Jeanine Behrendt
jeanineb3.bsky.social
Jeanine Behrendt
@jeanineb3.bsky.social
Bold English teacher teaching real thinking, avid reader, crazy about dogs. Living carefully surrounded by a sea of red and jumping in to create change.
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This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
March 15, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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US intelligence indicates that Russia and China are attempting to recruit federal employees fired by the Trump administration, sources say
US intel shows Russia and China are attempting to recruit disgruntled federal employees, sources say | CNN Politics
Foreign adversaries including Russia and China have recently directed their intelligence services to ramp up recruiting of US federal employees working in national security, targeting those who have b...
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February 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Is it sinking in?
December 26, 2024 at 11:10 PM
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It’s very difficult to see how this assault on the constitutional order and democratic self-government can be defeated without a broad-scale mobilization of civil society.

But I’m also aware the Trumpists have been entirely clear they want to take radical measures to suppress protests.
February 22, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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During WWII, four brothers from the same Jewish family signed up to fight against the Nazis. Only one of the four brothers survived.

His grandson is the current President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky.

Slava Ukraine! Heroyam Slava! 💙💛
February 20, 2025 at 9:08 PM
February 19, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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How much is Congress cutting from their $6.5 billion/year budget? Don’t you think congress can operate on say, maybe, $5 Billion? And each congressman has 18 staff, they could operate on say, 14?

What about the White House?
February 19, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post would not run this ad. This is the power of oligarchy.
February 17, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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It’s almost like we should use human writers, huh www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...
Groundbreaking BBC research shows issues with over half the answers from Artificial Intelligence (AI) assistants
Conducted over a month, the study saw the BBC test four prominent, publicly available AI assistants
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February 17, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.

If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
February 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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They had it for lunch, didn't they?
February 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.

The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com
At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...
clarksvillenow.com
February 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Some federal employees who accepted Trump’s buyout offer are now being notified that their buyout has been denied, and they are being terminated instead.
February 16, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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A new study shows that bird flu has silently spread from animals to some veterinarians.
CDC finds evidence that bird flu spread silently to veterinarians, suggesting undercount of cases
A new study published Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that bird flu has silently spread from animals to some veterinarians, echoing two smaller studies that detected…
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February 13, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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🔥 “Wake the hell up.”

Former RNC chair @michaelsteele.bsky.social goes in on Elon’s infiltration into the federal government, accessing everyone’s personal info
February 15, 2025 at 10:03 PM