I had to code and pronounce a time of death on a respiratory therapist colleague. There's a memorial plaque for her outside the emergency department to this day. I wrote and re-wrote my will. I will never forgive these ghouls trying to rewrite history and deny our experience.

Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d ago

RFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>

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Immigrant Held at Delaney Detention Center Has Died, Officials Say

The mayor of Newark identified the dead man as Edwin Lopez-Cornejo. The New Jersey center has been the focus of intense scrutiny for its treatment of detainees.

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I delivered all 3 of my kids at hospitals that no longer provide labor and delivery care. Maine has lost 10 birthing units in just the past decade. While I appreciate the challenges hospitals like Lincoln face, closing this unit would be devastating for patients, workers, and Midcoast communities.

Dozens rally in Portland ahead of MaineHealth board vote on closure of birthing unit in Damariscotta

MaineHealth says it's considering the closure because of staffing challenges and low birth rates.

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Every time a clinic closes in the U.S., patients lose access to care, but that’s not all: Whole communities lose their comprehensive care providers for future generations - because clinics are the training grounds for new providers.

Who Will Train the Next Generation of Abortion Providers?

Many medical and nursing schools do not teach abortion care; independent clinics do. They’re closing nationwide, creating a medical workforce crisis.

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Nearly 25,000 Americans across all 50 states are organizing to stop Trump’s plans to sabotage the midterms. We’re building the nationwide infrastructure that will have the capacity to respond to attacks on voting rights in every community.

This explains a lot: www.science.org/content/arti...

EXCLUSIVE: Congo’s Ebola epidemic started at least 4 months before it was detected

A remote mining town gripped by fear saw hundreds of suspected cases before the government declared an outbreak, report says

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Extreme heat is costing us hours of lost sleep

3 charts show how extreme heat is costing us hours of lost sleep

The U.S. has been pummeled with heat waves this summer. Here’s how hot overnight temperatures can get in the way of a good night’s rest—in three charts

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Josh Marshall: Our whole society today is filled with spectacles of total or near-total power. We see it with Big Tech. We see it with Trump. And here we see a case of the total power hitting a road block.

Why the Backlash Against Data Centers Is So Potent

We held an event Wednesday evening at a bar in Brooklyn, co-hosted...

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ICYMI: 5 ways data centers endanger their local communities and the country as a whole. theconversation.com/5-ways-data-....

5 ways data centers endanger their local communities and the country as a whole

Even as they create and enable expansive virtual worlds, data centers are physical buildings in real communities around the nation and the globe.

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Mad Men

At a national gathering of #Catholic community organizers doing planning around election integrity and protection. Doing lots of creative planning about maintaining and strengthening democratic processes. We will protect democracy. We will stand against authoritarianism.

Fauci dedicated his life to protecting public health. Smearing him for political gain is politics at its worst. Millions died in the pandemic; instead of focusing on preventing the next one, some Republicans are attacking an American hero who helped lead in a dark time. apnews.com/article/fauc...

Fauci repeatedly invokes the Fifth Amendment in a contentious Senate committee hearing

Dr. Anthony Fauci will face a contempt of Congress vote in a Senate committee next week after he invoked the Fifth Amendment in a hearing about his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Twin Piques? El-Sayed 2026 / Mamdani 2025

47 public polls — 20 from the 2026 Michigan Senate Democratic primary, 27 from the 2025 New York City mayoral race. Each one sourced, dated, and tiered.

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When Trump took office, he said day one he was bringing down costs. By ending the Medicare Part D subsidy, he's abandoning that promise and leaving 25 million Americans struggling to pay for the meds they need to survive, all so the GOP can cut taxes for the rich. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/b...

Trump Will End Subsidies for Medicare Drug Premiums

Millions of older Americans could pay more for their prescription drug coverage next year.

nytimes.com

Bernie Moreno is full of shit. "While Moreno describes his immigrant family as “lower middle class” and said they “came here with absolutely nothing,” a New York Times report in May detailed the Morenos’ powerful political and financial connections in Colombia...."

Bernie Moreno says he built his car dealer empire all on his own. The reality is more complicated.

His up-by-the-boostraps tale is central to his campaign pitch, but there's more to the story of the Ohio Senate candidate's rise.

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This is so great. "Of all the things I've done in politics, Iowa was my favorite thing. There was just a magic about regular folks showing up in gyms like this and just talking out how do we move our state and country forward?" #iowa #turek #obama

President Obama and Josh Turek play basketball

YouTube video by Josh Turek

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Good news that lawmakers are standing with Ukraine. AFT has worked with Ukrainians for several years, including humanitarian relief, delivering supplies to students and educators & working with international labor allies to fight for peace and democracy. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

Senators vote to advance Russia sanctions bill in Graham’s name

The procedural vote came just hours after the funeral of the bill’s main architect, Sen. Lindsey Graham.

politico.com

Despite pulling out of warehouse conversions, recent solicitation requests show that ICE is seeking facilities with room to hold up to 6,000 people across Colorado, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Washington state, and more detention sites around the world. prospect.org/2026/07/28/i...

ICE Finds New Ways to Expand Detention - The American Prospect

Community members in Louisiana packed a board meeting to protest a camp for women and children last week. Only half the board showed up, and one member slept through the meeting.

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This is a well-produced segment. I encourage you to watch so you can hear the noise for yourself. The professor of environmental health science that they interviewed called it an “unprecedented new noise source.”

Neighbors say noise from Michigan data center is 24/7 and upending their lives

One Michigan community has been experiencing the reality of a data center next door for a couple of years now, and they say the sound has changed their lives.

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Forced pregnancy - and therefore any abortion restriction - is reproductive violence - a specific, systemic form of gender-based violence. The UN has spoken.

Columnist Carrie N. Baker: A groundbreaking UN resolution calls forced pregnancy what it is: reproductive violence - Daily Hampshire Gazette

It took until July 7, 2026, for the world’s leading human rights body to call forcing someone to be pregnant — or forcing them not to be — what it is: reproductive violence. In a landmark resolution a...

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Should be a bigger story— “Alexandra Bravo, prosecutor investigating 🇺🇸 strikes on 3 Ecuadorian boats and survivor accounts of torture/kidnapping, shot dead… hitman on a black motorcycle opened fire… Bravo’s sister jumped to protect her, also killed…” www.dropsitenews.com/p/prosecutor...

After Emily Waldorf was denied care for a life-threatening miscarriage, her mother and stepfather, who considered themselves “pro-life,” were outraged: “If I took my dog to a vet and it had this problem, that dog would get better treatment.” (Published May)

She Faced a Life-Threatening Miscarriage. Under Arkansas’ Abortion Ban, Even Calls to the Governor’s Office Didn’t Help.

Her case shows how abortion bans have left hospital lawyers, not doctors, deciding who gets care — and how lawmakers and regulators have failed to change that.

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Only 23% of Iowa voters support efforts to weaken state animal welfare laws, according to a new poll. In the nation's top pork-producing state, voters oppose the proposal by nearly a 2-to-1 margin. www.thenewlede.org/2026/07/iowa...

Most Iowa voters oppose bid to override state animal welfare laws, poll shows

Voters in the key US farm state of Iowa overwhelmingly reject efforts to weaken state animal welfare laws, according to a new poll gauging sentiment on a key nationwide farm policy debate.

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55 former DOJ attorneys have filed an amicus brief in the Rhode Island Children's Hospital subpoena case arguing that the Trump administration is engaged in unlawful coercion and abuse of power in going after providers of gender affirming care. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"In October, a retiree emailed a DHS attorney to urge mercy for an asylum seeker. Then DHS subpoenaed his Google account and sent investigators to his home."

Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo@digitalwarrior.bsky.social · last wk.

2/ DHS calls it a subpoena for national security. What it actually got him: a demand for his Google login history, IP addresses, credit card numbers, and even his Social Security number, all triggered by one polite, four sentence email. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

its interesting how the people hoarding all our money for themselves are all like “in a few years the rest of you wont even need any money for retirement”

In my latest, I talk with @silkys13.bsky.social about the struggle against ICE. How are the government’s tactics shifting, and how must we respond? We also discuss the tremendous victory of fighting off the warehouse model for the regime’s concentration camps, and where the fight goes from here.

The Fight Against ICE Has Entered a New Phase

“This is a time to build on organizing on the ground and sustain it over time,” says Silky Shah

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How many more intelligence staffers will be axed? Acting spy chief says ODNI has made another round of cuts The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has shed hundreds of staff over the past 18 months under the Trump administration. federalnewsnetwork.com/intelligence...

Acting spy chief says ODNI has made another round of cuts | Federal News Network

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has shed hundreds of staff over the past 18 months under the Trump administration.

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I loved talking to organizers in Menomonie and across Wisconsin about how they're beating back data center proposals coming from shady development companies left and right. One told me, "Organizing swiftly and fiercely and relentlessly is the key.” ✊

One Wisconsin City Beat Back a Data Center. Now Residents Are Helping Others Do the Same.

When a secretive $1.6 billion data center proposal landed in Menomonie with almost no warning, residents had weeks to fight back. They won — and built a toolkit so other communities can, too.

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“They are demanding two months of unpaid salary as the death toll from the virus spikes to more than 1,400.” aje.news/clbtbv

Ebola response workers strike in DR Congo as death toll spikes

Healthcare workers at an Ebola treatment centre in Bunia, Democratic Republic of Congo, have gone on strike.

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