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jbchuko.bsky.social

@jbchuko.bsky.social
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Retired med tech/clinical lab scientist. Here for climate science, health policy, politics, gardening.

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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
After Alex Pretti was shot while peacefully witnessing during the immigration crackdown in Minnesota, the US government did not investigate his murder; they investigated groups that were supporting efforts to witness and document, calling them agitators. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/u...
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U.S. Investigated Left-Leaning Groups During Minnesota Immigration Crackdown (Gift Article)
The government conducted expansive surveillance, infiltrated group chats and obtained financial records of organizations never accused of crimes.
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Kepano Kolohe @alala55.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
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Michael Bennet @bennet.senate.gov · 27/05/2026
Coloradans are paying 60% more at the pump because of President Trump’s reckless war. He is forcing Colorado families to make an impossible choice between a full tank of gas or food on the table. Trump must end this war NOW.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
TFW when your 82-year-old Midwestern dad can’t take your call because he’s too busy organzing against ICE.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Love that my building management replaced the maintenance request form with an “AI assistant” that’s so useless I have to file a request through it and then email my building manager to explain the request in further detail.
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I agree with @joe-scarborough.bsky.social 100%: The Dems need to go to the floor every day, or 24 hours a day and say FUND TSA! TSA and airport security is wildly popular. @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 01/03/2026
We don't allow players to place bets on their own games but we're allowing national security advisers to place bets on literal wars.
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Polymarket Iran Bets Hit $529 Million as New Wallets Draw Notice
As US and Israeli bombs fell on Iran this weekend, bettors on Polymarket — where $529 million was traded on contracts tied to the timing of the strikes — were cashing in. Almost immediately, blockchai...
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 19/02/2026
When RFK Jr. was on the campaign trail in 2024, he vowed that if he joined Trump’s team, he would “ban the worst agricultural chemicals.” I have some bad news for the voters who actually believed he'd follow through on this. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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Trump executive order on a weed killer chemical didn’t do RFK Jr. any favors
The “Make America Healthy Again” agenda is riddled with a series of overlapping contradictions, which are becoming even more common.
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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
This is all true but it is also true that Epstein was moving $ billions into and out of accounts, and trying to influence world events in ways that suggested he was working on someone's behalf. He was not just a very sleazy sex addict.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20/01/2026
1. Overturn Citizen's United. 2. Tax billionaires so much they stop being billionaires. 3. Pay for every social service and safety net the billionaires and their lackeys in government have always prevented us from paying for. 4. Weath and health beyond measure for everybody.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20/01/2026
well this looks like a problem that one of these fucking billionaires we have lounging around could help fix in ten seconds if they gave a shit
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 19/01/2026
Just for the record, and it’s insane that the mad king made me look this up, there is documentation of the US giving up all claim to Greenland to Denmark when we bought the Virgin Islands from them in 1916. history.state.gov/historicaldo...
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In proceeding this day to the signature of the Convention respecting the cession of the Danish West-Indian Islands to the United States of America, the undersigned Secretary of State of the United States of America, duly authorized by his Government, has the honor to declare that the Government of the United States of America will not object to the Danish Government extending their political and economic interests to the whole of Greenland.
ROBERT LANSING
New YorK, August 4, 1916.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
On this MLK Day, one particular passage from his address at the March on Washington seems especially relevant.
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 17/01/2026
"Humiliation of their victims, a kind of relish in their fear and misery, a kind of—let’s call it what it is—sadism has become a dominant part of the culture of ICE."
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The People Are Turning Against ICE. Will the Politicians Take Notice?
Strongly worded statements will not stop the terrorization of the country.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 09/01/2026
Don't look away. Believe your eyes and ears.
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Dr. Roux @tcrotte.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Re: Epstein If the files are a Democrat hoax.. Why the the redactments? Why the slow walk?
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
The Epstein Files Transparency Act is a law, passed by Congress on November 19 with an overwhelming vote. Complying with it was not optional. The Department of Justice did not comply. I want to make sure this is very clear.
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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Dr Russell D. Moore is a theologian, pastor, and the editor in chief of Christianity Today.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Feverishly working on this
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
And folks, I am not asking for tips on how to survive without Amazon. Yes, of course it is possible, if you are committed and have the time to shop around. I am criticizing the STRATEGY here. In large part because when boycott calls become background noise, people stop listening.
