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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 6h

🎵 They did the Monster Slash 😭 @ellecordova.bsky.social

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 23h

Pritzker is right. They want to normalize troops in cities so they can steal every election just like Putin does.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 10h

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Flannery Dean @flannerydean.bsky.social · 1d

It is very interesting to think about the concept of a “national divorce” when one side is clearly an abuser and populated an admin with them too

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 11h

Russell Vought seems to be aiming to end all of US science.

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 12h

Banning “dangerous gain-of-function” pathogen research is actually just banning pathogen research. TB causes chronic disease, the supposed cornerstone of the MAHA movement. Hard to see ending TB research on treatments as anything but another targeted attack on science in service of destroying it.

Rock Lab @rocklabtb.bsky.social · 12h

Ditto. Thanks for this Sarah. www.statnews.com/2025/10/06/g...

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 23h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Dennis O’Rear @djorear.bsky.social · 1d

RFK Jr’s attack on science has close parallels to Lysenko’s attack on genetic in Soviet Russia.

Speak in populist press, not journals
Make quick solution to problems
Blame failures on internal enemies

He needed a supporting anti-elitist government

A good podcast

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Stalin’s War on Genetics | HISTORY This Week

YouTube video by HISTORY

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 1d

"Anyone who is interested in the current and future states of healthspan treatments can appreciate......"—Prof @ctmurphy1.bsky.social @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

crimes. you mean he's doing crimes.

bucking tradition is wearing a white suit after labor day.

NPR @npr.org · 1d

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

Someone should start asking why we’re hearing and seeing Stephen Miller so much all of a sudden.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 2d

Am I correct that the only Americans to get any benefit from the WH this year who isn’t in the Administration (or a relative) are Ghislaine Maxwell and the 1/6 insurrectionists?

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Vivian M. Lumbard @vivian-m-lumbard.bsky.social · 2d

Actually, the Democrats did *not* vote to shut the government down. They voted *against* a CR that makes medical insurance financially unattainable for millions of Americans.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

COLLINS: Wouldn't it be the president's fault to lay federal workers off?

LEAVITT: This conversation about layoffs would not be happening right now if Democrats did not vote to shut the government down

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Coleen Murphy @ctmurphy1.bsky.social · 2d

Amazing (and harrowing) story about the good that can happen when science is followed: www.npr.org/sections/goa...

A bold doctor sent her kids away and helped beat one of the world's deadliest viruses

A year ago, Rwanda faced its first outbreak of Marburg virus. Dr. Tsion Firew remembers how scared she was — and how that didn't stop her from playing a key role in the remarkably effective response.

www.npr.org

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 2d

Speaker Johnson continues to stall the swearing in of Rep.-elect Grijalva so as to avoid having to deal with the Epstein discharge petition. Why shouldn’t Dems make support for reopening the government contingent on adding to the funding measure a provision mandating release of the Epstein files?

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Abu5217 @abu5217.bsky.social · 2d

Personally, I went the other direction.

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Come And Get Me, Mr. President

The administration is trying to criminalize First Amendment Rights. Stand up to them.

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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 2d

So everyone on the right so upset about the political violence of Charlie Kirk’s murder (even before we knew the facts) is going to speak out loudly and clearly about this too, right?

Judge Diane Goodstein’s home burns to ground after ruling against Trump

Judge Diane Goodstein's husband was among those injured after he jumped from the burning house.

www.newsweek.com

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2d

Sending troops from Texas to forcefully occupy and suppress cities in Illinois and Oregon IN OPPOSITION TO THOSE STATES' GOVERNORS is literally a civil war and it's cooking my brain that Democrats are simply pretending it isn't happening

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 2d

UPDATE: Hegseth today called up 400 members of the Texas National Guard, with Gov. Abbott's apparent permission, to be deployed "where needed, including in the cities of Portland and Chicago." www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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William C Phelps, PhD @wcphelps.bsky.social · 2d

Continued degradation of science and medicine in the US. Since they don't understand the science, Trump political appointees at NIH will use lists of words to disallow highly rated research grants. 🧪
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Changes at NIH Give Political Appointees Greater Power To Fund or Block Research - KFF Health News

The National Institutes of Health’s long-held standard of peer review for grantmaking has been subverted by President Donald Trump and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, who gave unprecedented power to po...

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 2d

This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States.

America is on the brink of martial law.

Do not be silent.

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

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2d

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson.

www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

Judge blocks South Carolina from giving DOJ millions of voters' data
Sep. 3, 2025

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Ofrandy @mitch0046.bsky.social · 3d

Exactly!! Why can't we give healthcare to anyone who needs it? Why can't we make sure everyone has enough food to eat? Why would we rather pay for endless wars and tax breaks for a class we will NEVER join than make sure our own have what they need to survive??

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 3d

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 3d

It won't be long before juries will start hearing defenses of citizens who intervene, being "the defendant reasonably doubted the legality of the abduction". And the burden will shift to the prosecution to show that it was clear.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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