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Dr. Galina Portnoy @drgalinaportnoy.bsky.social · 22d

What the actual fuck?

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · Sep 9

RFK Jr: We had lots of guns when we were kids. Kids brought guns to school and were encouraged to do so. And nobody was walking into schools and shooting people. There are many things that could explain this. One is the dependence on psychiatric drugs.

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Dr. Galina Portnoy @drgalinaportnoy.bsky.social · 23d

Grateful to @istss.bsky.social for selecting Baltimore as the host city for #ISTSS2025! Prioritizing self-care while conferencing = lovely sunrise run along the Inner Harbor 🌅

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Dr. Galina Portnoy @drgalinaportnoy.bsky.social · 27d

Exactly. They are looking for (or creating…) a pretext to justify dismantling democracy and consolidating power. This is all by design. This is the authoritarianism playbook.

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Dr. Galina Portnoy @drgalinaportnoy.bsky.social · 27d

Exactly. They are looking for (or creating…) a pretext to justify dismantling democracy and consolidating power. This is all by design. This is the authoritarianism playbook.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · Sep 11

TIP FOR CONSERVATIVES:

If you are bereft over the gun shooting of Charlie Kirk, just pretend he was a kid in an elementary school, and you will forget about the whole thing within a minute.

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Dr. Galina Portnoy @drgalinaportnoy.bsky.social · Jul 29

Just saw this pub today! Beautiful job getting this important work out!!! 💓

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Dr. Galina Portnoy @drgalinaportnoy.bsky.social · Jul 20

I've been saying "it's so great to see you" and sometimes also "and see that you're still here" bc too many have left or are leaving 😭

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Dr. Galina Portnoy @drgalinaportnoy.bsky.social · Jul 20

Slashing R&D and pretending climate change doesn’t exist won't stop it from existing, it just delays the solutions we imminently need.

Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Jul 18

Today, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it will shut down its Office of Research and Development and eliminate thousands of agency jobs. According to the agency, this office has long served as the scientific backbone of its efforts to protect both public health and the environment.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · Jul 19

US citizen and army vet was detained during immigration raid and held incommunicado for three days
www.cnn.com/2025/07/19/u...

A US citizen and Army veteran was detained at an immigration raid and held for 3 days. His family scrambled to find him | CNN

George Retes, a 25-year-old Army veteran and father of two, had been planning his three-year-old daughter’s Minnie Mouse birthday party at the park for weeks.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Jun 25

If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?

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Dr. Galina Portnoy @drgalinaportnoy.bsky.social · Jun 22

Thank you for this prayer, @marisaelana.bsky.social 💜

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · Jun 22

We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · May 23

Trump cut staffing at the VA, and now Dallas vets are waiting months for care.

Surgeries are being delayed. Vets are being left without mental health care.

I’ve called for an investigation—because if you claim to support veterans, act like it.

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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · Apr 6

Washington Post: 'NIH scientists have a cancer breakthrough. Layoffs are delaying it.'

'A big step forward in cancer therapy has been slowed by layoffs and new restrictions at the National Institutes of Health, where it was developed.'

www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

NIH scientists have a cancer breakthrough. Layoffs are delaying it.

A big step forward in cancer therapy has been slowed by layoffs and new restrictions at the National Institutes of Health, where it was developed.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Dr. Galina Portnoy @drgalinaportnoy.bsky.social · Mar 21

More American people and businesses should be distancing themselves from the cruelty, bullying, and xenophobic actions of this administration. Not just for the sake of diplomacy, but to preserve the soul of our nation. Thank you for your thoughtful and compassionate letter, @ricksteves.bsky.social.

Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · Mar 21

An open letter from an American-owned tour company to our Canadian travel buddies 🍁

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · Mar 17

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away.

They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · Mar 16

Exclusive: NIH officials have advised scientists to remove reference to mRNA vaccines from their grant applications, in expectation the Trump administration intends to abandon most research in the field.

By @arthurallen202.bsky.social

kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants - KFF Health News

Two senior scientists say National Institutes of Health officials advised them to remove references to mRNA vaccines in grant applications, and they fear the Trump administration will abandon a promis...

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Dr. Galina Portnoy @drgalinaportnoy.bsky.social · Mar 9

Yup. Even if my job is protected or moved to a purely clinical role (I'm a research & clinical psychologist), the majority of my research team are support roles, which if terminated, would halt my program of research, including my ongoing clinical trial in which veterans are currently enrolled.

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Dr. Galina Portnoy @drgalinaportnoy.bsky.social · Mar 9

Yup. Even if my job is protected or moved to a purely clinical role (I'm a research & clinical psychologist), the majority of my research team are support roles, which if terminated, would halt my program of research, including my ongoing clinical trial in which veterans are currently enrolled.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Mar 9

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Dr. Galina Portnoy @drgalinaportnoy.bsky.social · Mar 6

MAGA trashed posters about the diversity of afferent firing in the cochlea (research on HEARING!) at a conference in FL bc they thought it was DEI. I can't believe we need to tell people now that the word "diversity" is used to convey meaning other than what the administration calls "woke ideology"

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Dr. Galina Portnoy @drgalinaportnoy.bsky.social · Feb 24

The president of the United States is now using SpongeBob memes to troll his federal workforce. What an embarrassment.

Meme featuring SpongeBob SquarePants with a tired, unimpressed expression while holding a pencil and a notepad. The bottom half of the image shows a close-up of a handwritten to-do list titled 'Got Done Last Week,' which includes 'Cried about Trump,' 'Cried about Elon,' 'Made it into the office for once,' 'Read some emails,' and 'Cried about Trump and Elon some more.' The post is attributed to 'Donald J. Trump' (@realDonaldTrump) with a verified badge.

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Dr. Galina Portnoy @drgalinaportnoy.bsky.social · Feb 23

Have we started a "wrong answers only" thread yet? And please note, the email doesn't specify what you accomplished AT WORK 😂

#fednews #FederalEmployees #fedemployees #FederalWorkers #feds #altgov #resist

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · Feb 22

Here’s the email everyone is getting from OPM. Embarrassing stuff.

Please reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and cc your manager.
Please do not send any classified information, links, or attachments.
Deadline is this Monday at 11:59pmEST.

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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · Feb 23

been thinking a lot about this quote lately

“There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Feb 22

And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

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Dr. Galina Portnoy @drgalinaportnoy.bsky.social · Feb 22

Marc, that was beautiful. Thank you for sharing your story - it is one that mirrors many of ours.

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