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Professor of Neurobiology and Biophysics University of Washington School of Medicine orcid.org/0000-0002-9444-0650

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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 5h
He simply must be removed from office as any other President would have been if they had uttered these words. "A small price to pay" means he is willing to let 15 million Americans be murdered and he thinks it is acceptable. The fact that those people clapped when he said that makes me sick.
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Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We may finally have solved climate change, biodiversity loss, and social instability.
 My new essay:
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Experts Announce Definitive Framework for Sustainability, Resilience, and Other Good Things
A breakthrough in saying everything without explaining anything.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 19/09/2026
The Kennedy Center was financially stable until Trump took over: "In the fiscal year ending in 2024, when the center was led by President Deborah Rutter and a bipartisan board of trustees, it brought in about $40 million more than it spent" www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
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What the Kennedy Center’s Tax Return Reveals
A previously unseen filing captures the state of the institution seven months after Donald Trump’s takeover.
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Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Yup. You did. And cancer research for children was first to go.
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Worde @mtwonderland.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I was a little late viewing this (it has been out for a month) but.....as a molecular biologist I found this Travis McEnery video particularly riveting. All of them are good but this was fantastic - prepare to be stuffed to the gills with detailed knowledge: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqsM...
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Spider Silk: Nature's Super-Material Explained
YouTube video by Travis McEnery
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Most of the federal agency science budgets goes into the salaries of students and trainees, and the decision to take that money and instead give it to industry and already rich venture capitalists is fundamentally a decision to have many fewer scientists and do far less science in the future.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11/07/2026
"Two deeper structural reforms are essential. First, strip the executive of the massive powers that have accumulated over the last century. Second, make the powers retained by the executive subject to greater oversight with real consequences for abuse."
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After Trump: Proposals for a Post-Authoritarian America
How Democrats can lead the charge for a new Reconstruction—if they can avoid becoming what they defeat.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I’ve seen worse first hand and also heard the same from colleagues. The number of students admitted to PhD programs this fall dropped 15% from the previous year. What Trump has done to US science will impact us for at least a generation.
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Decline of Ph.D. Admissions Could Imperil a ‘Generation of New Talent’
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Worde @mtwonderland.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Don't know why but Bluesky isn't really working for me the same as it used to. Thought it was not supposed to be under the control of overlords - sigh. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...
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A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator
YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
China’s main research funding agency will increase its number of prestigious grants for early-career scientists by 50%, equivalent to a budget boost of around US$531 million. Meanwhile, the Trump regime is preventing the US National Science Foundation from funding anyone.
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China boosts prestigious grants for young scientists — will it ease competition?
The National Natural Science Foundation of China says it will fund an extra 12,000 projects from this year.
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Worde @mtwonderland.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
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The Biology Delusion
Faster ideation. The same old graveyard.
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Serge Ahmed @sergeahmed.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Science Under Threat in the United States The NIH is a sound investment for the US taxpayer By my colleague Nicholas W Gilpin from Louisiana who has written this piece in his personal capacity due to the current institutional situation. elifesciences.org/articles/106...
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Science Under Threat in the United States: The NIH is a sound investment for the US taxpayer
Research funded by the National Institutes of Health is essential for improving the health of Americans and developing new drugs and treatments for a wide range of diseases.
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Worde @mtwonderland.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Best thing I've seen in a while. vimeo.com/1168468796?f...
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The Ensh*ttificator
Digital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved into enshittification and how to r...
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Aaron Straight @astraight.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Also another good synopsis here elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...
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Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule
Russell Vought is going to destroy American Science
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Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Attention fans of #ctenophores 🌊🦑🧪 Please consider joining us at the Ctenopalooza Ctwo conference/celebration in California this August. Support is potentially available for artists and communicators. www.mbari.org/event/ctenop... Register soon or miss out on the fun! Meals included!
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Ctenopalooza Ctwo • MBARI
Ctenopalooza Ctwo – a meeting of those interested in ctenophores About the meeting The past decade has seen remarkable advances in our understanding of these fascinating animals—spanning genomics, cel...
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Worde @mtwonderland.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Happy World Redhead Day! www.wthr.com/article/news...
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World Redhead Day 2026: Fun facts about red hair
From debunked "extinction" rumors to pain tolerance genetics. For Tuesday's World Redhead Day, discover what makes those with red hair special. (Photo: Adobe Stock)
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Worde @mtwonderland.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
www.ms.now/opinion/canc...
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Opinion | The U.S. is dangerously close to defunding miracles like the one that saved my life
Jenney Bitner: I'm not a scientist or policy expert. But I know that the drug that kept me alive for my children was built on a foundation of public investment.
