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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 13h

If your God needs to saved by Eric Trump, it’s time to start asking questions

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25d

Ex-Trump White House Attorney Ty
Cobb: “Trump is waging war on people who offend him… I think it will take at least a generation for 🇺🇸 to regain the freedoms we enjoyed 9 months ago.”

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 3d

Marjorie Taylor Greene : "Prices have not come down at all. The job market is extremely difficult. Wages have not gone up. Health insurance premiums are going to go up. Homeowner's insurance goes up every year. Rent is going up. Young people have no hope of buying a home."

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@GonzoCNJ @gonzonj.bsky.social · 5d

“By most metrics, 2025 has been the worst year for the American scientific enterprise in modern history.” #science

Alan Burdick @alanburdick.bsky.social · 5d

A new NYT as-told-to series, "Lost Science," documents the work of researchers who have lost their jobs or funding after cuts by the Trump administration. Share your story with us!

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

Has Your Scientific Work Been Cut? We Want to Hear.

www.nytimes.com

@GonzoCNJ @gonzonj.bsky.social · 6d

“Getting chased by being brown in Chicago”

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6d

Sickening.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 9d

Gabriela Mistral was a Chilean poet and activist whose work explored love in all its forms.

She was the first Latine poet to win a Nobel Prize for literature, and she tirelessly advocated for human rights and democracy.

Black and white photo of a smiling woman on a quote graphic. Quote in maroon text reads "No darás la belleza como cebo para los sentidos, sino como el natural alimento del alma. You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul." The quote is attributed to Gabriela Mistral, Poet, diplomat, and first Latine person to win Nobel Prize in Literature.

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@GonzoCNJ @gonzonj.bsky.social · 10d

Gift Article: The reason the N.F.L. picked Bad Bunny is the same reason that Jimmy Kimmel’s first show after his suspension had huge viewership, that “South Park” is having its best ratings in years...Woke is good for business. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o... @nytimes.com @mollyjongfast.bsky.social

Opinion | The N.F.L. Gets It. Why Don’t Democrats?

www.nytimes.com

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@GonzoCNJ @gonzonj.bsky.social · 12d

We are going to Milwaukee!! Go #Cubbies!! Go #Cubs Go!!!!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14d

"Go Cubs Go" is just a tremendous baseball anthem. I'm not even a Cubs fan and I still dig hearing it after Ws at Wrigley.

Go! Cubs! Go!

YouTube video by chicagochic1123

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Science Magazine @science.org · 12d

New #ScienceTranslationalMedicine research reveals that cholesterol can disrupt signaling of the fertility-preserving medication progestin in endometrial cancer, and shows that an approved statin can restore progestin sensitivity in mice and a small patient group. https://scim.ag/3IFlwtq

Cholesterol desensitizes the response of endometrial cancer to progestin by attenuating progestin signaling

Cholesterol attenuates progesterone signaling through competitive binding of progesterone receptors.

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 14d

Federal judge, appointed by Reagan, in 161-page opinion today in deportation matter:

"There’s the issue of masks... To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police"

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Science Magazine @science.org · 14d

For the third time in a dozen years, the U.S. scientific community is digging in for a potentially lengthy partial federal government shutdown that promises to disrupt research and funding programs. https://scim.ag/4pQ9y0K

U.S. scientists gird for yet another government shutdown

Political impasse to hobble research agencies—and perhaps enable layoffs

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 15d

U.S. citizens, many of them Latino men, have been stopped and in some cases taken into custody by law enforcement officers who are carrying out President Trump’s immigration crackdown.

‘I’m From Here!’: U.S. Citizens Are Ending Up in Trump’s Dragnet

As immigration agents take a more aggressive approach, they have stopped and in some cases detained American citizens.

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AZ Faust @azfaust.bsky.social · 15d

In 2024, there were about 17,616 new projects awarded by the NIH. In 2025, this number was 11,190 (my number includes things like supplements). That is an ~37% cut in funding of new projects by the NIH.

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

79. American citizen.

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@GonzoCNJ @gonzonj.bsky.social · 19d

Imagine if NIH had 40% less funding. We’d have lost over half the new medicines approved this century. Public funded research saves lives. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #NIH

What if NIH had been 40% smaller?

Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19d

WATCH: ICE agent VICIOUSLY shoves and tackles a woman who is upset after masked men dragged off her husband.

Sickening. (From Elaad Eliahu)

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Science Magazine @science.org · 20d

“This is an immensely exciting development for the Huntington’s field.” https://scim.ag/4nnW62z

In a first, a gene therapy seems to slow Huntington disease

Small study suggests uniQure drug could be first successful treatment for devastating brain disorder

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 21d

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

www.miamiherald.com

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boehninglab @boehninglab.com · 21d

"It is sad that unqualified demagogues continue to disregard science"
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expert reaction to media reports that the Trump administration will link paracetamol to autism | Science Media Centre

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The Independent @the-independent.com · 21d

Even author of study used by Trump to warn about Tylenol said pregnant women should still consider the medication

Researcher Trump cited to warn about Tylenol says pregnant women can still use it

www.independent.co.uk

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@GonzoCNJ @gonzonj.bsky.social · 22d

Even when officials waver, the science is clear: childhood vaccines are safer now and protect for life

Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 22d

Icymi the first time this ran, here’s a refresher: Vaccines today are more efficient and contain far fewer stimulants to the immune system than some used decades ago

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/h...

Are Childhood Vaccines ‘Overloading’ the Immune System? No.

www.nytimes.com

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Kevin Hall @kevinh-phd.bsky.social · 25d

“We’re experiencing the greatest reduction in biomedical research support that I think America has ever seen”

www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Article/2025...

Purged NIH scientist: America sees historic reduction in biomedical research support

Kevin Hall, a former senior investigator at NIH, says MAHA children’s report fails to address ultra-processed food threat

www.foodnavigator-usa.com

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Sep 14

“It will take decades to recover from this, if we ever do.” America’s cancer research system, which has helped save millions of lives and is in one of its most productive moments, is under threat by the Trump administration.

Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer

America’s cancer research system, which has helped save millions of lives, is under threat in one of its most productive moments.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Sep 11

CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕 🇺🇸

(From Paul Noth)

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