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@KeepItBlueDems.bsky.social
about 13 hours ago
A Thoughtful Child Could Spot the Problem With the Supreme Court’s Sloppy Pro-Gerrymandering Decision
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A Thoughtful Child Could Spot the Problem With the Supreme Court’s Sloppy Pro-Gerrymandering Decision
The shadow docket order in the Texas redistricting case provides state lawmakers with step-by-step instructions for drawing discriminatory maps without having to worry about judicial review.
https://open.substack.com/pub/ballsandstrikes/p/a-thoughtful-child-could-spot-the?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
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So gratuitously and pointlessly spiteful and petty.
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AFP News Agency
2 days ago
New Zealand police have recovered a diamond-encrusted green Faberge egg after keeping a six-day watch over the thief accused of swallowing it
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US supreme court approves redrawn Texas congressional maps
Major win for Trump as majority rejects lower-court ruling that found maps had been racially gerrymandered
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/04/us-supreme-court-texas-congressional-maps?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
2 days ago
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Agreeing to release the epstein files is not the same as releasing the epstein files
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A Kansas town chose cruelty. Now it mourns as the mayor faces voter fraud charge and deportation.
kansasreflector.com/2025/12/01/a...
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A Kansas town chose cruelty. Now it mourns as the mayor faces voter fraud charge and deportation. • Kansas Reflector
Coldwater residents have learned a valuable lesson after their mayor was charged with voter fraud: Actions have consequences.
https://kansasreflector.com/2025/12/01/a-kansas-town-chose-cruelty-now-it-mourns-as-the-mayor-faces-voter-fraud-charge-and-deportation/
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M.L.Farrier
7 days ago
How long before "rules" allowing selling of organs is rushed through, seller's market. Already have rich muppets paying for "young" "healthy" blood transfusions, next it'll be organs. What the feck timeline are we living in?
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Charles Keener
6 days ago
www.commondreams.org/opinion/sist...
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Why We Must Save the 'Sistine Chapel of the New Deal' From Trump Destruction | Common Dreams
It is a tragic irony that murals meant to represent the contract between the government and its citizens—the Social Security that over 70 million Americans rely on today—would be sold to the highest b...
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/sistine-chapel-of-the-new-deal
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TK
10 days ago
“So when you ask what makes us the greatest country in the world, I don't know what the fuck you're talking about?!?Yosemite!?!”
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The Newsroom - America is not the greatest country in the world anymore...(Restricted language)
YouTube video by tpratt441
https://youtu.be/wTjMqda19wk?si=TIAukygijaxL0lcB
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Paul Eric Scannell
10 days ago
Occupy Democrats BREAKING: Trump’s State Department just declared abortion, DEI, and LGBTQ+ rights “human rights violations” — and the world is stunned. In a jaw-dropping escalation of the Trump administration’s war on basic freedoms, the State Department has quietly rewritten the definition
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If Epstein’s survivors don’t receive justice that is a ticking time bomb | V (formerly Eve Ensler)
Millions of sexual violent survivors will not live a day longer with this torturous injustice
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/26/epstein-victims-justice?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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The Bulwark
12 days ago
"The question isn’t whether Democrats can make edgier jokes, but whether they can tell a more compelling story about who they are and what they’re fighting for—without setting their values on fire along the way. Is that really so much to ask?"
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Why Are Democrats Teasing Homophobia in New Attacks on MAGA?
The strategy demeans an important constituency of the party without providing an obvious political gain.
https://lnk.thebulwark.com/4p5YcFc
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The Tennessee Holler
14 days ago
Genius
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Haven't heard much about doge lately, but so far as I know, those kids are still in there, being paid big bucks to fuck things up.
15 days ago
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People who are smart read; people who read are smart
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Worst appeasement plan since 1938. Please don't let trump sell out Ukraine and Europe
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Tech should help us be creative. AI rips our creativity away | Dave Schilling
AI-generated songs are topping Spotify charts. This isn’t about the ‘democratization’ of art – it’s about scale
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/21/tech-ai-creativity?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Crossfire Hurricane Antifa Operative
17 days ago
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Enjoy this free article. So many people here on Bluesky seem mortally offended by the idea of free busses 🚌 😂.
