@wby69.bsky.social
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Israel just arrested the former top lawyer for the IDF for leaking a video of Palestinian prisoners getting viciously sexually abused.
(Barely a peep in 🇺🇸 media about this)
www.bbc.com/news/article...
(Barely a peep in 🇺🇸 media about this)
www.bbc.com/news/article...
November 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Israel just arrested the former top lawyer for the IDF for leaking a video of Palestinian prisoners getting viciously sexually abused.
(Barely a peep in 🇺🇸 media about this)
www.bbc.com/news/article...
(Barely a peep in 🇺🇸 media about this)
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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November 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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TODAY'S HOLLER: Trump Gaslights Struggling Farmers 🧑🌾 Right-Wing Agitators at TSU 🤔 Mark Cuban On the Holler & more
Check out today's links & videos: t.co/JjzBIlOnfB
CHIP IN and grab a Holler hat: tnholler.com/holler-hats/
Check out today's links & videos: t.co/JjzBIlOnfB
CHIP IN and grab a Holler hat: tnholler.com/holler-hats/
September 26, 2025 at 8:27 PM
TODAY'S HOLLER: Trump Gaslights Struggling Farmers 🧑🌾 Right-Wing Agitators at TSU 🤔 Mark Cuban On the Holler & more
Check out today's links & videos: t.co/JjzBIlOnfB
CHIP IN and grab a Holler hat: tnholler.com/holler-hats/
Check out today's links & videos: t.co/JjzBIlOnfB
CHIP IN and grab a Holler hat: tnholler.com/holler-hats/
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An antidote to despair and cynicism -- academics studying countries facing autocratic takeovers document that more than half of these episodes lead to "U-turns" and more than 90% result in strengthened democracies. Up to us to make it so!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
When autocratization is reversed: episodes of U-Turns since 1900
The world is in a “wave of autocratization.” Yet, recent events in Brazil, the Maldives, and Zambia demonstrate that autocratization can be halted and reversed. This article introduces “U-Turn” as ...
www.tandfonline.com
September 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
An antidote to despair and cynicism -- academics studying countries facing autocratic takeovers document that more than half of these episodes lead to "U-turns" and more than 90% result in strengthened democracies. Up to us to make it so!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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On the 80th anniversary of Hiroshima, Michael speaks with Garrett M. Graff ( @vermontgmg.bsky.social ), author of "The Devil Reached Toward the Sky", a history of the atomic bomb’s development, those behind it, the decision to use it, and its enduring legacy.
#bookclub #podcast 🎧📖 loom.ly/w1hBbWM
#bookclub #podcast 🎧📖 loom.ly/w1hBbWM
August 6, 2025 at 7:58 PM
On the 80th anniversary of Hiroshima, Michael speaks with Garrett M. Graff ( @vermontgmg.bsky.social ), author of "The Devil Reached Toward the Sky", a history of the atomic bomb’s development, those behind it, the decision to use it, and its enduring legacy.
#bookclub #podcast 🎧📖 loom.ly/w1hBbWM
#bookclub #podcast 🎧📖 loom.ly/w1hBbWM
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The only way that Jay Bhattacharya can say that banned words lists are made up is to lie about them.
Jay Bhattacharya says that Program Officers made up banned words lists at NIH.
This is a real email I got at NIH. (Granted, before Jay started.) But nothing has changed since he joined.
I refused to censor the summary, so it remains unposted. And I have tried since Jay arrived.
This is a real email I got at NIH. (Granted, before Jay started.) But nothing has changed since he joined.
I refused to censor the summary, so it remains unposted. And I have tried since Jay arrived.
August 6, 2025 at 11:15 PM
The only way that Jay Bhattacharya can say that banned words lists are made up is to lie about them.
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Political Science Professor Seth Masket and Senior Vice-President of Open Primaries Jeremy Gruber join Michael Smerconish to debate the benefits and drawbacks of open primaries in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
https://loom.ly/BTBVCd0
https://loom.ly/BTBVCd0
Petitioners advocate for open primaries in Pennsylvania | CNN Politics
Political Science Professor Seth Masket and Vice-President of Open Primaries Jeremy Gruber join Michael Smerconish to debate the benefits and drawbacks of open primaries in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
www.cnn.com
July 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Political Science Professor Seth Masket and Senior Vice-President of Open Primaries Jeremy Gruber join Michael Smerconish to debate the benefits and drawbacks of open primaries in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
https://loom.ly/BTBVCd0
https://loom.ly/BTBVCd0
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WELKER: “NYT is reporting thousands of calls from flood victims to FEMA went unanswered because you didn't renew contracts to keep call centers staffed.”
NOEM: “Fake news.”
Again: ‘1984’ is upon us.
NOEM: “Fake news.”
Again: ‘1984’ is upon us.
July 13, 2025 at 3:23 PM
WELKER: “NYT is reporting thousands of calls from flood victims to FEMA went unanswered because you didn't renew contracts to keep call centers staffed.”
NOEM: “Fake news.”
Again: ‘1984’ is upon us.
NOEM: “Fake news.”
Again: ‘1984’ is upon us.
