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Jeannette Burr
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Psychologist, mom, worried about the future of our country, VERY worried about climate change. Glad to be here! I missed everybody!
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dunemythang.bsky.social
WTF ‼️‼️‼️‼️

THIS is the judge who would not release South Carolina voting records to the DOJ.
thetnholler.bsky.social The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Oct 5
SOUTH CAROLINA… “Judge Goodstein was walking on the beach when the fire started. Her husband, Arnie, was in the house with children and perhaps grandchildren. The family had to escape by jumping from a window or balcony...” www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
October 5, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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markmcnease.bsky.social
Just scanned the New York Times and the Washington Post for headlines about the South Carolina judge’s house being torched. Absolutely nothing. I’m not surprised.
October 6, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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michaelemann.bsky.social
Please, I beg of you, save your money and read #ScienceUnderSiege by @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & myself instead:
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
screen cap of linked Kirkus review of "Science Under Siege"
September 27, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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michaelemann.bsky.social
"The current war on science, and who’s behind it -- A vaccine developer and a climate scientist walk into a bar/write a book" | A nice review of #ScienceUnderSiege by Diana Gitig for @arstechnica.com: arstechnica.com/science/2025...
The current war on science, and who’s behind it
A vaccine developer and a climate scientist walk into a bar write a book.
arstechnica.com
September 28, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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dunemythang.bsky.social
“An arsonist will never let good kindling go to waste” may be the most apt and succinct description of Trump I’ve ever heard.
September 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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sellars.bsky.social
The Crimson, scooping every news outlet not run by undergraduates working in between classes, gets into how court orders mandating return of research funding have been flaunted, and makes a clear case for contempt proceedings against DOGE officials. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
"Young ordered the restoration of $783 million in federal funding for fiscal year 2025 — a portion of which, totaling millions, was allocated to Harvard — before the Supreme Court stayed the order nearly two months later. (The total multi-year funding pool affected by Young’s ruling included $3.8 billion in grants, many of which were partially paid out before the freeze. According to a Crimson analysis of court filings, Harvard was awarded more than 140 grants within that pool, with a combined multi-year value exceeding $60 million.) Harvard expected the grants listed in Young’s ruling to flow back to researchers, according to a person familiar with the matter, even though the White House had imposed a block on all Harvard grants as part of its initial funding cut in April. But the funds never arrived, and Harvard wrote in an August press release from the School of Public Health that the NIH was continuing to “block disbursement of any funds to Harvard University.” According to one person, Harvard has been unable to access any funds from the NIH since April because of the restrictions imposed by DOGE through its oversight of the NIH’s payment system, including in the two-month period in which Young’s ruling mandated that grant awards listed in the ruling be resumed."
September 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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michaelemann.bsky.social
"Science is under siege from weaponised disinformation – posing a threat to human civilisation" | My oped in the @theguardian.com with @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social on our new book #ScienceUnderSiege: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Science is under siege from weaponised disinformation – posing a threat to human civilisation | Michael Mann and Peter Hotez
From Covid misinformation to climate denialism, understanding the divergent paths of Australia and the US can help us fight the powerful forces that threaten our world
www.theguardian.com
September 8, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social
The new books arrived, looking great! @michaelemann.bsky.social @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social @publicaffairs1796.bsky.social
The books arrived!
August 5, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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atrupar.com
The fact we have secret police whisking people off the streets doesn’t get enough attention. It ain’t normal and we’re further down the road to authoritarianism than you think.
July 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
😕🇺🇸
July 5, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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gabriengregory.bsky.social
ICE now has 3x more funding than the United States Marine Corps. Our hard-earned taxpayer money. Over $170+ billion handed over, and for what?

To rip families apart. To instill fear. To dismantle the very virtues by which this country was built. To help the rich get richer.
July 3, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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briantylercohen.bsky.social
Congrats to Lisa Murkowski on voting for a bill that she herself admitted was not ready in hopes that the House would change it. Now it’ll become law. She had the power to stop it, and instead chose to become complicit. That’s her legacy.
July 3, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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johnfugelsang.bsky.social
Largest legal wealth transfer in US history.
Largest debt ceiling increase in U.S. history
11.8 million will lose health insurance
It’s still adding $3.3 trillion to the debt.

"Big Beautiful Bill" = "The Donor Fellatio Act of 2025"
Happy 4th

johnfugelsang.substack.com/p/the-donor-...
July 3, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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mollyjongfast.bsky.social
This is what I’m so worried about
aoc.bsky.social Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Jul 3
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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mjsdc.bsky.social
NEW: SCOTUS shoots down a federal judge’s effort to protect eight men from being expelled—without due process—to South Sudan, where they face torture and death.