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Worde @mtwonderland.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I am incredibly proud of former student Sonya Schuh (Professor of Biology, Saint Mary's College of California) whose work on endocrine disrupters is featured in the Netflix documentary "The Plastic Detox". www.stmarys-ca.edu/news/documen...
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The Documentary ‘The Plastic Detox’ Is Sobering and Startling. Research by Sonya Schuh and Her Students Helps Explain Effects of Compounds Known as Potent ‘Endocrine Disruptors’ | Saint Mary's College
The film traces six couples who are struggling to conceive a child and take steps to remove plastics from their lives. It also features research at Saint Mary’s that points to the damage chemicals in ...
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This American Patriot 💙 @thisuspatriot.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
#TRUMP IS UNFIT AS OUR PRESIDENT If Congress does nothing to impeach him, then, in Nov, we MUST VOTE to 86 #GOP & centrist #DEM like Schumer & Jeffries Then OUR Congress will 86 Electoral College 86 #MAGA wannabe King Trump #StrongerTogether #UNITEDWeStand TYVM @boldnewme.bsky.social #BlueCrew
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Is it happening again?
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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 17/03/2026
"Internal company documents show oil giants knew that their practices were devastating coastal land, water, and habitats, and would eventually incur legal action — yet worked to delay cleanup and accountability for as long as possible."
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Big Oil Knew It Was Wrecking Louisiana’s Coast, Records Show
Now, parish lawsuits, including one in front of the Supreme Court, could make oil giants pay to restore the state’s vanishing marshes.
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Unclepatrick @unclepatrick2.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
10 years ago, Bernie Sanders warned America of the unintended consequences that could emerge from a regime change war with Iran. Watch.
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Kathryn Rushent 🌊🐱🍁 @krushent.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
This is fantastic! Robert Reich: How California Can Neuter “Citizens United” and Improve Democracy for Us All open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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How California Can Neuter “Citizens United” and Improve Democracy for Us All
The Golden State has an opportunity to save American democracy from big corporate money
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Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
San Francisco-area fans of ocean animals and flashy colors. 🦑🌊🧪 I'll be giving a presentation about our book The Radiant Sea at 1 pm on Saturday Feb 28 at the Book Passage shop in Corte Madera. (Preposition overload!) Swing by and say Hi. www.bookpassage.com/event/steven...
Brittle star with green fluorescent armtip on black background.
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Worde @mtwonderland.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
An FBI interview reveals Deutsche Bank’s internal warnings about Jeffrey Epstein and Jared Kushner — and alleged retaliation against the whistleblower. www.levernews.com/the-complian...
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The Compliance Officer Who Flagged Epstein — And Lost Her Job
An FBI interview reveals Deutsche Bank’s internal warnings about Jeffrey Epstein and Jared Kushner — and alleged retaliation against the whistleblower.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
“Never has there been a Congress that has been such a weak and ineffective check on a president’s abuses of power,” said J.P. Cooney, who was the top deputy to Jack Smith and is set to announce a run today. via @anniekarni.bsky.social {gift link} www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...
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Fired Former Trump Prosecutor to Run for Congress in Virginia as a Democrat
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 11/02/2026
Being in New Zealand has been glorious, and I’ve been trying to bring joy to our world that needs more joy and less rage posting. But this is a rage post. You need to read this gift article because you need to be enraged.
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F.D.A. Refuses to Review Moderna Flu Vaccine
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 28/01/2026
1. From lung cancer to climate change, capitalist governments are notoriously slow to recognize and remedy the negative externalities generated by corporate activity. Generative AI is no exception. Large language models are proving a disaster in numerous spheres of public life.
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bioRxiv Cell Biology @biorxiv-cellbio.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
A Phosphorylation Switch Governs KIF11's Mechanical Output During Mitosis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 24/01/2026
NEW: Amid ICE's rampage, Dems provided votes to fund ICE, Dem leader Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip votes against the funding, Dem Senate candidates opposed another Dem calling for ICE to be abolished - and a Dem think tank demanded Dems back "an aggressive plan to rebuild ICE."
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How Democrats Are Enabling ICE
Trump’s immigration police will not be reined in by a party refusing to mount a real opposition.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.
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bioRxiv Cell Biology @biorxiv-cellbio.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Tubulin autoregulation controls the biosynthesis of γ-tubulin to ensure mitotic fidelity www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Extremely important study, with very concerning implications for the future. The COVID generation: the neurodevelopmental consequences of in-utero COVID-19 exposure. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The COVID generation: the neurodevelopmental consequences of in-utero COVID-19 exposure
In historical viral epidemics, such as the H1N1 influenza and Zika viruses, prenatal exposures were correlated with risk for neuropsychiatric conditio…
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
terrible news for the former Senator — diagnosed with metastatic pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine therapy shows promise in treating this otherwise incurable disease we need to regain our senses, compassion, humanity, and investment in doing the hard slow work to improve our health no time to lose
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The Institute for Bird Populations @instbirdpop.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Wren Wagenbach's photo of the view from Copper Mountain Lookout at sunset took 2nd place in the scenery category of our photo contest. Wren was a member of our crew surveying birds in the national parks of the Pacific Northwest as part of the NPS's Inventory and Monitoring Program. 🪶
View from an alpine meadow of the Cascades Mountains at sunset by Wren Wagenbach.
