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Wes Cosand

@wescosand.bsky.social
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Biochemist retired from academia, biotech, and pharma. Interested in history, archeology, photography, and good books. Was a Quaker, now a Mennonite

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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The IceCube neutrino detector has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics. The Trump administration has proposed slashing its budget in half in 2027.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 04/10/2026
Texas-based Dynamic Frontier Holdings, linked to Konstantin Sokolov, RU-US businessman who was a private donor to Trump’s $350M WH ballroom, received authorization from the Treasury Dep to complete an acquisition of Teghut, one of Armenia’s largest copper mines, involving sanctioned Russian bank.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 28/09/2026
“It has nothing to do with religion," (pediatrician Michael Hopper) says. "It has everything to do with the skepticism that politicians are putting out there." (Religion note: there were some pre-COVID religious oppositions to some vaccines, but they were rare*) www.axios.com/local/washin...
axios.com
D.C.-area parents seek "vaccine friendly" doctors as practices crack down
Some local families are switching pediatricians as clinics enforce immunization policies.
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Gee I can’t imagine why Trump might believe he’s immune from any kind of legal limit ***cough John Roberts cough***
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Wilber Garces Perez was shot in the back by an ICE agent in Austin. Now he's in detention with the bullet still in his body. Today, 100+ Members of Congress are demanding that ICE get him medical care, stop trying to deport a key witness, and immediately release the video footage.
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Wes Cosand @wescosand.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We already have our arch. It is beautiful and meaningful
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 21/09/2026
When we stop talking about climate change like it’s a political issue and start talking about it as a shared challenge that we all need to work together to solve, that’s when we’ll finally be able to start talking about saving ourselves. That is our conclusion here!
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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Kid was asking some pointed questions about how babies are born which led to me drawing the best picture I’ve drawn in my life
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Simon W Davis @woodforbrains.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Ho-LEE fuck democrats-appropriations.house.gov/news/press-r...
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Defense Officials Attempt to Raid NIH Funds to Cover Department of Defense Activities
House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) has learned that officials at the Department of Defense (DoD) are working to divert billions of dollars from the National Institute...
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FCNL @fcnl.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
One year after the Trump administration began blowing up civilian boats off the coasts of Latin America, these strikes have become almost routine, largely fading from the headlines. 📢 But we must not allow government-sanctioned murder to be normalized.
fcnl.org
This Week in the World: One Year Later, Congress Must Stop Trump's Murder at Sea | Friends Committee On National Legislation
Next week will mark one year since the Trump administration carried out its first attack against an alleged drug trafficking boat, killing 11 people.In that time, the U.S. military has blown up 68…
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Mark Schleifstein @mschleifstein.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“I feel very strongly about the federal government coming in and taking our guns — I don’t like that,” Gov. Gordon said at the meeting. “And I don’t like the federal government coming in and taking our votes, either.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/u...
nytimes.com
Wyoming Governor Objects to ‘Very Odd’ D.O.J. Election Monitoring
Governor Mark Gordon, a Republican, said he was concerned by the behavior of election observers who visited a polling station in Cheyenne.
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spence16.bsky.social @spence16.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
He Says Obscene Things About Mothers and Children. Mike Johnson Is Raising Money for Him. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | He Says Obscene Things About Mothers and Children. Mike Johnson Is Raising Money for Him. (Gift Article)
Thanks to Trump, G.O.P. extremism has become so ordinary that it breaks through only when it reaches an absurdly high level.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
This is what the great Tony Judt said he most appreciated about the United States - exactly what we are destroying.
"But in my line of business I would not have to. By far the best thing about America is its universities. Not Harvard, Yale, e tutti quanti: though marvelous, they are not distinctively American—their roots reach across the ocean to Oxford, Heidelberg, and beyond. Nowhere else in the world, however, can boast such public universities. You drive for miles across a godforsaken midwestern scrubscape, pockmarked by billboards, Motel 6s, and a military parade of food chains, when—like some pedagogical mirage dreamed up by nineteenth-century English gentlemen—there appears…a library! And not just any library: at Bloomington, the University of Indiana boasts a 7.8-million-volume collection in more than nine hundred languages, housed in a magnificent double-towered mausoleum of Indiana limestone.

