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Sapient Librarian @22rabbit.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's plan to invoke the Insurrection Act. You need to be aware of his four-point plan by ROBERT REICH Here’s the outline of Trump’s apparent plan to invoke the Insurrection Act. Its video because of its urgency, PLEASE SHARE it robertreich.substack.com/p/why-has-th...

Why has the media become so vulnerable to Trump, and what can we do about it?

Even after Disney's reversal on Jimmy Kimmel, the vulnerability remains — unless we change the rules.

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Sapient Librarian @22rabbit.bsky.social · 1d

Robert Reich: BIG problem 1983 US media dominated by 50 corps 2025 shrunk to 6 giant media corps 2. Ultra-wealthy individuals controlling major media biased against public’s right to know. 3: shift from stakeholder to shareholder capitalism tinyurl.com/4ydphtf6 Solution: Tax rich, use antitrust law

Why has the media become so vulnerable to Trump, and what can we do about it?

Even after Disney's reversal on Jimmy Kimmel, the vulnerability remains — unless we change the rules.

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Sapient Librarian @22rabbit.bsky.social · 1d

This is hysterical! By Hank Phillippi Ryan. "The Year of The Book - Inside the Writer's Brain on their Emotional Journey to the End" in Writer's Digest. www.writersdigest.com/the-year-of-...

The Year of The Book—Inside the Writer’s Brain on Their Emotional Journey to The End

Bestselling author Hank Phillippi Ryan shares the 30-step emotional journey of an author as they jump from book to book.

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Sapient Librarian @22rabbit.bsky.social · 1d

‘Google for DNA’ brings order to biology’s big data. MetaGraph compresses vast data archives into a search engine for scientists, opening up new frontiers of biological discovery. By Elie Dolgin in Nature. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘Google for DNA’ brings order to biology’s big data

MetaGraph compresses vast data archives into a search engine for scientists, opening up new frontiers of biological discovery.

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Sapient Librarian @22rabbit.bsky.social · 1d

Popular Science: Newly discovered deep-sea lanternshark glows in the waters near Australia. The tiny shark and a ghost-like crab are two of the latest species uncovered in a yearslong expedition. by Andrew Paul tinyurl.com/y27nk9nb

Newly discovered deep-sea lanternshark glows in the waters near Australia

The tiny shark and a ghost-like crab are two of the latest species uncovered in a yearslong expedition.

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Sapient Librarian @22rabbit.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago woman murdered by ICE!! Her attorney saw body-cam footage says it is completely different than ICE story. Video shows feds turned into her car pointed rifle sneered “Do something, bitch” Fired 5 bullets into US citizen telling neighbors ICE on prowl www.closertotheedge.net/p/release-th...

RELEASE THE VIDEO

Federal agents shot a woman five times in a South Side Chicago neighborhood and they’re still hiding the goddamn video.

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Sapient Librarian @22rabbit.bsky.social · 1d

Goebbels once promised “The storm is coming” Miller’s line “We are the storm” meant to sound terrifying Landed like middle-schooler’s attempt @slam poetry He's desperate to sound menacing & plagiarizes a Nazi & sounds like the kid w/a thesaurus @ recess. tinyurl.com/3meut9fh PS: UNCANNY RESEMBLANCE!

STEPHEN MILLER’S GOEBBELS TRIBUTE ACT

The Storm, The Nothing, and the Nothing Man Behind It

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Sapient Librarian @22rabbit.bsky.social · 1d

Trump Joins the Ranks of Nobel Laureates, For contributions so bold, the truth never stood a chance. by Closer to the Edge
Oct 09, 2025 www.closertotheedge.net/p/trump-join...

