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Photography, woodworking, camping/hiking/Border Collies. Retired PhD virologist/molec biologist/pharma/BD guy, concerned about climate-change - have reduced travel and energy use whenever possible and encourage you do the same!-Happily married!-Øporn
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The concentration of wealth in the hands of an elite few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy. When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, the American people don't have a voice. The result is demagoguery and corruption.

Elon’s mass harassment email to all federal employees underscores the importance of having unions to represent workers against abusive management.

Canadian MP Charlie Angus: Zelenskyy has shown the world what democracy means. Donald Trump is a convicted felon and a sexual pervert. These two men shouldn’t even be mentioned in the same sentence.

NEW — 19-year-old DOGE engineer Edward Coristine turns out to be the grandson of former KGB spy Valery Martynov, who played a role in a sprawling 1980s espionage saga. www.jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent-...

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

Infuriating! 😡 Don’t Cut My Medicaid! The majority of my son’s medical team are in Austin (1.5 hr drive), some in Houston (3 hrs), one in Dallas (5 hrs). Telehealth appts are needed & necessary! My son has extreme car anxiety, not to mention wear and tear on our car, gas! 🤬 And we’re not alone!

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Call me old fashioned, but being Russia’s KGB agent “Krasnov” since 1987 should disqualify Trump from being President of the United States. Retroactively, immediately, and forever.

BREAKING - The Dow just had its worst drop since March 2020 — at the beginning of Covid Back then it was a pandemic mismanaged by Trump Now it’s tariffs and inflation mismanaged by Trump Watch out — Trump is giving America economic Covid

Get off of all META services and get on board with BlueSky!

Sure, this is fine! #protest #resist www.cnbc.com/2025/02/20/m...

This is why we need science, and the NIH, and M NSF.

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker: “We don’t have kings in America and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one... All I’m saying is when the five-alarm fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control.” AMEN!

Trump and Musk are a living monument to the worst excesses of human nature—an exhausting blend of arrogance, ignorance, greed, selfishness, narcissism, and the kind of misplaced confidence that has already fueled a thousand horrible decisions that will ultimately hurt millions of everyday Americans.

In 1994, under pressure from US, Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons in exchange for assurances from United States, Russia, and UK to respect Ukrainian independence and sovereignty in the existing borders. Eventually Russia invaded Ukraine. Imagine if Ukraine had kept its nukes-

The courts said Trump had to release NIH funding - but the Trump administration found a way around the judge's order, effectively maintaining the freeze for any new grant funding. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/white...

Mt. Baker, WA state:

Trump is SO anti-trans that one must wonder, when he grabbed her by the p*ssy, was he surprised when he grabbed a pe*is instead?

I wrote this last week, with info on how any international engagement NOAA does (there's a lot of it) had to be run through political appointees. I have heard now that almost none have been approved; basically everything, including things flagged as high priority or urgent, is listed as "on hold".

January 2022 and Feb/22 The majority of donations to the trucker convoy that occupied our capital city for 21 days were mostly from the United States, to attempt to topple our elected, democratic government. USA 51,666 Canada 36,202 (mostly from Alberta)

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Hey GOP, when the mid-terms come up in 2026 - remember how strongly you supported Donald Trump. We certainly will remember that you have supported him every goose-step of the way. You have supported EVERYTHING he is doing. You are behind him 100%. Every. One. Of. You.

🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

If you’re ever in public while high on ketamine, this DEA pamphlet suggests you might want want to wear sunglasses, even indoors. www.dea.gov/sites/defaul...

The court ordered that NIH grant funding be unfrozen, so The Regime found a way around it. For NIH grants to be funded, a review panel must rank them. In order for a review panel to meet, they must post it on the Federal Register. Submissions to the Federal Register are now on hold “indefinitely”.

📢 “He’s trying to steal Medicaid to enrich himself. He’s gutting NASA to line his pockets with SpaceX. He’s looting everything good in America for private profit.” - @aoc.bsky.social at today’s #SaveOurServices NYC rally. The fight isn’t over. Join us: go.savepublicservices.com

It was an honor to sign the guest book in the home of Anne Frank. I was here as a younger man and thought about her life as a dark chapter of history. Today, I can’t help but think of her story as one of caution. Our world is fragile, and it’s incumbent on us not to break it.

Mr. “Environmental Activist” Robert Fuckin Kennedy killed climate change grants at NIH that were designed to do things like address the risk of malaria becoming commonplace in the U.S. due to warmer weather. By @davidcorn.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"[Musk] is trying to gut everything good in America for his own private profit. This is the culmination of what oligarchy is all about...the fusion and the capture of the billionaire class of our democracy." - @aoc.bsky.social with @fedworkersunited.bsky.social today #SaveOurServices

Yesterday, Trump promised he wouldn't touch Medicaid. Today, he endorsed the House Republican plan to slash Medicaid. Republicans will say anything in their plot to take money from you and give it to their billionaire donors. It's all lies and broken promises. www.yahoo.com/news/trump-s...