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knowmyfam.bsky.social @knowmyfam.bsky.social · 1d

For iPhones: press and hold the power button and one of the volume buttons to hard-lock your device. This disables faceID and touch/ID, requiring a passcode to access your device, which is useful if you are in a situation where somebody could try to forcefully unlock your device.

George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

If you are going to a protest this weekend, please remove biometrics for unlocking your phone, and also learn how to instantly lock your phone with your power button.

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Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · 1d

Only in the Federalist Society academic bubble could you say that the government going in and splitting up geographically contiguous communities of Black voters in order to prevent them from ever being a majority in any House district is "government not taking race into account."

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knowmyfam.bsky.social @knowmyfam.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you, Governor! THIS is the Heartland.

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knowmyfam.bsky.social @knowmyfam.bsky.social · 1d

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@Peg33 @peg33.bsky.social · 1d

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knowmyfam.bsky.social @knowmyfam.bsky.social · 1d

We joined her in that sentiment. We now live in Nazi Germany, with people being snatched off the streets, and overlords emboldened to commit crimes and atrocities.

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vegaskat.bsky.social @vegaskat.bsky.social · Mar 10

Dear America (esp. the media)

The correct grammar is *DEMOCRATIC* Party

Shortening Democratic Party/Candidate/Senator/etc to "Democrat Party," etc is a McCarthy Era slur to "emphasize the rat in Democrat"

It's being used by the right as a means to demonize & insult Democrats

NEVER normalize it

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knowmyfam.bsky.social @knowmyfam.bsky.social · 1d

What a wonderful man and a terrible loss!

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 17d

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 18d

⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.

The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.

interestingengineering.com/science/chin...

China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes

A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.

interestingengineering.com

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 16d

Priorities.

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Monique 💙 she/her @badassfeminists.bsky.social · 14d

SCOTUS is complicit and corrupt!

"The U.S. Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to proceed with revoking Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Venezuelan migrants...."

www.reuters.com/world/us-sup...

US Supreme Court lets Trump strip temporary status from Venezuelan migrants

The U.S. Supreme Court again cleared the way on Friday for Donald Trump's administration to revoke a temporary legal protection for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants in the United States, backing a key priority of the Republican president as he pursues a policy of mass deportations.

www.reuters.com

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knowmyfam.bsky.social @knowmyfam.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, you better believe it! Whatever Trump's actual objective in SA is, the military (and those that love them) better understand they are being used as pawns. This Administration is frittering away peaceful co-existence in this hemisphere, until Americans are despised (not feared) across the globe!

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knowmyfam.bsky.social @knowmyfam.bsky.social · 2d

Dr. Chapple, I weep, I rage for Chi-town! We will all keep up the good fight!

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knowmyfam.bsky.social @knowmyfam.bsky.social · 2d

Hey, hey hey! Life got in the way. I'm only just seeing this today. Thanks for including me!

knowmyfam.bsky.social @knowmyfam.bsky.social · 2d

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 4d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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knowmyfam.bsky.social @knowmyfam.bsky.social · 4d

What a load of utter twaddle

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 6d

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knowmyfam.bsky.social @knowmyfam.bsky.social · 6d

NO! What a bright light extinguished!

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We Are Saners @wearesaners.bsky.social · 7d

The Constitution does not specify Who must give the oath to an incoming Representative (or other official). We don’t need Mike Johnson or any other GOP protector of child rapists.

Have AOC swear in the new Rep and put all the sex offenders and accomplices in jail.

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knowmyfam.bsky.social @knowmyfam.bsky.social · 7d

Starbucks is closing stores in Washington, even as they expand elsewhere. Why? Because this State supports Workers Rights!

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The Lever @levernews.com · 7d

The nation’s largest private prison company is asking the Supreme Court to give federal contractors blanket immunity from lawsuits — including human trafficking claims.

If they win, private contractors could operate with even less accountability than they do now.

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knowmyfam.bsky.social @knowmyfam.bsky.social · 7d

He's an elfin' hero!

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knowmyfam.bsky.social @knowmyfam.bsky.social · 7d

Keep Portland weird, united and strong!

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irish fish @neutralgena.bsky.social · 7d

you guys gotta prepare yourselves for real on what you will do when an ICE raid happens in front of you. remember SALUTE when reporting. REPORT IMMEDIATELY! call the hotline BEFORE you post on social media, BEFORE you text your friends, BEFORE you engage with ANY state or federal officers.

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knowmyfam.bsky.social @knowmyfam.bsky.social · 7d

Instead of looking like an aging alcoholic in judgement of everyone else?

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