Berna
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Ferret mom and nurse. Thinker, reader, hiker. Here for the politics 💙 and pet photos. Humor is good too. 🇺🇦 #BLM #BeKind #bluecrew #goodtrouble #resist Antifa 🐸
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🚨PSA🚨
A government restricting what scientists are allowed to study has NEVER been a sign of a society moving towards a more free, more just, or more enlightened future.
A thriving scientific ecosystem is a core pillar of a healthy democracy.
A government restricting what scientists are allowed to study has NEVER been a sign of a society moving towards a more free, more just, or more enlightened future.
A thriving scientific ecosystem is a core pillar of a healthy democracy.
December 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
🚨PSA🚨
A government restricting what scientists are allowed to study has NEVER been a sign of a society moving towards a more free, more just, or more enlightened future.
A thriving scientific ecosystem is a core pillar of a healthy democracy.
A government restricting what scientists are allowed to study has NEVER been a sign of a society moving towards a more free, more just, or more enlightened future.
A thriving scientific ecosystem is a core pillar of a healthy democracy.
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Update on the leaked FDA memo
December 15, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Update on the leaked FDA memo
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For 22 years we have had a Senate with 1 Lindsey Graham and 0 pediatricians.
How about we try a Senate with 0 Lindsey Grahams and 1 pediatrician?
How about we try a Senate with 0 Lindsey Grahams and 1 pediatrician?
December 15, 2025 at 3:42 PM
For 22 years we have had a Senate with 1 Lindsey Graham and 0 pediatricians.
How about we try a Senate with 0 Lindsey Grahams and 1 pediatrician?
How about we try a Senate with 0 Lindsey Grahams and 1 pediatrician?
More facts:
WATCH — @sawyerhackett.bsky.social: "Trump has created more ‘illegal immigrants’ than he has deported… and 93% have no criminal record.“
December 14, 2025 at 12:12 AM
More facts:
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It’s time to start calling Trump’s immigration agenda what it is: ethnic cleansing
December 8, 2025 at 9:37 PM
It’s time to start calling Trump’s immigration agenda what it is: ethnic cleansing
This is how it’s done.
🗃️ Vice President Al Gore delivers a concession speech following the Supreme Court’s ruling in Bush v. Gore. December 12, 2000.
December 13, 2025 at 10:08 PM
This is how it’s done.
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American Science, Shattered
A multipart series on how the Trump administration has disrupted labs, upended lives, and delayed discoveries.
www.statnews.com/american-sci...
A multipart series on how the Trump administration has disrupted labs, upended lives, and delayed discoveries.
www.statnews.com/american-sci...
American Science, Shattered
An eight-decade partnership between universities and the federal government made U.S. science preeminent. It took Trump less than a year to shred that
www.statnews.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:04 AM
American Science, Shattered
A multipart series on how the Trump administration has disrupted labs, upended lives, and delayed discoveries.
www.statnews.com/american-sci...
A multipart series on how the Trump administration has disrupted labs, upended lives, and delayed discoveries.
www.statnews.com/american-sci...
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I am never shocked these days but here is a breakdown of how unserious the ACIP has become by allowing an antivaccine lawyer 2 hours of airtime to mislead the public.
drrubin.substack.com/p/how-aaron-...
drrubin.substack.com/p/how-aaron-...
How Aaron Siri Misled ACIP and the public
And why it endangers public health
drrubin.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:51 AM
I am never shocked these days but here is a breakdown of how unserious the ACIP has become by allowing an antivaccine lawyer 2 hours of airtime to mislead the public.
drrubin.substack.com/p/how-aaron-...
drrubin.substack.com/p/how-aaron-...
Congratulations! Best podcaster award too!
December 6, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Congratulations! Best podcaster award too!
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Billions of your tax dollars are going to Palantir Technologies, the backbone of Trump's anti-immigrant police state.
Be warned. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_VwyhErd88
Be warned. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_VwyhErd88
The Most Dangerous Corporation in America?
Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Billions of your tax dollars are going to Palantir Technologies, the backbone of Trump's anti-immigrant police state.
Be warned. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_VwyhErd88
Be warned. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_VwyhErd88
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Did you know Trump has added 2.2 trillion to the national debt since taking office 10 months ago?
December 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Did you know Trump has added 2.2 trillion to the national debt since taking office 10 months ago?
Trump administration says staffing ratios hurt big business. Never mind the patients.
HHS Officially Rescinds Nursing Home Minimum Staffing Rule www.medpagetoday.com/geriatrics/g...
HHS Officially Rescinds Nursing Home Minimum Staffing Rule www.medpagetoday.com/geriatrics/g...
HHS Officially Rescinds Nursing Home Minimum Staffing Rule
Nursing home providers praised the move, while one patient group called it 'very disappointing'
www.medpagetoday.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Trump administration says staffing ratios hurt big business. Never mind the patients.
HHS Officially Rescinds Nursing Home Minimum Staffing Rule www.medpagetoday.com/geriatrics/g...
HHS Officially Rescinds Nursing Home Minimum Staffing Rule www.medpagetoday.com/geriatrics/g...
