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Michael Bennet @bennet.senate.gov · 07/06/2025

Last week, I spoke with patients at Denver Health who told me they wouldn't be alive today without Medicaid. The Republican Budget Bill will strip health care from Coloradans, who depend on this safety net to survive. Passing this bill will have lethal consequences.

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Sen. Michael Bennet returns to Colorado, listens to patients describe Medicaid impact amid possible cuts

Sen. Michael Bennet returned to Colorado and listened to patients describe the impact Medicaid has made on them and their families.

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Great new paper on the evolution of birds - showing how changes in forelimbs (becoming wings) and legs were linked together. I LOVE research like this which reveals the secrets of how evolution works - how development, genetics, form are all joined up: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Macroevolutionary integration underlies limb modularity in the origin of avian flight | Biology Letters

The origin of flight in avian dinosaurs has been historically an ideal framework for proposing the evolutionary relationship between form and function in limb proportions under the hypothesis of speci...

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Dr Nick Snashall @drnickarchaeo.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Magnificent beeches and fabulous barrows. Perfect day in the Stonehenge Landscape today @nattrustarch.bsky.social

Beech tree in the foreground with grassy burial mounds behind

Beech trees close to two round grassy burial mounds

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Looking for a new history podcast? Look no further! Journey Through Time with David Olusoga and Sarah Churchwell is fantastic - a perfect blend of storytelling, intrigue, surprise, analysis and contemporary resonance. Informative, educational and entertaining! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/j...

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Journey Through Time

History Podcast · Updated weekly · Forgotten stories from history and how they shaped the way we live today. Hear about the ordinary people from history and the extraordinary impact they’ve had on the...

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I don't write like this a lot these days, because it all feels so predictable if deeply dark. But... this is FUCKING CRAZY

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

If you have time for a VERY long essay, James Meek’s reporting from Greenland is superb — in the latest issue of @LRB (which also has a lot of other history-related articles) www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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James Meek · ‘Everything is possible’: In Greenland

The immediate effect of Trump’s menaces, and the visit to Nuuk in January of his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr, was to...

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Lori Sirianni @4animallife.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

'"This is a big deal disease," ... "You do not want to have what people call natural immunity from measles because the risk of having measles itself is so significant."' I had measles in the early 1970s. Parents, pls DON'T put your kids through that. The vaccine is safe! www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

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As measles outbreaks grow, doctors are on the lookout for rare but serious complications | CBC News

As measles outbreaks in Canada grow and spread between provinces, pediatricians are again recommending vaccinations while also bracing for serious complications, including a rare, long-term neurologic...

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Jude @jude2025.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

#hospice sponsors dog visits. So I may get to pet a dog soon. Hooray!

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I happen to know that some powerful media orgs were unhappy that AP filed suit; they thought the conflict with the White House would blow over on its own and that AP risked making bad law. The AP's leadership deserves a lot of credit for having proceeded as it did. apnews.com/article/trum...

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AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists

A federal judge has ordered the White House to restore The Associated Press’ full access to cover presidential events.

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Lori Sirianni @4animallife.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Hey, Americans, you can do this, too. If not daily, at least weekly. Consistently. Loudly. Persistence. Stop Trump.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

The Social Security Administration has already cut 7,000 jobs. As a result, its website is crashing. Phone lines are overwhelmed. Beneficiaries can't get service. What is DOGE recommending now? More layoffs. Let it be known that Trump is effectively cutting Social Security.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

This explanation seems horrific but sound. 10%tariffs if your balance of trade is roughly equal. It’s a shakedown & a protection racket. He’ll lift them by domestic sector and even maybe individual companies, as well as perhaps the occasional nation, as a reward for pledges of blind allegiance.

A description of the bogus calculations behind Trump’s claim that his obscene tariffs are somehow ‘reciprocal’.

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NPR @npr.org · 25/03/2025

Martin Becker says he was trying to send his life's work, gathered over 18 years of studying marine fossils in New Jersey, to a colleague in Florida. The 200 specimens were thrown out when the school failed to pay its bill, Becker's lawsuit says. (via @gothamist.com)

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Paleontologist says NJ school lost his 380M-year-old fossils, and now they're in a landfill

Paleontologist Martin Becker accuses William Paterson University of letting its UPS account get revoked.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/03/2025

Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.

ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back. This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008. Also bigger than the 2024 DNC. And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).

AOC and Bernie in front of the rally crowd in Denver

Zoomed out crowd shot of 34,000 people in downtown Denver with Colorado mountains in the background

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Jude @jude2025.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

My son and his friend Josh are heading to Denver soon to see Bernie and AOC. My daughter will be here, but no longer talks to me, and I can probably coax a visit out of my ex-husband. They plan to drive there and back tonight (it's 180 miles one way), so I'll be alone for about 11 hours.

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 03/03/2025

Despite what Elon Musk says—Social Security is NOT a Ponzi Scheme. Social Security is a PROMISE that the American people should be able to count on after paying into it their entire lives. Repost if you agree.

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Dr. Jessica Ball 🍪 @tuffcookie.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

This includes the USGS Hawaiian and Alaska Volcano Observatories. HVO's Ironworks is a temporary space while a new facility is built to replace the Observatory critically damaged in 2018. Both groups are near their volcanoes. Neither has anywhere to go and both have been forbidden from telework.

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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Alfred L Cralle. Inventor of the ice cream scoop.

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Jude @jude2025.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

My sis-in-law died--wonderful Marilyn. My children want to attend the funeral. What to do with me? Leave me alone & have my son's friend or my ex feed me and check on me every few hours? Throw me in the car for the 3 hour trip there, the funeral, & the burial? I last left the house months ago.

