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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
New paper! We tested #eDNA primers for detecting #fishes in Hawai‘i. 12S (MiFish, Riaz) performed best w/r/t fish sequence proportion. However, our major conclusion is that mock communities can lead you astray, since they don't accurately predict how primers will perform in a natural environment.
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Metabarcoding Primers for Indo‐Pacific Fishes
We compared the relative performance of five metabarcoding primers (Berry 16S, Riaz 12S, MiFish E 12S, MiFish U 12S, and Leray CO1) to recover Indo-Pacific fish taxa. We tested the primers using temp...
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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
And we wouldn’t have known, except for the work of hackers and journalists.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/05/2025
Watson Coleman: "If they can do this to three federally elected officials with the authority to come and do their job, and they can then also lock up the mayor of the largest city in New Jersey who was on public property ... people just are afraid of this weaponization of law enforcement."
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evlovesnyc.bsky.social @evlovesnyc.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Great news: NY State will provide free meals to ALL public school students. www.nycfoodpolicy.org/governor-hoc...
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Governor Hochul Announces Free, Healthy School Meals for All Students in New York - NYC Food Policy Center (Hunter College)
In her recent State of the State address, Governor Kathy Hochul announced that, in…
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
In Worcester, Massachusetts, the Trump regime's ICE troops violently attacked a mother and her two children – including a newborn baby. Brave neighbours attempted to intervene to protect the family from being kidnapped by the regime troops and collaborator police forces. #3E #endimpunity
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Regime troops and collaborator police forces slammed one of the victims to the ground and attacked US citizens attempting to intervene or who asked them to identify themselves. The family was eventually disappeared. #3E #endimpunity
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
This phrasing of the ICE action in Worcester, MA as a kidnapping is horrifically accurate You cannot deprive a person of their liberty without either probable cause that the person committed a crime or a warrant to arrest that person That’s directly stated in the 4th Amendment of the Constitution
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
WHO’s emergencies director, Mike Ryan, sounds the alarm on Israel’s ongoing genocide operation in Gaza. Netanyahu has turned the strip into an open air concentration camp and is deliberately starving civilians.
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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 25/04/2025
Well this is getting interesting. The big question is at what point will the judges begin ordering the arrest of the politicians behind the illegal deportations? www.yahoo.com/news/judge-h...
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Judge Hannah Dugan arrested by FBI for allegedly helping undocumented immigrant 'evade arrest'
A Milwaukee County circuit judge has been arrested by the FBI over allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant "evade arrest," FBI Director Kash Patel said in a social media post, which was then delet...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Maybe federal judges will realize it's time to stop dicking around and time to start throwing people in jail themselves.
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Martin Rosner @hotpaper.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
"I only use AI to brainstorm ideas" Oh, so you're only using it for the part where you have to use your brain. Lobotomy would be faster
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18/04/2025
Breaking News: Senator Chris Van Hollen met with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man wrongly deported to El Salvador.
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Chris Van Hollen Meets With Abrego Garcia in El Salvador
Earlier in the day, armed military officials stopped Senator Chris Van Hollen from trying to visit the prison where Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia has been held for over a month.
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Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
so by this logic, if someone stole all of mark zuckerberg's 180.6 billion US dollars and used it to make their own company, it ought to be fine, because each stolen dollar, when tallied individually, is only a tiny fraction of the whole and therefore basically worthless
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Is Kilmar Abrego Garcia alive? Because the amount of resistance to addressing his being trafficked gives the distinct impression that either he is dead or what they have done to him is so unspeakable that they cannot afford for him to be freed, seen, or spoken with.
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Coley @coleytangerina.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
"Prison abolition does not mean (as it has been intentionally mischaracterised) that all crime suddenly becomes legal and permitted, that police and prisons disappear overnight, or that we abandon any kind of response or consequence for people who cause harm." www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
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OPINION: Here's what the anti-prison group Tamatha Paul fundraised for believes, and why she's been unfairly smeared
Prison abolition does not mean that all crime suddenly becomes legal and permitted, writes Tom Pearce.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
"Israeli media have reported a marked increase in the number of reservists refusing to show up for army duty, pointing to rapidly declining support for a war that critics – including within the military – say is no longer motivated by Israel’s security interests..." www.france24.com/en/middle-ea...
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Israeli army faces growing dissent: ‘I will never again serve under this government’
Israeli media have reported a marked increase in the number of reservists refusing to show up for army duty, pointing to rapidly declining support for a war that critics – including within the militar...
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
So essentially the president can do anything he wants, regardless of whether or not that’s his constitutional power, say no when told otherwise, and there’s really no mechanisms in this country to stop him? The branches of government and checks and balances were all just suggestions?
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 14/04/2025
Senator Chris Van Hollen (Maryland) is requesting a meeting with Bukele to discuss the release of Mr. Abrego Garcia. "If Kilmar is not home by midweek – I plan to travel to El Salvador this week to check on his condition and discuss his release,” I'd like to see a full delegation of US senators.
The Honorable Milena Mayorga
Embassy of El Salvador
1400 16th Street NW, Suite 100
Washington, DC 20036
Dear Ambassador Mayorga:
I write to urgently request a meeting with President Bukele during his current visit to the United
States to discuss the illegal detention of my constituent, Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Mr. Abrego Garcia was wrongly deported to a
prison in El Salvador. On Saturday evening in a court filing to a federal judge in Maryland, the
Trump Administration confirmed that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being held in El Salvador's
Terrorism Confinement Center according to Michael G. Kozak, a senior official in the U.S. State
Department's Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs. However, they did not detail steps that
have been taken to facilitate his return, as mandated by the Supreme Court.
I have met with Mr. Abrego Garcia’s wife, mother and brother and, as you can imagine, they are
extremely worried about his health, safety, and continued illegal confinement, as am I.
