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Science and Sanity Silicon Valley @scienceandsanity.bsky.social · 8m

#GoodNews #GovernorNewsomeSignsPrescriptionPricingBill

Yesterday Governor Newsome (CA) signed into law a bill reining in abusive behavior by pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) that raise drug prices and kill neighborhood pharmacies.

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Governor Newsom Signs Nation-Leading Bill To Crack Down on Prescription Drug Price Gouging By Megacorporations

Official website of Senator Scott Wiener, representing California Senate District 11.

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Science and Sanity Silicon Valley @scienceandsanity.bsky.social · 12m

#UmbrellaAttacksTrump

"He’s going to have Bondi indict the umbrella now, isn’t he?"--Jo Jo Fromierz

Elevators, umbrellas, sound systems and windmills seem to have it in for Little Donnie.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump gets some help closing his umbrella while boarding Air Force One

Science and Sanity Silicon Valley @scienceandsanity.bsky.social · 20m

#NatureAmazing #FibonacciSequenceIsCool

We live on an amazing planet. Let's unite to save it for our children and grandchildren.

Enjoy these pictures and check out the Finonacci Sequence just for fun!

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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 12d

Did you know that pinecones, snail shells, fern fronds, and even Romanesco broccoli all follow the same mathematical pattern?

It’s called the Fibonacci sequence, and it shows up in nature more often than one might think.

What are your favourite examples? 🌿🐌🥦🌲

$A collage of four close-up images showing natural spiral patterns: a pine cone on a branch, a snail shell against a reddish surface, an unfurling green fern frond, and the fractal spirals of a Romanesco broccoli. UNEP logo appears in the top right corner.$

Science and Sanity Silicon Valley @scienceandsanity.bsky.social · 22m

#WildAnimals #CollaborationHelpsPreserveAnimals

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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 8d

Did you know that there's a whole treaty dedicated to migratory animals, such as whales, birds, and butterflies?

The @cms.int is the only international convention specialising in the conservation and sustainable use of migratory animals and their habitats.

More info: www.cms.int/what-are-mig...

Science and Sanity Silicon Valley @scienceandsanity.bsky.social · 26m

World#AntimicrobialResistance Awareness Week Is Next Month

We need to develop new antibiotics so microbes do not get ahead of us. For this we need to restore NIH and NSF funding and stop disrupting the work of the CDC.

RFK Jr. must be fired. 🙏 Write your congresspeople🙏

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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 1d

World #AntimicrobialResistance Awareness Week is coming up next month under the theme “Act Now: Protect Our Present, Secure Our Future.”

Drug-resistant infections are rising worldwide, and stronger action is needed to safeguard health.

Get involved: https://tinyurl.com/utkd4cfk #WAAW

Science and Sanity Silicon Valley @scienceandsanity.bsky.social · 42m

#ChicagoFatherKilledByICEAfterDroppingKidsAtDaycare

NO ONE VOTED FOR THIS. We need a full investigation. Kristi the Gnome cannot be trusted to do it.

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Chicago ICE crackdown's first casualty, a father of two, had built a quiet life in the US

An agent shot Silverio Villegas Gonzalez, father of two, during a massive immigration sweep.

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Science and Sanity Silicon Valley @scienceandsanity.bsky.social · 46m

#KristiTheGnomeandThe#PortlandChicken #Noeme'sLiesAreEpic

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

This week, MAGA figures claimed Kristi Noem "stared down" violent antifa protesters in Portland. Turns out they were talking mostly about a guy in a chicken suit.

This episode opens a window into how MAGA propaganda works and MSM failure to handle it. 1/

(new piece)
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MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit

A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.

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Science and Sanity Silicon Valley @scienceandsanity.bsky.social · 1h

This is true, Mr. Conway. But the public gets confused since Trump's mental function is highly variable. When people's brains are compromised by early dementia they have good \and bad times that depending on variable blood flow to their brains. A healthy person can compensate for this.Trump cannot.

