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Tom Murphy 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸
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PhD student in the Ho Lab at Columbia med center and New Yorker 🗽🏳️‍🌈

Plasmodia, cryoEM, membrane proteins 😍
This is crazy
Fascinating look at how "spontaneous remission" of many cancers (only 76 documented cases since 1800s): are associated w/infections triggering immune response. "Make an infection near tumor" was documented treatment as far back as ancient Egypt. Preferred method (52% success rate) until modern era
January 19, 2026 at 12:36 AM
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The man who killed Renee worked for ICE for over 12 years, called her a bitch after he murdered her, and ICE agents prevented a doctor at gun point from providing medical aid. That’s not a training problem. We should be spending that money on healthcare not a lawless agency.
These elected Dems still don’t get it. @booker.senate.gov
January 18, 2026 at 10:36 PM
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americans, please: do not take the bait by resisting ICE yourselves. just give the democrats $20. they will give it to ICE so they can train more guys
January 18, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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WOW!

At the Israeli-American Council, Miriam Adelson is asked how she is buying influence over American politicians.

"Can you allow me not to answer? ... I want to be truthful, and there are so many things I don't want to talk about."
January 18, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Yet more reasons why we can’t let even a single Zionist anywhere near city government
January 17, 2026 at 7:37 PM
we love to see it 🌹🗽
January 17, 2026 at 6:25 AM
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(father giving CPR to an infant who stopped breathing after an ICE agent detonated a flashbang in their car)

Amy Klobuchar: Don't take the bait!
January 16, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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You're telling me a woman was forced to give up her trophy to a biological male
María Corina Machado on her meeting with Trump: “I presented the president of the United States with the Nobel Peace Prize”
January 15, 2026 at 9:53 PM
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I am extremely skeptical of the narrative that Netanyahu last-minute pushed Trump to postpone the strikes.

It appears to serve the purpose of preventing the diverging interests of the US and Israel from coming to light. Sustain an appearance that Trump and Netanyahu are on the exact same page.
January 15, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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Just realized I've done acid more times then I've eaten cottage cheese
January 14, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Nothing says ‘self defense’ like “that’s why that lesbian bitch is dead”
She says ICE agents mocked her: “The ICE agent who had pepper sprayed into the vents of my car said ‘you guys gotta stop obstructing us, that’s why that lesbian b—— is dead,’ verbatim, speaking of Renee Good. Which filled me with absolute rage and shock..."
www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...
‘I was flooded with fear’: Minnesotans describe their encounters with ICE, being detained
From an Uber driver to a school drop off, MPR News spoke with Minnesotans who were stopped or detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
www.mprnews.org
January 14, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Woke ACB 🙄
Some on X are mad that Justice Barrett used the commonly used term "trans girls" to refer to trans girls:
January 14, 2026 at 2:17 AM
Item #1 for any democratic Congress in 2028:
PACK THE COURT
The case is submitted. That's a 6-3 loss on the merits for trans athletes with Roberts probably writing the opinion, a Kav-currence, maybe a paragraph from Gorsuch, and a stinging dissent from Sotomayor.
January 13, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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On my way to the Supreme Court where I'll be proud to support 15-year-old Becky Pepper-Jackson, West Virginia's only transgender athlete, as she opposes the state's effort to ban her from playing as herself.

Win or lose, Becky and her family are heroes for standing up for what's right
January 13, 2026 at 12:10 PM
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I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand

You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen

*Everyone has stories like this*
January 13, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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Join us on the picket line in support of NYSNA @nynurses.bsky.social!

Our nurses are there for us when we need it most. Now it’s our turn to show up for them, and support their bid for a fair contract with increased patient & nurse safety.

Support their strike: www.nysna.org/news/take-ac...
January 13, 2026 at 4:26 PM
The zionists will literally bail out nazis to own the libs
Fundraiser for Minneapolis ICE shooter that’s already raised $178,000 casually points out that the mayor is Jewish 😬
January 12, 2026 at 11:08 PM
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So many folks in progressive and liberal space have grown so accustomed to the idea that Defund was a failure, that Defund was an overreach, that they no longer seem able to even recognize that ICE is engaging in *exactly* the conduct Defund called out and warned about from police across the country
January 12, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Nobody let go of anyone’s hand
ICE kidnap 17-year-old U.S. citizen working at Target then dump him bleeding and crying miles away in a Walmart parking lot… 🤬
January 12, 2026 at 11:02 PM
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Robina Aminian, a 24-year-old Kurdish student studying at Tehran Shariati Technical University. She was studying Textile and Fashion Design. She was killed by security force's direct gunfire while participating in #IranProtests. #Iran
January 12, 2026 at 10:01 PM
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Ongoing thread of the names, images, and brief bios of Iranian civilians killed during January 2026 #IranProtests:
January 12, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Margaret Atwood once said “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them” and I feel like it applies here
this is all it’s really about for them. Not domestic policy, not “economic anxiety”, just an endless desire to punish stand-ins for the Mommy who forced them take a bath, even if it tanks their own quality of life.
January 12, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Worth noting how many HIV grants there are in total— 3.4% is 129 grants terminated!! 🤬
since it's behind a paywall now, I wanted to share this graph from "How Trump 2.0 is slashing NIH-backed research — in charts" (Nature, April 2025). Say it with me: the anti-trans/LGBTQ+ movement is an anti-science movement:
[article sans figs can be read here: web.archive.org/web/20250501... ]
January 12, 2026 at 7:16 PM
nothing says "don't tread on me" like murdering people on behalf of the federal regime
January 12, 2026 at 4:18 PM
ofc the one day I'm in goddamn albany Z shows up a block from my workplace fml
NYSNA nurses go wild as Mayor Zohran Mamdani arrives at the picket line in Washington Heights @thecity.nyc
January 12, 2026 at 4:09 PM