R Worthen 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈 💗📚️
@rworthen.bsky.social
Happily married greezer.
Retired engineer and federal employee. Climate Science / Social Justice / Buying & reading banned books.
Retired engineer and federal employee. Climate Science / Social Justice / Buying & reading banned books.
FDA rejects Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine application - for reasons with no basis in the law
theconversation.com/fda-rejects-...
theconversation.com/fda-rejects-...
FDA rejects Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine application - for reasons with no basis in the law
The move signals an escalation in the agency’s efforts to interfere with established procedures for testing and approving vaccines.
theconversation.com
February 12, 2026 at 6:29 PM
FDA rejects Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine application - for reasons with no basis in the law
theconversation.com/fda-rejects-...
theconversation.com/fda-rejects-...
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🆕 Several Earth system components may be closer to destabilisation than previously thought. Crossing key temperature thresholds could trigger feedback loops, pushing the planet toward a “Hothouse Earth” trajectory. Study by @oregonstate.edu, @iiasa.ac.at & PIK: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
February 11, 2026 at 4:52 PM
🆕 Several Earth system components may be closer to destabilisation than previously thought. Crossing key temperature thresholds could trigger feedback loops, pushing the planet toward a “Hothouse Earth” trajectory. Study by @oregonstate.edu, @iiasa.ac.at & PIK: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Imagine a President bulldozing 1/3 of our Historic White House pocketing $300 million and that doesn’t even crack the top 100 most destructive, vile, disgusting things he’s done, yet here we are
February 11, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Imagine a President bulldozing 1/3 of our Historic White House pocketing $300 million and that doesn’t even crack the top 100 most destructive, vile, disgusting things he’s done, yet here we are
" More and more leads, more and more information, and more and more commentary in the global press all relate to the suspicion that this unprecedented paedophilia scandal was co-organised by Russian intelligence services,”
Polish prime minister Donald Tusk"
Polish prime minister Donald Tusk"
February 11, 2026 at 3:15 PM
" More and more leads, more and more information, and more and more commentary in the global press all relate to the suspicion that this unprecedented paedophilia scandal was co-organised by Russian intelligence services,”
Polish prime minister Donald Tusk"
Polish prime minister Donald Tusk"
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Hurrah for this man. This is what is needed.
Trump and Republicans will try to see that his decency will cost him in some way.
Trump and Republicans will try to see that his decency will cost him in some way.
US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE:
"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."
"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."
February 10, 2026 at 10:44 PM
Hurrah for this man. This is what is needed.
Trump and Republicans will try to see that his decency will cost him in some way.
Trump and Republicans will try to see that his decency will cost him in some way.
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Republicans defend monopolies and price gouging while families struggle to keep up with rising costs. I’m pushing to hold corporations and utility companies accountable and give consumers a fair deal.
February 10, 2026 at 10:24 PM
Republicans defend monopolies and price gouging while families struggle to keep up with rising costs. I’m pushing to hold corporations and utility companies accountable and give consumers a fair deal.
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Hard not to read this and feel that what @bardcollege.bsky.social president Leon Botstein found morally urgent and emotionally effecting in the Epstein story was not the women and girls who were abused, but the rich man who was embarrassed.
February 10, 2026 at 7:01 AM
Hard not to read this and feel that what @bardcollege.bsky.social president Leon Botstein found morally urgent and emotionally effecting in the Epstein story was not the women and girls who were abused, but the rich man who was embarrassed.
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Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."
February 10, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."
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Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.
"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
February 10, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.
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AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.
February 10, 2026 at 1:30 AM
AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.
Support these papers as well as NPR and PBS. Screw Jeff Bezos and the rest of them.
theconversation.com/as-jeff-bezo...
theconversation.com/as-jeff-bezo...
As Jeff Bezos dismantles The Washington Post, 5 regional papers chart a course for survival
Other billionaires who own newspapers are doing a better job, a journalism professor explains.
theconversation.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Support these papers as well as NPR and PBS. Screw Jeff Bezos and the rest of them.
theconversation.com/as-jeff-bezo...
theconversation.com/as-jeff-bezo...
