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bosphotoguy.bsky.social @bosphotoguy.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

The muskrats are back and it's mating season! They are one of my favorite creatures. #muskrats #critters #wildlife #nature #photography

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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Kristi Noem billed South Dakota taxpayers more than $640,000 in personal travel-related costs, including a six-day trip to Paris, a bear hunt in Canada, a trip to Houston for dental work to fix her smile, and a book tour. But she can afford a $50,000 Rolex for a prison porn photo op in El Salvador.

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Kristi Noem refused to say who financed some of her travel. It was taxpayers who were on the hook

An Associated Press analysis of recently released travel records found more than $150,000 in expenses tied to Noem’s political and personal activity.

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

They need to “fall in line” less and leak more. Come on. Learn how to do it securely, and then do it.

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🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸 @peter.fairley.ca · 29/03/2025

“My hope is that during the coming years, the unprecedented assault on scientific truth that has adversely impacted public health in our nation comes to an end.” — Dr. Peter Marks, hematologist oncologist and America's vaccine safety leader @wsj.com 🎁 link: www.wsj.com/politics/top...

wsj.com

Exclusive | FDA’s Top Vaccine Official Forced Out

In his resignation letter, Dr. Peter Marks cited “misinformation and lies” from Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/03/2025

merit is back baby

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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 28/03/2025

Many US coastal cities have combined sewer systems that overflow after heavy rain, sending raw sewage into nearby waters. Challenges like this are about to get worse with the recent San Francisco v. EPA #SCOTUS decision undermining the Clean Water Act and eroding the EPA’s ability to enforce it.

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SCOTUS Rules in Favor of Sewage: You Can't Make This Sh** Up

This administration’s EPA is determined to undermine public health and safety.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 20/03/2025

DOGE’s secrecy is alarming—but Country First is cutting through the darkness, exposing the truth, and demanding transparency. Www.country1st.com

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Baseball media: if you do not loudly report on this I do not want to hear a goddamn thing from you about Jackie Robinson on April 15. bsky.app/profile/fbih...

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 19/03/2025

Trump's EPA: "Who needs science anyway?" thehill.com/policy/energ... "A plan calls for the elimination of the Office of Research and Development as an EPA National Program Office. It called for the elimination of 50 percent to 75 percent of the office’s 1,540 staffers."

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Jason Dinh @byjasonpdinh.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I spoke with @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social about his surprising obsession with tuberculosis—and why our inability to solve solvable crises like TB and climate change is an indictment of our species my latest for @atmosmagazine.bsky.social 🌎🧪

atmos.earth

For John Green, Tuberculosis Is More Than A Disease | Atmos

The bestselling author says our inability to fix solvable crises is an indictment of our empathy and shared humanity.

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, or SSPE, “was once considered quite rare. But Dr. Adam Ratner, a pediatric infectious disease specialist in New York City who wrote a history of measles, says data from outbreaks in the U.S. over the past several decades suggests that may not always be the case.”

npr.org

Measles remains a danger to health even years after an infection

The measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico is now close to 300 cases. Most are unvaccinated children. People usually recover, but doctors are stressing how dangerous and long-lasting it can be.

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Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Pentagon has been ordering the removal of web site references to General Colin Powell and the Tuskegee Airmen and one of the flag-raisers at Iwo Jima as part of a crackdown on DEI. Have you no shame Pete Hegseth?(hat tip to Task and Purpose, WaPo for reporting) youtube.com/shorts/0HJpe...

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Pentagon removes web references to Colin Powell and others as part of DEI purge. Have you no shame?

YouTube video by Jim Acosta

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Adriana Guatame-García @adriguatame.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

“I belong, I’m capable, my achievements are real” I should use this as a mantra 🧪👩‍🔬

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 18/03/2025

Trump said his presidency is the most successful since George Washington’s. If this is success, America might not survive much more of it. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

adamkinzinger.substack.com

The Trump Recession: How One Man’s “Success” is Wrecking America

From economic collapse to global blunders, Trump’s policies are backfiring—bigly.

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

10 years before the Covid pandemic, Big Bang Theory taught us the basics of airborne transmission of infectious diseases

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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social · 18/03/2025

Texas Dept. of Health and Human Services' 3/18/25 update on the measles outbreak. Look the case ages--many aren't small kids. Highlights how kindergarten/grade 7 vax stats for a particular year don't show how risk in a school/community grows over time as successive classes progress thru grades. 🛟

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Measles Outbreak – March 18, 2025 | Texas DSHS

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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

ICE detained Julio Noriega, a 54 year-old US citizen who was born in Chicago, for over 10 hours on January 31st. He was walking around "Berwyn, Illinois, handing out his resume to local businesses." They didn't show him a warrant. They didn't give him paperwork. And he's now suing.

