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RafaelEsteban 🇩🇴 🇨🇴 🗽

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Baseball fan. Biology degree’d. (he/him)

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 12/09/2026
An absolutely incredible development here. This leg would have been unimaginable just a few short years ago. (Original post by @science.org on instagram)
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 08/09/2026
This story is incredible. Haaretz is reporting not only that UAE President warned Netanyahu a week and a half before Oct 7 that a major Hamas attack was coming, but that he did so at the instance of SINWAR. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Netanyahu got an explicit warning before Oct. 7. He didn't brief security chiefs
In September '23, UAE President bin Zayed called Netanyahu to deliver a harsh warning. Netanyahu did nothing. An extensive investigation, conducted for a new book, reveals the PM's failures surroundin...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 31/08/2026
New York, here’s how you can save a life: 1. Go to nyc.gov/naloxone to get free overdose-reversal medication, also known as Narcan®. 2. If you or someone you love is struggling with substance use, call 988 for confidential recovery resources.
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Naloxone - NYC Health
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This is not a surprise to many of us. Yet, too many our academic leaders have embraced a narrative they too know to be false for some inexplicable reason. Rank cowardice in the face of a paper tiger. Yes, an indictment of the Trump administration but of university presidents and trustees as well.
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Bad Medical Takes @badmedicaltakes.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Twitter user esaagar:

Lyme Disease was a lab leak too BTW

Quote tweet from Twitter user esaagar:

