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Bethany Halford @bethanyhalford.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Biocatalysts can build big molecules. A team at Merck & Co. developed a suite of enzymes that stitch together their oral PCSK9 inhibitor enlicitide. My latest for @cenmag.bsky.social cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic... #chemsky

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

DHS's official X account is now copy-pasting anti-immigration posts from Stephen Miller's wife. You can tell from the capitalization; they just added "POTUS" in front of the 2019 and 2020 bits, but didn't fix the capitalization of the sentence from Miller's post.

Katie Miller post from 7:42 AM: "President Trump has repeatedly tried to end the Diversity Visa:

2017: Trump repeatedly called for ending the program, describing it as a “Chuck Schumer beauty” and pushing Congress to terminate it.

2017–2021: Supported legislative efforts like the RAISE Act to eliminate the diversity visa lottery. This was stopped by Chuck Schumer and Democrats.

2019: Implemented a passport requirement for lottery applicants, significantly reducing applications. This was halted by the Courts.

2020: Suspended diversity visa processing

Then, Joe Biden flipped the switch back on."

DHS post from 12:28 PM: "President Trump has fought tooth and nail for years to kill the dangerous Diversity Visa Lottery:

2017: Trump demanded Congress end the program after an ISIS terrorist (DV lottery winner) murdered 8 in NYC truck attack. Trump ripped DV as "a Chuck Schumer beauty.”

2017–2021: Backed RAISE Act to eliminate the lottery and shift to merit-based immigration, a move that was blocked by Congressional Democrats.

2019: POTUS Imposed passport requirement, slashing applications. A move that was blocked by an activist judge.

2020: POTUS Suspended all DV processing to protect Americans.

Then, Biden revived this security disaster, and now Americans are again dead because of it."

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 18/10/2025

This is the best political news I’ve seen in a very long time — so please pass it on👇 Each state can limit Citizens United in their own state & they don’t have to wait for other states to do it. Our new @rollingstone.com piece based on our new book MASTER PLAN. Get the book at LeverNews.com/book

Rolling Stone excerpt about Montana’s ballot initiative to combat Citizens United

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WIRED @wired.com · 23/07/2025

SCOOP: Elon Musk’s associates at DOGE have begun vacating their headquarters at the General Services Administration in Washington, DC, and they’re leaving behind an apocalyptic scene of toddler play sets, mattresses, and pillows. We got photos. 👇

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Photos: Here Are the Piles of Used Bedding and Children’s Play Sets Left Near DOGE’s Old Offices

Elon Musk’s DOGE minions have largely moved out of the General Services Administration. A dystopian scene of bedding and discarded kids’ toys remains.

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Wake up Democratic Party old guard establishment. This isn’t about New York City. This is the way the wind is blowing. Step aside for young people who this country will need over the next several decades long after you are gone. Enough with your egos and the big money interests.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Former Jan. 6 defendant Kyle Colton says Donald Trump's pardon also covers his child pornography charge because it stemmed from the J6 search warrant. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 09/06/2025

At no point in this entire article of 16 paragraphs does ABC mention that another cop killed this cop by shooting her in the back. Nor does it mention the name of the cop who killed this cop. Nor does it mention that the civilians involved never fired at them. ABC might as well be state media.

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June Blender @juneblender.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

@barbmcquade.bsky.social Please explain the phrase "as next friend on behalf of" in the title of some immigration cases. Thanks! #sistersinlaw

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Law enforcement officers should never cover their faces when making arrests or conceal their identities (unless they are working undercover). They work for us. We have a right to know who they are. These face coverings are frightening & unAmerican, as though they're ashamed of what they're doing.

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June Blender @juneblender.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

If I ever called an explosion a "rapid unscheduled disassembly" in my work, all of my amazing editors, colleagues, and managers -- and the tech community -- would have disabled my login and withdrawn all permissions until I recovered my sanity. Who do they think they're fooling?

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June Blender @juneblender.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

This tactile model of the Gateway Arch is augmented with Braille descriptions. I wouldn't have noticed it were it not for the great explanations from @blindish.bsky.social

A tactile model of the Gateway Arch and surrounding Park with Braille descriptions.

