Rena Leib
@renahelen.bsky.social
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Are you Visibility Brigade curious!? My friend made this video about our group. Go to VisibilityBrigade.com to find a group near you, or find tools to create one with your friends and neighbors!
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June 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Are you Visibility Brigade curious!? My friend made this video about our group. Go to VisibilityBrigade.com to find a group near you, or find tools to create one with your friends and neighbors!
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
@maddow.msnbc.com
@repdean.bsky.social
@visibilitybrigade.bsky.social
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
@maddow.msnbc.com
@repdean.bsky.social
@visibilitybrigade.bsky.social
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I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.
June 14, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.
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There’s obviously a lot going on right now, but the Speaker of the House calling for the Governor of California to be tortured seems like it should be a pretty big story.
June 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
There’s obviously a lot going on right now, but the Speaker of the House calling for the Governor of California to be tortured seems like it should be a pretty big story.
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I have written many healthcare stories, but never before have I written about my own health. I decided to do so after learning one of my drugs costs nearly $1,000 a pill and just 25 cents to make. What I found was an incredible story of discovery and exploitation. www.propublica.org/article/revl...
The Price of Remission
When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked ...
www.propublica.org
May 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I have written many healthcare stories, but never before have I written about my own health. I decided to do so after learning one of my drugs costs nearly $1,000 a pill and just 25 cents to make. What I found was an incredible story of discovery and exploitation. www.propublica.org/article/revl...
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Inside Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”: Judicial Silencing (Sec. 80121(h)). This might be the most authoritarian section in the entire 1,100+ page bill.
May 21, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Inside Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”: Judicial Silencing (Sec. 80121(h)). This might be the most authoritarian section in the entire 1,100+ page bill.
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Pope Francis’ Popemobile, “the very vehicle from which he waved and was close to millions of faithful all around the world, is being transformed into a mobile health unit for the children of Gaza.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
The Popemobile of Peace: Pope Francis’ final gift to Gaza - Vatican News
Pope Francis requests that his popemobile be turned into a health clinic for the children of Gaza.
www.vaticannews.va
May 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Pope Francis’ Popemobile, “the very vehicle from which he waved and was close to millions of faithful all around the world, is being transformed into a mobile health unit for the children of Gaza.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
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Soooooo many reasons why I continue to mask for prevention as well as care...
5.8+ million children in the US have #LongCOVID
#Covid2025
5.8+ million children in the US have #LongCOVID
#Covid2025
May 3, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Soooooo many reasons why I continue to mask for prevention as well as care...
5.8+ million children in the US have #LongCOVID
#Covid2025
5.8+ million children in the US have #LongCOVID
#Covid2025
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May Day is a day where we celebrate workers.
On this day, we mobilize with unions and grassroots organizations accords the country: We stand with Immigrants, we stand with workers. We stand united.
#50501movement #mayday #maydaystrong
On this day, we mobilize with unions and grassroots organizations accords the country: We stand with Immigrants, we stand with workers. We stand united.
#50501movement #mayday #maydaystrong
April 20, 2025 at 3:14 PM
May Day is a day where we celebrate workers.
On this day, we mobilize with unions and grassroots organizations accords the country: We stand with Immigrants, we stand with workers. We stand united.
#50501movement #mayday #maydaystrong
On this day, we mobilize with unions and grassroots organizations accords the country: We stand with Immigrants, we stand with workers. We stand united.
#50501movement #mayday #maydaystrong
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Israel targeted displaced Palestinians in a tent encampment in the Mawasi area of Khan Younis, designated for civilians. Eight children were burned alive and charred beyond recognition alongside six others.
mondoweiss.net/2025/04/we-s...
#Palestine #Israel
mondoweiss.net/2025/04/we-s...
#Palestine #Israel
‘We smelled the stench of burning human flesh’: Israel burns 8 children to death in Gaza ‘safe zone’
Israel targeted displaced Palestinians in a tent encampment in the Mawasi area of Khan Younis, designated for civilians. Eight children were burned alive and charred beyond recognition alongside six others.
mondoweiss.net
April 18, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Israel targeted displaced Palestinians in a tent encampment in the Mawasi area of Khan Younis, designated for civilians. Eight children were burned alive and charred beyond recognition alongside six others.
mondoweiss.net/2025/04/we-s...
#Palestine #Israel
mondoweiss.net/2025/04/we-s...
#Palestine #Israel
The Democrats must respond to Donald Trump, Elon Musk and their cronies. Tell them to convene an emergency meeting.
rootsaction.org/emergency-pe...
rootsaction.org/emergency-pe...
Emergency Petition to the Democratic National Committee
The Democrats must respond to Donald Trump, Elon Musk and their cronies. Tell them to convene an emergency meeting.
rootsaction.org
April 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The Democrats must respond to Donald Trump, Elon Musk and their cronies. Tell them to convene an emergency meeting.
rootsaction.org/emergency-pe...
rootsaction.org/emergency-pe...
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Request is for 13x the current annual custody budget. Not sure people are preparing for the scale of the domestic gulags this administration wants to build and how many more people will be snatched if this operation gets up and running.
this is a staggering amount of money to build camps—suggesting that building & running a gulag will be the primary function of the otherwise gutted Trump-state
in last fiscal yr: "D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE"
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...
in last fiscal yr: "D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE"
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...
Trump Administration Aims to Spend $45 Billion to Expand Immigrant Detention
A request for proposals for new detention facilities and other services would allow the government to expedite the contracting process and rapidly expand detention.
www.nytimes.com
April 8, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Request is for 13x the current annual custody budget. Not sure people are preparing for the scale of the domestic gulags this administration wants to build and how many more people will be snatched if this operation gets up and running.
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@sulliview.bsky.social writes that tamped down coverage of the nationwide demonstrations is a sign that the media "refs have been successfully worked," by a Trump administration that's painted a target on any outlet that doesn't toe the official line.
margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/big-protes...
margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/big-protes...
April 8, 2025 at 9:51 AM
@sulliview.bsky.social writes that tamped down coverage of the nationwide demonstrations is a sign that the media "refs have been successfully worked," by a Trump administration that's painted a target on any outlet that doesn't toe the official line.
margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/big-protes...
margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/big-protes...
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feels worth flagging that we've now had sustained disparate protest and One Big Day protest at or above the scale of 2017 so it might be time to drop the "public reaction to trump has been more muted in his second term" spiel
April 5, 2025 at 9:48 PM
feels worth flagging that we've now had sustained disparate protest and One Big Day protest at or above the scale of 2017 so it might be time to drop the "public reaction to trump has been more muted in his second term" spiel
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Trump, Musk, and Republicans in Congress thought the American people wouldn’t notice their Billionaire Tax Scam.
They were wrong. #HandsOff2025
They were wrong. #HandsOff2025
April 5, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Trump, Musk, and Republicans in Congress thought the American people wouldn’t notice their Billionaire Tax Scam.
They were wrong. #HandsOff2025
They were wrong. #HandsOff2025
ICE abducted a Tufts grad student last night in Somerville. Demonstration in her support today at 5:30 in Porterhouse Square.
March 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
ICE abducted a Tufts grad student last night in Somerville. Demonstration in her support today at 5:30 in Porterhouse Square.
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“More heat for using a group chat than for the bombing itself,” said Rep. Rashida Tlaib of the US’s airstrikes on Yemen which have reportedly killed dozens of civilians, with the US twice bombing a cancer hospital.
Tlaib: Democrats Rage Over Yemen Strike Leak, But Not at the Strike Itself
The US’s airstrikes on Yemen have reportedly killed dozens of civilians, with the US twice bombing a cancer hospital.
truthout.org
March 25, 2025 at 8:46 PM
“More heat for using a group chat than for the bombing itself,” said Rep. Rashida Tlaib of the US’s airstrikes on Yemen which have reportedly killed dozens of civilians, with the US twice bombing a cancer hospital.
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After repeatedly violating every single commitment under the ceasefire, Israel is now fully resuming the genocide of the already destroyed Gaza concentration camp.
The world is watching.
History will remember who stood on the sidelines of this unspeakable atrocity.
The world is watching.
History will remember who stood on the sidelines of this unspeakable atrocity.
March 18, 2025 at 1:01 AM
After repeatedly violating every single commitment under the ceasefire, Israel is now fully resuming the genocide of the already destroyed Gaza concentration camp.
The world is watching.
History will remember who stood on the sidelines of this unspeakable atrocity.
The world is watching.
History will remember who stood on the sidelines of this unspeakable atrocity.
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BREAKING: At least 100 Palestinians, including many children, have been killed in Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip as Israeli officials threaten a ground invasion, according to Reuters.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/191eo5
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/191eo5
March 18, 2025 at 2:30 AM
BREAKING: At least 100 Palestinians, including many children, have been killed in Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip as Israeli officials threaten a ground invasion, according to Reuters.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/191eo5
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/191eo5
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I could write up why there’s no constitutional problem with the President using an auto-pen to sign official documents—or I could just post the 30-page 2005 opinion by George W. Bush’s Office of Legal Counsel that explains why in lots of detail.
I choose the latter:
www.justice.gov/file/494411/...
I choose the latter:
www.justice.gov/file/494411/...
March 17, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I could write up why there’s no constitutional problem with the President using an auto-pen to sign official documents—or I could just post the 30-page 2005 opinion by George W. Bush’s Office of Legal Counsel that explains why in lots of detail.
I choose the latter:
www.justice.gov/file/494411/...
I choose the latter:
www.justice.gov/file/494411/...
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This elderly man showed up to support an anti-trans bill in my home state and then, because he had to wait hours to testify, he was stuck listening to queer folks rally against it
By the time it was his turn to speak, he'd changed his mind
Never doubt that speaking out can change hearts and minds
By the time it was his turn to speak, he'd changed his mind
Never doubt that speaking out can change hearts and minds
Wisconsin man who showed up to support an anti-trans bill does something amazing - Queerty
“I have a very little knowledge of gay people and things like that there…” “I have a very little knowledge of gay people and things like that there…”
www.queerty.com
March 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
This elderly man showed up to support an anti-trans bill in my home state and then, because he had to wait hours to testify, he was stuck listening to queer folks rally against it
By the time it was his turn to speak, he'd changed his mind
Never doubt that speaking out can change hearts and minds
By the time it was his turn to speak, he'd changed his mind
Never doubt that speaking out can change hearts and minds
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It would be absolutely inexcusable for any Senate Democrat to vote to advance the extreme MAGA spending bill.
Democrats cannot cave and give Trump more power to dismantle the federal government.
Call your senators now: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Or email: act.indivisible.org/sign/urge-de...
Democrats cannot cave and give Trump more power to dismantle the federal government.
Call your senators now: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Or email: act.indivisible.org/sign/urge-de...
March 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM
It would be absolutely inexcusable for any Senate Democrat to vote to advance the extreme MAGA spending bill.
Democrats cannot cave and give Trump more power to dismantle the federal government.
Call your senators now: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Or email: act.indivisible.org/sign/urge-de...
Democrats cannot cave and give Trump more power to dismantle the federal government.
Call your senators now: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Or email: act.indivisible.org/sign/urge-de...
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Ready made ad here for anyone who wants to primary schumer
Trump praises Schumer for promising to vote with Republicans on the CR
March 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Ready made ad here for anyone who wants to primary schumer