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chrismurphyct.bsky.social
So you should really watch this. Just 2 minutes. But a window into the truly radical nature of the people Trump is nominating.

When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.
October 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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jenniferpetitt.bsky.social
This a wonky delight. If you live in Georgia, please watch! If you don’t, watch it anyway.
October 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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anavaldi.bsky.social
After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:

- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
October 22, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.
October 23, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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davejorgenson.bsky.social
Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
October 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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chrismurphyct.bsky.social
Never forget they aren’t telling the truth when they say they care about stopping political violence.

Few acts in history have done more to incentivize political violence than the January 6th pardons. And virtually every mainstream Republican supported letting them all out.
October 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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resistnow2024.bsky.social
This. Said. It. All. ⬇️⬇️

Please. Share. So. Everyone. Knows. The. Truth.
October 15, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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grahamformaine.bsky.social
We are fighting for true freedom. The freedom to live a life of dignity and joy.

A life of 80 hour work weeks, of constantly struggling to get by, being trapped in a shitty job by your health insurance — this is not freedom, and we are not free. But we could be. If we fight.
October 15, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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grahamformaine.bsky.social
Read the full article here: www.gq.com/story/graham...
Marine Turned Oysterman Graham Platner Is Ready to Fight Trump. Will MAGA Men Join Him?
In the battle for the soul of the Democratic Party, Senate candidate Graham Platner might be the perfect soldier. But in Maine, he’ll need to win over some Trump voters—if he can make it through the p...
www.gq.com
October 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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sanders.senate.gov
If you are a federal worker, there are several credit unions and other financial institutions that are offering zero interest loans during the government shutdown.

Please go to my website for more information: www.sanders.senate.gov/resources-fo...
October 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years.

From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:
MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There.
A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec casts a ballot in one state and lives in another.
slate.com
October 3, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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rebeccarhelm.bsky.social
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
mcmonkey.bsky.social
This is incredibly exciting! I started my science career studying Huntington's, and I'm so happy that patients finally have a treatment. It's also amazing to see that AAV therapies can work for neurodegenerative disease. I hope more are in the pipeline!
Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.
bbc.com
September 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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alexwild.bsky.social
Don’t waste much time thinking about any ideology or policy reason for the H-1B visa change.

This is so tech companies will have to pay Trump for exemptions. Same as they paid him for tariff exemptions. It’s just a standard mob shakedown.
September 19, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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dricks.bsky.social
Whooping cough cases are rapidly rising in Louisiana. The vaccine-preventable infection has already caused 2 deaths of infants. State leaders say it's the "worst whooping cough outbreak in the past 30 yrs." There has been no public health assistance from the CDC, which is now controlled by RFK jr👇
Whooping cough cases rapidly rise in Louisiana, leading to two deaths
Whooping cough cases rapidly rise in Louisiana, leading to two deaths
www.wdsu.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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sarahjeong.bsky.social
idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...
Maga is fundamentally a populist white racism. The slogan "Make America Great Again" is more accurately described as "Make White America Greater." The fact that the tariff policy insisted on a 50% tariff only on steel and aluminum stems from the concentration of these groups in the Rust Belt. The massive crackdown on illegal immigrants at the Hyundai-LG Energy Solutions joint venture plant in Georgia must be understood in this context. The scenes of our workers being chained and escorted away were reminiscent of the dragging of African slaves in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Department of Homeland Security boasted of "the largest single-site raid in history," and Immigration and Customs Enforcement even brazenly released footage of the raid, which was highly violating human rights, as if to boast of their "achievement." Far-right whites may have secretly rejoiced. Even politicians like the Georgia governor and local lawmakers, who had been active in attracting factories, have shifted their stance and sympathized with their grievances. This is likely because it's difficult to ignore the anti-immigrant sentiment of native Americans. Like the McCarthyism that swept through American society in the 1950s, irrational madness dominates American society. The recent visa issue, which could have been resolved diplomatically with advance notice from an ally, is difficult to explain beyond political maneuvering. The fact that they mobilized helicopters and armored vehicles for show, as if they had been caught, is difficult to explain.
September 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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alexis-verger.cpesr.fr
Another tour-de-force from David Baker's lab : custom DNA-binding miniproteins to target specific DNA sequences for diverse applications in gene regulation and editing.

With David, nothing is impossible !
September 12, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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drewharwell.com
All this suggests is that the shooter wants people to believe they're a far-left ideologue. Maybe they are; without more evidence, we don't know. But a far-right "accelerationist" wanting civil war, more hatred, more violence would do the exact same thing.
Ammunition in Kirk Shooting Engraved with Transgender, Antifascist Ideology: Sources By Sadie Gurman and James Fanelli Investigators found ammunition engraved with expressions of transgender and antifascist ideology inside the rifle that authorities believe was used in the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk, according to an internal law enforcement bulletin and a person familiar with the investigation. The older-model .30 caliber hunting rifle was discovered in the woods near the scene of Wednesday’s shooting at Utah Valley University, wrapped in a towel with a spent cartridge still in the chamber, the sources said. There were also three unspent rounds in the magazine, all with wording on them. Kirk, 31, was onstage going back and forth with a student about mass shootings involving transgender people when he was targeted, according to videos of the attack. The student has not been publicly identified. https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/charlie-kirk-shot/card/ammunition-in-kirk-shooting-engraved-with-transgender-antifascist-ideology-sources-pdymd1sXXMSlVRhpvR4b
September 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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dricks.bsky.social
In its new MAHA report, the Trump regime is calling on state public health agencies to investigate "vaccine injuries." The report's authors—overseen by RFK jr—think there should be more scrutiny of a vaccine link to autism. The report is packed w/ misinformation & was a waste of taxpayer money👇
RFK Jr.'s Latest MAHA Report Calls for More Scrutiny of Vaccines and Autism
The report calls on government agencies to further research a wide range of issues
www.medpagetoday.com
September 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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mikecaulfield.bsky.social
This is a good post on how to get better at using AI. It's the product of pretty intensive research on what consistently works although I don't surface that research directly in it.

Bluesky and AI, so obviously comments on this are off. mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/is-the-llm...
Is the LLM response wrong, or have you just failed to iterate it?
Many "errors" in search-assisted LLMs are not errors at all, but the result of an investigation aborted too soon. Here's how to up your LLM-based verification game by going to round two.
mikecaulfield.substack.com
September 7, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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duckworth.senate.gov
No Donald, Chicago is not your war zone
September 7, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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chadstanton.blacksky.app
A sign of a man throwing a sandwich with a free dc banner underneath
September 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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cohenjon.bsky.social
The rare opinion piece about the contentious origin of COVID pandemic that will find most everyone interested in this question nodding in agreement--everyone, that is, outside of government officials and compliant scientists in China. thebulletin.org/2025/08/why-...
Why we still don’t know where COVID-19 came from. And why we need to find out.
Five years after COVID-19 emerged, killing millions, costing trillions, and disrupting global life, we still don’t have a definitive answer as to the origins of the pandemic and the virus. This contin...
thebulletin.org
August 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM