Marsha Pierce

#Oxytocin Variants Induce Cellular Signaling and Neurite Outgrowth in Human-Derived Neuron-like SH-SY5Y Cell Line 🧪 #pharmsky 💊 #NeuroSciMDPI www.mdpi.com/2673-4087/7/...

I know there’s a lot going, but 19 Republican AGs have said—in writing!—that pro-choice speech should be criminalized. Thats a Big Fucking Deal and it blows my mind that more people aren’t talking about it

Would love to talk with editors from 1998 and ask them: If Congress dropped a 50-page report detailing, with witnesses on the record, that President Clinton raped women, would you put it on the front page?

Please let the Rule of Three hold.... please let the Rule of Three hold... www.axios.com/2026/10/26/t...

(Reuters) - Americans have paid more for their gasoline and diesel at the pump on average during President Donald Trump's second term than they did under his Democratic predecessor, Joe ​Biden, according to the AAA. ⛽️ @reuters.com www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

SCOOP: The CDC's deputy director is leaving. Jen Shuford, an infectious-disease physician who had been Texas's health commissioner, was hired to help restore trust in CDC. Now she's out after six months. More with @lenasun.bsky.social.

The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

Dan Bongino basically said this was coming as far back as May. (Hannity at the time was also hinting at a 3rd indictment, although Hannity suggested it would happen in Florida and not DC). So much of what has been churning in right wing fever swamps for months is about to become a reality.

I would love to live in a world where "President faces new rape allegation" isn't treated like a dog bites man story in the major media.

The House Judiciary Committee Democrats have released a report containing testimony from 11 women regarding allegations of sexual assault, including a new rape allegation, against President Trump in relation to Jeffrey Epstein that the lawmakers say has been deliberately covered up by the DOJ.

It’s not the biggest problem with this idea but it’s dumb all around.

Preach, Rep Crow

I was bracing myself for a lot of “the populist right is on the march” this week after Brazil but I guess we can cancel all that.

For two years, student-led protests have raged against Aleksandar Vučić and his corrupt government in Serbia. Today, in parliamentary elections, he was toppled. One of the most sustained protest movements in recent European history has succeeded. Resistance works.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva wins fourth term, according to electoral court.

An unusual little bandit 🦫 is stealing pumpkins off our porch. #AnimalsOfBluesky

pundits are basically bored by the idea that these democratic candidates are not meaningfully behind with black voters and so are trying to conjure a controversy into existence

#earlyvote morning update 10/25: at least 27 million people have voted in the 2026 general election 🥳 election.lab.ufl.edu/early-vote/2...

The crime happens if a Democrat is elected. Anywhere

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

Wait, I’m offline for a night and we’re doing Obama is elitist like it’s 2009?

BREAKING: SCOTUS rejects Trump admin's request to allow it to end gender-affirming medical care in prisons — a significant, if tentative, rejection of one of the admin's most extreme anti-trans arguments. Only Thomas and Alito noted they would have granted the stay. More to come: www.lawdork.com

Mrs. Miller complains that Dems want to [checks her highlighted passage] prosecute those who committed federal crimes

Dr. Sethi never held an NIH grant, finished her residency in 2017, and hasn't had a significant leadership position. In other words, an early stage investigator may direct an institute. NIMH staff and stakeholders deserve a more experienced leader. www.science.org/content/arti...

"So there it is, the morbid phenomenon of late Trumpism on full display: Smearing a survivor of child sexual abuse; running an ad featuring a primary enabler of the abuse; and complaining that some decent people in his party are offended by this." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-monste...

WOAH!

The question is: Why did Trump derail peace talks?

Trump is manipulating American foreign policy in order to help candidates he wants to win, so they will help him when they do. It’s a grotesque abuse of power.  www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This is taxpayer-funded research data and info that belongs to the public and is not this administration’s to erase.

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#earlyvote evening update 10/23: at least 24 million people have voted in the 2026 general election 🥳 election.lab.ufl.edu/early-vote/2...

Perfect camping 🏕️ weather. Getting out in nature and hammock camping under the stars is good for the soul.

The GOP is the party of withholding food from poor children in order to preserve capital gains tax cuts.

As I figured, Acton was telling the truth the whole time, and Vivek Ramaswamy remains the worst person. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Another blatant abuse of Social Security data to promote political messages for Donald Trump — hundreds of millions of voter contact emails promoting Trump propaganda. And all paid for by the Social Security Trust fund.

Aligns with my 2 points from last week 1. If polls are wrong, they'll probably be wrong in Democrats' direction 2. If polls are right Republicans could still retain the Senate majority because they're really close in a lot of states

Canadian woman dies in U.S. after fears of detainment prevented her from seeking medical care (Canada has updated its advice to those travelling to the United States, warning travellers they may face “scrutiny” from border guards and the possibility of detention .........)

It sounds like hyperbole to suggest the current administration WANTS measles to become common again but I can’t think of much they’d be doing differently if they didn’t want that. (I think some of them really are eugenicists who legit prefer disease spread to prevention; others just don’t care)

Vivek Ramaswamy seeks to take political advantage of the fact that his opponent was raped as a child. But to his credit, unlike many other Republican politicians, he was not personally the rapist in question.

Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

Genuinely wonder what Ramaswamy's campaign guys saw in their poll tests that made them think this would work.

Heartwarming to see these family-friendly corporations shame a 12 year-old girl for testifying she was raped by her father.

Another Trump self-own is that by pushing Democrats to vote in-person and return mail ballots earlier, there will be fewer rejected Democratic mail ballots. There were over half a million rejected mail ballots in 2024

Most amazing part of this is that he likely would have avoided criminal charges if he had not tried to sue the legal owners for hundreds of thousands of dollars in reimbursements for the "improvements" he made on the home

WE STOPPED THE STUDY!!!