Science and Sanity Silicon Valley @scienceandsanity.bsky.social · 1h

#TrumpFlunksGeography

This isn't just embarrassing for Trump. It's humiliating to the United States that our President is so ill-informed and poorly briefed. This hurts our standing in the world, which already has been damaged by failing to defend Ukraine etc.

www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...

Trump, 79, Skewered for Embarrassing Geographical Flub

The president clearly didn’t have access to a map.

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Science and Sanity Silicon Valley @scienceandsanity.bsky.social · 3h

#EugenicsHighlyDangerous #EugenicsOnTheRise

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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 4d

Science is intertwined with eugenics, and eugenic ideologies continue to negatively impact #Indigenous communities and science today.

Read a timely and important perspective piece in #GENETICS from @jazlynmooney.bsky.social and colleagues: buff.ly/T7rbV3k

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Science and Sanity Silicon Valley @scienceandsanity.bsky.social · 3h

#SouthCarolina_MeaslesRising

Antivax rhetoric and misinformation by RFK Jr is resulting in resurgence of diseases that can cause serious harm to our children.

The danger of #measles is less if most everyibe in a population get vaccinated. - "herd immunity"

#FireRFKJr

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 1d

From NBC News:
153 measles infected kids are in quarantine in South Carolina.

118 kids in Minneapolis.

If this continues, We will likely lose our official measles elimination status.

This is the outcome of antivax rhetoric.

🧪 www.statnews.com/2025/06/24/u...

A grim milestone: U.S. is on the cusp of losing its official measles elimination status

We have had the ability to prevent nearly all cases of measles for more than 60 years. Yet the number of cases keeps growing.

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Science and Sanity Silicon Valley @scienceandsanity.bsky.social · 4h

#FundCancerResearch #RestoreNIH #RestoreNSF

President Nixon played a valuable role in funding cancer research in the United States. Fighting cancer by funding research should not be a partisan issue.

US citizens did not vote to slash cancer research!

#StandUpForScience

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · May 11

🧪Did you know that America is known for its cancer research b/c of the National Cancer Act in 1971 signed by Nixon. Mary Lasker took her cause to congress and the American public as a leading proponent of the National Cancer Act. She said, "If you think research is expensive, try disease!"

Letter to Mary Lasker from Richard Nixon dated Jan 11 1972.
Regarding the signing of the National Cancer Act of 1971.
https://laskerfoundation.org/the-promise-of-the-cancer-moonshot/

Science and Sanity Silicon Valley @scienceandsanity.bsky.social · 4h

Fighting Cancer by funding research should not be partisan.

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Stand Up For Science and Sanity

Stand up for Science and Sanity because science and democracy go hand and hand!

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Science and Sanity Silicon Valley @scienceandsanity.bsky.social · 4h

#PortlandPersists #SendNationalGuardHome

Go Weiner Dog! What a colossal waste of taxpayers money to have the National Guard deployed in Portland, Chicago and LA.

No money for SNAP but plenty for militarization???

No one voted for this!
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 6h

Portland continues to amaze me 👏

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Science and Sanity Silicon Valley @scienceandsanity.bsky.social · 4h

#IndivisibleSantaCruzStartingSpeakers'CornerWeekly

In London for decades there's been a #Speakers'Corner in Hyde Park, providing a forum for different opinions. This seems well worth considering to spark weekly, civil local dialogue..

After No Kings Day?

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A Speakers' Corner for Santa Fe

Indivisible Santa Fe has a new project: A Speakers' Corner for Santa Fe. Continuing our fight for constitutional democracy and civil rights, we have started a weekly Speakers’ Corner.

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Science and Sanity Silicon Valley @scienceandsanity.bsky.social · 4h

#VoteYesOnProp50inCalifornia

#Proposition50 is a TEMPORARY measure so California "does not unilaterally disarm". Ballots are out; vote by November 4

Trump has railed against this when he is the one that demanded that Texas redistrict which started this.

