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Senator Mazie K. Hirono @hirono.senate.gov · 5h

Republicans control the House.
Republicans control the Senate.
Republicans control the White House.

This shutdown has Republicans' name written all over it.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3h

I have not talked openly on social media about my work on HEPAP for various reasons, but now that my time officially as an appointee to HEPAP is over, I want to say that I think the end of HEPAP is an incredibly dangerous development for academic freedom in American science, esp HEP/astro. 🧪🔭⚛️

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 20h

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 20h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 1d

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 20h

Dogs are always demonized as working in and for the police but the truth is they are also killed by violent policing, military actions, imperialism etc.

They are our reflections, the barometers of our hate and violence, our consciences, our weapons, and our co-travelers and our victims.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 23h

“This heckin’ pupperino fucking hates La Migra,” to paraphrase from @weratedogs.com

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This is Chop. He was shot and killed by masked assailants in plain clothes who go by ICE. They showed up at his door "looking for migrants after receiving a tip." The son of the family asked if they could wait before entering the home while he put Chop away in the bathroom, as the dog can be aggressive with strangers.
According to the family, it is at this point that the son went to his pickup truck to retrieve his ID and a Border Patrol agent entered the home, opened the bathroom door, and shot Chop. None of the agents helped the family, who desperately tried to render aid to Chop, as he bled to death on the kitchen floor. Unsurprisingly, the agent who shot their dog then hid from them and refused to give his name. Even more unsurprising, they did not find any evidence of the migrants they were there to terrorize in the first place.
Do not open your door for these fucking losers. Rest easy Chop
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CBP Office of Professional Responsibility:
202-344-1808
JointIntake@cbp.dhs.gov
El Paso Border Patrol Sector:
915-834-8400
fpfelpaso@cbp.dhs.gov
Rep. Veronica Escobar (El Paso):
915-541-1400
veronica.escobar@mail.house.gov
https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/el-paso-family-claims-border-patrol-killed-their-dog-during-search-cbp-

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Kate Dollarhyde @katedollarhyde.bsky.social · 1d

i need you all to post more daily life stuff. i know we're all here to stare into the void together but i want to know what you made for dinner and what you've been reading before bed between all the void-staring.

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JSant @jmsantiago.bsky.social · 1d

Yesterday I took the day off work and decluttered my house.

In amongst all those unpacked moving boxes shoved into the corners & forgotten I found a few terrific paintings my (now adult) children did when they were kids.

A few are frame-worthy so I’m looking for the right place to hang them.

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 1d

🧵I do my noncooperation threads bc I know most of it gets lost in the news firehose. I know courage is contagious & that we have to en-courage each other.

And/but: We're at the stage of the fight where wins are small & often temporary. Each small win matters, &/but it may be like this for years.

Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 1d

Stories of failed arrests due to community response are inspiring. There's been great legal work to free people, too. But this stuff is mostly a brief flash of unmarked cars, and then somebody's gone. Over and over again. No matter how many people are eager to help and want better than this.

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 1d

In 1972, a whistleblower leaked to the press the details of the highly unethical & racist Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments run by the United States Public Health Service. Because of that (and other unethical experiments) Congress passed the National Research Act of 1974, which includes the IRB process.

HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 1d

The entire HR department at the CDC is gone. Everyone at the IRB, which makes sure studies are conducted ethically and rigorously, and the ethics office, which oversee conflicts of interest for CDC leaders and advisory committee members, were also let go.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Instability and confusion’ as CDC slashes 1,300 jobs before reinstating half

Trump administration says 700 notices were sent in error, while top CDC officer says ‘they didn’t think through what they were doing’

www.theguardian.com

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JSant @jmsantiago.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a linen store in Waltham, MA which I think sells online too. Zele Nave.

JSant @jmsantiago.bsky.social · 1d

There are a few unique, standalone places in Eastern MA that I’ll go to if I really need something. Fabric Place Basement in Natick, MA has a wide selection.

