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Sapient Librarian @22rabbit.bsky.social · 9h

Dem Rep Ro Khanna says Trump & GOP using govt shutdown to block release of Epstein files. “This House shut b/c they don’t want to release Epstein files,” he told Joanna Coles Daily Beast Podcast. Extraordinary measures & NO votes is fear of files. Adds skepticism anger of public tinyurl.com/2k3rhbmm

This Is the Sinister Reason for Trump’s Government Shutdown: Congressman

Rep. Ro Khanna believes the president and his party want to keep the government closed for darker reasons.

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Sapient Librarian @22rabbit.bsky.social · 10h

Near Green Bay WI is Tsyunhéhkw∧ (joon-HEY’-kwa) tribal owned farm part of Oneida Nation Grows Oneida white corn heirloom variety w/pearl-like kernels pale butter color & ears long as forearm Modern machinery can't harvest 18 ft stalks & thus entire crop done by hand tinyurl.com/ztu9n7d8http...

Harvesting the Heirloom Corn That Nourishes the Oneida Nation

The stalks of this white corn can grow 18 feet high and 4 inches thick, and all of it must be harvested by hand.

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Sapient Librarian @22rabbit.bsky.social · 17h

US FDA More Ground Cinnamon Products Added to FDA Public Health Alert Due to Presence of Elevated Levels of Lead 10-8-2025 tinyurl.com/mu6r3276

Safety Alert

The FDA is advising consumers to throw away and not to buy the ground cinnamon products because samples of products listed in the table were found to contain elevated levels of lead.

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Sapient Librarian @22rabbit.bsky.social · 17h

AG Bondi @witness table smirking stonewalling basic questions hurling personal insults thumbing through folder of pre-scripted attacks. 1/2 room applauds like MAGA rally other 1/2 dumbstruck. How do we run democracy when a congressional oversight hearing is WWE smackdown event tinyurl.com/yc8en96y

"Bondi Torches Justice For Trump"

Pam Bondi didn’t testify; she detonated. Oversight collapsed into insults, lies, and theater, while Republicans clapped like seals and democracy sank one more rung into the abyss.

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Sapient Librarian @22rabbit.bsky.social · 18h

10-9-24 Hurricane Milton nears, Florida Highway Patrol share video of state trooper helping frightened bull terrier chained to fence surrounded by water May 28 the Florida Senate passed “Trooper’s Law” making 3rd-degree felony to abandon restrain pet during natural disasters tinyurl.com/2uezpzmd

Rescued dog from hurricane finds loving home, sparks new pet law!

On October 9, 2024, as Hurricane Milton made its way toward Florida, the Florida Highway Patrol-Tampa shared an uplifting video that touched the hearts of many. In this moving clip, a kind state troop

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Sapient Librarian @22rabbit.bsky.social · 18h

Medscape: When Tumors Vanish Mystery of Spontaneous Regression by J Senn. Spontaneous cancer regression uncommon event most often w/neuroblastoma leukemia lung cancer melanoma. Underlying mechanisms not understood; h/w infections & immune system activation possible treatment tinyurl.com/4832932t

When Tumors Vanish: The Mystery of Spontaneous Regression

Spontaneous regression is most commonly reported in neuroblastoma and leukemia. Case series link infection, transfusion, and immune activation to short-lived remission.

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Sapient Librarian @22rabbit.bsky.social · 18h

Don't use AI for medical advice! Case highlights AI-derived medical info can cause preventable adverse health outcomes if decontextualised from clinician. Patient asks ChatGPT-3.5 to remove sodium chloride (salt) from diet. AI said use bromide & patient got heavy metal poisoning tinyurl.com/ykkrazvv

ChatGPT Advice Triggers Bromide Poisoning, Psychosis

Physicians warn that AI recommendations cannot substitute professional medical consultations, as shown in a case of bromide-induced psychosis.

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Sapient Librarian @22rabbit.bsky.social · 1d

Star Columnist Fired by Bezos Says Billionaire Is Helping Trump Destroy Democracy. Washington Post star who got kicked out reveals how the Amazon boss ‘flipped’ the paper to suck up to Trump. by Tom Latchem tinyurl.com/57ffn45a

Sapient Librarian @22rabbit.bsky.social · 1d

I Know Why Trump Isn’t the Man I Knew: Scaramucci
HIS UNMISSABLE DECLINE aging president gotten hooked on the “power drug,” his former communications director told The Daily Beast Podcast by Erkki Forste tinyurl.com/wwuuf2nn

Sapient Librarian @22rabbit.bsky.social · 1d

Michael Cohen: Trump tactics not mystery to me Been in the room drafting very moves now deployed Strategy simple dominate narrative even fabricating 1 Flood w/so much noise people stop questioning details Create villains heroes battles betrayals No governing it’s show business tinyurl.com/4kej6yva

"Trump’s Lies Cost Citizens Everything"

A president rewriting reality, a government frozen in chaos, and leaders lost in illusion; when truth becomes optional, Americans pay the heavy price and democracy itself teeters on collapse.

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Sapient Librarian @22rabbit.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo condemns climate change critics (like Trump) @speech Castel Gondolfo by M McGrath. Pope Leo 14th hits those who minimize evident rising temps. 1st major statement on climate change reiterates Pope Francis & lambasts those who "ridicule those who speak of global warming" tinyurl.com/bdey7zhh

Pope Leo hits out at critics of global warming

In his first major statement on climate change, the pontiff criticises those who minimise climate change.

