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Linda Marie Richards PhD

@atomiclinda.bsky.social
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Linda Marie Richards is a historian of science who writes and teaches about the places where nuclear and environmental history converge with human rights. She coedited with Jacob Hamblin a special issue of Journal of the History of Biology, "Connecting...

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Linda Marie Richards PhD @atomiclinda.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Educators Worry Palestine Censorship Could Reshape Public Education Entirely truthout.org/articles/edu...
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Educators Worry Palestine Censorship Could Reshape Public Education Entirely
New efforts to shut down honest discussion of Palestine could restrict everything from literature to science classes.
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Linda Marie Richards PhD @atomiclinda.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Food & Clothes for Najla & Her Kids in Gaza chuffed.org/project/najl... Please keep helping those in dire need due to violence, conflicts and neglect, like my friend's friend, Najla and her children, suffering in the cold in Gaza this winter. Every little bit helps all of us, luvaction, Linda
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Food & Clothes for Najla & Her Kids in Gaza
I manage this campaign for my friend Najla, a Gaza single mom with four kids whose home in Khan Yunis was destroyed by bombing. They are sheltering in a tent in Al-Mawasi, the undeveloped sand dunes o...
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Linda Marie Richards PhD @atomiclinda.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...
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Double Dutch Pro Uses Jump Rope in Icy Pond Rescue (Gift Article)
David Fisher, a professional rope jumper and performer, was honored by Westfield, Ind., on Monday after using a jump rope to rescue a teenager who had fallen through an icy pond.
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Linda Marie Richards PhD @atomiclinda.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Why the Right Is Wrong About Critical Race Theory truthout.org/articles/why...
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Why the Right Is Wrong About Critical Race Theory
The right wing has tried to distort critical race theory. This Black History Month, let’s reflect on what it really is.
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Nuclear Threat Initiative @nti.org · 29/01/2025
Simultaneously deploying a missile defense system of questionable effectiveness while suspending operative programs against nuclear or bioterrorists, cyberattackers or others is a terrible trade-off.
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Trump Orders ‘Iron Dome’ for U.S., but Freezes Funds for Nuclear Protection
The United States is estimated to have spent more than $400 billion on the kinds of antimissile goals that the president now says will provide “for the common defense.”
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WHO @who.int · 30/01/2025
🧵 🎉 Congratulations #Niger for eliminating Onchocerciasis, commonly known as river blindness, the first country in the African Region to do so bit.ly/40Ur7lV 1/4
A young African girl in a red dress holding a fish by a river. Her feet is in the water.
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Jon Dowd @jondowd.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
@atomiclinda.bsky.social , I couldn't find the post we talked about so I made my own ; -)
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Nuclear Threat Initiative @nti.org · 28/01/2025
The #DoomsdayClock has been set at 89 seconds – the closest it's ever been to midnight. "The existential threats we face can only be addressed through bold leadership and partnership on a global scale," said Juan Manuel Santos. "Every second counts."
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WHO @who.int · 28/01/2025
🧵 STATEMENT: WHO expresses deep concern on the implications of the immediate funding pause for #HIV programmes in low- and middle-income countries. These programmes provide access to life-saving HIV therapy to more than 30 million people worldwide. Read more bit.ly/42yxxIz 1/5
WHO statement on potential global threat to people living with HIV
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Linda Marie Richards PhD @atomiclinda.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Trump’s Education Agenda for Teachers: Sanitize US History or Leave the Field truthout.org/articles/tru...
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Trump’s Education Agenda for Teachers: Sanitize US History or Leave the Field
Teachers fear Trump may use federal funding as a bludgeon to push “uncritical race theory” on K-12 schools and colleges.
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