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Sciencematters @totoroandscience.bsky.social · 19h
I’ve gotten a little numb too a lot because there is just so much but this broke me. This showcases the worst of humanity. What is wrong with people? Take power where you can do something to protect the vulnerable among us.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Footage here of Trump in Grand Island, Nebraska, taunting Iran to launch a nuclear attack on two US cities, Los Angeles and San Diego. meidasnews.com/news/trump-s...
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Trump Says to Let Iran ‘Take Out’ Los Angeles, San Diego in Nebraska Speech
At a Nebraska rally, Trump called higher prices a “small price to pay” before suggesting allowing Iran to "take out" Los Angeles and San Diego
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/10/2026
NEW: During a rally just now, Trump invited Iran to “take out Los Angeles and San Diego,” saying it would be a “small price to pay.”
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Margo Gontar @margogontar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Have your media told you Russian drone bombed the metro bridge in Kyiv today while metro train was running with people inside ?
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Sciencematters @totoroandscience.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What a surprise that he is trying to dox the Cornell victim.
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North Peninsula Review @npeninsulareview.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Amazon drone delivery coming to N/NE Portland. Some neigborhoods in likely flight path northpeninsulareview.com/amazon-drone... #Amazondrones #Oregon #Portland
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Amazon drone delivery coming to N/NE Portland. Some neigborhoods in likely flight path - North Peninsula Review
Share thisBy Mark Kirchmeier The high-pitch mechanical sound of hovering drones could be coming soon to your neighborhood .  Amazon Prime has announced plans to initiate drone delivery throughout Port...
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JTMLX @jtmlx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#LINK_TO_NEWS_REPORT CBC NEWS -- CANADA -- UNRESERVED HOW THE CULLY NEIGHBORHOOD IS REVITALIZING AND RE-INDIGINIZING PORTLAND, OREGON Native American Youth and Family Center (NAYA) aims to put Indigenous narrative back into Portland's history By Rhiannon Johnson www.cbc.ca/radio/unrese...
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How the Cully neighbourhood is revitalizing and re-Indiginizing Portland, Oregon | CBC Radio
Portland is a busy tourist destination, bringing in people from across the world to check out the quirky arts culture, craft breweries and a bustling restaurant scene. While the area has been a signif...
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Sciencematters @totoroandscience.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The CEO is a former police officer from Boise and the company has federal contracts with the Secret Service, US embassy in Zagreb, ICE, DEA, and DoS Office of Acquisition Management.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/08/2026
I’ve heard a lot about airlines colluding with ICE and TSA to inform on migrants. Sickening betrayal. If anyone wonders how Germany got to where it did, it’s because of these kinds of collaborators.
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Researchers at the Statens Serum Institut in Denmark have conducted multiple landmark, population-wide studies tracking hundreds of thousands to over 1.2 million children using national health registries to examine potential links between vaccines and autism. Every major study found no connection.
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Large Danish Study: No link between vaccines and autism or 49 other health conditions
A new Danish study finds no association between aluminum in childhood vaccines and 50 different health conditions, including autism, asthma, and autoimmune diseases. The findings reaffirm the safety o...
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Tales of everyday corruption. Pete Hegseth cancelled the $400,000 contract for making uniforms for the Blue Angels on the grounds that the contract with "The Sewing Box" was DEI since the firm is Black-owned. Instead, he awarded it to a Trump donor for $1,690,000, a 325% price increase!
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bazzlecat.bsky.social @bazzlecat.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Can we talk more about- Capital One closing over 300 trump accounts after a months-long anti-money-laundering review in 2021 OVER 300 ACCOUNTS!!!!!!!!!!!!! JFC, if that were Biden or Obama FOX news would be schitting their panties 24/7 from that point until the end of time @nbcnews.com
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Sciencematters @totoroandscience.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I hope the number of people who’d rather boost a manufactured crisis about an Senator with post polio over focusing on real crises like West Asia, genocides, attacks on voter rights, money laundering that led to presidential accounts being closed, etc. is not a harbinger of what’s to come.
