Ik Reads the News
@ikreadsthenews.bsky.social
Friend, ally, therapist, & mother, just catching up on yesterday's news.
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MSW, former therapist & case manager for ppl with mental illness in the criminal justice system
Mother of autistic young adult, chronic pain sufferer
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MSW, former therapist & case manager for ppl with mental illness in the criminal justice system
Mother of autistic young adult, chronic pain sufferer
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You heard— the West Coast is forming a health alliance to defend vaccines and save lives.
Florida’s big move? Eliminating vaccine mandates and calling it “freedom.”
📌 NOTE TO ALL: Deadly viruses don’t care about state lines.
Florida’s big move? Eliminating vaccine mandates and calling it “freedom.”
📌 NOTE TO ALL: Deadly viruses don’t care about state lines.
September 4, 2025 at 6:08 PM
You heard— the West Coast is forming a health alliance to defend vaccines and save lives.
Florida’s big move? Eliminating vaccine mandates and calling it “freedom.”
📌 NOTE TO ALL: Deadly viruses don’t care about state lines.
Florida’s big move? Eliminating vaccine mandates and calling it “freedom.”
📌 NOTE TO ALL: Deadly viruses don’t care about state lines.
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September 4, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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"American youth were 15 times more likely to die from firearms than children in other wealthy countries... The rise in firearm deaths — which became the leading cause of death among American children and youth in 2020 — reflects policy failures around gun safety."
Why Are More American Kids Dying Than Peers Abroad? CHOP Study Reveals Stark Reality
A major new JAMA study reveals that American children are dying at rates up to 80% higher than kids in other wealthy countries, with chronic illness, gun deaths, and mental health issues driving the c...
studyfinds.org
July 9, 2025 at 11:03 AM
"American youth were 15 times more likely to die from firearms than children in other wealthy countries... The rise in firearm deaths — which became the leading cause of death among American children and youth in 2020 — reflects policy failures around gun safety."
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NEW: MyPillowGuy Mike Lindell found liable for defamation for his statements about Dominion Voting Systems executive Eric Coomer. Federal jury orders Lindell to pay $2.3M, far less than the $62.7M requested by Coomer’s attorneys.
June 16, 2025 at 10:30 PM
NEW: MyPillowGuy Mike Lindell found liable for defamation for his statements about Dominion Voting Systems executive Eric Coomer. Federal jury orders Lindell to pay $2.3M, far less than the $62.7M requested by Coomer’s attorneys.
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Mike Lindell lost. And he’s thrilled. A final report on the MyPillow Guy’s election rigging defamation trial in Denver.
June 17, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Mike Lindell lost. And he’s thrilled. A final report on the MyPillow Guy’s election rigging defamation trial in Denver.
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Jurors are deliberating in MyPillowGuy Mike Lindell's election rigging defamation trial. They deliberated 2-3 hrs Friday then returned at 7am today. A reminder from last month on why I believe many in media and politics aren't talking about the trial, despite its stakes ⬇️
COMMENTARY: Claims of election rigging will be tested in a courtroom in Colorado next week. Here's why many journalists, Democrats, and Republicans aren't talking about it.
June 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Jurors are deliberating in MyPillowGuy Mike Lindell's election rigging defamation trial. They deliberated 2-3 hrs Friday then returned at 7am today. A reminder from last month on why I believe many in media and politics aren't talking about the trial, despite its stakes ⬇️
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This will be on the history books as the start of a dictatorship backed by the military.
BREAKING: Reuters has published video images of Marines carrying out the first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles
June 13, 2025 at 11:00 PM
This will be on the history books as the start of a dictatorship backed by the military.
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WATCH: Terry Vo speaks out against the ICE raids terrorizing Nashville immigrants
June 4, 2025 at 7:47 PM
WATCH: Terry Vo speaks out against the ICE raids terrorizing Nashville immigrants
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I’m officially running to be the Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee.
These are not normal times—and this cannot be a business-as-usual moment.
Read my full letter to my colleagues here:
crockett.house.gov/media/press-...
These are not normal times—and this cannot be a business-as-usual moment.
Read my full letter to my colleagues here:
crockett.house.gov/media/press-...
Rep. Jasmine Crockett Officially Announces Candidacy for Ranking Member of House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett officially announced that she is running to serve as Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
crockett.house.gov
June 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I’m officially running to be the Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee.