I didn't realize people weren't aware that Lyme disease was probably a lab leak so here it is very simply: Lyme disease originated in Lyme, CT in the 1970s. Lyme, CT just happens to be mere miles away from a US lab studying insect spreading bioweapons in the 1960s
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The conspiracy she’s referring to here is a Slack chat among scientists in 2020 where they went, “it could be a lab leak, let’s look into it!”
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WIRED @wired.com · 17/07/2026
A statement from WIRED leadership.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026
It's also available here. Please share and spread this report. Trans folks in the UK can't for fear of lawsuits by gender critical groups. drive.google.com/file/d/1UggI...
drive.google.com
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026
This is the report Gender Criticals don't want you to see and they want to censor with legal threats. It also proves how anti feminist the gender critical movement is since a good portion of the report documents anti abortion groups tied to far right Christian fundamentalists.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026
Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.
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RafaelEsteban 🇩🇴 🇨🇴 🗽 @rafaelesteban04.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
White mediocrity
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 20/06/2026
Vance: "The Straits are now open. The Iranian military is now destroyed." Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz again this morning.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/06/2026
The Straits are now closed
A screenshot of a news article in dark mode. The section heading "Middle East" appears at the top. The main headline, in large white text, reads: "Iran says it is closing Strait of Hormuz, testing fragile agreement with U.S." Below it, a subheadline reads: "As Iran cited Israel's attacks in Lebanon as the reason it would close the strait again, Pakistan said more talks were planned for Sunday in Switzerland." At the bottom, a timestamp says "44 minutes ago," next to a play button indicating a 2-minute audio or video duration.
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RafaelEsteban 🇩🇴 🇨🇴 🗽 @rafaelesteban04.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Not wrong, but it’s called the ***Reflecting*** Pool for a reason. lol
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
NEW from Important Context: All eyes have been on the Trump slush fund settlement, but a week earlier, the DOJ settled a Biden-era censorship lawsuit brought by anti-vax writer Alex Berenson, which was on appeal from a federal court dismissal. According to Berenson, it included a 6-figure payout.
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Trump DOJ Settles Lawsuit By Vaccine Skeptic Despite Winning in Court
Anti-mRNA vaccine writer Alex Berenson said he received a six-figure payout from the case.
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RafaelEsteban 🇩🇴 🇨🇴 🗽 @rafaelesteban04.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
RFK Jr. is a dumbass.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15/06/2026
This isn't just about Laverne, this is a story of trans people being purged from all facets of employment. The functional unemployment rate for trans people is roughly 30% or higher. Trump has made it convenient for companies to not hire trans people at all. variety.com/2026/film/ne...
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Laverne Cox Has Lost 90% of Her Income and Blames Trump’s ‘Regime’ for Attacking ‘Gender Ideology and DEI’
Laverne Cox says the Trump regime's attacks on gender ideology and DEI has cost her speaking engagements and teaching jobs.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 20/05/2026
And yes. I feel superior to the types of people who are willing to continue passive support of systems of oppression for an illusion of safety. But they feel superior to me too. They never hesitate to say so with their, ‘now everyone is worse off’ speech. As if that wasn’t always coming. So what.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Makary is officially out. He spread copious COVID disinformation and vile accusations against his predecessors. He utterly failed at the FDA. Like Prasad, he is now totally irrelevant. His opinions and hot takes utterly useless. He's only useful as a cautionary lesson for medical students.
politico.com
Makary’s time atop FDA over, Diamantas named acting commissioner
The gastrointestinal surgeon’s tenure was marked by mass layoffs, persistent churn among senior leaders and policy fights.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22/04/2026
It really gives the game away. Religious freedom when they want to target LGBTQ people and no religious freedom when they want the state to indoctrinate their preferred religion (evangelical Christianity) on students.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22/04/2026
The Supreme Court found that a school acknowledging the existence of LGBTQ people was such a violation of freedom of religion that they had to allow opt outs but now the 5th circuit says kids being exposed to the ten commandments isn't. The law is such a joke.
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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
One of the big conservative grievances against Biden was that his administration jawboned Facebook and others into removing COVID-skeptical and election misinfo content, but SCOTUS tossed that case because there was no proof the admin caused censorship. Here, Bondi and Noem gleefully admitted it.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
They last Tweeted in May 2024 in support of MAHA doctors. Nothing that has happened since bothers them at all.
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RafaelEsteban 🇩🇴 🇨🇴 🗽 @rafaelesteban04.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Nuremberg taught us that simply “following orders” was not a good excuse for committing crime on behalf of the government. In 100% agreement that ICE agents face the gavel.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 04/02/2026
We want ICE abolished and their agents hauled before Nuremberg style tribunals. Anything less is a policy failure.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
A Minnesota man allegedly tried to break Luigi Mangione out of jail in New York by claiming to be an FBI agent with a court order to release him, authorities said
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Man allegedly tried to break Luigi Mangione out of jail by impersonating FBI agent: Sources
A Minnesota man allegedly tried to break Luigi Mangione out of jail in New York, law enforcement sources told ABC News.
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RafaelEsteban 🇩🇴 🇨🇴 🗽 @rafaelesteban04.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Libertarians: I believe in less federal government Also Libertarians: ICE is a good
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RafaelEsteban 🇩🇴 🇨🇴 🗽 @rafaelesteban04.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
So crazy to me that Vinay tried painting himself as a liberal when everyone could see right through the talking points.
