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Brie Lindgren

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Ph.D. in origins of life bioorganic chemistry with a fluffy research assistant

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こまちみゆた @comatimiyuta.bsky.social · 21h
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WIRED @wired.com · 19h
US law enforcement agents obtained authorization to use a controversial cell phone surveillance device to find and arrest a college student who helped produce journalist Don Lemon’s coverage of an anti-ICE protest, court filings show.
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Feds Got Warrants to Use Fake Cell Towers to Hunt Down Don Lemon’s Producer
Investigators also sought permission to use an invasive surveillance tool called a cell-site simulators against journalist Georgia Fort and a Minnesota state Senate candidate.
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Stuart Atkinson @stuartatkinson.bsky.social · 19h
My best images from the Autumn 2026 Kielder Starcamp, taken with my (now vintage!) Seestar S50...
Mars shining in the "Beehive" star cluster... The galaxy M33... The Horsehead Nebula and the Orion Nebula, imaged under Kielder's dark skies using a Seestar S50 by Stuart Atkinson
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SETI Institute @setiinstitute.bsky.social · 18h
#PPOD: The first light of morning illuminates the rugged slopes of Mount Sharp in this panorama captured by NASA's Curiosity rover on August 11, 2026. The image reveals a striking landscape of distant cliffs and ridges beneath the cool, bluish tones of the Martian dawn. 🧪 👩‍🔬
Barren Martian landscape showing eroded rock formations and layered, jagged ridges stretching to a pale sky, with rough, rippled ground in the foreground conveying a remote, otherworldly terrain.
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leupagus @leupagus.bsky.social · 18h
To be clear, the "criminal investigation" is Trump's lackeys pretending that Omar's late father filled out their family's paperwork incorrectly when Omar herself was a child; based on that, Trump is trying to get her citizenship removed and force her deportation. That's the "criminal investigation."
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 15h
With the uptick in ICE activity & the resulting surge in whistle requests (get 100-3k free at 3dwhistles.com), I'm reminding folks that you can support the printing of whistles by giving $20 to @protopasta.bsky.social, who in turn sends DEEPLY DISCOUNTED filament to our printers!
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"We Keep Us Safe" by The Whistle Crew
The Protopasta Fil-anthropy Fund is proud to partner with the Whistle Crew, "a loose federation united by our love for 3D printing and community safety." Across the nation, our communities' lives are ...
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Timber Ghost Press @timberghostpress.bsky.social · 15h
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RCSB Protein Data Bank @rcsbpdb.bsky.social · 13h
Register for Webinar about Electron Microscopy on PDB’s 55th Birthday Join Jason Kaelber (Rutgers University) on Oct 20 for "Where will we be at 55 years of EM depositions?"
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PDB101: Register for <I>Electron Microscopy on PDB&rsquo;s 55th Birthday</I>
PDB-101: Training, Outreach, and Education portal of RCSB PDB
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Mark Hagen @markhagen.bsky.social · 16h
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Despair after 200-year-old ‘grandmother’ tree toppled for Trump’s border wall: ‘It crushes your heart’
Protesters spent months occupying an ancient cottonwood. Then a tense standoff with US border patrol came to a head
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
But they have cut down millions of trees www.asparagusmagazine.com/articles/the...
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Turkey is Destroying Ecosystems in Iraqi Kurdistan - Asparagus Magazine
Activists and researchers want more eyes on the little-reported destruction some call ecocide.
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Heidi B. Hammel @hbhammel.bsky.social · 17h
This gorgeous new image from the Gemini North telescope 🔭 shows a spectacular view of Pa 30. This is likely the remnant of an historic supernova seen in the year 1181. Pa30’s unmistakable firework-shaped ejecta exhibits a cascading knot-like structure. More at noirlab.edu/public/video...
A bright red "cosmic fireworks explosion" is shown on dark sky spangled with stars. This is Pa 30 — the likely remnant of the historic supernova witnessed in the year 1181, now captured in unprecedented detail by the Gemini North telescope, operated by NSF NOIRLab. This image was obtained with the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS), and it shows that the remnant’s unmistakable firework-shaped ejecta take on a cascading knot-like structure.
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The bumbling biochemist (Bri Bibel) @bumblingbiochemist.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Structural biology coloring schemes - element coloring, chainbows, charge, etc. youtu.be/JdKCLnBnszA
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Structural biology coloring schemes - element coloring, chainbows, charge, etc.
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I have some very intelligent Indian friends who are in OPT. Some 420,000, or roughly one-third, of international students participated in OPT in 2025–26, making it the largest pipeline of global talent into the US workforce. This will hamper academic research. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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US proposes $100,000 charge for international students to do post-graduate work
Proposed rule would choke off a crucial STEM talent pipeline, policy specialists say
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Douglas Natelson @nanoscaleviews.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
🧪⚛️ A summary of science policy/funding news, much from the last couple of weeks. Pretty intense period. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2026/10/scie...
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Science policy/funding updates, early October edition
This post is a bit later than I'd wanted, due to a combination of work and wanting to be in the right frame of mind to write about what's ne...
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Greg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
OTD in 1881, Charles Darwin published his last book, on earthworms. It reflected a long interest in animal minds: “One alternative alone is left, namely, that worms, although standing low in the scale of organization, possess some degree of intelligence.” 🧪 🌱🐋🦋🦫 #HistSTM #philsci #pschsky #cogsci
Caricature by Edward Linley Sambourne from Punch in 1882 titled “Man is but a Worm,” depicting human evolution, commencing with Chaos, through worm, monkey, culminating in Darwin himself.
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Dan Chibnall @bookowl.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Always keep exploring because you never know what you're going to find next. These cyanobacteria use different types of chlorophyll (called d and f) which can be used in photosynthesis in caves where infrared light is sometimes the only light around. 🧪 www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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'They've probably been untouched for 49 million years': The New Mexico cave expanding our search for alien life
In one of the most baffling discoveries of the last decade, scientists have found a clue in a cave to how life might survive in deep space without light.
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
In light of some magazines pulling scummy things on creators lately, I’m doing a little thread on short story rights. I don't want anybody getting taken advantage of. Also, if you're new, this stuff can be confusing!
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The bumbling biochemist (Bri Bibel) @bumblingbiochemist.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
A biochemistry geek's guide to good books by or about biochemistry-related Nobel Prize winners youtu.be/o0uClGzUAkk
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My favorite books by or about biochemistry-related Nobel Prize winners
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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This 18-card deck pairs with an online answer portal where you will solve puzzles, search for clues in an aquarium, and race to find a missing science expert before time runs out! Every purchase supports Science Friday so order your copy today! www.sciencefriday.com/articles/end...
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Solve a cephalopod puzzle to win this escape room-style game
The chambered nautilus takes center stage in a puzzle adventure game from Science Friday and Grand Gamers Guild.
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こまちみゆた @comatimiyuta.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
秋口の庭の墨彩スケッチ
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/10/2026
This is a new deep-field image from JWST, designed to look for the point of origin of a fast radio burst. The bright, multi-point features are stars in the Milky Way. Everything else is an entire galaxy.
The dark of space, featuring a handful of bright, nearby stars, and altogether too many galaxies beyond.
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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
DAY 491 SPECIES 491 - Tripos ranipes STAGE: Protists MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & HWC watercolor. Sakura & Pentel pen T. ranipes (Frog foot) is a marine planktonic dinoflagellate. #sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Thanks @teamdiptera.bsky.social for busting me into the entomology archives... beefly from 1965
A wood panel painting of a beefly pictured next to a small pinned beefly specimen. The painting features the fly sipping a margarita next to birthday balloons on a patio.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/10/2026
“There was zero plan, except causing pain,” said one U.N. official about the Trump administration’s decision to stop funding the group with no notice or communication. “And that is not forgivable.” (Published Dec. 2025)
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After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: ICE agent in a high-viz vest holding a rifle at the scene of shooting near the Bronx has a history of allegedly lying, using excessive force, and courts have found his arrests unlawful. @dmehro.bsky.social @awinston.bsky.social, @regret.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-ag...
