Gladys Cagle Pieniazek
@athairene.bsky.social
American living in Germany, retired teacher, political junky, enjoys hiking, reading, theater, films, art and travelling.
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Many senior Republicans in Congress are now demanding more details from the White House about its recent military campaign in the Caribbean.
The push for transparency from President Donald Trump’s own party comes after weeks of mounting concerns among some GOP lawmakers.
The push for transparency from President Donald Trump’s own party comes after weeks of mounting concerns among some GOP lawmakers.
Lawmakers demand audio and video of boat attack as follow-up strike raises concern on Capitol Hill | CNN Politics
The Republican chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Monday said Secretary Pete Hegseth had confirmed to him there was a second US strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean in Septe...
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December 2, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Many senior Republicans in Congress are now demanding more details from the White House about its recent military campaign in the Caribbean.
The push for transparency from President Donald Trump’s own party comes after weeks of mounting concerns among some GOP lawmakers.
The push for transparency from President Donald Trump’s own party comes after weeks of mounting concerns among some GOP lawmakers.
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Pam Bondi is deplorable
August 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Pam Bondi is deplorable
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Is the high-energy radiation of a solar flare only rarely accompanied by a flash at visible wavelengths, or are visible-light flares more common than expected? aasnova.org/2024/12/04/f... 🔭🧪
Finding Missing Flares - AAS Nova
Is the high-energy radiation of a solar flare only rarely accompanied by a white-light flare? A new search has answers.
aasnova.org
December 4, 2024 at 5:35 PM
Is the high-energy radiation of a solar flare only rarely accompanied by a flash at visible wavelengths, or are visible-light flares more common than expected? aasnova.org/2024/12/04/f... 🔭🧪
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Did you know the salt on your table could be laced with microplastics?🧂
Microplastics have been found in 90% of table salt brands worldwide, with the highest levels in 🌏Asia. An average adult consumes 2,000 microplastics annually just through salt.
www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...
Microplastics have been found in 90% of table salt brands worldwide, with the highest levels in 🌏Asia. An average adult consumes 2,000 microplastics annually just through salt.
www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...
Microplastics found in 90 percent of table salt: potential health impacts?
A new study looked at sea, rock, and lake salt sold around the world. Here’s what you need to know.
www.nationalgeographic.com
December 1, 2024 at 11:58 AM
Did you know the salt on your table could be laced with microplastics?🧂
Microplastics have been found in 90% of table salt brands worldwide, with the highest levels in 🌏Asia. An average adult consumes 2,000 microplastics annually just through salt.
www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...
Microplastics have been found in 90% of table salt brands worldwide, with the highest levels in 🌏Asia. An average adult consumes 2,000 microplastics annually just through salt.
www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...
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LETTER: Yes, Biden made the country better off economically
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LETTER: Yes, Biden made the country better off economically
Under Mr. Biden, America is indeed better off. Based on all of this, views to the contrary are simply politically biased.
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December 1, 2024 at 2:08 PM
LETTER: Yes, Biden made the country better off economically
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For those looking for science and nature books, I do my best to keep an updated list on a Google sheet.
Here is 2024's releases list (2025's follow in a reply to this post) 🧪📚💙
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Here is 2024's releases list (2025's follow in a reply to this post) 🧪📚💙
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Popsci books 2024, Courtesy of Read Science
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November 29, 2024 at 3:49 PM
For those looking for science and nature books, I do my best to keep an updated list on a Google sheet.
Here is 2024's releases list (2025's follow in a reply to this post) 🧪📚💙
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Here is 2024's releases list (2025's follow in a reply to this post) 🧪📚💙
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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@jenrubin.bsky.social is right.
"For starters, they need to reduce and simplify the values that define the party (e.g., protecting the little guy, letting you choose your own life) and pound away at them for years, using every medium available (podcasts, nonpolitical TV shows, social media, etc.)."
"For starters, they need to reduce and simplify the values that define the party (e.g., protecting the little guy, letting you choose your own life) and pound away at them for years, using every medium available (podcasts, nonpolitical TV shows, social media, etc.)."
Opinion | Democrats need ‘shortcuts’ to reach low-information voters
Plus: Sen. Lisa Murkowksi can be a maverick. The Premier League’s exciting season.
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November 29, 2024 at 3:29 PM
@jenrubin.bsky.social is right.
