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lex Maria

@tsmcicero.bsky.social
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Scientist, PhD-neuropharmacology Itinerant writer NM +/- 30,000 ft. (fmr Twitter @ spudsforever) No DMs

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
The answer is in ICE's selection of targets: * Democratic politicians in public * Immigrants attending court hearings, at work, or at schools None of those people will be armed. On the flipside, ICE is scrupulously avoiding raids on cartel affiliates, drug dealing sites, etc. They might be armed.
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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
I don't think you could create a clearer example of why the entire campaign finance system is fucked than how crypto bought these votes over the last few years and if a few tenths of a percentage point might end up moving Senate and House races in the future, as it has in the past, I get it
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
It would be so great if Democratic Party elected officials would start acting as if they’re living under a government that will lawlessly kill or arrest them for the crime of political opposition.
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Dr. Matthew Pate @matthewpate.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
But have they decided to arrest the business owners - who are actually the ones committing the crimes?
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lex Maria @tsmcicero.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Trump is weak and the world sees this. There will be many more regional wars if we don’t end up in a global one before those spark
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
We absolutely must not forget what this administration did to Senator Padilla, because it tells us what they are willing to do to us.
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JonZoidberg @jonzoidberg.xyz · 16/06/2025
God damnit, THIS is the sign I wish I was carrying yesterday! #NoKings
A man holds a sign at a no kings protest. It reads: this is nothing compared to the party we'll have when you die
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lex Maria @tsmcicero.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Trump is the weakest POTUS in my lifetime. His own administration is all over the place. Make you wonder who is really in charge…
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 17/06/2025
"I've sat on this bench now for 40 years. I've never seen government racial discrimination like this." That's what a Reagan-appointed judge said about Trump cancelling hundreds of NIH grants. We can't stop fighting Trump's assault on science, the NIH, and our values.
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Judge orders Trump admin. to restore hundreds of terminated NIH grants
"I've never seen government racial discrimination like this," the judge said.
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Viewing disability and sickness as punishment to people we don't like is a hallmark of eugenics.
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Janessa Goldbeck @janessagoldbeck.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
This would be the largest public lands sell-off in modern U.S. history and it's happening with no hearings, no debate, and no public input. See what public lands would be available for sale: www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
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120 million acres of public lands eligible for sale in SENR budget reconciliation package
The bill mandates disposal of over 2 million acres of BLM and National Forest lands; public lands eligible for sale in the bill encompass over 120 million acres, including local recreation areas, wild...
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A Republic If You Can Keep It @arepublicif.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
If you are someone who set this in motion by voting for him or 3rd party or not voting… & you know you made a mistake… WE NEED YOU. Say it to yourself. Say it to your 2 Sen & 1 Rep. Say it to friends & family. Help build the permission structure for others. We need you if we’re going to pull thru.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Find your closest rally on Saturday and go. You can tell your kids where you were on the other side of this. Outnumber him everywhere. www.nokings.org#map
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No Kings
On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. ...
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Melissa Stewart @lissajostewart.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
I just watched LAPD intentionally trample a woman with their horses, and then drag her body to the side of the road and leave her there. But sure, let’s all worry about the cars that are on fire.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
a woman just trying to get home gets shot
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
He wants unrest. He wants a civil war. He wants to be able to rule by military decree. And he is arranging things to get it.
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Mark Hertling @markhertling.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
“Young soldiers make mistakes. But if senior officers remain silent, what lesson will those young men and women take from what happened?” says @radiofreetom.bsky.social. I’m embarrassed by those troops & their leaders, and they all ought review the army’s rules. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Silence of the Generals
As President Donald Trump crossed a dangerous line at Fort Bragg, the brass failed to speak out in the Army’s defense.
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Jess Blankshain @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Candidly, as a civ-mil watcher, this scene at Bragg is freaking me out more than anything else that's happened so far. Just an absolute collapse of professional military norms.
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Lynn: Let's storm the Bastille @auberon.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Now we know why Whisky Pete wasn't fired for incompetence. Willingness to commit crimes is the only reason he still has a job. Fuck every senator who confirmed this loser
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/06/2025
We obtained lists of alleged gang members used by Venezuelan law enforcement and Interpol. Those lists include some 1,400 names. None of the names of the 238 Venezuelan deportees matched those on the lists. W/ @texastribune.org @cazadoresdefakenews.info, Alianza Rebelde Investiga
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Trump Administration Knew Vast Majority of Venezuelans Sent to Salvadoran Prison Had Not Been Convicted of U.S. Crimes
Homeland Security records reveal that officials knew that more than half of the 238 deportees were labeled as having no criminal record in the U.S. and had only violated immigration laws.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/06/2025
Your tax dollars pay for just about everything a police department does, which includes generating tons of reports, dispatch logs, and video recordings. Any citizen is entitled to see those public records to understand how the government works. By @andrewfordnews.bsky.social (Published June 2020)
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I Cover Cops as an Investigative Reporter. Here Are Five Ways You Can Start Holding Your Department Accountable.
