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Bob Barnard

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Academic Philosopher, Thinker, Human. Posts/views/interactions/intimations do not represent my employer, etc. humans are not brands.

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Ethics in Bricks @ethicsinbricks.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings." - Ursula K. Le Guin
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
The US intelligence community long ago gamed out all the risks surrounding a conflict with Iran, including the possibility Iran would close the Straits of Hormuz. If the Trump administration and Hegseth are surprised now, it's because they've never listened to, and sidelined, the experts.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 04/03/2026
The secret to this chicken salad recipe isn’t in the seasonings (though the tarragon and sour cream make it pretty wonderful) but in the texture of the chicken. nyti.ms/3PgGiSM
This Is the Best Chicken Salad
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🪶deedles 🫘 @dyerfineart.com · 04/03/2026
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
This is courage. Looking a masked, government fascist dead in the eye, face to face, knowing full well that your life is on the line. If elected officials had 1/10th of Alex Pretti's resolve, we would have far fewer troubles.
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Kat 🕊️ @smith83k.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Trump’s Letter to Norway Should Be the Last Straw #Pinks www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Trump’s Letter to Norway Should Be the Last Straw
Will Republicans in Congress ever step in?
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
What do Greenland, Honduras, Venezuela, and Nigeria have in common? The “network state” cabal—which includes Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, & Joe Lonsdale—has been circling them like vultures. 1/
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Josi Lam @jflo918.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
We are Russia
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Indy @indagare.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
www.goodnewsnetwork.org/injured-spin...
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Injured Spinal Cords Repaired With Breakthrough 3D-printed ‘Scaffolding’–Team Regrows Nerves in Rats
New research combines 3D printing, stem cell biology, and lab-grown tissues may provide treatment to repair spinal cord injuries.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 27/08/2025
BREAKING: Susan Monarez is out as the CDC director after less than a month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announces.
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CDC director Susan Monarez is out after less than a month on the job, federal officials say
The director of the nation’s top public health agency is out after less than one month in the job. The U.S.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 25/08/2025
Trump's net approval rating among Black voters has plunged 25 points since May. (via Bloomberg Opinion)
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Attacking Black Mayors Will Cost the GOP Its Newest Supporters
Trump’s broadsides against cities like DC and LA are part of a pattern that’s eroding his support from Black voters.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
NYT: “Pentagon fires the Defense Intelligence Agency Chief — weeks after the agency drafted a preliminary report contradicting Trump’s contention U.S. strikes “obliterated” nuclear sites in Iran…” The Truth will not be tolerated. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/u...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Flag: Trump is now dropping his demand for a ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia — a stark reversal that aligns him with Putin.
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Bob Barnard @rbarnard0.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
I appreciate that my public school education and memory work like the funky sunglasses in ‘TheyLive’. I just don’t like what I’m seeing.
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Scr👻ppy @scrappyaf.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
One word got this grant killed for being “DEI.” This is the ONLY NIH funded study to look at how people with Trigeminal Neuralgia age because we take heavy duty drugs to manage the pain and the data hasn’t been collected and explored. TN affects more women than men. I despise what is happening.
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Real-world Evidence Study with Patient Input to evaluate Treatment Effects in Trigeminal Neuralgia
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Bob Barnard @rbarnard0.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
But…then subpoenaed testimony cannot be avoided on pain of self incrimination— depending on the scope of a pardon. But perjury would be a new offense.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Holy - and I cannot emphasize this enough - shit. Also, this guy was a senior project 2025 organizer.
The answer came back days later in an email from Spencer Chretien, the highest-ranking official in the State Department's refugee and migration bureau, saying the program is intended for white people.
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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com · 10/07/2025
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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Researcher Katie Edwards studies interpersonal violence. Here's why, after losing millions of dollars in grant money, she's taking the fight to court: buff.ly/WFNVeMp
We need to fight for doing science that has integrity, and that’s evidence driven, and that respects the dignity of people. —Dr. Katie Edwards
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Bob Barnard @rbarnard0.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Why do you capture, undermine, hollow out, journalism? Because you don’t want people to know what you are doing,and you don’t want them to believe that unbiased news is possible when your hijinx are discovered.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
⚡️NEW: In Tennessee, Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social has introduced the “STOP AMERICAN GESTAPO ACT” — requiring law enforcement not to wear masks, and to ID themselves. As Blackburn, Johnson, Sexton and the GOP try to codify masked vigilantism, Jones moves to ban it to protect the public.
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Climate change poses a massive threat to our food supply. As one expert puts it, "If the climate warms by 3 degrees, that's basically like everyone on the planet giving up breakfast"
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
1/ Anyone who has taken flying lessons knows the beautiful, large topographic maps from FAA that are on the walls of nearly every FBO (small-airport office) around the country. You use them to compare routes, judge terrain, imagine the aerial view. One of many products post-Doge FAA is dropping...
A large topographic map of the US
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Changing the facts to fit the narrative, I see…
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Bob Barnard @rbarnard0.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
AI/Higher Ed hot takes: 1) whatever efficiency gains colleges realized from online education and the use of LMS systems will diminish as we need to higher humans to be guardrails against AI use by students. The other trade off is to redesign everything to offset the impact of Ai/ 1/x
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
“The notion that I or any of my colleagues ‘body slammed’ armed federal officers is absurd. DHS is lying because they know their agents were out of line.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
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Bob Barnard @rbarnard0.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I got a measles booster last week. Why risk it? #MeaslesParty
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NPR @npr.org · 18/03/2025
Exposure to heat can alter the way your DNA works, according to a new study. The effects could lead to long-term health outcomes.
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Heat can age you as much as smoking, a new study finds
Exposure to heat can alter the way your DNA works, according to a new study. The effects could lead to long-term health outcomes.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
You just can’t make this stuff up: Trump taps his classified docs co-defendant to oversee the U.S. Naval Academy www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...
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Trump taps his classified docs co-defendant to oversee the U.S. Naval Academy
A few months ago, Walt Nauta was facing criminal charges for his alleged role in helping Trump keep classified documents. Now, he'll serve on a board making key decisions for the U.S. Naval Academy.
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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
this is a golden age for walking out of your lab with a USB key in your pocket getting on a plane and going to Luxembourg
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 11/03/2025
Exclusive: The National Institutes of Health will cancel or cut back dozens of grants for research on why some people are reluctant to be vaccinated and how to increase acceptance of vaccines, according to an internal email obtained by The Washington Post on Monday.
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NIH to terminate or limit grants related to vaccine hesitancy and uptake
The order covers more than 40 awards to researchers around the country seeking to understand why vaccine acceptance has declined.
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Bob Barnard @rbarnard0.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Unfair to Frog and Toad. They’re actually friends.
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Columbia grad student with a green card and a pregnant US citizen wife, abducted by ICE because of his political organizing, and now his lawyers can't find him. Hey, @schumer.senate.gov. This is your constituent. Bring him back home.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 07/03/2025
BREAKING: Homeland Security is ending a collective bargaining agreement with tens of thousands of TSA employees, marking a major attack on worker rights.
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Homeland Security ends collective bargaining agreement with TSA staffers, an attack on worker rights
The Department of Homeland Security says it's ending the collective bargaining agreement with the tens of thousands of frontline employees at the Transportation Security Administration responsible for protecting air travel.
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Ethics in Bricks @ethicsinbricks.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Findings from publicly funded research should be publicly available.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
AARP has created an easy way to contact your lawmakers and tell them Social Security must be protected. Learn more.👇
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AARP Urges Outreach to Congress to Protect Social Security
Older Americans continue to raise concerns about payments, customer service
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Eliza @elizaotherwise.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Get in, bitches. We're giving Twitter, Facebook and Instagram 1-star reviews!
In locked down Wuhan, teachers use an app called DingTalk to set homework.  Kids realised if it got enough one-star reviews it would be removed from App Store. Thousands of reviews flooded in, and DingTalk's rating fell from 4.9 to 1.4 overnight.  Legends.
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Amy McGrath @amymcgrath.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Former flag officers speaking up. The political firings at the top in the military must stop. They know how this will harm our national security.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
This deranged post must be read in concert with new Daily Beast and Yahoo News reports that Trump is a Kremlin agent ("Krasnov") and Hegseth speeding up a political purge of the military. What you are seeing here is fear from Trump and Musk; they need to get to martial law fast.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
(📢) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: The Daily Beast publishes a sourced allegation that Trump has been a Russian spy since 1987 and then—possibly under some form of threat—deletes it. But in an act of unusual heroism, it left it up long enough for Wayback Machine to capture it text. Here it is (please share):
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Former Intelligence Officer Claims KGB Recruited Trump
Alnur Mussayev alleged Trump was given the codename “Krasnov”.
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 22/02/2025
"The press and all people in the United States have the right to choose their own words and not be retaliated against by the government," the AP said in its lawsuit. buff.ly/436pt1S
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Zach Montague @zjmontague.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Whatever comes next in the NIH case, the hearing today made it clear how huge the medical/academic constituencies are opposing these cuts. And it would seem hard to dispute that some amount of irreparable harm has already happened to some number of parties involved.
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Judge Extends Block on N.I.H. Medical Research Cuts
A federal judge in Massachusetts indicated she would move quickly to consider a more lasting injunction after hearing a laundry list of potential adverse effects of the Trump administration move to cu...
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white **retired** Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 22/02/2025
A Manhattan federal judge on Friday banned Elon Musk’s team from regaining access to the U.S. Treasury Department’s most sensitive payment and data systems until the conclusion of a lawsuit that claims the group’s access is unlawful.
nytimes.com
Federal Judge Banishes Musk’s DOGE Aides From Treasury Dept. Systems
A group of state attorneys general sued to block the Trump administration’s policy of allowing political appointees and “special government employees” championed by Elon Musk access to government data...
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Longtail News @longtail-news.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Feed: "Latest from Space.com" Published on Tuesday, February 18, 2025
space.com
Boeing plans to lay off hundreds of employees working on NASA's SLS moon rocket: reports
Boeing notified employees it is planning to issue layoff notices "to align with revisions to the Artemis program and cost expectations."
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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
I escaped poverty because I am a scientist. And I am a scientist because of the National Science Foundation. A 🧵:
A Lady Professor with brown hair and glasses, wearing a scarf in red, green, yellow, & black, a gift from an incredible lactation  consultant, sitting in in front of cactus.
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DEI Virologist @kyt-thatsme.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The NSF EPSCoR grant paid for my first summer of research. The NSF Advanced program funded the conference responsible for me not quitting grad school. The NIH LRP help me do a post doc by reducing my financial burden. I was a free lunch, WIC and Section 8 kid.
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✨🦋𝓢𝓗𝓔𝓘𝓛𝓐 🦋✨ @sheilaharris.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
This is in Project 2025.
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bythepeople1863.bsky.social @bythepeople1863.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Trump’s White House revealed in a court filing that Musk is not an employee of DOGE and has no decision making authority. If that is true, who is firing all of these people? If Musk has been firing people with no authority, sue him.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
The NAACP is re-mixing 1930s-era "don't buy where you can't work" campaigns to confront the neo-segregationists targeting DEI. apnews.com/article/blac...
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NAACP lists companies that dump DEI in its tactical spending guide for Black Americans
The NAACP wants Black Americans to steer their buying power toward corporations that haven’t pulled back from diversity programs under conservative pressure.
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