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Matthew Beckman @daphsci.bsky.social · 2h

Next up: August 1981 strike. On August 3, 1981, during a press conference regarding the PATCO strike, President Reagan stated: "They are in violation of the law and if they do not report for work within 48 hours they have forfeited their jobs and will be terminated."

Matthew Beckman @daphsci.bsky.social · 2h

On Oct 8th, 2003, Mpls-native Peter Agre shared the chemistry Nobel with Roderick Mackinnon. In late August, 2007 Agre announced he would not run against Norm Coleman for US Senate.

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Matthew Beckman @daphsci.bsky.social · 2h

My dad took me and I think I took pictures! Gotta look for them.

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Matthew Beckman @daphsci.bsky.social · 2h

Linklater’s 1st film is interesting as I recall. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_...

It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books - Wikipedia

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Matthew Beckman @daphsci.bsky.social · 2h

I am optimistic about Shepard’s Table across from Longfellow park.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 5h

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

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Matthew Beckman @daphsci.bsky.social · 3h

I hope they don’t mess with Bruneau Sand Dunes!

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Maggie Fox @maggiefox.bsky.social · 3h

For more than 20 years I relied on the MMWR for news every week on what was going on, disease-wise, around the country. You often got excellent blow-by-blows about disease outbreaks.

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 3h

For some context the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly report in addition to being just a good read, to quote wikipedia, "is the main vehicle for publishing public health information and recommendations that have been received by the CDC from state health departments. "

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Matthew Beckman @daphsci.bsky.social · 3h

Biden was simply incapable of rising to the occasion both physically and mentally.

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Matthew Beckman @daphsci.bsky.social · 3h

He’s a eunuch so he has to cheat.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11h

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 8d

LittleSis have dropped a new report and data visualization about the billionaires and corporations profiting from the deportation industrial complex:

littlesis.org/news/the-bil...

The Billionaire Oligarchs and Corporations Profiting from ICE’s Deportation Machine - Little Sis

A primer on the billionaire barons and corporate profiteers enabling ICE's deportation apparatus

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 8h

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

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Matthew Beckman @daphsci.bsky.social · 6h

Anyone ever heard of a form of hazing during medical school interviews where the interview is in a room with a window that cannot be opened and the room is hot? Probably pre-1990s if it even ever occurred. @ryanmarino.bsky.social @gorskon.bsky.social

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 7h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 10h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

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Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Matthew Beckman @daphsci.bsky.social · 6h

Give this guy some diamox. He's so high he has altitude sickness!

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Matthew Beckman @daphsci.bsky.social · 9h

Come to think of it, Blue Bloods has a very different energy than Marcella, for instance.

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Matthew Beckman @daphsci.bsky.social · 9h

dba

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Matthew Beckman @daphsci.bsky.social · 9h

If we didn't have RCV the advice to Frey supporters would be identical. He thinks he can pull 50.1% in the first round. That's his strategy, isn't it?

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Matthew Beckman @daphsci.bsky.social · 9h

I watched s1 e1 of C.H.I.P.S. the other night and realized that shows I loved as a kid were a lot of "copaganda"--Adam 12, Rescue, etc.

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Matthew Beckman @daphsci.bsky.social · 11h

Shame on Rep Emmer. His comments are UN-American and contradictions 1st Amendment. #EmmerShame

Brad Takei @bradtakei.bsky.social · 14h

Labeling a nonviolent protest against authoritarianism as ‘anti-American’ is the kind of rhetoric used to silence dissent, not defend democracy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 4d

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

― George Orwell, 1984

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Mike Johnson: "Let me look right into the camera and tell you very clearly: Republicans are the ones concerned about healthcare. Republicans are the party working around the clock everyday to fix healthcare. This is not talking points for us: we've done it."

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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 13h

So this IL Hospital Association memo describes an incident where ICE detained a US citizen, gave them HEART PROBLEMS, took them to a hospital where the fought with medical personnel, then left when they realized they detained a CITIZEN.

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Matthew Beckman @daphsci.bsky.social · 11h

I just called one of the local offices and lodged my concerns with Emmer’s staffer about comments he made about patriotic Americans. For a sitting US representative to disparage Americans for protesting is unprofessional an UN-American—he hates anyone that disagrees with his far-right opinions.

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