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Meg Wood
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youranoncentral.bsky.social
Day 381 of nonstop protests in Georgia. The Russia backed Georgian Dream introduced a new law to curb unsanctioned protests.

Protestors continue to resist daily with no sign of stopping in the face of repression and tyranny. #3E
December 14, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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theguardian.com
Propagate, repot, swap: how to fill your home with houseplants on a budget
Propagate, repot, swap: how to fill your home with houseplants on a budget
From decorative plants to herbs and salad greens, choose the right variety to thrive in your indoor space
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November 5, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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debbie156a.bsky.social
You can’t afford groceries, but Trump needed a gold encrusted office.
You had your healthcare taken away, but Trump needed a gold encrusted office.
You cannot afford to buy a home, or pay your rent, but Trump needed a gold encrusted office.
See a ‘me, me, me’ ‘fvkk you’ pattern here?
#ProudBlue
August 24, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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theguardian.com
Women with Alzheimer’s have unusually low omega fatty acid levels, study finds
Women with Alzheimer’s have unusually low omega fatty acid levels, study finds
Analysis of blood samples finds women with the disease have 20% lower levels, a pattern not seen in men Women should ensure they are getting enough omega fatty acids in their diets according to researchers, who found unusually low levels of the compounds in female patients with Alzheimer’s disease. The advice follows an analysis of blood samples from Alzheimer’s patients and healthy individuals, which revealed levels of unsaturated fats, such as those containing omega fatty acids, were up to 20% lower in women with the disease. Continue reading...
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August 20, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
Five things to remember about war:
June 22, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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demwriter.bsky.social
To the National Guard: You are not alone. If you are given an order that violates the Constitution or asks you to act unlawfully against citizens, call 877-447-4487. There is support there! The GI Rights Hotline. Don't do something you can't live with.
June 8, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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indivisiblegconc.bsky.social
Use this resource guide to help protect Medicaid and pressure your Congressional reps to say NO to Medicaid cuts that will devastate this vital program! Thanks to Down Home NC for the guide!

#ncpol @downhomenc.bsky.social @thegcdp.bsky.social @jginthenc.bsky.social

docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Defend Medicaid Resource Guide / Down Home NC
Members of Congress to Target (US): Senator Thom Tillis - statewide Representative Hudson (9) - Alamance and counties to the south (map) Representative Murphy (3)- Pitt and counties to the east (map...
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May 8, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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alttaxpro.altgov.info
BEST thing I've seen today.
🔥🎶👏😂
April 23, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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altcdc.altgov.info
RFKJ is out there spouting lies and dehumanizing people with autism. We want to hear from you in your own words. For those on the autism spectrum or with family/friends on the spectrum: what do you wish the world knew about people with autism?
If you've met one person with autism, you've met one person with autism. -Stephen Shore
April 24, 2025 at 12:48 AM
wufpakmomma.bsky.social
Women's health issues are undervalued, understudied, and underfunded. We are not "mini" males...our bodies are different.
bubbaprog.xyz Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · Apr 23
Almost nobody is ok with it. But was it on your local news today? If not, nobody is going to know about it in order to not be OK with it.

Ppl oppose almost everything this administration is doing, when they’re told what those things are. But most people aren’t!
enirenberg.bsky.social Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · Apr 23
I don't get how anyone can possibly be okay with ending the WHI. This study has accrued decades of data from 42000 women and it is still going. It helps to address critical research gaps that have been allowed to go unfilled because of durable misogyny and provides invaluable insight into aging.
April 24, 2025 at 12:46 AM
wufpakmomma.bsky.social
Unbelievable.
April 22, 2025 at 1:29 AM
wufpakmomma.bsky.social
SignalGate
georgetakei.bsky.social George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Apr 21
Pete Hegseth, you in danger, girl. This is from your own former Pentagon spokesman.
A text excerpt reads: "That was just the beginning of the Month from Hell. The Wall Street Journal and other outlets reported that Hegseth 'brought his wife, a former Fox News producer, to two meetings with foreign military counterparts where sensitive information was discussed.' Next, the Pentagon set up a top-secret briefing by the Joint Chiefs of Staff on China for Elon Musk, who still has extensive business interests in China. After learning about it, the White House canceled that meeting. Then came the purges. And the news keeps coming. On Sunday night, The New York Times reported that Hegseth shared details about the Yemen strike in another Signal chat that included his wife and brother. There are very likely more shoes to drop in short order, with even bigger bombshell stories coming this week, key Pentagon reporters have been telling sources privately."
April 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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mcuban.bsky.social
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trump tariffs: DHL suspends high value US deliveries
The postal giant will stop shipping packages to American consumers after a rise in red tape at customs.
www.bbc.com
April 20, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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altcdc.altgov.info
🏥HHS ELIMINATIONS💀
We have created a list of all agency and program eliminations proposed in the HHS 2026 Budget.

