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Jessica Santollo

@drjess.bsky.social
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Neuroendocrinologist and Associate Professor of Biology. Estrogens, sex differences, ingestive behaviors. Bikes, books, brunch.

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Jessica Santollo @drjess.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
My department of Biology at the University of Kentucky is hiring! We are looking for a Neuroscientist whose research incorporates iPSC-derived neural cells and/or cerebral organoid models to study mechanics of neurodevelopment or neurodegeneration. Please share! ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/646...
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Assistant or Associate Professor of Biology
The Department of Biology at the University of Kentucky invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor, with expertise in the field of Cell an...
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/09/2026
AI companies: This technology we’re developing is dangerous and might destroy humanity and we don’t know how to stop it Other people: So we should strictly regulate it, create legislative guard rails, and monitor its development? AI companies: lol no the opposite of all that & give us more money
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Eliza Bliss-Moreau @eblissmoreau.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
My dept/area is hiring! We're open to animal species/model and research area. UCD is an amazing place to do nonhuman animal work - major 🐒 center, a band new rodent vivarium in the Psych building, and capacity to house all sorts of other animals! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07812
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Assistant Professor of Psychology - Biological Bases of Behavior
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 05/08/2026
Submit a comment to NSF about the proposed changes to how grants are administered. They are *bad* changes and they'll implement them unless the community speaks up. Thanks to @agu.org for organizing this. agu.quorum.us/campaign/dvw...
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Marianne Alleyne @cotesia.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
My Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites applications from entomologists with research portfolios in which INSECT BIODIVERSITY LOSS is a key element (at the assistant professor level). illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Picture of a green tree-lined quad at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, with Foellinger Hall in the background. Skies are often this blue.
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Whether it is Meta AI glasses used to harass & covertly film women, Apple AirTags used to track women, Meta algorithms that push sexist ads, Grok AI tools that nudify women's images, tech companies create harassment by design instead of privacy by design. www.irishtimes.com/technology/2...
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Women continue to bear the brunt of bad tech decisions
Meta’s smart glasses are just the latest example of technology being used in ways developers should have anticipated
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The American Academy of Pediatrics @ameracadpeds.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
A statement from AAP President Dr. Andrew Racine on today’s executive order on U.S. childhood vaccines: www.aap.org/en/news-room...
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NIH Vigils @nihvigils.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
New Substack from @27unihted.bsky.social just dropped breaking down decreases in NIH funding by institute and PI race. TL;DR biggest decreases in funding between 2024-2025 are for Black and Latino scientists
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Disparities in success rates at NIH: inequality across institutes, race, and more
To date in FY26, awards by month for all extramural grants are following the same trajectory as in FY25 with only about two months remaining in the fiscal year
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 07/08/2026
The OMB Proposal block is a huge win! But Vought has other avenues for his science destroying plans, like the NSF proposal. Register for the webinars to learn about the key NSF changes and draft strong public comments: zurl.co/yigKl And, leave your public comment: zurl.co/4R18f
The graphic contains a photo of Russell Vought and the Statue of Liberty. The graphic reads: "Vought's Science Destroying OMB Proposal has been put on ice! But Vought's plans are still in works in the NSF Proposal. The Proposal: Removes requirements tied to statutory civil rights obligations; Applies international collaboration restrictions; Implements Vought's takeover of federal grants. TAKE ACTION: Leave your public comment using our Action Center; Join us for our NSF Rapid Response Workshop: Friday, August 14th, 2-3PM ET".
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
In Arizona alone, a staggering 450,000 people—including more than 100,000 kids—have lost food assistance since Trump's "big beautiful bill" passed. Nationwide, 4.5 million have been pushed off SNAP to fund tax cuts for the rich. That there aren't uprisings in every city, every day, is incredible.
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Arizona’s Food Stamp Crisis Is Coming for the Rest of the U.S.
The number of people who receive nutrition assistance in Arizona has dropped significantly in a matter of months.
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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 30/07/2026
Bluesky said it was "fighting Russian efforts to hijack real users’ accounts to post fake content, an apparently novel tactic." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/b... 🎁 #giftlink
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Bluesky Says Kremlin Is Hacking Its Platform to Spread Propaganda (Gift Article)
The company said it was fighting Russian efforts to hijack real users’ accounts to post fake content, an apparently novel tactic.
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still a pistachio @streetlightlily.horntforgood.com · 31/01/2026
You don’t want hands free driving, you want trains. You want trains you want trains you want TRAINS
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/07/2026
We found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)
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Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...
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Jessica Santollo @drjess.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Estrogen Receptor friends.....has anyone had trouble with their PPT (ER alpha agonist) from Tocris lately? Our lab and another in my department have not been getting consistent results and we are beginning to wonder if it is the drug.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
“It could take at least a year for OMB to respond to the comments and amend the draft rule”. Friends, this is a direct result of our collective action. The OMB Rule that would require political review of grants has prompted at least 50K comments. Thanks to all who commented, and you still can.
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A Proposed Rule Would Politicize Medical Research. Scientists Are Not Happy.
In tens of thousands of comments, researchers, doctors and others warned the rule could hamper progress on important health issues.
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Derek Barker @dwmbarker.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
This is the key point: Academic freedom is not just about protecting higher education, it is about preventing state control of civil society institutions to promote its ideology and suppress dissent.
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Andrew Hardaway @andrewhardaway.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Last chance people! You can leave as many comments as you want. Yesterday I left six specific comments referencing specific statutes and why they are a terrible idea.
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Sarah Gollust @sarahgollust.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Did you write your comment yet on the OMB rules on federally funded science yet? No? Don’t worry, you can do it this weekend. Here are some resources that can help you get started.
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SBN on Bluesky @sbn-bsky.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
What an amazing way to kick off #SBN2026! 🎉 Our first session on mentorship lead by Drs. Nancy Forger, Alexandra Castillo- Ruiz and Laura Cortes sparked an inspiring discussion about the value of strong mentor–mentee relationships and the impact they have on scientific careers.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 06/07/2026
RESPECT Every politician should be doing this. Mayor Coffman has spent every Friday night since February sleeping at Aurora, Colorado’s homeless center, serving breakfast in the morning, and learning firsthand what works and what doesn’t.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
“Copenhagen reported that 62% of its residents are now commuting to work or school by bike — an increase from 52% in 2015 & 36% in 2012, when the City Council launched a 14-year-plan to improve the quality, safety & comfort of cycling.” #Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.
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Copenhagen has taken bicycle commuting to a whole new level
Cycling has been a part of that good life in Copenhagen for decades. In recent years, it has enjoyed yet another unfathomable surge in popularity — taken to the next level thanks to constantly improvi...
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Study (N=8,097) finds women more likely to finish a PhD before 30 & have children after 35. Men tended to become parents during doctoral studies & often had 3+ children by 40. Early-career mothers had lower citation rates; fathers had no such penalties. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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Female Academics Increasingly Delay Motherhood Until Age 35
“Pronounced penalties” for those early-career staff with children may explain why Ph.D.s postpone becoming parents, a recent study finds.
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Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Think I might have chosen the experts at one of the worlds most admired zoos *that has been doing this for 50 years*.
"It seems like a bit of a risk for the U.S. government to place biomaterials in a for-profit company that doesn't have a very long track record", said Oliver Rydfe, a conservation geneticist at eh San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, which operates a storage effort called the Frozen Zoo that has been preserving cells for about 50 years."
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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
A 20 year study on 2 NIH diversity programs in Science Advances shows they doubled undergrads' odds of getting a Ph.D. That is, before the funding for those programs and for the study itself was terminated last year: www.statnews.com/2026/06/17/n...
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NIH diversity programs doubled undergraduates’ odds of getting a Ph.D., 20-year study finds
A new study found that two diversity-oriented programs supported by the NIH doubled the odds that an undergraduate would earn a Ph.D.
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Shimanti | Human Consequences @humanconsequences.com · 13/06/2026
When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.
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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I think this is what NYC must have felt like during the events seen in the documentary Ghostbusters
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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 04/06/2026
Neuroscientists argue that discontinuing in vivo models before using them to fix historical sex inequities in research risks embedding a male bias in biomedicine. #Biomedicine #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
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Scientists Caution that Phasing Out Animal Research Prematurely Could Risk Women’s Health | The Scientist
Neuroscientists argue that discontinuing in vivo models before using them to fix historical sex inequities in research risks embedding a male bias in biomedicine.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 02/06/2026
Proposed changes by the Trump administration to rules that govern how federal dollars are spent "would inevitably lead to unlegislated reductions in funding and damage US leadership in science, both in academia and industry," writes H. Holden Thorp in a new #ScienceEditorial. scim.ag/4uK0fBj
Text quote on a black background. The quote reads: "... the White House ... has found new ways to circumvent the will of Congress and starve American science." Below, the quote is attributed to H. Holden Thorp, Editor-in-chief, Science journals.
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American Association for the Advancement of Science @aaas.org · 02/06/2026
A statement from AAAS CEO Sudip Parikh on OMB rule politicizing federal grantmaking:
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 02/06/2026
"Trump seems far more interested in padding his own and his cronies’ pockets than in boosting the fate of humanity. And so, he has given Vought free rein to destroy key engines of progress—including universities, research institutes and professional associations." www.ms.now/opinion/russ...
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Opinion | Russ Vought is doing his part in the Trump administration’s war on scientific progress
Jessica Calarco: Under newly proposed Office of Management and Budget rules, every research grant awarded by the federal government would be vetted by political appointees.
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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
1.7 billion Canadian is about 1 billion- ish USD. or about 1/10 the YEARLY budget of (the underfunded) NSF. This ain't gonna solve the issue. No. We stay and fight.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 26/05/2026
@nycsanitation.bsky.social I’d like to report a sweep
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Well, would ya look at that! NSF is going to send >10% of its current budget to industry (read: tech start ups) instead of universities…it’s as if the admin is trying to dismantle our basic science mechanism and use it as a start up fund for private companies 💁🏻‍♀️ www.nsf.gov/tip/updates/...
