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dansinker.com
Yesterday I tried to put everything I knew about whistles—where to get them, where to get instruction sheets, how to distro—into one place so you can build off it for your own community's whistle needs: dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
November 22, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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ramirez.house.gov
Just so we are clear: ICE went into a day care center—a private business—without a judicial warrant, and unlawfully kidnapped a worker in front of parents and children.
VIDEO: Day care teacher detained by ICE agents on Chicago’s North Side
A day care teacher was taken into ICE custody Wednesday morning at the Rayito de Sol Spanish Immersion Early Learning Center in Chicago’s North Center neighborhood.
wgntv.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
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October 26, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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wyden.senate.gov
A screenshot of a bluesky post from Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) with a clip of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt saying “At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president’s main priority.”
October 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.
October 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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juliadoubleday.bsky.social
Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...
When Will the Lion Concern Himself
Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days
www.thegauntlet.news
October 5, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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juliadoubleday.bsky.social
People continue to call COVID advocates’ pleas for masking “unreasonable”.

Yet people who’ve already been disabled by COVID have no choice but to live with the “unreasonable” burdens of constant COVID safety.

My latest:
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Beyond all reason
Long COVID patients are constantly harangued about our requests for COVID safety. Yet what we're asking for is far less than what we're called on to do to survive.
substack.com
October 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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loscharlos.bsky.social
Not sure if anybody is doing it better than @juliadoubleday.bsky.social —Please read:

“when you shrug off the difficulty.. of practicing COVID safety.. you are casting that burden onto the shoulders of those who are already carrying more than you are. ”

Link: www.thegauntlet.news/p/beyond-all...?
Why not recognize: wow! What a difficult reality we’re creating for anyone who’s been harmed by the virus. That could be me next, since I’m getting reinfected in these bi-annual waves. Instead of complaining that disabled people are asking me to participate in normalizing COVID mitigations, why don’t I acknowledge the absurdity and severity and difficulty of this situation? Why don’t I participate in changing the culture before it’s my turn to suffer as others ignore me? Yes, it is difficult. It is burdensome. You could call it unreasonable! But when you shrug off the difficulty and burden of practicing COVID safety in the current climate, you are casting that burden onto the shoulders of those who are already carrying more than you are. Who can afford infections less than you can. Who in many cases have fewer resources than you do and almost certainly have fewer safe social outlets than you will.
October 15, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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caitlindeangelis.bsky.social
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago 31 A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo. The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview. “My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese. From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett. The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.
October 12, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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johnpavlovitz.bsky.social
BREAKING: Epstein victms are holding a press conference saying they will release all the names.

All networks covering except Fox News.
September 3, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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doggett.house.gov
One in five Texas children are going hungry, yet Republican Gov. Greg Abbott cruelly vetoed a bill to provide meals during the summer months.

An excellent op-ed from Lucy Coady on the harm this will cause.
Opinion: Gov. Abbott Stole Summer From Millions of Texas Kids
Summer EBT would have solved a critical gap for kids during the hungriest time of the year. Abbott vetoed funding it.
www.austinchronicle.com
July 15, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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smith.senate.gov
Just so we’re clear, he wants us to pay more for goods we get from Brazil because he wants to save a foreign political crony on trial for corruption.

Not seeing the “America First” mentality here…
July 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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nashishereforit.bsky.social
No one in the world can think this is a serious leader. He is a stain on humanity.
June 25, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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whipkclark.bsky.social
42 million Americans depend on SNAP to afford groceries.
 
Nearly 17 million are kids.
 
