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@mattparr.bsky.social
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humanities book editor, amateur naturalist, he-him-his (royal "we" occasionally) 🌈🌻, ex-NYC now living in Philly www.inaturalist.org/people/440756 orcid.org/0000-0002-7364-3563 "Each of us is a front." Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Dec 31, 2022

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 19/08/2026
Moderna's mRNA vaccine reduces the recurrence of skin cancer in a clinical trial. wapo.st/4gosZtG
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Cancer treatment could face landmark moment with promising vaccine
A therapy using the same mRNA technology in coronavirus vaccines showed positive results in trial for skin cancer patients, drugmakers Moderna and Merck said.
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Mega👻Thee🎃Tron @valarmordollars.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Sam Altman matched with a man on Grindr, who posted the conversation. Open AI offered him money to take it down. He made a song instead.
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Postcards to Swing States @postcards2win.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
MIDTERM 👏 POSTCARDS 👏 FOR THESE 12 STATES STARTING 👏 ON TUES. APRIL 28! 💪💪💪
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 21/04/2026
Spent Saturday with President Obama and New York's Cutest — turns out my first name is Mayor and I need to be doing more squats.  Here’s to building a City where families can thrive and every classroom is full of this much joy.
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
The frog squad came to encourage protesters at #NoKings in Washington DC!
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 16/03/2026
While dropping off his kids, federal agents detained an Afghan refugee who served alongside U.S. special forces. He died less than 24 hours later. This is the 43rd death in ICE custody since Trump retook office. We need accountability and justice for all those who’ve died under their watch.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Keep 'em coming. We're close to 2000 letters to US Senators opposing the nomination of quack Casey Means to the post of US Surgeon General. Help us get several hundred more this afternoon. @defendpublichealth.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...
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Oppose Nomination of Casey Means for Surgeon General
The Senate HELP Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing on the nomination of Casey Means to serve as U.S. Surgeon General on Wednesday, February 25th. While we were hoping this nomination was dead, i...
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Samantha Michaels @samanthamichaels.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
A blind Rohingya man survived a genocide in Burma, escaped to the United States, and then died because immigration officers treated him with such callousness. This story is a tragedy www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...
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Nurul Amin Shah Alam, Blind Rohingya refugee dumped by CBP, dies in cold
"They just left him."
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
This piece by @jeneeninterlandi.bsky.social is one for the ages. The damage Donald Trump (under the guidance of Russell Vought) has done to biomedical research is profound and will be long-lasting. It is a national tragedy to be measured in the sick and the dead. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...
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Opinion | The Human Cost of Trump’s War on Science
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 21/02/2026
A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks
Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...
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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Wow.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
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Motria Oleksiyivna, PhD @motria.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Laughing ICE Goons Seize Dad Who Fled Ukraine War at Walmart “I asked why he was laughing and I was told that he was pro-Russian, wanted Russia to win the war.” Immigration attorneys count about 300 cases of detained Ukrainians across the United States and up to 150 refugees deported to Ukraine
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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FDA declines to review Moderna's mRNA flu shot
Under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Food and Drug Administration has taken an aggressive stance against mRNA technology.
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Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.)  If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Otay Mesa "Detention Center" (prison camp) in San Diego, CA: lataco.com/captive-loti...
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Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors...
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Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 05/02/2026
On 1 May 1517, xenophobic mobs, riled up by preachers who were in turn pressured by wealthy broker John Lincoln, rioted in London. They claimed that foreigners were stealing their jobs and welfare. Thomas More, then under-sheriff of London, tried to stop the mob with an empassioned speech.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Huh. This entire administration is an Epstein Island afterparty.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US
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ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US
Plans for such centers and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools.
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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 27/01/2026
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Holy shit. Like Tiananmen Square levels of bravery.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 24/01/2026
“If Minnesota falls, everything falls. We’re done as a nation.” Fury. Grief. Anguish. Locals on the frontlines of Trump’s attack on Minneapolis are speaking out following the killing of another one of their neighbors. We’re on the ground with @samveep.bsky.social tracking the aftermath.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Children screaming and crying can be heard as a possible uprising is underway at the ICE Children's Concentration Camp in Dilley, TX (1/24/26).
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/01/2026
an administration staffed to the top with degenerate liars
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
My group chats are full of Minnesotans reacting to today’s murder by figuring out ways they can help. We need people outside of the state to do the same thing. Whatever you wish everyone else was doing right now? Do it today. Let’s make a list of things that could help.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 24/01/2026
Everyone freezing on the East Coast or in the Midwest remember: Kyiv has the same weather, except that hundreds of thousands of people don't have electricity, heating or running water
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Another ICE murder in front of Glam Doll Donuts Minneapolis
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
This is an excellent bit by @jamellebouie.net laying out the case that ICE is doing ethnic cleansing.
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Video: Opinion | Is This Who Trump Meant by the ‘Worst of the Worst’?
The columnist Jamelle Bouie argues that the Trump administration’s immigration policy has more in common with ethnic cleansing than actual immigration enforcement.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Consider: What can you offer as resistance? Be creative! Then offer it. This is a great example.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Davos, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum.
No Kings is projected on to a mountainside above the town’s lights
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/01/2026
i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals
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Frederick Melo, Reporter (TwinCities.com, Pioneer Press) @frederickmelo.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Nasra Ahmed, 23, was walking through the parking lot of her aunt’s St. Paul apartment complex when she found herself surrounded by 12 agents. Ahmed, born in the USA, says she showed them her I.D. She was forcefully detained and jailed anyway for more than 2 days. www.twincities.com/2026/01/18/s...
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St. Paul woman, a U.S. citizen, recounts her two days in detention
Nasra Ahmed, 23, said she was taken to the hospital for an MRI with hands and legs shackled
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan. A citizen. Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold. "We're from the United States bro!' he screamed. Agents took and sold his phone And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
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Mary Peltola @marypeltola.com · 12/01/2026
With your help, we're going to win. My team set a huge launch day fundraising goal to compete with the outside money that will try to buy this race, so can I count on you to pitch in $5 or anything you can today? Here's the best link: secure.actblue.com/donate/soc-j...
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Become a Founding Donor to Mary Peltola's Campaign
Your contribution will help Mary Peltola win one of the most competitive Senate races in the country.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
ICE goons smash the window of an activists car brutally yank 2 out, abduct them and leave their car abandoned in Southside Minneapolis (1/11/26)
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
“Greenland is not a product, it is a people.”
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paperjulia 🌻 @paperjulia.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
🏒❤️💙 #heatedrivalry
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
More shocking video from this dark day….
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Mbsolheim @mbsolheim.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
10,000 people honoring Renee Nicole Good at the site of her murder
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Mayor Jacob Frey: “To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
What ICE was up to in Minnesota before they murdered a woman
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mattparr.bsky.social @mattparr.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Sadao Hasegawa. The Tom of Finland of Japan, sort of. Untitled, undated (early 1990s?).
A stylized drawing. There's a handsome young man's face in the lower left corner looking toward the upper right corner. Beams of light seem to stream out of his eyes, and in these beams little stars and dots of different colors. The predominant color is bright red.
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TORAJIRO @torajiro-art.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
One More A Banana, Please! Acrylic On Canvas 910mm×727mm
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Every American should be ashamed of who we are and what we have become as a nation today. We have a long history of military misadventures and even crimes but the attacks we have been conducting on Venezuela are among the most wanton, egregious and least defensible acts we’ve ever conducted.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 03/01/2026
The world must boycott the World Cup and the Olympics. It is both the only moral choice and will actually get the attention of these dead-eyed clout demons.
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mattparr.bsky.social @mattparr.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Yay for the brilliant Kyrylo Budanov on his new appointment and hello to his pet frog Petro (Xenopus laevis). Their smiles both Giocondesque. May they and all Ukraine prevail. Painting by Evgenia Gapchynska
A painting in gray greens and blues. There's some Cyrillic lettering at the top and a signature at the bottom left and a date 2023 at bottom right. It is intelligence chief Budanov in portrait. At his left, in a tank, his pet frog.
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Debbie M @heavenstobetsie.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Approximately 99% of both my Tiktok FYP and YouTube front page is currently Heated Rivalry related content. I have no problem with that. I mean, this is just delightful
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'Heated Rivalry' Cast Compete in a Compliment Battle | Teen Vogue
YouTube video by Teen Vogue
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
I need you to listen to and share this story - of how Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends. It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
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Colin Purrington @colinpurrington.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
If you're bored and use iNaturalist, here's a link to a tool that displays which of your observations were the first recorded for a taxon. I apparently have 16 (out of 3,395). I need to get out more. 🌿 #inaturalist #nature #insects #spiders glauberramos.github.io/inat/first-o...
List of 8 species names and observation dates next to a small thumbnail of my photograph. Here are the species: Deuteragenia sayi, Phytoplasma asteris, Chionea scita, Caenolampis robertsi, Anaptomecus longiventris, Galapaganus conwayensis, Nesocastolus, and Eumicrota socia.List of another 8 species with pics: Eurythrips, Ischnodemus variegatus, Philodromus barrowsi, Aprostocetus fidius, Colaspis pseudofavosa, Mycosphaerella impatientis, Cymindis planipennis, and Heinrichiessa sanpetella.
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