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Matison W. McCool

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Dad, music listener toer, & research assistant professor at UNM CASAA. Harm reduction saves lives and I’m sick of people dying. My opinions represent my own calamity.

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Pentagon tells Congress no sign that Iran was going to attack US first, sources say Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff on Sunday that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack U.S. forces first, two people f...

we reached the “no WMDs” phase in two days.

02.03.2026 12:45 — 👍 7394    🔁 2186    💬 100    📌 106
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Israeli strikes hit hospital in Tehran, witnesses tell Reuters Israeli strikes hit a hospital in Tehran’s Gandhi Street area, two witnesses told Reuters on Sunday, saying the hospital was badly damaged and patients were being taken out.

“Israeli strikes hit hospital in Tehran, witnesses tell Reuters”

Yesterday it was a school, today it is a hospital.

Yesterday children were buried under the rubble of their classrooms, today babies had to be moved from intensive care in their incubators.

www.reuters.com/world/middle...

01.03.2026 21:45 — 👍 58    🔁 43    💬 4    📌 10
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Feds asked New Mexico to halt Jeffrey Epstein Zorro Ranch sex trafficking probe, records show Former AG says feds halted New Mexico’s Epstein inquiry without sharing promised evidence as state reopens Zorro Ranch investigation.

Former New Mexico Attorney General Balderas details how the FBI forcefully shut down New Mexico's criminal probe into what was up at Epstein's Zorro Ranch in Santa Fe Co. The feds insisted that they were running their own criminal probe and that NM's involvement would not be tolerated. It was a lie.

01.03.2026 19:56 — 👍 1327    🔁 712    💬 34    📌 45
A line graph showing NSF grant awards made through 2/27/26 for fiscal year 2026 compared with grant awards for fiscal years 2021-2025.

A line graph showing NSF grant awards made through 2/27/26 for fiscal year 2026 compared with grant awards for fiscal years 2021-2025.

NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26)

Directorates to follow

1/10

01.03.2026 14:48 — 👍 651    🔁 436    💬 28    📌 116
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That's right. Worse than Pointless
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...

01.03.2026 15:32 — 👍 1515    🔁 432    💬 40    📌 22
February 28, 2026

Trump's actions this morning were unconstitutional and bear enormous consequences at home and abroad.
The stakes of speaking out against this administration are higher and more urgent today than they were yesterday, which is exactly why we are taking to the streets on March 7th. We will keep you up-to-date on where things are transpiring with how we may be incorporating this into our planned actions, and we look forward to seeing you out on the 7th. We hope you join us to make our voices heard.
Save science, protect health, and defend democracy,
Colette

STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

February 28, 2026 Trump's actions this morning were unconstitutional and bear enormous consequences at home and abroad. The stakes of speaking out against this administration are higher and more urgent today than they were yesterday, which is exactly why we are taking to the streets on March 7th. We will keep you up-to-date on where things are transpiring with how we may be incorporating this into our planned actions, and we look forward to seeing you out on the 7th. We hope you join us to make our voices heard. Save science, protect health, and defend democracy, Colette STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

See you in the streets March 7th.

standupforscience.net/march7

28.02.2026 19:22 — 👍 108    🔁 37    💬 3    📌 3
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Democratic divides erupt after Trump strikes Iran The fracture could spell defeat for a resolution meant to restrict Trump's war powers on Iran.

As Trump moves for war with Iran, the Democratic Party can’t even unite behind a war powers resolution to check his lawless foreign policy.

This is pathetic.

www.axios.com/2026/02/28/i...

28.02.2026 20:34 — 👍 177    🔁 44    💬 7    📌 1

Call me a raving radical but I literally do not care whether your imperialist massacre of children is “constitutional” or not.

28.02.2026 19:52 — 👍 2960    🔁 736    💬 18    📌 23

“How many of these gentle people have I helped to kill just by paying my taxes?" June Jordan, 1984

28.02.2026 14:21 — 👍 2329    🔁 905    💬 14    📌 8

We work by the month, or by the job, or by the profit; not for us to ask the why and wherefore of our work

28.02.2026 01:47 — 👍 101    🔁 24    💬 1    📌 4

Every day Vought withholds $ from these agencies is a day where a grad student doesn’t get funding, a day where a postdoc has to look for work elsewhere, a day where early career scientists lose gap funding with a fundable grant sitting on this clowns desk. We’re losing a generation of scientists.