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Shobita Parthasarathy @shobitap.org · 21/04/2025

My PhD student's NSF grant was terminated today. Her dissertation investigates why air pollution monitoring, metrics, and regulations don't properly capture the harms experienced by marginalized communities--esp in the most polluted Detroit neighborhoods. She and I are happy to talk with press etc.

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NSF Award Search: Award # 2240343 - Constructing Credible Knowledge and Expertise in Air Pollution Regulation and Monitoring: The Problem of Quantification Lock

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Good way to see the current tariffs, as of literally today, is no tariffs on high value add manufactured goods marketed to middle and upper middle classes. Massive tariffs for cheap consumer items which amount to the biggest economic privilege of working class/middle class life in US.

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June Blender @juneblender.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

What are the rules for transporting presumably innocent people in custody to another state or another country? #sistersinlawpodcast @joycewhitevance.bsky.social @barbmcquade.bsky.social @jillwine-banks.bsky.social @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social

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June Blender @juneblender.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Serious question about #tariffs: If I buy a product🧶online from a European company (no importer other than me), do I get a bill from the U.S. government for the #tariff?

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Jon Rauch @jonrauch.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.

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June Blender @juneblender.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Trying a stranded colorwork crochet pattern with loose (10 DK/light slsts/7 cm) slip stitches. I'm struggling with gauge. Better to increase hook size beyond recommended or increase yarn weight (DK -> Light worsted)? 🧶 #crochet

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Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

The free speech administration. If they like what you say.

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June Blender @juneblender.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Please. Take a few minutes and watch Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) describe the brazen corruption in just the first six weeks of Trump 2.0. youtu.be/hycoCYenXls This is not normal. If you think Biden or Obama or Bush, or any modern president did anything like this, you're mistaken.

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Murphy: Six Weeks In, This White House Is On Its Way To Being The Most Corrupt In U.S. History

YouTube video by Senator Chris Murphy

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Beks @antifaoperative.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Utah sitting judge in the Box Elder County Justice Court, Kevin Christensen, has been arrested for child sex crimes. ksltv.com/crime-public...

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Yan Matusevich @ymatusik.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States

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Katherine J. Wu @katherinejwu.com · 07/03/2025

if you've had an NIH grant terminated, I want to hear about it. Signal: katherinejwu.12

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Lawrence Solum @lsolum.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Goldsmith on Trump v. United States, buff.ly/aTgChP4 - Jack Landman Goldsmith (Harvard Law School) has posted The Presidency After Trump v. United States on SSRN.

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June Blender @juneblender.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

A birthday 🎂 🥯 bagel with colored sprinkles! Congratulations on your 2-year anniversary, B's Bagels!

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Imagine being the governor of California, with the opportunity to platform a fire survivor, an entertainment industry worker struggling for gigs, a teacher who just got laid off, or someone else with an empathetic story to share - and you interview Charlie Kirk. Disqualifying for 2028.

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June Blender @juneblender.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

The layers of clouds are so beautiful. It looks like a marble pattern over the water. [Near Tacoma, WA]

A photograph of a vivid blue sky with a mixture of cloud types over water. The horizon line is at the bottom 1/5 of the picture, which is mostly sky.

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Word of the day is ‘lickspittle’ (17th century): a person who fawns upon someone in power for personal gain.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Crockett: When you're at war, you’re not worried about your outfit. If he was walking around in the fanciest suits, I'm sure that they would accuse him of taking our dollars and spending it on his wardrobe

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nofoco.bsky.social @nofoco.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Zelensky standing in front of Congress to thundering, bi-partisan applause as he thanks "every teacher, every farmer, every nurse" the American people, Congress etc dozens and dozens of times. youtu.be/7gjwlCe5T6M?...

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Watch Zelenskyy's Full Address To Congress

YouTube video by NBC News

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DEF-G @scriban.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Smarter people than me have already pointed out that what Elon and Trump's Secretaries and actings have done is create the conditions for the most successful federal employee phishing campaigns in history. Our adversaries are probably bombarding every dot-gov account they can reach.

