Berna
@bernaboop.bsky.social
Ferret mom and nurse. Thinker, reader, hiker. Here for the politics 💙 and pet photos. Humor is good too. 🇺🇦 #BLM #BeKind #bluecrew #goodtrouble #resist Antifa 🐸
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Department Of Reversal.
New in PN: Why every vestige of Trump must be torn down
"The truly devoted will still open their wallets to buy lifetime supplies of Trump Bronzer for Men, Trump Blast Energy Drink, & Trump Adult Diapers. But his name should not adorn anything official, anything representing our country & its govt"
"The truly devoted will still open their wallets to buy lifetime supplies of Trump Bronzer for Men, Trump Blast Energy Drink, & Trump Adult Diapers. But his name should not adorn anything official, anything representing our country & its govt"
Why every vestige of Trump must be torn down
He's trying to create a physical legacy. The moment he's out of power, it has to be smashed to bits.
www.publicnotice.co
December 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Department Of Reversal.
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Forced removal of ethnic, racial, or religious groups is ethnic cleansing – stop calling it 'deportation'. It's also a crime against humanity.
December 28, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Forced removal of ethnic, racial, or religious groups is ethnic cleansing – stop calling it 'deportation'. It's also a crime against humanity.
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Turns out the most powerful scientist in America, MAGA hero Jay Bhattacharya—who claimed he was being “censored” (!) cuz pandemic control experts, epidemiologists, virologists, physicians & other health workers rejected his push for mass infection instead of mass vaccination—LOVES censoring others!
Back in the old days, we used to call this a purge. Firing all your senior leaders at NIH? It's a purge. Just call it what it is.
More news (not good) from NIH
The renewal request from National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke Director Walter Koroshetz has been denied.
I guess the NIH_leadership™ needed another position to fill with their time-tested recruitment process.
The renewal request from National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke Director Walter Koroshetz has been denied.
I guess the NIH_leadership™ needed another position to fill with their time-tested recruitment process.
December 27, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Turns out the most powerful scientist in America, MAGA hero Jay Bhattacharya—who claimed he was being “censored” (!) cuz pandemic control experts, epidemiologists, virologists, physicians & other health workers rejected his push for mass infection instead of mass vaccination—LOVES censoring others!
Dismantling the American Research Enterprise www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
Opinion | Dismantling the American Research Enterprise
The government's self-sabotage could not come at a worse time
www.medpagetoday.com
December 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Dismantling the American Research Enterprise www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
Yes.
It’s hard to believe that one man can cause so much stress, so much fear, so much pain and suffering…a man who took an oath to preserve and protect our Constitution. This man, who is inciting terror across our land, must be removed from office. In a sane world, it would happen immediately.
December 27, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Yes.
We take so much for granted. Looking forward to reading this four-part series.
Charles Mann on the major accomplishments of government of which few seem conscious: The electric grid, the public-water supply, the food-distribution network, and the public-health system took the collective labor of thousands of people over many decades. They are the cathedrals of our secular era
We Live Like Royalty and Don’t Know It
Introducing “How the System Works,” a series on the hidden mechanisms that support modern life
www.thenewatlantis.com
December 26, 2025 at 6:47 PM
We take so much for granted. Looking forward to reading this four-part series.
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December 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Take a break and have a smile.😁
The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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December 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Take a break and have a smile.😁
Stand Up For Science! Do it!
It's Festivus, so I'm going to air some grievances.
1. If you're going to write a year end story about how scientists responded to authoritarianism and *NOT* include @standupforscience.bsky.social in the write up or cite that the photo you used as your header is from one of our rallies...that's bs.
1. If you're going to write a year end story about how scientists responded to authoritarianism and *NOT* include @standupforscience.bsky.social in the write up or cite that the photo you used as your header is from one of our rallies...that's bs.
December 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Stand Up For Science! Do it!
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With the 60 minutes leak, the many recent Epstein releases, etc., I think we are seeing the future of government accountability under authoritarianism:
Leaks, hacks, data dumps, releases of big document caches.
Journalists and the public will have to learn how to digest this stuff. 🧵
Leaks, hacks, data dumps, releases of big document caches.
Journalists and the public will have to learn how to digest this stuff. 🧵
December 23, 2025 at 3:21 AM
With the 60 minutes leak, the many recent Epstein releases, etc., I think we are seeing the future of government accountability under authoritarianism:
Leaks, hacks, data dumps, releases of big document caches.
Journalists and the public will have to learn how to digest this stuff. 🧵
Leaks, hacks, data dumps, releases of big document caches.
Journalists and the public will have to learn how to digest this stuff. 🧵
Barbaric and cruel. I’m ashamed of what our country stands for under this administration.
P.S. here's the leaked 60 minutes segment, in case you hadn't seen it. These kidnappers and human traffickers can't hide from us.
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
www.muellershewrote.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Barbaric and cruel. I’m ashamed of what our country stands for under this administration.