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In Montreal for the American Society for Virology meeting. Four days of absolute adrenaline ahead. #ASV2025
#LoveVirology
If you are attending the satellite symposiums, don’t miss the CSV symposium on emerging viruses that we are hosting.
@cansocvirol.bsky.social
@amersocvirology.bsky.social
#LoveVirology
If you are attending the satellite symposiums, don’t miss the CSV symposium on emerging viruses that we are hosting.
@cansocvirol.bsky.social
@amersocvirology.bsky.social
July 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
In Montreal for the American Society for Virology meeting. Four days of absolute adrenaline ahead. #ASV2025
#LoveVirology
If you are attending the satellite symposiums, don’t miss the CSV symposium on emerging viruses that we are hosting.
@cansocvirol.bsky.social
@amersocvirology.bsky.social
#LoveVirology
If you are attending the satellite symposiums, don’t miss the CSV symposium on emerging viruses that we are hosting.
@cansocvirol.bsky.social
@amersocvirology.bsky.social
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I’m all for more NAMS, but it has its limits. There are no LLMs or organs-on-a-chip that can model viral pathogenesis, vaccine efficacy, or candidate drugs. We only use animals when there is no other choice.
This will only stop more lifesaving research.
www.drugdiscoverytrends.com/nih-announce...
This will only stop more lifesaving research.
www.drugdiscoverytrends.com/nih-announce...
NIH announces end to funding for animal-only studies - Drug Discovery and Development
Drug Discovery and Development covers strategies and technologies related to pharmaceutical research and development and drug formulation.
www.drugdiscoverytrends.com
July 8, 2025 at 6:56 AM
I’m all for more NAMS, but it has its limits. There are no LLMs or organs-on-a-chip that can model viral pathogenesis, vaccine efficacy, or candidate drugs. We only use animals when there is no other choice.
This will only stop more lifesaving research.
www.drugdiscoverytrends.com/nih-announce...
This will only stop more lifesaving research.
www.drugdiscoverytrends.com/nih-announce...
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I signed the Bethesda Declaration and you should too. If not because it's the right thing to do, then because Jay Bhattacharya is a menace to American health and science and he is destroying NIH.
open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...
open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...
Sign the Bethesda Declaration
Not all public health declarations need to involve "let 'er rip" mass infection strategies
open.substack.com
June 10, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I signed the Bethesda Declaration and you should too. If not because it's the right thing to do, then because Jay Bhattacharya is a menace to American health and science and he is destroying NIH.
open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...
open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...
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Stephen Miller got caught repeatedly trafficking in white nationalist rhetoric and conspiracy theories and an ABC News reporter got suspended for calling Miller hateful
Stephen Miller’s Affinity for White Nationalism Revealed in Leaked Emails
In the run-up to the 2016 election, White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller promoted white nationalist literature, pushed racist immigration stories.
www.splcenter.org
June 8, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Stephen Miller got caught repeatedly trafficking in white nationalist rhetoric and conspiracy theories and an ABC News reporter got suspended for calling Miller hateful
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More corporate media capitulation.
ABC should ashamed of themselves.
@terrymoranabc.bsky.social should quit on principle.
ABC should ashamed of themselves.
@terrymoranabc.bsky.social should quit on principle.
Stephen Miller got caught repeatedly trafficking in white nationalist rhetoric and conspiracy theories and an ABC News reporter got suspended for calling Miller hateful
Stephen Miller’s Affinity for White Nationalism Revealed in Leaked Emails
In the run-up to the 2016 election, White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller promoted white nationalist literature, pushed racist immigration stories.
www.splcenter.org
June 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM
More corporate media capitulation.
ABC should ashamed of themselves.
@terrymoranabc.bsky.social should quit on principle.
ABC should ashamed of themselves.
@terrymoranabc.bsky.social should quit on principle.
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WATCH: “Holy f*ck — They literally just shot her point blank… I live here…”
@lapdhq shoot a woman trying to get to her apartment at point blank range with a rubber bullet.
Alexandria’s page (the woman who helps her): www.tiktok.com/@labyrinthlo...
@lapdhq shoot a woman trying to get to her apartment at point blank range with a rubber bullet.
Alexandria’s page (the woman who helps her): www.tiktok.com/@labyrinthlo...
June 11, 2025 at 3:08 AM
WATCH: “Holy f*ck — They literally just shot her point blank… I live here…”
@lapdhq shoot a woman trying to get to her apartment at point blank range with a rubber bullet.
Alexandria’s page (the woman who helps her): www.tiktok.com/@labyrinthlo...
@lapdhq shoot a woman trying to get to her apartment at point blank range with a rubber bullet.
Alexandria’s page (the woman who helps her): www.tiktok.com/@labyrinthlo...
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GOP Sen. Joni Ernst responds to voters saying that cutting Medicaid will kill them: “Well, we all are going to die.”
May 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
GOP Sen. Joni Ernst responds to voters saying that cutting Medicaid will kill them: “Well, we all are going to die.”
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42,500 deaths annually. That's the number projected by a Yale study on the loss of Medicaid coverage due to Trump's disgusting abomination bill.
June 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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When I say we're in a persuasion window, cause we see it in our focus groups, here's what that looks with actual representative sample. People are re-evaluating toxic ideas of what government *ought* to do (while still very dubious of what it actually could be.)
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
Should government do more to solve problems? Poll results break 33-year record
Pluralities of respondents also said neither the Democratic nor Republican Party “can get things done” or “is the party of change.”
www.miamiherald.com
June 4, 2025 at 12:03 AM
When I say we're in a persuasion window, cause we see it in our focus groups, here's what that looks with actual representative sample. People are re-evaluating toxic ideas of what government *ought* to do (while still very dubious of what it actually could be.)
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
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Remembering Chevalière d'Éon for Pride. A transgender woman in the 1700s who was also a spy and who turned double agent, extorted an entire monarchy to get her gender marker changed, and lived her life as a woman in a time when such was thought impossible.
We have always been here.
We have always been here.
June 1, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Remembering Chevalière d'Éon for Pride. A transgender woman in the 1700s who was also a spy and who turned double agent, extorted an entire monarchy to get her gender marker changed, and lived her life as a woman in a time when such was thought impossible.
We have always been here.
We have always been here.
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Since ARKANSAS Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders is who came to help push Gov. Lee’s voucher scam — let’s see how things are going with their program… 🤔 arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...
April 12, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Since ARKANSAS Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders is who came to help push Gov. Lee’s voucher scam — let’s see how things are going with their program… 🤔 arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...
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WATCH: “Are we also gonna teach kids to live in cities?”
@votegloriaj.bsky.social & @aftynbehn.bsky.social push back on Bulso’s bill forcing Tennessee schools to teach kids a “success sequence”: school-job-marriage-kids
(Gloria points out they also force raped kids to carry pregnancies to term)
@votegloriaj.bsky.social & @aftynbehn.bsky.social push back on Bulso’s bill forcing Tennessee schools to teach kids a “success sequence”: school-job-marriage-kids
(Gloria points out they also force raped kids to carry pregnancies to term)
April 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM
WATCH: “Are we also gonna teach kids to live in cities?”
@votegloriaj.bsky.social & @aftynbehn.bsky.social push back on Bulso’s bill forcing Tennessee schools to teach kids a “success sequence”: school-job-marriage-kids
(Gloria points out they also force raped kids to carry pregnancies to term)
@votegloriaj.bsky.social & @aftynbehn.bsky.social push back on Bulso’s bill forcing Tennessee schools to teach kids a “success sequence”: school-job-marriage-kids
(Gloria points out they also force raped kids to carry pregnancies to term)
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Best case he turns off Apr 2nd tariffs Monday. Leaves the 10pct tariffs (not great, but realistic). Elon leaves Doge, which decides to stagger the cuts over 3 yrs, accounting for local impact.
That slows the economy, reducing interest rates, reducing payments on debt to affordable levels.
That slows the economy, reducing interest rates, reducing payments on debt to affordable levels.
Hi Mark,
Have you, and if not, will you give us the best case scenario?
Have you, and if not, will you give us the best case scenario?
April 6, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Best case he turns off Apr 2nd tariffs Monday. Leaves the 10pct tariffs (not great, but realistic). Elon leaves Doge, which decides to stagger the cuts over 3 yrs, accounting for local impact.
That slows the economy, reducing interest rates, reducing payments on debt to affordable levels.
That slows the economy, reducing interest rates, reducing payments on debt to affordable levels.
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This is a super long thread of protest photos and videos from across the country!
Sammelthread der "Hands Off" Proteste in den USA. Gerne ergänzen...
Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville, Kentucky
April 5, 2025 at 8:42 PM
This is a super long thread of protest photos and videos from across the country!
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The people pushing the lab leak theory want a major crackdown on viral research, precisely the kind of work that will prevent the next global pandemic. The more extreme lab-leakers want to jail scientists and shut down public health institutions entirely.
Maybe it’s just because I have not dived into it to any meaningful degree, but I don’t understand the stakes of the lab-leak theory. What does it do for people who propound it? What would it challenge or undermine if it were proved true?
I get that this sounds plausible to lots of people but it is not congruent with the evidence!
Genetic data indicates the virus didn’t come directly from bats. The Wuhan lab ONLY studied bat viruses.
Genetic data indicates the virus didn’t come directly from bats. The Wuhan lab ONLY studied bat viruses.
March 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The people pushing the lab leak theory want a major crackdown on viral research, precisely the kind of work that will prevent the next global pandemic. The more extreme lab-leakers want to jail scientists and shut down public health institutions entirely.
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The U.S. leads the global tally of H5N1 cases. Here's what we know about the U.S. bird flu outbreak and its chronic disease risk — including that many of the same precautions, like masking, that work against COVID-19 also work well to prevent the flu. bit.ly/41Xc4IF
April 3, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The U.S. leads the global tally of H5N1 cases. Here's what we know about the U.S. bird flu outbreak and its chronic disease risk — including that many of the same precautions, like masking, that work against COVID-19 also work well to prevent the flu. bit.ly/41Xc4IF