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petra de asis @petradeasis.bsky.social · Jan 31

Choice A: imperfect Dems who try to pass less than perfect legislation for the good of Americans

Choice B: incompetent racist/sexist GOP who weaponize cruelty & chaos to the detriment of Americans, spreading suffering while lowering taxes for the rich

Hyperfocusing on A depresses votes. Oppose B.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 59m

One thing @govpritzker.illinois.gov does here, which WE ALL need to do more often, is lead with Trump's crimes.

A sex assaulted fraudster serial felon who freed HUNDREDS of cop assailants--and some terrorists--on his first day is trying to claim Democrats are criminals.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 6h

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Greg Todd @1gregtodd.bsky.social · 9h

Senate Confirms ‘Sharpiegate’ Meteorologist to Lead NOAA.

Neil Jacobs was found to have violated NOAA’s code of ethics after an investigation into an incident that centered on an altered hurricane forecast map in 2019.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/u...

Senate Confirms ‘Sharpiegate’ Meteorologist to Lead NOAA

www.nytimes.com

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petra de asis @petradeasis.bsky.social · 19m

Fino goes well with tapas

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 30m

NEW: A copy of the arrangement with Eswatini that Mother Jones reviewed shows that the US has agreed to pay the only absolute monarchy in Africa $5.1 million to take in up to 160 ICE detainees.

ICE is sending people to a prison in Africa’s only absolute monarchy

Inside the “legal black hole” in Eswatini, where Trump is sending detainees.

www.motherjones.com

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 33m

McCormick spice company has a $140 million tariff problem www.thebanner.com/economy/mcco...

McCormick spice company has a $140 million tariff problem

McCormick & Company, a spice giant based in Hunt Valley, said in an earnings call Tuesday that it anticipates $140 million in annual costs associated with President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

www.thebanner.com

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 1h

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 33m

Study of 1.4M online images finds women appeared younger than men in 3,495 occupations & categories, most stark for high-status jobs. When generating & evaluating 40K resumes, ChatGPT assumed women were younger, less experienced; older men more qualified. newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/news-release...

Women portrayed as younger than men online, and AI amplifies the bias - Haas News | Berkeley Haas

In a sweeping study published today in Nature, researchers at UC Berkeley Haas, Stanford, and Oxford/Autonomy University documented extensive age and gender distortion across online media—and found th...

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 8h

This finding potentially opens up new perspectives for the prevention and treatment of HIV infections.
• uni-koeln.de/en/universit...

The study has been published in Nature Immunology. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED.
• www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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ABSTRACT
Administration of HIV-1 neutralizing antibodies can suppress viremia and prevent infection in vivo. However, clinical use is challenged by envelope diversity and rapid viral escape. Here, we performed single B cell profiling of 32 top HIV-1 elite neutralizers to identify broadly neutralizing antibodies with highest antiviral activity.
From 831 expressed monoclonal antibodies, we identified 04_A06, a VH1-2-encoded broadly neutralizing antibody to the CD4 binding site with remarkable breadth and potency against multiclade pseudovirus panels (geometric mean half-maximal inhibitory concentration =0.059 ug ugml-1, breadth = 98.5%, 332 strains).
Moreover, 04_A06 was not susceptible to classic CD4 binding site escape variants and maintained full viral suppression in HIV-1-infected humanized mice.
Structural analyses revealed an unusually long 11-amino-acid heavy chain insertion that facilitates interprotomer contacts with highly conserved residues on the adjacent gp120 protomer. Finally, 04_A06 demonstrated high activity against contemporaneously circulating viruses from the Antibody-Mediated Prevention trials (geometric mean half-maximal
inhibitory concentration = 0.082 ug ml-1, breadth =
98.4%, 191 virus strains), and in silico modeling for
04_A06LS predicted prevention efficacy of >93%.
Thus, 04_A06 will provide unique opportunities for effective treatment and prevention of HIV-1 infection.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 8h

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a powerful antibody, known as 04_A06, that is able to neutralize 98.5% of MORE THAN 300 different HIV strains AND permanently reduce HIV viral load to undetectable levels, making it one of the broadest-acting antibodies against HIV identified to date.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 50m

Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach

A grand jury Tuesday night declined to indict two protesters in the...

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 5h

Oh — new reporting on Pope Leo from El Paso Matters, citing footage they have of yesterday's meeting.

Sounds like the pope was even *more* forceful in urging U.S. bishops to speak out about immigration than first reported.

I mean, that's…not subtle. elpasomatters.org/2025/10/08/e...

“I was struck at the beginning (of the video), it talks about the feeling of powerlessness, which I think is so much. I think it’s so important that we as a church give a message of hope in the midst of these horrible struggles, what’s going on in so many cities in the United States right now. At least the church cannot be silent,” the pope told the El Pasoans, according to a video of the meeting provided to El Paso Matters by Hope Border Institute.

Seitz responded: “You’ve spoken very strongly. We’re trying to do the same in our country and yet not get into the political fray the best that we can.”

Pope Leo told Seitz that he’d like to see the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops become more vocal on immigration issues.

“I mean, even within the conference, there are challenges. That’s one place they should be … I wish they were stronger in their own voice,” Leo said, adding that Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the president of the conference, should speak out more on immigration.

“There’s been some good movement in that sense, but I certainly intend to continue to encourage” U.S. bishops to address immigration, Leo said.

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 7h

My New One at MSNBC Opinion on How the Supreme Court Seems Poised to Kill Off What Remains of the Voting Rights Act While Few Pay Attention–With Implications for 2026 Redistricting www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... @msnbc.com

How the Supreme Court could aid the GOP's redistricting games

If the court rules quickly enough in a key voting rights case, it could allow yet another round of partisan redistricting before the 2026 midterms.

www.msnbc.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 5h

This powerful JB Pritzker response to Trump's lawless threats is another reminder of what I tried to argue this morning: Pritzker understands Stephen Miller's theory of this moment, and he's responding accordingly:

newrepublic.com/article/2014...

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 6h

Pritzker: “This is a convicted felon…who is threatening to jail me. This guy is unhinged. He's insecure. He's a wannabe dictator. And there's one thing I really want to say to Donald Trump: If you come for my people, you come through me. So come and get me.”

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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 5h

Protest now while it’s still legal. No Kings 10.18

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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree @pingree.house.gov · 7h

That’s why we have to stand up, speak out, and push back NOW.

I stand with Governor Pritzker and Mayor Johnson—and every public official who is fighting to protect our Constitution, our democracy, and the American people from this reckless regime. (3/3)

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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree @pingree.house.gov · 7h

The Posse Comitatus Act prohibits the use of federal forces to execute domestic laws. The whole point was to prevent the president from using troops as a domestic police force!

If Trump gets his way, and he's allowed to call *any* defiance an act of “insurrection,” all bets are off. (2/3)

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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree @pingree.house.gov · 7h

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Yesterday, Stephen Miller had one of the most terrifying Freudian slips I've ever heard.

He claimed Trump has plenary authority (absolute power)—before cutting himself off.

Today, Trump said Governor Pritzker and Mayor Johnson should be *jailed*.

This is how authoritarian regimes talk. (1/3)

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Rep. Lloyd Doggett @doggett.house.gov · 6h

Donald Trump is calling for the arrest of an elected Illinois Governor and Chicago Mayor. Not because they've committed any crime, but because they're standing up to a lawless president.

This is straight out of his tyrant’s playbook and should concern every freedom-loving American.

Trump baselessly calls for Pritzker, Chicago mayor to be jailed

The state and city sued the administration Monday over the deployment of troops to Chicago.

www.axios.com

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Nikki Budzinski @budzinski.house.gov · 6h

The President of the United States just threatened to arrest Governor Pritzker and Mayor Johnson. We can't stay silent in the face of this dangerous, anti-democratic rhetoric.

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Taylor Kordsiemon @tkords.bsky.social · 6h

Hard to take DHS seriously when they say citizen recordings are illegal but they’ve got a whole reality TV setup documenting their actions.

Post by Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net):

“ICE is not only chasing Don every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.”

The post’s text is followed by a screenshot of security camera footage showing an ICE cameraman filming as officers seize two individuals.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 5h

"Energy dominance," you say?

As of this year, *China is exporting more clean-energy technology than the US is exporting the dirty stuff*.

The future is green energy & China, not the US, is set to dominate it.

China Is Beating the US in the Battle for Energy Export Dominance

China’s exports of clean energy technology hit a record in August, with $20 billion shipped globally.

www.bloomberg.com

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petra de asis @petradeasis.bsky.social · 6h

They're doing their job of holding their caucus together & making sure that the GOP is held responsible for the shutdown & ensuing pain.

Once there is a buy in from people that the GOP is ENTIRELY responsible for what's happening in the country, they can amplify the existing voices & warnings.

Who do you think is mainly responsible for the federal government partially shutting down?
Democrats in Congress 30%
Not sure 23%
Trump and Republicans in Congress 47%

petra de asis @petradeasis.bsky.social · 6h

"It takes a great big village to save Democracy. *We* are that village." - Hillary Clinton

Pritzker & Newsom have been brutally honest about what's going on. #WeThePeople should stop waiting for the OneLeader or the RightMessage. We all need to do something (tangible) now.

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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 10h

Our government is full of examples where there is supposed to be independence from the executive branch, especially the judiciary.

We all must stand up against his attempts to undermine the rule of law.

petra de asis @petradeasis.bsky.social · 7h

1) Dem AGs have been out there confronting & suing the Trump admin
2) Dems have been assassinated, arrested, threatened, a governor's mansion set on fire... & Trump continues to threaten to sue/arrest them.

Do you really think they'd collaborate to harm themselves?

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Democratic AGs @democraticags.bsky.social · 8d

Democratic AGs will not let Trump normalize deploying the military to American cities.

They’ll continue suing and winning for the people they serve. @agdanrayfield.bsky.social