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Peds ER NP. Mom. Sloooow marathoner. Lefty (both in handedness and politics).
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bridgwells.bsky.social
This made me so mad that I called my rep, spoke to a human, told that human about this page (which she had not heard about yet, apparently). Just disgusted that there is no level to which they won’t sink.
elizaorlins.bsky.social Eliza Orlins @elizaorlins.bsky.social · Nov 3
I can’t believe this is real—but it is. The official White House website just launched a page called “MySafeSpace” mocking Democrats, featuring racist “jokes” about Hakeem Jeffries and others. This isn’t a campaign site. It’s a .gov domain paid for with your tax dollars.
youtube.com/shorts/ancDk...
White House releases MySpace parody calling Hakeem Jeffries temu Obama in Taxpayer-Funded Trolling
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November 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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elizaorlins.bsky.social
I can’t believe this is real—but it is. The official White House website just launched a page called “MySafeSpace” mocking Democrats, featuring racist “jokes” about Hakeem Jeffries and others. This isn’t a campaign site. It’s a .gov domain paid for with your tax dollars.
youtube.com/shorts/ancDk...
White House releases MySpace parody calling Hakeem Jeffries temu Obama in Taxpayer-Funded Trolling
YouTube video by Eliza Orlins
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November 3, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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schooley.bsky.social
He’s got to know people are noticing a pattern here. Right?
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Nov 3
RAJU: Last week you were very critical of Biden's use of the autopen. But Trump admitted on 60 Minutes to not knowing he pardoned a crypto billionaire who pleaded guilty to money laundering. Does that also concern you?

MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know anything about that. I didn't see it. I'm not sure.
November 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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atrupar.com
it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions

"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
November 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Remember, they're currently arguing that Biden's pardons are illegitimate because he signed the actual forms with an autopen.

Trump, meanwhile, repeatedly insists he knows nothing at all about one of his very controversial pardons. Never heard of the guy!

Sorta seems like a problem.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Nov 3
O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?

TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is

O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.

TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
November 3, 2025 at 1:05 AM
bridgwells.bsky.social
My 7yo: “mom, do you think boys are just regular humans and girls are like, upgraded humans?” 🤣😂
October 14, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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angryblacklady.blacksky.app
I need a cigarette after listening to this
luriedanielfavors.bsky.social Lurie Daniel Favors @luriedanielfavors.bsky.social · Sep 12
Yesterday, Adam from South Dakota called my SiriusXM show to say Charlie Kirk was unalived b/c people on the left use words like racism or facism to describe folks like Charlie.

That call did not end the way he thought it would.

#TrollSlay: Words Hold Power
youtu.be/BEcoVzaEOP4
#TrollSlay: Words Hold Power
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September 12, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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zacheverson.com
"Pediatric Brain Cancer Trial Group to Be Phased Out"

"A network of hospitals and cancer centers dedicated to early phase trials of novel treatments will no longer receive federal funding."

🎁🔗

Nina Agrawal for @nytimes.com
Pediatric Brain Cancer Trial Group to Be Phased Out
www.nytimes.com
August 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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tom.medsky.social
There's a new parenting style where you do the opposite of what the pediatrician recommends (co-sleeping, amber necklaces, no vaccines, etc) and I wonder what is even the point of seeing me if you have all the answers?
June 13, 2025 at 5:54 PM
bridgwells.bsky.social
By Matt Walsh’s logic, we should probably relitigate all of nazi Germany because those guys were just “standing beside their communities and families” too.
anthonymkreis.bsky.social Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · Jun 11
Counterpoint: Robert E. Lee was a treasonous loser who gladly slaughtered his fellow Americans in defense of slavery while being a mildly above average military tactician.

He should’ve been hanged in Lexington.
June 11, 2025 at 1:24 PM
bridgwells.bsky.social
LFG, Dr Andrews, you badass boss!
drannieandrews.com Annie Andrews, MD @drannieandrews.com · May 29
I'm Dr. Annie Andrews. I’m a pediatrician, not a politician. But either way I know how to handle people who are full of sh*t.

