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jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
The Democrats, led by Chuck Schumer are getting ready to cave once again. They have already watered down demands on ICE and Schumer has cut a deal with Trump and GOP to pass five of the six appropriations bills that fund 96% of government operations and thereby avoid a potential shutdown.
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jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
But hey, we are putting more than half a trillion MORE into the arms industry.
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biometlab @biometlab.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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What Americans Lose If Their National Center for Atmospheric Research Is Dismantled - Eos
Five ways dismantling NCAR will cost the American people, and two ways to save it.
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jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
VP Vance,Karoline Leavitt, Stephen Miller, Kash Patel, Kristi Noem and others all made false claims about the case. Their words were an attack on constitutional rights under the 1st, 2nd and 4th amendment.
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Undark Magazine @undark.org · 27/01/2026
Critics warn that new reporting requirements for foreign interactions could chill routine scientific exchange at a time when global research cooperation is vital. Originally published by @propublica.org 
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USDA Researchers Instructed to Investigate Foreign Colleagues
A Trump administration policy asks agency scientists to Google their co-authors and report foreign collaborations.
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Marjory Stephenson was born #OTD in 1885 + Helped establish modern microbial biochemistry + Wrote foundational textbook 𝘉𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘔𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮 (1930), shaping the discipline for decades + Co-founded, Society for General Microbiology + 1 of the first 2 women Fellows, Royal Society, 1945 #WomenInSTEM
A formal, black-and-white portrait photograph of Marjory Stephenson, a British biochemist and one of the first two female Fellows of the Royal Society, taken in April 1945.
The image shows Stephenson seated and turned slightly to the viewer's left, looking directly at the camera. She wears dark, round-rimmed glasses, a black dress, and a strand of pearls. Her hair is styled back off her face. The portrait uses soft lighting and a blurred background, common to the photographic style of the time. The photo was taken by Walter Stoneman for the National Portrait Gallery.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
AOC: They need 10 Democratic votes in the Senate to pass, continued unfettered ICE funding with no guardrails. Regardless of where you are in the Democratic party, this moment proves that the status quo cannot stand I would implore my Democratic colleagues in the senate to vote no
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Karthik @beastoftraal.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
To be so relentlessly ignorant (and shameless about being so) is also a superpower.
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STAT @statnews.com · 25/01/2026
Public health giant William Foege, who helped eradicate smallpox, has died at 89 www.statnews.com/2026/01/25/w...
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Public health giant William Foege, who helped eradicate smallpox, has died at 89
‘I wish we could have spared him from seeing that’: Friends of Bill Foege on his legacy, and his anger over anti-vaccination.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
It's really too bad the United States Congress no longer exists.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/01/2026
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."
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Pitt Rivers Museum @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Dating from around 1865, this hooded parka from the Aleutian Islands in southern Alaska is made from seal intestines, a naturally waterproof & windproof material. Both robust & decorative, these seal gut parkas would have been used daily to keep warm & dry in this harsh environment. bit.ly/4oRZuCC
A hooded garment with long sleeves, made of strips of material stitched in horizontal rows with decorative embroidery around the hem and cuffs.
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jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
American academia and research were already slipping globally. Trump has taken a wrecking ball to what we had and the effects will be devastating in 4 or 5 years from now.
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 14/01/2026
When nine households hold fifteen percent of a region’s wealth, the system is broken. bit.ly/4pArpHt
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Ro Khanna Has a New Tech Social Contract for California's Oligarchs
As Peter Thiel and other fat cats threaten to flee California over a billionaire tax, Khanna is calling their bluff.
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jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Young Americans are increasingly rejecting both the Democratic and Republican parties. Democrats have shown no ability or desire to understand how we got here or what to do.
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
For all the grandstanding, Democrats have been nowhere to be seen on the ground in Minnesota. The work there is being done by leftist groups, immigrants rights orgs, and random citizens. Took Walz almost a week to visit Good's memorial. Democrats do not functionally exist in the conversation anymore
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jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Elizabeth Warren says Democrats need to ‘read the room’ on the economy and stop being stooges for big money. thehill.com/homenews/cam...