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NPR @npr.org · 22/02/2025

Staffing at the HUD office that pays for housing and support services across the country is slated to be cut by 84%. Advocates warn such heavy cuts could make record-high homelessness even worse.

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Trump administration plans mass firing at office that funds homelessness programs

Staffing at the HUD office that pays for housing and support services across the country is slated to be cut by 84%. Advocates warn such heavy cuts could make record-high homelessness even worse.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

This is a venn diagram showing how 69 Trump actions map onto domains covering: undermining democratic institutions; suppressing dissent and media; dismantling social protections; attacking science and education; destabilising the global order. A table version is available here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing

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Jude @jude2025.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I remember letting Marc Elias know that I thought he was talking too much about fundraising and not enough about issues. Apparently, that was enough to make him block me. So now I have to check him on incognito if I want to read his posts. No big deal.

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Jude @jude2025.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

We're all wondering how all the Palestinian Americans who withheld their votes from Harris like their new fascist overlord's plans.

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Jude @jude2025.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

A couple of months ago I texted my brother "Toad Away" and he responded, "Where do you go when you're toad away?" from the summer when we memorized The Firesign Theatre album because we'd run out of things to read & we had one TV station. Wish I could think of something to text him now...

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Jude @jude2025.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I'm sending my first letter to our new Republican representative. At least I can send him a letter; there was no point in it at all when Lauren Boebert was my rep. Not that there's any point to it now, but what the heck. It's against his desire to move nat'l BLM hq to Grand Junction, CO.

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Will Sebag-Montefiore @wsebag.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Every right-wing podcaster discussing Elon Musk

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Jude @jude2025.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

My daughter is reading to me from books I never finished. Today she read from Steinbeck's Harvest Gypsies, a collection of his articles about the dust bowl migrants to California. I spent an hour or so researching their descendants' relationship to Republicans and thus learned about Bakersfield CA.

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Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Little does he know Mexicans have devised a crafty plan to get through the wall

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Where do you find your news? Social media serves us up an increasingly skewed perspective on the world. Some of our traditional media is extremely politically biased. I like @theconversation.com - written by expert academics; curated but not politically steered by editors: theconversation.com/uk

theconversation.com

The Conversation UK is your most reliable trusted news. Written by academics.

Curated by professional editors, The Conversation offers informed commentary and debate on the issues affecting our world. Plus a Plain English guide to the latest developments and discoveries from th...

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Jude @jude2025.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

An interesting experience I've had on Bluesky is people assuming who I am and what I believe based on a response I post on someone else's profile. Most recently I was accused of being a male with stupid opinions. No one asked why I had a particular opinion; they simply responded with vitriol.

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Jude @jude2025.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

@4animallife.bsky.social Hi. I'm your Colorado cousin related to Ort Bachelor. Ort was my grandfather's first cousin. Every time I read elephant news, I think of you, so I hope you will soon start posting on Blue Sky.

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Jude @jude2025.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

There will be no bad poems delivered at the orange one's second inauguration, not that he could tell a bad poem from a good one.

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Hawaiʻi Pacific Parks Association @hawaiipacificparks.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Seen this morning just outside the HPPA offices: Pele's hair! Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park is seeing an increase in Pele's hair falling around the Kīlauea summit and nearby communities. These fine strands of volcanic glass are formed during eruptions and can cause skin and eye irritation.

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Mike Brown @plutokiller.com · 17/01/2025

Just had a sample of the Eaton Fire ash that is in my driveway run on the department XRF. Is there titanium (new house paint)? Yup. Lead (old house paint)? You betcha. Heavy metals? Check. Treat that ash like it's toxic folks (because it is)

$A computer screen with a display showing output from an xray diffraction spectrometer.$ $Close up view showing fraction of metals. Fun stuff.$

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

In related news Donald Trump has made James Woods the Special Ambassador To Kevin Sorbo after considering but ultimately rejecting Kevin Sorbo for the role

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Jude @jude2025.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Yesterday, when my caregivers finally got out of bed and brought me food (around 11 a.m.), I accidentally knocked my cream of wheat container onto my sleeping bag. I was so hungry that I ate it off my bedding. Now I'm having to use an inferior conventional blanket. I hate eating in bed.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

The weather forecast for Washington, DC is predicting brutally cold temperatures — in the low teens — on Inauguration Day. Good.

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a man with ice on his face is standing in a snowy field

ALT: a man with ice on his face is standing in a snowy field

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 16/01/2025

Reuters reporting that at least 70 Palestinians killed in Gaza by the Israeli military, the day after a ceasefire was agreed to.

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NPR @npr.org · 15/01/2025

Ancient DNA reveals that during the Iron Age, women in ancient Celtic societies were at the center of their social networks — unlike previous eras of prehistory.

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Ancient Celtic tribe had women at its social center

Ancient DNA reveals that during the Iron Age, women in ancient Celtic societies were at the center of their social networks — unlike previous eras of prehistory.

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Jude @jude2025.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

For a few years, my son has shared Tik Tok videos with me that he thought I'd like. These videos added a lot of joy to our lives. Maybe we can access it via VPN from Canada. Most recent enjoyable video: www.tiktok.com/@compassionf...

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Here’s another one. I had to make some cuts from the original transcript to accommodate the smaller cast! #compassionfatigue #tiktok #justforfun #fyp #piano #musicaltheatre #leftist #northhollywood #o...

TikTok video by Compassion Fatigue

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

The plan is for a cohort of unpaid, unofficial volunteers to live within federal agencies for six months, working 80 hours per week on undefined tasks, conspire with one another on Signal, and get nearly everyone around them fired. It doesn’t sound fully baked to me. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/u...

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Henning @geohenning.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Your #BadGeologyFilms tweets were an inspiration for my list on Letterboxd: boxd.it/1wD9U

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Bad Geology Films

Hey, let's watch a bad geology film!

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