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Fannish type, seamstress, costumer and all around geek. #twinja
Fun fact: the Catholic church’s opposition to the death penalty is how we got the jury trial. It started in 1215!
Jack Jenkins@jackjenkins.me · 6h agoOne day after the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the National Association of Evangelicals came out against the Pentagon’s plan to livestream an execution, Pope Leo has published a tweet reiterating the Catholic Church’s opposition to the death penalty.
Really? Where, specifically? When, specifically?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 21h agoTrump: "You can no longer say, 'Hi mom.' It's, 'Hi gestating. I love you so much gestating.'"
Oh well if she's nice I guess a little corruption is okay.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayQ: Do you know about the reports about Kimberly Guilfoyle, your ambassador to Greece? TRUMP: I just heard about it. It's too bad. I mean, I don't know. She's an ambassador. I just heard a little bit about it. I don't know too much, but she always very nice.
Wonder what JD, the 3 day old Catholic thinks. OP is right. This is a HUGE deal to Catholics
Ash vs the Evil Dead@ashflanagan.bsky.social · 2d agoDenying Catholic priests the ability to administer sacraments to Catholic prisoners is objectively insanely offensive to Catholicism in a way that almost nothing else could be
NEW: The ICE agent seen wearing a hi-vis vest and waving around an AR-style rifle at the scene of the shooting in New York was a supervisor named Brenden Cuni, who has a history of alleged violence and lying in court. @dmehro.bsky.social, @awinston.bsky.social, and @regret.bsky.social report:
ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests
Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.
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Replace "Somalis" with "Jews" and you've got a Hitler speech. This man is a Nazi
Laura Bassett@lebassett.bsky.social · 2d agoTrump is desperately trying to incite a riot before the election so he can declare an emergency
The suit by Arlington County says the National Park Service completed only a “cursory” review of Trump's Arch project in violation of a law that requires federal agencies to carefully review the impacts of major projects and consider reasonable alternatives.
Northern Virginia county sues to block Trump from building his arch
Arlington County’s all-Democratic board argues that the planned 250-foot-tall arch needs more review.
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Ossoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle."
Trump planning a televised state murder spectacle? Charlie Kirk would be so proud. bsky.app/profile/bung...
Dan Murphy@bungdan.bsky.social · last yr.Charlie Kirk called for fast, televised public executions that children should be forced to watch as "an initiation." Way back in last year. www.yahoo.com/news/charlie...
The agent posed as a construction worker and fired multiple rounds into the car while there was a child inside. Now ICE is preventing lawmakers from talking to the victim in the hospital.
ICE Agent on Scene of NYC Shooting Was Posing as Construction Worker, Eyewitness Says
A member of Congress at the scene confirmed to The Intercept that there was a child in the victim’s car when ICE agents shot at it.
theintercept.com
We're maybe a week away from a Trump official shouting "White Power!" at one of these conferences.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoFCC Chair Andrew Ferguson touts the administration's work to "protect white American men from discrimination"
The Trump admin (specifically Russell Vought) violated the Impoundment Control Act when it decimated AHRQ last year, leaving $78M in Congressionally appropriated funds on the table. Vought did it again last month. As we look toward new leadership in 2027, we need accountability. impeachvought.com
Impeach Vought
We are current and former federal workers from across the government. We have witnessed first-hand the harm Russell Vought has inflicted on American communities. We are urging Congress to act now to p...
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Shande Farmisht@pjt1919.bsky.social · 3d agoHHS #AHRQ violated the ICA - POST the April 2025 RIF. @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social @firedbutfighting.bsky.social @elizabethginexi.bsky.social @leorahorwitzmd.bsky.social @jeremymberg.bsky.social
Just when you thought things couldn't get worse...
Katherine Eban@katherineeban.bsky.social · 3d agoSCOOP in @rollingstone.com 👇 CDC has set aside new $1.6M for controversial hepatitis B vax clinical trial in Guinea-Bissau, halted earlier amid uproar over medical ethics. CDC director's office resurrected it, taking $$ from global health security funds: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
gadgetreview.com
The President of the United States, in front of a crowd of his supporters, during a televised rally, admits to a Quid Pro Quo pardon, which is a felony and impeachable offence. And absolutely nothing will happen, because his party, which controls congress, are fascist collaborators and sycophants.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agomoments after saying he didn't expect anything in exchange for pardoning Cueller, Trump admits "I guess I expected maybe he wouldn't run or maybe he'd run as a Republican"
Notice how the headline frames Cuba as the potential lawbreaker: a ship is “intercepted” while “smuggling” oil into the country. What the headline obscures is that the U.S. is the one violating international law by imposing an oil blockade on Cuba and hijacking oil shipments bound for the island.
Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy was barred from entering a U.S. military base in Qatar. https://www.washingtonsun.com/congress/senate-chris-murphy-denied-entry-us-military-air-base-qatar-al-udeid
Sen. Chris Murphy Was Denied Entry to a U.S. Military Base in Qatar
The senator is currently on a congressional delegation trip to the Middle East.
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"archaeology, anthropology, and sociology, which typically make hundreds of new grants—distributed zero new awards."
Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 4d agoNEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:
Trump said that he only wears Brioni. He can’t even tell the truth about this.
You'd think that the Democratic party would be making hay over their opposition's biggest donor fighting to let his bot keep making revenge porn.
Reuters Legal@legal.reuters.com · last wk.Elon Musk's xAI on Friday persuaded a US federal appeals court to halt Minnesota's first-in-the-nation ban on AI-generated fake nude images as the technology and social media company pursues a lawsuit alleging that the law is unconstitutional.
A startup has proposed a nuclear-powered data center complex on more than 9,000 acres of federal land in Utah. This petition asks Congress to block data centers on public lands.
Block Data Centers on Federal Public Lands
Block any approval of data centers on federal public lands including Project Beehive, Valar Atomics’ proposal to industrialize more than 9,000 acres of…
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There are new and specific numbers in this story, so it’s worth reading. I continue to resent the lack of credit to Nick Schwellenbach at @pogo.org, Dan Friedman at @motherjones.com, and me, who have previously reported every other aspect of this story, including that the sale prices were very high.
A plague lab accident🧪, a football team mumps outbreak🏈, and a 5th measles death🪦. Here’s what you may have missed this week: 🦠 COVID waves in US, UK & Europe 🌊 Flu rising in Pacific states 🧠 HHV-7 linked to neuro-Long COVID Full Dr Ruth Report: buff.ly/i1LhWfm #medsky #nursesky
Dr. Ruth Report, 10/4/26
Flu arrives to Pacific states; COVID wave seen in US, England, and Europe; Neuro-Long COVID and HHV-7; a 5th Pennsylvania measles death; Plague lab accident in Siberia; and much more.
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