Dissenting, Sotomayor says the court’s “indefensible” decision makes it complicit in “lawlessness.” www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting adjudicating this case. But if this Court wishes to permit the Government to flout the fundamental rights guaranteed by the Due Process Clause, it cannot avoid accountability for that lawlessness by tasking the lower courts with inventing a rationale. The Court's continued refusal to justify its extraordinary decisions in this case, even as it faults lower courts for failing properly to divine their import, is indefensible. * "In a democracy, power implies responsibility. The greater the power that defies law the less tolerant can this Court be of defiance. As the Nation's ultimate judicial tri-bunal, this Court, beyond any other organ of society, is the trustee of law and charged with the duty of securing obedience to it." Mine Workers, 330 U.S., at 312 (Frankfurter, J., concurring in judgment). This Court continues to invert those principles. Today's order clarifies only one thing: Other litigants must follow the rules, but the administration has the Supreme Court on speed dial. Respectfully, I dissent.
July 3, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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smartdissent.bsky.social
July 3, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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aoc.bsky.social
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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aoc.bsky.social
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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govwesmoore.bsky.social
This so-called ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ marks a direct and heartless assault on the American people. Neither Maryland nor any other state across the country has the resources to fill the massive hole that the federal government created today in our social safety net.
Graphic with dark background and white text, reading: Governor Moore Statement on Congress Passing the Federal Budget Reconciliation Bill ANNAPOLIS, MD — Governor Wes Moore today released the following statement regarding the U.S. Congress’ passage of the federal budget reconciliation bill: “This so-called ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ marks a direct and heartless assault on the American people. Neither Maryland nor any other state across the country has the resources to fill the massive hole that the federal government created today in our social safety net. “This legislation is a nightmare for Maryland families, directly hurting the people of our state by raising costs on everything from energy to health care for seniors, and for our student borrowers—all to give multi-millionaires and billionaires a tax cut. President Trump and Republicans in Congress are cutting a quarter of a billion dollars from Maryland's rural hospitals, taking health care away from nearly 200,000 Marylanders, and hurting 684,000 Marylanders that rely on food assistance to pay for their groceries—working families, seniors, children, veterans, homeless individuals and people with disabilities. Today, our federal government has delivered a gift to the ultra-wealthy and told everyone else: ‘You’re on your own.’ “This bill makes our country less affordable, less healthy, and more debt-ridden while kicking millions of people off their health care and decimating food assistance nationwide. As this bill heads to the President’s desk, I am prepared to use every tool at my disposal as Maryland’s chief executive to protect our people and minimize the fallout from these reckless policies.” Graphic with dark background and white text, reading: Governor Moore Statement on Congress Passing the Federal Budget Reconciliation Bill ANNAPOLIS, MD — Governor Wes Moore today released the following statement regarding the U.S. Congress’ passage of the federal budget reconciliation bill: “This so-called ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ marks a direct and heartless assault on the American people. Neither Maryland nor any other state across the country has the resources to fill the massive hole that the federal government created today in our social safety net. “This legislation is a nightmare for Maryland families, directly hurting the people of our state by raising costs on everything from energy to health care for seniors, and for our student borrowers—all to give multi-millionaires and billionaires a tax cut. President Trump and Republicans in Congress are cutting a quarter of a billion dollars from Maryland's rural hospitals, taking health care away from nearly 200,000 Marylanders, and hurting 684,000 Marylanders that rely on food assistance to pay for their groceries—working families, seniors, children, veterans, homeless individuals and people with disabilities. Today, our federal government has delivered a gift to the ultra-wealthy and told everyone else: ‘You’re on your own.’ “This bill makes our country less affordable, less healthy, and more debt-ridden while kicking millions of people off their health care and decimating food assistance nationwide. As this bill heads to the President’s desk, I am prepared to use every tool at my disposal as Maryland’s chief executive to protect our people and minimize the fallout from these reckless policies.”
July 3, 2025 at 8:04 PM
canyonwren32.bsky.social
a man with a beard is saying i fear something terrible has happened
ALT: a man with a beard is saying i fear something terrible has happened
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July 3, 2025 at 7:21 PM
canyonwren32.bsky.social
I feel like Obi-wan when the Death Star obliterated Alderaan. GOP you are evil and heartless. Unbelievable that this bill passed.
July 3, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Important to know that these cuts kick in right after the 2026 midterms. That’s how you know they know it’s bad.
July 2, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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texas-mimi.bsky.social
When she dies I hope her personal hell is getting eaten alive by alligators every day for eternity.
July 3, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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gtconway.bsky.social
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July 2, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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mikemelton.bsky.social
A male Violet Sabrewing #hummingbird from today at Monteverde. These are large, aggressive hummingbirds and a little intimidating when they buzz past you.

#birds #nature #costarica
A hummingbird with iridescent blue and violet feathers perched on a branch, facing slightly upward against a plain green background.
July 1, 2025 at 1:55 AM