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Scientist/Mol cell biologist; studying rare degenerative brain disease; Sci-fi, LOTR, DC/Marvel & Trekie/Star Wars fan; for Progressive causes and politics; posts are my views! 🚫No MAGA/Porn/Prosti/Crazies (image credit: Dr Tim Snyder, “On Tyranny”)

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Math PC @mathienz.bsky.social · Dec 24

“Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. Individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want and then offer themselves without being asked.” -- Yale Professor Timothy Snyder in his book, “On Tyranny.”

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 6h

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Math PC @mathienz.bsky.social · 25m

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 5h

When scientists look under the tinfoil hat, they see that conspiracy mentality is linked to distress, impulsivity, negative affect, and lack of intellectual humility.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 8h

As ICE terrorizes communities, remember that some of Trump's biggest supporters are private prison companies that will make bank off his budget bill.

And Stephen Miller recently disclosed over $100K of stock in Palantir, the shady data firm ICE uses to target immigrants.

Cashing in on cruelty.

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Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 6h

@lauren-egan.bsky.social: "As the country careens into a succession of crises brought about by the hand of Donald Trump, it’s semi-shocking to see Democrats resort to humor as a primary form of pushback."

Mock him. @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/can-democr...

Can Democrats Mock Trump Into Defeat?

As the president embraces strongman politics, Democrats are increasingly trying to make him seem little.

www.thebulwark.com

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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 10h

ICE is what happens to a society that thought democracy was a capitalist commodity to be taken for granted, bought, sold, and left to the dumbest fucks to “manage” just because they hold the guns

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Math PC @mathienz.bsky.social · 4h

No surprises 👇🏼

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h

“.. a nagging worry is beginning to grow louder on Wall Street: What if these kinds of collapses, capable of taking bonds from par to cents on the dollar in a matter of days or weeks, are not an aberration after all?” 👀

@bloomberg.com
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Math PC @mathienz.bsky.social · 4h

Another collateral damage of the administration’s awful policies #StandUpForScience #ResearchSavesLives

NPR @npr.org · 8h

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

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Math PC @mathienz.bsky.social · 4h

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 6h

Portland continues to amaze me 👏

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 6h

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Math PC @mathienz.bsky.social · 4h

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Math PC @mathienz.bsky.social · 4h

Amen to that 🙏🏼

Math PC @mathienz.bsky.social · 4h

🎯💯 Americans always put “World…” in whatever sports competition title they create.

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 6h

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Bernie Sanders are doing a Town Hall on CNN this Wednesday, October 15, 2025, at 9:00 PM (Eastern Time)

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Ian L Morgan @ianlmorgan.bsky.social · 5h

Attracting new scientists is what makes America a global leader.

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Math PC @mathienz.bsky.social · 4h

I knew of scientists (including a colleague) who left the US this year because of the current state of the country…

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Math PC @mathienz.bsky.social · 4h

It’s like you thought the Leopard won’t eat your face if you feed it with rotten meat 🥩 whilst you lounge inside the cage the whole time. 🤷🏻‍♂️

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 11h

Fascinated how the guy who made superstars of Matt Walsh, Candace Owens, Jordan Peterson, and Michael Knowles thought that unfettered racism and every phobia in existence wouldn't eventually include anti-semitism

Ben Shapiro warns that conspiratorial right is taking over social media

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 5h

NSAIDs are known to alleviate pain by reducing inflammation. A study in Nature Communications shows that selective inhibition of the prostaglandin E2 receptor in Schwann cells eliminates pain without disrupting the protective and healing functions of inflammation. #medsky 🧪

Targeting prostaglandin E2 receptor 2 in Schwann cells inhibits inflammatory pain but not inflammation - Nature Communications

Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are known to alleviate pain by reducing inflammation. To the contrary, here, the authors show that selective inhibition of the prostaglandin E2 receptor (EP2) in Schwann cells eliminates pain without disrupting the protective and healing functions of inflammation.

go.nature.com

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 15h

"Look at the picture... One of these is a member of a private militia that supports the President and was involved in a violent effort to overturn the election, the other is an agent of the state. Can you tell the difference?" donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h

💯 CO-SIGN 👇🏽

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 6h

FUN FACT:

Our military is not being paid,

but the ICE gremlins are.

Make that make sense.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 8h

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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Math PC @mathienz.bsky.social · 5h

Idiots and those who do not love America, in the brink of completely losing its democracy, would probably vote “No” 🤷🏻‍♂️

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5h

I believe that Trump, Mike Johnson and Greg Abbott should not have started this and continued with it in multiple states to rig the midterms. No Democrats want this, but we can’t unilaterally disarm in the face of multiple threats to fair representation nationwide.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 7h

ICE deployed tear gas near a church in a residential neighborhood in Chicago.

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