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mpgrenier.bsky.social @mpgrenier.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A rose-breasted grosbeak #Eating with food in its beak — today’s alt theme for #BirdOfTheDay

mpgrenier.bsky.social @mpgrenier.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay alt theme is birds standing on anything except branches, so here’s a red-tailed hawk #Perched on a balcony railing.

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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Still not a hoax.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Over a dozen states have important voter registration deadlines today. Check your registration and make a plan to vote at IWillVote.com. Then ask friends and neighbors to do the same.

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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Simulation model: a 50% decline in childhood vaccination in the US would lead to 51.2 million measles cases over 25 years, 9.9 million rubella cases, 4.3 million poliomyelitis cases, 197 diphtheria cases, 10.3 million hospitalizations, and 159,200 deaths. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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Modeling Reemergence of Vaccine-Eliminated Infectious Diseases Under Declining Vaccination in the US

How will declining childhood vaccination rates affect the risk of outbreaks and reemergence of previously eliminated infectious diseases in the US? At current state-level vaccination rates, measles ma...

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mpgrenier.bsky.social @mpgrenier.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

A #bee doing serious bee work. Love how she cleans off her antenna after a deep dive in the flowers (and yes, almost all the pollinator bees are female).

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mpgrenier.bsky.social @mpgrenier.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Just posted my protest. I have been to Chaco Canyon and the potential damage this proposal will cause is heartbreaking culturally and inexcusable environmentally.

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Hobbes @flawedfacade.blacksky.app · 27/07/2026

Squished in the middle of this story was this heartbreaking paragraph. Unconscionable.

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mpgrenier.bsky.social @mpgrenier.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Here’s one industrious bee taking a nap

A bee sits in the center of a pink cornflower, its back covered in pollen.

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mpgrenier.bsky.social @mpgrenier.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

“Without immediate congressional action to delay this cost shift for all states, the unfolding emergency will only worsen as more children are cut off from the food assistance their families need to afford nutritious food,” the CBPP said.

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More than 1 million children lost access to food benefits after Trump bill passed

Analysis finds more than 4 million Americans lost Snap benefits, or food stamps, from July 2025 to March 2026

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

BREAKING: Justice Department agrees to withdraw subpoenas issued to New York Times reporters in leak investigation related to new Air Force One jet. Withdrawal of subpoenas follows hearing before NY federal judge, who indicated he was inclined to quash the subpoenas.

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mpgrenier.bsky.social @mpgrenier.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I always thought Rigsby should have been Red John, ending the series before he marries Grace. Owain Yeoman is imminently capable of the transformation: He could use his natural Welch speaking voice & he played Benedict Arnold in the series about George Washington’s spies. youtu.be/Df7tJMea2g0

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Turn Meet Benedict Arnold

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mpgrenier.bsky.social @mpgrenier.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

“We are bringing back diseases that medicine spent a century learning to stop. … You can measure a society by what it promises a newborn it will never meet. We are taking the promise back, one program at a time.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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I’m a critical care doctor. I’ve never seen the US harm its children this deliberately | Robert B Shpiner

At every stage of childhood, the Trump administration is withdrawing a protection. It is also dismantling the tools that would measure the harm

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Juneteenth reminds us that nothing about freedom can be taken for granted. As we commemorate the end of slavery in the United States, we are also called to reckon with the lasting impacts on Black Americans, and inequality in this country more broadly.

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mpgrenier.bsky.social @mpgrenier.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

TIL that the Eddie Haskell actor (Ken Osmond) looked surprisingly like Bill Clinton at one point in their lives.

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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Writing the script for this @250to250.bsky.social piece was a thrill. And then getting to narrate it as well has made my day, week, and month. Thanks to @hcrichardson.bsky.social and everyone on the 250 to 250 team for allowing me to participate and honor Eisenhower and all the troops of D-Day.

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News Literacy Project @newslit.org · 05/06/2026

1/ "A lot of teenagers want clarity about what they can trust." Meet Ridley Mentzer, 14, from Los Angeles, whose service project about helping his peers find credible information won an eighth-grade fair competition. He was awarded $100 that he could donate to a nonprofit, & he chose NLP.

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L.A. area teen gives prize winnings to News Literacy Project

Ridley Mentzer, 14, knows teens struggle to make sense of news and other information today. That's why he donated $100 to the News Literacy Project.

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250 to 250 @250to250.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Dr. Jelani Cobb is an author, journalist, and Dean of Columbia Journalism School. Cobb tells the story of John Peter Zenger, a newspaperman whose trial for printing critical statements about the royal governor of New York helped to define freedom of the press. #WeAreAmerica250

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Forgive me, but— Fuck this. Removing the rule that requires notification of people of polling place changes?? The majority is against them. They know it. They don’t want us to vote. So in addition to whatever you do—VOTE

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mpgrenier.bsky.social @mpgrenier.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

“When President Donald Trump attempted to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held — but just barely. If faced with the same tests today, those guardrails and the people who held the line would largely be missing, a ProPublica examination found.”

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8 Things You Should Know About Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections

From dismantling guardrails that upheld the integrity of past elections to gutting federal agencies and installing allies who supported Trump’s claim that the 2020 vote was stolen, here are the key ta...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/05/2026

The Flex Loan, a new type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial in Tennessee, allows residents to borrow up to $4,000 at a 279.5% interest rate. It has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders. (Published May 2025 w/ @tennesseelookout.com)

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This Lender Said Its Loans Would Help Tennesseans. It Has Sued More Than 110,000 of Them.

The Flex Loan, a type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial, has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders. Tennessee lawmakers declined to rein in the lending bu...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/05/2026

More women have nearly bled to death during miscarriage under Texas’ abortion ban. Experts say the trend paints a troubling picture of the harms of unnecessary delays in care. “This is striking,” one doctor said. “The trend is very clear.” (Published July 2025)

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A “Striking” Trend: After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage

A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.

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Sacred Chicken 🐓 @chirp0403.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science, the kind you literally cannot restart once it’s gone. #USForestService

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mpgrenier.bsky.social @mpgrenier.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Highly recommend “The Glass Universe” by Dava Sobel about women at the Harvard Observatory starting in the late 1800s. Includes much history about Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin’s life and work. www.labyrinthbooks.com/the-glass-un...

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The Glass Universe

Labyrinth Bookstore is an independent bookstore in Princeton, NJ we specialize in academic and rare books and carry most new releases as well as an extensive selection of books at discounted prices!

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Some kind of invasive ape 🏳️‍⚧️ @wargonopsid.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/blm-announ... there's info on who to complain to to try to stop this at the end of the article, lets share this message and try our best to stop it.

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BLM Announces Plan to Fell Oregon's Last Great Forests

One billion board feet per year... 30 days to make your voice heard.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19/03/2026

A maternity ward doctor donated his own blood during surgery to keep a pregnant patient alive. One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy. Another collapsed and had seizures during labor. (Published Dec. 2025)

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What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid

Photographs tell a story of two mothers determined to help their babies gain enough weight to leave the hospital — only to face little to no food again.

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mpgrenier.bsky.social @mpgrenier.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

March 12, 2020: Whole Foods after panic buying as Covid hit

Almost completely empty shelves in the meat department

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mpgrenier.bsky.social @mpgrenier.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

“Secretary of State Marco Rubio posted a video Tuesday morning telling stranded Americans that they can call a State Department hotline for assistance. But Americans who call the hotline are currently receiving the message that there is no travel help available.”

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Americans Stranded in the Middle East Aren’t Getting Help from the State Department

“Please do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation,” a State department hotline said when NOTUS called Tuesday afternoon.

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Bloomberg Opinion @opinion.bloomberg.com · 25/02/2026

“Our nation is back — bigger, better, richer and stronger than ever before,” President Trump said to start his #SOTU address. 📊👀 But what does the data say? See it all here: bit.ly/3OxrLC6

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mpgrenier.bsky.social @mpgrenier.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

“In Missouri, state officials told local clerks to temporarily ban flagged voters from casting ballots, even though hundreds turned out to be citizens.”

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

They will be warehousing people. And treating them as objects. These are concentration camps.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

It is terrible to see what is happening at The Washington Post. Democracy Docket is a small newsroom, but it is growing. If you want to work for an independent, pro-democracy media outlet, I encourage you to apply. ats.rippling.com/democracy-do...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/02/2026

Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control. “It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.

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Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On

In the middle of a respiratory pandemic, law enforcement agencies have used tear gas in especially dangerous ways. The chemical agent also seeps into homes, contaminates food, furniture, skin and surf...

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