@ssemkin.bsky.social
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Convicted predators who rape and abuse children shouldn’t qualify for pardon consideration. A president who can’t immediately say “absolutely not” when I asked if he’s considering such a pardon should be hounded out of office.
July 26, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Convicted predators who rape and abuse children shouldn’t qualify for pardon consideration. A president who can’t immediately say “absolutely not” when I asked if he’s considering such a pardon should be hounded out of office.
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Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
July 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
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IF YOU HAVEN’T READ IT
DO YOURSELF A FAVOR!
DO YOURSELF A FAVOR!
May 12, 2025 at 12:04 PM
IF YOU HAVEN’T READ IT
DO YOURSELF A FAVOR!
DO YOURSELF A FAVOR!
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The first posy in a thimble I made, to lift my mood during the pandemic. The flowers are all real.
When humans look at plants (even on a screen as here) we recover from stress 60% more quickly & the relaxation response is triggered in our brains.
Zoom in if you're strung out🌿
When humans look at plants (even on a screen as here) we recover from stress 60% more quickly & the relaxation response is triggered in our brains.
Zoom in if you're strung out🌿
April 18, 2025 at 10:03 AM
The first posy in a thimble I made, to lift my mood during the pandemic. The flowers are all real.
When humans look at plants (even on a screen as here) we recover from stress 60% more quickly & the relaxation response is triggered in our brains.
Zoom in if you're strung out🌿
When humans look at plants (even on a screen as here) we recover from stress 60% more quickly & the relaxation response is triggered in our brains.
Zoom in if you're strung out🌿
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I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial but will be. If you are a Christian, you can support border control and immigration being legal vs illegal. You CANNOT celebrate deportations and get off on the cruelty, and be a real Christ follower. Period
April 16, 2025 at 2:53 AM
I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial but will be. If you are a Christian, you can support border control and immigration being legal vs illegal. You CANNOT celebrate deportations and get off on the cruelty, and be a real Christ follower. Period
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"Her $60 million contract with the NIH had supported an international network of researchers and clinicians who had produced pathbreaking work on a disease that infects a quarter of the world’s population and kills more than 1 million people per year."
A top scientist at Harvard who has spent years unraveling the mysteries of tuberculosis woke up Tuesday morning and discovered an order from the federal government telling her to halt her research.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/15/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/15/m...
Leading Harvard scientist ordered to halt research in funding freeze - The Boston Globe
Researchers may have to kill macaques, a kind of primate used in a vaccine study, due to the order.
www.bostonglobe.com
April 16, 2025 at 2:47 AM
"Her $60 million contract with the NIH had supported an international network of researchers and clinicians who had produced pathbreaking work on a disease that infects a quarter of the world’s population and kills more than 1 million people per year."
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“It’s amazing that others in this room underwrote electing a man who, in the last week, single-handedly destroyed all of American science. It’s amazing how much good science you can destroy with $320 million and RFK Jr, very fast.”
— Seth Rogen’s censored remarks presenting the Breakthrough Prize
— Seth Rogen’s censored remarks presenting the Breakthrough Prize
April 16, 2025 at 3:10 AM
“It’s amazing that others in this room underwrote electing a man who, in the last week, single-handedly destroyed all of American science. It’s amazing how much good science you can destroy with $320 million and RFK Jr, very fast.”
— Seth Rogen’s censored remarks presenting the Breakthrough Prize
— Seth Rogen’s censored remarks presenting the Breakthrough Prize
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I shit you not, Trump took Harriet Tubman OFF the National Parks Underground Railroad memorial and instead centered it around White people.
Read it yourself!! 👇👇 apple.news/Aspm2lJFkRnu...
Read it yourself!! 👇👇 apple.news/Aspm2lJFkRnu...
April 6, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I shit you not, Trump took Harriet Tubman OFF the National Parks Underground Railroad memorial and instead centered it around White people.
Read it yourself!! 👇👇 apple.news/Aspm2lJFkRnu...
Read it yourself!! 👇👇 apple.news/Aspm2lJFkRnu...
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This is due to the fact that he wasn’t made to divest from his companies. Tax records? HA!
Collect MILLIONS from the taxpayers each and every time a trump property is used.
He is robbing the country daily. EVERYONE knows it.
IF YOU LEAVE IT TO THE PEOPLE, he MAY NOT LIKE WHAT WE DO TO HIM
Collect MILLIONS from the taxpayers each and every time a trump property is used.
He is robbing the country daily. EVERYONE knows it.
IF YOU LEAVE IT TO THE PEOPLE, he MAY NOT LIKE WHAT WE DO TO HIM
April 6, 2025 at 9:34 PM
This is due to the fact that he wasn’t made to divest from his companies. Tax records? HA!
Collect MILLIONS from the taxpayers each and every time a trump property is used.
He is robbing the country daily. EVERYONE knows it.
IF YOU LEAVE IT TO THE PEOPLE, he MAY NOT LIKE WHAT WE DO TO HIM
Collect MILLIONS from the taxpayers each and every time a trump property is used.
He is robbing the country daily. EVERYONE knows it.
IF YOU LEAVE IT TO THE PEOPLE, he MAY NOT LIKE WHAT WE DO TO HIM
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I am typing this through tears. You owe it to yourself to read this heartbreaking, captivating story of service and solidarity in the most difficult of times.
@nicollewallace.bsky.social Thank you, Nicolle, for telling the story of the 4 soldiers returning from Lithuania. Here’s something that will provide a bit more background. www.thebulwark.com/p/when-ameri...
When American Soldiers Were in Trouble, Our Allies Showed Up
Inside the allied effort to find four soldiers lost in a training exercise.
www.thebulwark.com
April 5, 2025 at 1:16 AM
I am typing this through tears. You owe it to yourself to read this heartbreaking, captivating story of service and solidarity in the most difficult of times.
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Democratic senators looking to channel the energy of many of their constituents in standing up to Donald Trump will have some opportunities on Tuesday:
March 25, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Democratic senators looking to channel the energy of many of their constituents in standing up to Donald Trump will have some opportunities on Tuesday:
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Governor Andy Beshear (D-Kentucky) on Kristi Noem's call to eliminate FEMA: "The states cannot do what FEMA does without duplicating certain tasks 50 times over. If you've got an operation that's running well, work with it, improve it, don't eliminate it."
March 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Governor Andy Beshear (D-Kentucky) on Kristi Noem's call to eliminate FEMA: "The states cannot do what FEMA does without duplicating certain tasks 50 times over. If you've got an operation that's running well, work with it, improve it, don't eliminate it."
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Any member of the military who did what they did on signal would be kicked out or arrested.
March 25, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Any member of the military who did what they did on signal would be kicked out or arrested.
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Jessica: I don’t ever want hear “but her emails” again
March 24, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Jessica: I don’t ever want hear “but her emails” again
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Alina Habbard posted: NOTHING CAN STOP THIS MAN FROM FIGHTING FOR HIS COUNTRY.
David Simon had a succinct 2-word response: “Bone spurs.”
David Simon had a succinct 2-word response: “Bone spurs.”
March 5, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Alina Habbard posted: NOTHING CAN STOP THIS MAN FROM FIGHTING FOR HIS COUNTRY.
David Simon had a succinct 2-word response: “Bone spurs.”
David Simon had a succinct 2-word response: “Bone spurs.”
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DOGE isn't firing people to make government more efficient. Let's just get that one out of the way and move on.
March 5, 2025 at 2:02 AM
DOGE isn't firing people to make government more efficient. Let's just get that one out of the way and move on.
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The stock market is tanking so badly it almost feels like we are being governed by someone who went bankrupt six tim— oh.
March 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The stock market is tanking so badly it almost feels like we are being governed by someone who went bankrupt six tim— oh.
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“Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.”
Some DOGE Staffers Are Drawing Six-Figure Government Salaries — WIRED
Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.
apple.news
March 4, 2025 at 9:32 PM
“Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.”
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Yes
March 1, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Yes
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MAGA are mad at Zelenskyy for not wearing a suit for an official White House meeting.
Meanwhile:
Meanwhile:
February 28, 2025 at 7:59 PM
MAGA are mad at Zelenskyy for not wearing a suit for an official White House meeting.
Meanwhile:
Meanwhile:
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The richest man in the world has seized control of federal spending and is demonstrably lying to the whole cabinet on television.
Every news outlet reporting Elon Musk's comment about accidentally canceling Ebola prevention efforts and quickly restoring them should also say they haven't been restored, they're still canceled, the outbreak-fighting teams are dismantled, the money is gone
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Musk says DOGE ‘restored’ Ebola prevention effort. Officials say that’s not true.
USAID’s initiatives to fight Ebola and other diseases have been gutted, current and former agency officials said.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 27, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The richest man in the world has seized control of federal spending and is demonstrably lying to the whole cabinet on television.
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Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.”
There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.
There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.
February 28, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.”
There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.
There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.
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Welcome to the RFK Jr Era of Public Health.
February 24, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Welcome to the RFK Jr Era of Public Health.
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For those following the story of unidentified men violently dragging a protester from a local Idaho GOP meeting, it turns out they were from a private security firm called LEAR Asset Management. But neither the sheriff (who watched it all go down) or the GOP will take responsibility for hiring them.
UPDATE on town hall chaos: Woman who was dragged out speaks, police chief condemns security, name of security firm confirmed
A legislative town hall organized by the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee devolved into chaos Saturday when unidentified, plainclothes security personnel dragged a Post Falls woman from th...
cdapress.com
February 24, 2025 at 3:46 AM
For those following the story of unidentified men violently dragging a protester from a local Idaho GOP meeting, it turns out they were from a private security firm called LEAR Asset Management. But neither the sheriff (who watched it all go down) or the GOP will take responsibility for hiring them.