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🍁🎃🍁🎃🍁🎃🍁🎃🍁🎃🍁🎃 "Tie-dyed in the wool" bleeding-heart liberal. Concerned about climate, civil liberties, health advocacy. 💙☮️🌏🇺🇦🎶 Happily married. 3 adult kids. #Resister #BlueCrew #BreakfastCrew

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JOY🦉 @missjoy1965.bsky.social · 10d

So we're having a puppet themed Halloween this year and my talented husband carved these two (foam pumpkins) for our display.🎃🎃
#Halloween2025
#JackOLantern
#Puppets

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SciTechDaily - Science, Space and Technology News 2025 @scitechdaily.com.web.brid.gy · 21h

A New Way To Stop Cancer Growth: Groundbreaking Drug Enters Human Trials

Scientists have developed compounds that selectively block a crucial interaction between RAS and the enzyme PI3K, a driver of tumor growth. Scientists from the Francis Crick Institute and Vividion Therapeutics have discovered a group of chemical compounds capable of selectively stopping the interaction between the cancer-linked gene RAS and a key signaling pathway that drives [...]

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DiscoForever @discoforever.bsky.social · 1d

For those who want to read it:
www.ajpmfocus.org/article/S277...

COVID-19 is “Airborne AIDS”: provocative oversimplification, emerging science, or something in between?

COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 is often compared to other pandemics for its societal and global health impact, with some commentators drawing parallels to HIV/AIDS due to the immune dysfunction caused ...

www.ajpmfocus.org

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Kaine: "We should not be allowing the president to create a secret enemies list and make the unilateral decision about whether to kill people without sharing that information at least with the Armed Service and Intel committees. So this is very troubling."

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KD📚🌎🌊🇺🇸 @kdnerak33.bsky.social · 12h

Trump is sending $40 billion in taxpayer money to Argentina without the approval of Congress.

Let’s call this what it is.

It’s a bribe to get the Argentinian people to reelect a fellow dictator, and it’s a big fuck you to the American people.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12h

Trump: I want to thank Stephen Miller I would love to have him come up and explain his true feelings. Maybe not his truest feelings. That might be going a little too far

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JOY🦉 @missjoy1965.bsky.social · 11h

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Sean Mullen, Ph.D. @drseanmullen.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

“We may be witnessing the emergence of a population-level acquired immune deficiency — not sexually transmitted, but airborne.”

That line isn’t from a tweet. It’s from a peer-reviewed paper in AJPM Focus (2025).

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 15h

This Supreme Court case in Louisiana is about one thing, and one thing only: reinstituting Jim Crow by way of ensuring that Black Americans are taxed without receiving representation in Congress.

Everything else is noise and bluster.

This stolen Supreme Court is going to send us back to the 1860s.

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Data Report @datareport.bsky.social · 20h

Two new H9N2 avian flu cases reported in China www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...

Two new H9N2 avian flu cases reported in China

All 21 cases in 2025 have been reported from mainland China.

www.cidrap.umn.edu

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Tara Moriarty @moriartylab.bsky.social · 1d

Canadian COVID Forecast Oct 11 - Oct 24, 2025

CANADA

HIGH [no change]

About 1 of every 95 people is infected.

Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada:

-Infections: 6.1 x higher
-Long COVID: 5.9 x higher
-Hospitalizations: 11.3 x higher
-Deaths: 9.2 x higher

This image describes the Canadian COVID Forecast for the fourteen-day period between Oct 11 - Oct 24, 2025, which is produced by COVID-19 Resources Canada. Canada’s COVID Forecast outlook is HIGH [no change] with a COVID INDEX SCORE of 8.9

About 1 of every 95 people is infected.

