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Dean Astumian, OFS

@deanast.bsky.social
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Secular Franciscan, follower of Jesus and St. Francis, physicist interested in operating principles of synthetic and biological molecular machines, and non-equilibrium chemistry, wine, hiking, travel, social justice.

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 4h
Jack Smith is an American hero 👇
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 3h
It would be more fun if people like Schmitt were bright enough to truly comprehend how badly they screwed up, but they are not so we have to be satisfied with pics like these.
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 3h
This points to the fact that if we, as a nation, had the resolve homelessness, starvation, lack of medical care and access to education could all be ended by small changes that would not significantly change the lifestyles of the majority, but would make a huge difference for the poor.
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 3h
and hence not even required to write essays.
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 5h
Republicans are lining up to embarrass themselves in front of the world and still garner 40% or 45% support, is nearly half of our country brain dead?
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 5h
Donald Trump once again is leading the war against "woke"
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 5h
he has screwed up everything else about our country, why not the spelling as well.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23h
“It wasn’t a mistake”🤔 “Who knew Jack Smith was a Caitlin Clark fan?” 🤔 @ericschmittmo pathetically attempts to play it off and act like he didn’t publicly humiliate himself in front of the nation today 🤡
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King George III.1 @georgeiiirex.bsky.social · 7h
This nonsense gets tiring. George III started showing clear signs of mental illness around 1788. As you may or may not know, the American Revolution started in 1775 (or earlier by some measures) and ended in 1783.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 9h
Just think - if the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Biden, Fauci, and Jack Smith
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Thomas Long @rayosunlong.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 10h
If the Norwegian NOBEL committee select Biden, Fauci, and Smith as Nobel Peace Prize laureates, Trump may have a stroke or heart attack. If so, the following years Nobel Peace prize winner would immediately be clear - the Norwegian NOBEL committee itself.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14h
36 minutes before the hearing started.
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 10h
Perhaps it is meant as an abject lesson as to why we need "super intelligence", but to top Trumps intelligence all that is need is very ordinary slightly below average intelligence.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 17h
Bernie's Right.......
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 13h
Our nation started because King George III descended into madness and ruled in a way no free colonists across the ocean could tolerate. Please don't let it end because wannabe King Donald descended into madness and was installed by the most stupid an ignorant electorate imaginable. Vote, Nov. 3.
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Uniongrl ☮️ 🌍🎵🌻🦋 @uniongrl.bsky.social · 16h
How embarrassing that it was a woman (Amy) who knew that he was so misinformed that he confused the Iowa Hawkeyes with the Atlanta Hawks. Amy, my future Governor, was awesome! We know our sports in my State! What a sickening display of a petulant child. Please vote! 🗳️
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 13h
screwtape in a suit
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Roadrunner33 @roadrunner33.bsky.social · 20h
Republican Senators are really reaching deep into the abyss of absurdity They tried to paint Fauci as a villain and today they tried the same with Jack Smith This is what they care about They don’t care about high gas /diesel prices or healthcare or Iran We need to vote for change Vote Blue
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 19h
I love that the U.S. government now has ideas so dumb that the fact checks are simply “yeah this isn’t a parody, it’s real”
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Did you go to Atlanta? Smith: No Did you meet Fani Willis? Smith: I’ve never met her. Did you go to the Atlanta Hawks game? Smith: I’ve never been to an Atlanta Hawks game. Perjury, dirtbag!!!
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 16h
The difference between two clowns accusing someone falsely without checking facts, and the man they accused who patiently and methodically gathered evidence proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that Donald Trump committed serious felony crimes, or should I say more felony crimes.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's one thing to be so incredibly incompetent as Eric Schmitt that your dramatic "GOTCHA" moment falls apart in real time. It is quite another thing to be so incredibly dishonest as Eric Schmitt that you then go on a right-wing show and pretend it didn't happen. "My job is to ask the questions."😜
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
so you are in Atlanta?
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
one of them said he truly hopes AI doesn't destroy the world, but he can't commit to that if his competitor is developing a rival program too fast.
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
That one is to close to home to be funny
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
He will be required to write an essay on what he has learned from this experience.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you ever feel the need to make people laugh but can't think of a good joke, just say the words "Senator Eric Schmitt"
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The feeling is appropriate though - I keep expecting Rod Serling to come on and say "You are in a strange and twisted world where this demented moron can be elected presdent, you are in the twilight zone" www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIsm...
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Rod Serling intro for The Twilight Zone's "He's Alive"
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When the team is down 47-0 at half time, your offense has zero first downs, and the defense has allowed the other team to run all over them, your coach does not usually formulate the half-time speech "keep on with what you have been doing in the first half".
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
To Jack Smith from Republican Senators, "How dare you accuse our president of committing crimes, the very idea is unthinkable once you forget the 34 felonies for which he has already been convicted!"
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Don't know how to do the emojis, but yes, 100%!
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
why is that not at all surprising
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Big buffoons have little buffoons upon their staffs to write for em, and little buffoons have littler buffoons still, and so on ad infinitum.
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Senator from Mississippi should know better! What, he's from where? Never mind.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/09/2026
The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
this gaffe should follow Eric Schmitt around for the rest of his political life (Jack Smith was actually in Maryland at a HAWKEYES game, not in Atlanta colluding with Fani Willis as Schmitt alleged) (Win McNamee/Getty)
photo of Schmitt's team holding up a poster board that made false claims about Jack Smith's whereabouts in February 2024
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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Senator Schmitt (R-MO) thought he had a "gotcha" in the hearing with Jack Smith that proved that Smith was in Atlanta for secret meetings to collude against Trump. Turns out that Schmitt just didn't actually read the "evidence" and confused the Iowa Hawkeyes w/the Atlanta Hawks. How embarrassing.😂
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Holy sh*t. Sen Schmitt just accused Jack Smith of going to an Atlanta Hawks bball game with the implication that he must of also met with then prosecutor Fani Willis BUT Smith went to an Iowa HAWKEYES game in Maryland instead. This GOP clown show is a disgrace.
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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!
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Florida Chris @chrislongview.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I didnt know it gets funnier than a whole ass United States Senator accusing a man of being at a Hawks game in ATL when he was at a Hawkeyes game in MD, BUT... He let every media outlet know he had a big moment coming so they all saw him clown himself and watched Amy Klobuchar clean up the pieces.
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It is appropriate that the Senator from the show me state was in fact shown.
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
at least Emily Littella had the grace to say "never mind"
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Some people who say they don't plan to vote excuse themselves by saying they don't have time to research the issues. In this election one only needs to know the difference between D and R, or as it turns out, the difference between right and wrong, respectively.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 29/09/2026
Republicans discover the microphone works both ways.
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
No matter what you think of Trump, Caligula was bad too.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026
this is legitimately very funny
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nailed it ⛽️ 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My enjoyment of true crime novels and political news used to be separate pasttimes.
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