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Sapient Librarian @22rabbit.bsky.social · 1d

The climate actions that really work, worried about climate change? The evidence shows these are the most impactful actions you can take, by Jocelyn Timperley tinyurl.com/bdtba8em

Worried about climate change? The evidence shows these are the most impactful actions you can take

Worried about climate change? Here's what the evidence shows are the most effective things you can do.

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Sapient Librarian @22rabbit.bsky.social · 1d

Wild! Atlas Obscura: tinyurl.com/vhr4enpc Tesla thought he had interplanetary communication & was creating system for Earth to answer back. Not alone as French Florence Raulin Cerceau documented Victorian-era scientists working on ET communication-- mostly involved giant mirrors!

Victorians Wanted to Contact Aliens Using Giant Mirrors

It would have been very, very expensive, though.

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Sapient Librarian @22rabbit.bsky.social · 1d

Nobel Prize in Physics- Quantum effects in world. Physicists John Clarke, Michel Devoret & John Martinis won demonstrating quantum physics macroscopically Experiment w/quantum tunnelling observed in special circuit w/2 superconductors separated w/thin barrier/Josephson junction tinyurl.com/2ytj6vue

Groundbreaking quantum-tunnelling experiments win physics Nobel

John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis discovered quantum physics on a macroscopic scale, paving the way for quantum computing.

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Sapient Librarian @22rabbit.bsky.social · 1d

Marjorie Taylor Greene's break from GOP on shutdown is significant by Z Aleem “when tax credits expire my own adult children’s 2026 insurance premiums will DOUBLE along w/all families hard-working people in my district. Not single GPO talked to us or has plan to help Americans" tinyurl.com/2893566t

Sapient Librarian @22rabbit.bsky.social · 1d

Omg! Camera trap to monitor jaguars in southern Mexico FINDS rabbit. Not any rabbit! Finds Omiltemi cottontail species believed extinct for 120+ yrs. Discovery published in "Re:wild’s Search for Lost Species project" is dramatic & sparked a new chapter in conservation science tinyurl.com/4ndtsrjr

Sapient Librarian @22rabbit.bsky.social · 1d

‘Large' creature w/spines on belly in S. China stream. It's a new species by Aspen Pflughoeft. New species Quasipaa phamanhi aka Pham Anh's spiny frog. Study: a bit over 4 in long robust bodies large head stout arms moderately long legs large eyes w/diamond-shaped pupils copper/upper & grey/lower

Sapient Librarian @22rabbit.bsky.social · 1d

French geologist Michel Siffre Vanished 130 meters in Cave for 63 Days, Discoveries Reshapes Science even now by A Amiri tinyurl.com/4tm29wet Glacier survey becomes experiment for time perception reshaping knowledge of circadian rhythms space medicine neuroscience sleep science tinyurl.com/4tm29wet

Sapient Librarian @22rabbit.bsky.social · 1d

Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich warns US could be heading toward “either martial law or civil war.” Reich is former Clinton Cabinet member notes Trump’s talk of invoking Insurrection Act could mean deploying troops domestically “despite any court orders stopping him.” tinyurl.com/8b4htsr2

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Sapient Librarian @22rabbit.bsky.social · 1d

Atlas Obscura: San José Semaphore by A Ewbank. Yrs to decode 1st mystery message. Ben Rubin's back w/another cipher created for Adobe. Glowing puzzle semaphore signals & symbols w/4 rotating circles like flathead screws encoding message Adobe offers prize if code cracked tinyurl.com/mtd76hvt

The San José Semaphore

It took years to decode its mysterious messages.

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Sapient Librarian @22rabbit.bsky.social · 1d

Great new song! www.thedailybeast.com//maga-melts-...

MAGA Melts Down as Country Star Bashes ICE in New Song

Conservatives weren’t happy about a teaser for a new Zach Bryan song.

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Sapient Librarian @22rabbit.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve been sittin’ on me rusted anchor tryin’ to keep me temper in its hammock but when I hears that you stood on Navy pier & told sailors to think half o’ their countrymen’s the enemy well… I near spat out me spinach An’ I never waste spinach That’s sacred fuel same as democracy tinyurl.com/5n8ajeef

A Letter from Popeye the Sailor Man to Donald J. Trump

(as dictated through a mouth full o’ spinach, pipe smoke, and righteous fury)

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Sapient Librarian @22rabbit.bsky.social · 2d

Astronomy by B Mendenhall. Alien life may depend on plate tectonics as research hints tech civilization needs more than just water & requires planet thermostat w/plate tectonics & enough atmospheric oxygen to make fire and conditions may depend on plate tectonics tinyurl.com/mr3v3439

Sapient Librarian @22rabbit.bsky.social · 2d

MeidasTouch: EXCLUSIVE Report from Ukraine: Wolves and Russians (Part I) by Ken Harbaugh writes from Chernobyl, Ukraine. www.meidasplus.com/p/exclusive-...

EXCLUSIVE Report from Ukraine: Wolves and Russians (Part I)

Ken Harbaugh writes from Chernobyl, Ukraine

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