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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 11h

Please don’t threaten me with a good time

Steve Bannon, quoted by CBS News, on if Democrats take control of the House.

“I think you’ll see Bobby Kennedy impeached, I’ll think you see Pete Hegseth impeached. I think you’ll see subpoenas flying every day. They will look to destroy President Trump, and we’ll be bogged down for two years.”

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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.

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City of Minneapolis @minneapolismn.gov · 09/10/2026

Today, and every day, we stand with the Somali community.

The marquee at Cedar Culture Center with the message "We love our Somali neighbors" written out.

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Susan Ferrari @srferrar.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Some people’s cats have favorite toys, some have cat beds. This cat has her emotional support biography of former Smithsonian director Lonnie Bunch.

A tortoiseshell cat curled up on a copy of Lonnie Bunch’s memoir

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 07/10/2026

I don’t care if the polls show us flipping 10 Senate seats and 100 House seats. We keep working like we’re 10-points behind till the final polls close.

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Aide Macias-Muñoz @aidemm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Please share! My lab is recruiting a postdoctoral scholar in evolutionary development. For more details feel free to email me.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

white evangelical Republicans whose experience of Catholicism is limited to people like JD Vance assumed that their allies on abortion would be their allies on everything and miscalculated so badly here. even the most conservative US bishops cannot function without their immigrant parishioners!

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

NEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:

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‘Complete devastation’: How NSF gutted its social sciences research

Agency body that funds sociology, linguistics, and archaeology studies in U.S. gave 90% fewer new grants this year

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Cities are terrific. It's why most people want to live in them.

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Tom @tomvictor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Shamelessly using this to plug my own work

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

this is my favorite genre of social media post and I am soliciting links or screenshots to your favorites

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King Darius looking down at Daniel in the pit:
Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan....
Man, what are the Lions doing?

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Ms. Moxie @ms-moxie-xoxo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ancient but still a banger

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Daniel Ostrowski @froakiebloke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The all time classic

Ye @kanyewest tweets ‘I will never a make a diss record’. Ryan Pequin quote tweets: ‘When Mario starts to doubt himself during a speed run’

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brookhavenlab.bsky.social @brookhavenlab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Through the Visiting Faculty Program, Grinnell College professor Kristen Burson has spent three summers at Brookhaven Lab researching nano cages for noble gases and bringing advanced research experiences to her students. #BrookhavenSciEd

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Visiting Faculty Program Builds Research Connections at Brookhaven Lab

Grinnell College professor Kristen Burson reflects on a noble gas nano cage project, student mentorship, and a growing collaboration with Brookhaven Lab.

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Olivier George @brainaddiction.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We just opened PARC pilot awards: $5,000 to $25,000 for anyone at a US academic institution who wants to collaborate with us, use samples from our Addiction Biobank, or contribute samples to it. Tight timeline: apply by Oct 15, decisions Nov 1, progress report due Mar 1.

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Dr. D Boulware, MD MPH @drboulware.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

NIH Funding rate of Early Stage Investigators (ESI). 2025 was a major drop. 2026 will be worse.

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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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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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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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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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