Mary K. "MK" Sandford
@docmks.bsky.social
Biological anthropologist, retired university Prof, writer, photographer, guitarist, LGBTQ, songwriter, Democrat, social critic; person with psoriatic arthritis, migraines. Certified as a nature-based meditation teacher. Looking to teach online.
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"A 3D printable bio-active glass could be used to repair bone damage and help them grow back, a study suggests." www.newsweek.com/scientists-c...
Scientists Can Now 3D Print Glass To Help Bones Grow Back
bones
www.newsweek.com
September 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
"A 3D printable bio-active glass could be used to repair bone damage and help them grow back, a study suggests." www.newsweek.com/scientists-c...
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With ICE's *enormous* new budget and its ability to hire *many* more agents, the United States is about to enter an era of brutal domestic terrorism that we've never seen before.
July 3, 2025 at 7:28 PM
With ICE's *enormous* new budget and its ability to hire *many* more agents, the United States is about to enter an era of brutal domestic terrorism that we've never seen before.
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Peter Hegseth didn't wake up today thinking that it would be women who'd hand him his ass in front of millions of Americans watching.
Tammy Duckworth is a role model for women everywhere.🔥
Tammy Duckworth is a role model for women everywhere.🔥
January 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Peter Hegseth didn't wake up today thinking that it would be women who'd hand him his ass in front of millions of Americans watching.
Tammy Duckworth is a role model for women everywhere.🔥
Tammy Duckworth is a role model for women everywhere.🔥
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Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Tammy Duckworth are demanding information from the Defense Department about Elon Musk's meeting this morning at the Pentagon.
"Did the Pentagon today provide Mr. Musk with a top-secret briefing today on U.S. war plans for China?" www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
"Did the Pentagon today provide Mr. Musk with a top-secret briefing today on U.S. war plans for China?" www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Tammy Duckworth demand answers about Musk's Pentagon meeting
Sens.
www.nbcnews.com
March 21, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Tammy Duckworth are demanding information from the Defense Department about Elon Musk's meeting this morning at the Pentagon.
"Did the Pentagon today provide Mr. Musk with a top-secret briefing today on U.S. war plans for China?" www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
"Did the Pentagon today provide Mr. Musk with a top-secret briefing today on U.S. war plans for China?" www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
SIGN: Tell Bishop Barron to listen to Pope Francis: Bishop Barron recently compared Trump's congressional address to high mass. We call on him to repent of his idolatry, and listen to the wisdom of Pope Francis. act.faithfulamerica.org/sign/bishop-...
SIGN: Tell Bishop Barron to listen to Pope Francis
Bishop Barron recently compared Trump's congressional address to high mass. We call on him to repent of his idolatry, and listen to the wisdom of Pope Francis.
act.faithfulamerica.org
March 21, 2025 at 8:12 PM
SIGN: Tell Bishop Barron to listen to Pope Francis: Bishop Barron recently compared Trump's congressional address to high mass. We call on him to repent of his idolatry, and listen to the wisdom of Pope Francis. act.faithfulamerica.org/sign/bishop-...
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Trump’s EPA just launched the biggest attack on clean air and water in decades. Slashing pollution rules, gutting climate protections, and undermining basic science. They're trying to Make Pollution Great Again—and we can’t let it stand.
Trump officials decimate climate protections and consider axeing key greenhouse gas finding
EPA takes aim at almost every major pollution rule in what environmentalists call act of ‘malice toward the planet’
www.theguardian.com
March 16, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Trump’s EPA just launched the biggest attack on clean air and water in decades. Slashing pollution rules, gutting climate protections, and undermining basic science. They're trying to Make Pollution Great Again—and we can’t let it stand.
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Thousands of fired probationary employees must be offered their jobs back, judge orders. 🧪
eos.org/research-and...
eos.org/research-and...