I look forward to your response.
Sincerely,
Chris Van Hollen
United States Senator
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/04/2025
Breaking News: Harvard rejected the Trump administration’s demands, including that it submit to monitoring and reduce the power of faculty and students.
nytimes.com
Harvard Will Not Comply With a List of Trump Administration Demands
Federal officials said Harvard must enact “merit-based reform” in hiring and admissions, among other things. Harvard called the demands unlawful.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
This is exactly what Democrats should be doing!! You’ve got power and status so leverage it. More of this!!!!
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
If Stephen Miller can lie about Abrego Garcia and his case on national TV, he can do it in federal court under oath. Judge Xinis should demand his appearance, question him under oath, then jail him for Contempt when he commits Perjury. This lawless administration has to be subjected to rule of law.
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Mona Burns @monaburns.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Letter from Dem Senator Chris Van Hollen (MD) requesting a meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele To discuss MD father Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return "If Kilmar is not home by midweek – I plan to travel to El Salvador this week to check on his condition and discuss his release."
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 14/04/2025
Mohsen Mahdawi of White River Junction, Vermont was illegally detained by ICE during what was supposed to be the final step in his citizenship process. Mr. Mahdawi, a legal resident of the US, must be afforded due process under the law and immediately released from detention.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 14/04/2025
this is Mohsen Mahdawi, the green card holder who was just arrested by ICE for rendition at his citizenship interview
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
HE IS PROMISING TO SEND AMERICANS TO FOREIGN DEATH CAMPS. This is it. This is where America ends.
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
What we all just witnessed had all the earmarks of a criminal conspiracy to deprive Abrego-Garcia of his constitutional rights, as well as an impeachable offense. The fraud scheme was a phony agreement engineered by the US to have Bukele say he lacks power to return Abrego Garcia and he won't do it.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
This is terrifying in America. ICE agents are showing up masked—these abductions must stop. If you’re going to detain someone, show your face, present a warrant, and proper ID. Disappearing people from their families without evidence or accountability isn’t law enforcement—it’s state-sponsored fear.
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Chris Ashwood @cashwood.proteaglyco.com · 14/04/2025
There are great conferences and science in the US, but with the way things are right now, it’s too risky to attend.
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Australian academics refuse to attend US conferences for fear of being detained
‘When academics fear travelling or partnering with US institutions, the impacts ripple through the entire global knowledge ecosystem,’ one says
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Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Your rights are not protected by the paper they are written on, they are protected by the strength of your resistance. Join a protest near you. #3E #fiftyfiftyone
APRIL 19
50 STATES NATIONWIDE PROTEST
END IMPUNITY END AUTOGENOCIDE END OLIGARCY
JOIN THE #3E MOVEMENT
FIND LOCATIONS AT: WWW.FIFTYFIFTY.ONE
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 11/04/2025
If this outrages you and you want to know what you can do right now to mitigate the harm that ICE is attempting to inflict on communities, here is one starting place: crimethinc.com/StopICE
crimethinc.com
Eight Things You Can Do to Stop ICE
Defend your community from ICE! A guide and handout to print and distribute.
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PoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
This seems right, and all of this is WRONG.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Federal spending is *up* under Trump according to the Wall Street Journal. Chaos is not actually the same as cost savings. Actual budgeting is a kind of actual policy-making and takes real work spread over real time. Running around breaking stuff isn't that. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Alright, I think people knew of the tariff pause and traded it beforehand. You can see before Trump posted "buy" on Truth Social, traders opened $QQQ $TQQQ and $SPY calls RIGHT BEFORE THE NEWS, someone opened $SPY 509 calls, expiring TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Those calls are up 2100% in one hour.
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Hey TEXANS, Get LOUD, get OUT, and demand change…👇 Like NOW!! ✨
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.
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Legal Industry Responses to Fascist Attacks Tracker (Public)
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
List of countries not subjected to tariffs: Russia Belarus North Korea Cuba They apparently took the time to impose tariffs on several uninhabited islands, so the omissions are extra noteworthy. If you spot others please flag!
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Elections I’m 👀 TOMORROW: —WI’s Supreme Court —FL’s specials —Mayoral race in Omaha —Mayoral race in Aurora, a Trumpian mayor in an IL city —County executives in Dane and Winnebago, WI —WI’s school superintendent —school boards all around, including far-right candidates —WI’s voter ID referendum
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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Federal judge halts Trump administration’s policy of deportation to third countries
In a significant legal blow to the Trump administration’s immigration agenda, a federal judge has slammed the brakes on a controversial deportation policy that allowed the deportation of migrants to c...
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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
🧵Masked ICE thugs attempted to abduct the school nurse at Cooke Elementary School, located in the densely populated Adams Morgan section of DC. Workers at the school intervened, demanding a warrant and holding up their phones and ICE scurried off without making their arrest.
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Billie Lauren Hindle 🏳️‍⚧️🎙️ | 🩷BWT Alpine💙 @billielhindle.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
There’s no such thing as A.I “art.” It’s a soulless amalgamation of plagiarised data. That is the antithesis of art.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 28/03/2025
Elon Musk said on Friday that he had sold X, his social media company, to xAI, the artificial intelligence start-up he founded in 2023, in an unusual arrangement that may raise conflict-of-interest questions.
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Elon Musk Says He Has Sold X to xAI
Mr. Musk said the deal valued xAI, his artificial intelligence start-up, at $80 billion, and X at $30 billion.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 28/03/2025
‘&’ is called an ‘ampersand’ and means “and.” In the Middle Ages, when single letters were used as words, the phrase ‘per se’ would be included to indicate they were being used as a word and not just a letter. “I per se, I” = ‘I’ is being used as the word ⬇️
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