27.02.2026 18:30 — 👍 27    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 0
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Colette believes it is imperative that scientists push back when their profession comes under attack from partisan political actors.

🗣️ "If you just sit there and keep your head down, you're part of the problem!"

Clip: youtube.com/shorts/tz7cK...
Full chat: youtube.com/watch?v=KDTt...

⚛️🧪

27.02.2026 17:25 — 👍 34    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 4
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Cover of The Lancet:

@thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

27.02.2026 11:15 — 👍 8124    🔁 3436    💬 160    📌 221

Explosions in The Sky, struggle to listen to much with lyrics while writing.

26.02.2026 01:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I can’t imagine anything going wrong allowing tech companies to build their own electric grids.

25.02.2026 02:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So, while we are in the street standing up for science and the scientists who can’t risk standing up for theirselves…you’re what? In your lab? Keeping your head down in “resistance”?*
*ppl at risk are not included in this!!!

Do better. Grow a spine.

24.02.2026 00:03 — 👍 55    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

Til the team has Kash Patel in their live stream celebrations

22.02.2026 21:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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ICE is quietly buying warehouses for massive immigrant detention centers In many cases, mayors, county commissioners, governors and members of Congress learned were unaware of ICE’s ambitions.

Dept of Homeland Security paid $122.8 million for a 826,000 sq ft warehouses in Socorro expected to be an ICE concentration camp

“Nobody from the federal gov't bothered to pick up the phone or even send us any type of correspondence letting us know what’s about to take place” Mayor Rudy Cruz Jr.

22.02.2026 16:52 — 👍 6    🔁 5    💬 3    📌 1

HEY! Are you around Boise???? We need volunteers to support an event there!

22.02.2026 18:58 — 👍 7    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

BREAKING:

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico attorney general reopens investigation into allegations of illegal activity at Epstein's former Zorro Ranch.

19.02.2026 21:45 — 👍 9595    🔁 2138    💬 203    📌 98
VOLUNTEER AT YOUR LOCAL MARCH 7th RALLY!

VISIT standupforscience.net/march7 TO SUPPORT THE FIGHT FOR SCIENCE!

VOLUNTEER AT YOUR LOCAL MARCH 7th RALLY! VISIT standupforscience.net/march7 TO SUPPORT THE FIGHT FOR SCIENCE!

Science needs YOU to step up and fight for it! On March 7th we are rallying nationwide, and your local rally needs you to support it! Visit standupforscience.net/march7 to sign up to volunteer! If you don't have a local rally, register to host a rally in your city!

#March7
#Rally
#science

19.02.2026 19:28 — 👍 53    🔁 25    💬 1    📌 2
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Terrorized By ICE, Unable to Pay Rent, Minnesotans Are Getting Ready for a Rent Strike A tenant organizing push in the Twin Cities has support from labor unions representing more than 25,000 workers.

Terrorized by ICE, unable to pay rent, Twin Cities tenants are undertaking a serious organizing effort to get ready for a rent strike if Gov. Walz doesn't instate an eviction moratorium. They have support from labor unions representing 25,000 workers. New piece by @rebeccaburns.bsky.social and me.

19.02.2026 22:10 — 👍 105    🔁 57    💬 1    📌 0

Fellow NM psychologists, call your state reps!

18.02.2026 19:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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HHS social media Editor: You got the pictures from the RFK Jr and Kid Rock photo shoot?

Photographer: sure did boss. real fucking sexy just like you asked.

HHS social media Editor: what

18.02.2026 04:12 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
RFK Jr.: ‘Time In Hot Cars Helps Babies To Sweat Out Toxins’

RFK Jr.: ‘Time In Hot Cars Helps Babies To Sweat Out Toxins’

RFK Jr.: ‘Time In Hot Cars Helps Babies To Sweat Out Toxins’ https://theonion.com/rfk-jr-time-in-hot-cars-helps-babies-to-sweat-out-toxins/

17.02.2026 16:00 — 👍 11196    🔁 2111    💬 466    📌 253

We all know the output of something that’s been ingested.

16.02.2026 14:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

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New Mexico state workers push back after Senate committee axes raises Widespread backlash came from unions and House Democrats after a Senate committee got rid of 1% raises for state employees.

“people should be able to live in the communities in which they teach...

State budgets are a statement of values, and this one sends a troubling message”

✏️ @thenewmexican.bsky.social

16.02.2026 13:34 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

SUP KRUSTI GNOME!

15.02.2026 20:31 — 👍 30    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 0

Very easy to see how America’s police state was built in the first place.

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