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NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

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@booker4ky.bsky.social Please run for McConnell’s seat in 2026.

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Why Trump’s water releases were dangerous for California’s levees

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This is a concentration camp. They are describing a concentration camp.

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We can’t run away from who we are. We have to be willing to face it head-on. To confront & change the culture & consciousness that created us. Revolutions are about escaping our problems. Reformation is about resolving our problems.

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NEW: At least 200 Afghan Americans in the U.S. military have relatives who applied for refugee status only to be blocked by Trump’s refugee ban. “We serve this country because it protected us, but now it is abandoning my sister,” said one soldier. By @lomikriel.bsky.social

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DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

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I fought to create the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for the same reason I’m fighting to defend it: big banks shouldn’t be able to cheat people.

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“It is not the case that America is retreating into splendid isolationism. No, we are still taking sides in world affairs. But now we are holding hands with the Russians and the Chinese and opposing the countries to which we have long-standing treaty obligations.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

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If RFK Jr. actually cared about medication safety he would have worked to empower the FDA. Instead he is gutting the FDA and proposing that untested therapies be available (sold - it all comes down to profiting off their positions of power) to the public with no protections in place.

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I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

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Looking forward to more deep insights from Politico. "Wait, there were *two* presidents named Roosevelt?" "Not many people know that RFK Jr isn't the first in his family to enter politics." "His name was Lincoln? Really? Like the tunnel?"

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Self-described libertarians cheering for Musk's DOGE and his constitutional violations are frustrated that their policy preferences haven't yet won out, and so see breaking the system's legal limits as the next step to getting them. But the end of constitutionalism won't produce libertopia.

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Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post would not run this ad. This is the power of oligarchy.

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This cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social is getting banned on Twitter. Because of course it is.

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RED STATES: Remember this when you’re on your own… Trump said: “If it was up to me … I’d end (FEMA) right now.” He wants your state to handle disasters alone—no federal help.

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Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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