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ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests
Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Ivan Turgenev's "Execution of Troppmann" is a short essay, published in 1870, that gives a first-hand account of the writer attending a public execution in Paris. Turgenev's details how the drunk, unruly crowd turned a somber moment into a carnival. A deeply moving essay; I encourage you to read it.
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⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐ @markgarlick.com · 03/10/2026
A #3Danimation across Saturn's ring plane, looking towards the so-called ring mountains. The ring mountains are strange vertical structures found on the edge of Saturn's B ring. 1/3 #SciArt #spaceart
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⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐ @markgarlick.com · 02/10/2026
New followers, don't forget you can see all of my illustrations and animations (yes, all, more than 3000 works) at markgarlick.com. #sciart #scicomm
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Home | MarkGarlick.com
Online gallery of space and astronomical illustration and animation
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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Cephalopods are having a Hollywood glow-up. 🎬🐙 From monsters to villains to teachers, their on-screen roles have been changing as people understand them more.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Things in Popeye, a Japanese menswear magazine: — Interview with a "freelance pie advisor" who claims to have tried every pie in London. He names the city's top three pies. — Recurring column from writer who updates everyone on his cats for some reason. — Feature on Parisian grandfather style.
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The bumbling biochemist (Bri Bibel) @bumblingbiochemist.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Why and how we purify proteins with FPLC (aka - what's an AKTA and why should I care?) In honor of @asbmb.bsky.social #MolecularBioscienceWeek, Korina and Ryan wanted to tell y'all! youtu.be/uhfrn6dpLpM
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Why and how we purify proteins with FPLC (aka - what's an AKTA and why should I care?)
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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · 06/10/2026
In 2016, I used blue light for my 'Cerebral Wilderness' neuron art installation as nod to optogenetics! ✨ Why blue light? The foundational experiments by @deisseroth.bsky.social that launched the Nobel Prize winning technology of optogenetics in 2005 used blue light at ~ 470 nm #sciart 🧪
Detail of ‘Cerebral Wilderness’ which highlights the structures of Perineuronal Nets. Neuronal dendrites wrapped in netted fabric illuminated by blue lights. 

#contemporaryart Illuminated blue neurons in a full room installation called Cerebral Wilderness 

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Hannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me · 28/09/2026
When I set out to fact check “The Cities That Said Yes to Drugs” which argues that harm reduction may increase overdoses, I expected some cherry picking and misdirection. But not to find basic math errors and debunked right wing talking points asserted as fact in the Atlantic’s print edition.
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Atlantic's anti-harm reduction screed riddled with errors
A close read of "The Cities That Said Yes to Drugs" found errors in basic arithmetic as well as more deliberately misleading elements
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Nathaniel Comfort @nccomfort.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Exciting new historical work on Rosalind Franklin continues to appear. This is a neat bit of sleuthing by historian @alistairsponsel.bsky.social and crystallographer Brian Sutton. Here's the DOI to the actual article (it's OA): 10.1007/s10739-026-09866-7 The main finding is an x-ray image of exactly
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🌻OK MR. SUNSHINE!🌻 @entobiologist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
they named it cretodorus noonoo. they named it after the vacuum from teletubbies
The new species' unusual appearance also inspired its name: Cretodorus noonoo. The epithet "Noo-Noo" was chosen after the friendly vacuum cleaner from the children's television series Teletubbies, whose long, flexible hose resembles the mouthpart of the ancient insect.
