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Michael Leonardo, Ph.D.

@leotheelder.bsky.social
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Scientist, educator, musician, environmentalist, neurodivergent, gardener, corgi-lover, untrained chef, fantasy role-playing gamer

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Michael Leonardo, Ph.D. @leotheelder.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS CEDAR RAPIDS” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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NO KINGS CEDAR RAPIDS · No Kings
**We have the power and are claiming it together. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings.** What began in 2025 as a single day of defiance has become a sustained national resistance to tyranny, spreading fr...
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Michael Leonardo, Ph.D. @leotheelder.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
dailyiowan.com/2025/03/12/u...
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UI grad student transfers after backlash over DEI presentation
Marie Krebs, a graduate student in the University of Iowa’s School of Social Work, is leaving the university after facing disciplinary action for a presentation she and a classmate gave on diversity, ...
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Michael Leonardo, Ph.D. @leotheelder.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Anti-DEI Legislation, which had not gone into effect, still led to graduate students at the University of Iowa School of Social Work being reprimanded by the program director for presenting issues that indigenous people face without others thinking about DEI concepts at a NATIONAL conference.
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Michael Leonardo, Ph.D. @leotheelder.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
An issue that my female and marginalized community friends need to be made aware of. The SAVE Act is being presented as a means to keep non-citizens from being able to vote. However, it will impact your rights too. www.facebook.com/share/p/19pW...
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Redirecting...
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Michael Leonardo, Ph.D. @leotheelder.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Here is a scholarly paper from the Brookings Institute explaining the 1994 Trilateral agreement on Ukraine's surrendering its nuclear arsenal in return for fiscal compensation and agreements for their future security. Which Russia violated many times in the last decade.
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The Trilateral Process: The United States, Ukraine, Russia and Nuclear Weapons
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Ukraine had the world’s third largest nuclear arsenal on its territory. When Ukrainian-Russian negotiations on removing these weapons from Ukraine appeared to ...
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Michael Leonardo, Ph.D. @leotheelder.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
And yet you "broker" a deal to end the war and expect Ukraine pay for it without them involved at all in the negotiations.
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Michael Leonardo, Ph.D. @leotheelder.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
She was obviously a plant by the Trump Administration to try and embarrass President Zelinsky
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Michael Leonardo, Ph.D. @leotheelder.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Never thought I would see a group of citizens' rights be stripped for other citizens feeling "uncomfortable"
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Michael Leonardo, Ph.D. @leotheelder.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
She and her Republican cronies have shown that Iowa is not a place to live in if you are different.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 28/02/2025
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signs a bill that strikes gender identity from Iowa civil rights law, making the state the first to remove civil rights from a previously protected class.
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Iowa governor signs bill removing gender identity from state civil rights protections
The move marks the first time a state has removed a protected class from a state law prohibiting discrimination.
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Michael Leonardo, Ph.D. @leotheelder.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Another Friday under the radar move from the Trump Administration...
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Michael Leonardo, Ph.D. @leotheelder.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Pay attention to what our supposedly transparent Administration did on Friday late night @chrismurphyct.bsky.social This is a five-alarm fire.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 06/02/2025
Worried about losing access to US federal data that may go off-line, or already is? You’re not alone—but duplication isn’t the answer. Many ongoing efforts have already archived key datasets and many more are ongoing. Check out these existing resources and, if you can, support their work. 🧵
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a man in a black shirt is looking at a screen with a red background
Alt: a man in a black shirt is looking at a screen with a red background
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Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
AG Bondi tells FBI to disband Foreign Influence Task Force. (Likely because we can’t be under more influence than we already are): www.yahoo.com/news/invitat...
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"An invitation to foreign actors": Bondi tells DOJ to quit worrying about foreign lobbying campaigns
The new attorney general said she would focus DOJ's efforts on transnational drug cartels instead
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Gemma @gemslawrence.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Attorney General Pam Bondi Directives as soon as she is sworn in. Just doing everything we knew they would do. You may want a stiff drink while you read it. So many people’s lives are about to be a living hell just for doing their jobs. All because America refused to jail a dangerous traitor.
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Katelyn Jetelina @kkjetelina.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Good: CDC’s outbreak publication (MMWR) is now up and running after the first pause in over 70 years Bad: Todays publication is about fires, and not the missing bird flu or mpox studies we knew were up for publication. Of which have safety implications for veterinarians and people with house cats …
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Haunted Maria-nette 💀🎃✨ @mariabrewista.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
This is your reminder to USE YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY THERE'S BOOKS THERE AND MOVIES MUSIC PUBLIC COMPUTERS W/ INTERNET IT'S ALSO FREE
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Michael Leonardo, Ph.D. @leotheelder.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
There is daily evidence that the Trump Administration is removing access to important information on the CDC website used by health care professionals in their job. Having trained many of these people in my 25 yrs as an educator, I call upon them and others to save this information for our posterity
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Another FBI leader standing up for the rule of law “Today, we find ourselves in the middle of a battle of our own, as good people are being walked out of the FBI and others are being targeted because they did their jobs in accordance with the law and FBI policy." James Dennehy, FBI NY Field Office
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Top F.B.I. Agent in New York Vows to ‘Dig In’ After Removals at Agency
James E. Dennehy, the highly respected leader of the largest and most important field office in the bureau, said the F.B.I. was in a “battle of our own.”
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