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Gabriel McKinsey

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Neuroimmunologist and developmental biologist. Google scholar: scholar.google.com/citations?user=Z…

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Biopunk Lab @biopunklab.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Bio art printing is on its way at Biopunk!
An agar plate with a printed image of a ciliated bacteria.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Stanford University...is facing criticism for using generative AI to change the photo of a Hispanic male student into a non-existent Black woman for a campus banner." feels like a South Park episode. what are we doing here yall www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
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Stanford violated its AI policy by turning a Hispanic student into a fake Black woman in ad
Stanford University is facing criticism for using generative AI to change the photo of a Hispanic male student into a non-existent Black woman for a dining hall advertisement.
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Justus Kebschull @justuskebschull.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW PREPRINT! An evo-devo look at how new cerebellar nuclei are made. Spoiler: it’s all driven by region-specific excitatory progenitors in the early rhombic lip; inhibitory neurons fill in later. If you care about brain evolution or cerebellar development, check it out: tinyurl.com/CNdevelopment
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Scott Fitzgerald Gray @scottfgray.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The number of people still seemingly unaware that Substack has a Nazi problem means it’s apparently worth mentioning yet again that Substack has a fucking Nazi problem.
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Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters
Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Biochemist Florence Seibert developed the Purified Protein Derivative (PPD) in the 1930s. Before her work, TB skin tests were inconsistent & unreliable. Her PPD formula was adopted as the international standard (1952) & remains in use for TB testing today. Died #OTD in 1991. #WomenInSTEM
Vintage black-and-white studio portrait of American biochemist Florence Barbara Seibert (1897–1991), shown from the shoulders up. The young woman has short, dark, wavy 1920s-style hair parted on the side, wears round wire-rimmed eyeglasses, and offers a gentle smile toward the camera. She is dressed in a light-colored blouse with a ruffled collar. A studio imprint reading “A. F. R. S. Chicago” appears in the lower right corner.
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Roy DeCarava, Bill and Son, 1962
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Stanley Heinze @stanley-heinze.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
In a major effort from all co-authors, we mapped the CX of a tropical sweat bee, an army ant, the Australian jumper ant and the honeybee, finding all components of the head direction circuit known in Drosophila - with cell morphology, projection patterns and cell numbers remarkably conserved.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This is Russia’s crime — but it is partly our responsibility, in the United States. We are doing much less than we should, on the rationale that letting Russians kill Ukrainians will end the war. It won’t. That is wrong as strategy, and as ethics.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 22/07/2026
A reminder that UC _faculty_ and Faculty Associations — not the universities themselves nor their administrators — are waging this battle in court, demonstrating great bravery and moral clarity.
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White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants
Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COV...
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Preventing some Iranian villagers from getting drinking water does nothing to prevent the IRGC from firing missiles and drones. Water is a red line. I know those of you who hate the US military and US foreign policy won’t care about the difference, but it’s significant, with very bad implications.
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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I contacted my NIH PO about the new rules requiring reporting foreign co-authorships on papers that acknowledge NIH support. Here's a summary of what I heard back: 1) NIH POs are confused about this too & fear a massive workload as a consequence 2) PIs should report co-authorships in their RPPR /t
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I would like one plank of the 2028 Democratic platform to read: WE ARE GOING TO SEND EVERY ONE OF YOU CORRUPT MOTHERFUCKERS TO PRISON.
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
If you look at those sharp little points and think “surely they don’t stick that *into* your cervix without anesthesia,” you are in for a rude shock.
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Alex Radzisheuskaya @a-radzisheuskaya.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
1/ Very excited to share the first publication from my lab! In this work, we developed an efficient strategy to precisely mutate mammalian histone genes in their native genomic context using CRISPR prime editing: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Identifying critical lysines in mammalian histone H3 with high-throughput CRISPR prime editing - Nature Genetics
This study uses a precise and efficient clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) prime editing system to substitute lysine residues in histone H3, individually or in combinat...
