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EleanorMcKenna

@eleanormckenna.bsky.social
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Physician scientist, vaccine enthusiast, mom to two amazing kids and two spoiled dogs, knitter/mender/embroiderer, fan of progressive politics and animal memes.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 29/09/2025
WHEEWWWWWWWWWW: "When we use generative AI, we consent to the appropriation of our intellectual property by data scrapers . . . We agree that we would rather deplete our natural resources than make our own art or think our own thoughts." www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
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Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Hate kids? Good news!
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 18/09/2025
We are witnessing a full blown war on science, public health & truth itself. Let me be clear: Vaccines have prevented more than 1.1 million deaths, 500 million cases of illness & 32 million hospitalizations. That's a lot of moms and dads who don't have to bury their children.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
I'll say it: against all expectations, the media are covering the Trump censorship story right. They're not pretending it's about Kirk, they're covering Trump as a broad threat to free press and speech, and they're speaking broadly about the stakes. It can be done!
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
If the right *truly* believed Charlie Kirk was a defender of free speech and someone who was fine with dissenting opinions, they wouldn't be engaged in a massive campaign to punish anyone who didn't "mourn him properly." They clearly know all of that is bullshit. Only the media was conned.
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NPR @npr.org · 31/08/2025
Americans once assumed their kids would be better off than they were. But business professor Scott Galloway says today's economic policies work to enrich Boomers and steal from younger generations.
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Scott Galloway says Boomers are robbing Gen Z of their future
Americans once assumed their kids would be better off than they were. But business professor Scott Galloway says today's economic policies work to enrich Boomers and steal from younger generations.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/08/2025
Remember in 2016 when Bill Clinton bumped into Attorney General Loretta Lynch on a tarmac in Phoenix, and that story of INSANE IMPROPRIETY dominated the news cycle for a week? Now we have POTUS, VP, AG, and FBI Epstein strategy meetings. www.cnn.com/2025/08/05/p...
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Top Trump officials will discuss Epstein strategy at Wednesday dinner hosted by Vance | CNN Politics
Top Trump administration officials will gather at the vice president’s residence Wednesday evening as they continue to weigh whether to publish an audio recording and transcript of Deputy Attorney Gen...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/07/2025
My reaction to that completely batshit press briefing by Tulsi Gabbard in which she accused Obama of “treasonous conspiracy” is that whatever is in the Epstein files about Trump must be really really bad
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Theft is legal now
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Ben Mathis-Lilley @benmathislilley.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
The Times, Post, CNN, and Politico all ran stories this weekend or this morning about Trump getting his base back behind him on Epstein. The most prominent source cited to justify this claim _in all four publications_ was Steve Bannon. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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All These Stories About Trump Making the Epstein Files a Winning Issue Have a Funny Thing in Common
Is Trump really turning the tables on this one?
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sara g miller @saragmiller.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Some of the panelists invited by the FDA to discuss SSRIs and pregnancy claimed that antidepressants don't work at all and depression goes away on its own. One suggested that depression was not an illness, but rather a product of “women just naturally experiencing their emotions more intensely.”
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FDA panel promotes misinformation on antidepressants during pregnancy, psychiatrists say
Nearly all of the 10 panelists emphasized what they said were risks of the drugs. Some claimed, without evidence, that antidepressants don't work at all.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 22/07/2025
Breaking News: A former Louisville police officer involved in the fatal raid of Breonna Taylor’s home was sentenced to nearly three years in prison.
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Judge Sentences Ex-Officer in Breonna Taylor Raid to Nearly 3 Years in Prison
The sentence was a sharp rebuke to the Trump administration, which had requested he serve only one day behind bars.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Wow, it's amazing all the different kinds of files they can produce when they want to
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 21/07/2025
seems like putting a weekend Fox anchor in charge of DoD and a washed up reality competition contestant in charge of the Transportation Dept. while letting a ketamine-addled Nazi fire, en masse, the people who actually know things about the government and make it work was a monumentally bad idea!
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UPDATE: Pilot of commercial flight performs ‘aggressive maneuver’ to avoid mid-air collision with B-52 bomber
A Delta flight turned into a tense and quiet ride for passengers after pilots took evasive action to avoid a mid-air collision with a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 19/07/2025
The truth is that MAGAs don't actually oppose welfare—only social welfare. But they LOVE corporate welfare. They happily let WalMart, Amazon, & Target pay a poverty wage, subsidize them with billions in corporate welfare—all while cutting social welfare for their employees & screaming BOOTSTRAPS!