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NSF announces $1.5B NSF X-Labs initiative to pursue generational breakthrough science efforts
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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Remember: Wealth cannot be separated from power. We're seeing in real time how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people. Taxing the rich isn't just an economic issue, it's a defense of our democracy.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 07/05/2026
Kind of surprised that this hasn't been bigger news. It's finals week for a whole lot of universities, and yet, Canvas (a learning/grading platform used by ~9,000 schools globally) is currently inaccessible because of a pay-or-have-your-data-leaked hack. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...
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“PAY OR LEAK”: Hackers Target Big Higher Ed Vendor
The criminal extortion group ShinyHunters breached Instructure last week. The hackers, who have also attacked individual universities, demanded the ed-tech giant pay up or face a data leak.
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SBN on Bluesky @sbn-bsky.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
The abstract deadline for #SBN2026 has been extended to May 8 🎉 If you've been thinking about submitting an abstract to attend our conference and enjoy the spectacular views of Niagara Falls and nearby places, you still have time! Submit an abstract here: whova.com/call_for_spe...
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Charlie Anderson @candersonlab.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Penn State Biology is hiring! We have an opening for a tenure-line faculty position in plant biology - if you'd like to pursue awesome science in a supportive and interdisciplinary community of researchers, consider applying! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...
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Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Plant Biology
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 23/04/2026
How it started / how it’s going — Jay Bhattacharya edition. 2025: “We will never use this agency to censor scientists who disagree" 2026 : Bhattacharya “has canceled the publication of a study that found that the Covid vaccine sharply cut the odds of hospitalizations and emergency visits”.

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"We will never use this agency to censor scientists who disagree": Director Jay Bhattacharya reflects on his pandemic-era censorship experiences & outlines his commitment to open scientific communication at the NIH.
April 1, 2025A Health Department official said Dr. Jay Bhattacharya had met with the study's authors but that they had not wanted to change its design. Eric Lee for The New York Times
By Apoorva Mandavilli
April 22, 2026
The acting head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has canceled the publication of a study that found jthat the Covid vaccine sharply cut the odds of hospitalizations and emergency visits last winter, a Health Department spokesman said.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals
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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Hungary under Orbán was one of the most effective such regimes in the world. Fidesz developed an incredibly sophisticated system for marginalizing the opposition, including controlling 80-90 percent of media. This @kimlanelaw.bsky.social piece has details. www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/how...
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How Viktor Orbán Wins | Journal of Democracy
The case of Hungary shows how autocrats can rig elections legally, using legislative majorities to change the law and neutralize the opposition at every turn, no matter what strategy they adopt.
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Ian L Morgan @ianlmorgan.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The recent presidential budget request has a 40% increase in military spending and 10% cut to non-military spending, including a 25% cut to the NIH. It seems worth pointing out that NIH (and other R&D) boosts the economy by 250%, whereas military spending (except R&D) shrinks the economy by 10%.
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NIH Funding Led to a 250 Percent Economic Return on Investment | The Scientist
Research advocacy group United for Medical Research reported that NIH grant money stimulated the US economy, but certain funding mechanisms may limit future benefits.
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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Nearly 450 hospitals are at risk of shutting down due to Medicaid cuts. Roughly $1 trillion in funding is expected to be cut. Services like mental health and maternal care likely will be affected. www.healthday.com/health-news/...
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Hundreds of U.S. Hospitals at Risk of Shutting Down From Medicaid Cuts
WEDNESDAY, April 1, 2026 (HealthDay News) — A new analysis from Public Citizen found that 446 hospitals are at high risk of closing or cutting services due to p
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 29/03/2026
In all seriousness though, elder millennial jokes aside, I think it’s important to resist the media framing of any mainstream resistance to the status quo as just the shrill nonsense of middle-aged women with nothing better to do. This isn’t the first time they’ve run out this playbook.
Early 20th c political cartoon depicting suffragettes as dowdy middle-aged women
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Mike the Mad Biologist and Trump's Press Corps Approver @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I've never seen a PCAST so dominated by Silicon Valley venture capitalists (and the worst of the bunch too). What a farce.
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
>10,000 STEM PhDs have left federal service over the past year (including 30% of the federal colleagues with whom I’ve worked closely). Those still left are holding federal science together with duct tape. What an extraordinary act of sabotage against the American people.
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Rep. Judy Chu @chu.house.gov · 12/03/2026
Let's be clear: banning mifepristone = a national abortion ban. Mifepristone has been safe, effective and FDA-approved for 20 years. Extremists won’t stop until abortion is banned everywhere. I'll keep fighting to pass my Women’s Health Protection Act to restore the right to abortion nationwide.
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Jessica Santollo @drjess.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Heroes.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
That's right. Worse than Pointless www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...
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