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blanchecat.bsky.social @blanchecat.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
About trump's attack on voting-- Can we please add the elderly and disabled who depend on mail-in voting and who will be disenfranchised because they cannot physically get to the polls to prove citizenship to the list of concerned citizens who are opposed to Trump's latest madness.
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blanchecat.bsky.social @blanchecat.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
A writer who can't distinguish between a possessive and a plural clearly needs an editor.
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blanchecat.bsky.social @blanchecat.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
It is his lack of experience that makes him an expert in this Alice in Wonderland regime. Anyone with expertiese or experience is tainted and only the truly ignorant are pure.
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blanchecat.bsky.social @blanchecat.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
None so blind as those WILL NOT SEE
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blanchecat.bsky.social @blanchecat.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Los Angeles 1992 Rodney King. 33 years. A new generation, new riots, new troops. Deja vu all over again.
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blanchecat.bsky.social @blanchecat.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Just watched an interesting segment by Jen Psaki on young men and MAGA. I find a lot of focus on young men and their political and social ideas. What about young women? How do they vote? What are their issues?
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blanchecat.bsky.social @blanchecat.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
What is the real difference between SCOTUS "backing down" and Trump declaring the US a dictatorship?
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blanchecat.bsky.social @blanchecat.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
This is important research for new antibiotics. MRSA and other infections are increasingly resistant to our current antibiotics.
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blanchecat.bsky.social @blanchecat.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Defunded, But Not Defeated open.substack.com/pub/naturesp...
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Defunded, But Not Defeated
One of my lab's research grants has been canceled. Another may soon follow.
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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 13/04/2025
Trump’s attacks on the rule of law not only affect the legal profession, but all citizens. “I realized, it might have to be me,” says @cohen489.bsky.social, who resigned from their firm over the Trump deal, urging others to “pay attention” to the attacks on the justice system.
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‘I realized, it might have to be me’: Lawyer resigns from firm over Trump deal, says ‘pay attention’
“I was hoping to get people to pay attention to what was going on,” says Rachel Cohen, a now-former Associate at Skadden Arps, one of the handful of firms which recently made agreements with the Trump administration. “We’ve underestimated” the Trump administration’s attacks on the justice system, says Cohen. They’re coming for the big firms first, because “it’s hard to care what happens to Skadden Arps”, but it’s ultimately clients like Kilmar Abrego Garcia and others – and the rule of law – ultimately suffering the heaviest consequences. “I don’t want to be a liability to them,” says Mark Zaid, a national security attorney and co-founder of WhistleBlower Aid who has been defending whistleblowers of all party affiliations for decades. “This is the first administration who has actually targeted me because of that.”
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Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Disappearing people without any due process is fascism — full stop. I’m sick to my stomach and we all should be.
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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
with gratitude for the opportunity to share the urgency of this moment—
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
"What emerges is a more intimate picture of Öztürk and how a child development researcher charged with no crime ended up in a crowded cell in Louisiana." www.propublica.org/article/rume...
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American Rendition: Rümeysa Öztürk’s Journey From Ph.D. Scholar to Trump Target Languishing in Louisiana Cell
“So horrifying and so heartbreaking”: Öztürk’s close friend provides an intimate look into one of the hundreds of foreign students who have had their visas revoked — and in dozens of instances have be...
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blanchecat.bsky.social @blanchecat.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Just asking---Is it possible for one to score a perfect 30 out of 30 on the Montreal Cognitive Asssessment and still be batsh-t crazy?
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blanchecat.bsky.social @blanchecat.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Can anyone please tell me how I can say that what Israel is doing in Gaza is genocide without being accused of "antisemitism"?
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blanchecat.bsky.social @blanchecat.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Let's see the Court SAY it--loud and clear enough even for Trump to undersatnd. Words of one syllable will do--"send him back. Now."
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blanchecat.bsky.social @blanchecat.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Add your name to the petition to demand the Office of Government Ethics investigate Trump, his family, the administration, and all members of Congress for any unethical recent market trades! sign.moveon.org/petitions/di...
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Demand an investigation into unethical insider trading!
