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Retired genetic engineer and virologist, knitting addict and Etsy shop owner, lover of all things science 🧬 🧫 🧪 and politics. Data and fact driven. Occasional pretty photo posts.
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LOTR The Two Towers - The Tales That Really Mattered...
YouTube video by EgalmothOfGondolin01
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I suspect that there’s a lot of people feeling like Frodo today. But remember what we’re fighting for. We’re headed backward right now but history tells us that with effort on our combined parts we’ll be back to making a better, more just country at some point.
youtu.be/k6C8SX0mWP0?...
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Chinese Universities Surge in Global Rankings as U.S. Schools Slip
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 1:28 PM
We need more people in the streets, folks. Numbers matter. This could be YOUR child.
A protester is currently lying in a hospital bed with a piece of shrapnel in his neck 7mm from his carotid artery.
While he lay bleeding on the pavement, blinded in his left eye, gasping for air, agents did not call a medic. They dragged him and sneered: "You're going to lose your eye."
While he lay bleeding on the pavement, blinded in his left eye, gasping for air, agents did not call a medic. They dragged him and sneered: "You're going to lose your eye."
January 14, 2026 at 1:20 PM
We need more people in the streets, folks. Numbers matter. This could be YOUR child.
Analysis of recent satellite data in the QEI, presented at ArcticNet, suggests the area may be in trouble. His analysis showed ice in the QEI has started to melt 5 days earlier per decade since 1997.”
No bueno.
www.science.org/content/arti...
No bueno.
www.science.org/content/arti...
The Arctic’s ‘last ice area’ is showing signs of weakness
Mission to Canada’s Queen Elizabeth Islands reveals degradation of a sea ice haven
www.science.org
January 14, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Analysis of recent satellite data in the QEI, presented at ArcticNet, suggests the area may be in trouble. His analysis showed ice in the QEI has started to melt 5 days earlier per decade since 1997.”
No bueno.
www.science.org/content/arti...
No bueno.
www.science.org/content/arti...
Are you paying attention out there? You have the power to bring down an authoritarian takeover.
It takes only one heroic person to leak the Epstein Files.
January 13, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Are you paying attention out there? You have the power to bring down an authoritarian takeover.
Good points here. We really are a third world country now.
Trump fired the people who gave us the numbers we use to gauge our economy and productivity. Now Trump seeks to replace the Fed Chair. We are actual months away from Trump BANKRUPTING AMERICA like he did every other business venture he ever undertook.
January 13, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Good points here. We really are a third world country now.
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Looks like Trump is doing a little resume-building.
Submitted without a comment to his Truth Social a little after 8 PM ET on Sunday night, the president posted a screen grab of what looks like his Wikipedia page, but directly under his official photo is the title, “Acting President of Venezuela.”
Submitted without a comment to his Truth Social a little after 8 PM ET on Sunday night, the president posted a screen grab of what looks like his Wikipedia page, but directly under his official photo is the title, “Acting President of Venezuela.”
January 13, 2026 at 1:13 PM
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The Peace Prize Medal Handover Ceremony has been scheduled.
January 13, 2026 at 1:11 PM
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It just keeps getting worse. Hit the streets. While you still can.
This story isn’t about Jerome Powell. It’s about whether your economic life is still insulated from raw political power.👇
www.jackhopkinsnow.com
www.jackhopkinsnow.com
January 12, 2026 at 10:39 PM
It just keeps getting worse. Hit the streets. While you still can.
Well said. Don’t believe what the regime is selling. Its value is right up there with Trump bitcoin.
Here's a pic of conservatives 'complying' with law enforcement
January 11, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Well said. Don’t believe what the regime is selling. Its value is right up there with Trump bitcoin.
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Pretty much sums it up.
January 10, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Pretty much sums it up.
Regular U.S. citizens need to get out because our military will only be protecting the oil industry.
I was told that the US is running Venezuela now and it would be easy and there'd be lots of money... and now the US govt is telling Americans to get the hell out.
These guys don't even know what a plan is. It's all just wish casting. It's incredible that they currently run the world.
These guys don't even know what a plan is. It's all just wish casting. It's incredible that they currently run the world.
“US citizens should leave Venezuela immediately” … Checking in on the country President Trump executed a coup against a week ago
January 11, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Regular U.S. citizens need to get out because our military will only be protecting the oil industry.
Mantra of rapists as well.
The “if she had complied, she’d still be alive” line that we’re hearing from ICE defenders is the mantra of apologists for security forces in dictatorships through the ages.
January 11, 2026 at 1:46 AM
Mantra of rapists as well.