Estimated infections this week: 558,700-965,600
What these numbers mean: MODERATE 1-5, HIGH 5-10, VERY HIGH 10-15, SEVERE >15 COMPARED TO THE LOWEST POINT IN THE COVID PANDEMIC IN CANADA
How much higher are key indicators compared to the lowest point in the COVID pandemic in Canada?
Waste water, infections: HIGH; 6.1X higher
Long COVID: HIGH; 5.9X higher
Hospitalizations: VERY HIGH; 11.3X higher
Deaths: HIGH; 9.2X higher
HOW TO HELP:
EVERYONE:
UPDATE vaccines every 6 months
WEAR N95-type masks
Who is HIGH RISK?
People 60 and older, babies < 1 year, pregnant
ALL AGES: immunocompromised OR medically at-risk OR no vaccine or infection in the last 6 months

Recommendations are based on the COVID-19 Risk Index from the Peterborough ON Public Health Unit
COVID-19 Resources Canada is a grassroots organization of volunteer scientists supporting Canadian COVID responses. Sources, data and methods for the COVID Index are available at www.Covid19Resources.ca

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12h

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 19h

A government that targets citizens against fascism and dictatorships, isn’t a government worth keeping.

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Robyn @handcranked.bsky.social · 1d

A white ibis with a Muscovy duck in Costa Rica for the #BirdOfTheDay long neck challenge and #AnimalArtTuesday

#EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography
#ArtYear
#MobilePhotography

A white ibis standing in a very green pond with a Muscovy duck in the background. There are leaves on the left side in the foreground.

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JOY🦉 @missjoy1965.bsky.social · 12h

You'll be so happy with the results once the whole process is completed.
Rest up and keep those eyedrops flowing.💧

a woman is sitting at a table with a box of tissues and a cup of coffee

ALT: a woman is sitting at a table with a box of tissues and a cup of coffee

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Data Report @datareport.bsky.social · 20h

Virginia: Saltville investigating sudden deaths of vultures in town wcyb.com/news/local/s...

Saltville investigating sudden deaths of vultures in town

The Town of Saltville said that they have reached out to agencies to investigate the sudden death of vultures throughout the town.In a Facebook post, the town s

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 14h

What the fuck are we doing?

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 14h

He gives $20 Billion of OUR dollars to bailout Argentina without consulting Congress or the American people. Does that seem like the actions of a KING to you?

Join us & let him know just what you think about that this Saturday, 10/18

#NoThronesNoCrownsNO_KINGS 👑

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✌️Bob ☮ (Old Man Hippy)💙 @oldmanhippy.com · 14h

They claim anyone taking part in No Kings is a terrorist, while they terrorize people all over the country. While they take healthcare away from children and many thousands more. While they abuse their power at every turn. They are the terrorists.

Seriously
There are more terrorists in the Trump administration than in all the No Kings demonstrations put together!
October 18, all across the nation, people PEACEFULLY joining together.
No Kings Day

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 14h

Justice JACKSON standing up for voting rights. 🔥

Louisiana: Plaintiffs said 'we want another majority-black district.'

Jackson: No. They said 'we aren't receiving equal electoral opportunity because our votes are being diluted.'

Louisiana: Same thing.

Jackson: No, it’s not.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 13h

BREAKING: A federal judge just temporarily blocked the Trump admin's plans to lay off thousands of federal workers during the government shutdown — siding with unions, which have argued that the dismissals were illegal.

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 13h

"‘Prince Andrew believed having sex w me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at hands of #Epstein, Maxwell & the King’s brother

..‘apex predator’ recruited her from MAL at 16; trafficked to succession powerful men, everyone knew what was going on" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the King’s brother

In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

www.theguardian.com

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JOY🦉 @missjoy1965.bsky.social · 13h

Rest and recover, dear Josef!
I hope the Pho helps you breathe a little easier.
Take care.💙🫂🥣

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 15h

Here's how differently-abled and disabled folks can join No Kings 2: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

NO KINGS for Differently-Abled and Disabled Friends · No Kings

**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...

www.mobilize.us

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

WATCH: “This is not a both sides thing. Let’s not lie about what’s happening.”

- Senator @ericschmittmo 🤥 , lying about what’s happening as @senatordurbin calls for toning down the rhetoric

(Again: Right-wing violence has been far more prevalent)

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UPBeachBum @upbeachbum.bsky.social · 16h

This is fascism. This is why ANTIFA exists. This hijacked government is disgraceful. 🤬

Robby Roadsteamer @roadsteamer.bsky.social · 17h

🚨 *Breaking News* Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE Portland after singing Rod Stewart with the Portland Frog! We need your help!

Please support Robby's campaign and lawyer fees at robbyroadsteamer.com link on bio 💙🦒🦒🦒

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