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So apparently there are many Epstein files on the DOJ website where you can highlight the redacted text, copy it, and paste it onto another document to read the redactions
December 23, 2025 at 12:39 AM
So apparently there are many Epstein files on the DOJ website where you can highlight the redacted text, copy it, and paste it onto another document to read the redactions
Fascinating discussions about the miniseries. After listening to both episodes I now have to figure out how to watch the series. That this level of incompetence is in the current administration is alarming.
"Our power comes from the perception of our power."
It's the theme of this week's episode of Control Room, where @derekgottliebphd.com and I revisit HBO's Chernobyl. And it also fittingly describes the house of cards on which our current administration is built.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2...
It's the theme of this week's episode of Control Room, where @derekgottliebphd.com and I revisit HBO's Chernobyl. And it also fittingly describes the house of cards on which our current administration is built.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2...
(2) Our Power Comes from the Perception of Our Power
Podcast Episode · Control Room · 12/19/2025 · 1h
podcasts.apple.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Fascinating discussions about the miniseries. After listening to both episodes I now have to figure out how to watch the series. That this level of incompetence is in the current administration is alarming.
I’d really like to watch this story. @60minutes.bsky.social had such integrity But maybe time to #boycott If we can’t count on their valuable human interest stories.
December 21, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I’d really like to watch this story. @60minutes.bsky.social had such integrity But maybe time to #boycott If we can’t count on their valuable human interest stories.
The trump-RFK revenge tour continues.
The Trump administration is punishing the American Academy of Pediatrics.
I have enough thoughts about this for an entire feature length documentary but here are two minutes of them.
(Spoiler alert: you can’t fight bad politics by staying apolitical.)
I have enough thoughts about this for an entire feature length documentary but here are two minutes of them.
(Spoiler alert: you can’t fight bad politics by staying apolitical.)
December 18, 2025 at 9:17 PM
The trump-RFK revenge tour continues.
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🚨PSA🚨
A government restricting what scientists are allowed to study has NEVER been a sign of a society moving towards a more free, more just, or more enlightened future.
A thriving scientific ecosystem is a core pillar of a healthy democracy.
A government restricting what scientists are allowed to study has NEVER been a sign of a society moving towards a more free, more just, or more enlightened future.
A thriving scientific ecosystem is a core pillar of a healthy democracy.
December 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
🚨PSA🚨
A government restricting what scientists are allowed to study has NEVER been a sign of a society moving towards a more free, more just, or more enlightened future.
A thriving scientific ecosystem is a core pillar of a healthy democracy.
A government restricting what scientists are allowed to study has NEVER been a sign of a society moving towards a more free, more just, or more enlightened future.
A thriving scientific ecosystem is a core pillar of a healthy democracy.
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Update on the leaked FDA memo
December 15, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Update on the leaked FDA memo
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For 22 years we have had a Senate with 1 Lindsey Graham and 0 pediatricians.
How about we try a Senate with 0 Lindsey Grahams and 1 pediatrician?
How about we try a Senate with 0 Lindsey Grahams and 1 pediatrician?
December 15, 2025 at 3:42 PM
For 22 years we have had a Senate with 1 Lindsey Graham and 0 pediatricians.
How about we try a Senate with 0 Lindsey Grahams and 1 pediatrician?
How about we try a Senate with 0 Lindsey Grahams and 1 pediatrician?
More facts:
WATCH — @sawyerhackett.bsky.social: "Trump has created more ‘illegal immigrants’ than he has deported… and 93% have no criminal record.“
December 14, 2025 at 12:12 AM
More facts:
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It’s time to start calling Trump’s immigration agenda what it is: ethnic cleansing
December 8, 2025 at 9:37 PM
It’s time to start calling Trump’s immigration agenda what it is: ethnic cleansing
This is how it’s done.
🗃️ Vice President Al Gore delivers a concession speech following the Supreme Court’s ruling in Bush v. Gore. December 12, 2000.
December 13, 2025 at 10:08 PM
This is how it’s done.
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American Science, Shattered
A multipart series on how the Trump administration has disrupted labs, upended lives, and delayed discoveries.
www.statnews.com/american-sci...
A multipart series on how the Trump administration has disrupted labs, upended lives, and delayed discoveries.
www.statnews.com/american-sci...
American Science, Shattered
An eight-decade partnership between universities and the federal government made U.S. science preeminent. It took Trump less than a year to shred that
www.statnews.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:04 AM
American Science, Shattered
A multipart series on how the Trump administration has disrupted labs, upended lives, and delayed discoveries.
www.statnews.com/american-sci...
A multipart series on how the Trump administration has disrupted labs, upended lives, and delayed discoveries.
www.statnews.com/american-sci...
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I am never shocked these days but here is a breakdown of how unserious the ACIP has become by allowing an antivaccine lawyer 2 hours of airtime to mislead the public.
drrubin.substack.com/p/how-aaron-...
drrubin.substack.com/p/how-aaron-...
How Aaron Siri Misled ACIP and the public
And why it endangers public health
drrubin.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:51 AM
I am never shocked these days but here is a breakdown of how unserious the ACIP has become by allowing an antivaccine lawyer 2 hours of airtime to mislead the public.
drrubin.substack.com/p/how-aaron-...
drrubin.substack.com/p/how-aaron-...