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Danielle Becker-Polinski, PhD

@coralonthemind.bsky.social
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she/her | PhD from @uricels + Putnam Lab | 2025 Knauss Marine Policy Fellow at the NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries | interested in all things #coral 🪸 | nature enthusiast | ocean advocate | #BlackLivesMatter

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A Florida grand jury found the DeSantis administration “misappropriated” $10 million meant to provide health insurance for poor children. Part of a “sophisticated scheme to fund political activities,” the money was funneled through multiple organizations before reaching two PACs and the Florida GOP.
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Grand jury finds DeSantis administration "misappropriated" $10 million in taxpayer money to Hope Florida
A Florida grand jury found the DeSantis administration misappropriated $10 million in taxpayer money for political purposes.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 06/06/2026
Entering month 6 of Mamdani's NYC & Robberies are down 11%, Retail theft is down 19%, & Murder is down 21%—all without "Adding 5000 new cops." Instead, he's invested in public safety free childcare, food, and better funded schools. Safer cities come from investing in people—not punishments.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/04/2026
"You're spending taxpayer dollars to drink milk shirtless in a hot tub with Kid Rock. Somehow you think that's a better public health message than informing the public about the benefits of vaccines. Really? -- Rep. Linda Sanchez to RFK Jr
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/04/2026
According to the Times:
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
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Thank you. | Kat Abughazaleh For Illinois
YouTube video by Kat Abughazaleh
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Pretty dark
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Another hush money payment.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Another word you might use for it is "looting". "This appears to be the first administration to take such widespread advantage of taxpayer-funded military housing to accommodate political appointees who do not have a direct connection to the military..." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...
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Forbes @forbes.com · 08/02/2026
Massie accused Lutnick of being in business with Epstein “many years after” his conviction in 2008.
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Massie Calls For Lutnick To Resign Over Epstein Connection
Massie accused Lutnick of being in business with Epstein “many years after” his conviction in 2008.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Let the picture of the little five year old boy standing facing the car and the old man being dragged out of his house with no shirt on, let those images burn into your brain. We don’t have to be this country. We don’t have to live this way. Donald Trump was a choice, Republican voters made for us.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/01/2026
Blanche won’t investigate the killing of an innocent woman on camera but they’ve got all hands on deck for a church service being interrupted
.@DAGToddBlanche: “It’s a crime — and so they will face a jury. If they’re convicted, they will go to prison… every single American should be enraged and heartbroken at what happened yesterday in that church.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Ansari: I think ICE is completely out of control, and there should be no more funding given to ICE. The funding that's already has been given to them through the big ugly bill should be stripped entirely
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Tangerine Twit Troll @tangerinetwittroll.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Looks like the regime has put JD in charge of bullshit.
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Danielle Becker-Polinski, PhD @coralonthemind.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Tell Congress: No War With Venezuela act.indivisible.org/sign/tell-co...
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Tell Congress: No War With Venezuela
The Trump regime has been amassing forces in the Caribbean as it threatens war against Venezuela. Over the past few months, they’ve bombed small boats in the Caribbean and Pacific that they claim were...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
"The United States hit Venezuela with a 'large-scale strike' early Saturday and said its president, Nicolás Maduro, had been captured and flown out of the country"
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U.S. Strikes Venezuela And Says Its Leader, Maduro, Has Been Captured And Flown Out Of The Country
The Venezuelan government called it an “imperialist attack” and urged citizens to take to the streets.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
KIMMEL, to the UK: “.. It may not seem like it, but we love you guys. .. We’re going through a bit of a wobble right now, but we’ll come around. .. Give us about three years.” @jimmykimmel.com
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I know I’m a libtard but I think it’s bad the U.S. president keeps calling for the killing of specific sitting elected officials who didn’t even commit crimes
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 16/11/2025
Powerful.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 14/11/2025
Matt Gaetz raped a 17 year old child after exploiting her healthcare needs for money and this is how the NY Times is framing it. "ended up having sex with powerful men" Literally whitewashing child rape. Corporate media is dead. Stop subscribing to it. This is beyond saving.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
"A majority of western Alaska’s weather balloon network was not operating during the landfall of the storm last weekend due to staffing constraints inflicted by the Trump administration..." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump cuts probably hindered warning process for Alaska storm that displaced hundreds, experts say
Reductions in weather balloon launches could have degraded forecasts that residents depend on to prepare
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/10/2025
Gallego: "It's murder. It's very simple. If this president feels they are doing something illegally, then he should be using the Coast Guard. If this is an act of war, then you use our military and then you come and talk to us first. But this is murder ... it's disgusting."
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson @ayanaeliza.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Planet Earth vs. Trump — lawsuits, lots of them. @earthjustice.org President, @abbiedillen.bsky.social, breaks down what the heck is happening in environmental law. Listen wherever you get your podcasts: pod.link/1773809532
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Paul Guinnessy @paulguinnessy.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
This immediately tells me they had thew wrong reporters on the story (again). i.e. The Whitehouse stenographers, not their reporters who know anything about the parks service and historical buildings.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 17/10/2025
NEWS: An AFP fact-check reveals that a video posted by Donald Trump and the White House depicting "chaos" in Chicago as justification for deploying the national guard features old footage of incidents in other states including Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska.
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The Cat Mother @hullerfarcats.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Federal immigration officers in Chicago area have been ordered by court to wear body cameras after they repeatedly deployed pepper balls, smoke grenades & tear gas against protesters & local police, seemingly in violation of a fed judge’s ruling from last week. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Judge orders federal immigration officers in Chicago area to wear body cameras
Agents also appear to have violated order banning them from using riot-control, such as tear gas, without warning
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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Serious question: What's stopping the State of Illinois from arresting Stephen Miller & charging him with incitement? The Senate didn't confirm him. He's just a guy. At some point, the states MUST use their authority to prosecute, because the federal government certainly will not.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/10/2025
KEILAR: A Post poll shows more Americans are blaming Republicans for the shutdown. Does that give you pause? MARSHALL: I discount that poll altogether K: Why? M: There are so many other polls that say the opposite K: Which one? M: I don't have them at my fingertips. That's a very biased poll
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ACLU @aclu.org · 02/10/2025
BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2025
Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 22/09/2025
Quick reminder that consuming Tylenol has a 0% chance of causing autism but consuming MAGA at all has a 100% chance of causing fascism.
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Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Breaking - Border Czar Tom Homan was recorded accepting $50K from undercover FBI agents. The Trump DOJ shut down the case: www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...
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Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.
The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2025
Monarez: "Kennedy demanded 2 things of me that were were inconsistent w/ my oath of office. He directed me to commit in advance to approving every ACIP recommendation regardless of the scientific evidence. He also directed me to dismiss career officials responsible for vaccine policy without cause"
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 05/09/2025
BRUTAL JOBS REPORT: Just 22,000 jobs added in August. Unemployment rises to 4.3%. Broader jobless rate jumps to 8.1%. Slowest 4-month growth since 2020. Plus, downward revisions for June and July of -21,000. Yikes.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 26/08/2025
For the first time in 111 years, a President is planning to fire a sitting Fed governor—and of course, it’s the first Black woman, Lisa Cook. Trump’s message is clear: when Black women rise, he’ll do anything to push us down. Newsflash: we’re not going anywhere.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
The stories we tell matter. I know this not from watching but from memory. I was just a child, held behind barbed wire in a U.S. internment camp, when an atomic bomb obliterated Hiroshima—killing members of my family.
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Paul Guinnessy @paulguinnessy.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Using CRISPR to change a single molecule within mosquitoes stops the malaria-parasite transmission process. Genetically altered mosquitoes are still able to bite those with malaria and acquire parasites from their blood, but the parasites can no longer be spread to other people.
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CRISPR Gene Editing Halts Spread of Malaria by Replacing a Single Gene in Mosquitoes
Researchers have created a CRISPR-based gene-editing system that changes a single molecule within mosquitoes to stop the malaria-parasite transmission process.
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Is NOBODY going to call DoJ's Todd Blanche "questioning" Ghislaine Maxwell what it actually is - WITNESS TAMPERING? Really, not one person?
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
The truth is Nye.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
A federal judge just ruled the White House broke the law by pulling down a public site that tracked Congressional spending. Why’d they yank it? Because people were catching DOGE making fraudulent claims and inflating “savings” that didn’t exist. Transparency isn’t optional.
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Judge orders Trump administration to ‘stop violating the law!’ and publish spending details
WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to once again publish details about the pace at which it plans to spend money approved by Congress.U.S. District Court for the D...
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 17/07/2025
John Lewis walked, bled, and lived for justice. Five years since his passing, we honor him the only way we know how: By refusing to stay silent and getting in more Good Trouble.
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Danielle Becker-Polinski, PhD @coralonthemind.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Happening now! You can still register here: engage.iucn.org/event/vital-...
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Vital Sites Webinar: Establishing Marine Protected Areas in a Changing Climate
This webinar will showcase a new Technical Report by IUCN’s Protected Areas and Climate Change Specialist Group and the International Partnership on MPAs, Biodiversity and Climate Change on This webin...
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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
More than 1,600 events are scheduled nationwide tomorrow, July 17, as part of "Good Trouble Lives On." This is the fifth annual national day of action to honor former Rep. John Lewis. And it's bigger than ever. Find an event near you and make some good trouble.
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Danielle Becker-Polinski, PhD @coralonthemind.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
So grateful to this team and @iucnwcpa.bsky.social for the release of our technical report on “Establishing Marine Protected Areas in a changing climate” Check out the article release and report here: lnkd.in/d-3VBsBS and register for webinar tomorrow July 17th 16:00-17:30 CEST: lnkd.in/e57m7ER3
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New IUCN WCPA report charts the course for establishing Marine Protected Areas in a changing climate
Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) play a vital role in climate resilience by providing natural defences for coastal regions and offering low-stress zones for marine life to adapt. At the same time, MPAs f...
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Happy Shark Awareness Day! I want people to be aware of 5 things: 1 Sharks are awesome 2 Sharks are not a threat to your safety 3 Sharks are ecologically important 4 Sharks are highly threatened 5 We can still save them- but it matters what we do, don’t reinvent the wheel, follow experts!
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Danielle Becker-Polinski, PhD @coralonthemind.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
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Please join us and the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) to learn about climate-smart planning for new expanded marine protected areas, other effective area-based conservation measures… ...
Please join us and the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) to learn about climate-smart planning for new expanded marine protected areas, other effective area-based conservation measures (...
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
“Dr. Moore, a board-certified surgeon in the Salt Lake City area, had sold hundreds of cards falsely claiming to be proof of vaccination in exchange for cash payments or donations to an unspecified charity. He was charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States and two other charges.”
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Justice Department Drops Case Against Plastic Surgeon Over Fake Covid-19 Cards
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ljconrad @ljconrad.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Excellent AM read in Public Notice: The Worst Chief Justice of All Time >>> "Roberts has overseen the wholesale corruption and capture of the Supreme Court, and history should look back on his tenure with revulsion." via @atrupar.com www.publicnotice.co/p/john-rober...
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The worst chief justice of all time
Move over, Roger Taney and Melville Fuller.
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