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
A friend of my compared gutting of federal agencies to a wrecking a car: if you remove 30% of the parts of the car, it does not go 30% slower. It stops working.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
The Senate barely passed Trump’s 'Big Beautiful Bill' today after an all-night circus. But the chaos isn’t just a fluke. It’s the inevitable result of governing through Trump-style campaign tactics. And the result? A bill that is as rotten as the leader who forced his party to ram it through.
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The GOP Senate Chose Trump Over The American People—How Big A Price Will They Pay?
When it comes to Trump's 'Big Beautiful' budget bill, the fish rots from the head
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
It is not realistic or sustainable for every single government program to constantly promote itself to the public. The clear villain in the DOGE immiseration campaign is the right. We don't need to play into their attacks by implying that we deserve it.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
You hear this a lot on the left but it isn't true. USAID did not "fail to tell its story to Americans," the right targeted the agency with lies and misinformation. Ultimately this narrative turns conservative attacks into even more calls for the left to reform. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/o...
I Worked at U.S.A.I.D. for Over 8 Years. This Is Our Biggest Failure.
I worked for U.S.A.I.D. in East Africa over the past eight and a half years, selling the story of American foreign aid to people in Rwanda, Ethiopia and Kenya. Our inability to tell this same story to Americans is our great failure. It is what put the agency into the Department of Government Efficiency’s wood chipper first. It’s what allows Secretary of State Marco Rubio to get away with insisting that lifesaving humanitarian aid would continue while the administration drastically slashed its funding. And it’s what I fear will let this presidency cast the deaths from the next preventable catastrophe as unstoppable or inevitable.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
I hope that I am not right, but I do not think that the GOP fucking over rural areas will result in rural areas blaming the GOP: instead they'll double-down on blaming imaginary cultural enemies and resentment/fantasy about how the cities must be worse.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Years of conventional wisdom repeated that there was a free speech crisis on college campuses. Slowly, "free speech" became totally denuded of any meaning other than the right of conservatives to speak on college campuses without being protested.
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Night of the Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
The capitalists hated the New Deal because it weakened their grip on the working class, not because it cost them money. Trump's economic fuckery is aimed squarely at hurting and disempowering working people, which entrenches the power of the rich, which they like. Capitalism is a power structure!
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
"The cumulative effect of tariffs and the budget bill is to make 80% of households less well-off. As someone who’s been observing politics for decades, I’ve never seen anything like this." On the pod, @jaredb-econ.bsky.social is so good on Trump screwing his voters: newrepublic.com/article/1973...
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“Mind-Boggling”: Trump Voters Shocked at How Badly He’s Screwing Them
As evidence mounts that voters in Trump country are getting hammered by his biggest initiatives, an economist paints a dark picture of just how bad the sum total of these policies will be for working ...
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David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Duke appears to have lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies, or signal transduction www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...
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Pat Dennis 🐍 @patdennis.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
The Trump administration is dropping charges against ms-13 gang leaders after the gang leaders agreed to use their power as gang leaders to support Nayib Bukele politically in El Salvador. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/u...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/06/2025
Chris Murphy: "The CBO, nonpartisan, says it's gonna kick between 10 and 15 million people off their healthcare. And for what? To be able to afford a new $270,000 tax cut for the richest families in the country ... it's a moral abomination."
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
This is remarkable. New Quinnipiac poll finds support for path to legalization for most undocumented immigrants has risen to 64%. Only 31% want most of them deported. That's a 14 point net swing for legalization since Trump took office. On immigration generally, he's at 41-57!
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Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 26/06/2025
To give kids their best shot, Howard County is backing family-first foster care
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To give kids their best shot, Howard County is backing family-first foster care
The state wants to prioritize keeping foster kids with family. This Howard County program could help.
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STAT @statnews.com · 25/06/2025
News: The American Academy of Pediatrics says it will no longer take part in the process of ACIP meetings. “We won’t lend our name or our expertise to a system that is being politicized at the expense of children’s health,” the group's president says. www.statnews.com/2025/06/25/c...
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CDC vaccine advisory committee to review long-approved immunizations
A leader of the CDC's reconstituted vaccine advisory committee said the panel would start a review of long-approved shots.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/06/2025
RUIZ: Did you read the report & fact-check its sources prior to publication? RFK JR: I did not fact check RUIZ: It included citations to sources that don't exist. How does that happen? RFK JR: All of the foundational assertions are accurate RUIZ: They did not exist. How can they be accurate?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Remember, this new normal -- in which gangs of masked armed gunmen are causing chaos in the streets, pulling weapons and assaulting innocent people, and no one can say if they're crooks or cops -- was all sold to Americans as a way to make us feel safer.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
🚨NEW: Erez Reuveni, the DOJ lawyer fired for his honesty in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case, sends Congress a whistleblower letter detailing lawlessness at the DOJ around the CECOT deportations. He says Emil Bove told the DOJ to respond to likely court orders blocking flights with "fuck you."
