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Margo Edmunds

@redwoofer.bsky.social
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Health policy entrepreneur. Nonprofit exec. Former teaching faculty at Johns Hopkins. FAMIA. Consumer informatics. #informaticsSky Climate justice. Views are my own.

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Maureen Berzanski 🧷🇺🇦🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🟧🌊 🐾 @moberzan.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Today, our friend Jay USAF Major Jason Watson read his oath to the Constitution and demanded that Congress do its job to IMPEACH this President and cabinet. He was arrested on the Capitol steps. #DOOR @defendersofourrepublic.org @removalcoalition.bsky.social @citizensimpeachment.com
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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Please enjoy my cartoon for Thursday's Toronto Star
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
"We've built a rapid response network to stop ICE detention centers before they start. Receive immediate alerts if a facility is planned for your community and help lead the local fight to stop it..." gtfoice.org
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GTFO ICE — Get The Facilities Out
ICE is rapidly expanding its network of detention centers. We have a playbook to fight back. Sign up to get alerts if a facility is planned near you.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Still one of our all-time faves. ✊
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Clever. These are popping up all across the USA.
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Margo Edmunds @redwoofer.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
No words for this.
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Margo Edmunds @redwoofer.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Please help support research to improve health and health care for all. Thanks for considering making a donation.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
The destruction of the White House is such an ungodly abomination that, of course, the New York Jets are involved.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Lots of US companies have done lots of dreadful things to Americans. But the symbolism of paying to destroy the White House is hard to top.
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Margo Edmunds @redwoofer.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
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Honeybees? It's Our Native Bees That Need the Buzz
Honey bees are in trouble but so are our 4000 North American native bees. Learn about the best flowering plants and garden maintenance practices.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 18/09/2025
We seem to be on the cusp of a world in which workers of all kinds—teachers, doctors, writers, lawyers, coders, clerks, and more—will be replaced with, or to some degree sidelined by, their A.I. equivalents. What will get left out when A.I. steps in?
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In the Age of A.I., What Makes People Unique?
More than ever, we’re challenged to define what’s valuable about being human.
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Margo Edmunds @redwoofer.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Outrageous.
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Margo Edmunds @redwoofer.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Powerful image.
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WIRED @wired.com · 19/09/2025
More than a dozen elected officials were arrested in or around 26 Federal Plaza in New York City, where ICE detains people in what courts have ruled are unsanitary conditions. www.wired.com/story/ice-ma...
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These Are the 15 New York Officials ICE and NYPD Arrested in Manhattan
More than a dozen elected officials were arrested in or around 26 Federal Plaza in New York City, where ICE detains people in what courts have ruled are unsanitary conditions.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2025
Van Hollen: "Those who cave in -- those like ABC who cave in -- what they do is give the bully an even bigger appetite. When they appease they bully, they put all of us at risk."
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/08/2025
one thing i've taken away from surveys asking the public to evaluate trump's most authoritarian moves is that the ordinary americans have a much clearer sense of what's happening than most professional political observers
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
"Government troops loyal to the U.S. ruling regime have seized a key transportation hub in the rebel stronghold of Washington..." www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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U.S. Transportation Department plans to take over D.C.’s Union Station
Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy announced Wednesday that the Trump administration aims to take control of Union Station from Amtrak.
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Margo Edmunds @redwoofer.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Wait, what??
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Reuters @reuters.com · 30/06/2025
US environment agency employees say Trump administration undermining mission reut.rs/4leZ1JW
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US environment agency employees say Trump administration undermining mission
Nearly 300 current and recently terminated employees of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency published a declaration of dissent on Monday, outlining five major concerns about how the Trump administration's politicization of science and severe job cuts were undermining the agency's mission.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 30/06/2025
More than 270 EPA workers signed a letter on Monday denouncing what they described as the Trump administration’s efforts to politicize, dismantle and sideline the main federal agency tasked with protecting the environment and public health.
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E.P.A. Workers Warn Trump Is Politicizing Their Work
In a public letter, employees of the Environmental Protection Agency accused the administration of engaging in unlawful partisan activity and endangering public health.
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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 19/05/2025
📉🧪 Is health data flooding journals? A new study finds 341 formulaic papers using AI-ready US health data, many with flawed stats, unjustified data slicing & zero false discovery checks. 🔗 doi.org/10.1371/jour... #SciComm #MetaResearch #AI
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Explosion of formulaic research articles, including inappropriate study designs and false discoveries, based on the NHANES US national health database
The combination of AI and national health databases offers opportunities, but may also be exploited by unethical agents. This study shows that there has been an explosion of formulaic research article...