These are not normal times—and this cannot be a business-as-usual moment.
Read my full letter to my colleagues here:
crockett.house.gov/media/press-...
These are not normal times—and this cannot be a business-as-usual moment.
Read my full letter to my colleagues here:
crockett.house.gov/media/press-...
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COLORADO… My Pillow Guy Mike Lindell admitting in court he has no evidence the 2020 election was rigged…
June 3, 2025 at 6:59 PM
COLORADO… My Pillow Guy Mike Lindell admitting in court he has no evidence the 2020 election was rigged…
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42,500 deaths annually. That's the number projected by a Yale study on the loss of Medicaid coverage due to Trump's disgusting abomination bill.
June 3, 2025 at 7:29 PM
42,500 deaths annually. That's the number projected by a Yale study on the loss of Medicaid coverage due to Trump's disgusting abomination bill.
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PRO PUBLICA: Of the 238 men sent to an El Salvador mega prison, only 6 had prior violent crime convictions.
0 were on the gang member list.
130 had no criminal history.
32 had minor offenses.
All 238 thought they were being sent back to Venezuela. www.instagram.com/p/DKcjM7FPhz...
0 were on the gang member list.
130 had no criminal history.
32 had minor offenses.
All 238 thought they were being sent back to Venezuela. www.instagram.com/p/DKcjM7FPhz...
June 3, 2025 at 7:38 PM
PRO PUBLICA: Of the 238 men sent to an El Salvador mega prison, only 6 had prior violent crime convictions.
0 were on the gang member list.
130 had no criminal history.
32 had minor offenses.
All 238 thought they were being sent back to Venezuela. www.instagram.com/p/DKcjM7FPhz...
0 were on the gang member list.
130 had no criminal history.
32 had minor offenses.
All 238 thought they were being sent back to Venezuela. www.instagram.com/p/DKcjM7FPhz...
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Of course, it does.
Trump Administration Cancels Scores of Grants to Study Online Misinformation www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/b...
Trump Administration Cancels Scores of Grants to Study Online Misinformation www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/b...
Trump Administration Cancels Scores of Grants to Study Online Misinformation
www.nytimes.com
May 15, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Of course, it does.
Trump Administration Cancels Scores of Grants to Study Online Misinformation www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/b...
Trump Administration Cancels Scores of Grants to Study Online Misinformation www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/b...
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Joshua Lee Atwood, who was pardoned by Donald Trump, was in court last week for a "status hearing on charges connected with a stabbing at a Chester restaurant in April 2023."
Atwood is now the 9th pardoned Capitol Rioter to be arrested or face additional criminal charges since Trump's pardons. ⬇️
Atwood is now the 9th pardoned Capitol Rioter to be arrested or face additional criminal charges since Trump's pardons. ⬇️
March 5, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Joshua Lee Atwood, who was pardoned by Donald Trump, was in court last week for a "status hearing on charges connected with a stabbing at a Chester restaurant in April 2023."
Atwood is now the 9th pardoned Capitol Rioter to be arrested or face additional criminal charges since Trump's pardons. ⬇️
Atwood is now the 9th pardoned Capitol Rioter to be arrested or face additional criminal charges since Trump's pardons. ⬇️
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The DOD is gutting Minerva.
"Dozens of researchers with grants under the Minerva Research Initiative—studying violent extremism, disinformation, and threats from climate change, for example—have had their grants terminated" www.science.org/content/arti...
"Dozens of researchers with grants under the Minerva Research Initiative—studying violent extremism, disinformation, and threats from climate change, for example—have had their grants terminated" www.science.org/content/arti...
Pentagon guts national security program that harnessed social science
Dozens of U.S. academics lose grants from Minerva program for studies related to terrorism, drug trafficking, and other threats
www.science.org
March 3, 2025 at 4:03 AM
The DOD is gutting Minerva.
"Dozens of researchers with grants under the Minerva Research Initiative—studying violent extremism, disinformation, and threats from climate change, for example—have had their grants terminated" www.science.org/content/arti...
"Dozens of researchers with grants under the Minerva Research Initiative—studying violent extremism, disinformation, and threats from climate change, for example—have had their grants terminated" www.science.org/content/arti...