Sapient Librarian @22rabbit.bsky.social · 1d

1 to 2 Starlink satellites plummeted to Earth daily in 2025 burning up like expensive shooting stars. Your internet connectivity dreams are literally raining down on you. This is what happens when tech billionaires treat orbital space like prime real estate in a gold rush tinyurl.com/5n6hphy7

Sapient Librarian @22rabbit.bsky.social · 1d

Epstein once dug in his safe & showed photos of Trump posing w/topless girls on lap to author Michael Wolff (as per episode of "Inside Trump’s Head") Photo controversy 10/6 wk as AG Bondi dodged Sen. Whitehouse’s questions RE: did FBI find images during search of Epstein’s stuff tinyurl.com/ypttdbpw

I’ve Seen Epstein’s Photos of Trump With Topless Girls: Author

Trump biographer Michael Wolff reveals he was shown the lewd photos by Jeffrey Epstein himself.

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Sapient Librarian @22rabbit.bsky.social · 1d

"MAGA Tested Trump Approved News" Conservative opinion writer now leading CBS News, by Dan Rather and Team Steady, Oct 09, 2025. Because the Ellison's now own CBS & Bari Weiss, new editor-in-chief of CBS News it's dark day. No longer will CBS News be journalistic. steady.substack.com/p/maga-teste...

MAGA Tested, Trump Approved News

A conservative opinion writer is now leading CBS News

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Sapient Librarian @22rabbit.bsky.social · 2d

Dem Rep Ro Khanna says Trump & GOP using govt shutdown to block release of Epstein files. “This House shut b/c they don’t want to release Epstein files,” he told Joanna Coles Daily Beast Podcast. Extraordinary measures & NO votes is fear of files. Adds skepticism anger of public tinyurl.com/2k3rhbmm

This Is the Sinister Reason for Trump’s Government Shutdown: Congressman

Rep. Ro Khanna believes the president and his party want to keep the government closed for darker reasons.

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Sapient Librarian @22rabbit.bsky.social · 2d

Near Green Bay WI is Tsyunhéhkw∧ (joon-HEY’-kwa) tribal owned farm part of Oneida Nation Grows Oneida white corn heirloom variety w/pearl-like kernels pale butter color & ears long as forearm Modern machinery can't harvest 18 ft stalks & thus entire crop done by hand tinyurl.com/ztu9n7d8http...

Harvesting the Heirloom Corn That Nourishes the Oneida Nation

The stalks of this white corn can grow 18 feet high and 4 inches thick, and all of it must be harvested by hand.

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Sapient Librarian @22rabbit.bsky.social · 2d

US FDA More Ground Cinnamon Products Added to FDA Public Health Alert Due to Presence of Elevated Levels of Lead 10-8-2025 tinyurl.com/mu6r3276

Safety Alert

The FDA is advising consumers to throw away and not to buy the ground cinnamon products because samples of products listed in the table were found to contain elevated levels of lead.

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Sapient Librarian @22rabbit.bsky.social · 2d

AG Bondi @witness table smirking stonewalling basic questions hurling personal insults thumbing through folder of pre-scripted attacks. 1/2 room applauds like MAGA rally other 1/2 dumbstruck. How do we run democracy when a congressional oversight hearing is WWE smackdown event tinyurl.com/yc8en96y

"Bondi Torches Justice For Trump"

Pam Bondi didn’t testify; she detonated. Oversight collapsed into insults, lies, and theater, while Republicans clapped like seals and democracy sank one more rung into the abyss.

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Sapient Librarian @22rabbit.bsky.social · 2d

10-9-24 Hurricane Milton nears, Florida Highway Patrol share video of state trooper helping frightened bull terrier chained to fence surrounded by water May 28 the Florida Senate passed “Trooper’s Law” making 3rd-degree felony to abandon restrain pet during natural disasters tinyurl.com/2uezpzmd

Rescued dog from hurricane finds loving home, sparks new pet law!