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Petrarca @petrarca.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
"KKK, but Best Buy, bitch"
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
4th of July playlist let’s go. I’ll start: Nina Simone, Revolution (1969) youtu.be/gFBoKE9H3PA?...
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Nina Simone: Revolution
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
This is just flat-out criminal. {gift link} www.nytimes.com/2026/06/28/w...
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TK (Takashi DY) Kozai @bioniclab.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
🪼 Your tax dollars paid a scientist to squeeze jellyfish through cheesecloth. Osamu Shimomura processed tens of thousands on an NSF grant to understand why they glow. He found a protein that glowed green under UV light. Called it "green protein." Nobody cared. For decades.
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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Yay! Congrats to Janet Voight at the Field who has described a new species of deep-sea octopus from the Galapagos! Microeledone galapagensis! #molluscmonday www.fieldmuseum.org/about/press/...
blue grey octopus with big eyes on brown bottom
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Gabriel McKinsey @gabrielmckinsey.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
If anyone is considering getting an EV, particularly with gas prices going through the roof, I'd recommend the Ioniq 5. I got one a year ago and it's been a great family car. Lots of room, city/highway MPGe of 129/100, 318 miles of range. And the price tag has come down a lot recently :).
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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Recovering skeletons in Gaza a year and a half after an airstrike on a 5-story apartment building that killed 130+ people: “Rescue workers drop to their knees. They aren't looking with their eyes. They're using their noses, leaning into the cracks and smelling the air to get closer to the corpses.”
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Skeletons in their clothing: Recovering bodies from the rubble in Gaza
It was one of the deadliest Israeli strikes of the Gaza war, devastating one extended family. A year and a half later, the survivors find their loved ones' remains.
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Amy C Fan (she/her) @amycfanphd.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Excited to announce our new study (w/ @maxkrummel.bsky.social) published today @nature.com: Macrophages “hold our living identities” by taking tiny bites from living cells and presenting this information to CD8 T cells. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #immunology #cellbiology @immunox.bsky.social
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Submicrometre sampling of living cells by macrophages - Nature
Macrophages can sample antigens from living cells through a trogocytosis-like mechanism that routes ingested material away from degradation, a finding that delineates a previously unknown pathway...
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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
📣 The difference between replicable and not replicable is not itself scientifically replicable. 📣 New work with Erkan Buzbas, showing that verdicts such as "X% of results replicated" are based on an inferential machinery that doesn't work. arxiv.org/abs/2604.26268
Screenshot of a paper's title page. Title: "The Difference Between 'Replicable' and 'Not replicable' is not Itself Scientifically Replicable". Authors: Berna Devezer and Erkan O. Buzbas, both at the University of Idaho — Devezer in the Department of Business and the Institute for Modeling Collaboration and Innovation, Buzbas in the Department of Mathematics and Statistical Science. Authors contributed equally. Corresponding author: bdevezer@uidaho.edu.
Abstract: Replication studies estimate the replicability rate of scientific results by aggregating binary verdicts of experiments. Exact replications are rarely attainable, so most replication sequences are non-exact. Experiments differ in ways that matter and do not share a single common data-generating process. We formalize two statistical interpretations of this non-exactness. In a shared latent rate model (benchmark), experiments are exchangeable and depend on a common random replicability rate. In a conditionally independent rates model (operational), each experiment has its own replicability rate drawn independently from a population distribution. Under the shared latent rate model, even small variability among replicability rates induces an irreducible variance floor on the estimated mean replicability rate that cannot be eliminated by adding more replications. Under the conditionally independent rates model, the degree of non-exactness is not identifiable from standard replication data, because one binary verdict per experiment contains no information about between-experiment heterogeneity. Researchers therefore cannot tell which precision regime they are operating in or whether high- and low-replicability sequences can be distinguished in principle. As a result, the usual data structure of one binary verdict per experiment cannot support reliable demarcation between "replicable" and "not replicable" results and systematically understates uncertainty, making high- and low-replicability sequences appear discrim…
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.