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jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
As we end year one of this authoritarian take over of our democracy, the media have quietly folded or acquiesced. "The New York Times’ breathless coverage of its recent Oval Office interview with Trump—describing his “many faces”—is a model of such a vapidity."
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jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Many suspect ICE is hiring Jan. 6 insurrections, white nationalists, etc. The truth is even scarier: ICE recruitment is so sloppy that the administration effectively has no idea who’s joining the agency’s ranks. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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You’ve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. I’m the Proof.
What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets? We're all finding out.
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jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Influencer culture is advertising without any ethics or guardrails. Now, thanks to scammers like Fahmida Sultana many NYC restaurants are saying NO.
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jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
So there were a lot of people here abusing Tulsi. Turns out the one peace lover in this horrible administration was sidelined and I hope all of you partisan hacks are happy with your petty selves. WSJ today:
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Sea anemones and jellyfish don’t have brains, but the way their neurons behave during sleep shows some surprising similarities to humans
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Scientists Catch Jellyfish and Sea Anemones Behaving in Surprisingly Human Ways
Sea anemones and jellyfish don’t have brains, but the way their neurons behave during sleep shows some surprising similarities to humans
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jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Each of these billionaires spent their early childhood in apartheid South Africa, living under strict racial segregation. Until 1994, when apartheid officially ended, Land Acts reserved over 80% of land for white settlers, forcing millions of Black South Africans into crowded ghettos.
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
#WolffBites: New research shows: Trump's tariffs cost mostly the US economy - not foreign economies whose exports to the US saw little price change. Trump tried to make it seem that his tariffs punished others. Wrong: we paid them. www.axios.com/newsletters/...
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Axios Macro - 1 big thing: Why the impact of tariffs may not be what you think
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jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Another right wing Cuban immigrant, who hates other immigrants. WP does a disservice to its readers by not covering how his findings are controversial and disputed by other Economists. www.vox.com/the-big-idea...
Image of the Washington Post article on The Cuba-born Harvard economist behind Trumps immigration crackdown.
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Who ran the first #marathon in space? #NationalTriviaDay Sunita Williams, American astronaut, on April 16, 2007. She was listed as an entrant for the 2007 Boston Marathon and completed the distance in 4 hours 24 minutes. #WomenInSTEM #running #trivia
An official NASA portrait of astronaut Sunita Williams wearing a full white Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit. The bulky suit displays an American flag patch on the left shoulder, a mission patch on the right, and various controls on the chest pack; she holds the gold-visored helmet. With long dark hair framing her smiling face, she poses confidently in front of a large draped American flag against a cloudy Earth-toned backdrop, symbolizing American space exploration.A color photograph of NASA astronaut Sunita Williams captured mid-stride running on a treadmill in zero gravity, secured by a white harness and bungee cords attached to her waist and shoulders. She wears a navy blue sleeveless top and shorts, athletic shoes, and gray socks, with her curly dark hair floating weightlessly. The busy ISS module around her features blue handrails, equipment racks, cables, monitors, and various floating items.
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jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
This H3N2 flu strain is spreading ‘rapidly.’ Why subclade K is hitting hard www.discovermagazine.com/what-makes-t...
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What Makes the Subclade K Strain Different? Here’s What to Know About the “Super Flu”
Learn about the new flu variant, subclade K, that is circulating several countries and why this winter 2025-2026 flu season is more severe.
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jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Understanding the Trump base.
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Saikat Chakrabarti @saikatc.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
@rokhanna.bsky.social is acting the way Democratic leadership should be acting. Stick on them relentlessly. Don’t let any of them get away with this.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Khanna: You’ve got the DOJ releasing the names of survivors—which they are not allowed to do by law—but not releasing the FBI interview files with those same survivors. Those FBI interviews contain the names of other men: Wall Street tycoons and politicians…
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jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
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jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
These 10 Billionaires Got $730 Billion Richer In 2025 (Forbes) 9. (tie) Carlos Slim Helú +$24.3 billion Industry: Telecom Citizenship: Mexico 9. (tie) Mark Zuckerberg +$24.3 billion) Industry: Technology Citizenship: U.S.
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jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
About those Epstein Files...
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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
ICE just hours away from deporting Indigenous woman—agents said her tribal ID looked "silly." "She already had the jumpsuit on to be deported," her aunt said. "They identified her as an immigrant." "No one at the jail seemed willing to fix, or even acknowledge the mistake."
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Forbes @forbes.com · 14/12/2025
15 people were killed in an antisemitic attack at Bondi Beach on Sunday, an act more shocking because of the low gun violence numbers in Australia.
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Gun Murders In Australia—Where 15 Were Slain At Bondi Beach—Are 6,000% Lower Than In U.S.
15 people were killed in an antisemitic attack at Bondi Beach on Sunday, an act more shocking because of the low gun violence numbers in Australia.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
3. Paramount says they've avoided any regulatory hurdles because Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi have voluntarily agreed to waive their governance rights. And one other party has agreed to waive governance rights: JARED KUSHNER.
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jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Dear America they've been telling you what they want to do. Are you paying attention? Their goal is a racial purge. All you Hispanic and Black ICE agents, don't think you are immune.
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jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Why the supreme court will not save America from Trump. Three Star U.S. Army Lieutenant General Russel Honoré explains.
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jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Why the supreme court will not save America from Trump. Three Star U.S. Army Lieutenant General Russel Honoré explains.
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jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Dear America they've been telling you what they want to do. Are you paying attention? Their goal is a racial purge. All you Hispanic and Black ICE agents, don't think you are immune.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 23/09/2025
⚠️ CDC quietly updated its webpage to caution pregnant people about acetaminophen (Tylenol). Sneaky changes driven by politics instead of science erode public trust and put lives at risk. As scientists who once shaped CDC's webpages, this is heartbreaking. 💔 www.cdc.gov/medicine-and...
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Medicine and Pregnancy: An Overview
Learn how common it is to take medicines during pregnancy and what you should do if you're pregnant.
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jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
How Do Restrictions on High-Skilled Immigration Affect Offshoring? Evidence from the H-1B Program? Multinationals do ~80% of America’s business R&D. When those teams move abroad, the knowledge moves with them. pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/...
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How Do Restrictions on High-Skilled Immigration Affect Offshoring? Evidence from the H-1B Program | Management Science
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target
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jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
MAGA: “I can’t wait to get me one of those jobs H1B jobs now that those illegals are gone!” Also MAGA: College is useless. [maga after they learn that those jobs require a bachelor’s degree or higher] MAGA: “We don’t need those lib DEI jobs or businesses that hire them!”
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Florida Chris @chrislongview.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
South Koreans Know: "MAGA represents a reactionary movement by white evangelical forces seeking to revert America to a time before the civil rights movement in the 60s. Its core supporters are low-income, poorly educated white Americans & evangelical Protestants." english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...
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[Column] Imperial tyranny, Korean humiliation
This incident should prompt us in Korea to comprehensively reassess our investment projects in the US
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Brosephus @brosephus.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
All this will do is offshore more jobs. H1B visas are not just limited to the Tech industry. Some schools bring professors over via H1B visas. This guy is destroying both the American education and employment systems at the same time. There was a simple way to avoid this outcome...
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🦋Dr. Natalia🕊🌻🪬 @solnatamd.medsky.social · 19/09/2025
Hmmmm. So, 25% of the US doctors are foreign-trained, and most of them at some point of their career require H1B visa. I don't know how many doctors with active licenses require H1B visa currently, but this is really stupid 👇🏻
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Trump to impose new $100,000 fee for H-1B visas in sweeping overhaul: Report - The Economic Times
Donald Trump plans significant H-1B visa changes. A $100,000 fee may be imposed on applications. The administration believes the visa program hurts American workers. Entry under the H-1B system will b...
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jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
How Rich Is Donald Trump: $7.3 billion www.forbes.com/sites/danale...
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The Definitive Net Worth Of Donald Trump
What’s Donald Trump really worth? Forbes looks at everything on his balance sheet—including crypto, Truth Social and real estate—to determine the answer.
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