Feds: Please let us know if you have any clarity to share.

The cuts are massive. Reach out if you would like a PDF or xlsx

@alt-hhs.altgov.info
@altfda.altgov.info
An image of all agency and program eliminations proposed for HHS. Reach out to altCDC for an accessible version or filterable PDF. The alt-text box does not fit all the text contained.
April 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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tdiliberto.bsky.social
This is a freaking mess. The regional climate centers are incredibly vital in helping communities use weather and climate data for so many specific regional needs.
zacklabe.com Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Apr 17
Oh no! Several of the Regional Climate Centers have had their funding lapse through DOC/NOAA. These institutes are critical for connecting weather and climate data and services to local communities across the United States.

Spread the word to drive attention and support!
Funding for the Regional Climate Center program lapsed on April 17, 2025 due to a suspension of federal funding from NOAA through the Department of Commerce. It is unknown if or when funding will resume. All data and services offered under the HPRCC contract, including this website, are unavailable. If there are particular products and services you rely upon, please fill out this form so we can identify products to prioritize for continuance. Unfortunately, some products will be discontinued indefinitely because of their association with the Regional Climate Center program. Support for all MRCC-hosted products and services is currently suspended as of April 17, 2025, due to a lapse in federal funding from the Department of Commerce through NOAA. Federal funding for the Regional Climate Center program lapsed on April 17, 2025. It is unknown when or if funding will resume, pending decisions by NOAA and the Department of Commerce. If there are particular products and services that you rely upon, please contact us at sercc@sercc.com or reach out to your federal representatives and communicate their value and why you need them.
April 17, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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youranoncentral.bsky.social
Musk’s DOGE involved in what appears to be a foreign espionage operation and data theft. They also have death threatened US federal whistleblowers and disabled security systems, deliberately allowing Russian IPs to access sensitive US federal government systems.

