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Physician by education. Public health practitioner at the health department by day. Teller of random Monty Python and other movie quotes and wannabe quiz champion by night. My nouns are nerd and space cadet

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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.
apnews.com
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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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Military commander tomb dating back to King Ramses III uncovered in Ismailia - Ancient Egypt - Antiquities - Ahram Online english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentP...
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Military commander tomb dating back to King Ramses III uncovered in Ismailia - Ancient Egypt - Antiquities
An Egyptian archaeological mission from the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) has discovered the tomb of a high-ranking military commander dating back to King Ramses III, along with a collection of...
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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Ancient Greek and Roman Statues Were Not Only Beautiful, but Also Smelled Nice, Too | Smithsonian www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...
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Ancient Greek and Roman Statues Were Not Only Beautiful, but Also Smelled Nice, Too
New research suggests that sculptures were perfumed with sweet-smelling fragrances such as rose and beeswax
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Melissa Sweet @melissasweetdr.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
These 10 jailed journalists worked for U.S. outlets that Trump silenced www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
washingtonpost.com
Opinion | These 10 jailed journalists worked for U.S. outlets that Trump silenced
Several journalists are still detained in authoritarian states simply for doing their job.
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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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David Sobotta @ocracokewaves.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Republican who introduced Trump derangement syndrome bill arrested for soliciting a minor
Minnesota state senator Justin Eichorn allegedly traveled to meet a 17-year-old he thought he’d met online, but was instead a cop posing as minor
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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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James Temple @jtemple.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Tragic and infuriating read from @jesshamzelou.bsky.social
technologyreview.com
HIV could infect 1,400 infants every day because of US aid disruptions
Survey data suggests that over a third of organizations that relied on US funding for HIV services had already closed by February.
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Dr. Evan J. Gowan @evangowan.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
I am excited to learn about Canada's first scientific expedition to Antarctica, which is being led by Tom James. Tom was my master's supervisor, and obviously had a big influence on what I do now! www.cbc.ca/news/science...
cbc.ca
In Antarctica, Canadian scientists have a 'momentous' chance to learn more about climate change | CBC News
Studies on Antarctica have documented how temperatures, glaciers, oceans and wildlife are reacting to the warming consequences of fossil fuel emissions. A place this remote and isolated makes a perfec...
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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...
youtube.com
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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David Sobotta @ocracokewaves.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Shameful. Full gift article wapo.st/4bzcQPe
wapo.st
Amid ‘DEI’ purge, Pentagon removes webpage on Iwo Jima flag-raiser
Pages celebrating Navajo code talkers and other minority service members were also erased.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Deep sigh aidsunited.org/action/polic...
aidsunited.org
ACTION ALERT: CDC’s Division of HIV Prevention Is Under Attack! We Must Fight Back - AIDS United
CDC’s Division of HIV Prevention Is Under Attack! We Must Fight Back CDC’s Division of HIV Prevention Is Under Attack! We Must Fight Back We have heard very unfortunate news that there is an effort un...
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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-...
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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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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/03/2025
Numerous Teams Express Interest In Aaron Rodgers Playing Elsewhere
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Numerous Teams Express Interest In Aaron Rodgers Playing Elsewhere
NEW YORK—Leaping at the opportunity to make their intentions clear, numerous NFL front offices expressed interest this week in quarterback Aaron Rodgers playing elsewhere, sources confirmed Tuesday. “...
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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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MDJeeves @mdjeeves.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Yeah, and the twin bear cubs are still pissed that you mixed up their names.
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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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MDJeeves @mdjeeves.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Never. In some cases, it gets worse with age.
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MDJeeves @mdjeeves.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
We will be seeing them soon in the Carolinas.
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Rick Rubin @harrisrubin.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Green Heron, Henlopen, Delaware 📷🪶
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MDJeeves @mdjeeves.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Great shot, Sandra. I like that you went with the black and white theme. I am no expert but it looks perfect to me.
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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
🔬🌍The late-Quaternary #extinctions led to novel #herbivore assemblages worldwide🦏🦣 🌿47–64% of today’s assemblages are functionally novel 🔥Large areas w/ novel assemblages have #biome states sensitive to these changes, eg via #fire 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/ece3... #NovelEcosystems #Defaunation #Vegetation
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The Late‐Quaternary Extinctions Gave Rise to Functionally Novel Herbivore Assemblages
We find that 47% of assemblages are functionally novel, indicating that fundamental changes in herbivore impacts have occurred across the world. On 20% of land, functionally novel herbivore assemblag....
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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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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
It's a tight contest but this is truly one of the dumbest things DOGE wants to cut: www.eenews.net/articles/pus...
eenews.net
Push to close dam safety center spurs backlash
The Army Corps' Risk Management Center was set up to make the agency more efficient and better-equipped to prevent dam and levee failures.
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Matt B @matttg.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Needed some desert #geology #stars 🧪⚒️
Stars near the southern USA border.
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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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Albert Snail @albertsnail.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
#Crocus #Flowers in my #garden the other day 💐✨ #mygarden 💗💐✨ #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBlueSky #GardeningBluesky #gardening #flower #GardenersWorld #whatsinmyvase #gardeningfeed 🌱 #photography
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MDJeeves @mdjeeves.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
If there is a future Space Force Academy, can we call the students, "Space Cadets?"
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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...
breastcancer.org
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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MDJeeves @mdjeeves.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Could have been slowly consumed in the stomach of the Sarlacc. So I guess you count your blessings!
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
🤦🏽‍♂️ RFK Jr. Vows To Make Measles Deaths So Common They Won’t Be Upsetting Anymore — theonion.com/rfk-jr-vows-...
theonion.com
RFK Jr. Vows To Make Measles Deaths So Common They Won’t Be Upsetting Anymore
WASHINGTON—Addressing the ongoing outbreak in Texas that has infected at least 124 state residents and killed one child, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vowed Thursday to mak...
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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...
axios.com
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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