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hbfriedman.bsky.social @hbfriedman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Parents visiting college campuses for homecoming this month have a perfect opportunity to get VERY LOUD about our expectations that out school will do better. MUCH BETTER

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Caitlin McGlade @caitmcglade.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I, the only data reporter at the Charlotte Observer, am among the McClatchy layoffs in the bloodbath today. The HR person asked me not to talk about it! AMA. Anyway, here’s a link to one of my most important stories this year. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...

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A Black teen found hanged near Charlotte church was a suicide, police say. Questions remain

In May, 16-year-old Juliana Nzita was found dead in a Charlotte churchyard. CMPD called it a suicide. Her family isn’t so sure.

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27 UNIHTED @27unihted.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

🚨Live Bluesky Fact Check: Thurs, August 6 at 1PM-2:30PM EST🚨 Tomorrow NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya will host his third installment of the NIH “Scientific Freedom” Lecture Series, which has been platforming speakers driven by ideology rather than science. Tomorrow, his guest is Carole Hooven.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 06/06/2026

The criticism of Trump, Kennedy, and Bhattacharya that was so subversive that the ADA had to eject the Editor-in-Chief of their flagship journal from their annual meeting for sharing it? Prior today it had fewer than 1000 views. Do your thing.

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Governor Wes Moore @govwesmoore.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

The President is lying to the public: 1) For the past century, the federal government has been responsible for the Potomac Interceptor – not Maryland. The sewage pipe is on federal land. youtu.be/OKyIKHW8ONI

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The President is Lying to the Public

YouTube video by Governor Wes Moore

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Lack of communication with the public was part of the problem. It laid the groundwork for the disconnect. Rs in Congress actually forced NIH to reduce its comms spending in 2013. They mischaracterized the spending as PR. It was spent on sharing science with the public. thehill.com/policy/healt...

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Republicans probe PR spending at NIH

Leading GOP lawmakers are pushing for information on public relations spending at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) after an editorial criticized an outsize communications budget at one insti…

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Good point. The one I am supposed to be on was operationally functional in IAR. We could submit critiques and went to Read phase as usual. Please do this if you can, folks. It may help to speed the recovery once the gov is funded again.

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Senator Angela Alsobrooks @alsobrooks.senate.gov · 18/10/2025

This is a season we are in. And I want you all to know that after the darkness, morning will surely come. There are no kings in this country. We will keep fighting.

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Ellen Hopkins @ellenhopkins.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

If you're not totally aware of how bots try to sway minds, here's a good example.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Ta-Nehisi Coates has written the best yet commentary on last week's events, while pundits, politicians and others have disgraced themselves in their whitewashing of of this man's legacy. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 18/09/2025

The body of 21-year-old Demartravion "Trey" Reed was found on September 15. The family is calling for an independent autopsy. Read more:

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Trey Reed: NAACP, Politicians Call for Investigation Into Hanging Death

The body of 21-year-old Demartravion "Trey" Reed was found on September 15. The family is calling for an independent autopsy.

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Read former NIAID Director, Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo’s, Whistleblower complaint. It mirrors the concerns we expressed in the Bethesda Declaration and confirms the administration knew full well the harmful consequences of their actions. (Scroll down to the bottom.) katzbanks.com/wp-content/u...

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hbfriedman.bsky.social @hbfriedman.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Timothy Snyder warned us: “Hegseth, a Christian Reconstructionist, believes that Americans should be governed not by law or by the Constitution but by God…” snyder.substack.com/p/pete-hegse...

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Pete Hegseth: The Short Course

13 Steps to National Destruction

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 17/08/2025

A terrorist targeted federal workers last week. There wasn’t much reporting on it. But I’m not finished thinking about it! 🧵 An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.

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hbfriedman.bsky.social @hbfriedman.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Great and important essay but also I believe these are two of the best lines ever written… “I grew up Southern and Jewish, which means I bring a casserole and an opinion to a crisis. I can take a joke and my turn at the sink.”

