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Liz Renner, Ph.D.

@lizrenner.bsky.social

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🐟 Freshwater fish biologist. 🔬Postdoc @unl-snr.bsky.social post-DOGE. 🧠 IIH survivor, 🏳️‍🌈 queer poet, 📖 avid reader, 🪡 quilter, and 🎣 outdoorswoman. 📈Born at 358 ppm 📍on the water in South Dakota or Nebraska https://linktr.ee/LizRennerPhD 📱🔒 @drlizardshad.67

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Liz Renner, Ph.D. @lizrenner.bsky.social · 10d

I worked under Noem when she was still our governor. My fam's farmland directly abuts her maternal fam's. I've operated a boat on Lake Oahe so she could get dolled up and have a staged ridealong photo-op w/our walleye spawning crew. She's a spiteful, morally bankrupt, and extremely dangerous leader.

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 10d

I said what I said: Kristi Noem should be tried at The Hague for crimes against humanity.

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Liz Renner, Ph.D. @lizrenner.bsky.social · 2d

If the authoritarian bootlicker ghouls dismantling our democratic institutions wanna arrest this proud, card-carrying Antifa leftist, they'll have to catch her first. 😤

Liz Renner, Ph.D. @lizrenner.bsky.social · 2d

I passed my motorcycle safety training class exam this morning with a perfect score to earn my licensing endorsement! When the fascists come for me, they'll be getting a face full of exhaust from my newly restored '78 Honda CB400T II Hawk. 😎

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d

A Letter to America’s Discarded Public Servants: You Deserved Better

A Letter to America’s Discarded Public Servants

We appreciate what you did for America

robertreich.substack.com

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 5d

Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela

Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.

www.theatlantic.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5d

Do they have a prize for blowing up boats in the Caribbean and then bragging that people who made their livelihood fishing there for generations are now afraid to go out on the water?

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 5d

I have to fan-girl for a minute here. My friend @rosvall-lab.bsky.social built an app to gather data on bird behavior during the 2024 solar eclipse. 10,000+ citizen scientists contributed (including my kids), and the resulting paper was published in Science today!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Total solar eclipse triggers dawn behavior in birds: Insights from acoustic recordings and community science

On 8 April 2024, a total solar eclipse disrupted light-dark cycles for North American birds during the lead-up to spring reproduction. Compiling more than 10,000 community observations and artificial ...

www.science.org

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Arditi d Popolo @arditidpopolo.bsky.social · 5d

This is not normal

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 5d

superpower whose economy is built on data center construction, sports betting, healthcare extortion, and subprime auto loans. very healthy

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 6d

This is the lesson of 2025

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 6d

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Wes Siler @wessiler.bsky.social · 6d

The Senate just voted to invalidate every permit written on public land since 1996. wessiler.substack.com/p/the-senate...

The Senate Just Voted To Break Public Lands

Every permit written on public lands since 1996 may have be rendered invalid

wessiler.substack.com

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Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social · 6d

There is no army on earth that can defeat this.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 7d

File state charges. This is a crime.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 7d

Here’s video of the incident

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Liz Renner, Ph.D. @lizrenner.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you, Jezza Neumann et al., for this incredible doc. My dad lost his job in January 2009 when a small, regional credit card company based in Sioux Falls shuttered as the credit industry collapsed in the Great Recession, radically shifting my family's trajectory. I felt so seen watching this. 💟

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 8d

they just slapped a surgeons general warning on RFK like he’s a pack of cigarettes

Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 8d

“Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk.”

Six former surgeons general condemn RFK Jr.

Opinion | Six surgeons general: RFK Jr. is a threat to the health of Americans

It was our duty in office to warn of dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

www.washingtonpost.com

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South Dakota Searchlight @southdakotasearchlight.com · 18d

Calling the #WoundedKneeMassacre a "battle" that soldiers "deserve" medals for, Defense Secretary #PeteHegseth announced that a review of Medals of Honor awarded to massacre recipients is complete, and the medals will not be rescinded. buff.ly/UwyWjrG

Medals awarded for Wounded Knee Massacre won’t be rescinded, Hegseth announces • South Dakota Searchlight

Pete Hegseth announced that Medals of Honor awarded to U.S. soldiers for their role in the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre will not be rescinded.

