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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · Jun 22

Much as I would not dare to predict the consequences of this war, I do think we can summarize it thusly so far:

A smart and evil man manipulated a stupid and evil man into a war against a fanatical and evil regime.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · May 2

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · Apr 4

Law firms did not strike a "truce" with Trump. They capitulated to an authoritarian. Some, like Skadden, sought out these deals before they even faced any sanction from the Trump regime.

The law students standing up are brave. The law firms they are protesting are cowards.

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Susie Dent @susiedent.com · Apr 4

Word of the day is ‘quiddler’ (18th century): one who focuses on unimportant issues while avoiding the important ones, or who fiddles/plays golf while Rome burns.

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Amy Millios @amymillios.bsky.social · Apr 4

How the hell is George Conway married to her????

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Apr 4

Always telling their version of the "truth."

Kellyanne Conway Just Tried To Give Trump's Tariffs A Positive Rebrand—And Nobody's Buying It

Alternative facts strike again.

www.comicsands.com

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CatWoman @catwomanresists.bsky.social · Apr 3

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Blue Fairylicious Girl🧚 @bluesnowflake.bsky.social · Apr 4

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A penguin pointing w a stick at a pic sitting on an easel of a Tesla w a pigeon flying over head pooping on it as 3 pigeons look on

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Thierry St-Laurent Dion @tstld.bsky.social · Mar 18

Sketch of a crow

Graphite on paper

#art #birds #sciart #wildlife #traditional

Sketch of a crow made with graphite on paper.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · Mar 18

People need to be crystal clear about something: The requirement that the government ANSWER to a court on the legal basis for detaining someone is literally the core liberty right (habeas corpus). If the government says they don’t have to do that bc “national security,” YOU can be disappeared.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · Mar 17

YES!!!

There is no magical pot of money waiting in Europe for scientists fleeing the US.

And it sure as 💩 isn't in Canada, which has been foolishly slashing university funding and all research funding for YEARS. NZ has recently started doing the same.

A lot of science will just die on the vine.

Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · Mar 16

Pet peeve: I hate how often ppl claim “all the researchers will just move to Europe/Canada!” You vastly under-estimate how little money there is there vs the USA- and unless that changes ASAP this loss is just going to decimate global science, full stop. 🧪🔭

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · Mar 13

Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world.

Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization

Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region. We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant survival over the past 50...

www.thelancet.com

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HawaiiDelilah™ 🌊 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇧 @hawaiidelilah.bsky.social · Mar 12

In actuality, measles can cause long-term damage to the immune system. This is called "immune amnesia," and it is characterized by the body forgetting how to fight off other infections after recovering from measles.

Once again, if you'd like to die like a Medieval peasant -- vote Republican.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · Mar 12

"Top officials of our oldest allies say privately they fear that we are becoming not just unstable, but actually their enemy. The only person who gets treated with kid gloves is Putin..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/o...

Opinion | A Great Unraveling Is Underway

Trump’s foreign policy philosophy is not “containment” or “engagement,” but “smash and grab.”

www.nytimes.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · Mar 11

NEW: Rudy Giuliani has listed his Manhattan apartment for $4.18M; a $1.46M discount! I’ve written an ad:

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Amy Millios @amymillios.bsky.social · Mar 11

I love this!!!! 🤣🤣🤣

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Mar 11

American hunger and financial ruin, TB and AIDS around the world, measles here, Ukrainian deaths, etc. Someone should maybe start a Trump Regime Death Count kind of like the covid statistics from five years ago.

ProPublica @propublica.org · Mar 10

Tuberculosis, the deadliest infectious disease on the planet, kills more than 1.25M people a year. New infections are expected to surge by 30% as a result of closing USAID, a memo says. The increase will inevitably lead to cases in the U.S.

Internal Memos: Senior USAID Leaders Warned Trump Appointees of Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths From Closing Agency

One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, the memos…

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Amy Millios @amymillios.bsky.social · Mar 11

One of my favorite recordings. I’m spending a lot of time with music lately…it’s one of the ways I’m keeping sane with this 💩 government in the U.S. #music #alisonbalsom #IestynDavies #englishconcert #trevorpinnock

m.youtube.com/watch?v=fCSQ...

Alison Balsom | Sound The Trumpet | Eternal Source of Light Divine

YouTube video by Alison Balsom

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Amy Millios @amymillios.bsky.social · Mar 11

This is mine.

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Amy Millios @amymillios.bsky.social · Mar 11

YES!!!

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · Mar 8

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Sarah (believes in you, even when you don't) @skarabara.bsky.social · Mar 8

There's a line from the John Irving book Hotel New Hampshire that I love.

"Keep passing the open windows."

It was a way to tell each other to persevere. To keep on.

So my friends, keep passing the open windows

#BlueSkyArtShow
#Wimdows