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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 1h

The guy who keeps invading cities and bombing foreigners whenever he feels like it and keeps dangling invasion of Greenland, Canada, Mexico, and Venezuela didn’t win the Nobel peace prize this year

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Anne Simon 🧪🌱🐴🦠🍊🇨🇦🇺🇦 @annealiz1.bsky.social · 1h

Hope you enjoy the book!

Anne Simon 🧪🌱🐴🦠🍊🇨🇦🇺🇦 @annealiz1.bsky.social · 1h

Favorite episodes! So many to choose from. But here are some:

1. Home
2. The Host
3. The Post-modern Prometheus
4. My Struggle 2 (because I got writing credit and introduced CRISPR to 50 million non-scientists!)
5. Redux, where Scully does a Southern blot in 4 hours!

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Anne Simon 🧪🌱🐴🦠🍊🇨🇦🇺🇦 @annealiz1.bsky.social · 3h

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Retribution Is Here

The president’s threats of revenge are no longer bluster.

www.theatlantic.com

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Anne Simon 🧪🌱🐴🦠🍊🇨🇦🇺🇦 @annealiz1.bsky.social · 3h

My USDA grant, delayed for 8 months for no reason, is now delayed again because a letter they now require be sent from the university cannot be accepted until the Government reopens. Desperately need the funds. That said, Senate Democrats must hold firm so millions can keep health insurance!

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 17h

I knew Fox News was theater. I just didn't realize it was a repertory theater that recycles actors for different roles.

You'd think a company that had to pay $787,000,000 for deceiving its viewers would be a little more careful about blatantly continuing the practice.

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Andy HP @andyp8424.bsky.social · 13h

NASA was created, Senator Johnson made Houston a big part, and we got to the moon.

Ike was a progressive, like Lincoln and Teddy.

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Anne Simon 🧪🌱🐴🦠🍊🇨🇦🇺🇦 @annealiz1.bsky.social · 3h

But of course she did. Anyone who can lie as fluently as she can has zero ethics

NWArkProgressive @arkprogressive.bsky.social · 3h

Didn’t she also get her some beauty pageant teeth in Texas for free because she gave the dentist lots of publicity?

ProPublica @propublica.org · 11h

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

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NWArkProgressive @arkprogressive.bsky.social · 3h

Didn’t she also get her some beauty pageant teeth in Texas for free because she gave the dentist lots of publicity?

ProPublica @propublica.org · 11h

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

www.propublica.org

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Anne Simon 🧪🌱🐴🦠🍊🇨🇦🇺🇦 @annealiz1.bsky.social · 3h

Reading up on her. She sounds like a wonderful choice!!

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Anne Simon 🧪🌱🐴🦠🍊🇨🇦🇺🇦 @annealiz1.bsky.social · 3h

THIS!
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NWArkProgressive @arkprogressive.bsky.social · 3h

This costumed protesting is the most important resistance happening

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11h

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

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Democrats Organizing For America @democratsofa.bsky.social · 19h

#TrumpInflation

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Anne Simon 🧪🌱🐴🦠🍊🇨🇦🇺🇦 @annealiz1.bsky.social · 21h

Sorry, have to wait with everyone else to hear

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 1d

The acting CDC Director has no knowledge, training or experience in science/public health. Trump has no knowledge, training or experience in science/public health.

Both are calling to make the MMR vaccine into 3 separate shots, which makes absolutely no scientific or public health sense.

Acting CDC boss wants to break up MMR vaccine into three shots

Jim O’Neill joins President Donald Trump’s call for three distinct measles, mumps and rubella shots, claiming a separation would ‘reduce the risk of side effects’ and ‘maximize parental choice’

www.independent.co.uk

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Anne Simon 🧪🌱🐴🦠🍊🇨🇦🇺🇦 @annealiz1.bsky.social · 1d

Sign me up!

BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 1d

Just published, a study describing a taste-based flu test yes, chewing gum that could tell you if you have influenza. The gum contains a sensor that detects the flu enzyme neuraminidase & releases a compound called thymol that changes taste when the virus is present.
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

A Viral Neuraminidase-Specific Sensor for Taste-Based Detection of Influenza

Influenza has caused the deadliest pandemics in history, thereby prompting advances in our ability to ensure vigilance at all stages of future outbreaks. Quarantining patients early is crucial when it...

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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 1d

Trump 'misfired' direct message to Bondi with post demanding Comey indictment: WSJ

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Trump 'misfired' direct message to Bondi with post demanding Comey indictment: WSJ

twp.ai

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🖤💋SammieSam💋🖤 @sammiestsam.sheshed.rocks · 1d

Idk who needs to see this.

But the quicker we can get the House to come back in DC. The better.

Don't let up!!

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
#SheShed

A screenshot of a Eric Swalwell tweet from Twitter.

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Brian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · 1d

Rep Swalwell (D-CA) tells Simon Rosenberg that Democrats are united and making sure the American people know that #TrumpShutUSDown All so he and MAGA Republicans can rob us of our healthcare to give tax cuts to billionaires. Republicans don’t give a shit about working families.

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 2d

Solidarity with @mark-bray.bsky.social, a fantastic, thoughtful, and generous scholar whose work about antifa is so important in this moment.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

www.theguardian.com

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Francine Lipman @narfnampil.bsky.social · 1d

#SwearHerIn

Jeremy Gibson Brown PhD @jeremygibsonbrown.bsky.social · 2d

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

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Anne Simon 🧪🌱🐴🦠🍊🇨🇦🇺🇦 @annealiz1.bsky.social · 1d

The Palisades fire was deliberately set? Horrible if true

www.reuters.com/business/env...

www.reuters.com

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 2d

Big thank you to the great @murray.senate.gov for joining Meidas Health today with my great friend and physician leader @drkavitapatel.bsky.social to break down the terrible impacts of rhe government shutdown on our nations health.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Murray: I talked to a family that’s paying about $300 a month for their health insurance. It’s going to jump to over $1,800 per month.

Many people will turn away and not pay for it—obviously, they’ll lose their health insurance. The fewer people who have insurance, the more everybody pays.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 2d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts 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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Anne Simon 🧪🌱🐴🦠🍊🇨🇦🇺🇦 @annealiz1.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe he only considers Republicans to be real Americans