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Sciencematters @totoroandscience.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Drove my kid’s car and was horrified to hear Lars Larson’s hateful rhetoric on the radio. Prepped myself for a tough conversation. Turns out my kid was equally horrified because the car automatically connects to his phone for music and it’s probably left over from the mechanic. Moral crisis averted.
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Sciencematters @totoroandscience.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I’ve closed up my house and turned on air because smoke. Not forest fire smoke (grew up in the shadow of Yellowstone fires), but the smoke that makes you taste it and feel it and know it’s humanly engineered toxic. We have to address what is happening with climate change. This isn’t just weather.
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Sciencematters @totoroandscience.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
It’s such a compliment to be a three-year-old’s favorite person outside of their parents. Especially when you brought an objectively educational, but far less interesting gift to the birthday than everyone else. Of COURSE I will hang with you for a bit when you just need to regulate.
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Sciencematters @totoroandscience.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Punching down on the entire nation as though it is a monolith is not making the point I think he hopes. But I notice comments are restricted.
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Sciencematters @totoroandscience.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I love @listifications.app because every time an account blocks me I get a notification and block them back. Plus, I noticed a timestamp pattern that suggests a bot network is automatically blocking me at certain times as they add new accounts. It’s useful to know which arguments are clearly paid.
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Sciencematters @totoroandscience.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Fauci appreciation moment. To support a friend working in public health in 2020, I created a Fauci advent calendar complete with daily Fauci pouch that had a fact and related object for his use each day. So many cool facts. Such a good guy.
Bobble head of Fauci sitting on a doll couch wearing a medical mask behind a slip of paper with a fact about him.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 30/07/2026
When Justice is blind, bad guys take the fifth. When justice is corrupt, good guys take the fifth. Feel free to share.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Should be a bigger story— “Alexandra Bravo, prosecutor investigating 🇺🇸 strikes on 3 Ecuadorian boats and survivor accounts of torture/kidnapping, shot dead… hitman on a black motorcycle opened fire… Bravo’s sister jumped to protect her, also killed…” www.dropsitenews.com/p/prosecutor...
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CherieAnne @cherieanne.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Check out this article from USA TODAY: Ex-Colts linebacker Daniel Adongo deported after ICE detention, officials confirm www.usatoday.com/story/sports... What a sad story
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Ex-Colts linebacker Daniel Adongo deported after ICE detention, officials confirm
Daniel Adongo was a Kenyan rugby player before entering the NFL. His deportation caps a decade of cycling through arrests and psychiatric hospitals.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
They died serving our country. They should be honored, not erased. Lt. Tyler James Feehan, 25, of Hawaii Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, 19, of Texas Sgt. Angel Rampersad, 28, of New York Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton, 30, of North Carolina
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Sciencematters @totoroandscience.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Not often you get a 100 degree day complete with hail and lightening. Wishing the best for firefighters in these conditions.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 22/07/2026
Politico's owner is giving Peter Thiel an award. Semafor just added more tech billionaires to its Silicon Valley suck-up advisory board. Now comes the Economist's "Insider" interview with Elon Musk, sponsored by Anthropic. The sorry state of business/tech journalism in one stunning image.
screenshot of Economist "Insider" newsletter, an interview with Elon Musk...sponsored by Anthropic
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Sciencematters @totoroandscience.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Rant. If I have to spend more time with front desk staff getting checked in, than I spend with the medical provider, I’m not returning. Because in those five minutes, I can tell when providers haven’t glanced at my chart. I assume their surgical skills will be at the same level of care. Nope.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I took a hard look at the financial donors to ICE’s biggest supporters in Congress. These are people who want to significantly expand ICE’s power and have sponsored or co-sponsored legislation to do so. Here are the top 25 consumer brands bankrolling the biggest ICE supporters in Congress:
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Sciencematters @totoroandscience.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Congrats on the golden boot Mbappe!!!
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Sciencematters @totoroandscience.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
It appears the Trump curse overcame FIFA’s favoritism. Way to go, 🇪🇸!!!!
