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Elizabeth
@alouette-gentille.bsky.social
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Born at 325. Scientist in the middle of the USA. Anti-fascist. I pledge my head to clearer thinking … 4-H forever.
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Elizabeth @alouette-gentille.bsky.social · Jan 8
Shredding documents.
Tabby cat sitting on a stack of opened envelopes and papers
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Never in the history of the US has any president openly and repeatedly called for the investigation, arrest & prosecution of his political opponents. While many continue to shrug these things off and normalize them, I will never stop pointing out that this is what autocrats do.
October 29, 2025 at 10:51 PM
alouette-gentille.bsky.social
Here is a nice fungus! @lukelukeluke.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic.

globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca
In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.
globalnews.ca
February 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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bhadeliamd.bsky.social
In our 4 months of existence, @beaconbio.bsky.social has gained active users in 162 countries. Clearly there is a need for a free & open resource that not only raises alarm about new threats but provides context about why it matters. Thank you to all our users!
wbur.org WBUR @wbur.org · Sep 12
“Our main goal is to reduce the time between the reporting of a disease and its response,” said project founder Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, an infectious disease physician who served in the Biden administration’s COVID response team. “You want a potential alarm bell.”
Boston-based AI disease tracker aims to be an ‘alarm bell’ as the Trump administration severs global health ties
A tool out of Boston University aims to enhance surveillance of disease outbreaks across the globe, a task traditionally informed by several federal agencies that have been dismantled or cut back in t...
www.wbur.org
September 12, 2025 at 1:29 PM
alouette-gentille.bsky.social
I just hope I don’t get stuck in Corn Syrup on my way to Urban Housing. 🙃
conradhackett.bsky.social Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · Sep 15
Below is a clever visualization of the distribution of how land is used in the US. Cows roam over a lot of land!

But this is not a map - for example, the 100 largest landowning families aren't confined to Florida.
This is a cartogram depicting the share of land associated with various purposes in the United States. From https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-us-land-use/#xj4y7vzkg
September 18, 2025 at 3:32 AM
alouette-gentille.bsky.social
… and yet…
conradhackett.bsky.social Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · Sep 18
Is it important that the media can report the news without government censorship?
In the United States, 92% say it is important.
www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/...
A median of 61% across the 35 countries surveyed say it is very important that the media are able to report the news without state or government censorship in their country. A median of 23% say this is somewhat important; 11% say it’s not too or not at all important. Majorities of adults in Canada (77%) and the U.S. (67%) believe having freedom of the press is very important in their country. In Europe, the shares saying freedom of the press is very important range from 56% in Poland to 89% in Greece. Majorities across all countries in the region hold this view. In the Asia-Pacific region, varying shares say it’s very important that the media can report the news without censorship. About four-in-ten hold this view in Bangladesh, India and Singapore, compared with about six-in-ten in Australia. Shares in other Asia-Pacific countries fall in between.
September 18, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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conradhackett.bsky.social
Where the teens are
YouTube 90%
TikTok 63%
Instagram 61%
Snapchat 55%
Facebook 32% (down from 71%)
WhatsApp 23%
X 17% (down from 33%)
Reddit 14%
Threads 6%
report: www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...
YouTube tops the list of the online platforms we asked about in our survey. Nine-in-ten teens report using the site, slightly down from 95% in 2022. TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat remain widely used among teens. Roughly six-in-ten teens say they use TikTok and Instagram, and 55% say the same for Snapchat. Facebook and X use have steeply declined over the past decade. Today, 32% of teens say they use Facebook. This is down from 71% in 2014-15, though the share of teens who use the site has remained stable in recent years. And 17% of teens say they use X (formerly Twitter) – about half the share who said this a decade ago (33%), and down from 23% in 2022. Roughly one-quarter of teens (23%) say they use WhatsApp, up 6 percentage points since 2022. And 14% of teens use Reddit, a share that has remained stable over the past few years. We asked about Threads, launched by parent company Meta in 2023, for the first time this year. Only 6% of teens report using it.
September 18, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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nurseteria.bsky.social
@alsobrooks.senate.gov asks Dr. Monarez what she would say to parents about vaccines to alleviate hesitancy and confusion.