Firings Reversed: Federal Workers to be Offered Their Jobs Back - Eos
Today, a federal judge in San Francisco ordered the Trump administration to offer reinstatement to all probationary employees previously fired from the departments of Agriculture, Defense, Energy, Int...
eos.org
March 13, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Thousands of fired probationary employees must be offered their jobs back, judge orders. 🧪
eos.org/research-and...
eos.org/research-and...
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Bingo
Hey MAGA! Just because someone is a woman or a racial or sexual minority doesn’t mean they’re a DEI hire. Yes, there are unqualified people being appointed to government positions in the Trump administration, but they are mostly unqualified, straight white male idiots.
January 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Bingo
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NEW: A former top Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) official sued the Trump administration Tuesday claiming she was unlawfully fired without cause last month. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
FEMA Official Sues Trump Administration Alleging Unlawful Firing and Defamation
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
March 5, 2025 at 12:06 AM
NEW: A former top Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) official sued the Trump administration Tuesday claiming she was unlawfully fired without cause last month. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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This is amazing!
⚒️🧪#SciArt
⚒️🧪#SciArt
For #thinsectionthursday, an artistic treat:
One of my students, Augusta Weaver, prepared 12 paintings of rocks under microscope for her Studio Art minor project. To say I'm proud is an understatement 🤩
Augusta took my Earth Materials class last Fall, and she fell in love with thin sections
One of my students, Augusta Weaver, prepared 12 paintings of rocks under microscope for her Studio Art minor project. To say I'm proud is an understatement 🤩
Augusta took my Earth Materials class last Fall, and she fell in love with thin sections
January 16, 2025 at 8:14 PM
This is amazing!
⚒️🧪#SciArt
⚒️🧪#SciArt
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Trump wants to cut the corporate tax rate to 15%. This would give...
-The 5 largest banks a $4.1B tax cut
-The 5 largest drug makers a $3.1B tax cut
-The 5 largest US oil companies a $2.5B tax cut
-The 5 largest grocery stores a $1.7B tax cut
Some populist, huh?
-The 5 largest banks a $4.1B tax cut
-The 5 largest drug makers a $3.1B tax cut
-The 5 largest US oil companies a $2.5B tax cut
-The 5 largest grocery stores a $1.7B tax cut
Some populist, huh?
Trump’s $50 Billion Tax Giveaway to the 100 Largest Corporations
Trump’s plan to slash the corporate tax rate would give the largest corporations a tax cut exceeding federal K-12 education spending.
www.americanprogressaction.org
January 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Trump wants to cut the corporate tax rate to 15%. This would give...
-The 5 largest banks a $4.1B tax cut
-The 5 largest drug makers a $3.1B tax cut
-The 5 largest US oil companies a $2.5B tax cut
-The 5 largest grocery stores a $1.7B tax cut
Some populist, huh?
-The 5 largest banks a $4.1B tax cut
-The 5 largest drug makers a $3.1B tax cut
-The 5 largest US oil companies a $2.5B tax cut
-The 5 largest grocery stores a $1.7B tax cut
Some populist, huh?
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815 billionaires hold more wealth than half of American households.
If that doesn’t tell you we’re in a second Gilded Age, I don’t know what will.
If that doesn’t tell you we’re in a second Gilded Age, I don’t know what will.
November 27, 2024 at 6:18 PM
815 billionaires hold more wealth than half of American households.
If that doesn’t tell you we’re in a second Gilded Age, I don’t know what will.
If that doesn’t tell you we’re in a second Gilded Age, I don’t know what will.
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“My client testified to the House Ethics Committee that she witnessed Rep. Gaetz having sex with a minor at a house party in Orlando in 2017.”
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Woman told House ethics committee she saw Gaetz have sex with minor, her lawyer says
Matt Gaetz is president-elect Donald Trump's choice to become U.S. attorney general.
www.nbcnews.com
November 16, 2024 at 2:21 AM
“My client testified to the House Ethics Committee that she witnessed Rep. Gaetz having sex with a minor at a house party in Orlando in 2017.”
