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Kiera Butler

@kieraevebutler.bsky.social

New from me: I talked to CDC staffers about the new vaccines and autism page. They said things like:

“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”

“I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”

“Embarrassing” and “horrifying”: CDC workers describe the new vaccines and autism page

"The best way I can put it is it feels like we're on a hijacked airplane."

www.motherjones.com

November 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM

Aviv Sharon

@avivsharon.bsky.social

מה עושים עם דרכון ישראלי שפג תוקפו? שומרים למזכרת?

November 16, 2025 at 12:58 PM

Aviv Sharon

@avivsharon.bsky.social

באיזו שפה נתניהו משוחח עם פוטין בטלפון? אנגלית? 🤔

November 15, 2025 at 8:26 PM

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Carl Zimmer

@carlzimmer.com

I wrote some reflections this afternoon about how the discovery of the double helix changed the course of science. Gift link: nyti.ms/4qPS3y6

November 8, 2025 at 3:43 AM

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Timothy Snyder

@timothysnyder.bsky.social

Thank you Will Bunch

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · Oct 28

The Founders knew Congress - especially the House - was the backbone of U.S. democracy. It should be a huge story that Mike Johnson, serving Trump, has all but shut it down

From the Reichstag Fire to Putin's toothless Duma, this is what dictators do. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

It didn’t take a Reichstag Fire to burn down Congress | Will Bunch Newsletter

Plus, what’s troubling about Maine’s Nazi tattoo flap.

www.inquirer.com

October 28, 2025 at 11:53 PM

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Lisa Reyna Loe

@lisaloe.bsky.social

There’s only been one lawsuit filed against the devastating destruction of the White House.

One.

And it’s by Virginia couple, Charles and Judith Voorhees.

Not Congress, not historical (or any) institutions, but a citizen couple.

We continue to be the resistance.

newrepublic.com/post/202201/...

Trump Sued After Destroying White House for His Tacky Ballroom

Donald Trump was hit with a brutal lawsuit after demolishing the East Wing of the White House.

newrepublic.com

October 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM

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Carl T. Bergstrom

@carlbergstrom.com

RFK Jr. keeps repeating this ridiculous, ignorant bullshit.

Trust in expertise is literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.

I wrote a whole-ass thread about it last time around; maybe worth revisiting.

bsky.app/profile/carl...

Barbara Sobel @barbarasobel.bsky.social · Oct 15

RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.

October 16, 2025 at 6:33 AM

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The Tennessee Holler

@thetnholler.bsky.social

Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧

October 12, 2025 at 6:56 PM

Aviv Sharon

@avivsharon.bsky.social

הערב ראיתי עם האחים שלי את הסרט "צבעי הזמן" בפסטיבל הסרטים של חיפה. היה מעניין ויפה 🤩

youtu.be/_sTdOm2BID8?...

COLOURS OF TIME | Official Trailer | STUDIOCANAL

YouTube video by STUDIOCANAL

youtu.be

October 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM

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jamelle

@jamellebouie.net

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · Oct 11

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

October 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM

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Pam Herd

@pamherd.bsky.social

RFK fired the CDC official (w/decades of experience) leading the measles outbreak response. It's been decades since we've had such a large outbreak. And just to ensure they they can spread the measles outbreak even farther, they also fired the leadership for the center focused on immunization.

Figure showing the largest measles outbreak in the US in decades. There are over 1500 cases as of October 7 2025

October 11, 2025 at 2:58 PM

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The Oregonian

@oregonian.com

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

October 10, 2025 at 3:49 AM

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Petra Boynton

@petraboynton.bsky.social

“This is where I find my inner peace.” The man trying to save Ukraine's hamsters.

A reminder that small actions may be highly significant in the long term and can be vital when everything else going on is too big and too scary to fix by yourself.

www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

A scientist is saving Ukraine's hamsters—in the middle of war

Mikhail Rusin is perhaps the world's greatest hamster champion.

www.nationalgeographic.com

October 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM

Aviv Sharon

@avivsharon.bsky.social

חלמתי שאני נלחם בשטח בנוי והכדורים מעופפים סביבי 😬

September 21, 2025 at 7:55 AM

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Claire Willett

@clairewillett.bsky.social

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

One thing that has become really clear since yesterday is that we live in at least two different realities. Talking to a friend who only knew Charlie as a Christian motivational speaker because that's all that ever came across her feed. Showed me videos I've never seen before of him saying perfectly reasonable and empowering things.