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 09/08/2025

Our hearts are broken for David Rose’s wife, 2 kids and his baby on the way. He was only 33 and died protecting CDC and ATL. We don’t have words to do justice to his sacrifice right now. We are looking for ways to support the family. 💔

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Remembering Officer David Rose | FOX 5 News

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 09/08/2025

Thread on CDC shooting👇... Good morning. Yesterday, after hours of hiding, trying not to make a sound, we stepped outside and saw massive bullet holes in our office windows. Those weren’t random shots. That was a high-powered weapon no civilian should ever own.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Trump spoke of “shylocks,” which is one of the most recognizable antisemitic terms in modern English. Watch who tries to explain this away.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Five things to remember about war:

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Today, my NIH colleagues and I did something scary but really important. We spoke up about egregious harms we are seeing happen to research participants and public health through thoughtless and politicized policies at NIH. 🧵1/3 apnews.com/article/nih-...

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

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Indivisible Waterfront DC @indwaterfrontdc.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Judicial races often fly under the radar. For those of you not paying close attention to WI, read this excellent overview that touches on the myriad reasons this race is so important.

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Indivisible Waterfront DC @indwaterfrontdc.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

On behalf of the 144,000 federal workers who live in Virginia, we will support @abigailspanberger.com in this campaign. cc: @vademocrats.bsky.social

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Dr. Rabbithole @drrabbithole.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Really great thread describing the development of a new pain medication. It's clear that basic research in obscure animals was essential to this, along with a whole lot of additional work from BOTH the private and public sector. The public sector is a MAJOR driver of private sector science. See how:

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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The shock and awe Musk, Vought, Bannon and Trump — are bringing will backfire if we’re smart about it. Make clear that DOGE is the Dept of Govt Extermination, not Efficiency. Let people see that their taxes are no longer paying for vital public services but to fatten the richest people on earth.

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 03/02/2025

Our people across #MD08 are rightly demanding answers about President Trump's systematic destruction of federal programs and the civil service. Federal workers—I'm convening a webinar on the latest developments and resources to fight back. Sign up to gain access upon its release:

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BE NOTIFIED: Rep. Raskin's Webinar for Federal Workers

Congressman Jamie Raskin will convene and release a webinar sharing up-to-date information and resources for federal workers. Panelists will share advice, resources and their expertise following mou...

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

For Black History Month, who else but a synthetic chemist / pharmacologist? www.sciencehistory.org/education/sc...

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Percy Lavon Julian

The grandson of enslaved people, Julian overcame racial barriers to achieve scientific, business, and personal success.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

if a major politician held an emergency rally about the current ongoing coup by the richest man in the world, I think people would go to it. Shit is well and truly fucked. I can think of a couple of people who should do that right now.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 01/02/2025

Black History is American History The legendary Huey Newton

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Huey P. Nweton "we demand freedom!"

YouTube video by Panthera

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

It's important for federal employees to know when they are being given an illegal order. In many of those cases, the thing to do is to express in writing that they are refusing to follow that illegal order. Example below.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Trump's proposed appointments look like a decapitation strike: destroying the American government from the top, leaving the body politic to rot, and the rest of us to suffer. snyder.substack.com/p/decapitati...

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Decapitation Strike (December)

Preserving America from Trump's Appointments (updated)

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Hegseth lacks the normal qualifications for secretary of defense. His books reveal two ideas about what armed forces are for: a site to express Christian Reconstructionism and gender ideology; and a means to defeat other Americans inside America. snyder.substack.com/p/the-crusad...

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The Crusade against America

Handmaid Fails 3/3

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I have and will continue to. But you know why I say it here ? Because @bsky.app is 30m strong and growing quickly. The collective wisdom and influence of users here is far greater than any individual democrat. I can't say it enough. Bluesky can be the influence that can counter RW media.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Incredible. Please watch and share.

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Historian of fascism here. It was a Nazi salute and a very belligerent one too.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Friends, due to Trump's reckless, incoherent agenda, prices are already rising here, around the world. Things are costing more. He's spooking global markets. He has *already* betrayed his central campaign promise to lower costs. Need to be far louder about all this. bsky.app/profile/simo...

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Robert Kennedy is without question one of the dangerous people in America, and we simply have to do everything we can to prevent him from serving in the Trump Administration.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Hegseth is an extraordinary extremist and Dems need to leave it all on the playing field here in these hearings.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

From Hopium: - Honoring President Jimmy Carter, our 39th President - Trump 2.0 is an unstable, fractious mess, and already stumbling badly out of the box - A restorative visit to the National Gallery’s Impressionists exhibit More 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/honoring-p...

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Honoring President Carter, Trump 2.0 Continues To Stumble, Badly, Out Of The Box

Got to see the Impressionists exhibit at the National Gallery this weekend - go if you can, it is worth your time

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