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RafaelEsteban 🇩🇴 🇨🇴 🗽 @rafaelesteban04.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Posting this through the WSJ is hilarious. I don’t picture regular readers/subscribers of the WSJ to be fans of hip hop in general. So who is he writing this to? 😂
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk. Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared. Well, here’s a link: georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...
Screenshot of a TikTok video with error message at top saying “your video is under review and can’t be shared right now.”
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ABOLISH ICE (anti-ICE merch in bio) @fed-up-studio.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
ICE exists to brutalize marginalized communities
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Abolish ICE
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
2026 has radicalized pop crave (complimentary)
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
INBOX: Former NIAID director Jeanne Marrazzo is suing the Trump administration. She alleges the NIH violated her constitutional rights and illegally fired her after she blew the whistle on actions that jeopardized public health and violated federal law.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Meanwhile, JB is making world tragedies about himself and how he was right in 2020.
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Mike (1 of many) @chicagomike.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
I'm not sure if people realize the murder strikes are taking place across a large region. It's quite staggering. www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Guillotine Kulldorff
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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door. This is who it was:
A male Anna’s hummingbird at the door. So nosy! 🤣
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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 14/11/2025
I made you a flowchart: www.todayintabs.com/p/no-one-tru...
A flowchart: On top, a large oval is labeled “Should I defend the New York Times on social media?” below it is a single arrow pointing to a box labeled “No.”
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 10/10/2025
If she'd been married and lied about being single or if she'd been a convicted abuser and lied about that she would not be going to jail. People lie all the time before sex, during sex and after sex. If you're trans, that's a crime.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 09/10/2025
Remember all of the ghouls who denied this was happening and did everything they could to make the problem worse from JK Rowling to Wes Streeting. The NHS who did a stitch up report to hide the growing number of suicides from trans youth on the waitlists. They should never be forgiven.
Screenshot of a PinkNews article headline reading “17-year-old trans girl’s suicide over NHS wait times was preventable, coroner rules.” The article is dated October 9 and written by Amelia Hansford. The PinkNews logo appears at the top in pink and black.
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RafaelEsteban 🇩🇴 🇨🇴 🗽 @rafaelesteban04.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
It’s not a shock collar, dumbass. Idiots of the Internet got me defending streamers. 😂
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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
ICE says I cause assaults on ICE by reciting facts about ICE’s recent shooting but refuses to link to the thread. Only posting a picture. ICE lies and ICE hides. You can read the facts for yourselves
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
The word “autism” was first used to describe behavioral differences in children in 1911 but autism has been documented using available records going back to the 1700s (definitively) and further. Acetaminophen (Tylenol, paracetamol) was discovered in 1878 and first sold in the United States in 1950.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Ezra Klein went beyond opposing political violence to extol Charlie Kirk for doing politics "exactly the right way," making up a fictional version of Kirk to praise. That distortion, with its indulgence of bad faith, is a perfect illustration of the larger media failure that helps Trump. My latest
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Ezra Klein Accidentally Shows How the Media Brought Us Trump
The prominent liberal pundit made up a fake version of Charlie Kirk to praise, laundering his reputation the way a lot of mainstream media launders MAGA
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 19/09/2025
I've read Ken Klippenstein blog and the Heritage Foundation paper with the insane proposal to designate trans criminals as terrorists and i've seen the comments made by Trump officials and yes it is all bad. But they are NOT proposing to label all trans people as terrorists.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/09/2025
Multiple Deans, a professor, and now a university president have all lost their jobs simply because a professor acknowledged trans people exist in a course about young adult literature. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...
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Texas A&M President to Step Down After Controversy Over ‘Gender Ideology’
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17/09/2025
Clay Higgins sent a letter to Bluesky and other social media sites threatening investigations if they don't censor speech critical of Charlie Kirk. They don't even know who Jay is because they addressed her as "gentleman." clayhiggins.house.gov/wp-content/u...
Alt text: Two-page letter on official U.S. House of Representatives letterhead, dated September 15, 2025, from Congressman Clay Higgins (Louisiana, 3rd District) to major tech executives, including Mark Zuckerberg (Meta), Elon Musk (X), Neal Mohan (YouTube), Shou Zi Chew (TikTok), Jay Graber (Bluesky), and Devin Nunes (Trump Media & Technology Group).

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The letter opens by thanking the executives for their service and offering condolences. It references the "graphic, televised murder of a heroic Christian leader, Mr. Charlie Kirk," urging the companies to take responsibility by removing posts that allegedly celebrated Kirk’s death. It demands that authors of such posts be banned and new pages they create also prohibited. It frames celebration of Kirk’s murder as unacceptable in a free society, and states that Congressman Higgins has initiated a Congressional effort to enforce this.Page 2:
The letter continues, stating that shielding offenders will not be protected under Section 230. Higgins emphasizes his role as Chair of the Federal Law Enforcement subcommittee of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, with authority over federal regulatory law enforcement. He frames the restriction of harmful public statements not as oppression, but as protection of free speech and societal standards. The letter closes with a demand for a formal response within one business week, signed "Clay Higgins, Member of Congress," and CCs Donald J. Trump (President of the United States) and Pam Bondi (Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice).
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