On October 9, 2024, as Hurricane Milton made its way toward Florida, the Florida Highway Patrol-Tampa shared an uplifting video that touched the hearts of many. In this moving clip, a kind state troop

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Medscape: When Tumors Vanish Mystery of Spontaneous Regression by J Senn. Spontaneous cancer regression uncommon event most often w/neuroblastoma leukemia lung cancer melanoma. Underlying mechanisms not understood; h/w infections & immune system activation possible treatment tinyurl.com/4832932t

When Tumors Vanish: The Mystery of Spontaneous Regression

Spontaneous regression is most commonly reported in neuroblastoma and leukemia. Case series link infection, transfusion, and immune activation to short-lived remission.

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Sapient Librarian @22rabbit.bsky.social · 2d

Don't use AI for medical advice! Case highlights AI-derived medical info can cause preventable adverse health outcomes if decontextualised from clinician. Patient asks ChatGPT-3.5 to remove sodium chloride (salt) from diet. AI said use bromide & patient got heavy metal poisoning tinyurl.com/ykkrazvv

ChatGPT Advice Triggers Bromide Poisoning, Psychosis

Physicians warn that AI recommendations cannot substitute professional medical consultations, as shown in a case of bromide-induced psychosis.

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Sapient Librarian @22rabbit.bsky.social · 3d

Star Columnist Fired by Bezos Says Billionaire Is Helping Trump Destroy Democracy. Washington Post star who got kicked out reveals how the Amazon boss ‘flipped’ the paper to suck up to Trump. by Tom Latchem tinyurl.com/57ffn45a

Sapient Librarian @22rabbit.bsky.social · 3d

I Know Why Trump Isn’t the Man I Knew: Scaramucci
HIS UNMISSABLE DECLINE aging president gotten hooked on the “power drug,” his former communications director told The Daily Beast Podcast by Erkki Forste tinyurl.com/wwuuf2nn

Sapient Librarian @22rabbit.bsky.social · 3d

Michael Cohen: Trump tactics not mystery to me Been in the room drafting very moves now deployed Strategy simple dominate narrative even fabricating 1 Flood w/so much noise people stop questioning details Create villains heroes battles betrayals No governing it’s show business tinyurl.com/4kej6yva

"Trump’s Lies Cost Citizens Everything"

A president rewriting reality, a government frozen in chaos, and leaders lost in illusion; when truth becomes optional, Americans pay the heavy price and democracy itself teeters on collapse.

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Sapient Librarian @22rabbit.bsky.social · 3d

Pope Leo condemns climate change critics (like Trump) @speech Castel Gondolfo by M McGrath. Pope Leo 14th hits those who minimize evident rising temps. 1st major statement on climate change reiterates Pope Francis & lambasts those who "ridicule those who speak of global warming" tinyurl.com/bdey7zhh

Pope Leo hits out at critics of global warming

In his first major statement on climate change, the pontiff criticises those who minimise climate change.

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Sapient Librarian @22rabbit.bsky.social · 3d

The climate actions that really work, worried about climate change? The evidence shows these are the most impactful actions you can take, by Jocelyn Timperley tinyurl.com/bdtba8em

Worried about climate change? The evidence shows these are the most impactful actions you can take

Worried about climate change? Here's what the evidence shows are the most effective things you can do.

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Wild! Atlas Obscura: tinyurl.com/vhr4enpc Tesla thought he had interplanetary communication & was creating system for Earth to answer back. Not alone as French Florence Raulin Cerceau documented Victorian-era scientists working on ET communication-- mostly involved giant mirrors!

Victorians Wanted to Contact Aliens Using Giant Mirrors

It would have been very, very expensive, though.

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Sapient Librarian @22rabbit.bsky.social · 3d

Nobel Prize in Physics- Quantum effects in world. Physicists John Clarke, Michel Devoret & John Martinis won demonstrating quantum physics macroscopically Experiment w/quantum tunnelling observed in special circuit w/2 superconductors separated w/thin barrier/Josephson junction tinyurl.com/2ytj6vue

Groundbreaking quantum-tunnelling experiments win physics Nobel

John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis discovered quantum physics on a macroscopic scale, paving the way for quantum computing.

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