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NatureRulesUs 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌿🦋🕊🐢🐝🪸🌳🌲 @naturerulesus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
From the Missouri Independent article:
"Real Americans, in his view, can trace their ancestry to settlers. He frames his German ancestors as real Americans. He doesn’t call them “immigrants,” of course, instead contrasting them with other immigrants, Native Americans, and the enslaved people who long pre-dated his ancestors’ arrival. That requires either astounding ignorance or deliberate obfuscation of the fact that neither Germans nor Catholics were initially considered white or American.

Schmitt dismissed Americans’ outrage at the death of George Floyd and valorized Confederate generals.

Schmitt mocked the idea that “a poem on the Statute of Liberty” or “five words in the Declaration of Independence” define who is an American. 

The five words he finds overemphasized and a tool of the woke: 'all men are created equal.' "
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NatureRulesUs 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌿🦋🕊🐢🐝🪸🌳🌲 @naturerulesus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
He wasn't shot, but this is from the first photos published (before AI was any good, and others simlar were taken by other photographers). He was no doubt cut by flying glass, which was definitely present. Being shot was a hoax, but not completely fabricated out of nothing. Still a lying ass tho.
Zoomed in portion of a photo showing Trump's ear with two cuts on the upper edge, and smeared blood on the ear and his cheek.
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NatureRulesUs 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌿🦋🕊🐢🐝🪸🌳🌲 @naturerulesus.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
"Orlin was violently assaulted and killed after ICE took him from his mother - an immigrant with no criminal record who was picked up on her way to work. There are no
words to express the outrage and
heartbreak that we should all feel for this three-year-old boy," Jayapal said. "There will
never be justice for his family, because we cannot bring Orlin back. We can, though, in his memory demand that this never happen again, and ensure that the children of immigrants and immigrant families are
protected and kept together."

Wendy Hernandez Reyes said she pleaded with officers not to separate her from her son.
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NatureRulesUs 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌿🦋🕊🐢🐝🪸🌳🌲 @naturerulesus.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Creator's IG account:
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NatureRulesUs 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌿🦋🕊🐢🐝🪸🌳🌲 @naturerulesus.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
He looks to be a good candidate for the district, given support: **experienced in State gov't **native Mainer **emphasizes support for taxing the rich, SocSecurity, Medicare, childcare, housing **big in Youth Fish&Game Assoc., Sportsman's Alliance **Ass't Treas. local church
Matt Dunlap is running for Maine's 2nd Congressional District because we deserve a representative who will stand up to Trump, take on the billionaire class, and fight for working families.   Matt was born and raised on a farm near Bar Harbor. and he's never forgotten where he came from. As State Auditor. he works to improve the efficiency of state government eliminate waste, and prevent fraud. Previously, Matt served as Maine's Secretary of State.   During Trump's first term, he was appointed to what was supposed to be a bipartisan "election integrity" commission - but when it became clear the panel was just a front for a fraudulent power grab, Matt took Trump to court, won, and forced the commission to be dissolved.
In Congress, Matt will fight to make billionaires and big corporations pay their fair share,
strengthen Social Security, and Medicare For All. He'll stand up to ICE raids tearing apart Maine
communities and fight for universal childcare and affordable housing. Matt is running to take
on the powerful interests that have rigged our economy against working class Mainers -
pecause it's time Washington worked for us, not
Wall Street.

Matt is a founding board member of the Maine
Youth Fish and Game Association, the former
executive director of the Sportsman's Alliance of
Maine, and assistant to the treasurer of his local
Episcopal Church.
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NatureRulesUs 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌿🦋🕊🐢🐝🪸🌳🌲 @naturerulesus.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I had no idea! From the article:
The game has been around in various forms for centuries, but it began to be codified in the mid-19th century.

"Association Football" was coined in 1868 to distinguish the game from rugby football which, somewhat ironically, is played largely with the ball in hand.

British university students created their own slang at the time by abbreviating words and
adding "-er" to them. Thus, "rugby" became "rugger" and "association football" was
shortened to "assoc" and slanged to "soccer."

