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Les Guthman
@lesguthman.bsky.social
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Documentary director & producer. Most recent “LIGO” & YouTube web series & e-book. Coming soon, “Squeezed Light” doc. Frm Disney, NBC News, Annenberg Foundation & Peabody Award-winning VISIONS series on PBS. 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
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Les Guthman @lesguthman.bsky.social · Aug 13
OTD in 2015 I interviewed LIGO’s Kip Thorne (2017 Nobel in Physics) on camera, the 1st day of what has become a ten-year, and multiple film, collaboration with @LIGO.org. My archive of LIGO’s astonishing discoveries now resides for researchers in the Les Guthman LIGO Video Archive @caltech.edu 🧪
Caltech and LIGO’s Kip Thorne, winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics
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Benjamin Pope @benjaminpope.bsky.social · 18h
Totally diabolical funding situation if UW, one of the best departments in the USA, has had to pause admissions.
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Meg Schwamb @megschwamb.bsky.social · 20h
Sad to see the University of Washington Astronomy Department has suspended graduate admissions for the 2026-2027 Academic Year. astro.washington.edu/graduate-adm...
Graduate Admissions | Department of Astronomy | University of Washington
The Department of Astronomy has  suspended graduate admissions for the 2026-2027 Academic Year. General Information for applying to UW Astronomy Graduate Program. Applications must be submitted using ...
astro.washington.edu
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d
New (& important) from @dahlialithwick.bsky.social @mimirocah1.bsky.social Rachel Foster & me slate.com/news-and-pol...
The National Failure at the Heart of the Jeffrey Epstein Story
It is a great challenge to pay sustained attention to any one of the onslaught of moral or legal indignities unfolding in this moment.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d
Ohh

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Les Guthman @lesguthman.bsky.social · 1d
Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 1d
Indeed, Bad Bunny is more American under Trump's "birthright" blather than Trump is. Both of Bad Bunny's parents were also born in America. Trump's mother, however, was not.
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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 2d
Judge: That's what I'll do. Prohibit federalization or deployment of any NG troops into Oregon. For all reasons in prior opinion. Deployment of federalized military is ultra vires and contrary to law, violating Title 10, section 12406. I also find it's likely that defendants violate 10th Amendment.
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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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Bell @pocono.bsky.social · 2d
Always read Will's columns
🎁 Link

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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 4d
here is a possible game changer for Abrego. and a very good augury for Jim Comey
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 4d
BREAKING: A federal judge says there is a realistic likelihood that the prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia was driven by vindictive motives — reflected in the public statements of Bondi, Blanche, Noem et al.

He has ordered discovery on the question.
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Les Guthman @lesguthman.bsky.social · 2d
When A.I. Came for Hollywood www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...
Opinion | When A.I. Came for Hollywood
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 5d
According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.

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‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building
YouTube video by MSNBC
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 5d
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 5d
Trump just cancelled $8B of energy projects to pressure Democrats to let him jack up health care costs.

And he didn't just cancel projects in Dem districts; he canceled them in R districts too. The difference is that Republicans are letting him use their constituents as pawns.
TRUMP CANCELS NEARLY 8B IN CLEAN ENERGY PROJECTS INCLUDING MILLIONS IN NY REPUBLICANS' DISTRICTS $26,236,446 cancelled for NY-17 • INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION • URBAN ELECTRIC POWER INCORPORATED $27,000,000 cancelled for NY-23 • JAMESTOWN BOARD OF PUBLIC UTILITIES • CLEANFIBER INC. Source: Appropriations Committee These are jobs. These are investments in lowering your energy bills. Trump just cancelled them.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 5d
Sen. Warren illustrates the way public figures should answer.

Dokoupil illustrates the way journalists should *not* handle both-sides-ing, "how will it play," reluctance to call out lies, etc.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d
DOKOUPIL: Republicans says what you're really fighting for is taxpayer dollars for illegal aliens. I know that's not strictly true--

ELIZABETH WARREN: Excuse me, not strictly true? It is a flat out lie!
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 6d
We’re united with baristas in their fight for a fair contract. And if Starbucks’ failure to bargain in good faith forces them to go on strike, you’ll find me on the picket line.
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 6d
Starbucks workers shouldn't be living paycheck to paycheck when CEO Brian Niccol has the highest CEO-to-worker pay gap in the country. It would take only A SINGLE DAY’S sales to finalize fair union contracts. JUST ONE DAY.

Thank you for rallying with us today, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social ! ✊🔥
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 6d
Jane Goodall was not only a pioneering primatologist, she also campaigned more relentlessly and selflessly for the natural world than anyone I know.

A great soul if ever there was one
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91
Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7d
Five days ago, an ICE agent shoved a woman asking questions about the detention of her husband.

Today they attacked two journalists.

We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.
ICE agents assault amNewYork reporter at Federal Plaza immigration court; another journalist seriously injured after shove | amNewYork
ICE agents assaulted amNewYork's own Dean Moses, and allegedly attacked another journalist, on Tuesday morning as they were documenting the ongoing arrests of
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 7d
I started Democracy Docket in 2020 to be the leading source for pro-democracy news, information and analysis. It will never bow down. It will never compromise. It will never obey. Support its vital work by signing-up today (free or paid). hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
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Weird Bros @weirdbros.bsky.social · 8d
New article from @wired.com on the Dark Enlightenment cult of billionaires who want to become the new rulers of the world:

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Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 11d
NEW from me for @wired.com's politics issue: I have spent SO much time fascinated by the "network state"--privatized cities in special economic zones (SEZs) where the normal rules and regulations don't apply.

www.wired.com/story/tech-b...
Tech Billionaires Already Captured the White House. They Still Want to Be Kings
From Montenegro to Northern California, the tech elite dream of building cities where they make the rules. Is this, finally, their moment?
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 8d
from @brianklaas.bsky.social, "a dystopian America, where people blame everything but the real cause: a country awash with unlimited guns"
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Guns at Annunciation
I was baptized at the church where kids were murdered. It's a canary in the coal mine for a dystopian America, where people blame everything but the real cause: a country awash with unlimited guns.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 8d
Same as it ever was.
Screenshot of a NYTimes headline and subhead that reads: "N.Y.C. Mayoral Candidates Move to Capitalize on Adams’s Departure Zohran Mamdani and Curtis Sliwa hit the campaign trail on Monday after Eric Adams left the race, while Andrew Cuomo called donors." Highlighted in blue is "while Andrew Cuomo called donors."
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 9d
An incredibly important election in a tiny country just went the right way. Moldova has resisted a huge Russian disinformation campaign and will not become a Russian puppet state.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 9d
Moldova 🇲🇩 👍
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NPR @npr.org · 9d
Moldova's pro-Western governing party won a clear parliamentary majority, defeating pro-Russian groups in an election that was widely viewed as a stark choice between East and West.
Moldova's pro-EU party wins clear parliamentary majority, defeating pro-Russian groups
Moldova's pro-Western governing party won a clear parliamentary majority, defeating pro-Russian groups in an election that was widely viewed as a stark choice between East and West.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 9d
"one officer smiled for a selfie with her as she cried."
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