Lesley Jean Saligoe
@lesleyjeansaligoe.bsky.social
Culturally relevant horticulture @ Black House Heritage Garden. Midwestern Herbalist. Hoodoo Scholar. Young Grandma. Beekeeper. Bookworm. Energetic Hygienist. Hermit. Candlemaker. Seed Saver.
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Our timing is stupidly impeccable. We are losing so many chances at great discoveries & applications for mRNA b/c of HHS.
mRNA vaccines engineered for high risk skin cancers reduced the risk of recurrence & death by 50% over 5 yrs, compared to standard treatment.
🧪 arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
mRNA vaccines engineered for high risk skin cancers reduced the risk of recurrence & death by 50% over 5 yrs, compared to standard treatment.
🧪 arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
mRNA cancer vaccine shows protection at 5-year follow-up, Moderna and Merck say
The vaccines are tailor-made to target each patient's unique cancer.
arstechnica.com
January 25, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Our timing is stupidly impeccable. We are losing so many chances at great discoveries & applications for mRNA b/c of HHS.
mRNA vaccines engineered for high risk skin cancers reduced the risk of recurrence & death by 50% over 5 yrs, compared to standard treatment.
🧪 arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
mRNA vaccines engineered for high risk skin cancers reduced the risk of recurrence & death by 50% over 5 yrs, compared to standard treatment.
🧪 arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
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January 22, 2026 at 1:58 AM
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"This is such a strange decision with no clear rationale. None of it really makes sense.”
NASA quietly ends financial support for planetary science groups
The U.S. space agency will quit funding several independent science advisory groups this year
www.scientificamerican.com
January 21, 2026 at 7:24 PM
"This is such a strange decision with no clear rationale. None of it really makes sense.”
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Very grateful for her contributions to a profound technology spanning many uses.
Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95
ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away
thezebra.org
January 19, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Very grateful for her contributions to a profound technology spanning many uses.
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The Trump admin is hoping to shutter over a dozen buildings and more than 100 labs at NASA’s iconic Goddard Space Flight Center
As part of its plans to gut the center, it shut NASA’s largest library last month, threatening to trash important documents in the process.
As part of its plans to gut the center, it shut NASA’s largest library last month, threatening to trash important documents in the process.
NASA's Library Shutdown Scandal Is Ballooning
The Trump administration's shutting of NASA's largest library is turning into scandal. Staffers are absolutely furious.
buff.ly
January 17, 2026 at 8:01 PM
The Trump admin is hoping to shutter over a dozen buildings and more than 100 labs at NASA’s iconic Goddard Space Flight Center
As part of its plans to gut the center, it shut NASA’s largest library last month, threatening to trash important documents in the process.
As part of its plans to gut the center, it shut NASA’s largest library last month, threatening to trash important documents in the process.
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“Women and girls are far more reluctant to use AI. This should be no surprise to any of us. Women don’t see this as exciting new technology, but as simply new ways to harass and abuse us and try and push us offline.”
Use of AI to harm women has only just begun, experts warn
While Grok has introduced belated safeguards to prevent sexualised AI imagery, other tools have far fewer limits
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 1:09 PM
“Women and girls are far more reluctant to use AI. This should be no surprise to any of us. Women don’t see this as exciting new technology, but as simply new ways to harass and abuse us and try and push us offline.”
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“Black women lost 319,000 jobs in both the private and public sectors, driven largely by mass layoffs in education, healthcare, and housing. During that same period, white women gained 142,000 jobs, Hispanic women 176,000 jobs, and white men—wait for it!—picked up 365,000 jobs.”
Trump’s Slash-and-Burn Economy Is Devastating Black Women
His administration is hitting them with “discriminate harm.”
www.thenation.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:30 PM
“Black women lost 319,000 jobs in both the private and public sectors, driven largely by mass layoffs in education, healthcare, and housing. During that same period, white women gained 142,000 jobs, Hispanic women 176,000 jobs, and white men—wait for it!—picked up 365,000 jobs.”
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“This could look like a user asking how much ibuprofen to take for a headache receiving a promoted ad for Advil in the chatbot’s response. Meanwhile, actual results on correct dosage may be brushed to the side, or buried under a mountain of ad text…”
OpenAI Reportedly Planning to Make ChatGPT "Prioritize" Advertisers in Conversation
OpenAI employees working on ChatGPT report plans to unleash sponsored advertisements above organic results.
futurism.com
December 30, 2025 at 11:19 PM
“This could look like a user asking how much ibuprofen to take for a headache receiving a promoted ad for Advil in the chatbot’s response. Meanwhile, actual results on correct dosage may be brushed to the side, or buried under a mountain of ad text…”
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This is slavery.
Private prison company GEO Group allegedly made immigration detainees work for no pay. Now it's at the Supreme Court trying to prevent the detainees from suing. bit.ly/4pfafj2
Supreme Court Considers Private Prison Case
A private prison company seeks a ruling that could help all government contractors evade liability.
www.brennancenter.org
December 29, 2025 at 3:33 PM
This is slavery.
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A blatant attempt to disenfranchise voters and degrade USPS services generally.
Plan accordingly.
Do not let these 🐎🕳️s win.
Plan accordingly.
Do not let these 🐎🕳️s win.
There’s been a change on when your mail will receive a postmark. Until 12/24 of this year it was when you dropped off your letter. Now it’s when a machine processes your mail which could be days later. This has implications for time sensitive mail including vote by mail! There are ways around it!
December 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
A blatant attempt to disenfranchise voters and degrade USPS services generally.
Plan accordingly.
Do not let these 🐎🕳️s win.
Plan accordingly.
Do not let these 🐎🕳️s win.
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There is no reason at all that anyone should be a billionaire, and this is not a hot take or in any way controversial at all.
Americans have somehow mass adopted the delusion that it could be them one day, without even considering what that means, and what it takes to achieve. Hint: Evil.
Americans have somehow mass adopted the delusion that it could be them one day, without even considering what that means, and what it takes to achieve. Hint: Evil.
December 29, 2025 at 8:51 PM
There is no reason at all that anyone should be a billionaire, and this is not a hot take or in any way controversial at all.
Americans have somehow mass adopted the delusion that it could be them one day, without even considering what that means, and what it takes to achieve. Hint: Evil.
Americans have somehow mass adopted the delusion that it could be them one day, without even considering what that means, and what it takes to achieve. Hint: Evil.
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Black folks have a strong mind your business ethos. Others do not.
December 29, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Black folks have a strong mind your business ethos. Others do not.
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Wrote about how disappointing it is that Jon Stewart punched down on people masking at @motherjones.com, when people should mind their own business and leave mask wearers be. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Hey Jon Stewart, jokes about wearing masks aren't funny
Critics of the Daily Show host say he's a hypocrite.
www.motherjones.com
December 29, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Wrote about how disappointing it is that Jon Stewart punched down on people masking at @motherjones.com, when people should mind their own business and leave mask wearers be. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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I'm reminded of James Baldwin's famous words to his nephew: "To be loved, baby, hard at once and forever to strengthen you against the loveless world." That's what we grew up with in our. family, schools/HBCU, and communities.
It's why I don't have a lot of lingering resentments... I am loved.
It's why I don't have a lot of lingering resentments... I am loved.
A caveat to that. America’s been teaching everyone to hate themselves while hating Black people even more because that’s the way a lot of other minorities have gotten ahead. A lot of Black people have developed a sort of resistance to that self hate and it makes some white folks crazier.
December 27, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I'm reminded of James Baldwin's famous words to his nephew: "To be loved, baby, hard at once and forever to strengthen you against the loveless world." That's what we grew up with in our. family, schools/HBCU, and communities.
It's why I don't have a lot of lingering resentments... I am loved.
It's why I don't have a lot of lingering resentments... I am loved.
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🧊 WAREHOUSING HUMANS 😲
ICE plans to herd their captives "into one of seven large-scale warehouses holding 5,000 to 10,000 people each, where they would be staged for deportation." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
ICE plans to herd their captives "into one of seven large-scale warehouses holding 5,000 to 10,000 people each, where they would be staged for deportation." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
ICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses
The Trump administration wants to build seven large-scale deportation hubs to speed up deportations, internal ICE documents show.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 24, 2025 at 12:43 PM
🧊 WAREHOUSING HUMANS 😲
ICE plans to herd their captives "into one of seven large-scale warehouses holding 5,000 to 10,000 people each, where they would be staged for deportation." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
ICE plans to herd their captives "into one of seven large-scale warehouses holding 5,000 to 10,000 people each, where they would be staged for deportation." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Betty’s family announced her passing and has requested privacy during this time. In lieu of flowers, they’ve asked that those wishing to honor her legacy consider donations to Betty Reid Soskin Middle School and to a forthcoming film documenting her remarkable life.
December 22, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Betty’s family announced her passing and has requested privacy during this time. In lieu of flowers, they’ve asked that those wishing to honor her legacy consider donations to Betty Reid Soskin Middle School and to a forthcoming film documenting her remarkable life.
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If a single scholar of color told me they were using this, I would need to stage an intervention within 48 hours. You will be fired or "not reappointed" when this goes sideways even if your lil friend will be fine.
a big part of the issue surrounding the use of chatgpt/LLMs in academic research comes down to process vs. product. a lot of us know that the process of doing research matters because that's where intellectual work is done; but some "academics" and lots of techies only care about a fast product
December 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
If a single scholar of color told me they were using this, I would need to stage an intervention within 48 hours. You will be fired or "not reappointed" when this goes sideways even if your lil friend will be fine.
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I wrote about the conservative quest to restore the "true" Constitution, the Antebellum Constitution, shorn of the egalitarian nonsense in the Reconstruction Amendments, a document that replaces equality with a society of dominators and the dominated. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
December 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I wrote about the conservative quest to restore the "true" Constitution, the Antebellum Constitution, shorn of the egalitarian nonsense in the Reconstruction Amendments, a document that replaces equality with a society of dominators and the dominated. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
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The housing problem doesn’t have shit to do with immigrants literally nothing does it’s 100% a result of resource hoarding & eons of social engineering by capitalists. You can kick as many people out as you want & tons of folk still won’t be able to afford a house cuz rich people don’t want them to
December 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The housing problem doesn’t have shit to do with immigrants literally nothing does it’s 100% a result of resource hoarding & eons of social engineering by capitalists. You can kick as many people out as you want & tons of folk still won’t be able to afford a house cuz rich people don’t want them to
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U.S. border agents caused a traffic incident, then exploded into the home of the driver, a U.S. citizen, arresting him for alleged damage to federal property. Here's the latest from Visual Investigations, on Border Patrol's militarized tactics in cities: www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
Video: How ‘Turn and Burn’ Immigration Operations Unleash Chaos — and Sweep up U.S. Citizens
A video analysis of one early morning raid in Los Angeles revealed the vast web of consequences brought by new aggressive Border Patrol tactics.
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:26 PM
U.S. border agents caused a traffic incident, then exploded into the home of the driver, a U.S. citizen, arresting him for alleged damage to federal property. Here's the latest from Visual Investigations, on Border Patrol's militarized tactics in cities: www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
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Color me shocked.
Doctors Catch Cancer-Diagnosing AI Extracting Patients' Race Data and Being Racist With It
A new study reveals an alarming bias present in four leading AI cancer screening tools, related to race, gender, and age.
futurism.com
December 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Color me shocked.