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Wisam Reid

@wisam.bsky.social
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Computational neuroscientist @MIT, surfer, musician, entrepreneur, @UCBerkeley and @Stanford alumnus and PhD Candidate at @Harvard linktr.ee/wisamreid My political knives are out! For professional discussion check out: @neurophysics.bsky.social

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026
Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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John Mallinckrodt @johnmallinckrodt.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
For HALF a CENTURY now, EVERY REPUBLICAN president in EVERY year of their presidency has turned in a LARGER deficit than that which they inherited. and EVERY DEMOCRATIC president in EVERY year of their presidency has turned in a SMALLER deficit than that which they inherited.
Graph from FRED showing the history of deficits as described in the post.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
That's right. Worse than Pointless www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
It Can Now Be Plainly Said: Trump Is Planning a November Coup d’État
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It Can Now Be Plainly Said: Trump Is Planning a November Coup d’État
During the campaign, it was kind of hard to picture the specifics of how Trump might pull such a thing off. Alas, it’s getting less hypothetical by the week.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
‼️GREAT piece by @jeneeninterlandi.bsky.social on how RFK Jr has left our “vaccine policies in disarray & our access to vaccines increasingly imperiled” The relentless norm-shattering isn’t “a byproduct of Mr. Kennedy’s larger plans; it is a central feature” 🎁 Link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/o...
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Opinion | This Is the Damage Kennedy Has Done in Less Than a Year
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 13/11/2025
Epstein Emails Implicating Trump Surface as Ghislaine Gets VIP Treatment in Prison youtu.be/XW1BmWYYF1M
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Epstein Emails Implicating Trump Surface as Ghislaine Gets VIP Treatment in Prison | The Daily Show
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
After 7 l-o-n-g weeks, wishing Arizona Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva, who is the 158th & final vote to release the EPSTEIN Files, a wonderful Swearing-In Day, although not everyone is all that happy about it. #AccountabilityIsComing
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/11/2025
the newly released Epstein emails are getting coverage on Fox News 👀
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
A normal reaction to today's news, dear Nancy, would be to express shock and horror at the significant possibility that the president of the United States is a child molester.
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
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HuffPost @huffpost.com · 13/11/2025
The Epstein email dump reveals those who continued to talk to the world's most famous pedophile, even 10 years after he pleaded guilty to sexually soliciting minor girls.
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Epstein Email Dump Reveals Who Stayed In Touch
The Epstein email dump reveals those who continued to talk to the world's most famous pedophile, even 10 years after he pleaded guilty to sexually soliciting minor girls.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
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Dr Dave Clements @davecl.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Interesting news from Enceladus 🔭🧪 @planetgreaves.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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Prospect of life on Saturn’s moons rises after discovery of organic substances
Scientists studying water vapour plume from Enceladus find presence of complex molecules that could harbour life
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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
🗣️THIS is the message!! Brava, Congresswoman @aoc.bsky.social!!
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 23/07/2025
BREAKING: We just subpoenaed the Epstein files. As a survivor of sexual assault, I know the pain & trauma survivors carry. This subpoena is a massive victory for every survivor who has ever been silenced, dismissed, or harmed. Bondi must release the files immediately. We demand accountability.
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 08/06/2025
The federal government is taking over the California National Guard and deploying 2,000 soldiers in Los Angeles — not because there is a shortage of law enforcement, but because they want a spectacle. Don't give them one. Never use violence. Speak out peacefully.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
1/ If accurate, this is almost certainly a conflict with the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the use of the military for domestic law enforcement, including the National Guard if they are federalized.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
The crackdowns on civilians and the threat of the national guard being sent to LA should be *the* most important story right now-- not the Trump/Musk feud or whatever the f**k that was. People are being terrorized all over the country. News outlets need to get it together.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple. Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.
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vallirose.bsky.social @vallirose.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Silence Is Complicity Straighten your spine Speak & live your truth
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Ellen Roche @ellroche.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
“It was also unclear if Starlink communications were encrypted. At a minimum, the system allows for a network separate from existing White House servers that people on the grounds are able to use, keeping that data separate…” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...
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Elon Musk’s Starlink Expands Across White House Complex
Trump administration officials said the company donated the internet service, saying the gift had been vetted by the lawyer overseeing ethics issues in the White House Counsel’s Office.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18/03/2025
He couldn’t even run a charity without breaking the law—Now he believes he’s in charge of the Supreme Court, Congress, our rights, and the U.S. justice system. Who’s going to stop him?!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
This is how our government has been corrupted:  1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office.  2) Elected officials rewrite the rules in the donors' favor.  3) Donors make a huge profit.  4) Repeat. For the sake of democracy, we must get Big Money out of politics.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
I’m so tired of hearing Rubio & other rightwingers now claiming that if you’re on a green card you’re a ‘guest’ in this country. BS. You’re a lawful permanent resident. The clue is in the name. If someone is a permanent resident in your home, are they the same as the guests who come and go? Come on.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
When Israel and its supporters say ‘but there was a ceasefire on October 6th’, this is what a ceasefire looks like to them - they get to keep killing Palestinians but not the other way around.