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Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
OK, this is wild! Smithsonian Magazine included The Radiant Sea in their Best Photography Books of 2025! 😲 From the start, our goal was to entice people with pretty pictures, and then sneak in the science, so to have both appreciated is a complete thrill. 🦑🧪📸 Not bad for a couple biologists :^)
Screen shot of the Smithsonian Magazine web page showing the covers of 10 photography books, one of which is our book The Radiant Sea.
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The Institute for Bird Populations @instbirdpop.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Wren Wagenbach's photo of her backcountry camp in North Cascades National Park took 2nd place in the fieldwork/lifestyle category of our photo contest. Wren was a member of our crew surveying birds in the national parks of the PNW as part of the NPS's Inventory and Monitoring Program. 🪶
Photo by Wren Wagenbach of two tents on high mountain slope at sunset in North Cascades National Park. Caption below photo says: Camp at Hannegan Peak by Wren Wagenbach • 2025 North Cascades National Park, Washington
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The Institute for Bird Populations @instbirdpop.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Wren Wagenbach's photo of Mount Rainier took 3rd place in the scenery category of our photo contest. Wren was a member of our crew surveying birds in the national parks of the Pacific Northwest as part of the NPS's Inventory and Monitoring Program. 🪶
Photo of a snow-covered Mount Rainier in the golden light, with wall of a cabin in the edge of the frame. Caption on the photo says: Mount Rainier by Wren Wagenbach • 2025 Mount Rainier National Park, Washington
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 01/11/2025
Scientists point to a long list of findings that emerged out of fundamental research, the type of studies the US government is cutting, and went on to change the world. Nature lists a few of their examples. 🧪
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7 basic science discoveries that changed the world
Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government.
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 20/10/2025
Glad to see so much interest in this topic. I encourage everyone interested in the proposal to read this deep-dive legal analysis. Instead of doing the typical comment-without-reading-anything move, just actually read it before being a smug know-it-all telling everyone it can't work. Thanks!
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The Corporate Power Reset That Makes Citizens United Irrelevant
By using their authority to define what corporations are—and what powers they hold—states can end the era of corporate and dark money in U.S. politics.
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The Institute for Bird Populations @instbirdpop.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
🪶Hope you have a chance to get outside this weekend! This photo was taken by Wren Wagenbach who was on our backcountry bird monitoring crew in the Pacific NW national parks this summer. (1/2)
Photo by Wren Wagenbach of a person standing in the alpine tundra at sunset in the Cascade Mountains in WA, USA.
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The Institute for Bird Populations @instbirdpop.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
🪶 If you are able, you donate here: birdpop.org/pages/do... We lost roughly $1 million in funding without warning. Projects cancelled included all of our bird monitoring work for the National Park Service & projects w/ the Bureau of Land Management on Gunnison's Sage-Grouse, Pinyon Jays & more. 1/4
Graphic with the following text followed by The Institute for Bird Populations logo: Emergency Appeal: Federal Funding Cut
Last week 9 of our federal grants were abruptly cancelled without cause.
If you can make a donation today, it will have a big impact.
Thank you for your support, The Institute for Bird Populations
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
every time societies lose the norm of public virtue, leaders ascend who relish and perpetrate great evil
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
“I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was,” Sahil Lavingia told NPR's Juana Summers.
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Former DOGE engineer says federal waste and fraud were 'relatively nonexistent'
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Sahil Lavingia, who worked for the Department of Government Efficiency as a software engineer assigned to the Department of Veterans Affairs, about his experience.
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Flora Vincent @floravincent.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Excited to share the lab's 1rst preprint! Rapid high-res immunofluorescence is now possible in cultured & environmental diatoms thanks to 4-fold expansion microscopy. A step-change for comparative cell biology in one of the most important phytoplankton groups on the planet 🥳 tinyurl.com/m9s5su7s 1/2
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 14/06/2025
BREAKING: Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were fatally shot and a second lawmaker and his spouse were injured in separate "politically motivated" shootings, officials say. The suspect, who is still at large, allegedly impersonated a police officer. nbcnews.app.link/Q007CiXdcUb
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Sorry, cancer patients, but we just don't have the money. We had to prioritize spending tens of millions on a military parade so the president could compensate for his many personal inadequacies. I'm sure you understand.
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