A little over a hundred miles northwest across another empty cornscape there hoves into view the oasis of Champaign-Urbana: an unprepossessing college town housing a library of over ten million volumes. Even the smallest of these land grant universities—the University of Vermont at Burlington, or Wyoming’s isolated campus at Laramie—can boast collections, resources, facilities, and ambitions that most ancient European establishments can only envy."
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
⚠️ GREENLAND GAMBIT UNDERWAY? “An American oil company connected to Donald Trump is preparing to sink wells in remote Greenland despite not having received permission from the local authorities.”
theguardian.com
Greenland issues ‘strong warning’ as Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drill
Island’s government says no approval given after Greenland Energy brings kit ashore for exploratory drilling
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Sarah Karlin-Smith @sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
“It belies that idea that any of this is about public safety because now two people are dead and three young girls are without parents for the rest of their lives.”
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Anabaptist World @anabaptistworld.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Doris Kramer, 102, the first woman to serve on the Mennonite Board of Missions, the mission agency of the Mennonite Church, died May 20 in St. Jacobs, Ont.
anabaptistworld.org
First woman to serve on MC mission board dies | Anabaptist World
Doris Kramer, 102, the first woman to serve on the Mennonite Board of Missions, the mission agency of the Mennonite Church, died May 20 in St. Jacobs, Ont.
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Wes Cosand @wescosand.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Absolutely
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?
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David French @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Birthright citizenship is noxious to MAGA. They scorn it as relying on magic dirt — the idea that there is something inherent in American soil that makes a person an American citizen. Yet the same populists seem to believe in something like magic blood — that one’s lineage can make one superior.
nytimes.com
Opinion | MAGA’s Birthright Meltdown Is in Full Effect
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Wes Cosand @wescosand.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Worthwhile thread
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Wes Cosand @wescosand.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Excellent thread by a scientist about the reflecting pool
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 15/06/2026
"Either way, the concentration of wealth at the very top is much higher now than it ever was during the Gilded Age. And these are numbers from last year, before the SpaceX IPO. The robber barons were pikers compared with today’s oligarchs." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/meet-the-n...
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Meet the New Bosses, Worse Than the Old Bosses
The second Gilded Age is much uglier than the first
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 10/06/2026
yes!
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Wes Cosand @wescosand.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Oh, a lady after my own heart!
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Wes Cosand @wescosand.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Julie Bosman has a great story. Suffice it to say, the Pope had a problem with customer service.
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What Happened When the Pope Had to Call Customer Service
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Harry Sisson: 

Trump had another late night meltdown on social media last night and posted this: 

11:03 PM - AI photo of him, JD Vance, Marco Rubio, and more swimming shirtless in the reflecting pool in DC (I’m serious) 
11:04 PM - Photo of Melania creepily smiling after the WHCD shooting
11:13 PM - Calls Hakeem Jeffries “low IQ” and a “thug”
11:15 PM - Meme saying he has “all the cards” (which he does not)
11:22 PM - A gold outline of his face
11:26 PM - His face on Mount Rushmore
11:32 PM - Photo of him and Melania
11:37 PM - Photo of him and King Charles
11:40 PM - Photo of the reflecting pool under Obama vs his proposal
11:41 PM - Another photo of the reflecting pool
11:45 PM - Yet another photo of the reflecting pool