Awesome accomplishment by kids! This is why science and research is so important.
Remarkable story of a Georgia high school team who used CRISPR to make a rapid diagnostic test strip for Lyme disease, speeding dx from 2 weeks to days
www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-m...
www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-m...
Teens may have come up with a new way to detect, treat Lyme disease using CRISPR gene editing
To compete at iGEM, a sort of science Olympics, teens at a Georgia high school set their sights on finding a better way to detect and treat Lyme disease. Their approach uses CRISPR gene editing.
www.cbsnews.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Awesome accomplishment by kids! This is why science and research is so important.
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Sucks being stuck up the president’s a$$ you say?
The House will have been in session for fewer than 30 days between July 1-December 31 and just had a 53-day recess. He makes $223K/year plus benefits including 75% of all health expenses for his entire family. Affordable Care Act subsidies expire Dec 31st for everyone else’s healthcare coverage.
Speaker 'barely holding it together' and 'crushed by his workload': NYT
November 27, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Sucks being stuck up the president’s a$$ you say?
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What the “Department of War” posted today is not normal. Publicizing an internal referral memo on social media before any review has occurred undercuts the neutrality expected in military justice and risks unlawful command influence. That should alarm anyone who cares about due process. #holdfast
November 26, 2025 at 12:53 PM
What the “Department of War” posted today is not normal. Publicizing an internal referral memo on social media before any review has occurred undercuts the neutrality expected in military justice and risks unlawful command influence. That should alarm anyone who cares about due process. #holdfast
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Retribution as a system of power: Reuters identified 247 people and entities singled out by name for punishment, and another 224 swept up in crackdowns on groups of perceived opponents, not named publicly but part of a broad retribution campaign. Explore the data: reut.rs/49B2UWt
November 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Retribution as a system of power: Reuters identified 247 people and entities singled out by name for punishment, and another 224 swept up in crackdowns on groups of perceived opponents, not named publicly but part of a broad retribution campaign. Explore the data: reut.rs/49B2UWt
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The FDA bypassed its typical process and overstated the science behind menopause hormone therapy, experts told me – with troubling implications for future drug decisions
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Doctors respond to ‘data-free’ decision over menopause hormone therapy: ‘It’s not true’
Physicians say FDA panel conflated two issues and made baseless claims about unproven health benefits
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:55 PM
The FDA bypassed its typical process and overstated the science behind menopause hormone therapy, experts told me – with troubling implications for future drug decisions
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Why isn’t this history taught to the military at those bases?
Most troops at Fort Benning didn’t know their base honored a man who never served in the U.S. Army and vowed he’d rather see “famine and pestilence” than end slavery.
Brigadier Gen. Ty Seidule (Ret.) explains that history, and the resistance he faced at places like Fort Bragg.
Brigadier Gen. Ty Seidule (Ret.) explains that history, and the resistance he faced at places like Fort Bragg.
November 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Why isn’t this history taught to the military at those bases?
Long read but insightful. His authoritarian leadership will dictate the results of any studies he chooses to support his harmful agendas. In affect, a laymen telling scientists how to do their jobs.
NEW: When RFK Jr. first told Trump that Tylenol might cause autism, the president wanted to tweet out a warning. Kennedy told him not to do that. There was nuance, and the drug companies would push back. “I don’t give a shit about that,” Trump responded. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
The Most Powerful Man in Science
Why is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. so convinced he’s right?
www.theatlantic.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Long read but insightful. His authoritarian leadership will dictate the results of any studies he chooses to support his harmful agendas. In affect, a laymen telling scientists how to do their jobs.
Release the transcript!
Yesterday, Trump defended the Saudi Crown Prince in the Oval Office.
He said he had “nothing” to do with the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
But I reviewed a call while serving on Trump’s NSC that I believe would be of interest to the Khashoggi family and the American people.
Release the transcript.
He said he had “nothing” to do with the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
But I reviewed a call while serving on Trump’s NSC that I believe would be of interest to the Khashoggi family and the American people.
Release the transcript.
November 19, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Release the transcript!
'Push Back on Orthodoxy,' Dr. Oz Tells AMA's House of Delegates www.medpagetoday.com/meetingcover...
'Push Back on Orthodoxy,' Dr. Oz Tells AMA's House of Delegates
Be curious, be courageous, says CMS administrator
www.medpagetoday.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
'Push Back on Orthodoxy,' Dr. Oz Tells AMA's House of Delegates www.medpagetoday.com/meetingcover...
We need this message today:
"The republic, it seemed, might not survive. And yet Lincoln spoke as if it would—as if its survival were not just possible, but necessary, and a part of our civic responsibility." So it did. So it will?
@markhertling.bsky.social on Gettysburg and Lincoln's vision www.thebulwark.com/p/the-great-...
@markhertling.bsky.social on Gettysburg and Lincoln's vision www.thebulwark.com/p/the-great-...
‘The Great Task Remaining Before Us’: Lincoln’s Vision at Gettysburg
On the anniversary of his address, a reminder that democracy requires dedication.
www.thebulwark.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:22 PM
We need this message today: