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Anjanette Baker

@anjanettepb.bsky.social
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Retired as the @theaga.bsky.social majordomo; conservation genetics enthusiast; ocean/river/all water devotee, social democrat.

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Anjanette Baker @anjanettepb.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I love that the @nytimes.com featured this -- it's funny, and Emmett Lindner stresses how finding funds for research in this political environment is dire. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/s...
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‘OnlyMarms’: Marmots Are on OnlyFans to Raise Money for Research (Gift Article)
A team of scientists uploaded videos of the squirrel-like rodents in the wild on the adult-content site OnlyFans to raise money amid government budget cuts.
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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
BHL is featured in @theguardian.com's Age of Extinction series. The article highlights the extraordinary value of BHL and the urgent need to ensure it remains free and open into the future. Please read and share: www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🧪 🌎 📖 🔗 🐟 💚
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A bonanza for fans of the natural world: the digital library sharing 64m pages of scientific knowledge with everyone
The Biodiversity Heritage Library is an invaluable online archive of historic texts on species living and lost supplied by the world’s leading museums and universities. Now its future is in doubt
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Senator Jeff Merkley @merkley.senate.gov · 18/06/2026
HUGE: I just led an “SOS” call on the Senate floor—Save Ocean Sensors—with Senator Lisa Murkowski!
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.
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Anjanette Baker @anjanettepb.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Does he stay up at night concocting schemes to outshine his rival, Dr Evil?
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a bald man is sitting in a chair and pointing at the camera
ALT: a bald man is sitting in a chair and pointing at the camera
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 06/05/2026
Tariff chaos. Endless wars. Handouts to the rich. You can draw a straight line from Trump and the GOP to the economic chaos now slamming Americans. Instead of helping working families, Republicans now want taxpayers to pay for their dear leader's ridiculous ballroom.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/05/2026
BREAKING: in April 2026, *every single one* of the 1,570 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,066 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else.
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Anjanette Baker @anjanettepb.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
“If You Can Buy the Met Gala, You Can Pay More Taxes.” Right, @patrioticmillionaires.org ? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/s...
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Mamdani Highlights Fashion Workers as He Skips the Met Gala
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 30/04/2026
"Slop is AI’s chief export," writes technologist Mike Pepi. "And there’s a simple way for lawmakers to mitigate its harms: institute a small slop tax."
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It’s time to tax AI slop | Mike Pepi
We are stuck in a deluge of meaningless content that threatens human creativity. Here’s a simple way to mitigate its harms
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Waste. Fraud. Abuse.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Bad framing: ACIP voted to scrap the universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for newborns. Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.
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Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Speak up fur endangered species! Proposed changes to the Endangered Species Act would severely weaken our most powerful tool for saving wildlife. Make your voice heard before the public comment deadline on Dec. 22
Sea otter Polar bear
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Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
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Defend the Endangered Species Act
The federal government is considering four changes to the Endangered Species Act that would severely weaken our most powerful tool for saving wildlife.
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Anjanette Baker @anjanettepb.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Support the workers and tax the rich -- go, Santa Fe! "Santa Fe also is counting on revenue from a so-called mansion tax, which targets home sales over $1 million, to fuel a trust fund for affordable housing projects." @apnews.com apnews.com/article/sant...
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Santa Fe tackles rental rates with first-in-US minimum wage approach
Santa Fe is the first city in the U.S. to directly link wages to housing affordability, aiming to counter high rents.
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Anjanette Baker @anjanettepb.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
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Full Mark Kelly press conference on Trump Pentagon 'intimidation,' Venezuela boat strikes and more
YouTube video by USA TODAY
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Anjanette Baker @anjanettepb.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Decorated Naval aviator, astronaut, Senator, and endlessly supportive husband following the assassination attempt on Gabby Gifford. A hero by anyone's reckoning. This is who the idiots want to court martial? It beggars belief.
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Patriotic Millionaires @patrioticmillionaires.org · 30/11/2025
As the year comes to a close, we hope lawmakers in 2026 will take us at our word when we say we’d start being grateful if they taxed us MORE, not less, and undo the damage from the Republican budget bill: www.americanprogress.org/article/7-wa...
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7 Ways the Big Beautiful Bill Cuts Taxes for the Rich
Overall, the Big Beautiful Bill will harm poor Americans and raise the incomes of rich Americans—driving gains for the rich through cuts to marginal tax rates and the estate tax, along with tax breaks...
