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BMF @benfertig.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Keep it shut.
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BMF @benfertig.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Keep it shut.
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BMF @benfertig.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Keep it shut.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
A reminder for these times.
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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I worry that the focus on NOAA's weather predicting value is ignoring the millions of other ways NOAA researchers enrich communities and local economies. There are no oysters without NOAA. There are no blue crabs without NOAA. NOAA trains teachers. NOAA is the lifeblood of coastal communities.
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Keys for Liberty @demskeys.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
🙌 ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ 🙌 Preach it Bernie!
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Cosmos (They / He) @dreaming-cosmos.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Hakeem Jeffries is 💯correct....
picture Of Hakeem Jeffries and volodimir zelinski with text saying " President Trump and his administration continue to embarrass America on the world stage. today's white house meeting with the president of Ukraine was appalling and will only serve to further embolden Vladimir Putin, a brutal dictator."
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Isaiah Martin @isaiahrmartin.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
What you saw was treason What you saw was treason What you saw was treason What you saw was treason What you saw was treason What you saw was treason What you saw was treason What you saw was treason Trump selling out you and America to Russia in the Oval Office was TREASON!
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BMF @benfertig.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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Veronica Hanson @veronicahanson.com · 28/02/2025
The U.S. expects allegiance no matter what it does to its people. My family was once imprisoned for our ethnicity. Today, they’re coming for new groups. I refuse to watch the cycle repeat. My loyalty is to my family, not to a country that never protected us.
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PDC23 🇺🇲💙🌈 @pdc23.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Today with Zelensky takes the top prize
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I'd be pretty psyched if Zelensky were the U.S. president.
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Mitchie's Mom@marianherra.bsky.social @marianherra.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Says it all.
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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Today, in a meeting at the White House, the only person actually defending American interests was Zelenskyy. Let that sink in.
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BMF @benfertig.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
My dude. It’s called bionic shark for a reason. 🤪🤣🤣
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BMF @benfertig.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
No. I think he’s playing with something under the table. Maybe a phone. Maybe not.
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ltwlauren🤸‍♀️❤️🎶🎨🐾 @ltwlauren.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
@rubicon1313.bsky.social @theduderoni.bsky.social @fireeyebooks.bsky.social @sassy0210.bsky.social @stevenmcstevenson.bsky.social @navyveteran1038.bsky.social @itistherealjas.bsky.social @free2beme.bsky.social @patawan1.bsky.social @ltwlauren.bsky.social @dailykotzn.bsky.social @dogs100.bsky.social
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 27/02/2025
#Philadelphia's 200-year history of Black-led protest meetings continues, as hundreds gather to develop a new "Black agenda" countering nationwide attacks on civil rights advances. A journalism professor explains: Linn Washington, Jr., @temple.edu 🗃️
theconversation.com
Philadelphia continues long history of Black-led protest meetings aimed at fighting racial inequity and prejudice
A packed public meeting at a senior center in January 2025 continues a Philly tradition that dates back to a meeting at Mother Bethel AME Church in January 1817.
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BMF @benfertig.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
0 is the maximum I like to see. I frequently prefer negative numbers of swastikas.
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BMF @benfertig.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
But we have measles in the great US of A…
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
This is remarkable. The last of 8 patients who tested positive for Ebola Sudan has been discharged. Now the 42 day count down to this outbreak being officially declared over is on. Only 1 fatality is a remarkable feat.🤞 Kudos to front line responders in #Uganda www.independent.co.uk/news/ebola-u...
independent.co.uk
Uganda discharges the last Ebola patients. No new deaths from the contagious virus reported
Uganda health authorities say they discharged the last eight patients who recovered from Ebola
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BMF @benfertig.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
I give you, ‘Outer America’. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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BMF @benfertig.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Great sentiment but no one - especially not anyone in power - pays any attention to pretty much anything people post on social media. Call your senators and other representatives instead. There are a lot of other good ideas out there.
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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I think it's incredibly important that if we build a permanent moon base/city that it has a cheesemonger.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
He’s insane.
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hopeful66 @hopeful66.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Listen to Sen. Warren, she speaks the truth.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Yesterday was the international day of women in science, and my feed was full of marine science colleagues and institutions posting about how they support women in science. Great! Keep that up. 🧪🌎🦑
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
If we’re renaming bodies of water based on petty grievances, I propose that this be renamed the Kendrick Lamar passage.
Google maps screenshot of the Drake passage between South America and Antarctica
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BMF @benfertig.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
I think that may be an update/modification to an existing contract that was originally awarded in 2020 and will end in 2027 according to usaspending.gov www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_A...
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BMF @benfertig.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
That’s it. That’s the last straw! Can’t paper over this any more. It just sucks for the environment. First they came for the straws but it quickly became a slippery sip after that. Paper straws were litter-ally blown away. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Trump signs executive order on plastic drinking straws
President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order aimed at encouraging the U.S. government and consumers to purchase plastic drinking straws.
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BMF @benfertig.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
You speak as if the political calculus relies on the notion that facts matter.
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Emily @emilykrmr.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
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BMF @benfertig.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
The time that you can’t spend on federal grants? Spend that time demonstrating and resisting.
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Glitter Jedi Fellina @glitterjedi.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Please! Read this - then… Send to your friends & family. Print it and pass it to strangers. Put on windshields. Leave in public bathrooms. #3E #resist #StrongerTogether #AltGovern
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BMF @benfertig.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
@afertig.bsky.social is looking to hear about what people have been #dreaming about during these wild times. www.dreamsofthesetimes.com
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/02/2025
Do I have this right? Elon Musk - the guy in charge of preventing wasteful spending - dropped $40M on a Super Bowl ad? We could permanently house 800 homeless veterans for $40M. Or provide five million meals to the hungry. Or replace lead pipes in 8,500 homes.
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BMF @benfertig.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
What in the actual.. Not today Cinci! youtu.be/8JoLhwLVHNg
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Neo-Nazis chased out of Greater Cincinnati, local residents set swastika flag ablaze
YouTube video by LOCAL 12
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BMF @benfertig.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
What every free speech absolutist always says.
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BMF @benfertig.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
These are very small and temporary wins against a wild shift in thinking about what is possible right now.
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BMF @benfertig.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Monks and Arabic institutions were invaluable during the European Dark Ages for safekeeping ancient thought. Are we all monks now? Oh don’t mind me. Just monkeying around.
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BMF @benfertig.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Even if the NIH indirect changes are temporarily blocked or reversed tomorrow, the Overton Window has shifted and we know it’s *possible* that the scientific research enterprise as we know it is irrevocably more tenuous than it was last week. Download your datasets and get them off Google servers
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BMF @benfertig.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Endowment investments are used to generate dividends or interest which is the money that’s actually used for whatever purpose. So yeah, you kinda nailed it.
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BMF @benfertig.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
That presumes a fair election
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BMF @benfertig.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Good luck
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BMF @benfertig.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Any time there is a regulation change the affected industry whines and complains and insists on phasing it in over years. The changes in federal government over the last few weeks will result in massive OVERNIGHT changes to just about every industry as far as I can tell.
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BMF @benfertig.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Unemployment rate is about to skyrocket. Hope I’m wrong.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
These overhead rates are negotiated. Lowering it unilaterally to 15% is another way to destroy science in the US. Can’t wait to see what’s next.
Tweet from NIH:

Last year, $9B of the $35B that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) granted for research was used for administrative overhead, what is known as "indirect costs." Today, NIH lowered the maximum indirect cost rate research institutions can charge the government to 15%, above what many major foundations allow and much lower than the 60%+ that some institutions charge the government today. This change will save more than $4B a year effective immediately.
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