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Metisse

@metisse.bsky.social
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Biophys/Biochem Physics Modeling/ Educator, preK->grad school. Proud member of International Soc of Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopists, and owner of 2 Mickey Mouse watches! Fighting facism with every breath I take. Owned by Aussies. StL, MO.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 34m
I effing despise RFK Jr. I had a cancer caused by HPV that had a massive impact on my life. I would have loved to have a vaccine that could have prevented all of that and whatnot. Yet that fool has claimed that HPV vaccines themselves cause cancer and he’s making bank on that lie and others.
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John Roberts and His Island (Gift Article)
After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever.
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Metisse @metisse.bsky.social · 1h
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Cornell president breaks silence amid outcry over handling of sex assault case | CNN
As outrage builds around the case involving a Cornell University student allegedly gang-raped in a fraternity house in October 2024, the university’s president has broken his silence with a statement ...
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 4h
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 5h
“If the fur is going to be flying, there’s no one I’d rather be talking to than David Corn—and, of course, the incredible journalists and reporters in our newsroom.”
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Introducing "Stress Test": The midterms will test democracy. We'll help you through it.
David Corn and Garrison Hayes on what to watch, what to tune out, and what's at stake. New episodes twice a week.
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in open rebellion. @down2marsgirl.bsky.social · 4h
I just found out Eliezer dropped out of/was pulled from middle school due to "chronic illnesses" but did not actually complete high school, college or any acceptable equivalents and I am just supposed to take him at his word? a fan fiction writer is now responsible for corporate policy in America
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 3h
Does Jared Kushner Know What a Conflict of Interest Is? #MotherJones
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Does Jared Kushner know what a conflict of interest is?
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 3h
Senator Schmitt-Head, "I'd like to solve it. The Atlanta Hawks"
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Metisse @metisse.bsky.social · 3h
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Kodiak149 @kodiak149.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you’re looking for Schmitt In hiding
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 7h
⚖️ Woman Sues Donald Trump for Rape in Florida hotel with Jeffrey Epstein present. (Elyse Relford) 10/2/26 bocanewsnow.com/2026/10/02/w...
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WOMAN SUES DONALD TRUMP FOR ALLEGED RAPE IN FLORIDA HOTEL WITH JEFFREY EPSTEIN PRESENT - BocaNewsNow.com
BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2026 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — A woman just filed a lawsuit against President Donald J. Trump, claiming that she
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 5h
For the past year, Defend Public Health member Dr. Benedicte Callan @benecal.bsky.social has led our Whopper of the Week effort that highlights a falsehood by RFK Jr. and why it matters. We will never run out of material. Here she writes about the lessons learned from her Herculean efforts.
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Opinion | Lessons From a Year of RFK Jr. Disinformation
His lies hide an ugly political agenda that is disastrous for public health
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Ryan Hisner @ryanhisner.bsky.social · 14h
Had no idea how common dengue has become in Florida. Per the CDC, >1000 non-travel-associated US dengue cases in 2026, mostly Florida. A guy I ran cross-country with in high school lost a teenage daughter to dengue last year. Can't believe this isn't big news. www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-13...
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TWiV 1362: Clinical Update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello continue their ongoing exasperation over 5 deaths in Pennsylvania associated with measles infections, the absurdity of RFK Jr.’s st...
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David Brin @davidbrin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Every year on this date I think of Fred Hoyle's great novel and wonder if this is the year... But it's not too late to register to vote or (If in a red state) CHECK your registration and of every friend. Every week for the next 5 weeks. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October...
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October the First Is Too Late - Wikipedia
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David Brin @davidbrin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Great news! Desperate to bribe voters, Trump armtwists the West into emptying our strategic reserves. Like he reamed US weapon stocks and the Officer Corps. And Bush sold our Helium supply to pals at discount. GOPpers always raid the emergency reserves. e.g.FEMA www.nbcnews.com/business/ene...
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G7 countries to release up to 100 million barrels of diesel and crude oil reserves
The move follows a March release of 400 million barrels that helped keep a lid on global gas prices.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 8h
Everyone needs to read this. Reality is, in fact, stranger than fiction. Reality is worse than anything we can say about these people in a few words, media appearances, op-eds, or other conversations. Read the whole thing. ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/urbits3/sitf...
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I Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult In
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These people shouldn’t make policy.
There has been a great effort over many years to distance AI Safety
discussion from its origin and intellectual center, because its center is
predatory sex cult started by a fan fiction author. Since those involved
to be taken seriously, they have to hide that. Everyone else working in
Safety is, effectively, a smokescreen for this core group and their ideas
We might some day have “AI Safety”, as a science or policy area, that
primarily a sex cult in Berkeley, California, but it does not currently exi
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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 15h
Student journalists, Cereese Qusba, and Sophia Dasser, of The Cornell Daily Sun are to be commended for their assiduous reporting of this distressing story. Jane Doe deserves justice. The men who raped her deserve jail. Those who knew and did nothing should be investigated and dealt with.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
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Metisse @metisse.bsky.social · 9h
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Trump Directed Use of Taxpayer Money for Ads Praising His Presidency (Gift Article)
The government-funded ads show just how much President Trump has been able to use federal money for his own aims.
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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Judges Warn That AI-Generated Lawslop Is Getting So Bad It’s Threatening Courts' Ability to Function
A panel of three Florida state district court judges blasted a family attorney for using AI to generate "frivolous, scattershot arguments."
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We are ruining our own institutions, which is sad for us and great for our enemies.
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🤡 Sen. Eric Schmitt, who made a fool of himself today wrongfully attacking Jack Smith, still pushed unwarranted attacks against him. Republicans are disgraceful crooks. @TMZ
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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Korea disputes Trump's claim it agreed to spend $54 billion on Alaska's LNG pipeline; project announcement featured longtime backer Senator Dan Sullivan, who trailed Democrat Mary Peltola in first round of voting. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Korea Disputes Trump’s Claim It Agreed to Invest in Alaska LNG
South Korea has pushed back on the Trump administration’s announcement that the country would invest $54 billion in a liquefied natural gas project in Alaska, saying it had agreed to do so only if the...
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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
President Trump plans another dinner for the top holders of his memecoin, which has plummeted in value even as he made hundreds of millions of dollars last year — more than the salaries of all of Congress. Last year, he spoke and top holders got a WH tour. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Trump Memecoin Dinner Returns as Democrats Threaten Scrutiny
The promoter of Donald Trump’s memecoin is marketing another chance for top holders to attend an event with the president, just as Democratic lawmakers threaten fresh scrutiny of his crypto business d...
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Metisse @metisse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Annie (@AnnieForTruth) on X
Once again, it’s another MAGA pedophile pig. 🤬 Former Madison County, Indiana Republican councilman and pastor Steven Sumner, 58, was sentenced to 30 years in jail after pleading guilty to child moles...
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Metisse @metisse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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🚨Breaking. There's been a pneumonic plague outbreak at a BSL-3 lab in Siberia, Russia.🚨 "Nearly 200 People Under Observation After Irkutsk Lab Worker Dies From Plague" - Moscow Times This is fact, a...
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Metisse @metisse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Martha--😷🇺🇦 (@mryoung151) on X
Nearly 200 People Under Observation After Irkutsk Lab Worker Dies From Plague She reportedly told medical staff that she had accidentally broken a test tube containing live bacteria while collecting s...
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Metisse @metisse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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The Cornell Rape Investigation: Five Takeaways (Gift Article)
The New York Times obtained more than 1,000 pages from the university’s internal inquiry into accusations by “Jane Doe.” Here are the revelations so far.
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Metisse @metisse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-s...
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Palantir’s UK contracts hit £1bn | Weekend Edition
Plus: Stewart Lee | Salman Rushdie interview | Actor Kiell Smith-Bynoe on culture | James Graham’s timely new play | The Weekend Dish
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Metisse @metisse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Republicans Pull Money From North Carolina Senate Race As Midterm Prospects Dim (Gift Article)
The Senate Leadership Fund is diverting money to Kansas, which has become a growing concern for the party as it seeks to hold its majority.
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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 25/09/2026
Dr. Oz is on my flight right now. He is sitting in the very first seat, front row. I saw him get on the plane. So when I stepped off the jetway onto the plane I approached him and put my hand out. What the man in charge of healthcare for the people on the very margins of society said…was revealing
Dr. Oz on flight
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Gloria Pan @glopan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
AI leaders at the WH summit yesterday have donated more than $200 mil to Trump’s Super PAC and pet projects. In return, Trump told them to “self-regulate,” which is no regulation at all. #PayToPlayPresident www.citizen.org/news/tech-ex...
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Tech Executives At AI Roundtable Donated Over $200 Million To Trump’s Super PAC and Pet Projects - Public Citizen
WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, Big Tech executives met with Donald Trump for a meeting about the threats posed by…
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/10/2026
One of the Trump family’s businesses is on its way to becoming a bank. And it’s set to be regulated by a government entity whose leader was appointed by, you guessed it, President Donald Trump.
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Why Trump’s crypto business wants to become a bank
Sen. Elizabeth Warren decries the first family’s latest crypto play as a “clear conflict of interest and corruption.”
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Christopher Miller @christopherjm.ft.com · 02/10/2026
NEW: Yesterday I interviewed President Zelenskyy. Speaking at a school that had just been hit by a Russian jet drone, he said Ukrainian spy agencies had obtained intel that Putin told his military to remove all constraints that governed earlier air campaigns. “He said there are no rules now.”
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Putin has told military leaders to abandon rules of war, Zelenskyy says
Ukrainian leader tells FT his Russian counterpart has given the order that ‘there are no rules now’
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Sharon 🩺🦋🫶🏻💙🍿🐸🚫👑 @sharonsf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🤣🤣🤣🤣 youtube.com/watch?v=_kwf...
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Trump has DISASTER SPEECH before TINY CROWD…IN TEXAS!!
YouTube video by MeidasTouch
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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
AFTER the midterm elections, so gas going up another $2/gallon won't fuck the Republikkkans even harder than they're already fucked.
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Metisse @metisse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Live Updates: Tennessee Inmate in Critical Condition After ‘Torturous’ Botched Execution, Lawyer Says
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Metisse @metisse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Campaign-style Trump ads use money meant for border security, memorials www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Campaign-style Trump ads use money meant for border security, memorials
The White House Office of Management and Budget added $20 million to the pot for commemorative events a day before DHS awarded an advertising contract of the same amount.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/10/2026
🚨 BREAKING: A judge DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE the DOJ’s case against former Olympian David Hearn, warning that leaving the door open could expose him to a “meritless, politically motivated prosecution” and what would “objectively” be harassment.
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Judge Permanently Kills Trump DOJ’s Botched Reflecting Pool Case
A D.C. judge dismissed the prosecution of former Olympian David Hearn with prejudice, warning of the “extraordinary possibility” that he could otherwise face a “meritless, politically motivated prosec...
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Sheryl with an S @beachblond52.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited #DOOR This is the world we live in and the scumbag leaders we have. It makes me furious! Please #VoteBlue to end the insanity!
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Metisse @metisse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Family of Renee Good sues US government and Trump officials over her death | CNN
The family of an American woman shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent has filed two civil lawsuits related to her death, according to court records filed Thursday in Minnesot...
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Metisse @metisse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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FactPost (@factpostnews) on X
Colorado GOP nominee for governor, Victor Marx, laughs as he recounts a violent fight with his wife: "I remember grabbing her, slamming her into our front door. She bent over and started crying."
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Metisse @metisse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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How a Cornell Student Went From Shame to Seeking Justice (Gift Article)
The woman known as “Jane Doe” was initially embarrassed about what happened at a fraternity party in 2024, but soon concluded: “I was assaulted.”
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Lancaster County reports Pennsylvania’s 5th measles-related death, the third death in the county www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/lanc...
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Lancaster County reports Pennsylvania’s 5th measles-related death
To date the CDC has confirmed just 2 measles deaths, as Pennsylvania’s measles cases climb to 943.
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Mike Johnson aides and other congressional staffers planned to take a luxurious official trip to Europe just before the midterms.
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MAGA Aides’ Champagne and Ferraris Pre-Election Trip Busted
Mike Johnson aides and other congressional staffers planned to take a luxurious official trip to Europe just before the midterms.
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Susan Perri @perri4health @perri4health.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This shows the world what republicans are focused on, bull shit. They do not care about the American people. They care about protecting the criminals that attacked the Capitol .
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blondie013.bsky.social @blondie013.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Someone please save Bello! Hasn't he endured enough already? Fostering cost you NOTHING but some compassion for an abused dog on Death Row for Dogs. Don't live in NYC? Free transport to 12 NE states
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Metisse @metisse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Top Republican Says Eric Schmitt’s Botched Jack Smith Intel May Have Come From the White House
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 01/10/2026
Failing up ..."Pete Hegseth appoints Elon Musk to US taskforce on future of warfare. A year after his explosive tenure at Doge, the SpaceX CEO is back in the Trump administration’s good graces." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Pete Hegseth appoints Elon Musk to US taskforce on future of warfare
A year after his explosive tenure at Doge, the SpaceX CEO is back in the Trump administration’s good graces
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