Anyone who has worked with domestic violence victims know the answer to this is too often yes.
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Just some random old guy who likes to vent every now and then. Have a bit of a bio and I'll follow back. 🚫 fascist 🚫racists. 🚫 porn 🚫 crypto. Also, 🚫Christian Nationalists, DMs okay as long as they are not etc. etc. 💙✌🏻🐶🌈🥍🙃🆒🚯🗿
I wish we had a government agency that could do that. 🙄 apple.news/AJrxHrJntR22...
Nurses chase Cyclospora using grocery receipts, food apps and detailed interviews — NPR
Public health nurses have been pulled from other duties in Washtenaw County, MI, to call hundreds of people sick with cyclosporiasis, and try to help them remember everything they ate in recent days.
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Don't worry. All of those people so disgruntled by immigrants taking jobs away will jump at these jobs immediately. 🙄 apple.news/Ao6v_k7FgQ-q...
Airports, nursing homes and schools brace for disruption without Haitian workers — The Washington Post
The Trump administration and courts are at odds over whether about 350,000 Haitians have officially lost humanitarian protections, but employers are already letting workers go.
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I dread what this will look like. 😬 #paywall Trump Claims Peace Board Has Plan for Gaza Disarmament www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...
Trump Claims Peace Board Has Plan for Gaza Disarmament
There was no immediate comment from Hamas or Israel, and officials gave few details on the plan.
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If they postpone the vote on Blanche, we might have time to learn what Judge Sullivan sees behind the Epstein redaction bars in the @katiephang.bsky.social lawsuit, or whether Blanche just defies the court order. We might also get the internal comms in the NYT subpoena case depending on the timing.
A protester interrupts by yelling "pedophile" as U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks during an event at the General Motors Milford Proving Ground in Milford, Michigan, U.S., July 27, 2026. REUTERS/Evan Vucci
"Vaccines are WOKE!" 🙄 Tell that to these people. "thousands of children born during the war had been unable to complete their vaccination schedules, while restrictions on importing new vaccine shipments had left the health sector unable to strengthen community immunity apple.news/AGikfBfvaTJS...
Chickenpox sweeps Gaza camps as thousands of cases emerge in two weeks — Euronews
Doctors say the real scale of the outbreak is likely far larger, as overcrowding makes isolation impossible, and families of six or more share tents of a few square metres. Thousands of children born ...
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This is what it has always been about! We need to alter the way we process information. This is not personal it is global! #SheShed #ViVaHerAlliance
WTF! As if the Iranians didn’t have enough leverage. “Hey, let’s announce that we are running low on weapons” 🙄 apple.news/A4MvZfOYWSwa...
Trump Pauses Iran Strikes as Officials Weigh Dwindling Air Defense Stocks — The Wall Street Journal
The U.S. held off on a major military campaign that could have lasted two weeks, officials said
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As everyone knows, the best humor is the kind you have to explain.
He’s mentally ill, and incompetent in every sense of the word. Almost everyone knows it, but few are willing to say it.
It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.
Mainers, I hope you realize you have a real political talent on your hands. Her name is Devon Murphy Anderson. “Maine deserves … someone who will protect our reproductive freedom, not Susan Collins, who strips it away with her words. No regrets."
This is Willie Nelson. He was found on the streets of Mexico severely anemic and missing one eye. He needs a blood transfusion, surgery to close the empty eye socket, and intensive treatment to save his vision. You can help him below ❤️🩹 1510.fan/willienelson...
A retired Air Force colonel named Matt Orlando just beat a sitting Republican for mayor of Chandler, Arizona. By 17 points. In a seat the GOP thought was safe. This is what the ground shifting looks like. 👇 www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/great-news...
Have you ever seen a tropical gasflame? 👀 This colorful critter is a nudibranch. Notice the tentacle-like structures on its body? They’re called cerata: Nudibranchs use them to store stinging cells from prey like jellyfish @AMNH #globalmuseum #museums #Marineanimals
The ignorance of Americans 30% of Americans think Canada is basically another U.S. state. Americans rarely follow Canadian news (70% never follow it) and 75% have never visited Canada, showing low familiarity overall. About 48% of Americans can correctly identify Ottawa as the capital of Canada.
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This week, I sat in a church on Staten Island and listened to 26 community leaders of different faiths discuss what their congregants need most from city government.
Report: Dozens of ICE and CBP agents have abused women and children 🤬 🤬 🤬 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Report: Dozens of ICE and CBP agents have abused women and children
David Brouillette, according to Ohio Immigrant Alliance, is no outlier.
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Carney: "I'm going to take this opportunity to thank President Scheinbaum and the Mexican people for sending 200 firefighters to help us with our fires here. That's what friends do when you have crisis and fires." #cdnpoli
NEW: James Talarico accused Ken Paxton of committing voter fraud after ProPublica and @texastribune.org found that the Texas attorney general may have broken state law by voting using an address where he no longer appears to live.
Ken Paxton Touts His Efforts to Fight Voter Fraud. His Senate Opponent Is Now Accusing Him of Committing It.
James Talarico’s comments come after ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found that the Texas attorney general may have broken state law by voting using an address where he no longer appears to live.
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