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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 5h

It started out being about the 1927 Mississippi flood and then I accidentally got obsessed with what a shithead he was.

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 5h

Noem won’t sign off.

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 12h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 13h

"The chancellor approved it"

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 6h

And before anyone tries to argue with me about this let me just remind you: bsky.app/profile/saml...

Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · Apr 3

I don’t mention it often but I am randomly extremely well read on Herbert Hoover so I am absolutely losing it over the Smoot-Hawley discourse.

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 6h

Too many people are out here writing about what we can learn from US politics in the 20s and 30s without engaging with (or even mentioning) Hoover’s presidency and it’s driving me nuts!

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 17h

The Onion is perfection.

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 6h

I — okay. 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 15h

Fridays firings www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 8h

Charli wearing a Kansas City shirt after people thought Sally was going to be Taylor Swift has me cracking up. This is why you've got to let the pop girlies fight. I am, in fact, entertained.

Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 20h

No one asked for my opinion on this but I think Mamdani should be Role Model’s Sally on SNL tonight.

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 17h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 20h

I am also excited for other olds to finally learn who role model is simply because we are both from the same small town in Maine. I’ve been trying to tell people this fun fact for like a year and none of my friends (uncultured!!) know who he is!

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 20h

No one asked for my opinion on this but I think Mamdani should be Role Model’s Sally on SNL tonight.

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Alan Gerard @wxmanms1.bsky.social · 23h

To any of my colleagues who still think that the administration will not gut NOAA, NASA and NSF programs, I respectfully ask you to read this thread about what they just did to our federal health sciences.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 23h

Per CDC source: At internal leadership meeting this afternoon, it was shared that 1,257 people were RIF'd at CDC. Number may not be final. Apparently, chief of staff was unaware that RIFs were going to occur so not clear who is making decisions. (Short 🧵)

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 1d

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 21h

Abbott’s directing the Texas National Guard to take the Ted Cruz approach to disaster response, I see.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

Texas is preparing emergency resources for wildfires and floods. The Texas National Guard should be THERE — not in Illinois.

We stand ready to support their return home so they are best positioned for helping Texans respond to any natural disasters.

Abbott activates emergency resources ahead of growing wildfire threat, flood risk in Texas

With expected growing wildfire danger across Texas and the potential for a flood risk this weekend, Gov. Greg Abbott is activating more state emergency response resources Friday.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 1d

They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.

I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 1d

No faith in me?!

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think any school can afford not to...

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 1d

Me trying to figure out the exact window of time to fly out of Logan in the next few days without being impacted by the nor'easter, federal shutdown, and major runway construction project.

a close up of a woman 's face with a triangle and a mathematical formula .

ALT: a close up of a woman 's face with a triangle and a mathematical formula .

media.tenor.com

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Lisa Jarvis @lisamjarvis.bsky.social · 1d

This piece made possible by the detailed data and analysis in CDC's MMWR reports, the staff of which was reportedly laid off in last night's purge...

Lisa Jarvis @lisamjarvis.bsky.social · 1d

Last year's flu season was brutal-280 kids died. That came amid a drop in flu vax rates among vulnerable groups. Convincing people to get the flu shot has always been hard-under RFK, doctors' job got much tougher. Anyway: it's October, get your flu shot! My latest for @opinion.bloomberg.com (🎁):

This Flu Season Doesn’t Have to Be as Deadly as the Last

Last year’s flu season was long, brutal, and ultimately tragic. By the time infections had subsided in May, as many as 1.1 million Americans were estimated to have been hospitalized and as many as 100...

www.bloomberg.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Josh Crutchmer @jcrutchmer.bsky.social · 2d

Would have made the first words in this post “In a New Netflix film,” but I’m built different

NPR @npr.org · 2d

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch. n.pr/48przga

Every moment pops in the nuclear thriller 'A House of Dynamite'

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch.

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 1d

Don't mess with librarians.

Library director fired over LGBTQ+ books gets $700,000 from county

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Library director fired over LGBTQ+ books gets $700,000 from county

Terri Lesley, a former library director, said she was wrongfully terminated for refusing to bow to county officials’ demands for censorship.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 1d

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2d

This is the way

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

The random people who called into this C-SPAN session had better questions for Mike Johnson than most corporate media outlets

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "Hearing you say that 'everyone is smiling' in cities where troops have been rolled into feels dystopian and insane watching the response to it."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”

Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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