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Daniel Thiel

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Prof., Drummer, Papa, Dog owner, Michigan transplant seeking to be of service.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
TODAY is the last day to register to vote in several states. I urge you to double check your state's deadline, verify that you are registered, and make changes to your registration if needed. Then contact three friends or family members and have them do the same. whenweallvote.org
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 04/10/2026
‘We swept a lot under the carpet’: Vichy regime film hits home in France of 2026
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‘We swept a lot under the carpet’: Vichy regime film hits home in France of 2026
Movie about Nazi-collaborating administration strikes chord during what director calls ‘time of great uncertainty’
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National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 30/09/2026
Relevant, I promise
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Daniel Thiel @dbthiel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Justice delayed…justice denied.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Elon screams "deep six that Gibney documentary on me," and his tech bro co-conspirators are delighted to comply.
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UM Population Studies Center @um-psc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ren Farley, a force of nature, dedicated his life to addressing racial inequality and residential segregation. He left a mark on demography, on the city of Detroit, and on all the people in his orbit. myumi.ch/G7974
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Remembering Reynolds Farley: An Expert on Detroit, the Census, and America’s Racial Divide
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Reynolds (Ren) Farley, a sociologist and demographer who used Census data to illuminate the persistence of racial segregation in American cities, died on September 12, at 88. He was...
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Huei Sears, PhD 🌟 @starlights.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The ! human ! brain ! is ! two ! separate ! organs ! what !!! amazing 🧪🧠 #FundScience www.the-independent.com/news/science...
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Human brain is actually two separate organs, scientists find
The Stanford University breakthrough stands to open new doors for research into fatal neurodegenerative diseases
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Michigan Democrats @michigandems.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Michiganders voted overwhelmingly to make sure stories like this can't happen here. But if John James and DeBoyer win in November, they'll try to ban abortion and make Michigan another state where politicians make your personal medical decisions. michiganadvance.com/2026/09/18/t...
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Tierra Walker died after she couldn’t get an abortion. Her family is suing Ken Paxton. • Michigan Advance
This story was originally reported by Shefali Luthra of The 19th. Meet Shefali and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy. The family of a woman who died after she could not get…
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
As an American political historian, I can confirm that this Congress has been "almost unmatched in history" in several categories -- sad abdication of its war powers, craven surrender of the power of the purse, weird refusal to conduct meaningful oversight, and an utter failure to pass actual laws.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $8 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of American households is worth just $4.27 trillion. Read that back. Remember: Wealth can’t be separated from power. Power begets wealth and wealth begets power.
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Daniel Thiel @dbthiel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Me: screams into the void. The void: screams back at me. We are fucked.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress?
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Daniel Thiel @dbthiel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I think we should have a head of HHS who understands medical science, research ethics and health policy. Also, someone who isn’t the ring leader fora cadre of scammers, grifters and bullshitters. What do you think?
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 15/09/2026
Tell me again that climate change is a hoax.
Chart showing global annual temperature abnormalities between 1880 and 2024
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The Research Center for Group Dynamics @rcgd-isr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Next up in RCGD's series offering global perspectives on health: Don't miss Margaret Moss, a trailblazing figure in nursing, health policy, and Indigenous health advocacy, presenting "Mitákuye Oyasin, the Medicine Wheel and Seven Generations."
Colorful circular design with diverse people around a globe, promoting Margaret Moss's seminar on Medicine Wheel and Seven Generations, Sept 21, 2026, 3:30 to 5 at ISR THompson 6050.
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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
🧵 "Policies enacted by RFK Jr have not delivered the expected results, but have instead hindered people’s ability to eat healthy." In fact, “The policies that we’re enacting are the exact opposite [of those] one might look to to help people eat healthier,” said www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Food-borne illnesses, funding cuts and layoffs: Maha movement’s glaring limitations are now showing
Policies enacted by RFK Jr have not delivered the expected results, but have instead hindered people’s ability to eat healthy
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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
US refusals of crucial newborn vitamin spike, raising risk of dangerous bleeding: Misleading parents into refusing vitamin K is directly working for babies bleeding from the brain. scnow.com/life-enterta...