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Sciencematters @totoroandscience.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
And the world cheers!!!
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Paul van der Meer @paulvandermeer.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Jon Ossoff sums it up: “This is the cruelest & most arrogant group of people who ever ascended to high office - their cruelty & arrogance are only matched by their incompetence."
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PeaceSeeker @coloradocarly.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The horrors caused by climate change are here.
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Over 100 ships have now been hit in the last week by Ukrainian drones. Meanwhile, the Black Sea Fleet keeps hiding in Novorossiysk doing nothing, unable to sortie for fear of being sunk. No Russian fleet has been this badly humiliated since the Battle of Tsushima in 1905.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12/07/2026
Bill Browder is definitely not a conspiracy theorist. He’s the man who wrote the Magnitsky Act.
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Sciencematters @totoroandscience.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
It’s interesting to me that I know multiple people who are refusing to watch the Argentina game simply because Argentina is playing and it’s not going to be worth it because the calls will all go against their opponent. Good job #fifa
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 11/07/2026
Norway pay their female international players the same amount as their male players and have done since 2017.
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The Wolfpack @wolfpack11720.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
"Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy." ~ George Bernard Shaw
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Sciencematters @totoroandscience.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Just got solidly schooled by a young adult son about why Christopher Nolan’s refusal to include adultery in his depiction of the Odyssey is deeply problematic. All you teachers out there introducing the feminist perspective in ancient literature? If you don’t hear it enough, thank you!
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 07/07/2026
An Afghan national who fought alongside U.S. forces has died from an allergic reaction while in ICE custody, one day after he was detained for deportation proceedings, his death certificate shows. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Afghan national who fought with U.S. forces died of allergic reaction in ICE custody
Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal, 41, suffered “an adverse drug reaction” to an unidentified substance, which triggered anaphylaxis and exacerbated his asthma, the death report shows.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
The U.S. military shot and killed an American on U.S. soil this morning
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National Guard troops fatally shoot a man in downtown Memphis
Memphis police say National Guard troops fired their weapons in the early morning hours of July 5, killing a man who was armed with a handgun. State investigators will handle the case.
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Sciencematters @totoroandscience.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Usually, the park next to my house is full of life and parties on the fourth. Lots of Latin music, celebration, and fun— among other groups. Today was empty, quiet. I knew it was coming, but it still broke my heart. We should be better than this.
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Pocket News 📰 @jeanpocket.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
This image needs to be denounced on the cover of every newspaper and magazine. THIS IS NOT AMERICA. I WANT LAWS PASSED AGAINST RACISM NOW. 🤬 PUT THAT WOMAN ON THE NEWS. GIVE HER A MEDAL. 🏅
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Sciencematters @totoroandscience.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
It’s 10:30 AM Portland. Why are there already fireworks? I really don’t have the sedatives for my dogs to start this early. What is wrong with people?
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Sciencematters @totoroandscience.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Major Watson‘s prerecorded interview on YouTube explaining why he did what he did. He’s now under gag order, so this is the most we might get in his own words. youtu.be/2ooHJYc8r48
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EXCLUSIVE: Detained ACTIVE DUTY Major FIRST EVER to Demand Trump's REMOVAL from Office | Lights On
YouTube video by Jessica Denson
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I think we are facing an attack on the rule of law that is different in kind and scope to anything I've seen in my lifetime." Jack Smith
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Sciencematters @totoroandscience.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Baby crows hit a toddler stage where their parents are trying to wean from regurgitated food and they look grown up but complain loudly. One particularly persistent toddler perches by my open windows and kvetches for extended periods. His parents are patient, but he is a persistent fella.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Warning ⚠️ ICE has reportedly detained more than 10,000 people in the past five days as part of a nationwide enforcement surge.
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Sciencematters @totoroandscience.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
A career active duty military officer reciting his oath and calling for impeachment while standing on the steps of the US Capitol in uniform on the eve of the nation’s 250th is not just symbolic. He is doing this at great personal sacrifice for us, the people of this nation. Thank you, Major Watson.
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