All of this took place in under an hour. This man is not well.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 20/04/2026
There’s no routine screening for pancreatic cancer, most cases aren’t operable, and the five year survival rate after diagnosis is around 13%. It’s a traumatic news. But new personalized mRNA immunotherapy is showing encouraging results in Phase 1 clinical trials. Keep funding science!
nbcnews.com
Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial
Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.
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Wes Cosand @wescosand.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Great read
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Brutal.
A WHOLE CIVILIZATION
WILL DIE TONIGHT
My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools.
Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's
"keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's
"we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight."
It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before.
"It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time.
A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead.
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Wes Cosand @wescosand.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Wow!
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Todd is the man who was fired for refusing to hand over Eisenhower’s sword to Trump. He’s GREAT at making history fun and relevant on social media. Worth making his dream come true. 🙂
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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
"President Trump’s ballroom has rushed toward construction, with little time for public review of this major addition to the White House. "Critics warn it still has many issues — its portico is too big, its stairs lead nowhere, its columns will block views from inside the ballroom."
nytimes.com
Trump’s Ballroom Design Has Barely Been Scrutinized
Fake windows and a stairway to nowhere: Three months that could change the White House for generations.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Attacks on Stephen Miller getting far more specific in this Daily Mail (why are the best right-on-right hitjobs always laundered thru the UK?). 1) He ordered confrontation w/protestors b4 CBP murdered Alex Pretti. 2) He countermanded Trump order not to focus on farmworkers.
The most damaging episodes were the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, which Miller was at the center of.
During his 10am calls with immigration leaders, Miller was demanding agents be sent out to areas in Minneapolis where DHS knew there was a heavy presence of protesters to 'force confrontations,' two DHS senior sources told the Daily Mail.
One official noted that Miller repeatedly urged agents to engage protesters so the administration could win the 'PR battle.'
During Trump's massive immigration crackdown in in Los Angeles in June, the President spoke with top officials and told them to avoid targeting farm workers. The next day at 10am, Miller sent out different orders.
'Stephen got on the call the next day, and said "We're discussing that internally" and that we should just disregard what he said,' one official told the Daily Mail. 'It was like the President never said anything. It was just like Stephen was in charge.'
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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 29/03/2026
A remarkable photo from #NoKings in DTLA from Connor Sheets of @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/l...
LAPD officers arrest a protester dressed as the Statue of Liberty outside a federal building during a ‘Kings Day’ protest. (Connor Sheets/Los Angeles Times)
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Awful: Stephen Miller is privately urging Texas lawmakers to restrict funding for the public education of undocumented kids. This has long been a right-wing dream: They want to get SCOTUS to reverse Plyler v Doe and further chip away at 14th Amendment. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2081...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/03/2026
Must-read thread 👇
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
So, uh, when 25-50% of the flying public is afraid to go to the airport that might do something to shorten TSA lines. 🤷‍♂️
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Wes Cosand @wescosand.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
No words
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Wes Cosand @wescosand.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
“Nes gadol haya sham” — “A great miracle happened there.” The ICE invasion “happened to all of us. And then we redefined ‘us.’”
nytimes.com
Opinion | How Minnesota Beat Trump
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Wes Cosand @wescosand.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Doesn't the business community understand that there are real costs incurred when people like this are elected? No, I don't think I'd enjoy visiting my family in Nashville this year. No, I don't think a scientist from U of T would fit into the pluralistic culture of my company. No, no, no...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
It seems like any Democrat intending to fund more missiles for Hegseth to play with should at least get some answers from the Pentagon first about the bombing of the girls elementary school. Unless you want to be responsible for financing the next one without any due diligence.
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Wes Cosand @wescosand.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
An authoritative essay
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 05/03/2026
Very strong statement from the First Lady of Iraq:
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
“To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.” Judgment of the international Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, Germany.
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Wes Cosand @wescosand.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
I give you my solemn word I will never shop in Quakertown, PA again. Not at Moyers Shoes, not at CountrySide Homecenter. I will no longer go to a dentist or St. Luke’s Hospital. The Bucks County DA has announced an investigation of the police in their response to the anti-ice student protest.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 13/02/2026
Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."
academic.oup.com
Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky
Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For
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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
there's fierce competition, but this is one of the most stomach-turning things I've read in some time
reuters.com
Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show
The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...
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Wes Cosand @wescosand.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Think about this
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Mary L Trump @maryltrump.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Every American needs to watch this:
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Wes Cosand @wescosand.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Dear God have mercy
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