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Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/climate/iowa-city-free-buses.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2k8.SlQl.AjQbQmYixWBx&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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International Society of Blood Transfusion
17 days ago
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#VoxSanguinis
: Analysis of haemovigilance reports reveals 12.5% of acute haemolytic transfusion reactions are attributed to antibodies to low-incidence antigens 🔗 Read the article here:
doi.org/10.1111/vox....
#TransfusionMedicine
#ISBT
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Analysis of haemovigilance reports reveals 12.5% of acute haemolytic transfusion reactions are attributed to antibodies to low‐incidence antigens
Background and Objectives Many transfusion centres no longer perform an antiglobulin crossmatch on patients without clinically significant red cell alloantibodies, but instead use an abbreviated cro...
https://doi.org/10.1111/vox.70068
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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽
18 days ago
Oh my. James Talarico is incredibly skilled in dismantling Christian Nationalists. Get this man in the Senate.
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Vince Mpls
17 days ago
#OnThisDay
Nov 20, 1979: The first artificial blood transfusion in the United States takes place at University of Minnesota Hospital in Minneapolis. A perfluorocarbon solution "Fluosol-DA" is given to a Jehovah's Witness who had refused a standard blood transfusion. The procedure is successful.
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Give It Up, Folks: Donald Trump Will Escape Justice for Epstein Too
newrepublic.com/article/2033...
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Give It Up, Folks: Donald Trump Will Escape Justice for Epstein Too
If he’s guilty of anything here, Trump will use the same tactics he’s always used. And, as they always have—they’ll work.
https://newrepublic.com/article/203379/trump-escape-justice-epstein-files
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Jon Cooper
17 days ago
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
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Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious
https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/border-patrol-monitoring-us-drivers-detaining-suspicious-travel-127699704
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400 Arrested By ICE In Chicago To Be Released Friday, But Feds' 'Risk' List Remains Murky
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/19/4...
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400 Arrested By ICE In Chicago To Be Released Friday, But Feds' 'Risk' List Remains Murky
A judge denied the Department of Homeland Security's bid to delay releases, saying ICE failed to justify detentions or show it would win on appeal. Questions remain around how risk is calculated by th...
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/19/400-arrested-by-ice-in-chicago-to-be-released-friday-but-feds-risk-list-remains-murky/
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Karen Attiah
19 days ago
A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of
@washingtonpost.com
journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
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CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination
Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-concludes-saudi-crown-prince-ordered-jamal-khashoggis-assassination/2018/11/16/98c89fe6-e9b2-11e8-a939-9469f1166f9d_story.html
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Free press in Kansas and the U.S. faces a post-truth world. Surrendering can't be the answer. • Kansas Reflector
Journalism educators and journalists have not adapted to this new environment. Speaking truth to power has been the motto of the press.
https://kansasreflector.com/2025/11/18/free-press-in-kansas-and-the-u-s-faces-unprecedented-assault-surrendering-cant-be-the-answer/?emci=587c7579-40c4-f011-8196-6045bdfe8e9c&emdi=3f462f59-65c4-f011-8196-6045bdfe8e9c&ceid=569388
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What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ | Deepak Varuvel Dennison
The long read: As GenAI becomes the primary way to find information, local and traditional wisdom is being lost. And we are only beginning to realise what we’re missing
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/nov/18/what-ai-doesnt-know-global-knowledge-collapse?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
19 days ago
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Trump plans to tear out one of the original walls of the white house to access his disgusting new ballroom
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I taught an octopus piano (It took 6 months)
YouTube video by Mattias Krantz
https://youtu.be/PcWnQ7fYzwI?si=K5v-4dZH60qr2Dbu
23 days ago
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@stochasticnoise.bsky.social
bigthink.com/health/milk-...
