of new data added to DOGE's "wall of receipts" finds the group quietly changed previous errors, added new ones and still has little verified savings to show for its work.

An NPR review of new data added to DOGE's "wall of receipts" finds the group quietly changed previous errors, added new ones and still has little verified savings to show for its work.

02.03.2025 21:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14293    ๐Ÿ” 4834    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 560    ๐Ÿ“Œ 326
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Musk claims DOGE โ€˜restoredโ€™ Ebola prevention effort. Officials disagree. USAIDโ€™s initiatives to fight Ebola and other diseases have been gutted, current and former agency officials said.

Elon Musk said DOGE made a mistake by cutting USAIDโ€™s Ebola prevention but it had been โ€œrestored.โ€

Thatโ€™s not true, current and former officials told me and @johnphudson.bsky.social.

โ€œThere have been no efforts to โ€˜turn onโ€™โ€ Ebola prevention, said Nidhi Bouri, who oversaw team until January.

26.02.2025 23:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7493    ๐Ÿ” 3186    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 235    ๐Ÿ“Œ 217
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Moderation against tyranny is the wrong choice It's obvious that the goal of this tyrannous Trump administration is to break government and democracy. There wonโ€™t be any 'going back.' We need to do the best we can to move beyond the frozenโ€ฆ

LeMay: It's obvious that the goal of this tyrannous Trump administration is to break government and democracy.

We need to do the best we can to move beyond the frozen horror, and get to doing the work to protect democracy here and abroad with all allies we can find.

26.02.2025 23:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 67    ๐Ÿ” 31    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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Trump has canceled Biden's ethics rules. Critics call it the opposite of 'drain the swamp' Donald Trump took office eight years ago pledging to โ€œdrain the swampโ€ of the dominance of Washington influence peddlers.

Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees.

Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law

Time to do things that make him react to you.
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23.02.2025 14:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 69612    ๐Ÿ” 18033    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2528    ๐Ÿ“Œ 990
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Iโ€™ve been targeted for death in a bomb threat received at the Principles First Summit where I spoke today. To be clear, Iโ€™ve been threatened by far more capable people during my career. It wonโ€™t stop my advocacy for democracy and the Constitution: x.com/Acosta/statu...

23.02.2025 20:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 39903    ๐Ÿ” 7035    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1714    ๐Ÿ“Œ 291
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Thousands in Midwestern GOP Districts Attend Sanders' First Stops on Tour to Fight Oligarchy | Common Dreams Senator Bernie Sanders is on a mission to fight oligarchy and empower the people. With a powerful message against Trumpism and billionaire influence, he's rallying Americans to stand up for democracy....

This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps.

www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

23.02.2025 16:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 90371    ๐Ÿ” 19756    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2854    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1490

Nukes and now this. What a fucking calamity.

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