Police culture can be insular and tough to penetrate, but the public can hold law enforcement accountable. Here are important methods and context you need to know.
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Ari Melber @arimelber.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
The Constitution’s 1st Amendment protects “the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
New moment of “WTF”: -pt with rare infection (so rare will leave unnamed, as could reveal identity) -nl times: reach out to CDC for testing -now: “they confirmed they are not currently accepting specimens for serology…they suggested we could reach out to Canada National Reference Center” 😳😳😳
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
This is on all the Senators who turned a blind eye and voted to confirm. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...
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Kennedy Removes All C.D.C. Vaccine Panel Experts
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anita72.bsky.social @anita72.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Yes, this IS what you voted for. Both of you, and all of the victims of your gaslighting.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Dear USA Deploying troops against civilians will not go well. Yours Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
“Bhattacharya later testified before Congress that it – and he – immediately became targets of suppression and censorship by those leading scientific agencies.” This line in CNN’s piece on the Bethesda Declaration is really inexcusable. Bhattacharya was never censored. He took case to SCOTUS & lost
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NIH employees publish ‘Bethesda Declaration’ in dissent of Trump administration policies | CNN
Staffers at the US National Institutes of Health published a letter of dissent, taking issue with what they see as the politicization of research and destruction of scientific progress under the Trump...
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I support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Who talks about their fellow Americans like this? More than 1 in 40 of us live in Los Angeles County
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David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Nobody believed us when we warned them RFK Jr.’s endgame is to eliminate all vaccines. They told us we were histrionic and hysterical. I’ve been watching RFK Jr. for 20 years. He’s antivax to the core. He really means it, and NOTHING will change his mind. He will do all he can to eliminate vaccines.
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Russian terrorists bomb a maternity hospital in Odesa. The terrorists continue to strategically target civilians 😡
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Trump canceled: "a grant to Emory University and Georgia State University, where researchers had developed three potential drugs that showed promise against many RNA-based viruses, including coronaviruses, Ebola, avian influenza and measles.." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The Gutting of America’s Medical Research: Here Is Every Canceled or Delayed N.I.H. Grant
Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 08/06/2025
I think it’s notable that ICE isn’t conducting raids in red states, but is instead targeting deep blue states with big migrant communities that will fight back. They want violence to justify more violence. This is fascism 101. We should laugh at them and treat them like the cowards they are.
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John Wiseman @lemonodor.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Hexagons aren't always MQ-9s, but in this case, yes, there are two MQ-9 Reapers over LA today. Just ridiculous.
Screenshot of ADS-B Exchange.
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Dan Kennedy @dankennedy.net · 09/06/2025
Protesters instigating violence in Boston, March 5, 1770.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
If you're a Democratic elected official who is insisting that law enforcement attacking civilians in L.A. is a "distraction" and we shouldn't take the bait, I'm going to briefly assume you're saying that in good faith and ask you this in response: What is your plan for ICE kidnapping people?
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Dr. Matthew Pate @matthewpate.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
1/4 As someone who has published a lot of scholarship on state failure, I want to be very clear about the current situation. This regime is a few weeks maybe a couple of months away from destroying our democracy. It has surrendered the economy to oligarchs, uses its office for personal gain…
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Dr. Matthew Pate @matthewpate.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
My great fear is that June 14th will bring with it the worst possible proclamations in the history of our nation. The Founders will weep from their graves.
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
The LAPD whenever they think no one can see
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
He’s disappearing innocent people off of our streets and ordering the military onto our streets. He does not give a damn about the rule of law. He is the very tyrant our founding generation rose up against 249 yrs ago. It’s time for the American people to rise up again.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Protesting is one of the most important things we could all be doing right now.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
It's hard to overstate how destructive the reflexive "this is a distraction!" stuff that politicians and commentators and people are always peddling. Everything is happening all at once. That's how authoritarianism works. If you can't navigate and synthesize this, you're not meeting the moment.
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lex Maria @tsmcicero.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
This is Trump’s dress rehearsal. He wants the fight He wants to justify using our military against us He wants the insurrection act to be in place for his birthday parade with the military like some tin pot dictator
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Don Jr. is grotesque and irresponsible.
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lex Maria @tsmcicero.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
TSA checking IDs, doing pat downs and further searches at the gates of domestic flights today. Just received a rough “random” pat down I travel weekly for work; this isn’t normal. This is a police state
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