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Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
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Sarah Paramore, PhD @parahsaramore.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Excited to share that @socdevbio.bsky.social has a new and improved merch store! Rep your fav model organism in one of the Society’s new original designs 🤗 sdb-official-merch.printify.me
Examples of the new model organism shirts for sale on the SDB merchandise website
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death
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Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
NEW US electricity data ⚡️🇺🇸 In March, renewables produced more than a third of US electricity for the first time ever, even overtaking gas generation! Wind and solar combined reached over a quarter (26%) for the first time.
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Scholar Goggler bot @scholargoggler.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Scholar Goggler gobbled Gabriel McKinsey PhD's publications and came up with these: brain, microglial, development, gabaergic, cell, enhancer @gabrielmckinsey.bsky.social Create yours at scholargoggler.com
Cloud of words in various colors and sizes on a white background, arranged in the shape of a diamond. Some of the largest words include  brain microglial development gabaergic cell enhancer enhancers fate neurons barrier blood-brain cortical disease dynamic expression function glia impairs injury integrin interaction interneuron interneurons microglia mouse necessary radial regulates shape signalingCloud of words in various colors and sizes on a black background, arranged in the shape of a rectangle. Some of the largest words include Brain Microglial Development Gabaergic Cell Enhancer Enhancers Fate Neurons Barrier Blood-brain Cortical Disease Dynamic Expression Function Glia Impairs Injury Integrin Interaction Interneuron Interneurons Microglia Mouse Necessary Radial Regulates Shape SignalingCloud of words in various colors and sizes on a black background, arranged in the shape of a brain. Some of the largest words include  brain microglial development gabaergic cell enhancer enhancers fate neurons barrier blood-brain cortical disease dynamic expression function glia impairs injury integrin interaction interneuron interneurons microglia mouse necessary radial regulates shape signaling
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Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
It’s called the Cycle of Abuse or the Walker Wheel: calm followed by rising tension, the explosion of violence, the reconciliation, the incremental intensification of violence over time.
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Mariko Bennett @nachoriko.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 28/03/2026
When the FBI raided Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, finding the former president had stolen hundreds of classified documents, one question stood out: Why? Former special counsel Jack Smith has concluded that Trump took the documents to help advance his business interests. trib.al/XnOFexC
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Bombshell Jack Smith Report Reveals Why Trump Hoarded Classified Docs
One of the documents Trump kept was so sensitive that only six people were authorized to view it.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
🚨 IT'S ELECTION DAY 🚨 This is it. Today decides everything. Let's make it count: Knock doors, make calls, talk to your friends, and make sure everyone you know in IL-09 makes their voice heard!
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 14/03/2026
You don't get to paper over the fact that they are bigots. They knowingly wanted to strip minorities and women of any historical representation. They killed projects simply because they had ethnic identities and genders attached.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
SCOOP. From my OUR LAND newsletter: Trump's DOJ is helping to get a convicted FBI informant tied to Russian intelligence out of prison. The lie this guy told the FBI—Joe Biden took a $5m bribe from Burisma—was the main evidence for the GOP impeachment drive. 1/2 link.motherjones.com/public/44694...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.
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US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says
At least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday. Washington has not commented on the reported str...
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Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
I’d like to point out the deep irony that the feds are constantly using possible “doxxing” as the justification they must be anonymous, plateless, and masked, when they are constantly doxxing us. Peak DARVO.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Bannon (and his buddies) are using an informational strategy called reflexive control that intentionally exploits the reaction of his adversaries (on the left) to inflict damage on their own side. Don't become an unwitting agent in their information operation.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
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ditchpony @ditchpony.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
my friend was maced by ICE agents outside of the coffee shop where I do my homework. she was just standing there filming them and they maced her directly in the eyes and fled the scene. our communities are being terrorized.
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Gabriel McKinsey @gabrielmckinsey.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
If you're interested in supporting or applying for a community science research grant, please check out the recently launched Primordia Microgrants! More info from @elliot Elliot Roth of SF Biopunk in the link: www.linkedin.com/posts/thatmr...
