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mbkraus.bsky.social @mbkraus.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Maura L. Gillison, Who Linked Throat Cancers to HPV, Dies at 61 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/09/s... Just learned about the life and work of Dr Gillison and as a mom of a son am so very grateful for her work and sorry to hear about her passing away.
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Maura L. Gillison, Who Linked Throat Cancers to HPV, Dies at 61
She challenged the conventional view that most head and neck cancers resulted from cigarette smoking and excessive alcohol consumption.
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Ariaa® @ariaa.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Washington, Chicago, Cleveland and Baltimore, empty retail spaces are being converted into high-tech vertical farms that use hydroponic systems, LED lighting and automated smart sensors to grow fresh vegetables, herbs and leafy greens all year round. #VerticalFarming
Vertical farming report Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation, Area 2 Farms, Arlington VA, 2025. National Retail Federation Report, 2023.
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Temecula Rises @temecularises.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Very evolved algae. 😉😁
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Such good news. Human beings are capable of magical and wonderful things. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given HPV vaccine
A new study finds that hundreds of lives have been saved since school-age girls were offered the HPV jab in 2008.
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Ariaa® @ariaa.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
NASA Perseverance rover captures what a Martian night really looks like from the ground
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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
With each passing day, I'm liking Jon Ossoff more and more. I think he may be the real deal.
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butterflygirl24 @butterflygirl24.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Mississippi called a special session TODAY to erase the only Black congressman in this state. Mississippi residents showed up. All of them. On their doorstep. In their streets. To show them what they're fighting against. ✊🏼 #mississippi #democracy
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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
This is a political time to wake up EVERYDAY prepared to Speak Truth to Power!.....
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Mark Tolman (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈 🖖 @mtolman.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Mike Johnson thinks $174,000 isn’t enough to survive without insider trading. But $15/hour is too much to ask for everyone else. Every single day, these goons prove how disconnected they are from everyday Americans.
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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Younger daughter & I found these fossilised crinoid rock stars (segments of the ‘stem’ of Jurassic feather stars/sea lilies, related to starfish & sea urchins) in the gravel on the edge of a lake nr Peterborough UK. She used them to make an ammonite:
A spiral of crinoid ossicles from the Jurassic arranged in a spiral according to size on a white glazed plate
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End Citizens United @endcitizensunited.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
BREAKING: SB 2471 has been signed into law! It’s the first of its kind in the nation and renders the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision irrelevant in Hawaii. This is a win for the movement to get big money, especially dark money, out of politics.
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New Hawaii law targets corporate influence in politics after Citizens United ruling
Hawaii's Democratic governor has signed a bill to curb corporate and "dark money" influence in politics. This move comes after the 2010 U.S.
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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Alex Haley grew up in Tennessee. He traced his family tree back to his original enslaved, African ancestor, then wrote 'Roots'. He received a Pulitzer Prize for it. Knoxville just banned it 'cause it might make white kids sad.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16/05/2026
‼️THE SOUTH WILL NOT BE SILENCED‼️ Today’s march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge is a reminder that voting rights were paid for in blood. And now those same rights are under attack again. Next: Montgomery #AllRoadsLeadToTheSouth
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mbkraus.bsky.social @mbkraus.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
substack.com/@navshad/not... What is going on?!?!
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Bobby Jones (@navshad)
“Amateurs think tactics professionals think logistics“. Sailors and Marines are rationing food while on deployment fighting a war. If this is what winning looks like I would sure hate to see what defe...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/04/2026
Cardinal Cupich: "We're dehumanizing the victims of war by turning the suffering of people & killing of children & our own soldiers into entertainment. To splice together movie cuts w/ actual bombings & targeting of people for purposes of entertainment is sickening. This is not who we are."
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Senator Martin Heinrich @heinrich.senate.gov · 09/04/2026
Every time I think that this administration can’t get any more hostile to public lands, they outdo themselves. Now they want to shut down regional offices for the U.S. Forest Service and reorganize how we fight fires – just as we’re heading into fire season.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES DOJ lawsuit to obtain Massachusetts' unredacted voter file. A victory for our clients the New England NAACP and the MA Alliance for Retired Americans and the Commonwealth. My firm is now 4-0 in these cases against DOJ. www.democracydocket.com/cases/massac...
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🚨 United States of America v. Galvin
Learn more.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Ousted Army Chief of Staff, Gen. Randy George, told Pentagon officials in an outgoing email that U.S. soldiers deserve "courageous leaders of character," after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth asked him to step down and take immediate retirement.
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Ousted Army chief of staff says soldiers deserve "courageous leaders" in email
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth asked George to step down and take immediate retirement, CBS News exclusively reported earlier this week.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Both Axios and Reuters now reporting that U.S. special forces rescued the second crew member of the F-15 fighter jet that was shot down over Iran www.axios.com/2026/04/05/i...
axios.com
Second crew member from F-15 downed in Iran rescued by U.S. forces: Officials
Both members of the crew were rescued by special forces.
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Dr. Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
A budget is a moral document. Trump cuts taxes for the rich, programs for everyone else — while ballooning the already bloated war budget and raiding the treasury for himself and his family. And he hopes we’re all too dumb/apathetic to notice.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Buh-bye, Johnny. Don’t let the door hit your ass on your way out.
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mbkraus.bsky.social @mbkraus.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Don’t get me wrong, they ALL need to go BUT firing the WOMEN first is so misogynistic, just saying.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
This is amazing news! The people of Minneapolis and St. Paul are being recognized with one of the most prestigious civic honors in America. The JFK Library Foundation announced today that the people of the Twin Cities will receive a 2026 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for their resistance!
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Mike Quigley @quigley.house.gov · 16/03/2026
The Veterans Assistance Commission of Cook County is hosting a free CLAIMS CLINIC later this month, so you can get the benefits you've earned! Veterans and their families can come to the clinic from 10 am to 2 pm at VFQ Post 5079 on Saturday, March 28th for assistance.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/02/2026
Aliya Rahman, woman who was dragged out of car by ICE in Minneapolis: "I've spent the last month learning the names of the tendons in my shoulder, because both of my shoulders are torn -- cartilage and tendons. But what I haven't learned is the names of the people who did this to me."
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
"In Pennsylvania, the Shapiro administration is warning federal officials that it will not issue required state permits for two planned immigration detention centers..." www.spotlightpa.org/berks/2026/0...
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Shapiro admin tells ICE to drop plans for PA detention centers
ICE detention centers planned for Berks and Schuylkill Counties would burden residents and possibly violate state legal requirements, officials say.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Georgetown is on this list: When I was a professor there, I was honored to teach military officers, who were part of the best learning experiences I've ever led. Hegseth does not want education, he wants indoctrination. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/fetishizin...
For example, last summer I had a class that included both a lot of military officers and a lot of first-generation minority students. They generated an incredibly rich discourse, about the role of US power, and issues related to race and tolerance. They not just heard views they would not normally hear from peers, but actually listened. The discussion got better as the class went on, and students trusted each other more. Good discourse comes from a mutual place of trust rather than antagonism. You trust that you can say something boneheaded and that people will not hate you for it. We can ask students to do this anyway, but it can’t be forced. To some degree, trust must be earned.
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KindLivesMatter @bekindforthefuture.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
They are doubling down folks. They virtually want to require a passport to vote, which will significantly increase the numbers of Americans seeking one, WHILE DIMINISHING THE ABILITY to get a passport. SURE, no voter suppression involved here 🙄 Ayiyi. A purposeful disaster in the making?
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State Department orders nonprofit libraries to stop processing passport applications — The Associated Press
The State Department has ordered nonprofit public libraries to stop taking passport applications, cutting off a popular local service.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13/02/2026
Whoa! Didn’t expect to wake up to this news. “A year into Trump’s term, voters say Biden was better.” Trump’s net approval on the economy is now -18. That’s 26 points worse than this point in his first term and a brutal 53 points lower among independents. 1/2
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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
The spreadsheet on this clay tablet, which is almost 4,000 years old, is organised into columns for furrowed area, grain produced, land not sown, and the field’s name. The first field is called “Of the soldiers who stood in for their fathers”. It’s ancient Excel, but I find that incredibly moving
Photo of a clay cuneiform tablet with a crack down the centre shown from front and sidesDrawing of a cuneiform tablet that is arranged in a table.
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WatchYourRepsTN&SC @watchyourrepssc.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Republicans choose power over people. The SAVE Act 2.0 blocks registration, demands passports or birth records millions do not have, & sets up mass voter purges. They fear turnout, so they’re trying to stop it. Call 202-224-3121. #HandsOffHerVote social.demcast.com/s/1tAYsXQc
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 09/02/2026
Friends, that was NOT Liam Ramos at the Super Bowl halftime show. Folks need to stop spreading that false information. That said, the symbolism was clear 🙏🏽
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Thee NYC angry black latina mom! ♉️🇩🇴🗽 🐝💛 @urbanmodernism.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but there was a time when it was illegal for Puerto Ricans to speak Spanish or wave the bandera. People were jailed and killed for it. So seeing the Puerto Rican flag at the Super Bowl isn’t just pride, it’s history, survival, & resistance. #Pinks #Momsky
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the statue of liberty has a puerto rico flag draped over it 's head
ALT: the statue of liberty has a puerto rico flag draped over it 's head
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Karoli @karoli.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Well no wonder wingers are offended. /s
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Deep Singh Badhesha @deepnotshallow.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Wait hold up... Did Bad Bunny just give his Grammy to Liam Conejo Ramos the poor kid who was kidnapped by ICE? If so amazing The sign beforehand said "Conejo" on it too
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
The billboard behind Bad Bunny during this halftime performance reads: "The only thing more powerful than hate is love." #SuperBowl
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TommasinaResist⚜️🦋🐈‍⬛ @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Louisiana, heads-up! State House District 60! We need you at the polls TOMORROW, Feb 7! Elect Chastity Martinez! #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
During the Korean War, U.S. Navy Capt. Royce Williams shot down four Soviet MiG-15s in a dogfight. But he was later directed to keep silent at the peak of the Cold War. More than 70 years later, he'll receive the Medal of Honor.
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Navy pilot who shot down 4 Soviet fighter jets during Korean War to receive Medal of Honor
On Nov. 18, 1952, Royce Williams was piloting an F9F-5 Panther when he encountered seven Soviet MiG-15s. He shot down four of the fighters.
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DemCast USA @demcast.com · 02/02/2026
From Public Square in Cleveland to Columbus streets, thousands turned out Friday to defend Haitian families in Springfield from an anticipated ICE surge. With TPS ending Feb 3, protests in over 300 cities showed resistance can’t be ignored.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
"A 2-year-old boy was breastfeeding in detention. One 6-year-old boy had leukemia. An 8-year-old girl began wetting the bed. A 14-year-old girl engaged in self-harm...None of these children or their parents had a criminal history anywhere in the world." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...
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Opinion | Liam Ramos Was Just One of Hundreds of Children at This Detention Center. Release Them All.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
NEW: Former US Capitol riot prosecutors draft strategy memo for Congress to investigate federal agents and killings in Minneapolis Just filed ====> www.cbsnews.com/news/capitol...
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Former Capitol riot prosecutors draft strategy for Congress to probe killings, federal agent conduct in Minneapolis
The memo details a series of recommendations for Congressional committees to probe allegations of excessive force and violations by ICE agents in Minneapolis.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Bad Bunny with a powerful anti-ICE speech at the Grammys 🔥🔥🔥🔥 "Before I say thanks to God, I’m going to say ‘ICE out.’ We’re not savages, we’re not animals, we’re not aliens. We are humans and we are Americans."
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Survive and Advance @surviveandadvance.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Bad Bunny rocks. #Minnesota #Ohio #Iowa
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Dorian @flvillager.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
A message from Liam
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Bad Bunny at the Grammys: "Before I say thanks to God, I want to say ICE out. We're not savage, we're not animals, we're not aliens, we are humans, and we are Americans."
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Bock Sam @bocksam.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
What a comedic genius she was!
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