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Neo-Nazi group plots rebuild as Trump’s FBI chief takes helm, audio reveals
Exclusive: Terrorist group the Base appears defiant as new administration aims to deprioritize threat from far right: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Exclusive: Terrorist group the Base appears defiant as new administration aims to deprioritize threat from far right: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Neo-Nazi group plots rebuild as Trump’s FBI chief takes helm, audio reveals
Exclusive: Terrorist group the Base appears defiant as new administration aims to deprioritize threat from far right
www.theguardian.com
February 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Neo-Nazi group plots rebuild as Trump’s FBI chief takes helm, audio reveals
Exclusive: Terrorist group the Base appears defiant as new administration aims to deprioritize threat from far right: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Exclusive: Terrorist group the Base appears defiant as new administration aims to deprioritize threat from far right: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Ooo this is a good one ☺️
February 8, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Ooo this is a good one ☺️
Some believe the AntiChrist was installed yesterday. All I know is that today, hell is in the process of freezing over here in Florida.
January 22, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Some believe the AntiChrist was installed yesterday. All I know is that today, hell is in the process of freezing over here in Florida.
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Tina Peters gives an update from prison. She says:
-she has no freedom; she's in a small cell
-she can't connect with the other ladies because they did something to deserve their incarceration (presumably she did not)
-she has no freedom; she's in a small cell
-she can't connect with the other ladies because they did something to deserve their incarceration (presumably she did not)
January 11, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Tina Peters gives an update from prison. She says:
-she has no freedom; she's in a small cell
-she can't connect with the other ladies because they did something to deserve their incarceration (presumably she did not)
-she has no freedom; she's in a small cell
-she can't connect with the other ladies because they did something to deserve their incarceration (presumably she did not)
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FACT SHEET: Vice President Harris Announces Final Rule Removing Medical Debt from All Credit Reports
www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...
www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...
FACT SHEET: Vice President Harris Announces Final Rule Removing Medical Debt from All Credit Reports | The White House
Today’s final rule will remove $49 billion in unpaid medical bills from the credit reports of 15 million Americans. In addition, the Vice President is
www.whitehouse.gov
January 7, 2025 at 12:52 PM
FACT SHEET: Vice President Harris Announces Final Rule Removing Medical Debt from All Credit Reports
www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...
www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...
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In the two days since this segment, I’ve gotten at least a dozen messages & emails from parents or teachers telling about the awful things their girls have been experiencing or asking for copies of the resource for schools etc- and a handful of messages, all from men, asking to “talk” with me 1/
So pleased as always to talk with @lbarronlopez.bsky.social at @pbsnews.bsky.social tonight about rising misogyny & to have the chance to share @perilresearch.bsky.social & @splcenter.org’s new tool to understand & prevent gender- and sexuality-based bigotry:
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Researchers report stunning surge of misogyny in schools
It's been nearly three years since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and despite huge losses on both sides, there is no sign that Putin's war machine is letting up. Cotton is used to make g...
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December 12, 2024 at 8:38 PM
In the two days since this segment, I’ve gotten at least a dozen messages & emails from parents or teachers telling about the awful things their girls have been experiencing or asking for copies of the resource for schools etc- and a handful of messages, all from men, asking to “talk” with me 1/
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"For three years, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office produced its own crack cocaine, so it could sell it to people that deputies would then arrest for buying crack cocaine."
Broward Co. to vacate convictions for people who bought crack made by the Sheriff's Office
For three years, the Broward County Sheriff's Office produced its own crack cocaine, so it could sell it to people that deputies would then arrest.
cbs12.com
December 8, 2024 at 9:55 PM
"For three years, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office produced its own crack cocaine, so it could sell it to people that deputies would then arrest for buying crack cocaine."
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"Bad as the status quo might be, stranger times lie ahead that may make us long for today’s echo chambers. Soon, our bubbles will shrink further and further, until our digital worlds involve only ourselves."
AI Will Turn Our Lives into The Truman Show
Large language models can create muddled, misinformed multiverses
www.scientificamerican.com
December 9, 2024 at 3:09 PM
"Bad as the status quo might be, stranger times lie ahead that may make us long for today’s echo chambers. Soon, our bubbles will shrink further and further, until our digital worlds involve only ourselves."
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I’m still not watching or listening to the news. It’s been great to be honest.
So much room for activities!
So much room for activities!
December 2, 2024 at 1:32 PM
I’m still not watching or listening to the news. It’s been great to be honest.
So much room for activities!
So much room for activities!