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Rich Jorgensen

@rajorg.bsky.social
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Retired geneticist, genomicist and plant scientist living in Guanajuato, Mexico

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Rich Jorgensen @rajorg.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
It’s no deeper than that the US is now simply a dick-ocracy and these guys are just swinging their little dickies around as if it makes them look manly.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 11/03/2026
We shut down USAID but: www.mediaite.com/politics/pet...
mediaite.com
Pete Hegseth’s Defense Department Blew $22M On Steak and Lobster in a Single Month, Watchdog Claims
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's Defense Department allegedly blew through $22 million on lobsters and ribeye steak in a Sept. 2025, end-of-year spree.
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Rich Jorgensen @rajorg.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
The US has become a dick-ocracy. These clowns in DC are just swinging their micro-dicks around as if it makes them manly. But they’re really just a bunch of dicks.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
If you're a soldier in the 11th Airborne Division being ordered to prep for deployment to Minnesota or Greenland, remember that you have the right to apply for conscientious objector status. Call the GI Bill Rights hotline: 1-877-447-4487
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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.
nature.com
‘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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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
👀
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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
I stand with Senator Mark Kelly.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 05/01/2026
Trump Claims He Will Marry Maduro’s Wife Until Suitable Replacement Found theonion.com/trump-claims-he-will-m…
Trump Claims He Will Marry Maduro’s Wife Until Suitable Replacement Found
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Rich Jorgensen @rajorg.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Call it what it is: regime change
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
BYD sold more battery electric vehicles than Tesla in 2025. www.cnbc.com/2026/01/02/c... They export a *ton* from China to EU. (Tesla coulda but EU based EV buyers outside of Norway seem not that into Elon Musk right about now. Especially when they have affordable alternatives.)
cnbc.com
China’s BYD overtakes Tesla as world’s top EV seller for the first time
The milestone caps an extraordinary rise for BYD, a company Tesla's Elon Musk once dismissed by laughing at their products.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
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The Onion @theonion.com · 23/04/2025
Trump Opens Up Nation’s Aquariums To Commercial Fishing
theonion.com
Trump Opens Up Nation’s Aquariums To Commercial Fishing
WASHINGTON—Claiming that preservation efforts had impeded U.S. seafood production for far too long, President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he had opened up the nation’s aquariums to commercia...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 10/04/2025
"No one, apparently, is willing to prevent a single man from destroying the world economy, wrecking financial markets, forcing this country and other countries into recession if that’s what he feels like doing when he gets up tomorrow morning" www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
theatlantic.com
This Is Why Dictatorships Fail
The authors of the Constitution separated powers for a reason.
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Rich Jorgensen @rajorg.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
apple.news/AUzyqL6mKQLq...
apple.news
Throw Elon Musk Out of the Royal Society — The Atlantic
Science has to be able to defend itself.
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Eric O’Donnell @egod77.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Any questions?!
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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Crash, Dummies
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JB Holston @jholston.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Can't even secure Twitter's servers -- but sure, give him control over Govt servers in social security, IRS, Justice, Medicaid and Medicare .. and let him 'update' the air traffic control system. I mean, c'mon folks. @wired.com doing the work, again. www.wired.com/story/x-ddos...
wired.com
What Really Happened With the DDoS Attacks That Took Down X
Elon Musk said a “massive cyberattack” disrupted X on Monday and pointed to “IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area” as the source of the attack. Security experts say that's not how it works.
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
yep
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
oh no.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
A lot can happen in five months. 🇺🇸
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
“Statistics provide a mirror to society,” said Andreas Georgiou, a Greek statistician who was criminally prosecuted in his home country after crunching accurate budget statistics during Greece’s debt crisis. “Sometimes these are uncomfortable peeks into reality.” wapo.st/4iCmMtn
wapo.st
Opinion | How Trump is reshaping reality by hiding data
Sweeping statistical purges are part of a broader attempt to reinvent “truth.”