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19th-century medicine: Milk was used as a blood substitute for transfusions
Believe it or not, for a few decades, giving people "milk transfusions" was all the rage.
https://bigthink.com/health/milk-transfusion/
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#musicmonday
Nathan Evans with Saint PHNX
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Nathan Evans x SAINT PHNX – Milarrochy Bay (Lyric Video)
YouTube video by NathanEvanss
https://youtu.be/PU7eF3Z44ns?si=nh8szFP0fNi-M6ZX
27 days ago
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All our hard work. All our sacrifices for a just cause. All down the drain thanks to our own "team".
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Raider
27 days ago
These Democrats voted to strip millions of Americans off their healthcare. Jacky Rosen (NV) Jeanne Shaheen (NH) John Fetterman (PA) Dick Durbin (IL) Maggie Hassan (NH) Catherine Cortez Masto (NV) Angus King (ME) Tim Kaine (VA)
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Just a reminder that the 25th amendment exists for a reason
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
29 days ago
The state’s actions have already pushed LGBTQ+ Missourians to move, taking their tax dollars, and even businesses, elsewhere, studies have shown.
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Missouri anti-LGBTQ+ laws linked to loss of population, tax revenue, studies finds
The state’s actions have already pushed LGBTQ+ Missourians to move, taking their tax dollars, and even businesses, elsewhere, studies have shown.
https://www.stltoday.com/article_33a5bb5b-eec6-4499-bd55-9ed9e1a7eac2.html?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_
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jenna newman phd
29 days ago
“It suited the feminism of the 1960s & 1970s to portray her as a victim of male dominance, but she would have thought of herself simply as a scientist whose achievements should have been judged on their own terms, not as a ‘woman scientist’ striking a blow for the rights of women.”🧪
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Dr Marion Lewis has died at age 100. She performed, with Dr Bruce Chown, some of the early exchange transfusions in Canada. She made numerous contributions to human genetics, especially related to human blood groups. 🧪
passages.winnipegfreepress.com/passage-deta...
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LEWIS MARION - Obituaries - Winnipeg Free Press Passages
MARION LEWIS LEWIS BA, DSC, FCCMG, FRSC, OM, OC Marion was born on September 21, 1925, in Windsor, Ontario and moved to...
https://passages.winnipegfreepress.com/passage-details/id-333484/LEWIS_MARION?brid=5JV3-tr2Xgw0mB1-Aympsg
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San Francisco Arts Commission votes to dismantle Vaillancourt Fountain
Decision comes just days after city planning department determined fountain eligible for National Register of Historic Places designation
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/11/06/san-francisco-arts-commission-votes-dismantle-vaillancourt-fountain
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Christopher Webb
about 1 month ago
Excessive force. PERIOD! They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor. 📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.
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I'd love to know if all the tweets/post I see online attributed to Trump are real. But I'm certainly not going to X to find out. Anyone know of another resource that documents them all?
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Viktor 🇵🇸🍉🦘🦘🪃
about 1 month ago
@albomp.bsky.social
Your GOOD FRIENDS WITH ISRAEL blocking aid and starving Palestinians. Sanction Israel now!
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100 years ago news
about 1 month ago
Nov. 3, 1925: A blood transfusion at Greenpoint Hospital in Brooklyn.
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How come nobody ever "gives" anything anymore? They only "gift" things Drives me nuts
about 1 month ago
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Eric Champnella
about 1 month ago
Who knows less -- Speaker Mike Johnson or Sergeant Schultz from Hogan's Heroes? Roll the clips...
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Just Jack
about 1 month ago
Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance. The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income. They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive. Wanna fix fraud and abuse? Fix that.
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Catherine Rampell
about 1 month ago
The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse. I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
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Rare Disease Advisor
about 1 month ago
A multidisciplinary, coordinated approach is called for in pregnancies that present with antibodies to high-prevalence blood group antigens and might result in hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn (#HDFN). Case study in Transfusion
@aabbupdates.bsky.social
#HDFN
Read here:
https://bit.ly/3JG3KXj
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Coordinated Strategy Needed in Pregnancies Complicated by Antibodies
Unique challenges are associated with pregnancies complicated by the development of antibodies to high-prevalence Rh blood group antigens.
https://bit.ly/3JG3KXj
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