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David Clausen

@davidandacat.bsky.social
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Biostatistician – microbiome methods developer and cellular therapy applied work doer. Wondering why bluesky makes centering and cropping background pics so hard. Currently catless.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Annie Lennox is all of us www.tiktok.com/t/ZTyeJKhdB/
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TikTok video by Annie Lennox
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Yes having our fertilizer shipped from a Russian proxy dictator half the world away is surely a better way to arrange things than getting it from our democratic, once-friendly neighbor here in the North America
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
You really shouldn't be in politics if you can't take advantage of your opponent being sponsored by The Job Destroying Factory That Raises Your Water And Power Bills And Whose Creators Say It Might Kill Us All.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Please say this 1000 times for the people in the back.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 11/09/2026
"...solving problems is only a tool and proxy for achieving the primary goal of conceptual understanding and insight. Forgetting this in the world of AI may turn the tool against the primary goal."
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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Please share wisely to publicize the attempts by musk to suppress votes and spread disinformation popular.info/p/the-hidden...
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The hidden dangers of Musk’s votesafe.org
The slick voter registration website, currently being promoted to millions of people, is a digital surveillance machine.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 08/09/2026
Turns out you really do need food inspectors after all
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Elon Musk supported the rising neo-Nazi party in Germany. He’s the number one funder of Republicans in the midterms. He’s supporting fascist agitators in England. It’s long past time for anyone who supports democracy to leave his propaganda website. It’s time to boycott X.
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The @washingtonpost.com at least hints at how bizarre this is: “torrent of online memes, taunts”. The @nytimes.com fails again, sanewashing it into some sort of actual policy proposal: “Trump floats renaming New Mexico” Neither of them is willing to print the truth: the president is crazy
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Looking forward to an aggressive few weeks (at least) of non-stop questions for Rubio and every other Republican about not just associating with, but hiring a white supremacist to write speeches for the state dept.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"A fleet of robot dogs to track and apprehend" you say?
Sarah Connor preparing a weapon
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Trump, empowered by SCOTUS, entered office convinced he could do insider trading, sell pardons and favors, take bribes, steal and openly flout the law. Now, with the prospect of investigations looming, he is growing ever more fearful that he miscalculated.
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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The renaming of this lake is so dumb and petty and should not be the focus of the news right now but … I cannot overstate enough just how sad and pathetic this update is for Google
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:
BOYCOTT STARBUCKS is written inside a zig-zaggy speech bubble against crumbled paper. Beside it are the Starbucks Workers United logo and an image of a coffee cup being poured out.We, the 12,000 and growing members of Starbucks Workers United, call on everyone who stands with working people to boycott Starbucks until they finalize a contract with union baristas and stop union-busting.
What we’re fighting for is simple: a minimum $17/hr wage, enough hours to live on, better staffing in our stores, and basic workplace protections. Every year, our living costs rise but our wages don’t keep up – a growing pressure many American workers are feeling as corporate greed accelerates unchecked in our country. 
Starbucks is banking on customers' blind loyalty to the integrity and values this company once stood for in order to keep squeezing them for profits. At a time when working-class people across the country are struggling in a challenging economy, it is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers; choosing to spend money at Starbucks is choosing a law breaking corporation over the baristas who make your coffee everyday exactly as you ask for it.
Starbucks has violated U.S. labor law more than any other company in modern history–the NLRB and its judges have found that Starbucks committed hundreds of labor violations and there are currently more than 550 unresolved unfair labor practice charges still pending against the company. Instead of finalizing a fair and reasonable union contract, Starbucks has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of care for the workers who fuel the company’s profits by wasting millions of dollars on AI and technology that doesn’t work, launching countless gimmicky drinks designed to distract from real problems, and inventing pointless policies that do nothing but make our jobs harder. 
This ongoing, irrational behavior by Starbucks and its refusal to settle a fair union contract with workers leaves us with no other choice than to call for a boycott. We know when working people stand up together, we win. 
No Contract? No Coffee.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I wonder if there's ever been a political movement before that claimed that immigrants were all carriers of diseases and therefore needed to be removed from society? Eh, it was probably a really positive movement, not one associated with evil in any way
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Unlike other rich people, Trump has never shown any interest in putting his name on things--like hospitals or university buildings--he doesn't personally control or frequent. So I find his great interest in improving the White House and D.C. ominous. He doesn't plan to leave.
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Peter Labuza @labuzamovies.com · 16/08/2026
The entire body of the DNC literally voted yesterday to include abolishing ICE in their platform. How can you have a majority leader who is against the platform?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
SPOTTED IN NASHVILLE…
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 12/08/2026
(D-MI) Evelyn Normielib
[“in This House we Believe”] sign 
-Retired teacher
-Voted for Buttigieg in 2020 because he reminds her of her grandson
-"The blood of the tyrant shall water our fields"
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Dutchy Patrick @dutchiepatrick.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Why isn’t this a bigger story?
