Sara B
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Human who is trying. Apologies to the person whose picture I stole for my profile. It was too beautiful and I don’t remember who you are.
We are at 8,894. Congressional staffers pull the weekly totals before they leave today. Crossing 9,000 sends pure panic through the offices pushing the Yosemite sell-off. Be one of the 106 to push us over: 👇 actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Yosemite Giveaway
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If you're able, please consider donating to help support the journalists McClatchy just laid off this week at: • The Charlotte Observer: gofund.me/78b29b46e • The News & Observer: gofund.me/1057d6a70
Equatorial Guinea is a dictatorship run by the same man since 1978, with his children running large portions of the state now. We paid this dictatorship millions of dollars to let us deport random people there. Our money was used for this inhumanity.
Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 12h agoAN URGENT EXCLUSIVE: Ahmed Soliman, the 30-year-old gay man ICE expelled in April to Equatorial Guinea, a country he has no ties to, was arrested this morning and cannot be located, his attorneys say. They fear he may be in one of EG's torture prisons. prospect.org/2026/09/11/i...
Biden checks his watch at a ceremony and Fox does nonstop segments on it for weeks. But Trump falls asleep repeatedly at the 9/11 ceremony and they won’t even show it. But national broadcast news networks won’t show it either because that would be impolite.
Trump's 250-foot arch is twice the size of the Arc de Triomphe, and is set to go up in the sightline of Arlington National Cemetery. Our lawsuit is still unresolved in court, but the Trump admin is breaking ground anyway. Sacred ground doesn't get a vote, apparently. #CorruptTrumpRegime
With more layoffs today in the five alarm fire that is the dissipating news industry, re-upping my story about a California bill sitting on Gov. Newsom’s desk that would create refundable tax credits for newsrooms that advocates describe as a lifeline www.latimes.com/california/s...
Bill to aid California newsrooms now on the governor's desk
Assembly Bill 2222 would create refundable tax credits for California local news organizations based on the number of journalists they employ, which in practice would provide direct cash infusions to ...
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A few days ago someone armed with multiple weapons attacked a Democratic gubernatorial candidate
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdaysomebody at the RNC yells death threats toward Abdul El-Sayed and Talarico as Cruz attacks them
trying to get people to understand that the trans women in sports debate isn’t really about sports but a meta narrative pushed by the right all about slowly getting all trans people out of public life is truly impossible
It is just objectively true that the biggest impact you a normal person can have is being a super-volunteer/mid-dollar donor for a state legislative candidate
Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · yesterdayyou know whats "funny" I know for a fact she's never encouraged people to get involved, the biggest impact you can have is to have been a valuable volunteer, fundraiser etc for a successful Democrat
🚨 BLANCHE Putting Trump’s personal defense lawyer in charge of the Epstein files isn’t an accident. It’s an active blackout. Demand Congress use subpoena power to pry them loose: 👇 actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Tell Congress: Demand AG Blanche release ALL of the Epstein files now
Contact Congress today!
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It might be time for a watch that doesn’t even tell time but just sits there on your wrist jamming wifi and cellular comms on any device within 100yards.
The Jimmy Kimmel interview with James Talarico will stream on YouTube but not air on ABC because the network is self-censoring during its fight with FCC. Which kinda looks like trying to steal an election.
Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview With James Talarico Heading to YouTube to Avoid FCC Hassle
The late-night host alluded to ongoing problems between ABC and the FCC as the reason for the decision to move the sit-down with the Texas Senate hopeful from broadcast television.
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In June, a National Guard Chinook helicopter airlifted a 4000 lb dinosaur out of Utah’s southern desert. Weeks later, Trump stripped monument status from the land where that dino had slept for millennia. Utah’s dinos are in Jurassic movies. They’re no longer in a national monument.
How Trump Unleashed an Existential Fight Over America's Dinosaurs
In Utah, Trump resurfaced a decades-long dispute over how to protect some of the country’s crown jewels.
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A blatant free speech violation from Trump’s criminal regime.
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 2d agoBREAKING: Jimmy Kimmel says his interview with Texas Senate candidate James Talarico will NOT air on ABC due to threats from Trump’s FCC. The interview will instead be posted to YouTube.
Spanish language media has it right. “‘Dividends’ that will never materialize”
20minutos@20minutos.es · 2d agoLa propuesta llega en plena disputa por el control del Congreso y recupera una fórmula que Trump ya planteó antes, con cheques y 'dividendos' que finalmente no llegaron a materializarse.
As we end another long day, Democracy Docket is tracking three cases in the Supreme Court that could affect the 2026 midterms: USPS mail-in ballot restrictions, Missouri redistricting, and DHS voter lists. My ask is simply this: Support Democracy Docket by subscribing now. demdock.com/4w6emld
Periodic reminder that your "concerns" about trans people are being beamed directly into your head by a small cadre of incredibly rich psychopaths.
Jessica Kant@jessdkant.bsky.social · 2d agoShout out to everyone who said it was just a temporary distraction and not a central organizing principle of modern fascism.
It's a cancer vaccine! A literal miracle made by many hands.
Roland Pierik@roleo.eurosky.social · 3d agoThe number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Forget planting trees for a second. Let's talk about BOGS. Did you know that peatlands cover a tiny 3% of Earth’s land, but store MORE CARBON than all the world's forests combined?They are an ultimate MVP of our climate system and it’s time we start hyping them. Join me! 🧵 1/
You don't say. I mean, who could have anticipated such an outcome. Besides: Literally everyone, including the venal beasts who overturned Roe.
Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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a lot of people believe that AI people do not legitimately believe in what they are saying, and that it is just marketing. it is not just marketing and they legitimately do believe what they are saying, and the people _departing_ labs, _pre-IPO_, in order to express their misgivings even more so.
rev. howard arson@theophite.bsky.social · 3d agoit's probably better to trust the experts on the topics of their expertise, except people who do machine learning, who have all gone insane
Sinclair has no business owning so many local stations. Local stations should be LOCAL.
404 Media@404media.co · 2d agoSinclair Broadcasting is pushing the idea that China and the No Kings protesters are the reason people don't like Flock.
1/ Authoritarianism does not need everyone to surrender. It only needs millions of worried people to keep postponing action until tomorrow. Today, we break that habit. Do one small thing before midnight and report back when it is done. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
In 2022, librarian Amanda Jones spoke out against book banning, which led to years of severe harassment that gained national attention Now she’s taking the far right group that instigated it all to court I spoke to her for @antigravitymag.bsky.social antigravitymagazine.com/feature/aman...
Amanda Jones and The Battle of the Bans - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
In 2022, Livingston Parish librarian Amanda Jones spoke out against book banning attempts in her parish’s library system, saying, “Censoring and relocating books and displays is harmful to our communi...
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Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter)@deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 2mo ago🚨UPDATE🚨 The leader of the far-right group I've written about a few times now, Citizens for a New Louisiana, now has to pay over $50K in legal fees to Louisiana librarian Amanda Jones. Pretty big deal. Screenshot via @librarianjones.com :