Siobhan
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Siobhan
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Resist, Educate, Support 💙
"The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it." ~Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life

The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.

Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
December 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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“To shutter this facility is, frankly, a national security risk,” Kim Cobb told @bloomberg.com about NCAR, given its cutting-edge work on extreme weather and across fields including machine learning and AI.

Story w/ @eroston.bsky.social @willwwade.bsky.social: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump Administration Aims to Dismantle Key Climate Research Hub
The US plans to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research, a key climate-science hub in Boulder, Colorado, which the Trump administration says strayed from its mission decades ago by taki...
www.bloomberg.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇
December 17, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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MINNEAPOLIS: “We kept yelling ‘she’s pregnant! She’s pregnant!’ — they put their knees in her… the handcuffed woman was dragged on the ground…”

Lawless.
December 16, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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🚨While grieving his loss, let his memories and, his wisdom help us. Honoring his life has so many meanings to so many of us. May he and his wife rest in power. 💔 1/2
December 15, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Measles didn’t make a comeback on its own.

This is RFK Jr’s anti-vax movement and his disinformation campaign. And equally as disturbing, some people are perfectly fine with this outcome.
December 15, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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As avian flu cases rise, it’s more important than ever to develop a vaccine to protect all impacted poultry and livestock.

Sen. Rounds & I led a bipartisan group of senators calling on the Dept. of Agriculture to prioritize an avian flu vaccine strategy.

www.willmarradio.com/news/klobuch...
Klobuchar, senators push USDA for turkey bird flu vaccine strategy
(Washington DC-) U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and Mike Rounds (R-SD) led 21 of their colleagues in urging Secreta...
www.willmarradio.com
December 14, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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"The virus can lead to brain swelling, which can cause lasting damage, including blindness, deafness and intellectual disabilities..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/w...
December 14, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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ICYMI — Both Tennessee senators @SenatorHagerty & @MarshaBlackburn are content to let health care costs skyrocket for millions
December 11, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him.

I don’t know how else to say it…
December 12, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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Indiana’s Senate has voted AGAINST the GOP gerrymander that’d have locked in a 9-0 map.

This keeps the 7-2 map in place, saving two Democratic seats heading into 2026.

The vote failed big, 19/31.

The MAJORITY of the GOP senators opposed it!
December 11, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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ICYMI — “I identified myself as a U.S. citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. ICE Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out… this experience violated the very principles I fought to defend.”
December 11, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
December 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Hey Miami, get out today and vote for your new Mayor.
December 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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All of these new rulings don’t just affect today, they rewrite precedent. Trump still has three years left, and whatever expanded powers the Court hands him now will automatically pass to the next president as well.
December 9, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Good morning to everyone but especially Justice Sonia Sotomayor who 👏🏾has 👏🏾time 👏🏾today to eviscerate the argument that Trump has near unlimited power to fire agency heads for political reasons, given that neither English law at the time of the founding nor the US Constitution supports such nonsense
December 8, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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ICE thought Minneapolis would fold. Instead, a police chief lit a flare bright enough to burn D.C.’s eyebrows.🔥👇
www.jackhopkinsnow.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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CARTOON OF THE DAY
December 5, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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The Citizens United decision has corrupted our government and is destroying our democracy. Here's a way to get rid of it. robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get...
How to Get Rid of "Citizens United"
We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment. There’s a far simpler way.
robertreich.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The junction of cause and effect.
I'm at the combination
December 4, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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It was six years ago today that a man in Wuhan, China began feeling ill.

He would become the first known COVID case.

Covid is still with us. It’s still killing and disabling.

Clean the air. Wear a mask. Get your boosters.

Public health is a social justice issue.
November 30, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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"No one's going to build a factory based on a tariff that's on on Monday, off on... Tuesday, the president's changed his mind by Wednesday, he gets hormonal by Thursday and someone says something nasty in the middle school cafeteria on Friday and they're back on again."
November 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM