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JR Ellermeier

@jrellermeier.bsky.social
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Microbiologist. Dad. Runner with bad knees. Member of the Church of Springsteen.

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Jack from 30 Rock saying “that’s Republican, we count those”
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JR Ellermeier @jrellermeier.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
would be curious to see how the NYT reported it if Mamdani said he was ok with Iran blowing up, say, Dallas
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JR Ellermeier @jrellermeier.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
well well well, if it isn't the consequences of his own actions
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John Roberts Retreated to His Island. Supreme Court Critics Found Him. (Gift Article)
After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
America today is a country where regulators won't allow private companies to air interviews of the opposition on TV, but declare that taxpayer funded propaganda is fine.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The fact that Pete Hegseth remains Defense secretary is a moral failing of our nation.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Anyone who suggests we just turn the page is in league with the GOP. This guy is telling you they tried to overthrow the government. You don't just pretend it never happened @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
ABSOLUTELY WILD THE LEVELS of incompetence on display here Meanwhile I lost sleep for several days from a reviewer pointing out a paper I should have referenced in a manuscript 🫠
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JR Ellermeier @jrellermeier.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You'll have to forgive Senator Schmitt, they don't do book learnin' in Missouri.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I wrote to Senator McCormick's staff regarding his recent op-ed in the Washington Post. 1/6
I read with interest Senator McCormick’s op-ed in the Washington Post “I’m a Republican senator. America needs more science, not less.” (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/09/23/sen-dave-mccormick-nih-research-needs-more-reform-investment/ ). He made some important points, but the piece also included some factual errors and misrepresentations that you should be aware of.
 

Let me start with some background about myself. I was appointed Director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), one of the 27 institutes and centers at NIH by Secretary (and former Republican Governor) Tommy Thompson in 2003, during the first administration of George W. Bush. I served through 2011. In 2011, I moved to the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine as Associate Senior Vice Chancellor for Science Strategy and Planning in the Health Sciences and a professor of Computational and Systems Biology​. I am writing this in my personal capacity.
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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 24/09/2026
Reporters stood at the White House gate this morning holding a federal judge’s order that said let them in, & were turned anyway. No explanation. No comment. Just a president ignoring a court like it’s beneath him. This is an unprecedented, fascist assault on free speech. Free the press!
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Poll watching right now is like, "Normal candidate with normal opinions ekes out small lead against sweaty bag of farts who sends dick picks to orphans and once dropkicked a puppy with leukemia."
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JR Ellermeier @jrellermeier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
so the two options are his narcissism is so overwhelming that he makes up obvious lies about himself to insert an "impressive" version of himself into every situation. or he's so dementia riddled that he can't distinguish reality. either way, this guy can't be president
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Any news outlet that spent even one segment or one article on "Joe Biden is old" in 2024 should be going wall-to-wall with stories about the dementia-ravaged 80-year-old who keeps posting AI garbage and telling insanely obvious lies about himself. And yet
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
and then they put me on a pickup truck and i gave a speech like you wouldnt believe and randy quaid was there and we had all the pilots and flew up and it was so amazing. i told randy, “randy, fly your plane when the thing opens” and he did and many people say i saved us from the aliens that day
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 31/08/2026
macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
In fact if there's one political message that should reach everyone on Bluesky, the website for Democratic politics obsessives afraid to leave their own house, it's that you should vote in person this year.
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JR Ellermeier @jrellermeier.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
RIP Dolly. She was a real one.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
If you want to go to a trade school, great? Think college isn’t for you? Ok. But that’s not what this is, this is the government trying to do culture war social engineering while also staring down their noses at poor kids and preemptively deciding things like: I don’t want you as my doctor, next
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
universities are not run by leftist profs they are run by corporate profiteer board members siphoning public $$ to tech partnerships "An Inside Higher Ed analysis of SEC filings turned up dozens of presidents paid handsomely for sitting on corporate boards." www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...
the 10 presidents in Inside Higher Ed’s analysis who earned the most from outside board service in 2025.
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can you make the world better ???????????????????? @justtheonethatcan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
TRUMP SAYS HIS LIFE WAS BETTER BEFORE HE BECAME PRESIDENT. DUDE, EVERYONE'S LIVES WERE BETTER BEFORE YOU BECAME PRESIDENT.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Lying, thieving, grifting, law-breaking, constitution-shattering fascist murderers are furious that someone suggested the adjudicated rapist of a president who's been linked to a pedophile sex trafficking ring might be wasting too much time lounging about on his luxury plane with an aide.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
No, he took a swing at the president, noting that the president would rather spend time with her on his plane than do his job. If I complain that my son is spending all his time at the beach instead of doing chores, I am not actually "taking a swing at the beach"
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I pledge allegiance to the ballroom and to the raging narcissist for which it stands…
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JR Ellermeier @jrellermeier.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Don't threaten me with a good time
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Trump continues alienating allies like Oman and South Korea while cozying up to dictators, criminals and the Epstein Class. MAGA. Well done, Trump voters.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 13/08/2026
Trump wants MMR vaccine split up: the science behind why it’s a bad idea. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
Trump wants MMR vaccine split up: the science behind why it’s a bad idea
Numerous studies have shown that separating childhood jabs will delay protection and increase costs for families.
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JR Ellermeier @jrellermeier.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
would be cool if just once, someone in the room with him would say "well that's an obvious lie, mr. president"
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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
“I need you to like you!" is a perfect line
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 04/08/2026
It was Todd Blanche's idea to create a $2 billion taxpayer slush fund for insurrectionists who assaulted police officers. 

If Senate Republicans confirm him, he won't be America's top lawyer—he'll be Trump's.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"We have no alternative but to believe the promises of a man who has brazenly lied to us time and time again. You see, I am but a simple United States senator, bereft of any power and beholden to the whims of the pedophile president's consigliere."
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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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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Conservatives in 2016: TRIGGERED LIB???? Conservatives in 2026: We are installing trigger warnings in the Smithsonian
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Thoughts on the various Trump administration proposals to revamp US science funding - and what they all have in common:
science.org
The Assault On Science Funding Continues
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
This is a blunt assessment of what the Trump regime is proposing for US science: they plan to take all the funding, essentially collapsing university-based research, in order to give that money to themselves, and they are lying about it.
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JR Ellermeier @jrellermeier.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
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I Think You Should Leave Hot Dog Suspect
ALT: I Think You Should Leave Hot Dog Suspect
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
So, can we have some video evidence of Mitch McConnell being alive and healthy and suitable to serve as a Senator?
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JR Ellermeier @jrellermeier.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Russell Vought is the walking, talking definition of evil. He deserves life in prison for what he's done to the people of this country.
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David Nir @davidnir.com · 15/07/2026
Spot-on from @politicalwire.com politicalwire.com/2026/07/15/w...
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JR Ellermeier @jrellermeier.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Some simple follow-up questions for folks in attendance masquerading as journalists: "How can the average person reading news online be more informed than the Speaker of the House of Representatives? Isn't it is a problem for the person who is 3rd in line to the presidency to be so uninformed?"
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JR Ellermeier @jrellermeier.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Some simple follow-up questions for folks in attendance masquerading as journalists: "How can the average person reading news online be more informed than the Speaker of the House of Representatives? Isn't it is a problem for the person who is 3rd in line to the presidency to be so uninformed?"
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JR Ellermeier @jrellermeier.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I'm not going to celebrate Lindsey Graham's death, but I'm also not going to pretend to be sad about it. Graham was a piece of shit who did immeasurable harm to this country and the world and we're better off without him.
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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
My first time having United Healthcare and all I can say is that in a society with any kind of half-functional regulatory state it would not even be legal to call this insurance.
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I think the worst part of this mealy mouthed shit take is that it goes on for two more posts afterwards. Stfu man! He helped terrorize people across this entire state via ICE! He cut our healthcare! I don’t give a fuck about his sense of humor! Fuck you!
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
My quote of the day All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction. Clarence Darrow
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 10/07/2026
“President-is-a-king theory”
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
cc: every Republican in Congress
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
gooooooo fuck yourself
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
5-4 for what it explicitly says in the constitution is incredible. They were this close to undoing the civil war entirely. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...
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