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Proud scientist, drug developer, devoted wife, pet parent, and resident of MA. I translate innovative science into lifesaving medicines for patients. I truly care about saving our democracy and restoring science to America. #BlueCrew. Opinions are my own.

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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
“The person who sold it to us did not want to be named, but said that the bottle was a gift from Patel at an event in Las Vegas.” 🤣🤣🤣🤣 www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Kash Patel’s Personalized Bourbon Stash
The FBI director has been leaving an unusual calling card.
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George @retiredsurgassist.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Dogs are bred for different jobs, and it shows.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Lets be clear. This is about stealing an election, this time, with SCOTUS on their side. House Speaker says, “you’ve got to keep the grown ups in charge.” GOP doesnt care what the voters want. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Speaker Johnson calls for redistricting Southern states before November
After the Supreme Court limited the Voting Rights Act, Johnson said states should consider redrawing House maps before the midterms. New boundaries would help the GOP.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 24/04/2026
Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: 🇦🇺 0 🇨🇦 0 🇩🇰 0 🇫🇮 0 🇫🇷 0 🇩🇪 0 🇮🇸 0 🇮🇪 0 🇮🇹 0 🇯🇵 0 🇳🇱 0 🇳🇴 0 🇵🇹 0 🇪🇸 0 🇸🇪 0 🇬🇧 0 🇺🇸 530,000 There’s a lesson there.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
The Justice Department Sides With the Ku Klux Klan The administration’s vindictive targeting of the Southern Poverty Law Center is yet another mask-off moment.
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The Justice Department Sides With the Ku Klux Klan
The administration’s vindictive targeting of the Southern Poverty Law Center is yet another mask-off moment.
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Kaydee @kaydeeartist.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Oldie but applicable.
JELLYFISH
THE NEW LOGO OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

SPINELESS 
BRAINLESS 
HEARTLESS
EATS ITS OWN
SH*TS THRU ITS MOUTH
FULL OF POISON
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Measles has been spreading in the US, reaching infection levels not seen in decades and threatening the country’s elimination status. Some anti-vaxxers are now changing their minds. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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As Measles Takes Toll on Kids, Anti-Vaxxers Have Change of Heart
Enough parents are quietly embracing the MMR that it’s helping to slow the outbreaks.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Virginia! Today is the last day to vote in the redistricting referendum. Make sure to vote YES. You can find your polling location at IWillVote.com/VA.
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Science Girl @sciencegirlma.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...
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Opinion | Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
DOJ demanded voter files from all 50 states. DOJ sued 31 states for refusing their demand. My law firm intervened to protect voters in those cases. DOJ is now 0-5. My firm is 5-0. Lesson: When we fight we win.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.”
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
CHRISTINA KOCH GREETING HER DOG AFTER RETURNING FROM THE MOON IM GONNA CRYYY 😭😭😭
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
When the outlook is so poor that you have to crack down on reporting about it, it's a sign you’re in an authoritarian system.
Tweet by Representative Ro Khanna criticizing the Iran war and warning about threats to revoke broadcaster licenses if media do not censor coverage. The image shows FCC Chair Brendan Carr testifying at a congressional hearing.
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Science Girl @sciencegirlma.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
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Opinion | ‘The Power of Science to Solve Problems Is Almost Limitless’
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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
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Science Girl @sciencegirlma.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Historians See Autocratic Playbook in an important read to contextualize the administrations attack on science. Trump’s Attacks on Science www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/s...
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Historians See Autocratic Playbook in Trump’s Attacks on Science
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Jeff Turner 🦋🌈🦋🌈@loveneverhate @loveneverhate.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
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Science Girl @sciencegirlma.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Appalling…..
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Science Girl @sciencegirlma.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
The truth comes out. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/s...
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Amid Fear of Retaliation, N.S.F. Workers Sign Letter of Dissent
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/07/2025
Beyond the layoffs at the FDA, some longtime inspectors have left in recent months. “I am in utter shock that they don’t support and promote those of us who can do a decent inspection,” one investigator said. “You’re adding to the chaos.”
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FDA Layoffs Could Compromise Safety of Medications Made at Foreign Factories, Inspectors Say
Beyond staff cuts, the departures of some longtime investigators in recent months have left less experienced people tasked with rooting out dangerous manufacturing practices.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 07/07/2025
Pam Bondi in February: The Epstein client list is sitting on my desk right now to review. Pam Bondi today: There is no Epstein client list and no "further disclosure" of Epstein-related material "would be appropriate or warranted."
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 01/07/2025
A national abortion ban is closer than you think. The Senate bill could close one in four abortion providers nationwide. As we saw with Roe, a right only on paper is no right at all
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Thread on the ethical scandal at the New York Times
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
The trump scheme to have battlefield ready, masked men grab day workers, moms, seniors & even kids has only just begun & it’s already extremely unpopular (as it should be FFS). And the worst it yet to come with this now super charged ICE funding.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Make no mistake, the SCOTUS decision about birthright citizenship IS ALSO ABOUT *birthright citizenship.* The Court is using nationwide injunctions as the tail, wagging the dog, to take us back to an Antebellum view of citizenship. That way led to war once. My latest in @thenation.com
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The Supreme Court's Birthright Citizenship Ruling Is a Five-Alarm Catastrophe
In Trump v. CASA, the court hands the president yet more unaccountable authority—and yanks us into a neo-Confederate legal nightmare.
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
CDC vaccine report cites study that does not exist, says scientist listed as author twp.ai/4ioqxB
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CDC vaccine report cites study that does not exist, says scientist listed as author
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Sporkman @realsporkman.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
'A Lot Of Americans Are Going To Die' www.huffpost.com/entry/cdc-va...
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'A Lot Of Americans Are Going To Die': Vaccine Expert Speaks Out After Resigning From CDC
“CDC processes are being corrupted in a way that I haven’t seen before,” she warned.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Four Democratic members of Congress from Illinois, Jesús “Chuy” García, Danny Davis, Delia Ramirez, and Jonathan Jackson, were denied entry to an ICE facility in Broadview, just outside Chicago, despite federal policy allowing them access without prior notice.
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👣Coco👣 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @nortygirl.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
So true....
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Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
The president can seize control of states’ National Guard units whenever he sees fit — even during peacetime, and even to simply back up Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents working to meet daily arrest quotas, a Justice Department lawyer argued Tuesday. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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Trump Administration Signals It Could Send The Military To Even More Cities
The DOJ argued Trump has the power to take control of state National Guard units whenever he wants — a chilling preview of what could happen in cities across the U.S.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Vaccines save lives!
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Fairfax Democrats @fairfaxdemocrats.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Virginia Voters: this is pretty much everything you need to know in one place about all the primary candidates as well as some general election information. Tomorrow is Primary Day - be prepared before you go to the polls! cardinalnews.org/virginia-vot...
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2025 Virginia Voter Guide
Some of the features in this Voter Guide were made possible through the Knight Election Center and a grant from Microsoft. For questions about this Voter Guide, contact us at news@cardinalnews.org.…
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Trump rolls into the G7 summit complaining about how mean they are to Putin, trashes America on foreign soil, confused the EU with the UK, dropped papers on the ground, trashed Tucker Carlson, accomplished nothing, then bailed early to escalate a war. MAGA!
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Full emails below
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
“Lee spread unfounded claims about the alleged gunman across multiple posts, making light of the killings and attempting to blame the violence on the political left[,] [and] falsely tied the slayings to Minnesota’s Democratic Gov. Tim Walz.” www.sltrib.com/news/politic... I
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‘This is not a joke’: Sen. Amy Klobuchar rips Mike Lee for posts about a deadly Minnesota shooting
Sen. Mike Lee's unfounded claims on social media about the slaying of a Minnesota lawmaker have angered a U.S. Senate colleague from the state.
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Science Girl @sciencegirlma.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
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The Trump Environmental Protection Agency is telling staff to stop policing the oil and gas industry | CNN Politics
The Environmental Protection Agency has told staff overseeing the country’s industrialized Midwest– a region plagued by a legacy of pollution– to stop enforcing violations against the fossil fuel comp...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Atul Gawande: If you or someone you love has cancer, cardiovascular disease, dementia, Parkinson’s disease, or diabetes, you have likely benefitted personally from the university’s federally funded discoveries. This is true for Harvard, Columbia and the dozen other universities now under attack.
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The Cost of Defunding Harvard
If you or someone you love has cancer, cardiovascular disease, dementia, Parkinson’s disease, or diabetes, you have likely benefitted from the university’s federally funded discoveries in care and tre...
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Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Marching back into my neighborhood #Boston #Pride #NoKings
Pride flags and protests signs down Clarendon into south end of Boston
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Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Try and come for my job #Boston #NoKings #PRIDE
Me in a pink sweatshirt that says try and come for my job
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
"The HHS document says that another paper it cites found 'an increase in placental blood clotting in pregnant mothers who took the vaccine.' But the paper doesn't contain any reference to placental blood clots or to pregnant women." www.npr.org/2025/06/13/n...
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RFK Jr. sent Congress 'medical disinformation' to defend COVID vaccine schedule change
A document circulated to members of Congress misinterprets studies and cites debunked research, scientists say. It could influence congressional perceptions of vaccine safety.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 12/06/2025
Free speech is not a crime — full stop.
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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Our vaccine policy will now literally be determined by regular guests to the Joe Rogan podcast
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Science Girl @sciencegirlma.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
All members of the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board resigned Wednesday, citing alleged political interference by members of the Trump administration. In a st…
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Kyle Thiem @kylethiem.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
It’s been devastating watching this play out. So many dedicated & passionate people’s careers & livelihoods have been upended (my wife’s incl) for accurately informing the public about impactful, climatological events unfolding across our planet and relaying scientific research to the public.
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Major US climate website likely to be shut down after almost all staff fired
Exclusive: Climate.gov, which supports public education on climate science, will soon no longer publish new content
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The Lancet @thelancet.com · 11/06/2025
Protective genetic variants may help prevent Alzheimer's disease development in those who carry them. A Review in @thelancetneuro.bsky.social explores the latest evidence on genetic variants & their potential to slow down Alzheimer's disease: tinyurl.com/ym4v2z9a #AlzheimersAndBrainAwarenessMonth
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Protective genetic variants against Alzheimer's disease
Genetic studies can offer powerful insights for the development of disease-modifying therapies for Alzheimer's disease. Protective genetic variants that delay the onset of cognitive impairment have be...
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Science Girl @sciencegirlma.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
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Regardless of political affiliation, I sincerely hope the general public… | Afshin Safavi | 42 comments
Regardless of political affiliation, I sincerely hope the general public soon realizes the increasingly vulnerable position we are placing ourselves in due to daily decisions affecting the scientific ...
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