I showed her videos she'd never seen before of his racism, misogyny, homophobia, advocating for violence against specific groups of people. She was horrified by his remarks about Pelosi's husband's attacker being bailed out and celebrated for his violent act. She was horrified by a number of things that he said, but she had never seen or heard them before, the same as I had never seen or heard the generalized clips of him sounding like a perfectly nice loving man and father.

Neither of us had a whole picture of this man. I mentioned he was a known white supremacist and she thought I was joking.

She talked about him giving a speech about finding your purpose and doing good in the world and I thought she was joking.

I saw why this friend was mourning the loss of a person she thought was a good person.
My friend, bless her, saw why I feel the way I do about him. We understood each other better. In spite of a multi-billion dollar internet machine specifically focused on keeping us apart. Because we talked to each other with the desire to listen and to learn rather than the desire to change someone else's mind or to be "right".

None of those motivational things he said change my opinion about him because they don't erase the negativity, the subtle calls for violence, the belittling and denigrating of other races religions genders etc. His negative and blaming comments about homeless people, the poor, and victims of domestic violence. His comments about rounding up people who didn't think like him and putting them in camps where their behavior could be corrected. That time he said empathy was a made-up word he didnt believe in. That other time he said the Civil Rights Act was a mistake. The time he said most people are afraid when they get on a plane and see that there's a black pilot. His anti-vaccination rhetoric and his active campaigning against people being allowed to wear masks for their own health. His open support of fascism and white supremacy. To me, all of those are fully unchristian sentiments. Those are undeniable and just one of them would be a deal-breaker for me. All of them together are a picture of a man who was polarizing,

enraged a lot of people and rightly so, but even with all of that I would never wish upon him or especially his children the end that he got.
Oh, and my friend had never heard, and God help me I don't know how she escaped the news, but she had never heard of the Minnesota legislators who were shot in June. The husband and wife and dog who were killed, one after throwing themselves over their child to protect the child. The other couple who somehow survived.

Politically motivated attacks specifically because they were democrats. She learned about those shootings that happened months ago because I showed her Charlie Kirk's comments about them. The kidnapping plot against a female Midwestern Democratic governor. The assassination attempt against Pennsylvania's democratic governor. All things Charlie had plenty to say about while supporting the Second Amendment and bashing the Democratic party. She didn't know about any of it because we're all living in two different worlds and none of us have the whole story.

September 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM

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Matt Johnson

@mattjj89.bsky.social

These senators had every last shred of information they needed to know that Kennedy’s confirmation would be a disaster for American health. They chose to placate Trump.

Suddenly they’re finding their courage when it’s too late.

Absolutely pathetic and contemptible. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...

September 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM

Aviv Sharon

@avivsharon.bsky.social

למה טינדר מראה לי גברים מלוקסמבורג ואלבקרקי?

September 7, 2025 at 10:23 PM

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Andy Craig

@andycraig.bsky.social

Among other things, there has been a total collapse of any pretense that government agencies aren't overtly partisan tools distinguishable from campaign accounts.

Alex Aronson @alexaronson.bsky.social · Sep 6

White Christian Taliban shit right here.

Time to stop tiptoeing around it. These people are fanatics pursuing a Holy War. It’s a critical piece of the threat assessment that should inform our strategies. (Psst. They’re not just going to hand back power.)

September 6, 2025 at 11:49 PM

Aviv Sharon

@avivsharon.bsky.social

לא ישנתי דקה הלילה ואז הלכתי לישון בבוקר.

רציתי לכתוב תרגום מילולי מאנגלית "לא ישנתי אפילו מצמוץ" אבל בעצם צריך להיות "לא ישנתי אפילו קריצה"

September 5, 2025 at 11:05 AM

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Tom Nichols

@radiofreetom.bsky.social

It is impossible to overstate the inanity of the vapid and stupid stunt of renaming the Defense Department, and Congress should step in and put a stop to it immediately.
Gift link:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Pete Hegseth’s Department of Cringe

Renaming the Defense Department is a pathetic stunt.

www.theatlantic.com

September 5, 2025 at 2:51 AM

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John Wiswell

@wiswell.bsky.social

Google's search engine was the greatest information retrieval tool I'd ever experienced in my life. So many mysteries unraveled under the scrutiny of a few keystrokes.

They lobotomized it *for this*.