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Alex Grooms
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PhD / Analytical Chemistry

“Only when it is dark enough can you see the stars”
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😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎
November 5, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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Tim Walz with the message of the night. 12/10.
April 2, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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If it isn’t already mind numbingly obvious to anyone out there.
Criminalizing protest is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes
March 4, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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I’m not going to the Joint Address. I will be live posting and chatting with you all here instead. Then going on IG Live after.
March 4, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.
February 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Pete's here
Hi Bluesky! Glad to be here.
February 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Trans rights are human rights.
January 30, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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One of my absolute favorite things is: Great Horned Owls 🦉 In the evenings I walk my dogs, and their hoot hoot hooots just … calm me.

Today one swooped in front of my car, landed on a branch, and looked straight at me.

As Rebecca Solnit says: “Everything we can save is worth saving”
January 30, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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First they must catch you
January 30, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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in retrospect I think it may have been a mistake to make the work machine and the procrastination machine be the same machine
January 26, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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cruelty. plain and simple. when folks are in need of shelter and support you don't make them change their fucking voter laws before you help. absolutely monstrous.
REPORTER: You talk about condition being placed on aid to California, voter ID and the like. Are there any conditions you're gonna put on aid to North Carolina?

TRUMP: We're gonna do a lot for North Carolina

R: So no conditions?

T: Well, in CA I have a condition. We want them to have voter ID
January 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH**

* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
Egg prices are soaring again. Here’s why and what to expect
Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.
www.kcur.org
January 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Some of my LA friends have told me that the problem is climate change, and it is. It’s January for fucks sake. But that doesn’t mean we have to solve climate change to better control fire. If we wait for that, cities will keep burning. There are ways to mitigate risk. www.latimes.com/california/s...
Inconvenient truths about the fires burning in Los Angeles from two fire experts
For years, renowned fire experts Jack Cohen and Stephen Pyne have tried to shift the conversation on fire prevention strategies. This week’s destruction, they say, could have been minimized.
www.latimes.com
January 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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