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GL Pennington @purposefulprof.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Never in my wildest dreams would I have expected South Park to be at the forefront of our fight to save democracy.

GL Pennington @purposefulprof.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

So what is the plan is for the $45 billion new detention centers once Trump & ICE deport half our nation's essential labor force? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

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GL Pennington @purposefulprof.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Yes, I think moved from AZ to Idaho. The mom is in Arizona, dad moved to a farm in Priest River, Idaho. Grandfather Dale Roley's FB page is awfully interesting as well. Sad situation

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GL Pennington @purposefulprof.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

There are a lot of skateboarding pics on his dad's Instagram, among other interesting imagery. I'm sure it's a complex picture. Curious if we will ever know the specific motive

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GL Pennington @purposefulprof.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

The man pictured is his stepdad. His father, Jason / Val, lives in Idaho. Instagram @wolfvoorhees85

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GL Pennington @purposefulprof.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Mother lives in Arizona, Wess Roley was living in Idaho

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GL Pennington @purposefulprof.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Her FB page has many photos of him and his full name - Wess Roley

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GL Pennington @purposefulprof.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

I'll be sleeping with one eye open tonight. Stormy is NOT a fan of the bath. Happy #Caturday!

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GL Pennington @purposefulprof.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Rubio looks terrified, imo. Rapid blinking. Swallowing.

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GL Pennington @purposefulprof.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Any body language experts out there who can speak to Marco Rubio’s state of mind during this a Trump presser on Iran?

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GL Pennington @purposefulprof.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

This gave me a good laugh, ty for that

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Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

They told Minnesotans to stay home. After the murder of Speaker Hortman and her husband—and the failed attempts on Senator Hoffman and his wife—fear was the official message. But the people came anyway. In defiance. In grief. In purpose. This was the #NoKings rally in MN. #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky

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GL Pennington @purposefulprof.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Amazing. From the largest U.S. cities to small towns and suburbs, the enthusiastic turn-out today did wonders for my faith in Americans, and humanity

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GL Pennington @purposefulprof.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

I have to be honest — I’m uncertain how to fact-check crowd size. But I want this to be true. 🤣 Apparently that’s sufficient in 2025 so let’s go with it for now

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 22/04/2025

Northwestern updates from the academic freedom front, two pieces of good news: (1) our president signed the AACU "call for constructive engagement," which, among other things, condemns "the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education"

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WIRED @wired.com · 18/03/2025

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

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Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow

As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

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GL Pennington @purposefulprof.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I couldn’t believe it. Both she and John Berman kept a straight face. ?!?!

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GL Pennington @purposefulprof.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I had to rewind that this morning to make sure I heard him correctly. 🙄

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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 05/03/2025

Rep. Melanie Stansbury holds a sign reading "This Is Not Normal" before another member rips it out of her hand.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

www.hidinginplainsightbook.com

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GL Pennington @purposefulprof.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Absolute disaster - consciously financing and fueling outrage / disinfo spread

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GL Pennington @purposefulprof.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Dear Americans, HELP. Sincerely, Science

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

how it started at USAID > how it's going

a large photo on the wall of USAID showing people in a field

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Anne Muntean @annemuntean.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

"...a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism — ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power." FDR 1938

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GL Pennington @purposefulprof.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

New accusations against Hegseth, I see. Where do you suppose Susan Collins is this morning on the concern-o-meter?

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GL Pennington @purposefulprof.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

The sudden popularity of RedNote is fascinating - an unexpected, massive scale cultural mash-up. One big, unpredictable social / cultural psychology field experiment. Get your IRB proposals lined up….I suspect this is going to be a wild ride!

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GL Pennington @purposefulprof.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I don’t spend as much time on Facebook these days, but it occurs to me there’s an upside to Zuckerberg giving up any attempt at fact checking…. we can post sarcastic memes again without ending up in FB jail. 🚨

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GL Pennington @purposefulprof.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

This word choice is sadly very fitting for 2024

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GL Pennington @purposefulprof.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Standing up for science, the climate, vaccines,facts? Never the wrong choice in my book.

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GL Pennington @purposefulprof.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

We shall have to agree to disagree on Jesse Singal's hit piece being "right." It isn't. It's cherry picked nonsense, mostly aimed at opinion pieces. And yes, motives matter. As do the consequences. Don't boost or excuse trolling / bullying. johnhorgan.org/cross-check/...

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Scientific American Loses Its Bold Leader — John Horgan (The Science Writer)

HOBOKEN, NOVEMBER 15, 2024. Well before Scientific American ’s editor vented her despair over the election, social in justice warriors were bashing the magazine for its political views. Critics in...

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GL Pennington @purposefulprof.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Dismayed to see @laurahelmuth.bsky.social being predictably & viciously attacked online. Greatly appreciated this commentary by John Horgan. "Science journalists can either challenge abuses of science or look the other way." Helmuth challenged them. To her credit. johnhorgan.org/cross-check/...

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Scientific American Loses Its Bold Leader — John Horgan (The Science Writer)

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GL Pennington @purposefulprof.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

People aren't actually going after her like they are because of her editing skills. They are going after her b/c she's "too woke." That is abundantly clear in the tone and content of the vast majority of the criticism.

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GL Pennington @purposefulprof.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

She (the editor) also broke with tradition to endorse Harris, which gained her a lot of enemies. But again, if you read the actual piece --- her pro-science argument is based on Trump's anti-science agenda, cuts to research funding, climate science denial, etc.

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GL Pennington @purposefulprof.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Thanks for your reply. I think we need to be cautious about picking up opinion pieces & accepting them as fact simply b/c certain points resonate with us. This author has a track record of cherry picking to support his own ideology & trying to discredit any science that he deems too "woke" / trans

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GL Pennington @purposefulprof.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Respecfully disagree. It's a quite biased critique in its own right. Some of the attacks are uncalled for. I suggest people read the original work. Cherry-picked examples from OPINION pieces in the magazine, for example. And misrepresentations of others.

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GL Pennington @purposefulprof.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

okay. so let's critique her editing skills. not attack her as the "woman who brought down science by being too woke." hit pieces like this led the author of the original article to be showered with threats and hate mail. the vitriol and hyperbole is unnecessary & harmful.

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GL Pennington @purposefulprof.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

"Default humans" is a turn of phrase - used here to point out the very objectively true finding that white male bodies were long treated as the "standard" research subject. Hence, drug dev't, dosing, etc. was based on men's metabolism & body composition. Distinct symptom patterns missed, etc.

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GL Pennington @purposefulprof.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Again, CONTEXT matters. Her point is sufficiently clear in the content of the full paragraph. Your inability to comprehend the context doesn't mean she "doesn't understand math." Pretty sure she does. The language is also referencing a paper she co-wrote on the Black maternal health crisis.

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