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Alex Yates
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5calls.org
Maybe mention this on your calls today. HR 1 is *already* closing down hospitals.
www.klkntv.com/rural-southw...
Rural southwest Nebraska clinic closes, blaming expected Medicaid cuts
McCook-based Community Hospital said it is shutting down its clinic in Curtis, a town of about 900 people.
www.klkntv.com
July 3, 2025 at 3:44 PM
alext442.bsky.social
I love my library...
#booksky
July 3, 2025 at 10:51 PM
alext442.bsky.social
Are you kidding?
July 1, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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caffeinehusky.bsky.social
Murdered in ICE custody
nkalamb.bsky.social Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Jun 26
A 49 year old Canadian has died while in ICE custody.
ICE press release: Johnny Noviello, a 49 year old Canadian, has died in the custody of ICE. The cause of death is under investigation.
June 26, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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jamellebouie.net
very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867
A bad President, for instance, has the power to do what? What can he not do? If he wanted to revolutionize this government, he could easily do it with this ponderous power; it would be an auxiliary power. He could cry “havoc, and let slip the dogs of war,”29 and say to the conspirators: “I am with you. If you succeed, all is well. If you fail, I will interpose the shield of my pardon, and you are safe. If your property is taken away from you by Congress, I will pardon and restore your property. Go on and revolutionize the government; I will stand by you.” The bad man will say or might say this. I am not sure but we have got a man now who comes very near saying it. Let us have done with this pardoning power. We have had enough of this. Pardoning! How inexpressibly base have been the uses made by this power—this beneficent power. It has been that with which a treacherous President has trafficked. He has made it the means of securing adherents to himself instead of securing allegiance to the government.
June 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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nickyjames.bsky.social
So much truth. Lol

#booksky #books #booklover #bookaddict
June 4, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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triciamatthew.bsky.social
“Please, think about how long every hour feels to a third grader in a detention center.”
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Apr 5
Sackets Harbor, NY is so small that there’s one pre k-12 school with 475 students. Three of those students were disappeared by ICE.

Here is a statement published today by school principal Jaime Cook:
< Jaime Montana Cook is at Sackets Harbor Central School. 5h • Message from the Sackets Harbor Principal As the principal of these students, I need to speak plainly. Our three students who were taken by ICE were doing everything right. They had declared themselves to immigration judges, attended court on their assigned dates, and were following the legal process. They are not criminals. They have no ties to any criminal activity. They are loved in their classrooms. Their family has worked at the nearby "Old McDonald's" petting zoo and dairy farm for 15 years. They lived in a house on the same road as a home ICE had a warrant for. The fact that ICE went door to door is unfathomable. The fact that our students were handcuffed and put into the same van as the alleged criminal from down the street is unconscionable. When I think of my third grader's experience, my stomach twists and it is hard to breathe. We are in shock-and it is that shared shock that has unified our community in the call for our students' release. We are in direct communication with our students. Let me be clear: they are not "being medically evaluated." They are not being "questioned as potential victims." Calling a detention center by another name does not change what it is. We deserve better than spin and misinformation. My teachers and my students are already hurting. Please, think about how long every hour feels for a third grader in a detention center. The wait had already been too long a week ago. I have no other agenda. Please release my students and their mother back to our community. Jaime Cook Prek-12 Principal Sackets Harbor, NY
April 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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greene.haus
Wow. Mad respect to the Pasadena elders.
kenwhite.bsky.social 37 Dolls For Your Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · Apr 5
The dial-a-ride bus that services local elder homes just dropped off four ladies with canes and a walker
April 5, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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hallijayne.bsky.social
This time, give the idiot what he wants.
April 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
alext442.bsky.social
@drjoydegruy.bsky.social Got the book, already learning. Thank you again for your quick response to my inquiry. Everyone needs to read this...
April 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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March 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM
alext442.bsky.social
This was all but eradicated in 2010

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
Unvaccinated Child Dies of Measles in Texas, Officials Say
At least 124 cases of measles have been identified in Texas since late January, mostly among children and teenagers who are either unvaccinated or whose vaccination status is unknown, officials say.
www.nytimes.com
February 26, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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acyn.bsky.social
CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…
February 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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copperbae.bsky.social
I've worked really hard to get where I am today. Stuff like this makes me feel like my very existence and effort in getting here is a threat. Why do people want to erase my identity and path? Why do people want to erase my ability to help others? It is exhausting.
clarksvillenow.com/local/books-...
Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com
At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...
clarksvillenow.com
February 16, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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wcooperbooks.bsky.social
The war on ignorance is damn important. Thank you librarians.
January 6, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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demsinarray.bsky.social
Quick note to the people who decided not to support the most progressive, most effective president in any of our lifetimes, tossing him out like trash while re-electing an 80 year old felonious rapist racist:

Joe Biden no longer has to sacrifice a goddamn thing for you.

Including his son.
December 2, 2024 at 3:59 AM
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readerofbannedbook.bsky.social
November 26, 2024 at 6:11 PM