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Niema Moshiri @niema.net · 8h

I imagine you've talked to @angierasmussen.bsky.social @kgandersen.bsky.social @flodebarre.bsky.social and the other COVID Origins peeps? They always have the receipts!

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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 12h

Thread:

A year ago yesterday was a very happy day for me. I had lost my prostate. It was good riddance, as it was riddled with cancer. I’m now cancer-free — and thankful for the tax-funded technology that saved my life.

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 14h

New York Attorney General Letitia James, who once bested Donald Trump in court, was charged Thursday as part of a mortgage fraud investigation that the president urged Justice Department officials to pursue.

She's the latest foe of the president to be prosecuted.
buff.ly/Z5DizxJ

New York AG Who Beat Trump in Court Indicted at His Urging

New York Attorney General Letitia James was charged as part of a mortgage fraud investigation pushed by the Trump administration.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Maria Ressa @mariaressa.bsky.social · 21h

Pope Leo urges news outlets not to ‘sell out’ for click-bait www.rappler.com/world/global... via @rappler.com.web.brid.gy

Pope Leo urges news outlets not to 'sell out' for click-bait

On the use of artificial intelligence tools, Pope Leo asks reporters to fight against 'junk' information and to help people recognize fact from fiction

www.rappler.com

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 21h

Hey US scientists, the NY Times wants to hear from you if you've had your funding cut. 🌊🧪

Has Your Scientific Work Been Cut? We Want to Hear.

www.nytimes.com

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 21h

A military spouse caller on C-SPAN today directly begged Speaker Mike Johnson to pass a bill to ensure U.S. troops keep getting paid as the government shutdown drags on, condemning his “audacity” for saying he doesn’t support doing it. www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-j...

Military Spouse Caller On C-SPAN Begs Mike Johnson To Pay Troops Amid Shutdown

“As a Republican, I’m very disappointed ... in you, because you do have the power to call the House back,” a Virginia woman fumed at the speaker.

www.huffpost.com

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 1d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Rob Patro @robp.bsky.social · 1d

And it's posted! If you're interested and eligible, please consider applying through the UMD portal: umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j....

If you're a PI working in algorithmic genomics (& you can recommend my lab to your top graduating students ;P), please let them know!

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Niema Moshiri @niema.net · 1d

Such a great game!!

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Niema Moshiri @niema.net · 1d

a man in a black turtleneck stands in front of a window with perfection written on the bottom right

Alt: X-Men Origins Magneto "Perfect" GIF

media.tenor.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

"On Wednesday, Mr. Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, rode the full route of the M57, a crosstown bus that traverses Midtown Manhattan and is one of the city’s slowest, to remind New Yorkers that he wanted to speed up their commutes."

Mamdani Rides Slow Bus to ‘Fast and Free’ Buses Event

www.nytimes.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

I'm on the slowest bus line in the city with the slowest buses in the nation to talk to New Yorkers about what it would mean for their lives if we made them fast and free.

Zohran sits on a bus talking to a rider sitting behind him.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

Donald Trump is breaching the Constitution and breaking the law.

A show of force so he can militarize our cities because of the 2026 elections.

We need to stand up together and speak up.

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 1d

Today, Senator Kaine and I will force the Senate to vote on the administration’s decision to blow up ships in the Caribbean.

If a president can unilaterally put people or groups on a list and kill them, there is no meaningful limit to his use of force.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Niema Moshiri @niema.net · 1d

I feel like the President of the United States going on national TV to explicitly tell the American people that he is violating their 1st Amendment rights in unambiguous terms should be grounds for impeachment and removal from office. It's antithetical to the values our country was built upon

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 1d

Trump: We took the freedom of speech away

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 2d

🙏 Thank for the kind words.

His powerful writing is quoted in both of my books because he tells it like it is.

If only more people had been as willing to clearly call out obviously dangerous disinformation as he has since 2020- and many years before that too.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 2d

People being afraid to speak out against their government is the antithesis of what America is supposed to be.

The Trump regime trying to sow fear in its opposition, deploying soldiers and unaccountable federal agents with inadequate training and a mission of cruelty is fundamentally unAmerican.

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Tuuli Lappalainen @tuuliel.bsky.social · 1d

We're hiring! My team at @nygenome.org is looking for a statistical genetics postdoc to decipher functional architecture of complex diseases from cutting-edge CRISPR+scRNA-seq data, with @nevillesanjana.bsky.social lab. Happy to meet at #ASHG25, apply here
jobs.silkroad.com/NYGenome/Car...

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Lappalainen & Sanjana Labs - 101 Avenue of the Americas, 7th Floor, New York, New York - New York Genome Center

Find a career with New York Genome Center

jobs.silkroad.com

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2d

Donald Trump is calling for the jailing of his political opponents in Chicago. His DOJ lackeys have already indicted a NJ Congresswoman for conducting ICE facility oversight and James Comey. John Bolton's house was raided.

We must treat these latest threats seriously and all stand up against them.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Nextflow @nextflow.io · 2d

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Niema Moshiri @niema.net · 1d

often Fascism : a populist political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual, that is associated with a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, and that is characterized by severe economic and social regimentation and by *forcible suppression of opposition*

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 1d

@himself.bsky.social says it clearly. It is not rocket science. It is solidarity. Time for alums, students, faculty and staff at universities to stand together against Trump's wannabe-authoritarianism. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

www.nytimes.com

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