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PG County Girl. Retired NIH Biomedical Researcher (NCI, NINDS) who once breathed the same air as Tony Fauci. Married 43 years to a Coronavirologist who helped characterize that pesky spike protein way back when. Happy Gran to 5, living in a forest. 🇨🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇦
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To be clear: every Press Secretary spins narratives for their administration. This isn’t that. It’s a flat out lie. Leavitt knows it, every journalist in that room knows it, and any American citizen with a half-functioning brain should know it too.

“I’m going to say this at the risk of my job. What President Trump is doing is insane. It is absolutely insane.” CNBC’s Steve Liesman goes off on Trump’s reckless trade wars.

25th Amendment. Section 4.

Canadian Prime Minister–designate Mark Carney: "The Americans want our resources, our water, our land, our country. If they succeeded, they would destroy our way of life. In America, healthcare is big business. In Canada, it is a right."

Hi. I am trying to understand what is going on with the changes in the NIH Clinical Center. If anyone has anything that they think might be useful, DM me or (better) find me on Signal (jeremymberg.78)

There’s been zero explanation for this given but it seems exceedingly likely it’s pure retaliation for the Maine governor challenging Trump. Really sick. www.pressherald.com/2025/03/06/s...

Trudeau: "I want to speak first directly to the American people. We don't want this. We want to work with you as a friend and ally. We don't want to see you hurt either. But your government has chosen to do this to you. As of this morning, markets are down and inflation is set to rise dramatically."

That’s a male lion.

Wrong is still wrong. Facts are still facts. The intolerable should still not be tolerated. I haven’t changed what I think. You have. And you now also lack all sense of self awareness and (seemingly) shame.

Officials at the FAA have directed staff to identify tens of millions of dollars to fund a Starlink deal for upgrading air traffic control communications. Staff has been instructed to find the funds while minimizing documentation and avoiding a paper trail.

"The reality, according to the NIH source, is that most labs [at NIH] "are not able to buy anything." Yes.

Handing government and our data to that sicko Musk and exposing our families' safety to Putin is the ultimate act of contempt towards the American people and the very idea of America, itself. Every single Republican elected, their plotters and their donors are guilty as Trump in this treachery.

LOL

The Hirshhorn, Washington DC, now:

Posted by @vatniksoup.bsky.social on another platform.

Leaders of the free world stand united in London The United States is not among them

If the abject apology of one person in the USA to Ukrainians is worth anything, you have it. Zelenskyy was absolutely ambushed by Trump and Vance. Putin is the winner, again and again. #TrumpisPutin'stoy

Canada doesn't allow convicted predators into our nation. This initiative from NDP leader Jagmeet Singh to bar Trump from the G7 will send a clear message.

@anntelnaes.bsky.social

So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.

Wow Bluesky! I'll take 500,000 followers here over a million at Twitter any day. Thank you for trusting me to bring you news, analysis, and the occasional bit of snark. Also, chickens. ❤️

Trump has fired the country’s senior military officer, Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., a four-star fighter pilot. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

Good night, dear friends. It’s 00:45 in Ukraine. I wish everyone has a safe, peaceful, and calm night. Hopefully see you tomorrow. 📹Ukraine is fighting for families, future, and for freedom. Strength and resilience will prevail.

In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.

Spineless, yellow-bellied, lily-livered, weak-kneed, pusillanimous chickenshits.

Congrats, America. We're now on Putin's side.

I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.

European Parliament member 👇🏽

Government workers are people, people are talent, and talent can't just be manifested at will. DOGE is costing us a generation of talent and knowledge in public service. New from @samsteindc.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/the-doge-b...

Pope Francis is apparently very ill—88 years old with pneumonia in both lungs. He's tough, and I hope he pulls through because the world needs him right now. His homily on Easter after Trump's first election is foundational to my values. I think about it all the time: www.vatican.va/content/fran...

@juliusgoat.bsky.social

This country has seen some bad moments in the 61 years, 5 months, 16 days I’ve been on this Earth. But it has never, ever before come close to the supertoxic level of stupidity, mendacity, narcissism, nihilism, and moral apathy that threaten to destroy it today.

“Well, Charlie, living inside Donald Trump's head, you discover there's not many things in there other than a putter, a cheeseburger, a porn video, and somebody else's credit card." New "To the Contrary" podcast w/ @timobrien.bsky.social

An amazing resignation letter to Bove from an AUSA who worked on the Adams case. Money quote: “I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.

Thank goodness for the American Medical Association. Here is their YouTube page. Please share far and wide. Right now bird flu is spreading throughout our country and most people have no clue. Please stay updated and bookmark this page for your health and well-being. www.youtube.com/@americanmed...

In response to the emergence of H5N1 influenza A viruses as a novel pathogen of cattle, a study in Nature Communications shows that pasteurisation of cows’ milk should effectively inactivate the virus, but that it remains infectious in unpasteurised milk. https://go.nature.com/3WRQ8fb 🧪

Johns Hopkins is set to be crippled by the cuts at NIH. These cuts start tomorrow. Thread below.

Grandson diagnosed with Flu A today. My daughter clicks on the CDC link for parent info. And gets this abomination.

We need to call out the blatant lie being pushed by the Trump administration—that Elon’s staffers have only “read-only” access. It has been confirmed across departments that they have “administrative” access to computer systems.

Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024. You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right? Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year. You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.

every day we see more and more evidence of society descending into utter lawlessness and chaos

Although NOAA's page on atmospheric CO2 levels has vanished, you can still get this vital information from Ralph Keeling's team at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego keelingcurve.ucsd.edu Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share Don't let science be hidden

Felons, that’s who.