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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 29/03/2026

It's so hilarious: Dems have spent the last several years in garment-rending anxiety over their need for a "left Joe Rogan" to appeal to young men online. Now there is one -- literally, one (1) -- and the party has immediately fallen to vicious infighting over it. We couldn't even make it to 2.

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Steve Williams @iloatheskies.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Ryan Grim has the occasional good take about various issues so it's important to consciously remember that he is, overall, absurdly credulous. There is no possibility covid started in summer 2019, under *either* the wet market *or* lab leak theories, a truly idiotic argument.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/02/2026

BASH: Is this measles outbreak a consequence of the administration undermining support for vaccines? DR OZ: I don't believe so. Secretary Kennedy has been advocating for measles vaccines BASH: Oh, come on

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

(speaking into wrist) it’s time

Art from the game Red Alert 2 with a bunch of large zeppelins with a hammer and sickle and scary face drawn on them flying over the Statue of Liberty

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Nate Sherer @natesherer.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Happy Halloween!!

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Willow Coyote-Maestas @willowcoyote.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Zara Weinberg passed away earlier this week. She joined my lab earlier this year when her postdoc lab formally closed. She was a brilliant scientist, supportive mentor, dear friend, avid music fan, rabid believer in public transit, open science champion, and above all just an amazing human.

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Jordan T Becker @jordanbeckerphd.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Has anyone confirmed Shia LeBeouf’s location or ability to time travel from the set of Holes?

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David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

I find it hilarious that, for years later, they are still so cheesed about the commentary @gavinyamey.bsky.social. Good.

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Jordan T Becker @jordanbeckerphd.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

NIH should try “double blind” reviews. We can definitely redact identifying info. “We previously” becomes ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||. And Bibliography = |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||

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Jordan T Becker @jordanbeckerphd.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Nearly an entire annual NIH budget to a country whose leader CHOSE to destroy its government and economy. That also immiserates the American economy directly (farmers) and indirectly (wasted use of budget). Anyone who says "we can't afford X" is lying to you.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 13/10/2025

On Saturday, we wear yellow. ❌👑

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin. When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’ “Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?” -Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

CHICAGO — WGN News editor/producer Debbie Brockman grabbed by Trump’s ICE goons.. who then intentionally ram a bystander’s car as they peel away. More: www.fox32chicago.com/news/wgn-new...

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

I really appreciate Justice Jackson contrasting the lower courts' meticulous and responsible approach to judging—extensive deliberations, written opinions—with the Supreme Court's slapdash, unreasoned work over the shadow docket. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

They have done so in reasoned and thoughtful written opinions—opinions that, in the nor- ‘mal course, we would get to parse, assess, and embrace or reject, while fully explaining our reasoning.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

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Philipp Markolin @philippmarkolin.eurosky.social · 01/08/2025

Happy August. Here is a little surprise for everybody: The english version of my book is finally available. You can get it on Amazon. You can also read and listen to it on my blog, where I will release the book as freely accessible serialized novel. 1/ www.protagonist-science.com/p/lab-leak-f...

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Lab Leak Fever

The COVID-19 Origin Theory that Sabotaged Science and Society

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

🚨 IMPORTANT THREAD 🚨 People are protesting the Broadview ICE facility tonight. This will likely be an extremely high-risk action. I caution you to consider your risk level before attending. I will not attend. Attendance risks your safety, but also the safety of Broadview residents + detainees. 1/6

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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Why is basic research important? Scientists struggled unsuccessfully for decades to develop an RSV vaccine. Then NIH scientists figured out the key structure of a protein. Now we have 3 vaccines and 3 monoclonal antibodies against RSV. www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...

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A Turning Point in Infant Health—How 2023 Changed the Fight Against RSV

The year 2023 marked the debut of groundbreaking innovations to prevent severe RSV infections in infants. Now protected babies are way less likely to develop severe infections or to end up in the ICU

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Jordan T Becker @jordanbeckerphd.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

We will respond at a time and place of our choosing consistent with the severity of this designation with regard to its ability of affect those constituents that may or may not be considered affected by this label.

