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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 19h

The San Diego Police Department is reporting no arrests related to the No Kings protests! Amazing work, everyone. It’s great to see police departments across the country sharing similar updates, peaceful protests everywhere.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 23h

We stayed classy. #NoKings

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 1d

Los Angeles came out in droves. #NoKings

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 1d

NYPD announces that zero arrests were made at the massive No Kings protests today after Republicans spent days claiming the protestors are violent terrorists.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

Little Wolf of the Kumeyaay tribe giving the blessing. #NoKings #SanDiego

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Any American medium that fails to cover the largest protests in American history is failing in the basic mission of informing the public about the facts.
#NoKings

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

This is a blatant attempt to silence and isolate us. He’s stopping the trains, closing the freeways and firing live rounds into California. We will not be intimidated. We will not be silenced. #NoKings

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Stefanie @sdskai.bsky.social · 1d

www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/18/w...

White House to fire explosive artillery over major roadway in Southern California, I-5 to be temporarily shut down on Saturday due to life safety risk | Governor of California

www.gov.ca.gov

Stefanie @sdskai.bsky.social · 1d

One of the few things Southern Californians of all political stripes agree on is the traffic does not need to get any worse. Yet I-5 will be closed for a needless live fire exercise, when Pendleton has plenty of ways to show off that don't include endangering trade or transport routes. #NoKings

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Nicole Filippone, Autistic Advocate & Author @sensorystories.bsky.social · 2d

Them: You don't look autistic

Me: You don't see it because my autism mostly affects me. I've spent most of my life painstakingly minimizing the impact it has on others... so now it has no effect on you at all, but my life is indescribably more difficult and exhausting

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Stefanie @sdskai.bsky.social · 11d

#YesOn50 #redistricting #CA Returned my ballot today at the library's drop box.

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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 26d

I don't know whether this has been discussed by anyone yet, but the meta-analysis that claims to find a relationship between acetaminophen and autism: ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Here's how it reported the results for the largest study. This study carries massive weight...

Authors, Year

Location

Study Period

Risk Estimate

Study Design

Sample Size

Missing Data

Inclusion Criteria

Exposure Definition

Outcome Definition

Ahlqvist, 2024 (overall study)

Sweden

1995–2019

HR = 1.05 (95%CI 1.02–1.087)

Prospective cohort

N = 2,480,797

Exclusion and covariates imputed using dummy category approach

All Singleton live born children in Sweden with linkable personal identifiers with follow-up until Dec 31,2021

Ever use APAP derived from midwife interview at 8–10 weeks gestation and later during pregnancy. From 2005 onward supplemented by Prescribed Drug Registry data

Autism from ICD codes recorded in the National Patient Registry

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 27d

Autism is not a "disease" or "epidemic".

Autism has a strong genetic component.

There is no evidence that vaccinees or Tylenol cause autism.

Access to autism diagnostics have dramatically increased as reported rates increased.

Neither Trump nor RFK Jr are scientists or medical professionals.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 26d

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

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Stefanie @sdskai.bsky.social · 26d

Today's news cycle was exhausting. There are far worse things in life than being autistic. For example, you could be gullible enough to believe that anything RFKJr says is actually evidence based.

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Briar in Blue @auroraworeblue.bsky.social · 28d

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes.
#romancelandia

A grainy screenshot of the sidebar of the desktop version of Goodreads. It says:

RECOMMENDATIONS:
Because you enjoyed A Wedding to Protect Her Fortune:
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authoritarianism. On November 9th, millions of Americans woke up to the impossible...

View all books similar to A Wedding to Protect Her Fortune

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Kevin Ault @kevinault.bsky.social · Sep 19

Vaccines don't cause birth defects and that includes COVID vaccines.

And thanks to Carol Hayes of American College of Nurse Midwives for speaking up at the ACIP meeting

vikilovesfacs.bsky.social feel free to add more - #IDSky + #MedSky.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/no-...

No increase in birth defects found following COVID vaccination in pregnancy

www.cidrap.umn.edu

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · Sep 19

The questions from and behavior of RFK Jr.‘s ACIP is the most egregious and dangerous display of science denialism I’ve ever personally witnessed.

The harm to the United States is incalculable.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · Sep 18

After reviewing the ACIP presentations that were made available online and listening to public comments, ACIP has no scientific grounds whatsoever to make the changes to the vaccine schedule that they are proposing.

The truth of RFK Jr.’s ACIP will be fully revealed in the next few minutes.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · Sep 18

I just tuned into today’s ACIP meeting solely to hear public comments. They are all kicking ass. And I just heard the amazing @drjudystone.bsky.social explain why we

MUST. PROTECT. VACCINES.

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James Hyman @jamesmhyman.bsky.social · Sep 16

I wrote about the war on science and the psychological toll it's taking on me for Psychology Today.

How It Feels to Be a Scientist in 2025 | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/a-ne...

How It Feels to Be a Scientist in 2025

Personal Perspective: NIH has been hamstrung, which will have catastrophic effects on scientific progress and academic science. This is how it feels to be a scientist in the middle of this storm.

www.psychologytoday.com

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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · Sep 15

One of the saddest things is when children have cancer, immune deficiency or need bone marrow or organ transplants.

And to add insult to injury, they’re unable to receive vaccines.

But YOU can do your part to help protect them by immunizing yourself & your family.

We are ALL in this together.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Sep 12

New Mexico's economy is a fraction of the size of New York City's.

If they can enact universal childcare — and relieve working families of a crushing cost burden — surely we can too.

It's just a question of political will.

New Mexico will be the first state to make child care free

The program, which is expected to save families $12,000 per child annually, is available to all residents regardless of income.

19thnews.org

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Kimberly Prather PhD @kprather.bsky.social · Sep 10

One year apart to the day...

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · Aug 26

GOOD NEWS! For the FIRST time ever, and after MORE THAN 30 YEARS of HIV vaccine clinical trials, researchers have developed a vaccine that has SUCCESSFULLY generated TIER 2 broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) against HIV and BLOCKS viral infection in vaccinated PEOPLE.

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