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Also. If you don't have a plan for a boycott to appreciably impact the retailer (as seems to be the case here), just don't do it. Boycotts are a big ask-- you're asking people to disrupt their consumption habits-- not something to do Just Because.
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scarylawyerguy.bsky.social @scarylawyerguy.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Not sure the point of deporting hard working people who fled awful conditions in their own countries and are caring for the sick, elderly, and paralyzed, not only harming our own economy, but vulnerable people who rely on this assistance.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 18/11/2025
OK, weird, I posted the video here and it's gone now?
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 14/11/2025
"'I’m not sure what we’ve learned from it all,' Walter Johnson, a professor of History and African and African American Studies, wrote in a statement. 'I think Larry Summers told us who he was a long time ago.'" Professor Johnson knows wassup.
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Harvard Faculty Disturbed by Revelations of Summers’ ‘Cozy Friendship’ With Epstein | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard professors responded with outrage to a tranche of emails showing a close yearslong correspondence between former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers and sex offender Jeffrey E. Epstein, reop...
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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Avoiding the misery of soul-whoring: a guide to modern times
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Emily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
All I have to say about the Nuzzi profile is that at the end of it she jokes about how she destroyed her life. In fact she did not do that. She has a book, a magazine job, this lovely profile. People’s lives are being destroyed by this administration, however, including by -well, you know.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Jesus, man, I didn't say take it at face value, and I didn't say he's a centrist whisperer. I said he's of the centrist/center-right faction. And I'll say I'm worn out by fellow leftists who think we can strategize without studying the spectrum and knowing what others are thinking.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 06/11/2025
Trump is all talk no walk. Since January he has promised to invade or bomb: Greenland Canada Panama Nigeria Venezuela Mexico Colombia Done nothing except give China the advanced Chips they wanted to beat us at AI
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 06/11/2025
Trump said we were “winning” the trade war with China. Then China threatened to cut off rare earth minerals—and suddenly we backed down. Americans are paying higher prices, no new jobs have been created, and China walked away stronger. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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Tariffs, Rare Earths, and Retreat: Trump’s Failed Fight with China
Trump promised to win the trade war. Instead, he raised prices at home and surrendered abroad.
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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
You’ll know elite-level folk are finally taking what’s happening seriously enough when there are op-eds by former somebody that are just like “dear Canada, save yourselves. Decouple now. Set up Voice of Canada radio to rebroadcast the words of sane American leaders back into the homes of Americans”
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 24/10/2025
"The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation is reviewing its legal options..." what? their own website says (and the national archives confirm) the address is in the public domain.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
🚨 oh look! Jack Smith is calling Marsha Blackburn’s bluff. Surely she should want him to testify publicly if she isn’t entirely full of 💩, right? Right?? www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/p...
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Scotty B @scottyb.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Governance by relationships in the king's court.
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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
“Can you imagine if Obama had bulldozed the W…” NO. We just need leaders who respond the way Republicans would have responded if Obama had bulldozed the White House to build himself a palace ballroom. Removal from office. Criminal prosecution. Confiscate Mar a Lago. Sell it to finance rebuilding.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
“Given Rubio’s direct role in legislating USAID’s budget and programs [as a senator], his mockery suggests that either he did not take his previous role seriously, or he has gone off the rails to maintain his standing in this administration” thehill.com/opinion/whit...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
RE: Republicans making false claims about Portland violence? Are there no tourism-affected business in OR who'd like to make a very big stink about the GOP attack on Oregon businesses? @wyden.senate.gov www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America
A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
EPSTEIN FILES: @aoc.bsky.social explains why Republicans won’t bring the U.S. House back into session 👇
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session. Want to know why? Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out. Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 03/10/2025
"Not a single Democrat has talked about wanting to fund care for people in the United States unlawfully. Instead, what Democrats have said is they want to undo Medicaid cuts projected to leave nearly 10 million Americans uninsured." A smidge different.
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The Republican Shutdown Argument is a Giant Lie
No, Democrats aren’t trying to fund health care for “illegal aliens.”
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory. They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth. But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi. RIP, Jamal. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
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Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post, and the Cost of Speaking Out
As Saudi Arabia hosts comedians and courts gamers, the silenced voice of Jamal Khashoggi still echoes.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
just got my flu vaccine! covid vaccine tomorrow. i had to get an rx for that one. my poor pharmacist is so stressed out because of all the extra red tape this requires now — all thanks to RFK Jr.’s ACIP not passing a recommendation and a total lack of response from kemp/our state government
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