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Concetta DiRusso
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Scientist, gardener, grandmother, earthling
Nydia Velázquez, a New York Trailblazer in Congress, to Retire Next Year www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/n...
YES, let a new generation step up!
Nydia Velázquez, a New York Trailblazer in Congress, to Retire Next Year
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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"Looking back, that season taught me lessons I’ll hold forever. I learned to ask for help without shame and lean on my support system of friends and classmates. Most importantly, I learned to keep sight of why I came here in the first place." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/49lcqwR
November 18, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Live Count: The House Votes on Releasing the Epstein Files www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Live Count: The House Votes on Releasing the Epstein Files
See how every member voted.
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Pine River Shares Fall cleanup
November 16, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Great rally in Durango, CO. NO kings
October 19, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Pope Leo XIV on Oct. 15 called on world leaders to show responsibility as he urged the international community to focus on the multitudes across the globe who face hunger, wars and misery.
Pope Leo urges world leaders 'not to look the other way' in fighting global hunger
"In a time when science has lengthened life expectancy, allowing millions of human beings to live, and die, struck by hunger is a collective failure, an ethical derailment, an historic offense," he sa...
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October 17, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Looking like fall in SW CO!
October 17, 2025 at 1:50 AM
China tries to use Trump turmoil to unite leaders against U.S.-led order - The Washington Post

Can anyone in the US miss the fact that Trump is destroying us and our opponents are massing to dive in for the kill?
September 1, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Today’s harvest! May no one go hungry.
August 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Today’s joy
August 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The beauty of pollinators.
July 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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#ProudBlue

This is what true leadership looks like. You lead with compassion & empathy. You comfort & heal.

Not the hateful BS happening right now.

I miss Biden’s leadership. He wasn’t perfect, but he is a good man & a true leader.

These pics don’t fit their narrative of him being unfit.
June 28, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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A new #ScienceReview takes a look at the contribution of neuroinflammation during the course of a range of neurologic disorders, including multiple sclerosis, stroke, Alzheimer's disease, and Parkinson's disease. scim.ag/44wDXIH
Neuroinflammation across neurological diseases
The brain’s response to injury includes the activation of intrinsic microglia and the influx of leukocytes, collectively constituting neuroinflammation, the “flame” of the brain. Although details diff...
scim.ag
June 24, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Little Luna learning to hike the Colorado Trail
June 20, 2025 at 12:36 AM
No Kings Parade Durango Colorado June 14th — Nextdoor - Nextdoor
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No Kings Parade Durango Colorado June 14th
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June 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Gutting of America’s Medical Research: Here Is Every Canceled or Delayed N.I.H. Grant (Gift Article)
Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.
www.nytimes.com
June 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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its crazy how dominant germany was in science (especially chemistry) in the 19th century, it was basically the international language for scientists, people came from all over the world to train at heidelberg etc, and then....
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
May 31, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Spring flowers are amazing.
May 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Gene Sharp: “Dictators are never as strong as they tell you they are,” he once said, “and people are never as weak as they think they are.”
May 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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The GOP’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is Robin Hood in reverse: it takes from the poor to give to the rich.SNAP (used to be Food Stamps…which Tabby and I used back in 1972) is gone. Medicare is going.
May 23, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Today, I introduced the STABLE GENIUS Act to ban federal officeholders and candidates from profiting off digital assets like crypto. We have seen rampant corruption in the highest levels of government that can no longer go unchecked. Learn more about my legislation here ⬇️
Bennet Introduces Legislation to Prevent Elected Officials and Candidates From Corruptly Profiting From Crypto - U.S. Senator Michael Bennet
The STABLE GENIUS Act Bans Politicians From Issuing or Endorsing Digital Assets, and Require Them to Establish Blind Trusts Washington, D.C. — Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, member of the Senat...
bennet.senate.gov
May 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM