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Kevin J. Black

@kjbinstl.bsky.social
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Husband, dad, Christian, neuroscientist, neuropsychiatrist. Speaking only for myself. Bibliography: www.bit.ly/myncbiKJB or orcid.org/0000-0002-6921-9567

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Donna Stern @dvsmemphis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If you think things are tight now, wait until the Big, Ugly Bull take effect. You have no idea what’s coming! #momsky#sheshed
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Kevin J. Black @kjbinstl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
UPDATE: Despite being ordered by Judge Sullivan to produce a certified list of the contents of the Administrative Record by Oct. 1st, Todd Blanche once again has decided he doesn't want to comply. I explain why Blanche would want to avoid producing this court-ordered info: youtu.be/junhrisxRlg?...
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🚨AG Blanche IGNORES JUDGE'S ORDERS And TRIES To DELAY MY Epstein LAWSUIT!!
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Donna Dierker @donnadierker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
the constitutional questions Clark had agreed with were new, and thus not appropriate ... to intervene in a state election law question. The merits for much of his ruling, and later the 8th Circuit's affirmation, the justices wrote, "are not entirely clearcut." www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...
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Federal judges in St. Louis kept GOP-drawn voting map alive with 'novel' orders
"Where the courts really start to get into trouble is when their rulings don't have neutral explanations."
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Generation Health Search @generationhealth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We looked at how many psychiatrists each state has per 100,000 residents, and the Northeast is in a very different from most of the country. 📊 National rate: 17.6 📊 Northeast average: 28.5 📩recruiting@generationhealthsearch.com #generationhealthsearc #psychiatry #mentalhealth #healthcare #career
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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 02/10/2026
This corruption must be investigated.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Unless Congress reclaims its power, this will just become the new normal. A good first step would be to impeach Vought. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026
The American Bar Association laid out the receipts. Big donors get appointments. Big money flows in, investigations disappear, pardons follow, regulations loosen and foreign governments get favorable treatment. The article calls it an “unprecedented pay-to-play culture.” #PayToPlayPresident
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I-270, Exit 1 @i270exit1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Full Quote "Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence." Louis Pasteur
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Key federal agencies failed to provide any records to back up President Donald Trump’s allegations that tens of thousands of noncitizens are registered to vote in various blue states, a nonpartisan government watchdog said in a new lawsuit. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DHS has failed to provide records to prove Trump’s allegations of noncitizen voting, watchdog says
Key federal agencies failed to provide any records to back up President Donald Trump’s allegations that 278,000 noncitizens are improperly registered to vote, a nonpartisan government watchdog said in...
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The flashback at the beginning of a dystopian film
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Kevin J. Black @kjbinstl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Mr. Hawley, please stop embarrassing your constituents … not to mention lying.
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Kevin J. Black @kjbinstl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Register to #vote or update your registration (anywhere) at turbovote.org Fellow #Missouri folks: check your voter registration here: voteroutreach.sos.mo.gov/portal/
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Check Your Voter Registration
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/09/2026
The VA lost about 700 social workers and 500 psychologists and psychiatrists over the course of 2025 — a significant change for an agency that was adding mental health staffers nearly every month leading up to Trump’s return to office. (Published March)
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Veterans Who Depend on Mental Health Care Keep Losing Their Therapists Under Trump
Hundreds of mental health professionals have left the Department of Veterans Affairs since President Donald Trump took office, leaving staff “at a breaking point” and some veterans waiting as long as ...
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Kevin J. Black @kjbinstl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This article, despite the title, describes a scary possibility: How Senate Democrats can stop Trump from stealing the midterms | David Walbert www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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How Senate Democrats can stop Trump from stealing the midterms | David Walbert
Republicans could lean on congressional procedure to defy the will of voters. But if they try that, the Senate has a clear way to fight back
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The sources added that Patel consistently kept Bailey at arm's length and cut him out of meetings the deputy FBI director should attend because Bailey was constantly flagging things that were unconstitutional." www.cbsnews.com/news/top-fbi...
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Top FBI official Andrew Bailey, who was once widely seen as Patel successor, resigns
Bailey was originally brought in to help ease tensions between former Attorney General Pam Bondi and former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino.
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Jeff Nascimento @jnascim.info · 29/09/2026
Papa Leão diz que extrema direita não é expressão autêntica do cristianismo jnascim.info/TgqLs6
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Papa diz que extrema direita não é expressão autêntica do cristianismo
Leão 14 questiona extremismo na Alemanha e defende diálogo com lideranças católicas e protestantes
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“I’ve heard people dismiss Trump’s mendacity with a shrugging “they all lie,” but we are witnessing a rare, very possibly once-in-a-lifetime political liar.”
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I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN Politics
Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Isn't it nice when there's something we can ALL agree on? #ReleaseTheUnredactedEPSTEIN-Files
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
@rob-rogers.bsky.social
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This might be the least America First thing Trump has done so far, and that’s saying something.
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sunshinelaughter.bsky.social @sunshinelaughter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trump's 'my money that I control' boast about $400M war chest lands him in FEC complaint www.rawstory.com/maga-inc/
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Trump's 'my money that I control' boast about $400M war chest lands him in FEC complaint
An election spending watchdog on Friday accused President Donald Trump of committing a “clear-cut violation of campaign finance law” through his stated control over spending decisions made by the MAGA...
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Donna Dierker @donnadierker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Confusion would have reined either way, and we all have Hoskins to blame for slow-walking the petition. Thank you, US Supreme Court, for ruling quickly. Supreme Court again blocks GOP's attempt to reinstate its congressional map, ending fight www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...
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Supreme Court again blocks GOP's attempt to reinstate its congressional map, ending fight
The ruling, the high court's third in as many weeks, appeared to finally end a saga that began a year ago when Missouri Republicans undertook an unprecedented mid-decade redistricting.
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Oh. Oh my.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
Murphy: "On April 30 -- a Thursday -- Reynolds makes an $8m donation. On Saturday, they have lunch w/POTUS & tell him they want a change in rules for flavored vapes. The president calls FDA commissioner & HHS sec, & on Tuesday new guidance is issued paving way to the sale of flavored vapes ... "
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A great overview of NIH science under Trump: www.npr.org/2026/09/24/n...
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These 6 charts show how NIH research funding has been reshaped under Trump
Stories of science funding being cut, labs shutting down and scientists losing jobs have flooded the media under Trump's administration. These six graphics show how those changes have affected U.S. bi...
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Kevin J. Black @kjbinstl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Awesome graph.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Russell Vought wants to kill the NIH In case you didn't know this, Vought's daughter has cystic fibrosis & has benefited from a combination drug treatment (elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor) that was developed by NIH-funded research By @juliametraux.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Project 2025 is gutting medical funding that helped Russell Vought's own kid
Its architect's daughter has cystic fibrosis—and benefits from a "miracle drug" backed by an agency he's attacking.
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nullifie @nullifie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A photo of Donald Trump inspecting the scale model of the Trump arch with drones, snipers, and golden statues was unavailable due to reporters being banned from the briefing. So, here is Hitler and other top Nazis inspecting a scale model of a planned Triumphal Arch in Berlin, circa 1939.
A photo of Donald Trump inspecting the scale model of the Trump arch with drones, snipers, and golden statues was unavailable due to reporters being banned from the briefing. So, here is Hitler and other top Nazis inspecting a scale model of a planned Triumphal Arch in Berlin, circa 1939.
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LESams @lsam22.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Kevin J. Black @kjbinstl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Yeah, assuming we're talking about technology that doesn't get answers wrong or hallucinate them.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026
Trump threatens to cut off all trade with Europe if Canada associates closer with the EU
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Brynn Paulsen, PhD @brynnpaulsen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Reminder that the Trump admin has already admitted to using keyword searches to cancel billions in grants at the University of California. apnews.com/article/cali... They are really sledgehammering research if it contains a single word they don't like, regardless of context.
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White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants
Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COVID-19 to screen for projects that ran afoul of the Trump administration’s priorities.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026
Enten: "Trump is breaking records. Yesterday the Marquette Law School poll came out -- Trump's worst net approval rating on inflation. Minus 61! That's the worst Trump has ever polled on inflation, & not only that, it's the worst any president EVER has polled on inflation. Worse than Jimmy Carter!"
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Kevin J. Black @kjbinstl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A quantitative model of corruption in government shows Trump not only twice the corruption of his closest competitor (Nixon), but on the level with famous nation-leading crooks around the world. x.com/leahfiles/st...
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Mr. Trump’s choice to lead a mass pledge of allegiance to himself, followed by commanding his followers to cheat in the upcoming election, was unusual by presidential standards.
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The Wolfpack @wolfpack11720.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"It's the Nazification of the country; it was no longer one of allegiance to the constitution or its institutions, but one of binding loyalty to Trump himself." @rmckee.bsky.social
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Large-Vessel Venous Signal Confounds Apparent Amygdala Activation in BOLD fMRI www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"There will be no more elections in the future in which we lose even a single vote.” Joseph Goebbels, Dec 4 1932.
Goebbels speaks at a large radio microphone in the Lustgarten, Berlin, 1932
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Kevin J. Black @kjbinstl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I didn't think those words mean what you think they mean.
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Kevin J. Black @kjbinstl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Funny … I want a country where people without a PhD know something about the ingredients and basic chemistry.
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Kevin J. Black @kjbinstl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I don't know that we previously had evidence that his weird ideas were delusional, but this …
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Kevin J. Black @kjbinstl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"_let_ them win"??!
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Chris Aiken, MD @chrisaikenmd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
There's a clear takeaway from this study. Consider thiamine supplementation when you see these side effects on GLP1 RAs: ▪ Persistent nausea, vomiting, low food intake, rapid weight loss Here's why: psych-partners.com/glp-1s-thiam... #psychiatry #pmhnp #medicine
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Kevin J. Black @kjbinstl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Wow. Where have we heard anything like this before?
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This “noticing” talking point comes out of white nationalist/neo-Nazi circles. Typically part of antisemitic conspiracy theories.
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