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Emily Monosson
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Trained as toxicologist. Now I write. New book, Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic. Next book, Toxic Legacy: from early Earth to the industrial age why some chemicals are more harmful than others. Also think about non traditional ways to do science 🧪
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Emily Monosson @emonosson.bsky.social · Nov 17
Any toxicologists out there? Or anyone studying effects of PFAS, mercury, PBDEs, lead, plastics etc etc etc. Would love to find you! Environmental, ecological, pharmacological and whatever else! #toxic 🧪 #environment #health #ecosystem
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 3d
The United States was the leading destination for top scientists from all over the world.

That is ending. Politicians ended it. It will cripple our future competitiveness.

And it’s such a bitter tragedy. Almost no Americans, Conservative or Liberal, grasp what is now being stolen from them.
Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'
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Emily Monosson @emonosson.bsky.social · 3d
I think, assuming they are related to dogs, that they may be missing an enzyme that helps metabolize chocolate and so unless it’s like, milk chocolate (that is, not really chocolate) if you are a werewolf, I would be careful w dark chocolate.
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 4d
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 6d
Oh hey, a reason to be hopeful: groves of American chestnut trees have once again become self-reproducing in the wild.

Turned off comments so 12 people don't show up to tell me why this is actually very sad. Be happy, you assholes.
Nearly a Century Ago, American Chestnut Trees Died Off. Now, Hikers Can Walk Among Them Again.
Efforts to restore the American chestnut comprise "one of the most epic conservation stories ever told.”
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 10d
Watch this.

Open your eyes to this brutality.

ICE beats up, drags & abducts this disabled visually impaired man.

Now share this.

Everyone must see the brutality of this administration & ask themselves what they are doing to push back.

You have power.

Even sharing this video exerts that power.
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Emily Monosson @emonosson.bsky.social · 11d
"I’ve made this decision now because our nation has arrived at a moment in its history where staying silent for personal comfort isn’t an option anymore."
My Last Day as an Accomplice of the Republican Party www.thebulwark.com/p/my-last-da...
My Last Day as an Accomplice of the Republican Party
Why I’m leaving the GOP and why I’m urging my former colleagues to do the same.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 12d
The Home Depot continues to allow ICE to terrorize the communities they pretend to serve. Let’s show them the same kindness we did to target!

use the website boycotthomedepot.network and the toolkit at bit.ly/boycotthomed... to spread the word!
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 13d
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14d
Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.

Check out how tiny the crowds were:

Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000
Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties (Published 2009)
www.nytimes.com
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Emily Monosson @emonosson.bsky.social · 16d
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 16d
This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings
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Emily Monosson @emonosson.bsky.social · 16d
Lady Liberty crew leaving No Kings in Greenfield MA #persist #resist#protect
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17d
Make it make sense. [Cartoon by Adam Zyglis]
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Emily Monosson @emonosson.bsky.social · 17d
Just curious, can you or someone please explain to me how this is even possible? I mean how is it that he or anyone in his position is legally allowed to do this?
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Emily Monosson @emonosson.bsky.social · 17d
Ihttps://www.mobilize.us/mayday/event/849593/?rname=Emily&share_context=event_details&share_medium=bluesky
NO KINGS March and Rally Greenfield Ma · May Day Strong
**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...
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Emily Monosson @emonosson.bsky.social · 18d
'Voice of CDC' Goes Silent www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
'Voice of CDC' Goes Silent
In departure from the past, MMWR staff not allowed to be exempted from shutdown furlough
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19d
We got $20 billion for Argentina though.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 20d
There is simply no equivalent, not even close, of this anywhere on the center or far left. There is no ‘both sides’ here, media.
murshedz.bsky.social Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 20d
"Together, the messages reveal a culture where racist, antisemitic and violent rhetoric circulate freely — and where the Trump-era loosening of political norms has made such talk feel less taboo among those positioning themselves as the party’s next leaders."

Can't call them fascists?
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 22d
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago 31 A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo. The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview. “My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese. From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett. The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 23d
His grandfather Magna Carta is on life support in the ICU.
donegan.bsky.social John Donegan @donegan.bsky.social · 23d
BREAKING: Antifa leader Habeas Corpus has been arrested in Portland.
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soundslikerebecca.bsky.social @soundslikerebecca.bsky.social · 28d
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Federal agents knock down elderly couple during Portland protest
An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.
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Emily Monosson @emonosson.bsky.social · Sep 24
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Leominster family says ICE agents held their daughter outside their home so they would turn themselves over - The Boston Globe
“Is that your daughter? Come here so I can see those IDs,” an agent tells the father, waving at him to come out of the house, according to video the family recorded.
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NO KINGS IN AMERICA… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · Sep 21
An estimated 1 million people have disabled their Disney+ accounts in support of Jimmy Kimmel…👇

Let’s. Do. This. 😎✨

#BoycottTheMouse
#FuckDisney
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Emily Monosson @emonosson.bsky.social · Sep 21
’September’ open.substack.com/pub/steady/p... Thank you Dan Rather or suggesting we take a listen, and Earth Wind and Fire for some musical joy.
’September’
A Reason To Smile
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