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newmexicanextexan.bsky.social @newmexicanextexan.bsky.social · 19h

The number of whooping cough cases in Texas is the highest it’s been in 11 years www.texastribune.org/2025/11/11/t...
Whooping cough can be fatal.
Vaccination prevents whooping cough.

Whooping cough cases in Texas reach an 11-year high

The state has recorded more than 3,500 cases of whooping cough so far this year, 10 times the number in 2023.

www.texastribune.org

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3h

Experts concerned over health effects of high-dose nicotine pouches as sales soar in UK

Teenagers reported nicotine rushes, sickness and fainting in recent research amid claims of ‘targeting younger age groups’

www.theguardian.com

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 16h

“For 18 months, China’s carbon emissions have been flat or falling as solar and wind displace coal and electric vehicles supplant gas-powered cars.”

e360.yale.edu/digest/china...

Graph showing China’s emissions have flatlined as renewables displace fossil fuels.

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Phil Mandelbaum @philmandelbaum.bsky.social · 16h

You ever travel? Well, when you book a flight through any major travel site, a data broker sells the government:

❌ Your name
❌ Your credit card
❌ Your destination

Here’s how to opt out…

How to Opt-Out of Airlines Selling Your Travel Data to the Government

The Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), owned by major U.S. airlines, collects billions of ticketing records and sells them to the government to be searched without a warrant. I managed to opt-out o...

www.404media.co

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thepulsedna.bsky.social @thepulsedna.bsky.social · 11h

Trigger Warning: Explicit details from #epstein victims in video. Truth is coming out!

#citizenjournalism #decentralizednews

CREDIT:

@thedlhughleyshow

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AnnieForTruth @anniefortruth1.bsky.social · 20h

It has never been America First! 😡

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 20h

“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Bari Weiss wants to take down ‘too much power’ CBS News Standards unit: sources

EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.

www.independent.co.uk

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Steve B @stevebasnett.bsky.social · 15h

I have come back from the future to tell you something important which you can't read or know yet.

Also, I want your clothes, your boots, and your motorsickle.

www.thenerve.news/p/bbc-tim-da...

The BBC is the biggest prize in the information war – and the right may be about to destroy it

The corporation is always under attack. But this time it has been sabotaged by conservative ideologues deep within its heart. Is it time for the culture secretary to step in? By Dorian Lynskey

www.thenerve.news

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Sen. Danica Roem @pwcdanica.bsky.social · 22h

"...the sales tax exemption for data centers accounted for $2.73 billion of the tax savings..."

A multi-trillion-dollar industry doesn't need our tax dollars to incentivize it to do $#!+. That's money we need to fix roads and feed kids, not subsidize corporate greed.
richmond.com/news/state-r...

State spending outpaces inflation, watchdog agency finds

Increases in state spending increases outpaced inflation over the past decade and accelerated during the past four fiscal years, a report from a legislative watchdog agency said.

richmond.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

TRUMP: You have to bring in talent

INGRAHAM: Well, we have plenty of talented people in America

TRUMP: No you don't. No.

INGRAHAM: We don't have talented people here?

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12h

NEWS via WSJ: Fannie Mae watchdogs were investigating whether Trump appointee Bill Pulte improperly accessed mortgage records of key Democrats, including NY AG Letitia James, before being fired or forced out.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h

🔥 @RepJoeNeguse: “Most of 🇺🇸 will find this REPUGNANT. These senators are guaranteeing themselves million-dollar paydays.”

Bipartisan horror at @SenatorHagerty & @MarshaBlackburn’s greedy money grab snuck inside the funding bill— rewarding themselves for getting investigated.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 5h

November 11, 2025

In 1918, at the end of four years of World War I’s devastation, leaders negotiated for the guns in Europe to fall silent once and for all on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month...

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 5h

A Post investigation found that Chinese manufacturers are shipping large amounts of chemicals that can be used in producing synthetic drugs to lawless parts of Southeast Asia, where criminal gangs have been trafficking record levels of meth.

China’s chemical exports are behind a ‘tsunami’ of meth flooding Asia

Chinese manufacturers are shipping meth precursor chemicals to warlords in Myanmar, precipitating a drug crisis across the Asia-Pacific, a Post investigation finds.

www.washingtonpost.com

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SMART Elections @smartelections.bsky.social · 3h

Major discovery revelations in the #RocklandCounty NY lawsuit challenging the results of the 2024 election as we await the judge's decision on whether to allow the request for a full hand recount to move forward, or whether to dismiss the case. The county has fought the recount and we wonder why?

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Politico @politico.com · 4h

Venezuelans deported from the US to El Salvador were tortured, advocacy group alleges

The accusations contradict the Trump administration’s insistence that deportees were not being mistreated in El Salvador.

dlvr.it

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GBardel @bardel.bsky.social · 7h

Abrego Garcia should sue the US government for taking retaliatory action and violating his due process protections. He represents all of us - regardless of citizen or non-citizen status - no one deserves this sort of ongoing selective and vindictive prosecution.

apnews.com/article/kilm...

After mistaken deportation, US asks judge to let it send Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia

U.S. government attorneys say they have cleared all the hurdles needed to send Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia.

apnews.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16h

My alma mater did something ... good?

WUNC News @wunc.org · 1d

UNC-Chapel Hill's chancellor says the university will not sign on to a higher education compact from the Trump administration.

www.wunc.org/education/20...

After faculty raise concerns, UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor says university will not sign Trump's higher ed compact

Lee Roberts called the "preferential treatment" proposal a clear infringement on academic freedom.

www.wunc.org

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longreach.bsky.social @longreach.bsky.social · 16h

Senate Majority Leader Thune (R-Veryverysmallredstate) inserted into the funding bill a provision that senators can sue for up to $500,000 if DoJ seizes their phone records. He also promised a vote on the ACA. In December. Love to see his phone records.

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Master Elrond [he/him] @inuyasha1953.bsky.social · 8h

occupydemocrats

🚨BREAKING: MAGA MELTDOWN as Christine Pelosi — daughter of Trump’s fiercest enemy, Nancy Pelosi — announces she’s running for California State Senate to FIGHT for the people! 💥🇺🇸

The GOP thought they were done with the Pelosis… but they just got a sequel they weren’t ready for. 🎬

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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 22h

abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

WWII nurses who dodged bullets deserve Congressional honor, lawmakers say

A coalition of retired military nurses and others is pushing to award the Congressional Gold Medal to World War II nurses

abcnews.go.com

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KNinja @khrisnin.bsky.social · 4h

Yassamin Ansari is racking up some good fighting points. The table in front of Johnson’s office, and now this. Keep saying it like it is.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21h

what's the foundation for this article

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21h

“.. If you add more and more product to your face and are surrounded by people who do the same, ‘you lose sight of anatomic normalcy.’”

@axios.com #Panem
www.axios.com/local/washin...

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Tesla Takedown UK @teslatakedownuk.bsky.social · 15h

Hard to believe that some nob tried to import a CyberYuck to the UK earlier this year.

"..legitimate concerns exist around the safety of other road users or pedestrians if they were involved in a collision with a Cybertruck," police said."

#TeslaTakedown

www.businessinsider.com/tesla-cybert...

Police seized a Tesla Cybertruck being driven illegally in the UK

Tesla's Cybertruck is not permitted on British roads and police said there were "legitimate concerns" for the safety of other road users.

www.businessinsider.com

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 9h

A troubling video circulating on X has put a California dentist, Dr. Harleen Grewal, who runs her practice in Santa Clarita under fire after she openly bragged about giving inferior care to patients who aren’t Trump supporters. belib.org/MAGA-dentist

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