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IDF airstrikes in Gaza kill nine people, medics say
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Tris @trisresists.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Governor Walz is back on the scene and he’s not pulling any punches. ✊🏼 Good to see you Coach!!
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Every. Accusation. Is. A. Confession.
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Robert Morris, former Texas megachurch pastor and Trump adviser, indicted for child sex crimes
Morris is a former spiritual adviser to President Donald Trump, and Gateway — one of the nation’s largest megachurches — has been particularly active in Dallas-area GOP politics.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
A federal judge has ruled DOGE is wielding so much power that its records will likely have to be opened to the public under federal law. U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper said the "unprecedented" authority of DOGE warrant the release of documents under FOIA. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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Judge orders urgent release of DOGE records, citing ‘unprecedented’ power and ‘unusual secrecy’
It’s the first significant ruling in a growing legal push to pierce DOGE’s secretive veil, a decision that undercuts Musk’s repeated insistence about the operation’s transparency.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 11/03/2025
Too bad Uvalde Elementary didn’t sell Teslas.
Picture of police guarding a Tesla dealership.
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Bend the Arc: Jewish Action @bendthearc.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Columbia student and New Yorker, Mahmoud Khalil - who was targeted and detained for constitutionally protected speech - should be home with his 8 months pregnant wife today. Not missing in ICE detention, unreachable by his lawyers. 1/15
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 21/02/2025
When even the New York Post has to publish this, you know you fucked up.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Idiocracy was a documentary
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/02/2025
I just wanna congratulate @meidastouch.com for beating Joe Rogan, and thank them for recommending my Substack. Indie media FTW! Check theirs out here: www.meidasplus.com
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Meidas+ | MeidasTouch Network | Substack
The ad-free home base for Meidas News, the fastest growing pro-democracy news network. Bonus articles, exclusive content, and interactive chats. Led by Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas, with exclusive a...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
This would be completely illegal. But you wouldn’t know that from reading this post, the headline, or the lede. Unbelievably bad.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 21/02/2025
Breaking news: Trump is preparing to dissolve the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service and absorb the independent mail agency into his administration, potentially throwing the mail provider and trillions of dollars of ecommerce transactions into turmoil.
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Trump expected to take control of USPS, fire postal board, officials say
The move threatens to upend trillions of dollars in ecommerce business and the 250 year-old Postal Service.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
🗣️ @aoc.bsky.social out fighting for the people & federal workers: “Every day our job is to wake up and say ‘what can I do today?’ — There is no act too small. Every action matters.” 🇺🇸
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Thank you to @maddow.msnbc.com for promoting @bsky.app on air and complimenting it. Her on air support is truly important
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Criminals are running amok inside our government and nothing will be done about it because—oh, that’s right!—America voted for a convicted criminal to be in charge of all federal law enforcement See how that works
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
If you’re not confirmed by the Senate then you have no business meddling in the lives of MILLIONS of Americans We are suing DOGE for violating the constitution & illegally seizing power I’ll discuss tonight @ 8PM ET on @insidewithpsaki.msnbc.com 👇 statedemocracydefenders.org/fund/new-law...
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
"Musk and DOGE Might Soon Have Access to the Most Lucrative Defense-Contract Database of All" A scoop for Zeteo from @attackerman.bsky.social on how the USXports database could be used by Elon Musk to undercut competitors to his SpaceX in the defense sector. Read/share/subscribe:
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Musk and DOGE Might Soon Have Access to the Most Lucrative Defense-Contract Database of All
Ex-officials warn Zeteo that the USXports database is a means for Musk to undercut competitors to SpaceX in the defense sector.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
“JD Vance Called Me a 'Dummy' for Pointing Out His Administration's Hypocrisy on Free Speech. I Guess the Truth Hurts” My piece for Zeteo on yesterday’s back and forth with the VP and others on Twitter - and on the threat to imprison American journalists. zeteo.com/p/jd-vance-c...
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JD Vance Called Me a 'Dummy' for Pointing Out His Administration's Hypocrisy on Free Speech. I Guess the Truth Hurts
The vice president is busy attacking Europeans for not defending free speech while the Trump-Musk administration threatens to imprison American journalists.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/01/2025
AOC 🔥🔥🔥
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