"For starters, they need to reduce and simplify the values that define the party (e.g., protecting the little guy, letting you choose your own life) and pound away at them for years, using every medium available (podcasts, nonpolitical TV shows, social media, etc.)."
"For starters, they need to reduce and simplify the values that define the party (e.g., protecting the little guy, letting you choose your own life) and pound away at them for years, using every medium available (podcasts, nonpolitical TV shows, social media, etc.)."
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Zehntausende Soldaten sind seit Beginn des russischen Angriffskrieges gegen die Ukraine gefallen. Nun hat Moskau Tote an Kyjiw zurückgegeben – wieder einmal.
Russland übergibt Ukraine Hunderte Soldatenleichen
Zehntausende Soldaten sind seit Beginn des russischen Angriffskrieges gegen die Ukraine gefallen. Nun hat Moskau Tote an Kyjiw zurückgegeben – wieder einmal.
www.spiegel.de
November 29, 2024 at 3:55 PM
Zehntausende Soldaten sind seit Beginn des russischen Angriffskrieges gegen die Ukraine gefallen. Nun hat Moskau Tote an Kyjiw zurückgegeben – wieder einmal.
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We've just created our first Starter Pack for staff at The Open University (UK)... join us! go.bsky.app/UhqW8VR
#OUfamily
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November 14, 2024 at 3:11 PM
We've just created our first Starter Pack for staff at The Open University (UK)... join us! go.bsky.app/UhqW8VR
#OUfamily
#OUfamily
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NEW: Porsha Ngumezi is the fifth case we've reported on in which a woman died after not receiving a D&C or its second-trimester equivalent in time, or at all.
Her case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
Her case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
A Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments.
Thirty-five-year-old Porsha Ngumezi’s case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
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November 25, 2024 at 12:00 PM
NEW: Porsha Ngumezi is the fifth case we've reported on in which a woman died after not receiving a D&C or its second-trimester equivalent in time, or at all.
Her case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
Her case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
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It was the power and advocacy of the education worker labor unions that formed the Department of Education. It is going to be the power and advocacy of education worker labor unions that protects Higher Education from the Department of Education in the coming years. @AAUP
November 23, 2024 at 3:31 PM
It was the power and advocacy of the education worker labor unions that formed the Department of Education. It is going to be the power and advocacy of education worker labor unions that protects Higher Education from the Department of Education in the coming years. @AAUP
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Joseph Beuys, ‘1. Wochenend- Austellung’. Frankfurt, 1978
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1079005
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1079005
September 8, 2024 at 11:59 AM
Joseph Beuys, ‘1. Wochenend- Austellung’. Frankfurt, 1978
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1079005
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1079005
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Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro charged with plotting coup d’état
Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro charged with plotting coup d’état
Police accuse 37 people of crimes including conspiracy and trying to tear down one of world’s largest democracies
The former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and some of his closest allies are among dozens of people formally accused by federal police…
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November 21, 2024 at 7:11 PM
Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro charged with plotting coup d’état
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Democrats have the majority for less than two more months. I'll be using every second to push for passage of my PRESS Act to protect journalists from government spying and surveillance.
NEW: Legislation that would bar the United States government from spying on journalists—except under rare, specific circumstances—is currently stalled in Congress.
Now, with only weeks left to legislate, press advocates are urging Senate Democrats to pass the bill, known as the PRESS Act.
Now, with only weeks left to legislate, press advocates are urging Senate Democrats to pass the bill, known as the PRESS Act.
Senate Democrats Are Running Out of Time to Pass a Shield Law to Protect Journalism
The PRESS Act, which would protect journalists from government spying, enjoys broad bipartisan support and has passed the House—but it’s unclear whether the Senate will take it up.
www.wired.com
November 14, 2024 at 7:02 PM
Democrats have the majority for less than two more months. I'll be using every second to push for passage of my PRESS Act to protect journalists from government spying and surveillance.
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"According to nearly complete totals, Trump secured his victory by just a cumulative 237,000 votes in three states that, had they gone the other way, would have meant victory for Harris..."
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Trump Signals a ‘Seismic Shift,’ Shocking the Washington Establishment
The president-elect’s early transition moves amount to a generational test of a system as he seeks to rewrite the balance of power and install lieutenants to blow up key parts of government.
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November 17, 2024 at 9:16 PM
"According to nearly complete totals, Trump secured his victory by just a cumulative 237,000 votes in three states that, had they gone the other way, would have meant victory for Harris..."
