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Susan Ferrari

@srferrar.bsky.social
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Sponsored programs, corporate and foundation relations, and research development at @GrinnellCollege. @UChicago alum, former scientist, liberal arts nerd.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today, I see angry young men online LARPing as Catholics, often for the aesthetic. They celebrate strength and hate the weak. The use slurs against the disabled and fantasize about enacting Crusader violence against their enemies. I wish the Pope would speak directly on this.
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Axios @axios.com · 29/09/2026
"In Iowa, we should brace for losing everything, definitely the governor's race and maybe the Senate race and who knows what else," one top GOP campaign consultant told Axios.
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"Brace for losing everything": Farm crisis fears grip GOP in Iowa
Trump's policies have cause severe financial problems for farmers. Iowa is especially vulnerable.
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road.cc @roadcc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Zach Lahn, the Republican candidate for Governor of Iowa, has since deleted his profile. It's not the first time a politician has been caught out by the exercise app's tracking and mapping features. road.cc/news/cycling...
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 29/09/2026
Hey hot take but I actually don’t give a fuck if expelling a rapist from school “ruins his future”
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026
These people are obsessive freaks.
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Doug Aoki 青木定夫 @nantanreikan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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VoteHub @votehub.com · 28/09/2026
NEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports. “That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.”
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Arienne Childrey @ari4ohio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Pay attention Dems. Gov Beshear won twice, in a deep red state, and never threw trans people under the bus. He led with compassion rather than the fear and cowardice we've seen from some of our Ohio candidates and party leadership.
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Stevenof1 @stevenof1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just a Reminder...
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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Happy 9/25 Eve. Don't forget to leave out a plate of chicken and dumplings and a bottle of nail polish or Dolly won't come and visit you tonight
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Kai Kronfield @kaikronfield.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Dems need to commit to finding every one of these renditioned people, repatriating them with full citizenship and reparations. They can use the money from nationalizing Elon's companies and zeroing out DHS/ICE's budget
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 24/09/2026
One thing that encourages me is that despite individual Democrats capitulating on trans rights, I think if the polling holds, we will elect the most pro-trans congress and senate in US history.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Like someone like Tammy Duckworth is safe as hell. She’s a blue Dem in a safely blue seat. And yet she’s out here saying “don’t try to remove the fascist racist from office, maybe he’ll see the light now.” What message does that send people other than “just give up?”
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 24/09/2026
The Trump admin keeps trying ways to break and take over NIH and we keep pushing back and winning. Two takeaways: 1. Together we have power; your voice matters. 2. This isn’t over; they are going to keep trying more ways to take over NIH and science for their political ends. Be ready!
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I know that some people don't think these types of things are important but I really do. Cultural change precedes political change. When you don't have the culture, it's more difficult to win politically or to sustain political wins. newrepublic.com/post/215697/...
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MAGA Festival With Kid Rock Canceled After No One Wanted to Go
The “Freedom Fest” is no longer happening after dismal ticket sales.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 23/09/2026
Can confirm (see 🧵 ). But let me share some optimism. A NIH colleague said today that against all odds, NIH has been…winning. “We made this EO a necessity. We fought hard. We threw sand in all the gears. All the lowdown ways of blocking grants failed to produce the results Vought et al wanted.”
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 23/09/2026
That is right. NIH is in terrible shape. But it is not dead. Peer review is weakened but not yet dead. Program staff advocacy for good science is weakened but not yet dead. Grants are going out the door, fewer than before but not yet dead.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 23/09/2026
Russell Vought has done grievous damage to US science and he’s practically killed NSF, but NIH is still alive and kicking. I’m not in the grant making side of the agency, I’m just cheerleading for the people fighting like hell to keep things going.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 23/09/2026
These people inside NIH working on grants are really the best of the country, people who are not being paid big bucks but care about the mission; care about something bigger than themselves.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 23/09/2026
After we get through September 30th, all the program side of NIH and everyone left inside fighting to get grants out should get a monthlong vacation. Give them off until November.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 23/09/2026
Give NSF people and advocates credit for fighting too! They are in a harder position in part because of the NSB clean out (thanks, John Roberts), the slightly less-formalized peer review procedures compared to NIH, and the medical and health mission of NIH.
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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 23/09/2026
1. Identify the current member of the U.S. Cabinet who appeared on MTV's The Real World: Boston in 1997, and later competed in Log Rolling and Speed Climbing at the ESPN Great Outdoor Games in the early 2000s. IN A SANE WORLD, I WOULDN'T HAVE TO. #LL110 #bestwronganswers
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Doug Aoki 青木定夫 @nantanreikan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Jennifer X. Pumpkins 🎃 @jenyetagain.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"trans people require medical care for the rest of their lives" is the craziest anti-trans talking point because everyone requires medical care for the rest of our lives.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Outside the obvious timebomb of selling out trans kids to appeal to ~16 bigots in deep Ohio, an underplayed part of the whole "trans kids in youth sports" stuff is making the most psycho Little League parents the most important political demo in America. They're joy vampires for the kids themselves!
