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David Colquhoun

@davidcolquhoun.bsky.social

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Likes #biophysics and #statistics, especially stochastic processes, dislikes pseudo-science. Twitter refugee: undecided between BlueSky and Mastodon @[email protected] Blog: https://www.dcscience.net/ Work: https://onemol.org.uk/

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 1d

Just watched a smart, persuasive interview with @michaelemann.bsky.social & @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social on US media.

They were asked if “naming names” about liars & their motivations risks coming across as “partisan.”

I think about that a lot as I do similar things in the city-building arena. 1/2

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 7h

Reup: How Kash Patel and Pam Bondi became Slaves to Stephen Miller

www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/08/h...

How Kash Patel and Pam Bondi became Slaves to Stephen Miller - emptywheel

By indicting the first of Trump's FBI Directors and preparing to frame the second, Kash Patel may have signed his own arrest warrant.

www.emptywheel.net

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NetworkforDemocracy @simple-truth.bsky.social · 1d

The United States has had eight presidents since 1978, and only one got us added to the Human Rights Watch list. Let that sink in.

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 1d

This lurid headline is about British tourists no longer getting away with overstaying in Schengen. Or being 'illegals', as it's often called in the UK.

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Robert Taylor @ret.social · 20h

Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you. #FuckTrump #HesOnTheList #Resist

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Anne-Marie W. Clark 👩‍👧‍👦🐶⚖️😷🌎🚢📚🌦️⚜️ @amwclark.bsky.social · 7h

This comic is more than 10 years old.

(Image credit: Tom Toles | Copyright 2014 Universal Press Syndicate)
https://theweek.com/cartoons/427052/political-cartoon-campaign-midterm-elections-senate

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StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 10h

The Oregon National Guard general says if they were to be deployed, they would be instructed under his leadership to protect the protesters and not ICE

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 12h

We would like to thank Kristi Noem for bringing cameras with her everywhere and collecting evidence for her future trial at The Hague.

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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 14h

US federal agents in Chicago, armed, masked and dressed in combat gear as if ready for jungle warfare, have attacked protesting citizens with pepper spray.
The OAPs protesting in Parliament Square over Gaza might be grateful that we're not like America.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Body slamming, teargas and pepper balls: viral videos show Ice using extreme force in Chicago

A facility in Broadview, a mostly Black suburb, has become the site of escalation and ‘targeted attacks’ on protesters

www.theguardian.com

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 15h

Convicted felon whose name is in the Epstein files wants to imprison the Mayor of Chicago and the Governor of Illinois.

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Betty💪 @bettyhumpter25.bsky.social · 9h

They were TERRIBLE

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Fun Puns 24 @funpuns24.bsky.social · 9h

History's Two Greatest
ANTIFA LEADERS 😉

a group of men are posing for a picture together .

ALT: a group of men are posing for a picture together .

media.tenor.com

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 8h

Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump: "They're, like, insurrectionists, they're terrible people. But you really wonder why. Why are they doing it? What are they gaining? Other than they're obviously paid. They're paid a lot of money."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

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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[The Great War & Modern Memory] @ps9714.bsky.social · 1d

“What has taken place since January 20th, 2025, would make even President Nixon recoil. This is your legacy ... You have fundamentally transformed the Justice Department and left an enormous stain in American history," Sen. Dick #Durbin told Attorney General Pam #Bondi.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 1d

No one in Canada will ever love you again — they know they’re living right above the madhouse.

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Yes, It's Really 💙 Ted Diamond 💙 @ted-diamond.bsky.social · 1d

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 14h

UAE has no democratically elected institutions, no free speech and an appalling human rights record.

Its economy functions on completely different metrics to the ours & ranks well below us for GDP

No serious person would ever think that we should emulate it.

But here's Tice calling us decadent

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19h

Behold. The "genetic master race".

A photo, originally posted by @magicmoneytree.bsky.social, of the eugenecists/"race science" advocates Richard Hanania, Curtis Yarvin and Nathan Cofnas.

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Lincoln Square @lincolnsquare.media · 13h

There's one thing you can always count on with Donald Trump: He ALWAYS stiffs those who work for him.

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Arianeh Sajadi, Esq. @arianehsajadi.bsky.social · 2d

🛑 STOP THE PRESS:

🚨 The GOP is still refusing to swear in Grijalva, *who yields the power to cast the vote needed TO RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.*

🔊 STOP DECLARING WAR ON AMERICANS

🔊 REOPEN THE GOVNT

🔊 SWEAR IN GRIJALVA

🔊 RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

🆘🇺🇸

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David Colquhoun @davidcolquhoun.bsky.social · 1d

Good grief! Do you really care more about snails than people?

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✊Larry Colvin✊ @larrycolvin.bsky.social · 2d

We reject this administration's blatant lies.

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 1d

He does not see soldiers as human beings. He sees props. He sees optics. He sees mirrors reflecting the hero he has always failed to become.
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

A Hollow Man and His Army of Mirrors

Trump doesn’t lead the military—he feeds on it.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 1d

There is so much unknown about how ICE intends to use Paragon's terrifying no-click surveillance spyware. We appreciate members of the House Oversight Committee for sending this letter and trying to find out how this spyware will be used.

oversightdemocrats.house.gov

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