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 29/11/2025
Next year, Donald Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" will hand $67 BILLION of YOUR taxpayer dollars over to corporations for a single tax break. Why? To "incentivize" research these companies did years ago. Let that sink in. YOUR money being used to boost Amazon's profits even more.
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Anjanette Baker @anjanettepb.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
I think the phrase "the dangers of excessive wealth" should be widely disseminated on social media -- people need to realize how truly dangerous a social phenomenon it is.
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Anjanette Baker @anjanettepb.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
@dwallacewells.bsky.social once again cogently explores how little we seem to learn from experience. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/o...
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Opinion | When the Next Pandemic Comes, MAHA Says, You’re on Your Own
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Lincoln County Oregon Democrats @lincolncodemsor.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
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Sen. Wyden, Fisherman's Wives Meet With the Coast Guard About the Loss of Newport’s Rescue Helicopter -
By Brian Bahouth Listen – 5:23   The State of Oregon, together with Lincoln County and the Newport Fishermen’s Wives organization, are filing lawsuits to compel the federal government to return the Co...
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 14/11/2025
A monstrous, illegal waste of taxpayer dollars. Donald Trump must confirm if this estimate is true and disclose the full total he's burned through with his unlawful military deployment into our cities. The American people deserve to know.
The Intercept: TRUMP’S MILITARY OCCUPATIONS OF U.S. CITIES COST $473 MILLION AND RISING
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Patriotic Millionaires @patrioticmillionaires.org · 13/11/2025
Extreme wealth—and that includes obscene CEO payouts—is bad for society as a whole. Because extreme wealth translates into extreme power that threatens the stability of our economy, our democracy, the freedom of the press and media, and our planet. patrioticmillionaires.org/perspectives...
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Obscene CEO pay is bad for business and society
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Patriotic Millionaires @patrioticmillionaires.org · 08/11/2025
Our President, Erica Payne, spoke with Fast Company, and shared our super simple message for the FAA during the shutdown: “If you need a 10% reduction [in flights], you can get 100% of your reduction from the private planes.” www.fastcompany.com/91437451/faa...
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These millionaires have a suggestion for the FAA: Cancel all private jet flights during the shutdown
Private jets make up one in six flights handled by the FAA, and taxpayers already foot the bill for their 'jet setting,' says Patriotic Millionaires.
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Anjanette Baker @anjanettepb.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
‘Huge victory’ in Portland as judge’s final order bars Trump from sending national guard. "No credible evidence” that protests in the city had grown out of control before the president federalized the troops earlier this fall. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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‘Huge victory’ in Portland as judge’s final order bars Trump from sending national guard
Karin Immergut said earlier she ‘found no credible evidence’ that protests in Oregon city were out of control
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Anjanette Baker @anjanettepb.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
How Jess Rowe and Miriam Payne made history rowing the Pacific Ocean www.nytimes.com/athletic/677...
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How Jess Rowe and Miriam Payne made history rowing the Pacific Ocean
It took Jess Rowe and Miriam Payne six months, plenty of snacks and sleepless nights to row from Peru to Australia
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The Borowitz Report @borowitzreport.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
To those experts who said a Democratic socialist could never be elected mayor of NYC, a reminder that one was elected president of the USA four times
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Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
“It’s become out of control, and I really hope that this shutdown is a wake-up call of how bad things have gotten.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Workers decry Trump officials as ‘out of control’ as longest shutdown drags on
Key figures accused of harassment, bullying and attacks as US employees work without pay to keep services running
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Patriotic Millionaires @patrioticmillionaires.org · 06/11/2025
Private planes make up nearly 12% of all flights. And yet even with major air traffic control safety concerns, the DOT is planning to exclude them from its plan to order 10% cut in flights at 40 major U.S. airports. People who can afford to charter flights will be fine. Everyone else is screwed.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 03/11/2025
42 million people cant buy food this month. It’s time to tax billionaires.
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Patriotic Millionaires @patrioticmillionaires.org · 30/10/2025
Forget vampires.🧛🧛🧛 The real monsters are the billionaires who drain the lifeblood from our democracy. In this week’s Closer Look, we expose the terrifying truth: extreme wealth warps empathy and threatens the future of working people everywhere. patrioticmillionaires.org/perspectives...
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Ghosts, witches, vampires...and broligarchs?!
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David Crotty @dacrotty.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I am Ready for Your Apology www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-...
