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Cynthia Fox

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Author WW Norton's “Cell of Cells”; scientific editor, reporter, reviewer. Articles in Esquire, Fortune, Forbes, Discover, Wired, Rolling Stone, etc. Review of Cells in The Economist, The London Times, Science, etc https://sites.google.com/site/cynthiaffox

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Cynthia Fox @cynthfox.bsky.social · Feb 20

After we’ve discriminated against all immigrant, gay, transgender, disabled, female, and minority people, yet find the problems we blamed them for “are still staring us in the face….what next? All the atrocities of human history lurk in the answer.” Gov. Pritzker, Skokie, Illinois, Feb 19, 2025

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Cynthia Fox @cynthfox.bsky.social · 1d

WTFF

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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Cynthia Fox @cynthfox.bsky.social · 5d

HA!

Richard Carl Askins @richca.bsky.social · 6d

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Cynthia Fox @cynthfox.bsky.social · 3d

All the protests in the next few weeks should involve huge crowds of protesters dancing.

Dr Lisa 🇰🇳🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈❤️🥳🧘🏽‍♀️🎸🏝💃🏽🛸 @xitter-refugee.bsky.social · 6d

We cannot allow spontaneous mass dancing.

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Cynthia Fox @cynthfox.bsky.social · 2d

At least there is this. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Cynthia Fox @cynthfox.bsky.social · 2d

"Mr. Trump is criminalizing Americans’ ability to challenge their leaders." The NYT finally steps up. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | Trump Disgraces American Justice

www.nytimes.com

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Kelly: I really worry about those aviators, drone operators, special forces guys that are in the Caribbean right now striking these boats and whether or not this is legal..

There’s no authorization for the use of military force. The Congress has not given that to the president. He hasn’t asked.

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Blue Texas @turntexasblue.bsky.social · 3d

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Blue Texas @turntexasblue.bsky.social · 2d

RELEASE THE TRUMPSTEIN FILES.

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Cynthia Fox @cynthfox.bsky.social · 2d

"Mr. Trump is criminalizing Americans’ ability to challenge their leaders." The NYT finally steps up. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | Trump Disgraces American Justice

www.nytimes.com

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Cynthia Fox @cynthfox.bsky.social · 2d

Ha!

Cynthia Fox @cynthfox.bsky.social · 2d

At least there is this. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d

Diane Keaton’s clothes were cinema, Esther Zuckerman writes. “Her sartorial persuasions were part of her eternal charm.”

How Diane Keaton’s ‘Annie Hall’ Look Was Integral to Her Art

Though she downplayed it, her role in creating the outfits of “Annie Hall” made her the author of a fascinating career.

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Cynthia Fox @cynthfox.bsky.social · 2d

Go Portland go!

Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 3d

This is so awesome. There were more of them last night. I am so proud of my City. 🐸💚

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Cynthia Fox @cynthfox.bsky.social · 6d

“This hasn’t happened since the Civil War.” — Illinois Gov. Pritzker.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Cynthia Fox @cynthfox.bsky.social · 5d

This.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "Hearing you say that 'everyone is smiling' in cities where troops have been rolled into feels dystopian and insane watching the response to it."

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Cynthia Fox @cynthfox.bsky.social · 2d

Nope. Not nuclear. Human error in the case of nuclear power plants equals nuclear winter. And as the current government shows us, humans are more about error than anything else. Not. Nuclear.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 3d

Psst: Stop burning stuff on Earth for energy. Let the burning fireball in the sky be your energy source.

T&E @transportenvironment.org · 6d

NEW: Biofuels globally emit more than the fossil fuels they replace, our latest study shows.

The first-of-a-kind study looks at global biofuels production today and the potential impacts of government biofuel targets.
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Cynthia Fox @cynthfox.bsky.social · 2d

If he dismantles the electoral system, as he is making great progress doing right now, he will not fall.

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Cynthia Fox @cynthfox.bsky.social · 2d

Go Portland go!

Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 3d

This is so awesome. There were more of them last night. I am so proud of my City. 🐸💚

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 3d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 3d

Unprecedented grift & corruption, happening daily right in front of us

Daniel A Collier, PhD @dcollier74.bsky.social · 3d

Man what a lucky guess.........

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 3d

"In an authoritarian context, all journalism will tend toward propaganda unless it is explicitly formulated as anti-authoritarian. Unless an institution is explicitly designed to counter authoritarianism, it will end up aiding the authoritarians."

The Washington Post and CBS News are dying. The Bulwark is the future.

We drink their milkshake.

www.thebulwark.com

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 3d

"Kristi Noem praised for ‘staring down’ Antifa. It was a dozen reporters and a guy in a chicken suit" #ICYMI www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Kristi Noem ‘stares down’ Antifa. It was reporters and a guy in a chicken costume

Trump has claimed Portland is ‘war-ravaged’ - but residents and local authorities dispute that

www.independent.co.uk

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