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makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
NEW: Elon Musk wants a government shutdown, sources tell WIRED. from @leahfeiger.bsky.social, @jakelahut.writes.news, and @telliotter.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
wired.com
Elon Musk Has Wanted the Government Shutdown
Sources tell WIRED that Elon Musk has wanted a government shutdown in part because it would potentially make it easier to eliminate the jobs of hundreds of thousands of federal workers.
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Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
New from @jakelahut.writes.news @leahfeiger.bsky.social and me: Elon Musk has been advocating for a government shutdown, even as Trump himself has opposed one. Why? In part to make it easier to remove thousands of federal workers. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
wired.com
Elon Musk Has Wanted the Government Shutdown
Sources tell WIRED that Elon Musk has wanted a government shutdown in part because it would potentially make it easier to eliminate the jobs of hundreds of thousands of federal workers.
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Magic Bird Peddler @dfeldman.org · 11/03/2025
Winston Churchill in the Oval Office with Trump and Vance. Trump is screaming “You don’t have the cards, Winston!”
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
My latest post is now out. I show how Trump's attacks on science and universities are neither random nor new - they fit very precisely into the authoritarian playbook. This means we can guess what might come next and prepare - and we must! christinapagel.substack.com/p/censor-pur...
christinapagel.substack.com
Censor, purge, defund: how Trump following the authoritarian playbook on science and universities
I have mapped 35 of the Trump administration's attacks on science and universities to the authoritarian playbook - and consider what it means for attacks still to come
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Rich Jorgensen @rajorg.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Opinion | The founding fathers baked reason, truth and free speech into the US. That’s all gone now - The Guardian
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
The new cover of TIME magazine has an illustration of Elon Musk sitting behind the Resolute Desk.
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Tim Clancy @viewfromarchstreet.com · 08/02/2025
On changes to #NIH indirect rates, there is a law in place that prohibits NIH from making such changes without the approval of Congress. See Division D, Title II Section 224 of The Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law No: 118-47) grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-24-110: Notice of Legislative Mandates in Effect for FY 2024
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of Legislative Mandates in Effect for FY 2024 NOT-OD-24-110. NIH
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Dr. Rebecca Calisi-Rodríguez @rebeccacalisi.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
6/ When governments decide what knowledge is acceptable, when they defund, silence, or erase science that challenges their ideology, the consequences aren’t theoretical. They’re written in history books soaked with the fallout of intellectual repression.
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Simon Wiesenthal Center sent CNBC/NBC this statement via email regarding Elon Musk's "gesture" -- "At the Simon Wiesenthal Center, we have spent 47 years investigating, pursuing, and educating the world about the dangers of normalizing symbols and rhetoric tied to the Nazi regime...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/01/2025
HIRONO: Would you carry out an order from President Trump to shoot protesters in the legs? HEGSETH: *dodges question* HIRONO: That sounds to me that you would comply with such an order. You still shoot protesters in the legs HEGSETH: *silent*
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John W Dean @johnwdean.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
FYI
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Rich Jorgensen @rajorg.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
scienmag.com/new-shipping... Don't tell me geoengineering won't work. Clearly it can
scienmag.com
New Shipping Emissions Mandate Contributes to Rise in Global Temperatures
In an unprecedented turn of events, the summer of 2023 brought with it an unexpected surge in global temperatures, leading to a flurry of concern and surprise among climate scientists. These experts
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
+1. Also, love the term “musklings.”
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Joseph D. Ortiz @earthsciinfo.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
There is lots of work to do. But, if your response to learning 10 nations are at 100% renewables, 75-85% of new electric capacity globally is renewables, & 70 nations are at >50% renewables and increasing is to conclude the world is doubling down on carbon, there's not much room for conversation.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Gabbard is a walking Christmas tree of security risk warning lights www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
theatlantic.com
Tulsi Gabbard’s Nomination Is a National-Security Risk
None
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Not a fun time to work in the DOJ www.politico.com/news/2024/11...
politico.com
You thought DOJ staffers were in full-blown freakout before …
Justice Department lawyers cannot compute that Matt Gaetz could be their new boss.
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