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Compound Interest | Chemistry infographics @compoundchem.com · 05/10/2026
It's #NobelPrize week! Here's a look at the composition of the medals given to the winners – and how to make them disappear 🏅 www.compoundchem.com/2016/09/30/n... #ChemSky 🧪
Infographic titled "The Nobel Prize Medals" comparing medal composition. Pre-1980 medals were approx. 96% gold (23 carat solid gold, mass 200g). Post-1980 medals are approx. 75% gold (18 carat gold with 24 carat coating, mass 175g). A history section details George de Hevesy dissolving physicists Max von Laue and James Franck's medals in aqua regia during WWII to prevent Nazi discovery, later recasting them. Includes chemical equations for dissolving gold and recovering elemental gold using sodium bisulfite.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Driver-volunteers go to homes to drop off diapers, baby formula, toilet paper, groceries... "Drivers switch routes and cars, write addresses on paper, and carry a water bottle so they can drop the paper in water and obscure the addresses if stopped... kansasreflector.com/2026/10/02/t...
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Trump's immigration sweeps leave southwest Kansas communities looking for way forward • Kansas Reflector
DODGE CITY — Southwest Kansas communities reeling from President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown — which included random stops to check status — are looking for ways to recover as fear continues ...
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Sam Frantics @dsoart.com · 05/10/2026
Garffeld Pt 16
3-panel Garffeld comic: panel 1, Garffeld is looking at his bowl of food, and exclaims "'Sblood!"; panel 2, he looks over to see Nergal the kitten looking innocent, and thinks, "Nergal has partaken in my food and defiled it."; panel 3, he is slumped over, thinking, "I will surely starve."
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 05/10/2026
Multiple immigration detainees in Minnesota have been ordered released by federal judges only for them to be immediately re-detained by immigration officers at the doors of the Whipple Federal building.
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Catch, release, catch: Inside ICE's new 'farce' tactic
Multiple immigration detainees in Minnesota have been ordered released by federal judges only for them to be immediately re-detained by immigration officers at the doors of the Whipple Federal buildin...
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...
Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.
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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 04/10/2026
This past Monday, UCS President & CEO @gretchentg.bsky.social testified before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee about the Trump administration’s unrelenting attacks on science. Here's her testimony:
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Attacks on Science, Who's Behind Them, and Their Harm: My Congressional Testimony
Dr. Gretchen Goldman testified before the Senate Environmental and Public Works committee on the effects of attacks on science.
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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 20/09/2026
In order to understand early modern science, images are no less significant than words. A new #NotesandRecords special issue examines a wide range of images, from true-to-life drawings to carefully conceived schematics: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsnr/issue/8... #HistSci #HistSTM
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 02/10/2026
This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 04/10/2026
A photograph taken from the surface of an asteroid by a small robot in 2018.
The surface of asteroid 162173 Ryugu. Turns out it looks like a poorly illuminated crawlspace at night.
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The bumbling biochemist (Bri Bibel) @bumblingbiochemist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Solid-state oligonucleotide synthesis: phosphoramidite method
Phosphoramidite is pretty cool - am I right or am I right? It helps us DNA or RNA write! Solid-state oligonucleotide synthesis, including the phosphoramidite method, can be used by companies to make l...
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June Hunter Images @junehunterimages.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
We went hiking in the snow yesterday, hoping (always) to find ravens. It was only back in the fog-filled parking lot that these two landed beside me. I know this couple, having recorded their special duet before. #ravens #birds 🪶
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 02/10/2026
Scoop: At a secret meeting this summer, an aide to Stephen Miller laid out Trump administration's plan to make it easier for states to round up and institutionalize mentally ill homeless people — by pushing a drastic policy change that would weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans.
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How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights
After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you are part of an academic society or a professor of any kind, public statements that you do not condone Drexel cutting off the academy of natural sciences from the public of Philadelphia is very important right now. We need your voices. Urgently.
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Is your brain full of mind vampires?
A comic all in red, depicting a man with a cut out of his brain with a vampire skulking inside of it. 
Big text at the top says "is your brain full of mind vampires? you are not alone."
The vampire says "bleh! bleh! I am 2000 years old. Bleh! your only desire now is to find my amulet."
The man says "Dang, gotta find that amulet."

Further text at the bottom says "there is no cure for mind vampires but there is support and management. Know the warning signs, get help early."
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵
A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.An old photo of the Dallas flagship.
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