Bove then made a remark concerning the possibility that a court order would enjoin those removals before they could be effectuated. Bove stated that DOJ would need to consider telling the courts "fuck you” and ignore any such court order. Mr. Reuveni perceived that others in the room looked stunned, and he observed awkward, nervous glances among people in the room. Silence overtook the room. Mr. Reuveni and others were quickly ushered out of the room. Notwithstanding Bove's directive, Mr. Reuveni left the meeting understanding that DOJ would tell DHS to follow all court orders.21 - Mr. Reuveni was stunned by Bove's statement because, to Mr. Reuveni's knowledge, no one in DOJ leadership - in any Administration – had ever suggested the Department ofJustice could blatantly ignore court orders, especially with a "fuck you.” Mr. Reuveni was in disbelief, because, on the contrary, the Department of Justice consistently advises its clients of their obligation to follow court orders, not to ignore them. Mr. Reuveni knew that it was absurd and unlawful to do otherwise, a proposition that Mr. Reuveni felt even more certain of after a brief conversation with his supervisor, August Flentje, shortly after the meeting.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
America is one of those countries where if you host a global sporting event, inclusive messages have to be censored to so as not to anger the central government. In this case the message is “racism is bad” www.nytimes.com/athletic/643...
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FIFA drops anti-racism, anti-discrimination messages for Club World Cup
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Look, I don’t much care what Tulsi Gabbard says either, but here’s the thing: I didn’t appoint her to be my Director of National Intelligence.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
“No Kings Day”: A compilation
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/06/2025
the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president
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Athena an Actual Patriot 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @fischygoddess.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Pretty good presence in Catonsville! I am bad at guessing the number of people, but there were many!!
Image showing the corner at the No Kings rally in Catonsville, MD, today.
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Dennis @dcoatesecon.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
We went to No Kings in Catonsville, MD. Interesting signs, fun conversations, lots of supportive horn honking by passersby. No tactical gear, no bear spray, no zip ties, no gallows, no cops attacked and killed. Pro-democracy protests are peaceful. Pro-Authoritarian are not.
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Jessica Crowder @jbcrowder.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Some favorites from two 📍Catonsville No Kings events today. People driving by were overwhelmingly supportive & many had their cars decorated in support. It is an ever-welcome reminder that most people stand against this administration & the atrocities they are committing.
Protesters, including a person protesting wearing a taco outfit with a sign saying “only you can prevent fascist liars”A protest sign that says “you can’t spell hatred without red hat”A protest sign that says “deport fascists, not immigrants!”A protest sign that says “compassion not oppression”
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Hari Seldon's dead hand @lefty.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2025
There was a *lot* of audience participation at the Catonsville Maryland #nokings rally!
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Hari Seldon's dead hand @lefty.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2025
Our signs for the #nokings rally in Catonsville, Maryland today. At least a couple thousand lined all four roads of a major intersection for hundreds of feet.
No Kings demonstration poster: I drink my vodka warm because F*CK ICENo Kings demonstration poster: 'KING' is a four letter word!
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Jenny @jenny-sings-bass.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
#NoKings Catonsville, MD
Sign “No FAUX-KING WAY!  FDT”Sign “The Constitution is not a Choose-Your-Own Adventure.  Save Democracy “Protest signsProtest signs
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taddyc.bsky.social @taddyc.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Catonsville Protest number2 over the beltway on Frederick Road. Life is great in 21228!
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Hari Seldon's dead hand @lefty.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2025
Voted best sign at the Catonsville Maryland #nokings rally today. 🙂
#nokings rally sign: [picture of a monarch butterfly] The Only Monarch We Support
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
NEW: Democracy is alive in Philly! Amazing scenes in Philadelphia as thousands hit the streets for the anti-Trump protest. #NoKings #50501Movement
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Alternatively, “Thousands of Americans expected to take to the streets in defense of their neighbors and their democracy” www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Find your closest rally on Saturday and go. You can tell your kids where you were on the other side of this. Outnumber him everywhere. www.nokings.org#map
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No Kings
On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. ...
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