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Kevin Pumiglia

@papapmigs.bsky.social
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Husband, father, scientist and concerned citizen. Living "small" in Vermont, exploring and learning new things everyday.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
It sometimes feels like we're living in a ridiculously exaggerated folk tale with wildly implausible villains. For example, as the president takes billions for himself and his family and *coats his things in gold,* the soldiers fighting his war can't get toothpaste, hot water, or a clean toilet.
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Moldy showers and no soap: Military families are outraged by conditions on USS Lincoln
The aircraft carrier's long deployment in the Iran war is raising concerns that the sailors and Marines on board are facing poor conditions, low supplies and fatigue.
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Kevin Pumiglia @papapmigs.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
It is embarrassing that the Washington Post pays Op Ed editors...this is just a dumb ass opinion and ungrounded in any objective reality
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
A real headline in the United States today
New York Times: Police Remove Diabetes Experts From Conference for Distributing Critique of Trump Administration

Several of those escorted out were scheduled to present at the American Diabetes Association conference this weekend.

June 5, 2026
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Really awful. Write to American Diabetes Association CEO Charles "Chuck" Henderson at chenderson@diabetes.org and Chief Scientific and Medical Officer Rita Rastogi Kalyani at rkalyani@diabetes.org. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/w...
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Police Remove Diabetes Experts From Conference for Distributing Critique of Trump Administration
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
TW ⚠️— NPR shares video of an Israeli double tap, bombing Medics who responded after they bombed a family
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
More on the American Diabetes Association’s censorship of scientists distributing scientific information. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/w...
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Police Remove Diabetes Experts From Conference for Distributing Critique of Trump Administration
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 26/05/2026
The research that led to this miracle drug started more than five decades (!) ago. Basic science research has massive payoffs but they are often very long-term. As a society, we invest in basic research for our kids and grandkids.
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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
It’s the 250th year of American independence, and the Pope and the King of England are reminding Americans of their revolutionary values, principles, and ideals Somewhere, John Adams is confused as fuck
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Kristen Zuloaga @zuloagalab.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
🎉 We are #hiring a Tenure-Track Asst or Assoc Professor at Albany Medical College in Neuroscience - #Parkinson’s disease or movement disorders I LOVE working here—amazing colleagues, and a really supportive, collaborative environment Please share! jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/677711/t...
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Tenure-Track Assistant or Associate Professor Position in Parkinson’s Disease - Albany, New York (US) job with Albany Medical College | 677711
We seek candidates using innovative approaches to address impactful scientific questions related to Parkinson’s disease...
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Just to be very clear: The Trump DOJ is stealing $1.2 million of your money to gift one of Trump’s cronies, who pled guilty to the crimes he was charged with, and whose suit against the government had already been tossed by a judge.
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Kevin Pumiglia @papapmigs.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
@chrislhayes.bsky.social Dan Dicker...I think thas his name...Oil trader. GREAT GUEST! Smart, on message, funny and unscripted Loved the segment
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
A must read for anyone who cares (and these days, worries constantly) about American science and medicine. Credit to Prof. Will Mair for sharing his story. There are many more stories like it.
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
The #NIH comprises less than 1% of the federal budget. 80% of that is allocated to universities and research institutions. That $$ ($36B) yielded $94 BILLION in new economic activity in 2025.
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Jews are targeted in shuls & online. Brown & Black people are abducted and sent to concentration camps. Muslims are openly targeted by politicians. Activists & journalists are targeted by the FBI. Trans & queer people are being outlawed. We are in this together. This is why solidarity matters.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 07/03/2026
The impacts of Trump's attacks on science can be found in every nook and cranny of the discovery pipeline. This chart from @joshuasweitz.bsky.social shows that even with a funding INCREASE in 2026, LESS SCIENCE is being funded. That means fewer cures and treatments. #standupforscience
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 28/02/2026
To be clear: most officers in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps retire at O-5 or O-6. She wouldn’t qualify to apply — but we’re supposed to salute her as an O-9? A slap in the face to every officer who actually earned it. Still time: call your senators. Vote NO.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Anthropic responds to Hegseth. www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Here's what DHS doesn't want you to know: Working for ICE is one of the safest jobs in America — and last year was the second-safest year for the agency on record. And the doxxing? It hasn't actually happened even once. The masks are justified by a lie. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-s-mask...
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ICE's Masks Are All a Lie
Working for ICE is actually less dangerous than being an elementary school student in America.
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
$1.65M per day in DC alone. That’s approximately two NIH R01 Grant *years* burned per day. Ninety *five year* R01s projects burned in the last seven months with no end in sight. Instead of lasting scientific advance we get….what? Civil rights violations and authoritarian replacement of democracy.
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Patrick Skinner @pmskinner.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Listen to the fake-but-always-so-loud patriots with their latest hatred, & you see the truth in this @jasonkpargin.bsky.social quote: “They didn’t have witch hunts because they believed in witches. They believed in witches so they could have witch hunts.” We are led by such dumb hateful haters
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
In 2025, departures of govt scientists outnumbered new hires by a ratio of 11 to 1. This reduction in STEM PhDs translates to 106k yrs of federal work experience across 10,000 employees. These talents will take their expertise elsewhere. Experience is indispensable. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
There is a cost to science denial.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Beyond helping establish DHS itself in 2003, Mr. Mitnick was a senate-confirmed Trump choice for General Counsel for DHS in his first term. I've talked with him a few times, and he's not a man for hyperbole. So bear that in mind when you see him calling out DHS's "lawlessness, fascism, and cruelty."

