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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hispanics working in the USA 👏🏽
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 02/10/2026
WOKE IS NOT THE REASON GROCERIES ARE EXPENSIVE. TRANS PEOPLE DID NOT START A WAR WITH IRAN. MY IMMIGRANT NEIGHBORS ARE NOT IN THE EPSTEIN FILES. prospect.org?p=145530
"I voted" sticker with ink blurring
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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 06/09/2026
Placard corruption has drowned New York City in illegally parked cars for more than a decade. Mayor Mamdani must end it for good.
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Ten Years of Placard Abuse: The Criminal Practice that Mamdani Must End - Streetsblog New York City
Mayor Mamdani must end the scourge of parking placard abuse, which has drowned New York City in illegally parked cars for more than a decade.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Food companies wanted deregulation. Now there are dozens of recalls across the country. Mining companies wanted deregulation. Now the black lung rate is at a 45-year high. Financial companies wanted deregulation. Now financial losses to fraud are the highest on record. Noticing a pattern?
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Opinions will be divided on this editorial from Holden on perils of AI in sci comm. I'll just note current truths: 1) AI-generated content poses an existential threat (@steinly0.bsky.social™). We're at the point it's impossible to tell if something is real. 1/n www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive
There’s a saying in the management world, popularized by NASA administrator Daniel Goldin in the 1990s, that the goal of technological improvements is to make products faster, better, and cheaper. Alt...
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Isabel, booonyavirus wonk @isabelott.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
“In other words, unwritten science is not just incomplete; it simply does not exist for the purposes of the field. When you look at it this way, the job of a scientist - having ideas, testing them, and persuading others they are right - turns out to be, fundamentally, an act of writing.”
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The heart of our constitutional crisis in one exchange between me and Sec. Mullin. When asked a simple question - if he will obey court orders - he says he will not because some court orders are "politicized". That's not how democracy works. And that's why we are in a crisis.
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elizabethginexi.bsky.social @elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
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What We Need to do NEXT: OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule (OMB 2026-10817)
What OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule Means in Practice
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 28/05/2026
I want you to hear straight from me about what happened at Delaney Hall on Monday and what I saw inside the facility. ICE out of control. GEO Group profiting off of human misery. People living in inhumane conditions. Let me walk you through it.
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What I Saw Inside Delaney Hall Detention Facility
YouTube video by Senator Andy Kim
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
This is a substantial power grab by OMB. Comment period starts tomorrow. Here are two relevant excerpts. 1/3
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified…… History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” - George Orwell -
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Alt-NIHscience4ALL @alt-nihscience4all.altgov.info · 10/05/2026
This!!!⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 07/05/2026
At least three of the 12 worst rental car speeders are in city law enforcement! Plus other news. buff.ly/udc0qB9
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Thursday's Headlines: More Super Speeders With Badges Endangering Our Kids Edition - Streetsblog New York City
At least three of the 12 worst rental car speeders are in city law enforcement! Plus other news.
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Women Forward ❌ 👑 @womenforward.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
If you live in any of these states, you have a voter registration deadline coming up for a statewide primary election! Check your voter registration now at iwillvote.com 🗳️
You have a voter registration deadline coming up for a statewide primary election if you live in:

- Alabama: May 4
- Pennsylvania: May 4
- New Mexico: May 5
- Idaho: May 8
- South Carolina: May 10
- New Jersey: May 12
- California: May 18
- Iowa: May 18
- Maine: May 19
- Oklahoma: May 22
- Washington, D.C.: May 26

Check your voter registration now at iwillvote.com You have a voter registration deadline coming up for a statewide primary election if you live in:

- Alabama: May 4
- Pennsylvania: May 4
- New Mexico: May 5
- Idaho: May 8
- South Carolina: May 10
- New Jersey: May 12
- California: May 18
- Iowa: May 18
- Maine: May 19
- Oklahoma: May 22
- Washington, D.C.: May 26

