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Jonathan Bliss @drsunshinewa.bsky.social · 5h

I'm old enough to remember Pres Obama calling this out in a SOTU, and one of the Justices angrily pushing back. I'm older and have seen more now, and I'm like: Wasn't this obviously going to play out this way.

Jonathan Bliss @drsunshinewa.bsky.social · 5h

I really thought the sex robots would save us.

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Jonathan Bliss @drsunshinewa.bsky.social · 5h

I watched his interview on @maddow.msnbc.com this evening as was like: Yep, nothing personal about the gov, but his point about needing distance from the generation of pols which contributed to this pickle .. rings true. Easy for me to say, I haven't been in Maine for > 30 years!

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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 1d

Italian American congressman has filed a bill to punish cities and states that replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day. www.newsandsentinel.com/news/local-n...

Bill would punish governments that replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day

YOUNGSTOWN — U.S. Rep. Michael Rulli, R-Salem, introduced a bill that would punish any local or state government that celebrates Indigenous Peoples’ Day instead of Columbus Day. Called the “Italian He...

www.newsandsentinel.com

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 11h

"Their theory of the case is that creating equal voting rights for Black people is unconstitutional racial discrimination against white people."

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Voting Rights Are on the Supreme Court’s Chopping Block

Tuesday's case pits fanciful claims of racial harmony against the reality of ongoing discrimination.

www.motherjones.com

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thetranscendedman @atranscendedman.bsky.social · 19h

Harvard and Peking University scientists have built new tools that can edit the DNA inside mitochondria, long unreachable by CRISPR

This could soon allow treatments for at least 150 diseases linked to faulty mitochondria, from blindness to heart failure

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Client Challenge

www.nature.com

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Mark Lieberman @marklieberman.bsky.social · 1d

“If there are not people there to make sure the laws are followed, the laws are meaningless.”
www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

Ed. Dept. Offices Will Be Virtually Wiped Out in Latest Layoffs

The U.S. Department of Education is losing about a fifth of its already diminished workforce.

www.edweek.org

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Jim Owczarski @jimowczarski.bsky.social · 1d

Basically, 2 players worth $344 million beat the #Brewers $121 million team.

A great example of what payroll disparity means. At some point, the $160 / $180 / $365 / $700 million player is gonna do the thing.

And if you have that many of them, eventually, one (or two) of them will beat you.

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J. Mijin Cha @jmijin.bsky.social · 1d

New coal leases in the Powder River Basin have been paused after the first one had only a bid for 1/10th of a penny. They are trying to blame previous administrations, but the writing is on the wall. We should be supporting coal workers and communities not doing wtf this clown show is doing.

US postpones Wyoming coal lease sale after disappointing Montana auction

The Trump administration has postponed a scheduled sale of coal leases on federal lands in Wyoming two days after a disappointing auction in Montana, an Interior Department spokesperson said on Wednesday.

www.reuters.com

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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 1d

Complicated feelings about 👇, 1st world climate adaptation issues, as we have 3 local ski hills here that face obsolescence due to climate change. The same alpine snow issues also mean much of Europe won’t have summer river flow for water, transport & power plant cooling. apple.news/ACW1Kqb9OQMi...

My day dismantling a ski resort closed down by climate change — The Telegraph

Our writer sees grown men cry as workers take apart pylons and lift cables in an Alpine destination that once guaranteed snow

apple.news

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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 2d

One part of the energy revolution

The rapid decline in battery pack prices, matched by increased uptake

Batteries can be used to match the daily cycle of solar energy, discharging in evening/night after being charged during the day

They are solar power enablers

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

Microplastics are released from plastic when exposed to heat, including leaching from tea bags into hot tea and plastic containers releasing nanoplastics when microwaved. While health effects are still unclear, minimizing heating plastic is a simple way to reduce exposure.

Microplastics are everywhere. You can do one simple thing to avoid them.

The biggest sources of microplastics have one thing in common: Heat.

wapo.st

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 1d

A record 29% — nearly a third! — of all new cars purchased in California during July, August, and September were zero-emission vehicles.

DC may be fine with selling out American innovation to China, but California will keep charging ahead toward cleaner air for our communities.

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 1d

Tom Paine, Common Sense
#nokings

Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.

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Jonathan Bliss @drsunshinewa.bsky.social · 1d

"the first mass public CPR training occurred in 1972 in Seattle, Washington, when Leonard Cobb trained over 100,000 people in the first two years." .. I am old enough to remember when CPR was relatively new, we saw a movie suggesting we might someday need it to save a parent 😬

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 1d

“Deaths from heart attacks have dropped nearly 90 percent since 1970, thanks to lifesaving interventions and public health measures. But the numbers remain high: Every year, about 805,000 people in the United States have a heart attack, and research suggests that 12 percent of them are fatal.”

The Most Common Signs of a Heart Attack

www.nytimes.com

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 1d

President Zelenskyy at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly annual session:

Putin can be forced into peace - just like any other terrorist. By stopping Russia now, you [Europeans] are not only helping us protect our lives - you are helping yourselves. Russia must lose.

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 1d

Americans are eating Trump's tariffs, Goldman Sachs says — and they're about to cost more qz.com/goldman-tari...

Americans are eating Trump's tariffs, Goldman Sachs says

Goldman's projections undercut the Trump administration's repeated claim that foreign governments would pay the import taxes

qz.com

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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 1d

You don’t say…..

U.S. consumers bearing more than half the cost of tariffs so far, Goldman Sachs says

The findings suggest U.S. consumers will continue to struggle with high prices — something Trump had promised to address in the run-up to his re-election.

www.nbcnews.com

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@LAhistory @lahistory.bsky.social · 4d

Oct 10, 1911: California voters gave women the right to vote #OTD (nine years before the #19thAmendment). www.sos.ca.gov/archives/wom... #womenshistory

Image via Claremont's Ella Strong Denison Library: ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/coll...

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Jonathan Bliss @drsunshinewa.bsky.social · 1d

this is a great map, tyvm

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@LAhistory @lahistory.bsky.social · 1d

In honor of Indigenous Peoples Day, a map of Tongva villages by Sutimiv-Pa’alat from the website of Julia Louise Bogany, the Tongva elder and educator who passed away in 2021. www.tobevisible.org/tongva-villa... #IndigenousPeoplesDay #Tongvaland

Tongva Villages

To Be Visible

www.tobevisible.org

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 1d

🧫 How vaccines shape T cell defences

Researchers found that repeated mRNA COVID-19 vaccinations keep T cells diverse while strengthening their binding power, helping the immune system adapt to viral changes.

🔗 doi.org/10.1126/sciimmunol.adu6730

#SciComm #Vaccines #COVID19 🧪

Vaccination-induced T cell responses maintain polyclonality with high antigen receptor avidity

Clonal recruitment is governed by a T cell receptor avidity threshold, whereas probabilistic expansion preserves repertoire polyclonality.

doi.org

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Jonathan Bliss @drsunshinewa.bsky.social · 1d

wow