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Janet Kinneberg

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Grateful for my time on our amazing planet. Here to learn from & support experts in their fields #climate #health #law #science #politics 🇺🇦 Humans are a young species — & that gives me a bit of hope. Mom to 2 wonderful men — so not giving up #Utah #Impeach

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Janet Kinneberg @jkinneberg.bsky.social · Nov 8

In the wake of this tragic election, I’m remembering how I found comfort years ago in Janine Benyus’ observation that “we are a young species.” Maybe we’ll make it, maybe not..
But I’m re-watching her beautiful short video about #Biomimicry anyway and finding some comfort.
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Biomimicry

YouTube video by Tree Media

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 10h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

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Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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dr alex concorde @doctoralex.bsky.social · 6h

.AND THERE WE HAVE IT - just in time for the markets to open on Monday, TACO Trump walks it back with China

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h

John Denver, gone 28 years ago today.

“.. I was camping up in the mountains. We were in the Rockies … I remember looking straight up and seeing meteor showers and thinking, this is what it is to be alive. And that line ‘I’ve seen it raining fire in the sky’ — that actually came from that night.”

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 16h

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 15h

You can read all this and more here:
• www.cell.com/cell-reports...
• www.umass.edu/news/article...
• newatlas.com/disease/dual...
• medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10...
• www.newsweek.com/cancer-vacci...
• www.genengnews.com/topics/cance...
• www.westernmassnews.com/2025/10/10/u...

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 16h

While one team worked on making immune responses in cancer stronger, another at the University of Massachusetts Amherst demonstrated another success- stopping cancer from occurring AT ALL. Researchers developed a cancer vaccine based on nanoparticles that shielded mice against melanoma, pancreatic,

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 16h

Researchers envision their vaccine being used as both a treatment and a preventive, and as an approach to treating multiple cancer types.
• www.umass.edu/news/article...

The study has been published in Cell Reports Medicine. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED.
• www.cell.com/cell-reports...

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HIGHLIGHTS
•Lipid NPs carrying STING and TLR4 agonists promote synergistic type I interferons
• NPs drain efficiently to lymph nodes and increase polyfunctional T and B cells
• NPs improve tumor-free outcomes with memory against multiple aggressive tumor models
SUMMARY
We report on the utility of a "super-adjuvant" nanoparticle (NP) system as a modular, customizable platform for next-generation cancer vaccination. Using nanomaterials engineering technology, we aim to harness not only the effective adjuvanticity of whole-pathogen vaccines, but also the safety of subunit vaccines.
Our lipid-based NP platform co-encapsulates agonists of the stimulator of interferon genes (STING) and Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) pathways to promote synergistic production of type I interferons and other
proinflammatory cytokines in innate antigen-presenting dendritic cells and macrophages.
Compared to empty NPs and free agonists, dual-adjuvant NPs administered with antigenic peptides or tumor cell lysate promote increased antigen processing and presentation, drain efficiently to nearby lymph nodes, increase polyfunctional tumor-specific T and B cells, and improve tumor-free outcomes upon vaccination and subsequent challenge with multiple aggressive tumor cells.

Graphical Abstract

The vaccine combines two immune-stimulating molecules (adjuvants) in a tiny lipid nanoparticle that enhances both innate and adaptive immune responses. The innate immune system acts as the body’s first line of defense, responding quickly and non-specifically to invaders using cells that release inflammatory signals. The adaptive immune system takes longer to activate but provides a targeted, long-lasting response, training T-cells and B- cells to recognize and remember specific threats. Together, they form a coordinated defense: the innate system alerts and activates the adaptive system, which then delivers precise and durable immunity.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 7h

The largest demonstration during Trump’s first term was around 750 events.

“We’re now expecting about 2,500 events around the country on No Kings. So we’re talking about literally four times as many.” - @leahgreenberg.bsky.social

Please join us on Saturday: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 7h

We should mandate a work requirement for House Republicans to get their health care. How about they have to work at least one week a month to keep their government health insurance?

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Janet Kinneberg @jkinneberg.bsky.social · 7h

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Fact Check: Did Pope Leo XIV say that Trump ‘chose the road of darkness, bitterness, and lies’?

As fake quotes attributed to Pope Leo XIV continue to spread online, one involving Donald Trump has gone viral

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Senseidai2547 @senseidai.bsky.social · 19h

Republicans will do anything to put more money in their pockets at the expense of people, animals, and the environment.

And thanks to @apnews.com for calling the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of Mexico.

#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks #RepublicansAreDestroyingAmerica

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Republicans try to weaken 50-year-old law protecting whales, seals and polar bears

One of the U.S.’s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction, is the subject of an effort for cutbacks from Republican lawmakers who n...

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 13h

There's a local right wing show on KSLM in Salem, OR called Noncompliant America. KSLM broadcasts Mark Levin, Sean Hannity, Charlie Kirk's show, etc. This week's show featured this "small gov't" guy saying "bring all of the troops home," right after saying "send the troops to here to Oregon!"

