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QuakerOrts🫘 ᴜs @quakerorts.bsky.social · 4h

The appearance of new seeps in areas that have been checked for decades, signals a shift with real consequences for climate and marine life.

Climate Apocalypse

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Discovery made on the Antarctic seabed has scientists very alarmed

Scientists found patches on the Antarctic seafloor called "seeps" where fluid and gas move up through sediments and into the water.

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 17h

apparently the new Netflix show Monster: The Ed Gein Story invented an "autogynephilia" backstory for their serial killer (because of course they did!). so time to re-up my collection of writings on this pseudoscientific zombie theory...
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Autogynephilia, Junk Science, and Pseudoscience

plus links to my academic articles, online essays, and explainers on the topic

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David Cowhig 高大伟 @gaodawei.bsky.social · 10h

New radioactive isotope therapies promise more targeted attacks on cancer | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

New radioactive isotope therapies promise more targeted attacks on cancer

Recent clinical successes, and profits, have prompted a rush among pharma companies to try new isotopes and targeting strategies

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

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QuakerOrts🫘 ᴜs @quakerorts.bsky.social · 8h

There was a time that I would have cheered this news.

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Trump critic and former national security adviser John Bolton to be charged soon, sources say

Bolton would be the third critic of the president to face federal charges. New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey were recently indicted.

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QuakerOrts🫘 ᴜs @quakerorts.bsky.social · 9h

"Transgender immigrants are dropping sexy M&Ms from Chinese balloons."
😂

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Family Guy making fun of conservatives compilation

YouTube video by Some Family Guy channel

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QuakerOrts🫘 ᴜs @quakerorts.bsky.social · 10h

Just imagine the hair on fire, 5 alarm response from Republicans, if Obama accepted a plane from Qatar and then let Qatar set up an air base in America.

🔥🔥🔥🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

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MAGA fractures over new Qatari Air Base in Idaho

YouTube video by Parkrose Permaculture

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QuakerOrts🫘 ᴜs @quakerorts.bsky.social · 10h

And why would Qatar need their planes so far from home? Are they going to invade Canada?

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QuakerOrts🫘 ᴜs @quakerorts.bsky.social · 10h

I don't know much about her, but the opposition in Venezuela is right wing.

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US Zionist PUPPET Maria Corina Machado WINS Nobel Peace Prize | Venezuela Analysis w/ Nick Cruse

YouTube video by Nick Cruse

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QuakerOrts🫘 ᴜs @quakerorts.bsky.social · 19h

Land of the Free*

*Some restrictions apply. Void where prohibited.

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Judge upholds North Dakota's ban on gender-affirming care for minors

The Supreme Court ruled in June that states can ban gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors. At least 27 states have laws restricting or banning such care.

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QuakerOrts🫘 ᴜs @quakerorts.bsky.social · 20h

Now that's stupid.

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Indian immigrant fights deportation after police mistake perfume labeled 'Opium' for the narcotic

Kapil Raghu, 28, was arrested in May after an officer in central Arkansas spotted the rollerball perfume bottle in his car during a routine traffic stop.

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QuakerOrts🫘 ᴜs @quakerorts.bsky.social · 20h

The photo is real, and it does show Trump and Epstein. However, the woman in the photo is Belgian model Ingrid Seynhaeve.

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Posts claim photo shows Trump, Epstein and Bondi. They're almost right

The original image, taken in 1997, shows the two men with Belgian model Ingrid Seynhaeve.

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QuakerOrts🫘 ᴜs @quakerorts.bsky.social · 21h

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21h

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21h

This is absolutely disgusting

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21h

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 21h

It’s a free country.

Right?

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22h

What he not saying is that his friends and cronies invested a fortune in Argentina since their guy Milei won, they stand to lose a big chunk of those fortunes the way things are going, and Argentina’s elections are in two weeks and we are tampering in them to bail Milei out.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22h

When it comes toTrump’s immigration policy, cruelty has always been the point, but anti-immigrant animus is now being paired with unprecedented funding, manpower, and technology.

American Gulag

The brutal rollout of Trump's police state.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22h

Meiselas: Trump says he’s focusing right now on laying off the Democratic agencies and government employees, whatever that means. Again, completely pathetic behavior, and in normal times, this would be impeachable and/or 25th Amendment territory.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22h

The forever chemical PFNA is so hazardous that the EPA struck an agreement with 8 companies to phase it out nearly two decades ago.

Now an EPA report on its harms sits in limbo, and the Trump administration won’t say when it will be released.

By @fastlerner.bsky.social

Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It.

Agency scientists found that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but the ...

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QuakerOrts🫘 ᴜs @quakerorts.bsky.social · 22h

Sheriff Joe Arpaio misspent millions of dollars.

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Arizona sheriff's office misused millions meant to remedy racial profiling, report reveals

The sheriff’s office for metro Phoenix has spent millions of dollars budgeted for compliance costs in a racial profiling case over Joe Arpaio’s immigration crackdowns on things that had little or noth...

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 23h

Every word he says here is a lie. Every. Single. Word. He’s living in an alternate reality. #25thAmendment.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 1d

Say no to drugs, kids

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23h

“This is very much connected to the rise of authoritarianism that we’ve seen across the country,” said the executive director of the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center. “They can’t win fairly, so they’re trying to rewrite the rules to get their way.”

(Published May)
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Red State Voters Approved Progressive Measures. GOP Lawmakers Are Trying to Undermine Them.

In the wake of ballot measures that increased abortion access and improved sick leave for workers, a coordinated effort is unfolding across the country to restrict direct democracy — and shift power t...

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MoveOn @moveon.org · 22h

ICYMI: Mike Johnson is refusing to swear in democratically elected Rep Adelita Grijalva. Why? She’s promised to be the tie-breaking signature to force the House to vote on releasing the Epstein files. We’re on the side of democracy and accountability. Swear. Her. In.

Speaker Johnson said he’d swear in new House Democrat ‘as soon as she wants.’ Now Republicans are backtracking | CNN Politics

Speaker Mike Johnson is not planning to allow Democrats’ newest congresswoman-elect to be sworn-in until her party agrees to end the government shutdown, despite telling CNN earlier Tuesday that he…

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QuakerOrts🫘 ᴜs @quakerorts.bsky.social · 23h

Societal Collapse ‘On Schedule’ According To 1972 MIT Study

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Societal Collapse ‘On Schedule’ According To 1972 MIT Study

YouTube video by The Rational National

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