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
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“Women are walking around, suspicious and guarded and apoplectic, knowing that some in our families or neighborhoods voted us back into second-class status, and wondering what else they’re ready to go along with.”
By me.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Of misogyny, Musk, and men
Women are not okay. We're furious.
www.motherjones.com
November 15, 2024 at 4:36 PM
“Women are walking around, suspicious and guarded and apoplectic, knowing that some in our families or neighborhoods voted us back into second-class status, and wondering what else they’re ready to go along with.”
By me.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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A handful of billionaires now have unprecedented control over banking, the food we eat, the health care we can access and, now, the information we receive.
This is what oligarchy looks like.
This is what oligarchy looks like.
November 15, 2024 at 10:47 PM
A handful of billionaires now have unprecedented control over banking, the food we eat, the health care we can access and, now, the information we receive.
This is what oligarchy looks like.
This is what oligarchy looks like.
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Welcome to Blue Sky.
November 15, 2024 at 5:24 AM
Welcome to Blue Sky.
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this rules
“Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, the two Georgia poll workers defamed by Rudolph W. Giuliani after the 2020 election, received his watch collection, a ring and his vintage Mercedes-Benz on Friday.”
Georgia Poll Workers Defamed by Giuliani Receive Some of His Assets
A watch collection, a ring and a vintage Mercedes-Benz belonging to the former Trump lawyer were delivered nearly a year after he was ordered to pay $148 million to the workers he had spread lies abou...
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2024 at 1:45 AM
this rules
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Treating lupus by depleting B cells with CAR T cells has been shown successful
A breakthrough cancer immunotherapy is now taking aim at autoimmune disease | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
A breakthrough cancer immunotherapy is now taking aim at autoimmune disease | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
A breakthrough cancer immunotherapy is now taking aim at autoimmune disease
CAR-T therapy is generating excitement for lupus, scleroderma, and other conditions as clinical trials expand
www.science.org
November 15, 2024 at 11:28 AM
Treating lupus by depleting B cells with CAR T cells has been shown successful
A breakthrough cancer immunotherapy is now taking aim at autoimmune disease | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
A breakthrough cancer immunotherapy is now taking aim at autoimmune disease | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
In the early morning, standing barefoot on my cold, wet deck, I watched a full moon forming. A midnight blue sky, framed by white pines, hemlocks, Western Red Cedars, and Douglas Firs, gave me momentary peace of mind. A Bard Owl called into the night; Miles the dog whimpered for me to return inside.
November 16, 2024 at 1:28 AM
In the early morning, standing barefoot on my cold, wet deck, I watched a full moon forming. A midnight blue sky, framed by white pines, hemlocks, Western Red Cedars, and Douglas Firs, gave me momentary peace of mind. A Bard Owl called into the night; Miles the dog whimpered for me to return inside.
Although I am concerned about the safety of the emus and monkeys, I'm more worried about the fact that there are feral and untrained cabinet members running loose in Washington, D.C.
Two “feral and not trained” emus named Thelma and Louise are on the loose in South Carolina about three hours from the 43 monkey escape that happened days earlier
"Feral and not trained" emus Thelma and Louise on the loose in South Carolina as state's monkey search continues
Police in Horry County, South Carolina, said this week that they are searching for two missing emus that have been evading capture for months: "We are not emu-sed."
www.cbsnews.com
November 16, 2024 at 12:52 AM
Although I am concerned about the safety of the emus and monkeys, I'm more worried about the fact that there are feral and untrained cabinet members running loose in Washington, D.C.
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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
-- Margaret Mead, who died #OTD 1978
-- Margaret Mead, who died #OTD 1978
November 15, 2024 at 1:18 PM
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
-- Margaret Mead, who died #OTD 1978
-- Margaret Mead, who died #OTD 1978