John Mitnick
@JohnMitnick
I helped to establish DHS in 2002 and 2003 and later had the homeland security portfolio as a White House Counsel and served as General Counsel of the Department.

I am enraged and embarrassed by DHS’s lawlessness, fascism, and cruelty.

Impeach and remove Trump—now.


George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
@gtconway3d
The deadly shooting in Minneapolis today was a straight-up execution of a protester by Trump's federal brownshirts. 

The thugs wrestled him to the ground.  They pistol-whipped him, then shot him multiple times.  They murdered him.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Post from Pete Buttigieg that reads: If there was ever a moment for libertarians and conservatives to step up and join the rest of us, we’re in it. 

Americans have to unite and stop this descent from a freedom-loving nation into the kind of place where masked, militarized government agents are sent to politically noncompliant areas to roam the streets, terrorize civilians, and deploy violence with impunity.
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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
WATCH THIS: Our message to the people of Denmark. (This will air in Denmark next week.) youtu.be/2YriJ4WEqXI?...
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Darkness Returns to Europe. Americans Will Not Be Silent.
YouTube video by Save America Movement
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Mary L Trump @maryltrump.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Imagine what a tiny little man you would have to be to feel threatened by a dancing fox.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
This is so grim. Science isn’t just something nerds do, but the foundation of the modern world. What the Trump regime has done to US science will harm Americans for generations.
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‘Shattered’: US scientists speak out about how Trump policies disrupted their careers
Researchers lay bare the human toll of lay-offs, funding cuts and attacks on science one year after the president’s return to the White House.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Ted Cruz in 2016, "We're liable to wake up one morning and Donald Trump if he was President would have nuked Denmark" "That's not the temperament of a leader to keep this country safe"
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Kevin Pumiglia @papapmigs.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
This is just another example of lack of accountability for the use of tax dollars to further the goals of the American experiment www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...
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ICE Prosecutor Who Runs Racist X Account Returns to Dallas Immigration Court
James Rodden, who the Observer identified last year as the operator of the account that routinely posted hateful statements, appeared to be back at work Tuesday.
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Kevin Pumiglia @papapmigs.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... WTF!
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UPenn faculty condemn Trump administration’s demand for ‘lists of Jews’
Groups say EEOC demand for names and personal details echoes dark history and threatens safety and civil rights
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 13/01/2026
Oh interesting maybe someone show this clip to @durbin.senate.gov
Screenshot of a bluesky post from October:

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social

Durbin on whether Democrats can use reining in ICE in Chicago as a precondition to [reopen] the government says "can't do that. It's gotta be health care all the way."

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Lily Bart 📚 🎧 😽 @roguetime.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Federal agent drew his gun and pointed it right at the face of a non violent protestor. THIS HAS TO STOP NOW
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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
The constitutional remedy for a president who launches a war of acquisition against an ally is impeachment, removal, disqualification, and ultimately a criminal trial. And the same is true for every member of his cabinet involved in such an illegal undertaking.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic. It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
Graphic that reads: "The average hourly wage necessary to afford a one-bedroom apartment in the United States is $28.17. The federal minimum wage is currently $7.25." -- National Low Income Housing Coalition
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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
🧵A legal scholar finds the killing by special forces of survivors in the Navy attack on an alleged drug boat to be a war crime and murder. "the currently governing DOD Manual in Section 5.9 states clearly that persons “placed hors de combat may not be made the object of attack.” ...
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A Dishonorable Strike
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
2/2 link: Statement of the “Former JAGs Working Group” on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Trump’s HHS put me on “non-disciplinary” admin leave today. This was retaliation for speaking up. Moves like this are designed to silence us. Let’s not let. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Dteoop/
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I guess I am hitting a nerve, because they just put me on admin leave.
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Lior Pachter @lpachter.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Scientific breakthroughs are rarely unique; someone else would’ve made them soon enough. But when prominent scientists cause harm, that harm isn’t inevitable; the world might simply have been better had the harm not been inflicted. liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
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James Watson in his own words
“Some anti-Semitism is justified” “Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them” “Japan should be bombed for d…
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Alejandro Adam @aleadam.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Here's a quick thread with pics summarizing the paper. Many thanks for all the hard work at Albany Med and by our collaborator Pilar Alcaide!
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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
1/ In late October, Middlebury College announced that Lia Smith, a 21-year-old student and diver, had taken her own life. She was also a trans athlete in a country that often treats transgender participation in sports as a political controversy. 🧵
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
An embarrassingly obvious point, but... This. Is. Illegal. If anything like the rule of law were in force, Trump couldn't arbitrarily increase a tariff because he is annoyed. In important and increasing ways, the rule of law in the US no longer exists. www.cnn.com/2025/10/25/b...
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Trump says he’s increasing tariffs on Canada by 10% after Ontario’s Reagan ad | CNN Business
President Donald Trump said Saturday he is increasing the tariff on Canada by 10% over current levels, further escalating trade tensions over what he called a “fake” ad that featured parts of an anti-...
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 24/10/2025
This is what oligarchy looks like: Trump gave corporate America a $920 billion tax break. Now, corporations like Amazon, Meta, Apple, Google & Lockheed Martin are returning the favor by giving Trump $300 million for a fancy ballroom. That’s a pretty good return on investment.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube. Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X). *1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.” youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
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President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
PRECISELY!
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Kraig Peck @kraigpeck.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
I found thousands of Antifa members at Arlington Cemetery.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 08/10/2025
If you are a federal worker, there are several credit unions and other financial institutions that are offering zero interest loans during the government shutdown. Please go to my website for more information: www.sanders.senate.gov/resources-fo...
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 09/10/2025
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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