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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 16h

When I was pregnant, I tried to eat well, stay healthy & protect myself from undue stress because the baby could be affected.

For this reason, ICE had a long time policy not to detain pregnant people.

But now they are detaining them, brutalizing them & denying medical attention.
#ICELawlessness

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Stephanie Brancaforte @expluma.bsky.social · 14h

As someone who worked in international human rights monitoring in places like Rwanda and Yemen, this is exactly the kind of thing that makes it into international reports about abusive security forces.

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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 1d

Not many people are talking about the children being harmed by #ICELawlessness but it's important to talk about.

What's happening to these kids is being paid for by our tax dollars.

We're paying for the torture of children.

I know this is beyond grim, but we must let people know about this!

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 1d

Two-thirds of California's power comes from clean energy.

For 9 in 10 days so far this year, we were 100% powered for some part of the day by clean energy.

The Golden State has become the world's fourth-largest economy because of our climate leadership, not in spite of it.

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Stephanie Brancaforte @expluma.bsky.social · 1d

Join our virtual call TODAY - Mon 8pm ET / 5PM PT to learn how to protect our kids and care workers! Unmarked cars, masked agents, and militarized cities are not what our kids should be facing on their way to school or at their child care centers. ✍: bit.ly/ice-OUT

🚨 Emergency Call: ICE Out of Child Care Centers & Schools! · National Domestic Workers Alliance C3

On November 5, ICE took a childcare worker from her workplace — in front of the children she dedicates her life to protecting. This is unacceptable. We all deserve to feel safe at home, at work, and i...

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Stephanie Brancaforte @expluma.bsky.social · 2d

Who will channel Shakespeare's ghost and come up with some appropriately creative profanity for our times?

Stephanie Brancaforte @expluma.bsky.social · 2d

This can be a "darkest before the dawn" situation - where people finally understand the need for universal, single-payer healthcare and insist their candidates represent them in this fight.
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Stephanie Brancaforte @expluma.bsky.social · 2d

Please go to hell, Chuck Schumer & all the Senate Ds who forgot why they are fighting and how to fight. Especially screw the hypocrites who wanted to vote yes on reopening but were "allowed" to vote no to preserve their image with voters.
Senate leadership is not a monarchy - now onto primaries.
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 3d

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

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Stephanie Brancaforte @expluma.bsky.social · 2d

**please protest the fossil fuel companies who have bankrolled them for decades, too. they have fucked us the most and the longest, pardon my French, in so many ways!!

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.

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Sean @stholeary.bsky.social · 8d

The fact a *single* Amazon full-time employee requires SNAP benefits should be a crime. The fact Amazon is the largest employer of SNAP recipients is a disgrace. Jeff Bezos shouldnt be that rich; he should be in jail.

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Stephanie Brancaforte @expluma.bsky.social · 3d

In case you were wondering what was up with Justice Jackson’s ruling on SNAP - www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-w...

190. SNAP WTF?

A very quick explainer on why Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next

www.stevevladeck.com

Stephanie Brancaforte @expluma.bsky.social · 4d

This MONDAY: ICE out of Child Care and Schools Emergency Call! Nov. 10th at 8pm ET, join us to hear how we can organize to protect our children and care workers/teachers! 👉: bit.ly/ice-OUT

🚨 Emergency Call: ICE Out of Child Care Centers & Schools! · National Domestic Workers Alliance C3

On November 5, ICE took a childcare worker from her workplace — in front of the children she dedicates her life to protecting. This is unacceptable. We all deserve to feel safe at home, at work, and i...

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 5d

1. In a major shadow docket ruling from the Supreme Court, the court has ruled against trans people's passports, giving a stay to the Trump administration.

The admin has previously indicated it intend to revoke some passports if it got this ruling.

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SCOTUS Rules Against Trans People's Passport Gender Markers In Shadow Docket Ruling

The administration has previously indicated it could revoke some trans people's passports if it got this ruling.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Stephanie Brancaforte @expluma.bsky.social · 5d

I'm canceling my Spotify subscription until the ICE ads are removed. Streaming hate is a choice and I refuse to fund it. #CancelSpotify app.sosha.ai/s/cSn2MRZI

Don’t Stream Fascism: Cancel Spotify

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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 6d

“How did you receive the foreigner? And did you receive him and welcome him or not?”

Pope Leo XIV challenges us to reflect on the moral cost of policies that target deeply-root immigrants and families.

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Stephanie Brancaforte @expluma.bsky.social · 6d

If you haven't already watched this, take 17 minutes to get a refresher on just why you hate Elon Musk so much - one of the big (and under-told) stories in the world right now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VJT...

We Went to the Town Elon Musk Is Poisoning

YouTube video by More Perfect Union

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Coalition Against the Trump Agenda @chicago-cata.bsky.social · 7d

Join us this Veterans Day, shoulder to shoulder with About Face and other allies against the US cycle of endless war, corporate war profiteering, and the militarization and occupation of our communities.

With the escalation of Trumps racist and reactionary agenda on the people, we must fight back!

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Stephanie Brancaforte @expluma.bsky.social · 8d

Citizen science is increasingly important when the corporates and government are in cahoots to keep people breathing toxins and eating mud - lailluminator.com/2025/11/02/c...

Citizen-led pollution monitoring persists in Louisiana, despite law that limits its use • Louisiana Illuminator

Communities around Louisiana are taking environmental data collection into their own hands — despite a law restricting how their findings can be used to enforce regulations.

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Stephanie Brancaforte @expluma.bsky.social · 8d

Proud of my colleagues at Public Citizen for doing this lifesaving work www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

The Monthslong Legal Battle to Save Foreign Aid

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Lara K. Mahal @glycocode.bsky.social · 9d

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 9d

When ChatGPT was asked to rate 40,000 résumés, it ranked the older male candidates as better quality than the younger female applicants.

Age and gender distortion in online media and large language models - Nature

Stereotypes of age-related gender bias are socially distorted, as evidenced by the age gap in the representations of women and men across various media and algorithms, despite no systematic age differ...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11d

Medicare for All would save $450B a year.

Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.

Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.

It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.

It’s about priorities.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 13d

notes on gatesnotes, in a thread

"A new way to look at the problem" - er, no, he's been running this line for DECADES

On the headline: you can absolutely guarantee anyone presenting themselves as telling tough, hard truths is about to deliver some self-aggrandising nonsense

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Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 12d

UPDATE: We obtained new records showing the FHFA may have misused federal investigative power for political gain – including when accessing mortgage data for Sen. Adam Schiff, Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook & NY AG Letitia James.

The American people deserve the FULL truth. We will get it.

Democracy Forward Obtains Records Regarding FHFA’s Politicized Investigations of Public Officials - Democracy Forward

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