And this term "soccer" was freely and proudly used in the British press and in public for nearly a century, until the 1980s.
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NatureRulesUs 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌿🦋🕊🐢🐝🪸🌳🌲 @naturerulesus.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Wrong teams, wrong sport, and happened 6 months ago, but still a good memory! We need to be careful about posting true details, though -- we're on the good side:
"A combination of jeering and applause continued
while Trump read an oath for members of the
military to recite as part of an on-field enlistment
ceremony during the break in the game

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers the Oath of Enlistment
alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, left, during an NFL
football game between the Washington Commanders and the
Detroit Lions at Northwest Stadium in Landover, Md., Sunday
Nov. 9, 2025. AP Photo / Jacquelyn Martin"
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NatureRulesUs 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌿🦋🕊🐢🐝🪸🌳🌲 @naturerulesus.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
😎 👇
"LIV intends to tell staff and players, some of whom were among the PGA Tour's most popular when they were poached, on Thursday that the league will lose funding after the conclusion of this season.

LIV is in discussions with outside investors to keep the league operating, the Journal reported, though it noted maintaining its
current form would be "nearly
impossible," as the league has incurred mounting losses.

Unnamed sources cited by the Journal said LIV no longer aligned with the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund's strategy."
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NatureRulesUs 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌿🦋🕊🐢🐝🪸🌳🌲 @naturerulesus.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Yes -- @vermontgmg.bsky.social noted: "This is a very normal security protocol for a major event — and exactly how it has long been for WHCD. It’s a giant public hotel with multiple floors. The only secure area is the ballroom itself where the president will be." And Re the 2024 PA shooting:
An enlarged section of a larger photo showing Trump's ear with two small bloody areas of damage at the top.
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NatureRulesUs 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌿🦋🕊🐢🐝🪸🌳🌲 @naturerulesus.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I know everyone wants him to have faked the PA shooting, but below is what his ear looked like in the photo posted at the time. He was nicked by flying glass, and probably hardly felt it. He's also way too cowardly to let a bullet anywhere near him!
A crop of a photo showing Trump's ear after the 2025 PA shooting, with two small damaged areas at the top.
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NatureRulesUs 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌿🦋🕊🐢🐝🪸🌳🌲 @naturerulesus.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I'm sure he would have gleefully faked something if he'd thought of it, but is too much of a coward to allow a real bullet to come anywhere near him. He was nicked by flying glass, and probably hardly felt it at the time. This is an enlarged photo posted when it happened:
A photo showing Trump's ear with two small bloody damaged areas of the outer cartilage at the top.
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NatureRulesUs 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌿🦋🕊🐢🐝🪸🌳🌲 @naturerulesus.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Here's the screenshot from @maddow.bsky.social post above, with ALT text:
ICE agents appeared at a Columbus hotel on Dec. 17 looking for someone. As they did, three
housekeepers had the bad luck to walk to their cars on their lunch break.

They were "snatched by federal agents who jumped out of their vehicles then sped off the
property," the lawsuit said. "All three housekeepers appear Hispanic or Latino, and two are
Puerto Rico-born United States citizens."

"No questions were asked before these federal agents grabbed them and placed them in their
vehicles. Two of the women were ultimately released once ICE realized they were U.S.citizens-
but only after spending four days in jail."
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NatureRulesUs 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌿🦋🕊🐢🐝🪸🌳🌲 @naturerulesus.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Thanks for being careful about reports; there's a lot of misinformation out there. In this case, though, if you zoom in, the letter before the last "E" in this ship's name is a "D" -- also, I searched the "Safeen Prestige," and this is a (pre-attack) photo, so not the same ship:
A photo of the cargo ship "Safeen Prestige" showing differences in the paint design from the ship shown burning on video in the original post.
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NatureRulesUs 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌿🦋🕊🐢🐝🪸🌳🌲 @naturerulesus.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
This is completely f*cked up and the owner is a POS, but she called ICE soon after they showed up not after the work was done, and the workers lowered the ladder down themselves. Click on the Univision link in the 2nd post and translate it:
The men, aged between 18 and 40, had traveled from Glen Burnie to start the project when the immigration authorities intervened in the morning."We practically had a project to start today... when
they started the work, the homeowner kind of called
immigration," Polanco told N+ Univision DC.

