highdesertrat.bsky.social
@highdesertrat.bsky.social
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"Tincher [a US citizen] has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours, where she saw about seven other detainees." www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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As a both a PI that received a Diversity Supplement to support a student on my R01, and a PO that reviewed them, they were never about "handing out money at the end of the year based on race" and always about the training potential and commitment.
December 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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I will always use my platform to speak up for trans rights and amplify trans voices - there is a huge media bias towards a minority of GC/anti-trans views and if I can use my reach to be a small part in addressing that balance I'm more than happy to

#TransRightsAreHumanRights #LGBwiththeT
December 8, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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What I learned today: Ken Kesey's brother, Chuck, produced what was billed as the first commercially available yogurt in the U.S. (1970). Also, good headline. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/d...
December 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Polish Foreign Minister replies to Musk: 🇵🇱
December 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Statement from @health.nationalacademies.org "...based on our body of work on this topic and the overwhelming scientific consensus, we support the statement that vaccines do not cause autism."
www.nationalacademies.org/news/stateme...
National Academies - Statement on CDC’s Updated Vaccine Guidance
National Academies respond to CDC’s updated vaccine guidance, offering scientific context and clarity on vaccine safety.
www.nationalacademies.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Terrific
November 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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JFC. Does @schumer.senate.gov not get that by caving, Democrats make it *harder,* not easier, to make the ACA subsidies expiring stick politically to Trump/GOP? This effort to shame Republicans in this context risks signaling to low-info voters that Rs are standing on conviction and Dems aren't.
November 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Caving on a deal that doesn’t fix health care is, and always has been, a giant betrayal of the American people.

Hold the line. Save health care. I’m a NO on anything that doesn’t extend ACA subsidies.
November 9, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Pay attention to what Democratic candidates are saying right now. Find and support the fighters. Having a spine must be a litmus test issue in 2026 and beyond.
November 10, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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I'm looking to see not only which Senate Dem candidates oppose this surrender (all of them will) but also where they go beyond this with respect to senate leadership.

I want to see concrete promises for a new fighting Dem Party, because the current one is broken.
This moment demands fighters, not folders.
Official statement from @jamestalarico.bsky.social on shutdown negotiations
November 10, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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I am taking particular pleasure in the complete collapse of trans-as-unbeatable-wedge-issue narrative this morning. It might be an 80-20 issue in voters minds, but it has to be on voters minds to matter. The results in VA demonstrate that it is very much not on voters minds.
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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November 4, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Zara Weinberg passed away earlier this week. She joined my lab earlier this year when her postdoc lab formally closed.
She was a brilliant scientist, supportive mentor, dear friend, avid music fan, rabid believer in public transit, open science champion, and above all just an amazing human.
October 31, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Oh hey, a reason to be hopeful: groves of American chestnut trees have once again become self-reproducing in the wild.

Turned off comments so 12 people don't show up to tell me why this is actually very sad. Be happy, you assholes.
Nearly a Century Ago, American Chestnut Trees Died Off. Now, Hikers Can Walk Among Them Again.
Efforts to restore the American chestnut comprise "one of the most epic conservation stories ever told.”
share.google
October 28, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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why is everything so dumb
October 28, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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hey there. need some random help. if you're in Havre de Grace, MD and can do a favor for the Bulwark, please send a DM. thanks!
October 27, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.
October 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Every Dem should be posting like this
Oh you're trying to say the cost of living is skyrocketing?

Donald Trump can't hear you over the sound of bulldozers demolishing a wing of the White House to build a new grand ballroom.
October 21, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.
October 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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They’re already discounting the candy corn, and it’s only Oct 18.

#TheresAreasonForThat
October 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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The still-employed man serves no identifiable function, Americans noted.
Americans Mystified Why Nonessential Federal Employee Still Has Job
The still-employed man performs no identifiable function, Americans noted.
www.borowitzreport.com
October 13, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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We are Amphifa.
October 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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If you read nothing else today, I pray that you will read every word of this necessary, powerful, and much-needed piece by @nhannahjones.bsky.social.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...
What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed
www.nytimes.com
September 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM