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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 1d

Patriotism looks good on us! 💅

NO KINGS is a celebration of democracy.🎉

Bring the kids. 👧🏽🧒🏼
Bring some friends. 🧍🏾‍♀️🙌🏻🧍🏻‍♂️
Bring a flag.🇺🇸

Find one near you:
www.nokings.org

Let’s make it the biggest PRO-AMERICA party in history.

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 2d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 24d

The concluding paragraph of #ScienceUnderSiege
(www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/micha...)

And so we choose to do battle against the forces of darkness,
#ghting back against a malevolent movement that represents all that
is bad in the world— fascism, authoritarianism, racism, misogyny,
and bigotry— a movement that uses antiscienti#c disinformation as
its preferred weapon. We do this not because our success is guaranteed.
Given the forces mobilized against us, we are clearly the underdog.
And no white wizard will come to our rescue. But we have truth
and justice on our side. And the stakes simply couldn’t be greater. We
#ght for a livable planet, for us, our children, and future generations.
Because it’s worth #ghting for.8

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Bob Makichuk 🇨🇦 @bobmakichuk.bsky.social · 2d

It started with the size of the crowd at Trump's first inauguration and has only spiraled downward since.

Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 6d

“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 · 6d

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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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 2d

"Your eight-year-old xKid's Always Interrupting platform leverages a proprietary large language model trained on billions of parameters of real-world child data. That means it's equipped with large amounts of language that users will experience like a firehose to the face."

After Many UX Improvements, We’re Relaunching the Small Child as xKid, Your Next-Gen Everyday Companion

Thank you for attending our company’s all-hands. It’s been an incredible eight years since we launched the first version of the Small Child. I’m no...

buff.ly

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Lucy Huber @clhubes.bsky.social · 3d

They walked so K-pop Demon Hunters could run

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 3d

I'm sorry but it's just wild we are in the middle of a government shutdown and the House Republicans are REFUSING TO SHOW UP FOR WORK so they can protect billionaire pedophiles and billionaire tax breaks.

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Rosa Lafer-Sousa @rosalafersousa.bsky.social · 5d

Over the weekend ICE abducted an NIH contractor when he showed up to a courthouse for his green card hearing. He is documented. His wife is a citizen.

He is also member of the skeleton crew of animal care staff that works through a shutdown, to ensure the health and wellbeing of research animals.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks, New Yorker

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Dr Susan Johnson @susanjoh.bsky.social · 6d

Yes

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 6d

“California, and the country, cannot await the outcome of the midterms to repel Trump’s siege on democracy. More drastic action is required.”

My piece exploring "soft secession": www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

It’s time for soft secession

How blue states can use their economic clout to stand up to Trump’s agenda—starting with California.

www.motherjones.com

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Bornabrit1 @lindarothwell.bsky.social · 16d

I agree👇👇

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · Feb 1

With science falling under increasing attack, this medical historian is here to remind people of the power of #vaccines. THREAD🧵

Hard-hitting polio advert from 1958. In the first half of the 20th century, polio was the leading cause of death in children and young adults. 1/7

An advertisement for the polio vaccine which reads: "they all got vaccine except dad...don't take a chance...take your polio shots!" It depicts a photo of a family gathered around a father who is in an iron lung.

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Dr Susan Johnson @susanjoh.bsky.social · 17d

My swiss gym required proof that i was actually leaving the country….

Lucy Huber @clhubes.bsky.social · 19d

I know ppl always joke about how it’s impossible to quit a gym but I just quit my gym and they made me fill out a form and walk to the directors office and HAND it to him in person and he frowned at me and said “you don’t like it here?” Should I just die

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Lucy Huber @clhubes.bsky.social · 18d

I can’t believe @kristenmulrooney.bsky.social and I have never collaborated on a piece before but now we have!!! www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

The Trump Administration’s Recommendations for Managing Pregnancy Discomfort

“For this reason, they are strongly recommending that women limit Tylenol use during pregnancy unless medically necessary. That’s, for instance, in...

www.mcsweeneys.net

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Dr Susan Johnson @susanjoh.bsky.social · 18d

Whoa.

Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 18d

This is huge: “A drug that provides near-perfect protection against H.I.V. with shots just twice a year will be made available at $40 per patient annually in low- and middle-income countries, offering new hope… making lenacapavir a realistic choice in countries with constrained resources.”

Philanthropies Strike a Promising Deal to Turn Back H.I.V.

www.nytimes.com

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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 18d

OMG SOME GOOD NEWS 🧪 #MedSky

Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 18d

“An emotional research team became tearful as they described how data shows the disease was slowed by 75% in patients.”

What an absolutely incredible, joyous achievement for everyone involved. Hurrah for science and scientists! www.bbc.com/news/article...

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time

One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that could transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC

www.bbc.com

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 23d

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us.

We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again.

That's the revolution.

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Jimmy L 📚 @jimmylabe.bsky.social · 24d

USA Today shut down as there will be no USA Tomorrow.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 23d

congrats to everyone just living their lives right now, incredible focus and endurance, amazing commitment to the mission. no idea how you're doing it tbh

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 23d

In America, we defend free speech in terrible times.

We defend free speech even when it’s offensive.

We defend free speech.

www.cnn.com/2025/09/18/p...

Hillary Clinton reacts to Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension | CNN Politics

CNN’s Fareed Zakaria asks former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about Jimmy Kimmel’s show being pulled from ABC’s air. Watch Fareed Zakaria GPS on Sunday at 10aET/PT.

www.cnn.com

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 23d

Just a reminder that the Washington Post fired its last black opinion columnist for criticizing bigotry and the news cycle barely lasted an afternoon

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 23d

New Otter just dropped.

www.earth.com/news/scienti...

Scientists confirm discovery of a new otter species

New scientific discovery: DNA reveals that the neotropical otter is not one, but two distinct species in Latin America.

www.earth.com

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 24d

Petition to rename the Republican Congress Thysanozoon nigropapillosum, after a flatworm that has numerous assholes.

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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · Sep 6

AUTHORS: Your way of being fairly compensated - and bankrupting OpenAI.

Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · Sep 6

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

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Dr Susan Johnson @susanjoh.bsky.social · Sep 5

@governor.ca.gov make covid vaccines available to everyone in California

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