"What she did tell me, and what I told one of the other guys, is that if immigrants come back again to finish the project, she will always call ICE."
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NatureRulesUs 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌿🦋🕊🐢🐝🪸🌳🌲 @naturerulesus.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Brilliant! This photo caption is perfect too:
A dark-background, gold-edged star, about 18 inches wide, is stuck onto a sidewalk. It's labeled HOWARD LUTNICK, and there's a pigeon standing nearby. The photo caption reads:
"A pigeon pays respect to Commerce Secretary Howard
Lutnick's star.

Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images"
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NatureRulesUs 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌿🦋🕊🐢🐝🪸🌳🌲 @naturerulesus.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
@maddow.bsky.social post from @theatlantic.com with ALT text:
No matter how many more armed men Trump sends to impose his will on the people of Minnesota, all he can do is accentuate their valor. No application of armed violence can make the men with guns as heroic as the people who choose to stand in their path with empty hands in defense of their neighbors.
These agents, and the president who sent them, are no one's heroes, no one's saviors-just men with guns who have to hide their faces to shoot a mom in the face, and a nurse in the back.
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NatureRulesUs 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌿🦋🕊🐢🐝🪸🌳🌲 @naturerulesus.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
The man's a fascist ass, but also too much of a coward to let real ammo be used. His ear must have been cut by flying glass so it bled a lot but didn't hurt much, and as always he played to the crowd and was outrageously lucky. Find any decent photo from the time and zoom in:
A zoomed-in photo of Trump's bloody ear just after the Butler, PA shooting, showing two places where the outer edge shows damage.
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NatureRulesUs 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌿🦋🕊🐢🐝🪸🌳🌲 @naturerulesus.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Screenshot at 8.15:
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NatureRulesUs 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌿🦋🕊🐢🐝🪸🌳🌲 @naturerulesus.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
I think he's totally capable of it, but that in this case he was just lucky. Zoom in on his ear -- it was clearly nicked by flying glass; in the moment completely painless, but since ears bleed a lot, looked super dramatic. He's terrified of looking weak so stood back up and posed for the crowd.
A close-up of Trump's ear after the 2024 shooting, showing two small damaged areas along the ear's upper edge, with blood trails where it dripped down the ear and onto his cheek.
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NatureRulesUs 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌿🦋🕊🐢🐝🪸🌳🌲 @naturerulesus.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
WSJ screenshot below, with ALT text:
Today, those structures are virtually absent. America has had no ambassador in Moscow since
June. There is no assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs. Witkoff has
declined multiple offers from the CIA for a briefing on Russia. The State Department assigned a
small group of staffers to support Witkoff, but members of that team, and others across the
administration, have struggled to get summaries of Witkoff's foreign meetings. Longtime allies
in Europe also feel left in the dark, and worry that Washington no longer has their back, while
Middle East monarchies are ascendant.
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NatureRulesUs 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌿🦋🕊🐢🐝🪸🌳🌲 @naturerulesus.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
So not only did he pave over the Rose Garden and raze the East Wing, he's destroyed the Jackie Kennedy Garden that was located just south of the colonnade?
A photo of a central rectangular lawn with a pergola at one end, surrounded by a variety of plants, bushes, and small trees, next to a long white colonnade with the White House in the background.

