bob bowen
blackduckri.bsky.social
bob bowen
@blackduckri.bsky.social
retired scientist
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September 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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We hate this shooting as much as conservatives do.

The difference is we hate all the other ones, too.
September 10, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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🚨 🚨

NEW WHITEBOARD

While the GOP is trying to gaslight the nation on its new round of gerrymandering, the truth is it’s an assault on democracy that mirrors “The Big Lie” effort after November 2020. And should be treated as such.

How?

WATCH and RT

Then 1/
August 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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This is an obvious violation of reporters' rights.

Secret Service members should have basic First Amendment training, especially if they are going to be dispatched in the field.
Secret Service agents searched and read through Cincinnati Enquirer reporter @eringlynn.bsky.social’s notebook, which included unpublished work product, during a security screening ahead of an event with Vice President @jd-vance-1.bsky.social in Lima, Ohio, on June 24.
Ohio reporter’s notebook searched by Secret Service at Vance fundraiser
Erin Glynn, a reporter for The Cincinnati Enquirer, had her reporting notebook searched by Secret Service agents during a security …
pressfreedomtracker.us
August 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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🚨🚨🚨 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon & adjudicated rapist Trump did 🚨🚨🚨
July 14, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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This will be my next protest sign. I am just one human of the huddled masses but you will hear me ROAR! And Im not going away.
Truth.........🔥💯🔥
May 12, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Two backpacking German teenagers who had obtained ESTA approval from DHS were detained by CBP at the Honolulu airport, strip searched, jailed overnight, and ultimately deported to Japan because immigration officials weren’t satisfied with their lodging arrangements. beatofhawaii.com/why-these-ha...
April 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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A 19-year-old US citizen from Albuquerque visiting friends in Tucson is picked up by ICE and locked away for 10 days because ICE agents are convinced he's not a US citizen... because his skin is the wrong color, apparently. No International border was crossed or approached at any point.
U.S. citizen in Arizona detained by immigration officials for 10 days
news.azpm.org
April 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Share and repost! More details coming shortly. #50501 #rhodeisland #providence #nokings #protest
April 13, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Incredibly relieved to see confirmation that Kilmar is alive. Now we need to bring him home.
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
April 18, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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False statements made by Columbia administrators who are colluding with Trump are used to arrest a star philosophy department student. More evidence of the deep rot inside the Columbia administration that badly needs to be rooted out.
The State Department Relied on Columbia University’s Mischaracterization of Protests to Arrest Mohsen Mahdawi
Columbia University refused to retract its statement calling pro-Palestine protests “intimidation.” Now, the Trump administration is using it against Mohsen Mahdawi.
open.substack.com
April 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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38 of the 43.

"38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic.

"The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..."

www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Evolution works! How about that? Very cool demo, but it makes you wonder that if it only takes 11 days to overcome 1000x a killing dose of antibiotics, why are we feeding so many antibiotics to livestock as a routine part of their feed?
In 2016, the Kishony Lab at Harvard Medical School put together this demonstration of acquired antibiotic resistance in E. coli bacteria, creating a mega-Petri dish (2' x 4') with a stepped gradient of antibiotic.

Seeing the mutants emerge & spread is an elegant demo of evolutionary change.
The Evolution of Bacteria on a “Mega-Plate” Petri Dish (Kishony Lab)
YouTube video by Harvard Medical School
youtu.be
April 13, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I think this article is a good assessment of where we are now.
The Technate of North America: How the New Oligarchy Plans to Rule the Future
Democracy Is Over. The Technate Is Here. What Comes Next?
heyslick.substack.com
April 12, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Me too
I really hate this season of the White POTUS.
April 9, 2025 at 11:19 AM
good historical analysis of the origins of Muskism
Opinion | The Failed Ideas That Drive Elon Musk
His belief that liberal democracy has failed and that technologists should lead can be traced to the unusual life of his grandfather.
www.nytimes.com
April 8, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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An extraordinary separate dissent from Justice Jackson accuses the majority of trying to pass off its dirty work under the cover of the shadow docket and explicitly invokes Korematsu, the Japanese internment case. Wow. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
April 7, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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In the culmination of a weeks-long standoff between Elon Musk’s DOGE team and the United States Institute of Peace, a federal judge has ruled that DOGE can take over USIP’s $500 million office building—for free.
Federal Judge Allows DOGE to Take Over $500 Million Office Building for Free
It’s the culmination of a weeks-long standoff between Elon Musk’s DOGE team and the United States Institute of Peace.
wrd.cm
April 5, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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April 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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April 1, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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"Hegseth, Waltz, Gabbard: Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online"
www.spiegel.de/internationa...
Hegseth, Waltz, Gabbard: Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online
Donald Trump's most important security advisers used Signal to discuss an imminent military strike. Now, reporting by DER SPIEGEL has found that the contact data of some of those officials, including ...
www.spiegel.de
March 27, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Tulsi has no free will. Her inner conflict is between obeying her guru or Putin.
meanwhile...have seen nearly zero big media reporting on the fact that Tulsi Gabbard committed perjury for the past two days. Repeatedly.
One thing she said today, was she didn't know where she was, during group chat. Her DNI Xitter account literally tells us---en route to India (from Hawaii)
March 27, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did.
March 25, 2025 at 11:27 AM