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Primordia Microgrants | Primordia Microgrants (Powered by Donorbox) | Elliot Roth
🎄 MERRY XMAS YA FILTHY ANIMALS 🎅 Want to write off $$$ on your taxes and change a researcher's life? ☣️ We at the Biopunk Community Lab along with ValleyDAO have created something we're calling PRI...
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
@handsoffnyc.bsky.social is training thousands of New Yorkers on how to protect their neighbors from ICE. Today, they are currently running two trainings in Brooklyn and the Bronx, both of which hit capacity because interest was so high. This is the way, y’all—we protect each other, and we know it.
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Aaron Quinlan (he/him) @aaronquinlan.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
We are thrilled to announce the first official release (v0.1.8) of #𝗯𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗿, the successor to one of our flagship tool, #𝗯𝗲𝗱𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀! Based on ideas we conceived of long ago (!), this was achieved thanks to the dedication of Brent Pedersen. 1/n
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Intro to Bedder – The Quinlan Lab
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The EMBO Journal @embojournal.org · 18/11/2025
Microglial colonization of the developing mouse brain is controlled by both microglial and neural CSF-1 Sonia Garel, @morganethion.bsky.social and collaborators www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
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Mari Sosa @marisosa.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
The Sosa Lab is going to #SfN25 and actively recruiting ✨postdocs✨ with systems neuroscience experience! We study both fundamental memory processes and how memory changes during pregnancy and postpartum. If you are interested in meeting at SfN, please email me! www.sosaneurolab.com/join/postdoc...
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Sosa Lab - Postdoctoral Researchers
We are seeking postdocs to start in 2026!
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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
New issue of Nature - with NINE studies on #brain #development from the BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network (BICAN) 🧠🧪🔬 An amazing set of resources for all scientists working on the brain! 🧠 Immersive feature: www.nature.com/immersive/d4... 🧠 Perspective: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cover of this week's Nature showing a brain rendering

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Brain development:
Our ability to process information into complex emotions, behaviours and decisions relies on the rich diversity of cell types that make up the human brain. Uncovering the molecular and cellular events that take place during brain development could reveal not only the mechanisms that give rise to this diversity but also shed light on how this process might go awry in neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism and schizophrenia. In this week’s issue, the BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network (BICAN) builds on its previous work creating atlases of cell types in the adult mouse, non-human primate (NHP) and human brains to present cell-type atlases of the developing human, mouse and NHP brains. Across a suite of papers, nine of which are published in Nature, the researchers uncover the complex programs through which cell types emerge during brain development in humans and animals, revealing both the shared and unique features of the human brain. The latest work, along with future research directions, is summed up in a Perspective article by Tomasz Nowakowski and colleagues
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Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
With the RSF takeover of El Fasher, there has been another round horrific, genocidal violence in Darfur. 2.5 years in, this conflict remains the world's worst humanitarian disaster. If you would like to help, Sudanese organizer Sarah Elhassan has curated a list of organizations linktr.ee/bsonblast
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Pennsylvania has an important Supreme Court race coming up on Tuesday, November 4. If you live in the Keystone State, or know someone who does, vote YES to retain three justices who will protect your fundamental rights and freedoms.
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Brittany Page @brittanyepage.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Sometimes I feel like I’m losing my mind listening to the news because how does “he sought her gynecological records” not move people? Why is Cuomo even considered an option? This is all so absurd.
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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
advice on how to report ICE activity in the East Bay from the Mayor of Berkeley www.acilep.org
If you think you are witnessing an ICE action in Berkeley or Alameda County, please contact the Alameda County Immigration Legal and Education Partnership (ACILEP) for verification: (510) 241-4011. To avoid spreading fear, please do not share information that has not been verified with ACILEP. If you do report to ACILEP, be sure to share as much information as possible, including a physical description of individuals or vehicles, etc.
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