The text below reads:
Located south of the East Terrace Colonnade, the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden was designed by Rachel Lambert Mellon, who also redesigned the Rose Garder for President John F. Kennedy. The planning of the garden started during the Kennedy administration and was finished during the Lyndon B. Johnson administration. The pergola at the west end of the garden was designed by famed architect I. M. Pei. When the garden was formally dedicated in 1965, First Lady Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson named the garden to commemorate former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy.
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NatureRulesUs 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌿🦋🕊🐢🐝🪸🌳🌲 @naturerulesus.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
With Alt text:
Senator Angus King 
I voted to keep the government open because a shutdown will give President Trump the ability to do far greater damage.
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NatureRulesUs 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌿🦋🕊🐢🐝🪸🌳🌲 @naturerulesus.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Sun Day is a day
of action on
September 21,
2025,
celebrating the
power of clean
energy.
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NatureRulesUs 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌿🦋🕊🐢🐝🪸🌳🌲 @naturerulesus.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
I agree he's a horrible, disgusting person, but your 2nd pic is a full year after the event. He must have been nicked by glass and lied about it as usual, but there's no doubt it happened:
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NatureRulesUs 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌿🦋🕊🐢🐝🪸🌳🌲 @naturerulesus.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Screenshot from @kevincarey1.bsky.social post below -- Columbia University agreement, with ALT text:
"16. Columbia shall maintain merit-based admissions policies. Columbia may not, by any means, unlawfully preference applicants based on race, color, or national origin in admissions throughout its programs. No proxy for racial admission will be implemented or maintained. Columbia may not use personal statements, diversity narratives, or any applicant reference to racial identity as a means to introduce or justify discrimination.

17. Nothing in this Agreement prevents the United States (even during the period of the Agreement) from conducting subsequent compliance reviews, investigations, or litigation into Columbia's future admissions practices to ensure that those practices are in full compliance with all applicable laws and not a proxy for prohibited discrimination.

18. Columbia shall provide the Resolution Monitor and the United States with admissions data consistent with 34 C.F.R. $ 100.6 and similar regulations showing both rejected and admitted students broken down by race, color, grade point average, and performance on standardized tests, in a form permitting appropriate statistical analyses by October 1 of each year of the Agreement. Admissions data will also be subjected to a comprehensive audit by the Resolution Monitor. Non-individualized, statistical in formation regarding enrolled students shall be made available to the public each year for the Term of the Agreement, including the composition of the class broken down by race, color, national origin, grade point average, and performance on standardized tests."
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NatureRulesUs 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌿🦋🕊🐢🐝🪸🌳🌲 @naturerulesus.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
He was nicked by glass -- very sharp so he hardly felt it, but ears bleed a lot. I don't doubt he'd try anything to get an advantage, but the (slight) damage to his ear is obvious. Also in later photos the skin in those areas looks different. Dude is just lucky as f*ck, as usual.
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NatureRulesUs 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌿🦋🕊🐢🐝🪸🌳🌲 @naturerulesus.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Yes. There's no way a bullet did that little damage, but there's also no doubt that his ear was cut, and they do bleed profusely. The cuts are clearly evident, and later you can see shiny healed skin in the same area. I guess "taking a glass chip for 'Merica" doesn't have the same ring to it...
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NatureRulesUs 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌿🦋🕊🐢🐝🪸🌳🌲 @naturerulesus.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Above NYT OpEd screenshot, with ALT Text:
There is something deeply corrosive to the rule of law for the court - again, by its own choice - to invite executive-branch lawyers to begin devising such guidance for an executive order that is 
fundamentally incompatible with core constitutional principles, precedent and more than 150 years of practice. The Supreme Court could well have spared the legal system, injured parties and our constitutional culture all of this - and it made a considered choice not to. 
It is impossible to miss the court's shifting use of methodology in recent cases involving the president - President Trump in particular. Last summer's decision in Trump v. United States was thoroughly functionalist. In that case, constitutional text, founding-era understandings, executive-branch practice and Supreme Court precedent all counseled strongly against a rule of immunity for ex- presidents. So the court disregarded such sources, relying almost entirely on pragmatic concerns about the impact on the presidency of allowing for prosecutions of ex-presidents 
nytimes.com
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NatureRulesUs 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌿🦋🕊🐢🐝🪸🌳🌲 @naturerulesus.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
@realPattyMurray screenshot below, with Alt Text:
realPattyMurray @realPattyMurray

GOP'S BIG UGLY BILL KICKS PEOPLE OFF HEALTH CARE AND FOOD ASSISTANCE. HOSPITALS WILL CLOSE. KIDS WITH DISABILITIES WILL LOSE CAREGIVERS. BIG WINNERS? BILLIONAIRES. TOTAL FRAUD! IT POLLS LIKE GARBAGE, BECAUSE IT IS. GOP SHOULD DROP IT!! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
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NatureRulesUs 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌿🦋🕊🐢🐝🪸🌳🌲 @naturerulesus.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
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NatureRulesUs 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌿🦋🕊🐢🐝🪸🌳🌲 @naturerulesus.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
@michellegoldberg.bsky.social post below, with Alt Text:
There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk's foray into politics accomplished.
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NatureRulesUs 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌿🦋🕊🐢🐝🪸🌳🌲 @naturerulesus.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
@maddow.msnbc.com screenshot below, with Alt Text included:
Some of the journalists who were terminated on Thursday were from countries with repressive governments that persecute journalists for independent reporting, Mr. Abramowitz said in the email to employees on Thursday. 
Those journalists now have to leave the United States by the end of June, as their immigration status is tied to employment at the news organization.
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NatureRulesUs 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌿🦋🕊🐢🐝🪸🌳🌲 @naturerulesus.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
He owns a black suit (seen in the epic photo below) -- I think he wore the blue one to broadcast to everyone how much he despised the Pope and his "woke" Christian principles, and refused to mourn his death.
A collage of 5 photos of the Pope, smiling happily, meeting Obama, Biden, Zelensky, and Trudeau, then one of him standing next to a grinning Trump, while looking grim and uncomfortable.
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NatureRulesUs 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌿🦋🕊🐢🐝🪸🌳🌲 @naturerulesus.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Alt Text:
JOINT STATEMENT
OF THE CHAIRS OF THE FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEES


25 April 2025


We, the Chairs of the Foreign Affairs Committees of European parliaments, call upon President Trump and the U.S. Congress to demonstrate true leadership in confronting the global threat posed by Russia as an aggressor state.

We urge an end to the policy of appeasement and call instead for a united, resolute stance against Russia's terrorist regime. We strongly warn against yielding to its blackmail and
deception.

Strong leadership is also needed across European countries, along with reinforced transatlantic solidarity.

We call on European countries to immediately confiscate Russia's frozen assets and redirect
them to support Ukraine.

There can be no compromise and no external pressure on Ukraine regarding its sovereignty and territorial integrity.

We call upon the United States and other NATO members to admit Ukraine into NATO without delay.

We urge the EU Member States to accelerate Ukraine's accession to the European Union.

We must not repeat the mistakes of Munich in 1938.

Negotiating with the war criminal Putin is evidently futile; his main objective is to undermine and humiliate our ally, the United States.

We call upon all states to ensure that Vladimir Putin and all those complicit in his crimes are brought to justice. Lasting peace and security are impossible without accountability for the war crimes committed by his regime.
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NatureRulesUs 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌿🦋🕊🐢🐝🪸🌳🌲 @naturerulesus.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Alt text:
But the Globe reviewed a "Students Deport List" that Betar had briefly posted on its website last week. It originally named 77 people and included photos and a brief description of their alleged offenses, 
That list has multiple inaccuracies: It sometimes placed students at the wrong universities or featured people who were not even in the United States. And some of the reasons cited by Betar for deportation seemed minor, such as jaywalking or a noise complaint. 
One woman on the list was pictured wearing a hijab and identified as a Harvard student from Nigeria who had already been detained in Massachusetts. Betar claimed she should be deported because her visa had been revoked in March for a pro-Hamas rally speech. 
Contacted by the Globe, the woman, who spoke on the condition her name not be used, said she was shocked to be featured on the website. She said she has never visited the United States; never attended Harvard, as Betar claimed; and never attended a pro-Hamas rally.
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NatureRulesUs 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌿🦋🕊🐢🐝🪸🌳🌲 @naturerulesus.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
"Psychopathy is a condition characterized by the absence of empathy and the blunting of other affective states. Callousness, detachment, and a lack of empathy enable psychopaths to be highly manipulative"
The revised version of the checklist includes the following characteristics:

• Glibness/superficial charm
• Grandiose sense of self-worth
• Need for stimulation/proneness to boredom
• Pathological lying
• Conning/manipulative
• Lack of remorse or guilt
• Shallow affect (i.e., reduced emotional responses)
• Callous/lack of empathy
• Parasitic lifestyle
• Poor behavioral controls
• Promiscuous sexual behavior
• Early behavioral problems
• Lack of realistic, long-term goals
• Impulsivity
• Irresponsibility
• Failure to accept responsibility for one's own actions
• Many short-term marital relationships
• Juvenile delinquency
• Revocation of conditional release (from prison)
• Criminal versatility (i.e., commits diverse types of crimes)
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NatureRulesUs 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌿🦋🕊🐢🐝🪸🌳🌲 @naturerulesus.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Alt text version:
Drug-resistant gonorrhea, a form of the widespread sexually transmitted infection, is considered an urgent_health threat worldwide. The United States has just lost its ability to detect it. 
Among the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employees fired on Tuesday were 77 scientists who, among other work, gathered samples of gonorrhea and other S.T.I.s from labs nationwide, analyzed the genetic information for signs of drug resistance, and readied the samples for storage at a secure facility. 
No other researchers at the agency have the expertise, or the software, to continue this work. The abrupt halt has stranded about 1,000 samples of gonorrhea and other sexually transmitted pathogens that had not yet been processed, and perhaps dozens more headed to the agency. 
There are as many as 30 freezers full of samples that now have no custodians, said one senior C.D.C. official who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation,. 
"We were just really shut down midair, like there was no warning," the official said. "It was just completely unplanned and chaotic."
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NatureRulesUs 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌿🦋🕊🐢🐝🪸🌳🌲 @naturerulesus.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
The man is evil but this looks like damage to me. Not what he claims, no way a bullet or bullet fragment would be so minor, but not nothing either.
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NatureRulesUs 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌿🦋🕊🐢🐝🪸🌳🌲 @naturerulesus.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I agree that they could be referred to as "presumed dead," but to state that they "have been found dead" -- and to show a video of a flag-draped body bag -- is highly misleading and unfair to their families.
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NatureRulesUs 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌿🦋🕊🐢🐝🪸🌳🌲 @naturerulesus.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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"The Administration's new indirect cost guidelines will limit access to effective health care treatments and diagnostics for patients, and if implemented as currently drafted, will undermine our medical research capacity and put the nation's health and global competitiveness at risk.
Children's hospitals and pedia tric research institutions drive innovation in pediatric care, by developing life-saving cures for childhood diseases and exploring a wide range of issues in child development. Pediatric researchers prioritize the safety and well-being of children and adolescents in their care, giving unique consideration to their recruitment processes and patient accommodations that often necessitate additional investment. Reducing the indirect cost rate will threaten the ability of children's hospitals to provide future groundbreaking cures for children."
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NatureRulesUs 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌿🦋🕊🐢🐝🪸🌳🌲 @naturerulesus.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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bottom line: For Trump and too many in his party, Americans who disagree with them are effectively an impossibility that can only be explained through corrupt schemes and illicit payments. 

Indeed, it's hardly a stretch to draw a straight line from "paid protesters" rhetoric to election denialism: Americans who side with Trump and Republicans are real, while Americans who disagree must necessarily be seen as inauthentic.
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NatureRulesUs 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌿🦋🕊🐢🐝🪸🌳🌲 @naturerulesus.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
SCIENCE!
Our large meta-analysis clearly
shows that for more than a decade,
municipal wastewater was a very important
source of glyphosate. In addition, European
river water data show rather high and
constant base mass fluxes of glyphosate all
over the year, not expected from herbicide
application. From our meta-analysis, we
define criteria for a source of glyphosate,
which was hidden so far. AMPA is known to
be a transformation product not only of
glyphosate but also of
aminopolyphosphonates used as
antiscalants in many applications. As they
are used in laundry detergents in Europe but
not in the USA, we hypothesize that
glyphosate may also be a transformation
product of aminopolyphosphonates.
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NatureRulesUs 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌿🦋🕊🐢🐝🪸🌳🌲 @naturerulesus.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Line graph showing dramatically lower cervical cancer rates for vaccinated people -- particularly for those who were vaccinated before 17 years of age, for whom the rate is almost zero.
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NatureRulesUs 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌿🦋🕊🐢🐝🪸🌳🌲 @naturerulesus.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Book cover for Chrystia Freeland's "Plutocrats"
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