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Coincidentally, this theme came through very strongly in the conversation I just recorded with @drdebhoury.bsky.social @angierasmussen.bsky.social @michaelemann.bsky.social and @naomioreskes.bsky.social on what's going wrong with trust in science.
#Quibono?
Sorry it over ran the promised 30 mins!
Powerful anti-vaccine advocates and people selling potentially harmful goods such as raw milk are benefitting – financially and otherwise – from the push to write anti-science policies into law across the U.S.
Who benefits from the MAHA anti-science push?
Powerful anti-vaccine advocates and people selling potentially harmful goods such as raw milk are profiting from the push to write anti-science policies into law across the U.S.
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October 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House
October 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Remember April 2009 when about 250,000 people took to America’s streets in Tea Party rallies and the media was like “oh man, the Dems are in trouble?” Approximately 28X as many people took to the streets to protest Trump yesterday. Didn’t even make the NYT front page.
In April of 2009 I observed the Tea Party rally in Salem. As this front page story says, there were a couple hundred people there. This past weekend in Salem there were roughly 2-3000 people at the Hands Off rally. Yet the Tea Party coverage seemed to take that event far more seriously.
October 19, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Are you aware we execute innocent people in the US quite regularly?

Here's a story about Anthony Boyd, an innocent black man the state of Alabama intends to murder by gas mask next week.

What can you do? Read this, and check out the thread below for how you can help. 🩷
He Was Convicted Entirely On Clashing Eyewitness Testimony. Alabama Plans to Execute Him Next Week. - Bolts
No physical evidence connected Anthony Boyd to a 1993 murder. He was sent to death row on the word of a co-defendant who testified under the threat of capital punishment.
boltsmag.org
October 16, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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On this day in 1960, 52 people, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., were arrested in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, after refusing to leave their seats at segregated department store lunch counters.
Oct. 19, 1960 | Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Among 52 Arrested in Atlanta Sit-In Protest
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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October 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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It’s more important than ever to understand your right to due process. Here’s what you should know. https://youtu.be/metN4EiDtmQ?si=5uq9Yf27M473g3hB
What is Due Process?
Robert Reich
youtu.be
October 14, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Now that Kirk's killer seems to be caught, maybe the news could spare a moment's attention for the right wing, from the commentariat up to the GOP and president, whose immediate reaction was not mourning, but to seize the opportunity to try to incite violence against groups they hate
September 12, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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So I wrote a book about how young men get radicalized online and what you can do about it:

www.routledge.com/How-to-Talk-...
September 12, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Nigel Farage just repeatedly denied – under oath! – to @raskin.house.gov
ever banning journalists he doesn’t like from his party’s conventions.

This happened to me *literally today*.
Nigel Farage is about to give evidence to the US Congress on threats to free speech in the UK.

So here's one for him: Reform UK has just banned me (and @thenewworldmag.bsky.social) from attending its party conference this weekend. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-w...
Chicken Farage bans The New World
It claims to be the party of free speech, but this last-minute decision to stop me attending tells a very different story
www.thenewworld.co.uk
September 3, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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THE REPUBLICANS ARE STEALING YOUR MONEY!
September 2, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Except Democrats think American democracy is in danger because the president is an authoritarian with too much power, and Republicans think it's in danger from the Cracker Barrel logo changing.
Reuters poll: 57% of Americans fear that American democracy is in danger — including 4 in 10 Republicans.
August 22, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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The thing about the Cracker Barrel uproar is that it’s a perfect illustration of how these people are in charge of everything, they’re running the entire country and diminishing Dem power at every turn and they are STILL UNHAPPY. Their entire brand is “angry and oppressed” and it always will be.
August 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "This guy is trying to get a Nobel Peace Prize? When he's bringing war to the American people? He sent the United States Marines into the United States of America."
August 16, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Territorial residents and diaspora: Please sign our petition
June 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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June 19, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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These are very bad times.

But there are a lot of good people here.

We must continue to take care of one another and fight for one another.

That's always been the work, that's always the work.
June 19, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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On Juneteenth, we celebrate Black freedom, resilience, culture, and the enduring strength of community across generations. We acknowledge our nation’s full history and the long, ongoing fight for freedom and justice for Black Americans.
June 19, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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1/4 At ICE’s Krome Detention Camp in Florida, Cuban immigrants formed a human "SOS" on the patio—desperate to alert the world. The facility is nearly 200% over capacity. Built for 600, it now holds 1,700. People sleep on floors, eat only a cup of rice a day, and go without medical care.
June 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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When Republican MOC say they passed a bill that they hadn’t read and didn’t know such heinous, irresponsible things were in it, it’s time to Vote Better.
Citizens will die. The majority will be MAGA. The same ones who cheered for exactly this!

Buyer’s remorse is real.
#Voices4Victory
#DemVoice1
JUST NOW: Democrats hold a press conference to accurately rebrand Donald Trump’s disasterous bill as the “Well, We’re All Going to Die Act”
June 5, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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NEW: A whistleblower report submitted to Congress and the U.S. Office of Special Counsel reveals that DOGE and Elon Musk appear to have mishandled and manipulated sensitive data from the National Labor Relations Board — and worked to cover its tracks.

The NLRB is a small independent agency that…
April 15, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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#OTD in 1968 my father shared what would be his last speech:

“I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”. He believed in the power of unity to overcome injustice, a belief that continues to guide us. "Be concerned about your brother...either we go up together, or we go down together."
April 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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He did it. Sen. Cory Booker now holds the record for the longest Senate speech in U.S. history.

After the applause ends, Booker says he plans to go longer, and one senator shouts "24 more!"
Near as I can tell, if Sen. Booker speaks for roughly three more hours — and he still seems pretty energetic at the moment — he'll beat the longest floor speech in U.S. Senate history: Senator Strom Thurmond's 1957 speech in opposition to Civil Rights Act.
April 1, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Retweet this if Cory Booker is making you cry with pride and hope right now.
April 1, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Information Silos exist for very good reasons.

Do you want your medical data, tax data, social media days, etc combined in one place and made available to anyone in the federal government?
March 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM