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former scientist. yoga teacher. pottery fiend. writer. Scorpio🦂 democracy over dictators alovingcup.substack.com <- a lump of clay aspiring to be a mug

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.
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A loving cup @alovingcup.substack.com · 13/03/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u... Would have been way more impactful and less predictable to have highlighted a researcher NOT from Harvard and not ended that he got a grant. He’s the exception in SO many ways in this extremely challenging environment
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His Harvard Lab Was Thriving. Then Came the Cuts.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents today in Minneapolis, appears to have been a registered nurse, an athlete, a son and a brother, with ties to Colorado and Wisconsin. Here is a photo he used for several accounts.
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22/09/2025
Oh, they're totally going to blame the mothers for the existence of autistic people. It's eugenics wrapped in misogyny.
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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Tylenol use is safe in pregnancy, lowest effective dose. Don’t listen to the utter nonsense emanating from the highest office in the land today. Speak to your medical provider.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Well, Kennedy is going to change the childhood vaccine schedule despite a promise not to—this month, ousted CDC head Susan Monarez says. Kennedy also wanted her to meet with his anti-vaccine lawyer friend, Aaron Siri, the guy who petitioned to revoke the polio vaccine. www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...
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Ousted CDC director says Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to change immunization schedule
Susan Monarez told a Senate committee Wednesday that she was fired for refusing to go along with the health secretary’s unscientific agenda.
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Dan Frazier @danrfrazier.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/o... Good video. My only quibble is that some alternative medicine ideas (especially those related to vegan nutrition) are worth trying. An ounce of prevention ... etc.
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Opinion | You Might Have Already Fallen for MAHA’s Conspiracy Theories
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
The CDC has learned its lesson. by Susan Collins
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
I often talk about the fact that MAGA does not access the same news as the left wing. I present to you Exhibit A. Dr. Daskalakis’ resignation letter excoriated RFK Jr. and shared that RFK Jr. was lying to the public, manipulating data, and ordering unethical actions. This what Fox News served.
Screenshot from Fox News that says 

CDC official includes
'pregnant people' terminology and pronouns in resignation letter
Daskalakis accused President Trump's administration of attempting 'to erase transgender populations'
By Alex Nitzberg • Fox News
Published August 28, 2025 1:47pm EDT
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
CDC Director Dr. Monarez was allegedly ordered to accept ACIP’s forthcoming recommendations for COVID19 vaccines regardless of what the evidence from scientific data shows.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
AND NOW THE SENIOR CDC LEADERS HAVE JOINED THE WALK OUT! www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7Q...
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LIVE: CDC staff plan walkout at Atlanta HQ after Trump firings
YouTube video by Associated Press
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Inside the Billion-Dollar Effort to Make Trump Feel Good About Himself
Donald Trump’s administration is using at least $1 billion in taxpayer money and every resource it can to flatter the president.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Important.
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Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
This is unprecedented. The AMA and other medical professional societies speak as one on respiratory virus vaccines and in their own way, say the Trump Administration cannot be trusted with your health. www.ama-assn.org/delivering-c...
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An open letter to the American public on respiratory virus vaccines
Read an open letter to the general public from the AMA and medical societies reaffirming support for vaccination to protect against flu, COVID-19, and RSV.
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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
An ACIP member today aired concerns about a large number COVID vaccine reports to CDC VAERS safety monitoring. Important to remember that COVID vaccination easily dwarfs 30 years of vaccination: 241 million US residents got at least 1 dose by the end of 2021.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Not sure why thimerosal is getting attention again but please feel free to use/share this info (& follow @sabivm.bsky.social) 1) thimerosal is in <5% of all available flu (& only flu) vaccines 2) eating 3 oz tuna fish is objectively greater mercury exposure risk than a thimerosal-containing vaccine
Clearing up some
rumours/ misinformation about thimerosal in the body
Reading comments online that are spreading bad information about thimerosal (ethylmercury) in the body post-vaccination, let's clear the record using our education in pharmacology and toxicology:
1- We cannot extrapolate methylmercury pharmacokinetics to ethylmercury:
• Methylmercury is more easily absorbed, and deposits into more tissues, specifically the brain, and stays in the body much longer.
It is highly absorbable from the Gl tract, a longer half-life, much slower metabolization and clearance and the ability to accumulate for longer periods.
• When vaccines are given, thimerosal is immediately converted to ethylmercury, which is then very quickly converted into the much less toxic inorganic mercury, which does not significantly absorb into other body tissues and is quickly cleared out of the body. Studies have shown thimerosal's mercury content is eliminated from the body much more rapidly and effectively.
2- Exposure amounts to methylmercury from seafood is exponentially higher than the tiny amounts of ethylmercury you get from thimerosal in vaccines. The amount from a dose of flu vaccine is similar to methylmercury from eating 3oz of tuna, but with significantly lower absorption and much faster clearance.

(Unambiguous Science and Dr. Ryan Marino)
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Joel Wertheimer @wertwhile.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Shout out to @lindseyboylan.bsky.social who put it all on the line four and a half years ago and then was hitting the pavement hard since Cuomo got in the race and through today. A portrait in bravery.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
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sundogwalk.bsky.social @sundogwalk.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Was that two weeks in dog years?
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David Faris @davidfaris.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
I am looking for congressional leaders to come out quickly and forcefully against this. We need unequivocal opposition. We need theatric demonstrations of defiance. We need to see leadership. Trump will steamroll us all if we display weakness. Where are our leaders?
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
One of the most spectacular tricks that the “wellness” grift has managed to pull off is convincing people that their industry is untainted by money. That they are all doing it out of their deep concern for their customers’ health. Yet the global supplement industry alone is worth $177 billion.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
What are some good orgs for trans youth that could use some donations on this awful day? Reply below.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
NYC Comptroller Brad Lander was just arrested by Trump’s ICE agents because he asked to see a judicial warrant. This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice. Release him now.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds. He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings. He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights. This is political intimidation.
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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
I wrote about this back in April: Places like NYC becoming unaffordable is a *huge* problem for Democrats nationally. If Cuomo wins the mayoral race, it's much likelier the electoral college becomes nearly unwinnable for Democrats in 2032. amandalitman.substack.com/i/160446970/...
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How I'm voting in the NYC mayoral election
and why you should care, even if you're not a New Yorker (ahem, like me)
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Because Black people know that there is no such thing as “identification” or “identifying yourself”. They aren’t saying Padilla didn’t identify himself as a U.S. Senator. They are saying that there is only one acceptable identity — credential — being white and, in these times, being pro-Trump.
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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Move to hold the agents who assaulted a sitting senator in contempt of Congress. Call for articles of impeachment against Noem. Stop working on crypto legislation. Demonstrate the stakes of what is happening in LA with your actions.
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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
8 new ACIP members. Malone, Kulldorff, several others I'm not as familiar with. Meissner I believe also went contrarian during COVID?
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Secretary Kennedy on X: "On Monday, I took a major step towards restoring public trust in vaccines by reconstituting the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP). I retired the 17 current members of the committee. I’m now repopulating ACIP with the eight new members who will attend ACIP’s" / X
On Monday, I took a major step towards restoring public trust in vaccines by reconstituting the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP). I retired the 17 current members of the committee. I’m now repopulating ACIP with the eight new members who will attend ACIP’s
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Jessica Malaty Rivera, MS @jessicamalaty.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
It's begun. RFK Jr. is filling ACIP with known vaccine antagonists and contrarians, chief among them: Robert Malone! This is a nightmare.
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Zachary Fryer-Biggs @zachfb.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Really important story - army officials asked soldiers to identify themselves if they don't agree with Trump's politics that way he'd get only supportive soldiers in uniform during his political rally on base. Heavier soldiers were also barred from participating.
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Bragg Soldiers Who Cheered Trump's Political Attacks While in Uniform Were Checked for Allegiance, Appearance
As Trump viciously attacked his perceived political foes, he whipped up boos from the gathered troops directed at California leaders, including Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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Elizabeth Villa @thevillalab.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
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Carolyn Johnson @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
"We are pressured to implement harmful measures” -- NIH scientists have been angry for months. Now some are taking their concerns public. wapo.st/3Znv3KM
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NIH scientists have been angry for months. Now some are rebelling.
More than 90 NIH scientists sign their names to the “Bethesda declaration” in protest of Trump administration policies they say are harming people’s health.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Worth noting LBJ used the National Guard to protect and expand civil rights; DJT is doing exactly the opposite.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
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Hayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
this is a day for those of us who have spent the last six months terminally online. this is for us and honestly, we deserve it.
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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 04/06/2025
The changes to Covid vaccine recommendations aren’t just concerning because they make it harder to access shots. Without sharing (or considering) data, officials risk spreading misinformation about the risks of vaccines compared to the risks of getting sick. notadoctor.news/2025/06/04/t...
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Top US officials throw Covid vaccines into turmoil
The Trump administration is bypassing scientific evidence and procedure to change vaccine rules. Last week, three top U.S. health officials made an unusual announcement about Covid vaccines. They s…
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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
*slowly slides PBJ under seat*
Photo of a Sandwich police cruiser taken from inside a vehicle.
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Jim Wallace @jwallit.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Trump is a tyrant. And an anti-scientific quack! Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/c...
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The White House Gutted Science Funding. Now It Wants to ‘Correct’ Research.
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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
No no no! These university leaders don’t get it. If you negotiate one on one you don’t buy peace; you just expose the whole sector and yourselves to more shakedowns. See law firms. The only response is to unite in collective action and fight the Admin’s illegality. www.cnn.com/2025/05/31/p...
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Universities quietly negotiating with White House aide to try to avoid Harvard’s fate, source says | CNN Politics
College and university leaders have been privately negotiating with a deputy to top Trump aide Stephen Miller in hopes of avoiding the same aggressive targeting of Harvard University, a person familia...
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it" by Colette Delawalla (@cdelawalla.bsky.social), Victor Ambros, Carl Bergstrom, Carol Greider, Michael Mann and Brian Nosek for @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it | Colette Delawalla
The new executive order allows political appointees to undermine research they oppose, paving the way to state-controlled science
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
SCOOP— FEMA essential functions are at "high risk" of not functioning properly just days before hurricane season because of staffing shortages, per a recent internal memo obtained by The Handbasket. These deficiencies "may disrupt life-saving and life-sustaining program delivery." Full story here:
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FEMA at 'high risk' of disrupting 'life-saving' disaster relief, per internal memo
The agency in charge of mitigating disasters is in the midst of its own.
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A loving cup @alovingcup.substack.com · 28/05/2025
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Many of us who read Project 2025 have been saying from the start that The Regime has a unifying goal of destroying US scientific infrastructure and causing the collapse of Universities. We were called “hysterical”. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades
The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
I never want to hear again, in my lifetime, that the GOP is concerned about meeting the challenge of rising China in global economic & geopolitical competition.
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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
One terrifying power play after another.
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