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Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology
“Wikipedia, the constantly changing knowledge base created by a global free-for-all of anonymous users, now stands as the leading force for the dum...
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Anjanette Baker @anjanettepb.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
The Associated Press is considered to be one of the most unbiased news sources, which is probably why they were kicked out of the White House press corps. @apnews.com
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Anjanette Baker @anjanettepb.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Support Wikipedia! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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‘People thought I was a communist doing this as a non-profit’: is Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales the last decent tech baron?
In an online landscape characterised by doom and division, the people’s encyclopedia stands out – a huge collective endeavour giving everyone free access to the sum of human knowledge. But with Elon M...
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Dr. Katy Croff Bell @katycroffbell.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
"NOAA has built a reputation for world-class research...For every dollar invested in NOAA, the country’s return is orders of magnitude greater in productivity, transportation, farming, fishing, business development, and savings to communities in insurance and public safety."
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Anjanette Baker @anjanettepb.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
So inspiring - www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... @us.theguardian.com
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One year after a historic dam removal, teens inspire river restoration worldwide: ‘It turns out you can win’
The Klamath River began rebounding almost immediately. Now, Indigenous youth are leading the next chapter of the recovery, inspiring tribes from Brazil to China
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
I’ve learned a LOT this year. One the biggest lessons: don’t mess with our public servants. They are a courageous bunch! A single fed has more character in one of their pinky fingers than the Trump administration has in their entire staff.
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 26/10/2025
The 3 districts facing the highest premium hikes if ACA tax credits expire are all Republican-led districts: WY: +693% WV-01: +654% WV-02: +599% Republicans would rather abandon their constituents than work with us to reopen the government and protect their health care.
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 23/10/2025
If Republicans get their way and let ACA tax credits expire, 339,000 Americans will lose their jobs next year. Almost half of them will be doctors, nurses and caregivers. They call it policy. We call it cruelty.
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Patriotic Millionaires @patrioticmillionaires.org · 20/10/2025
That's over $1 trillion kept out of their workers' pockets. And FWIW, that's also over 5x more than they paid in federal taxes during that same period. Read the latest reporting from our pals @oxfamamerica.bsky.social: www.oxfamamerica.org/press/larges...
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Largest US corporations spent nearly $1.6 trillion on shareholder payouts in 2024, triple the income of the poorest fifth of US households
Over the past five years, the CEOs of the five largest U.S. companies made an average of $52 million annually, over 1,000
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Patriotic Millionaires @patrioticmillionaires.org · 20/10/2025
Corporations can pay workers a living wage. They just choose not to. How do we know this? Because the five largest U.S. companies alone spent over $1 trillion in stock buybacks and dividends over the past five years.
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Anjanette Baker @anjanettepb.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Think I'll get an American flag for my local rally and sing "This land is your land" @coin-indivisible.bsky.social @lincolncodemsor.bsky.social
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Ellen Hopkins @ellenhopkins.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 07/10/2025
Kristi Noem is cosplaying as a public official. In reality, she's been sent by Trump to incite violence. Don't tar and feather her as Speaker Johnson suggested for Governor Newsom. The best response to her playacting as cop? Ignore her and keep supporting our community.
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem expected in Portland for ICE facility visit
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem could be coming to Portland today.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 08/10/2025
Portland is so peaceful Republicans had to go all the way to South America to find photos from years ago for their bad memes.
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 06/10/2025
Thanks, Donald Trump! Burbank Airport has ZERO air traffic controllers from 4:15pm to 10pm today because of YOUR government shutdown.
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Burbank Airport will have no air traffic controllers Monday evening, FAA warns
Burbank Airport is bracing for impacted operations as air traffic controllers begin to call out in greater numbers due to the government shutdown.
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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
At yesterday's 80th @UN General Assembly, the High Seas Treaty was FINALLY ratified! 🌊 🦑 Aka the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdictions (BBNJ) Agreement, it now officially enters into force in 120 days, becoming international law in Jan 2026. highseasalliance.org/treaty-ratif...
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High Seas Treaty Ratification Tracker
At least 60 countries must sign and ratify the High Seas Treaty for it to become international law. Join the #RaceForRatification. Ask leaders to ratify the Treaty Now!
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Science Magazine @science.org · 21/09/2025
Samples of DNA collected from thousands of Ukrainians are part of a study probing the genetics of type 1 diabetes. scim.ag/4nabr6B
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Amid war, a Ukrainian genomics research program blooms
Inaugural project for new center searches for genes involved in diabetes
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