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Knitter. Gardener. Chicken herder. Lover of all things wooled and winged.
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Merriam-Webster
3 days ago
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
about 1 month ago
The Republican Congress is going to try to rewrite the history of RFK Jr.ās confirmation as HHS Secretary. āWe didnāt knowā āNobody told usā āHe promised he wouldnātā¦ā This thread will be about the warnings from thousands of scientists and HCW who loudly and publicly opposed his confirmation.
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Katie Phang
about 1 month ago
Trump and the GOP are hellbent on killing our kids. Whether itās no gun control or defunding pediatric brain cancer research/trials. Our kids deserve better than Trump and his feckless Republicans.
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Elle
3 months ago
new goals
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Sorrowscopes
3 months ago
Cancer: The time has come to quit kicking things down the road and start crossing some items off that To Do list. In fact, take the list, crumple it up and toss the whole thing in the trash. Guess what? You just stopped procrastinating.
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Rep Jahana Hayes
4 months ago
All students benefit from Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in our schools. Secretary McMahon is talking out of both sides of her mouth by saying that only some parts of our history should be taught.
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Derek Young
5 months ago
I cannot believe this shit.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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Moderna withdraws application for COVID-flu combination vaccine
Moderna said on Wednesday it has withdrawn an application seeking approval for its flu and COVID combination vaccine candidate after discussions with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/moderna-withdraws-application-covid-flu-combination-vaccine-2025-05-21/
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Rep. Jerry Nadler
5 months ago
Trump fired over 1,000 National Park staff in February, and most still havenāt been reinstated. The $45 million heās wasting on a military parade for his birthday could have paid their salaries for over a year.
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Danny Caballero š²š½šš¤
5 months ago
Donald Trump spent $23M on golf (up to mid march). Over 56 days, he spent $410k of our tax dollars each day at his own clubs. That is one 3-year NSF grant per day. Waste and abuse, my ass.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Talia Lavin
5 months ago
the reason this isn't about "food safety tips in a time of deregulation" is because there are none. besides "be very wealthy," maybe, and not even then. this is a collective problem with a collective solution, which we already have, and need to fight for!!!!
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The Guardian
5 months ago
Elon Muskās Doge conflicts of interest worth $2.37bn, Senate report says
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Elon Muskās Doge conflicts of interest worth $2.37bn, Senate report says
Committee calls figure a āconservative estimateā and warns Musk may seek to use his influence to avoid legal liability Elon Musk and his companies face at least $2.37bn in legal exposure from federal investigations, litigation and regulatory oversight, according to a new report from Senate Democrats. The report attempts to put a number to Muskās many conflicts of interest through his work with his so-called ādepartment of government efficiencyā (Doge), warning that he may seek to use his influence to avoid legal liability. The report, which was published on Monday by Democratic members of the Senate homeland security committeeās permanent subcommittee on investigations, looked at 65 actual or potential actions against Musk across 11 separate agencies. Investigators calculated the financial liabilities Musk and his companies, such as Tesla, SpaceX and Neuralink, may face in 45 of those actions. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/28/elon-musk-doge-conflict-of-interest?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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MeidasTouch
5 months ago
Al Gore ripped the Trump administration to shreds in a speech Monday at a climate week event in San Francisco.
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Chuck Wendig
6 months ago
Wrote a thing. Maybe it's a thing you wanna read, I dunno. We'll see. *lays it gently at your feet*
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What It Feels Like, Right Now
When I was in college in North Carolina, I flew home to Pennsylvania for the holidays. My mother and father were going through a divorce at that point (a divorce that shouldāve happened many ā¦
https://terribleminds.com/ramble/2025/04/09/what-it-feels-like-right-now/
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Repost with a favorite book from your childhood.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
6 months ago
The point of Senator Booker's filibuster is to be INSPIRED by this man to go find YOUR ROLE, not to wait for them to go save us now. That is not this assignment. Thread of places to go to get started. More coming out of LiST this Thursday.