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The World is public radio’s longest-running daily global news program. 📻
Our goal is to engage domestic US audiences with international affairs through human-centered journalism that consistently connects the global to the local and builds empathy for people worldwide. theworld.org
Our goal is to engage domestic US audiences with international affairs through human-centered journalism that consistently connects the global to the local and builds empathy for people worldwide. theworld.org
The World from PRX
The World is a public radio program that crosses borders and time zones to bring home the stories that matter. From PRX.
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November 18, 2024 at 2:28 PM
The World is public radio’s longest-running daily global news program. 📻
Our goal is to engage domestic US audiences with international affairs through human-centered journalism that consistently connects the global to the local and builds empathy for people worldwide. theworld.org
Our goal is to engage domestic US audiences with international affairs through human-centered journalism that consistently connects the global to the local and builds empathy for people worldwide. theworld.org
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🔎 Analysis: President Biden’s decision to allow Kyiv’s troops to use powerful ATACMS missiles could bring hundreds of military facilities in Russia within range of strikes
How could long-range missiles affect the Ukraine war?
President Biden’s decision to allow Kyiv’s troops to use powerful ATACMS missiles could bring hundreds of military facilities in Russia within range of strikes
www.thetimes.com
November 18, 2024 at 2:31 PM
🔎 Analysis: President Biden’s decision to allow Kyiv’s troops to use powerful ATACMS missiles could bring hundreds of military facilities in Russia within range of strikes
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Law enforcement handed out more than 100 tickets in one day as “large trucks” tried to use “non-truck routes” to cross the North Carolina-Tennessee border.
100+ tickets in a day for big rigs in North Carolina mountains; semi trucks get stuck, flip, slide off small roads during I-40 closure, officials warn
North Carolina transportation officials cautioned about oversized trucks using narrow, twisting roads with some seen stuck, sliding off the roads and at least one flipped.
myfox8.com
November 18, 2024 at 2:35 PM
Law enforcement handed out more than 100 tickets in one day as “large trucks” tried to use “non-truck routes” to cross the North Carolina-Tennessee border.
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Nach der Entscheidung der USA, der Ukraine Angriffe auf Russlands Hinterland zu erlauben, kommen aus Moskau empörte Stimmen. Präsident Putin schweigt.
Krieg in der Ukraine: Russland droht mit „schärfsten Reaktionen“
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November 18, 2024 at 2:37 PM
Nach der Entscheidung der USA, der Ukraine Angriffe auf Russlands Hinterland zu erlauben, kommen aus Moskau empörte Stimmen. Präsident Putin schweigt.
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Mit Licht, Luft und politischem Willen: In den Zwanzigerjahren war Deutschland ein Musterland für fortschrittlichen Wohnungsbau. Was lässt sich daraus heute lernen?
Wohnungsnot: Schneller bauen, besser leben
Mit Licht, Luft und politischem Willen: In den Zwanzigerjahren war Deutschland ein Musterland für fortschrittlichen Wohnungsbau. Was lässt sich daraus heute lernen?
www.zeit.de
November 17, 2024 at 2:50 PM
Mit Licht, Luft und politischem Willen: In den Zwanzigerjahren war Deutschland ein Musterland für fortschrittlichen Wohnungsbau. Was lässt sich daraus heute lernen?
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President Zelensky will unveil a ten-point “resilience plan” to his people this week in an effort to boost morale damaged by Donald Trump’s election win, a Kyiv adviser has revealed
Revealed: Zelensky to unveil 10-point resilience plan for Ukraine
Morale in the country has dipped after the US election but even if western support fades, the Ukrainian president promises a new plan
www.thetimes.com
November 17, 2024 at 3:01 PM
President Zelensky will unveil a ten-point “resilience plan” to his people this week in an effort to boost morale damaged by Donald Trump’s election win, a Kyiv adviser has revealed
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A frustrating thing for me right now is the media narrative that RFK Jr is just an “anti-vaxxer” when he has said so many crazy things about other stuff over the years. We compiled 10 nutty clips on various topics, which still barely scratches the surface. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
'Viruses Are Our Friend'— 10 Off the Wall Video Clips from RFK Jr. Resurface on Bluesky
Past comments include denying AIDS and calling vaccinated children "damaged"
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November 15, 2024 at 8:39 PM
A frustrating thing for me right now is the media narrative that RFK Jr is just an “anti-vaxxer” when he has said so many crazy things about other stuff over the years. We compiled 10 nutty clips on various topics, which still barely scratches the surface. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...