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#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky 🧪🛟 💊
Congrats to our neighbor @uncchapelhill.bsky.social Nabarun Dasgupta for being awarded a 2025 MacArthur Fellowship honoring his work on opioid drug harm reduction, at the bench and in the community !!
www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...
Nabarun Dasgupta
Combining scientific studies with community engagement to reduce deaths and other harms from drug use.
www.macfound.org
October 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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"If you want to have a coup against the constitutional order, you want to control the capital city. And if he has control of the policing in the city of Washington...Who's gonna tell him to leave the White House?"

@gtconway.bsky.social joins @jvl.bsky.social:
August 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Today marks five years since George Floyd was killed by police. Our June 22, 2020 cover “Say Their Names,” by Kadir Nelson, illustrated how Floyd’s murder embodies the history of violence inflicted upon Black people in America. nyer.cm/UmfefJw
May 25, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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George Floyd was murdered by police five years ago today.

The Say Their Names cemetery in Minneapolis features memorials for Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Amadou Diallo, Oscar Grant, Korryn Gaines, Freddie Gray and far too many more Black people who died at the hands of police.
May 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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May 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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May 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥
April 1, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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“The leopards are going to eat all of the faces and then each other and then there will be a nuclear accident (or whatever) and everyone will still be cheering because Americans elected a carnival of cruelty and sadism and they still believe [they’re] good people…”

www.greatpower.us/p/america-ne...
America needs to stop cheering for the pickled egg
On madness, cynicism, absurdity, and the event horizon to the end of the republic
www.greatpower.us
March 8, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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My daughter's daycare just sent out an email about potentially needing to layoff staff because new babies about to start withdrew because of parental job losses. So if you're wondering how government layoffs and mass contract cancellations will affect the economy, here's an example
March 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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At @standupforscience.bsky.social and the signs are statistically significantly excellent
March 7, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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The FAA approved another launch before the last crash investigation was completed — and it ended in another disaster.

Why is SpaceX getting a free pass from DOGE cuts? 🤔
March 7, 2025 at 4:31 PM
KY Houses passes bill canceling Beshear’s restrictions on conversion therapy kentuckylantern.com/briefs/ky-ho...
KY Houses passes bill canceling Beshear's restrictions on conversion therapy • Kentucky Lantern
GOP-controlled Kentucky House approves bill to protect conversion therapy, targeting Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s order restricting it.
kentuckylantern.com
March 8, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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“Judges are going to be tested as never before. They are going to face a fundamental challenge in the fact that the laws concerning declarations of emergency were mostly crafted on the premise that our commander in chief would be acting in good faith. But Trump is not acting in good faith.”
Beware Trump’s Talk of Coming “Emergencies”
Far-right rhetoric is suffused with dark talk of impending calamities. It’s a favorite trope of autocrats who are, themselves, the calamity.
newrepublic.com
March 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM