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Bab @bab102.bsky.social · 6h

Uncle Taught The Notorious Unabomber
www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14h

How can you tell Democrats have the upper hand in the week-old shutdown fight? Marjorie Taylor Greene just endorsed their key demand.
From the great @citizencohn.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-...

Democrats Are Winning the Shutdown Fight

Turns out Republicans still haven’t figured out the politics of health care.

www.thebulwark.com

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Memento Mori @mementomori4950.bsky.social · 14h

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Postcard From Chicago: There’s an ICE Facility in My Backyard

Chicago was not a war zone when Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz began. DHS and ICE have made it one.

www.vanityfair.com

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 16h

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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Joachim Frank @joachim123.bsky.social · 18h

theconversation.com/universities...

Universities in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union thought giving in to government demands would save their independence

Before the Nazis, German universities were among the best in the world. Step by step, the universities gave up their independence until they were instruments of the state.

theconversation.com

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Joachim Frank @joachim123.bsky.social · 19h

Today's OpEd piece in US News and World Reports
www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...

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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 23h

Love 😍 this....

New Nobel Prize winner Fred Ramsdall was NOT around to accept his Prize yesterday.

Why? He was "off the grid," "living his best life" on a hiking trip.

#WorkLifeBalance 🧪

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Scientist learns he has won Nobel prize while on digital detox in US mountains

Fred Ramsdell’s wife switched on her phone and screamed – it was full of messages congratulating her husband

www.theguardian.com

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ScubaSuzyQ💙🦋 @susanmcgraw88.bsky.social · 2d

This is deranged and horrifying. We never had this happen in our country before- the insurrection continues - far more dangerous and deadly. Miller and the regime of #47 are the enemy within.
#ProudBlue #DemVoice1 #Pinks #DV1

David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 2d

Over the weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller repeatedly attacked judges, calling them part of an "organized terrorist attack" on the US government....

On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames

time.com/7323442/sout...

House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Set Ablaze

Authorities are investigating a fire at the home of a South Carolina judge who had reportedly received death threats in what could be the latest incident of political violence across the country.

time.com

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Jen🇺🇸🏴‍☠️ @jen.sheshed.rocks · 2d

CONGRESS is out of session until mid Oct

During:

*A Govt SD
*Govt Violence

W/O voting on:

*Apprs
*ACA Tax Creds
*2017 Tax Creds
*Farm Bill
*Debt Ceiling

And not swearing in Rep. Grijalva of Az

All to protect human garbage that don’t give a shit about you or I.🖕🏻
#SheShed

Release the Epstein Files
@jen.sheshed.rock
Signed, Epstein's Mom

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.

This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.

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Joachim Frank @joachim123.bsky.social · 1d

I'm excited to report that a species has been named after my son Ze Frank, "in recognition of his outstanding contributions to science communication, which have inspired curiosity, wonder, and deeper public engagement with the natural world"

The certificate by Senckenberg Ocean Species Alliance, issued in Voncina, 2025, spells out that a newly described species of chiton has been formally named Craspedochiton zefranki. This is in recognition of his outstanding contributions to science communication, which have inspired curiosity, wonder, and deeper public engagement with the natural world.

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The Real Zanetta @therealzanetta.bsky.social · 2d

DONALD TRUMP WILL HATE THIS AD.

WATCH as this exposes exactly WHO Trump is and what he is really doing.

Vote YES on Prop 50! #YesOnProp50
#SheShed

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Project Life @project-life.bsky.social · 4d

They shut down the house to prevent voting on Epstein. You think they'll open it to start an impeachment?

I'm not sure we're going to have a government by Christmas.

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Keith H @keithharrison73.bsky.social · 3d

Nor a legitimate Congress...

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 4d

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Joachim Frank @joachim123.bsky.social · 2d

franxfiction.com/art-illustra...

Art illustrating the utter implausibility of kings in the 20th and 21st century - Franx Fiction - Joachim Frank

King Ubu is a figure conjured by the French artist Alfred Jarry, who led the way to the DADA movement, just before the turn of the 19th to 20th century.

franxfiction.com

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Alexis Verger 🧬🧫🧪 @alexis-verger.cpesr.fr · 5d

Next week is #Nobelprize week !!!

perhaps the future winners are here on bluesky 👀 and will join @jenniferdoudna.bsky.social @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social @joachim123.bsky.social @francesarnold.bsky.social @ardemp.bskyverified.social @m-bmoser.bsky.social @e-charpentier.bsky.social

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EN @elizabethnation.bsky.social · 5d

Pass it along.
Pubmed was the only reliable source for scientific articles. Guess we can adapt to this database . So much winning!!!🤨

Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @mushtaqbilalphd.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 The US government has stopped the funding PubMed, one of the most comprehensive databased of biomedical literature.

Try using Europe PMC (europepmc.org) — the European alternative to PubMed with 46M+ articles.

A screenshot of the landing pages of PubMed and Europe PMC.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5d

If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage.

The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”

It’s about control.

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 8d

“Pete Hegseth spent millions to fly in all of our generals and admirals to rant about facial hair and brag about how many pull-ups he can do, and have Donald Trump sleepwalk through a list of partisan gripes,” said retired Army Maj. General Paul D. Eaton

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Trump Administration Live Updates: President Tells Top Brass U.S. Cities Should Be Military ‘Training Grounds’

www.nytimes.com

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 7d

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Donna Stern @dvsmemphis.bsky.social · 7d

👊 👊END TRUMPS DICTATOR RULE👊

Click below 👇 for background information, a call 📞 script and details for contacting your senators and MOC.

End Trump's Dictator Rule ⭑ 5 Calls

Since Inauguration Day, Trump has consistently upended our constitutional separation of powers to unilaterally control all branches of our government; …

5calls.org

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 7d

A strong Ukraine is our first line of defence.

This is why we must step up our military support.

Today we are disbursing €4 billion for Ukraine.

And as agreed with them, half will be dedicated to drones.

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