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US refusals of crucial newborn vitamin spike, raising risk of dangerous bleeding
The percentage of parents and caregivers refusing a standard vitamin K shot for infants at birth has accelerated sharply this year, putting more newborns at risk of life-threatening bleeding episodes.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
One of the underrated parts of this election cycle is finding out what huge pieces of shit formerly safe elected officials are because they're finally vulnerable enough to get raked over the coals
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
BREAKING: Our banned interview with Kimmel generated 6 million views on YouTube.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
They should do a 30 for 30 documentary on this Ted Cruz College Game Day
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/09/2026
Okay everyone. Here’s the YouTube interview with @jimmykimmel.com and @jamestalarico.bsky.social You know what to do. Watch it. Share it. Donate. Bury them. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...
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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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Daniel Thiel @dbthiel.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My dog knows how to cuddle a pillow and get some good sleep. I hope you all have such wisdom.
A cute dog sleeps peacefully on a couch pillow.
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Leah Torres, MD @leahntorres.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
When you threaten people with prison for providing health care, they stop providing health care. Then people die. We have developed life-saving health care for ectopics— this now means nothing when the govt has promised imprisonment for helping pregnant people. And they KNEW people would die.
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Daniel Thiel @dbthiel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Is it legal to bribe people for votes?
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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Ectopic pregnancy deaths: ProPublica analyzed CDC data from every US state "to look for patterns. The analysis shows a growing divide for women in states with strict abortion bans compared with those without." Shocking. Or not. Predictable, preventable deaths. www.rawstory.com/ectopic-preg...
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Ectopic pregnancy deaths have nearly doubled. It’s worse in states with abortion bans.
The number of women who died after an ectopic pregnancy has spiked in recent years, a ProPublica analysis found. The mounting deaths in Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data have drawn littl...
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Texas is delaying the release of the state’s maternal mortality statistics until after the midterms. www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...
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Texas' first post-Roe look at maternal deaths won't be ready by midterms
Democrats say the timing is suspicious, given the Dec. 1 deadline is after Gov. Greg Abbott and other Republicans who supported the state’s abortion ban are up for reelection.
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Grant @syncingsinking.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is just to say I have solved the open questions that were in your paper and which you were probably saving for your phd students Forgive me they were delicious so incentive-laden and followed so readily once your postdoc's drafts mysteriously found their way into my training data
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Daniel Thiel @dbthiel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
No other options? Hoping for another set of options here…
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"Kennedy's department cited seven articles, two of which were apparently made up entirely and three of which did not exist in the journals to which they were attributed..." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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Judge slams HHS for referencing fake studies generated by misuse of AI
The Department of Health and Human Services has suffered more than its share of AI-related humiliations. The list, alas, is still growing.
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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
“[Trump regime] dismantling oversight of taxpayer funds, quid-pro-quo business ventures, and ethics-law violations. [Trump] made $2.2 BILLION last year… His sons’ defense companies collectively [took] $3+ BILLION in direct government business…” @rosesheinerman.bsky.social Archive: archive.is/P9mE1
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The Watchdogs Are Barking Themselves Hoarse
The scandals of the president’s first term now seem quaint.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 08/09/2026
OpenAI’s top scientist, in a blog post on Sunday, warns that artificial intelligence is evolving so rapidly that it is becoming increasingly difficult for humans to understand and control it. Here is the post: openai.com/index/an-ali... And a couple of small excerpts--clear warnings.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Frozen bacteria farts are beautiful.
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"This study examined the determinants of public trust in scientific findings and found that the communication of OS [open science] practices in layperson texts plays no substantial role in shaping trust." Open Access: doi.org/10.1177/1075...
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Public trust in science may depend not only on the quality of the research but also on laypersons’ attitudes toward the underlying topic. Although Open Science practices are meant to signal credibility, their influence on laypersons remains unclear, especially for scientifically controversial topics. In this preregistered Austrian study (N = 1,083), general trust in science and myside bias strongly predicted trust in certain popular-scientific summaries, while explicit Open Science cues did not show an effect. Exploratory analyses showed that participants’ optimistic conceptions of science were also linked to higher trust. Overall, biased beliefs appear more influential than transparency-related cues for trust in science.