Check your voter registration now at iwillvote.com
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Excellent deep dive. Lots to absorb and good resources for actions to take.
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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 01/05/2026
A joint investigation by the comptroller’s office and the Parks Department found that the two companies failed to pay workers the prevailing wage, forged their signatures on affidavits, and ordered workers to pay kickbacks. www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/30/p...
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Forgery and Wage Theft: Playground Contractors Hit With Massive Fines
Two Queens-based construction firms subcontracted to rebuild the Hunts Point Playground agreed to pay more than $600,000 in restitution and penalties to 24 workers who were paid below the prevailing…
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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 23/04/2026
Staten Island traffic cameras have caught a white RAM 1500 pickup truck blasting through school zones or running red lights more than 547 times since 2022. The truck belongs to James Giovansanti, who lives and works there as an NYPD officer. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/04/23/t...
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To Protect And Swerve: NYPD Cop Has 547 Speeding Tickets Yet Remains On The Force - Streetsblog New York City
One of the city’s most-dangerous drivers is an officer with the NYPD, which does nothing to stop his reign of terror on Staten Island.
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
As a recipient of federal grants from #NIH (for now! 😭) that funds research in my lab, I'd like to sincerely thank American taxpayers on #TaxDay for investing in scientific research that lays the foundation for medical and technological innovation in this country and keeps us ALL safe and healthy
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
A positive uplifting video to start the day, discussing the benefits and the stakes. @standupforscience.net
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 25/03/2026
Not sure whether you should show up on Saturday? @timothysnyder.bsky.social (an expert on authoritarianism) explains why historic protests like No Kings Day really matter.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
NIH staff know that Russell Vought needs NIH. Who else will do the research to figure out how to fix that giant hole in his heart?
A picture of a broken heart with stitches and bandaids with the caption: NIH staff know that Russell Vought needs NIH. Who else will do the research to figure out how to fix that giant hole in his heart?
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sommergentry.bsky.social @sommergentry.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Here at the New York Stand Up for Science protest!
Sign says more science equals more joy, Cure Disease, Improve Lives, Feed People
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted. What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards. Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.
Graph of award probability of R35 and R01 from NIH factbook as a function of review rank percentile. As is apparent, 2025 is a significant departure, with lower award probabilities at all scores <40 and significant departures from norm, where even being in the top 10% is no longer a nearly certain indicator of success.

