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Agnes Jones Trower

@agnesjtrow.bsky.social

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Vaccines|Diagnostics|Virology. Gov|Industry|Academia. Former rabble rouser. Retired (maybe). Lover of dogs and sci-fi. "Grieving over who we were only gets in the way of who we need to become." ~Katarina Jones, 12 Monkeys

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Agnes Jones Trower @agnesjtrow.bsky.social · Jul 11

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Picard Tips @picardtips.bsky.social · Jul 10

Picard civics tip: If there is one truth, one constant that history shows us over and over, it is that resistance is never futile.

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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 4h

Every day at noon, no matter how busy, Johny Merida Aguilar left his construction job and hurried to his 5-year-old son's school to feed him. His son has brain cancer and generally only accepts food from his father.

Merida Aguilar was arrested by ICE in September and faces deportation to Bolivia.

He was caring for his 5-year-old son with brain cancer. Then he was detained by ICE.

A court has temporarily blocked Johny Merida Aguilar's deportation to Bolivia.

www.inquirer.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

We’ve reported extensively on how the FDA allowed foreign drugmakers to send generic medications to the U.S. from factories with filthy labs and contaminated equipment.

This month, we’re digging deeper and could use your help. THREAD/

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 1d

Seeing a lot of celebration of this as a win.

But at NIH we have seen this exact play before.

It looks like it is the Vought strategy -and to stop the lawless firings we have to see the bigger picture.
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Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 1d

So to summarize:

- There is a pattern where Vought makes the RIFs too wide, apparently to flood the zone with sh*t and see who will draw protests.
- They restore some people after outrage and work by us.
- But we are still left with many who remain fired at the end.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 1d

Looks from here like the goal is to create confusion, and focus public attention on a subset of the most outrageous firings — to distract from the other firings.

We shouldn’t be fooled, and should demand that all the illegal shutdown RIFs are made null and void. /end

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 1d

Roberts is presiding over, and driving, a stunning collapse in faith in the U.S. Supreme Court, not just among the public, but among federal judges.

What a failure. The Titanic captain of chief justices.

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 1d

“More than three dozen federal judges have told The New York Times that the Supreme Court’s flurry of brief, opaque emergency orders in cases related to the Trump administration have left them confused about how to proceed in those matters and are hurting the judiciary’s image with the public.”

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Zackary Berger שלום בערגער @drberger.bsky.social · 1d

In the Baltimore Sun today we ask Governor Wes Moore to cancel Avelo Airlines' contract with BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport. He can do it today. It doesn't require the assembly. It will help stop ICE & help our patients and neighbors.

Please share widely.

www.baltimoresun.com/2025/10/11/w...

How Wes Moore can deal a blow to Trump’s immigration agenda | GUEST COMMENTARY

Guest commentary: Gov. Wes Moore has a novel opportunity to undermine Trump’s immigration agenda by targeting an airline participating in ICE’s deportations.

www.baltimoresun.com

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 1d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 3d

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 2d

Three key points:
1) The admin has been planning mass firings to begin in October since February
2) The work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act, which carries a criminal penalty
3) This harms America, ridding us of talent and expertise

Russ Vought v @russvought
The RIFs have begun.
12:27 PM • 10/10/25 • 15K Views

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 3d

These stories, and the rumors around them, are all part of the same authoritarian playbook: Discredit, divide, and intimidate people into silence just nine days before the October 18 No Kings protests.

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 3d

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
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What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports

Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.

www.consumerreports.org

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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 3d

Flurry of H5N1 activity noted in commercial poultry, wild birds

Over the last 30 days, highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) has been confirmed in 38 flocks.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 3d

The limiting nutrient in these waters is iron & whales are the final step in a chain that moves iron from lower levels back up to the surface waters, where it can cause phytoplankton blooms.

Guess what eats phytoplankton? That's right: krill.

The whales are farming their food.

Whales and Climate Change: The Whale Pump Explained - Campbell River Whale

Written by Maddie Lemke Whales are not only magical creatures, but also play a vital role in the health of our planet. As we struggle with the effects of climate change, it is crucial to understand

campbellriverwhalewatching.com

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J. Mijin Cha @jmijin.bsky.social · 4d

Billionaires truly are the stupidest people on the planet.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

ANDREESSEN: Even if AI ends up destroying all the jobs, “the result would be hyper-deflation of prices, which is the thing that people miss. .. Things that today cost a lot of money will all of a sudden be cheap or free.”

@fortune.com
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 4d

My new @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social piece tells how DHS continues to deny that citizens have a right to videorecord its agents and raids even in the face of overwhelming court precedent that the First Amendment protects their right to do so. Nor is it just a matter of positions taken in court. /5

DHS Says Videotaping ICE Agents Is Illegal. Federal Courts Disagree.

Filming law enforcement serves important goals central to a free republic.

thedispatch.com

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 4d

Here we see Stephen Miller (left) explaining to a woman that she'll never get his Lucky Charms

Image of a very short Miller talking to a blond woman as they walk on grass

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 9d

Chemerinsky: The Trump extortion demands are unconstitutional as well as odious (gift link). Me: Any school that signs must be shunned, faculty affected must walk. No room for this.

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion

www.nytimes.com

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 4d

Henry Farrell on the Trump admin’s proposed “compact” for universities, arguing that the rollout signals weakness, and that academics need to band together to reject this authoritarian attack on university independence and academic freedom.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

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Shabaana Khader @khadershabaana.bsky.social · 7d

Dear #microbiology and #immunology community- I took a break from social media after I deleted my Twitter account, but am back here. Please help me rebuild my community by following me and amplifying this message- I will follow you back. Thank you and I look forward to our many interactions!

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 5d

This is a scare tactic.

But most feds I know aren’t scared or traumatized.

We are just that much more passionate and committed to our missions.

Theresa Kim, PhD, MS @tyk314.net · 5d

@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social is right. You don't just delete laws. And drawing sharpie marks over it doesn't legitimize claims.
#FEDSTRONG

OMB deletes reference to law guaranteeing backpay to furloughed feds from shutdown guidance

An Office of Management and Budget FAQ document now states that only excepted employees forced to work without pay are guaranteed backpay at the conclusion of a lapse in appropriations.

www.govexec.com

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 5d

My quote of the day

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 6d

In a video she said could only be aired after she died, Jane Goodall says she wants to put Trump, Musk, Netanyahu and Putin onto a spaceship and send them all into space. 😂

"Send them all off to the planet [Musk is] sure he’s going to discover.” www.huffpost.com/entry/jane-g...

Jane Goodall’s Posthumous Netflix Special Features A Stellar Burn Of Trump And His ‘Real’ MAGA Crew

The primatologist also blasted Elon Musk, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping and Benjamin Netanyahu in “Famous Last Words,” recorded to be aired after her death.

www.huffpost.com

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Agnes Jones Trower @agnesjtrow.bsky.social · 6d

What ransom did you have to pay to your kitties to release Wizard?