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Many Americans in their 80s and 90s can actually remember what fascism looked like--and that's one reason they're the group that hates Trump the most www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
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Contributor: Why older Americans are Trump's biggest nightmare
If you're over 60, you viscerally get the need for, say, the Clean Air Act, functioning Social Security and affordable dolls at Christmas.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 29/03/2025
Between the arrogant tech twerps who think “we’ve got this,” and the malicious characters behind them who want the system to break, so they can fix it through privatizing with tech bros and private equity, there’s a LOT to worry about here.
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DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse
Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.
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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 21/03/2025
Public attitudes in the U.S. are even more striking. When it comes to Ukraine, Americans broadly agree with Europeans.
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The American and European publics still stand with Ukraine
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
This is a very sad story, but what makes me crazy is that people tried to explain that this is what would happen and got caricatured as "woke" hysterics www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
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He voted for Trump. Now his wife sits in an ICE detention center.
ICE's deportation actions signal that anyone who isn't a US citizen is 'at risk – period,' immigration attorney says.
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Margo Edmunds @redwoofer.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Another outrage. Please follow this story.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 15/03/2025
A Venezuelan couple being arrested with temporary protected status has sparked concerns that the Trump administration is again willing to separate parents from their children.
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Border patrol grabs Venezuelan parents in D.C., despite protected status
The arrest in D.C. of a Venezuelan couple with temporary protected status has sparked concerns that the Trump administration is again willing to separate parents from their children.
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IrishStar.com @irishstar.com · 15/03/2025
President Donald Trump was left red-faced after stumbling up the steps of his Marine One chopper, leading to questions about his health.
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Trump filmed stumbling up Marine One steps as health fears continue to grow
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Margo Edmunds @redwoofer.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Very interesting.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Trump has ordered massive swathes of US national forests to be cut down. Hundreds of millions of acres of trees will be razed and endangered species will not be protected.
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Trump orders swathes of US forests to be cut down for timber
President’s move to expand tree cutting across 280m acres evades rules to protect endangered species
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Margo Edmunds @redwoofer.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
In honor of Black History month…
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I am really outdone. The Maryland National Guard cannot celebrate Frederick Douglass, the state’s native son and perhaps the greatest American this nation ever produced, because he’s Black and his chosen birthday happened to fall during Black History Month. (Ask me why he had to choose is b-day)
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Margo Edmunds @redwoofer.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Wait. Vance said what??
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Outrageous. 850 Indian Health Service physicians, nurses and dentists terminated by DOGE. Will have a devstating effect on the health of Native Americans.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Nailed it 🏆
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
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Margo Edmunds @redwoofer.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Shocked but not surprised.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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Of course it’s a coup
Miss the obvious, lose your republic
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 02/02/2025
Democrats aren’t powerless against Trump’s blitzkrieg power-grab. Senate rules are designed to protect the rights of the minority and Democrats have tools at their disposal to grind Senate business to a halt if Republicans try to ram through Trump’s extremist agenda: indivisible.org/resource/how...
FREEZE THE SENATE
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Margo Edmunds @redwoofer.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
This.
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Margo Edmunds @redwoofer.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Truth.
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Margo Edmunds @redwoofer.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Thank you. #goodcorporatecitizens
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Jeff Dean @jeffdean.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Demis Hassabis, James Manyika, and I wrote up an overview of the AI research work & advances across Google in 2024 (Gemini, NotebookLM, robotics, ML for science, & advances in responsible AI+more). 🎊 Given it a read or paste it into NotebookLM to listen, if you prefer! blog.google/technology/a...
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2024: A year of extraordinary progress and advancement in AI
As we move into 2025, we’re looking back at the astonishing progress in AI in 2024.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
THIS!!! MORE. OF. THIS. www.mlive.com/news/grand-r...
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Grand Rapids police ‘not in the business of immigration enforcement,’ chief says
Grand Rapids Police Chief Eric Winstrom on Thursday, Jan. 23, said his officers would not be arresting people for immigration violations.
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Margo Edmunds @redwoofer.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Stand tall, CBS.
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Eugene Chevy™ @eugenechevy.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Why isn't anybody talking about the fact Native Americans citizenship is under attack and now we are targeted by ICE. Navajo Nation leaders address reports of ICE detaining tribal citizens www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...
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Navajo Nation leaders address reports of ICE detaining tribal citizens
Social media reports of Navajo citizens being detained by ICE prompted Navajo leaders to explore ways to protect their people.
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