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The timing of winter, the amount of snowfall and temperatures are all less reliable and less predictable because Earth is warming at a record rate, said Shel Winkley, a Climate Central meteorologist.
https://to.pbs.org/3MeUvyK
https://to.pbs.org/3MeUvyK
Olympic town warms as climate change puts Winter Games on thin ice
The International Olympic Committee said last week it could move up the start date for future Winter Games to January from February because of rising temperatures.
www.pbs.org
February 9, 2026 at 10:32 PM
The timing of winter, the amount of snowfall and temperatures are all less reliable and less predictable because Earth is warming at a record rate, said Shel Winkley, a Climate Central meteorologist.
https://to.pbs.org/3MeUvyK
https://to.pbs.org/3MeUvyK
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🚨BREAKING: A Trump-backed, GOP effort to repeal a Utah law that could give Democrats one extra U.S. House seat appears to be unraveling after county officials flagged thousands of potentially invalid and fraudulent petition signatures. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Utah GOP push to repeal anti-gerrymander law falters amid fraud allegations tied to firm backed by Trump Jr.
As a result of the growing controversy, the GOP ended its partnership with Patriot Grassroots.
www.democracydocket.com
February 9, 2026 at 8:56 PM
🚨BREAKING: A Trump-backed, GOP effort to repeal a Utah law that could give Democrats one extra U.S. House seat appears to be unraveling after county officials flagged thousands of potentially invalid and fraudulent petition signatures. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Wow!. I guess we'll see if they actually do get to see them
ALERT: Rep Jamie Raskin (D-MD) has arrived at Justice Dept office to review unreleased Epstein files
(Under law, as of 9am today, Congress is permitted to view what Justice Dept has withheld from files)
(Under law, as of 9am today, Congress is permitted to view what Justice Dept has withheld from files)
February 9, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Wow!. I guess we'll see if they actually do get to see them
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Your 'bonus moment of doom' for today ~ Yes, and?
"Without action to draw down atmospheric carbon, the climate system will likely move into an era of accelerated warming that may be impossible to halt. Overshoot will be permanent."
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
"Without action to draw down atmospheric carbon, the climate system will likely move into an era of accelerated warming that may be impossible to halt. Overshoot will be permanent."
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
There may be no turning back this climate crisis
As warming breaches a critical threshold, scientists fear cascading consequences.
www.motherjones.com
February 8, 2026 at 7:25 PM
Your 'bonus moment of doom' for today ~ Yes, and?
"Without action to draw down atmospheric carbon, the climate system will likely move into an era of accelerated warming that may be impossible to halt. Overshoot will be permanent."
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
"Without action to draw down atmospheric carbon, the climate system will likely move into an era of accelerated warming that may be impossible to halt. Overshoot will be permanent."
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
100% Fake and almost completely convincing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_Mk...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_Mk...
1 Minute Ago: Supreme Court Rejects Appeal — Melania’s Next Move Stuns Legal Experts | George Will
YouTube video by English 15days
www.youtube.com
February 7, 2026 at 9:58 PM
100% Fake and almost completely convincing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_Mk...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_Mk...
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Tax cuts for giant corporations and the super rich.
Paid for by cuts to the social safety net for everyone else.
Trickle-up economics.
Paid for by cuts to the social safety net for everyone else.
Trickle-up economics.
February 7, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Tax cuts for giant corporations and the super rich.
Paid for by cuts to the social safety net for everyone else.
Trickle-up economics.
Paid for by cuts to the social safety net for everyone else.
Trickle-up economics.
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Good Q @SarahKSilvermam
February 7, 2026 at 3:54 AM
Good Q @SarahKSilvermam
Gabbard has broken the law. Repeatedly.
www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
Video: Opinion | The President’s Personal Spy Chief
From joining an F.B.I. search of an election center to allegedly suppressing a whistleblower complaint, Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, is eroding the independence of our intelli...
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Gabbard has broken the law. Repeatedly.
www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