Here is what grandparents say:
Please listen to our own stories about our lived experiences with these awful diseases, then decide.

grandparentsforvaccines.com
Homepage - Gandparents for Vaccines
Grandparents united to protect grandchildren through vaccines. Our mission is to ensure America’s grandchildren have their best start in life without the threat of vaccine-preventable diseases. Learn ...
grandparentsforvaccines.com
September 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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danceswithseagulls.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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corapunzel.bsky.social
Hypocrisy squared
September 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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vinniechant.bsky.social
The most wholesome protest I’ve seen in a long time (and I see a lot of actions) and they still got U.S. Capitol Police called on them…
September 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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midem.bsky.social
Lee once said: “Democracy is not the objective.” That’s not just a soundbite—it’s his ideology. When you look at his record, it’s clear: Mike Lee wants a government that serves the elite, not the people. #AntiDemocracy #AuthoritarianGOP #MikeLee
June 20, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
We’re watching transparency erode as law enforcement begins to resemble secret police more than public servants. This piece unpacks how we got here, and why it should alarm us all.
Why Are They Hiding Their Faces?
If ICE agents' actions are perfectly acceptable, they shouldn't have to mask their identities
thinkbigpicture.substack.com
May 31, 2025 at 7:01 PM
alouette-gentille.bsky.social
Tagging this so I remember to listen to it too!
jperoutka.bsky.social jperoutka.bsky.social @jperoutka.bsky.social · May 31
@iwriteok.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
I have a 30-minute drive home from work, and I listened to this episode from 41:32 to 46:22 on repeat the whole way for it to really sink in. So very well written and delivered too.
open.spotify.com/episode/0T10...
Part Two: Carl Schmitt: The Mind Behind Modern Fascism
Behind the Bastards · Episode
open.spotify.com
May 31, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
40% of Republicans say the COVID-19 vaccine has probably or definitely killed more people than the COVID-19 virus.
Few adults (8%) say the false claim that “more people have died from COVID-19 vaccines than have died from the COVID-19 virus” is “definitely true,” but levels of certainty vary widely by partisanship, and an increasing share of Republicans is open to endorsing this false claim. About four in ten adults (43%) recognize this claim as “definitely false,” including one in five Republicans (20%) and more than three times as many Democrats (65%). While most Republicans lean toward this claim being false, four in ten say it is “definitely true” (13%) or “probably true” (27%), an increase from one in four in June 2023, when 7% of Republicans said this was “definitely true” and 18% said it was “probably true.”
May 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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sifill.bsky.social
I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few:
1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.
May 21, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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juice2024.bsky.social
🇺🇲
May 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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arghavansallesmd.medsky.social
The state of Georgia is using the body of a brain-dead woman as an incubator. Because she was 9 weeks pregnant when she died, and their abortion ban is from about 6 weeks, they are sustaining her on life support, without input from her family, until 32 weeks of gestation. A true dystopian nightmare.
May 15, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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dividerdecider.bsky.social
Uniter
9-year old Teddy

“Recently…RFK Jr. made false comments about autism, like people with autism are broken, that autism caused by vaccines, and that people with autism will never have jobs or families. But that’s not true!

“I have autism & I’m not broken.”
@nj.com, www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjSfAeVL/
May 3, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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mmorden.bsky.social
Denmark 🇩🇰 sounds nice!
March 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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jamellebouie.net
remember what i said about RFK Jr. being a eugenicist first and foremost? www.marketwatch.com/story/agency...
Agency for older adults, people with disabilities to be shuttered under HHS cuts
In 2022, the Administration for Community Living provided more than 261 million meals to older adults, assistance such as respite care to more than 1.5 million family caregivers, and independent-livin...
www.marketwatch.com
March 30, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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adamparkhomenko.bsky.social
People are taking things into their own hands
March 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
Bernie grills Trump’s Social Security commissioner pick about Trump & Elon’s lies about the program that keeps millions of seniors out of poverty. (because they want to privatize it)
March 26, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
WATCH: Project 2025 warned against using apps like SIGNAL to conduct official business👇🏽

Translation: They knew it was illegal and did it anyway - to keep it hidden from records requests.

SIGNAL itself is an underdiscussed part of this scandal. #HegsethGate #WaltzGate
March 26, 2025 at 12:03 PM