Amy’s Fabric Treasures in Westport MA has an eclectic collection of remnants (up to 3-5 yards) of quilting, fabric & garment & trims galore.

JSant @jmsantiago.bsky.social · 1d

Related note for MA residents:

The MA GOP is canvassing for sigs for a similar state-level voter ID ballot initiative.

Just say no.

Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 1d

We have a chance to push back. The commission is accepting public comments on this request for a “show-your-papers” requirement. Will you speak out against this attack on the freedom to vote?
bit.ly/4ngSyyl

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

"Support the troops, y'all!"

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

gene kelly is antifa

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d

The man who now owns this magazine was interviewed by the NYT recently.

He “did not have a negative word to say about Trump or his policies. ‘I fully support the president. I think he’s doing a great job.”

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JSant @jmsantiago.bsky.social · 1d

Middlesex County DA Marian Ryan’s office can be reached at (781) 897-8300

BratKnitsWithYourEntrails @bratknits.bsky.social · 1d

If he was really arrested with a firearm in Everett they the police would have had to charge him, report him to family services or both. There's not a lot of discretion in Massachusetts for firearm possession. Ask the Middlesex County DA why Everett handed him off without charge & where is the gun.

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BratKnitsWithYourEntrails @bratknits.bsky.social · 1d

If he was really arrested with a firearm in Everett they the police would have had to charge him, report him to family services or both. There's not a lot of discretion in Massachusetts for firearm possession. Ask the Middlesex County DA why Everett handed him off without charge & where is the gun.

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JSant @jmsantiago.bsky.social · 1d

A terrific thread on learning to fail better that all of us can benefit from, not just academics.

Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 1d

Every academic career is built on rejection, but we don’t show it.
 CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures.
 But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do.

👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...

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Fail Better: Why Your Rejections Will Shape You More Than Your Publications

The Art of Learning from Rejection

catherineeunicedevries.substack.com

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JSant @jmsantiago.bsky.social · 1d

They have been talking about replacing Obamacare since it passed 15+ years ago. Republicans have NEVER had a plan.

In that time the do-nothing Republicans have had control of the White House and Congress for four years.

And what have they given us?

A bunch of paper & bupkis for actionable ideas.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

REPORTER: Do you support repealing Obamacare and what's your healthcare plan?

MIKE JOHNSON: We worked on repealing and replacing Obamacare back in 2017. I still have PTSD from the experience. We know that American healthcare needs dramatic reform. We have lots of ideas.

(So, no plan)

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 3d

If you don’t see the link between ICE and the IDF, you haven’t been paying attention. We are being asked to accept a world where whole communities are made disposable and marked for disappearance. If we accept that for anyone, no one is safe anywhere.

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The Xylom @thexylom.com · 2d

Attending a "No Kings" protest Saturday? The Xylom's @alexip718.com and Strength in Numbers' @gelliottmorris.com are joining forces to conduct a nationwide, unofficial, crowdsourced attendance estimate.

We need your help to be our eyes and ears across 2,100+ locations and on the Internet.

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 1d

Really terrible news which is that little Masa died from her illness 💔

Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 11d

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Baraa. Baraa is the mother of 3 children Masa, 6, Ibrahim, 4 and Maha, 7 months. Tragically Maha was killed after a nearby bombing caused gasses to overwhelm her little lungs. Masa is in the hospital because of kidney issues from malnutrition.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 2d

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 2d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 2d

Excellent. TIL a U.S. president has "plenary authority" (absolute and restricted power) in only one area – pardons, which are not reviewable.

In every other area, checks and balances via Congress and the Courts hold sway.

P.S. Liz Oyer is a former DOJ Pardon Attorney.

Liz Oyer @lawyeroyer.com · 2d

Stephen Miller's comment on "plenary authority" was not a glitch. It's a key piece of Project 2025. I'll explain. youtube.com/shorts/-kqO8... @katiecouric.bsky.social

Plenary authority, explained

YouTube video by Lawyer Oyer

youtube.com

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