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Separating fact from disinformation at the intersection of science and society. 🎧 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/critically-speaking/id1463016517 🔗 criticallyspeaking.net

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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 10h

Your genetic data can affect your insurance prices and other things. Not as secured as you think. If you’re going to use direct to consumer testing, like Ancestry or 23&me, read the privacy agreement’s fine print first!

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Anya Prince: Dangers of DTC Genetic Testing

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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 40m

Good question.😡

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Exactly

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Exacto

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Deja vu

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🦋🕊️🦋GinLy47 @ginly47.bsky.social · 15h

Hmmmm? Let me think . . .

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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 1h

What a creep. Johnson.
Good for the AZ senators to confront him. He squirmed. Kelly and Gallegos are Gentlemen with principles.

Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET @patti3333.bsky.social · 2h

NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES

DAY 8 OCTOBER 2025

THESE HORRENDOUS TIMES

I am in Southern Arizona
I am so proud of my Senators
Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego for confronting Speaker Johnson

SWEAR IN ADELITA GRIJALVA

Johnson's lame excuse due to his cowardly fear
#EPSTEINFILES
Call him 202 224 3121

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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 10h

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Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 10h

Anya Prince: Dangers of DTC Genetic Testing

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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 11h

How many are hungry? Even starving 🤷‍♀️

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Trump scraps the nation’s most comprehensive food insecurity report − making it harder to know how many Americans struggle to get enough food

There are few, if any, alternative sources of food insecurity data that don’t rely on the survey the government is ending.

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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 14h

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson on How America’s Story Should Be Told

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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 14h

Hah. It’s the SOS. Dominated by old white guys.

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Yikes
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The Supreme Court is headed toward a radically new vision of unlimited presidential power

Recent rulings indicate that the high court is leaning toward expanding the type of presidential power that is more emblematic of dictatorship than democracy.

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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 1d

They’ll blame it on the democrats

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Elected but Not Seated, Grijalva Waits to Sign Epstein Petition

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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 1d

What?

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Trump non-committal about Ghislaine Maxwell pardon, says he ‘will speak to the DOJ’

President Donald Trump dodged a question Monday on whether he'd consider pardoning Jeffrey Epstein's former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, saying he will "speak to the DOJ" about it.

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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking of having genetic testing? There are unrecognized perils. I had an informative discussion with law prof Anya Prince.

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Anya Prince: Dangers of DTC Genetic Testing

Podcast Episode · Critically Speaking · 10/07/2025 · 38m

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KIM F-M @kimf-m.bsky.social · 2d

Ask yourself why.

Why does Trump block
what he does not fear?

Doesn't make sense, does it?

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social

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Very funny. Have you ever seen John Wayne toilet paper?