Add your name to the petition to demand the Office of Government Ethics investigate Trump, his family, the administration, and all members of Congress for any unethical recent market trades!
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blanchecat.bsky.social @blanchecat.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Don't malign snakes.
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blanchecat.bsky.social @blanchecat.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Hold your hand over a candle flame for 72 hours--that's temporary too.
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blanchecat.bsky.social @blanchecat.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
We need a broken heart icon for comments like this. It is so sad to realize this is happening.
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blanchecat.bsky.social @blanchecat.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
If they build them on rafts, they can just drift out to sea and find out how that works for them.
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blanchecat.bsky.social @blanchecat.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
And they are busy removing funds from universities and other institutions, so they will run out of places able to continue (or begin again) with the research. Not to mention the lab animals that will have been killed in thje interim.
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blanchecat.bsky.social @blanchecat.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Can we revoke Trump?
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blanchecat.bsky.social @blanchecat.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Preaching to the choir here, Chris. The Trumpies will swallow anything.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Did any Americans vote for this? "[Transportation Secretary] Duffy said the young staff of Mr Musk’s team was trying to lay off air traffic controllers. What am I supposed to do? Mr Duffy said. I have multiple plane crashes to deal with now, and your people want me to fire air traffic controllers?"
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Inside the Explosive Meeting Where Trump Officials Clashed With Elon Musk
Simmering anger at the billionaire’s unchecked power spilled out in a remarkable Cabinet Room meeting. The president quickly moved to rein in Mr. Musk.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 07/03/2025
The Guardian is reporting that Trump is openly violating a court order, and has transferred multiple transgender women to men's facilities. We know in Florida, transgender women are having their hair shorn, feminine items confiscated, and pulled off medication. This is inhumane and illegal.
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Trans women transferred to men’s prisons despite rulings against Trump’s order
Incarcerated trans women report being groped by male guards and suicidal thoughts: ‘I’m punished for existing’
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
All the pundits spending time on Dems’ message on trans sports could maybe use a little of their power and platform to talk about how vile this is.
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
“A vessel for all the worst elements of the American condition. And a cheap, soulless bully besides. We never have had such a cheap counterfeit of a president as currently occupies the office.” — Charles Pierce (Oct. 2018)
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blanchecat.bsky.social @blanchecat.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
We cannot allow the indefensible actions of our government to eclipse our overwhelming solidarity with the Ukrainian people. sign.moveon.org/petitions/to...
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To President Zelenskyy, From Embarrassed Americans
Over the past two years, everyday people have been showing up in support of Ukraine in both big demonstrations and small acts—including displaying the Ukrainian flag, publicly advocating for peace and...
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blanchecat.bsky.social @blanchecat.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
The review of this book on your program today woke me up--and sent me back to my practice of mindfulness meditation, which I had have ignored in recent days because I was too busy being distracted by news and events to take out 20 minutes to breathe. Thank you.
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blanchecat.bsky.social @blanchecat.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
No, he has says that some word salad about "algorithms crawling"--which sounds like a need for an exterminator
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blanchecat.bsky.social @blanchecat.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Excellent, thoughtul book. A must read!
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blanchecat.bsky.social @blanchecat.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Zadie Smith has a truly frightening article in this week's New York Review of Books: "Trump Gaza Number One " "The AI-generated vision of postwar Gaza that Trump posted on social media was only thirty-three seconds long, but it spoke volumes about how his administration sees the world."
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Brilliant show of statesmanship and solidarity. U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer comes out to greet President Zelenskyy on the street. Starmer posted a clip of this moment on his X account. He stated: "Action, not just words. Britain stands with Ukraine, today and always 🇬🇧🇺🇦"
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blanchecat.bsky.social @blanchecat.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Ukraine remembers Stalin and the famine he created there. They will not willingly submit to Russian rule again. A long memory is a weapon. www.history.com/news/ukraini....
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blanchecat.bsky.social @blanchecat.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
That sounds reasonable, and effective, but expensive and requiring action on the part of the poultry raisers. I see no signs that anyone is advocating really doing this. And, in a way it reminds me of the masking protocols for humans, and we know how that was received.
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