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So many people got yelled at for months on here when they correctly pointed out that Gavin Newsom was a rat.
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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Congress was not a fan of the reports circulating this weekend that Vought is pushing for a commission to review all NIH grants www.statnews.com/2026/09/21/t...
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Members of Congress push back on plan to create a commission of political appointees to review NIH grants
Several members of Congress voiced strong opposition about a reported plan to create a panel of political appointees to sign off on NIH grants
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“School choice” is pernicious inequality rebranded as a type of consumer-based freedom.
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
From the people who told you that straight white male privilege doesn’t exist…
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Orrin Grey @orringrey.com · 21/09/2026
No thoughts, only this bat from the opening credits of My Neighbor Totoro (1988).
A very cheerful bat from the opening credits of My Neighbor Totoro (1988).
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Calvinball Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
the tech bros telling you LLMs are conscious don’t think women are people.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 16/09/2026
It's important to remind readers that while there are a few anti-trans dems, many are doing great work. Spanberger in VA did not flinch at anti-trans attacks. Now, she just ended Governor Youngkin's infamous rule that would ban trans students from bathrooms. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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VA Gov. Spanberger Kills Youngkin-Era Rule That Would Have Banned Trans Students From Bathrooms
“Spanberger showed how Democrats win amidst Republican attacks.”
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I have been reliably informed that Chua’s favorites are known as “Chua pets” and I’m not sure I’ll ever forget it
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Two of the world’s most extreme & dangerous anti-vaxx activists & grifters—Andrew Wakefield and RFK Jr—headlining a conference held by the extraordinarily damaging anti-vaxx group Children’s Health Defense in the midst of the worst measles outbreak in 35 yrs tells you all you need to know about MAHA
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16/09/2026
This is why Trump can’t stand Black women. They don’t take his shit. Let’s appreciate Rep. Joyce Beatty for being the fighter we need. Trump: “I think you’re incompetent.” Beatty: “I know you’re incompetent.” Then she reminded him: “You had more bankruptcies than anybody in the room.” 🔥
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
HUGE: Elizabeth Warren, AOC, and other members of Congress have introduced a bill to push private equity out of healthcare. The Stop Corporate Takeovers of Physicians Act would make it illegal for private equity, insurance companies, and for-profit corporations to own or control medical practices.
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I'm going to try and be as polite as possible about this: this isn't a purity test, this is a "will you defend a minority group when the government is working hard to murder them" question, and acting like it's a wedge issue rather than the entire game is a failure of empathy and historical vision.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
it is unforgivable how Democrats are granting the right's premise about trans kids in sports even as they attempt to navigate a "moderate" position so they don't look so bad (hint: not possible) they have literally regressed! the first bathroom bans did not have this kind of bipartisan support!!!
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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 10/09/2026
Some of those that work forces Are the same that fuck horses
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 15/09/2026
Attempting to frame these bigots like they’re brave pragmatists breaking from some kind of stalwart trans-affirming norm is the type of enormous lie where the ground should open up to pneumatic-tube you directly to hell.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
an admittedly tertiary but still annoying side detail of the "trans kids in sports" debate is that these were already the worst kind of sports parents and now they think they're The Face of a Movement
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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
BREAKING: Judge Dennis Saylor (GWBush/MA) temporarily blocks Trump admin drive to impose a 4-year limit on student visas now issued for length of study. Calls the rationale for the new rule "exceptionally weak." Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
we need more bats on here
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This video lowered my blood pressure
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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 10/09/2026
I’m a Texan trans kid who almost died because of Ken Paxton. The world should know what he’s done. This was very difficult for me to write, but given what's at stake, I cannot bear to stay silent about what I went through at Paxton's hands. He must not be rewarded for what he's done to trans kids.
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I’m a Texan Trans Kid Who Almost Died Because of Ken Paxton. The World Should Know What He’s Done.
Regardless of Talarico’s recent statements on trans people, Paxton cannot be rewarded for the extreme suffering he’s inflicted on me and tens of thousands of Texan trans kids.
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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In Massachusetts, we have a responsibility to protect the vulnerable and stand up for those who need it. We don’t throw trans kids under the bus for political points. We protect them—and all of our neighbors—because trans rights are human rights.
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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"what if a robot sees you talking shit on the internet and then years down the line decides to punish you" I don't know, what if trans people see you talking shit on the internet and years down the line decide to punish you.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"People are really mad and however mad you are, it’s not enough. Because there is something so profound about no longer believing in the future, about seeing no value in our shared home, in the natural world. They’re traitors to creation.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
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Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’
She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...
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