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Joachim Frank
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Scientist, 2017 Chemistry Nobel Prize (math and computational methods underlying cryo-EM of biological molecules), fiction writer, photographer, gardener.
Climate change, science education, fight of fascism
franxfiction.com and joachimfranklab.org
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Jeff Bezos paid $50 million for a wedding. He just got a $16 billion tax break. He just laid off 60,000 people.

And you're furious about a kid getting a free school lunch?
November 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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They claim this operation is to stop drugs from entering the “Homeland” and killing its people.

Remember when Trump pardoned a convicted drug dealer who helped bring 100,000kg of drugs into the country?

I do, because on Monday he went back to jail for sexual assault.

It’s not about drugs.
November 14, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?
October 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Why would someone keep a list of pedophiles secret?

1) They’re on the list
2) They’re protecting people on the list
3) They’re following an order

Am I wrong, GOP? Then prove it.

#ReleaseTheFiles
November 13, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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'He's terrified': NYT editor says Trump is afraid latest scandal will 'unravel' his agenda
www.rawstory.com
'He's terrified': NYT editor says Trump is afraid latest scandal will 'unravel' his agenda
twp.ai
November 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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“Megyn Kelly trying to convince her listeners that sex trafficking girls is less offensive if they’ve gone through puberty.” Shannon Watts
November 13, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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"Also amazing are pancakes, folks. A new word nobody has ever heard. I came up with it. They're like cakes but from a pan. I call them pancakes. Christians too. Adopting to pancakes. Very big stuff. Ballroom. Huge. And some say flarpnozzle bing. Bingidy bangidy. So sad. Flurp."
Trump: "Christians and more, think of this, more than twice as likely foster care they'll adopt the general population. They adopt to it so easily. When they get out, they adopt to it like it's become second nature. It's amazing."
November 13, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"
#ProudBlue #Pinks
November 13, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Removing a monument honoring Black US soldiers has nothing to do with DEI. It’s erasure of history and it’s straight-up racism.
November 13, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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GOP PEDO PROTECTION PROGRAM GOP PEDO PROTECTION PROGRAM GOP PEDO PROTECTION PROGRAM GOP PEDO PROTECTION PROGRAM GOP PEDO PROTECTION PROGRAM GOP PEDO PROTECTION PROGRAM GOP PEDO PROTECTION PROGRAM GOP PEDO PROTECTION PROGRAM GOP PEDO PROTECTION PROGRAM

Repeat it over and over again
November 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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November 13, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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What we have learned is that GOP leadership is showing full tyranny mode by using 1) starvation as a negotiating weapon by denying full SNAP benefits during shutdown/going to Sup Court to starve Americans; & 2) Trump flexed his dictator skills to threaten shutting down aviation during the holidays.
November 12, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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MAAA! 🔥🔥
November 12, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Huh. Interesting
November 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Schumer must go. His leadership is pathetic
We had all the momentum

•The American people were blaming Republicans

•A landslide Democratic victory

•Courts ordering Trump to fund SNAP benefits

Yet you couldn't convince your caucus to fight for us

It's the final straw that breaks the back of your tenure as leader, Senator

Time to step down
Democrats have been fighting for months to address America's healthcare crisis

For the millions who will lose coverage
For people with cancer who won't get the care they need
For working families who can't afford to pay $25K more a year for healthcare

We will keep fighting
November 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
A transportation secretary said this?
I guess it's his version of "everybody dies"
Wow stay the hell out of the air for the foreseeable future
#GVerse Um. WTF???

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy: "Pilots need to stop depending on air traffic controllers. They need to suck it up and go with their gut feelings."

This is the stupidest and most dangerous administration in history.
November 9, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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That’s why you lose!!😂
November 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Spot On...
November 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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These actual welfare queens will spend millions on commercials and lobbying to redirect attention away from them.
November 8, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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I understand why we shut down American airspace for a few days after 9-11 to avoid a repeat attack but imagine shutting down American airspace to avoid releasing the Epstein files.
November 7, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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This fight doesn’t end until every MAGA hat, flag, shirt and symbol is nothing more than ashes in the dirt and the embarrassment felt for ever owning this treasonous paraphernalia is too much to ever admit

Every American who voted to put this country under the thumb of fascism should feel the shame
November 7, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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I’ve never seen an American elected official fight so hard to starve people.
November 8, 2025 at 12:23 AM