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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 6h

Gutless red-state governors are bending over backwards to do Trump’s bidding – and they’re taking down democracy with them.

California is fighting back! VOTE Yes on Prop 50! #YesOnProp50

Science and Sanity Silicon Valley @scienceandsanity.bsky.social · 4h

#VPVance'sLiesCalledOutByGovPritzker

#GovPritzker calls for all of us to stand up together for rule of law, democracy and our constitution while he denounces VP Vance spewing misinformation & unfounded accusations.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Pritzker: "You just heard a tidal wave of lies from the VP. It's a bit shocking. And you heard over & over him just making things up. There's a reason why the judge here in federal court said that they admin lacks credibility and why even the Nobel committee chair said the admin lacks integrity."

Science and Sanity Silicon Valley @scienceandsanity.bsky.social · 4h

#HealthcareCosts #Murray(D-WA)SpeaksOnHealthcareCrisis

Senator Murray warns that many Republican citizens don't know their 2026 insurance premiums will zoom (b/o of poor reporting on this inconventient truth by right wing media).

Letters on 2026 rates arrive in November.

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 1d

A lot of Republican Members of Congress are in a total bubble.

Right-wing media can paint a rosy picture of our economy, sure.

But reality is gonna come crashing down on Republicans when their constituents see their premiums more than double, or even quadruple.

Science and Sanity Silicon Valley @scienceandsanity.bsky.social · 5h

#Palecek(D_Candidate_IL)SaysShe'dRefuseNat'lGuardDeploymentForOccupyingAPeacefulCity

Others should consider their oaths if they are being deployed for nefarious purposes.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Sep 9

“Will you refuse to take that mission?”
“Absolutely.”

ILLINOIS congressional candidate Demi Palecek (D), who is in the National Guard, says she would refuse to be deployed as part of Trump’s War on Chicago - even if it gets her discharged.

Science and Sanity Silicon Valley @scienceandsanity.bsky.social · 5h

Disgusting.

Science and Sanity Silicon Valley @scienceandsanity.bsky.social · 5h

Tragic. Shame on our country.

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Science and Sanity Silicon Valley @scienceandsanity.bsky.social · 8h

#PROTEST: if you're near #Palo_Alto on #Halloween please Stand Up for Science & Sanity by attending our #Rally, #CostumeParty & #ProtestMarch - sign up now to join us!

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Protest & Costume Party: Stand Up For Science & Sanity Rally/March · Stand Up for Science and Sanity

Join our eighth Rally, March, and Costume Party to protest indignantly yet JOYFULLY the outrageous assaults on our scientific research, healthcare, free speech, universities & our democracy. SPEECHES...

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Science and Sanity Silicon Valley @scienceandsanity.bsky.social · 1d

#RottenApple #BoycottAppleAppStore

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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 1d

We wouldn't want to document abuses of power, would we?

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Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

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Science and Sanity Silicon Valley @scienceandsanity.bsky.social · 1d

#BewareOfTOOTHPASTE #BrilliantSatire #FireRFKJr

Totally hilarious but actually the clever author of this piece used the same kind of logic as the addled and unscientific HHS chief RFK Jr and the same disjointed dialogue as our failing President.

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US government issue warning about potential link between toothpaste and decapitation

The US government has today issued a warning about the potential link between using toothpaste to brush your teeth and decapitation.

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Science and Sanity Silicon Valley @scienceandsanity.bsky.social · 1d

#AmphibianOfPortland

Please enjoy this great video. I've been reflecting a lot on why this image so resonates with so many of us. It's partly because the frog highlights how incredibly absurd it is to have ICE in peaceful & joyous Portland.

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SilverMoon FAFO 💙🦋💙 @silvermoonfafo.bsky.social · 4d

The Antiphibian of Portland is gearing up to be an iconic symbol of resistance

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