sstrumello
@sstrumello.bsky.social
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I’m a former Twitter user, person living w autoimmune Type 1 diabetes (T1D), and am pro-democracy and I am anti-monopoly.
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sstrumello.bsky.social
So, I've created a list of people and entities I find useful to follow for T1D news without too much addiction to corporate media. My list can be found at bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Predictably, but with no peace outcome to speak of, the committee had nothing it could site as a reason for Trump to win one.
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kcklatt.bsky.social
So many papers are clearly written to sex up impact and claim translatability, at the expense of accuracy - that's a gift to pseudoscience. We need to be training the next generation of scientists to be honest and media literate.
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indivisible.org
Every American who believes in the rule of law should see this for what it is: An attack on our democracy from a man who wants to rule, not serve.

We will not be intimidated or silenced. We stand with democracy and against tyranny. Let’s make it clear there are still NO KINGS in the USA. #NoKings
No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...
www.nokings.org
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indivisible.org
Letitia James is being criminally charged for the ‘crime’ of holding Trump accountable. This indictment is the clearest sign yet that Trump’s project isn’t just corruption — it’s monarchy. He’s using the power of the federal government to punish his public servants and protect himself.
New York Attorney General Letitia James charged in fraud case after pressure campaign by Trump
New York Attorney General Letitia James has been charged as part of a mortgage fraud investigation aggressively pushed by the Trump administration.
apnews.com
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newyorkstateag.bsky.social
This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
AG JAMES: “.. This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system. He is forcing federal law enforcement agencies to do his bidding, all because I did my job as the New York State Attorney General.”

@newyorkstateag.bsky.social
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indivisible.org
The difference between Democrats surrendering in March and fighting back now is us. We’re building a unified opposition party that stands up to Trump’s regime and its enablers. Let’s encourage Democrats to keep fighting to protect healthcare for millions of Americans: indivisible.org/campaign/sto...
Axios headline: “Mike Johnson faces growing internal revolt over shutdown”
sstrumello.bsky.social
Look, there are ageist parties who say Mills is too geriatric to run. How old is Sen. Chuck Grassley? (he's 92). The Senate is full of fossils. We need a candidate with potential to unseat Susan Collins, and Janet Mills can likely do it. Unseat Collins first—worry about age later.
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ddayen.bsky.social
I mean read this, the Trump administration in an official document is saying that Americans won't ever pick crops and America won't have enough food to eat because of ICE raids!
prospect.org/politics/tru...
As a result, employers are facing significant economic harms, the filing claims. And incredibly, given the administration’s unceasing rhetoric to the contrary, the Labor Department definitively rejects the idea of Americans replacing the missing workers. “The Department does not believe American workers currently unemployed or marginally employed will make themselves readily available in sufficient numbers to replace large numbers of aliens,” the filing states, adding that agricultural work involves “a distinct set of skills and is among the most physically demanding and hazardous occupations in the U.S. labor market.” (For what it’s worth, nearly half of all agricultural workers are native-born, and significantly more than half are U.S. citizens, according to Department of Agriculture data.)

The Labor Department even claims that broadly advertising agricultural jobs, which is required under the H2-A rules, has not led to a boost in applications from U.S. workers. This is a bit of a fiction; workers who apply often do not receive jobs, and nobody is really checking to see if applications are coming in. “The system isn’t set up to prove that there’s a labor shortage of U.S. workers,” said Costa, of EPI.

In the end, the Labor Department concludes, the only way to protect agricultural employers from disaster and consumers from rising prices and food shortages is to slash wages in the H-2A program to make it more viable to bring in workers. This is an odd response to a workforce crisis, since cutting wages across the sector will likely drive existing workers to look elsewhere for jobs. In fact, farm employers in Florida fear that H-2A foreign workers won’t apply for these jobs anymore because the wages are so low. (There were 384,900 H-2A applications last year.)

But the filing states, “Without swift action, agricultural employers will be unable to maintain operations, and the nation's food supply will be at risk.”
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ddayen.bsky.social
So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."
Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis
In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.
prospect.org
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thelancet.com
The treatment of type 1 diabetes is entering a transformative era.

A recent Review explores three paradigm-shifting developments poised to transform type 1 diabetes treatment: tinyurl.com/2834ymk7
Figure showing the production and transplantation of β cells derived from embryonic or induced pluripotent stem cells. Copyright: 2025 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. CC BY 4.0.
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economist.com
American politicians have long railed against high health-care bills, and point to big pharma as the main culprit. The reality is more complex, as these charts show
Does big pharma gouge Americans?
In the bloated health-care system, others are the real money-makers
econ.st
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