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@persisted2020.bsky.social
Bay Area. Animal lover 🐶 💯 support for democracy and my country. #NoKings 🇺🇸 #NoTraitors
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Calling them the “Seditious Six” & branding their statements “despicable” before review is textbook definition of prejudgment. No panel, judge, or reviewing authority can claim neutrality once the SECDEF declares the accused guilty. This looks like the procedures used in dictatorships, not the US.
November 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms
November 21, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Seeing an item just now in a financial newsletter noting that Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Mike Bloomberg, Nvidia and CEO Jensen Huang are all 5’7” reminded me of Asset-Adjusted Height — the concept we invented for this chart, part of a cover story in Spy’s issue #8 in 1987.
November 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Sudanese children - their parents dead or missing - are wandering alone through a burned desert strewn with bodies, desperately seeking help. Some are badly wounded; all are starving. Many saw parents killed; others just lost them in the chaos www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
In Darfur, Sudan’s lost children wander through a landscape of death
Around 200 unaccompanied children have arrived in the Sudanese town of Tewila after escaping El Fashir, where RSF fighters have carried out mass killings.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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November 17, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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This is real news. Reporters, please report on it.

ELEVEN former top FCC officials, Republican and Democratic, came together to condemn FCC Chairman Carr's abuses of power and efforts to suppress legal speech.

It's not just Jimmy Kimmel. The FCC's jawboning and chill on legal speech is ongoing.
Government has no business policing media for viewpoint bias or balance. The FCC must repeal its news distortion policy, urges a bipartisan group of 11 former FCC Chairs, Commissioners & other top officials in a petition we filed today with @protectdemocracy.org
protectdemocracy.org/work/fcc-new...
November 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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November 12, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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This is such an insane level of corruption. Why are DOJ officials meeting with her over this? To threaten her, or to offer her some sort of deal that gets her family out of level troubles in exchange for her withdrawal. These are the only 2 explanations.
November 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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So the national security leadership team of the United States is meeting to pressure a member of congress (even one who give hj’s in public) to suppress information about a teenage sex trafficking ring.

This is their priority. This is who they are. This is what American voted for.
November 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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The Dems who are caving are doing so not because their base wants them to,

not because the voters want them to,

not because the fed workers and SNAP recipients want them to…

they are caving because their DONORS want them to.

And that’s really all that ever matters to the corrupt
November 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Schumer (NY) 202 224-6542

Booker (NJ) 202 224-3224

King (ME) 202 224-5344

Hassan (NH) 202 224-3324

Durbin (IL) 202 224-2152

Ossoff (GA) 202 224-3521

Shaheen (NH) 202 224-2841

Gillibrand (NY) 202 224-4451

Masto (NV) 202 224-3542

Warner (VA) 202 224-2023
November 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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I'm hearing the same thing. Dems are nearing a surrender. I'm shocked. Largest protest in history + best election night in years + polling showing we're kicking their ass in public opinion. And now Dems may cave.

It ain't over til it's over, so please do call if you've got a Dem senator.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 9:10 PM
@nicollewallace.bsky.social and Deadline White House: listening to Vaughn Hillyard now on your show sane wash Trump sleeping in the Oval Office yesterday is beneath your show’s credibility.
November 7, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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The message from the Trump regime could not be any clearer:
If you do not obey, you will not eat.
If you go hungry, you are not worthy.

This is the logic of every dictator who starved his people into submission—the method to turn suffering into strategy.
www.mind-war.com/p/hunger-gam...
Hunger Games: From SNAP to Nigeria
How the Trump regime transformed starvation from crisis to strategy.
www.mind-war.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Read this thread. This is what @katmabu.bsky.social was protesting, and why she repeatedly says getting beaten up by ICE outside is nothing compared to the torture and crimes being committed inside Broadview. These thugs must be held to account.
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Saw This On TikTok...

Fitting!
November 7, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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The fascists are not inevitable. They're not unstoppable. They're not all powerful. They want you to think that, but millions turned out last month to call their bluff. And millions turned out today to claim our power. We will win.
November 5, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.
November 5, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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November 2, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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#TrumpTrainWreck
Congressman Joseph Neguse serving as the U.S. representative for Colorado's 2nd district put the Government Shutdown into perfect perspective. His statement here should resonate with American's from all walks of life.
November 2, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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This is outstanding. THAT’S a guy who should be speaking more out front for Democrats. Respectful, articulate and intelligent.
I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
October 31, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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New article! On the shutdown, a nation treated as prey, and the meaning of leverage: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-shutdown
October 28, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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The ACIP meeting planned for 22-23 October has been indefinitely postponed. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Threat to US vaccines as CDC staff supporting key advisory panel laid off
Critics say scientists ‘held hostage’ by RFK Jr as changes mean vaccine development and guidance in peril
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:18 PM