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NONCOMPLIANT AMERICAS
October 11 • Ep 129 • 45 min
Laura Loomer LOOMERED herself - Trump takes Covid Booster? - Bolton next on the chopping block - and more candace updates

Laura Loomer LOOMERED herself - Tr...
October 11 • Ep 129 • 45 min
Makes you wonder. And so we don't want wars. We want to pull out of everything.
I think all the troops should come home to the United States, maybe leave a couple behind elsewhere. But we don't need to be involved fighting for other countries like Ukraine either. We don't need to be defending them.
We don't need to be there. I say we pull out completely, and let's get out of these wars, and let's save some money. Let's be fiscally responsible.
Let's pay for the taxes that are supposed to be used on the American people, and stop giving it to all these NGOs that are thwarting and undermining Western civilization all over the world. Let's start focusing on the people, not other countries. That's what we need to do.
NONCOMPLIANT AMERICA

Laura Loomer LOOMERED herself - Tr...
October 11 • Ep 129 • 45 min
Well, it really is a war zone in the sense that you look at the lawfare that's happening between the judges and the governor that's vowing to fight Trump in every way. And he's not violating his constitutional right. He's protecting federal buildings.
He's not sending in the National Guard to take over the city, which I personally believe he should. And it may or may not happen because Portland is an Antifa stronghold. There's a guy, there's a video I posted on my ex earlier this week.
NONCOMPLIANT AMERICA

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Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 12h

CBP agents knocked on an El Paso home at 7:15 a.m.

The owner asked to secure his Rottweiler, Chop, in the bathroom.

While he got his ID, agents opened the door and shot Chop.

The family tried to save him as he bled out on the kitchen floor.

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Janet Kinneberg @jkinneberg.bsky.social · 12h

Got our health insurance notice - yup, premium has doubled.

Unsustainable.

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Katherine Clark @whipkclark.bsky.social · 13h

ACA open enrollment starts on November 1.

Families are already receiving notices that their premiums will double or even triple.

Democrats are ready to stop the hikes and keep families insured. But Republicans won’t even show up to work.

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Janet Kinneberg @jkinneberg.bsky.social · 12h

The Government Employee Fair Treatment Act law is clear. WAPO reports that “union leaders & Democrats” warn that his plans “run afoul of the law”. Media: follow up w GOP members of Congress who actually voted for this bill - what say they now?

clerk.house.gov/Votes/201928

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Public Law 116-1 116th Congress
An Act

To provide for the compensation of federal and other government employees affected by lapses in appropriations
Jan. 16, 2019
[S. 24]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
Employee fair
This Act may be cited as the "Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019”

SECTION 2. COMPENSATION FOR
FEDERAL AND OTHER GOVERNMENT
EMPLOYEES AFFECTED BY A LAPSE IN APPROPRIATIONS

JAN 11, 2019, 12:10 PM | 116TH CONGRESS, 1ST SESSION
Vote Question: On Motion to Suspend the Rules
and Pass
Government Employee Fair Treatment Act
Vote Type: 2/3 Yea-And-Nay
Status: Passed
VOTES
Yea: 411
Nay: 7
Present: 0
Not Voting: 16
VOTES BY PARTY

PARTY Democratic
YEA 231
NAY O
PRESENT O
NOT-VOTING 4

PARTY Republican
YEA 180
NAY 7
PRESENT O

House Roll Call Vote [1]
Action By

House [9]
V Senate [5]
v Executive Branch [2]
Date

Chamber AlI Actions
01/16/2019

Became Public Law
No: 116-1.
01/16/2019

Signed by President.
01/14/2019
Senate
Presented to President.
01/11/2019-12:12pm
House
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
01/11/2019-12:12pm House

On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3
required): 411 - 7 (Roll no. 28). (text:
CR H498)
01/11/2019-12:04pm
House
Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H503-504)
01/11/2019-11:28am

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 16h

Andrew Cuomo is incapable of speaking clearly and directly about Trump’s authoritarianism.

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aekm.bsky.social @aekm.bsky.social · 14h

The Republicans did that with their votes.. please see this .. try and understand this.. the Republican Party, it’s leadership and it’s voters singlehandedly set this country back decades after working for decades( 5 at a minimum) to obtain this EXACT result
Btw.. magas vote republican
F ‘em all

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 17h

Sens. Schumer, Merkley, Murray, and Peters are calling for the resignation of OMB Director Russell Vought.

"By impounding billions of dollars … and aggressively pursuing the illegal use of pocket rescissions, Vought has done everything in his power to gut the federal government piece by piece."

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14h

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 19h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 7d

Trump's FAA just lifted restrictions placed on Boeing after its fatal 737 MAX crashes.

Meanwhile, Boeing workers in St. Louis just entered their ninth week on strike.

Putting profits over workers and safety is a key reason why Boeing has taken a nosedive.

Boeing Is Everything Wrong With American Capitalism | Robert Reich

Robert Reich

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Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

Trump threatens export controls on Boeing parts in response to China reut.rs/46P5re0

Trump threatens export controls on Boeing parts in response to China

The United States could impose export controls on Boeing plane parts as part of Washington's response to Chinese export limits on rare earth minerals, President Donald Trump said on Friday.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

They're delegitimizing themselves in substance by subverting the Constitution and aiding the establishment of a lawless autocracy. But they're further delegitimizing themselves because they really don't understand, and can't even halfway convincingly mimic, how the Court is supposed to function.

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