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Holly

@mirastella.bsky.social
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astronomer, lover of dogs, watcher of sci-fi. she/her.

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Rachel Fairbank @sweetsciencewriter.bsky.social · 8h
“The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage.” No words. I am speechless. This violates all ethical boundaries.
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Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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Scott Colom @scolom.bsky.social · 12h
America is great because America is good. As a prosecutor and an American, I am horrified by Pete Hegseth’s plan to livestream an execution. What Nidal Hasan did is unforgivable. But we must have justice without sinking to the lows of dictatorships and terrorist regimes.
politico.com
Hegseth faces bipartisan backlash over public execution for Fort Hood shooter
Both Republican and Democratic critics said the plan was beneath the United States.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 10/10/2026
The machine did not "go rogue." The machine belongs to and is the responsibility of the people who own it. Hold those people accountable for their goddamn machine.
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 15h
This is outrageous. Donald Trump just announced a deal with Vladimir Putin to import Russian diesel, and Treasury immediately lifted sanctions on Russian diesel exports through April. Those sanctions exist for one reason. They limit the money Putin can use to wage his brutal war on Ukraine.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump has denied disaster relief for Illinois following severe storms in August. Trump approved a request from Indiana for damage resulting from the same storms. One is a "blue state." The other is a "red state." No other president has politicized natural disasters the way that Trump has.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
People forget that J6 was successful. Everyone who participated was let out of jail and the guy who perpetrated it is President again. There were no consequences. They have plenty of incentive to do a much bigger and worse version.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 08/10/2026
The CDC just re-opened a previously shelved study that would withhold the hepatitis B vaccine from children in Guinea-Bissau, despite decades of evidence showing it is safe and effective. This is a violation of human rights, using “science” to harm some of the most vulnerable people in the world.
Breaking-news graphic featuring a photo of RFK Jr with headline that reads "RFK JR. TO GIVE 1.6M IN CDC FUNDS TO EXPERIMENT ON AFRICAN BABIES IN UNETHICAL TRIAL"
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This level of naked, open corruption is unprecedented in our history.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 07/10/2026
(3/2) ESA is pressing ahead with the EnVision mission by developing their own VenSAR radar replacement. The mission will still be hugely successful. But when bilateral international agreements are cancelled unilaterally by politicians, US scientific collaborations and *science leadership* suffer.
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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
As federal officials continue to consider changes to wolf protections, here’s a reminder of what the numbers actually show:
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 07/10/2026
It's a rape-ocracy from the top down
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Holly @mirastella.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
OMG Will they ever stop stealing from Tolkien for everything he would have opposed.
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Nope. Court expansion is a concerted effort to undo two decades of poison dripped into the veins of our democracy from a politicized Supreme Court.
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Maine Newsroom @mainenewsroom.com · 06/10/2026
10/6 The story of Senator Susan Collins refusing to meet with 17 female Maine elected officials who went to DC to talk to her about Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination #maine #MEpolitics
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Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com · 06/10/2026
Californians' lives are not expendable in Donald Trump's unhinged, reckless war in Iran. This is yet another callous comment from the tyrant in the White House who dragged the American people into a war that we do not want.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 06/10/2026
While this hearing didn't proceed, it's clear the Trump admin is continuing what a judge has called a "vindictive prosecution" of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. As I said from day 1, if they can do this to Kilmar, they can do it to anyone. We'll keep fighting this political persecution.
nbcnews.com
Kilmar Ábrego Garcia hearing on his deportation case is suddenly canceled
The government was moving to vacate a preliminary injunction preventing ICE from detaining and deporting him, while his legal team was trying to make the injunction permanent.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I cannot emphasize enough how much damage Megyn Kelly has done to women everywhere. Us normal humans are concerned Jane Doe may harm herself. Megyn Kelly thinks being a famous alleged rape victim —with every mouthbreather on Twitter trying to dox and hurt you — is a life highlight.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We murdered four more people in a boat today
U.S. southern Command: On October 4, under the direction of #SOUTHCOM, Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere executed a lethal, kinetic strike on a go-fast vessel operating along established narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean. Confirmed intelligence revealed the vessel's active involvement in narco-trafficking. The operation killed four narco-terrorists. @DeptofWar
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Trump is holding the G7 at his own golf resort so he can shovel more money from the US treasury into his private pocket, and collect from other governments, too. This time no one says a word about it, even though everyone thinks it's record-breaking corruption and sleaze.
nytimes.com
How Trump Moved Ethical Lines With His Ads, Businesses and Summits
The president’s decision to hold an international summit at his own private golf club, an idea rejected in his first term, illustrates how much he has shattered norms.
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I hope everyone involved ends up in cages at the Hague
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 03/10/2026
Mark Zuckerberg tells investors that his AI push is a huge success. But when it files its taxes, Meta tells the IRS its giant data centers are an experiment that might fail. Why? Because calling them an experiment lets Meta claim a tax credit meant for real research.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I Completely Agree, Coach!
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
“We’re making a machine that’s a guy who sets up a table and a sign that says “change my mind” and you have to argue with it forever.”
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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“ME TOO went too far” said the country that re-elected a rapist.
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 30/09/2026
No bear has ever doxxed a rape victim
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Or maybe—just hear me out—people simply don’t want deafening, water guzzling, heat generating, utility bill exploding data centers anywhere near their communities. Video: buff.ly/GwiTUX2
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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 28/09/2026
An unelected political appointee is disobeying the will of Congress & the rule of law by withholding funds for programs approved with bipartisan support. Blatantly unconstitutional. Flagrantly anti-science. The latest example of authoritarianism from the Trump admin.
npr.org
What to know about the $810 million in spending canceled by President Trump
President Trump announced plans to cancel $810 million in Congressionally approved spending, a move that some in his own party are calling illegal.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 28/09/2026
you can already hear the deficit hawks revving their engines for 2029
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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I am tired of having to pretend that the value of studying my discipline solely rests on the "marketable skills" we teach. Sometimes things are just worth knowing and doing because they make your life bigger and richer.
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
(1/3)Add congenital measles to the list of things that the Trump regime has led to. Per NBC News: At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 28/09/2026
Trump's nominee to lead the FDA refused to say whether she thinks mifepristone—which has been approved by the FDA for DECADES—is safe. Medication abortion is the most common way women access abortion in America. Every Senator must vote NO.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every photo I see out of the White House looks like a Gatsby remake 
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
At this moment Elon Musk alone is worth $893,449,882,001
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“They don’t understand the scale of the hunger!”- An unfolding crisis at the nation’s food banks
Weeks before the midterm elections, the cost crisis is hammering food pantries in red and blue states
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Holly @mirastella.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Well, one of the stations has pop too. I don't remember which station, if it's only one or not, that I hear it on.
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Holly @mirastella.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I do listen to the radio in the car yet, and I change the channel every time it comes on. Wondering why there's country on my rock/alternative stations.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You can tell, with all of the explicit ethnic cleansing making everything worse and more expensive, the GOP's next target is just to go all out on gender wars. Everyone on X or Rumble is complaining about nagging women 24/7, with brief respites for holocaust denial. Full 4chan incel GOP incoming.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I think of the climate harm AI poses the same way: the threats are not theoretical or in the future, but unfolding all around us now.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is a sharp prediction from @aselrod.bsky.social: In the post-Trump era, many MAGA commentators will try to leave the stench of their support for him behind. "Some chunk of the far-right commentariat will try to make safe passage back to mainstream media. We should not let them." Indeed!
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
They forced three million people to go without health insurance by raising the premiums while slashing subsidies. This is a catastrophe and will wind up costing us much more long term.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.
nytimes.com
F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins
The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
At her 22-week ultrasound, Amanda Jablonski learned their daughter had developed without a skull or a brain. There was no chance for survival, and every day Amanda stayed pregnant was a threat to her health and life. Under TN law, she was denied an abortion. www.wbir.com/article/news...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
15/ ProPublica is revealing the existence of the case for the first time. We reviewed a trove of evidence gathered by the FBI and thousands of pages of legal records, and have independently corroborated much of Kao’s account. This is the first piece of an ongoing series:
propublica.org
The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Cedar Riener @criener.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Every innovation and change in business these days is either: We took this product you like and turned it into a subscription We took this subscription you begrudgingly pay and added some ads We took these ads you found annoying and found more ways to find you
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 22/09/2026
Women are half the population, and yet the majority of physicians have NO training on how to treat women with menopause. I talked to Dr. Rachel Rubin and Dr. Kelly Casperson about how women are demanding better, and why Congress should PASS my bill to invest in menopause research & training.
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Holly @mirastella.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
So freaking bad. It's all grifters and medications. Even the "legit" companies come off as psychological warfare.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Stories like this have, for ages, treated men's desire to harm women as a sort of background noise, a weather we just normalize and accept and try to work around. Feminism is among other things a process of denormalization.
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