Watching The Hunger Games on AMC tonight. Somehow it seemed relevant.
a woman is covering her mouth with her hand while holding a bow and arrow in front of a green background .
ALT: a woman is covering her mouth with her hand while holding a bow and arrow in front of a green background .
media.tenor.com
January 10, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Watching The Hunger Games on AMC tonight. Somehow it seemed relevant.
He really truly wants us dead. But why?
HHS Secretary RFK Jr. is quietly undermining an influential task force that has for years played a key role in combating chronic disease, making cancer screenings and medications accessible to millions of Americans.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/w...
HHS Secretary RFK Jr. is quietly undermining an influential task force that has for years played a key role in combating chronic disease, making cancer screenings and medications accessible to millions of Americans.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/w...
Kennedy Weakens U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
www.nytimes.com
January 9, 2026 at 2:40 PM
He really truly wants us dead. But why?
HHS Secretary RFK Jr. is quietly undermining an influential task force that has for years played a key role in combating chronic disease, making cancer screenings and medications accessible to millions of Americans.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/w...
HHS Secretary RFK Jr. is quietly undermining an influential task force that has for years played a key role in combating chronic disease, making cancer screenings and medications accessible to millions of Americans.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/w...
Mamas don’t send your babies to Texas A&M. They can’t teach Plato any more because he’s too woke.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...
Texas A&M, Under New Curriculum Limits, Warns Professor Not to Teach Plato
www.nytimes.com
January 9, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Mamas don’t send your babies to Texas A&M. They can’t teach Plato any more because he’s too woke.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...
BUT. HOWEVER. F that. This was completely avoidable. ICE can operate within the Constitution. We know that. They know that. This is Trumps Goon Squad gone hog wild with no consequences.
January 8, 2026 at 10:42 PM
BUT. HOWEVER. F that. This was completely avoidable. ICE can operate within the Constitution. We know that. They know that. This is Trumps Goon Squad gone hog wild with no consequences.
I suspect that there’s a lot of people feeling like Frodo today. But remember what we’re fighting for. We’re headed backward right now but history tells us that with effort on our combined parts we’ll be back to making a better, more just country at some point.
youtu.be/k6C8SX0mWP0?...
youtu.be/k6C8SX0mWP0?...
LOTR The Two Towers - The Tales That Really Mattered...
YouTube video by EgalmothOfGondolin01
youtu.be
January 8, 2026 at 10:19 PM
I suspect that there’s a lot of people feeling like Frodo today. But remember what we’re fighting for. We’re headed backward right now but history tells us that with effort on our combined parts we’ll be back to making a better, more just country at some point.
youtu.be/k6C8SX0mWP0?...
youtu.be/k6C8SX0mWP0?...
Follow the instructions.
January 8, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Follow the instructions.
This is huge. Predatory private equity is the reason rents are unaffordable and rural hospitals are closing.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/b...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/b...
Push to Audit Private Equity and Venture Capital Falters Under Trump
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 1:44 PM
This is huge. Predatory private equity is the reason rents are unaffordable and rural hospitals are closing.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/b...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/b...
Huge study in Sweden demonstrates herd immunity effect from HPV vaccine. So there, Bobby.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/human-papill...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/human-papill...
Analysis suggests HPV vaccine protects unvaccinated people through herd immunity
www.cidrap.umn.edu
January 7, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Huge study in Sweden demonstrates herd immunity effect from HPV vaccine. So there, Bobby.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/human-papill...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/human-papill...
Don’t forget. Ever. Dont let them gaslight you.
FIVE YEARS & he has not been held accountable for one of the most disgraceful events in this nation's history.
Trying to overturn a fair election in an attempted coup against his own government is the very definition of TREASON. We can never move forward until this is fully adjudicated. #ShameOnUS🇺🇸
Trying to overturn a fair election in an attempted coup against his own government is the very definition of TREASON. We can never move forward until this is fully adjudicated. #ShameOnUS🇺🇸
January 6, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Don’t forget. Ever. Dont let them gaslight you.
Proposed changes to postmarking rules and their legal implications. A long but important read. More bad news for rural America. But then again they’ve been voting for less government for a while now.
www.brookings.edu/articles/whe...
www.brookings.edu/articles/whe...
When a postmark no longer tracks mailing | Brookings
Changes to U.S. Postal Service operations could lead to delayed postmarking, impacting elections, tax filings, and more.
www.brookings.edu
January 6, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Proposed changes to postmarking rules and their legal implications. A long but important read. More bad news for rural America. But then again they’ve been voting for less government for a while now.
www.brookings.edu/articles/whe...
www.brookings.edu/articles/whe...