Today I am announcing my campaign for US Senate to replace Lindsey Graham. Share this if you're with me.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8wM...
Annie Andrews Launch Video: "Unafraid"
YouTube video by Annie Andrews
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May 29, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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myralevysf.bsky.social
Gift link to Gessen’s NYT pc www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/o...
Opinion | Beware: We Are Entering a New Phase of the Trump Era
www.nytimes.com
May 29, 2025 at 3:29 AM
bridgwells.bsky.social
This is so unbelievably fucked in so many ways.
gbbranstetter.bsky.social Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · May 14
"The family of a 30-year-old metro Atlanta mother and nurse said she was declared brain dead more than 90 days ago — but is still being kept alive because she’s pregnant...Her medical team is legally required [by Georgia's abortion ban] to maintain life support until the fetus reaches viability."
Family says woman declared brain dead but her pregnancy continues under state law
Adriana Smith's been on life support 90+ days with weeks to go in her pregnancy. Her family questions Georgia’s heartbeat law — and why they had no say in her care.
www.11alive.com
May 15, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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elmcitytree.blacksky.app
You mean to tell me that Chicago gets to claim Michael Jordan, the first Black President AND the first American Pope? Good lord you ain't going to be able to tell them NOTHING.
May 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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drandrealove.bsky.social
Which FDA-approved vaccines had randomized, placebo-controlled trials?

ALL OF THEM.

Polio?
Measles, mumps, rubella?
Haemophilus influenzae B?
Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis?
Meningococcus?
Varicella?
Pneumococcus?
Rotavirus?
RSV?
Hepatitis B?
Influenza?
HPV?
COVID-19?
Shingles?

YEP.

A thread🧵
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May 5, 2025 at 12:20 AM
bridgwells.bsky.social
I really do think RFK jr is going to end chronic disease. If everyone dies of acute illness, no one will live long enough to develop chronic disease. Problem solved.
May 2, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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emilymandel.bsky.social
“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
NYT headline: “Kennedy Advises New Parents to ‘Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines” Subheader: “In an interview with Dr. Phil, the health secretary offered false information about vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals.”
April 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
bridgwells.bsky.social
It’s hard to tell when images have been obviously and poorly manipulated when you have the brain power of a mushroom (no offense to fungi).
April 30, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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nytpitchbot.bsky.social
Women need to leave the workforce to devote themselves to producing children. We'll need them to replace all the Americans who are now dying from easily preventable diseases.