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Daniel Thiel @dbthiel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Amazing podcast that unpacks what some of these harms look like. I’m only on the second episode and I’m hooked podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
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Black Box: The Chatbots
Documentary Podcast · Series · People are becoming convinced they have made scientific breakthroughs, cured diseases or invented new technologies using AI chatbots. What does this reveal about a techn...
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“From Paris, it seems like a mystery. How could the United States, which has set the pace for global science for nearly a century, systematically dismantle its dominant position – and, above all, why?” From here, too, mes amis. www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
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Trump takes aim at American science as China pulls ahead
NEWS ANALYSIS. For US President Donald Trump, science is plagued by 'woke ideology.' His administration announced that, starting in October, research projects eligible for funding must align with 'gov...
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Yet another issue where every single person who touched it needs to end up in jail for us to have any semblance of the rule of law. You cannot have a functional democracy where the government creates a plan to literally throw away votes from places that don't support the incumbent party.
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Nature @nature.com · 30/08/2026
Dolly Parton was an advocate for vaccines, public health, literacy and marginalized communities go.nature.com/4gwB0wA
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Dolly Parton dies aged 80 – researchers celebrate her contributions to science
Nature - The country singer was an advocate for vaccines, public health, literacy and marginalized communities.
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Justin Jest @justinjest.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
👇 vote.org
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The Census Bureau's report is more than just a bad number.⁣ ⁣ Our government is destroying the institutions charged with telling the truth.⁣ ⁣ newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026
no devices and low-tech for billionaires’ kids but ai for the rest of us plebs www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/t...
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Silicon Valley Executives Are Tech Fans. Just Not for Their Own Kids.
At home, moderation and restraint are the rule for tech parents. Boredom is exalted. Maybe they’re onto something.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/08/2026
I hope everyone caught this Lancet study confirming that Elon Musk & DOGE are responsible for genocidal levels of suffering & death.
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Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 19/08/2026
Officials warn they are continuing to identify new chains of transmission that need to be broken to stop the spread.
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DR Congo's Ebola outbreak ‘global emergency' as infections pass 5,000: WHO
Officials warn they are continuing to identify new chains of transmission that need to be broken to stop the spread.
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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
“Saudi Arabia and UAE lobbied Trump to attack Iran. Both countries increased their influence with Trump by investing billions in projects that personally enrich Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner… 80% of the money will flow directly to Trump…” @juddlegum.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/judd...
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The money behind the new Iran War
In private calls over the last several weeks, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman urged President Trump to attack Iran.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Sasha Gusev has a great new blog post on faculty hiring during the DEI era. Remarkable how much backlash there has been to what was an tiny and temporary bump in hiring Black, Latino, and Native faculty of about 1 person per R1 campus theinfinitesimal.substack.com/p/what-actua...
Demographics of R1 university faculty, 2001-2024
84.5% 80%
White 69.8%
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— Asian/PI 17.1%
lispanic 6.4%
Black 4.8%
'24 Other 1.9%Hiring counts for tenure-track positions at R1 universities
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• Non-URM 3,753
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Black 348
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2020
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 17/08/2026
US child vaccination rates have plunged since before the pandemic, with kindergarten classrooms in more than 70% of counties now lacking herd immunity against measles.
US choropleth map showing percentage change in MMR or overall vaccination rates since before the pandemic, by county. Decreases are shown in pink, increases in green.
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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
4/ aligned their vax policies w/ the CDC's ACIP. But now it's no longer a credible source. So, per KFF, 28 states "have announced that they will no longer follow federal vaccine recommendations." Most will follow recs. of the Am. Academy of Pediatrics instead. & for now, vaccines remain available.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I'm old enough to remember when polio put my friends into iron lungs. We dutifully lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives. What RFK Jr. is doing to public health in America is a disgrace.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
It's not just that this is, of course, an insane lie—it's that *just thinking about it for ten seconds*, without looking anything up, should make it screamingly obvious that the claim couldn't possibly be remotely close to true. You have to actively shut your brain off to say stuff like this.
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