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June Blender @juneblender.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

A United States attorney for the District of Columbia is so sloppy and unprofessional that he releases a written statement with an egregious grammatical error. Silly, I know, but attention to detail is required by the law. Also, I don't think US attorneys are "the president's lawyers."

”As President Trumps' (sic) lawyers, we are proud to fight to protect his leadership as our President and we are vigilant in standing against entities like the AP that refuse to put America first."

Edward R. Martin, Jr.
United States Attorney
District of Columbia

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Michael Taffe @effatma.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I am recruiting for postdoctoral and technician positions at UCSD. If anyone with relevant skills/interests has lost funding due to the anti-DEI jihad or the NIH purge, I’m open to discussion of ways we can try to help out.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

NEW — In an alarming email last night reviewed by me, Coast Guard members learned that 1,135 members' direct deposit account routing information was compromised due to a data breach from unauthorized access. It was only discovered because an officer “reported anomalous activity” on their account.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

I'd rather continue to fund the banking police (who have returned billions to consumers) rather than giving everyone a check for $2.15

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Neil Shubin @neilshubin.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Gene editing technology began by people studying salt marshes. Ozempic began by folks studying the venom of Gila Monsters. Support for basic science has empowered us to understand our world. Tethering it to applications health has transformed and saved countless lives.

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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

SCOOP: Cats that became infected with bird flu might have spread the virus to humans in the same household and vice versa, according to data that briefly appeared online in a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention but then abruptly vanished. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

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CDC Posts, Then Deletes, Data on Bird Flu Transmission Between Cats and People (Gift Article)

The data, which appeared fleetingly online on Wednesday, confirmed transmission in two households. Scientists called on the agency to release the full report.

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June Blender @juneblender.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

These times call for a cuddly mosaic overlay #crochet pillow. I made it as a test for a larger project but it was too cuddly to toss. 🧶 Knit Picks acrylic (says sport, really worsted/aran)+ Caron Cakes yarn. 5mm hook. The pattern is Merry Maze by Beba Blanket. Excellent instructions/chart.

Geometric design handmade crocheted pillow in navy + variegated blue.

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Stephen Harrison @stephenharrison.com · 05/02/2025

I wrote for Slate about how a conservative think tank plans to "identify and target" Wikipedia editors who it claims are abusing their position—a dangerous escalation that shifts the fight from debating edits to going after the editors themselves. slate.com/technology/2...

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A Powerful Conservative Think Tank Is Targeting One of the Last Good Things on the Internet

The Heritage Foundation plans to “identify and target” Wikipedia editors it accuses of antisemitism.

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June Blender @juneblender.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

This #crochet 🧶 market bag was designed to look like lovely flowers, but I had other ideas. Another great pattern by Sarah at @richtextures.bsky.social .

A crocheted market bag with an open weave that looks like big daisies. Crocheted with black yarn, so the flowers look like spiders with a red (and one green) pair of embroidery floss spider eyes.

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 31/01/2025

@corybooker.com hello I used to run the Wendy’s Twitter account and I am begging you to let me help you with the dems social media strategy, I will literally do it for free at this point

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 31/01/2025

In light of this deeply illegal activity at NSF and the ongoing attack on American science, I'm posting the slides from my 2017 talk at the American Physical Society about the Nazi take over of German physics/why German is no longer science's lingua franca 🧪 🧵 1/26 drive.google.com/file/d/1_MCm...

nazi germany & physics
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, PhD
Department of Physics,University of Washington, Seattle
APS April Meeting, January 2017
Dismantling the (Nazi) German Nuclear Reactor (Pile) at Haigerloch, 50 km SW of Stuttgart, in April 1945

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Mark Bankston @markbankston.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

You can now watch testimony I took from Newsmax, Steven Crowder, and Owen Shroyer regarding their identification of an innocent man as a neo-Nazi mass murderer. Links to the videos below in this thread.

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June Blender @juneblender.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Choosing #yarn for a #crochet project. I need 1 solid and 1 varying color. The varying skeins differ in the frequency of change, and in fading vs. abrupt change. One skein with multiple shades unwinds one color variant at a time; no mixing at all. Are there words for these characteristics? 🧶

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