southdakotasearchlight.com

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 10d

greta thunberg invokes the planetary politics necessary at this time - both staunchly internationalist+anticolonial and environmentalist, with these two knit into one, and unafraid at the prospect of rapid movement - at a moment where narrow conservative nationalisms are the dominant trend

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 9d

Truly the wildest shit is happening as we approach rapid collapse with Trump ready to circumvent court orders to deluge US cities in troops for the “crime” of disagreeing with him—and normies are hardly aware of it

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Micah @rincewind.run · 9d

we simply do not have a union anymore if the president is using troops from one state to invade others entirely on the basis of political disagreements

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 9d

UPDATE: Hegseth today called up 400 members of the Texas National Guard, with Gov. Abbott's apparent permission, to be deployed "where needed, including in the cities of Portland and Chicago." www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 10d

Stephen miller is actively calling for a civil war right now on Twitter.

I really do not think Americans are taking in the reality that the federal government is openly admitting to waging war against democratically held cities and states and what comes now that this is being openly said.

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Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge. Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life. (There are more local law enforcement officers in Oregon than there are guns and badges in the FBI nationwide).
This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself.
› Joyce Alene
@JoyceWhiteVance • 3h
1/ Judge Immergut just granted a restraining order that prevents Trump's mobilization of the Oregon National Guard in Portland.
IMMERGUT, District Judge.
This case involves the intersection of three of the most fundamental principles in our
constitutional democracy. The first concerns the relationship between the federal government
and the states. The second concerns the relationship between the United States armed forces and
domestic law enforcement. The third concerns the proper role of the judicial branch in ensuring
that the executive branch complies with the laws and limitations imposed by the legislative
branch. Whether we choose to follow what the Constitution mandates with respect to these three
relationships goes to the heart of what it means to live under the rule of law in the United States.

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 10d

Every paragraph is a banger. I’m so happy right now. Sometimes you find a piece of writing just when you need it.

Sobe it. We cannot awaken this sleper,
and God knows we have tried. We must do what we can do, and fortify and save each other—we are not drowning in an apathetic self-contempt, we do feel ourselves sufficiently worthwhile to contend even with inexorable forces in order to change our fate and the fate of our children and the condition of the world! We know that a man is not a thing and is not to be placed at the mercy of things. We know that air and water belong to all mankind and not merely to industrialists. We know that a baby does not come into the world merely to be the instrument of someone else's profit. We know that democracy does not mean the coercion of all into a deadly-and, finally, wicked—mediocrity but the liberty for all to aspire to the best that is in him, or that has ever been.

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 10d

My goodness, Baldwin could had written this last week.

Only a handful of the millions of people in this vast place are aware that the fate intended for you, Sister Angela, and for George Jackson, and for the numberless prisoners in our concentration camps-for that is what they are—is a fate which is about to engulf them, too. White lives, for the forces which rule in this country, are no more sacred than black ones, as many and many a student is discovering, as the white American corpses in Vietnam prove. If the American people are unable to contend with their elected leaders for the redemption of their own honor and the lives of their own children, we, the blacks, the most rejected of the Western children, can expect very little help at their hands: which, after all, is nothing new. What the Americans do not realize is that a war between brothers, in the same cities, on the same soil, is not a racial war but a civil war. But the American delusion is not only that their brothers all are white but that the whites are all their brothers.

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 10d

James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:

Or, to put it another way, as long as white Americans take refuge in their whiteness— for so long as they are unable to walk out of this most monstrous of traps-they will allow millions of people to be slaughtered in their name, and will be manipulated into and surrender themselves to what they will think of-and justify—as a racial war. They will never, so long as their whiteness puts so sinister a distance between themselves and their own experience and the experience of others, feel themselves sufficiently human, sufficiently worthwhile, to become responsible for themselves, their leaders, their country, their children, or their fate. They will perish (as we once put it in our black church) in their sins—that is, in their delusions. And this is happening, needless to say, already, all around us.

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Liz Renner, Ph.D. @lizrenner.bsky.social · 10d

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 10d

I said what I said: Kristi Noem should be tried at The Hague for crimes against humanity.

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 13d

Thread of Portlands being amazingly and beautifully unhinged while protesting ICE

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Catalina Fernandes @catalinafernandes.bsky.social · 13d

"If you’re reading this, I’ve likely been illegally detained by Israel for trying to deliver food to starving children. They are holding me against my will. I stand by my decision, breaking the siege during genocide was the right thing to do."

Activist Tommy Marcus of the Global Sumud Flotilla

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