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Rick Rubin @harrisrubin.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Green Heron, Henlopen, Delaware 📷🪶

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Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

A US-born citizen was walking near Chicago in January. ICE snatched him off the street, handcuffed him, threw into a van. His wallet, which contained his ID, was confiscated. He was detained for 10 hours before being released without a record of what occurred. immigrantjustice.org/sites/defaul...

A screenshot from a court filing reads, in part:

"Julio Noriega is 54 years old, was born in Chicago, and is a U.S. citizen.

On January 31, 2025, he was walking near the corner of Cermak Road and Harlem Avenue in Berwyn, Illinois, handing out his resume to local businesses.

As he walked out of a Jiffy Lube, he was approached by ICE officers who grabbed and handcuffed him and put him into a van, without an opportunity to explain his citizenship.

The officers drove Julio and others around for more than an hour before bringing him to an ICE processing center, where he remained, still handcuffed, for several more hours.

All the while, Julio had a wallet containing identification that ICE had confiscated.

The officers never showed Julio a warrant, and they did not ask him any questions to ascertain whether he was a noncitizen or a flight risk.

After about 10 hours, ICE officers reviewed the contents of Julio’s
wallet, realized he was a U.S. citizen, and released him with no money and no paperwork."

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Matt B @matttg.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Needed some desert #geology #stars 🧪⚒️

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

#econsky. Add it to your feed

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

X post by Timothy Snyder (@TimothyD
...), posted 6 hours ago. The post reads, "The people Attorney General Bondi is calling 'terrorists' have had no trial and no chance to defend them. We do not know they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril."

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 18/03/2025

My fraternity, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, has a creed you have to memorize and try to live up to called “The True Gentleman.” Curious if you think our current president is a “true gentleman”?

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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

(591) Warwick Classics' Society's 2025 production of Aeschylus' Agamemnon at the Warwick Arts Centre - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgZ-...

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Warwick Classics' Society's 2025 production of Aeschylus' Agamemnon at the Warwick Arts Centre

YouTube video by Classics and Ancient History @ Warwick

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

The TESLA (a/k/a "TESLER") TAKEDOWN is working... WORLDWIDE! Turns out people really resent an unelected weirdo running our Government & creating economic chaos. Hit Elmo where it really hurts: in his big, fat wallet. If we #TankTesla, It's Ex-X! (a/k/a Twitter) #WinWin Visit www.takedowntesla.com

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Sherry Pagoto, PhD @drsherrypagoto.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Having recently lost a friend to a chemo-resistant cancer, I'm deeply saddened to see scientific progress slowing down... This scientist's NIH-funded work on a new drug for chemo-resistant breast cancer is now on hold indefinitely. www.breastcancer.org/news/nih-fun...

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New Drug for an Aggressive Form of Breast Cancer Now in Limbo Thanks to NIH Freeze

Gloria Echeverria's lab is studying a new drug for treating triple-negative breast cancer. A grant proposal to fund this research remains in limbo.

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WIRED @wired.com · 18/03/2025

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

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Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow

As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

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Andrew Freedman @afreedma.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Scoop: NOAA is suspending its long-running monthly media calls on climate stats and climate change, blaming lack of staff. Some other hints at why are in the story. The data, however, will still be released on schedule, NOAA says. www.axios.com/2025/03/13/n...

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NOAA axes monthly climate change briefings, blames staff cuts

The agency was having trouble recruiting scientists to take part in the calls, Axios sources said.

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world. Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization

Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region. We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant survival over the past 50...

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

The survival strategy of the 9-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) mostly involves running full-speed in one direction (largely at random). They lack cone cells in their eyes & the rod cells are so sensitive that they have 'fuzzy, colorless' vision during the day.

science.org

ScienceShot: Armadillo's Bad Eyesight Could Shed Light on Human Blindness

Genes found in armored mammal could lead to therapies for human disorders

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Henry Gee 亨利·纪 @endofthepier.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

The Further Chronicles of Pupperino: me and my fren Primrose are watching a dogumentary called Crufts. It's all about doggos running around and enjoying themselves. It looks SOOO fun. We'd love to join in.

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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

The hits just keep coming. Here’s an example of the ways that cuts to federal funding will affect us all (and not in a good way). These cuts will affect local farms, schools, and community programs (as well as USDA itself). www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

politico.com

USDA cancels $1B in local food purchasing for schools, food banks

States have been notified that they will not receive 2025 funding for schools to buy food from nearby farms.

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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social · 11/03/2025

"...I have worked as a physician & public-health expert responding to infectious diseases around the world...I know how lethal Donald Trump’s assault on America’s outbreak preparedness could be. We are sure to regret it..." 🛟🧪📉😷 sociology polisky policysky health policy lawsky medsky idsky

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The Diseases Are Coming

Elon Musk’s slash-and-burn government tear will have lasting effects on global health.

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