www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data The IT team met to discuss insider threats - namely, the DOGE engineers, whose activities it had little insight into or control over. "We had no idea what they did," he explained. Those conversations are reflected in his official disclosure. They eventually launched a formal breach investigation, according to the disclosure, and prepared a request for assistance from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). However, those efforts were disrupted without an explanation, Berulis said. That was deeply troubling to Berulis, who felt he needed help to try to get to the bottom of what happened and determine what new vulnerabilities might be exploited as a result. In the days after Berulis and his colleagues prepared a request for CISAs help investigating the breach, Berulis found a printed letter in an envelope taped to his door, which included threatening language, sensitive personal information and overhead pictures of him walking his dog, according to the cover letter attached to his official disclosure. It's unclear who sent it, but the letter made specific reference to his decision to report the breach. Law enforcement is investigating the letter. While investigating the data taken from the agency, Berulis tried to determine its ultimate destination. But whoever had exfiltrated it had disguised its destination too, according to the disclosure. DOGE staffers had permission to access the system, but removing data is another matter. Berulis says someone appeared to be doing something called DNS tunneling to prevent the data exfiltration from being detected. He came to that conclusion, outlined in his disclosure, after he saw a traffic spike in DNS requests parallel to the data being exfiltrated, a spike 1,000 times the normal number of requests. When someone uses this kind of technique, they set up a domain name that pings the target system with questions or queries. But they configure the compromised server so that it answers those DNS queries by sending out packets of data, allowing the attacker to steal information that has been broken down into smaller chunks. "We've seen Russian threat actors do things like this on U.S. government systems," said one threat intelligence researcher who requested anonymity because they weren't authorized to speak publicly by their employer. That analyst, who has extensive experience hunting nation-state-sponsored hackers, reviewed the whistleblower's technical claims. Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in, according to Berulis' disclosure. The attempts were "near real-time," according to the disclosure. Those attempts were blocked, but they were especially alarming. Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts - and the person had the correct username and password, according to Berulis. While it's possible the user was disguising their location, it's highly unlikely they'd appear to be coming from Russia if they wanted to avoid suspicion, cybersecurity experts interviewed by NPR explained. On their own, a few failed login attempts from a Russian IP address aren't a smoking gun, those cybersecurity experts interviewed by NPR said. But given the overall picture of activity, it's a concerning sign that foreign adversaries may already be searching for ways into government systems that DOGE engineers may have left exposed. "When you move fast and break stuff, the opportunity to ride the coattails of authorized access is ridiculously easy to achieve," said Handorf. What he means is that if DOGE engineers left access points to the network open, it would be very easy for spies or criminals to break in and steal data behind DOGE. He said he could also see foreign adversaries trying to recruit or pay DOGE team members for access to sensitive data. "It would not surprise me if DOGE is accidentally compromised."
April 16, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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hilaryagro.com
I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article
Headline: ICE came for their neighbor so these Tennesseans formed a human chain to protect him
April 16, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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joycewhitevance.bsky.social
Seriously? Because we were told they were going to deport violent criminals.
April 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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nywolforg.bsky.social
This is what a critically endangered Red Wolf looks like. If we work together, we can save them 🐺

nywolf.org
April 10, 2025 at 1:34 AM
wufpakmomma.bsky.social
Thank you!
altnps.bsky.social Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Apr 8
A win for truth and history: A National Park Service page(removed by Musk) on the Underground Railroad has been restored to prominently feature Harriet Tubman, after her image and quote were removed earlier this year. Now, her legacy as a fearless champion for freedom has rightfully been restored. ✊
April 8, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Two new *very exciting* #handsoff events came in today: American Samoa and Puerto Rico. Send them some love tonight, y'all.

And in case you hadn't zoomed out on the map, let me do it for you, because multiple cities in Portugal, France, the UK, the Netherlands, and Germany are showing up.
April 4, 2025 at 2:16 AM
wufpakmomma.bsky.social
NC voters, remember this. Remember #ThomTillis did NOT vote to get NC Veterans their jobs back. Actions have consequences. Vote him out.
duckworth.senate.gov Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · Mar 14
BREAKING: I just offered an amendment on the floor to give Veterans fired in the Trump-Musk layoffs their jobs back.

Every single Republican blocked it.

Shame on them for betraying our heroes.
April 3, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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altcdc.altgov.info
After cutting social security, we can’t imagine a more direct attack on senior citizens than this. Dementia is one of the biggest health challenges facing seniors (and their families) today.
deonandan.bsky.social Raywat Deonandan @deonandan.bsky.social · Apr 2
RFK Jr is cutting Alzheimer's research to the tune of $3.9 billion.

I can't state this more clearly. The fraction of the American population that is elderly and susceptible to dementia is large and growing fast. This is a critical population health crisis. It needs more attention, not less.
April 2, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Alert 🚨 Georgia voters!! www.ajc.com/politics/swe...
Sweeping cancellation of 455K voter registrations planned in Georgia
About 455,000 inactive Georgia voter registrations are scheduled for cancellation this summer. It will be the largest removal since Georgia set a national record in 2017.
www.ajc.com
March 25, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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alttaxpro.altgov.info
Mark your calendars - Green Wednesday!!

#CourageousIsContaigous
#SpreadTheColor
#SupportPublicHealth
altcdc.altgov.info Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · Mar 22
🚨ATTENTION PUBLIC HEALTH ALLIES!🚨

We have power together. To see our strength and build community, we ask that you wear something 💚green💚 to work on WEDNESDAY to show solidarity and readiness to defend public health.

Please spread the word!

#courageiscontagious #spreadthecolor
March 22, 2025 at 9:17 PM