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‘There comes a time when silence is betrayal’ - MLK
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Speaking of Jane Goodall, my favorite quote by her:

“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
October 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Scientists must learn to join larger pro-democracy and people's movements, coalitions. Our science training may not have prepared us for such work, but we can no longer sit in the safety of our labs and expect the world to get better

My book review @thelancet.com

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
From doing science to saving science
Science and scientists are under assault. From denial of vaccines to climate change, political leaders are increasingly sacrificing democracy as well as science on the altar of populism and authoritar...
www.thelancet.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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After Zohran’s win, if Dems reorient their party back to New Deal-style populism and genuinely combat the corporations and billionaires ruining everyone’s lives, then this moment of discontent across the country could have staying power — and be a positive force.
Welcome To The New Uprising
Zohran Mamdani’s victory could be a turning point for Democrats — if the party finally learns from its past leaders’ betrayals.
www.levernews.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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Powerful sign at No Kings in Cleveland
October 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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In Boston, every day is No Kings Day
Boston. Wow.
October 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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A friend in Corvallis, Oregon sent me this one 🤣 #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:
ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.
Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.
www.thehandbasket.co
October 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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I've been saying from the start that Trump does not choose his political martyrs well.
Tish James lit up the room last night — and her words echoed far beyond the walls of The United Palace. This is a fight for the future.
October 15, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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The White House projects its FY 2026 budget would result in over 75,000 lost research jobs and over 150,000 fewer students and teachers who engage with STEM programs and research nationwide.

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September 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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“If we don’t measure food insecurity, no one’s hungry”

“If we delete research on right-wing violence, there’s no right-wing violence”

“If we don’t release inflation data, there’s no inflation”

“If we stop Covid testing, we’ll have fewer cases”

You see what’s happening, right?
September 20, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.
September 18, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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The state of America: Cyndi Lauper changes the lyrics to Girls Just Want to Have Fun to Girls Just Want Fundamental Rights.....
September 2, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
September 2, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
September 1, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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look I'm not myself a political scientist so I can't say what effects it would have for a spate of politicians to crop up saying "the enemy is the oligarchy" and "the enemy is billionaires" while swinging a kettlebell but I think we should try it for science and see what happens
My name is Graham Platner and I’m running for US Senate to defeat Susan Collins and topple the oligarchy that’s destroying our country.

I’m a veteran, oysterman, and working class Mainer who’s seen this state become unlivable for working people. And that makes me deeply angry.
August 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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⭐timeline cleanse⭐

enjoy humans just being wonderful for a second
This is a masterpiece. Simply excellent
www.instagram.com/reel/DMVGMIC...
August 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Important information for those in the LGBTQIA+ community

Ways to protect yourself if the Trump Admin and far-right zealots on SCOTUS strike down the Obergefell vs Hodges ruling that legalized same-sex marriage —

🎥 @underthedesknews.bsky.social
August 12, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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Stephen Colbert is going SCORCHED EARTH right now. To RFK Jr: “Fuck you, you roid-addled nepo carnie! Fuck you, you roadkill-munching Luddite human slim jim!”
August 7, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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Dems. Wanna get your polling out of the gutter? Stop talking about redrawing house maps in blue states and do it. Go big. Don't match them seat for seat. Blow them out of the water. Then endorse Mamdani. You're welcome.

Love, Allison
July 30, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.
July 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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When you’re definitely not guilty.
July 16, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Here's the Rosie O'Donnell TikTok that Trump was retaliating against: a moral critique of Trump's policies.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7an...
What Rosie said about kids dying in the Texas floods that Trump doesn't want you to hear
YouTube video by L O L G O P
www.youtube.com
July 14, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.
June 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM