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This is horrific. Good on @raskin.house.gov and others for this report. I want to see Dems go all gas on Trump and Epstein starting Jan 3rd, 2027.

At medical school, the writer & novelist who inspired me the most was Dr Nawal El-Saadawi, physician & psychiatrist. She founded the Arab Women's Solidarity Association & the Arab Association for Human Rights. She won the North-South Prize, Inana International Prize, & Seán MacBride Peace Prize.

Protest works. Organization is decisive. Draw your own conclusions. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Wait wait! In addition to all this: Real Clear isn’t some spontaneous thing, it’s a rightwing site funded by the same far-right billionaires - Koch, Uihlein, Bradley, etc - that want to tear down the govt, incl to destroy US cancer research. Real Clear is part of the Project 2025 effort.

And this is why saving American cancer research, and enabling future cures for cancer and Alzheimer’s and other diseases, absolutely requires taking on the political power of billionaires. 👇👇 bsky.app/profile/hami...

The great Oleksandra Matviichuk is absolutely right to draw attention to the horrible humanitarian crisis in Oleshky. All Putin, Witkoff, and Kushner can do is invert and traduce the meaning of “humanitarianism,” in the best traditions of Russian propaganda.

"Leo" sent this pic from the cosmic crisp apple harvest. "This apple is very delicate & must be cut carefully at the stem. Quality is a must or you could be fired. The average worker picks six 900lb bins in an 8 hr day, but there are workers who make much less." #WeFeedYou

Parents visiting college campuses for homecoming this month have a perfect opportunity to get VERY LOUD about our expectations that out school will do better. MUCH BETTER

I, the only data reporter at the Charlotte Observer, am among the McClatchy layoffs in the bloodbath today. The HR person asked me not to talk about it! AMA. Anyway, here’s a link to one of my most important stories this year. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...

🚨Live Bluesky Fact Check: Thurs, August 6 at 1PM-2:30PM EST🚨 Tomorrow NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya will host his third installment of the NIH “Scientific Freedom” Lecture Series, which has been platforming speakers driven by ideology rather than science. Tomorrow, his guest is Carole Hooven.

The criticism of Trump, Kennedy, and Bhattacharya that was so subversive that the ADA had to eject the Editor-in-Chief of their flagship journal from their annual meeting for sharing it? Prior today it had fewer than 1000 views. Do your thing.

Let's Streisand-effect these people. Here's the editorial that somehow merited calling the cops. Read and share.

The President is lying to the public: 1) For the past century, the federal government has been responsible for the Potomac Interceptor – not Maryland. The sewage pipe is on federal land. youtu.be/OKyIKHW8ONI

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

Lack of communication with the public was part of the problem. It laid the groundwork for the disconnect. Rs in Congress actually forced NIH to reduce its comms spending in 2013. They mischaracterized the spending as PR. It was spent on sharing science with the public. thehill.com/policy/healt...

This is a season we are in. And I want you all to know that after the darkness, morning will surely come. There are no kings in this country. We will keep fighting.

As I was saying…

If you're not totally aware of how bots try to sway minds, here's a good example.

Ta-Nehisi Coates has written the best yet commentary on last week's events, while pundits, politicians and others have disgraced themselves in their whitewashing of of this man's legacy. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

The body of 21-year-old Demartravion "Trey" Reed was found on September 15. The family is calling for an independent autopsy. Read more:

Read former NIAID Director, Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo’s, Whistleblower complaint. It mirrors the concerns we expressed in the Bethesda Declaration and confirms the administration knew full well the harmful consequences of their actions. (Scroll down to the bottom.) katzbanks.com/wp-content/u...

Timothy Snyder warned us: “Hegseth, a Christian Reconstructionist, believes that Americans should be governed not by law or by the Constitution but by God…” snyder.substack.com/p/pete-hegse...

A terrorist targeted federal workers last week. There wasn’t much reporting on it. But I’m not finished thinking about it! 🧵 An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.

Great and important essay but also I believe these are two of the best lines ever written… “I grew up Southern and Jewish, which means I bring a casserole and an opinion to a crisis. I can take a joke and my turn at the sink.”

Our hearts are broken for David Rose’s wife, 2 kids and his baby on the way. He was only 33 and died protecting CDC and ATL. We don’t have words to do justice to his sacrifice right now. We are looking for ways to support the family. 💔

Thread on CDC shooting👇... Good morning. Yesterday, after hours of hiding, trying not to make a sound, we stepped outside and saw massive bullet holes in our office windows. Those weren’t random shots. That was a high-powered weapon no civilian should ever own.

Trump spoke of “shylocks,” which is one of the most recognizable antisemitic terms in modern English. Watch who tries to explain this away.

Five things to remember about war:

Today, my NIH colleagues and I did something scary but really important. We spoke up about egregious harms we are seeing happen to research participants and public health through thoughtless and politicized policies at NIH. 🧵1/3 apnews.com/article/nih-...

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

Judicial races often fly under the radar. For those of you not paying close attention to WI, read this excellent overview that touches on the myriad reasons this race is so important.

On behalf of the 144,000 federal workers who live in Virginia, we will support @abigailspanberger.com in this campaign. cc: @vademocrats.bsky.social

Join us at the US Capitol on Monday afternoon. We will have clever signs and loud voices! Register here: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

Really great thread describing the development of a new pain medication. It's clear that basic research in obscure animals was essential to this, along with a whole lot of additional work from BOTH the private and public sector. The public sector is a MAJOR driver of private sector science. See how:

The shock and awe Musk, Vought, Bannon and Trump — are bringing will backfire if we’re smart about it. Make clear that DOGE is the Dept of Govt Extermination, not Efficiency. Let people see that their taxes are no longer paying for vital public services but to fatten the richest people on earth.

Our people across #MD08 are rightly demanding answers about President Trump's systematic destruction of federal programs and the civil service. Federal workers—I'm convening a webinar on the latest developments and resources to fight back. Sign up to gain access upon its release:

if a major politician held an emergency rally about the current ongoing coup by the richest man in the world, I think people would go to it. Shit is well and truly fucked. I can think of a couple of people who should do that right now.

Black History is American History The legendary Huey Newton

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

It's important for federal employees to know when they are being given an illegal order. In many of those cases, the thing to do is to express in writing that they are refusing to follow that illegal order. Example below.

Trump's proposed appointments look like a decapitation strike: destroying the American government from the top, leaving the body politic to rot, and the rest of us to suffer. snyder.substack.com/p/decapitati...

Hegseth lacks the normal qualifications for secretary of defense. His books reveal two ideas about what armed forces are for: a site to express Christian Reconstructionism and gender ideology; and a means to defeat other Americans inside America. snyder.substack.com/p/the-crusad...

I have and will continue to. But you know why I say it here ? Because @bsky.app is 30m strong and growing quickly. The collective wisdom and influence of users here is far greater than any individual democrat. I can't say it enough. Bluesky can be the influence that can counter RW media.

Incredible. Please watch and share.