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bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Mammalian ZAP and KHNYN independently restrict CpG-enriched avian viruses www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/09/2025

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

“Mr. Van Hollen saw a different lesson [from his role in the Abrego Garcia case]. ‘This finger in the wind stuff has got to end. We also need to stop deluding ourselves that the problem is all about messaging, or about volume, or style. We don’t just need to fight. We need to fight for something.’”

In his remarks, Mr. Van Hollen cited his involvement in fighting for the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was wrongfully deported by the Trump administration to El Salvador in the spring. Some in his party, he said, argued that getting embroiled in a fight over a deportation was a “distraction” and potentially politically unpopular, because Mr. Trump’s hard line on immigration had resonated with voters.

Mr. Van Hollen saw a different lesson.

“This finger in the wind stuff has got to end. We also need to stop deluding ourselves that the problem is all about messaging, or about volume, or style,” he said. “We don’t just need to fight. We need to fight for something.”

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

In his Oval Office address on political violence, Trump lists the attempt on his life, the Scalise shooting, and attacks on ICE agents. He does not mention Jan 6th, the attack on the Pelosi family, the Hortman murders, the kidnapping attempt on Gretchen Whitmer, or the fire at Gov Shapiro’s house.

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

to my mind the woman who dies of sepsis because of antiabortion laws, or the person who dies because they can't afford insulin -- these are just as much victims of political violence as the man shot through the throat while making a racist speech

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Micah @rincewind.run · 11/09/2025

rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2025

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

The stuff Jeffrey Epstein’s friends felt comfortable saying and drawing in grotesque detail with their names attached knowing they would not face consequences is the kind of thing I think of when I think about rape culture and how sexual violence against girls and young women is actually glorified

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 09/09/2025

A new mural by elusive street artist Banksy showing a judge beating an unarmed protester with a gavel will be removed from a wall outside one of London’s most iconic courts, authorities said Monday.

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New Banksy mural of a judge beating a protester to be removed from outside London court

A new Banksy mural showing a judge beating an unarmed protester with a gavel will be removed from outside a London court.

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theresemm.bsky.social @theresemm.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Sharing gift link so people can read and share the whole essay, which does a good job of outlining the depth and extent of the corruption and how not shutting down this government is to be complicit in their corruption. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...

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Opinion | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal

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Jordan T Becker @jordanbeckerphd.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

This happening quite a bit with this guy lately.

The worst person you know just made a good point. Image of annoying white guy glowering at the middle distance smugly.

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Jordan T Becker @jordanbeckerphd.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Finally, AI will make a profit…for me!!! ;)

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results: 1) Does UBI work? (yes) 2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

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M365 Copilot fails to up productivity in UK government trial

: AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex

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Jordan T Becker @jordanbeckerphd.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Again why did media accept Alligator Alcatraz when Alligator Auschwitz was right there? Cornhusker Kauen. Miami-Dade Dachau. Speedway Sachsenhausen. Louisiana Lichtenburg. These are concentration camps.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Exactly! So many Democrats mistake the public view as the party as weak as meaning more pro-military rhetoric, abandoning trans kids, etc. No, you’re weak because you fold like a lawn chair.

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

The Democratic Party has badly lost its way.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 31/08/2025

If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Mamdani's election has led people to say he will be another Mayor Brandon Johnson. But he has another template for how to be effective, progressive... and Popular: Mayor Michelle Wu of Boston, @perrybaconjr.bsky.social reports. newrepublic.com/article/1997...

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This Democrat Proves You Can Be Principled, Effective—and Popular

Zohran Mamdani has pointed to Boston Mayor Michelle Wu as a model. There are many good reasons why.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.

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State steps in to ensure access to COVID-19 vaccine

Public health order counters potential limitations set by the USFDA

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