by J.D. Vance, Elon Musk, and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
April 28, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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April 26, 2025 at 8:07 PM
bridgwells.bsky.social
Why is it that fentanyl kills people but guns don’t? Seems to me that Republicans actually do understand how this works.
April 25, 2025 at 11:31 AM
bridgwells.bsky.social
Particularly, the first two paragraphs of the second image.
nycsouthpaw.bsky.social southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · Apr 17
This is a good Fourth Circuit opinion, and a worthwhile read. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
FILED: April 17, 2025 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 25-1404 (8:25-cv-00951-PX) KILMAR ARMANDO ABREGO GARCIA; JENNIFER STEFANIA VASQUEZ Sasque Sury, a minor, by and through his next friend and mother, Jennifer Plaintiffs - Appellees, KRISTI NOEM; TODD LYONS; KENNETH GENALO; NIKITA BAKER; PAMELA JO BONDI; MARCO RUBIO, Defendants - Appellants. ORDER WILKINSON, Circuit Judge, with whom KING and THACKER, Circuit Judges, join: Upon review of the government's motion, the court denies the motion for an emergency stay pending appeal and for a writ of mandamus. The relief the government is requesting is both extraordinary and premature. While we fully respect the Executive's robust assertion of its Article Il powers, we shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court's recent decision. It is difficult in some cases to get to the very heart of the matter. But in this case, it is not hard at all. The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order. Further, it claims in essence that because it has rid itself of custody that there is nothing that can be done. This should be shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear. The government asserts that Abrego Garcia is a terrorist and a member of MS-13. Perhaps, but perhaps not. Regardless, he is still entitled to due process. If the government is confident of its position, it should be assured that position will prevail in proceedings to terminate the withholding of removal order. See 8 C.F.R. § 208.24(f) (requiring that the government prove "by a preponderance of evidence" that the alien is no longer entitled to a withholding of removal). Moreover, the government has conceded that Abrego Garcia was wrongly or "mistakenly" deported. Why then should it not make what was wrong, right? The Supreme Court's decision remains, as always, our guidepost. That decision rightly requires the lower federal courts to give "due regard for the deference owed to the Executive Branch in the conduct of foreign affairs." Noem v. Abrego Garcia, No. 24A949, slip op. at 2 (U.S. Apr. 10, 2025); see also United States v. Curtiss-Wright Exp. Corp., 299 U.S. 304, 319 (1936). That would allow sensitive diplomatic negotiations to be removed from public view. It would recognize as well that the "facilitation" of Abrego Garcia's return leaves the Executive Branch with options in the execution to which the courts in 2 accordance with the Supreme Court's decision should extend a genuine deference. That decision struck a balance that does not permit lower courts to leave Article II by the wayside. The Supreme Court's decision does not, however, allow the government to do essentially nothing. It requires the government "to 'facilitate' Abrego Garcia's release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador." Abrego Garcia, supra, slip op. at 2. "Facilitate" is an active verb. It requires that steps be taken as the Supreme Court has made perfectly clear. See Abrego Garcia, supra, slip op. at 2 (*[T]he Government should be prepared to share what it can concerning the steps it has taken and the prospect of further steps."). The plain and active meaning of the word cannot be diluted by its constriction, as the government would have it, to a narrow term of art. We are not bound in this context by a definition crafted by an administrative agency and contained in a mere policy directive. Cf. Loper Bright Enters. v. Raimondo, 603 U.S. 369, 400 (2024); Christensen v. Harris Cnty., 529 U.S. 576, 587 (2000). Thus, the government's argument that all it must do is "remove any domestic barriers to [Abrego Garcia's] return," Mot. for Stay at 2, is not well taken in light of the Supreme Court's command that the government facilitate Abrego Garcia's release from custody in El Salvador. "Facilitation" does not permit the admittedly erroneous deportation of an individual to the one country's prisons that the withholding order forbids and, further, to do so in disregard of a court order that the government not so subtly spurns. "Facilitation" does not sanction the abrogation of habeas corpus through the transfer of custody to foreign detention centers in the manner attempted here. Allowing all this would "facilitate" foreign detention more than it would domestic return. It would reduce the rule of law to lawlessness and tarnish the very values for which Americans of diverse views and persuasions have always stood. The government is obviously frustrated and displeased with the rulings of the court. Let one thing be clear. Court rulings are not above criticism. Criticism keeps us on our toes and helps us do a better job. See Cooper v. Aaron, 358 U.S. 1, 24 (1958) (Frankfurter, J., concurring) (*Criticism need not be stilled. Active obstruction or defiance is barred."). Court rulings can overstep, and they can further intrude upon the prerogatives of other branches. Courts thus speak with the knowledge of their imperfections but also with a sense that they instill a fidelity to law that would be sorely missed in their absence. "Energy in the [E]xecutive" is much to be respected. FEDERALIST No. 70, at 423 (1789) (Alexander Hamilton) (Clinton Rossiter ed., 1961). It can rescue government from its lassitude and recalibrate imbalances too long left unexamined. The knowledge that executive energy is a perishable quality understandably breeds impatience with the courts. Courts, in turn, are frequently attuned to caution and are often uneasy with the Executive Branch's breakneck pace. And the differences do not end there. The Executive is inherently focused upon ends; the Judiciary much more so upon means. Ends are bestowed on the Executive by electoral outcomes. Means are entrusted to all of government, but most especially to the Judiciary by the Constitution itself. 4
April 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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joshtpm.bsky.social
You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.
April 7, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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internethippo.bsky.social
What you have to ask yourself about vaccines is: is the cure worse than the disease? It's not? Well you still have to ask yourself, until proven otherwise. It has been proven otherwise? You still have to wonder,
April 2, 2025 at 12:37 PM