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"RFK Jr.’s insertion as secretary of HHS is a direct rebuke to her legacy. Heumann contracted polio in 1949 when she was one and a half years old. The intentional spread of mass disablement and death by discouraging vaccination and medical research would have absolutely horrified her."
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Disbarment and sanctions for everyone involved.
according to politico, since Jan. 2025, Trump admin has deported 170+ people “in violation of court orders,” “in defiance of legally mandated due process protections,” or “to countries from which they had sought or received protection from torture and persecution” ballsandstrikes.org/ethics-accou...
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I wrote this because most journalists facing this pressure can’t. The paper we count on to check authoritarianism spiked an investigation into the Democratic Party because the party’s lawyers threatened to sue. Holding authoritarians accountable starts with holding your own side accountable.
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This is whole story is horrifying, and as a journalist covering ICE flights, I was struck by this sentence: “We were shipped to Texas overnight from Los Angeles in horrible conditions that I won’t elaborate on in this letter.”
Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Geek Cutes is a collection of eight light-hearted love stories featuring cisgender and transgender lesbians. The tales span a range of geeky genres such as superhero, horror, and fantasy. books2read.com/ap/8N19Lr/Xi...
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I'm a transfemme nonbinary Muslim, and I wrote a comic book about a trans Muslim superhero who fights monsters using tech and info from the future. It's available at this small retailer in Seattle, via an online store. store.pushpullseattle.com/products/Tim...
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My debut novel, THE POTENT SOLUTION, is now available to pre-order on kindle! It's an urban fantasy set in 1830s London that follows an apprentice alchemist with ADHD, thrown into the jaws of a dangerous magical conspiracy! mybook.to/potentsolution
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Oh, hello, genderfluid author here. My GryphIns series is Wings of Fire—for adults!—with gryphons. If you love gryphons based on weird birds/mammals, fun animal facts, queer characters, and epic fantasy, Eyrie is free or discounted in most stores for the next month. books2read.com/rl/gryphonin...
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I have written a map on non-binary identities where I write about gender euphoria and gender dysphoria, transitions, pronouns ... Although it is in Spanish www.editorialegales.com/libros/ident...
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Trump is signing an executive order today recommending that the MMR vaccine be separated into separate vaccines. There is no scientific basis for this recommendation. Separate measles, mumps and rubella vaccines are generally not available in the U.S. Vaccines do not cause autism.
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minnesota state rep jess hanson rides elon musk for filth for trying to defend his pervy app: "when the richest man in the world hangs out with the epstein class... we cannot act surprised when he's trying to protect the number one tool used to make child sexual abuse material"
minnesota state senator directly taking on musk and his big pockets PRECISELY HOW DEMOCRATS SHOULD BE DOING IT
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The 1997 Flores settlement says children can only be in immigration detention for 20 days. A new legal filing shows that kids at CoreCivic's detention facility in Dilley, TX have been there as long as 323 days, & includes firsthand accounts of the abuse guards are inflicting on children.
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