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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Biochemist Dr. Ida Stephens Owens mapped how human genes control drug metabolism. The first Black woman to earn a PhD from Duke (1967), she spent ~50 years at NIH. She identified the UGT1A gene complex, decoding how enzymes detoxify drugs & harmful toxins. She was born #OTD in 1939.🧵 #WomenInSTEM
A charming photograph of American biochemist Dr. Ida Stephens Owens (1939–2020), renowned for her groundbreaking research on drug-detoxifying enzymes and human genetics, posing in a laboratory setting. Standing from the waist up, she is turned slightly to the right, looking forward with a warm, confident smile that lights up her face. She has short, curly black hair and wears a delicate gold chain necklace with a small round pendant, and a ring on her finger. She is dressed in a casual, short-sleeved beige knit top. Her forearms rest on a surface in the foreground, with one hand loosely holding a pink folder or pamphlet. Behind her, a brightly illuminated laboratory reveals her research environment, featuring a tall shelf tightly packed with colorful textbooks, alongside structured racks holding assorted glass beakers and scientific equipment. The overall composition balances her approachable, dignified expression with the busy backdrop of her historic, decades-long career at the National Institutes of Health.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 28/04/2026
Wait but i thought….
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I know it’s crazy, but as an alternative, White House staffers could simply choose not to commit any crimes.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Soon to be appearing in midterm political ads for Democratic candidates nationwide. Thanks, Darnold. 🙏
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Olivia of Troye @oliviaoftroye.com · 27/03/2026
Pete Hegseth removed 4 decorated Army officers—2 Black, 2 women—from a promotion list. The Army Secretary refused, calling their records exemplary. Hegseth overrode it. Possibly illegally. They gave decades to this country. He erased them & called it meritocracy. This is white Christian nationalism.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
TOMORROW: Be a part of history! Show the world that the majority of Americans oppose the most corrupt, inept, criminal, orange "president" in U.S. History. NO KINGS. Also: NO SERIAL LIARS/CONVICTED FELONS/ADJUDICATED RAPISTS & NO ILLEGAL WAR IN IRAN Be there. Make your voices heard! 🇺🇸 ✊ #NO_KINGS
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Is it happening again?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Who possibly could have seen the landmark Supreme Court decision of LEOPARDS v. PEOPLE'S FACES (2024) leading to this moment?
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.
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BFLOGRL @bflogrl64.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
RELEASE THE COMPLETE EPSTEIN FILES!! IT'S THE LAW!
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 08/03/2026
Don’t let Fox get away with it this time. Spread the word. Fox & Friends Weekend replaced footage of Trump attending yesterday’s dignified transfer with a clip from 2025. They clearly didn’t want their audience to see him disrespecting fallen soldiers wearing a baseball cap. H/T: @BadFoxGraphics
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Aubrey @aubrey.northsky.social · 06/03/2026
Their guy said he'd pardon the J6 insurrectionists--and then shockingly did it. I haven't heard any potential Democratic candidate promise to pardon everybody arrested for protesting ICE. That'd go a long way toward showing me they're opposition and not just controlled.
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Third Act Maryland @thirdactmd.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
"So the U.S. war against Iran is making a strong case for nations around the world to seek energy independence. And for those nations that don’t have large fossil fuel reserves, that means wind and solar"
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Renewable Energy and National Security
The wind and the sun don’t need to transit the Strait of Hormuz
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance.

But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain.

He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again.

He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/02/2026
Heads are going to explode 💥 Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third. All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit. 1/3
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Since I'm pretty sure this administration doesn't realize this document exists, it would be worth downloading the 2020 Intelligence Community Assessment on foreign threats to the U.S. elections before it disappears, which includes the following finding: www.dni.gov/index.php/ne...
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Minneapolis should press its momentum and demand not only withdrawal but start talking about the need for immediate reparations, loudly, with the total certainty that only winners have. "You have wronged us terribly and must pay recompense" and let them argue the second part.
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Jas 🪶🐻🦉🇺🇸🇨🇦 @itistherealjas.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
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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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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
They are going down the list of amendments now. And the entire ICE action is the most obvious violation of the Fourth Amendment this country has ever seen.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 23/01/2026
A German soccer federation executive committee member says it's time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.
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German soccer federation official wants World Cup boycott considered because of Trump
A German soccer federation executive committee member says it’s time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
A must read👇 After a sweeping, Republican-led review of more than 2 million voter registrations, Utah election officials identified just one apparent noncitizen in their voter rolls — who never voted. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Utah reviewed its voter rolls for noncitizens. It found one. Who never voted
The results sharply undercut the narrative of widespread noncitizen voting Republicans are using to promote new nationwide restrictions on voting.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/01/2026
Whistleblowers just shared a memo showing DHS instructing ICE to force their way into peoples' houses without a proper warrant. Why is this not on all the networks right now? This is a criminal conspiracy to violate rights under color of law.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.
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Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95
ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Tesla’s profit fell 37% in the third quarter. It's been in the process of laying off 14,000 workers. It had more cars impacted by recalls than any other brand in 2024. Yet Elon Musk just got a pay package worth $1 trillion. American capitalism is off the rails.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
This has not gotten much attention, but it should. Virginia under Youngkin returned to an insanely harsh system where people convicted of any felony lose their voting rights FOR LIFE. Dems' win this week mean they'll get to advance a constitutional amendment to end lifetime disenfranchisement.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Cartoon by @edwexler.bsky.social.
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 13/10/2025
A record 29% — nearly a third! — of all new cars purchased in California during July, August, and September were zero-emission vehicles. DC may be fine with selling out American innovation to China, but California will keep charging ahead toward cleaner air for our communities.
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bookladen.bsky.social @bookladen.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
It’s Hancock time
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow embodied what a journalist should be: someone who holds power to account instead of capitulating to it. Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
A diseased population is easier to control
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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
They don’t want you to realize that the House has been on a weeks-long paid vacation because they’re scared of a vote to release the Epstein Files. What are they trying to hide?
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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 10/10/2025
BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination
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Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows
A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Most of Dem Senators did not attack Bondi yesterday as they should have. Among other things they should have said, "You're lying again, Ms. Bondi" and "That's a bald-faced lie, Ms. Bondi." The rapid rise of authoritarianism is no place for etiquette.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 05/10/2025
ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Just posting this. Everyone knows why.
Text of the fourth amendment “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 04/10/2025
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943
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God @thegodshow.com · 04/10/2025
George Carlin would never have taken blood money to perform comedy for a Saudi Arabian tyrant.
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ray 鄺羡華 @raykwong.lol · 04/10/2025
Thank you, Annette! 💙 @louiseplease.bsky.social @justthefactsman.bsky.social @thegopisfubar2024.bsky.social @calikathy.bsky.social @lizpollockbooks.bsky.social @marcialucretia.bsky.social @herobenfranklin.bsky.social @hunho7.bsky.social @bluestormcomin1.bsky.social @raykwong.bsky.social
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Reality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
US government: hurt as many women and children as you want, just don't steal a document I'm so proud of those FBI agents who arrested me, they really did something there
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Odd, how MAGA couldn't draw enough attention to imaginary children being molested in #Pizzagate, but when it comes to *real* children being molested in #Epsteingate, they desperately want our attention to be elsewhere.
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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
It's kinda funny to me that us progressives will have heated arguments about stuff like "is it fair for Democrats to prioritize urban areas versus rural areas?" And meanwhile the GOP is full speed ahead on crushing the social bases of Dem support and has been for decades.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Erasing history.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.
Tweet From Obama mentioning my firing from the Washington post. Wirh a photo of me
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