marybethsullivan.bsky.social
@marybethsullivan.bsky.social
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Wonder if Elon could survive a week on the salary we make. While he burns through $8 million a day, the working class struggles—yet he paints us as the enemy.
February 18, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Revelations about the role Robert F. Kennedy Jr. played in a deadly measles outbreak in Samoa keep getting worse.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Once Pitched a Deadly Human Vaccine Experiment
Revelations about the role he played in a deadly measles outbreak in Samoa keep getting worse.
newrepublic.com
January 26, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Where the hell was this before the election
January 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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There is something so quintessentially American about millions of ordinary people potentially suffering from myriad public health crises because one rich old boy wanted to do a solid for his University of Virginia Law School roommate.

https://newrepublic.com/post/190669/sheldon-whitehouse-vote-rfk…
Sheldon Whitehouse May Do the Dumbest Thing (Vote to Confirm RFK Jr.)
Democrats, come get your boy!
newrepublic.com
January 24, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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New: The city of Hoboken—which is just nine miles from Newark where ICE conducted an illegal raid yesterday—just put out a statement affirming it will not comply with them and offering resources.

Mayor Ravi Bhalla is the son of immigrants.

Full text here: local.nixle.com/alert/113612...
January 24, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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their view is that high status jobs ought to belong to white men, who exist at the top of a natural hierarchy
January 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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In the 1930s, Victor Klemperer and others made the decision to bear witness, knowing that one day history would look in horror at what the Nazis were doing. Bearing witness today is vital. Eyes wide open as one govt agency after next is MAGAfied. Eyes wide open at what is happening in our names.
January 23, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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January 24, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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The folks obsessively posting about egg prices for the past few years have gone strangely quiet just as egg prices hit an all-time high.
January 23, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH**

* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
Egg prices are soaring again. Here’s why and what to expect
Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.
www.kcur.org
January 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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January 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Reddit has mobilised, all major subreddits are now banning links from twitter. Twitter is dying. A graveyard of incels crying about woke.
January 22, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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You cannot just EO the 14th Amendment away ending birthright citizenship.

Then again, the same amendment states an insurrectionist cannot become president.

How the fuck did we even get here.
January 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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No matter where you fall on the TikTok ban, the President undoing by “executive order” a law passed by Congress and upheld unanimously by the Supreme Court is an unconstitutional abuse of power.
January 19, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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January 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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“Meta’s tracking tools are embedded in millions of websites and apps, so you can’t escape the company’s surveillance just by avoiding or deleting Facebook and Instagram.”

#META $META

www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data
If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect ...
www.eff.org
January 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Trump hanging his supporters in DC out to dry in favor of an exclusive inauguration where only his inner circle and top donors can attend is the perfect metaphor for this administration and today’s GOP.
January 19, 2025 at 1:38 AM