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
if people are gonna criticize you no matter what, you may as well do the right thing not the wrong thing, my god
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The moment Collins announced she was a no on Blanche, you KNEW they had the votes.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Just like you can't say "Mitch McConnell sent out a statement" when all we know is that his office sent out a statement purporting to be from him making claims that are not independently verified. #mcconnellinthebardo
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 07/08/2026
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Artwork by contemporary US artist Martha Rich #Womensart
Stylised pink hare with speech bubbles stating "Stand up for each other....We have power"
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
In Nightingale Murders Case, It’s Bachelor vs. Ladies Playing Hard-to-Get
NYT: In Texas’ Most Eligible Senate Race, It’s Bachelor vs. Divorcé-to-Be
Ken Paxton is divorcing. James Talarico is dating a onetime staffer. Both have had their romantic lives scrutinized as part of their high-stakes campaigns.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 04/08/2026
You could grow a spine and do your damn jobs.
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
lemme guess, the scammer sent an email like "Hey [staffer's name], Ken Martin here. It's our WORST NIGHTMARE– if you can't donate $29,000 by TONIGHT, our party is DOOMED"
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
So many sneering elitist journalists with snarky posts over the past months that the Reflecting Pool story was trivial. It was so trivial that the DC US Attny presented false evidence to a grand jury to indict an innocent man to please the President while they both lied about it.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
People need to start getting disbarred for this shit.
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Senator Elissa Slotkin @slotkin.senate.gov · 31/07/2026
What is happening inside the military with promotions and firings: We have a ton of people who are being removed from promotion lists. They’re being recommended by those in uniform, and they are being stripped out by Pete Hegseth.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
“And you did nothing” This Nebraska voter grilling @USRepMikeFlood gets it
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I’ve treated thousands of COVID patients who needed to be hospitalized but I’ve never seen a single person who needed to be hospitalized for a complication from a COVID vaccine. Cause these people are always lying.
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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
It's insane he wasn't immediately fired on January 6 after writing this.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This. Cuts to the heart of the threat and the plan
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Elon Musk has been referred for possible criminal prosecution after Wisconsin election officials found probable cause that his $1 million voter giveaways violated the state’s election bribery law.
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Ossoff's Office @ossoff.senate.gov · 14/07/2026
Sen. Ossoff: If the President calls Georgia's senators illegitimate, he is calling Georgia's voters illegitimate. Donald Trump tried to commit voter fraud in Georgia when he badgered Brad Raffensperger to "find" him the exact number of votes he needed to win in a state he had lost.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Four years ago, Biden gave a speech warning about the dangers to democracy and the networks refused to air it because it was "political." I wonder if Trump making a partisan case for relitigating the 2020 election and calling for his political opponents to be jailed is going to be "political" too?
As Biden warned about democracy’s collapse, TV networks aired reruns
While broadcasters typically air a prime-time address by the president, they determined that this speech was more ‘political’ than newsworthy for live coverage
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 14/07/2026
Rep. Yassamin Ansari: "The president's paramilitary secret police force continues to roam American streets and murder people in broad daylight in cold blood…It is not a mistake. ICE agents are completely out of control, and that is on purpose. That is their mission."
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
An endless stream of batshittery.
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Dr. Jey McCreight 🏳️‍⚧️🧬 @jeymccreight.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
My GoFundMe is still up. Every little bit helps pay for medical bills and being unable to work for a couple months following being violently attacked Thank you to everyone who shared and donated already. Any extra signal boosting to your networks is appreciated www.gofundme.com/f/help-trans...
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Donate to Help trans activist Jey McCreight recover from hate crime, organized by Jey McCreight
I am a transgender activist and science communicator who was v… Jey McCreight needs your support for Help trans activist Jey McCreight recover from hate crime
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
To Democrats and their eulogies: If you say that democracy is under attack by the Republican Party—and it is—and you say that the Republican Party represents an authoritarian threat—and it does—then civility and comity have already been murdered, and shows of comity are utterly incoherent.
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Steve Horton 🚀 The Comic Book Story of Space Exploration @mst3k.fan · 12/07/2026
My grandmother had a saying: "And Magda Goebbels made a great strudel." For years I didn't understand it, until my mother explained that some glossy magazine once ran a puff piece on Magda Goebbels - Hitler's propaganda queen - complete with her strudel recipe. My grandmother, who despised the Nazis with every ounce of her soul, used it as shorthand for the way media will sanitize evil by focusing on something trivial, domestic, or charming while ignoring the atrocities staring us in the face.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
NOT GAY FLIGHT ATTENDANTS
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 11/07/2026
DID YOU KNOW IF YOU FIND A HORSESHOE CRAB THATS BEEN TAGGED BY THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE AND SUBMIT THE LOCATION YOU SAW IT USING THE FORM ON FWS DOT GOV SLASH CRABTAG THEY SEND YOU A BEAUTIFUL CRAB PIN
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