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Ian Kremer @leadcoalition.bsky.social · 12h

A new chip could help scientists track Alzheimer’s disease as it unfolds in real time www.concordia.ca/cunews/encs/... by @concordia.ca

#Alzheimers #dementia #science #neuroscience #NeuroSkyence

RESEARCH: A new chip could help scientists track Alzheimer’s disease as it unfolds in real time | News - Concordia University

Researchers at Concordia and McGill create a portable, label-free device that monitors brain immune cells reactions to disease-causing proteins

www.concordia.ca

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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 8h

A prominent former federal prosecutor tore into a top White House advisor on Thursday, blasting the aide's comment that a judge committed "legal insurrection" as an "absurd" "self-cancelling oxymoron.

Stephen Miller mocked for 'rebellion against logic' by law expert after bizarre meltdown

A prominent former federal prosecutor tore into a top White House advisor on Thursday, blasting the aide's comment that a judge committed "legal insurrection" as an "absurd" "self-cancelling oxymoron."White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller made the remarks while answering reporters' questi...

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HR @paladin4justmercy.bsky.social · 8h

lets pray it is not a nobel peace prize ruse

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HR @paladin4justmercy.bsky.social · 10h

This all goes up on flames after he gets a novel peace prize..
yep not correcting that typo

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 10h

Israel approves Trump’s plan for Gaza ceasefire and hostage release on.ft.com/472bgUg

Israel approves Trump’s plan for Gaza ceasefire and hostage release

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet votes for the first phase of the US president’s peace deal

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HR @paladin4justmercy.bsky.social · 10h

BRING IT BITCH!
INNOCENT
SELECTIVE AND MALICIOUS PROSECUTION.....

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HR @paladin4justmercy.bsky.social · 19h

Is this what this Hamas "deal" is all about? JFC. I pray for the Palestinean ppl. I pray that this is not a ruse.

Mirror Politics @politics.mirror.co.uk · 19h

Keir Starmer today ducked questions over whether Donald Trump should be handed the Nobel Peace Prize he has long craved.

Keir Starmer swerves question about Donald Trump Nobel Peace Prize

www.mirror.co.uk

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HR @paladin4justmercy.bsky.social · 19h

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 20h

Italy’s lower house of parliament blocked efforts today to prosecute three senior ministers over the controversial release of a Libyan general wanted for war crimes.

Meloni’s lawmakers block prosecution of Italian ministers over Libyan warlord release

The vote reflects the firm control held by the prime minister’s governing majority.

www.politico.eu

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HR @paladin4justmercy.bsky.social · 20h

so are these unreliable? MORE POSITIVE NEWS FOR HIM? WTF

The Economist @economist.com · 20h

How do those who voted for Donald Trump feel about his revenge agenda? Polling from YouGov and The Economist shows that most Republicans are largely in favour of it

What American voters really think of the revenge agenda

A third of Republicans support deporting citizens who disagree with Donald Trump

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Colin Miller @evidenceprof.bsky.social · 20h

Today's blog post: Court of Appeals of Georgia Finds “One-Leg Stand” and “Walk and Turn” Field Sobriety Tests are Not Scientific Tests: tinyurl.com/yu6b7znd

Court of Appeals of Georgia Finds "One-Leg Stand" and "Walk and Turn" Field Sobriety Tests are Not Scientific Tests under Daubert

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HR @paladin4justmercy.bsky.social · 20h

Finally

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HR @paladin4justmercy.bsky.social · 20h

FINALLY

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 22h

If you need a Nobel Prize laureate to tell you that Trump can’t be trusted and that making deals with him is for suckers, the NY Times has a guy for you. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 21h

Reforming higher ed via one-on-one business “deals” (🙄) is a bad way to do higher ed policy

nothing about this represents reasoned policy making, nothing incorporates concerns of stakeholders, and any agreement would be the result of unconstitutional coercion and retaliation

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 21h

The de facto norm for the Trump Administration is that we—Black people—are unqualified. I suspect Taylor Swift, when she says “I am not a bad bitch, I am not a savage” she profoundly misread how that line would hit right when black erasure is on the front page, www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u....

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

www.nytimes.com

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 21h

Now @governor.ca.gov can intervene in Illinois-related litigation.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 21h

BREAKING: The Trump administration sent California National Guard troops under federal authority to Illinois, alongside Texas and Illinois National Guard troops, lawyers for the state of Illinois and Chicago told a federal judge early this morning, according to court records. @wttw.bsky.social

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 21h

BREAKING: The Trump administration sent California National Guard troops under federal authority to Illinois, alongside Texas and Illinois National Guard troops, lawyers for the state of Illinois and Chicago told a federal judge early this morning, according to court records. @wttw.bsky.social

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Jonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social · 21h

Can someone remind me which states were in the confederacy?

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 21h

Fairweather federalists: A coalition of MAGA attorneys general file amicus brief supporting Donald Trump’s militarization of a sovereign state and city.

Of note: This is not surprising, given some of these same actors supported overturning the election results in states Joe Biden won.

Counsel for State of Iowa

ADDITIONAL ATTORNEYS GENERAL IN SUPPORT
Austin Knudsen
Attorney General of Montana
Gentner Drummond
Attorney General of Oklahoma
Lynn Fitch
Attorney General of Mississippi
Catherine Hanaway
Attorney General of Missouri
Alan Wilson
Attorney General of South Carolina
Steve Marshall
Attorney General of Alabama
Tim Griffin
Attorney General of Arkansas
James Uthmeier
Attorney General of Florida
Chris Carr
Attorney General of Georgia
Raúl R. Labrador
Attorney General of Idaho
Theodore E. Rokita
Attorney General of Indiana
Kris Kobach
Attorney General of Kansas
Liz Murrill
Attorney General of Louisiana
Michael T. Hilgers
Attorney General of Nebraska
Marty Jackley
Attorney General of South Dakota
Ken Paxton
Attorney General of Texas
John B. McCuskey
Attorney General of West Virginia

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Richard Primus @richardprimus.bsky.social · 21h

The Battle of Portland—the conflict over whether a president can subject a basically peaceful, law-abiding community within the U.S. to armed occupation just by making things up—may become one of the most consequential showdowns in our constitutional history.

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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 1d

Whoa big if true say more

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 1d

Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 1d

Prosecution of Comey looks headed to a dead end.

"Federal prosecutors ... determined that a central witness in their probe would ... likely prevent them from establishing their case to a jury."

abcnews.go.com/US/central-w...

Central witness undermines case against James Comey, prosecutors concluded: Sources

Ex-FBI Director James Comey is set to be arraigned Wednesday, but prosecutors investigating him determined that a central witness would prove "problematic," sources say.

abcnews.go.com

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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 1d

Lindsey Halligan keep-your-law-license challenge

Sean O’Kane @seanokane.bsky.social · 1d

WSJ is reporting that the Truth Social post where Trump told Pam Bondi to prosecute Comey *really was supposed to be a private message*

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

Inside the Justice Department Where the President Calls the Shots

The president has executed a wholesale transformation of the Justice Department, taking control in ways he could have only dreamed of in his first term.

www.wsj.com

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doreengarfield WAR ZONE SURVIVOR @doreengarfield.bsky.social · 1d

Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 1d

Pritzker goes there on Trump: “This is a man who’s suffering dementia…It’s just something in the recesses of his brain that is effectuating to have him call out these cities.” Via Chicago Tribune