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chasingmicrobes @chasingmicrobes.bsky.social · 17d

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No promises, but if @evoquant.bsky.social hosted a buttload of pre-computed antiSMASH v8 results would anyone be interested in paying for fast access to those (in traditional antiSMASH view)?

Probably subscription and a very small per-genome fee.

fry from futurama says just out of curiosity in a cartoon

ALT: fry from futurama says just out of curiosity in a cartoon

media.tenor.com

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chasingmicrobes @chasingmicrobes.bsky.social · 4h

Good morning Chicago

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 17h

“A broader audience”. I wonder what Mike Johnson means. 🤔

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chasingmicrobes @chasingmicrobes.bsky.social · 7h

We had more info about those deployed in CA.
Are they armed?
Armed with what?

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 15h

U.S. Northern Command says that elements of the Texas national guard are now “employed in the greater Chicago area.”

The statement claims that they’ve been deployed to protect ICE and federal property.

U.S. Northern Command &
@USNorthernCmd
X.com
Effective today, elements of the Texas National Guard, under Title 10 authority and command and control of U.S. Northern Command, are employed in the greater Chicago area.
These soldiers are employed to protect U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other
U.S. Government personnel who are performing federal functions, including the enforcement of federal law, and to protect federal property.
For the latest information on our Federal Protection Mission, please see the link below:

chasingmicrobes @chasingmicrobes.bsky.social · 7h

Same.
But that also means he's using DMs in Truth Social to communicate with cabinet members?

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15h

Part of me was like “there’s no way it was actually a failed DM” but I guess so?!

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 16h

WSJ: President Trump believed his Truth Social post demanding prosecutions of James Comey and other political foes was a private message to his attorney general, and "and was surprised to learn it was public."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 16h

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Jack Smith’s lawfare and James Comey’s arraignment on pathetically weak charges

Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 22h

This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

Setting aside the absurdly xenophobic framing, once again, there is ZERO truth to any of this. Everyone qualifies for Emergency Medicaid equally. Hospitals do not receive more for treating undocumented immigrants in an emergency than Americans. Speaker Johnson is flatly wrong.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Jacob Schriner-Briggs @jschrinerbriggs.bsky.social · 20h

That said, evaluating what they'll actually be able to do is secondary insofar as (1) this entire spectacle should be offensive on its own terms to anyone who values basic freedoms and (2) if they *could* do everything they repeatedly threaten, I have no doubt they *would.*

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 17h

HuffPost doing the lord's work of basically quoting me (and Atiba!) unedited, as god intended www.huffpost.com/entry/texas-...

Why This Military Move Amid Trump's Crackdown Has Experts Sounding The Alarm

Law professors weigh in on what's most concerning about the recent National Guard deployments, with one emphasizing why the current situation is scary.

www.huffpost.com

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 1d

Damn right.

And the strong reporting hasn’t come only from legacy outlets such as the Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Tribune but also from newer independent media such as Block Club Chicago, the TRiiBE, Borderless, Unraveled, and South Side Weekly.

There is nothing like being there and seeing things with your own eyes, which is why local journalism is so important.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

has anybody ever been more obviously full of shit than Pam Bondi is at the end of this 20 second clip?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump calls for Brandon Johnson and JB Pritzker to be imprisoned

Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also!

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chasingmicrobes @chasingmicrobes.bsky.social · 1d

If the mental ability of *any* President has become compromised (stroke, dementia) they should be considered for 25th Amendment removal.

"What about Biden or a Dem?"
Yes

There are >300 million US citizens to choose from

chasingmicrobes @chasingmicrobes.bsky.social · 1d

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You don't have to sign up on any website to attend.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 1d

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

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chasingmicrobes @chasingmicrobes.bsky.social · 1d

Spotted yesterday (Chicago)

www.mobilize.us/indivisiblec...

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 1d

As a lawyer, I’m begging all the court watchers out there to stop being such lawyers about it. They are nakedly political. Their reasoning, when they deign to write any, is lipstick on a pig. The people need to understand that. Tell them plainly.

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 2d

There is widespread support in Russia for Vladimir Putin, even after he impoverished the country and fed Russian teens into a war woodchipper.

Why? Because he took over the media in Russia and uses it to deceive people. That’s what’s happening here too with Ellison and Bari Weiss.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

crazy that one of the most storied institutions in american journalism is going to be run by two people with basically no experience to do it

Exclusive | CBS News taps Adam Rubenstein — once ostracized at NY Times for liking Chick-fil-A — as new deputy editor

Sources expect Rubenstein will effectively run the Free Press now that Weiss will be busy steering the editorial direction of shows like “60 Minutes,” “Face The Nation” and …

nypost.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

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Noah @ncallaway.bsky.social · 2d

I think this is half the goal of AI for those seeking a post-truth order. Yes, they can produce fake evidence against people they don’t like, but probably more importantly they can dismiss actual evidence against them as being fake.

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 2d

Sora is not the real problem here. The real problem is that in 12, at most 24 months, there will be a Sora clone from Tencent or Alibaba that is just as good and can be run by anybody with a 5099, at which point everyone in society needs to rapidly agree to treat all digital video as fake, period.

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chasingmicrobes @chasingmicrobes.bsky.social · 1d

Well the airports are gonna start shutting down if this government shutdown lasts too much longer...

chasingmicrobes @chasingmicrobes.bsky.social · 4d

"When is it time to flee the US?" I've been asked. "When will it be too late?"

😶

Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 4d

i can‘t get over how he performatively straps his gun around his back as if that somehow evens any kind of odds before jumping an unarmed man with his gun-toting buddy right next to him

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent.

Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 2d

Thugs

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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 3d

The new Supreme Court term starts today, meaning that -- in a novel twist -- the justices will hear oral arguments in some cases before they issue rulings that actually explain what they are doing.

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