Data source: https://report.nih.gov/nihdatabook/report/302
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Mark Popinchalk @markpopinchalk.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
See you saturday!
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Margaret Echelbarger @bskybymidge.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
I'd say be there or be square, but if you're there, you're in the square! Puns aside -- there will be a @standupforscience.bsky.social rally in NYC! Plz repost!
Poster for “Stand Up for Science — National Day of Action.” A stylized red-and-blue illustration of the Statue of Liberty holding up a torch appears on the left. Bold text reads: “Take back our science, health, and democracy!” Event details: March 7, 2026, New York City, NY, at Washington Square Park, 12:00pm. Footer text invites viewers to visit standupforscience.net/march7 to register, volunteer, or donate.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 26/02/2026
Hey @hcrichardson.bsky.social! Can you help us get the word out about our SECOND National Day of Action on March 7th?? #standupforscience
National day of action. Save science. protect health. defend democracy. March 7th. Washington dc and nationwide! standupforscience.net/march7
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Alt Health and Human Services @alt-hhs.altgov.info · 24/02/2026
Remember that the supplement industry is, for the most part, unregulated unless there is some sort of sentinel event that causes significant harm. Otherwise the industry is largely a cash grab.
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Supplements don’t prevent cancer, studies show
Dietary supplements are wildly popular, but large clinical trials and other research by Fred Hutch Cancer Center shows many common dietary supplements offer little proven benefit for cancer prevention...
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sommergentry.bsky.social @sommergentry.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
March 28 will be the largest nonviolent protest in American history. Find your local No Kings event to stand up for our communities and reject Trump's fear and violence. app.sosha.ai/s/KccLcObz
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Join me at the next No Kings Day
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The True American @thetrueamerican.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Eloquently stated.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
My quote of the day Bari Weiss
Donald Trump's election was a watershed moment. Even those like me, who had previously pulled levers for candidates of both parties, felt that Mr. Trump had not only violated all sense of common decency, but, alarmingly, that he seemed to have no idea that there even existed such an unspoken code of civility and dignity.
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
There are two types of bathing....
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
New York City turned OUT. @handsoffnyc.bsky.social ✊❤️
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DianaResists @dianaresists.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
1 - the exec branch can't decline to spend $ Congress appropriated 2- the fed govt can't use federal $ to extort states over policy/political disagreements 3-the fed govt can't use federal $ to impose conditions unrelated to the funding program 4-the fed govt can't use federal $ to coerce states
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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Prison rape is wrong. Jokes about prison rape are wrong. Eliminating protections against prison rape is wrong. If another country sentenced a criminal to be raped, we'd consider it a crime against humanity. BUT A large segment of Americans regard prison rape as a de facto part of the sentence.
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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
“Where in the United States does Antifa exist” proved to be a real stumper to the guy who just said Antifa is the biggest terrorism threat in the United States.
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I-270, Exit 1 @i270exit1.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Among the things I am thankful for is the courage and patriotism of all the federal workers who blew the whistle on agency policies that harm Americans, and those who support us. #CourageIsContagious Art by @drrabbithole.bsky.social
Illustration of federal employees, in their work wear, who issued statements opposing their agencies' harmful policies: NIH, NSF, EPA, USAID, CDC, FEMA, NASA.
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AltSSA @altssa.altgov.info · 24/10/2025
Resharing because this is such a great, comprehensive list of resources that is continually being added to as we learn about more resources Feds can access while we are working without pay 👇👇👇
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sommergentry.bsky.social @sommergentry.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
I'm attending “NO KINGS Key West” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even... Or, check the list of over 2500 events all around the US at nokings.org and find even more actions you can take at fiftyfifty.one
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NO KINGS Key West · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...
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LisaTheLiberal 🦋 @lisatheliberal.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
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Michael Byron #Fella @michaelby.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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L⭕️rd Quux RCX CCX (@quux@mastodon.online)
Attached: 1 image I know. But it was the best I could do to start the Tuesday. ☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️😎
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Kim D @kimilatad.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Vaclav Havel wrote about the importance of pointing out the law in a totalitarian society - it may not help in a situation where the government makes and enacts laws willy-nilly, but calling it out keeps the insanity of it all in the open for all to see.
…But precisely because they know how desperately the system depends on it-on the "noble" version of the law, that is-they also know how enormously significant such appeals are. Because the system cannot do without the law, because it is hopelessly tied down by the necessity of pretending the laws are observed, it is compelled to react in some way to such appeals. Demanding that the laws be upheld is thus an act of living within the truth that threatens the whole mendacious structure at its point of maximum mendacity. Over and over again, such appeals make the purely ritualistic nature of the law clear to society and to those who inhabit its power structures. They draw attention to its real material substance and thus, indirectly, compel all those who take refuge behind the law to affirm and make credible this agency of excuses, this means of communication, this reinforcement of the social arteries outside of which their will could not be made to circulate through society. They are compelled to do so for the sake of their own consciences, for the impression they make on oue siders, to maintain themselves in power (as part of the system's own mechanism of self-preservation and its principles of cohesion), or simply out of fear that they will be reproached for being clumsy in handling Ihe ritual. They have no other choice: because they cannot discard the rules of their own game, they can only attend more carefully to those rules. Not to react to challenges means to undermine their own excuse and lose control of their mutual communications system. To assume that the laws are a mere facade, that they have no validity, and that therefore it is pointless to appeal to them would mean to go on reinforcing those aspects of the law that create the facade and the ritual. It would mean confirming the law as an aspect of the world of appearances and enabling those who exploit it to rest easy with the cheapest (and therefore the most mendacious) form of their excuse.
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RogueNOAA @roguenoaa.altgov.info · 16/09/2025
Trump and Vought are blocking promised investments to the American public, which will expire in just two weeks if unspent. www.govexec.com/management/2...
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Some funding frozen by Trump could soon expire due to new fiscal year, Democrats warn
Congress will need to reach a bipartisan consensus by Sept. 30 to avoid a government shutdown.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
At DOJ, at DOD, at the FBI….literally everywhere, this is what you hear over and over again.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
My quote of the day Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too. Frederick Buechner
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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 07/09/2025
"U.S. District Judge Amir Ali in Washington, D.C., ruled on Wednesday that the administration cannot simply choose not to spend the money..." www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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US appeals court says Trump cannot continue foreign aid cuts
A U.S. appeals court on Friday declined to block a lower court ruling that said President Donald Trump's administration could not unilaterally cut billions of dollars of foreign aid, requiring the administration to quickly move to spend funds on projects authorized by Congress.
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Amy Siskind @amysiskind.com · 06/09/2025
Yes DC!
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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
“From ancient times to today the horrific violent mess —  is not because all human beings are inherently brutal and cruel, but because a small number of people—that is, those with personality disorders—are brutal and cruel, intensely self-centered, and lacking in empathy. This small minority has always held power and managed to order or influence the majority to commit atrocities on their behalf.”

•Steven Taylor. PhD
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