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Icefire9

@icefire9atla.bsky.social
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32M, progressive Democrat. Lover of science, work in the biomedical field.

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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New WaPo/Schar Poll Has Shannon Taylor (D) Up 50%-46% Over Rep. Rob Wittman (R-VA01); Rep. John McGuire (R-VA05) Up 51%-45% Over Tom Perriello (D) bluevirginia.us/2026/10/new-...
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New WaPo/Schar Poll Has Shannon Taylor (D) Up 50%-46% Over Rep. Rob Wittman (R-VA01); Rep. John McGuire (R-VA05) Up 51%-45% Over Tom Perriello (D) - Blue Virginia
Wow: according to new polling by the WaPo/Schar School (behind a paywall; I’ll post more details if/when I see the entire poll with crosstabs), the godawful Rep. Rob Wittman (R-VA01), who has been in ...
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Still kind of inconceivable how many people died or will die because of the death of USAID. And the world’s richest man did it almost as a joke
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
should be instructive for democrats that Magyar is living up to his promise to prosecute Orban officials for corruption and is continuing to poll extremely highly
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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
God I love Angie Nixon. I hope she wins
Now @AshleyMoodyFL. Why would I want to abolish the police when I want you arrested and in jail for stealing $10 million from sick kids? BFFR
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Micah @rincewind.run · 17/09/2026
the worst part about this is that a lot of the damage will be permanent by the time we can turn the research funding back on a lot of folks will have unsurprisingly and not unreasonably decided that they should leave this area of research because it will never be reliable what a huge waste
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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This is bonkers
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“Is one race (whites) biologically superior to others?” has been asked and answered many times. Skin color is a bad predictor of individual ability. If grouping humans by race, one sees much more genetic variation within each group than between them. Not free-thinking mavericks. It’s anti-science.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Also, any damage Carney can do between now and November will ultimately accrue heavily to the benefit of America. The US has one great strategic problem above all others, and that problem is that the MAGAfied GOP still exists.
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Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
RFK Jr. cancelled research into a #vaccine platform that could potentially cure a #cancer I have personally seen kill someone within 2 months after diagnosis, the fastest I have ever seen #cancer take someone’s life
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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Hoo boy
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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I‘m far from an AI doomer, but it is amazing how many serious voices — on LinkedIn, no less! — are sharing stories about how AI slop is quickly becoming one of the top problems they see in academic writing and research “AI will 10x our research!” doesn’t seem to be surviving encounters with reality
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I was thinking the other day how those not in DC (I'm not) aren't hit as clearly with how Trump has turned the White House grounds into something between construction site and waste dump. Genuinely upsetting. Far from the worst thing he's done but among the most tangible and graphic.
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Julie Rei Goldstein @julierei.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
“We can always tell.”
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 13/08/2026
Congress passed the Corporate Transparency Act. Trump vetoed it. Congress overrode his veto on a bipartisan vote. So Trump has decided to simply not enforce the law. I do not understand the role of Congress anymore. I guess they just make suggestions?
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Treasury Scales Back Scrutiny of U.S. Shell Companies (Gift Article)
The Trump administration will not enforce reporting requirements of the 2021 Corporate Transparency Act, which was intended to crack down on money laundering.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Poll results vs. how poll results are presented in the Wall Street Journal.
Zohran with a 69% approval to 24% approval, highest favorably for a New York Mayor since LaGuardia announced the free candy and handjobs for all program.WSJ: Mamdani’s Honeymoon With New York is Over
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/08/2026
Trans men used the bathroom they were required to use in Kansas under their new incredibly severe statewide bathroom ban. As a result, the police were called on them. They call themselves the Kansas Compliance Crew. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Police Called on Trans Men Using Women's Restroom As Required By Kansas Law
“As a trans man, I have the immense privilege of blending in. But these laws force me to choose between safety and obeying the law.”
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Icefire9 @icefire9atla.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Ah yes, this 80 year old man who only uses AI to make videos of him shitting on protestors and can't even decide if he wants to be at war or not truly has the judgement to foresee which AIs are sufficiently aligned. I don't get these people.
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
see this is what I find confusing about the rationalists. no, Donald Trump, a president who invested the US in Nvidia and who is singularly devoted to the stock market, will not broker a no-more-AI treaty with China, a country with probably very little interest in such a thing. it feels like cope
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Jonathon M. Floyd @jfloyd314.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Legal immigration as most Americans conceive of it does not meaningfully exist in the United States. "Just come here the right way" is one of the most pernicious lies in contemporary US politics, accepted across the aisle as the goal of the immigration debate when it's impossible in reality.
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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
we had an entire ICU team that was dedicated to flipping patients onto their bellies to give them a last shot at oxygenating before their inevitable deaths, but ok
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Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
It's pretty infuriating that Trump is denying disaster aid to Oregon for political reasons and I have barely heard anything about it, while Biden was falsely accused of doing the exact same thing to North Carolina and millions of people believed that
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I can't stress enough what a crisis this is. Trump's own intelligence agencies concluded that Iran attacked Minnesota's critical infrastructure and Trump is saying that it's Minnesota's own fault and denying it was Iran. The federal government won't defend blue states in a literal war.
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U.S. Sees Iran as Likely Behind Cyberattack on Minnesota Water Systems (Gift Article)
Investigators cautioned that the assessment was preliminary. There were no indications that any water supply had been rendered unsafe to drink.
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Icefire9 @icefire9atla.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Like on the one hand we get deepfake child porn and misinformation. On the other hand we get to... let corporations put artists out of the job? Is this a good value proposition?
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Icefire9 @icefire9atla.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I feel like we just need to ban AI generation of images and video. I don't see any societally productive use for this technology and a LOT of ways it can be abused.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 30/07/2026
a future D administration should make an easy pathway to citizenship specifically for foreign students
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
At least constitutionally, under such conditions, a 2027 situation where Trump and the GOP in DC 'refuse to seat' the Dem congress, there is nothing stopping them from sitting somewhere else and impeaching and removing the president, the entire cabinet and SCOTUS in an afternoon.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Fox's polling is usually some of the most accurate. That Ossoff number is wild. Also, Turek in the lead in Iowa?
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Icefire9 @icefire9atla.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
These people thought that solving aging would simply be making an AI to do it. In reality to make progress on longevity you need to make college more affordable to train more scientists and doctors, expand skilled immigration and plow money into the NIH and universities. And all of that is woke.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/07/2026
The promise of New York City is inscribed on the Statue of Liberty: this place would welcome anyone seeking refuge or a better life.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Revenge for MeToo (which severely constrained their ability to rape employees), Revenge for Black Lives Matter (which called out how racist many of them were) and most of all Revenge for the 2021 Labor Market where they suddenly had to compete for scarce labor instead of the other way around
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
My Haitian friend was just fired from his job. "They said I don't have a legal status now." This is likely happening to hundreds of thousands of people across this country today. Sick.
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Icefire9 @icefire9atla.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Trump kicked a hornet's nest into a beehive, which toppled over onto a skunk. He's since been alternating between chucking rocks into the melee and loudly proclaiming that he wants to negotiate with it.
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Jane @jane.meangirls.online · 28/07/2026
it turns out the reddit atheist was an important predator in the ecosystem
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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/07/2026
the fight/don't fight axis remains the most important fault line in democratic politics, and that the moderates have mostly failed to find any way to take the 'fight' side is why they are getting their asses handed to them in primaries right now
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 19/07/2026
Again their position now is that schools are doing secret illegal affirmative action as evidenced by…the presence of Black people…it’s just racism.
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Icefire9 @icefire9atla.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Rich people say this all the time while they and their kids all go to the most prestigious colleges. Curious.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 19/07/2026
The next time someone tells you that college isn’t worth it, show them this
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?
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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Trump v. United States is the most important Supreme Court decision in my lifetime, and it was wrong the minute it was issued. It will be the end of constitutional rule, and it must be overturned and utterly repudiated as soon as possible, even if the tool to do that—Court packing—is bad.
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Icefire9 @icefire9atla.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Fuck them, fuck all these people who get rich killing people. And fuck their enablers in the media who are happy to help them because ???
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Icefire9 @icefire9atla.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
My Uncle died of lung cancer (smoking). I sometimes hear my cousin cough (she smokes too, can't stop even after it killed her dad). It sounds painful and horrible and I'm afraid for her.
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Icefire9 @icefire9atla.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Yeah in hindsight making it socially acceptable to get a bunch of young people addicted to nicotine was not a good idea. If you give these companies an inch, they'll take a mile and ruin the lives of millions so they can fleece them.
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dan solomon @dansolomon.com · 16/07/2026
are young people today aware that there was an active effort 20-25 years ago to stop depicting smoking as cool and glamorous because people got tired of watching their loved ones die of cancer and heart disease from something preventable? seems like classic history repeating itself stuff
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dan solomon @dansolomon.com · 16/07/2026
anyway i know being told by a dude in his forties that smoking is actually NOT cool isn’t going to persuade anybody of anything but it is a real bummer that young people are selling it to each other again on behalf of some of the most sinister and exploitative companies in the world
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16/07/2026
Breaking News: The FDA approved a daily pill that can lower cholesterol levels far below what statins can, clinical trials have shown.
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The F.D.A. Approves a New Pill to Slash Cholesterol Levels
The new pills can lower cholesterol levels far below what can be achieved with statins, clinical trials have shown.
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gg @ggold328.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
its so cool and edgy how my mom is currently dying from lung cancer that spread to her brain and her bones...please for the love of god, don't smoke
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ClimateFran @climatefran.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Technological change is hard to predict. For every amazing solar and battery story, how many carbon storage and cellulosic biofuel disappointments are there?
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
ICE killed another person.
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