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Joan

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Retired, love my family and pets, PhD in Molecular biology, expertise in mitochondrial biogenesis and function

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Very prescient !

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It's honestly so funny, and like every time. Nate Silver writes the Signal and the Noise, becomes all about the noise Tom Nichols, writes the Death of Expertise and becomes an Expert in everything

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Is this real? I can't find it on "the google". The caption sounds a lot like Doug Balloon (NY times pitchbot). But I'd love for it to be real.

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Getting dogpiled so hard you delete your account from literally the afterthought of social media, you love to see it.

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The Fig Economy's avatar The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social
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Look, it’s just really, really important that Trump not be allowed to become president again.

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That was an epic meltdown. He blocked me for calling him obnoxious and disrespectful in his responses

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Michael Paulauski's avatar Michael Paulauski @mike10010100.bsky.social
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Please Do Not Write In The Newspaper that Tom Nichols Is Mad.

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“Mr. President! What do you think of Project 2025?” I don’t know, that might draw him out.

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Updated: I read the NYT Front Page so you didn't have to.

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You really want this to happen, just to prove yourself right. Then Kamala Harris becomes the nominee and the swiftboating of her takes over the news cycle until the election is over, along with the USA as we’ve known it.

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He is probably on his 3rd or more whisky of the night and has forgotten his manners.

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Thinking about all the actual newshounds who spent their living researching and investigating corruption and how many lost their jobs in wave after wave of media layoffs while watching the NYT pour a small fortune into having 20 different people rehash the same argument every single day.

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Dr. Lucky Tran's avatar Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.bsky.social
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CDC: COVID is a health threat that can surge all year round.

NY Democrats: The pandemic is over, let's ban masks!

The mask ban is anti-science, anti-public health, anti-safety.

Take action to stop the mask ban⬇️
COVIDAdvocacyNY.org

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Max Kennerly's avatar Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social
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Not great how a major federal contractor is rife with sexual harassment and nothing is done about. NLRB filed a complaint, which was paused by a GOP hack judge. Federal gov't keeps plowing money into it for work that either shouldn't happen or should be gov't run. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Etrigan's avatar Etrigan @etrigan.bsky.social
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Note the two major topics du jour and which one has Republicans scrambling: Trump and Miller are absolutely *incandescent* over Project 2025 being out in the open. If your neighbors start talking about whether Biden is too old, point out to them that the other side wants to criminalize teachers.

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Thomas Hansen's avatar Thomas Hansen @thomashansen.bsky.social
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Italian prosecutors in Milan investigated how Dior is producing their handbags.

They found that the workers were sleeping in the facility so bags could be produced around the clock.

Consumers pay $2,780 per bag.
The production of the bags costs Dior $57.

Ht: @maxroser.bsky.social

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Ali Velshi's avatar Ali Velshi @velshi.bsky.social
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"It is important to not simply roll over and play dead" in the face of SCOTUS's "astonishing" immunity opinion, says Laurence Tribe. He lays out some of the ways this decision can be reigned in — as well as how the Court can repair its reputation. #Velshi
www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...

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BREAKING: Upside side down French flag spotted outside the Alitos' summer residence

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Phillip Anderson's avatar Phillip Anderson @phillipanderson.bsky.social
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Look how fun shutting down fascists is. I want this for us, too

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No. I’m fine with garlic powder

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…and did the interviewer use those questions or act under her own agency to act her own questions. They are a bunch of babies.

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Apparently his posts here and on X are not meant to invite discussion. We are supposed to bow down in awe of his great wisdom and not add our own thoughts.

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Joe Sudbay's avatar Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social
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Really feels like Team Trump knows that too many in the complacent - and complicit - media will let them lie with impunity so they do. Blatantly. Shamelessly

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I had a chat with the conservative mom of a friend today. We talked about a bunch of stuff and I learned several interesting things, among them, that religious conservatives are often PRO-CHOICE AND THINK THE SUPREME COURT IS INSANE. Run on Dobbs. Run on justices and court reform. Do it.

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Miranda Yaver's avatar Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social
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Just a reminder that Michelle Wolf nailed it at the White House Correspondents Dinner. NYT, I’m looking in your direction especially.

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I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)

projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

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I have no idea the best path re Biden but I do know a solid week straight of “Biden Old” and “Rich Dems Worried” above-the-fold stories are *obscene* in the face of SCOTUS using the Constitution to wipe their asses purely in the service of reinstating a felon rapist as president. Crazy-making shit.

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Steve Silberman's avatar Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social
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13 years ago, Ry Cooder wrote an ASTONISHINGLY prescient song.
"And then the day dawned bright and hard
When I stole away the court of nine
The Judas men served the cause
And the sacred church of law is mine
Justice has been cast down
I want my crown, I want my crown"
youtu.be/9pQtYznW9qc?...

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I'm not going to spread that Economist cover with the Presidential seal on a walker because I don't spread stomach-churning ableist trash, but what a shocking collapse of editorial standards. The editor who commissioned that image should be forced to resign in shame.

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Angie Coiro's avatar Angie Coiro @angiecoiro.bsky.social
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The guy who wrote the NY Times piece really has the look down.

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Man, if it turns out that the right winger telling NY Times readers that they should follow his example and not vote did in fact vote in the last two elections, the Times should add this to the piece. Better than a retraction, since it illustrates a willful hypocrisy.

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Not a perfect comparison, and I’ve deliberately omitted the period when pandemic composition effects distorted the numbers. But 14 years of Conservative rule have been associated with stagnant real wages and severe deterioration of public services. This was a well-earned rout

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The Biden campaign operatives are derelict in their jobs if they fail to get evidence on Trump/Epstein and fail to expose it.

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CHIEF JUSTICE V. THE WOMEN OF THE UNITED STATES The MAGA majority wants to deliver Trump a government conscripted in an “effort to belittle and degrade women,” and GOP men would like women to stop being so “hysterical” about it, writes Dahlia Lithwick.

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wake up babe new* endosymbiotic organelle just dropped. They confirmed it's more than just symbiosis when they saw it absorbing whole proteins from the host! *100 million years old, but that's new compared to billions-years old mitochondria and chloroplasts

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Joe Sudbay's avatar Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social
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"It would be more honest for Roberts to not bother pretending that the court’s conservative wing won't eventually consider Trump’s attempts to steal the 2020 election entirely within the bounds of this newly created immunity"

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