Trump is ready to take food off their plates while accepting a $400M luxury plane for himself.
May 15, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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rollingstone.com
Walmart, the largest retailer in the nation, has announced it is raising prices because of President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
Walmart Says It's Raising Prices Because of Trump's Tariffs
Walmart announced on Thursday that it is raising prices because of President Donald Trump's tariffs on China and other nations.
www.rollingstone.com
May 15, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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drewharwell.com
Trump pardoned the Jan. 6 rioters who injured more than 140 police officers in one of the biggest mass attacks on law enforcement in American history
whitehouse post: This White House will NEVER betray our law enforcement officers. Not now. Not ever. We stand with the brave men and women who risk everything to keep our communities safe. #NationalPoliceWeek
May 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
I went to college in this city. There is absolutely no reason whatsoever that these officers need to be geared up like this. It is a pure intimidation tactic.
May 15, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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allinwithchris.bsky.social
“It's not a partisan issue. It’s not an ideological issue. So who voted for this? I personally don't remember Donald Trump's campaign promise to cut breast cancer research and to make menopause harder for American women,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social.
April 24, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
Goldman devotes a report to foreign boycotts of US goods. 🇺🇸

“.. this headwind provides an additional reason why US GDP
growth will likely underperform consensus expectations in 2025.

“.. Foreign Sentiment Towards the US Has Declined Sharply”
April 1, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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indivisible.org
One of 2025’s most important elections is today.

Elon Musk has spent over $20 million to stop workers’ rights champion @crawfordforwi.bsky.social from securing the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s liberal majority through 2028.

It’s time to teach Musk that his money can’t buy everything.
(next to an image of Susan Crawford) (checkmark emoji) INDIVISIBLE ENDORSED SUSAN CRAWFORD (celebration emojis) FOR WISCONSIN SUPREME COURT!
April 1, 2025 at 12:53 PM
megafauna7.bsky.social
14 hours and counting!
booker.senate.gov Sen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov · Mar 31
I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
youtube.com
April 1, 2025 at 1:22 PM
megafauna7.bsky.social
Not the vacuum cleaner 🤣🤣 I love this so much.
kristenwixx.bsky.social Kristen Wixx @kristenwixx.bsky.social · Mar 26
The apprentice is now the master.
March 31, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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lizborkowski.bsky.social
NIH has rescinded its scientific integrity policy. Hard to see this as anything other than clearing the way for shoddy research on things like vaccines. Regardless of the rationale, it's bad news for public health.

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-25-080: Rescission of the Final Scientific Integrity Policy of the National Institutes of Health
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Rescission of the Final Scientific Integrity Policy of the National Institutes of Health NOT-OD-25-080. OD
grants.nih.gov
March 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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mollyjongfast.bsky.social
Another important thing from this article, @aoc.bsky.social makes the point @anacabrera.bsky.social made which is it’s not center vs left it’s team fight vs team cave
amandalitman.bsky.social Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · Mar 30
Message is important; so is messenger. @aoc.bsky.social gets it. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/o...
It is a question not only of message but of "the messenger," she offered. "I think the kind of candidates that maybe a couple of decades ago were once aspirational, like having the Harvard degree and the pedigree and an esteemed job after college," are in a more complicated position, she said. "The inequality in this country has gotten to a point where it now represents things that people resent that they can't ever have a chance at having." "I think that people need to see some of us who've actually made it from really tough backgrounds and have really seen some things in their lives and not just heard about things in their lives. Because it's visceral. To actually know what it's like to come home to an apartment and the lights are off, to actually know what it's like to not be able to afford a prescription, is something that can be really felt."
March 31, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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thesicktimes.org
The Trump administration is set to abolish the Office of Long COVID Research and Practice. The termination follows other steps that appear to target and erase federal responses to the Long COVID crisis.

Read more from @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social and @mileswgriffis.bsky.social: bit.ly/4l0RZIT
A police officer is grabbing a woman standing up to protest at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation hearing. She is wearing a KN95 mask and holding a cardboard sign reading, “Vaccines save lives, no RFK Jr.” The text reads, “The Sick Times. Trump administration set to abolish the Office of Long COVID Research and Practice. By Miles Griffis and Betsy Ladyzhets.” “Losing [the OLC] is a devastating blow—not just to the Long COVID community, but to public health as a whole,” said Karyn Bishof, founder and president of the COVID-19 Longhauler Advocacy Project, in a statement. “They were our strongest allies: deeply empathetic, mission-driven, and true partners in the fight to understand, address, and prevent Long COVID.”
March 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM