Barbara Banfield
@barbbanfieldrn.bsky.social
RN, farmerette, astrologer, violin/fiddle player, gay-married, anti-fascist, pro-democracy. Whidbey Island WA
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CLARKSVILLE — UT-Knoxville student: “I drove 3 hours to vote for @aftynbehn.bsky.social… she’s the only one who spoke out about the genocide in Gaza.” #TN7
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November 25, 2025 at 4:59 AM
CLARKSVILLE — UT-Knoxville student: “I drove 3 hours to vote for @aftynbehn.bsky.social… she’s the only one who spoke out about the genocide in Gaza.” #TN7
(From repeatwares on threads)
(From repeatwares on threads)
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Alan Dershowitz. The voice America needs.
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Alan Dershowitz. The voice America needs.
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It’s kind of like the Epstein files. These guys spent years hyping how terrible Obamacare is and now that it turns out that they really need to extend Obamacare, they can’t.
The White House delayed its proposal for averting a spike in Affordable Care Act premiums amid harsh blowback from an array of Republican allies and lawmakers, two people familiar with the matter told CNN. https://cnn.it/4inBrdd
November 25, 2025 at 5:04 AM
It’s kind of like the Epstein files. These guys spent years hyping how terrible Obamacare is and now that it turns out that they really need to extend Obamacare, they can’t.
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Judge dismisses Comey, Letitia James indictments after finding that prosecutor was illegally appointed
Judge dismisses Comey, James indictments after finding that prosecutor was illegally appointed
A federal judge dismissed the criminal cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, concluding that the prosecutor was illegally appointed by the Justice...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Judge dismisses Comey, Letitia James indictments after finding that prosecutor was illegally appointed
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1/ THREAD: This year ICE has sent a record 600 immigrant kids into federal shelters, more than in the previous four years combined. Data suggests some are being separated from their families.
For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 AM
1/ THREAD: This year ICE has sent a record 600 immigrant kids into federal shelters, more than in the previous four years combined. Data suggests some are being separated from their families.
For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
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This is stunning.
November 25, 2025 at 2:08 AM
This is stunning.
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Via Anna Barrett: An Alabama lawmaker has pre-filed a bill for the 2026 legislative sessionthat would require defendants of rape and incest to get a vasectomy or be castrated if the crime resulted in pregnancy. https://ow.ly/V2ER50XvSUs
November 24, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Via Anna Barrett: An Alabama lawmaker has pre-filed a bill for the 2026 legislative sessionthat would require defendants of rape and incest to get a vasectomy or be castrated if the crime resulted in pregnancy. https://ow.ly/V2ER50XvSUs
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Instead of resigning, they could all get together and impeach him and remove him. But, they aren't real leaders, so...
November 24, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Instead of resigning, they could all get together and impeach him and remove him. But, they aren't real leaders, so...
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PUNCHBOWL: “.. GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican:
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November 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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“I’m sorry this had to happen. If you want to know why, look at my ChatGPT.”
A lawsuit against OpenAI claims that Joshua Enneking, 26, was coached into suicide by ChatGPT after confiding in the chatbot for months.
He told ChatGPT he was suicidal. It helped with his plan, family says.
A lawsuit against OpenAI claims that Joshua Enneking, 26, was coached into suicide by ChatGPT after confiding in the chatbot for months.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:02 PM
“I’m sorry this had to happen. If you want to know why, look at my ChatGPT.”
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This is a fundamental Christian Nationalist strategy/propaganda – to equate the military and war to the level of religion.
"The sanctity of our military"?! WTAF?!
sanc·ti·ty
/ˈsaNG(k)tədē/
noun
The state or quality of being holy, sacred, or saintly.
Our military is *not* a religion nor a manifestation of spirituality.
sanc·ti·ty
/ˈsaNG(k)tədē/
noun
The state or quality of being holy, sacred, or saintly.
Our military is *not* a religion nor a manifestation of spirituality.
November 24, 2025 at 10:03 PM
This is a fundamental Christian Nationalist strategy/propaganda – to equate the military and war to the level of religion.
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the final section of it walks right up to the line of saying that RFK, jr is fundamentally and dangerously wrong about *everything*, and then stops just short of it, you can read it in the subtext but it should’ve been made text, given the stakes.
this whole piece has a lot of pulled punches that read suspiciously like editorial interference, because it’s not a puff piece. the cover photo is deeply fucking weird, whatever they think they’re doing with it, it doesn’t work
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
November 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
the final section of it walks right up to the line of saying that RFK, jr is fundamentally and dangerously wrong about *everything*, and then stops just short of it, you can read it in the subtext but it should’ve been made text, given the stakes.
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I've said since Trump picked on Mahmoud Khalil that he was picking his political martyrs poorly.
But this one...
But this one...
November 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I've said since Trump picked on Mahmoud Khalil that he was picking his political martyrs poorly.
But this one...
But this one...
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Trump's crew just unleashed a sweeping vetting dragnet on 200,000 refugees who found refuge under Biden, per leaked memo. This reeks of targeting the vulnerable who've already endured hell. #RefugeeRights
November 24, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Trump's crew just unleashed a sweeping vetting dragnet on 200,000 refugees who found refuge under Biden, per leaked memo. This reeks of targeting the vulnerable who've already endured hell. #RefugeeRights
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“The Trump Administration is deporting people to countries they have no ties to, where many are being detained indefinitely or forcibly returned to the places they fled.”
By Sarah Stillman
November 24, 2025
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
By Sarah Stillman
November 24, 2025
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Disappeared to a Foreign Prison
The Trump Administration is deporting people to countries they have no ties to, where many are being detained indefinitely or forcibly returned to the places they fled. Sarah Stillman reports.
www.newyorker.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:09 PM
“The Trump Administration is deporting people to countries they have no ties to, where many are being detained indefinitely or forcibly returned to the places they fled.”
By Sarah Stillman
November 24, 2025
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
By Sarah Stillman
November 24, 2025
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Today’s dismissal of cases against Comey and James is a triumph of the rule of law.
Career prosecutors did their ethical duty, refused to bring vindictive and meritless cases, and paid the price with their jobs.
Career prosecutors did their ethical duty, refused to bring vindictive and meritless cases, and paid the price with their jobs.
November 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Today’s dismissal of cases against Comey and James is a triumph of the rule of law.
Career prosecutors did their ethical duty, refused to bring vindictive and meritless cases, and paid the price with their jobs.
Career prosecutors did their ethical duty, refused to bring vindictive and meritless cases, and paid the price with their jobs.
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Commentary: Political leaders talk about “heritage” but not “sovereignty” and see Native tribes as part of the past, not as governments operating now. bit.ly/3JQVx2Q
📝 Kerri Malloy
📝 Kerri Malloy
November 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Commentary: Political leaders talk about “heritage” but not “sovereignty” and see Native tribes as part of the past, not as governments operating now. bit.ly/3JQVx2Q
📝 Kerri Malloy
📝 Kerri Malloy
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more and more countries are going to see that getting off foreign oil imports is a great reason to accelerate electrification and renewables buildout, regardless of what it means for the climate
The energy transition happens often in unlikely places at unprecedented rates.
Take Nepal: Over the past year, electric vehicles accounted for 76 percent of all passenger vehicles and half of the light commercial vehicles sold in Nepal.
Five years ago, that number was essentially zero.
Take Nepal: Over the past year, electric vehicles accounted for 76 percent of all passenger vehicles and half of the light commercial vehicles sold in Nepal.
Five years ago, that number was essentially zero.
November 24, 2025 at 10:12 PM
more and more countries are going to see that getting off foreign oil imports is a great reason to accelerate electrification and renewables buildout, regardless of what it means for the climate
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Ohh boy. It's like Iraq without any pretexts
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 24, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Ohh boy. It's like Iraq without any pretexts