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Janet Kinneberg

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Grateful for my time on our amazing planet. Here to learn from & support experts in their fields #climate #health #law #science #politics 🇺🇦 Humans are a young species — & that gives me a bit of hope. Mom to 2 wonderful men — so not giving up #Utah #Impeach

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Janet Kinneberg @jkinneberg.bsky.social · Nov 8

In the wake of this tragic election, I’m remembering how I found comfort years ago in Janine Benyus’ observation that “we are a young species.” Maybe we’ll make it, maybe not..
But I’m re-watching her beautiful short video about #Biomimicry anyway and finding some comfort.
youtu.be/sf4oW8OtaPY?...

Biomimicry

YouTube video by Tree Media

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21h

Find an event near you at nokings.org/#map.

( ht: @tizzywoman.bsky.social )

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 11h

anyways attend NO KINGS this weekend!

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plasticparticulate.bsky.social @plasticparticulate.bsky.social · 11h

This weekend folks

www.nokings.org#map

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

If the Supreme Court agrees (and to be clear, the reason why they're hearing this case at all is because the Republican justices agree), it would rob actual victims of voter discrimination of the legal tools to do anything about it

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/louis...

Louisiana v Callais: The Republicans Justices Are Getting Ready to Finish Off the Voting Rights Act

In Louisiana v Callais, John Roberts will have the chance to finish his decades-long war on. voting rights.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

The 14th and 15th Amendments of the Constitution were expressly crafted to grant Black people equal rights as citizens in a democratic society

The Supreme Court is preparing to use those very Amendments to deny those rights instead

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/louis...

Louisiana v Callais: The Republicans Justices Are Getting Ready to Finish Off the Voting Rights Act

In Louisiana v Callais, John Roberts will have the chance to finish his decades-long war on. voting rights.

ballsandstrikes.org

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

Mind you, the Constitution very plainly gives Congress the power to protect voters from racial discrimination

But GOP argues that remedying a racial gerrymander is *also* a racial gerrymander, because it's taking race into account when drawing electoral maps

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/louis...

Louisiana v Callais: The Republicans Justices Are Getting Ready to Finish Off the Voting Rights Act

In Louisiana v Callais, John Roberts will have the chance to finish his decades-long war on. voting rights.

ballsandstrikes.org

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 1d

This is unbelievably dangerous - @fairfightaction.bsky.social and @blackvotersmatterfund.org estimate that as many as 30% of the Congressional Black Caucus and 11% of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus could lose their seats if the Roberts court strikes down these provisions

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

Wednesday is gonna be a rough day:

The Supreme Court will be hearing oral argument in a pair of cases that threaten what little remains of the federal government’s ability to protect voters from racial gerrymandering under the Voting Rights Act

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/louis...

Louisiana v Callais: The Republicans Justices Are Getting Ready to Finish Off the Voting Rights Act

In Louisiana v Callais, John Roberts will have the chance to finish his decades-long war on. voting rights.

ballsandstrikes.org

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Carolyn Shapiro @cshaplaw.bsky.social · 1d

www.scotusblog.com/2025/10/shad...
"Yet in a two-paragraph order virtually devoid of reasoning, on an apparent 6-3 vote, the court has handed the president such authority over foreign aid appropriations." 3/end

Shadow overruling: it’s not just for Humphrey’s Executor

Cases and Controversies is a recurring series by Carolyn Shapiro, primarily focusing on the effects of the Supreme Court’s rulings, opinions, and procedures on the law, on other institutions, and on [...

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

"She wants to grab him," Ricky Patel said before he had had any exchange w/Ras Baraka. Even after Baraka left the facility, Patel said, "I’m going to place the Mayor in handcuffs. We are arresting the Mayor, per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States."

www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/29/s...

"She Wants to Grab Him:" The Premeditated Detention of Ras Baraka - emptywheel

Even before anyone had spoken with Ras Baraka on May 9 at Delaney Hall, someone had decided "she" wanted to "grab" Newark's Mayor.

www.emptywheel.net

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: More fuel to the Epstein fire

Questions about how responders handled the scene .. when Jeffrey Epstein died

youtube.com/shorts/hGDr7...

THE DAY AHEAD: Mounting questions about how responders handled the scene when Jeffrey Epstein died

YouTube video by Scott MacFarlane CBS

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

Immigration officers may question any person they "believe" is a noncitizen, and can arrest without a warrant anyone who they have "reason to believe" (probable cause) is present in violation of law and who is "likely to escape before a warrant can be obtained."

8 U.S. Code § 1357 - Powers of immigration officers and employees

(a)Powers without warrant
Any officer or employee of the Service authorized under regulations prescribed by the Attorney General shall have power without warrant—
(1)to interrogate any alien or person believed to be an alien as to his right to be or to remain in the United States;
(2)to arrest any alien who in his presence or view is entering or attempting to enter the United States in violation of any law or regulation made in pursuance of law regulating the admission, exclusion, expulsion, or removal of aliens, or to arrest any alien in the United States, if he has reason to believe that the alien so arrested is in the United States in violation of any such law or regulation and is likely to escape before a warrant can be obtained for his arrest, but the alien arrested shall be taken without unnecessary delay for examination before an officer of the Service having authority to examine aliens as to their right to enter or remain in the United States;

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

Since the Alien Registration Act of 1940, every noncitizen has been required to carry their documents with them at ALL times. That applies to every green card holder, every tourist, every foreign student, etc...