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On Organizing
time to level up / an early draft of a playbook
https://www.lifeisasacredtext.com/organize/
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Aaron Rupar
6 months ago
"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute š„
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John Bull
12 months ago
Mary Burchell remains one of the most successful romance writers, ever. Over 110 Mills and Boon books to her name. Less well known is that much of her early writing was done for one purpose: Funding her efforts to get Jews out of Nazi Germany, with her sister. Mary is a Righteous Gentile. /1 š§µ
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Chris Murphy
7 months ago
We are barreling toward a full blown constitutional crisis. Trump's announcement that he's ending thousands of aid contracts FUNDED BY CONGRESS is unconstitutional and illegal - and horrible for our security. 1/ A quickš§µon what's going on.
apnews.com/article/trum...
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Trump administration says it's cutting 90% of USAID foreign aid contracts
The Supreme Court on Wednesday temporarily blocked a judgeās order giving the Trump administration a midnight deadline to release billions of dollars in U.S. foreign aid.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-usaid-foreign-aid-cuts-6292f48f8d4025bed0bf5c3e9d623c16
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The Lawrence Times
8 months ago
KU researchers recently made a major advancement toward early detection of ovarian cancer. Thatās just one example of efforts they fear could be decimated by cuts to federal grants.
lawrenceks.news/3QjWkZv
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KU faculty concerned about cuts to federal grants that fund lifesaving research
KU researchers recently made a major advancement toward early detection of ovarian cancer. Thatās just one example of efforts they fear could be decimated by cuts to federal grants.
https://lawrenceks.news/3QjWkZv
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Prof Christina Pagel
8 months ago
š§µ"So this is how liberty dies..." Trumpās first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. Iāve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
8 months ago
Just saw a farmer say, "you don't have to admit you were wrong, you have to admit you were lied to, " and idk that seems like a good framing to call people in
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Matt Barber
8 months ago
Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings. But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.
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Direct Economic Contributions
NIH directly supports the economy through investments in research institutions and job formation.
https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/what-we-do/impact-nih-research/serving-society/direct-economic-contributions
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Greg Pak
8 months ago
Call your R reps. If you have a regional accent, make the most of it. Tell them you didn't vote for CANCER and ask them what the hell they're gonna do to stop Musk and Trump.
reps.fyi
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I called my reps, and you can, too!
@5calls.org
gives you a script you can read or riff off of, AND they give you the local office phone numbers in case the Washington voice mailbox is full.
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Don Moynihan
8 months ago
The executive branch does not have the legal right to cancel appropriated spending or eliminate agencies created by Congress. Trump and Musk are doing both. Entirely lawless and unconstitutional. The world's largest provider of food assistance shut down.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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IAS - the International AIDS Society
8 months ago
āItās like youāre having a car speeding on a highway. Then you apply emergency brakes. There are so many things that can go wrong." IAS President-Elect Kenneth Ngure speaking on the abrupt halt of
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Trump aid spending freeze halts leading malaria vaccine programme
Global collaboration with US researchers likely to be set back by years, including on spread of drug-resistant HIV
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/feb/02/trump-aid-spending-freeze-halts-leading-mvdp-malaria-vaccine-programme
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5 Calls
8 months ago
Trump's federal funding freeze is blatantly unconstitutional, only Congress has the power to spend federal dollars. Tell your reps to support a resolution opposing the freeze now:
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Block Trump's Unconstitutional Federal Funding Freeze ā 5 Calls
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is a crucial federal agency tasked with oversight and administration of the federal budget. In a blatantly ā¦
https://5calls.org/issue/omb-federal-funding-freeze/
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Just to note that I was so creeped out when I read this that I ordered 3 apples trees to plant in my side yard š¤
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This interactive map is amazing.
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It's already so overwhelming - reposting so I don't forget
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL)
11 months ago
an üpdate
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