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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
organized, unseen, unpaid labor acting rapidly and effectively? yeah that'd be women
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
One little thing you can do if you’re feeling helpless tonight: throw a few bucks to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota. They’re reportedly stretched thin for obvious reasons and could use some help if you can offer it. www.ilcm.org?ref=badfaith...
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Home - Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota
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Keung Hui @keunghui.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Trump administration drops legal appeal over anti-DEI funding threat to schools and colleges. This leaves in place a federal judge's ruling that the anti-DEI effort violated the First Amendment and federal procedural rules. (Via AP) apnews.com/article/dei-... #ncpol #nced
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Trump administration drops legal appeal over anti-DEI funding threat to schools and colleges
The Trump administration is dropping its appeal of a federal court ruling that blocked a campaign against diversity, equity, and inclusion threatening federal funding to the nation’s schools and colle...
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Alicia Andrzejewski (she/her) @aliciaandrz.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
I got very choked up in class today showing my students what James Baldwin had to say about Shakespeare: “the greatest poet in the English language found his poetry where poetry is found: in the lives of the people. he could have done this only through love…”
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Keith Smith @drkeithsmith.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Kader, @justtheletteru.bsky.social et al. use multi-wavelength observations to show a precessing jet in an active galaxy is driving a gas outflow. This galactic feedback is removing enough material to affect the star formation rate. ☄️ #extragalactic #AAS247 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Maybe this is naive, but I really do believe that I will live to see justice.
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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
From Margaret Verrico @meverri.bsky.social : Today’s bite zooms in on nearby galaxies to understand how they impact future stellar nurseries and (maybe) suppress star formation. ⚛️🔭☄🧪 astrobites.org/2025/12/18/a...
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Smooth like cosmic butter: How AGN destroy molecular gas clumps in galactic nuclei
Today’s bite zooms in on nearby galaxies to understand how they impact future stellar nurseries and (maybe) suppress star formation.
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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
From Margaret Verrico @meverri.bsky.social : The IceCube collaboration presents the strongest limit yet on the proton fraction of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/05/31/t...
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Kachow! Three high energy neutrinos speed through IceCube
The IceCube collaboration presents the strongest limit yet on the proton fraction of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/05/2025
These are VERY rough estimates, but here's life expectancy after diagnosis of type-I diabetes over the past 150 years. It was Banting and Best's discovery of how to isolate insulin in 1921 — not some fucking cooking class — that gave people including my daughter a new lease on life.
Plot of life expectancy after Type 1 diabetes diagnosis, 1850-2025. 

After the discovery of insulin in 1921, life expectancies go gradually from zero to seventy years.
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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
From Margaret Verrico @meverri.bsky.social : Five years after this supermassive black hole started shining, its X-ray behavior is anything but ordinary. 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/04/16/x-treme-x-rays-in-an-x-tra-young-system/
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X-treme X-rays in an X-tra young system
Five years after this supermassive black hole started shining, its X-ray behavior is anything but ordinary.
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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
From Margaret Verrico @meverri.bsky.social : Today’s authors come up with a new way to account for foreground and background galaxies in galaxy cluster measurements.🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/03/29/c...
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Less than meets the eye: measuring the bias in galaxy cluster observations
Today’s authors come up with a new way to account for foreground and background galaxies in galaxy cluster measurements.
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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
From Margaret Verrico @meverri.bsky.social : Six galaxies show signs of a brand new active black hole in today’s bite. ✨🔭 astrobites.org/2025/02/25/c...
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Six Supermassive Black Holes Wake Up from a Long Nap
Six galaxies show signs of a brand new active black hole in today's bite.
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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
6 weeks ago today, planes flew a few hundred people to El Salvador, where they’re being held at CECOT — a place from which Salvadoran officials brag no one is ever released — at US expense. Their continued detention there is our continued shame.
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litzz11 @litzz11.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Pope Francis’s Easter message, read in St. Peter's Square a day before his death:
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 05/02/2025
in less than eight years the NCAA went from banning North Carolina from hosting championships due to its bathroom bill to... this.
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
This is what revisionist history looks like, in real time. And this also is why it might appear that archaeologists and historians have to dig deep to discover the existence of powerful women and marginalized groups -- because their legacies are so often erased.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Folks have been writing about how the rollback of DEI is segregationist which is absolutely true, but to add, so too are the deportations. Immigration policy in the US has a long history of servicing white supremacy — and it literally denies the co presence of people of color.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/02/2025
This list is mostly Black women. It's clear that the entire anti-DEI project is just neo-segregation. It's the same reason they only targeted Black women at Harvard. They don't believe people of color or women should have any positions of power. www.aol.com/federal-heal...
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Federal health workers terrified after 'DEI' website publishes list of 'targets'
Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies.
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Bouie lays out the stakes plainly and clearly. It’s the first such frank appraisal in legacy media. I’m very glad he wrote it. It’s shareable and accessible and will provide framing Dems who haven’t been able to figure it out can use.There’s also a nudge toward 2nd reconstruction at the end. Bravo.
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Kai Thaler @kaimthaler.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Gift link to Washington Post article on NSF hunting through grant content wapo.st/4aMAdEz
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Here are the words putting science in the crosshairs of Trump’s orders
National Science Foundation staff have been combing through thousands of active science research projects, alongside a list of keywords, to determine if they include activities that violate Trump’s ex...
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
To be clear, Palestinians have resisted American funded & Israeli operated ethnic cleansing since 1948. Trump is just the latest of a long line of monsters, he’s just the dumbest & says the quiet part out loud. But make no mistake: Palestine will be free from the river to the sea.
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W. Carson Byrd @wcbyrdphd.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Horrendous & painful come to mind. The disaster this would cause is hard to fathom, & yet, that’s the point of such threats & possible actions. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
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Science funding agency threatened with mass layoffs
National Science Foundation staff heard the plans at a meeting Tuesday.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 04/02/2025
Folks, we CANNOT memory hole the Hitler salute When we talk about Nazis, it’s not a figure of speech We are talking about an actual Nazi
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Kimberly Quinn 🇨🇦 @kimberlyquinn.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
"Since 1980, Congress has mandated that the agency seek to broaden participation of underrepresented groups, including women and other minorities, within [STEM]. 'The orders are illegal,' says an NSF employee. 'The statutory framework of NSF is being violated.'”
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Exclusive: how NSF is scouring research grants for violations of Trump’s orders
The US National Science Foundation has unfrozen grant funding, but it continues to scrutinize research projects, sowing turmoil.
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Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 04/02/2025
Today is the founding date of a concentration camp
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Snap out of it, America. The warning lights are flashing red. My latest. www.thedailybeast.com/yes-its-a-co...
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Yes, It’s a Coup and Yes, It’s Targeting You
January 6 was nothing compared to the current mob of thugs intent on tearing apart our country’s very system of government.
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Fifth largest economy in the world. "California’s power plants burned 40% less fossil fuel for electricity last year compared to 2023"
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/01/2025
i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
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Brandon @ CrucibleOfThought @crucibleofthought.com · 22/01/2025
It's WAY overused these days, but Tolkien nailed it. "I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I wrote about Trump’s inauguration. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Jaclyn Friedman @jaclynf.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
Y'all know I'm going to fight. I'm going to build with communities of resistance and refusal. You'll hear from me about that, trust. But today I want to share another hot tip for survival in dark times: plan for joy. 1/x
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Please stop marketing me products for “women on the go” — I’m ready for things for women on the stay. Women on the sit down. Women on the cozy bed with three beverages and strong wifi
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Niiro @niiro.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Hannibal Buress saying "Hahaha, this sucks, man."
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