No admin in the modern era has EVER tried to enforce this law.

(e)Personal possession of registration or receipt card; penalties
Every alien, eighteen years of age and over, shall at all times carry with him and have in his personal possession any certificate of alien registration or alien registration receipt card issued to him pursuant to subsection (d). Any alien who fails to comply with the provisions of this subsection shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction for each offense be fined not to exceed $100 or be imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 2d

genetic predispositions. These two studies suggest complementary advances -one boosting the body's native immune warriors and the other preventing cancer from taking up residence in the first place. Discovering how T-cells have evolved metabolically could lead to more effective immunotherapies and

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Nobel laureate Shimon Sakaguchi reflects on the role of regulatory T cells in peripheral immune tolerance and how the cells could transform treatment for cancer, autoimmune disease and organ transplant rejection

Shimon Sakaguchi Hunted for an Immune Cell Others Dismissed. It Earned Him a Nobel Prize

www.scientificamerican.com

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

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

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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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dr alex concorde @doctoralex.bsky.social · 1d

.AND THERE WE HAVE IT - just in time for the markets to open on Monday, TACO Trump walks it back with China

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

John Denver, gone 28 years ago today.

“.. I was camping up in the mountains. We were in the Rockies … I remember looking straight up and seeing meteor showers and thinking, this is what it is to be alive. And that line ‘I’ve seen it raining fire in the sky’ — that actually came from that night.”

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 2d

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 2d

You can read all this and more here:
• www.cell.com/cell-reports...
• www.umass.edu/news/article...
• newatlas.com/disease/dual...
• medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10...
• www.newsweek.com/cancer-vacci...
• www.genengnews.com/topics/cance...
• www.westernmassnews.com/2025/10/10/u...

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 2d

While one team worked on making immune responses in cancer stronger, another at the University of Massachusetts Amherst demonstrated another success- stopping cancer from occurring AT ALL. Researchers developed a cancer vaccine based on nanoparticles that shielded mice against melanoma, pancreatic,

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 2d

Researchers envision their vaccine being used as both a treatment and a preventive, and as an approach to treating multiple cancer types.
• www.umass.edu/news/article...

The study has been published in Cell Reports Medicine. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED.
• www.cell.com/cell-reports...

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HIGHLIGHTS
•Lipid NPs carrying STING and TLR4 agonists promote synergistic type I interferons
• NPs drain efficiently to lymph nodes and increase polyfunctional T and B cells
• NPs improve tumor-free outcomes with memory against multiple aggressive tumor models
SUMMARY
We report on the utility of a "super-adjuvant" nanoparticle (NP) system as a modular, customizable platform for next-generation cancer vaccination. Using nanomaterials engineering technology, we aim to harness not only the effective adjuvanticity of whole-pathogen vaccines, but also the safety of subunit vaccines.
Our lipid-based NP platform co-encapsulates agonists of the stimulator of interferon genes (STING) and Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) pathways to promote synergistic production of type I interferons and other
proinflammatory cytokines in innate antigen-presenting dendritic cells and macrophages.
Compared to empty NPs and free agonists, dual-adjuvant NPs administered with antigenic peptides or tumor cell lysate promote increased antigen processing and presentation, drain efficiently to nearby lymph nodes, increase polyfunctional tumor-specific T and B cells, and improve tumor-free outcomes upon vaccination and subsequent challenge with multiple aggressive tumor cells.

Graphical Abstract

The vaccine combines two immune-stimulating molecules (adjuvants) in a tiny lipid nanoparticle that enhances both innate and adaptive immune responses. The innate immune system acts as the body’s first line of defense, responding quickly and non-specifically to invaders using cells that release inflammatory signals. The adaptive immune system takes longer to activate but provides a targeted, long-lasting response, training T-cells and B- cells to recognize and remember specific threats. Together, they form a coordinated defense: the innate system alerts and activates the adaptive system, which then delivers precise and durable immunity.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 2d

The largest demonstration during Trump’s first term was around 750 events.

“We’re now expecting about 2,500 events around the country on No Kings. So we’re talking about literally four times as many.” - @leahgreenberg.bsky.social

Please join us on Saturday: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

We should mandate a work requirement for House Republicans to get their health care. How about they have to work at least one week a month to keep their government health insurance?

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Janet Kinneberg @jkinneberg.bsky.social · 2d

news.meaww.com/fact-check-d...

Fact Check: Did Pope Leo XIV say that Trump ‘chose the road of darkness, bitterness, and lies’?

As fake quotes attributed to Pope Leo XIV continue to spread online, one involving Donald Trump has gone viral

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Senseidai2547 @senseidai.bsky.social · 2d

Republicans will do anything to put more money in their pockets at the expense of people, animals, and the environment.

And thanks to @apnews.com for calling the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of Mexico.

#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks #RepublicansAreDestroyingAmerica

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Republicans try to weaken 50-year-old law protecting whales, seals and polar bears

One of the U.S.’s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction, is the subject of an effort for cutbacks from Republican lawmakers who n...

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 3d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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